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Editorials:
Public is public
The Journal almost had a hot scoop for you on Novem-
ber 16. Instead, we have an extremely frigid item on page
one of this week's edition.
This lapse of a month in our news coverage occurred
because a public record was stuffed in a desk drawer in-
stead of being put in its proper place.
On November 8, Dave Beck, Sr., former president of
the Teamsters Union, brought his prospective bride to Shel-
ton from Seattle to obtain a marriage license. Early this
month, the Seattle dailies headlined the marriage of the
couple; then, Tuesday morning of this week, the Seattle P-I
reported they were honeymooning in Hawaii and had ob-
tained their marriage license in Shelton.
The Journals news editor, AI Ford, who has the boring
task of wading through the public records each week,
turned a brilliant shade of angry red. For the first time in
six years of this miserable weekly chore, he had a chance
to dig a good news story out of the record books, and had
been prevented from doing so because the license applica-
tion of Mr. Beck and his bride was not listed when it should
have been.
Mason County Auditor Mrs. Ruth Boysen told Ford
the couple had requested that the application be kept con-
fidential, and that she had honored their request.
This was a thoughtful personal accommodation on the
auditor's part, but certainly not in the public interest.
Marriage licenses are a matter of public record, and this
means all marriage licenses.
We hope this incident won't be repeated in the court-
house. We'd hate to be scooped by the Seattle dailies if
Jimmy Hoffa decides to buy a summer home on Hood
Canal.
Letter box:
Plews was misquoted
Editor, The Journal :
• It is unfortunate when one
representative to a community
group mis-quotes and rots-inter-
prets the words and meanings of
another. It is especially unfor-
tunate when the misunderstand-
ing is aired first in the public
prints.
Mrs. Dugger's letter to the edi-
tor of last week was inaccurate
in regard to the remarks of a
f e 1 l o w representative, Gary
Plews. According to the steno-
graphic record, what Mr. Plews
said was addressed to the prob-
lem, appropriate, and its mean-
ing was totally at variance with
Mrs. Dugger's interpretation.
In addition to causing embar-
ressment to Mr. P]ews, the letter
seriously damaged LANCE
new civic group which migl ..
time, accomplish some goou for
the community.
If the members of an organiza-
tion cannot carry on a meaning-
ful discussion without danger of
personal attack, then obviously,
discussion will cease. LANCE
cannot do the work it is designed
to do unless its member clubs
and their representatives learn
to pull together,
Elaine Cook
President, LANCE
*y
Bur the hatchet
Editor, The Journal :
• Grandpappy an€ Portagee
Joe says now that the holidays
are here, we should all show our
Christian faith by burying the
hatchet,
Ever since the Viet Nam situa-
tion our President and his fol-
lowers in Congress have been
given a bad time by members of
his own party and also some of
the other people who do nnt ap-
prove of what is going on in
Viet Nam.
The President and his advisers
have been trying to get the Viet
Cong to agree to talk on a peace
program, without any success.
Now, he is our President and
they are all our Congressmen
and their feelings are no differ-
ent than all the rest of us.
It would be nice if all of us
would send our President and all
our Congressmen a Christmas
card and guarantee the President
and Congressmen, if they should
want to use every weapon and
means to stop the war, even if
it means to land troops and de-
stroy everything in North Viet
Nam• This in the long run may
save a great many American
boys' lives and also let the North
Viet Cong leaders know, that he
is our President and in time of
war we stand united behind him
regardless of the demonstrations
of a handfull of idiots who are
burning our flag.
So mail your card and have
your neighbors mail theirs so
they may have a Merry Christ-
mas and a Happy New Year.
J. L. Parsons
Union
Strong when weak
Editor, The Journal:
• The apostle Paul said: "There-
fore I take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses f o r
Christ's sake: for when I am
weak, then am I strong."
He meant when he acknow-
ledged his weakness before the
Lord he was being strong.
It is the same way with man.
He thinks he is being weak if
he calls on the Lord, whereas
he is being strong.
He is weak when he refuses
to acknowledge his need, and
thinks he is strong in his own
strength. The strength whereby
we receive from the Lord is suf-
ficient for any difficulty we may
have.
When man accepts Christ as
Saviour, God gives him strengtl-
to carry through. He may think
some will laugh at him for be-
coming religious, but as he grows
in grace he will realize God has
blessed him for becoming a
christian, and it does not matter
if people laugh.
If he will live as God tells
him to, he will have power from
on high to overcome worries
over what others may say and
do.
