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Page 2 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON The PILOT M<it«r«d u AN INDEPENDENT d/teamd. NEWSPAPER Moond-elase ru*tt*r. at UM paatotrtM at BrouMU*« Marek 7, IMS, under Lb* Act e f March 3. 137* Oragoa, IN EVER9DAa LIFE Ray Pisarck, Jac Murphy Editor» and Publutham subscription ratk s : S3 OU One Tear in Advance <ln Surry Ouatj) _____ One Year In Advance (outatde Curry Oeunty) . C N A T IQ N A l N E W S F A F It « tf& P U B U S H IlS ■ « - -a » Thursday, September i-, 1955 "6 q | 3 50 E_DIT_ORI_AL o r~ _ ,r~ . VISUAL PE R C E P T IO N P a rt 10 T he hum an laxly is equipped ASSOCIATION w ith various m echanism s, which help to m ain tain a sta te of equil NATIONAL AOVE.KTUIINO RJCPRrJMBN TAT1VE ibrium . Should any of these p ro tective system s b reak down, th* W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc . body would b r throw n into im New York Chicago Dotrolt Philadelphia m ediate danger. So long as we enjoy go<xl health, we ta k e these protective, or self rep airin g processes for granted, “Can you as a newspaper morally stand by and and often abuse th'* laxly beyond its lim its of flexability, hut the watch this government secrecy?” llia t was a question m om ent any p a rt ceases to fun put to us after the council meeting last Thursday night, ction norm ally, o r causes distress, th a t p a rt im m ediately becomes w hen the interested spectators, and die press, were asked th e focus of our atten tion. to leave the council chambers. Most of us have th e habit of cu rsin g the very protective de It is a difficult question to answer, because we vices and laxly functions, which are so convinced that the council is sincerely trying to p rotect o u r h ealth and happiness, because they cause us m om entary do .1 job here in the city that we actually hate to I k distress or inconvience F o r examjih* perspiration, which critical in any way. • is p erhaps A m erica’s g reatest Yet, we believe so strongly in having all bus cause of fear, anxiety, society gos sip and cleaning hills, Is not apt iness conducted out in the open that we do have a moral to lx* fully appreciated, yet its duty to object when asked to leave a council meeting— function is necessary to m aintain of body m inerals, tem p special or otherwise. We object mainly because the city e a ra balance tu re , e tc A tooth-aeh© sends voters passed by a four to one majority, just a year ago, us to the dentist before the tooth a charter which sjKCifies in it, with no qualifications: is com pletely destroyed by decay. O r a head-ache w arn s us that we Chapter IV, Section 16: Quote, “All meetings to be a re ov ertax in g o u r nervous sys public. All deliberations and proceedings of tlu* council tem , stra in in g our eyes, or not e a tin g properly, etc. shall he public.” Unquote. T hese a re but a few of the m any w ays the body has of m ain What could I k clearer that that? And yet, taining equilibrium T hese proc one councilman at the meeting suggested the following esses, for the most part, a re be action: “We should get together with Elmer Bankus yond o u r control, and a re not. fo rtu n ately , subjected to the at a closed meeting d ictates of the "w ill”. T here are tim es when the "w 11" And what purpose would that serve? The by superceding the protective voters elected the councihnen, and expect them to up m echanism s of th© body prom otes preservation, hut for the most hold the charter—not to flaunt it in their face. The p self art, w ithout o u r realizing it, it council will ask the [Kople to pay the hill, but yet, is it is in stru m e n ta l in bringing about laxly d eterio ratio n . possible they won’t allow’ them to sit in on the deliber a general If one touches som ething hot. ations? there is an im m ediate response, to pull aw ay. It is said, th a t this Again, we feel nothing but kindness towards kind of r<*spoiis<* takes place in tin mayor and the council. We understand their prob th e stim u lated area. Psychologists