Milford chronicle., 1930-01-31
EDITORS HEAR VALE
PICTURE DEL-MAR-VA
AS AIR TRAFFIC CENTER
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RAAess H0a0C4 Au4 0Ae34h ebJ6 eLAA Cet0J
are established to carry the millions
of tons of your products to convent
ent markets.
"You are the most favored people
in all the United States from the
standpoint of suppiers of foOdstuffs
which range from grains, fruits and
vegetables to dairy and sea products.
You have half of the population Of
the Union at your threshold.
"You can quadruple your popula-
ton without feeling crowded and
the land and seaplanes will do this
for you. Right now you are in read
mess for the great development that
is close at hand. You have a won
derful university, you nave fine
seminaries and public schools; you
have progressive and scientific far
mers, alert business men and up-to-
date bankers.
"You have beautiful towns; you
have exceptional civic spirit; you
are helpful and hospitable and you
have the finest meals in all the land.
There will arise among you men
who will organize and operate the
new traffic lines that will come
down and run across the peninsula
And if 1 were to coin a slogan TOT
the realization of the vision see, 1t
would be "Del-Mar-Va--America's
Happy Flying Field"
Officers Are Elected
The meeting started with a 1us1-
ness session at IL o'clock in the col
oniaI room. G. Marshall Townsend
editor of the Milford Chronicle, was
elected president, succeeding S. h.
Shannahan, editor of the Star DEM
ocrat, Easton, Maryland. w. D. Brat
ten of the Cecil County News, was
elected vice president, ana william
F, Metten, publisher OF the Every
Evening, secretary and treasurer:
The executive committee elected
comprises Mr.. Shannahan, George
Carter, editor of the Evening Jour-
nal. and Edwin H. Brown, editor Oh
the Record, Centreville, Md.
William H. Sewer, of the Evening
Journal staff, and George T. Max
well, of the Delaware State news;
and E. D. G. Regeman were electeo
new members. . -
At the suggestion of Mr.. Carter 1t
was decided to invite the Maryland
Press Association to meet with the
Del-Mar-Va Press Association at lts
annual meeting next January.
II was also decided to hold MID
summer meeting next summer, ana
the newly-elected president, Mar
shall Townsend, stated ne Woulu
endeavor to arrange 1t.
Mayor Forrest attended the luncn-
con and welcomed the representa-
tives to Wilmington.
Charles w. Gibbs, manager OF the
hotel, was elected an honorary
member of the Press Association
and was warmly greeted.
Theodore Townsend, veteran edl-
tor of the Milford Chronicle, who IS
i'll at his home in Milford, and was
unable to attend the meeting was
with a resolution de-
ploring his illness.
w. Clement Moore, of Phlladel-
phia, who has recently been making
an extensive survey of the business
condition of newspapers all over
the United States, was the speaker
Of the morning. He gave an analy-
tical talk, using charts, on the con-
dition of newspapers as ne tounu
them in the Middle Atlantic States
and in Maryland and Delaware.
Mr.. Shannahan, the retiring pres
ident, asked for expressions on the
business conditions for this year.
Many of the members gave opinions
on the business conditions. They
stated, for the most part, that al
though there was a marked depres-
sion at present, all signs pointed to-
ward a quick recovery.
Edwin H. Brown gave a brief out
line of the business condition as he
saw it. George N. Seaver, of the
News-Journal Company, said that
Lhe business conditions in Whining
ton were apparently rapidly imprt v
ing, and Mr.. Metten said that :
though the national advertising
schedules appeared to be weak at
present, it was expected that gen
eral business men would recover
from any condition left by the stock
market and business would soon re-
cover, within a few weeks, or
months at the most.
John c. Saylor gave an extensive
.alk. He read the report of the Sec
retary of Labor of the United States,
telling of the recent activities on the
part of President Hoover and his
cabinet to reinstate the confidence
IF the people both by giving analy-
,ical talks on the condition Of busi-
ness and also by seeing that all the
public works which have been pro-
posed and are now feasible are un-
lertaken as soon as possible.
Among the editors and newspaper
heads present were: H. w. Harring-
on, Chronicle, Milford; Colonel
James c. Wickes, Delaware State
News, Dover; George It. Maxwell,
Delaware State News, Dover; Harry
:. McSherry, Newark Post, Della
ware Herald, Sussex Record; S. E.
Star-Democrat, Easton,
Nd; T. Bryce Venable, Pocomoke
City, Md; G.. Marshall Townsend,
Milford; J. B. Rumbf,
Murray J. Ewing, Ce-
Ill Whig, Elkton; W. D. Bratten,
Cecil County News, Elkton, Md;
George Carter, Evening Journal,
G. H. Rue, Rue Pub
fishing Company, Denton, Md; E. H.
Brown, Jr., Centreville Record, Cen &
,reville, Md; George N. Seaver,
Company, Whining
ON; E. D. G. Hegeman, Eastern
Shore Newspaper Corporation, Den
on, Md; C. L. Vincent, The Mes
;enger, Snow Hill, Md; 9. J. Nor
san, Wilmington; John G. Saylor,
labor Herald, Wilmington; Herman
). Taylor, Dover; A. w. Cunlmins,
Charles E GraY and Thomas A. :