1949
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BUSINESS O FFIC E AND P L A N T
In BeavePton-Tualatln Valley Highway and Short St
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Beaverton, Oregon.
Readers Say
Letter Blasts At
"Ghost" Writers
In Statesmanship
____ ___ Editor and Publisher
To the Editor:
Associate Editor-Office Mg
_________________ News Editor
Winston Churchill sounded the
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tocsin, as usual, in his speech at
Boston on the occasion of the
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mid-century convocation of the
Washington A Multnomah counties
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lishers Association
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nology.
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NATIONAL
EDITORJAl
Churchill, sonorously eloquent,
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Is
the most gifted orator of his
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time. It can be said of him what
Outside Territories
Mark Twain wrote of Robert
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Ingersoll in a letter to his wife
"Lordy, Libby, how the molten
silver flows from his tongue.
What an organ is human speech
What is Democracy?
when it is played by a master.”
There is a question that might Justify a little study. For there is a
One reason Churchill’s speeches
value toward which many throughout the World are constantly hoping are so effective and ring with
—so many of them in vain.
such sincerity and authority is
The dictionary would have us believe that democracy U a govern that they are his own. The last
ment by the people collectively, through elected representatives; a American statesman to write his
speeches
was
Woodrow
political or social equality. Other off-hand definitions all admit the own
Importance of people In the operation of such a form of government Wilson, and the political dema­
gogues called him a "superman.”
Which brings to pointed emphasis the matter of individual responsi­
They finally crucified him.
bility. as a part of the whole fabric. I f a democracy will survive and
Since Woodrow Wilson’s time,
prosper. K will do so only by the conscientious attention and participa­ it has become the custom for
tion of the people wljo make it up.
presidents
to
deliver
canned j
In the American form of democracy, there Is a detailed charter of speeches. Experts are employed
rights and privileges that are certainly foreign to many nations. And sometimes batteries of them to
yet. those rights and privileges remain constant only by the constant concoct one speech. Ghost writers
even generate ideas for the pres­
watchfulness of the citizenry.
We must be tolerant of intolerances, somewhat, if we are to protect idents impoverished in thought.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
our own liberties by Insisting on them for those whose opinions are
was a past master at dramatizing
at a variance with ours. For instance, take the matter of compulsory the other fellow’s thunder, but he
medicine.
was primarily the actor.
There are many people In the United States who Bee in the implica­
More often the oratorical efforts
tion of such a program great, social uplift. They believe and speak of our statesman resemble the
up for a plan of taxation which would affect everyone financially, whistle constructed by the cap?
with the further promise of adequate medical treatment to be furnished tain of a dredge boat in his spare
time to wake up the community.
at no added cost.
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It was a gigantic thing, fashioned
Opposing them, no doubt with some degree of self-interest, are the
out of an automobile gas tank
dominantly organized members of the medical profession. They see in and other parts. When finished
such a proposal the deterioration of medical standards of service. They it was a colossal fizzle.
counter the claims that those unuble to pay for adequate treatment
The whistle was so big the
would have better health under the benefits of a compulsory health dredge couldn’t generate enough
steam to blow it.
insurance plan.
Charles T. McPherson,
In behalf of Its side of the argument, the American Medical Associ­
Box 8875, Zone 7,
ation has assessed its members across the nation to provide a rather
Portland, Oregon.
top-heavy war chest to carry on the fight. This money's use is well
apparent to newspapers of the nation who are on the receiving end EDITOR'S NOTE.
A "ghost” who writes speeches
ot carefully printed dossiers holding the proposition of compulsory,
for another seems somehow con­
political medicine up for detailed criticism.
demned . Rut his place in the
Numerous believers In compulsory medicine, somehow believing that
speech and letters of a modern
a government-subsidized medicai profession would better meet the day is assured by the tempo of
needs of all, point with alarm and indlgnationo to tne funds doctors public life
have built up to fight the issue.
It seems not vitally important
Such alarms, to be sure, are without foundation. For, by every that leading statesmen write their
guarantee of self-interest, doctors may raise such a fund Just as own speeches for delivery. The
any other group of Individuals or association of groups may do the crucial point Is whether or not,
regardless of
who wrote
the
same, to carry out the expression of their slnceie beliefs.
script, there is a message of en­
To be sure, the’ carefully slanted llterJiture that the medicos send
lightenment or intelligence.
out cannot quiet all the questions relating to better health for those
The long-range significance too,
unable to pay for medical survlces. And yet, the whole answer comes of any speech, is whether it’s just
back tto the word "Democracy".
oratory or is backed up by af­
Ours is a government of elected representatives and any citizen firmative action.
within it may petition his representatives either for or against the
proposition. And the Congressman so petitioned will know the views of
his constituents in direct proportion of their expressions.
