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Literary Call, was 2. scrious and conscientious journalist who 

 journalists maintained a high standard for his paper, and 

 resigned when the owners apparently wanted to 

 adopt a more sensational or "yellow" policy. Jerome 

 Hart edited with excellent taste and discrimination 

 the famous weekly Argonaut founded by Frank 

 Pixley, an original and colorful representative of 

 the Bret Harte era. As the author of clever stories 

 and unhackneyed travel sketches, Hart (like several 

 of his colleagues) demonstrated the natural relation 

 between good journalism and literature. 



Among the women prominent in this field was 

 Millicent Shinn, then editor of The Overland Monthly. 

 While welcoming me to the state in friendly fashion, 

 nevertheless — as an ardent apostle of the Uni- 

 versity of California, her Alma Mater — Miss Shinn 

 kept a sharp lookout for educational heresies and 

 any deviation from the methods of Yale, dear to 

 her former professors. 

 A grim In the south, General Harrison Gray Otis edited 



°^'^^^^^ his own paper, the Los Angeles Times. Grim, ob- 

 stinate, straightforward, and conservative, carrying 

 on a consistent fight against organized labor on the 

 one hand and liberalism on the other, he stood in a 

 class by himself. A single incident may be cited as 

 characteristic of the man. In 191 1, in connection 

 with a gathering at Riverside for the promotion of 

 world peace, Otis was asked by Frank Miller (of 

 whom I shall presently speak) to arrange for a full 

 report of my address, which was the principal one 

 of the occasion. To this request he at once assented, 

 remarking, however, that "every man jack of us is 

 opposed to peace in all its forms." 



Accordingly, it gives me pleasure to say that in 



