Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois N'iuspaper Directory and HistoryAnnouncement was made that the Hall of Fame committee, on advice from WalterStrong of the Chicago Daily News, had engaged Lorado Taft to model the bust ofVictor F. Lawson, former publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Oskar J.V. Hansen,Chicago sculptor, had signed a contract with the association through H. L. Williamson,secretary, for the modeling of the bust of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, former abolitionisteditor of Alton. Colonel Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, was makingarrangements for the bust of Joseph Medill, former editor of the Chicago Tribune.The sculptor for the bust of Henry W. Clendenin, former publisher of the IllinoisState Register, Springfield, had not then been selected.The busts of the four editors selected for the Illinois' editors Hall of Fame wereto be placed in the reading room of the library at the University of Illinois for thepresent. Later they would be transferred to the journalism school which was planningthe construction of a new building.Two names carried over from the annual meeting the previous fall were consideredby the Hall of Fame committee. They were D. W. Barkley, Fairfield, pioneer editorof the Wayne County Press, who did much to suppress lawlessness and support thehard road movement in southern Illinois, and W. O. Davis of the BloomingtonPantagraph.Professor Lawrence W. Murphy, head of the school of journalism at the Universityof Illinois and a member of the Hall of Fame committee, offered the names of threemen he considered worthy of the honor: Melville E. Stone, founder of the AssociatedPress; Harvey W. Scott, editor of the Portland Oregonian for forty years; and EdwardW. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, the Newspaper EnterpriseAssociation, Science Service, and the United Press.Nominations of editors for the Hall of Fame were postponed until the annualmeeting of the Illinois Press Association at the University of Illinois the following fall.The committee on resolutions recommended that thereafter when any particularfavor has been shown the association the secretary be instructed to write a personalletter to all persons who have responded to the request and on behalf of the wholeassociation extend to them the sincere thanks and appreciation of the association.Early in April twenty-five students at the University of Illinoistook the professionalcertificate examination of the Illinois Press Association, writing on the various sectionsfor sixteen hours. Seven of the twenty-rive qualified to work out the rest of theirexamination on the "interneship" basis. The others passed on various parts of theexamination and qualified for later examination.The following article about Southern Illinois newspapers is taken from the UnitedStates Publisher of November 1929."An association of Southern Illinois newspapers, known as 'Egypt's AssociatedDailies,' was recently formed at a meeting held in Benton, and plans an advertisingcampaign for the purpose of boosting the southern portion of the state, known asEgypt, and at the same time calling attention of national advertisers to the field."Papers included in the organization, as tentatively agreed upon at the formationmeeting were: Cairo Citizen, Benton News, Centralia Sentinel, Carbondale Free Press,DuQuoin Call, Eldorado Journal, Harrisburg Register, Marion Republican, MountVernon Register-News, Murphysboro Independent, Lawrenceville Record and MountCarmel Republican-Register.287