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UBICIfPTION I
MERITS A TRIAL
By CHARLES V. STANTON
School consolidation, upon which we must vote Friday,
involves many technical problems which leave the average
person voting in the dark. Few of us are qualified to ac
curately weigh the technical problems involved. We find,
however, the majority opinion of expert school administra
tors favorinsr larger school districts. Such recommendations
are contained in the Holy report, made for the Oregon legis
lature, as well as in the Huffaker report, secured for the ad
vice of the area in which Friday's election is to be held.
The election, if an affirmative vote is received, would
consolidate 12 districts surrounding Roseburg. A single
board of directors would control school operation over the
entire district. Elementary and junior high schools would
be strategically located to serve population most efficiently,
while central high school facilities would be maintained at
Roseburg.
To administer the educational program for the consoli
dated district, it will be necessary to enlarge elementary
schools at Green, Tenmile and Dillard, and to increase the
central high school facilities at Roseburg.
Looking to the future we must consider construction of
buildings to be used for junior high school purposes.
Must Consider Future Needs
Wo are prone in our consideration of school affairs to
think in terms of immediate need only. School planners,
however, must constantly study trends and strive for facili
ties in advance of need. The high birth rate of recent years,
coupled with steady influx of population, furnishes conclu
sive proof that we must immediately enlarge our elementary
schools. We muBt prepare for the day when these students
' will reach our junior high schools, eventually passing into
senior high schools.- Elementary needs, however, are of
gravest immediate concern, coupled with enlargement of
senior high school facilities.
It is generally agreed that the cost of enlarging exist
ing buildings and erecting new structures will be virtually
the same whether undertaken by Individual districts or un
der a program of consolidation. Roseburg district, perhaps,
will pay slightly more on a millage rate than will surround
ing districts for capital outlay. But Roseburg will have to
pay the cost one way or the other and little difference will
be made by consolidation.
Consolidation, however, will permit most efficient use
of installed facilities. At the same time, unified operation,
it is claimed, would improve educational standards. Oner
ntional costs will bear more heavily on the districts outside
Roseburg. If better schools would result, as claimed by
school experts, the cost would be justified.
Further Expansion Anticipated
But the consolidation issue cannot be determined on the
needs for this year or the next. It must consider probable
conditions 10 or 20 years in the future if our money is to be
spent ei nciently.
It is our belief that we are in only the beginning stage
of our industrial era. The coming years will experience in
stallntion of many secondary manufacturing units. The
field of secondary manufacture furnishes more employment
per unit of raw material than does primary manufacture.
Thus, as new factories' are built, the proportion of workers
moving into the coimty to take available jobs will be at a
much higher rate than at present.
Centers of these installations probably will be at Wilbur,
Winchester, Roseburg, Green and Dillard. But many of the
workers win select homes at Tenmile, Lookingglass, Garden
Valley, Umpqua, Melrose and the other . affected districts.
Consequently the growth problem affects all of the several
units proposed for consolidation.
From a layman's viewpoint, it would seem that the uni
formity of problems created by growth and expansion would
favor consolidation and cooperation. Ignorant of technical
problems, we must rely upon the opinions of persons better
informed in the field of school administration. We find
support for consolidated districts coming from a state re
port, covering the general field, and from a studv made
especially for this district as well as from experience else
where. We find also that the county school superintendent
and the city school superintendent endorse the specific pro
posal which we must decide at Friday's election.
In opposition we find sentiment against surrender of
local controls, opinions that smaller school units are better
than large units, together with varied thinking concerning
the cost factors.
It would seem to us that, looking to future need while
accepting opinions of responsible persons better informed
on administration procedure, the consolidation merits a trial
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WASHINGTON The quickest way to stir up a rash
of organized hysteria in the country today is to mention that
certain textbooks ought to be examined for possible social.
istic teachings.
You don't have to charge that
they ought to be thrown out of
the schools. Just ask politely that
certain textbooks be looked into.
That's enough to start the march
towards the wailing wall by the
strangest collection of humans
ever to sound off on a public issue.
You catch a Communist under their
beds and they only yawn. But men
tion a textbook and they launch
into the vocal shakes.
Out in the. State of Washington
there is a small weekly newspaper,
the Tri-City Herald. It is circulated
in Pasco, Kennewick and Richland,
Washington. It is now undergoing
a name-calling attack for having
stated in a news story about Ken
newick schools:
"There is a textbook bemg used
in local schools that I think ought
to be examined by school author
ities, and parents."
