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MICHIGAN HOST TO b* Henry Fort's GrKnfuujvtwj jEDUORS FROM 40 STATES PRESENT 1937 Convention Held In Detroit, Followed By An . Interesting and Instructive Four-Day ; ^_ -- Tour Through State K J \ - 1 "V Officii o afidt members off the Mfch- blue of these northern waters shelterigan Press Association completed a ed from the fury of the Great Lakes fine job Sunday evening: at Mackinac by an island ateach end, and on the Island, which point was the end of a west bank he noticed a slight promonwonderful tour of their state, follow- tory overfooking the surrounding ing the fifty-second annual convention <$untry, an Ideal spot for his sentinel of the National Editorial Association, to watch the movements of the Indians hi session, at Detroit, July 19, 20 and and British, who were encroaching upj on the territories of New France in Not only the editors from Missouri, America., the "show m«" state, but publishers Undei' Three Fltfg from about forty other states, were! Cadillac built a rude settlement on forced to admit that Michigan is the rim of this northern wilderness, a A VIEW OP Independent* Hall, reproduction of the originaMn Phlla jgelphia, which Henry Ford has built at a museum in Greenfield Village, Qcarborn, Mich. It houses one of the most complete collections of American relics ever assembled. Among the more than 50 famous build* |*B> in the Village are the laboratories and workshops associated With Jgie life of Thomas A. Edison. "tops" in about as many different ways savage outpost that shambjed along ulous state in the union, with a popu is any other of the forty and eight, the banks of the river, slowly andl'ation of 170,000, After an enjoyable -Which comprise thel good old U. S. A. bravely, anxious about Indian out-; luncheon at the Fantlind Hotel, which We, from Illinois, perhaps were breaks and ftia?sacres. When the, connected by an underground sub- : favored somewhat and allowed to dis- P°wer of FVance in North America way to the city's new $1,500,000 Civic play some, of our wares to those who ^s crushed, Detroit became a British, Auditorium, seating approximately Irtarted the tour at Chicago. the itin- P°*session- It remained under Amer-1 «.°°0 in its main room, the visitors erary permitted us f6ur hours Sunday;ican rule.' the «*<*ption Of a were ^ made acquainted with Grand afternoon to take the newshawks in short period during the War of 1812, *£Plds' fading industry, fyrniture. buses and point out a few of the w^en the British flag flung its de- They were shown the million square "world's largest" before going Into fiance ou* across her battlements. f««t exhibit of living room, dining Michigan's home grounds, so to speak. I The™neteenth century saw a slow room and bedroom furniture, ranging We could say this is the second largfest >nd continued growth, a sound, healthy,«* value from modest budget prices to city in the country, here is the biggest condltion of business pioneered by amen several thousands of dollars per piece hotel, the finest front yard on the ™h° loved busin®M Md its gifts to and per room, with every period of • - - civilization. [authentic original historic furniture It's a* simple story .... how these "Presented in reproductions and with lakes, the most colorful "colored" district, the tallest buildings, greatest - _ - - ; , . - ...... newspapers and hundreds of other ™«n ™8tt6 *ffluence with the success) .most striking and original modern sights not to be found anywheerree iinn tthhee business, how they found time (designs, master craftsmanship, decoraworld. But, when that Michigan committee Grand Rapids, Furniture City mmmmm & eommenced fto p«u t onV its juhow I nllirno«is • m a n n e r s a n d p o l i s f c e d b y t h e r e f i e c - tiong of the court £ ^ was entirely forgotten. We had only Civilization on Wheel. the tot round. They talked ^ somethinlf happened -at Deeral Motors, cars, cars, cars! The streets were jammed with tfiem. We "watched the Fords, go by" on the streets and the Pontiacs go by oa assembly line, piece by piece. '-f | Greenfield Village firsnd Rapids (Mich.) Civic Auditorium, built in IfH at a aart af r $1,500,000. seaH 5600. Traverse City, Cherry Center Mackinaw Trout com* big in the waters of Grand Traverse Bay . MTtial winning Ih* prises in national contests during the past leap years. This deep sea fishing of Michigan oilers thrilling sport . ... the fish being taken a hundred or more feet down. A Qeet of otSC €0 boats operate in thes* waters with headquarters at North pail :vpi#!|fca*.esee • • [the travelers mat the Ottawa Indians, saw their big sea and their great forest in a tour along the Store Drive, the most scenic thoroughfare in northern Michigan. Leaving the special train at Petoskey they continued by automobile along the shores of Little Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan. The cars traveled through virgin forests to an open grove ovt looking Lake Michigan. With the lake 200 feet below the precipitous cliff and the Beaver Islands in the distance, the newspaper crowd enjoyed a picnic dinner in a spot where the aboriginal chieftains met for council. At Cross Village, one of the earliest ference of twenty-two feet in the Iev^|s§§ and located on the St. Mary's4|; River , which separates the United States and Canada;. * ^ . At present there? are four of thesd ~~ locks. No. 1 is Wietzel Lock, opened•* in 1881, by the United States. It is^'sp 515 feet long, 80 feet wide, narrowing „ to 60 feet at the gates and 17 feet , t deep. The cost of this lock was $98,- V i , ) 835. It was used last in 1918 but kept in condition for emergencies. No. 2--Poe Lock. Opened in 1806 by the ,U. S. It is 800 feet long, 100 feet wide, 17 feet deep and cost $2,- ^ ; 837,337. 