Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1923 Page: 2 of 4
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PAGE TWO
SOONER STATE PRESS
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Sooner State Press
OFFICIAL OIGAN OP THE OKLAHOMA
PRESS ASSOCIATION
Published weekly by the School of Joarntl
tta of the University of Oklshomi in the
iptercit of the newspaper editor and pub
fisher of the atate to whoa it is seat free
f charge
Entered as second class matter at the post
erae at Norman Oklahoma and accepted for
uiliaf at the special rate of postage provided
for in Section 1103 Act of October 3 117
aad authorised August 2 1511
Sigma Phi for women and Sigma Delta
Chi for men
Large Enrollment Discouraged
Enrollment numbers are not em-
phasized in the University of Oklaho-
ma as this school considers that a large
enrollment is a disadvantage rather than
an asset The school believes in con-
centration of energy thus giving a few
picked students highly specialized train-
ing rather than advertising for num-
bers and making a large enrollment one
of its aims In the University of Okla-
homa there are 130 students
Oklahoma is low on the list of schools
with regard to enrollment some of the
schools as follows having large enroll-
ments: Kansas State Agricultural col-
lege 421 University of Missouri 392
University of Wisconsin 390 Oregon
Agricultural college 360 University of
Kansas 321 Boston university 286
University of Illinois 270 Northwest-
ern 263 University of Texas 259 In
some cases these figures undoubtedly
include a number of duplicate enroll-
ments WHO’S WHO?
Continued from page 1
American was his next venture “Thev
had I think it was ten editions a day”
Harnett recalls “You bought one at
the foot of the stairs to the L and the
newsboy overtook you with the next
edition before you reached the top larnl-
ing” He and the afternoon city edi-
tor later traded jobs by mutual desire
and consent of the boss
Then his course was interrupted by
the war which took two years of his
time After this period he returned to
the American as assistant city editor ami
later became city editor
Comes to Oklahoma
Rising at 4:30 didn’t agree with him
and the work was hard so when Rich-
ard Lloyd Jones whom he had known
in Madison needed a managing editor
for the Tulsa Tribune Harnett accept-
ed After he had been in Tulsa six
months he went hack to Chicago for
“the girl next door” and they were mar-
ried Harnett has remained with the Tulsa
Tribune until February this year and
his success is manifested by his recent
promotion to an even more responsible
and important places
J J Moroney of Okmulgee former
editor of the Okmulgee Democrat has
moved to Oklahoma City to engage in
the oil business He is said to he a
recognized authority on the hitory of
the mid-continent fidd
Journalism Cubs Edit
Home Prosperity Issue
For El Reno American
All the work except the mechanical
part in connection with the “home pros-
perity” edition of the El Reno Ameri-
can Sunday March 4 was done by stu-
dents from the Oklahoma school of
journalism Norman
Advertising students began work
Wednesday afternoon soliciting and
writing ads They were followed on
Thursday by a group of reporters and
copyreaders wlu legan work Thurs-
day morning bringing with them the
editorials and feature stories that had
1een prepared by students in these sub-
jects Another staff of reporters and
copyreaders worked on Friday and still
another on Saturday
Reporters combed the entire town
for new's and turned in more stories
than have been in the American office
at one time since the journalism stu-
dents put out the paper in March last
year From the editing class were ap-
pointed a managing editor make-up edi-
tor city editors copyreaders headwrit-
crs proofreaders and departmental edi-
tors A luncheon for the students was giv-
en by the American at noon Friday A
number of speakers were on the pro-
gram including E S Bronson editor
of the American
SID SMITH CARTOONIST
VISITS OKLAHOMA CITY
Sidney Smith Chicago Tribune syndi-
cate cartoonist creator of “the Gumps”
was Oklahoma City’s guest Monday and
Tuesday during the annual automobile
show Smith’s engagements in Okla-
homa City included a luncheon with the
