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NATIONAL
PAPER WEEK
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is • • •
SERVICE...
by the community of peoples
the news it contains, adver-
ts its columns, opinions and corn-
and the entertainment it provide s .
as rallying grounds for cam-
and programs in the public inter-
0 $ s
purchases include news-
metal, gas and electrical pow-
week these items are turned
finished product in q u a n t i t y.
taxes, consume mater-
a "trade named" item
any other plant upon which the
of a community depends.
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RETAIL, DOOR-TO-DOOR
individual copies of newspapers
is a definite retail function.
to and superimposed upon'
copies must be made available
and to supply postoffice
for many subscribers.
s 0 s
can be found the equal in
for a community? News-
Constantly tell the world of the
of the home town. Newspa-
mirror and reflect the
!ity of the community as a place
to live and make a livelihood.
• O •
a bit of information, or seek
and guidance? Invariably the
and will be answered around
office. Newspaper men
are never too busy to help
The bility, wide ac-
p and experience of news-
personnel is always at the corn-
°fthe community.
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ewspaper is all of these things.
more. The newspaper functions
Community enterprise can hope
day, its editors, publisher,
staff go about their tasks in
general public. It is only on such
the observance of
NEWSPAPER WEEK
and its personnel pause
remind its readers of the func-
free and undominated press in
the "Voice of Freedom . . .
Liberty."
IOURNAL
....... t
3Ir. I,'ran{,e Radtko
%Vrih. vohmne of viva-
l!ion, ilonls froni Cu.,h-
mall slid IIoodlmrt.
Country Correspondents
• Writing Up News
Mtson county correspondents
who write for The Journal have
somcthing in common. They all
enjoy writing.
All of these women who (:over
nearly every nook in thc county
in search of newsworthy notes,
the correspondents have to tend
their househoht while making
calls, attending meeting's, asking
questions and gclting "HNdCl' the
wire" at deadlme.
Most of the news is knit al'ollnd
the st/'ongest of social organiza-
tions the he/lie anti the cor-
resl)ondents sct into history the
visits, (.:dis, pa|:'ties anti activi-
ties that (!cnicr iz] tte various
homes.
Occasionally a correspondent
spots sonic unsual event llpon
which she elaborates and weaves
a fine featm'e that. e:m capture
the interest st" the gene|'al reader.
The diversity ()f appeal in the I
ews conling {tom the correspon- n
lents conies (rein the varied be.ok- I
grounds and interests that mohl I
their writing stylcs. 13at the ira- /
per(ant fatter "is tim "fla'e I'()r,
writing" that seems (.on/rllon 1(1
them all.
Itoodsport-Cushman
Mrs. Frances I(adtke is " proli-
fic writer who not only chron-
icles the social doings in her tcr-
ritory but ranges out into ahno:sL
all the holt(lay: commercial.
school, chL1FC]I ll'ld general ev-
ents. tter lnain ambition is to
write a book.
Among the ninny activities that
take lip her tilne [tl'e nlllsie tD(l
photography. The ILadtkcs have a
home orchestra, and Mrs. IIa(Itke
plays the piano.
ttaving lived ahmg the Canal
lnost of her life with occasional
periods elsewhere, she knows the
bterritory anti people of whom she
writes. She started school at Brin-
non 37 years ago, when she was
five years old. She has wri|len frw
The Journal for the past six years.
He is a member of the ttoods-
port school board, serving a.s cle|'k
and has organized a P.-T.A. group
there. She led a movement Is sc-
cure inter-county rm'al lil)rary
service.
Mrs. Radtle belongs to the
Hood Canal Womens CAub, Hood
Canal Garden Club, Itood (?anal
Sportsmens Club, ttoodsport Com-
mercial Club, Or(ler of Amaranth
and is a charter member of Bel-
fair Chapter 241, Eastern Star.
She belongs also to Skokon]ish
Valley Grange.
Despite her many activities
Mrs. Radtke as a housewife is
known for her homemade brea(ls
and cakes. When in Seattle where
she lived for 20 years she was
part owner in a furniture mann-
facturing company, had her own
dance hall where she led her or-
chestra for three years, and own-
ed half interest in a dress-stoking
establishment.
Mrs. Radtke took four blue rib-
bons at the Mason Coun:y 4-H
Fair for African violets and fop
her formal corsage. Her interests,
abilities, and ambitions are varied,
as her weekly coltimris show.
Matlock District
Because she has lived at Mat-
lock since she was born tllere in
1901, Mrs. Dora Hearing knows
her territory. She's been The
Journal correspondent for one
year, but about 25 Years ago sh
used to write the Lower Matlock
MRS. MARGUERITE LeGAULT
The rambling Ch,qnallum re-
glon taking in a wide area of
Southwestern Mason connty in
brought to the public eye each
from Mrs., LeGanlt's
Thnrsday
old Remington. nstt( Ilas lived in
Mason county for over 20 years.
