UNIVERSITY AND EDITOR
Successor to THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NEWS-JOURNAL
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VOL IX
Published weekly by the School of Journalism of the University of Oklahoma Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Norman Address all communications to Chester H WestfalL Editor
NEWS AND VIEWS OF
THE OKLAHOMA PRESS
GOVERNOR SIGNS
NEWSPAPER BILL
After considering the cost from every
possible angle Governor R L Williams
Saturday morning signed the bill pro-
viding for the publication of "arguments
for and against" in newspapers instead
of in pamphlets The Governor considered
not only the cost this year and next but
during the years to come And true to
his policy of strictest economy in public
affairs he signed the bill only after he
was convinced that it was for the best
financial interests of the people of the
state
The passage of the bill is a great thing
for the newspapers The revenue to be
derived is not important It amounts to
no great sum to any single newspaper
but it amounts to much in other things
than money The state has at last rec-
ognized in the press of the state the only
real medium for reaching the people
The influence of the passage of this bill
will be felt in the passage of other bills
in years to come
The change is doubtless a great thing
for the state Some even believe it will
result in the initiative and referendum's
GOVERNOR R-L- WILLIAMS
becoming a real workable system The
new system of publication will mean
fist of all that every voter will get to
read proposed laws it will mean that the
editor will comment on them and it will
mean that he will throw his columns
open to readers for discussion
The newspapers of the state are to be
congratulated on the passage of the bill
and its obtaining the signature of the
Governor The present organization of
the state press association is ttl be con-
gratulated and the newspaper members
of the legislature are to be congratulated
as are also many individuals who worked
tirelessly to effect tie passage of the law
It is not likely that any of us yet real-
ize the real significance of the event
Perhaps it means that the Press of Okla-
homa is to become a much more power-
ful force in the affairs of state than it has
been in the past To the newspapers
themselves it proves that they can get
justice from the lawmaking body if they
will ask for what is just and all work
together in getting it
Hats off to the newspapers of Oklahoma!
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
Vernon Whitting of the Pawhuska
Capital by the way a very creditable
sheet eight pages all home print ex-
presses his sentiments "straight from the
shoulder" in his isue of Feb 22 There's
wisdom in his editorials both of them
run on the front page of the Washington
number Following are extracts:
One of the greatest curses to country
jourualism is the "help the poor editor"
stuff you see pulled off so often The
editor is not poor He is rich He may
not have a dollar in his pocket and the
north gable of his trousers may be of a
different timber from the balance But
he has an opportunity and a power in the
community that no other man possesses—
that of public service that counts to the
maximum
The sooner the country editor demands
a reasonable consideration for his work
of whatsoever kind or character the better
There is not the slightest reason why
the country newspaper editor should es-
tablish a plant buy printing material pay
help taxes etc and run columns of free
matter each month
It's time for the Country Editor to take
a stand as a business man and run his
paper on business principles
WHO'S WHO
ENID MORNING NEWS
Elam and Dunlap publishers R M
Elam editor E C Dunlap advertising
manager Mr Elam editorial writer Mrs
L F Tagge society Miss Marie Missel
cashier reporters E K Sloat Ruth
Baldwin and Forest Lee Gordon
THE SHAWNEE MEETING
The call has been sent out during the
past week by President Norrell and Sec-
retary Bronson for the spring editors
meeting at Shawnee on May 11 and 12
with a special excursion trip on Sunday
May 13 to the University of Oklahoma
You have already probably re( eived a
letter from the association officers If you
have got it was an oversight for an at-
tempt was made to reach every editor in
Oklahoma
Arrange for transportation now lE the
most urgent appeal made to editors Don't
put it off If you can't go at the last
minute you can return the transportation
and you are out but four cents the letter
urges Following are the ones to write to
for transportation: A Hilton Frisco St
Louis Mo Fay Thompson Rock Island
Oklahoma City Geo H Hecker Katy
Oklahoma City J M Connell Santa Fe
Topeka Kansas
We will have more to say about the big
meeting in Shawnee later Following is
the program announced:
Fayette Coperland Jr a junior in the
University of Oklahoma school of journa-
lism is the new editor of the Oklahoma
Daily student newspaper He succeeds
Willard H Campbell who resigned the
editorship to assume charge of the Nor-
man Democrat-Topic Both men have re-
ceived most of their experience on uni-
versity newspapers
PROGRAM
Friday Morning May 11
