Oregonian Landscape Note
That women are gaining more and more of a strangle hold upon mere man, is evidenced by a sensational incident recorded in the Oregonian office recently.
"Joe" MacQueen, veteran music and book editor of that paper, slunk into the office one day and slid into his desk chair, without looking to the left or right. For a long time he did not even look up, but fastened his gaze upon a book, which he feigned to read. But eventually he had to face his fellows. It was then that eagle-eyed observers detected that his moustache, which for 35 years had nestled on his upper lip, was missing.
"Why did you do it, Joe?" was the query put to him by a Doughnut-Wogglebug reporter.
"It's this way," Joe replied. "My wife is the cook. She said, 'Joe, you're always splashing your shirt-fronts with soup and coffee. Cut off your moustache or starve.' I capitulated, for her strategy was too subtle."
Chinese On Linotype
Jacob Jacobson, Oregon graduate in journalism, now editor of the Advocate at Dinuba, Cal., sends Oregon Exchanges a copy of the New Korea, a newspaper printed in Chinese at San Francisco. Just why he should have sent the paper was not clear—in view of Oregon Exchanges' unfamiliarity with the Chinese language—until the familiar impression of blank slugs that had worked up at the ends of several long "quad-lines" suggested that this must be linotype composition. Finally, in another part of the paper, was found, printed in English, the line "composed on a typesetting machine." The recent reduction of the Chinese language into an alphabet, eliminating the many thousands of ideograph characters, has made possible the printing of Chinese newspapers on the linotype. A rapid advance in Chinese education may be expected from this development, which must save years in the mastering of the language and make possible newspaper and book composition at ten times the speed of the Chinese hand compositor, who walks miles around and around his office in the composition of two or three galleys of type.
Robert W. Sawyer, editor of The Bend Bulletin, is about to leave for a few weeks visit in the east. On his trip Mr. Sawyer will call on advertising agencies in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia in the interest of The Bulletin.
Installation of wireless telephone is under consideration by a number of the Oregon newspapers, several of whose proprietors were set to thinking along that line by a talk made on the subject at the last Newspaper Conference by Frank Jenkins, president of the Eugene Register company. One of these, the Grants Pass Courier, has already begun installing a plant with a range of wave length of from 175 to 3100 meters. Towers are to be erected to a height of 100 feet to carry the antennae. A two-stage amplifier and magnavox will complete the equipment, according to Publisher Voorhies' announcement. The Register is expecting to install apparatus very soon.
Oregon Exchanges has the name of a young newspaperman who wishes to obtain an interest in an established and reputable newspaper and printing business in exchange for his equity in a Willamette valley acreage. The acreage is described as being favorably located and equipped for raising berries and small fruits and chickens. An interest worth from $1500 to $2500 is wanted. Good country weekly or small city daily field is favored, and place where services in either front office or back shop would go with interest is required. Anyone interested may write to the editor for further information.