Mrs. LeGault s elgnt Children,
and all four of her sons were
in military service d||rh|g the
last w'ir She lilts Served as
' '-- ," ,€ C.hiqlrllhllli ( hlb
)rCsl(lelllD t.. ' " ]
Pnd as lecturer fol' the ilatch,,r.'.
lind Cloquallum Il:anges. line ix
interested In intiszl% oiler.t, and
• -.hi,,. graduat, tl Ironl
drama, II{Ivmi , , "
's in Porimnd wit
St. Mary ,' : , h a
major in musiC: Mrs_ LeGault
has corresponded or The Jour-
nal for .4bo,t three Years.
MillS. I)()RA IIFAlllNG
('overs doings in Mill .
hll.lt, ileeville illiil l)eek-
ervilh, II I'lql.
,MRS. F'Flqlq I(NOWL'FON MILS. IiEI,I,A (10ETSCH
liean of country ('orres- Emliliaizes 'good fea-
pondent ,'over: Tohuya hires based (in fact (toni
dislri,'l. Belfalr and No'rth Sliore
Items when he name was Miss
| JOl'i-t Rc(liska.
She has driven bus for Mary M.
l(nighl, s(.hool for 12 years, watch-
ing the children grow up. She
says, "I love that work as I'm
very fond of Ihe children."
Mrs. ][earing helps her husband
Alvin will] the business of ()per-
sling a dairy and beef farm
which lies across the road from
Mary M. Knight school. It used
I(, t)e known as lhe Rediska farli1.
Mrs. I¢e(liska, 82, is now living
with the tlearings. Slie was born
in Switzerhnld.
Taking an active part in Mat-
lock affairs, Mrs. Itearing is lec-
tm'er of Math)ck Grange.. Iler
hobhies are relining flowers and
c,'ocheting.
Tahuya District
When aske(I to write lip some
notes on Tatmya recently, Mrs.
lqffie Knowlton, dean of The
• ]Olll']lal correspondents, c a m e
back with, "You don't know what
you a.sked for when you turned
me loose on Tahuya. [ collld go
on and on and on . . ." And she
did.
Spending his chiklhood days in
the blustery city of Chicago, she
longed for |he salt water' beaches
and mountains of the West Coast.
Mrs. Earl Harriman
Borli in King eotlnty in 1900,
.%tn's. Earl llarriman came to
Mason coun|y soon after and
has Ih'e(I here ever since. Pres-
I'iil, correspondent for 'r ]1 ("
,Iournal from Harstine lslaml,
Mrs. llarriman has lived there
most of her Ill'e. lh,r falher,
the late John !t. Ilaskell, lnid
the first gasoltne hlunt'h (in lhe,
ishln,I.
I)uring the years Sill" lilts se(.n
nlllLlly improvements in the fer-
ry sq.rviee, froln roll l)oat to
]annches to tile hlrg'e ferry,
wlllch Mr: Itarriman has ol)('r-
ate,I for 7}1 years.
The llarrimans have riilsed
two girls and It hey lind haVe
five griind('hihlren. ]%lrN. lhtrri-
Inan hits erve, d on lhe Harsllne
school iioltrd, was seerelary-
treasurer for the llarstine Wil-
mell'S (!lllll i it lylember ot
il'lrsline (i I'auge.
Correspondents
Without Photos
Some of the country correspon-
dents did not have pictures avail-
able for this Newspaper' Week edi-
tion, and some are modest and
€,thers bashful. The. wdue of each
correspondent to her eommlmity
is important, and all arc worthy
of mention.
MRS. SIGNE KNEELAND, who
wriles the Shelton Valley nol;es,
arrived in America in April of
1903, not understanding one word
of the English language. Stop-
ping in Minnesota for seven years,
she came to Washington in April
of 1909 and to Shelton a year
later. A friend and Mrs. Kneeland
niarried broLher.; and in 1914
moved fo Shelton Valley.
Mrs. Kneeland has been writing
the news since August, 1946 when
Usa Winsor moved into town.
"The Valley has not changed,
but the people who were living
here in 1914 have moved out or
passed away," Mrs. Kneeland
said. "Improvements w e r e a
grange in 1926, 4-H grounds and
telephones in 1949. electricity in
1928, and tim rm'al mail route
sometime in the 20's."
MRS, ANNE Y. KiNG has lived
in Dewatto ten years, has writ-
ten of it wo years. She saw it
decline as a logging community
and buihl ut) as a farming and
resort area.
During the war Mrs. King
taught at the Tahuya school for
threc years and has served as
Tahuya school board clerk. Am-
ong her extracurriculr activities
arc "chasing calves that ind holes
in fences, pruning trces and help-
ing with farm chores."
