The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, January 27, 1925, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPngo Four THE EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally except Sunday. AUL R. KELTY, Editor EUGENE S. KELTY, BuBlnesa Manager Offlcea 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 Tuesday Evening, January 7 ' Tha Rllirnna nimrl la n mmW Af 'tho Aaflnnlatetl PreBB. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tha use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise Cred- llnfl In thin nunaw nnd nlctn tha Inral nonfl nnhllahed herein. All rights of publication, of special dispatches heroin are also reserved. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27. Newspapers And News. There continues, to be much public discussion, in and out of the newspapers, about duty in publishing news. Its inspiration is partly, no doubt, in the recent address ot rresident Uoolidge concerning tne press, in wmou the president exhibited a grasp and knowledge of the newspaper's problems and functions rather unusual in a lnyman, but in which ho also advanced the somewhat disputed view that newspapera which condemned the law for federal income tax publicity were guilty of no inconsistency when they published lists or payments made by heavy taxpayers. . . There is further inspiration for tho current discus sion of what news to print in the fact that recently there has been in the news a good deal about some rather notable criminal cases. And the always excellent Chris tian Scionce Monitor, which is read in practically all newspaper offices', continues to inveigh . against news papers which admit to their columns any. news concern ing manifestations of. the less lpvely side of life, while publishing in it's own news columns much concerning crimes against the 'liquor and other laws in whose en forcement it is specially interested. , Most of : this discussion, so far as the newspaper phase of it goes, has been in the metropolitan press and that pf the larger towns. But there is ample evidence, in an article from the Harrisburg Bulletin which is re printed on this page today that the problem of what not to print is by no moans confined to tho cities, al though, the phases it presents to the small town editor are peculiarly his own. Tho Bulletin is one of tho bright est and best written weekly papers that como in among the exchanges from week to week, find publishes more local news than tho average weekly, notwithstanding the editor's apparent admission that it does not publish all it knows. His article will give new light to many readers on the dilhculties that beset the small town editor, no less than on the motives that govern him. It is rather a common boast among newspapers that tney are tearless in the publication ot news. Some declare that they publish all tho news that comes to their notice, without exception.' The sincerity of such a claim' by any newspaper is to b.e doubted. ..livery editor every day js faced not only with tho problem of what to print but also that of . whether to withhold one item or another. In a very largo majority of tho comparatively raro cases in whioJi an item is withhold tho motive is one of mercy. If evil doing wreaked its consequences only upon the evil doer, the answer to tho problem would bo easy. Un fortunutoly tho consequences of evil doing fall upon the innocent as well as tho guilty. When a man gets himself into a "jam" of one kind or another his wife, Lis' children, his father or mother ,or pthors near to him must suffer reflocted .'disgrace! That is what makes tho problem of how far to go in printing the news about such things. Tho newspaper has a very definite duty to its read ers, which is to inform them of all that is going on in tho community of legitimate interest to them. Tho news paper must reflect in its nows columns tho whole life of tho day. It must keep itself wholesome, and yet, if it is to bo a complete-newspaper, it must record happenings that are otherwise than wholesome. It cannot, in the selection of ils news, use only that which is of interest to one class offenders.. It must publish the news which will interest every class. For tho publication of many of its individual items it will gain both approval and con demnation, and each is likely to ho us hearty ns tho other. No editor can hope to please all of his roadors