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struction taught in the public schools, w ould bring fo r the next generation m ore far-reach in g re sults than would the cyn icism and hypocrisy o f an oth er set-to o f "bon e-d ry" P rohibition. Say.......... Published F riday o f each week by Tne P ioneer Publishing Co., Inc., at Beaverton. Oregon. Entered as eecond-claes m atter a t the Post O ffn e Beaverton, Oregon __ Publisher M anager Editor . A ssociate E ditor-O ffice Mgr. ___________________Advertising S T A N L E Y W. N E T H E R T O N ----- L. E. T U R C K ■ W A IJ .Y R A IN MRS ED N A B LACK ------ WM. (B ill) M O O R E ---------- n e w s p a p e r NATIONAL PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION CANDIDATES STEP UI’ ! EDITORIAL A s g o c5 A T 0 N MINISTER CONTENDS BILL TO BAN LIQUOR ADS WOULD CURTAIL EXCESSIVE DRINKING SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable In Advance U n A M ultnom ah Countie One Y e a r ---------------------------- $2.00 Two S e a rs -----— _____________$3.75 ih ree Y e a r s -------------------------- 6.00 Six m o n t h s --------------------------- 1.50 IN O R E G O N One Y ear--------------------------- $2.00 STATES Dear E d itor: I have been considerably con - I cern ed w ith the w ording and the [ content o f the recent editorial ! which is written in opposition to the proposed initiative to m ake the sale o f p rom otively advertised al coh olic beverage unlawful. I will not speak fo r our church excep t to say the M ethodist church is d ef initely behind this initiative and publicly state we are not an insti- ' with the open sate o f alcoh olic he%er* * es then tb eY were under J am n0t l o c a t i n g Pr° P°>Dt,D* out Z ' / *** imPres8ions from sources that give statem ents w ith ou t statistical p roof. r p ;, _ i ___ • - . edUoria is £ m editorial is that prohibition will $ 1.00 Ac MV^ M f M B E j l com e as the result o f the passage o f this bill. T his bill will not pro- hibit sale o f any brand o f alcoh olic beverage .th at is on the m arket That television might change many con- *“u?n that hldes lts PurP °se8 be- today. Provided it is not prom o- cepts of education and even alter procedures da" uTT, 87 7 me.n'3 The tively advertised. T his does not do There is a responsibility in being a can didate of letting people know. Everyone putting himself forward as a prospective public servant is, foremost, con- cerned with election. And in that effort, the outstanding mannerism is to curry confi dence and support. A candidate must let people know what his ideas are and how he arrives at con clusions. Whether this is done by the round about method of comparing present state ments with past statements or more directly in face-to-face discussions is immaterial. The test which a seeker-after-office should pass is that of basic qualification for the task he would assume. The history of political campaigns has many instances where a candidate offered an amazing platform of issues, all of which were promptly and unceremoniously neglect ed upon election. It is impossible for anyone not gifted with a sense of sure prophecy to promise results in office. Surely to foist such prophesies upon a voting public in order to win confi dence and support is the shakiest kind of political gambling. What is eminently more valid than blue prints of future acts is a sincere appraisal of the basic issues facing us now, as an indi cation of what to expect from critical de velopments of the future. A voting public likes to know the back ground of the men asking election. Certainjy the fact of family and of achievements in the past is accepted as a soand indication of fitness. No one elevated to public office need con sider Napoleon who siaer himself nimseii an an overnight overingm, napuieun wi.u has been favored with a ]>ersonal honor for which nothing more is due. Who ever is elected, to whatever position in county, state or national government, is basically a public servant and his responsibilities are in terms of public service. November 7 is fast approaching and it is the desire of .this paper that all candidates for all offices have fair opportunity to de clare themselves before the critical judg ment of the public. In the way of an invitation, therefore, we ask all those whose names will appear on the fall ballot to step forward and let the people know who they are, what they are and how they think on controversial issues of the day. W e will be glad to help anyone in his presentation of ideas. So, candidates, step up and say your piece! ED U CATION AL PROBLEM | j OTHER One Year ..... of the day seems distinctly possible. Yet in out for prohJ Uo8n weu7m caiTn its infancy as far as its potential is concern- j prohibition, w e are disturbed that ed, television might well be a significant anyone thinks we do business by auxiliary to the ordinary school room— or a the back d oor method, dangerous detractor............................... j i would like to know what "sh ad When Oregon is allowed on the television ow y in terests” are w orking for the bandwagon, it might find on its hands an proposed bill M v work on this bill has not disclosed any. I f they educational problem of some proportions. standable basis o f Prohibition, and not on the oendinar l".