Oregon Exchanges
For the Newspaper Folk of the State of Oregon
"BETTER NEWSPAPERS" IS KEYNOTE OF ANNUAL CONVENTION PROGRAM
FRIDAY and Saturday, July 17 and
18, at Grants Pass and the Oregon
Caves— -that's when and where the sum
mer session of the Oregon State Editor
ial Association will be held in 1925.
This year’s programs will be devoted
entirely to the editorial side of news
paper making and 'to the social and
entertainment opportunity which news
paper folks of Oregon have learned to
find and enjoy in the yearly renewal of
friendships and acquaintances at these
meetings. Not one number on the pro
gram pertains to the cash register and
there will be a “kangaroo
court” to
speedily consider the treatment of any
member who dares to bring up for dis
cussion “Overdrafts-—-how to meet them,”
or any kindred subject.
The general theme of the program is
“Better Newspapers" and there will be
much helpful information and inspira
tion in the addresses and discussions.
Paul Cowles, Pacific (‘oust manager
of the Associated Press, is coming from
San Francisco to give an address on
“Gathering the News of the World.”
This will be an important number and
the smaller papers as well as the metro
politan editors will be interested,
“What should be the attitude of the
newspaper towards the flapper and the
jazz and other things that go with her,
which we men deplore, but like?” ap
pears on the program by special request
of Elbert Bede, of the Uottage Grove
Sentinel and the father of three daugh
ters. It appealed to the pro:ram com
mittee immensely. however, and Mrs.
Kate '.
Jameson, dean of women at
O. A. C.,
was invited to htmdle it. Her
consent to do so assures the convention
a talk that will be well worth coming
from any newspaper office in the state
to hear. Dean Jameson is a very cap
able speaker with a lovely personality
and her understanding of the subject
promises a real treat, especially for the
women folks of the convention.
This
talk will be on the Friday afternoon
program.
Dr. E. T. Hodge, professor of geology,
L'niversit_v of Oregon, will give another
address that will be a headliner.
He
will discuss “Oregon's Position in the
Great Pacific Earthquake Belt.”
The banquet Friday evening will be
held in the open air, according to pres
ent plans of the Grants Pass people. One
thing has been definitely decided upon
about the program—that it shall not be
too long.
BRODIE WITII US AGAIN
E. E. Brodie, publisher of the Oregon
(‘ity Enterprise, recently returned from
Bangkok, where he was United States
minister to Siam. will be asked to tell
how it seems to be back in his sanctum
at work. Grace E. Hall. staff poet on
the ()rc_r/omian,
will read some of her
poems. She likes newspaper people and
holds a high Iregard |for the tcpuntry
weekly workers.
Her understanding of
country journalism was gained by actual
experience; not so long ago she was a
regular member of the news staff of the
Corvallis Gazelle-' l'irnc.s,
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