Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Newspaper Diri.ctory and Historyswift-modern mercuries of automobility and telepublicity, in this tele-victorian age;(as I have often called it,—the age of telegraph and the telephone, or tele-radio andtele-vision,) and above all the tele-printed word which is the newspaper."These selected for this high service, as I have said, must know how to tell thetruth and they have to do it with words in cold type. Dr. Samuel Johnson said, quotingsome one before him, that he was not so lost in lexicography as not to know that wordswere only the daughters of men while deeds were sons of heaven. But after all, it isonly by the daughters of earth that the sons of Heaven get born. In the 'Terrible Meek'the dramatist, Charles Rann Kennedy, presents a scene in which a cross is dimly seenin the background and in the foreground an English Tommy and an English captainare shown in conversation. The Tommy is saying that it is too bad that one shouldcome to this just for the saying of a few words. 'Words, words,' said the captain,'words are the most powerful things in the world. All the good or bad that gets donein the world is done by words.' Truly in the beginning was the word, but it will bewith man to the end of time, that is, until God stops speaking to men; until the reporterjournalist has filed his last copy, and the editor has made his last comment, until thelast edition has gone to press and Gabriel's trumpet has been heard by radio aroundthe earth."The guests of honor at the dedication were: members of the families and associates ofthe men memorialized; executive heads of the publications on which these men worked;donors of the busts and memorials; the Governor of the State of Illinois; the LieutenantGovernor of the State of Illinois; members of the Board of Trustees of the University ofIllinois; the President of the University of Illinois; the President of the University ofChicago; presidents and official representatives of other universities; a representative ofColby College, Waterville, Maine (the alma mater of Elijah Parish Lovejoy); the mayorof Champaign and the mayor of Uibana; guest speakers of the sixty-fifth annual meetingof the Illinois Press Association.Members of the Past Presidents' Association of the Illinois Press Association; officersof the Illinois Press Association; the secretary of the Inland Daily Press Association; theeditor-in-chief of the D. C. Heath Publishing Company; the president of the AmericanSociety of Newspaper Editors; the President of the National Editorial Association;members of the Council of Administration of the University of Illinois; members of theGeneral Assembly of the State of Illinois; members of the Supreme Court of the Stateof Illinois; State Superintendent of Public Instruction; State Auditor of Public Accounts;Attorney General of the State of Illinois; Secretary of the State of Illinois; State Treasurerof the State of Illinois.Two thousand persons attended the exercises.The committees for the dedication were:Special committee on arrangements: Walter A. Strong, Chicago Daily News; H. L.Williamson, United States Publisher; Putney Haight, Chicago Tribune; A. A. Raboin,Chatsworth Plaindealer; Lawrence W. Murphy, University of Illinois.Advisory: J. M. White, University of Illinois.Hall of Fame committee: L. M. Wood, Flora Journal-Record; A. L. Bowen, IllinoisState Journal; A. A. Raboin, Chatsworth Plaindealer; Lawrence W. Murphy, Universityof Illinois; J. E. Dertinger, Bushnell Record; H. L. Williamson, United States Publisher;W. C. Bush, Pike County Democrat, Pittsheld.Committee on information: W. M. Hout, Champaign News-Gazette; A. T. Burrows,Urbana Courier; J. R. Adams, Daily Illini; V. A. Sholis, Daily Illini; C. W. Johnson,Associated Press; Don E. Chamberlain, United Press.