-*l o f har- rassing the liquor industry by »Peking to discrim inate against " ati° na,ly know n and advertised brands, e o ffe r no argum ent against ^ ° t* ? lp 7 ance the desirability o f voluntary abstinence. B ut we do decry the use o f sly su bterfu ge in attem pting to put over P rohibition w ithout h aving an open, fa ir label upon the m ove. We> fu rther, are highly suspi- cioUs o f P rohibition itself, feeling A s to p rom ou ve advertisin g o f prostitutes, as is suggested, one im portant point is overlook ed . The liquor business is not only legal but is a state m onopoly, by vote o f a citizenry w h o retired the sham s o f Prohibition. Furtherm ore, it contributes sign ifican tly to Ore- gon funds fo r old age pensions and welfare. Unless and until the u ,B. d u ltry ls declared illegal, its right . to free press in ad vertisin g its products cannot be UCI11CU denied W w ithout piCMJUC’ LS U d llU U l UC lin U U l fla g ra n t. unconstltutional d iscrlm . ¡natj0n I WATCH ! Kingsley Beaverton Lumber Company's Ad Next Week ™ „ay 7 V dVZ rti,,ing The COm- that a w idespread cam paign o f P H O N E B E A V E R T O N 3201 pany will be able to publish their education, by every means o f in brand nam e, the place where it is llt=MSI«SIH=IU=lll=lll=IN5HISIN3lliSII!3IH3M3llk=Uislllslll=lll=lll=lll=HI3IIISII sold and the price the public will pay fo r it. Is it logical to believe that doing I aw a^ with P™ m otive advertising addlti° naI drin kin g exist, what and who is responsible 13 If . , “ a states <part 2 par. fo r them |13) -I f d oin g aw ay with prom otive 1 I rem em ber the g a n g s t e r i s m ! ^ ^ " 1" / ° f " \ UOr w ° uld ln‘ w hich v existed in the day o f prohi- | 7 ! ! ! ! - , 7 " ! >Uld .“ ?.UOr com p an ies spend a billion dollars bitlon w hich was rightly accredited a year in ad v ertisin g? T hose men ___ ____ ___ ^ _____________ The shocking, cold-blooded _______ murder of a to b ootleg joints. I rem em ber the w ho advertise fo r the liquor com - state trooper by a pair of Woodburn reform- murder8- the prostitution problem s, EXCESSES PREJUDICE atory escapees seems to put an alarming dor * * / refe" ed „ ° in “ ** K°°d Job, they pad their pockets black mark against the administration of often the re8” 0) “ du° ¡¡'ncr í ñ at PT " C e,xpen8e w‘th° ut th° ught this state institution. what was called ,.rot r % e Ia» t0 the e ffe ct on the people. H ow However, against such an assumption, With the editorial on these state- / ° uld peop !e like to have Prom<>- ...................................... ■■ ad vertisin g of prostitution must ■ ■ be credited the brighter side of ■ the ments, but i would like to DOini picture. out that the editorial is leaving a J * * " ¡f * " age to° ys WOuld 866 every tim e they turned the A t the school, which has often been a fal8e im pression it is telling f e > inir pages o f a m agazine, passed a blll- people that conditions in the roar- veritable storm center of agitation and dis , , , . —7 . ...... board, o r a hotel w indow . Do you cussion, a a determined effort is bei being made t/ „ " . U a L. und! r Proh ibl‘ ion mean to say that a picture o f a were w orse than they are today. „ to rehabilitate youthful offenders. The fa ct ls that if the editorial t * . * " e " U ci" g " e g ,‘- Record of successes is, percentagewise, . . gee would not entice a teen age heartening even though the excesses of o f th e crim e today in v olv in g “ q jo r" bo^ T bp d ifferen ce in liquor ad- these two beyond recovery can but only pre- he would have a basis for com par- j v f r,tlsin g is tb a * b otb b° v 8 8 "d judice the public against the entire pro- ison. G eneralities that give fa l8e glr 8, m en and w om en are seduced. Our editorial w riter asks if there ¿ rani im pressions are no substitute for HITCH-HIKERS’ PASSING A symbol of the changing world is the matter of hitch-hikers. Twenty years ago and more, the practice of “ snagging a ride” from a motorist going your way was accepted. While there were less cars on the highway, at least this meth- od gave satisfactory Daasatre for manv from one end of the country to another. V’ There was a reward of gratitude, in those days, for any motorist who stopped to pick up a foot-traveler along the way. And, until abuses began to show up, the idea was not only tolerated but rather widely