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"boom" for Mr. Leo Fritter of Columbus, Ohio. The Conservative, in the best interests of the United Amateur Press Association, desires to be first in seconding such a just and eminently sensible motion. Leo Fritter is of true presidential timber, possessing every qualification which should exist in an executive. He is an attorney of trained legal mind, he is a man of highest culture and real literary taste, he is sincerely devoted to the cause of amateur journalism, he is a despiser of petty politics and factional jealousies, he has a keen feeling of fraternity and good-will, he stands as a champion of the United against the schemers who seek to destroy its identity, and he is not affiliated with any other amateur press association.
The Conservative feels that a rising organization like the United should have a strong man at its head, and he can think of none stronger or better than Leo Fritter. Mr. Fritter is not an "old-timer" in amateur journalism, which should count much in his favor, since he cannot have absorbed the ancient prejudices which make it so difficult for a veteran amateur to conduct an absolutely impartial administration. No person living is better fitted to aid in a reunion with the disaffected amateurs of the Morris Faction. Wherefore The Conservative again cries, and with redoubled enthusiasm: For President - Leo Fritter!
Like the poet, The Conservative expects criticism. He does not, however, expressly solicit it; since he is well aware that critics, like other birds of prey, require but little solicitation before tearing to pieces their latest victim. That his numerous defects and weaknesses will furnish the reviewers' fraternity with a just and ample opportunity for the display of their brilliant superiority, The Conservative is not quite conceited enough to deny; yet he would give warning that he has made a close study of Pope's Dunciad and Paul J. Campbell's "Wet Hen," so that he is not altogether defenseless. Reference to "verbosity," "long words," "stilted old-fashioned style," "dogmatic opinions" and the like will be entirely unnecessary. The Conservative has heard all this before, and is hopelessly beyond reform. Besides, he may never perpetrate another number of this modest magazine.
The Question of the Day
The debate over the propriety of outside matters in the amateur papers, begun in the National association, has quickly spread to the United, where Mr. George Schilling challenges the distinguished exponents of the negative with an able article on the minimum wage. The Conservative, mindful of the nature and aims of amateur journalism, cannot but be opposed to the present attacks on the liberty of the press.
The agitators who would restrict the work of amateurs to subjects immediately connected with the associations base their opinions on ridiculously exalted standards of amateur writing. Endowed
