The Prescott daily news., 1918-06-04
FOR
 NEWSPAPER MEN
Arkansas Press Association and National Editorial Association in Session at Little Rock and Hot Springs.
By Clio Harper.


 next is play-time for the newspaper men of the state and the nation-that is, large number of them, all that are not actually needed at home to keep the papers going.
 The 46th annual meeting of the Arkansas Press Association and the 33rd convention of the National Edi- torial Association are in session this week at Little Rock and Hot Springs, with an automobile excursion through Lonoke county all day Tuesday. Next week the visitors will be given the surprise of their lives when they are taken for seven days tour of the state, visiting many points of inter- est, and viewing the great resources of the state of which they have heard and read so much.
 This meeting is the continuation of plans that were started more than a year ago, when it was decided to send committee to the national conven- tion at Minneapolis to bring the 1918 meeting to Arkansas. There were some who said it could not be done, but this did not deter those who were determined to succeed. The campaign which was put on at Minneapolis, re- sulting in the convention coming to Little Rock and Hot Springs, is an oft retold history.
 But even after that was done, the work of the promoters had only be- gun. It would never have succeeded then except for the untiring devotion of the committees in charge. Two men especially have been indefatig- able in their work, Frank N. Tender son and R. O. Schaeffer. Henderson for nearly year has practically given up his newspaper business at England to give his entire time to the arrange ments for this convention. He and Schaeffer undertook the tremendous task of providing funds for the enter tainment of the visitors, which they did, through the publication of The National Editors Magazine, publi- cation of 204 pages which is the acme of the publishers art It is the official publication, for free distribution, ad vertising the various sections of the state through which the excursion uasses, and containing many illumin- ating special articles that will be read with interest by even the folks at home.
 Elaborate plans have been made for the entertainment of the visitors at Little Rock, Lonoke and Hot Springs. including total eclipse of the sun which is the last that will be visible here for something like two or three hundred years.
 One of the interesting features of the national convention is that every member of the Arkansas association is a member of the National. There will be brief business sessions of the state association Monday morning in Little Rock and Thursday morning at Hot Springs, and the state association will be merged the rest of the time into that of the National.
 rrLo .totn ox,o,reia,, x,y,Il tncitiualxy be given. Positive assurance has been received from the government author ities that equipment will be available. This was secured through special trip by the corresponding secretary, R. o. Schaefer, and Elmer E. Clarke, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat, to Chicago and Washington, and the persistent efforts of Tom Wood, Frank Henderson, Gov. Brough and others.
 The U. S. director of railways has officially gone on record in letter to Gov Brough that it is the desire of that office to see the train provided for the excursion and the railway operating heads have been so in- structed.
 The committee announces that "Th- days of free editorial transportation are over," but greatly reduced rate has been secured, between $10 and $20 for trip of 1,496 miles, and $16.50 for each berth.
 The excursion will leave Hot Springs at 9 p. m. next Sunday and