2 Brookings H arbor P ilo ti hursday, February 19, 1953 For What It's Worth This Week At
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Welcome, Lions Club
A community can be judged largely by the
churches and clubs it supports. Certainly, therefore,
Brookings is favored to have two service clubs of
international scope.
The Rotary Club of Brookings says welcome to
the new Lions Club just chartering. We look for
ward to rivalry with the new Lions Club, and with
a spirit of friendliness and cooperation. Rivalry or
competition generally brings out the best whether it
be in sports, in business, service clubs, or as individ
uals.
A better community in which to live and bring
up our children should be the net result of a second
large service club coining to Brookings.
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j Letter From !
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By
HARRIS ELLSWORTH. M.C.
4th D istrict. Oregon
T H R E E E1NE STATUES now
standing in the S ta tu a ry Hall area
of the N ation's Capitol honor the
m em ories of tine»' distinguished
citizens of Oregon's early history.
S ta tu e s of Edw ard Dickinson
B aker, Oregon Senator and dis
tinguished soldier; Dr. John Me-
Loughhn, pioneer doctor anti
leader, ami Jason l.et\ early O re
gon missionary and m inister, a ie
now in place.
The statu es ol Dr.McLoughlin
and Jason Lee were officially pre
sented with appropriate ceremony
S aturday, Teh. 11, the anniversary
of O iegon’s admission as a state
in 1859 The statues w ere official
ly presented h> Secretary iXnig-
las McKay ami were accepted foi
the Federal government by Vice
President Richard Nixon
T he tact that there has been
one statu e ot an Oregon citizen
in S ta tu a ry Hall for a long tim e
seems to have been unknown to
m ost ix'ople In 1873 a statu e of
O regon's Senator Edward Dickin
son Baker was given a place ot
honor at the left ot the main
entrance to the great rotunda of
the Capital by Act of Congress
Opposite the Baker statu e on the
o th er side of the entrance is a
bust of George W ashington.
Even the official sta te com m it
tee which had charges of a r
rangem ents for obtaining and
placing the new statues of Me-
Loughhn and Let' apparently did
not know of the Baker statue, for
in the report of that com m ittee
printed in booklet form in 1917
appears this paragraph: "The rec
ords indicate th at to date 31
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By CLIFFO RD P. ROW E
BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT
B reuer
and six states have sent one sta-
.ue, m aking a total of 74 statues.
Eight states are unrepresented
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and Oregon was listed as
not being represented.
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UNDOUBTEDLY, the stories ol
the great careers in the service
of the Oregon country of Dr.
McLoughlin and Jasen Lee will
be printt'd in detail in connection
with the placing ot these statues.
I think, therefore, 1 shall devote
some space to Edward Dickinson
Baker. His was a brilliant career
indeed. His death was a hero s
death.
rp H IS W EEK -EN D I will be af
the Oregon Publishers con
vention in Eugene and while only
a com paratively few people will
be aw are of the
problems
being
discussed there,
[ consider them
most im portant.
At first glance
the problems of
editors and pub
lishers may seem
to be of little
concern to most
of us; in fact, if
the tru th w ere
known,
I
am
alraid that most people even fail
to realize the im portance of their
home-town editor.
While we recognize the high
place of the doctor who keeps
us healthy, the law yer who keeps
us legal, and the teacher who en
deavors to guide our children to
intelligent living, we usually fail
to see where the editor fits into
such an essential group.
Being one of those fortunte
enough to be fairly well acquaint
ed with publishers and their re
sponsibilities, I do not hesitate,
in my own thinking to place them
at the top of the list. For the
g rea ter part of w hat I know,
think, and believe is based on
what I read in my daily and
weekly paper. And WHAT l
think and the ACTIONS resu lt
ing from those thoughts, d e te r
mine my value to a dem ocratic
society.
Since my opinions and your
opinions, which add up to public
opinion, m ust of necessity be
nased on available inform ation on
all phases ot controversial issues,
we should be deeply interested in
the problems and activities of
those men who through their pa
pers determ ine to a large extent
what inform ation shall be ours.
From the early colonial press
which aroused our forefathers to
a united effort for independence
to the modern press which a t
tem pts to give us a tru e picture
ot the world-wide struggle of
freedom of man versus com m u
nism. the American new spaper
has been the watchdog of democ
racy.
Such being the case, 1 am sin
cerely interested in the activities
of the Oregon press and, as all
citizens should be, vitally con
cerned for its welfare.
