xt70p26q2384 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt70p26q2384/data/mets.xml Kentucky Kentucky Press Association Kentucky Press Service University of Kentucky. School of Journalism 1931 Call Number: PN4700.K37 Issues not published 1935 Aug - 1937 Oct, 1937 Jul - 1937 Aug, 1939 Oct - Dec, 1940 Jan - Mar, 1951 Aug - 1956 Sep. Includes Supplementary Material:  2005/2006, Kentucky High School Journalism Association contest 2004-2005, Advertising excellence in Kentucky newspapers 2003-2005, Excellence in Kentucky newspapers newsletters  English Lexington, KY.: School of Journalism, University of Kentucky Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Press Press -- Kentucky -- Periodicals The Kentucky Press, March 1931 Vol.3 No.2 text The Kentucky Press, March 1931 Vol.3 No.2 1931 2019 true xt70p26q2384 section xt70p26q2384 - 1.1.11
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' :13“ :2111 1; 31-1 Ofiicial Publication of the Kentucky Press Association address the association at this meeting
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!. I! E . ‘ E 1“,! Application Pending for Entry as Second Class Matter 1931’ let’s make our slogan “Every
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NEE! ,‘ gig "i ! '3 LAWRENCE HAGER, Owe'ns'boro Messenger, Chm. Exec. Committee March 14, 1931. !
1" '!'1 ' ' " “1' J. CURTIS ALCOCK, Danville Messenger, Secretary-Treasurer . . . 1
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311:1!1 1 11* 5 1E The newspaper 00m“? commlttea 9°“.attend the 5655”“ of the“ m' tion trickling through the “ticker tape." 1
1 “EL _1! : E 7:5: -Editors AlcocLHuttm,.Th0mpSQD..and .91???“ .. _. .21.. .2 . . _ 1... A city cut off mentally. from the out- i
-:, E! !_ E Portmann W111 meet early next month We need these f8 lows and we bel eve side world.
!_» 17"1311’E.‘ 1 ‘1: to lay plans for-the 1931. newspaper they coulfl be benefitted by the meet- Twenty-eight years before George
",1! 1, ,1. : ‘13:: contests Which Will be decided by the IDES. Washin t 1
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111111.;1 1 . 2 3;: Paducah meeting. Ali-incluswe rules For this reason, we need not only ican newspaper was established In- ’
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:11'f31‘ : 1': whose announcement Will appear in on. the part of every reputable news— 0d . 1
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9.11!-:‘1.-1‘1. :1 . the' April issue of the Press. The paper but also to urge representation 1
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E 1 11 l! 1. 1 132. association or not, Will send in entries preach that our town is just what its . !
I1 .2111, .,1 ,1. 3, _ . . . . . - . . conceive a world without newspapers. -
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3'1!1':E.,‘1!'?? !,E,1," this a real contest. Watch for the fourth week-end, at Paducah. This .-,. :1 1:1 .1. s. .
'31'3'233 .. ! E ! ‘, announcement in the April issue. Will be the association’s first visit to DELEGATES APPOINTED 1'
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! "1.;1-'!1i !! E 2 E E5. Kentucky Press ASSOCiatiOn practically or highway. appoint ten official delegates as repre- 1.
1 "'!"E' E ! 1' E, 1'31 since its foundation in 1869. ,__Thanks The ever-generous Illinois Central sentatives at, the meeting. President ,
! 1"31, ; 1 ,7 ‘ !1" to the incessant efforts of” thO'Se who Railroad has offered to spend in adver- Lovett has appointed the following !
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1 ' '13!,1, .! £1 Kentucky newspaper is now included tives in attending the sessions. This B. F. Forgey, Ashland Independent; .
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E ' E's-'3- , !! 1 1. 1 1' f; fellows. who could contribiite much to Those who prefer to drive their cars Curtis Alcock, Danvilie Messenger; Col.