in all that ho publishes all tho timo or in any. single edition. The wsi no can do is to have regard lor his "noso for news,'; and to act on his honest best judgment in news selection. ' A Hearst editor said once: "Two classes of pooplo como to tho newspaper office; those Avho want something pumisneu mm mo eauor does not want and thoso who want something withheld that tho editor does want ' The.ro must bo a hotter reason for publishing an item than that some person wants it published. Thoro must bo soiiio better reason for withholding an item than that somo person wants it withheld. Tho first consideration in either case is tho right of tho newspaper's readers. to pass. The people of Oregon are preity well tick of self-starting can didates of inoUimtes covered plat forms of their own making, legisla tors, state aud national, not reaponal ble to any political party or organiza tion but their own personal machines. A change io a properly regulated con veutiou of primary elected delegate! would do much to elevate the stan dard of Oregon politics though it might he a littlo hard on a certain class of newspapers who depend on swaying class pension for their in fluence. That'a why some of thein are opposed to it. Why Nlcfcle the Council? (Sheridan Sun) Petitions nuking the recall of two memuers ot tne city council at Carl ton, filed with the city recorder last week, as reported by the Carlton Sen tinel, briugs to attention main . condition of administrative govern ment in smau towns that makes ser vice by desirable citizens almost in. tolerable. Whatever the circumstsnces in the Carlton case the result is the eame an inhibition placed on the councilmanic officee for those who cou.d and might do genuino service by those who delight in intolerance and persist In unreasonable heckling. The Independence Enterorise week ago commended the council of tnai city to the more to erant resnect or me people and bespoke, for the of ficials conscientious efforts to serve. And The Sun, observing the same in tolerant tendency -here with three vacancies on the council because of it -joins with the Enterprise in unrlnu the people to cooperate with instead ot combining against the council. It would do much toward romno tent administration of civic affairs in evory town if such a spirit of cooper ation were developed; by encouraging rather than discouraging residents of integrity and high standing to serve ami therein lies a service that the press might properly undertake. How can They Buy? (Roseburg News-Keview) The plan of tho modified McNarv- Haugcn bill to market the surplus products of American farms in for eign countries sounds like good busi ness. Wo are wondering, however, how certain countries abroad can pay for produce when they are without money to liquidate what they already owe the United States. Msybe those countries would appreciate an oppor tunity to pay us off with surplus car rots, rutabagas,, etc., of their own. Who Are the Standpatters Now. (Mcdford Mail-Tribune) We notice in an esteemed Portland contemporary that the standpatters of Oregon are trying to get in to the saddle again. Proposed modifications of the Di rect Primary and Initiative are sub- mittod as corroborative evidence an attempt to destroy popular govern ment and return to the control of the ward boss, aud tbe machine! on, ltuiu! ot course, of course. Dut why standpatters? A standpatter wo supposed, referred to the luiuui tous individual who wished to stand still, who refused to sanction the slightest change, who insisted upon the negative privilege of enjoying the status quo. Uhc peoplo who favor modification of tho primary and reform of tho ini tiative, can t be accused of support ing such a policy. The status quo is what they oppose. They take issue with those who maintain the present system of government in this state. can't be improved upon. They main tain it can be, and it Is progress to ward improvement they desire. THE TEETHING PERIOD Problems of Editor In Small Town' Problem of What News to Print and What to Withhold And Considerations That Figure in'Declsions on Such Questions. Eugene 25 Years Ago. For Legislators To Consider. There will bo a hearing at Salem tomorrow eveninjr A 1. I .1 111111 i .... on mo ionerai ruua laoor amendment, before the com niittoo having the niensuro in charge. Horo aro a few facts which tho committee may well consider, in