as a student at Harvard under Professor Munro. Probably he is also a natural individualist, and rugged with it, and the less "interference" from the national capital there is in local affairs the better this editor is pleased.
Notice this list of topics dealing with the local field:
Planning
Local milk situation
Postwar plans and readjustments
Taxes and public finance
Conservations (forests, etc.)
Health protection
Governmental reform (city manager, etc.)
Crop-harvesting help
Law enforcement
Appreciation of police
Rent control
Housing emergency
Drainage
Music
Airport improvement
Social hygiene
Need for new road laws
Red Cross
Eugene neighborliness
Home gardens
Dog-poisoning
War and community chest
Morals
Recreation plans
Paralleling these, in many instances—sometimes appearing the same day, sometimes a little in advance of a related editorial comment, rarely unaccompanied by some editorial expression—were a long succession of front-page news stories on approximately this same list of subjects. Usually these were told in the traditional objective news-story fashion, with sufficient typo graphical display and position-prominence to insure a pretty general reading of the news of such important public matters. Consistent use has been made of graphic charts or illustrations to make complicated statistics easily intelligible. Readers who had availed themselves both of the news and the editorial expression were pretty well fortified on these topics, ready to encourage the right kind of action on the part of their public representatives.
Early in 1943 (January 5) an informational campaign on milk-production costs; the supply had been endangered by severe price-regulation. For several months this flood of infor-
