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 WHEREAS, The toleration of this law by Oregon publishers makes them a party to toleration of a fraud because some un scrupulous publishers might take ad vantage of this defect in the law, there fore, be it

RESOLVED, That this conference go on record as requesting that this law be amended so that the penalty provided for misstatement of ownership shall also apply to misstatement of circulation figures shown therein, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to each of our delegation in Congress. (Signed) LEE D. DRAKE, HAL E. HOSS, M. D. MORGAN, Committee.

Chinese Qpera Singers Permit Photograph

Chinese precedent, accredited by Occidentals with being one of the most hidebound things in the world, was broken a few weeks ago when a picture of the entire cast of the Ying Mee Lun Hop grand opera company appeared in the columns of the Oregonian.

The photograph, the first to which this company has submitted for press purposes. is one of few ever printed in an American newspaper. The company didn't want any publicity. If their picture appeared, people would know what they looked like and wouldn’t come to see them, their manager said.

For more than two weeks. Grant B. Showerman, who covered the company's Portland engagement, tried to get them to pose. Added to the Oriental dislike for a camera. the situation was made more difficult by the fact that the publicity value of the picture was meaningless to them. But Showerman kept writing stories about the Chinese opera and kept all of the influential citizens of China town, who were more acquainted with American customs. together with Police Inspector C. H. Tichenor, bombarding the manager of the company for permission to take the photograph. Finally they consented, but still with out thought of there being any value at tached to their action. It was a favor. And as such, every member of the com pany reccived in turn a copy of the pho tograph which was taken by Clyde Mc Monegal, the Oregonian staff photogra pher. Incidentally, where the Chinese do favors. they do them properly. A trip up the Columbia river highway was can celled that the company might pose, after they suddenly made up their minds that there was no harm attached to the pic (I179. Opinions Differ About Billboard lssue Divergent attitudes toward billboard ad vertising were expressed at the Oregon Newspaper Conference. In his talk to the Conference Saturday morning, W . J. Hofmann, advertising manager of the Oregonian, advised against an attack on the billboards, pointing out that they were no longer regarded strictly as competi tors with the newspaper, but simply as one of the elements of advertising cover age of the territory. He believed they did newspaper advertising no harm. At the luncheon following, R. W . Sawyer, editor of the Bend Bulletin, approached the billboard from a different angle. Mr. Sawyer urged cooperation with the civic forces which are fighting the billboards on the highways as a disfigurement, tending to curtail the pleasure that both tourists and Oregon motorists draw from scenic beauties. Viewed solely from the advertising point of view, Mr. Sawyer did not disagree with Mr. Hofmann, but he believed that the billboard constitutes an evil which the newspapers should as sail. N’. 0. Elliott, o f . Salem, has added 8 . .’o. Babcock Optimus to his printing plant. [45]