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hills they ache for level stretches of some far-away
And, it appears to us, it would be a foolish thing
state. What lures them one place continually gives to do. Suppose you were climbing one of the nearby
Entered as second-class matter way to beckoning features of another. Or at least so mountains of southern Oregon. Say you had climbed®
February 19, 1932, at the post office they think. In reality, when the newness of a com for a long time, yet were not near the summit. While
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at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the
sitting
down
to
rest
and
review
your
progress
you
”
munity or country has worn off and it is time to settle
act of March 3, 1879.
down to the less exhiliarating work of everyday living noticed that your course had varied and that had you
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Usually equities are abandoned, what material pos would plan your future path from where you rested.
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and a tent and away go the gypsies. It is a lot of fun, simply because you were a little to one side of your
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but then the trip always has to end somewhere. They goal. And the family we referred to would think only
usually find themselves in a new community, total of the immediate prospect of coasting downgrade and
June 24, 1932.
To the Editor:
strangers and out of both work and money, They not concern itself with the additional climb when the
Have just read your editorial,
“Why We Have a Depression.” must again start from the beginning, build their bottom was reached. The same reasoning applies to
Think this to be one of the very status up to a certain fairly comfortable point, grow government and parties, to politics and to everything.
best I have ever read and it no
doubt IS one of the reasons. You restless and repeat the process. It is easy for them It always is wise to plan from the present and to stay
have written into your editorial a to throw everything overboard, leave old friends and by friends and systems which have served well in
certain thought that even those
who previous to now—might have haunts and hike out for new destinations.
the past.
been skeptical, but after reading
This
family,
in
its
folly,
thinks
it
is
following
the
And this brings us back to 1932. The depression
your expression I am sure that
many will change not only their course of least resistance when circumstances seem has awakened us with a start to the fact that we had
opinions—but their actions as well.
This certain type of business to be stacked against them. They think it is easier to been a little off course; that our climbing, while con
method is just what this home- get out, leave a difficult and unappealing situation tinuing steadily, was a bit misdirected and taking us
owned studio has to combat. As an
example—I know of many county and start all over again. And as a result, this same toward a different goal. But, because taxes are en
school teachers who have patron family, after nearly a lifetime without an anchor, veloping us and times are hard we should not consider^
ized this particular studio I have
in mind, ar.d then they will wonder faces today the impossible task of starting over again for one moment coasting back down and then starting If '
just why they are to suffer a cut in the midst of a world-wide depression. Other fam all over again. The thing to do is to conserve what we
in salary next year.
The Central Point American has ilies, more stable and more willing to stick when the already have, for God knows we’ll have a tough
asked me to send them any ma fun was but a memory, have taken the true course of enough battle anyway, and right our directions. The
terial that would be of interest to
their readers and I am today send least resistance—a straight line toward their goal. sensible thing to do is to pay the oppressive taxes, do
ing this editorial, for it is so ap When times were tough or life lost its appeal they away with constitutional amendments that won’t
plicable to the situation that the
worked the harder, saved more and now, as a result, work and fight like the devil himself to get through
iocal studios are facing.
Yours very truly,
they are weathering the storm with comparative ease. this depression without losing any of the advantages
J. VERNE SHANGLE.
They are reaping the modest harvest of seeing beyond we already have. The time has come when it is little
their speedometer.
fun and much hardship to be a citizen of these United
Pilot Rock
And the same principle is true in government and States, but then that is true of life in all its branches.
politics. Where some suggest we throw all the pres We are feeling the thorn today and not sniffing the
By Alice Applegate Sargent
High on the summit of the Siski ent equipment overboard and beat it off to some new fragrant rose— but that is no reason why we should
you mountains in southern Oregon system which, at least, would be a change, others are cut down the rose bush!
stands grand old Pilot Rock, the
And, just as true as it is far wiser and the course
travelers’ friend, the immigrants’] looking beyond the speedometer. They are willing to
guide, piloting the way to the roll up their sleeves and go to work. They realize that of least resistance (in the end) for the restless family
promised land.
