The Coquille Valley sentinel., February 21, 1952, Image 6

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COQUILLE. OREGON.
FEBRUARY 21. 1952.
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Let's Try Religion
No one can justifiably question the text
nor the quality of addresses given at the
fine Coos-Curry Workshop for teachers. If
that word Workshop baffles you, then bear
with us, too, when our tongue twists and
stutters as we try to use it instead of the
fine old American term, teachers’ institute.
The topics on a professional level were
good and the groups handled the reports
well. The teachers profited.
But more interesting to us were several
■other talks which served as the frosting so
to speak on the cake of the teachers’ get-
together.
J. W. Tewinkle of Spokane high school,
spoke on “Let’s Try Education’’ and he made
some mighty fine remarks. Quoting him in
part is no doubt a bit unfair, but quote him
we must. '
.
“Adequate public education is life insur­
ance of national existence/’ He then went on
to say that we aren’t so hot and that“Ac­
tually we are far down the line among the
nations of the world in national literacy and
behind the Russians in ability to read and
write.” <
“Education is the balancing force in a
nation’s economy. As it grows older and
weakens its resources, it must learn new tech­
nological devices or die.”
“There is a direct relationship between a
country’s stability, its ability to withstand
economic shocks and the generosity of its
public education. The only safety for men
and property lies in the education of the
mass of mankind in loyalty to certain rights
and institutions.”
Now just considered as such, Educator Te-
winkle’s statements are so much posh
We doubt if Russia is ahead of its. And
we’d like him to prove it to us. From the
last reports we have seen Russia is a pretty
badly mixed up country when it comes to
literacy.
We’re not so sure that public education,
per se, is life insurance of a country. Some
of the best Reds we have uncovered during
the past few years and Alger Hiss comes to
mind, too, have been fine examples of well
■» educated people.
From watching the 1929-1933 fiasco we
aren’t a bit sure that education balanced the
nation’s economy. In fact the people who
; jumped out of windows in New York’s Wall
Street were mighty finely educated citizens.
And the great technological devices of the
1 past ceutury or more many times have come
from the strong and rugged working man
with a spirit and a heart.
Lest we be too unfair, however, we must
say that Mf. Tewinkle does feel that the
home is responsible for much,-too, and that
the schools can’t do it all.
Our disagreement, if there is any, must
surely come from the pat ready-made way
all, well nearly all, educators have of build­
ing up the SCHOOL as the dominanent force
in a nation.
Instead of “ Let’s Try Education” perhaps
we might say “Let’s Try Religion.”
Certainly the greatest blow this country
has had struck at it is not at its schools, but
at its churches.
A bare handful of men and women at an
early mass.
A church with empty pews.
A minister with no avowed purpose and
faith and no mesage. A children not know­
ing the warm comfort of an everpresent God.
No schools with their cold straight rows of
desks. No school with its counting-house­
like office where each child is a record in
black and white marks and a psychological
profile is going to take the place of a
nation wtih a great faith and religion.
Let’s try religion, too, as well as education.
And to Mr. Tewinkle we say thanks for a
good talk. It really was good. We just think
he overemphasizes the place of the school in
a strong nation.
I would have' daffodils, I would have daffodils,
Yearly my message to sunlight to bring.
Always one story,
One gospel of glory,
"Grave hath no victory, death hath no sting!”
To B e a u t/
FRANCES HOLMSTROM
SUPER
not continue to do that. What a
pity that we have not had that
sore of simple logic used in the
operation of our own government
these last four years.
As I listened to Mr. Churchill's
speech, I wondered a few times i f
it would not be better for him to
make his statement to the other
European governments rather than
to us. A fte r all, we, too, have
all but over-extended ourselves in
Leave Us Face It
(From the Forest Log)
Certainly you are busy. Work is piling up
and you fume and fuss and pitch in and
work, but it piles even higher. What the
heck! Slow down! You could live to be as
old as Methuselah and still find work piling
up on you. One man, harried, hurried and
explosive over his work, was advised to work
six hours a day instead of eight and to spend
one day a week in a cemetery.
“But what,” asked the man, “shall I do in
a cemetery?”
“Just loaf,” sez the Doctor. “Get acquaint­
ed with some of the people who are there
permanently. They didn’t finish their work
either. Nobody does, you know.”
So slow down today and enjoy life—before
you go down permanently. Please read this
again. ______________________________ j I
make whether a mayor or coun­
cilman is republican or a demo­
crat?
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Hal Baxter expects to begin next
week hauling logs from his camp
north of Coquille. There is 15 to
18 m illion feet of red f ir that he
w ill log out. About 20 men are
employed at present.
•
Nearly a week now of below
freezing weather, the thermometer
this morning standing at 24 de­
grees.
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Coquille high school debaters,
by taking three out of four de­
bates of the 1932 schedule, w ith a
total of eight out of a possible
twelve points, stands tied w ith
Marshfield high school fo r honors '
in the Oregon high school debating I
league for the Coos Bay district. j
Coquille’s debate squad was com- ;
posed of Madeline McKeown and 11
Avery Combs, affirm ative speak-1
ers; w hile Donald Farr and Fred I
Fuhrman upheld the negative.
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this fight for freedom in the world.
I was lately right close up to the
situation in Europe and came away
with the impression that the gov­
ernments in Western Europe are
not really going “ all out” in this
fight—surely not to the extent
that the United States and the
United Kingdom are contributing.