Psalm 18:1: "I will love thee,
O Lord my strength•"
Evelene Farrell
Shelton
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Published at Shelton, Mason County, WasMngton, every Thursday.
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Henry G. Gay
PLANT SUPERINTENDENT Jim Shrum
OFFICE MANAGER Lodema Johnson
NEWS EDITOR Alarl Ford
OFFICE ASSISTANT Mary Kent
SOCIETY EDITOR MarJ Jacobson
ADVERTISING MANAGER- Don Adolfson
• II 1
• " " " Greeting Drawn by June Barren -- 4th Grade, Bordeaux School
.. ---..,. .... ".
Best wishes for a happy holiday from the little
elves who brincj you the Journal each week--
Lodema Johnson
Mary Kent
AI Ford
Jim Shrum
Don Adolfson
Mar i Jacobson
Jim Gillette
Ken Pierce
George Myers
Stephen Gay
Calvin Bikadi
Bill Dickie
Barbara Nelson
Alice Ann Fitzgerald
Adella Dwyer
Cathy Cardinal
Gary Busack
Scott Busack
Mike Johnson
Charles Gay
Julie Coay
Fern Gay
Mabel Kidd
Carmen Ya÷es
Lois Pierce
Elda O÷÷o
Frances Catto
Dora Hearing
Dorothy Costa
Codg Brooks .... :
Mary Valley
Mrs. Ray Kratcha
Nancy Vrahnos
Jan Donaldson
Vicki Valley
Jan GwinneH
Teresa Trimble
Rick Burrell
Emily Meyer
Steve Erickson
Henry Gay
The
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By .S'T'E vLi ,
What? Put baboon ,>.: .....
That's what it says ig : . ,. " ,.:r.
"Baboons Seen as T ..... ' "
screams the headline: ad i.:'.
slightly sickening?
I don't begrudge thcs _ :i : ..... : :i. : .ibblig
and dabbling in heart, liver :::; : andif
they want to transl)lant haic ::: : :>
foliated dome, that's all ,q;*
But baboon compenenl:z, i i: : :: ::, 7
one too many monkey shhes r: ,, i ; i :: ,,%,G[OI1,
So far, baboon innard,s , ; , :,,i Jr,
people. Science has, however, l ,,, , p:,, ..y, ir
Rhesus monkey with satisfw, t -, : :
Rhesus monkeys and h* .......
so this compatibility of o'#: ' : : , : &rid
prise! The article tells us thi; ;],_ : .... . -.v: :f(.,c
kind because :
"The baboon and mat a'." " :' i :.r.,'" toO,
That's nice, but l'm no c ,, e ;.yybodY
opens me up and trades an apv '0; :,ven tU"
my, J want absolute assur:.::<: ut of
operation looking like the -is.:i ,
I have no desire to go o> ; ;::,. : i , :-,. ,;,:,i:.
Girl baboons, even v,.,ry >\>. ;') . ;" ,.. ,,. ut,
do a thing for me.
Only my wife is privil::w:! , :::i:: ,, %;
me.
In short, I refuse to go a]>:
I believe I'll solicit t]> ,., i, t: ; i}!,
eiety in eliminating thi:;, m ;'&
"They're storing bab*,o>::: L ' : ' ' ; t )' "
"They keep thern i thff ;:;: : :'-dem
nuts and 'naners and any i > i,,o, 2oO
so they'll be fat and healthy :,:: ,, . . , ,,>'s
for the knife,"
We'll move ill a.p.d roY,:> ,
with nature.
If these experime>ts ?' , ::: : :,:. 5'
one day meet a person with * ,, , :,
lamb--and baboon kJdn,:<>
He'll have every '* ..... '
"1 just don't feet like '> c.; { :
Capitol
Federal,
t
ated by the federal couris. W} "
he stepped into office he ini,:ri-
ted the legislalivc redisiri,tm.
decision which kcld his it.',
Legislature dcadh)cked for 47
days before it solved lbe i;roI>
lem and was able lo gr, on u
other business.
There have been olhcr desisions
of minor irritalion, })ul the I;I,.'M,
granting abutting propert5 ovv>.e.-
title to accrcled lauds, up:<q:
elaborate plans for slate (h vciob
mcnt of ils ocean t),aclu,.q. At,.
the State Supreme Cot.rl had
ruled that the slate owned ih,.
lands which had accrete,] bu.-
tween extreme high hi(h. ad
original property lines, n{b,,,ly j
state government dreamed h:l
the U.S. Supreme Court wtutd
upset it.
