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December, 1917 Oregon Exchanges

Published by the School of Journalism University of Oregon

Free to Oregon Newspapermen; to all others, $1.00 per year

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

of little volume. But when he writes —everybody listens just to enjoy the rythmical cadences of humor and pathos whether they agree with what White writes about or not. And if they don’t agere today they will tomorrow, for Bill is one of those lightning change artists who always lets his emotions decide what stand he is going to take.”

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STAFF THIS ISSUE

The Best Paper “Over There"

Editor ______________ __Emma Wootton Hall

Assistant Editor........Gladys Wilkins Managing Editor ....Rosamund Shaw

“Germany is threatened with a beer shortage. The barley crops have failed, and therefore brewing is at a standstill. However, we and our allies are brewing a lot of trouble for the thirsty Boche,” say Uncle Sam’s soldiers in their official paper, the Stars and Stripes. Every Friday the Stars and Stripes is published by and for the American expeditionary forces in France, and it comes out “chuck full” of typic ally American news for Americans. The subscription price for soldiers is four francs for three months. It has been declared everything, from “the best paper on that side M’ the pond” to “the most complete and typical newspaper of any military force in the world.” Without a doubt the Stars and Stripes is sure to be a big and lasting success.

Literary Editor .......... ..Miriam Page Correspondence Editor Helen Brenton

Exchange Editor............Bess Colman Proof Reader ..........Adrienne Epping Circulation Manager _________________________..wIll1iJ8,Ill Haseltine Copy Beader ................James Sheehy Head LinotypeOperator Bob McNary _Contributions of articles and items of interest to editors, publishers and printers of the state are welcomed.

William Allen White, the man who wrote the editorial “What's the Matter with Kansas?” which caused so much comment at the time it was published because of the cleverness and skill with which it was written, is going to give the commencement address here at the University of Oregon on June 17.

Besides everything else Mr. White is editor of the Emporia Gazette, Kansas, and the author of “The Court of Boyville” and “In Our Town.”

No fact of interest escapes C. E.

Oregon

newspapers,

the

careful

reading of which as “exchanges” forms part of the duty of the editorial staff of this publication, constitute,

when taken together, a refreshing as well as interesting textbook in patriotism. Oregon’s splendid record of war service must be due in no small

Ingalls, formerly of Kansas, and now of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, and

few escape his comment. Like all good editorial writers, he never lets the opportunity slip when it knocks.

degree to the sturdy Americanism exhibited by the press as a whole. Scarcely an issue goes into the mail that does not sound the call for united, increasing, determined effort to

It might be weH to dub this editorial by him as “What’s the Matter with

Bill White of Kansas?”

“Speaking of Kansas, we notice

win the war. _Good news is received without hysterical premature rejoicing; bad news is shown in its true

that old Bill White is to deliver the

commencement address at Eugene this year. Like most good writers, Bill White can’t talk much. In addition to that, he has a high soprano voice

proportions without any tendency to

panic._ On the_ whole, the Oregon press_1s a steadying influence, and the steadiest nerves will win the war.

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