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V THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1907. 7 CLINBTOTHREER'S SftYS THIS CRITIC Public Schools of Portland Shy at Modern Methods, Writer Declares. INNOVATIONS ARE FEARED Xo Place for "Time-Wasting Sub jects," Such as Tsature Study, Morals, Child Study, Music -and the Handicraft Arts. THIRD ARTICLE. The friends of the present regime boast loud and long of Portland's course of study being? free from all fads. They glory In" the fact that the historic "Three R's" are being taught religiously to the exclusion of such time-wasting subjects as nature study, morals, child study, music, and most of the handicraft arts. It Is worth while to discover first whether na ture study deserves a place in school courses, and second, whether the lone some position which our city occupies In not teaching this subject Is a mark of superiority. As the man who loves not music Is lit for treason, so Is he fitted for a narrowed life to ,whom the secrets of the animate world never appeal; to whom germinology, growth and dif ferentiation are a sealed book. Burns, mourning the life of the upturned daisy, is a better , type of man than him who lives to see nothing to be admired and loved in nature's manifold expres sions. The child or the man who is led to see nothing but dollarsMn seeds, and profit In flowers, who cannot see the woods for the trees, is to be pitied rather than applauded. Commercialism runs riot and our schools are becoming exponents of this pervading evil. If only the warm-blooded personality of our teachers could be persuading our boys and girls to stay by the school room till some depth of culture Is at tained, we would not be apologizing for the size of our grammar and high school grades. Tacoma and Spokane cities of less than half our size, hold as many boys and girls through these courses as Portland. The fault Is not in our boys and girls, stars that they are growing up to be, underlings dwarfed and narrowed In vision, but rather does the fault lie at the door of parents and teachers who allow the dollar to get so close to the eye that a fair education is lost and the boy grows up a roustabout Instead of a master. Benefits of Nature Study. If only our boys and girls could learn some of the A, B, C's of plant culture, the getting of new fruits by seedlings, pollenlzing and grafting in root and bud and less of "piesectors and partition," which even some of our teachers see through as In a glass dimly, they would somehow know bet ter that toucn ot nature wnicn manes all the world kin.' Next to the warm blooded sympathy and the under standing of boy nature by a strong teacher, two factors which work mightily in tiding the boy over his age of unrest and change, is the grammar grade attraction held out by a well balanced course In nature study. The concrete arouses activity of mind, the abstract dull the edge of Interest. The boy Is being normally educated who is brought In contact with things. State ments of fact as such are dry bones. Things seen, things tasted, things smelled, things heard and things felt, strike deep Into consciousness. They are the basis of growth and Judgment. No child knows germinology, plant growth and fruitage adequately for self-enjoyment and culture who bas not actually come into living con tact with these things. He may be a worthy citizen and be totally ignorant of Nature's great storehouse of knowl edge, but a vastly better one if his life has more in it than the menial round of mere physical existence. The time was C when readln , wrltin and rithmetlc were thought to be all a child needed to know, but the world's thought has changed. Ed ucators now demand that the whole boy shall be sent to school, mind, soul and body. Portland schools are not in line with this best 'thought in education. The boy who enters business with little more than the ability to cast up accounts, may possibly have large accounts to cast up, but he will be a plodder in the marts of life and always move in narrowed limits of Influence and enjoyment. Nature study. In some form, long ago found a permanent place In tvery city the size of ours, but Portland, alas, hears not nor cares how the children of other cities, calling for bread, are being fed, and not given a stone. When our high schools be come a part of an organized system, when we have more grammar-grade teachers that know boys and girls during that crit ical age of passing into a larger physical life; when we begin feeding them with some of the real things of nature, then will our