The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
MEMBERS FOURTH . ESTATE ID MEET HERE TODAY IN ANNUAL SESSION Interesting Programme Has Been Arranged by Local
 Committee for the
 State Editors ENTERTAINMENT
 FEATURES PLANNED Trip Down Warrior Satur- day, Party Going as Far as Tuscaloosa, Return
 ing Saturday Night
ENTERTAINMENT
 FEATURES PLANNED

The Alabama Press association will convene in annual session this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at the Civic association and a large number of delegates and visitors from all over the state are eX- pected to be present. This meeting prom lises to be interesting on account of the many problems facing newspaper men this year and several business meetings will be held, where the editors Will
 have an opportunity of discussing ways
 and means of solving these problems. The entertainment committee, of which R. P McDavid, Jr., is chairman, has made extensive arrangements for the en- I tertainment of the visitors. The priv | lueges of the various clubs in the city will I be extcnoed to the visitors during their sojourn here.
 l Delegates will register at O clock and I the convention will be called to order at 2:90 o'clock and G. R. Harsh, vice pres ident of the Civic association, will de- | liver the welcome address on behalf or
 the association, while Arthur c. Crow der, president of the Chamber of Com merce, will welcome the guests on De- ! half of that organization, and Dr. N. A. Barrett, president of the city com mission will welcome the association on behalf of the city. The response Will pc made by Edward Doty, president of the Alabama Press association, ateSf which l a business session will be held. | Following the business session President Dotv will deliver his address, while the following matters pertaining to the news paper business will be discussed: Ine l New Postal Zone Laws As Applied to Newspapers." led by F. R. Norman, as sistant postmaster; The News Print Sit uation," Frank P. Glass; NeWspapei l Management from the Inside,' by A. w. l McColloch. Gadsden; ''Field Work of | Nawsnaner" by Frank Willis Barnett Of The Age Herald.
 SMOKER ON ROOF A 600 o'clock A smoker on the roof of | the Civic association will be rendered by tho citizens of Birmingham. Later in the evening the visitors will be the guests of Manager R. C. Arrowood of LoeW S lBiiou for the evening performance.
 l The association will reconvene to' morrow morning at 9 o'clock, when l jbusiness session will be held 10 ais- cuss the various technical silua.iolis '.i,s iconfronting newspaper business, such as the increased cost of white paper. | ink and many other things of interest l to the newspaper fraternity.
 'TIow Can the Newspapers Help Tn | the War Savings Stamp Campaign py l John Sparrow, while Lloyd Hooper ol ISeIma will tell, "FIow Newspapers Can | Help the Council of Defense" and "How Newspapers Can Increase Their Revenue by Guaranteeing Their Ad- | vertisers.' by J. A. Martin of the l Progressive Farmer. Adjournment I or lunch will then be taken
 MRS. MATHIS SPEAKS l The afternoon session will be opened at5 2 o'clock with an essay by Miss Col | son of Wetumpka, an oration by Mrs. l C.. H Mathis of Gadsden, and an ad- l dress by John c. Williams, historian.
 This will be followed by an infer | nal discusslon on economies or the l newspaper. while Henry DeBardeleben l will discuss .The Warrior River, It's l Possibilities Under Government De- l Iyelopment."
 | At4:3o o'clock the guests will be giv- en an automobile ride to Fairfield and | Westfield, where they will be shown through the plants of the Tennessee l Coal, Iron and Railroad company, and | will be given a watermelon cutting by the Fairfield Land company, On their I return to Birmingham they will e. I assemble at the Civic association, when the election of officers will take pla oe and the new committees will be ap- point ted.
 l An automobile ride over the residen- tial section Of the GUY VIII then De en- I loved and dinner will be given at the 1 Country club at 7:30 o'clock in honor
 of the visitors by the Birmingham Press club
 WARRIOR RIVER TRIP
 The party will leave Birmingham Saturday morning at 7 o'clock on the Frisco for Cordova where they vii
 board the steamer Nugent and proceed down the Warrior to Tuscaloosa. Mir Battle of Mobile and MT. Gatlin o1 I Tuscaloosa, United States engineers will have charge of the steamer. and the party will arrive at Tuscaloosa al l7 o'clock Saturday evening, and will
 leave there at $40 o'clock. arriving ir
 Birmingham at Il o'clock. The trir
 will cost approximately $4 and it is requested that those wishing to make this trip notify Secretary James H Hard as soon as possible, as the space is limited.
 The badges and programmes for ths association have been donated by the Western Newspaper union. This meet ing of the Alabama Press association is expected to be one of the most In- teresting as well as the largest in the history of the association.