From Bend comes this word of a new feature:
“The Bend Bulletin has put in a new department that might be of timely interest to some other small town publishers in the state. It is now running daily what has been christened “The War Exchange”, consisting of a column of material either clipped from war cook books and conservation menus or contrib uted by readers.
“The general idea is to embody in it suggestions helpful in carrying out the new food regulations. On such a paper there is a considerable quantity of material sent in that is hard to find a place for as ordinary news. It must be printed in order to keep subscribers who are interested in that sort of stuff and yet it’s a nuisance to the fellow who writes the heads.
“The exchange has solved the problem. If the Red Cross desires to have the latest instructions for knitting Kitchener heels in print, that is where they can find it. Some rancher up in the woods has suggestions about stewing goose eggs and and guinea pigs; it is stuck in there. Even the Presbyterian minister in vented a formula for war bread made with potatoes, and the Bulletin is looking forward to publishing that.
“The whole thing is crackerjack stuff for space filler and that is what is certainly needed in this town on dull days, when the wire is slack on big features and nobody is considerate enough to commit suicide or scrap over the city budget.
“The idea of putting the column in as a regular feature came in the request of several ranchers’ wives
on far off homesteads for the United States Food Administration cook books, which are hard to get in isolated districts. These receipts are printed direct from the book. It is only a matter of a few minutes to slap a few bits of copy on the hook for the Exchange and mark off a section of the recipes. A schedule of meatless and wheatless days tops the column each time, and Red Cross meeting days, according to departments will be put in. Names of contributors to the soldiers’ tobacco fund also go there.”
Gordon J. Taylor, editor of the Molalla Pioneer, has announced his candidacy for representative from Clackamas county. Mr. Taylor is well known throughout the Northwest as a lecturer. He is Molalla’s livest wire.
The Morning Astorian is displaying a service flag showing that seven of its employes are somewhere in Uncle Sammy’s care wearing the olive drab. Of the staff Hugh McCullough and Leland Gilbert are in training at Vancouver. Strange faces are at their desks, but the paper comes out as usual.
T. P. Berry of Los Angeles, for many years identified with California papers, and a part of the time with the Hearst publications has joined the copy editing staff of the Oregonian. He is handling the telegraph news.
C. H. Williams, general assignment man and financial reporter of the Oregonian, has been away from his desk for a month. He has been in that aggravated state of being too ill to work and to well to be sick.
Miss Jeanette Wiggins, general assignment reporter on the Oregonian, accompanied by Mrs. Gertrude Corbett, society editor of the Oregonian, visited Camp Lewis, American lake, recently for the purpose of getting acquainted with the various organizations and their work in the environs of the camp. Miss Wiggins covers much of the news of the war unit auxiliaries in Portland and the correspondence news from soldiers at the front. Mrs. Corbett gathered data for a feature story on the hostess house at Camp Lewis, while chaperoning Miss Wiggins.
