THURSDAY, MARCH 17. 1932 TH E SPRINGFIELD N W R PAO» TW O ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ -■ * “ THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Every Thursday at Springfield, Lane County. Oregon. by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H. K M AXKY Editor Entered as aerond rissa matter. February 14. 1*0:1 at the poatofflre, Springfield. Oregon M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N Cue Year In Advance .....— |1.75 Six Months ............................... »1.00 RATE Three Months Single Copy 75c 5»- THUR SDAY, March 17. 1*32 THE HIGH COST OF GOVERNMENT Tlie total cost of governm ent in the Unite«! S tates aver­ ages about $400 a family and has been climbing steadily in recent years. It has now reached a |>oint well past one- seventh of our national income from trade and is becoming a m atter of vital concern both local. state and national. It is not alone Governor Meier’s problem but also to he con­ sidered by mayors of cities, school boards and others who have adm inistrative duties. In Springfield both the city and school district have lined up by reduction iu costs. The savings they will make next year are greater to us local people than either the state or nation could make even if they levied no tax. The following figures were given out recently by the government as to national income and total governm ent costs: N A TIO N A L INCOM E T O T A L COST O F G O VER NM ENT 1*30 1*27-28 «National and Local I United Slates |$8,419.i)00.l>o«> 112.1*0.1)00.000 United Kingdom 18,380,000.000 6.724.OOO.OOO Japan 5.500.000.000 2.528.000.000 Figures of government costs for other countries were not given but these three are enough. That a country should spend more than 40 per cent of its income on govern­ ment is almost incrediahle, yet that is the figure given for Japan. More than one-thirii of Great B ritain's national in­ come is being spent by governm ent and her recent troubles are laid to that fact. The United States may have a safer margin but it seems true that one-seventh of our enorm ous national income goes for government and that that share lias been growing yearly. How far are we from danger when the cost of govern­ m ent for 120 million men. women and children is more than 12 billion—more than $400 a year for every family? ------------a------------ CRIME AND PUNISHMENT The most frequent comment we hear about the kidnap­ ping of the Lindbergh baby is th at "hanging is too good’’ for the perpetrators of this heartless, brutal crime. We are inclined to agree, not only in this instance but in general, th at our present methods of punishm ent for crim e are "too good” for the criminals. We have tried being ten­ der-hearted with criminals for a good m any years, in incst parts of the country. The net result is an enorm ous increase in crime, overcrowded prisons conducted at heavy cost to the taxpayers, and the belief of every "sm art" crook that he can "beat the rap" if he only gets a lawyer sm art enough and crooked enough to find the loopholes in the law. We have carried to the limit of absuridity the principle that it is better for a thousand guilty men to escape punishm ent than for one innocent man to be convicted. Certain facts seem to us incontrovertible. One is th a t the death penalty is no deterrent of m urder where it is not promptly and certainly enforced. Another is th at im prison­ m ent dt>es not reform crim inals nor the fear of it frighten them. Other methods of punishm ent, other m eans of pre­ venting crime, m ust be discovered and applied. Let sociologists deal with the causes of crime, the influ­ ences that m ake crim inals out of boys. But let us all take a practical, comm on-sense view of the punishm ent for crime. At all costs let us back up our law -enforcem ent agencies, let us clear the sta tu te books of the laws which protect the criminal, let us speed up our criminal trials and place men on the bench who will show no mercy to those who deserve none, and then let us consider w hether the old-fashioned whipping-post, the stocks and the pillory, which held the convicted criminal up to public disgrace and shame, may not be as effective deterrents of crime as the gallows, the electric chair or the penitentiary. The outstanding characteristic of the modern criminal gangster is his vanity. Destroy th at and you have destroyed his chief incentive to crime. "Two-Gun" Crowley went to the chair a hero in his own eyes and in those of his child- minded admirers. Gerald Chapman, m urderer, is a figure of greatness among youthful crooks because he smiled when the trap was