Music Invocation Dr F M Masters
president Oklahoma Baptist University
Welcome Addresses Mayor Frank Stearns
E G Eakins president chamber of com-
merce Eciward Howell president Rotary
club Response Sen Walter Ferguson
Cherokee Republican President's Annual
Address Byron Norrell Ada News Secy-
Treas' Annual Report E S Bronson El
Reno American Editors' Club House 191in
N Shepler Lawton Constitution School
of Journalism Irvin Nunn Norman
Afternoon
Music O P A Advertising Bureau C J
Seely Sayre Standard M L Crowther
Oklahoma Farmer Adchess PresStratton
D Brooks University of Oklahoma County
Correspondents F E S Amos Vinita
Leader J L NewlandFrederick Leader
Saturday Morning May 12
Music Song Mrs FW Boa New Orleans
Reminiscences Clyde Musgrove El Reno
and other pioneer editors Govt Printed
Envelopes Lee Woods Duncan Eagle
L M Nichols Bristow Record Women in
Newspaper Work Edith C Johnson Daily
Oklahoman: Mrs Geo H Evans Chicka-
sha Express
AfEernoon
Music Legislature and the Press Senator
E M Kerr Muskogee Times-Democrat
Representative Glen Condon Tulsa World
The Itinerant and His AdvertisingSchemes
W C Geers Tishomi ngo Capital-Democrat
Earl Croxton Medford Patriot Election
of Officers
The Daily Ardmoreite is looking for
some good men or they were looking for
them three days before this gets to ed-
itors They need a desk man to handle
a leased wire A P report a first class re-
porter and a —cub" C H Adams the
new managing editor is going to have a
paper that will compete in its field with
the Daily Oklahoman and Dallas News
from present indications
Do you ever experience a real thrill
while looking over the t xchanges suddenly
to run into one that is extra well printed
is full of well set ads and has the kind
of reading matter that you yourself can
hardly keep from reading? Thd Easter
number of the Chickasha Star was such
an edition J W Kayser is putting out
a paper that is a credit to Grady county
and that's saying a lot
Edgar S Bronson secretary of the State
Press association has made arrangements
to take the typographical band of Okla-
homa City to the Shawnee meeting The
band has twenty-five members Mr Bron-
son last year took the entire school of
journalism to the meeting at Tulsa
The Enid Morning Times is the name of
a new paper to be issued by the Enid
Eagle according to an announcement in
the north-state paper The first number
of the Times will be sent out about May I
according to an announcement with A P
service
Dont forget that the UNIVERSITY
AND EDITOR is constantly at your service
in the circulating of notices etc to the
newspaper fraternity of the state Got
something to sell? Let us know Want
a reporter a printer an advertising man?
Let us know
Miss Mae Farmer makes her debut in
the Oklahoma newspaper game in the
current issue of the Bluejacket Gazette
which she has purchased from Scott
Thompson Welcome to the fraternity
Miss Farmer
The plant of the Arapaho Bee was
burned to the ground the last of the week
J W Lawton who is one of Oklahoma's
pioneer newspaper editors and publishers
had his plant partly covered by insurance
John C Nagle for several years pub-
lisher of the Comanche American has pur-
chased the Fletcher Tribune according to
an item in the Tulsa World
NORMAN OKLAHOMA APRIL 9 1917
CLIP SHEET
To the Editor:—This news is for release on Wednesday April 11
O U TO FAVOR SOONER FACULTY
STUDENT SOLDIERS CABLES RUSSIA
Will Grant Degrees to Seniors Who Enlist
Now However Faculty Advises Stu-
dents to Wait
NORMAN Okla April 11—(Special)---
The University of Oklahoma will grant
degrees to seniors who wish to enlist in
the army to meet war with Germany ac-
cording to action taken just as soon as it
became inevitable that the raising of a
large army was recessary Besides this
all students who wish to enlist now will
be g: credit for a semester's work
except in the school of law and the school
of medicine Rules of national associations
orevent their taking similar action but it
is thought by same that the national asso-
ciations will change their rules in order
to meet the present emergency
However the university faculty has
advised students not to go into regular
service if they have technical training
that can be used to the advantage of the
nation It is not contemplated that Amer-
ica will have trouble in raising the mill-
ions of untrained soldiers but the nation
probably will have trouble in finding a
large enough army of chemists engineers
physicians etc men on whose technical
training will depend very largely the effi-
ciency of the great army It is thought
probable that the nation will find it nec-
essary to draft many trained specialists
into its great "industrial army" ftr work
in munitions plants etc
University men will probably organize
a hospital corps of their own to include a
large number of students in the school of
medicine
SOONERS MAY CANCEL
ATHLETIC SCHEDULES
NORMAN Okla April 11— (Special)—
The The University of Oklahoma will probably
cancel all athl tic schedules according to
a statement made by Coach Ben Owen
early in the week The step will probably
be taken just as soon as athletic authori-
ties are able to tell to just what ext( nt
