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June, 1918 the goods, to step right up to the first editorial door at hand and demand, without seeming to demand, a job. The editor will be sure to need someone. Noting your petticoat, he may not admit it; but he has a vacancy.

“Many a city editor still says, ‘When I am obliged to take on a girl cub, I make her first assignment the most difficult and the most disgusting possible, hoping to receive an immediate resignation.’ (How we women are adored by editors!) Just call his bluff, cultivate a bit of a crust, and ‘come through’ with the story. If you do that, let us hope he will not have the temerity to ‘let you out’ at the end of the week. ‘Get it!’—that is the demand made of a reporter. If you do get it, you are a reporter; if you don’t, you are not.”

The very recent influx of women into the newspaper offices of the state makes it impossible to give here a list that would even approximate a true account. There are a number whose work has come under the notice of and deserves a word here.

Miss Clytie Hall has taken a position as reporter on the Pendleton East Oregonian, after making good in a similar position on the Eugene Guard.

Other general reporters in different offices of the state are Miss Freda Hazer, of the Coos Bay Times; Mrs. Gertrude Smith, of the Marshfield Record; Mrs. W. N. Meserve and Miss Madge Fulton, of the Astorian, and Miss Greer, of the Ashland Tidings.

A list of other journalistic positions held by women in Oregon shows an interesting variety. Miss Bessie Berry is editor and publisher of the Long Creek Ranger; Miss Echo Zahl has been writing feature stories for the Portland News, following similar work on the Seattle Star. Edith Knight Holmes edits the women’s clubs section of the Oregonian.

Two women linotype operators are Miss Dorothy Kibler, of the Coos Bay Times, and Miss Cora Kreamer, of the Eugene Register. Jeanette Calkins is the first woman business manager the Oregon Emerald of the University of Oregon has ever had, and she is making a go of the finances in a hard year. Mrs. Emma Wootton Hall was the editor of the Woman’s Emerald this year, supervising a staff composed entirely of girls.

A few of the many society editors of the state are Mrs. Gertrude Corbett, of the Oregonian; Miss Nona Lawler, of of the Journal; Miss Beatrice Locke, of the Spectator; Miss Norma Hendricks, of the Eugene Register; Miss Margaret Spangler of the Eugene Guard; Miss Grace Baily, of the Pendleton East Oregonian, and Miss Mignon Allen, of the Astoria Budget.

In a special line of newspaper work is Mrs. Louise Bryant Reed, a graduate of the University of Oregon, and at one time a special writer for the Oregonian. She has lately returned from Russia, where she wrote a series of articles on the Bolsheviki revolution which, syndicated, recently appeared in the Oregonian. At present she is making her headquarters in New York.

Oregon journalism can count a great many more women in its ranks than can be listed in this article. Their work 18 before them, and it will be the privilege of a later number of to note down their achievements.