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Oregon Exchanges

The old fashioned type cases have practically disappeared from the composing room and ad alley of The Oregonian. D. F. Foulkes, superintendent, has equipped the plant with several of the newest Ludlow type making machines. Compactness is an outstanding feature of the apparatus, and they also eliminate the heavy distribution after the day's run, necessary when the old type was used. With these new) machines practically all advertisements, of large and small type, are set by the machine, and after the run the type is swept into the melting pot. The only distribution necessary is of leads, ornaments and rules.

The Coquille Herald complained recently that it had been requested to suppress real news, announcing at the same time that the request had come to naught. The case in point, the Herald said, was the election of teachers for next year, and the paper was asked "not to say anything about" it. The fear was expressed that some people would protest and make trouble for the board members if they were informed of the changes that had been made, "and this," said the Herald, "seemed to be considered a good argument against the publication of the facts. Try as we will, we cannot bring ourselves to take that view of the ethics of the matter, nor that view of the proper way to run a newspaper."

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