That idea of "Democracy" It's well worth living up to it!
8 T A N L E Y W NETH ERTO N
MRS EDNA BLACK --------
W A L L Y K A IN
L E E W E STE RM AN
ASÇ ° ^ T'§N
Worth Living Up To It
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Graduation
Melquist Learns
Extreme Caution
For Future Use
Experience
District No 21 of the Veterans
I of foreign Wars Auxiliary held
their election of officers May 14th
at the Beaverton Grade School.
Named were president Mabelle
Stone
(re-elected)
McMinnville
vice
president Emma
Lanctot
Beaverton; Jr. vice president Sally
Edmiston,
Willimina;
secretary
Francis Hunger, Forest Grove
, treasurer Marion Murdock. Tuala-
t,n- chaplain Mildred Hoover, (re
j ?l_ec_t_ed) Hillsboro; guard Ruth
Moffit,
Beaverton;
conductress
Ida Smith, Hillsboro; patriotic in­
structor Eva Overland, Tigard;
color bearers Mrs. Berhand, W il­
limina, and Nancy Nye, Jennie
Anderson, and Irene McCoy all
of Newberg, musician Alice Mul-
liken; McMinnville.
WEDDINGS
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Near
Sunset
Highway
Bridge
Phone ATwater 1089
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Is Important Vision.
An eye checkup with us,
helps yogi to keep your 'Eye'
on the road
Hours; Mondays, 9 - 1 2
Wednesdays 9 - 6
Fridays, 1 - 6
Saturdays, 9 - 6
NEVER Even in Depret-
gion Day« Could W e
Give More for the
Money
W hat Yon Save!
100 s of These Suits & Coats Below Wholesale Cost !
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Optometrist
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Washington Federal Savings
and Loan Association
To The Editor:
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for
Oregon’s covered pay roils for j
• CU LVERT
• D R A IN
last half of 1948 were running |
at well over a billion-dollar pace,
• SEW ER
• IR R IG A T IO N
setting new records and a gain of
12 per cent over the previous high
See Your Building M aterial Dealer
in 1947.
Reports from
18,091 of the
state’s largest firms, just compiled !
by the Unemployment Componsa-,
tlon Commission, show
fourth
quarter pay rolls of $252,135,272, \
slightly below the all-time high of [
$260 millions for the third quarter
Tor Results Try Our Classified Ads
—mainly because of an employ­
ment decline of 30,000 between
September and December.
The 1948 wage total of $972 mil­
lions exceeded the previons high
by more than a hundred million
and was nearly 22 per cent great­
er than the war-time peak of $799
million in 1944 Preliminary fig­
ures for the first quarter of 1949
show a 10 per cent drop as com­
pared with last year -alwys the
lowest three-months period.
Lumber nd logging pay rolls
gained $42 millions. 18 per cent
over 1947, to reach $272.000,000, an
all-time high. With related lines
of machinery, trucking and other
manufacturing, this leading indus­
by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation,
try accounted for half of the
increase in pay rolls last year.
an instrum entality of the United States Government.
Const ruoRion and trade made
A safe, profitable and convenient way to
gains of about 12 per cent in 1948
as compared with the previous
save or invest money.
year, while food processing with
annual pay rolls, just under $50.-
000,000 barely held its own. Con­
struction totalled $75 millions, and
Current Dividend
wholesale and retail trade $2551
millions for the year.
M EM B ER F E D E R A L H O M E LO A N B A N K
Covered
employment hit
the
year’s peak in August at 340.000—
barely over the war-time high in
June, 1943 but declined to 303,-i
000 in December. Figures for the ‘
bottom of the seasonal slump in
H ILLS B O R O , O REG O N
February are not yet available, j
'H A V E A Y E A R 'S IN C O M E IN A S A V IN G S A C C O U N T '
but preliminary estimates show a j
Accounts Insured to $5,000
drop of nearly 70,000 from last
summer’s high.
N IV IR In Our Hietory
Sueh Rig Value« at
N ig h t or B ay
« m l . « * . .n d
QUALITY CONCRETE PIPE
Your Savings Are Insured for
Safety Up to $5,000.00
Many are the homes this year in Tualatin Valley that were or will
Week before last 1 wrote you a
be touched by the high experience of graduatioon. Eighth graders letter which you kindly saw fit to
and high school seniors alike. In their own ways, count the year of publish
Nobody likes to admit it
REMEMBER
1949 as a marker of accomplishment.
when he is wrong, but on one im­
By custom, ceremonies which mark the completion of a school course, portant point in my letter I was
Terry's carry a com ­
are called commencement. For the eighth graders, It is the commence so far o ff that I hope you will
plete stock of Good Used
nient of an entirely new way of life high school. And for high school let me straighten it out this week.