1 Nos. S and 4--Davis and Sabln Locks. Opened in 1914 and 1919 re- ' where the black-robed priests won the' spectively by the U. S. They are 1350 ^ confidence of the Ottawas, descendants *®et long, 24 feet deep, with a lift of of the chiefs and braves of old dressed ^ feet. These two locks are identical in their native regalia were seen.'and •re the longest and busiest locks * r Pushing on from Cross Village, the in the world. Each will take two of \ editors* rode through a rich farming the largest lake vessels in one lockage Nv*-: country to Mackinaw City, where they with 100 feet *o spare. They are 350 -V. left their cars and took a special ferry,feet lon»er than the Panama, but 30 , points of contact for the White Man *" 1 • ' U';. rt.T-1. ^ Thursday morning the visitors then boarded a special train for a four-day tour into the northern sections of the state, to end far away from the busy cities, even entirely away from automobiles, back to the horse and buggy days, because Mackinac Island does T , , . - i- " • * t. rot allow an automobile on the island.?'? Mackinac Island in the Straits of feet "^ower. The cost of these two Furniture Capital Grand Rapids was the first stop after leaving Detroit. It is called the "Furniture Capital of America," the second city of the seventh most pop- •M/llia af «ii to set Up a distinct culture in a society that was born out of savage tion and superb materials Lumber Queen City On to Muskegon, "Lumber Queen of the World" in the earlier days, where the Centennial and Lumberjack Festival was being held, a mammoth Mackinac. World's Largest Summer Hotel At tfljk crossroads of the Great Lakes, historic for its prominent part in the making of the Old Northwest Territory, lies breeze-swept Mackinac Island. Headquarters at the island were at one of the most luxuriously equipped, interesting and beautifully situated resort hotels in the country-- the famous Grand Hotel. Since the day it opened its doors in 1887; just fifty years ago this month, the "world's largest summer hotel" has maintained a policy of providing highest standards of comfort and entertainment fOr the visitors attracted by the beauty of Mackinac Island. The porch of the hotel is 780 feet long and was featured in Ripley's "Believe It or Not" column last year as the "longest porch in the world." From the east end of the main dining room to the west end of the lobby extends the longest single piece of carpet ever manufactured, two blocks in length. The entire building comprises approximately 5,000,000 cubic feet in area. The hotel estate, of 350 acres, includes a scenic golf course overlook was $3,950,000. Canadian Lock--Opened in 1895 by the Dominion of Canada. It is 900 feet long, 60 feet wide, 17 feet deep ' with a lift of 22 feet. Cost, $2,500,000. v A majority of the passenger boats use '$$$ this lock.. , The traffic through the St. Mary's ,y Falls Canal exceeds that of *jhe Panama. Suez, Kiel and Manchester Can als combined and they are the four r a out having the fourth city in the troit Near the end of the nineteenth review showing in the cavalcade of ai ®-- .. uniry. s,ze and "ever mentioned century some of the first experiments, century how the Michigan communityi'ng the Straits. An outdoor swimming tw^r«IirT ^ j!" 1't,m*.7e on gasoline engines were being tried., has grown to be a famed resort center p°o1' screened in by a dense cedar Detroit until our departure, it was Organizations had been formed and. «nd a thriving metropolis of diversi- grove ®f ^^in timber in front of the automobiles, motors, Henry Ford, Gen- faile<1. Thousands of dollars were in-; <*ed industry and culture. Following ^ vested and lost. A group of young *our of the city, harbor and beaches, men, men of business and vision, just a dinner Was served at the Elks Club' a few, strode into those battles of fin- Cherry Capital ance and personality, and Won.' The next morning the guests arriv- Steam, electricity, and gasoline ed at Traverse City. Hold out your fought it out on the streets of the left hand. Now, move your^ittle fine- We were all fed up when we left cities and towns of the country. Gaso- er slightly to the left. There you have wie Dearborn Inn to be taken through tine won .... and out of it all emerged E map of the lower peninsula of Mich- Ford's Greenfield Village for a two- a new civilization, a civilization on igan. and right at the bottom' of the hour tour through this Wonderful as- wheels. And so, Detroit became an in- opening made when you wiggled your - -semblage of antiques, gathered to- dustrial city . ... the most industrial little finger to the left is Traverse gether by Mr. Ford, and housed in city in the world, the world's motor City, the cherry