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THE EDITOR of this department has a little traffic in labor supply and demand from all over the territory. Our office at Oregon City is the clearing house for workers for all departments, and we often have some good men registered. At present there are some good news and editorial men and some good advertising men available. A combination printer-operator is needed, too. as are circulation solicitors. Any one interested in getting in touch with workers are invited to write me, and I’ll do what I can.

SPEAKING about being an editor of this department reminds me that reporters are woefully lacking. I'm willing to edit, and get quite a kick out of writing all this stuff each month. but why don't the “boys” send in their stuff to be published! If this goes on indefinitely, without some counter-balancing contributions, all the readers will be moulded into the same way of thinking that I have, all the newspapers will look just the same. and originality will cease.

Come on with your articles. Since this is an association department, of course, one should write along that line, but if this department can't use the stuff, George Turnbull can.

THOSE members of the association who are also printers, will be inter ested in the work of the Ben Franklin club in their application to the Supreme Court for a revised ruling on the cost bills for printing briefs. The committee from the club has applied for the general prevailing rate of $1.65 per page for the first 16 pages, $1.40 for the remainder, and $3.50 added for the cover. The court's present ruling permits only $1.25 per page for brief printing.

The question has been referred to the Oregon Bar Association, and their committee is now considering the matter. A peculiar misunderstanding arose in the transmittal of the request from one committee to another, with the result that the Bar Association committee thought that the request meant that the page rate, provided the brief ran over 16 pages, would be $1.40 for all the pages. In event it ran 16 or under. they understood a rate of $1.65 was required. However, l hope that the boys who print briefs are charging $1.65 for the first 16, regardless of the size, then adding for additional pages at the $1.40 rate. I believe that the Bar Association will O. K. the request, when they learn production costs on briefs.

IT HAS often occurred to me that some system of interchange of news could be worked out by the newspaper men of the state to the benefit of all participating. The idea as I see it, would not attempt to handle such items that would get on the wires anyway, but to swap stories on events that happened in one locality, yet had a significance some other place.

An illustration of what is meant, is covered by this: An automobile accident happens, say at Eugene or Salem, and

the injured are from Oregon City. The