‘1 ! '133' '1 ! !1 ., . "the‘pfaCticai worth ofltl'iéjjxiiscu'ssions will find splendid highways leading Harry A. Sommers, Eiizabethtown
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.1 ' .,1“!! ! 5', ,‘ '1 :1. duct their newspapers with the prac- Kentucky Home at Bardstown, the and A. s. Thompson, Paris Kentuck- '
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1 By L. NIEL PLUMMER Briefly his scheme was a “popularity are first: a prize, second, a considera- 1 1 § 1
1 (Editor’s Note: The following article contest” whereby those who subscribed tion, and third, a chance. And by 11 1 1;
1 is presented for the benefit of our ed- to his paper were issued a certain this test most courts determine wheth- ' , 1, | .1 E
itors at the request of a prominent number of votes which could be cast er or not any scheme is by nature a ‘-E'1 11 1 1 1
1 editor in K. P. A. File it away for for any candidate in the popularity lottery. In the Jenkins case the ele- :’ 11
future reference.) contest, the winner of which was to ment' of' chance was missing, so the 11 1:
' Lottery, or rather the question— receive an automobile. Merchants were court‘ held, and for this reason there 1 ~ ,1 1 1
"What is a lottery"—~more than once also tied into the contest, being allowed was no case against the editor under ‘ 11 111 1
1 has presented itself to most Kentucky to purchase votes from the editor, such the anti-lottery statute. f1 1 ‘ 1
: editors. Whatever may have been the votes to be given to customers making The‘ Kentucky court did add that, 1 1 1
1 decision of the editors in the matter, purchases from the merchants. The “the object (of the contest) is to in- 1 1 1
1 the law has taken little or no notice, merchants their families and the de- crease and stimulate trade in a legitl- ,1 1 1 '1
/ but in the statutes of this state there fendant and his family were excluded mate article of commerce,” seeming to ‘1 1 1 1
is written as emphatic a law concern- from the contest. oppose'v'of the scheme in this basis. 111 1.1
1 ing the publishing of lottery material, Upon trial the case was dismissed in Now': to have made this case of real ‘1‘1 1 1
whether news or an ad, as is to be the lower court, the jury being in- value to editors in these days of trade- : ‘ i 1
‘ found in the nation.‘ structed to find the defendant not boosting schemes, an element or chance 1 1 1 1
. That it provides for a fine of not guilty. This decision was affirmed on such as a drawing which would have ‘ 3 . .1
less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 appeal. determined the winner in the “popu— , ‘ . 1
1 and imprisonment of not less than 30 In sustaining the finding 0f the larity contest,” would have left little 1 1 1
1 days nor more than six months for lower court the appellate court said in to speculation But without, and being 1 111: 1
, each ofl'ense, should be proof enough part: without a decision of the courts to use 1' -111 1 ‘
1 for any editor that the statute was “We have been directed to no au— as a guide, whatever is said in regard 1 1 1
1 placed in the books by those who meant thority holding transactions like this to these modern trade schemes must 1; '1 1111 1
business. popularity contest fall within the .de- be left to speculation, and some 31 1 11 1
That it has never been particularly nunciation of the statute against lot- amount of reason. 1 '1 1 11
enforced is no guarantee that it cannot. teries. Every person who parted with But it is a fact, and most editors .1 1 11, 1
1 especially in these days of trade-boost- money in such contest received a sub- have had some experience along this ‘1 1 1' 1 1
1 ins schemes. If it iS merely a threat. scription to the newspaper, or mer- line, that the majority of the post- ‘1 1’ . 1 .1‘
and a serious one at that, then there chandise from the merchant from masters cast a suspicious eyes at 113— ] 1 11.
