Little Fellows

National Editorial Association was founded 51 years ago in the interest of the "little fellows" of U. S. journalism: editors and owners of weeklies and semi-weeklies of modest, local circulation. The Association grew to include some 3,500 members, set up a Washington lobby to see that their cherished patent medicine advertising was not jeopardized, awarded annual prizes for excellence in typography, editorials, job printing. With Depression, N.E. A. fell on evil days. Some 1,000 members defaulted their dues and pessimists saw the end in sight. Last week a new lease on N. E. A.'s life was assured when N. E. A.'s Acting Managing Director William W. Loomis, publisher of the La Grange (Ill.) Citizen, announced to 250 delegates at this year's convention in Poland Springs, Me. that necessary funds had been pledged by the membership to continue N. E.A.'s operations indefinitely.

Pleased, the delegates listened to greetings from Maine's Democratic Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, raised to the presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine.

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