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N A kind of midway location, Hood River is looking forward to a record attendance at the 1293 convention of the en:Oregon Editorial Association, which will begin on July 13. Plans for entertainment of the visitors have been under way for some weeks, and the people of the entire community have entered wholeheartedly into preparations. Oregon editors will own the Valley for the time they are here.

While here the Oregon newspaper folk will be transferred from the plane of the motorist de luxe to that of the strenuously inclined nature-lover who seeks to commune with the mountains and the trees out in the wild and mighty places. On the evening of July 13, the annual banquet of the association will be held at the Columbia Gorge Hotel, the northwest’s most elegantly appointed tourist hostelry.

It will be Friday the thirteenth, but one of good luck, if Hood River Valley citizens have their way. Plans call for participation of several hundred local folk, and the hotel will be crowded with the banqueters.

President Elbert Bede has arranged the appearance of J. Adam Bede, of Minnesota, ex-congressman from that state and chautauqua lecturer and entertainer of national reputation.

On Friday afternoon, while the male of the species is busy with a business meeting of the convention, the ladies will be entertained by Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Moe. Automobiles will carry the party through various Lower Valley districts. The cars will stop at the orchard home of Mr. and Mrs. Moe for a lawn fete and refreshments.

Early Saturday morning the editorial party will leave Hood River for a 23 mile drive up through the Hood River Valley to “The Homestead,” unique mountain resort. Here automobiles will be left with a military guard, and every recreationist will be required to hike two and one-half miles over a skyline trail to the wooded camp on the banks of the singing Tilly Jane. Thence onward the editors will be the honor guests of Hood River Post, American Legion, whose members really inspired the invitation to this city. The Legion post has asked and urged that every editor of the state visit the camp, which will remain open for three days. Ascents of Mount Hood will be made on Sunday and Monday.

The Mount Hood Climb was originated by the local legionnaires in the early summer of 1921 as a means of their participation in an ‘activity that would result in community-wide good. The ex-service men, many of whom had climbed to the summit of the peak, bethought their annual climb as a means of popularizing the mountain. They realized that Oregonians first must be made to know the glaciers and snowfields by actual contact before the state could begin to exploit the scenic charm to the rest of the world. The Hood River Legion has definitely committed its membership to the eventual construction of a permanent lodge at the mile high altitude, where those who love such out of door sports may be attracted from all parts of the nation in the future to play in snowfields during mid-summer months.

Already, in the short time since the Legion Climb was launched, the Hood