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July, 1917

George H. Currey said a lot in a few words when he spoke in the open park pavilion at La Grande where the last session of the state editorial convention was held in the soft evening air of eastern Oregon.

"It will be the policy of the editorial association for the coming year," he declared, "to try to instill the Pendleton spirit throughout the state of Oregon."

That shows what a success the meeting was.

It tells why it was a success.

It gives some idea of where the gain in the long run returns to "the best liked town in the state" by reason of its breadth and un selfishness.

It furnishes an indication of the renewed vigor and optimism and encouragement each editor took home with him.

It creates an idea of what a united and high minded press can do for Oregon, and, in time, will do.

It puts it up to Coos Bay. It's not the banquets nor the scenery. The hospitable southwest always does things with a grace of its own. The challenge is for Coos Bay to furnish the press of Oregon, as Pendleton did, with a new and different vision of community build ing and community life, big enough and fine enough to keep the papers keyed up to missionary zeal in their own towns for a full year.

Veteran newspapermen now living in Oregon are invited to send in sketches of their careers to Oregon Exchanges, accompanying these, whenever convenient, with their photographs. The sketches will be made a regular feature of this publication, and with the pictures will be kept for historical purposes. Any reader of Oregon Exchanges who knows an over-modest veteran of journalism is urgently requested either to undertake the write-up or send in a tip regarding the old-timer's whereabouts. Chatty biographies or autobiographies containing details of some incident of interest or help to the present-day workers in journalism will be most welcome.

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The next issue of Oregon Exchanges will appear in October.

E. H. Shepard, editor of Better Fruit, published at Hood River, published in his July number the result of his investigations into the distribution of apples in the markets of the United States. He goes into specific details as to where the fruit has been going. Classifying the cities of the United States into five groups, ranging from the 3,000 to 5,000 class up to the more than 50,000, he ﬁnds that 295 of these cities have been sold and 1,791 have not been sold. Mr. Shepard's conclusion is, that the trouble with the apple market is not one of overproduction but of faulty distribution, and he concludes that if a sufficient number of salesmen, properly distributed, be added, the 1917 crop can be disposed of at satisfactory prices.

The Corvallis Gazette-Times recently has remodeled its business and editorial oﬁices, adding another room and complete outﬁt of new furniture. This gives the paper a fine corner entrance for the business oﬁice and reportorial rooms and affords the editorial room the privacy it requires.