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Vol. 6

T WAS not all recreation at the Hood River convention. The Oregon State Editorial association managed to crowd a good bit of business into the sessions held downtown and six thousand feet up the slope of Mount Hood.

"Appointment of a committee to look into the matter of forming a state organization to obtain foreign advertising was authorized. The Country Newspapers, Inc., plan of handling foreign advertising was endorsed.

A committee was appointed to work out a plan for cooperative buying of supplies by members of the association.

The association, by resolution, proffered its assistance to the state in any publicity campaign decided upon to keep before the people the observance of safety measures to reduce the toll of death in traffic accidents.

Abolition of the Voter’s Pamphlet was urged.

The association went on record for the construction by the federal government of the Mount Hood loop road, for the purpose of making Oregon’s scenic attraction more easily accessible.

was made the official organ of the association."

The Friday business program opened with the debate between George K. Aiken, publisher of the Ontario Argus, and A. E. Koen, publisher of the Dallas Observer, on the question of the advisability of adherence to the Country Newspapers, Inc., plan of handling foreign advertising. Mr. Koen had taken the negative out of the goodness of his heart, feeling, as a member of the program committee, that it would not do to let the debate go by default. At the conclusion he voted with all the others making it the unanimous judgment of the association that the plan of Country Newspapers, Inc., be endorsed.

Mr. Aiken, whose paper has not arrived for publication in this number, made a strong plea for independence of the eastern representative and for a reduction of the overhead cost of getting advertising in the east. Mr. Koen’s pa per is published in another part of this issue.

G. Lansing Hurd of the Corvallis Gazette-Times gave his opinion that the Country Newspapers, Inc., is not a particle different in system from the A. P. A. “except that we may get the dividends.” He asked to know how any benefit was expected when the A. P. A. was not able to make any money on a 15 per cent commission basis.

President Bede explained: “There is this difference—the newspaper itself will