citizenship be recruited with men and women with their eyes on the hills rather than on the ground, like "the man with the hoe." In a former article, reference was made to the un-American attitude of those supervising our schools in the matter of not recognizing Chris tianity as the basic element of good citi zenship. Need of Teaching of Morals. Not a word can be found in our course of study about the teaching of morals, not a word even about the teaching of those much-needed civilities which go so far to offset the boorishness which boy and girl alike absorb from the street. Instead of seme of the dis courses to teachers on the course of itudy, including "piesectors and parti tion" and many other such weighty things of the law. a few words from our Super intendent about the inculcating of good morals would have been delightfully re freshing, so It is reported. During the past three years, so far as we can learn, not a word has been spoken in all the teachers' meetings along the line of moral teaching. Thanks to a good number of our faithful teachers, our schools are not wholly left without some moral teach ing by precept and by example. Our schools cannot be classed as immoral but rather as unmoral: exerting little positive influence in this much-desired field. At the recent National Educational Association, held in Los Angeles, as well as at many other conventions, prominent place was given to topics discussing the teachings of morals In the public schools. It Is doubtful If another school manual of a city approaching the size of ours can be found which Is wholly silent on this all-Important subject. Any one who has given the profession of teaching serious thought admits that every child is a study, calling for peculiar skill and patience If he is to be brought to his best. That teachers should be readers of human nature, that they should treat each child as a unit and not the school as a lump, goes without saying, but so far as we can learn, Portland is again unique In having no organized ef fort to rear the teacher to greater effU ciency along this line. A little more child study and a little less plesector and par tition study would bring about a much needed reformation. Far too many boys are roaming our streets because their teachers have driven them from school by repressing their Individuality rather than leading them on and out into lines of conquest and growth. Child study teaches the. doctrine of individuality. A machine will turn out hoe handles and toothpicks, but a school should turn out Individual personalities. Most children are born short and have little or no aptitude for some one or more school subjects. The shame is that those children who have no aptitude for arithmetic should be com pelled to "do time" on this subject and at last be driven from school because a machine teacher must teach the course of study even If she knows it is the un doing of the child and wishes to do other wise. Principals Weak on Discipline. Among the factors which lessen the efficiency of our school system not the least is the fact that many principals do not hold up the hands of teachers in mat ters of discipline, especially in cases where Impartial treatment -of violations of school regulations would threaten to loosen their hold upon their positions. To wink at misdemeanors when to punish the offender would endanger the cordial relations between himself and his board members' friends is the matter of cur rent remark. Here again appears that lack of spinal column which is the sub ject of constant remark in connection with the evident lack of Individuality in our various schools. This lack of Initi ative and individuality is best seen by contrast. The visitor to the Kansas City, Los Angeles or Seattle schools calls upon the superintendent to Inquire where he can find the best exponent of the city's ef ficiency In teaching language. He is di rected to a certain school, with the re mark, "You will find in Mr. and his plan, which, by the way, he has worked out for himself, probably the best that we are accomplishing along this line. He is enthusiastic on this subject and I prize his work very highly. When I find a principal of his power I give him all the liberty possible. Results are what we want. Cut and dried methods have no place with us. A principal who Is not a student, a man of research habits, is not wanted here." Another visitor calls. "I want to see some, of your best history work in upper grades. Where shall I go?" Again comes the reply: "Why, in history we believe Mr. , of School, is the man