Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-23


typesetting machines. THE limo
type was perfected in 1885,
Origin Of N. e. A.
The genesis for the plan for a
national organization of editors
and publishers was H. p. Halls.
A resolution of his in 1870 pro-
posed that the secretary of the
Minnesota group correspond
with other nearby State associa.
tons with a view of forming a
Northern Association.
Nothing definite was done
about this suggestion, though.
until 1884, when, at the Nah
tomedi meeting on July %,
President Herbert suggested in
his annual address that the Min
neSota group engage in a broad
er program of work. He urged
delegates to look forward to a
national association, formed OF
delegates from State aSSocia.
tons.
The first step taken on B. B.
Herbert's suggestion was re-
served for the adjourned meet
ing at Ashland, Wisconsin, where
members visited while on one of
their frequent excursions. After
discussion, the Association
adopted the resolution of E. r.
Otis, who had based it upon
President Herbert's recommen-
dations for the calling of con-
vention to organize national
association of editors and pub
fishers. The resolution also set
forth the number of delegates to
be sent to the first meeting at
New Orleans the coming winter
or spring, and fixed basis of
representation for the States.
Thus it was that the Mime
sofa Editors and Publishers
Association won the distinction
of originating the National Edi.
tors and Publishers Association
(name changed later to National
Editorial ASSOciatiOn), which
held its first meeting on Febru-
airy 10 and 20, 1885, at New Or.
leans.
1t rebounds to the credit of
Minnesota that Herbert was
elected as the first president of
the larger organization and, in
turn, it is to his personal credit
that in his first report to his
home-State group in 1885. he
showed that the idea for the or.
ganization was not entirely his,
but that it was an adaptation of
the plan suggested by H. P. Hall
in 1870.
Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting
Fifty golden years.
Aptly, the 1916 meeting was
called the Golden Jubilee Meet
ing. For three days-Thursday.
Friday and Saturday, February
II, 10 and 10 members of the
Minnesota Editorial Association
met to observe this important
milestone in Association history.
Most of the meetings were held
at the RadiSSon Hotel in Mime
apolis.
J. c. Morrison, publisher of the
Morris Tribune, president of the
Association, sketched the pro-
gram briefly, then turned to cur.
rent Association affairs. Inter
estingly enough, the four sub
jects covered in the 1916 presi.
dental addreSS-D Association
membership, q cooperation with
retail merchants, 81 the Associa-
tons observance of Newspaper
Week, October 1915, 1915, and A.
journalism instruction at the
University of Minnesota - still
hold important positions in the
Associations program of &C.
tivities.
Editors Turn to History
Most comprehensive of the
subjects was paper titled. IA
Retrospect" prepared by Henry
A. Castle, a charter member, in
which he traced early efforts to
organize publishers associations,
and included many biographical
statements about giants of early
Minnesota journalism.
Pioneer Newspaper Days"
served as a general subject for
"reminiscences of others of the
founders who were present for