Evening star., 1918-06-11
CIRCULATION MEN
|N.SESS|ON HERE
Problems Arising From War
to Feature Three-Day
Convention.
$500 VOTED RED CROSS

Problems arising from the w.
which the circulation manager must
meet will feature the business ot n"
three-day convention OF the Interna-
tiouaI Circulation Managers AssoSta-
tion, which formally opened It's,
morning at the Washington Hotel. ]
The convention particularly viii
focus its attention on the new postal
with a view to form nS
the most expeditions method OF y He.
ing the situation. Other questi":rs %.
import for discussion will include
Abuses That Still Exist in CircG.a--
ton Work and How They Can he
Eliminated" and rs the one-Cent
Newspaper a Thing of the Past?"
$500 Voted for Red Cross.
The board of directors met last
night and took up routine matters
preliminary to the formal opening ~
the conference this morning. Five
hundred dollars was voted for the
Red Cross, of which $500 was given
the American organization and $500
the Canadian Red Cross.
District Commissioner Louis Brown
low who was for years newspaper
man. welcomed the delegation, Who
numbered about seventy-five.
Representative Lunn of New York
was the principal speaker and con-
fined most of his talk to the part
which the delegates are playing to-
ward making national thought. whlch
he characterized as the biggest ac-
complishment OF this country in the
first year of the war.
You should always bear in mind"
said the representative, that you are
molding public opinion. This opinion
must be of national nature and not
provincial. We don't want anything
provincial in thinking. BY circulat-
ing throughout the country the high
ideals embraced in thought in news
papers you have helped to persuade
the people of the country to think
nationally"
Opposes Postal Increases.
Referring to the postal zone system
recently established by the Post Of
flee Department. he said: We do not
want first and second class mail mat
ter increased in rates. Our national
thOughC must De lHCTedSeu, anu lIllS
can be done only by the easiest and
least expensive transportation pos
sible.
1.-The Post Office Department is a
service organ. and its first duty should
be to serve as quickly and as cheaply
as possible. Any subsidy which has
been given the newspapers in the past
has redounded to the credit of the
public. The zone system is not war
measure because the distribution of
newspapers strengthens the national
thought and spirit
The speaker eulogiZed President
Wilson and characterized him as the
master mind" and the thought lead
err of the world today.
Sidney D. Long of Wichita, Kan.
was also a speaker. Reports of vari-
GUS committees were read, and at =
o'clock the session was adjourned to
attend luncheon at the Senate dining
room.
Program for Afternoon.
Papers and discussions will be pre-
sented this afternoon with the follow
ing speakers: rs the One-Cent News
paper Thing of the Past?" Walter
NJ. Inman of Chicago; 'tSubterfuges for
the Return EVIL" r. D. N. Decker of
James Wright Brown, editor OF the
Editor and Publisher: Abuses That
Still Exist in Circulation Work and
How They Can Be Eliminated" NJ
Levy of Cincinnati; What Is the Good
Will Value of a Yearly Subscription
of a Daily Newspaper Excluding
Sunday Editions) and What Is the
Basis of Circulation" Robert B. NC
Clean OF New York; How to Hands
Mail Circulation if the Zone system
Is Adopted by the Government" J. P
Barry of Providence, r. 1. and How
viii the Circulation Of Newspapers Be
tionso" w. j. Darby of Toronto, Cam
ada.
Speakers at tomorrow mornings ses-
sion will include ]. NJ. Schmld of In
dianapolis. c. r. Norton of Jackson
vile, Fla; Sidney D. Long of Wichita,
Kan; G. J. Desmond of Duluth, MINI:
Arthur Brisbane and Frank A. Clark
of Philadelphia.
To H. H. Freis OF EI Paso, Tex, went
the honor of travelling the longest dis
tance to the convention. He was given
the privilege this morning of raising the
flag on the hotel building, in accordance
with the custom Of the association.
Trips to points of interest about the
city have been planned for the delegates
and their wives.
Election of officers will be THURSDAY.
The only contest is expected to develop
in the race for second vice president,
that office automatically leading to the
presidency The only known candidate
Canada. Joseph r. Taylor of Grand
Rapids. Mich, first vice president, will
become president. and James McKernon,
second vice president, is scheduled TO
be made first vice president.