The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-24
THE EDITORS AT MIDDLEBURY.
Some Observations Of Annual Meeting
Recently Held.

at Middlcbury last Friday and Saturday
was notable occasion, says the Rutland
News As practical meeting, devoted
to discussion of problems facing the pub
fishers in the production of their papers
lin all departments, mechanical, bust
ness and edtorial--it was the most seri'
Gus of any gathering ever held by the
Vermont journalists The defamation OF
the working forces by enlistment in the
service of their country; the largely in
creased costs of producing newspapers,
newsprint, metal, labor, postage, news
and all the rest; value of cooperation
of pubishers-w each other, with the
advertising patrons, with the govern
ment; possible ways of retrenchment;
! types of editorial expression that make
readers; necessity for raising prices OF
advertising and subscriptions and various
other questions came in for most care
full consideration and interchange of
opinion.
The meeting was inspiring, held as it
was in Hepburn hall and at Mead Me
mortal chapel in College hall. Middle
bury has some beautiful buildings, and
these are two of the new ones that grace
the eminence on which the activities OF
the institution are set.
President John NJ Thomas told the
editors something of a private nature OF
which the college had done and what it
proposes to do. He said that they might
print the picture of the benefactor of
the college who had given it much and
who proposed to give it 100000 more
if Others would give 100000 before July,
1918. The picture of the beuefactor was
hanging in the room in which the re-
mark was made. One editor told the
president that "if every syllable of ev
cry prayer he made for Middlebury's
prosperity could be coined into gold
dollar his 100000 Liberty bond endow.
ment would be an assured fact in IS
hours" And that's the way all the edi-
tors feel about it. But there are few
newspaper men in Vermont rich simply
in dollars.
Mead Memorial chapel is beauty,
externally and internally, and JOY
forever-or it will be when the clapboard
sham" on its neither side is replaced with
marble to match the rest of the build
ing-and this will be done, of course, in
the near future. Within, the choir loft,
or nave, or transept, or whatever it is
architeeturally, is provided with an anti
phonal pipe organ and the chorus of
students sound out inspiring
ly and harmoniously, In the belfry are
eleven bells and the chimes when played
are very beautiful and a lantern that |
has continuous glow is beacon light |
for travellers for radius of many miles. |
1t was in DR.. Mead's chapel that DR.. |
Tacott Williams, graduate of Amherst
,olege, class of 1875. editor for MANY
years of the great Philadelphia Press md /
allied by Joseph Pulitzer to be dean of /
Columbia school of journalism. made a
and eloquent address On
he problems facing the newspapers by /
eason of the war. DIR. Williams looks
lot unlike DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
he "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,
nd speaks not less wisely and well.
w. G. Belknap. a graduate Of Dart
MOUTH class of 1892 a failure rs a law
-er in Chattanooga, Tenn. has been big
uceess as publisher of the Bellows Falls
Zines and a president of the Vermont
'ress association. If Handsome Is as
andsome looks" were rewarded with a
'arnegie gold medal Belknap wouldn't
ct cent with hole in il; per contra.
Handsome is as handsome does were
warded with office. Belknap would be
resident of the United States
II was in the Mead chapel that Presi-
ent Belknap announced that Rutland
ditor had requested that all Rutland
iris attending Middlebury should stand
p SO that all the newspaper men could
ee lot of handsome girls; but he was
,alous and told them not to do as re-
Al Lnnc I'll -, |
lebury from other counties in Vermont
nd Mr. Belknap contended that those
iris were also good looking. So there
'ere no individious comparisons made.
Board at Hepburn commons costs the
oy students 81 a week. and the accom-. I
rotations furnished made man wish !
is college course started in 1918 in :
lead of in the eighties. The dinner !
erved the editors in the cheerful Hep
urn dining room, was more of 81 a !
ay than "a week meal, of course.
nd one could smoke in the haiI-which :
.emed good to man who had been
expelled 35 years before
ON college under Congregational in
lence. The world is becoming liberal, I
verify.
The Middlebury students at chapel
ing america, the Beautiful" more !
spring song than "The Star Spangled I
amer" It's author is Katherine Lee {
ates, professor of English literature at !
'ellesley college, traveller of wide '
nge and the editor and author of many 9
'oks. Miss Bates is the daughter and I
snddaughter of ministers, her grand. t
Their being Rev. Joshua Bates. presi-
mt of Middlebury college in about $780, a
is not surprising that "Old MIDI" gave .
r the honorary degree of Lit. D. few
AIRS ago. -
Much of the success of the convention .
editors was due to the indefatigabe
'orts as well as the hospitality of Pres.
ent Thomas and his associates, and of
larles Il. Crane, publisher of the Mid A
ebury Register. Both Thomas and :,
ane are big men in small college y
wn. Middlebury students, faculty and !.
lstees- should realize, as they probably :"
, that they have in John Martin Thorn
an executive head who would do credit n,
any of the largest universities in the
untry.
incidentally, the convention furnished u
al proof that nationwide prohibition
an assured fact. 1t may be considered s.
straw showing the direction in which
E wind has set. A quart of perfectly
Cd rye whiskey taken TO the convention m
one of the editors who has mounted c,
2 waterwagon for the period of the
n" retained its pristine innocence. AL =
lugh amply advertised. no one es
ved to pull the cork. The quart was
[ to be placed i'm the Sheldon museum