The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-08-29

Dscmagment and Gloom Noticeable Their Absence at the Annual
Convention Of State EDITORIAL Association Attendance the Best
and Deliberations Most Interesting in History Of Association
Fighting Forkner Again Heads Group. %4%.E -

The independent, unterrified, un-
| kept press of North Dakota has just
begun to fight, and it is ready to keep
IN fighting until North Dakota is re-
claimed from the grip of the red flag
gers, carpet-baggers and Bolshevists,
the dark reds, the pale pinks and the
81 other varities of dissensionists inn
ported by A. C: Townley and his So
! cialistic crew.
That was the dominant idea in the
first days sessions of the 37th annual
convention of the North Dakota Press
association, which opened in the COM
mercial club rooms Friday morning
and closed with banquet at the
Lewis & Clark hotel followed by a
| dance at Mandan's beautiful country
club, in the early hours CT the. pres
ent day. =
Not Party-A Disease G}4.
Socialism is not party-it's q dis
ease," John F. Sullivan, the fiery Irish
orator of the Slope, informed the edi-
tors at their banquet table last night.
1T feeds on prejudice and class con-
! science. Eliminate these by educa-
tion from the hearts of your people
and socialism is dead. Deep, dark,
dire, dismal despair, prejudice, class
consciousness, cultivated through con
centrated kibosh and camouf1age have
prepared the ground for socialism.
Socialism in this state has been built
| up on fabric of half-lies-half-truth
You gentlemen of the press have be
fore you the biggest Job in your hist
ory, the education of the peaple &of
North Dakota. You have got to stick
| and stay with it.: 1t is. the duty Fof
your communities, now that the Town, Wt,a,
hey 4WrecKIng crew has Hwrested all
official printing from you, to take, an
equivalent amount of space in which
| to present from day to day and from
week to week the true facts to the
people the independent, unkept press
of North Dakota must be it's saviour
in this crisis We have nothing else
to look to-
A. Real Feed
The baquet at the Lewic & Clark
last night was up to the usual stand
ard of excellence of this popular hos
telry, which means that the cuisine
and service left nothing to. be desired.
Major J. M. Hanley, judge of the
Twelfth judicial district, fighter from
the ground up, recently returned from
more than a year in France, presided
as POSTMASTER. There was about the
tables an atmosphere of earnestness
and sincerity. The. personnel of the
North Dakota Press. association shows
marked improvement, due, it is be-
lieved, to the desertion Of frothy
minority to the Townley press aggre-
CATION. No finer lot of men ever as
sembled at North Dakota feast than
sat down at the annual press spread
at the Lewis & Clark last night.
The Fighting Newspaper h1en....
"Among the factors which won the
war, high place must be reserved for
the. fighting newspaper men of North
Dakota who upheld the honor of the
state at home while the boys we're
away doing their bit at the 'front.'" said
Major Hanley, in introducing the pro-
gram of toasts. He declared that the
boys from North Dakota, who served
in France: were proud Of their home
newspapers and of the stand which
they took against the destroyers here:
Divine blessings we're invoked for
the banquet by G. W.. Stewart, mayor
Of Wilton, publisher of the Wilton
News, and former missionary to the
Dakota cowboys, who made chuck
wagon his church for several years.
He proved that he. is yet as much at
home in ecclesiastics as in editorial
work. f'..s y. l5:. sfF& + + I: ..'~
Bari K. Biting, editor Of the Mandan
Pioneer, the. first speaker called, at
the very outset dispelled the common ION
impression that q newspaper man can
not think on his feet: Biting g short;
3snappy talk was a gem Of patriotism
and optimism: He omplimented the
men Of the North Dakota Press asso.
ciation on the work they are doing,
daily Of week. year in and year out, !
boosting for the thing worth while
va streeter viii Stick
h, Lieut.: +: p: streeter, who entered
the newspaper field at the age Of three
months; when he went from Bismarck