TH E SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Psbll«h«sl Every Thursday at
Springfield. Lane County. Oregon. by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
H. B MAXEY, Editor._________________
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postoffice, Sprlngfleld. Oregon
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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.
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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.
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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?
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THURSDAY JANUARY fi. 1938
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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.
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He took quite a alp;
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Dr, Oeo. A, Simon
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B U SIN E SS COLLEGE
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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
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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?"
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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
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California wants to annex Nevada. They have you can't take your dog Inside.”
- how absurd!" protested the wo-
Even though it is leap year we are still old stolen the glory of the Oregon prune and now
fashioned enough to feel that a girl should not they are after Nevada’s leading industry—the man -wha, hnrm <oUid the picture«
Reno divorce court. You can’t beat ’em.______ ld „ t0 a*tin y dog like this?"
propose to a man except as a last resort.
T alking to You
When little Percy was saying Ills prayers
his m other interrupted, telling him she
couldn’t hear him. He replied: "Well, I
wasn't talking to you anyway."
But we ARK talking to you. This Bank
wants to be your friend not to the extent of
taking risks with our depositors' money, of
course. But if you are reliable, if you have a
reputation of m eeting your obligations, you
can depend upon this bank’s support
through thick and thin Give us the chain ■
to prove it.
Protected by Electric B urglarly A larm Syatem
C om m ercial S tate B ank
Springfield, Oregon
A GOOD B A N K IN A GOOD C O U N TR Y
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A once famous boxt-fl was seen
quarrelling with a man bigger than
j himself. His friend said:
"I would*)'! stand for that kind of
talk. Bill Hit Im."
"What!" exclaimed the boxer. ‘ For
no purse an no gate money! Not
likely!"
A busy man was using the tele-
phone
“I want Triangle double-two, double. 1
two,” he said.
“Two-two, two-two," repeated the i
exchange girl, reproachfully.
"All right," said the man patiently,
"you get me the number and we’ll
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W ho are these Investors ?
TEN years ago fifteen of the largest corporations in the
U nited States had a total of approximately 500,000 stock­
holder*. Today the American I'clcphone anti Telegraph
Company alone has more than 420,000 stockholders.
Thi* is an instance of the amazing growth of saving and
investm ent that ha* taken place in this country. W ho are
these new investor* ?
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Telephone »tockholder* come from every rank and file
in every state, nearly every town and city, in the land.
Mechanics and merchants, teachers and bankers, laborers
and lawyer*—every station of life is represented in thi*
investm ent democracy.
T h e BellTcIcphone System, composed of the American
T elephone and Telegraph Company and its Associated
Companies, is owned by the people it serves.
Of. Ella C. Meads
O p to m e tr is t
WATTS OPTICAL CO.
No. 14 8 Are. West
Bugene, O ro tm n
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