- should be started a move to modify the whom he received the votes entitled ports of “give-away days" and similar . 1 1‘ '1-
statute or leave the whole matter up to to be cast in the contest. Neither the projects. In most instances they 1 .1 1 1 1 1
federal authorities,. as . .the,.,situation price of subscription to the newspaper, frankly-regard themaabeing of. such 1 1
now is handled. advertising therein, nbr the goods sold nature that a report of them will be 1 . 1 1 1‘: 1 1
However, at present even the federal by the participating merchants was sufficient to bar a newspaper from 11 '1 11-" 11
1 law which bars from the mails any advanced by reason of the scheme; and the mails. True it is that many of the 1 1__ 1'“ 1 1
newspaper carving any report 0f a presumably when such person subscrib- local postmasters are not very vigilant 1 1 1 _' 1
1 lottery, is meeting With criticism. At- ed for the newspape, or purchased in guarding against such reports, but 1 z 1‘1 I
tacks are being directed at it because goods from one of the participating we may infer from them that these 1 11 1 1 1
1 of the lottery schemes which are being merchants, he got his money’s worth. trade schemes by nature resemble a 11 1 1 1 1
carried out in radio broadcasts while Now this last: sentence would indi- lottery. , 1 1 13:
1 a report of even" some of the more cate at first reading that “give-away If so, what about the Kentucky law - 1 1 1'
simple trade-boosting campaigns are days," drawings for gold and such regarding the publishing of material 11 1 1
’ regarded as sufficient to bar a news- schemes might, so far as the state is concerning a lottery? The state pen- 1
paper from the mails. concerned, be without the objectionable alty is the most severe. of the two, and 1‘11: 1‘
1‘ This much can be said for the fed- features. For in instances the purpose is the one which could cause real hard- ‘ .' 1“; 1
1 erai anti-lottery law. . . .it is not being of these special merchandise days is ship, if the writer’s speculations on the 1 11' 1 1
so vigorously enforced as in earlier to increase sales, and in few cases is matter is correct. '1 1 1 1
years. However, that does not free the price of any of the commodies ad- However, we will drop speculation, 1, 1
1 the editor from the threat of the state vanced. But in the Commonwealth vs. and will cite a few cases in other ‘ '1 1 . ‘1
law. Jenkens case the plan was not regard- states which have been decided in 1 , ,1 1
A survey of the enforcement of the ed as a lottery. recent years, the material being found 1 1 ‘ 1
state anti-lottery laws, particularly In 24 Cyc 1633 is found the follow- in the University of Kentucky law 1 ‘ 1
1 those statutes referring to the publish- ing definition of a lottery: “A lottery library: 1 3 1
ing of lottery reports, reveals that there is a species of gambling which may be A sale by a merchant whereby custo- 1 ' 1 1 , 1
are few cases to be found upon the defined as a scheme for the distribu- mers were to be given tickets number: .1 1 1 1 1 1
subject in Kentucky. Only two Ken- tion of prizes by chance among persons ed in duplicate, the holder of the first 1 1 1 i
tucky cases were found by the writer who have paid or agreed to pay a ticket, to be drawn after the sale, to 1' 1 1 1
I1 and in both instances the publisher valuable consideration for the chance be given a free automobile, constituted 1 1, 1 1
of the newspaper came clear, but to obtain a prize." a gift enterprise, contrary to public 1 1
1 neither of the cases came under the And Bouvier's law dictionary defines policy under the Georgia code. 148 Ga. 1' 1 ‘1 1
. modern statute prohibiting the pub- it as follows: “A scheme by which a 283 (decided 1918.) 1 1- ; 11 1
iishing of lottery reports. result is reached by some action or Under the Illinois statutes a lottery 1 1 1 11
Perhaps the most interesting of the means taken, in which result man’s scheme to come within its provisions, . ‘ x 11 1
cases in which a newspaper publisher choice or will has no part, and which must contemplate the distribution of j 1 1 ‘
