The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-22
STATE PUBLISHERS OUTING

DAY with the return Of I'D members
and guests Of the New jersey State
Press Association, who had attended
the associations siXty-seventh annual
outing. The conferences were held at
the Lake Mohonk Mountain House,
which, nesting in a natural wilder
ness that has been unmarried by the
march of civilization, overlooks the
ROndout Valley toward the foothills of
the hay, blue Catskills.
At the Saturday morning session of
the association, the vice-president
John r. Clarey, Jr., of the Madison
Eagle, was advanced to the presi-
dency, succeeding Emmitt A. Bristor.
of the Passaic Daily Herald. Rudolph
E. Lent, of the Passaic Daily News,was
elected vice-president, succeeding Mr..
Clarey. John w. Gift, Of the Sum
init Herald, secretary, and w. b. r.
Mason, Of the Bound Brook Chroni-
Gle, were reelected treasurer.
The nominating committee consisted
of Fred /. Crane, of the Elizabeth
Journal; William A. HaTert, of the
Cape May County Times, Sea Isle
City; and ?. S. Foster, of the Elmer
Times.
The new personnel of the executive
committee consists of William B.
Bryant, Of the Paterson Press-Guar-
dian; Charles H. Frost, Of the Plain
field Courier-NeWs; Harry r. Gill, of
the Dover Advance; Edmund H. Car
penter, of the Woodbury. Democrat;
z. A. Robertson, of the Washington
IN. j. Star; George c. Ladd, of the
Vineland Evening journal, and E. v.
Savidge, of the Hopewell Herald.
The associations annual dinner,
held on Saturday evening, was adj
dressed by William w. Evans, of
Paterson, speaker of the New Jersey
House of Assembly, and Mr.. Bryant,
Of the associations executive com
mittee, publisher of the Paterson
Press-Guardian. Mr.. Bristor presided
as POSTMASTER at the dinner and in.
troduced the incoming president, Mr..
Clarey. Mr.. Evans gave testimony
to the influence of the New Jersey
press as a moulder of public opinion
and declared that the preservation of
the ideals and the institutions of the
State and the Nation was assured
while men of character and moral re-
sponsibility directed the 1911 daily and
weekly journals that were represent
ed in the association. Mr.. Bryant dis
cussed the conference spirit among
newspaper men and predicted great
mutual advantages from the develop
ment of that g~et-together spirit. Mr..
and Mrs. F. C. Gruman, of Brooklyn,
led in the singing at the dinner.
Decision on the time and place for
the associations second annual news
paper institute, late in the summer or
early in the fall, was referred to the
executive committee. The first insti-
tute, held last September, in Rutgers
College, New Brunswick, was the first
step toward the training of young
men and women in New Jersey for
newspaper work, and out of this be-
ginning it is hoped that a State
course in journalism may be evolved.
The executive committee vas in
structed to develop a code of ethics
and business practice to be submitted
to the association.
The association pledged support to
its legislative committee to stand
back of the committees efforts to
guard against bills that propose the
elimination of full publicity on the
financial obligations of municipalities.
1t declared its disapproval of the
Darby-Pierson bill, which would have
prevented the official publication of
municipal audits made by the office
of the State COMMISSIONS of municipal
accounts and its approval of efforts
to secure passage of a bill which re-
quire the publication of proposed or
dinances, instead of the publication of
titles only and the publication of
school budgets.
H. C. Wood, of Bound Brook, read
an interesting paper on the functions
of the special advertising representa-
tive of large and small newspapers,
, telling of the liason work between
advertiser and publisher that such al
agent can perform. Other speakers
members of the association-dis-
cussed editorial page makeup, the
gains and disadvantages of circula-
ton contests, and other newspaper
problems. +,
C. H. Frost, of Plainfield, discussed
the value of an editorial page that
discusses local subjects. William L.
Haffert. of Sea Isle City, told how the
Cape May County Times, published in
a summer resort, circularized property
owners in that county until the news
papers circulation rose to five times
Ine aggregate leSlueIlI pOpuldIloll VI
Sea Isle City. Fred L. Crane, of the
Elizabeth Journal, discussed advertis-
ing agencies, and R. F. Lent, of the
Passaic Daily News, discouraged the
disastrous and costly competition of
newspapers in circulation contest eff
forts. Valuable features were dis
cussed by j.. w. Naylor, of the Allen
town IN. j. Messenger; Harry, R,
Gill, of the Dover Advance; Alfred
C. Walling. of the Hackettstown Ga
zette, and Miss Mabel Brown. of the
Matawan Journal and Keyport
Weekly. Miss Brown told of a wom-
ans problems and successes in the
weekly newspaper field and gave the
men a number of tips on newspaper
making.
Lake Mohonk, where the association
met, is fifteen miles west of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. at an elevation of 1915
feet in the Shawangunk Mountains.
The Lake Mohonk Mountain House,
once famed for the international ar.
bitration conference discussions held
there, was founded in 1870 by the late
Albert K. Smiley. and the 660O-acre
estate in which it stands has never