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 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-