The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-06
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920
OKLAHOMA EDITORS MEET

The Oklahoma Editorial Association
convcnes tomorrow, at McAlester and
will remain in session over Satur'
day.
Editors from all points in Oklaho'
ma, from the city and from the viii
iages will be present, assembled TO
discuss such matters as may be
found Of paramount interest and for
the good of both the newspaper pub
fishers and the newspaper readers, in
cludirg that most beloved person. the
person ever dear TO the publishers S
heart-the advertiser.
This 1920 meeting of the press as
sociation promises to be one long to
be remembered by the fraternity in
Oklahoma. The changes which have
come to this country, sequence TO
the war, are many and the editors
OF the nation are the ones upon
whose shoulders fall the heavy load
If catering, impartially, TO all classes
Of people. That the happy medium
IN discussing matters Of great mo-
nent may be reached, the editors Of
Oklahoma, as do the editors OF every
other state in the union, meet to
thresh out the details.
Advanced costs Of production, great
er Ia the newspaper business than
in almost any other line, has brought
TO the moment the matter of mater.
tally increasing rates IN both adver.
Using and circulation lines. How this
can be done without engendering hard
feelings upon the parts Of the sub
seiibcrs and Of the advertisers, will
be one OF the hardest nuts which the
associations members will be called
upon to crack.
The print paper problem is another
kDotty problem which Is coming be.
fore the association at the McAlester
meeting. The print paper situation
has become 50 serious that it now
amounts to a real menace. The price
VI news print has doubled during the
past ninety days and news dispatches
state :hat it now seems that 1t will
he doubled again within the next
sixty days.
McAlester, the papers of that city
state, has everything ready to care
for the newsmen of Oklahoma And
the newsmerI, the editors Of the
newspapers Of this great state are
going to McAlester determined to
let McAlester do her part in show
ing them a good time.
There will be editors and editors;
editors by the dozen, by the hun
capital Of Pittsburg county. They
will be there with their wives and
swecthearts. The same editors, how
ever, will not bring both Of these
to the convention. The married men
will, TO be explicit, bring their wives,
while those who want to be married
men will bring their sweethearts.
Some few who are chronic old bache-
lors, armed with ingrown grouches.
will come alone.
Livery section Of Oklahoma will be
represented at this big meeting Of
big men. They will come from the
east and from the west; they will
come from the south and from the
chilly boarders Of Kansas; they will
be there with the oi! Of southern
Oklahoma ON their coats and trousers:
they will be there with the sands
nom the border of the Texan pan
handle in their hair; they will be
there with big Tulsa and Okmulgee
stories concealed upon their persons,
they will be there with the scent OF
wildcat of the Kiamichis on their
breaths-
Yes, they will be there, the thought
expounders Of the greatest Of all the
great states Of the great southwest.
They are coming, some OF them, with
long and tiresome speeches, speeches
which they have been carrying in
. cold storage since the last press meet.
ing, speeches which they will feel
determined to uncork and pour out
upon the heads OF those who come
10 See and not to hear or be heard.
Eut at that, they will all be lot
Of jolly good fellows.