The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-02-26
4 PARENT UEGES
SUPPORT OF GIBSON
Hood Rl.sr. Or. Feb. 3. 1870.

Hood River. Or, Feb. 25, 1920.
Editor Glacier. Inc seriousness OF
Ihs s,aeoi situation over the country
as whole is not generally appreciated
by tie aveIage citizen for the reason
That he l. apt 70 think that the news
he sees 10 his home paper applies Onlt
90 -ae comMuEIty in which he lives
Tn IHClellual always thluAs ms per
so.al problems UutdIstance everyone 8
else. "A lew Years ago Hood River was
nl 81 with scores Of people who We're
ali Auus 10 trade their fruit farms for
NJ a. ana stuxA ranches. At the same
title the stock and wheat country was
nilad with people who We're satisfied
that some other Industry was much
be ter oil than theirs. At the same
tine both We're afraid Of the other tel-
loN proposition. The trouble was
that each was aware Of his local cOndi-
tiC0, hut not of the outside situation.
Ard 80 it Is 10 the present day school
situation. The country IS nearly 100,
eUN short on teachers. and of real teach
efa a good guess Is that there IS
shortage of 90 per cent. A good teach
er IS one who loves his work. A good
teacher commands the attention and
respect OF his pupils.
Here is where Prof. Gibson steps IN
with ms personality. He loves his
work He knows how to handle chill
drtn. Hood River has been much
blessed because Of his choice Of this To-
cation for his home He has In his
proud possession small tract Of ap-
piles near the city limits where he i'm
bibes the necessary touch with the great
udoors that Is SO valuable to the man
who has the influencing of others. II
ad ltlon to his school work last year
thi3 man attended to that part of tn,
work of his orchard that did not require
the services of team. He picked all
his own apples, and be II said they
Were not bruised in the picking. Ant
his record as an apple grower Is tina
hls crop packed the best of any tina
went through the packing house witt
his.
As his apples We're, so is the mar
Gibson. He IS good man in all WAYS.
H. has an interest IN public questions
that communicates itself TO those under
hi. charge. When he steps onto the
lflt AfhfA ltA tAN tiitf flnoN AiANipSN tAiNAN -
in, taut attention. tie IS going to say
soAething.
When he speaks it is to say more
than you must study arithmetic be-
cause you want to be able to add and
subtract. lie has a healthy interes
ln the subject of our road system, ou-
spray problems, our irrigation matters.
tht Japanese question, and he IS not
afraid, ever. to express his mind.
Ii IS his general ability to take in
teIe in our local questions that makes
hum the man valuable to tie schools of
Hood River. DO the boys like him?
DO the girls like him? Do the parents
As the high school boy remarks, "l'lI
say they do.
VINO are the future Reds, the future
Bolshevists, the future merchants, the
coming voters? They are scattered
tn ough our schOolhuuses learning what
they are taught BY the time these
Youngsters have reached high schoo
they know as mach as their teachers
and from observation one would thinb
when they got through the first year oi
nign school they knew more than then
high school teachers But there is one
man from vboro thav can vet learn
and that il Gibson And becanse ot
certain state leoislation If vears mast
t6is man tbr6ngb 1--we of bie ham.
county, accepts a salary of 5000 year
fra classes in the h1qh school Will,
MS !. 6ne far the biph schnoI i is La(
for tho valley sebools and the othe,
c.,,. orades 4 man who has sonethinq
n sav ard thp ability ia sav Il sboul1
have the freedom necessary for him +,
rp.ch everv school in Hoad River ono,
nf,g3 weeks and imnart some of ii.
i0sieht into life In 9ur children Lei
MS AXE the stems 50 thst he can do this