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VITAL ADMONITION
By CHARLES V. STANTON
! A certain fraternal organization has a spot in its ritual
which, admonishing members concerning any secret election
within the order, uses the phrase, "look well to your ballot."
If that admonition, with all its implications, could be given
wider application it would have a profound and beneficial
influence on the trying conditions confronting us today.
. Strictly obeyed, it could conceivably cure many of our in
ternational ills and domestic problems and favorably in
fluence local affairs.
' If every voter would look well to his ballot, he woulc"
exercise his independent and conscientious judgment. He
would not use his privilege of franchise selfishly nor as a
part of a pressure group. He would be concerned with the
welfare of the majority. He would, in other words, follow
the dictates of good citizenship.
We have not followed the implications of that admonition
in recent years. We have voted selfishly and carelessly, per
mitting ourselves to be influenced by prejudice and pres
sures. We have listened to promises from demagogues, know
ing full well, if we but stopped to reason, that those promises
were vain and idle, impossible of execution. Through hopes
' of selfish gain we have permitted trends alien to our long
established form of government, to become firmly en
trenched. We have used ballots as weapons of prejudice,
striking at persons and laws limiting privilege.
If the phrase "look well to your ballot" were to guide the
United Nations we could be assured of world peace. But,
instead, nations' jockey for places in the game of power
politics.
In domestic affairs we find pressure groups and seekers
of special privilege using mass voting strength to gain
selfish advantage, thereby permitting socialistic isms to be
come strongly entrenched, threatening our constitutional
form of government.
In organized labor workingmen freely vote strike powers
and thus endanger our national economy, whereas more
care and responsibility in balloting would doubtless force
settlement of disputes by negotiation or arbitration and thus
benefit the laborer and the national economy.
Our last national election indicated a selfish farm vote
fearful .lest parity and support price formulas be altered
to the detriment of the agricultural industry. The election
also produced a labor vote protesting . unacceptable leg
islation. Many persons casting ballots at the last national election
did not vote their independent thought or convictions but
permitted their ballots to be used in mass effort to obtain
special privilege or benefits for minority groups with which
they were concerned. . .
"Look well to your ballot" is an admonition every voter
should take unto himself if we are to have good govern
ment. Ills of government may quickly be cured by a sincere,
careful, informed and unselfish electorate. No demagogue
c.an flourish when ballots are cast conscientiously.
Local elections are to be held tomorrow on an issue of
grave importance. We doubt that few people in areas in
which elections nre to be held Tuesday on the matter of
annexation can conscientiously contend that union with the
municipality is not beneficial for the community as a whole;
that annexation is not desirable for the greatest good to the
greatest number.
But no voter can overlook the personal factors the sel
fish interest. As he marks his ballot, he cannot help but
think, "what's in it 'for me?" A great many votes in Tues
day's election will be based upon a purely personal and
selfish basis with little thought to the matter of community
and public welfare.
We are not overlooking the fact that many opposition
votes will be cast sincerely and conscientiously and we in
tend no insinuation that all opposition votes are to be classed
as selfish, but we believe it to be obvious that some voters
will be influenced by both selfishness and prejudice.
. As we stand on 'the eve of an election most vital to the
general welfare of this community for failure of annexa
tion will result in a costly error, impossible to correct for
a period of at least 10 years we would like to repeat that
most significant admonition: "look well to your ballot."
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cjl CLEVELAND -iffi
CDHVaNTlOtf j
By Viahnett S. Martini
REEDSPORT
Mrs. Swatmctn
Dies At Eureka
, My S. S. SMlt.KY
Ncw-B-Revtcw Cnrrcapondent
Mrs. Cora Svvatman, (i.'l, resi
dent of Oregon for over fill years,
riled mondiw Oct. 24, at Kureka,
Calif., following a long Illness.
Mrs. Swatman was active In
the Three Rivets Heliekah Indue
at Reedsnort and was a memher
ot the American Leplon Auxiliary
at Kureka, whore she has resid
ed the past three years.
She was born Aueust 23, ISSti.
nt Alsea, Ore. Mr. Swatman pre
ceded her In death in 1928. Sur
viving arc four daughters, Mabel
Dobbins, Long Beach, Cnllf.. An
na Slricgel. Long Reach: Mvrtie
Decker, Take Taboo, Calif; nor
ths TJomsland, Keedspnrt; two
sons; Fred and Bill, both of Eu
reka; eight grand children and
one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held
Thursday from Ungor's Funeral
Parlors. Interment took place be
tide her husband, In the Gardi
ner Masonic cemetery.
Ship Loads Lumber
The converted Navy craft (L
CM), C-Coaster, owned by Cham
berlain Steamship linos ol San
Francisco, arrived Tuesday In
Wmptiia harbor at the Umpqua
River Navigation Co. docks ani
took on approximately tiOO.OOO ft,
of lumber. The lumlvr was
trucked down from Florence,
Cushman, and Mnpleton. Site loft
Thursday for San Francisco, and
will return next week.