you want to meet. He somehow makes his teachers and children live over the periods they are studying. Some way he just gets his children to see and feel the underlying springs of action. He Is a genius in this line. I let him alone so long as he gets a fair measure of results for our school yardstick Is pretty flex ible." Where Individuality Is Encouraged. Thus it appears that Kansas Cltv -for this city is taken as ts-pical of scores of others allows and encourages Indi viduality. No circumscribed "thus salth the course of study." but life, freedom, thought, action, results these are rated the prime essentials. In supervision of school systems as in the managements of business enterprises, when personality is discounted machine routine becomes a deadening force. The letter of the law kills, but the spirit of freedom under law gives life. If we have one school In Port land so pre-eminent along one line that school masters are coming from near or far to study the genius of Its success we have not heard of it. Why not have them? We pay enough to have this kind. Port land neecia men to man our school system who are in the forefront of the foremost educational thought; not faddists, but students, men of thought and men of action. Not slaves to a system, but men who can and will blaze trails for others to follow. Let us have more teachers' conferences, where men and women wrestle with the problems of life and not mere meetings where methods are dis pensed only to be taken and blindly worked out. If this prayer be not found in our book of common prayer, via.: from the sin of being neither hot nor cold, good Lord, deliver us, then let it be added speedily. California frequently sends to Wash ington and lays hands on one of her schoolmasters and compels him- to come down to her educational conventions to bring them inspiration and power. Ore gon Is rarely called upon to give such service. Would that she wre! Indeed, we seem to have few men who are equal to lead in Inspirational discussions, our conventions taking the nature of exposi tions of our "courses of study." The shop talk of which our teachers are heartily tired. Perhaps no Incident will serve to illustrate the pronounced nature of our school men better than one report ed to the writer some months ago. Criticism by Sir. Winshlp. B. A. Winship, of Boston, the editor of the New England Journal of Educa tion, a man of international reputation as an educator, was tendered a banquet by the Schoolmasters' Club, of Portland, on the occasion of a recent State Educa tional Association. Local educators In responding to the various toasts took up their time In exploiting the natural wonders of Oregon. One man Is reported to have regaled the company with a harangue that savored much of some of the rhetoric used to induce the East to come West. The number of feet of lumber in his section was set forth to a nicety. Not one but every local speaker harped upon this one chord, un til another guest of the club, an educator from California, was called out. He Is reported to have given a most researchful report of our relations to the Orient and through Japan we have stirred old China into action, so that she is adopting our normal training of teachers, employing Americans in large numbers, but making all haste to prepare her own students to fit themselves to lead In this reformation. From beginning to end It was the address of a man of keen thought and mature study. Mr. Winship close dthe evening's feast of reason with language robbed of rhetoric. He deplored the habit with which the previous speakers had spent all their force upon the glories of moun tain and forest, with whose every beauty he was very familiar, and said nothing of how they were endeavoring to solve the knotty problems of a higher educa tion. His provoked criticism was as keen as It was surprising. I set It be under stood that this visit of Mr. Winship was the last of a series covering many years of Western lecture tours. His criticism was offered in a most kindly spirit, and what with many other spicy reminiscences and valuable sugges tions he closed. Oregon was offended. Her school men coolly retired and left their visitor from the Bay State to find his way back to his hotel alone, as best he could. The duty of courtesy even to an enemy within the gates should hare prompted better treatment. The time was when Oregon might have been ex cused for all this provincialism, but today it Ill-becomes the educators of a great commonwealth to sit so closely under their own vines and prune trees as not to be a