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FLASHBACK

TO 1862

‘City that socialism built might §
be better boast of Port Angeles

149th anniversary of
eek Lincoln’s_ birth
will have a special meaning
for the good folk up Port
Angeles way for they have
been trying mightily for years
to cash in on the fame they
feel is their due because of a
certain document to which
the martyred president affix-

US. bidding

for market

MOSCOW

~ Sais businessmen are

making a determined bid

to enter the Soviet market
in a big way.

A large-scale U.S. trade
show will open in Moscow’s
Gorky Park on August 1 next
year and will last a month,
during which time U.S. goods
will be presented to the Sov-
iet public with all the tradi-
tional tricks of U.S. pub-
licity.

The wide range of USS.
products to be exhibited in-
cludes farm machinery and
milking equipment as well
as machinery used in the
textile, foodwear and food
canning industries.

U.S. companies will also
-show ready - made clothes,
boots and shoes, perfumery,
toys and musical instruments.

To boost the sale of musi-
cal instruments, one firm is
he sent a typical ultimatum.
sending over a group of musi-
cans to demonstrate banjoes,
guitars and accordions. The
show will also feature a full-
size American jazz orchestra.

ed his hand and seal.

It is one of the curiosities of
United States history that
President Lincoln did make
Port Angeles the “second na-

tional city’ — Washington,
D.C., of course, being the
first.

But it is also a fact that,
try as they may Port An-
gelenos have not been able
to impress the importance of
this on the rest of the coun-
try.

The man responsible for
Lincoln signing that executive
order on June 19, 1862, was
the turbulent and _single-
minded Victor Smith, one of
a big crop of fabulous charac-

ters the pioneer days -produc- °

ed.

At the instance of Treas-
ury Secretary Salmon P. Chase,
Lincoln had appointed Smith
collector of customs for the
Puget Sound district. The
energetic fellow lost no time
in putting into effect the
plan which made him the
patron saint of Port An-
geles and a scoundrel to the
citizenry of nearby Port
Townsend. -

Smith was beset with the
idea that success of the Union
arms demanded war with
England, and that the rapid
development of Port Angeles

as a city and as a federal |

fortress was Vital for the pro-
tection of the Pacific North-
west,

Smith was scornful of those
who timidly suggested that
the fighting was a way off
yonder. Did not the Hudson
Bay company have a fort,
bristling with guns, at Vic-

The last capitalist

SOVIET commentator’s

idea of “the last capitalist
in the world a certain
Rockefeller” was drawn for
readers of Pravda in its Jan-
uary 1 edition.

The sketch took the form
of a broadcast made in the
year 2008 over the Voice of
the World. radio station by a
correspondent speaking from
the Pacific island of Samoa.
This is how the _ broadcast
ran:

The last capitalist of the
world recently appeared at
the local Board of National
Economy here. He was a cer-
tain Rockefeller, a _ great
grandson of the famous oil-
kings,

He said he could no longer
retain the last privately
owned oil-field, that he was

completely ruined competing
against socialism, and was
handing over his property to
the socialist society.

He asked to be given five
acres of land for a private

kitchen garden. While retain-

ing his hostile attitude to
socialism, Rockefeller intends
to grow cabbages, asparagus
and tomatoes on a private
basis.

The Board* of National
Economy granted the request
of the last sprig of the
Rockefeller dynasty, and is-
sued him ~a _ shovel from
stores.

The oil-field and its ante-
diluvian equipment is to be
turned into 2 museum of ma-
teria] culture of obsolete
social formations. The first
schoo] visit to the museum
has already taken place.

* toria, just 17 miles across the
Straits of Juan de Fuca? Were
there not Confederate raiders,
skulking along the coast?

So Smith bombarded Secre-
tary Chase with urgent mes-
sages and got prompt action —
on his requesis from a war-
harried president.

He arbitrarily moved the
official port of entry from
Port Townsend to his beloved
Angeles, and when officials of

the older city refused to turn.

over the custom office records
he sent a typical ultimatum:
Either the records in an hour,
or he would bombard the
town. The records were
promptly forthcoming, for
they knew Smith wasn’t fool-
ing. ,
% 5 e3 beg

But the economic founda-
tion of today’s “Jewel of the
Olympics” was to be laid, not
by government gold, but by
men and women bemused
with the idea of a coopera-
tive commonwealth. Twenty-
two years after Smith was
lost at sea, the Puget Sound
Cooperative Colony was
founded. The second national
city of the U.S. soon became
a thriving and prosperous
community.

Fired by concepts of soc-

Education a failure

R. FERGUSON, Kelowna, .
B.C.: The growing dissatisfac-
tion with the results of our
education system is becoming
more vocal every day. Re-
garding a recent article in
the PT advocating increased
teachers’ salaries and avail-
able money for schools, I
feel even the progressive peo-
ple of this country have
come under the delusion so
typical of this continent, that
the dollar solves all eae
lems.

At the present Secy I
am going through what they
call the teen-age period;
from the parents’ unfortunate
point of view, where one has
the’ pleasure of daily com-
batting stirred-up emotional
orgies of self-analysis, total
lack of self-discipline and a
frightening lack of plain ordi-
nary knowledge.

At the same time one tries.

to become a Solomon and de-
cide exactly how much ex-
tracurricular activities to al-
low to keep a balance for

ialism, the satinists develop-’
ed agriculture and gave the
area its first mills, docks,
hotel, offices and a machine

-shop. It also. published one of

the Territory’s finest news-
papers the Model Com-
meonwealth.

So on Lincoln’s

birthday

N FORUM

good health. The excessive
amount encouraged by the

schools, I am convinced, is a ©

“cover-up” for
teaching.

One could not help but be
impressed by the Russian “ten

commandments” for a school

lack of good

child that’ were recently pub-~

lished in the Vancouver Sun,
and also completely stunned
by the “brilliant” comments
of Mrs. Angus and Mr. Als-
bury to the effect that of
course we already put them
into practice. How silly can
we get?

As a start, let us at least
be honest and admit, what-
ever the cause, that our
educational system is a dis-
mal failure.

Quite frankly, I have no
idea what the remedy is, and
am inclined to feel that there
‘won’t be a cure until we are
forced to change our eco-
nomic way of life, but in
searching for ways to improve
we are barking up the wrong
tree when we imagine larger
salaries will either attract
or make better teachers.

January 10, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 4

? af ie “A
ond ESE rast She
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Port ene vee will . again
proudly proclaim to an in-
different country that it was
the nation’s second national
city. But it could also claim
to be the “City That Social-
ism Built.” That might at-
tract more attention.

ACE ALLISON

It has become well known
that many teachers who have
come from England have
taught for a few years and
gladly gone back to the older
country where they get less
salary but feel they are
really teachers and are res-
pected as such.

Teaching, like nursing or
doctoring, is a vocation and
most of its reward cannot be
measured in dollars and cents
but in the self-respect that —
real accomplishment should © —
bring. -

I do not believe that in the
set-up that we have now in
the education department that
the average teacher is given
a chance to develop into a
‘ self-respecting personality and
he undoubtedly is not given
respect either from pupils or
parents, and no addition to
his pay cheque will make up
for the deficiency. .

The situation should be
studied by progressive people —
in the profession as they —
_ would have a broader knowl- _
eddge of the system and its ©
weaknesses, : E