For many miles on every side this, of all times, is not the season for jumping from to stick and fight it out against all odds, it also is
this great gray rock stands out one thing to another, or pushing all present systems true that the course of least resistance for ourselves
against the sky, like a beacon light
to the weary voyager, to tell him built up through hard-fought war and privation over as citizens and taxpayers is to accept things as they
the harbor is near.
To the pioneers this old land the cliff. They feel that, although things are not per are and forget this clamoring for new parties, gov
mark was invaluable, guiding the fect and that graft, corruption and injustice exist in ernment and system of taxation. The bonus army
way, giving courage to despondent
hearts with the promise it gave spots, it is far easier to weed out the bad parts and which marched on Washington has set a fine example
that the end of the long and toil repair them than to throw everything overboard and for all of us to follow. In the face of opposition and
some journey was near. Like “the
which refusal to their demands, and with insult added to
shadow of a rock in a weary land” have to build an entirely new government
it held out a promise of toils over, would certainly have its flaws also.
injury by the passage in congress of the pork barrel
and a resting place.
relief
bill which equals in aggregate the sum asked®,
Of course such evil forebodings as some editors
To the tourist this old landmark 1
is interesting—to the descendants ! pass out have one value—they center our interest on
for by the ex-soldiers a few days before, the men, w
of the pioneers it is precious for
the memories it brings of the days reformation, correction and a return to original prin many hungry, in rags and broke, withdrew peacefully
so long ago, when the pioneer
mothers and fathers watched ciples for which this nation was founded. But they and sang the national anthem.
through the distant haze for the deliberately point the wrong way out of the mess.
The bonus army realizes, as we all should, that
first glimpse of the grand old rock,
They suggest jumping from the frying pan into the government—bad as it may or may not be—is the
which would pilot them home.
fire. Or, if they don’t suggest it outright they do in people, afnd to go back on government is to go back'
AN EXALTED STATE OF MIND directly through their crystal gazing and forecasting.
on ourselves. So, let’s give three rousing cheers f(,r^i
Says Professor Richard Burton: They are just another example of the group which the Fourth of July and those brave men, Americans —
“To students plaintively inquiring
of me, ‘What good will the study attempts to cash in on the general unrest and dis like ourselves, who declared their independence and
of Browning’s poetry do me?’ I satisfaction of humanity and are about as useful as launched the greatest nation on earth I
like to reply: ‘It will give you a
state of mind which you will find those predatory humans who wax fat from the mis
the eqúivalent of a Rolls-Royce fortunes of others.
car. Thus it will save you several
thousand dollars.’ ”
The story of our country to all but the youngest
That is a perfect answer to a
child is trite and has been repeated so many times it
lot of similar questions.
What good does it do a man to loses its significance. Everyone remembers thrilling
fish in the Canadian woods? What
good does it do a man to live in a tales of adventure, brilliant wars won and less excit
fine home? What good does it do ing accounts of starvation, torture and sacrifice over
a man to smoke first-class cigars?
What good does it do a man to a period of several hundred years to reach the goal
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we
are
still
striving
for.
Although
the
government
we
Let’s follow Professor Burton
and say it gives one a luxurious cuss today has its faults, it represents decades of hu
or an exalted state of mind.
We all seek this state of mind man life being offered on the battlefield and years
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living in a 30-room house, by rid
ing the high seas in a private at Washington, the privileges and burdensome taxes
yacht, by sailing over the boule all represent the fruits of struggle. And just because
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vards in a $10,000 automobile, or
by ordering everything on the bar our battle is not over some of the country’s editorial
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ber’s list.
Others can get it from looking plifying life, of reducing the cost
at an etching or a marble figure of a happy existence.
in an art gallery, from reading a
I believe in teaching everyone
book, from looking at a sunset or something practical; we should all
a tree, from listening to a sym know the technique of a trade,
phony, or from an evening’s con some way of making a living. Ev
versation with a congenial com eryone should work, and the ideal
panion.
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That’s all there is to culture. It’s' joy his work,
a way of easing the spirit, of sim- 1 But we need something else—
something that we can put into our
minds and think about when we
are through with our ledgers and
lathes and brick and mortar. If we
can cultivate a deep liking for im
agery and sounds and lines and
color we have a shortcut to that
perfect state of mind which many
find so expensive and elusive.—
William Feather.
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