Visitor! From Nebraska
Mr. and Mrs. Rov S. Owen are
here for an extended visit with
their son and daughter in law,
Mr. and Mrs. I Van Owen, and
two grandsons, Kenny and Torrv.
They will visit another son, Rov
S. Owen, Jr., of Portland, before
returning to their home in Emer
son, Nebr
Loses Finger In Accident
lVIe Totldahl, employee of E.
K. Wood Lumber Co., had the
misfortune to lose his Utile fin
ger. The accident happened when
he eaiiebt Die ftnpnr- ,i o Hr.iilmt,
I engine.
Visiting Sister
Mrs. Jtattie Morris of Reeds-
'Some people collect stamps.
Others garner Spode . . ." says
Don Blandlng In his Foreword to
Elinor Brown's latest volume
of verse, Of Little Songs (Camas
Press, No. Hollywood, 1949, $1.)
"but I collect valiant people . . .
who carry on with high hearts
against the small, clamorous Insis
tencies of daily life and the larger
formldabllitles of human living.
. . . Elinor Brown Is one of my
'collected valiants' . . . only those
who know her Intimately can ap
preciate what lies behind this de
lightful book, Of Little Songs."
I haven't- had the pleasure of
meeting Elinor Brown, although
I did plan to somehow fit In the
time on my trip to southern Cali
fornia. But because of The Mend
ing Basket going Into her home
daily, down there in North Holly
wood, and her ties with Camas
Valley, too, we have been en
joying a lively Interchange of let
tors. Missing my column in a re
cent issue she said she thought
maybe I had "skipped out to
Texas?"
Elinor Henry Brown's latest
book of verse bears the title of
the first poem In It (the book was
published on Poetry Day, October
15, the day I really meant to chat
about it In this column): with
EHB's permission I quote:
"Of Little Songs
How silent all the fields and
woods might be
If no bird sang but one who
sang the best.
Who would be jury, judge, and
what the test?
One master singing In the tallest
tree,
Repeating his great solo endless
ly, The gift of song denied to all
the rest! . A 1
What of the fledgling In some
humble nest,
His eager throat unshapedf to
melody?
Let us be glad the lowliest may
sing,
Nor measure little songs from
simple hearts
Against the masters' deathless
harmonies.
The lark still rises on ecstatic
wing;
The choir of morning has a
thousand parts,
Rich blending of our small
divinities."
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
stakes out a claim at a good spot
before somebody else does.
It was gold like that placer
gold along with beaver fur that
built the West.
T
HERE are raw and elemental
things In this world. One of
them is a wolf howl.
One night, more years ago than
I like to confess, I was sleeping
out In a rude cabin In the general
area of the Willamette pass then
unscarred by either railroad or
modern highway. The coyotes
wore yapping when we went to
bod, but it lulled us to sleep.
Then
Suddenly
A TIMBER WOLF HOWLED!
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Instantly the four of us sat
straight up in our beds. We agreed
afterward that the hair stood up
on the back of our necks. We
could feci our flesh creep.
port is visiting hrr sister. Mrs,.
tillle Thomas, at Tiernan, Ore.
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times that size in dollars, and
they've left me unmoved, but at
the sight of that raw gold, lying
there on my desk, fresh from the
earth In which it had rested for
goodness knows how many cen
turies waiting for someone to
come along and pick It out, the
hair stood up again on the back
of my neck as In the case of the
wolf howl In the night long years
before, and I could feel prickles
running up and down my spine.
llfE talk endlessly In these days
It of SECURITY.
When word of abundant beaver
fur in the mountain valleys of the
West trickled back East, men for
got all about security and WENT
AFTER IT. Many of them lost
their scalps. Many LOST THEIR
LIVES. But the risk didn't damp
the bold spirits of those "who felt
the call of tha beaver and the
wealth that MAYBE lay at the
end of the beaver trail.
And so it was when gold was
found. The lure of it dragged men
on through privation, hard work
and often death. A few struck it
rich. More failed to strike It rich.
But they kept on coming until the
placer gold was scooped clean
from the rilfles.
Among them, they built what is
now the West.
AW gold has that same electri
cal quality.
Back In the early 30s, in the
depth of the depression, a man
named Burns was Dockot-mlnlnir
in the Grants Pass country and I
washed out one of the biggest 1 WOU'VE read In this and other
nuggets ever found In southern I I newspapers and you've heard
Oregon. Its value, as I recall it, jn 'he radio that AGAIN the bold
weighed out about $3500 at the spirits are trooping to Fishwheel,
then price of gold. j "P on the Yukon. They came In
He was In my office a short planes now, but that is about the
time afterward and when I asked on,' difference,
him about It he reached In the I 1 wonder what will happen to
side pocket of his Jeans Jacket
and dragged out the big nugget
and then fished around In his
other pockets for other nuggets
which he piled on my desk. They
us as a people if we ever lose
that spirit of adventure, that will
ingness to risk much to gain
much, that readiness to take
chances, and THINK OF NOTH-
made a heap, as I remember. ING BUT SECURITY.
about the sire of a large Florida 1 Ic" that f such a time ever
grapefruit. The total value, he . comes we will quit going forward
said, was about $8500. a nation and will begin to slip
I've seen checks many, many J backward.