sprung. Would crime seem heroic, crim inals heroes, if Crowley had been flogged in public contem pt in the stocks? We think not. We think th at punishm ents to be effective should be so shameful th a t dread of their disgrace will deter even the most hardened. THEY RECEIVE, BUT NEVER GIVE. A candidate for county office picked 100 nam es from the registeration list in a Eugene precinct this week and went out to call on the people. He found only 48 living at tbs. addresses as registered. The rem ainder had moved away and of these people who took their plataes in the houses li.'ted few had registered. A county official has been checking up the $2 a day relief workers and finds th a t very few of those receiving aid are registered voters. Those persons who do not register and vote receive the protection of orderly governm ent, the right to live peaceable, own property and go in pursuit of happiness in this land of the free just the same as those who vote. They take for granted the things th at thousands of our fore­ fathers have laid down their lives to gain. Compared with other parts of the globe they have received a priceless heri­ tage which they are not protecting. They give only when the tax collector compells them to contribute to govern­ m ent Of course their forefathers fixed governm ent so a per­ son has a right to vote or not to vote. T h a t’s the freedom of democracy. But democracy «an not survive and govern­ m ent will become increasing corrupt in about the same proportion th a t people do or do not take an active part in it. Imagine what a sorry condition this country would be in if nobody voted. Then if you are a non-voter get registered! ---------- «,---------- BRIGHTENING SKIES A hundred and fifty million hoarded dollars have already been put back into hanks, bonds and other places where they are useful,Col. Erank Knox’s com m ittee on hoarding reports. The procession of failing banks has about come to au end. Railroads and other industries have saved them ­ selves from receiverships by loans from the R econstruc­ tion Finance Corporation. Business credit is already easier because of the Glass-Steigall bill am ending the Federal Re­ serve Act. Thousands of factories which have been shut down are starting up; thousands more have gone ba« k to al­ m ost full-time production. There is still an enorm ous unsatisfied demand for every kind of m anufactured commodities, wise men tell us. As fast as money and credit begin to circulate freely again jieople will be able to buy We are not all going to get rich in a hurry, but the pessimism of a few m onths ago has given place to optimism alm ost everywhere, and we believe it is safe to say th a t the economic skies are getting brighter. ------- — ------------ We needn't listen to the Democrats deploring the tariff witli an example here at home of its working. At the Booth- Kelly mill the sawmill is closed but the planers are working, and have been most ot the time tor the past year The last congress placed a tariff on dressed lumber but not on rough. Consequently there is little m arket for rougli lumber except as it finds an outlet through the planing mill. ----------«,---------- Think how industry would hum if we could sell a Ford car to each five Chinamen or convert M ahatam a Gandhi to wearing pants, coat and vest. ki’ow Un ir work sud cau In* rellcd iipun tu "delirar thè goods," are a» hard lo fimi as «Ver. I wae In Ilio office of a New York biialiiess ina, (he nther ilay when bis telephone rnug 1 could noi lielp hearing bis end of thè conversallon "T h e rv ìl In* no tronfile gettili» thè capitai," I bearsi bini say, "If thè man you spenk of II « gd as you say he le. Capital s easy enoilgh T H E ROAD HE R E M E M IIR A N l'K You've »till got me guessing iu Iota lo gel liut manpower I h noi. I would of ways. You belong, tor all vour By Llxette Woodworth Reese n't put a cent luto anythlng that Apache get-up, you belong to a The old wind sllra (lie hawthorn hssn't thè righi suri of manpower world I've come close to forgetting. tree; Although." his face looked bewil­ SOUSA In hlnd II " The tree Ip blossoming; dered . . "although it hasn't been When I wa a young fellow In That ha» alwnvs hc»:i Irne E l i s i so long." Northward the road runs to the sea, Washington the girl I used to call "You aie a gentleman. 