th a t the stim ulation sig lems. We real ize the terrific amount of time and work contend, nal does not e n te r th e brain until they are putting in, without compensation, in an effort a f te r th e incident has taken place. to do good for the city. We believe in their personal If then reg isters as pain. T he con trol center, which d irects the re- integrity and honesty. We are convinced they are trying sjionse is located in the spine. Due to do the tight thing—but having a closed meeting on to conditioning process, however, relk*x actions can, to som e degre*?, am subject is one we can’t go along with. b“ brought u n der the dom ination of the "w ill.” a m ore detailed In w riting us, please let us know account of how th is is brought in parenthesis, w hat town the se r about, w ould la* irre le v a n t to the vice person is from, and g iw the present discussion. com plete address as it ap pears on N early everyone has ex p erien his statio n ary and w here in the ced touching som ething hot with ‘S everal of the “boys and g i r l s ’ w orld they are located as the th e ir finger and je rk in g th e ir hand from m ir <K'iglilH>rlio(Hi are in th e offiaial address does not alw ays hack, w ithout th in k in g about it. '" e, I forces and get th e PIL O T , indicate On the o th e r hand, if a hungry eiil > , through direct m ail o r sent W’e will welcome names from |x*rson w ere to pick up a k e ttle i" ’ >i Man,\ were “kids” here of stew, and the stew m eant the in They are a long way all of (Tarry C ounty and N o rth ern Del N orte If the list gets too big difference betw een a good meal 11 >mv K v m s in g le one o f th welconi < word from o th ers we may have to run it in sections. and sta rv a tio n , he w ouldn’t lx* apt Addness: V eteran, PILO T, Box to drop it, even if holding on t'n know w herever in tin* world 338, Brookings, Oregon. m eant g ettin g his fingers burned. tli m.i\ he stationed, (.’lost* bv In such a case, the '‘w ill'' to live could li<‘ a schoolmate. As a eer- <• tli.'m the PILO T will en- T he m any friends of Miss Ros.* would su fvreede reflex resfxmses It is g ra n te d th at th© “will" publish such nam es and B um garten will be happy to know dix'S have its ad v an tag es hut when ■ is ,ire sent in, only axk- she rep o rts sh e’s quite happy and ’ I t we a ie notified of a iv "Just f in e ' Miss Rose is in a the »will to get ah ead" d rives » jx’ison on to continue w orking, 1 so we may Iwx'p it a real Salem Rest Home. long a fte r the txxlj has cried out I need rest," it is not function ing in the best interest of the person concerned To force the body to strain , at a task, beyond its lim its can as we all know, cause serious harm T he harm done can cans»* th e fx*rson to spend m onths in the hospital And all lx* cans© th* “w ill" or "ego" dom inated the body’s w arning sy stem The present topic may. at first sight, a p p ear irrelev an t to art, but ju st th«* opposite is actually tru e Visual jx'reeption. which is the basis of the visual arts, defvnds on. not ju st on©, but many biolog ical factors To a tte m p t to und erstan d vis ual perception as an isolated suh- ject, rem o w d from the to tal dyn am ic process, of w hich it is a part would lx* to not really understand it at all Every thing in life has som ething elswx and vision o r art are not exception» We are all aw are, th a t th ere is a groat difference betw een a «fc'timtion and a ‘conscious u n d e rsta n d in g ” of a fact Too often we a re inclined to accept a def- inition ot words, for no e x p la n ation. In such a case, w hat we accept is a logical sequence of w onts, th a t sound fa m ilia r or “hom ey" By skillful juggling, a •h'fm ition can apjx*ar to “really E«4aral £••«■« *•«*«» m ake aenav* w ithout throw ing a light on th e n a tu ra l processes. assoc ^ t ^ n What About Government Secrecy ? Address Of Men In Servin* Welcome w hich th e w ords refer to. For ex am ple, in » th e first a rtic le of th e pr.