Ihe superintendent of Kennewick
schools, the assistant superintend
ent, the principal of the high school,
Ihe business manager of the school
district, the manager of the Ken
newick branch of the National
Bank of Commerce and the director
of the chamber of commerce all
canceled their subscriptions.
Glenn C. Lee. publisher of the
Tri-City Herald, has been called
an "enemy of the public school
system," "a tool of capitalistic in
terests," and "a Hitler," and has
been accused of "attacking teach
ers" and "labeling teachers as so
cialists and Communists.'
I repeat, all Lee wanted to do
was to appoint a committee of
businessmen teachers, school au
thorities and parents to examine
the writing and philosophy as ex
pressed in one textbook.
Lee did not attack teachers: he
did not attack the school board:
he did not atlack the integrity of
school officials.
Not a simile critic of the nub-
lisher has expressed a wish to
study the textbook in Question.
They only attack the editor and his
newspaper. I.ee suspects that some
of those shouting at him have per
sonal axes to grind. He notes that
several are interested in a local
radio station, some in school ad-
Oregon, dated 1840-' from ,,,,, lwVn.v- e'bu hels
about wheat growing . per English acre. . . Farmer, have
pares Oregon with the Genesee taken from fifty to aixt'v f va hi h
flats back In New York state and I els of wheat from .nacre ,n A
concludes from his five years ob-l Uiis has been an iver.g of "fWds
servation here that "it requires containing from iln T . r.V T'!
less labor in this country to raise
one ousnei or a thousand
bushels. , .
The prairies of this country In
many important respects arc un
like thoso of any other country.
They arc naturally very mellow
. . . not swarded over with a thick
slron? . turf as in the West
em states. They can be easily
Kloughcd with one good span ofl
orscj the first time, and wheal
containing from two to fifteen
acres. . . doubtless if the famers
in this country unnM rniiiv.i.
ground and bestow on it the same
quantity of labor, they would re
ams mum more Irom the acre
than they do now. . . The average
. . . from an acre Is twenty-five
bushels. .
"Unlike any other portions of
the world, a good crop of wheat,
provided the seed is put in the
ground in its season and in
a proper manner, Is as sure to re
ward the labor of the husbandman,
as that day and night will con
tinue until harvest time. This per
haps is not owing so much to
the quality of the soil as to the na
ture of the climate. And it is dif
ficult to conceive of any circum
stance that can prevent this result,
so long as the present laws of na
ture, which renulate the seasons
of Oregon, are allowed to operate
. But this is not the case with
regard to all other crops. . .
However during the past five years
mere has not been a failure in
any of the crops."
A hundred and ten years after
Gustavus Hinrs wrote his diary,
published later as "Wild Life in
Oregon," a reader with memories
of the "Genesee flats" also, and
a similar period of five years
residence In Oregon, chose one
paragraph as a perfect thought
with which to conclude these ex
cerpts: "During the day we traveled
forty miles over a country of sur
passing loveliness, on account of
its enchanting scenery and a mat
ing fertility. Surely, thought I, in
finite skill has here been em
ployed in fitting up a country which
requires noinmg i
ulation under the
religion of Chn
perfect paradise.
ministration, some In labor circles
and some in chamber of commerce
work. But they all joined forces
simultaneously, as though the Dlan
of attack had long been in prepara
tion, i
Lee Is asking his readers now
why It is wrong for anybody to
speak out against a textbook. I
join him in the question. It's a
good one. Is any school district or
school official in the nation above
being questioned about textbooks
or school functions? In our business
we suffer countless critics who do
not like what we say, what, we
write or the newspapers that pub
lish it. So far, however, I've yet
to hear a publisher label these
critics enemies of th freedom of the
press," or Hitlerites or anything
else of the kind.
Not so long ago, school officials
who ifbw are slinging charges at
the Washington State publisher,
praised his newspaper for aiding
in collecting funds for the schools.
The publisher wasn't an enemy of
anybody then. But he is now, be
cause he wants to examine one
textbook. So publisher Lee is asking
a couple of more questions of his
readers. They should be answered.
Here they are:
Are threats of a boycott and
name-calling the type of un-dis-criminatory
education Kennewick
educators advocate for young
Americans?
Why have false Issues been
raised?
And why the reluctance to ex
amine the textbook?
I'll let you know if publisher Lee
gets the answers. They are import
ant (o all of us with kids in school.
fenr Fulton Leivis Daily
On KRNR, 4:00 P.M.
And 9:15 P.M.
Loca
News
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Woman, Young Daughter
Die In Residence Fire
EUREKA, Calif. 1) A Port
land, Ore., woman who pulled
away from her would-be rescuer
and ran back into a flaming bed
room perished with her two-year-old
daughter Friday in residen
tial fire 40 miles north of Eureka.
