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PACK POCK DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1911. EIGHT PAGES , INDEPENDENT N EW8PATKB. fskllabed Dally, Werkly and Semi-Weekly tt lVodleton, Orefon, by the 8 ORKGOMAN PUBLISHING CO. BLBSCKll'TION HATES. ?elljr, oat Tear, by mall $5.00 tally, alz month, by mall 2.0 Taliy, thro month, by mall 1.2A fUy, one month, by mall 60 Dally, on yar, by carrier T.60 'ally, ! month, by carrier 8.75 (.'ally, thro month, by carrier 1.05 Oally. on month, by carrier 65 weakly, one year. By Rial I 1.60 Weekly, tlx month, by mall 75 Maekiy, fonr mouth, by mall.,...,, .50 t.nl-eitly, one year, by mll 1.50 .Dil-Vi x'kly, lx month, hy mall 75 Saol-Werkly, (our month, by all... .50 The Dally Kast Oregonlan la kept oa aala t the Orcoi Neva Co., S'ii Morriaoo atreet, Portland, Oregon. horthweat Newa Co, Portlaad, Oreeoa. Ohleaso Bureau, 908 Security Building. Washington, D. C, Bureau. 501 Four aaatb treet, N. W. Member fnlted Preaa Assoclatloa. Kntered at the poatofflc at Pendleton, lag-on. aa aecond claaa mail pvatter. telephone Main I Official City aad Connty Piper. SAX FRANCISCO. Proud offspring of the shore and sea. Home of the millions yet to be. No more thy billowy smokes arise No more thy minarets fret the skies, All! Loveland all; the haughty domes, The lab'rers' huts; the lordly homes. The earth rose 'neath thee, and her hand Cast on thy pile the burning brand; The waters failed thee In thy dread And left three mourning o'er thy dead; But, ever grand, thou givest birth To all that's brave on mother earth. For ere upon the crushed hearthstones, White are the ashes of bleached bones, Ere shelter rises o'er defense- less head, Or wailing ceases for thy dead Thy cry rings out Triumphant note Bold, high and raucous from thy flame-scorched throat, Above the fragments of the rocking throne Fiercelv commandering all thine owr.. Demanding still the wardship of the seas With shelter to the homing ar- gosies. Swift it is yielded. In thy darkest hour No hand of ours would clip thy splendid power. Rebuild thy palaces, reclothe thy form, Hotly defiant of both shock and storm, And still, oh Sister, o'er the western sea Hold thou, unchallenged, .proud supremacy. W Thayer. GET REAL SUPERINTENDENTS. Representative Huntington has a bill that looks good upon the sur face but which if passed would bring about little if anything in the way of results and would add considerable to the expense of the various coun ties. The bill is supposed to provide for supervision for country school dis tricts. It provides for a county edu cational board with the county school superintendent as ex-offlcio chairman. The other members of the board are to be named by the county court and are to assist the county superintend ent In supervising the work of the rural schools. Each supervisor Is to have charge of 20 or more school districts and must be paid of course. The trouble with the Huntington bill is that it does not go to the root of the difficulty. The trouble at pres ent lies chiefly in the fact that in Oregon the office of county superin tendent is a political office. Being a poor paying office it is usually filled by some third class politician who wants an easy berth. Generally the man selected has had some experi ence as a teacher but it frequently occurs that the superintendent of an important county has never taught a graded school. Seldom do you find a competent educator in the superin tendent's office. The reason for this la that being a political office the auperintendent must be selected from among people who reside in the county, and the few men capable ot filling the office with credit gener ally have better positions already. So the office really goes a-begging. In cities, where the schools are conducted with a view to competency, the school superintendent Is selected upon his merits as an educator. When the Pendleton school board wants a city superintendent it does not try to employ a local man. The board looks to any part of the state or country for a man. The man se lected must hold his position by vlr ' tue of good work. If ha cannot make , rood ha ia discharged. That Is the ' businesslike way to do things. In the view of the East Oregonlan this same system, In a modified form i perhaps, ahould bo applied to the . nuviwi. v& lUO LUUili;. Alia vvuiitgr superintendent should be employed, not elected. He should be employed either by the county court or by a county school board chosen much as city school boards are chosen. There should be a clerk to do the small office work and the superin tendent should supervise the work of the rural schools. He should outline work for the schools and see that the schedules are followed. He should visit the schools personally and keep in close touch willr" the work by cor respondence. He should be a real superintendent not a dummy. If the legislators want to improve the rural schools they should lay the foundation for such improvement by taking the office of county superin tendent out of politics and placing It upon a basis where merit and merit only shall count. At the present time the office of county superintendent is a farce. A superintendent's duties consist chiefly in performing some petty office work and In consulting with legislators regarding an increase Ir salary or in iehalf of some meas ure like the Huntington bill which if it passes will add more feathers to his nest. WATCH THE FIELD PEA. Farmers of Umatilla county who want to increase their profits and bring about a further advance in land values will do well to watch the field pea. It offers great possibilities for the wheat section of this county and of other portions of eastern Oregon. At the dry farming experiment sta tion at Moro 50 varieties of field peas are being tried out in an attempt to find the variety best adapted to this country. Experiments with field peas are also being made at the experi ment station at Union. Last year the seeding at Union was done too late and the best possible results wera not obtained. Yet the showing was sufficient to indicate that the field pea can be of great value here. The following is an extract from the an nual report of Robert Withycombe, I superintendent of the station at Un ion. "Without uestion the field pea Is destined to become one of the import ant crops for eastern Oregon; especi ally is this true for the wheatgrowing sections. Owing to soil and moisture conditions it may require some time however to perfect a system of crop rotation whereby the field pea will take the place of bare summerfallow. At rrcsent it is largely a question of moisture content in the soil, hence this crop may not be