The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-07

v | ready ahbi for his part in any leg islation that hurts your business, lut legislation hurtful to your business B getting over in congress and some thing must be done to meet the sit- nation or the blows will he strln CT and bolder The something to be done is eeusile organization and honor able organization. We want no dark lantern stuff We want to Organlla for the protection of the new spaper ! business and after we are organized ! we might clean house a bat ourselves. , We might eliminate from the neW8-. paper business battles for selAsa' ends under the guise of public need and patriotism There are few of these battles comparatively, but one is too many.
 The newspaper profession is on honorable one lt requires brains plus
 honesty 1t has occupied and still occupies a high position ill this cJun- try as well as a most necessary To- sition. but today the world Is chang e,
 ing before our eyes None of us are wise enough to say what the results of these changes will be, what strCnG businesses will be dashed to pieces
 and what weak businesses will be
 raised to prominence and strength. II ehooves the newspaper men to De on
 their toes. ready to grasp dppOrtuuI
 ties that present themselves and
 ready to fight for the privileges and
 honors that are ours by right in
 the changes tEat are to come when
 this war is ended lie the opportunities
 for the newspaper business further to entrench itself This entren ou-
 ment cannot be artfiCialiy done Worth alone will dc it. The news
 paper business will be more strongly entrenched when the makers of new papers see to il that each newspaper has a character, and good character You don't find men of bad character leading in your community do you2| You won't find newspapers of lad character leading either
 This is the day of opportunity not
 only for newspapers, but for news paper men. Newspaper conditions have changed vastly in the past year and the indications are hat they wii4 change more within the next few years. Newspaper workers will be better paid Their standing in their own offices will be better News paper makers will hereafter be forced | to give more attention to the class of
 men they take into their city rooms, have taken up a great deal or you,
 time and may have done no good whatever 1 should like to see some move made a. this meeting 1f the 1 National Editorial Association for he appointment of a committee of strong
 men who will be given an adequate
 expense account to travel to four pr ] five or a half dozen big cities and l take up the matter of a close or 1 ganization with such men as Victor i Law son of the Chicago Daily News i and Adolph Cchs of the New York
 lets do 1t and let's get a tight Or ganization Of city and country news paper men that can say to the enc
 mies of the newspaper business "Be fair with us or your folks will be
 holding ceremonies over your man gled remains very soon"
 Following the address of Mfr. Heis-
 kel Mr Paul W. Brown of St. Louis made an address on The Newspaper
 Mans Power in Natural Develop ment,' which was received well MT
 Brown Is an interesting speaker and he outlined many new thoughts to|
 the fraternity.
 The members of the visiting body last evening took part in a grand ball
 given in their honor at the Arling- ton hotel