The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-17
TELFAIR EDITOR IS
STATE PRESS HEAD
J. Kelly Simmons of McRae, Elected
President at Final Session of
Georgia Association.

Press Association this afternoon con-
Guided the best convention it has ever
had, Judged from any angle, the bust
ness accomplished, the comradie of
the gathering or the hospitality of the
entertainment by the town of Monroe
in caring for the convention.
The election of officers for ensuing
year was the chief item of business
in the concluding session today. j.
Kelly Simmons, of the Telfair Enter.
prise, McRae, was elected president:
William &. Sutlive Of the Savannah
Press, first vice president: Charles
D Koundtree, of Wrightsville, second
vice president; Ernest Camp, of the
Walton Tribune, Monroe, third vice
president; Hal. M. Stanley, of Allan
ia and Dublin, corresponding secre-
tary; G. H. Benns, Butler Herald re-
cording secretary; J !! Howell, Cutl-
bert Ledger, treasurer. The election
in the case of every officer was unani-
nous, a thing unprecedented in the
history of the association. Mr.. Stan
| ley was reelected for the sixteenth
time; Mr. Howell for the seventeenth
time, it is stated.
Carrollton, Carroll county, gets next
years convention. Chat3worth, in
Murray county which asked for the
! meeting at the Decatur convention
| thre years ago, and Macon also sent
invitations, cordial and sincere. Fitz-
gerald put in it's bid for the 1920 con-
yehtion to be rated properly in the
records as to priority-but Carrollton
won hands down-and finally unani-
mously. A committee of four from
the Carroll county capital was on the
scene with the goods-oratory, facts.
! figures, documentary evidence, person
al appeal, geographic and historical
base and other argument. Chats
worth gracefully withdrew Ill favor of
Carrollton on the understanding that
| the Murray county capital gets year
after next what it asked for year be-
fore last.
The initiation fee for membership
| in the association was raised from
| five to ten dollars. The annual dues
were increased from two to four dol
lars year. Though there was d
fight on the proposal, it finally was
| favored unanimously.
BY action the president and secre-
tary weer authorized to issue month
ly bulletin to the members of this as
sociation after the method approved
by the Southern Publishers Associa-
ton. The president was authorized
to call TO ra modest sum from the
treasury to bear expenses of trips he
may make out of the state in the in
! terest of the Georgia association.
A committee was named to urge On
| the Legislature the passage of a bill
already favorably reported increasing
the legal rate for country advertising.
There were no awards in the annual
Mergenthaler contest among the
weeklu papers of the state, the num-
Der submitting copies of their papers
being small. This contest is extended
till August LIST and the prize winners
will be announced by the committee
soon after that date.
President HARDER, who has so en-
thusiasticallc labored for the develop
ment of the association as a really
worth while business organization,
was presented with beautiful ma
hogany clock by the association-a
timely reminded that the heart beats
of the Georgia editors will be always
sympathetic with him in all his eff
forts for the operations and co-ordi-
nation of the work OF the Georgia
press
After the adjournment of the SEES
sion the 25O editors Weer taken 10 the
Fifth District Agricultural High
School and enjoyed bounteous Geor-
gia barbecue, and after the return to
Monroe the party was piloted in cars
to Athens, the encourage being direct
ed by Editor Hugh Rowe, of the
Athens Banner, who came to Monroe
to see that every delegate made the