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Rh lisher are immaterial. Again the practice and the law do not conform. Which shall change?

In bringing these statutory matters to your attention I do not wish to have the inference drawn that I am not in sympathy with the purposes which lie back of them. Quite on the contrary, I most heartily endorse such purposes. Personally I should wish to see the press use much more moderation and discrimination in giving publicity to stories of bloodshed, lust and crime than it does. Many things, though true, are just as well not said and are not really news. The purpose then back of the first statute referred to is sound. The question is, Does it not go too far as a matter of law? The other statute is part of the corrupt practice act and is intended to purify elections. The section in question is doubtless aimed at the vicious practice that in former times was all too prevalent, of publishing in the newspapers or by hand bills, statements about men and measures that were unfair and untrue, at a time when they could not be answered, viz., on election day. In striking at that practice, which is admittedly evil, the statute has gone perhaps beyond the point that is necessary and has in fact condemned publications that are wholly commendable.

Scores of Oregon Journal employes gathered in the press room shortly after noon on Friday, February 3, when H. A. King, veteran press room foreman, turned the electric current into the new and gigantic high-speed octuple press for its first regular run. The great machine, with more than 20,000 parts, set about like an old-timer at the task of printing the first afternoon edition of that day, and the occasion was strangely silent, for the big press, with the latest mechanical refinements, is apparently as nearly silent as mechanical ingenuity can make such a thing. Two years were required in building the big press, and two months of hard work were demanded for its installation on heavy concrete bases in the Journal press room. Nearby, when the press started its run, were Hyman Cohen, market editor, and Thomas J. James, composing room foreman, who have been Journal employes since the first issue was printed nearly 20 years ago. Felix Mitchell, another Journal veteran, was in the throng while a motion picture record of the event was made for Screenland News. The press has a capacity of 36,000 32-page papers an hour and 1800 64-page papers. It is the latest improved high speed machine of its type and is equipped with a color deck as well as with a conveyor that carries the papers from the press to the mailing department on the basement balcony. The capacity of the machine duplicates that of the Journal’s other high-speed octuple and both will be required to print the increasing volume of city editions every day. The other two presses, a sextuple and a quadruple, will be used to print other daily editions and sections of the Sunday Journal upon which color work is required. Thus the Journal’s maximum capacity becomes 208 pages, while the combined capacity of the six presses used by the other three Portland papers is 260 pages. On March 10, 1902, when the first Journal was printed, the press equipment consisted of one Goss 12-page capacity press.