view of tho stress being placed by opponents of tho amend ment upon the contention that regulation of child labor may safely bo left to tho. states: Eleven states nllow children to work from 9 to 11 hours a day. One state sets no limit to 1ho hours a child may work. Eleven states allow children to work 54 to 60 hours a week or more. Four states nllow child ren to work all night. Thirty-fivo states nllow children to go to work without a common school education. Kino teen states allow children to go to work without regard to their physical fitness. There aro plenty of other facts available to show the necessity for the child labor legislation by congress, but arc not these enough? If, as is reported, a majority of tho legislators, including all members of tho Lane county delegation, are opposed to the amendment and intend to voto against it, how do they answer tho show ing hero set forth t' !, Another harbinger of spring: near at hend. Tho stylo show is COMMENT OF THE PRESS For tha Mills Plan (Corvallis Oatetle-Tlmes) Speaking of the effort to reslore republican form nt government in Oregon through the reformation of the primary Inw via the Mills bill, the Kiilcm Statesman avers that "it would defeat the republican party In Ore gon." All right. Let 'er buck. Better go down in defeat for a principle than shamble along In government by farce es we arc doing now. Hut there is no reason why the doleful predic tion ot the Statesman should rauio (From Tho (Junrd ot Jau. 27, 100(1) Tho regular moetlhu ,,r tho A. demy of Sclenco tit the University will meet this evening in the physical tuiuro room ot jJeady hall. An alarm of fire was sent In t A o clock, last evening from tJie northern end of the city and the department went immediately to the scene. It. proved to be an annex of the resi dence of John Mercer, and the build ing and all ils contents were a total loss. v The locsl orstorical contest of the university will be held in Villard hull this coming Frldoy. Contestants aro Dalaio Alloway, A. B. Walts, C. N. McArthur, IJ. C. Jukway, Chestor I'isher. A large number of the W. R. P. T,. club were entertained this afternoon by Mrs. J. J. Walton. The Varsity Republican club of the university has elected II. 11. Angcll, C. N. Mr-Arthur, snd 0. M. Kishop ss representatives at the state league conveution. J. S. Medley is visiting In the city rrom JMst Cottsgo Urove. J, P. Currln and H. M. Veatch arc two more Cottage Grove visitors in tho city. H. Mnthcws Is In the city om Uoshen. Tom Sims Says- ideas nre like pooplo. They need rest. If you work ono overtime it be comes nervous aud troublesome. The good men do lives after them: the evil gets after them. . Tho greatest argument for relig ion Is tho expression on the faces of those who sny they havo none. V Some people had rather seem bright thsn pleasant. When you dou't know what you are making you sre making a mistake. w False pride has one virtue, It may force you to do something of which you ran be proud. Success has a habit nt around while you are busy. coming The best way to make a man do what he dosn't wsut to do is to make hira want to do it. IOve is a magnifying glass, making you see the rest of tiic world through the reverse side. Keep your nose loo rlose to the grindstone end you mistake the sparks lor stars, (Ilarrisburg Bulletin) The disseminator of news bst handful now and then. For example a worthy lady recently asked us why? why? why? didn't the Bulletin re port an incident wherein a citizen was arrested and fined for the possession of mooushioe. If her training h.id been in-the line of country news paperdom, or if she ,bad had an- ink ling of what it means to a community to have ill reports go out from heir homo town, wo might have offered an explanation. To you wo will simply suy that it was a private matter. The man was caught, pleaded guilty and paid his' fine. There was no trial. There waB no publicity about it. This paper has no hesitancy about printing anybody's name and herald ing it to tho public. Wo have no.fit .vorltca. Yet the policy of the paper has ever been lo shield homo Oma. We havo as much right to keep fpom the public tho odium of a fine for bootlegging as wo have to refrain from mentioning the birth of an llleg: timate child. This is a very small community yet the heort beats of Its people are just as nonest, just us human and just as much