As fo r the British second ob­
jective, that of our closer unity i
with them in their w orld policies
and endeavors, I have some grave |
misgivings. We may be forced
fin ally to do exactly that but I am
inclined to th ink that to do It v o l­
untarily, and now, might foreclose
the s till livin g possibility of genu­
ine cooperation in all of the free
world. In other words, I th ink it
would be unwise to consolidate the
English speaking areas into a tight
and separate combination of power.
This could have the effect of cre­
ating a third great division in the
world which would then consist
of: (1) the Communist-controlled
countries; (2) the English speaking
countries; and (3) the remainder of
the free world. I t w ill be better,
I think, to keep the present line­
up—the entire free world opposed
to communist aggression.
The House Committee on Bank­
ing and Currency has been directed ’
by the House to investigate the
insuring the guaranteeing of loans
(by the U.*S.) for private housin'»
in order to determine the extent
to which government agencies
have facilitated or more possible:
the insuring or guaranteeing of
loans fo r defective housing.
Hon. Brent Spence, chairman of
the committee, says the committee •
w ill welcome receiving any com­
plaints from horned purchasers
dealing w ith defective construe-'
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I would have daffodils over me planted,
When under grass-roots I lie, long forgot.
Thro dead earth leaping,
Their tryst w ith light keeping,
Shall come my daffodils, falling me not.
They C an't Beat Truman
From The Sentinel Files of 20 Years Ago
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I would have daffodils brought to my burying,
I f my time should hap to be th eir time, the spring.
Daffodils glorious,
The flower victorious.
Golden throats shaped for the paean they sing.
Strange as it may seem to the warhorses
of the saddened and depleted ranks of the
republican advance. guard, they can’t beat
Harry Truman.
We know!
We just spent a few hours with a group of
workers of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O.
and though we were actually on a sort of va­ The vi«it of Winston Churchill
cation from our editorial duties, the subject and his staff was not fo r the pur­
still came up, and they told us, “We like pose of asking us to furnish f i ­
Ike, he’s a nice guy, but a military man has nancial aid directly to Great B ri­
I t was for two other pur­
no place running for president and that goes tain.
poses— bofh of which could involve
for MacArthur, too, if such guys as George heavy expenditures by us.
Hall of Myrtle Point would like to put him (1) Chuchill explained that Eng­
up.”
land’s financial difficulties can be
We mentioned Taft. And you should have eased, i f not actually salved, if
heard it. Boy, if Taft heard what the great she is relieved of some of her
vociferous mass of America’s working men present commitments in the fig ht
such as we have here in Coos county said, against communism.
he wouldn’t even file his name in New Hamp­ (2) The B ritish government
would like us tq assume an equal
shire.
share in keeping the Suez Canal
“Who will win?” we asked, and the answer open
and protected, and to join in
we got was “Harry Truman.”
'walk the same path.”
Now this is February and our good friends The B ritish Prime M inister pro­
who make logs and lumber and plywood tell duced an impressive bundle of
us—at least a lot of them—that Mr. Truman facts to bolster bis request that his
country be relieved of some of
will be president.
They told us last time. We didn’t believe the cold w ar and defense burden
it has voluntarily carried.
He
’em.
pointed out, for example, that B ri­
Mark this on your little notebook page.
tain’s participation in the Euro­
Harry Truman is the next president. Want pean defense system is now equal
to know why? Because those guys all vote. to tw o-thirds as rquch as all of the
Yep, 100 per cent. While the GOPS forgot rest of Europe combined. Certain­
how to go to the polls, being too busy worry­ ly C hurchill’s approach to the
problem of setting the financial
ing about Truman.
Of course, it might be, that if they all affairs of his country in better or­
der makes a lot of sense. He says
voted, it might be different. But they prob­ simply
that the United Kingdom
ably will do just like they did in 1948. And is spending
mors ftioney than it
they’re going to get a Democrat again.
has or can raise and that it can­
PARAGRAPHS
t F 118 EAST—
.(Taken from The Sentinfel of F ri­
day, February 19, 1932) •
The ‘ fish Pullman” truck of the
State Fish and Game Commission
left last Saturday after liberating
1,025,700 fry in the streams of Coos
: and Curry counties since Nov. 27.
The fish were all taken from the
»: state hatchery on Ferry creek near
1 Bandon.
•
W. E. Marrion of Portland, pres­
id e n t of the Coast Oil Co., and J. J.
Jutze, its secretary-treasurer, came
Jn last Saturday and remained
u n til Monday, conferring w ith J.
Ellis Loreman, geologist, who has
• been studying this section, as to
the possibilities of gas and oil de­
velopment for the past six weeks.
•
There were nearly 500 dairy­
men and members of their families
present fo r the Sw ift Day program
•at the Liberty treatre Tuesday.
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Although the state election laws
provide for the nomination of city
officials In towns of over 2,000 by
prim ary election at the same time
the state general prim ary Is held,
C ity Attorney Corby gives as his
opinion that the city of Coquille
can "nominate by caucus as it has
always done heretofore under the
city charter. One reason he gives
fo r this opinion is that the state
law presupposes candidates of po­
litic a l parties, something that the
charter of the city does not recog­
nize. and it is well that it doesn’t,
fo r what difference can it possibly
I Would Have Daffodils
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Such information, says rency, Washington. D. C.
Chairman Spence, w ill be most
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