The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-16
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The Tribune favors the installation
of manuel training and domestlc
science in the Lynden schools. AS we
understand it the only reason those
studies will not be installed this year
is lack of finances. That certainly
is a good reason, If all possible ways
have been canvassed.
The LINDEN schools are now IN
debt. Besides paying off the old DEBT
the board must look forward to IN
creasing the debt within another year
for the purpose of building high
school building. The present school,
buildings are much to small, and some
of the classes meet in rented 70 oms.
The new high school should have
been built this year, but owing to the
condition of the treasury 1t was aD-
solutely necessary to put 1t eff a.
mother twelve months.
Under such conditions is Is abs oiute
ly right that the school board shai'
hold the expenses down to the small
est possible minimum. But, can we
afford to lag behind even SINE or the
small country schools? Is there no way
that the needed money can be raised
withou hurting the needed funds for
the high school?
The Tribune feels that If there Is
any way to do it that the people of
the district would authorize even an
additional tax for the sake of adding
these two courses. The Tribune does
not know whether that would be pos
sible or net at this time, but 1t Will
open its columns to anyone who has
a way to suggest by which the studies
may be added to the course for the
coming school year.
The Tribune wishes to say that 1t
feels confident that the school board
will welcome any possible plan as
much as it will.
If you have confidence in your
neighbcr show it. There is only about
one man in q THOUSAND who will will
fully betray confidence. So, you see,
it is a mighty good investment to
have confidence and show It.
There are times on all newspapers
when the editor hates to write edi-
tOrials. On the big dailies it is be-
cause he cannot write what he feels,
and on the little weeklies, like the
Tribune, it is because he must write
what he feels or be unjust to him
self.
That's prelude to what We dislike
to say: That the people generally in
this community, with whom we have
talked, feel that Taft and the repub-
lican party are making a serious mis-
ta1 In, dnFonHfvpD Oorrofopy Ro1lfnUnT
that a serious mistake is being
made in the failure of the Congress
ional committee to report before Con-
gress adjourns. And, what hurts more
to say, is. that the Tribune editor
feels that the people with whom he
has talked are right, for the Tribune
is a republican newspaper.
There was time when 1t was Gus
tomary, and god politics to hide
much of the truth-in fact that was
politics. The American people have
grown away from that time and it be-
gins to look as If the republican lead
ers had failed to grow with them.
Frankness begets confidence. Mr.
Ballinger was not frank to say the
least His actions have not given us
renewed confidence in him. The eff
fcrts of President Taft and the re-
publican party leaders to smooth the
whole thing over have net given us
renewed confidence in them. The re-
publican party Is sick and the only
way to make it we'll is to find out
the diseased parts and to cure them.
1t Is time that the republican party
tried to purify iitself-to cure its sick
Ola line mill I
am making mistake to say such
things publicly, and l will answer that
the REPUBLICAN party's best friends are
those who recognize and those who
are not afraid to call attention to its
mistakes, in the hopes that they will
be corrected before it is too late to
make the corrections.
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One smile rightly planted has a
greater yield than an acre of river
bottom cats.
We were critized last week for
putting on the Celebration bills that
Lynden was going to give away $500
as prizes:
IF you say 5000, they will dis
NO~ht ~ Ah IhChA bdAu our
friend. Nov we are actually going to
spend 5000 In prizes, but we have rails
ed $500 for all expenses and it would
have been better to say We were go
ing to give $500 in prizes, and then
when they discounted 1t they would
have had about the right amount we
will actually give"
Is that true? Do you think the Trib
une Is a liar? Do you discount eve-
rything we say by half? If you do we
have put in Is months hard labor
for nothing, and We hope you will let
us know about it right away. We put
the amount on the bills that the COM
mittee actually told us they were 60
ing to spend. Over $500 has been rails
ed and we believe they are going to
actually spend $500 in various prizes.
Some towns may advertise the other
way II they please but as long as we
are one CT the committee on advertis-
ing we are going tell you as nearly