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524 ed., Ben Buisman, m.e.); Portland Realtor, 1920, Portland Realty Bd., Lawrence W. Borne, ed. (weekly, Th.); Reed College Quest, 1911, weekly by students; Scribe, 1903, David E. Cohen (weekly); Shopping News, 1924, H. Marcus (weekly, Fri.); Spotlight, 1914, Adv. Club of Portland (weekly); The Timberman, 1899, (monthly); Trade Lanes, 1932, Shipping News, Inc. (weekly, Fri.); Travelers Bulletin, 1921, Robert J. Black (monthly); Track News (suc. Auto News), 1924, G. M. Fox (monthly); Western Commercial Truck Review, Allied Truck Owners, Inc., Ralph J. Staehli, ed. (monthly); Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1929, Ed. G. C. Schauffler, M.D. (monthly); White Ribbon Review, 1905, Conger Co. for State W. C. T. U., Mrs. Necia Buck, editor (monthly ex. July, Aug., Nov.); Winged M., 1915, Multnomah A. A. C., Webster A. Jones (weekly, Fri.)

One of Oregon's distinctive publications, with few if any parallels in the United States, is the weekly Oregon Voter, founded in 1915 by C. C. Chapman, who had done big-time newspaper work in Buffalo and Chicago. One of the stories Mr. Chapman worked on in Buffalo was the assassination of President McKinley in September 1901. The Voter undertakes to give the people of Oregon intelligent statistical and background material on their public affairs and on financial matters such as bonds and securities. Mr. Chapman's quick grasp of the essentials of any matter connected with the government of the state or its constituent municipalities and his clear, keen, fearless interpretation of what he sees are appreciated by Oregon newspaper men as a distinct contribution to the journalism of the state.

Henry M. Hanzen, experienced political reporter and one of the advisers of Julius L. Meier before and during his governorship, is publishing the Portland Bulletin, a weekly newspaper established in 1925 by C. W. Jerome, of which he took charge after his retirement from an important place in Governor Meier's cabinet.

Everybody's Business is a semi-monthly journal of comment and criticism conducted by Kelley Loe since 1935. One of Mr. Loe's contributors is Richard L. Neuberger, probably the most active and successful young writer of non-fiction on the Pacific Coast. His book Our Promised Land, a description of the Northwest with relation to the Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams, has been well received.

Founded in 1907 by Hugh Hume and held on a high plane of literary merit, the Portland Spectator, covering society, sports, and comment, was carried along by Alvin C. Gage, an old-time newspaper editor who also conducted the Angora Journal, until his death in 1937, when Elbert Bede, for 25 years editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel and recognized as one of the best-informed and keenest commentators on political matters among the editors of Oregon, was called to the editorship. The next year Mr. Bede exchanged places