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THE NORTHMAN 18 DENTISTS Phone Main 1165 Dr. Harold 6. Trommald DENTIST Regular office hours every day Evenings by appointment 805-807 Journal Building Cor. Yamhill and Broadway, Portland, Ore. Dr. Martin Abelson DENTIST Regular office hours Evenings by appointment Office: 403 Morgan Building Washington St., between Broadway and Park i Portland,.Ore. Phone Main 2477. Phone Main 4389 Dr. Leif Underdahl Dentist Plate and Combination Bridge Work a Specialty Office: 1221 Selling Building 6th and Adler Sts. Regular office hours. Evenings by Appointment PhnnoQ . J Office—Woodlawn 1342 rnones . j Res._Wöodlawn 3275 Dr. C. R. Lofgren Dentist Office hours: From 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Evenings by appointment East 19th and Alberta St. Portland, Oregon Main 7909 Dr. Walter J. Larson Dentist 803—804 Broadway Bldg. Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 3038 Dr. J. P. Johnson DENTIST Regular office hours Evenings by appointment 611 PITTOCK BLOCK Washington, between West Park and 10th Sts May 13, 1920 pace with the high cost of living, and PHYSICIANS more money must be forthcoming to meet the emergency. By Mrs. Alexander Thompson Office Phone Residence Phone While many teachers left the pro Main 576, A 4876 East 216, C 1951 The following address was delivered fession to take up more lucrative at the Thursday luncheon of the Port work, we must not overlook that vast land Press Club at the Hotel Benson army of under paid school teachers Physician and Surgeon on the 6th instant, and constituted who, in the face of rapidly rising Office hours: 10-12; 2-4 and 7-8 Mrs. Thompson’s three-minute talk. It living costs remained at their posts Office 800 1-2 Journal Building is a plea for young America which of duty in charge not only of the ordinary school-room work, but buy Portland, Oregon should be carefully read. ing Liberty bonds, contributing to A Patriotic Measure Res. 255 E.55th St. So. The two-mill tax measure for the war drives and answering every call Offi e Phone Main 3079 Tel Tabor 7177, D1731 support of our elementary schools, that was made for the co-operation of which is to come before the voters on the school during the war in patriotic May 21st, is distinctively a patriotic work. I am told that there were no Physician and Surgeon measure, and a vote in favor of it will less than 250 listed agencies which 501-503 Morgan Building, 5th Floor Cor. Broadway (7th) and Washington be a patriotic act. All thoughtful either directly or indirectly used the Office hours 11 to 12 a. m., 2 to4.30 p. m. people recognize the fact that the school to promote the nation’s wel- Sundays and Evenings by Appointment school is an institution of more im faree. This was of itself an admis mediate importance to. a greater sion of the power of the schools in additional burden will be only twenty number of people than any other in shaping public opinion and public cents on a thousand dollars’ worth of stitution save the home. The logic of ideals. And so the solution of the i property in this city. Surely it is events forces us to the conclusion problems that come as an aftermath worth this much to us to do our share that there is nothing so important to of war must be largely met by the in providing schools for these 500 dis the American people at this time as schools, but I repeat that these prob tricts in the rural sections of Oregon educational matters. We must agree, lems cannot be properly met by that are now short of teachers and as good Americans, that the world immature, unprepared and ‘ underpaid short of money to maintain their schools with any degree of decency cannot be made safe for democracy teachers. Schools With Doors Locked and efficiency. It is a matter of self unless our schools are kept safe for At the present time there are 230 protection with us, for we must admit democracy, for education is the safe guard and conservator of democracy. I schools in the state of Oregon with that ignorance and illiteracy in one the doors locked and bolted. If we district of our state will react to the Our Weakness Exposed figure that in each of these districts detriment of the other districts. The We Americans are a proud people. bill provides for the apportionment of We have always boasted of our free where vacancies occur there is an aver the funds on the teacher basis, instead age enrollment of 20 pupils, then we institutions as being the best in the of the school census basis, which is world. We have boasted our democra face the deplorable fact that 4600 of eminently fair, because the chief items cy; we have said that the public school the boys and girls of Oregon are re of maintenance of schools, buildings, is the bulwark of our national life, ceiving absolutely no training for fu equipment and teachers is the same and it is. But in spite of our boasted ture citizenship. This should not be whether there be eight pupils in the democracy and civilization we dis in a civilized commonwealth like the district or twenty-eight, and distribu covered many things during the great great state of Oregon. In addition to tion on the pupil basis is discrimina world war that not only brought the these 230 vacancies there are fully 300 tion against the smaller schools. As blush of shame to our faces but more school rooms that are presided good, loyal Oregonians and as good caused us to tremble for the future of over by untrained teachers—young Americans, we must agree that the civilization. We found that our one boys and girls who have not finished girls and boys of the smallest, poor great outstanding weakness was that even a high school course, who have est, most