MILL CITY ENTERPRISE, JULY 28, 1949
and cowhands sat around, drinking people who are compelled by circum­
terrible whisky and telling wonderful stances to remain in the woods, on
By JIM STEVENS
lies. Both were educational institu­ farms, or in small towns.
tions for me in the way of the wri-
One authority has termed the typ­
DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY
ter.
ical American university a “rolling
One morning in the year of old
A prime winter it was for a free mill of learning." He sees much of
1909, 1 entered the Carnegie Free
and
footloose lad of 16. I had been their output as junck unalloyed. He
Public Library in Boise and found it
out
alone
and making my own living calls much of the education it offers
to be the door of opportunity for
me. In that winter I attended the li­ for three years. The writing of books waste. I do not disagree. Journalism
brary mornings and afternoons, then had been but a daydream all the and story-writing, for example, are
taught in all universities and col­
in the eveings I attended the Silver while. The dream found substance in
leges—why only the Lord knows.
the
Boise
library,
and
it
found
sub
­
Bell, a huge hall of learning with
stance in the tall tales heard in the The majority of the enduring Am­
sawdust on the floor and rows o f
Silver Bell Saloon. The combination erican noveils and short stories were
chairs in which old miners, loggers
was—not bad. It unlocked my par­ written wit-holt benefit of college ed­
ticular door of golden opportunity. ucation- by the like of Mark Twain
The libiary, of course, was the and Edgar Allen Poe. These two were
So was
also great in journalism.
real thing, an American glory.
Walt Whitman, never a collegian,
Hobo Genius.
In 1909 the name of Jack London once a carpenter.
IN GATES
There is reveence in me for what
was famous among hobo workers of
GLEN HEARING, Prop.
the West. At that time I had only is good in the university. The worst
i read his “Call of the Wild.” In the to be said for the institution is that
Boise library I looked up his works it is in danger of becoming another
The
and found a new novel by him— monstrosity of centralization.
“Maitin Eden.” It was autobiograph­ worst to be said about the public li­
ical. The novel was read as a book of brary as an institution is that it re­
mains the poor relation of education
revelation.
I
in
America.
Like Jack Lindon himself, “Mar­
tin Eden” was a child laborer, hobo,
social rebel, in the era of the 72-
hour week and the going wage of 15
cents per hour. In the gray ar.d dim
By JEAN ROBERTS
depths of this life he miraculously
Harold
Fisher of the U. S. Navy,
harbored the gem-like flame of cre­
stationed
at Newport, Rhode Island
ative spirit. At the public library he
fed it. There he leceived education • was an unexpected guest at the Ray
I that was simple and genuine-the kind Roberts home Wednesday. Haiold
| of education that produced a Whit- was accompanied by Mrs. Oral Varley
■ man, a Mark Twain, a Dreiser, a and Sandra of Buxton.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Metzger and
Sandburg all non-university men.
1 Jack London was a fighter.
He Itiyllis, and Mi. and Mrs. Robert
For a com for table and
l fought his way into the Univeisity Kinney and Bill all from Gresham,
inexpensive place to stay | of California. There his associations spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and
| with people of wealth snuffed out Mrs. Ike Myers.
it’s- - -
| the flame of art in him and set him
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hooper
| burning with a fighting desire for family fiom Texas arrived at the
money. So he wrote for money, ex­ Bickett home Friday. They expect to
cept in “Martin Eden” and a few- stay until next Thursday.
other books and short stories.
He
It’s the Hospitality
A horde of pickers, 27 in all, men
came to a tragic end.
women and children descended upon
Too Much College.
the blackberry patches up this way
People automatically think of high Monday. They were transposed via
school, thg college, the university as Bill Bickett’s truck. A good time was
the doors to what is called getting had by all even if the weather was a
an education. Yet in business, in the little damp.
professions, in the arts, even in the
Mr. May Quier and Mrs. Fannie
sciences there are very, very many
Howard were week-end guests at the
leadeis whose education has come in
Ray Robeits home. Mrs. Howard is
lioraries and home study.
»spending the week.
Authorities have been arguing for
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Newsome of
a long time that the university, as
Mill
City visited Mr. and Mrs.
an American institution, has grown
to be too weighty and bulky. At the Bickett Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Knox
same t'me, the free public libiary is
underfed, under-housed, under-every- family of near Mill City were Elk
thing that makes for the educational hoi n visitors Sunday.
services needed by ambitious young
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vice-president of the Synodical, was
speaker at the missionry meeting of |
Presbyterian church Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mis. Herbert
Schroeder. Mrs. Ralph Scott had the
Scripture mailing.
The Christian Endeavor rally of the
First Christian Church will hold its
next meeting at Holly, Sunday July
31.
Glass jars to leceive patrons’ do­
nations to the Chin-Up club, an organ
zation of Oregon’s handicapped pers- 1
sons, are this week being placed in
all taverns in Marion and Polk count­
ies.
The Stanley Walzak pioperty has
been sold this week to Mr. and Mrs.
I.anghoff of Wisconsin according to
local real estate office.
Miss Josephine Wolverton of Chi­
cago, arrived Wednesday morning to
visit her brother. Challes and to plan
for the return of her mother, Mrs. W.
I. Wolveiton to Chicago.
Miss Wolverton is professor of mu­
sic at Northwestern University, Evan
ston, Illinois and is also supervisor of
music in the Evanston public schools.
The Long Range Planning Com­
mission Tuesday approved a new
division on the south shore of
North Santiam.
The addition was developed by
Cain, Cecil Lake and Gladys Lake
on property between the Silver Sad­
dle station and court and the rjyer.
It was surveyed by Al Geddes.
A street leads from the highway
to the development, which has over
20 large lots, each with frontage of
100 feet or mote, most of them on
the river on the north boundary.
The application was reviewed Wed­
nesday night by the City Council.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Davis and Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Galbiaith are leaving
soon by plane for Dayton, Wyo., to
visit the Ted Dorothys.
Oscar Brown of St. Helens visited
his sister, Mrs. Frank Blazek, and
family over the week end
Mrs. Johnnie Pru tt and Darlene
Davis of Lebanon were in Mill City
Monday to visit her mother. Mis. Ada
Leedy.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Roberts and
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Farmen went
to Ciater I.ake over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stewart went
to Lebanon Sunday to watch the mar­
athon between Paul Smith and the
horse.
Mr. and Mrs. John Montgomery
and daughter are moving to Alban.
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Frederick Rugh was in Mill City
Robert V’eness, secretary of the Wednesday. The Rughs p an
Mill City Chamber of Commerce at­ turn Aug. 15. Mrs. Rugh and
tended the meeting of the Canyon in Eugene.
Commercial Club at Detroit Tuesday
Bert Tumidge will return
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