*s?nt series, I quoted W e b ste r’.; definition of visual perception. Some would ta k e for g ranted, th a t W ebster had really explained it. They m ay unconsciously feel th a t the dictionary* had said all th e re was to say, w hile others, w ho at© sem an tic conscious, w ould rec ognize its lim itations, Ten articles, of th e present series, have a lre a ry been w ritten , and still visual p e r ception has not been explained. W hen we know how visual p er ception functions, we shall know w hat it is No am ount of v e rb a l izing can define it, because it is not a thing hut a process. W hen we know how it behaves, in re lation to th e to tal system , w© will at last, be closer to understanding w hat visual fx*rception is. Mr. and Mrs. John Barclay art* vacationing in th e E ugene area, th e ir fo rm er home. Mr. and Mrs. E arl M arshal,, of P ort land,dropped in briefly to pick iif) d a ta on the back country. Mr. M arshall and his b ro th e r gold mined, successfully, in th? Baby- foot co u n try nearly 50 y ears ago. Mr. and Mrs. M arshall a re both wild flow er e n th u sia sts and w ere accu m u latin g ground w ork for i long "held” vacation, next sum m er herring. But it w as fun and now i; > f • r cap ita th ,,n any o th e r th a t I know the ocean is th* re city - 'h e w o rld ,b arrin g none. I'll be out m ore often. The II i- P oki: gs a com m unity of 3.000 h as ve T hun lerb ird s sh o o t- bergs w ere fishing nearby, and • " i' -ut. ' ■ d iff rent colors they had reeled in six. including a >. /c ry sin k in g . p re tty good sized one. * * * * * * * * * * All th. h eat hack eaBt should Incidently. whvn I w as sinking th e blues about losing a pip!* or •‘ ■art a m ig ratio n o a t to O regon, tw o th e o th e r week, some kind f I ’m any judge of hum an n a tu re . we coui.l only tip off the people h earted soul read th • story w ith in terest and brought me down i J a ’ th e n isn’t one air-condition- un r in Brookings, and th a t new pipe. Isn ’t th at friendly Now c m n fan s a r • n o n -existant here, this u v e k I thought I would cry a little about money. I'm hoping i n. i as h a 1 a w orking m an as som ebody will bring some down I am. I hav * only perspired once this y ar. and th a t w as clim bing in a sack t Vulcan Peak. Let us s ta r t to * * * * * i oru aro .nd atxiut th e We heard a re p o rt from one of Sunday afternoon I had an op clim ate here. po rtu n ity to mak© like a fish e r th e T hunderbird ow ners in town man. F o r th e first tim ? since th a t Brookings has m ore T hunder- com ing to B rookings over a y e a r ago, I got out on the blue P a c ific. Glye Jensen, a well known family man, has a boat w ith a m otor, and took old Joe out in an endeavor to bring back a salm on T h e re ’s a pack o’ p lea sure in every* h a n d y c a rto n o f or two. ja e tnaisifiduf, now for Olympia! » * • * • re fre s h in g O ly m p ia Beer. Be su re to b r in g hom e e n u u g h l Shooting the m outh of the C het- co w as a m ite rough, but we m ade it w ithout any real d a n g e r of being sw am ped. Howevvr, it w as very rough when we got out a ways. The w aves w ere, gen©rally speaking as big as the pro v erb ial house, anti then when you get on tof), you hav© to come down, much to the dism ay of the sto m ach. Being an old sea-dog, and used to inhaling th e fum es from my pipe, I did n ’t get sea-sick but I was tem ped to from tim e to time. * * * * * Gyle snagged a real beauty, possibly a 22 pounder, but whvn he brought him alongside he slip- fa d the hook, at th e sam e tim e Gyle gaffed him, and th e fish w as on his way. O th e r th a n th a t we didn't do any good, not even a W a te r' A 16 , tta a t m a k e s t h e O LYM PIA BREWING CO M PANY, O lym p.a, W ash. U S A * BURRY• HURRY• HURRY• TO THE £ ■ft S r ^ g g e ^ st and save, save, save because we’re selling, selling, selling!. Wow we're out to bust every Buick record in the book for September colossal, it’s stu p e n d o u s—it’s the g rea test sales event in all Buick history’. 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