The victims were Mrs. Janice
Bostwick, 29, and daughter, Lad
ettc. They were visitors at the
country home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Shaffer in the Maples creek
area,
Shaffer suffered burns trying to
save Mrs, Bostwick. She tore her
self from his grasp and ran back
into the flame-enveloped bedroom
to her daughter.
The fire, whose origin was un
determined, destroyed the residence.
Move Te New Home mr.
and Mrs. Verdun Boucock and
daughter Brooke, and two sons,
Jerry and Roger, have moved from
530 W. Oak street to their new
home at 2020 Otie lane.
Pledge Fraternity Frank Ol
son and Bob Sullivan, Roseburg
students at Oregon State college,
where they are intheir freshman
year, have pledged Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity.
Baiaar Te Be Held The Rose
burg Woman's club will sponsore
a bazaar rriaay ana Saturday in
the new clubhouse from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. coffee and sandwiches
will be served Friday from noon
to 2 p.m. Tea will be served both
days from 2 to 4 p.m.
Te Meal Thursday The Lady
Elks will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday
at the Elks lounge. A hair style
show will be presented by the Beau
ticians association with Robert
Skelton of Coos 'Bay acting as
master of ceremonies. Regular
card play .will follow the program.
Return From California Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Olson have re
turned to their home in Roseburg
following a week's visit with
friends, Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Cham
bers, in San Lorenzo, Calif. Ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Cham
bcrs, they enjoyed a sightseeing
trip to San Francisco, where they
were caught in the 100-mlle-an
hour gale which recently lashed
that city; the campus at Berkley
and Stanford, and a trip through
Oakland. On their return trip they
stopped briefly with friends and
relatives at Sacramento, Para'
dise and Dunsmuir.
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By the time we' got aU the red
tape unwound she d be well and
home again. Maybe she'd be half
way tnrougn nign scnooi.
knows? This red tape business is
SOMETHING. I
"Besides, things bought with tax
money just somehow don't carry
the Christmas spirit. Tax money
in these days is dragged out of
people like pulling a tooth. We all
feel sour and sore when we pungle
it up. Thai's no kind of money
to buy Minda Mae something to
play with while she's getting well.
"Why, I'll bet she'd FEEL the
snfriendliness of that kind of
money when she was playing with
the things bought with it. It could
spoil everything for her. She needs
to feel that somebody THOUGHT
of her and wanted to do something
to. make the days pleasanter for
her. That's what makes a conva
lescent gift mean something."
So they didn't call up the wel
fare. They just went out and tapped
each other on the shoulder and
said: "Hey, here's a chance to do
a good deed. Come across."
They came across and In a
matter of a couple of hours or so
little Minda Mae wasn't lonesome
any jnore, for on her hospital bed
she had a big box containing pack
ages of the things little girls love
and was having a gay and happy
time just like any child does when
unwrapping packages.
I'll bet when they heard about
her happiness, these anonymity
loving "gangsters" felt better and
happier and fuller of the old joy
of livini; than the'd felt in a coon's
age.
There was a world like that
once, -right here in this America
of ours. There wasn't any welfare.
There weren't any paid do-gooders.
Nothing of that sort was left to
Washington. Or to the state cap
itol. Or even to the board of alder
men, as we called the city fathers
mostly back in those days.
Each neighborhood took care of
its own. When somebody was up
against it, we chipped in and did
what was needed. Did it as
NEIGHBORS. And, .while there
were tightwads always have been.
we mostly did it because we wanted
to. And we had a NEIGHBORLY
feeling while we were doing it.
Ana it wasn't charity. Those wno
were helped didn't feel that it was.
There was no degradation in taking
that kind of help.
It was a good world. I'll leave
it to the few remaining ancients
who can remember that far back.
It WAS a good world, now wasn't
it? Better, in a lot of ways, than
this politician-ridden age when we
leave all such things to the paid
workers. .
I Anyway, I'll bet little Minda Mae
! likes it. And I'U bet my shirt these
anonymous Eighth Streeters
i wouldn't take anything you could
name for the way they feel about it.
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PORTLAND W Thomas G.
Reames, accused of using a shotgun
in a fight with police last month
and of trying to kidnap his former
wife, has been committed to the
state hospital at Pendleton.
The ex-wife. Doretha Linn. 26.
was wounded during the gun fight
between Reames and police. She
still is hospitalized.
Two psychiatrists testified that
Reames, 25, had "little emotional
control." Circuit Judge A s h b y
Dixon ordered the commitment.
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