isolated district in the state of our public school system. It was no qualifications either for discipline are entitled to the very best that the discovered that four million of our or teaching—or older people who have state can afford in educational facili native adult population are illiterates, not been in a school room for years, ties. and that eight and one half million of and none of whom could meet the re The Measure of Interest our population above the age of ten quirements for certification as teach Oregon. Our interest in this matter is the ers under the school laws of years can neither read nor write. We measure of our interest in our own The Only Remedy sent an army to preach democracy to the world, and yet in the first draft The only remedy for this deplor- children and the future of the state of that army there were 700,000 able condition is some system of rais- and nation. Either education is vital young men between the ages of 21 and ing money whereby we may offer to a democracy or it is not vital, and 31 who could neither read nor write. greater inducements for men and a democracy is founded on the theory Bearing a banner of freedom that wa§ women to enter and remain in the that we give no more to one child than hailed as the hope of the world, these teaching profession. Any of us who we give to every child. If American 700,000 young men could not write a employ labor know that with the pre ization is the big task. that lies be letter to their friends at home, and vailing cost of living workers in all fore us, we must admit that it can were unable to read the daily orders classes must have salaries commen only be done in our public schools, that were posted in the camps. These surate with their material needs and and there is no better way to bring 700,000 young American men, held up requirements, and a noble calling like up a generation of Bolshevist, I. W. their right hands and swore to de that of the teachng professon should W.’s and radicals than to turns over fend the constitution of the United command not only a living wagejbut a our schools to untrained, poorly paid States, when they could not even saving wage. Our educational stand teachers. If we love our state and our read it. If we found this deplorable ards all over the country are being nation, we will go to the polls on May condition at a time when we were lowered, and they will be further low 21st and vote for Bill 314. boasting that our public school ered unless we take advantage of the GAINING BY GIVING system was the best in the world, only remedy at hand, that of raising It is ever true that he who does what must be the condition now, when more money for our schools. nothing for others does nothing for there is a shortage of 140,000 teachers Education a Big Business himself.—Goethe. in the United States, and thousands of Education is a matter of business our best teachers are leaving the and it is the biggest business in Amer •iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^ ranks of the teaching profession to ica today. The two-mill tax for the accept better salaried jobs elsewhere. support of our elementary schools is I WATCHMAKER Facing a Crisis the most progressive piece of legisla Repairing of European and We are facing a crisis in educa tion that has been offered us in years, | Reliable American Watches a Specialty . tional matters all over the United because it is founded on the broad 412 East Bumside Street States and Oregon has its full quota principle that the taxable property of | Near Grand Ave. Portland, Oregon of vacancies. We have always been the whole state shall stand back of 7JllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllltlllllllllllllll1lllillllllllll!llllllllllllllllll niggardly in paying that class of our the education of every child in the workers to whom we entrust our most state. It enlarges the unit for taxa cherished possessions, our children tion, and thus equalizes the burden to and if there ever was a time when we be borne. Oregon is one of only seven should face about and begin to correct states that still retain the old dis But not enough to cut down the the evil, the time is now. Our public trict system with its unequal burden quality of our Baking Goods. schools are the nurseries of ideals, of taxation and its unequal educational When you taste the product from our fair or false. Our recent war ex facilities. While this two-mill levy is bake-ovens you will know that the perience should impel us to go into made in addition to taxes already pro ingredients that have made our these nurseries where the men and vided for by law, it will not necessarily bakery goods preferable to you women of the future is fashioned, and raise taxes in every district. As a are still the same. hold up to them only high and noble matter of fact, it will mean that the; Saturday is our Coffee Cake Day ambitions. We cannot hope to do this city of Portland will raise only two- with poorly paid, poorly trained tenths of a mill in addition to the Orders for “Julekager” and “Viener- teachers. br0d” filled any time. taxes that are being paid at the pres The war and the high cost of living ent time. Last year we voted a special have been contributing factors to the tax of 1.8 mills, and when we vote YAMHILL BAKING CO. demoralization of our school system this two-mill tax it will add only two- N. R. Jensen & F. R. Wegner, Props. as we find it to-day. The money tenths of a mill to our present rate. 244 YAMHILL STREET voted for school purposes has not kept In other words, it means that your (Betw. 2nd & 3rd) Phone Main 3947 A Plea For Young America Dr. G. T. Trommald Dr. Hjalmar East Haakon Glasoe Sugar is going up!