part of the great body of educa tors delving into the yet unsolved propo sitions of an adequate educational system. Fruit-raising, mining and Irrigated farm ing has called out men of skill. We trust our Board of Education discerns the dif ference between skilled service and medi ocrity, and will work to the best Interests of our city and govern their actions ac cordingly. It Is high time the procrustan bed of one man power was broken down and that liberty was Installed which is warm with the llfeblood of growth. SIGNS TWO CRACKS McCredie Gets an Outfielder and a Shortstop. BOTH FROM CHARLESTON Thomas Raftery Is Said to Be a Fast Fielder and Heavy Hitter Ote Johnson Is Clever at Short and at the Bat. CHARLESTON, S. C, Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) Within the month Thomas Raftery and Ote Johnson, crack players of the Charleston baseball club, will join the Portlands In all probability, a deal having been consummated for these valuable athletes. They will strengthen the Portland team all right. Raftery is the fleetest, surest out fielder in the South Atlantic, conceded to be the fastest circuit in class C. He is a premier batter and on the paths is very swift. He is a .300 bat ter. His record shows that he has made 106 basehits, crossed the plate for tallies on 55 times and stolen 60 bases.. His- sensational catches of dif ficult flies after long runs are no longer uncommon. Johnson is an inflelder and pitcher. At shortstop he not only covers much territory, but he takes every chance on hard balls. He Is known as the premier long-distance hitter of the cir cuit, having to his credit 23 two-baggers, four three-baggers and six home runs, the latter being all of the over-the-fence variety. Hfs batting average is over .265. He is good on the paths, too. As a pitcher Johnson has won five and lost three. He has not been used in the box because of his value in the short field. To Johnson's and Raftery's batting and fielding is largely due Charleston's hold on the pinnacle, for these ath letes have had a conspicuous part in winning many games. Both are great favorites with the fans and both have received money and other presents for fine work. The foregoing dispatch indicates that Walter McCredie has commenced his work of strengthening up for next sea son. Raftery and Johnson have been secured by Portland by purchase, for the drafting season is not yet opened, and by the time the season is ended the fans will hear of the addition of sev eral more players who have made ex cellent records in the leagues of lesser class than that of the Pacific Coast organization. According to Reach's statistics. Raf tery 1? a splendid fielder, for during the season of 1906 he participated In 104 games and made but five errors, which is quite a remarkable showing for any player. ENTRIES TO BREAK RECORDS Great Interest In Coming Tennis 4 Matches at Irvington. The third annual handicap tennis tournament of the Irvington Tennis Club will begin at the club's courts next Saturday. It Is expected to be the most satisfactory and best attended tourney in the history of the organization. R. R. Benham, the president, expects the number of entries to break all records. Last year the club had 125 entries at the commencement of the meet, and the present list promises to be even larger by the time the entries close Thursday elTP. M. In addition to the open tournaments for which there are many entries, there will be play from scratch for the club cham pionships In the men's and women's singles. These are for Irvington members only. The men's contests will be so ar ranged that they will be played after 4 P. M. each day, except on Saturdays. As far as practicable the women's matches will be played in the mornings. SPORT AT ST. JOHNS SUNDAY Club Provides Trophies and Purses . for Big Tourney. The crack trap-shooters of Portland and vicinity will have a chance next Sunday to compete at a tournament arranged by the St. Johns Rod and Gun Club, for which several handsome trophies have been offered. The meet will be a 150-blrd contest, and will comprise six ten-bird events and an equal number of 15-bird events. An en trance fee of 10 cents a bird will be charged and the money will be divided at the ratio of 40, 30, 20 and 10 between the first four winners. One hundred dol lars has been added to the purses. The St. Johns club now numbers some 150 members, some of whom formerly be longed to the Multnomah Rod and Gun Club. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday's Games. Chicago, 4: Philadelphia, 1. Cleveland, 3; Washington, 0. St. Louis, 8; New York, 6. Detroit, 3; Boston, 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Games. New Tork, 2; Chicago, 8. Boston, 8; Pittsburg, 8. Brooklyn, 9: Cincinnati. 8. Philadelphia, 1: St. Louis, 3. NORMALS WITHOUT FUNDS (Continued from Klrst Page.) liabilities to exceed at any time. In the aggregate, the amount of money which has been apprcprlated under the provisions of law." Powers Conferred on the Board. Among the powers conferred upon the board by section 11 of said act are the. fol lowing: "1. To make rules, regulations and by laws for the good government and man agement of tha same and each department thereof. "2. To rppolnt a president and assistants and such other teachers and officers, and to employ such other persons as may be re quired for each of Laid schools; to fix the salary of each person so appointed or em ployed, and to prescribe their several duties. "3. To remove at pleasure any president, assistant or other officer or person from any office or employment in connection with any such school. "4. To purchase any needful and proper apparatus, books or articles to assist n Instruction, and to provide for all neces sary fuel or supplies for the conduct oik such schools. It In apparent from this legislation 1) that so far as the state Is concerned, the control of Its normal schools is vested tn the board of regents; (2) that the funds subject to the control of the board are to be deposited In the state treasury and dis bursed as provided In the act; and (3) that no indebtedness or liability shall be Incurred tn excess of what has been appropriated un der the provisions of law, any expenditures In excess of such appropriation being de clared void and constituting , malfeasance on the part of the hoard Justifying their removal. These provisions clearly indicate that the Legislature Intended that the board should not directly or indirectly obligate the state In any way for any Indebtedness not fully covered by existing appropriations and should not lend their support to anything which might subject the state to obligation not already provided for. , The only reference to donations in the act is to be found in section 9, which provides that no warrant shall Issue for any part of a donation unless the sums donated shall have been paid Into the state treasury. It is an axiomatic rule of construction of statutes that the words are to be given their ordinary signification and meaning unless the intention to the contrary is clear. In this case the words "donation" and "do nated" as used In the act are to be inter preted In their ordinary sense. There Is m possible excuse for giving them any other meaning. When this is. done. It will be seen that these proposed so-called "dona tions" are not such within the ordinary meaning of that term. Here follow various legal citations as to the meaning of "donation." These authorities clearly establish that a repayment or reimbursement is wholly in consistent with a donation; and It Is mani fest that these so-called donations are not In fact such. They are not gratuitous gifts, but are, rather. In the nature of loans or advances to the state, repayment of which is to be made at some future time. Regents Must Not Incur Debts. The regents are agents of the state, charged with an important duty. The act creating them defines their powers. These powers they cannot exceed ; and one of the limitations expressly imposed upon them was that they should not create or incur obligations or debts la excess of the ap propriations. All money expended by them as a board is to pass through the state treasury to be disbursed as provided in the act. The dona tions contemplated by the act are absolute gifts, unqualified by any agreement, ar rangement or understanding as to repay ment. The moneys furnished In the manner proposed would not be "donations' within either the purview of the statute or the or dinary meaning of that term. And If the board, as agents of the Btate, and having notice of the terms upon which the money was provided, should deliberately accept and use such money, they would seem to be parties to an attempt to create a debt or liability on the part of the state which the Legislature would be under more or less obligation to discharge. . "Under these conditions the donors might and probably would urge that good faith re quired the Legislature to reimburse them and might, with propriety, call upon the board to assist them In their efforts to obtain relief. We do not believe that the regents have any right to place the state or