Dillard School
Schedules Open
House Program
By ROSA HEINBACH
Nwa-Revlew Correspondent
Dillard residents are very
proud of their new school house
and the progress and expansion
the school has made In the last
five years. The public Is invited
to the open house Sunday after
noon, Nov. 6, from two until four.
The two combined buildincs
now have-an enrollment of 352
pupils. One hundred and eighty
nine are In the new building in
the first four grades. One hun
dred and sixty-three are in the
old part In six rooms.
All rooms have two classes ex
cept the sixth and eighth. Last
year the enrollment was 322 with
seven teachers. Five years ago
it was about 100.
i A new heating plant l being
Installed for both the old and the
new buildings.
The inter-communlcatlon sys
tem extends from Principal
Harry Krug's office all through
the new building, and is to be
LETTERS
to the Editor
Unions Usually Right,
According To Reader
ROSEBURG A cartoon In the
News-Review, Oct. 24, made me
wonder why newspaper folk al
ways pick on the workingman
and never on the manufacturer
or businessman In fact, Big
Business. You would think to see
such cartoons Big Business was
never wrong.
Just look up the record of the
steel strike of 1937. Then try and
bo fair. Or better still, go ba.-k
as far as 1900 and trace the un
ion's struggle from then on to the
present time and see if vou don't
think that the unions have been
right In nearly ail Instances.
LOUIS B. EVANS
R. 2. Rosburg, Ore.
Danger Of Dog Tag Link
Catching On Wire Told
ROSEBURG I would like to
call the attention of dog owners
to the danger of their pets be
coming fastened to wire fences
or vines by the link which at
taches license tags- to dog col
lars. My own dog has been trap
ped in this way on two different
occasions. So firmly was the
wire caught that even a strong
man was unable to pull it out
and the fencing had to be cut in
order to free the animal. A dog
thus entangled out in the coun
try, where he might not be no
ticed by passersby, could die of
hunger and thirst before anyone
discovered mm.
I do not know if there Is anv
better way to attach the license
tag to a dogs collar, but I cer
tainly wish some other method
could be devised. My experience
has. been that the tag always
drops off sooner or later, even
when the link is tightened with
the aid of pliers, but the link re
mains hanging from the collar,
so small that if the dog is shaggy
it may not even be noticed. This
link constitutes an ever present
source of danger if the dog is at
liberty on a farm or any other
place where people might not see
him if he became fastened to
fencing or brush.
EVELYN BOWEN
Melrose Star Rt.
Roseburg, Ore.
Historic Fireplace Of
Colonial Church Found
PHILADELPHIA t!P An
old colonial fireplace that once
was part of the First Reformed
German Church in this country
has been uncovered in a long
unused storage loft, one-time site
of the church. Now the Reform
ed and Evangelical Church, it
was founded in 1727 in a barn.
In 1772 it began the erection of
an enlarged church.
During the Revolutionary War
the Race street Reformed
Church, as it then was known,
had an honorable part in the
struggle of the colonists for in
deoendence. When the British
captured Philadelphia and their
troops marched by the churcii,
the ten-year old son ot tne pas
tor, the Rev.' Dr. Casper Die
trich Weyberg, stood on the door
step and shouted: "Hurrah for
George Washington".
The Hessians lmpnsonea ur.
Weyberg and used the church as
a hospital. In 1837, the city con
tributed $15,200 to renovate the
church as a historic shrine.
BURMESE JUSTICE
RANGOON. Burma, Oct. 31
UP) Unofficial reports here to
day said 23 jail oinciais nad
been executed by a rebel firing
squad at Frome, 160 miles north
west of Rangoon.
The reports said the men, who
included the head jailer, N. C.
Paul, an Indian Christian, were
sentenced by a "people's court"
wmcn found tnem guilty ot ill
treating political prisoners.
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11 J
"Bra sr.
2WM Shaiu 1UII..I
amnion ,
,m
expanded to connect both build
ings. The lunch room program Is
very attractive. There are two
time cooks and two full - time
helpers working in the cafete
ria. They serve an average of
300 pupils each day. This room
40 by 100 feet, is used for an
auditorium and also as the school
gymnasiam.
The school board has bought
some fine, new play -ground
equipment to be installed as soon
as it arrives.
The P.-T. A. has purchased a
new motion picture 16 mm pro
jector and plans to have some
entertaining and educational pic
tures for young and old.
The public is invited to attend
this "open house" and see what
has been done for the benefit of
the children.
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