Daily Oklahoman staff Monday noon
talk to the school children at the Coli-
seum at 4:30 Monday supper with the
Motor Car Dealers’ association at 11 in
the evening lunch with the Oklahoma
City rotarians Tuesday noon banquet
at the Huckins hotel Tuesday evening
A contest in drawing Andy Gump
cartoons was held for school children
Monday and Smith did the jiulging to
settle awards of $125 in prizes offered
by the Oklahoma Citv Times Smith
was accompanied to Oklahoma by Ar-
thur W Crawford manager of the
Tribune syndicate
ARROW-DEMOCRAT OLD
PAPER CHANGES HANDS
O E Butler editor of the Leader
Tahlequah has purchased the Arrow-
Democrat oldest newspaper in that sec-
tion The plant of the Leader will he
nuned into the office now occupied by
the Arrow-Democrat The Arrow-Democrat
was originally the Indian Arrow
edited at Fort Gibson I T about 36
years ago by William P Ross former
chief of the Cherokees The paper was
the official paper of the Clurokce na-
tion The plant was removed to Tah-
Icquali in 1888 For the past three years
the Arrow-Democrat has been owned
hv Bacom P Glaze
Russell Scott has succeeded Dennis
Heaver as editor and manager of the
Mounds Frterprise although Heaver
retains his ownership of the paper He
will devote his time to management of
tile Kiefer Enterprise
SHOP TALK
Byron Hawkins editor of the Strong
City Herald received a commission
February 20- from Governor Walton as
colonel on his staff
The Norman Theatre News is a new
four-column paper published weekly hv
the managements of the Billings and
University theaters of Norman
The Oklahoma State Register recent-
ly contained a complimentary story
about a juan and shortly afterwards re-
ceived $5 from him to apply on his sub-
scription according to the Register
The Altus Plain Dealer is a new
paper winch recently made its appear-
ance under the editorship and owner-
ship of Jack W Homier who formerly
was editor of the Altus Times-Demo-crat
The Tribune is the name of a new
weekly paper published at Bristow’
Hall Brothers are owners and publish-
ers The paper is a six-column eight-
page sheet “well printed and well
patronized” according to the Creek
County Democrat
Torn Phillips reporter on the Cliick-
asha Express has resigned his position
to become secretary to Elmer Thomas
congressman from the sixth Oklahoma
district Phillips was formerly a re-
porter on the Norman Transcript He
is the son of J H Phillips Cleveland
county representative in the legislature
A civil service examination for edi-
torial clerk will he held throughout the
country on April 4 It is to fill vacan-
cies in the departmental service at
Washington I) C and elsewhere at
entrance salaries of from $1 200 to $1-
800 a year Appointees whose services
are satisfactory will he allowed the in-
crease granted by congress of $20 a
month The examination which is op-
en to loth men and women consists of
tests in editing abstracting proofread-
ing and indexing
i
C E Rogers formerly an Oklahoma
newspaper man now a member of the
industrial journalism faculty of Kansas
State Agricultural college is secretary-
treasurer of a new organization known
as Country Weekly Features of Man-
hattan Kan which is offering to news-
papers in Kansas and surrounding states
a weekly column of comment and philos-
ophy in prose and verse The column
is called "Backfire” and is written hv
H W Davis of the English department
at the agricultural college The service
which is to include other features to he
announced later is restricted to one
paper in a county
COURIER FOURTH PAPER
BOUGHT BY WETTENGEL
With the purchase of the Cement
Courier from F E Forgey 1L I Wet-
tengel has acquired his fourth weekly
paper the others being the Fletcher
Herald which he actively manages the
Bineer Journal and the Hinton Record
E II Elgin has been transferred from
the Binger Journal to manage the Ce-
ment Courier and Waldo Wettengcl
son of II P Wettengcl who has been
on the Hinton Record will he at Ce-
ment for a lime
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Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1923, newspaper, March 3, 1923; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1767139/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.