Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Newspaper Directory and History"Chain stores are union stores," said S. P. Preston, Gillespie News, following Mr.Schulte's talk. "Therefore, they have union hours for employees. They hire home people,and they are the biggest advertisers. I receive from $70 to $80 in advertising in a monthfrom the chain stores but I have not received $80 from a home-owned grocery store inthe last five years.""The chain stores are taking money out of town. Yes, but so are the public utilitycompanies.""In Danville," stated John H. Harrison, "the chain stores forced the home-ownedstores to improve conditions in their own stores, and to doll up." He advocated chainstoredevelopment.Homer B. Clemmons, Blue Island Sun-Standard, advocated the use of one-third ofone per cent of profits to be turned over for community welfare. "If all of the chainstores adopted a like policy there would be turned over by the chain-store corporationsa total of from 20 to 3 5 million dollars, annually."George Chapin, secretary of the Urbana Association of Commerce, declared thatthe chain stores were increasing local bank prosperity, which will in turn be the meansof greatly increasing advertising in the future.Elmo Scott Watson, Publisher's Auxiliary, Chicago, declared that he was for thechain stores when they forced the local home-owned store to be up-to-date and toadvertise.L. M. Wood, editor of the Flora Journal-Record, stated that the chain store is ascientific method of modern merchandising. "The local merchants must wake up andget a real system of advertising, before they can expect to compete with the chainstore," he said. He advised the merchants to find out what was going on in their hometowns before howling about the chain store.The Illinois Press Association went on record as favoring an Audit Bureau ofCirculations for all newspapers, and recommend that the president appoint a committeeto investigate the situation and report its findings at the next meeting.Professor Lawrence W. Murphy, director of the School of Journalism, was honoredby the convention, when a resolution was drawn up by the editors complimenting himon his efforts in "bringing about the desired results in the School of Journalism at theUniversity of Illinois being recognized as one of the best schools of its kind in thecountry."The convention also resolved that a committee be appointed to study fire insuranceand its prevailing conditions and report to the next meeting; also it extended appreciationfor the tea, theatre party and entertainment.Two new members on the Hall of Fame committee were named: A. L. Bowen ofSpringfield to succeed himself, and A. A. Raboin, Chatsworth Plaindealer, to succeedJ. E. Dertinger, president of the association.The new officers of the association were: President, J. E. Dertinger, Bushnell Record;Vice Presidents, Howe V. Morgan, Sparta News-Plaindealer, also president of theSouthern Illinois Editorial Association; Gerry D. Scott, Wyoming Post-Herald; W. C.Fairweather, McLeansboro Times; Secretary, H. L. Williamson, United States Publisher,Springfield; Treasurer, C. R. Denson, Minonk News-Dispatch; Executive committee,S. P. Preston, Gillespie News; John H. Harrison, Danville Commercial-News; John M.Sheets, Oblong Oracle; Paul R. Goddard, Washington Reporter; C. S. Conger, WhiteCounty Democrat, Carmi.Awards given in the state newspaper contest were as follows: Dailies published incities between 50,000 and 100,000 population: first, Rockford Morning Star; second,