The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-28
Many Kansas Scribes in City
for Convention.
Visiting Newspaper Men Meet
State Legislators.
BANQUET AND FROlIC TONIGHT
FOrty-Seven New Members OF
Association.
Editors Welcomed Here by
George McDermOtt.

association were acted on by the exec
utive committee of the association.
which opened the twenty ninth an
nual meeting of the organization in
Topeka at the Memorial Hall this
morning.
Following the meeting of the exec
utive committee and the registration
of the Kansas editors, the first gen
eral session of the association opened
in the assembly hall of the building,
with President o. W. Little, of the Ed
itorial association, in the chair.
Welcomed by George McDermott.
The address of welcome to the edi-
tors was made by George McDermott,
president of the Topeka Chamber of
Commerce. Mayor Corwine, sched-
uled to make the address, was indis-
posed, having a case of severely cold
feet, McDermott told the editors.
McDermott's welcome was hearty
present day kings" as McDermott
Characterized the newspaper frater-
! nifty of today.
Roy F. Bailey of Salina responded
to the address on behalf of the asso-
citation.
Announcements of the program of
entertainment which has been pre-
pared by the Topeka Press club for
the editors were made by Frank Jar
rell, president of the club.
Committees Announced.
Committees for the meeting were
announced as follows, by President
Little before the members of the asso-
citation went to the state house to call
| upon the two houses of the legisla-
ture:
Committee on resolutions: Click
Fockele, II. E. Bruce, Warren Baker
| H J. Powell, Chet Leasure
Committee on auditing: l.. NJ
| Christy, Gordon Musgrave, A. @. Mil
i ler
, Committee on laws of the associa-
I ton: c. H. Browne, w. c. Austin,
! Asa Converse.
Committee on memorials: Charles
| F. Scott, E. W. Hoch, Fay N Seaton.
Editors Visit Legislators.
The editors visited with the legis-
| lators until lunch time, and then ad-
| Journed to meet at 1880 o'clock this
| afternoon at the Memorial Hall,
| where they proceeded to talk shop to
their hearts content
| The executive committee of the as
sociation got in their work early this
morning, meeting at $50 o'clock be-
fore the registration of the members
| in general started.
! The afternoon session is being de-
voted to series of round table dis
cussions of various problems dear to
the heart of the editors.
II. T. Porte Talks.
r. L. Porte. of Salt Lake CITY. Utah.
author and distributor of the Frank
I'm price list, a standardized schedule
OF printing prices in use thruout the
United States, was the only speaker
from another state
Drew Mclaughlin of Paola was the
first speaker with subject to dis
cuss. Hire an Apprentice was the
theme assigned him.
RoIla CIymcr Talks.
oil
Times. was not easy with his brother
editors in his talk, The Turning of the
Goat" this afternoon. Clymer not
Ionly referred to Kansas editors of the
period just before the war as goats
but also as 'doormats' and financial
runts.'
He told of the way in which the
editors had struggled along without
charging a just rate of compensation
for their job work, their subscriptions
or their advertising, until the stupen-
dous cost hikes during the war forced
them to start raising prices, and how
having once tasted financial equality
with other business men of their cities
they were determined to secure a fail
price for the comm odities which they
market
THE editor was a goat" Clymer de.
lclared, "a patient, docile. we1l-mean.
ing but nevertheless stupid beast. He
was largely responsible for his owr
troubles. His efforts to get from un
der were always sincere, but often mis-
directed inanimate and futile. Bu
now fortuitous circumstances hav,
given him. his opening, and his owl
initiative and resources have allowed
him to escape from the curse tina
hung over his tribe. He need be {
goat no longer"
Other speakers were: Ralph Tennal
Sabetha, "Co-operative Buying" j. r
Il II S1tif mr.
lOther Things" Alfred G. Hill, Law
: renee, Newspapers, East and West;
, Cliff Stratton. of Manhattan. "a Close
Up View of the Legislature"
Reception Tonight.
the round tables will keep the edi
tors busy until o'clock this afternoon
and they will have time for hurried
/ dinner and a change of collars befor
they visit the state house again to at
tend the reception given by the Nativ
Sons and Daughters of Kansas, an
| the annual dinner and banquet of tn
| Topeka Political Science club, at whicl
Miss Alice Robertson, Oklahoma con
gresswoman. is to be the principa
| speaker.
II Meanwhile the women editors an
the wives, daughters, sisters or othe
| feminine attaches of the newspape
men, will be taking in the Kubelik re
licital. as the guests of the Topeka Pres
Iclub or at the Political Science ban
| Iquet. or at the state house reception
| lwhithersoever their inclination ma
lead them.
II Midnight Erolic.
II And after the recital and the ban
ltquet and the reception. and when tn
wives are safely parked for the nigh
the Topeka Press club puts on its mid
fright frolic.
II The leading lights of Kansas news
II paperdom will either have places o
l
| interested listeners. Story telling is
III he nne of he nief.es- de resist a nee {