TH E SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAGB pour THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Psbll«h«sl Every Thursday at Springfield. Lane County. Oregon. by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H. B MAXEY, Editor._________________ ■stared aa second class matter. February 24. 1HU at the postoffice, Sprlngfleld. Oregon MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year In Advance $1.75 Three M o n th s------ 75c B ti M o n th s_________ $1.00 Single C o p y ----------- Sc THURSDAY JANUARY 5. i»S8 PUBUC1TY, DIVORCE AND CRIME Divorces in London greatly increased during the last year and sociologist lay it to restrained publicity. A new law provides th at only a skele- toniied report of divorce procedure can be pub lished and sensational details m ust be omitted. The secrecy thus gained in the procedure has caused divorce to become more prevalent. Newspaper men have realized that thia would also be the case in the United States. There is no end th a t some people will not go to to keep their divorce proceedings out of the paper. Front fear of publicity mauy do not get divorces who otherwise would. While there are those who would lay part of the blame on the full newspaper publicity for the great prevalence of crime in this country, really the newspaper is a deterrent to crime. All but the hardened professional criminal have a horror of newspaper publicity in many cases fearing it more than the courts. Wide publicity at the time of the commitment of a crim e and broadcasting of the description of the criminals m ake it very hard for them to escape. A clever criminal may escape from all the officers of the law but he cannot escape the general public once it is informed and on the lookout for him. The Hickman case is a typicsl example of newspaper help to capture a criminal. Publish ing of the pictures, the details of the crime, the num bers of the $20 bills passed all helped the general public of Oregon and W ashington to be Informed and to report the criminal Hickman in a dozen places. It was finally a press dispatch to the newspapers at Pendleton that caused the telegraph editor to call the chief of police and tell him th at Hickman was believed to be headed that way on the Columbia river highway. Hickm an’s capture followed a fter the officer had gone out on the road and waited for him. But for the full publicity, even though gruesome, chances are Hickman would have escaped officers in Oregon the sam e as he did those in California. • • • HAPPY NEW YEAR—ONE BEGINS EVERY DAY A new year is born and an old year dies. It's time to hang up a new calendar, m ake good reso lutions and be a t peace with the world. But, after all. a new year begins every day. even though the calendar may disagree. Every day affords just as great an opportunity to make good resolutions and to keep them as does January 1. If the m aker of good resolutions rem em bers this, it m ay be easier for him to keep them. At any rate in this first issue of the new year we wish to those who make good resolutions and keep them , to those who make good resolutions and break them and to those who m ake no reso lutions at all an exceedingly Happy New Year's Day and a 1928 filled with days each happier than the day before. • • • THE OREGONIAN’S STYLE The Portland Oregonian beginning with the new year has copied the style of The Springfield News in the column and a half wide editorial col umn. Naturally we feel flattered but the Eugene Morning Register ami other newspapers which have patterned as dose as possible a fte r the Ore gonian for these many years are quite alurnted. They don't sav so but one suspects right awav that these papers fear they will soon have to change their style of editorial also. We believe the Oregonian made a wise decision in giving a little display to its editorial column through the added width. The Oregonian, even if we often disagree with it. has had in the past many brilliant editorials. But we have always felt however that the Oregonian did not have the editorial influence it might have had in the state for two reasons. One was the typographical ap pearance of Its editorial columns and the other is that its editorials are a mite too long. People are influenced as much through the power of sug gestion as by reason and maybe more. W hether he is too busy or too lazy the average person will not wade through a long dry editorial no m atter how much tru th and logic the writer may put In It. If we may be perm itted a word from our hum ble position as an editor of a country weekly we would say that ever now and then an Oregonian editorial would be better if it were two editorials. SWINDLER’S PROFITS — WHOSE WHOSE CONCERN? » THURSDAY JANUARY fi. 1938 1 » play train* later on." ft, VCMNKtTT SAVS - H f WOVCO h «8 s o*a.v tumiv womhj *«•«»$ IF rH<w WAS a W AV I "ro tHSTigfcOtf H HvTwsrw TMkM----- An ugiirvnitlvv young wwnuui was »entiling Ihn bua coinluntor tor lin a i Ing on her Ion. When the battle hail illn<l tloao he nuked her for her fare. "Single r he Inquired "I hear that Mahle la studying sypnotlsra" "Yes. aotneone told her that she'd make a chsrtulug bride." There once win a guy named Flynn. Who bragged he could drink bootleg Nearly $1,700,000,000, the T reasury Depart- ment estim ates, could be restored to the legiti m ate purchasing power of the nation each year if malprat doners were eliminated from business. Almost every honest m erchant, w hether he be located in the largest city or the sm allest town, is affected. Charles H. Tuttle, United S tates Attorney for New York, says "the staggering cost falls pri marily upon business. It becomes part of the general overhead which must be met before pro fits begin to materialize. And it is not too much to say th at hidden in the expense account of every- m erchant is somewhere the influence of every piece of dishonesty in the com m unity.’’ One of the agencies com batting the swindler is the National B etter Business Bureau. It pro vides the m achinery to protect honest profits and educates investors who might otherwise be taken In by some clever scheme. W hatever headway It makes toward overcoming the business fraud loss will be applauded by honest m erchants, because it m eans more legitim ate business for them. So when offered a nip. He took quite a alp; Now the uugela have welcomed him In. gin; l'irsi con tici: 'How often have you b«‘«n In Jall?" Second contici "Just this one«.” Fimi contici: •You're lucky." Second contici • I don't knots— I'm in far Ili*." d M u ih ^ U a lto r *'H‘iuI lìti noi aurprinod." Specializing In Tonsil* Wnat Women Want Some cloth**«. Some money. Some gossip. Some more elothea. Some flattery. Some thrill«. Some more elothea. Soma man Or any man W in SUCCESS IN U U S IN L ^ I AT " Y ea!" Dr, Oeo. A, Simon LOSS’ RURAL COMPETITION — CHANGED — STILL STRONG 1 ir grad easy to travel, bocauas bustiWMS c o lle g e tr a in in g e q u ip s t h e m I o h»UiHMl lions in cl ties th e y v is it. wh >. a» ntgg svivtaa cmsi .«. (■».41 sav foor lW.n wr tufo Hu.l-11, wfo, ,.»«.1 ,l,„ "tufo" 4 Over Penney'* Store Relinks-Walker Phoue 365 Eugene B U SIN E SS COLLEGE i’^ » i Another New Year Before us Is another new year, new experiences, new goals to work toward. We take thin opportunity to thank those who patronized mm bo loyally In 1927. We expect to see he old cuMtomerM with uh thin year and a few new ones also. Every year we have been In Springfield ban widened our circle of friends. We appreciate this and have atlven to nerve them to the bent of our ability. W’e want everyone of our friends to be pleased with our service which we are always trying to m ake better. Thunk you » EG G IM A N N ’S "W here the Service Is n Little Different,” First Souse: "Is that your best girl oter there T" Second Policeman: "No, necks best though." A woman I hate Is Nancy lx>anll She calls me sw eetie and doesnt mean It. Silly Sam says that Just because j his father Is a hick. Is no reason to I think he is descendent from a family of drunkards. "I am going into the hands of the Rural competition has changed a great deal, receiver," shouted the well-trained just as has life on the farm, In the past fifty years. football, as It sank gracefully Into the Once the champion with the scythe, the wheat cradle, the ax or the husking peg was cock of the hands of the half-back. walk and a big m an in the community. Machines Jupiter: "How can he walk with now play a much greater part in getting the those wooden legs?" - farm work done, so the fan n er has fallen In line Plurlus; "Lumbering, old deah." and has become a good m achinist. Few of them, perhaps, will regret the changed conditions that Now We Ask You have made them so. But rural competition still exists and, although Said a certain young lady named Della. changed, is as strong as ever. The fine results of While rid I tut with a big husky fella. this competition are evident everywhere in the "Big Boy, you're too rough. land. Competition am ong growers has developed Quit pulling that stuff. the sheep and swine of the modern farm s and has brought the country Its rem arkable develop IV«. I look like a bloomin' cave dwellaT" ment of high-grade cattle. Boys’ corn and pig "tubs are live com petitors with their elders. The Mutt Hsve Chaser best yield of wheat, oats or corn in the com m uni •'Why do you always carry a can ty gives just as m uch pride to the fan n er whose teen of water when you go hunting?" hard work produced is as ever. "So I can take a chaser after every Rural competition has merely changed out wardly, just as the country has changed. It Is shot.” still as much a part of the national life as ever ' and yields every bit as good results as it did a A ’»»man was entering a motion picture house when she was stopped half century ago. Mother nature and the garage keeper often work more closely and surely than the proverbal story of the doctor and the undertaker. The rain and ice Saturday and Sunday caused both the McKenzie and the Pacific high wavs to be strewn wi»h wrecks The new year started out right fo r l i e g a ra g e a n d ■ nip even tilougii by an attendant. it was hard luck for the automobile owner. "Excuse me. madam." he said, "bur • • • California wants to annex Nevada. 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