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Wednesday, May 23, 1962
THE OREGON MIRROR
OREGON MIRROR
B etift TfóeUdt
Eitablished in March 1959 - Negro Weekly
Circulated by Mail - Newsboys - Businesses
Published Every Wednesday
4617 N. Williams Ave. AT 4-4551
PUBLISHER - J. Marcus Wellington, 111
MANAGER & EDITOR - Don Alford
EDITORIAL
C H ILD R E N
O UGH T
H r* HF. very best kind of man and the most
useful to his fellows is the man who
d<>es what he ought to do.
There i-. hut one cowardice, it is not doing
one’s duty. There is but one failure, the
failure to discharge an obligation. There
is but one sin, not doing what we ought.
The biggest word in the language is
O U GH T
The man who keeps it bright
within him, always visible and always re­
vered. is a real man.
There is so much of the superfluous
among us, so much glory in affairs that are
none of our business, so much success that
is essential treachery, and so much goodness
that is but interesting meanness.
It is better to keep your word than to
speak pleasantly.
It is lietter to tell the truth than to lie
entertainingly.
It is (letter to be loyal than to be affec­
tionate
It is better honestly to earn the wages
paid you than to have grand ideas on the
labor problem.
It is better to earn your living and take
yourself off other people's backs than to
I* a saint or a genius.
It is better for you, if you are an em­
ployer, to give your workers fair wages,
and a little more, to treat them with con­
sideration, and to recognize them as human
beings than to wring money from them to
give to charity
It is better to be honest toward women
than attractive.
It is better for a woman to deceive no man
than to win one.
It is lietter to pay your debts than to give
to the poor.
cannot get a proper education for the reason
that they have to work to help support the
family. This is abominable.
We are the richest nation on the globe.
We spent $3^7,000,000 last year in char­
ities ; that is, in endowing colleges, hospitals,
and churches. If every cent of this had gone
toward getting A L L the children into de­
cent training, the effect would have been
infinitely better.
Charity doctors symptoms, a right Public-
School system strikes directly at disease.
The South is full of poor whites and
negroes who cannot get schooling. Many
“ charitable" organizations art trying to
remedy this. But is this our business or the
states’ business, the nation's business? The
North has many children, in city slums, in
poor country districts, everywhere, who
work in factories, assist their parents in
piece-work at home, peddle papers in the
streets, or in some other way are drafted
into "business" w hen they ought to be learn­
ing how to live.
The state should not only provide A L L
of these boys anti girls with schoolhouses
and teachers, but, if necessary, with food
and clothing
It may be said we have no right to inter­
fere with parental privileges, and no right
to overburden taxpayers. That is a mistake
There is a greater right than any of these,
a greater duty : the right of every child to
a square ileal, to a decent preparation for
life, and the duty of the state to train its
young
Before these sovereign obligations
all other obligations disappear.
Secondly, children should be under train­
ing A L L T H K TIM F. That means all day
and all year. Teachers are needed on the
playground even more than in the school­
room. Children need guidance during the
summer vacation as much as in winter. The
idea is intelligent supervision and training
of all children all the time during adoles­
It is lictter to have a little efficiency than
cence Nothing short o f that will do.
a lot of knowledge.
To say this is extravagant is begging the
It is better to do one good act than to
question Kxtravagance implies something
s|ieak many good words.
lievontl necessity. The training o f vouth
One earned dollar is worth more to yon
is a necessity.
than a thousand given you
Anti do you realize what it would mean?
