ELBERT BEDE, president of the Ore-i keep spotless shops is becoming greater. gon State Editorial Association, recently completed a trip which included the larger part of the newspapers of the state. He was accompanied through Eastern and Central Oregon by E. E. Brodie, president of the National Edi torial Association and minister to Siam. In Southern Oregon he was accompanied by A. E. Voorhies, of the Grants Pass Courier, and in the northern end of the Willamette Valley G. L. Hurd made up 50 per cent of the party. A few of the editors were unavoidably missed. The time of the party was limi ted and its members knew no eight-hour days. Inaccessibility and limited time were the causes in some cases. In other cases the editors to be visited, lolling in ease, had retired before the time of the

arrival of the presidential party. In other cases the editors, also lolling in ease, had not arisen at a time of day when the presidential party found it necessary to be moving along. In other cases the number of side trips which could be taken were limited. No newspaper on the main

It was our observation that filthy lucre

was scared away from the filthy shops and seemed to prefer to be the only filth on the job. . “I was somewhat amused at the com ments of Brodie, in his capacity as an editor, upon the ’Job Printing’ signs which are yet met in many offices, even

including my own. That word ’job’ got Ted’s goat. Plain ’Printing’ was the way he suggested to several that they adver

tise their business, and the suggestion seems to me a good one. I was still fur ther interested on this subject when Mr.

Hurd, who had not heard Mr. Brodie’s comments, raved along the same line.

“That the newspaper business and the state association have both undergone great changes was evidenced by the fact that in only one or two instances did edi tors give dissatisfaction with the asso ciation or lack of funds as the reason for not being on the membership roll. Al most without exception those found not to be members seemed chagrinerl at being

discovered and promised to sin no more.”

highways was overlooked. _¢_oi

Mr. Bede reports that the entire trip was a most interesting one. “It is great to know your own state,” he says, “and

it is worth even more to know the editors of so great a state and to meet them in their own sanctums. The newspaper

business was found to be an entirely dif ferent kind of a business than it was 10

One of the biggest and most interesting special editions which has come to this desk in a long time is the Special Christmas Edition of the Coos Bay Times, of Marsh field. This paper, of 38 7-column pages, printed in five sections, with illustrations

descriptive of Coos Bay industries and

Business men take it

institutions, has much of interest to all

as a matter of course that an editor shall expect an editor to be a leading citizen

Oregonians. One of the good features is the statistics showing the growth of the community; another is the descriptive

and to be able to appear as a leading

matter regarding Coos Bay’s business and

or 15 years ago. drive his own car.

They seem to rather

citizen should.

industry. Banner lines across the tops of

“The number of shops which have no godliness’ theory is becoming fewer and

the pages give rhymed Christmas messages. The percentage of advertising is not too heavy, and the reading matter gives evi

the number who find it profitable to

dence of care in preparation.

regard for the ’cleanliness is next to

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