My letter complained that the
furniture at budget prices
seniors, it is a jumping-off perch facing a mysterious unknown.
present policy o f production pay­
Those seniors who, in breathless emotion, march to the center o f the
ments to farmers was lop-aided,
stage to receive a hard-earned parchment are rightly on the threshold
TERRY'S FURNITURE
and that the consumer, including
of more than commencement. They are swiftly coming face to face all the farm consumers, might get
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with awesome responsibility,
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stuck if we didn't watch out. Now
Open 8 to 8 P. M Beav. 4703
Not all high school graduates will enter college In the fall In fact, I find that this point has been
a certain percentage will never be able to continue their formal educa­ recognized fully by the Department
tion. But what a shame and a frightful loss to the future of the nation of Agriculture and the Adminis-
if any of them pay little heed toward a better education, regardless 1 1ration,
Fur from sitting idly by and
o f formal schools and classes.
letting trouble pile up, ih«*re is now-
It Is well said that Experience is a great teacher. But the hard
before Congress a new program
knocks and reverses of Experience sometimes have a negative reaction
advanced by Secretary of Agricul­
And what comfort and benefit is the continual search for knowledge, ture Charles F. Brannon to meet
to soften the blows of Adversity that await the trails of the young' this situation.
In time of family
Should one be denied the "advantages” of higher schooling, there is
As 1 see it, under the Brannan
need, service from
nevr rtheless no excuse for him to neglect the finer, fuller development program, farmers will receive the
Finley s i t u dose
of his mind. The libraries are full or volumes which will extend the now-famtilar production payments
es your neatest
to keep on producing to meet ac­
scope of anyone's knowledge
phone 41 an, hour
It sometimes requires almost superhuman determination to pursue tual consumer need, so that pro our lacililas. ripen
education without the easier, more formalized assistance of an Instruc­ duetton won't fall short. Farmers
enee, consideration
will he paid the difference in cash
tor and fellow classmates. But concentration and application in private
end mtofMty are
between the support prices and the
study will sometimes result In a much firmer grasp of fundamentals
at you, instant
actual market price if the latter
All education, to be sure, doesn't come from hooks In any line is below the support level.
comm
of work which a young per^rn starts, there Is an almost unlimited
Under this program retail prices
The morituri
field for study, development and advancement What is needed as a can seek their own supply and
thol ¡ret et to
demand
level
without
ruining
the
first requires»ent, of oourse. is an understanding and realizatloon of
well when ron
poMlblllUes
farmer on the production end,
need to mnt h.
A dish washer may, by deteimined attention and sincere apprentice­ thereby protecting both farmer and
consumer.
Furthermore,
support
ship. learn the mysteries of the culinary art and go on from the
price* will now be put on milk,
lowly rung to a top porch In a most essential profnuitnn
ngg*. meat, fruit, vegetable* and
A deck hand on a river tug need not always remain so There are
N 'HM ■«••»- *!*••• t♦*•<>•! Ht**we«1
other perishable* not now protect­
Jobs of the future as marine engineers, captains of grand, sea going ed. as well as on the storeable t W r* IT MORTCOMIRT • â’ WITCH Jill
vessels or management positiona in the field of the Merchant Marine grains potatoes and fibres already-
A farm laborer need not always content himself with menial, sea protected.
eonal employ, xnt He might well have a constructive curiosity to spur
I note that the Farmers Union,
him in the «L d y and maatsty o f the magic knowledge of agriculture which is strong in Washington
County, has already endorsed the
and production of foodstuffs
The voung are so often Impatient They become mightily discouraged Br innan program, and many Gran­
Several
at the apprenticeships they must undergo and the training they must gers have also OKed It
W ENT END
of my friends who were well in­
have before being in a position of reaponslbllity. What they must
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formed in theme matter* let me
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n’ °'® Ihnn "contact* nnd "influence is the j know that I was a little o ff boat
CREMATORIUM
t«H ln« currency in economic existence
just as soon as my Isttsi appeared
MAUSOLEUM
The thrill* of graduation are not selfishly bestowed upon the prln- lMt '»•eh. and hereafter. I shall
cipal actors in the drama. Everyone wKh memory long enough can i l,e nM>r# careful to consult «ong
CEMETERY
relive his own thrills and trepidations on the occasion of this day ° f my f* rn,,,r ^'ends befo.e I get Complete Funeral Service In New
o f school finality.
i rnysolf into print
Cathedral Chapci at No Extra Cr»ai
Riverside is a cooperative assort-
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m .v „« .„ .„ d
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ation with assets of over 1800.000
Oodapdtd upon
State Payrolls
Pace $1 Billion
Set New Record
NOW
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SHORTY COATS
NEW LONG COATS
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