indulged, Today, however, it is against the law in most states to pick up *\ "hitcher” . Because of robberies, murders and lesser crimes which these pickups have encouraged, ac- ceptance of hitch-hikers is at an ebb-tide. . So now. on the public highway», a motor- ut whizzes by patient pedestrians of the outjutting thumb. And there is something to be lamented in the passing of an old cus- tom. The wistful expressions of those who ... i-V. _ . -Ar . . . , watch you go by Wltnout stopping IS almost statistics. An F. B. I. man from P ortland in form ed a local group that this i , . cou n try is goin g through one o f the w orst periods o f crim e and gangsterism the world has ever witnessed Our records today show an average o f tw o m urders per hour. W e have becom e so hardened to crim e that the public is not disturbed w ith hourly occu ren ces i would like to have published a is not som e oth er w ay o f cutting dow n on drin k in g than through prohibition. I can tru th fu lly say we are m ak in g an earnest attem pt . . .. , 1 to cu rb excessive drin k in g through educating our boys and girls on S jr te fa t rid o f that CO MOOIRH W/WJ BEAUTIFUL N ew AUTOMATIC CAS RANCE - af W A L W R S c4 re in g7. . P *rhap! \ " h o“ d await the , , , _____ „„„ C VIll„, lv con clu _ sion o f the editorial to . see 0”mpi!r/*ive»i,et i f4 f/ ures on vices if the w riter gives sound advice on year" d u rin g prohibition and T or h ow , t° HCiuru b( ‘ he problem o f e x -j any year Df the last ten. sh ow the ^ 7 8ive dr‘nk1"*- l f h* haa a Plan' num ber o f people in our hospitals | et U,S„ PUl ' ou count on me to support a plan that today because o f alcoholism and ~ “ i”8t "Vfnlal c/ lt,° l. < T e to K ,iq7 7 tto„ „ „ = ----------------------------------------------- EDITOR'S NOTE m ai M . D . TellS H O W u 18 perhnaps unreall8tlc Goo. N. T a y lo r enough to encourage you to disregard com- ..D rop a heavy m edicai book on moil sense and give the seeker a lift. that scorp ion and you settle h im -- Another development of the disrepute to deadly spider that he is.” So writes which hitch-hiking has fallen is shown by a m edical m issionary from South the attitude of many folk offered a ride by A frica. And w hy d o G od's people strangers. The reluctance of people to ac- K° aw ay out to A frica to tell the cept rides from just anyone shows up Gospel and live strongly. It? H ere ls w hy - These two trends are healthy. Motorists, G od did his part, on the one hand, should offer no encourage- H( gave Christ YOU Protected Against Auto Accidents? Drop in ot the PAXSON FINANCE CO. H orace H. M ounts Beaverton, O regon ] an* W F T IA N P «A S s a » K E 0 0 . S T O P Y S 8<>und principles, but what good is ^d u ca t‘ on " h e n m agazines, bill- hoards, newspapers, and taverns put so m uch space into advertising . the op posite o f what we are teach- has possibilities o f brin gin g about acciden ts which involved liquor results. Can you produ ce a m ore com pared to those in hospitals in con stru ctive bill than the proposed 1930 Com pare the num ber o f peo- la w ? Until that can be done, let us ple ln state in8t4tutl0n8 having support the best we have. old cooksfove for complete information about liability coverage «*0™- "A L L KINDS OF AUTO INSURANCE" pare present-day crim es with the law lessness of the P rohibition years. 1032 N. E. Conyon Rood T he serious fruit o f the bootleg- gin g era is yet appearing and must Lie. M-383 Phone 4665 be recognized as one o f the most < dam agin g results o f the "b on e-d ry” years o f furtive and w ide-spread | Indulgence in alcoh olic drink. M5IHKlll3lir5IH=IIIEIII=IH=lll£ltl=llt=m =lir=lll=lll£ll|=|ll=lii=ni=lll=lM =IIIEIII=lll2lH It Is im possible, for statistical ^ i . ____ purposes, to accu rately predict what our T od ay would be like had there been no im position o f P ro hibition. But it ls not d ifficu lt to recogn ize the patterns o f con duct and behaviorism which were en cou raged and extended by the na tional experim ent w hich, at great cost in m oney, lives, lawlessness and frustrations, dism ally and ut terly failed to en force an absti nence o f liquor. W e have labelled this ban on An older generation tends to measure a younger generation according to an exj)eri- ence pattern somewhat outdated. In the broad field of education this truism ment to young hitch-hikers who might have Chrl8t did His finds frequent example. Where, some years evil intent behind the rampant thumb. If part. past, the basic requirements for schooling you don’t pick ’em up, you won’t get in He gave His concentrated on "reading, writing and arith trouble. metic” , now a host of new subjects and And likewise for those who reject free Now to"day teaching techniques have come to the fore. rides. Long, hot walks are a better alterna- ^ o' he day of