the part of a common country ns any heart bea's In all tho world. Why Bhould the lit tle local paper tell the findiuga of its reporters if they bring an extra pang of misery to an aged father, or' yet more tender, the nlready burstiug heart of a loving mother? A locsl paper, if you please, is not a scandal sheet. Yet there is not one in all this grest .country but what in its weekly issue could tell to fathers and mothers, to wives and to husbands, tales thst. would bring re morse, in a single issue the Bulletin could do an Irreparable damage, in widening the breach between neigh bora and yet speak only the plain truth. Gossip makes and brings its sting but the stamp of the public press can never, never bo erased. Tho editor of a paper sits as judge. Ho may work to n rule drawn ever so fine, yet today he allows in netnt what he would not permit to morrow. But ever he has in mind what Bhould go for the best interest of his community, best for today, but more especially best for tomorrow. Ah. the rub tomorrow: Instinct must guide him, it almost seems, in the honest endeavor to do for the best. Should he herald to the world every evil of hla little baili wick? Should he herald none? Once a subscriber "stopped the Bulletin" bocnuse too many deaths were report. ed. Yet we have gone on reporting deaths without even a thought to this nnrtv's dlsnlessure. But our judg ment, or our instinct, or whstever it mlaht be. has held us time and again from marring the sensibilities of just one lone soul who never even droam- ed of how our heart went out in aym nathv as the line of xis on our type writer blotted out the words that would havo made an indelible and un favorable record for his friends, or her friends, to scan. inherits $115,000 but goes on pack ing shingles, "If I quit, I'd die," he says, and he'll give, tbe money to his children.' Perhaps the habit of hard work hasn't got as firm a hold on thein as it has oo him. "Sir, we know thot the will is free, and that's an end of it," said Samuel Jounson. liut is the will free? Whst becomes of freedom of the will when habit has such a bold upon usr After stacking shingles for years, Mr. Koenig feels that he must go on stacking shingles, although be Jias money enough to take hi in to see the great pyramids of Egypt, the Tuj Mahal in India, the great wall ot China and the Cheshire cheese chop house in London. Our life depends on the glands. Our happiness depends on .habit. We are more like machines wound up nnd set running than creatures of free will. In Lighter Vein Obscure Works (London Humorist) Ethel "Do you like Beethoven's works, Mr. Ponks?" Mr. Ponks "Never visited cm Wot does 'e manufacture?" TODAY (Continued rrom page one) others. This is almost as good as the Arabian Nights. w w Today the nation will celebrate the sixth anniversary of the birth of pho- hibltion. Many have been made rich hy pro hibition, some through bootlegging, others through sobriety and earing. Some have been made blind hy it, some havo been killed by the quality of whisky. One side of prohibition Is the story and trial of Mary Moss, 'JO years old. Driving her automobile be tween Fort Wayne and Monroe, in Michigan, carrying 30 cases of beer each time, she msde 10.000 in a year. looking like a high school girl taking a little drive, nobody susperfj ed anything. ow sne must go lo jail for 20 days. In these times maay would do that for leaa thsn 10,000. I.orsns Koenig. aged 7'- devotes his working hours to slacking shing les in a lumber yard eat Omaha. He Ain't It? (American Legion Weekly) Whiz "Lots of foreigners arc com ing into our country." Bang "Yes, immigration sincerest form of flattery." the ( Unreliable. (Madrid Buen Humor) Boss "But you Baked for a dy off a month ago because your wife was dying, and now you ask for another for the same reason." Clerk Can't help it, sir; I am very sorry, but you can never depend on my wifo for anything." The Better Authority (The Christian Advnrate) Student "A fortune teller told me that I had a lot of money coming (o nie." Sportsman "I had rather hear a paying teller say that." ' Modern Mother (Berlin Dorfbarbier) Lady (meeting child in the park) "You are a dear, sweet child! rou re mind mo of my own little Erica!" "But, mummy, I am your Erica!" Guaranteed to Work (London Humorist) An American paper asks for a slo gan that will stimulate everybody's desire to