1 saw that m ie manpower Is Beare In evvry And pust the lliiuse of Spring. on land whom I afterward» mar­ at once. ’ line of efforl The world I full of "W hat is a gentleman?” he de­ ried» lived two door* from tin secoml riter», often holding down The folk go down It unafraid; manded bitterly. Sousa family, ami I used to see a The still root» rlae before; “ 1 have known very few. Felix lot of “Old Man 49ousa,“ a fat old tirai rate Job* for a whlle Ihirlng Kent ot course." thè boom a great maliy asco n diate1 When yon were lad aad I was maid, gentleman of Spanish German Jock sprang away from her with ami thlril rate men tried lo fili tirsi Wide open stood the door. a movement so abrupt and startling stock, whose customary remark that Lyuda made an exclamation of after breakfast w«s: "Veil, derj rate Job». ami that wa» mie of thè Now. other children crowd Ihe stair, cause» ut thè economie cra»h. alarm. right vas made for sleep and dvr And hunt from room Io room; There never bus been ettough flrst day for rest 1 guess I go bark It rate manpower lo do thè wnrldV Outside under to the hawthorn fair, bed." He pronounced (lie family , We pluck the thorny bloom. work a» well a» It ought tu be dune name as If It were spelled Howsu. Gul Iu Hie qul«l road we stand. but his son Johnny gave It a Euro III with Flu— Hurl McPherson Is Shut In from wharf aud mart. pean twist and called It "Sousa." Johnny Sot* a diet) tin* other day 111 al hia home with an attack of The old wind blowing up Ihe land, The old thoughts at our heart. at the age of 77, the moat famous J the Influetita hü * - KATtlAftINf NtWLIN BUftT- 7 A moment later she found hitn in the taxi with her and her head Freeh frees a French convent. Jocelyn was on his shoulder. She cried there H a rk 'w e returns te New Y o rk to her aoctaUv like a child a b e t aotfeer. a retifio ua, ambitious woman At the corner of her own home The < irl »a b u rned into an engagement w ith ta« weakhy F«U» Kent H e r father. N u h street she told him to leave her and S a n d al aurreptiouslr eaters the girl'a home said a shaken good night. night H e tells her he used to call her "1 am sorry I was to rude and da Sandal The g irl ta torn h r her re te tee life m the naw sad to become >o ungrateful. Mr Ayleward. It was part of her mother's society H e r father not really your fault.'' ‘ iaa her surrounding*. •tudiea surrounding» “Ye», it was," he answered grimly, L yn da visit« her father in his dingy ving carda "1 won't offend again. Good-by." q u a rtet* She Anda tout men plain J«xI Ayle when ahe arrive« t>ne of them Jo In her own »mall bedroom, aafe. w ard, her father te ll* her. is lute a •» " to she knelt beside her bed: and there, him. hut warns thg g irl he is a tnAei L y n d a pa vs a second visit to hei fathei trembling all over and in tears, she and Jock take« her home, on the way stop thanked her God for the firat time etas with her at an underw orld cabaret since she was born for the great. Jock asks her to dance Fourth Instalment E s HOW GO O N W IT H T H lt STOUT She rose. He took her into hi» arm* to tightly that (he could hard!» breathe. "Don'tI 1 can't dance . . . that way— please." "Oh, I forgot. Let me aee. Sure. Thia t* the» way. ian't It?" And he moved with her out on the floor, band leader and composer of dancing with the ease. the pride and the amoothnesa of a gentleman. A n « marches the world has ever known he danced beautifully. He begun playing the violin when Abruptly, irrelevantly, ahe found he was seven; he was a cornet 1st herself thinking that she was glad he was young. Really young, supple in the U. S Murine bund, where hia and quick, not dry and stiff like father also played. when he wa» Felix Kent, with hit strong wooden still a hoy, and wtgt only 26 when body and thick hut mouth. he was made the leader of that ' Jock had hia evea upon her». He mutt have felt their sudden change great hand, which furnishes the to gladness for hia gray eyes were music for the W hite House and for > ardent, bold. They came closer. She all other great occasions In Wash i drew back her fate. He wa» erect ington A m a boy in the Washing again She glanced nervously over her shoulder. They were far from ton High school cadet corps I rem " I can't dance In the aame room with criminal«," Lynda told Jock. the small table, dancing with th<<-e eiubei marching hehlml the Marim I ether couple» at the larger end of the room where it opened into a the dangeroua, the admirable grit o( Lynda wondered at the change (rand on our annual parade up I’eun living. sort of alcove or bay. that had come over him. He did not i ylvanlu avenue, while the must | "Aren't there some very queer In spite of her dangerous exper­ scent like the same man at all. Per­ clans played Sousa'a lateat com ! sort of people here tonight?” asked ience, she went back to her father's haps more like the man he had Lynda. rooms a few nights later. Ayleward