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OREGON EXCHANGES same time as the annual convention of the High School Debate League, or such other time as the executive committee shall appoint.

Art. V. Officers.

Sec. 1. Officers shall be elected at each convention and shall hold office through the succeeding convention.

Sec. 2. The officers shall be a President, Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer.

Sec. 3. The President shall preside over all conventions, and, with the advice of the Executive Committee, shall appoint all committees and fill all further appointive offices as may from time to time be created.

Sec. 4. The Vice-President shall perform the duties of the President in his absence or disability.

Sec. 5. The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep minutes of all conventions (leaving a copy with the School of Journalism for safe keeping), and shall collect all fees and dues that may from time to time be levied, and shall keep a record of all financial transactions which shall be audited before each convention by the Executive Committee.

Art. VI. Committees.

Sec. 1. The President of the Association shall make up appointive committees from the individual and honorary members of the association, provided, however, that no single high school shall be represented by more than one member on any one committee.

Sec. 2. The Executive Committee shall be composed ex-officio of the President of the Oregon High School Press Association, the Dean of the School of Journal ism, and one other person, who shall be appointed by the President of the University, for the purpose of arranging the details of the succeeding convention. These three shall constitute the committee.

Sec. 3. The Executive Committee shall have charge of the affairs of the Association between conventions, except insofar as these have been delegated by the constitution to the President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer, and shall be charged with the duty of getting out invitations to the succeeding convention, arranging the program, providing a meeting place and performing all other necessary duties in anticipation of the convention. In case of the absence or disability of both President and Vice-President, the Executive Committee shall appoint temporary officers to act until the convention shall fill the vacancies.

Sec. 4. The President shall appoint Organization, Nominating, Membership, Registration and Emblem committees, or such others as the convention may from time to time direct.

Art. VII. Insignia. The Association may, if instructed by the convention, adopt insignia in two forms, one for con trolling members (publications) and one for individual members. The insignia for controlling members (publications) shall take the form of a cut to run at the top of the editorial column; and.the insignia for the individual members shall take a form similar to that of a fraternity pin. Insignia for the controlling members shall be furnished by the School of Journalism, but insignia for the individual members shall be paid for by the individual member. Regularly designated honorary members shall be entitled to wear the insignia of an individual member.

Art. VIII. Principles. Every person or publication, by accepting membership in this Association, subscribes to the following principles of journalistic ethics:


 * 1) I believe in clean journalism.
 * 2) I will put nothing into print as a writer or editor that I would not say as a gentleman.
 * 3) I will publish nothing anonymously to which I would be ashamed to sign my name.
 * 4) Realizing that journalism is powerful, I will devote extreme care to my writing and editing. Realizing that the printed word cannot be recalled or unsaid, I will watch carefully to prevent