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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1010 ROGUE RIVER COURIER PAGE SEVEN ' Imperial Crown BrooKside Violet A very large can, regular 50c, Special, 25c at Clemens Sells Drugs THE VILLAGE ORACLE 1 i "I aui Sir Oracle, and when I TjllCUm 0De my lips let no dog bark!" p I Old Dan'l Hanks he says this town rOWUer la jest the best on earth. . iSS3SI Country Club MK BRAND C O N I) E N S 1 : 1 Sold under the guarantee of absolute satisfaction. Should it not please, the Retail Merchant will return your money. The only brand of Condensed Milk sold direct to the retail grocer. Scio Condensed MilK COMPANY Excursion Rates to the East DURING- 1910 FROM ALL POINTS ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC (LINES IN OREGON) TO RATES Chicago $72.50 Council Bluffs) Omaha ) Kansas City..). 60.00 St. Joseph ) St. Paul ) St. Paul, via Council Bluffs 63.90 Minneapolis direct 60.00 Minneapolis, via Council Bluffs . 63.90 Duluth, direct 66.90 Duluth, via Council Bluffs 67.50 St. Louis 67.50 Tickets will be on sale May 2 and 9; June 2, 17 and 24; July 5 and 22; August 3; September 8. The above rates apply from Portland only. From points south of Portland, add ONE WAV local rate to I'ortlund, to make through rate via Portland. One way through California, add $15 to above raU. Ten days provided for the going trip. Stop-overs within limits in either direction. Final return limit three months from date of sale, but not later than , October 31. Inquire J. M. Isham, Agent, Grants Pass, Ore., for more complete information, or WM. McMURKAV, General Passenger Agent Portland, Ore. Isitulithic P avement Is the hesC Pavement for the Property Owner IT INCREASES VALUES Clean, Sanitary, Durable Sure, Safe Footing for the Horse Warren Construction Co. ;1I7 IWk Hldg., Portland. Ore. He says there ain't one up or down, That's got one-half her worth; j He says there ain't no other state That's goods as our'n or near; And all the folks that's good and great Ts settled right round here. Says I, "D'jer ever travel Dan?" "You bet I ain't!" says he; "I tell you what! the place I've got Is good enough for me!" He says the other party's fools, 'Cause they don't vote his way; He says the "feeble-minded Bchools" . Is where they ought to stay; If he was law their mouths he'd shut Or blow 'em all to smash; He says their platform's nothln but A great big mess of trash. Says I, "D'jer ever read It Dan?" "You bet I ain't!" says he; "And when I do, well, I tell you, I'll let you know, by gee!" He says that all religion's wrong 'Cept Jest what he believes; He says them ministers belong In jail, the same as thieves; He says they tako the Blessed Word And tear it all to shreds; He says their preachln's Jest absurd They're simply leatherheads. Says I "D'jer ever hear 'em DanT" "You bet I ain't!" says he; ' "I'd never go to hear 'em; no; ' They make me sick ter see!" Some fellers reckon, more or lees, j Before they speak their mind, ! And sometimes calkerlate or guess ! But them ain't Dan'l's kind. , J The Lord knows all things great or small, With doubt he's never vexed; j He, in his wisdom, knows It all But Dan'l Hanks comes next. - Says I, "How d'yer know you're i right?" "How do I know?" says he; !"Well, now, I vum! I know by gum! I'm right because I be!" PRACTICAL IDEAS EDUCATIONAL WORK School Credit for the Performance of Home Duties. I The following article by L. R. j Alderman, of the University of Ore- 'gon.'on school matters contains some I recommendations which are worthy of consideration by every commun- !ity in which there is a public school. 1 Industrial schools have long been popular, but Mr. Alderman's ideas ' will add much to the industrial fea ture of school work. Those charged with the responsibility of our educa tional matters should take up this subject as explained In his letter and give It prompt consideration. No beneficial or practical feature should be omitted. "That civilization is founded on the home, all will agree. The school should be a real helper of the home. How can the Rchool help the home? How can It help the home establish habits In the children of systematic performance of home duties, so that they will bo efficient and Joyful home helpers? One way Is for the school to tako Into account home In dustrial work and honor It. It Is my convlclllon. based upon careful und ronMntiouH observation, that the school can greatly increase tho In terest tho child will take In home in dustrial work by making It a subject of consideration at school. A teach er talked of sowing, and the girl sewed She talked of Ironing, and they wanted to lenrn to Iron neatly. She talked of working with tools, and both sills and boys made blrd liouses, kites and other things of In terest. A school garden was plan ned In n city, and one of the boys was employed to plow the land. Seventy-five children were watching for him to come with the foam. At last he rame driving around the corner. He could manage a team. He drove Into th !'t, and a hundred and fifty eye looked with admiration at Hie boy who could unhitch from the H1ed and Mtcli on to the plow, and then as he "mnn fnihlon" llneg over one shoulder and tinder one arm drove tho big team around the field, nil could feel the chl'dmi's ndmlmtlon for the boy who rould do something worth while. I have seen n girl who could make pood bread or set a tnhle Meoly gel the real ndrulrnllon of her "t'hoolmates. "The ftehool can help make better homo builder. If can help bv In dustrial work done In the s-hool. but an that U already reviving con li1rnton bv the prc and In a few ' hoids. t Miall not In this short artb o treat of It. "Tho plan I have In mind will cost no Money, will take but llttlo srhool Mtno, and ran bo put Into operation in every part of the state at once. It will create a demand for expert instruction later on. It Is to give school credit for industrial work done at home. The mother and father are to be recognized as teach ers, and the Bchool teacher