Mrs. King would like to start
once again a Sunday school class
in Dewatto.
MRS. S. E. GRIGGS has been
handling Minerva Park items for
the past six months, having taken
over from Mrs. Mable Johns. A
n'tive of Washington, she has
lived at Minerva Park for four
years.
"The greatest interest in life."
said Mrs. Griggs,"who has four
gr'l, ndcMldrcn, "is my young
great-grandson."
Until she started writing for
The Journal as a correspondent,
Mrs. Griggs had nover before
written for a new:paper.
Among the others who have
been writing community notes are
Mrs. Ether Shei)llerd, Allyn; Mrs,
R()e Beers, Dayton; Mrs. Dollle
Parsons, Belfair; Mrs. Helen An-
dersen, Union; Mrs. Christine Ahk
Belfair, and Mrs. II. P. llamilt.n.
Agate.
Sh(, remembers standing before
billboards picturing "contented
cows" grazing in mountain wtl-
leys and longed with feeling that
MISS EMILY BABCOCK
Sends in reliable items
{)f affah's at Plckerhig
Passage.
was ahnost akin to pain to be
in that peaceful setting.
In 1911 finding ]]erself foot-
loose and with the responsibility
of 'aising two children, she asked
God's guidanc.e and was whisked
out Io Seattle. She wished to "get
as far offt into the backwoods
as p(msible" and came to Telmy-
oh. as it was spelled in those days,
in 1912 with Fred Knowlton, a
Seattle real estate broker.
Born and raised in a newspaper
fore".her marriage in 1941.
Mrs. Strickland settled in
Grapeview two years ago, al-
though she visited in the com-
munity many times since 1932.
She is vice president of the Of
thopedic Auxiliary.
The Spoojners have two chil=
dren, Linda 5, and Robbie 3. The
Stricklands are .parents of four-
year-old twins, Edana and Diana.
Mrs. Spooner expects to have
a book published by the Caxton
Printers next May. It is called
"Tales From the Elves' Forest,"
and is written under her pen
name, Emilio Louise,Michel.
almosphere, she started recording * * *
the 'tetivities of the five families " "
.......... Lllhwaup
and assortment of bachelors that I uh,, ww,oes R I-Iill boo.n
war Tahuya, and hy 1913 was .................. t,--.
._", • } .... . > [sending news from Lilliwaup five
Senuing arc.tries o tne mason I nr ix years ao with news of the
C)unty Journal, Mr. Grant Angle, I ol'ganizations or which she serves
tit )r. t" . l as publicity chairman. ,
Mi s Knowlon exp,alns nat
" v. ' " " I Regarding her 'nose for news,'
"Tatnlya got on the map largely [ she commented, "I believe I in-
thr:mgh the efforts of our two } herited it from my father who
outstanding teachers, Orrie No-! was editor of the weekly Melrose
ble,; and George Kellogg." ..... --
"Writing is my chief hobby," • I I I III I
she said, Once it gets into the .........................
bloo(I, it is there to stay."
Belfair-North Shore
Mrs. ()ella Goetsch moved to
Mason coonty from Tacoma in
1932 and helpe(I (:lear a little
stump ranch on Harstine island.
Her first articles were to the
3helton Independent, now depart-
ed, and in 1937 she began writing
news and features for The Jour-
nal.
She went to Canano Island in
1(.)41 but came back to Mason
county in 1945, buying a five-acre
t)lace north of Belfair on the old
highway. She started writing for
the paper again.
Mrs. Goetsch says that "for pets
I have a husband named Rein-
]lart, i black cocker spaniel v.am-
ed Snowball. a Persian cat that
presents us with a basketfull of
fluffy kittens once a year and a
large tom cat. The cats were givo
on us by Mr. and Mrs. Irvie Win-
gert of Harstine six years ago."
Both Mr. and Mrs. Goetsch are t
eood gar0cners, who raise sur-.
plu.es of produce each year for t
neighbors. Mrs. Goetsch is presi-
I
dent of the Rhododendron Garden
Clut), and haa served as publicity
chairman of the Mason Cotlnty
!)istriet Federation of Women's [
clubs.
m ., I
Pickering Passage I
Emily Babcock sends in neatly I
written items each week from the
Picketing Passage area. She came
Is the community in 1942 from
Minneapolis where she was em-
ployed for' a nunlber of years as
caMlicr in a life insurance com-
pany.
After working for two years as
clerk in the Northern Pacific de-
pot. in She]ton. she bought a ranch
on Picketing Passage adjoining
that of her brother. "My brother
and I farm together, and our prin-
cipal crop is grapes," she. explains,
ad(ting, "No one ever retires to a
ranch, as that is when one really
slarts to work."
She has been reporting Pick-
ering news for about three years.
