Illinois Valley News, Thursday, July 6, 1914
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Illinois Valley News
An independent newspaper devoted to the development of the richest
valley in the world, the Illinois Valley and its surrounding districts.
Published every Thursday at Cave Junction, Oregon by the Illinois
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Entered as second-class matter June 11, 1937, at the Post Office at
Cave Junction, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879
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ed history niver travelled a hundred miles from the
place of his birth.
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Some fishermen had toiled all night and caught
nothing. ‘Let down yohr net where you are,’ a man
on shore called to the discouraged crew. It came up
so full they nearly swamped their boat.
Success comes to many who leave home in its quest.
But look about you. Count the successful people in
your community. Note how many are home-town
products who, perhaps unable in their youth to leave
home, swallowed their disappointment and let down
their buckets where they were.
Note, too, that the people on the ship did not have
the water poured down their parching throats. They
first had to do something for themselves. They had to
let down their buckets’, and they had to pull them up.
The fish did not jump into the boat. The fisher
men had to work as they had never worked before to
secure their catch.
Now this is as far as we intend to accompany you
along this particular road.
Just a parting admonition. Many a bucket has
been let down that never came up either full or empty.
The thirsty owner failed to tie a sound knot in his
rope.”
The News has claimed since its existence, that this
is the “Richest Valley in the World,” of course we are
speaking of the nrnerat wealth, and some day, and we
will live to see it, this will be proven, for the minerals
here have not even been scratched, the great develop
ment is to come, and cpme it must.
We might add in closing, “Let Down Your Bucket
Where You Are,” you might get a terrific wallop in
what comes up.
Among the many house organs that come to our
desk is one which we think is the most constructive
organ in the United States, the “KVP Philosopher,”
published by the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment
Co., makers of better parchment and oiled papers.
In the last issue of the “Philosopher,” there was a
lead article entitled “Let Down Your Bucket.” It is
the old theme of “Meeting Prosperity,” in a new I OFF IN A CORNER
WITH PHIL SNORT
dress. But read
“Let Down Your Bucket
Some months ago on the back cover of this maga Dear Ed: There was a kid who
never did a mean thing in his.life,
zine we ran a quotation from Booker T. Washington, he
never took toys from other boys
the great Negro educator. It was this: ‘Let down or was the cause of sordid strife;
the little bird’s nest were safe at
your bucket where you are.’
He had used the expression in a speech on the need rest, on the ground or in a tree,
little girls, with dangling curls,
for race friendship. It was the story of the old sailing like
he would always let them be. He’d
ship, blown off its course, lost, and in desperate need never bat another brat or grab his
of fresh water. One day when it seemed they could cake or pie, things not his own he’d
let alone and straightaway pass
hold out no longer, they sighted another ship.
them by; he wouldn't lie to any guy
‘Water, water, we die of thirst!’ they signalled.
to shield a thing he’d done, ot tor
‘Cast down your bucket where you are,’ came back ture cats or tie brickbats to dogs
to see them run. To manhopU he
the reply.
grew, as boys do, and maintumed
Thinking their signal misunderstood, they repeat his boyish ways, he had no lights
ed their signal. Again came the answer, ‘Cast down to guard his rights thru-out his
life-long days; not an enemy, no
your bucket where you are!’
The captain caused a bucket to be lowered. It not one had he upon thW mundane
came up, filled with sweet water. For several days stool, this you may believe, when
they had been drifting off the mouth of the Amazon, |
whose mighty flood spreads far out of sight of land
before it is conquered by the sea.
‘Cast it down,’ Washington said, ‘in agriculture, in
mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in
the professions.’
It is an old theme.
Dr. Conway used it in his famous ‘Acres of Dia
monds.’ Another variation is the pot of gold at the
foot of the rainbow which the weary seeker finally
found in his own back yard. There are innumerable
other versions.
But it bears repeating.
The man who made the greatest impact on record-
you perceive that he was born a
fooL
The foregoing verse-prose was
written a great number of years
ago and has been published several
times. The reason I am sending it
in is because, among other rea
sons, there have been many new
comers to our valley who will re
main here and who have school
children that will attend our
schools and become owners of the
school park that I am advocating
near Kerby, and which I believe
will be established in the not dis
tant future. The above verse be
longs with what I have written in
days past, and which I plan to con
tinue until the park is a reality.
In fact, I consider it belongs
among my wildlife writings, and
that of our youths of school age.
PHIL.
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after instruction which included 20 hours of solo flying; she is an
excellent shot; plays a fine game of golf and tennis, is an expert
angler and skis and swims'V'ith excellent form.
However, Janet's life basn t been .1 fun. From childhood she
ha, been a real ranch hand and for the past two years has played
her part tn the food for victory campaign; first driving a truck
in pea harvest, and next, running a pea loader, distinctly a man's
|ob, from six i.n the morning to six at night.
Janet's dad. well known wheat rancher, has since boyhood been
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