BLEAK FUTURE
Now that the bomb hc, Ia]I,'>.
the future looks bleak for uti]iz>.
lion of a law enacted earlic; lh>.
Industry has plenty of jobs and good pay for qualified'"0000n00g00:o00"
By IAN MacFARLANE
in the Vancouver Sun
Despite educational techniques greatly superior to
those in use only 10 years ago, we are not yet able to teach
people to be intelligent. We are merely able to exploit the
greater facility for learning demonstrated by those pos-
sessed of native intelligence.
An education, in the fullest sense of the word, does not
come necessarily, or even predominantly, via a college de-
gree.
Since Western society has been in the business of
processing as much of our youth as possible through the
educational machine, we have and are going to have, a high
proportion of "qualified" idiots. When you educate and
train fools, you end up with educated, trained fools.
Nobody has to be even halfway bright to stay with our
academic system at least as far as college. Indeed, the
prerequisite for unquestioning compliance, the capacity to
conform, to stay in school and pursue diligently those areas
of study that the waiting industrialists recommend, seem,
to me, to be a singular lack of imagination, of stodgy, closed
mindedness and spiritless fear of facing social conse-
quences reserved for those who dare to be different.
Thus we have, as an end result, a considerable per-
centage of our maturing youth, whose mentalities, while
not actually retarded, are not particularly stimulating
either, who have been motivated primarily by fear of the
alternatives, emerging from colleges fully "qualified" to
perform some of the more respectable and remunerative
functions in society.
In positions of responsibility and autkgrity, they are
as unquestioning of society's criteria as they were before.
As future employers they oo will demand certificates, di-
plomas and other precious pieces of paper as sole evidence
of an individual's worthiness to be granted the merest op-
portunity for a moderately decent future.
The average employer today apparently doesn't know
that Marconi, Edison and Mark Twain were school drop-
outs. He couldn't care less tha* Winston Churchill hated
school or that Einstein believed examinations hinder edu-
cation. That Woodrow Wilson couldn't read until he was
11 causes him not a moment's thought. He "knows" the
way of it. He "knows," with the complete self-assurance
of the thoroughly mediocre, what counts in this vale of
tears.
The constant attempts to establish a system whereby
we may judge and differentiate among our fellow men is
an admirable undertaking but, as usually happens to a
system that becomes adopted by the mass of people, the
significant aspects become distorted and misunderstood.
Look how grossly misrepresented was the Darwinian The-
cry of Evolution when interpreted by the uncomprehending
masses.
The originators of intelligence tests probably under-
stood what they were endeavoring to evaluate and what
qualifications and reservations to apply to the findings.
Today, when the whole education jag is geared to the
prosaic business of earning a crust, when there are such
vastly increased numbers of teachers and educators that a
horrifying majority must, inevitably, be mediocre, the
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much revered teaching professi,; :; ,:. t:{iiy
what it's trying to prove with s :iu'!::';d.:d aud
applied tests•
It seems pertinent t., r.cal] q >i. > ::;k:,:.d bY s
of the brighter students at tendi,,g the U>:iversity of
ifornia at the time 0f the stud,>t '.ve! ....
"What the hell do you thhk ai ,d,.<::!:i,:; is for?"
A ray of light breaks througi the. fog'. There
after all, be reason to the madnc: s. *{%: ;oh,tiou . .
the employer and is so simple as to be a[ {>sL a:domat6'
He doesn't really want to hi'e pcop;c
In fact, no business rnm, i his 'igt.t nixed would
consider the idea was it not for the. ,ci. that he either
afford the machines to replace the p<'op{e, o; [he
for some peoples' occupations ,::. rot Set e×isto
There is absolutely no jus,H!ic; t ,m. for involvig
pie in the fabrication of a product or >,dition of a
when a machine is available.
People have interests outside .< t:i purely
goals of their employer. Their wi,.,,:% 5,:bq-i'riends,
friends and hobbies can only be a di;i :'::,,., i,r, h'orl the
{hey were employed to do. Their u4wcp i expensive
they only operate in short bm't:<
However, since the employer, fi,r me reason or
er, is compelled to retain the :cF,ie,.: ,,.:f ::ome
then, by God, those people shoulo be as near
he can get them. Regimet,,,J ,,e,,>!h, iring
to accept a certain amour..{ : : : : :, !<
about the job in hand and wo;,hU /,: i? L;;,d i
ence--productivity.