looked on the stairs, hard and hag­ position, his still-popular “High “Are there? I hadn't noticed it." overtook her climbing up the stairs. gard During their little talk thia School Cuilets March." "Look now. that big man with a "Playing in hard luck again, aren't hardness had melted from hint. I have heard all of the great ' white tear: dancing with the woman you. Mist Sandal? I've got to go on "I'd rather you'd stay with me in— in— shoulder »trap»." up. Have some important news for now and go when Nick gets back. bunds and have kuowu many great . “ In and out of 'em, eh? Well, your father. But don't worry— I Surely you have no business on hand bandmasters. Gilmore, Innea. S eldl.' at this hour." And the added with a Creature and a duxen more, but I i p a you might perhaps call him won’t stay long.” He's Toni Padrona. Ju»t She knocked at Sandal'a door. quaint air of interest. "Has business never expect to hear anyone pro j « There waa no response Jock mur­ been good lately?" % ) f f the hospital’ That'» why he mured an apology, fitted a key and "1 ant a profesaional gambler. duce such authentic tbrllb* from ! a to gaunt perhaps " opened Miss Sandal.” Ayleward announced brass and drum» as could John I “Prom up the river He got off H i there. Old Nick!” he shouted. abruptly. "Doea that put m» into I ’hlllp Sousa. with two year»." Then to Lynda in hit usual low your criminal class?" • “ • Lynda »topped. Her hand fell rather subdued voice, “ He a gone I.vtda felt startled and drew lie* T E L E V IS IO N from that supole shoulder. out." eyebrows t>'gether and studied. There has been a lot said and ‘ "Oh, I can't stay here, Mr. Ayle­ "That'« too bad. It it almost my " I don't know,” ahe admitted. " I* printed about television—seeing ward I can’t »tay in a room with last day," the allowed herself to tell it a crime to gamble? — with criminals!'' him. "Let Nick advise you as to the :hings at a distance. Many people “H u llo I” said Jock. “Go easy. If "Leaving town?” He was at the »octal and moral status of a gam­ are expecting that before long they Mr. Padrona heard you he might desk running over some papers. bler.” will he able to Install television re recent it " "Yea. And it will never again oe "No. He's not got the hands (or reivers and watch baseball games1 "M y father," said Lynda ready to easy, I'm afraid, to aee my father." it. Jock was in the doorway and he weep, "would certainly not want me 'Th at'» rotten. He'll take toeing suddenly turned his back and went and other events without leavingi to be here, M r. Ayleward.” you very hard.” their own firesides I hare been try ' out. H e gave her a queer long glance H er face glowed wistfully. Her ing to find out. from engineers | Then, as it was growing late she and took her beck to the table eyes, tilted at the black-lashed cor decided she had better not wait ton and others in the radio Industry. I silently. He called for hit check. nera, filled. Nick any longer. She went home what the real prospect of practical > Lynda was distressed. “Do you think he will care? Does singing to herself. “ 1 haven’t asked you . . . you've he like me? Really? Enough to mat­ television Is. and I do not get much A few days later Jocelyn wrote told me nothing about Nick." ter?” encouragement for the belief that It a note to Nick Sandal in which ahe "Maybe you'd better leave it to Jock had begun to prowl about him. He would like to tell you him­ the room like aome restless animal. told him she would be all alone on I "just around the corner." Many' self perhaps." "1m getting jealous of you. that's Thursday night and that she wanted of my technical friends say that the Lynda looked at him gTavely and all. H e’s more my father than he it him to come early and »pend the experimenters so far are barking up- coolly, retting her chin on her hands your» when it comes to practice. He evening with her. There were some the wrong tree, and that some en ' in imitation of other women in the talks about you so that I'm sick of things, she wrote him, that he must tlrely new method will have to be j room. the sound of your name. Lynda— explain to her. Jock shrugged. "Apologies. You Ly nda— Lynda— Lynda I” Mary had been sent out early that discovered or Invent *d won't dance just once more?" He said this savagely in various Thursday night, so when the door­ It Is poN ilble today, with a good | Lynda was tempted. " If you will tones of bitterness. Lynda wea bell rang Jocelyn started forward to deal of expense uml trouble, to send promise not to let me touch that forced to laugh at him. answer it herself. a motion i In u re by rad*o over