get a move on. "Honk! Honk!" isn't a bad one. Ready to Help. (Boston Transcript) Hub "I met Hawkins on the street today and the poor chop was very gloomy told me be was perfectly willing to die." Wife "Oh, Tom, why didn't yon a.l; him here to dinnrJ" Oregon Briefs j On June 1 Marshficld will become a first-clnss postoffico, the receipts during 11)24 running $3000 over the sum necessary to place the office in the first class. rank of major in command of the second battalion ot the 186th in fantry. ' Construction work was begun this week on rebuilding the Southern Pa cific railway at North Bend which was destroyed several monuis ago when it was rammed by tbe steamer Martha Buehner. A call for outstanding county war rants indorsed prior to and including April SO, 1023, has been msde hy the treasurer of Tillamook county. The report of the treasurer shows an in debtedness of $370,092.57 with funds on hand amounting to $lld,dl4.ui. In New York Asserting that tho business worth $75,000 a year to the terri tory, residenta of Keedsport are op posing the proposed elimination of commercial crab Inning in the waters of tho Uwpo.ua river. After having been paid $Sfl8.0," for his December work, Sam B. Sandc- ter'a services as prohibition oftior were dispensed with by the Jsckson county court and the matter of en forcement was turned over to Uie heriff. An official order from headquart ers of the Oregon national guard has been received at La Grande, promot ing Ralph Huron of thst city to the BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO DAY OF A THL'TH 1 perceive that Ood la no respecter of persons; but In every nation he that fear eth him, and worketh righteous ness, i accepted, with hira.i Act I 10:34, 3'i. Bible Question (Look up the answer) What Is the greatest virtue? 1 for. By JAMES W. DEAN MEW YORK, Jan. 27. Bootleg is in the heart nnd core of New York. Bootleg, no"t only of liquor, but of many oi the commodities and lux uries of life. Bootleg of human life itself. Bootleg'is in the very spirit of New York. NO new laws will stop it. Nor will the repeal of any present laws stop it. It is tho groat indoor and outdoor, sport hero, known to exist by officials of the law and by law-respecting citizens nnd more or less winked at because of the futility ot trying to stop it. Iu any block of this vast city liquor, some good, most of it bad. can bo purchased. Rum sellers make the rounds of offices, looch can be bought at furniture stores, restau rants, delicatessens, barber shops, butcher shops, drug stores, shoc-shiue parlors, hotels, hardware stores, gas oline stations and iu private homes. School children of Jamaica, arrested tor stealing $100 worth of whiskey confessed they bad been peddling liquor for two months. Cigars are bootlegged. Men, who profess to be Spanish go from office to office offering to sell "genuine Hn vsua'! cigars at very low price, the intimation being that tbey have sneaked them into the country with out paying duty. That, as a rule, is not so. The cigars, like as net, have been made on the East Side. The Spaniard may bo 'anythiug but a Spaniard. Panama hats are bootlegged in much the samn fashion, the peddlers professing to have smuggled their wares into the United Stntcs, . ' Wslk along Sixth avenue 'iu the Thirties and Forties of sn evening. A man will slink out of a hallway, fur tively glance about and then whisper, "Say, boss, if you've got a second I've got a great bargain for you. Stop, and he will tear a holo in a bundle and show you a few inches of a fur piece and offer it U you for $25, or whatever you will pay. Ho implies that he is an express wagon driver and has Btolen the fur because he needs money for the wife nnd kids. Buy the fur and when you get home you'll find that somebody has lost a cat or two. Recently car loads of chickens were condemned and ordered . destroyed. Many of these 'condemned fowl found their way to the New York market at greatly reduced prices. , Harbor thieves steal coal, tarpau lin, rope and lumber and sell it at a price tar below market. There is an extensive business in stolen autos. Salesmen jo from building to build ing selling neckties. They quietly slip into offices and talk in whispers. They, too, imply that they are Belling stolen goods fur below their true value. The truth is that you could buy the same grade of necktie cheap er in any haberdashery. And