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Vol. 7

HE SEVENTEENTH annual convention of the Oregon State Editorial association, to be held at Tillamook on July 25 and 26, should be one of the best attended ever held. The presence of three national figures on the program, covering the major phases of newspaper making, editorial and business management, should bring out every live newspaperman in the state, while the entertainment features to be provided by the Tillamook Kiwanis club will be well worth while.

A fortunate addition to the program has been made by Hal E. Hoss, president of the association, in the person of Dr. Christian Gauss, head of the department of modern languages at Princeton University, and an internationally known journalist. Dr. Gauss, who, in addition to his work in the language department, has charge of the press club, or journalism department at Princeton, is nationally known as an editor, author and teacher. He has been Paris correspondent for the Associated Press, and covered the second Dreyfus trial in 1899 for that organization and a group of British papers. He also covered that great international scandal, the Caillaux murder trial, in 1914, for the New York Evening Post.

Dr. Gauss is an interesting talker, with a wonderful background of experience upon which to draw. He has rub bed shoulders with the great men of letters of this generation and knows intimately a large number of the world's greatest writers. His talk to the editors of Oregon will be an inspiration and an education. Dr. Gauss is on the coast at the instance of the University of Oregon, giving two courses in the Portland summer session. He will appear on the editorial convention program at the annual banquet Friday evening, July 25.

Another national figure to be heard by the Oregon editors is Herman Roe, of Northfield, Minnesota, who will ad dress the convention Friday. Mr. Roe is president of Country Newspapers, a national cooperative weekly press association, publisher of the Northfield News, an executive committeeman of the National Editorial association, for many years a state vice-president of the N. E. A., and chairman for two years of the advertising committee. Two years ago Mr. Roe won the silver cup offered by President Brodie to the state vice president securing the most new members for the association.

The question of Country Newspapers has agitated the Oregon press for a long time, and considerable interest has been developed.

On the business side of the program, Charles W. Duncan, advertising counsellor of Foster & Kleiser. San Francisco, will be the feature speaker. Mr. Duncan