BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON
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IT SEEMS TO ME
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore
March 7, 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879.
DEWEY AKERS, Editor and Publisher
National Advertising Representative
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Subscription Rate
Per Year, in Curry County, Oregon
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Who. in this or any other
community, w ouid hire inexper-1
ienced people to manage a busi
ness for tnenx Who would place
trust in incompetent cashiers io
handle money for a bank? Who
would think of going to a doctor
who had never attended a medi-
ical school ? What are these ques
tions leading to?
Best answered, I think of an
other question, “Should incom
petent teaechers have the job
of teaching our children—of in
fluencing the future generation?
Of guiding the minds that some
day will become our scientists,
our teachers, our leaders? Can
you imagine how anyone would
like to change to a lower stan-
dard in eduaction?
DO WE WANT SUB-STANDARDS?
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950
cialistic when the government
builds and owns the homes peo
ple live m. I have seen and heard
enough indications around here
to convince me that there is a
planned effort being made t/
drive coal mining, wire commune
ications and the railroads into
nationalization.
For the purpose of stopping the
trend, and I believe we do want
to stop it, our system does not
work as well as the British sys
tem does. There the socialists re
ceive less than a majority of the
total votes cast. As a result, the
socialistis program is stopped.
Here, in 1948, Truman and his
program received less man a
majority of the total votes cast
but the result was considered a
“mandate” to carry out the pro
gram.
Fortuately our people have an
other opportunity this fall to say
what is on their minds through
their ballots. Our system works
a little more slowly than the
British, but it will work surely.
To any dis-interested and casual observer, last Friday
By Dewey
at the Grange hall, and again Monday night at the high school,
On the front page of this is
imprtwion would be gathered that the local school and budget sue appears a story concerning
boards were on trial for grand larceny or embezzlement Decause the* dedeication of the new har
Mrs. Alan Dunham of Port
bor at Crescent City and its pre
of publication of the 1950-51 school budget for District No. 17.
land
has been a house guest o4
sentation to the harbor commis
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd T. Bobuo
These reputable people, taxpayers, serving without pay and sion of that place. This celebra
Ed F. Ackley, who went to
certainly without thanks, met many hours to determine what nec tion, likely to be attended by
Sv Harris Ellsworth, M. C.
San
Francisco last week to con
essary funds it would require to conduct schools of the district for scores from this area, should be
sult
a specialist concerning his
There is a real battle going
an object lesson on what a lit
the coming year. On one hand these people had the law’ and 65 tle co-operation can do, what it[ on between the states of Ari ear, returned home Monday eve
edicts from the state department of education, and on the other can mean if every citizen of a zona and California. It is a fight ning, much improved in health.
they had the taxpayers’ point of view, to budget adequately, yet community can whole-heartedly over water similar to the strug-
Acreage, in Brookings,
get behind a movement, regard- gles in the days of the “old west’’
within reason, as far as they, as honest humans knew how.
less of personal feelings and a over water holes the principal 1 to 20. Choice buiiding
I differences are that this water
These men were accused of being dishonest, both individually few opinions.
w-K ** —. 1 »-k-« • n 1 « 1 v w-v *•% ♦ 1 »"V
Ik 1 «'V CT TI V* i sites. Sunset Cottages, on
Bnd collectively. They were held up to public ridicule, inference
Noted in the article were the problem is mlilion times bigger, i
49tf
the fighting is more dignified Hwy 101, ii<irbor.
was made that each and all were telling falsehoods concerning statements of how everyone of and guns are not used. Califor- -----
the community “gave?’ and not
various items of the budget. In the main, the discussion of the one word of what they expected nia lost the first round when &
NORINE HARVEY
budget became a mockery of a trial.
to 7 receive.” Therein lies the the U. S. Senate approved a river
project in Arizona by a substan
The Pilot has not, in the past, and may not in the future, whole story. Merchants, restaur-
accredited teacher
ant owners, and everyone, gave. tial majority.
see things eye-to-eyc with the individuals of the school board and labor, gave money, gave equip-| The Californians, however,* do
01
those of the budget board, but the Pilot will hasten to defend ment use,
«ov, to further this proj-1
proj- j not propose to take this oefeat
ect
which
will
mean
much
to
the
lying
down.
Said
one
California
the honesty and integrity of these people, who certainly have the
congressman in describing the
e cono my of the area.
most thankless job in the world.
project
to me: “It proposes to
Such progressive communities
The Pilot, in the past, has been a critic of the schools, and as those which do things, one use water which the state (Ari
W’ill not relinquish that right so long as free press remains in is likely to find people who do zona» does not own, to lift that
Studio Building
water twice as high as the Wash
this country. However, the criticism the Pilot has always made in not look right at the present— ington monument, convey it far-i
but to the future, possibly as
Brookings, Ore,
connection with the local schools has been that they did not offer
than from Washington to
far away as the second and third ther
sufficient courses to fit a student for any branch of higher learning generations. I have no doubt in New York, at a cost to the f^d-
treasury of three quarters
my mind that many people gave eral
or for the problems to be faced in life. .
billion dollars, to irrigate
of
a
up to as much as $100 who were,
Just about a year ago there was quite a furore over the state* unable to wield a shovel, ham-| 200,000 acres of privately-owned,|
concerning the preparation of students by high schools in Oregon. mer or other tools. These people w ar-boom desert land vv h i c h
would not be required to repay
This accusation was meant to include District No. 17, as well as will reap little or no actual bene- the construction cost, for rais-
The answers to everyday
other Curry county schools. Even the Portland schools, with bigger efit other than to live in a com ing crops which are now sur-
munity which is progressing.
