Meeting of Public Educators
By Editor
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES is in no sense a local newspaper, not having to do with town, county, or state matters. It is a religious journal with a worldwide constituency, and its aim is to preach the worldwide Gospel. But it is published in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, and because of this its editor and his wife had the pleasure of attending the annual meeting and banquet of the Santa Clara County Editors' Association, held in Mountain View the last day of February. This association does not include the city editors of San Jose; yet Mr. E. K. Johnston, managing editor of The Mercury, met with them and gave an interesting and forcible address on the independence and worth of the country papers, which ought to be recognized. San Jose editors will probably be included in the future meetings. Most of the papers in the county were represented by about a score and a half of gentlemen and ladies, mostly editors and their wives, as follows: Palo Alto Citizen, by Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Hathaway; Palo Alto Times, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Simkins, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kelly; Mayfield News, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ostermeyer; Sunnyvale Standard, Mr. W. K. Roberts; Santa Clara Journal, Miss Bernice Downing; Santa Clara News, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Roth; Gilroy Advocate, Mr. and Mrs. Will F. Blake; Gilroy Gazette, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. McKenney; Campbell Interurban Press, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis C. Dick; Los Gatos News, Mr. W. H. B. Trantham; Los Gatos Mail, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith; Mountain View Register, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Miller; Mountain View Leader, Mr. and Mrs. P. Milton Smith. Other gentlemen and ladies were present from Mountain View and near-by towns. The election of officers for the association for the following year resulted as follows: Mr. P. Milton Smith, president; Mr. Will F. Blake, vice-president; Miss Bernice Downing, secretary; Mr. W. H. B. Trantham, treasurer. The banquet given by the Mountain View Board of Trade was all that could be desired. Sufficient and ample was the unique menu. There was nothing stronger than water, nor weaker than tea. After the banquet followed speech-making; all of which were sensible, kindly, suggestively helpful, and genial. The chairman of Mountain View City Council, Judge B. E. Burns, welcomed the editors in his peculiarly happy vein, and was responded to in an excellent speech by Mr. L. P. Hathaway, the out-going president. After the banquet a ride in automobiles in the vicinity of the town, closing with a brief visit to the home of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, completed the day. We were glad to meet this clean, genial body of public educators. May the shadow of each never grow less, and may they ever keep before their constituencies with whom they come in such direct and living contact, all that makes for true manhood and womanhood and for the highest type of liberty-loving citizenship.