a man." “You’re a funny boy I" She stared unrecognlzlngly at tha “ Not touch the jailbird, eh?" "Since when— ’ man who stood there in the hand­ short distance, xo I hat It will ap She shuddered. “ Yea." " I mean, you are not very old, some empty little vestibule of the pear, somewhat fllckery, on a very "A ll right." But he looked so are you?” apartment building. During that queer and hard and »o dangerous “I'm nearer thirty than twenty. moment, seeing him in outline for small scretn. But that Is quite ti that ahe found it difficult to let her­ And you are,” he was teasing her, the strong light was back of him, different Cling from long-distance self be held by him. I t was, how­ "fifteen?" she thought this figure of a stranger transmission of a view of some ever, the most guarded and careful Gracious! Eighteen." noble, patient and proud. thing which Is actually occurring. dance the had yet had. He seemed Lynda rose. She recognized Jock Ayleward. I would not advise anybody to to shield her from all the other “W hen do you suppose Nick will Vexation, anxiety, alarm in swift dancers by making himself some­ be back?" ahe asked. succession sent all her pulses jump­ buy lock In any television outfit : thing leas than human than a living "Hia message on the desk says ing. Just yet. man. eleven o'clock. W hat time is it • • • "M y father is 111? He aent you?" "W e'd better pull out of thia,” now?” Jock muttered. "He is ill— not seriously—but too BEA UTY "Nine-thirty." He tried to steer her beck along "Come to a show with me. I ill to come An attack of pain and ! attend il another exhibition of and across the room. A hand swear I won't take you among the fever; the exertion of moving per­ "modern" urt the other day. Th» i touched her. “Lend me the girlie, criminal cla-a-sses." He broadened haps. We're very respectably quar­ pictures and statues were most!« i Jock-in-the-Box,” said a hoarse his a absurdly. tered at pre»ent.” terrible. They did not look lilts i voice, “just for the end of the I.^ynda flushed. She saw that his eyes had swiftly waltr. aee?” do not understand how you taken in all the detail of the apart­ anything ever seen by human eye.) "Sorry, Toni, ahe'a tired. W e ’re dared in the first place to take me to ment — the entrance to the bed­ and they decidedly were not beautl cutting out" such a place as that one.” rooms, the glass doors of leather ful. But that. I was told, was the "Oh, no, we are not Come on, She locked down at her own buay opening to the small alcove which Baby? secret. Beauty is out of date, and i fingers, frowning. held Marcella's shrine. "I will not dance with you.” its . I should really be grateful things are not what they seem J He looked again at her "May 1 Lynda’s voice, her face, her spurn­ to you. If I could only trust you I It's True art must tshow the ugly stile! ing lips were altogether too expres­ should very much like for you to stay just for a little while? been an age since I waa in this .ort of life! sive. The big-faced man stepped show me . . . life.” of place talking to this sort of girl.” back from her with an audible in­ How much of that attitude on the ! He chuckled; then spoke seriously. She played for him. fascinated by take of his breath and a black flush. "W hy can’t you trust me? Aren't I art of aspiring young artists Is! his face, which she watched stealth­ One second later Jock struck him you Nick's daughter.” pose and how much real I cannot j in the face. " I want to know what life looks ily. As he turned at the end of her Lynd« did not know what he had like, Mr. Ayleward, when one turns playing his shoulder struck aga list determine. I think it Is a passing ! done. She could not understand what round bravely to face it. I want to a framed picture and he knocked it phase . ¡tnd that the end of art al ' he had said ! -• knew only the sick­ know people, ali kinds of people, dif­ down to the floor. He hastened io ways will be. as it always big* been, I ness of fric i and shame— to be ferent sorts of people. I want to pick it up and stood still, with a' standing there alone in the excited know how good it is to be bad and changed face, staring at the photo- to achieve the beautiful. Nor will ! ||1P standards of beauty change In shouting room while these beasts how bad it may be to be good. I graph of Felix Kent. fought for her. If the young man had met M t c its * thousand years any more than want adventures, risks, dangers— ” Luckily Toni had no great desire u . » , .u "But on no account do you want he could not have more terribly uf. .. fered an alteration. Youth and ,1.« I " 1*'y ha'"‘ * " a,,* "