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Oregon Exchanges

Demand Outruns Supply When the school of journalism

Free to

Oregon Newspapermen: to others. $1.00 per year

all

Issued monthly. Application for entry as second class matter made at the post office at Eugene. Oregon.

was established the fear was

felt

that the result might be the training of more young writers than the profession would be able to absorb. The outcome has been just the opposite. Even before the war it was apparent that there was a

place and welcome in the newspaper STAFF THIS ISSUE Editor.................... Adrienne Epping Assistant Editor.......... ..Bob McNary Managing Editor............................ .................... .. Emma Wootton Hall Exchange Editor......Gladys Wilkins Correspondence Editor........................ ................................Rosamund Shaw Circulation Manager....Miriam Page Contributions of articles

and items of

interest to editors. publishers and printers

of the state are welcomed.

oﬁices of Oregon for all the young people on whom the school would set the stamp of its approval—in fact, positions opened readily even for a number of students whom the school could not unreservedly rec ommend. Now comes the war and_ the

school of journalism ﬁnds itself offering this apology to the many editors who hav wired and written for help and who have been dis appointed. We appreciate your in terest and your conﬁdence. We shall be able to recommend a few,

a very few, students in June

A New Hall of Fame It is the purpose of Oregon Ex changes, beginning with this issue, to

print short biographical sketches of the

men who

have been

building

newspapers in Oregon. This column will be something new and of real value for purposes of reference. It will be these short personal sketches which will make our maga zine worth the keeping and ﬁling for the future. Not very many years will pass before this column will be referred to in connection with the history of journalism in the state or Northwest. Thus we introduce with this num ber our hall of fame for newspaper men of our state, and we shall place in it men of the state who are at tempting to do something toward the advancement of journalism. We shall call it “Leaders of the Oregon'

Press.”

It is ﬁtting that we should

begin with a sketch of A. E. Voor

hies,

editor

of the

Rogue

River

Courier of Grants Pass and pres ident of the State Editorial assoc iation.

10

of

this year.

The others——many of our best boys——are in France. The muster roll of a single company contains the names of nine. ——o

A Journalist ‘.9 History Up to the present time there has been but little written on the hist ory of journalism either in the Northwest or in the United States. Men have gathered together

mat

erial and have written books on the subject, but for some reason none of them seem to give just the type of writing that is most needed. There is a great opening for some

man who can take the history of the newspapers of the Northwest and write a short, snappy chronicle of events which can be used in the schools of journalism on this coast. A book of details is not wanted. What is needed more than anything else is a book giving the important events in the workings of the press, something giving the dates and the

places, together with the men who