figured is that of the Commonwealth human reason, foresight, sagacity, or prizes by chance, and there must be 1 '1 1 11 1
1 vs. Jenkens, 159 Ky. 80. In this case design cannot enable him to know or a chance to gain or lose by the draw- . . 111
1 the defendant, a newspaper editor, was determine, until the same has been ing. 214 Ill App. 399. (Ill. 1919.) 1~ 11 11
indicted under section 2573. of the accomplished." * * A scheme whereby a realtor selling ' 1 1.1 1
' Kentucky} statutes for the alleged pro- By these definitions. it is to be seen lots permitted each purchased to par- 1 1
1 motion of a lottery. that the principal elements of a lottery ticipate in a drawing, .the winner to 11 1, '
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1 1111-111 11-11 and advertised that with each purchaSe ginbgth, shallceg: iEEmpriEseonEeEdEpaEsmiiEoEoEGe 8:132: Those Who signed the register as
1 2‘ 2111‘ 11:71. .1 ;j1-.1; of the value of 50 cents or more, a key .__ 9 being in attendance at the mid-winter ‘1 Ia]
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1 E12]: 11; ,‘111 11.1 holding the key that would unlock 552"}: “€111“ SEER” be punished by fine or 30 and 311 Were: 1 cl
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:11 11 E721 :1 111 tlcket containing'the offer was attach- 111:3: :Zssh than ten nor more than trEiEiEftryngeEaey: becca Edwards Versailles; Mr; and E 11'
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11 11111 11 11 .11 [3:215:10er olfdingfithat the selling of EDITOR THAN THIS ONE? NOEEVaIEt Albert Schumack, and Roy | s<
121.111 112.1 12 112.21 11 92g 5.10 co tie on which were ..__._. - a €13. Berea. Lloyd P. Robert-

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1.1.1111 .1 17 1 i 11 plate’ for each of which slips. when The Auxiliary, Brewer, Louisville; J- Sherman Porter, SE
!11 11 22 121 E1 ‘ 1.1.1 presented to the seller, he gave a plate, Chicago, Ill. Lexington; D H- Peak, Lexington. 1 DE
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. 1111 111 1:1 prohibiting "any scheme or device by tor of the Ohio yCountyEIifilseEcElth :12; Clark, Ashville, N- C2; Herman Roe, 2 1r
EE EzEE-‘EE. . E 1 11-31 way 0f 3le enterprise 0f any kind City, should be awarded the honors for Northfield,.Minn,; WE Clement Moore, yr
1 11111.21 11 11-11:. _ whatsoever." (21 Atl. 683). holding down more jobs than any Pblladelphia; Flrances Holliclay and 1 tr
.1111 1111 1.11: .1 171 _ And in Texas it was held -that the other weekly newspaper editor If you Virginia Daugherty, Lexington; Dan 1 8(
271 51117711 E'7 .2 11-. E E1 1:5 Selling of candy in boxes at 50 cents know of a better record let's hear from Bowmar, Versailles; J' M' Allen, Cyn- SE
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121.72 1 7 . . 1a .. . . . . 1 ,1 1 Bacon in Hartford ~ 1. . - .
1.111E1 . 1 - 1 11 money or Jewelry. and each purchaser chu‘rch: superintendent of the:j 33:21:; swung; carter Stamper’ Beattyvme‘ dE
1: '71 71.31111 .1. 7 1E selecting his box in ignorance of its school; teacher of the men's Bible Henry B. Waters, Louisville; H. J. 7 p:
1 1-1 211 711 1 11 contents, was a drawer: in the nature of class; commander of Ohio County post Long, OWlngsvnle, Mr. and Mrs. Keen f5
11.1271 7171’ 11 1 711113 a lottery. (28 Arm. Rep. 439.) American Legion; chaplain and mem-E Johnson, REChmondE Sam M’ Hubley, 7 m
11111111112 11 :71 21 1i17 And so the cases continue, the gener— ber finance committee Hartford M Elizabethtown; Charles E" Grote and OE
111,1 E1217 .1 7‘1 a1 idea appearing to be that in schemes sonic lodge; secretary EKeystone chaa: CE PE Hudson, Pikeville; Mildred 3' E EEE
1111 1 E7; - 1 3:11:18 a tihanlce appears, such as a ter. Royal Arch Masons‘ member aiEin fab-bagel,“ Coverport; W‘ F‘ Conley, m
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1 . 1. . 1111 1.. 12 11 e ary. Hartford school board' - 7 an 1
11 111.1 E1 .1 11.197 fiberY- sident Hartford Development Ecgffi— cDastgr; W' D' Grote, Louisa; Russell E EE
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1111111. 11 1 111 11 that, each can form his own opinion surer, Hartford Printing company and Johnson, Paris; J. P. Gozder, D. H. ta
