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Following is report of Fridays bus
ness session:
The business session of the Oregon
Press association convened in the Com
mercial club rooms. President Moor
head presided, with Albert Tozier a.
secretary.
The following names were added tt
the list OF membership of the Oregon
Press association
A. G. Gage, editor and publisher Lane
County Leader, Cottage Grove.
j. R. Grogg, editor and publisher The
Democrat, Ontario, Ore.
j. W. Macarthur, editor Oregon
Monthly, Eugene, Ore.
Al. I. Kinney, editor Herald, Joseph
]. P. Kidd, editor Forward, Ontario
ID. A. Bath, editor Independent, Hills
boro.
Geo. L. Alexander, Express, Lebanon
G. l.. Starr, editor School News, Dal
las
E. H. Flagg, editor Oregon Mist, St
Helens.
a. D. Moe, editor Hood River Glacier
Hood River.
V. P. Fiske, editor Woodman, Dallas
John E. Latllrop, editor Pacific North
west, Portland
j. A. Burleigh, editor Democrat, En-.
terprise.
Ralph Bacon, Oregon Monthly, Eu
gene.
]. P. Wager, Daily Journal, Portland
The attendance was rather small, ow-
ing to various circumstances, but there
appeared to be spirit of enthusiasm
manifested on all sides, and determin.
alton to secure the passage of several
legislative measures of particular inter-
est to the newspapers of the state.
Letters of regret were read from Ex.
President Harder and T. T. Geer, former
governor of Oregon, but now editor OF
the Salem Statesman.
The president reported to the associa-
ton an invitation from the Lewis and
Clark fair grounds.
William j. Clark, who represented
the association at st. Louis, gave the
association an instructive and very
interesting talk concerning his extreme
ly pleasant and profitable trip.
The open meeting of the Oregon Press
association in the fair pavilion Friday
night was largely attended The program
was somewhat extended, owing to the
omission of the morning session to ad-
nit of the editors taking the drive into
the country. There were many able and
very interesting addresses by the men
and women of Oregon journalism.
One of the best speeches of the even.
ing was W. ]. Arthur's response to Mr..
Smiths address of welcome. Mr.. Nc
Arthur is editor of the University of
Oregon Monthly, and while one of the
youngest members of the Oregon Press
association, he gives evidence Of bright
record in the years to come. The young
man is member of the junior class at
the state university.
Mr.Smith welcomed the visiting news
paper men on behalf of the people of
Hood River, making it out that Hood
River was the original Garden of Eden.
Although far along in the program, as
Mrs Abigail Scott Duniway arose to de-
liver her address on "Woman's Work
in Journalism" the leader of woman
suffrage in Oregon, was greeted with
tremendous applause. Owing to the
lateness of the hour, Mrs. Duniway put
aside her set speech and spoke extern
poraneously. She was warmly ap-
planded throughout her address.
Historian Hines also cut short his
report. q. Y. Harry, in the absence OF
Secretary Reed of Lewis and Clark fair,
told of the scope and purpose of the 1905
fair.
President Moorhead made strong
plea for the enactment of legislation for
the protection of the newspaper men. He
said in part:
"It is an idle waste of time and dissi-
patton of hard-earned money to appear
before the legislature asking for the en-
association, unless we are united and
organized. The legislature is not to
blame, although that body is accused of
all the irregularities of the constitution
and the Ten Commandments. The ed
itor alone is responsible for the fact that
our profession is the only one within the
borders of the state not protected by
statute. The butcher and the baker,
the doctor and the undertaken, have
laws that will enable them to collect
their accounts to the last farthing, but
the publisher must depend upon the
honesty of his Constituency"
Secretary Tozier's report was read as
follows:
Hoad River, Or, Oct. IA, 1904.-To
the officers and members of the Oregon
Press Association: In obedience to the
rules of this organization the secretary
submits his abbreviated annual report.
NEWSPAPERS OF OREGON.
As has been customary in past years
your secretary has classified the publi-
cations in Oregon admitted to the mails
as second class matter on September 80
of each wear. Where an Office issues.
two publications, such as daily and a
weekly, they are counted as two papers.
There were on September 30, 1904, in
Oregon, 179 weeklies, 81 monthlies, %
dailies, I semi weeklies, semi-monthly,
and quarterly, or total OF 242 publi-
cations admitted to the United States
mails as second class matter. These
242 publications were lined up polite
ally, religiously, fraternally, consistently
and otherwise as follows: Republican,
l29, independent, 80, democratic 81,
religious 10, fraternal 6, agricultural 4,
students 4, commercial and shipping 2,
mining 2, hops 2, prohibition l, drugs
/, expostions l, Oregon history /,
japanese /, Hebrew l, stock l, medical
/, timber |, teachers |, poultry l., Ger
man l, Coored race /, trades unions |,
Norwegian /, Scandinavian l, schools l,
Pacific lore /, retail trade l, law /, and
equal rights to all, special privileges to
none |.
Omitting the number of correspond.
ents required to furnish these papers
with the class of matter required by the
reading public, there are 9l7 persons
actually employed every day in order
that the papers may reach their sub
scribers on time. This is a conserva-
lively low estimate. In July last |
secured one copy OF every publication
that had appeared in this state during
the year, and made an estimate on the
number of ems BREWER type set up in
one week in Oregon in order to produce
one copy of each publication, and that
estimate was 2S,073,0OO ems BREWER,
after deducting matter that had been
used in more than one publication
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