The Washington Newspaper/Volume 6/State Press Executive Committee Named
State Press Executive Committee Named
President Clarence Ellington has named the following executive committee for the State Press Association the coming year: J. C. Kaynor, Ellensburg Record, chairman; Grant Angle, Mason County Journal; Dan Cloud, Montesano Vidette; J. C. Harrigan, Colville Examiner; Ray Eldridge, Mount Vernon Argus.
In naming this committee President Ellington says he has in view a committee that he feels will do things, that will represent geographically, various sections of the state, and at the same time will represent the weekly or country press. In naming the committee President Ellington calls attention also to the fact that the Institute at the University this winter and the summer sessions of the association at Rainier Park, are west side meetings.
Concerning the year in prospect President Ellington says: "Your president hopes the meetings of the coming year will bring out a larger representation of editors and newspaper men. Members who attend regularly keep the association alive and active, and individually get a great deal from all the meetings. But there are altogether too many of the newspaper fraternity who do not attend any of the meetings, and therefore miss obtaining great benefits that come to those who work cooperatively in a common cause. Unitedly the newspapermen of this state can accomplish anything they set out to accomplish. Moreover, if the association programs are not to the liking of all members of the profession in the state, by attending, they can make any changes they wish.
"The Institutes at the University each winter are not only enjoyable, but instructive as well, and those who do not attend certainly miss great opportunities for practical help in their everyday tasks. None of us are so old or experienced that we cannot new ideas. The industrial world is moving fast, and if we do not keep pace with it in our sphere, we are simply left behind. Others will not wait for us. We have many knotty problems to solve, from the editorial desk to the job press, and we hope to make our programs varied enough to cover the different departments of the printing and publishing business.
"I would urge on every newspaper man in the state to make a special effort to attend the University Institute this winter, and prepare now to attend the big meeting next summer in Rainier Park. The latter meeting will be primarily a vacation for the editors. But we also plan to make it one of the most practical and interesting business sessions in the history of our association. Will you not lend us your aid and your presence?"