men thomsolres are bootleg ged. Several months ago some thirty odd men were caught as they were being landed from the open sea. After bring impounded at Ellis Island they asserted that they had paid $73 each to be smuggled into the country. Oriental laborers also have been smuggled into New York.. t The New York bootlegger handles I anything from shoe strings to babies. OLDEST MASON DIES C'UK'AUO, Jan. 27. James Kirk ley, W2, believed to have been fsi csgo's oldest resident, and the old est Mason or Odd Fellow in the city. died Sunday. " i AGRICULTURE IS BIGGEST PROBLeJ Indicates Recognition of That Fact. ""h By HARRY B. HUNT (NEA Service Writer) UTASHINCiTON, Jan. 27. Fresi dent Coolidge's desire to trsns fer Secretary Hoover from the Com merce to the Agricultural department, though it might not seem so on the surface, is evidence that he considers Hoover the ablest man in his offi cial family. Normally, the secretaryship of the Department of Agriculture is consid ered a position of second rank in tbe cabinet. It is a job for some "farmer," either actual or theoretical. It never has been held to require tbe qualities of statesmanship eup nosed to be needed by the Department of State or the Treasury department for instance. Yet In the judgment of the presi dent the biggest problem now con fronting the United States biggey even than foreign affairs or taxation has to do with tho future of Ameri can agriculture. And to tackle that problem he wants, as head of the Department of Agriculture, a man of the biggest pos siblo caliber. Hoover's four years BtHhe head of the Department of Commerce, as well as his previous expert training in eco nomic problems, are hld to have fit ted him especially for the particular need President CoondTTTNV our agricultural affair. ",J This need hu ... j ' mercial, or nurketC I?,1"''?.1 ,'iiltitpn ' side -J lems of production. " "i n is tne lack of the f to market to advantage , !'''t- of Hhilit. l , ' 5P' OH I.. T l,l"uuce that . root of his troubles, ConliV " " To develop, system 't tion in the agricultural distribution, giving the f., W 'J is, in br.7he'7obTo:a out forhiB next sccret.r, . " ture. ' 01 ip For this job Hoover ietm. beyond anyone else now h. , U?' - . We hear a lot .v..... .. senators and congressmen l!'1 about "atandnnt" bU k States, however, iiso.ii. . same tendencies as lhi. " lives" in congress or. ,.,!" would be morn pnrr,t r U,F, resentstives reflect the the states. , "" (i On this theory, Connecticut . away with the blue rihK ' ii conccrvativo of all our .."I wealths. " Of the entire It) am.,j. auopicu to tue Constitutinn ' "Nutmeg" state has ratified the sole exeenfinn .. JU,I ment giving "equal rights" J J"" MARTIN HOPKINS DIES TACOMA, Jan. 27. Martin C. Hopkins, 81, a pioneer newspaper man of tbe west, died at his borne here Sunday. He gave Bill Nye his first newspaper job at Laramie, Wyo. and he later conducted papers at Salt Lake city, Helena, and Butte, and he was one ot the founders of the Spokesman Review at Spokane. Great , Pianists Music to be Heard at Laraway's Afternoons From 2 to 4 Daily You aro cordially invited to hear the great Ampico Artists playing "Ee-Anacted" by the wonderful true to life "Ampico Eeproducing Grand Piano" in our music store room. Come hear this marvel ous instrument stay as long as you wish 'it ii absolutely free. Godowsky Bauer Levitzki Rachmaninoff Kreisler Ornstein Volavy Kmita , -at Tbe Ampico Knabs and Fischer Laraway's New Laraway Building V Bruswlck Vlctrola Phonographs and Recotdl Revival Campaign TUESDAY ' "Three Stages to Full Salvation" By J. R. Conlee, the former pastor. WEDNESDAY "The Trumpet That Raises the Dead" - By the Pastor THURSDAY "The Great Chain, the Key, the 1000 Years, No More Devil" FRIDAY 50 healings of incurable, organic and general dis eases by 50 residents of Eugene followedby a ser mon on "Jesus Heals Today." t SUNDAY 11 A. M. "Preparation to Meet Jesus 'In the Air' " The Wise and Foolish Virgins ' SUNDAY 7:30 "The Last Days, the Last Call, the Last Chance Hear the Four-Square Gospel At the Bible Standard 7th and Pearl St. SLABWOOD and PLANER ENDS A combination that settles the heating pwbleB forever. Planer ends are the ideal summer wood, also P the thing to Btart the fires off with a rush on winter days. Now is the time to lay in your supply. 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