After being adm itted to the
bar. young Baker went to Spring-
field, Illinois, and began p rac tic
ing law. There he formed a close
lien.Ship with lawyer Abraham
Lincoln. He was elected to the
louse of R epresentatives in the
-9 th Congress hut resigned near
the end of his term to take a
•ommission as colonel in the Mex
Eor t wo weeks from Fe b. 2;
ican campaign w here he saw con
siderable action. When B aker ending Sunday, Feb. 15.
Max. Min. Rain
went to w ar Lincoln was elected
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to his seal in Congress, hut upon
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B ak ers retu rn to Springfield. Lin-! Feb 3
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oeln did not stx'k re-election ar.d
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Baker was again elected.
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Those were the "days of '4 9 ’ Feb. 7
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and the great West lured Baker
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lie journeyed to California and!
set up a law practice in San F ran - !
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e:seo. A few years later he m o v ed 1
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to Oregon and was elected to the Feb
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I nited S tates Senate from the Feb 11
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new sta te as a Republican, He Feb.
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took his seat in the Senate in Feb.
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October. 1860, hut in Septem ber, Feb
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1861, President Lincoln was hav Feb. 15
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ing trouble with the leaders of
his arm ies so he commissioned
Total rainfall
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S enator Baker a m ajor general
and sent him into the struggle
Nearly one million American*
Baker was killed while leading ot all ages a n ' afflicted by rheu
his Union Army troopa in the B at m atic fever, forerunner of rh eu
tle of Ball's Bluff, exactly one m atic heart disease Support
m onth later on O ctober 21. 1861 the H eart Fund will aid in
while still a Senator, although tight against this m axir
of coming to Brookings tw enty
years ago for a visit.
Rev. IL M. R oberts and Rev.
R. G. Hall are in Brookings work-
Tng on the form ation of a Pres
byterian church.
S. S. Russ, federal veteri
narian, is back in this area again
and can be contacted at the Inn.
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Most victim s of "heart attack"
(coronary throm bosis 1 not only
survive, but recover to live happy,
productive lives. The H eart Fund
enables your H eart Association
to wage the b attle against heart
disease.
Fred C. M ostoller, Jr., rep re
senting A m erican-Standard C o,
was a Brookings visitor this
week.
Earl McDougall and Floyd
lfopem an of Albany, Ore., stop
ped over this week to look over
the fiishing.
The S ta te Liquor Control was
represented in Brookings by Car-
roll A. N ettleton and he had with
him Jim Frain of Coquille.
E. W. Steinhauer, who is build
C h aracter develop:, ent is the
ing a home in Harbor, has been
great,
if not the sole, aim of
our guest for some time. Mr.
education.—W
illiam O'Shea.
Steinhauer represents the M utual
H ealth & Accident Insurance Co.
of Om aha and plans to handle
that business in the Brookings-
H arbor area.
JOYCE MORGAN
The Rev. Paul W essinger was
our guest this past weekend. Tie
T eacher of
held services at the Episcopal
church Sunday morning.
Beginner's Piano
R. H. Grandy of P ortland was
and Coaching
a visitor representing the Rogue
River Anklets.
Phone 2543
Mill Gowman and Ray Hooper
O r W rite Brookings
of Medford are guests of the Inn
while looking for a hauling con
tra c t for logs. They have their
own trucks and can be contacted
a t the Inn.
3. Cam bra, Wm. McDonnell
H. A. TOCHENS
and Abe G unther are guests of
the Inn while erecting the new
service station for Elm er Bankus.
Archie McGowan and Mrs. Mc
SALES AND SERVICE
Gowan are guests here while
H otel Brookings
visiting Mrs. McGowan’s brother, Phone 2661
H arry Sm ith. Mr. McGowan tells
P L U M B IN G
ROY H. BROWN MORTUARY
“Brookings’ Own”
Phene 2244— Day or Night
Hillside Street
Brookings, Oregon
” Courteous, Dependable Service”
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When you buy from local merchants, you help
them to can y a larger stock of goods which they *
can sell at moderate prices.
Follow the rule to buy at home whenever you can
and elsewhere when you must. As a loyal citizen,
you are making this community what it is today.
Its future too, depends on you.
OREGON
STATE
BANK
BROOKINGS. OREGON
“\our Dependable Home Institution’
M t n l v Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation