Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 35, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 30, 1943 Page: 3 of 4
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SOONER STATE PRESS
PAGE THREE
Davis manager of the New Orleans
agency of the Mergenthaler Linotype
Co brought encouragement to pub-
lishers harassed by shortage of print-
ers The company Davis said will
conduct in Oklahoma a series of four
mechanical clinics in which a linotype
machinist will serve as an instructor in
the operation and maintenance of line-
composition machines
Publishers were asked to indicate
whether they would send operators to
one of the four two-day schools to be
held in different areas of the state
If a sufficient response is obtained
Davis said the plan probably would be
put in operation in February
The clinics he said would supple-
ment the proposed vocational training
course in keyboard operation and ma-
chine maintenance tentatively sched-
uled to be given at Oklahoma A and
V college
At noon 'Friday editors were guests
of the Oklahoma City chamber of
commerce Following the chamber
of commerce business session in which
it was brought out that the chamber
has already raised most of its quota of
$159000 for support of its work this
year President S E Lee expressed
appreciation of members of the press
for entertainment given them
Ray J Dyer El Reno Tribune pres-
ided at a short program in which five
editor-columnists as follows talked
briefly: W K Leatherock Perry Daily
Journal Wheeler Mayo Sequoyah
County Times Sallisaw W D Little
Ada Evening News Merle Woods El
Reno American O H Lachenmeyer
Cushing Daily Citizen
State Fair Scheduled
Ralph T Hemphill secretary of the
state fair association announced Fri-
day afternoon that the state fair will
be held in 1943 “unless it is found that
it will interfere with the war” accord-
ing to a recent decision of the board
of directors He declared that the
fair is of educational value to youth
and that the state fair newspaper con-
tests have accomplished a great deal
in stimulating competition among pa-
pers On Friday afternoon Governor Kerr
addressed the association He con-
gratulated the press on its success in
sponsoring the scrap-metal drive last
fall and expressed the hope that the
same success would attend the recently
instituted garden campaign in which
citizens are asked to increase their pro-
duction of food by 10 percent as com-
pared to last year
Kerr Explains New Rule
Kerr explained that as a result of his
conferences with the social security
board in Washington D Cf new or-
ders have been issued which provide
that old people on the public assistance
rolls may aid in food production with-
out having their federal grants re-
duced For instance if an old person
is now receiving $20 monthly he may
grow food to equal that amount in
value without any reduction in his gov-
ernment old-age assistance check
“I urge that editors lead the people
in conducting the 'Food for Freedom’
campaign” Governor Kerr said in con-
clusion In a talk Friday afternoon Senator
James C Nance Purcell co-publisher
of a group of papers explained that
he was helping to write a bill for in-
troduction in the legislature which
would provide that an editor who is
forced to suspend publication of his
paper when he joins the armed forces
may maintain the legal status of his
newspaper by filing an affidavit with
the court clerk After such an editor
leaves the armed services according
to provisions of the proposed bill he
could resume publication without any
effect upon the legal status of his
newspaper
Nance explained that he also was
substituting the word “printed” for
the word “published” in the sentence
in the bill referring to legal status of
publications
Editors Protected -
“By requiring that ' a paper actually
be printed in the county in which the
legals originate we can prevent firms
in neighboring cities from acquiring
legal status for newspapers printed
outside the community in which they
are distributed” Nance commented
“Thus city printers cannot take over
the businesses of small-town editors
called into service”
Nance asked for comments from the
association on his proposals explain-
ing that he wished only to help the
editors Several editors then protested
against substitution of the word
“printed” for “published” explaining
that they were publishing more than
one newspaper located in different
counties but that because of a short-
age of labor they were unable to keep
more than one shop open Nance of-
fered to take care of such situations
by inserting a proviso that the new
ruling would not affect papers now be-
ing published
One of the most interesting facts
brought out at the convention was the
announcement that for the past year
the association has set an all-time re-
cord for placement of political adver-
tising with a total of $58000 in ad-
vertising space handled for state news-
papers by the central office Prior to
that time the high mark was $33000
set in 1934
Food Growing Urged
The association passed a set of
streamlined resolutions in which news-
papers were encouraged to back with
news space and editorials the state
food-for-victory campaign The reso-
lutions thanked newspaper publishers
for co-operation in the scrap drive
pointed with pride to Oklahoma’s vol-
untary enlistment rate expressed a ap-
preciation to those engaged in civilian
defense work complimented the economy-minded
legislature and petitioned
the national administration to curtail
nonessential spending and burdensome
regulations of business but expressed
“complete confidencea in and co-operation
with our national leadership”
The resolutions pledged full support
in the newsprint conservation program
The resolution also memorialized
congress and the postoffice department
to preserve the second-class mail priv-
ileges to owners of newspapers who
were called into service and whoa for
th reason were unable to continue
publication
A letter was read from H C Jones
state administrator of the war savings
campaign in which he thanked the
newspapers for aiding in the sale of
stamps and bonds He said news-
papers had played a great part in help-
ing sell $6000000 worth the first 15
days of January The state’s January
quota is $9100000 its largest monthly
quota
W N U Is Dinner Host
On Friday evening editors were en-
tertained with a dinner and program
in the Bilmore hotel with O W Mc-
Kowen of the Western Newspaper
Union as host Miss Louise Matthews
of KOMA radio station Oklahoma
City gave several vocal selections and
Elmer T Peterson associate editor of
the Daily Oklahoman talked on the
importance of farming in the present-
day society He pointed out that many
leaders including Lewis Mumford
think that only in decentralization can
the country be saved
He mentioned the fact that 4954
members of the Future Farmers of
America and a comparable number of
4H club boys are now in the armed
forces commenting that this gives
people “much to think about” con-
sidering the nation’s need for trained
farmers He lamented the prospective
shortages of food this year adding
that one Colorado man told him the
Colorado beef production would be re-
luced 30 percent this year
Peterson Praising Saving
He commended the government on
its victory savings program express-
ing the hope that many of the super-
fluous war workers (estimated in ad-
vance at about 15000000 when the war
closes) would buy land with their say-
ings and engage in self-sufficient farm-
ing He said he hoped that thousands
of soldiers after the war would settle
on farms and raise poultry pigs gar-
dens cows and so forth aided by a
government program of irrigation and
land conservation He pointed out
that the country has much idle land
not merely in the western desert
wastes but in southern New York In-
diana and Oklahoma — in fact in al-
most every state to some extent
Peterson’s talk was followed by
round-table discussion of labor prob-
lems conducted by President Lee
When called upon Lloyd W Evans
Fairfax Chief responded with brief
comments on his economies effected
by bringing about a reduction in his
rent by curtailing his advertising ser-
vice and by working longer hours and
filling the place of one employe who
resigned
Lee asked for a showing of hands
on the number who have increased
their circulation rates and this reveal-
ed that a considerable proportion have
done so
Group Sessions Indorsed
Following an open discussion as to
whether the spring meeting will be
held the group voted to recommend
to the board of directors that the as-
sociation hold either four or six group
meetings to take the place of the an-
nual spring convention It was brought
out in the discussion that the meetings
are of educational and inspirational
value to the editors and give them con-
siderable help in filling their role of
service on the home front by leading
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