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ST.. MooRHEAD,
Retiring President of oregon Press Asso
ciation and Editor OF the June
ton City Times
estimated on the number of ems o.
ready PRINT matter appearing in many
OF the papers. If the publisher coulC
only realize it he will learn that thi
matter costs him as much as does thu
matter put up at home.
LIBEL SUITS.
Only two libel suits have come to tn,
notice of the secretary since our las
convention. In both cases an officer O.
this association is involved. Our hon.
Ored vice president and the chief o.
police of Salem are differing as to the
proper wording of a personal that ap
peared in the Daily Capitol Journal
and today the chairman of our commit
tee on legislation is detained at the cap
itol city that he may explain to the
court how a we'll behaved canine should
meet its death, while down in the
mining district of Josephine our es
teemed past president and master al
arms, who conducts the Oldest mining
publication in the Northwest, got some
wrong font personals in the mining
paper, and jury down there that
believes that mining items only should
appear in such a class of publication
has charged for matter that really
belonged elsewhere. Immediately upon
the announcement of the verdict a new
paper is said to have sprung into exist.
ence it having been demonstrated within
the past twelve month that Grants Pass
can and does produce wealthy newe.
paper men.
OUR OLD FRIEND THE TOURIST.
1t is little remarkable that the in.
PRODUCTION of the line casting and type
setting machines has decreased the
number of tourists who interested the
country offices twenty years ago. A
better class of citizens it has been claim
ed has followed the introduction of the
machines. The price of machine COM
position has increased and the scale Of
hand work has not lessened.
THE ADVERTISING COLUMNS.
A noted improvement in the wording
of advertisements appearing in the col
umns of the Oregon papers is noticed.
Advertising is class of information
that interests the general public, and the
public will read an advertisement if put
into the paper in an attractive manner.
Who does not read carefully the adver-
tisements appearing in our magazines2
The same interest will be taken in the
advertising columns of our own news
papers if we will always use good
quality of ink, fair quality of paper and
continue to put horse sense into the
reading of these columns. Advertising
promotes business in community. 1t
helps to build up good paper, and a
good paper is as essential in this age as
is the school or church. 1t seems to me
that there sre some people who hope to
buy the Lord off by going to church
every Sunday and singing songs,yet they
never help to improve community by
patronizing the editor and making il
possible for him to buy suit of clothes
in which he may wend his way to
church. Let us all endeavor to make
our advertising columns more readable
and more attractive.
ADJUST DIFFERENCES.
The employer and his duty to law and
order should ever be kept in mind.
Trouble may arise at any time in our
larger offices between employer and
employe. Oregon has been fortunate
during the past decade, and no reports
have come to this office in late years of
any differencea that all have not been
able to settle in the best of feeling. Let
all be moderate, reasonable, cool headed
and without anger discuss and endeayor
to adjust any differences that may arise.
THE 1908 PROCEEDING.
The thanks of the association are due
to State Printer j. R. Whitney, for hav-
ing printed gratis the proceedings Of the
convention at Salem in 1903, copies of
which have been mailed to every publi-
cation in the Northwest. The work
was done by the Albany Herald and is a
credit to any Office in the state. The
on resolutions will certainly
State Printer Whitney when
it makes its report at the close of this
session.
DEATHS OF NOTED PRINTER FRIENDS.
We note the death of Henry 0. Shep-
ard, president of the Inland Printer
Company, since our last convention.
Henry Shepard was known wherever
typography is practiced. Mr.. Shepard's
of the Peoples Bible His
tory will cause the name of Shepard to
be mentioned ages hence.
During the past year Warren Barn
hart, head OF the great independent sup
ply house of Barnhart Bros. and Spind-
Ter, gave up the cares of competing with
the trust, closed his accounts with the
world, and now all that was moral Of
this progressive printer rests in beau
tiful Chicago cemetery.
Among those nearest home who have
died since last we met was the good
friend of this association, Edward n.
Fuller, the George II. Hines of the
State of Washington. can imagine |
can hear our old friend say, George,
beat you home. Please to put my name
among your lists of firsts.
SELECTION OF THE NEXT PLACE OF MEETING
The selection of the next place Of
meeting will come up for your consider
alton. While a majority may wish to
meet In the exposition city, let me ad-
wise you first to find out what the trans
portation lines will do for the members
in the interior. The size of the attend
ance of these meetings depends upon
the limit placed on the amount Of trans
portation issued by the lines over which
our delegates must travel in order to at
tend our meetings. transportation
ines charge, and we cannot hope to al
wavs have an automobile, a X. W.
Baxter, a conservative A. D. Charlton,
a genial, generous W. H. Hulburt, an
ever thoughtful c. H. Markham or a
prime of good fellows, W. +. Conan.
Whenever railroad management
changes, somehow the interior edi-
tor loses a friend. 1t is difficult to a
man schooled in the freight department
OF a railroad TO look at the country edi-
tor other than dead weight. 1t is cold
and none can blame him. Let
us ask the management OF the fair
that has been helped so much by the