capital of the world buildings specially built to represent mart. I It is the home of the National Cherry earlier days. To see all contained Today the visitor to Detroit is Festival and site of the world's largest within these walls one would have to struck by the immensity of the great cherry packing plant. y spend nearer two weeks than our too automobile plants, employing over Nearby in the Leelanau Peninsula tWO ^ours" 200,000 persons. Here are made the' -- that's . your little , ftnger -- is Glen The next afternoon General Motors Ford, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Hudson, Lake, which the National Geographic became the host and after a 25-mile Plymouth, Packard, Dodge cars, and Society once proclaimed to be one of drive, the guests were ushered into other leading m«kes to a total of six- the world's most beautiful lakes A the Pontjac plant and served a boun- teen. | group of editors had breakfast there. tiful dinner, after which the General Leading Waterway in World ; Others went to Northport to try "deep president. William Enudsen,1 The Detroit River, gateway between' sea" fishing for Mackinaw trout in spoke to the gathering, touching upon the upper and lower Great Lakes, car- Grand Traverse Bay. These trout many of the problems encountered by ries a tonnage equaled by no other weigh up to forty-six pounds, the rectne large corporations in these days waterway in the world. Passenger ord. of unrest in the labor world. jsteamers arrive and leave in rapid. Traverse City has a lake in its back a . .W*5ch Mass Production | succession. Huge freighters pass in'yard, a river winding through it, and * through this branch of Gen- an almost continuous procession, load- two bays in its front yard. Visitors arai Motors permitted the visitors to ed with coal, iron ore, wheat and other breathe "washed air," and it is this atrn?{ TOas! Pro?uc«on of cargoes jmospheric condition which makes the inotor cars. Thousands of workers But Detroit has many other things city a mecca for hay fever patients. H ™ !™ly' each one having but a tiny to offer the visitor, besides her indus-l White and Norway pine forests first part in the building of the finished pro- trial activity. A drive along her miles attracted outsiders to the Grand TravfiL • y £ ys a Iarge P*1* of br°ad shaded boulevards will show erse region, and for nearly a half-cenn-?° W ~ Detroit is also a city of comfort- tury sawmills whined and cork-booted °! Pe" Give Banquet sble homes. To a degree unique lumberjacks strode the streets. As Three i large .D etroit n.e ws*p--a*p ers among large cities, Detroit is *ro.vovmiuy/i, imiiaaunjyr a»9s tvwwecnuttyy--osiiAx ssccnhoouonneerrss hnaivvQe SJ 1 ^!qu J m . Book"cadillac In the very shadows of her loftiest been tied to the local docks awaiting ers blw eJ?umgvrthe SPeak" iui,din/« are lawns' forest trees,, gl'Cargoes of pine boards to be hurried ^cials of the News, Times beautiful open spaces in every districfto Chicago to rebuild that city on the w .J ^ W O i d t h i n k t h e y 0 f T t h e c i t y - I r u i n s o f i t s d i s a s t r o u s f i r e . fS th® way , ^velie8t ,of aU her Parks is the! When the pine was gone the logging ZIL 0r freedom of the 1,000-acre playground in the Detroit industry turned to the hardwoods-- , They *}} representatives River, Belle Isle. World-famous as a beech, elm, maple, birch, and cherry. • r?etr°P°'ltan papers Ulk- recreation spot in the heart of the city, It took a scant ten years to strip these tag to publishers and editors of the Belle Isle has been developed to meet forests off the earth. lentil™ ai?d' without <he Play needs of a large metropolitan; With the departure of the forests, fnflnpr,^ A1 the. ,atter'8 area. Here are Acres of picnic giounds. agriculture came along, but did not among the Amereian peo- athletic fields, lagoons for canoeing, a fill the gap left by the forests. But, the greater, due to the fact band shell for summer concerts, a zoo,1 after some experimentation, it was Iwr P??>er is in «nd, ? horticultural building. Rouge discovered that the atmospheric con- * readers. Park is another great recreational area ditions and soil content were ideal for ..,e8t' f. P°et' known to of over 1,200 acres which provides an, production of cherries, and orchards nt a n ,ra,'°8 audience, on the staff outlet for youthful energies. There started spreading across the region. .1 was speaker are nearly one hundred golf courses in! Now cherries form one of the region's he evening sessions of the the Detroit district which cater to de- greatest sources of income^ convention. votees of that popular game. j It was before the turn of the century Points of interest for the visitor are that residents of cities in the Middle numerous in and about Detroit. The. West, which swelter in summer, found Detroit Zoo, out Woodward Avenue, is that the Grand Traverse region, in adone of the most unusual and modern dition to having many natural recreazoos in the country, covering 125 acres , tion facilities, was cool. This started Meet the Indiana Pestokey was the next stop. Here hotel, is serpentine in shape and fifty yards in length. Vista of Grandeur Fmits site on a bluff, that rises lOO^pf above the level of the Straits of Magkinac, the