put Into the position of one who cares about the habits and tastes of the whole child. Then the teacher and the par ents will have much in common. Every home has the equipment for Industrial work and has somebody who uses it with more or less skill. "The school has made so many de mands on the home that the parents have, in some case, felt that all the time of the child must be given to the school. But an Important thing that the child needs along with school work is established habits of home making, and these habits can come only from real home making. What one does depends as much up on habit as upon knowledge. The criticism that is most often made upon industrial work at school is that it is so different from the work done at home that it does not put the child into that sympathetic re lation with the home, which, after all, is for him and the home the most Important thing in the world. Juv enile institutions find that they must be careful not to institutional ize the child to the extent that he may not be contented in a real home. In my rplnlon it will be a great thing for the child to want to help his parents do the task that needs to be done and to want to do it in the best possible way. The reason that so many country boys are now the leading men of affairs Is because early in life they had the responsi bility of home thrust upon them. I am Bure that the motto, 'Everybody Helps,' Is a good onev "But one says, 'How can it be brought about? How can the school give credit for Industrial work done at home?' This may be accomplish ed by printed slips asking the homes to take account of the work the child does at home under the Instruction of the home, and explaining that credit will be given this work on the school record. These slips must be prepared for children according to age so that the child will not be asked to do too much, for It must be clearly recognized that children must have time for real play. The required tasks must not be too ar duous, yet they must be real tasks. They must not be tasks that will put extra work on parents except in the matter of Instruction and observa tion. They may well call for the care of animals, and should Include garden work for both boys and girls. Credit in school for home industrial work (with the parents' consent i should count as much as any one study in school. "To add Interest to the work, ex hibitions should be given at stated times bo that all may learn from each other and the best be the model for all. The Bchool fairs In Yamhill, Polk, Benton, Lane, Wasco and Crook counties, together with the school and home Industrial . work done at Eugene, have convinced me most thoroughly that these plans are practicable, and that school work and home work, school play and home play, and love for parents and respect for teacher and fellow pupils can best be fostered by a more com pleto co-operation between school and home, so that the whole child Is taken Into account at all times." NOT ONLY GOVERNMENT BUT GROWERS DEFRAUDED A Startling Statement. The most startling statement as to the advantage of the dairying Indus try that we have seen Is In a recent article by Jas. E. Downing, of the United States Department of Agricul ture. It Is contained in the follow ing paragraph: . "It has been ascertained that ap proximately 8.35 worth of fertility is removed from the soil with the sale of every ton of wheat, while with every ton of corn that Is Bold, ap proximately $6.50 worth of fertility Is lost to the soil; but In the case of dairying, where butter Is made and where all of the by-products are fed to the pigs and calves, it Is found that only 36 cents worth of fertility is removed with each ton of butter sold. The commercial value of each ton of wheat at 75 cents a bushel Is approximately $24.75. The commer cial value of a ton of butter at 25 cents a pound Is $500. For each $100 worth of wheat that is sold from the soil $34.60 worth of fertility Is taken off the farm, but for every $100 worth of butter that Is sold only 7 cents worth of fertility Is removed from the boII." That the sugar trust was involved in fraud in which not only the gov ernment of the United States but the growers of sugar In Cuba, Java and India suffered, was the deduc tion drawn from ' the testimony of Ernest W. Gerbracht, former superin tendent of the Williamsburg refinery of the American Sugar Refining com pany, who is on trial for defrauding the government of customs duties. "I was ordored by the late II. O. Havemeyer to falsify polariscoplo tests of sugar, so that we would hare to pay less to the sugar grower," said Gerbracht, as he writhed before the merciless cross-examination of Spe cial Assistant Attorney General Henry Stimson. That the sugar trust had robbed the government of great sums In du ties had been proven and the trust hns made money restitution. But that the trust has robbed the men with whom It does business and from whom It purchases raw sugar Is a new development. Sugar Is pur chased from the sugar planters on weight and grade the lower the grade the less paid by the trust. So a new Bchome, 'that of reducing the grade of the sugar by frauds, wag de vised according to Gerbracht. The grade of sugar Is determined by a polariscoplo test. The angle of re fraction of light through a solution of sugar shows the grade. Gerbracht was forced to admit that the falsi fication of tests went as far as the Wall street headquarters of the sugar trust. "We took the polariscoplo tests at the refinery and another test was made at the Wall street offices," he said. "We made the refinery teats as low as possible, but often the tests made In the Wall street offices were lower. If such happened to be the case, we were notified by the Wall street offices and forced to make our own figures lower." The merchants who sold the sugar had to take their pay on the lowest tests. , All the public school teachers are to be given a 20 per cent Increase In salaries next term. 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