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Reverie, v. 3, issue 3, whole 10, September 1940
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Reverie 11 AN OUTSTANDING CONVENTION James F. Morton Having achieved my ambition to set the pace by attending my twenty-fifth convention of the National Amateur Press Association, I have ample basis for comparison of this occasion with many others. It is my sober judgment that the Philadelphia gathering was on of the best in our entire history. In the good old days, it was possible to secure larger numbers at our conventions, though even in this respect the convention measured well up to its predecessors during the difficult period though which we and the world are passing. But in the perfection of arrangements, for which no praise to Harold Segal and his associates can be excessive, in the prevailing ardor and devotion to amateur journalism and to its leading organization, in the prevalence and energetic activity of our "young blood," on whom the future must rest, in the selection of a carefully chosen body of officers, picked for reliability, activity and proven qualifications, in constructive labors and sound judgment, it may have had equals but has had no superior. The official board was the choice of the membership at large, and not the result of mere personal popularity at the convention. Several tickets and individual candidates had been publicly placed before the members for their suffrage, in at least one instance a would-be president having had the bad taste to nominate himself in his own paper; and the proxy ballots registered the country-wide support of an excellent ticket, so thoroughly satisfactory in its appeal to the soundest judgment that no serious effort was made to overrule it in any degree. Philadelphia showed its good taste and desire to place the welfare of
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Reverie 11 AN OUTSTANDING CONVENTION James F. Morton Having achieved my ambition to set the pace by attending my twenty-fifth convention of the National Amateur Press Association, I have ample basis for comparison of this occasion with many others. It is my sober judgment that the Philadelphia gathering was on of the best in our entire history. In the good old days, it was possible to secure larger numbers at our conventions, though even in this respect the convention measured well up to its predecessors during the difficult period though which we and the world are passing. But in the perfection of arrangements, for which no praise to Harold Segal and his associates can be excessive, in the prevailing ardor and devotion to amateur journalism and to its leading organization, in the prevalence and energetic activity of our "young blood," on whom the future must rest, in the selection of a carefully chosen body of officers, picked for reliability, activity and proven qualifications, in constructive labors and sound judgment, it may have had equals but has had no superior. The official board was the choice of the membership at large, and not the result of mere personal popularity at the convention. Several tickets and individual candidates had been publicly placed before the members for their suffrage, in at least one instance a would-be president having had the bad taste to nominate himself in his own paper; and the proxy ballots registered the country-wide support of an excellent ticket, so thoroughly satisfactory in its appeal to the soundest judgment that no serious effort was made to overrule it in any degree. Philadelphia showed its good taste and desire to place the welfare of
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