'4 .,
'Grapeview
Succeeding Mrs. Lydia Wren as
Gr:tpeview com'espondents a r e
Mrs. W. R. Spooner and Mrs. H.
M. Strickland. They have a bg'
job since Grapeview bubbles with
activity constantly.
Mrs. Spooner has lived in
Grapeview 30 years, with time
sp,'nt in Switzerland, Manchuria
T
and Lativia where her father was I
employed by the YMCA. She at-
tended Reed College in Portland
and the University of Washington
!
and taught school in Quinault be-[
MRS. BERTtlA TAYLOR
The Kamilche snow wax white
and deep last winter when onr
Kamilche correspondent had the
ahove i, lcture taken with one
ol her four children aml the pet
dog. Almost all the Kamliche
news comes from the pen of
Mrs. Taylor, who synthesizes
grange, 4-H and social doings iu
that community each week.
Mrs. Taylor belongs to the
V.F'.W., the Degree of ll,,nor
and I{) Progress Grange. She
likes to flsll, hut her other In-
terests are collecting creamer
and sugar bowls, raising flow-
ers and doing fancy work. Her
main amhition is to build a new
home.
MRS. W. R. SPOONER
Collaborates with Mrs. H. M.
Strickland writing up (Iral w-
vLew and Stretch Island do-
ings.
MRS. C. E. IilL
ll'iiip out f,!orful and,com-
plete news from the LllllWaUp
,listrlet ....
Chronicle at the time I was born
in Meh'ose, Wise? .......
While attending University of
Washington, she wrote for the
University Herald and during l
World War [ she was ,associate
editor of the Colville Examiner in
Stevens county. After her mar-
ri'lge she (lid part time newspaper
work.
'Phe Hills were married in 1922
at Lilliwaup and built a summer I
home on Indian Beach in 1940. In
1942 when her husband and sou
R0hert were in the ArMy, Mrs.
Pictures of Mrs. Radtke, Mrs.
Hearing, Mrs: (etseh and Miss
Balmock were taken by An-
drews. Tile pietnre of Mrs. Hill
was' taken by Markham of LIIII
waup.
.... IIII ............. fill I II I
community," she said. "They make
this county a fine place in which
to work and enjoy life),
Mrs. Hill has served as presi-
dent of te I-lcmd Canal,.Womens
Club and the District Federation
Hill and daughter Merrily made of Womens Clubs. She is a former
their summer home a permanent secretary of the Lflltwaup Com,
residence. munity Chib.
Club and community work has' "My chief interest at present,"
been the Lilliwaup correspondent'S states Mrs. Hill, "is 'trying to: e-
chief interest. "The people here tablish a cotlnty school dental
are generous in using their time health program being formulated
and talents for the good of the by the Dental Health Council."
I il I I ,Ill I II I I I
No man's collar!
A FAVORITE trick of those who would like to destroy con6-
dence in newspapers as the ill'st step to doing away with them
is to complain that they are the tools of special interests
dangerous to the people. Sometimes they say it is the bankeri
or the politicians or the labor unions or the advertisers---,
whatever fits the occasion.
Usually the critics have their own axes to grind. Vhat they
want published are their own opinions and not contrary ones.
They would like to be the "special interests" represented ex-
clusively in the newspapers.
If such people had their way, there would
not be the newspaper as you know |t today.
They would eliminate the great variety of
facts and opinions that appear and without
which democracy would not work.
To exercise your rights as a free citizen, you
must have free access to information. You
must know about laws and prices and theo-
ries and movements so that you can approve
or protest. Ignorant of events and trdnds, you
would not be able to keep your representa-
tives in government representing you.
Now you get the facts of what takes place
and you get the opinions of why they take
place and what should be done.You get all sides of q uestions
statements by bankers and borrowers, businessmen and labor
leaders, government officials and private citizens. The editor
has his views too but he can't limit his pages to them. Readers
include all sorts of people and all shades of opinions. If tim
editor wears any kind of a collar, it doesn't belong to one man
or group. The leash is held by all his readers.
What the critics don't want and are afraid
of is the diversity of facts and opinions brought
to you by newspapers They actually want a
one-class, one-idea pressthe kind that Hitler
had and that Stalin runs today. If they suc-
ceed, it will sound the death knell of freedom
in America.
These critics are your enemies as much as
they are enemies of the newspapers. When
they take away the right of a free press, they
take it away from you. They know that if they can control what
you read they can control your mind--and you. Working s6m&
times openly as committees with high-sounding slogans, they
are blueprinting what you shall and shall not read.
There is nothing particularly new in the pattern. But you
cannot ignore it without risk. If you permit these self-styled
leaders to take away your right to read what you want, when
instead of a free exchange of facts and opinions, you decide to
depend on the propaganda they hand out, you will have tikes
the first steps towards the loss of all your rithts u a tree oitizen.
Your right to know is the key to all your