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1 7 911‘! i1“- 1 3 7‘ isle—rt 1 h 11 b ‘ eorge Own; and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. 7 81
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March, 1931 THE KENTUCKY PRESS Page Five ‘ I ‘ "
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1‘ Text Of Evan’s Radio Address ‘ 3‘ ‘
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~ I am glad of the opportunity to talk Neither would I say anything that these concurrent sentences, as they . 1 "1 ‘1
‘ to you a few minutes about “The would take from the average country would say in jurisprudence, what had ‘ ‘1 ‘1
Country Editor". I‘ll not burden you editor of today that feeling that he been operating a perfectly lovely 1 I ’ ‘ H ‘1‘
with a talk on the State’s needs or has the entire burden of the commun— triangle suddenly became a rectangle, ' 1 ‘ ‘1
. other of the weighty topics we editors ity on his shoulders, nor deprive him through the appearance of another ‘1 "l 1 “
are sometimes foolish enough to believe of that feeling that he is the most man. Two gun barked, as the fine , Ii? 3 1‘
you read about in our editorial columns, mistreated and misunderstood critter writers of the city dailies say, and the ‘1 ‘ 1 ’
but Just talk to you in a plain every— in your town. Under it all he is just state was saved the expense of a trial ‘ ‘
. day way about the country editors of one of your citizens, interested in the and the department of printing a fine R , “
Kentucky. . things you are interested in and trying lithographed pardon blank. 1 ‘
‘ ' We are not called “country editors” to bring to pass the things you are When I wrote the story I was careful 1 ,- ' 1 “
Ialtogether because of our appearance working for. Naturally, he has the to state that the double killing 00- . 1 3‘
1 but from the fact that about ninety~ advantage of you, for when the task curred in Harlan ‘County. ‘ Harlan ‘ 1 ‘
eight per cent of the editors, despite is finished and the undertaking has newspapers were just as careful to ‘ ‘ 1 1
' their many references to “our city" been pronounced a success, he can say that the shooting had occurred in 1 ‘ 1 ‘
live in small towns and serve rural come out in the next issue of his paper Bell County, “near the Harlan County 1 ‘
populations. It with pride that we and take full credit for everything that line". Accuracy, the keynote of good ‘ L ‘
, call ourselves editors, it is a term as was accomplished and grab the glory journalism, was sacrified on this oc- i , ‘
old as journalist, though perhaps not that was rightfully yours. Oh, he won’t casion to county pride. ‘ 1 I‘
so high-sounding. do it in so many words, but by care- I started to tell you about the dawn .
j I welcome this opportunity to speak fully written articles and by inference of a new day in Kentucky journalism. I ' “
about Kentucky’s newspapers over this he will give the reader to understand Let’s go on and get the sun Vup,.and 3 ; 1‘
‘ station sponsored by two great news— that it was his idea and his newspaper then resume our dissecting. The aver- 1 ‘1 ‘ ' ‘ 1
1 papers of Kentucky. I am reminded that put it through. age country newspaper in Kentuéky ; ‘ , “
‘ in this connection of something one of I feel sure that most of you have at is now on a paying basis. 'I don’t 1 F 1 ‘ ‘
my fellowtownsmen said about two some time or another had an over- mean that they're making big money, i 1 1 ‘,
years ago when The Pineville Sun, whelming desire to pick some editor as money is counted today, but they’ve 1 1 1; ‘3
1 through some freak of luck, was award— to pieces. Let us do that now, but on broken away from the old methods and ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 1 ‘
1' ed the Kentucky Press Association behalf of my fellow offenders I beg haphazard systems of keeping records 1 ‘3
silver cup in one of the annual news- the right to do the dissecting in a and today the average published can , ‘1. ‘1. ‘ ‘
paper contests. This fellow is known more humane manner than you may tell within a few dollars the operating ‘ ‘1 ‘ ‘
as one of our best informed citizens have had in mind