the If ever there was a challenge of a new tive than being picked up by a stranger and to do his era, it is in the field of education. Scientific have harm done you. part which is to and technological advances have come so Yet there is a touch of nostalgia as we fast that the once honored fundamentals realize that the hitch-hiker’s passing from l i ' t ' t & ' L ToT * T.y«or ^ U s e T ’ a^'hohe have, themselves, shrunk into increasing un the Scene. if they reject Christ as God the beverages as back d oor Prohibi- importance. The magnitude of future teach • • • Saviour who died for them. John tlon a8 h ypocritical, and as an ing problems is staggering to foresee. I ' l l K f ' K ITP U /I V T P n 16:7-11. A* you give the Gospel to oblique co m fo rt to forces o f evil. the unsaved all about and abroad, vice, corru p tion and im m orality One of the influences steadily growing in , y ° u ob eY ***• 28:IB-20 and you pro- w hose roots form ed du rin g the currency most everywhere but Oregon is Regardless Of how careful a driver may niote G od's plan o f calling out a roaring tw en ties" and will thrive television and the problems it pressupposes I k >, unless his vehicle is in good shape he is p * ° p >« on whom to spend his love PVPn m ore fiaKrantiy at first en will have a serious impact on future educa subject to trouble or disaster on the high- for now and all etern ity Acts 15:14 couragem ent. tion. ways. And a host of unpleasantness, too, can ‘ And 8° ' do you Rlve the G o*Pel D eny it if you will. But be as- | On a trip east, where television has piuss- come from neglect of the mechanical side of nex.l H ,u l to ti **„*n. < ?8 °f 8ur<,d on o n * unyielding fa ct: P eo ?cnanicai side of ed the first stage of mad novelty, this fact e a rth y I>> you hack G o d s plan . pje jyfU drink, regardless o f laws your transportation means. was repeatedly pointed up— that television ,b a t P ro h ib it it. With the advent of crisp autumn weather,! changes home life. The task of getting there is a warning that stands out plainly 3 w M cC he.nev Rd P ortland 1 r .If * 7 Tu 7 P7 anc7i 1 ° f school lessons done at home becomes really and should be heeded for greater safety, en- O regon This space paid for by a aboi , prohibition, let them call for burdensome when such necessity must com joyment and economy against the demands 1 Seattle fam ily. a referendum on the clear, under- pete with a television screen. of constant repair hills. Home life, too, is remarked as being less '* 'At 'At Mf Mt 'At V t y t ’At Mt MB y.t 'At Mt Mt 'At , The Chevrolet company, of Detroit, lists of the traditional bout with the evening its conception of a checkup for fall, in prep paper and conversation among members of aration of winter: the family. With a video program in the Battery should he tested for strength and front room, the entire family focuses upon J battery terminals and cables for corrosion it and the usual |>attern is radically changed. and proper contact. America is traditionally a nation of movie When indicated, winter-grade lubricants in goers. A multimillion dollar industry has Wm SPEARS crankcase, transmission and differential is been built upon this public fancy and, as far advised, along with complete chassis lubrica as education goes, audio-visual means have tion. been accepted by most progressive schools Radiator should lie carefully inspected, of the nation. With television, its strongest anti-freeze arranged for and hose connec appeal is based in the national popularity of tions scrutinized against leaks in the cool films for entertainment and enlightenment. ing system. Perhaps its weakest point ut present, The electrical system should be checked, Follow however, is the choice of material televised. to spark plugs, cables and ignition systems Like early radio, programming of television to assure that they are properly functioning, stations does not seem far advanced. It with no loose wires or worn insulation to seems inescapable that many hours are bring about trouble in cold weather. wasted in watching programs that neither To contribute to traffic safety, the in- add knowledge to the audience nor highly spection should include brake and steering Vour com m unity m orticion since 1910 entertain it. gear, the anti-skid quality of tires and re- • The science of education, having recog placement of worn windshield wiper blades nized moving pictures and adapted film- for clear vision under all conditions. Rhone 3411 BEAVERTON. OREGON makers’ techniques to the classrooms, will There will l>e many more times of pleasant undoubtedly reach out to television and spur driving in the cold months ahead if we take its development along lines of documentary time to check up for winter! films and historical radio scripts. 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