war will affect the university's work
The call for volunteers will take many
Sooner athletes and a call for all men
between the ages of 18 and 23 would take
practically all of them But the real object
behind the movement is the desire on the
part of the university authorities to turn
every resource of the university to the ad-
vantage of the nation in case it is needed
DROP POPULAR MUSIC
This is a time to drop the popular airs
and sing whistle play and hum patriotic
songs Let the Star Spangled Banner
America Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
the Battle Hymn of the Republic and
such songs be the popular songsthe in-
spiring airs and the familiar tunes het t
on every hand Not only is the occasion
such that patriotic music is appropriate
and in demand but music itself is good
and any people are greater and better
when they know appreciate and use the
national airs of their own country—and
who has a country or what country has
a people who have as much reason to be
attuned to its national music as has the
United States of America and its people
—W D Welty in the Morning Examiner
It will not cost more to publish "argu-
ments for and against" in newspapers in
place of pamphlets Instead a great
saving will result to the state by the new
method of publication The figures
given below were prepared by the Uni-
versity and Editor in conjunction with
the newspaper men of the state Atty
Court land M Feuquay legal advisor for
the Oklahoma Press Association obtained
circulation figures and rates are provided
COST IN PAMPHLETS
Number of Printing Fixed Expense Total
Arguments Cost (Postage clerical
envelopes etc)
1 $ 45542 $654411 $ 699953
2 91084 654411 745495
3 136626 654411 791037
4 182168 654411 836579
5 227710 654411 882121
6 273252 654411 927663
7 318794 654411 973205
8 364336 654411 1018747
9 409878 654411 1064289
NO 27
NORMAN OklaApril 11--(Special)—
"We rejoice over the liberation of Russia
A brilliant future for your great nation is
assured under the new regime of freedom
and justice"
This cablegram was sent to the head
of the Russian govetnment by the faculty
of the University of Oklahoma following
the news that the people of the great
northern empire had deposed the Czar and
were to adopt a democratic form of gov-
ernment The expense 52 cents a word
was paid by seventy-five members of
the university faculty a numoer of whom
have been in the north European state
FORMER REPORTER NOW
GOVERNOR'S SECRETARY
When Governor R L Williams found
himself without a private secretary fol-
lowing the transfer of Art Walker to the
new oil and gas bureau there was noth-
inl left to do but to get another
newspaper man to take the place
Joe O'Brien is the man now in charge
of the outer entrance to the first office of
the state
His appointment dates from March 29
He took up his work on April 1
"Joe" has long been known to legisla-
tors and to men about the Oklahoma
state house as "the reporter for the Daily
Oklahoman"
He resigned a place as state house re-
port( r to accept the new position The
intimate knowledge he has of political
affairs comes from four and a half years
of continuous service on the same run for
the Oklahoman during which he covered
the senate for the paper's forty-odd
thousand subscribers during three sessions
and the house during the one just past
O'Brien is one of the younger news-
paper men of the state His first work
was on newspapers in Winchester and
Lexington Ky He came to Oklahoma in
1909 taking a reporter's place on the Enid
Morning News then published by C I
Stewart He came from the News to the
Oklahoman and remained continuously on
the same run from August 1 1912 to
March 31 1917
SENIOR ENGINEERS
ALREADY HAVE (JOBS
NORMAN OklaApril 11—(Special)—
Seniors in the college of engineering at
the University of Oklahoma have already
obtained positions which will be waiting
for them immediately after graduation
according to an announcement just made
by the faculty A number of them will
take places with large manufacturing
companies Oklahoma men are in de-
mand in both east and west A large
number are now with the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing company one
of the largest companies of the kind in
the United States
THE UNIVERSITY AND EDITOR is
now getting a fine list of Oklahoma
newspapers both dailies and weeklies
We'd like to get YOUR paper Whether
you hear from us or not you'll know we
appreciate receiving it We want both
the news and the ideas you put into your
sheet
Newspaper Publication Bill Passed By Legislature
Will Save Stale of Oklahoma Thousands of Dollars
in the bill The cost of pamphlets for
325000 voters was estimated on cost
figures given by Mr Dougherty of the
state board of public affairs Besides
this if Oklahoma should adopt woman
suffrage as the voters doubtless will the
cost of publication in pamphlets would
be increased by not less probably than
fifty per cent The cost of publication in
newspapers would not be affected in any
way by the change
COST IN NEWSPAPERS
$ 115400
230800
346200
461600
577000
692400
807800
923200
1038600
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