The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-22
EDITORS CONVENTION
IS THE BEST EVER
Oregon City Acts as Host for Two
Days Session, and That Historic
Town is Given Over to the
Entertainment of the
Visitors.

The annual convention of the State
Editorial Association was held il
Oregon City on Friday and Saturday
of last week. Newspaper men from
every section of Oregon were in at
tendance and the decision at the
close of the convention WIS that il
was the best meeting of o egon ed.
itors since the organization of the
association.
The program opened Friday morn.
ing with half a hundred newspaper
men present, and President Bede and
Secretary Bates in charge of the
meeting. Owing to the absence OF
some of the members who were list.
ed for speeches, the program
throughout could not be closely ad
hered to, but a great amount of good
thought was brought out in the open
discussions on the subject "The aver
age Cost of an Inch of Advertising. y
other questions discussed were the
problem of foreign advertising, fixed
legal rates and free publicity, as well
as advertising in picture shows.
Many women who are actively en-
gagged in newspaper work in Oregon,
were at the convention, among them
being Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, Of Port
land, Mrs. Ebert Bede of Cottage
Grove, Edith Tozier Weathered, of
Portland, Mrs. j. G. Taylor of Molal-
la, Mrs. D. F. Dean of Oregon City,
and Mrs. Phil Bates of Portland.
The register showed the following
names: Sam Evans, Klamath Falls
Northwestern; w.. G. Bayles, Clats-
knaie Chief A. E. Voorhies, Rogue
River Courier, Grants Pass; C. P.
Leonard, Candy Herald; II. E. Hod-
ges, Silverton Appeal; M. ]. Brown
Oregon City Curier; Lloyd Riches,
Portland Journal; Elbert Bede and
wife, Cottage Grove Sentinel; ]. W
Brewer. Oregon State immigration
Commission, Portland; Phil S. Bates
Pacific Northwest; G. l.. Ireland,
Sherman County Observer; E. E.
Brodie, Oregon City Enterprise; G.
G. l.. Masters, Amity Standard; T.
B. Ford, Pacific Christian Advocate;
A. E. Adams, Woodburn Independ-
ent; Mark Woodruff, Portland; Hen
ry Waldo Coe, Medical Sentinel; G
C. Chapman, Portland; Arthur R
Crawford, GazetteTimes, Heppneri
G. j. Taylor, Molalla Pioneer; E
Hofer, Salem; D. F. Dean, Oregon
City Enterprise; P. Adams, Mergen
thaler Linotype Co.; c. A. Mitt
Rainier, Oregon; Joseph P. Hurley
Forest Grove NewsTimes; W. ]
Clark, Independence Enterprise; H
l.. st. Clair, Gresham outlook; A
Whisnant, Portland Timberman; AL
bert Tozier, Pacific Farmer; O. R
Ball, American Type Founders Co.
Portland; Sarah A. Evans, Portland
Eric Allen, University of Oregon, Eu
gene; H. A. Darnall, Portland; F
H. Anderson, Pacific Paper Co.; R
w. Raymond and wife, Manufacture
ers' Journal Edith Tozier Weather
ed, Portland Carle Abrams, States
man, Salem; Edgar Mcdaniel, Coos
Bay Harbor, North Bend; R. M
Standish, Estacada Progress H. G
Miller The Dalles Chronicle; H. G
Marrs, Gervais Star.
Editors Much Entertained.
During the two days of the con
vention there was not dull momen
so we'll had the Oregon City CONNER
cial Club provided for the entertain
ment of the visitors. After the NOR
ming session on Friday, the hungry
scribes were rendered a luncheon il
the banquet room of the Oregon Cit,
Commercial Club by B. T. McBain
manager of the Willamette Pulp anC
Paper Mills. In the afternoon an in
spection trip was made to the gov
ernment locks and the paper mills
and the evening was taken up by ;
banquet to the Association by tn,
Oregon City Commercial Club. Thi
consisted of dinner, prepared b.
the ladies of the Episcopal church
toasts from Henry Waldo Coe, edit
or of the Medical Sentinel, Phil S
Bates, secretary of the State Associa
ton; Eric W. Allen, dean of thu
School of Journalism at the Univer
sity of Oregon, who told how h,
made editors, Grant b, Dimick, edit
or of the Western Stock Journal
who talked on pigs is Pigs, ant
DR.. T. B. Ford, who talked on the re
lation of the preacher to the news
paper man. c. c. Chapman, of tn,
Portland Commercial Club urged tn,
editors to get in touch with the for
est reserve movement and the pos
sibieities of constructing government
roads therein. T. w. Sullivan, pres
ident of the Oregon City Commercial
Club acted as POSTMASTER. Their e
mainder of the evening was made in
teresting by singing by the Romil
sisters, and several movie films
The Saturday session closed at noon
after the election of officers for th
new year. They are: E. E. Brodie, o
the Oregon City Enterprise, presi
dent; Sam Evans, of the klamath
Ealls Northwactarn vira nresident