Legislature In such - an embarrassing position. On the .contrary. It seems to us that It Is their duty bb agents of the state to prevent, if possible, any such complica tion; and our opinion is that the acceptance and us of the moneys to be furnished in the manner proposed is contrary to the let ter and spirit of the act of 1007. Tt may be a misfortune that the appropri ations for the Drain and Monmouth nor mal schools failed to become operative, but that is something with which neither we nor the board of regents at this time have any concern. We are to construe the law as It stands, and the board Is to follow thn directions of the law. The Intention of the Legislature, evidenced by the passage of the bill making the appropriations and tho possible attitude of that body upon the Governor's veto, are entirely outside of the consideration. The act failed to become a law, and, on the other hand, the act creat ing the board of regents is clear and man datory in its terms. Very truly yours, DOLPH. MALLOHY, SIMON & OEARIN. WILLIAMS, WOOD & L1NTHICUM. Arts and Crafts Society to Be Formed in Portland BY LILIAN TINGLE. TV SMALL but interesting exhibit of representative work from Eastern Arts and Crafts Societies has Just been placed in one of the rooms of the Wom an's Exchange, 131 Tenth street. The articles shown include some attractive rings, "necklets, buckles and plna; hand wrought silver and pewter tableware and candlesticks, bowls and other decorative and useful things tn copper and enamel; and some good examples of Marblehead pottery. The enamelled Jewelry of Miss Margaret Haydoc and the silver work of Arthur Stone, the well-known Boston craftsman, are of special Interest. There are some examples of basketry and leather work by local designers.. This exhibit is one of the preliminary steps towards the formation of an Arts and' Crafts Society In Portland. Many promin ent people are Interested in the movement, which has for Its aim the fostering of the beet In design and hand workmanship, and which. In the words of William Morris, "calls special attention to the most Important side of art the decoration of utilities by furnishing them with genuine artistic finish In place of trade finish." Full Information in regard to the new society can be obtained at the Art Institute. Potter Schedule for Beach. The steamer Potter will sail from Port land, Ash-street dock, Wednesday, 1 P. M.; Thursday. 6:30 A. M.; Saturday, 7:30 A. M. Get tickets and make reservations at city ticket office. Third and Washing ton streets. C. W. Stinger, olty ticket agent. ( NEW PROCESS GAS RANGES $1.QQ DOWN, $1.00 A WEEK 5 n OUR EXCHANGE DEPT. Offers you an unusual opportunity of disposing of your old furnishings at a value that you could not hope to receive for them elsewhereTWe will accept old stoves, furniture, etc., in part payment for newer goods, and will make a most liberal allowance for them. The following are a few of the many interesting bargains displayed in this department: Full size Iron Beds in two designs; special $2.50 Parlor Cabinets, in mahogany finish, beveled plate mirror (see cut); regular price $9.50; special $6.35- Dining Table in the golden oak; regular price $25.00; special ... . . . . $18.00 Golden oak China Closet; regular price $70.00; spc'l.$50.00 Weathered oak Buffet; regular price $75.00; spe'l. .$50.00 Roll-top Desk; regular price $80.00; special $62.50 i Three-piece Dining Set in solid oak table buffet and china closet; regular price $150; special $75.00 SALE OF SUMMER FURNITURE $ 2.50 Old Hickory Stool; special $ 1 $ 3.00 Camp or Yacht Chair; special $ 1 $ 6.50 Linen Fiber Stool; special .$ 2 $ 6.75 Linen Fiber Stool; special $ 2 $ 6.00 Solid Oak Chair in the green finish; cial $ 3 $10.00 Linen Fiber Chair in the green finish ; cial $ 3 $10.50 Linen Fiber Chair in the green finish; cial $ 4 $ 8.75 5-ft. Garden Bench in the red; spc'l.$ 5 $13.50 Arm Chair in the moss green finish ; cial ,. S 8 $14.00 Solid Oak Settee in the green finish; cial $ 9 $15.00 Garden Swing; special $ 9 $16.00 Garden Swing; special $10 S21.00 Teakwood Settee; special... Sll $30.00 Malacca Fiber Settee; special $19 .25 , . 