hotel affords a vista of grandeur. It is set lengthwise to the waters so that from a majority of its rooms, from its gardens and its porches and balconies, patrons have a view of the Straits as they extend twelve miles to the east and west and can even see how they yriden in the distance to form Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. In the past year, more than $100,000 have been spent in completely modernizing the interior Of the hotel. Besides the huge lobbies and dining room, it contains a cocktail lounge, two supper clubs, recreation rooms, a music salon, and three convention halls. Like the "Grand Hotel" of Vlcki Baum fame, the Mackinac Island hostelry is a fascinating study of human enterprise. The payroll averages $800 a day. The orchestra costs $100 a day. The total operating cost is $2,500 a day, employees numbering close to 400. -- W. S. Woodfill, general manager, operates the establishment in a Hollywood like opulence, somewhat in contrast with its unique geographical isolation. Among the early stockholders fifty years ago were Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chauncey Depew, George Pullman, and the Swift, Cudahy and Armour families\of Chicago packing fortunes. It is truly a 'distinctive institution. The-transportation modes of the island are horse-drawn carriages or bicycles. Automobiles are forbidden by state law. Historic places include the original John Jacob Astor house and restorations of British and French fortresses, making the island a veritable shrine of the great Northwest Territory, perpetuating faith|i*Up < te memofy of fts glorious past. uV Side Trip to Locks Local representatives on die tour, C. F. Renich, publisher, A.JI- Mosher, editor, and their wives, on Friday, decided to go a bit farther than the scheduled trip and visit the Sault St. Marie locks, where the big boats are raised and lowered in passing between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, a difnext busiest. Notes About Loelfii Nearly 100,000,000 tons , passes* through the locks in a normal year with a value of well over a billion dollars. Vessel passages number around 20,- 000. The principal cargoes eastbound are ore, grain, flour, and pulpwood; westbound, coal, petroleum, salt and general merchandise. Due to ice conditions the locks are open an average of 250 days a year. One of the larger freighters can load 14,000 tons of ore in about 16 minutes and unload the same cargo in about 3 hours. Lake freight is carried an average distance of 806 miles, at an average cost of 87c per ton. Due to this cheap transportation the United States can undersell the world in steel, even with higher priced labor and other high costs of production. Farmers, although two or three, thousand miles from the seaboard, can sell their grain on a competitive foreign market. For this reason the locks are maintained by the government and are free to all vessels thus benefitting the country as a whole. The bascule or jack-knife bridge just above the locks is the largest in the world. It is so delicately balanced that a -10 horsepower electric motor will operate it. The St. Marys River is 63 miles long, connecting Lakes Huron and Superior. The locks are 49 miles from Huron. The St. Marys Rapids are about half a mile wide and three-fourths of a mile long. The fall is 22 feet. The compensating works or sluice gates located at the head of the rapids regulate the level of the water in the Great Lakes. Homeward Bound Thus came the end of a _ days for the members of the National Editorial Association. When they left for their homes, scattered all over the United States, we believe they knew more about Michigan than ever before. If they did not, no blame can be placed upon the .committee in charge of the tour. The resort section of Michigan provides everything to be desired by the vacationist We would, of course, recommend seeing our comparatively small,"but extra beautiful Fox River Valley first, and then explore the stupendous wonderland of Michigan. Other states in the union may have more mountains, longer rivers, higher sykscrapers, deeper mines, finer climate or better farms, but none can offer greater hospitality than that which was accorded the members of the NEA during the convention and tour of 1937. Michigan, our sister state across the lake, we salute you! Famous for "Salt-Box" Housat - Connecticut is famous for its "saltbox" houses, and for the first stone house in America, dating from 1639, at Guilford. Providence and Pawtucket, in Rhode Island, have the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart and the simple cottage which is the Commodore Perry homestead. Petoskey, Ottawa Indian Country Wonderful City Detroit is a wonderful city. For years that word "dynamic" has been synonymous with it, and for a reason. Partly through chance and partly through necessity, Detroit was found ed at a junction of the great inland feaway. When Cadillac moved across ake St. Clair and swung south down of land. Here the animals roam in barless enclosures which reproduce their native surroundings. Close by is the beautiful Shrine of the Little the Detroit River, he saw the calm Flower, church of Father Coughlin. 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