"There are." said Flizalieth Inchhuld,
It would mean, that we could do easily
"persons who love to do everything good
anti intelligently a thousand vital things
but that which their immediate duty re
which we now do clumsily and with angry
«pures There are servants that will serve
friction
every one more cheerfully than their own
F.very real reform would be quietly ac­
masters; there are men who will distribute
complished
money lilierally to all except their creditors,
Teach every child the truth about school
and there are wives who will love all man­
and keep him in temperate environment un­
kind better than their husbands. We have
til lie is mature, and vour “ drink evil will
acts o f generosity, self-denial, and honesty
vanish."
where -mailer pains would constitute greater
Nine-tenths of the abandoned women are
v irtues "
enlisted in their fearful life bciore the age
Ihitv is the egg ol all goodness
of twenty-one Get all your girls decently
It is the primordial protoplasm from
taken care of. ami vour social evil would
which all organized excellences develop
l«e reduced to a minimum
Without it religion is hvpocnsv, love is
Criminal gangs m great cities are recruit­
Isas. n, .tv 11v 11\ useless, kindness cruelty, i ed from hoys who grow up in the slums.
an«l evert gisnl quality as a retl apple full
Cut off the supply
of wormy meat
(•ive every child a proper education, and
TH E O N LY W AY
capital and labor would cease violence and
hate and begin to adjust their relations with
, I ' 11F K F is only one liest wav for a de-
some intelligence
*
nv-t ract to do w hat it has to do Only
It would clean up politics and render the
one good wav. in fact, and all other wavs
pe<-pic c.qtable of managing their own busi
in |ssir, stupid, and ineffective
ness
I hat one wav is through the Public
A monarchy may I k secure upon an igno­
St his.Is
rant populace A democracy will crumble
Fir»t. enlarge the schools until thev take
There is only one thing the matter with
tare of the training of evert hoy anti girl
the
United States ami with the world We
in the l ruled States until the agr t twenty -
do
m>t
educate all our children. That in­
one
cludes
all
other faults
Set . nil. let the sshtsds assume the direc­
This
programme
may seem impractical
tion of the youth all the vv. rkuig hours of
It
is
I
nk
ause
we
are
not
used to the idea But
the vl.iv
let us get it into our minds la t us resolve
\nd third, iihslcrnize the Puhlic School
never to stop until we shall secure the train­
si. that it shall train youth tor Late and for
ing
of A L L children A L L the time
Citizenship
We mav not secure the things now, but
Take up these three items First the l\ib-
at least let us gel the V ISIO N o f the thing
I h School ahouki tram A L L the thildren
For "where there 1» no visit>n the people
There are Ihouvitxl, f hoys anti girls who
perish "
Miss Darla Nunn, freshman at
Jefferson was recently selected
by the members of her class to
be on the Junior Court. Five other
couples shared this honor with
Darla, which I'm sure made a
beautiful court.
Miss Nunn is a member of St.
Phillips Episcopal Church and
spends her leisure time bowling,
dancing and attending sport ac­
tivities.
Darla has a brother, Joe, and is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joshia Nunn.
After careful thought, Ancer Lee
Haggerty decided among other
offers to accept a $500 academic
scholarship at the University of
Oregon. He will also receive sup-
plementary football scholarships.
Ancer will enter the University
next fall and major in medicine.
For Ancer sports are unlimited,
he loves them all. His top achieve­
ments are: Second plate winner
in botheity and state for wrestling;
a four-year letterman; honorary
captain of the varsity football team;
and a member of the Shriner’s
football team, first string.
Ancer's favorite hobby is re­
constructing old jalopies. In the
summer
months, he enjoys
swimming.
GENERAL
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Whitewall Craft Treads
(the quality General retreadf
Native of Portland, Frank
Foster, was installed into the of­
fice of junior-class president at
Jefferson on the 18th of May.
Frank won the office over four
other candidates.
Frank has been on the honor
roll at Jeff throughout his sopho­
more year. He is a member of
the senior choir and is on the
junior varsity track team.
With this busy schedule, Frank
usually takes time our for chess
and reading. His favorite author
is Jules Verne.
Who Is Who From
Evergreen High
LaVonne McGee, finishing her
junior year. She is Girls League
secretary, vice president of the
Church Youth Group, member Na­
tional Honor Society, awarded let­
ter and pin for the Booster Club,
Girl of the Month, sings with the
school and church choir, swing
choir, and M elloettes. LaVonne
wishes to attend Howard Univer­
sity where she will major in po­
litical science. Her hobbles are
singing, dancing, skating and
baking.
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