THE NORTHMAN
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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!