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Insurance Problems^
budgets, more facilities and a great corpB oi teachers, were not
Crescent City should be ap plus.”
By Pete Lesmeister
I haven’t yet heard the
plauded for her action. She has
shielded by’ these exposes of inadequacies ot education.
zona side of the story but it will
High schools, to be somewhere near adequate, should offer a perfect right to be proud of have to be good to tie that one
her achievement how sue ac
four years of mathematics, four years ot science, four years of tually picked herself up by the —let alone beat it!
« * *
English, two vears of some language, two vears of manual arts “bootstraps,” and set herself out
Now that the British people
(this to include home economics tor girls', some commetcial sub in front as a progressive place.
gov-
their
have halted
Mr. Pyke, recently in his talk to^mw
ikihvu
mm r socialist
jects, and adequate social studies to complete the required number the local Rotary club, told of ernment dead in its tracks 1 am
hoic everyone, waitresses, nurs inclined to believe that there is
Question. When I read of
of credits to enter a school ol higher learning.
developing world-wide distrust of
es,
and
such
wage-earners
who
the
huge damages awarded to
Constant reference was maUe both Friday and Monday nights
gave their bit, also. With spirit^ socialists and their desire for so
people injured in automobile
about the rising costs of t he
il ke that, there is no obstacle on cialistic control of governments. accidents. I begin to wonder
and no denial is made or attempted. However, people do not stop the face of the globe too big to In those rather limited areas of
if the five and ten thousand!
the
world
where
people
are
still
or
even ten and twenty thou-1
surmount.
Crescent
City
jollou-
to think that people once could buv a pretty substantial meal tot
cd the old army plan “Difficult free and may select a govern-
sand
dollar public liability j
35c to 50c now 90c to $1.50. Once all of us could go to a market
tasks are done quickly the im ment of their own choice they
policy is large enough to giver
are discarding socialism and the
complete protection. 1 hear!
for Some meat, and have a ‘mess' ot liver tossed into the order possible take a little longer."
inevitable loss of freedom which
of
people carrying fifty and!
not
more
than
another
dime.
for
Pete Lesmeister is in a quan goes with it. Some people tailed
hundred
thousand dollar lia
teacher
live
on
the
Times have changed. No longer can a
dary. He has a berth in south to stop it in time. You must re
bility policies and I w’ould
$65-a-month-salaries known to this writer in his youth. State laws ern Oregon baseball league and member that the Hitler party
like to know is the cost of
have made it mandatory that teachers obtain at least three vears is faced with a gigantic task of* had the word “socialist" in it.
such insurance is too high for
The present Russian government
the average person to pay.
of college to teach in the grades, and five to teach in high schools. building a team which takes a is a union of “socialistis" states.
:
perhaps
quite
a
sum of money
Answer. Not at all. As a mat
Times have changed and all of us might as well accept the tact. sum of that filthy lucre. Pete| Webster’s big dictionary says
ter of fact, a very small in
For benefit of those who did not attend these two meetings wishes he had such an organiza-, socialist is a political and eco crease in premium can change
to discuss the budget, the Pilot will defend until the end the in tion as the Crescent City Elksi nomic theory of social re-organ a ten and twenty thousand
which gave a dance and all pro ization. the essential feature of
tegrity and honesty of the men who set up the budget. To accuse ceeds to the baseball team $600 which is government control of dollar policy to a twenty-Jive
and fifty thousand dorlar pro
them of being dishonest could be basis for slander suits.
to be exact. Pete needs some economic activities.
tection. You are quite right,
money, to buy baseballs, to puy
We are attempting to fight
too, about the need for great
bats, to buy meals for players off socialism in the United States
er protection as the size of
while on trips to other towns.- but most people do not seem to
damage awards has increased
Baseball is the national pas-} realize it. Much of the so-called
substanially in the past few
time, 1 have been told, and I’ve Truman program is clearly' so years.
always thought so, but like any ’ cialistic. The Brannan plan is so-
•If you'll addicts your own
Pillow Arm Daveno and Matching ('hair $100
other thing. takes money to keep cialistic because it would control
insurance questions to this of-
going. People love to go out to| farmers. The administration med-
$50
Circulating Oil Heater, like new
fice, we'll try to give you the \
games like the recreation it af- ical plan is already called by its correct answers and there’ll
Montag Wood Range, with new oil
fords, so Pete hasn't any pur- proper name “socialized medi-
be no charge or oblibation of
$50
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any kind.
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twular worry about the season, cine." The valley authority plans
once it's under way. He is. how- (of which CVA is one of nine)
Maytag Washing Machine, in good
PETE J.
ever, concerned over the mimed-, is socialistic because it means
iate needs of the club now to that entire regions would be put
enter into faster company as far under rigid government control.
Real Estate and Insurance
us baseball goes. Who has an Certainly part oi the housing
Crissey Building
Brookings}
idea of how to help him?
j legislation already enacted is so-
a
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