practical at first in some sections of eastern Oregon un til the humus content is increased and improved cultural methods introduced to conserve moisture. However In most sections the practice of growing field peas and hogging them off In the field will net the farmer a good return and at the same time will in crease the fertility of his soil." HE IS AXD HE 'AIXT. Among the names of senators who voted "No" upon the Albee resolu tion to endorse the "Oregon system" appears the name of Senator Burgess of this county. What! During the recent campaign Burgess subscribed to statement No. 1 and he went about the county proclaiming his friendship for the statement which is now and always has been one. of the most im portant features of the Oregon sys tem. Why should he cast his vote against the endorsement of the Ore gon plan? He is evidently one sort of a politician while seeking office and another sort when in office. "It is good to know that the con tract work for the next Round-up at Pendleton, in September, has begun," says the Portland Oregonian. "Pen dleton's last wild west show was a hummer and the next event will have to go some to beat it." You are right, brother, but the coming show will make last fall's exhibition seem small and tame. Come and see. A London publisher was found guilty of libeling the king and will have To serve a year In prison. Now it would be interesting to know whether or not he did really libel George. The groud hog glasses. needed smoked LEISURELY DIXIXG. (Atlanta Journal.) The proprietor of a big American hotel makes the just criticism that In this country people dine far too rap idly. In Europe, he points, out a dinner is made the chler diversion of an entire evening. Here, on the con trary, we clatter through the courses as though eating were a duty to be disposed of patly rather than a lux ury to be enjoyed in leisure. Undoubtedly the average American needs to learn how to dine. There should at least be one meal of the day free from haste. Breakfast, with most people, mut be a hurry-scurry affair, and lunch Is but a hlggledy plgg-ledy Incident of the four and twenty hours. But when it cornea to dinner, or supper, If you will, that meal should never be profaned with tho strenuous spirit. This is demanded by health as well as by pleasure. It is a common ob servation that one can eat twice as much at a banquet as at an ordinary table and feel no untoward effects next day. That Is simply because the banqueUis liberally expended through three or four hours with a continual sprinkling of chat and laughter. If the clock were set bacK ninety min utes at every dinner we would all bo better humored and have sound di gestion. The old Romans knew how to eat. They had no straight-back chairs but easy couches upon which they loung ed about the dishes and looked lightly upon Father Time. That is how good conversation Is bred and social warmth and mellow friendship and a score of other things that make life worth living.' There are two luxuries in the world which we ought never to hurry over: sleeping and dining. They are the source of half our good spirits, the prime essentials of contentment, long life and good work. 1ULL OF TAKA. (Butte Miner.) How many thousands of citizens In this country will read with utmost In terest of the contemplated sale of the famous Hill of Tara, Just what the details of the sale are have not been made public as yet, but the fact that such a movement Is proosed is of Itself attention-attracting. The Hill of Tara is closely ideni fied with Irish history. There Is a widespread movement in this country, having for its object a general revival of Interest in the study of Irish his tory and surely no study could be more important and interesting. No history is more fraught with stirring events, with great adventures, and with occurrences that had much to do with shaping the histories of ohor countries. To students of Irish history the fa mous H1H of Tara Is very familiar. Even those who have not devoted time to making a study of the history of the Emerald isle. Tara is well known because of the song which Thomas Moore wrote of it and which Is world wide in its fame. Every happening which invohes any noted landmark In Ireland is of concern to many American clt.:?ns who have tender memories of the is land across the sea or who have heard of its romance and its history and its wonderful career from those who knew much of it at first hand. Irish music, Irish literature, and Irish history are all replete with such charms as to win and hold undivided attention and consequently any part of the Emerald isle which has been an inspiration for song and story merits and has the regard or all who love the beautiful and the romantic. IX THE EAST AM) WEST. One often hears Protestantfsni and Catholicism compared, to the disad vantage of the latter, because the Protestant countries are more pros perous, wealthier, more powerful. This same reasoning is used when compar ing Christianity with Brahamanism, Confucianism, Buddhism, but the ar gument does not lie, as the lawyers say. To the Hindu mind it is no ar gument at all. His ideal Is to got out of the world, not to get what he can out of it, and stay in it. That one's beliefs should be scientifically true, or that they should produce in an in dividual or nation powers of wealth getting or comfort-making, is not only not required of his faith by the Orient, but he looks upon such tests as preposterous. If plague or famine come to a whole province, or loss or illness come to him individually, or the will of a ruler whom he believes to be divinely guided brings disgrace upon him, all there are 'accepted as inevitable. It is a part of the myster ious and incomprehensible divine plan, and leads to no questioning, criticism, or even complaint of the ways of God with man. We recog nize self-sacrifice and unselfishness as spiritual graces to be cultivated, but the great majority of Christians look upon an unsuccessful Christian as lacking in some essential manner the full dower of his faith. If the Hindue believes that his faith gorbade working on Sunday, or forbade di vorce for example, he would sacri fice himself rather than disobey. We on the contrary have allowed laws of economics and laws of health and freedom to over-ride the dicta of the priest. I am not deciding between the two, though I believe we are right; A. am merely noting differences which must be kept in mind by the student of the East if he wishes to gain something more of an understanding of the slt tuation than the mere superficial con tempt, and cobwebby experiences, of a self-satisfied traveller. 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