Oregon Exchanges is obliged to J. P. Kirkpatrick of the Pilot Rock Record for the following interesting little item on publicity: Insofar as the Pilot Rock Record is concerned the old adage "He who tooteth not his own horn the same shall not be tooted," has been exemplified. We have scanned the columns of Exchanges time after time in a fruitless search for some "bouquet" extolling the virtues of the modest little weekly published at Pilot Rock. Failing to find the fragrant little effusion we have decided to write one for ourselves—like the E. O. and Tribune do! We consider the Record the niftiest little paper published in Pilot Rock, full of ads, literary gems and—prunes.
Claude I. Barr, secretary of the Pendleton Commercial Association, is breaking into the editor class, writing articles and assembling material for the illustrated booklet which will be published by the commercial associations of Umatilla county. Ten thousand copies are to be printed, the booklet being the first ever published by the county. Besides Mr. Barr, those who have contributed to the booklet are Fred Bennion, county agent, who has for his theme the work of the Farm Bureau; Joseph Harvey, city editor of the Pendleton East Oregonian, who wrote the article entitled "Pendleton," and Miss Elsie Fitzmaurice, reporter, whose article is entitled "The Round-Up."
In honor of Lieut. Walter V. Brown, son of W. S. Brown of the Malheur Enterprise at Vale, who was killed when an airplane he was operating took a tail spin into the waters of the Potomac, a flying field in Virginia has recently been named. Lieutenant Brown was well known on the coast as a star football player of Washington State College and later was a member of the famous Mare Island Marines. During the war he saw service in the aviation branch and was stationed for a number of years in the West Indies.
F. A. Sikes, of Corvallis, editor of the Farmers' Union News, official organ of the Farmers' Union writes Oregon Exchanges suggesting a topic which, he says, "is not generally treated in our daily press." "All over Oregon," he writes, "farmers are broke; that is, many of them are, and more are getting that way every day. Now, if the press would speak of it as a general condition brought about by the infamous 'deflation' that followed the war, and at such a time when the farmer could not help himself, it would look much better than slurring the farmers, as anyone can observe in almost every paper."
Oregon Exchanges has not noted a general tendency to slur the farmers, and is convinced, with Mr. Sikes, that such policy, wherever it may be followed, is short-sighted, indeed, and particularly objectionable in Oregon, whose prosperity is built so directly on farming.
Mrs. A. A. Wheeler, of the firm publishing the Halsey Enterprise, has so far recovered from the stroke of paralysis which prostrated her, December 4 last, that there are hopes that within three months she will be able to walk about the house without help and in general to care for herself. The work in the printing office is being done by the other partner, W. H. Wheeler, who is a septuagenarian, and D. F. Dean, a well-known newspaper man and printer of Oregon, who is 60.
Fred R. Bangs, outside circulation representative of the Baker Herald, has been bucking the country roads this winter via Old Dobbin. He will be glad when the roads make it possible to transfer the saddle bags to the back of the Ford roadster.
In his parting word to the people of Nyssa through the Journal, Fred L. Sheets, who has purchased a printing office in Baker, expresses the hope that some day he may return to Nyssa to publish a daily paper.