99 ( A spe- .90- V:-' ': .'o .50 I spe- 1 .50 l O .so y SPECIAL SALE MATTINGS carpet dep. raC0MPLETE-H0U5E-FURni511ER5 FTmakc touhII SALE of THE SEASON'S GO-CARTS AUTOS TO LEAVE FOR COAST PORTLAND PARTY TO VISIT TILLAMOOK FAIR. Inspection of Proposed Automobile Road One Object of Trip to Be Begun Tomorrow., Dr. C. B. Brown, secretary of the Portland Automobile Club, has prac tically completed all arrangements for the business men'a excursion to Tilla mook City, where the party Is to at tend the Tillamook fair, which opens this week. The party will make the trip to the seaboard In automobiles, and already owners of six machines have positively assured the committee that they will go, while two more are expected today to announce their de termination to make the trip. T.ie entire party will leave Portland to morrow morning and will reach Tilla mook In the evening. The participants In the excursion are going for the two-fold purpose of visit ing the fair and examining the route over which the proposed automobile road is to be built. This route will take the party via the White House road, through Fulton, past the Red House and thence to Tlgardvllle, Rex, Newberg, Lafayette, JIcMlnnvtlle, Sheridan and Wlllamlna. From "Wil lamtna the machines will travel over what Is known as the Sheridan road through the Grand Ronde reserva tion, and over the Coast Range on an easy grade Into Tillamook City: The scenery along this route Is mag nificent, and on that account many automobllists are anxious to make the trip. So1 far the owners of machines Indicating their intention of Joining the party are: Henry Wemme, W. J. Clemene, R. D. Inman, J. B. ,Yeon, G. "W. Kleiser, F. A. Nitchy and Dr. C. B. Brown. The start will be from In front of the City Hall at about 9 o'clock to morrow morning. Some machines may not be able to get away before after noon, but these will be furnished with maps of the route and Instructions aa to where Inquiries should be made while climbing the mountains. PERSONALMENTION. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nixon have re turned from Europe and are at the Hobart-Curtis. Mrs. Nixon is much Im proved In health. tj r Omlth CVnAif rwmntv CViuntv Clerk in the Circuit Court department, haa re turned from a vacation trip to Long Beach, Improved In health, and is again at his desk, as brown as the proverbial berry. NEW TORK, Aug. 20. (Special.) North west people registered at New York hotels : From Portland M. C. Grlswold, at the Breslin; C. H. Korell and wife, at the New Amsterdam; I. Labo witch, at the Albert. From Seattle J. N. Thuness, at the Albany; B. L. Hogan, O. P. Oliver, at the Herald Square; T. S. Ross at the Astor; W. P. Hoffman, at the Continental: E. 1 Smith and wife, at the Murray Hill: W. J. Loomls and wife, at the Grand Union; M. E. Sullivan, at the Wolcott; C. M. Best and wife, at the Fifth Avenue. From Tacoma E. M. Sherwood, at the Pork Avenue. Checking Up Defaulter. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Aug. 20. (Special.) Attorney G. G. Lee has been employed by the board of education of Toppenish to check up the defalcation of ex-Clerk W. R. Laidler. The approx imate shortage is $6000. It Is necessary to have the defalcations checked In order that the fraudulent warrants may be de clared null and void by the courts. Hit your sbstraeta made by tb 8ourItr Abstract & Trust Co.. 7 Chamber of Commsres. ASTORIA 1 A iHEGATTM This thirteenth annual aqnatio OTent will be the most spectacular ever held in the Northwest. SEPTEMBER 2, 3 &, 4 Sailing Race. Land Sport. Country Fair. Viking Pageantry. Norsemen will revWe their moat ancient traditions In sweet song and heroio deeds ot valor. $5,000.00 in eanh prizes. Ten Thousand Norwegians will present their world famous AUQ. 31 AMD SEPT. 1A2 Low rates on all rati and steamboat lines ASTORIA, OREGON Mil THIS WEEK AT J. M. ACHESON CP'S All Our High-Grade Summer Skirts Will Goat De cided Reductions This Week. Read These Specials Skirts That sold up to $25, fine taf feta Altmans and tQ QQ French voiles, at P We invite you to look at the New Dress Skirts Now being shown. All the smartest new materials , and style features for the com ing season. Long Fall Coats New Fall Coat samples. Values up fc7 to $25.00.. V O WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Skirts That sold up to $10, Pana ma blues, grays J0 QQ and blacks, at. . ..PJ.70 "We've grouped many odd lots and broken styles of Elegant Waists In desirable patterns. Have been selling in regular way up to $5.00 on bafgain table today $1.49 Bathing Suits $10.00 values $3.75 $ 7.50 values $2.75 $ 6.50 values .$2.25 $ 5.00 values $1.75 ' All Summer Apparel Must Go Shirtwaist Suits, QC worth up to $15.,Pt'' Shirtwaist and Princess Dresses, worth JQ 7tZ up to $37.50 pi. iJ See the largest and most complete, assortment of new Fall Suits. New Fall Coats Select your Fall and Win ter Coat from the largest stock of Coats in the West. J. M. ACHESON CO. FIFTH AND ALDER STS.