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lA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 19lf
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HOME GARDENING DIRECTED BY
THE SCHOOL.
Home gardening directed by ' the
school is offered by Dr. P. P. Clax
ton, United States commissioner
of education, as a solution for some
of the most pressing educational and
economic problems in city and surbur-
ban life. Doctor Claxton would have
every vacant town lot transformed
into a garden, where boys and girls
would raise vegetables, berries and
fruit for pleasure and for profit. He
would have one teacher in the com
munity employed twelve months in
the year to teach elementary science
in school and direct the home garden
work after school, on Saturdays and
during the summer vacation.
Of the 13,000,000 children between
the ages of six and 20 in the cities,
towns, manufacturing villages, and
suburban communities of the United
States, according to Doctor Claxton,
not more than 15 per cent are away
from home during the summer vaca
tion or engaged in regular employ
ment. The remaining 85 per cent re
main at home without any useful,
healthful productive occupation requir
ing any large part of their time. On
the other hand, there are many valu
able lots that are serving no useful
purpose. The problem is to bring this
land and these children together.
It is Dr. Claxton'8 idea that in every
school and community there should
be at least one teacher who knows
gardening, both theoretically and prac
tically. This teacher should teach the
elementary sciences in the schools
during the school hours and should
out of school hours, direct the home
gardening of the children between the
ages of seven and eight and 14 or 15.
If possible, the teacher should have
the assistance of an expert gardener,
so that the work may be done in the
most practical and profitable way.
The teacher and the gardener should
help the children find the plots of
ground in back yards, front yards, and
vacant lots near their homes best suit
ed for gardening work, and them by
some cooperative method to have the
lots properly plowed rtnd prepared for
cultivation, help them select seeds,
show them how to plant,, cultivate
and harvest, so as to obtain the best
results.
This is a commendable idea. For
the children it would mean health,
strength, joy in work, habits ol" In
dustry, an understanding of the value
of money, as measured ' in terms of
labor and such knowledge of the phe
nomena and forces of nature as must
bo l.nl for an understanding of most
i.f iir school lessons. They would
.: earn something at least of the
f until, mental principle of morality;
i-ai aneh individual must make his
:.; own living; must, by some kind
v. ;! or of head, hand or heart, con
'' tribute to the commonwealth as much
us he takes from it; must pay for
what he gets in some kind of coin.
In the estimates submitted to con
gress by the commissioner of educa
tion for the support of the bureau in
the next fiscal year an item of $5,700
is included to enable the bureau to
begin the introduction of this kind of
work in die - schoolr of the United
States. The commissioner believes
that it will only be necessary to work
out details of plans to present them
to school officers, together with full
information in regard to results- of
somewhat similar work 'already done
at various places. ' .
ANOTHER GREAT REFORM.
' A blow has been struck which will
rob many a statesman and lecturer
of his most essential attribute and
his unfailing strong hold. : The Cus
tom Cutters' association in convention
assembled has decreed that the frock
coat is a relic of antiquity and must
go. They say there is no place for
the long-tailed Prince Albert in mod
ern civilization. The Robert-tailed,
or bobtained, coat now has the call, :
as this is an age of simplicity in
dress.
i.This is indeed a calamity not only to
the lecturers and statesmen, but to
others. What will the book agents
and corn doctors do? Did anyone
ever see a book agent who did not
wear one of the long tailed creations
in connection with his celluloid collar
and white lawn tie? Quack doctors
the world over have worn Prince Al
bert coats so long that the memory of
the oldest inhabitant runneth' not to
the contrary. ,
When a statesman rises to address
an audience of his constituents, he is
a thing of beauty, and a joy forever.
From his shiny collar and bow tie
down to his patent leather shoes, he
is dressed according to form. . The
piece de resistance of the costume,
however, is always the long frock coat.
It lends dignity and repose and, like
charity, it covers a multitude of sins.
Place one of the statesmen in an ordi
nary bob tailed business suit, with an
ordinary collar and a sane four-in-hand
necktie, and 90 per cent of the
atmosphere of statesmanship leaves
him instanter.
It is a blow from which the nation
will be a long time recovering. It
seems as though the cutters have
aimed a thunderbolt at the very foun
dation of the republic, when they re
fuse to make any more frock coats.
Howjver, it all may work out for the
best.! The public can get a setter line
on a man when he doesn't hide be
hind the dignity of a Prince Albert
coat, and the public, in the end, may
profit. At any rate, it all
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PINGR E SHOES FOR IA DIES $3.50 to. $6.00
UTZ & DUNN SHOES
for Ladies and Misses, $2.50, to $5.00.
PAT COGAN'S BOYS' SHOES,
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without an equal for service, $4.00 to $6.00.
peculiar position of being his deputy ferty from Oregon, made "a speech might as weli have stayed at home
and at the same time running for his. attacking the president. Too bad. and paid their income lax.
boss' office. -Rand's act will doubtless
split democracy in that county and
the republicans will land a sheriff
after years of waiting.
The Oregonian is long on suggested
platforms for governors, but the issue
containing those suggestions is not
dry until some favorite son has whip-
.The dancing craze has made a live
ly market for ball-gowns, flowers,
dress suits, musicians and livery
stable services, while the demand for
overalls and aprons remain quiescent.
1 Lincoln Beachy fell 1600 feet in his
aeroplane and was not injured. The
same day a' Pittsburg man fell off a
street car and broke his neck.
lfred Noyes, the English poet, is
j to lecture at Princeton university. It
. is hoped that he does not encourage
goes to Ped !t int platform and is standing col! b ,n the ,d,e and d, ,
show that the spirit of the timos in ,firmIv on the P,anks advocated by the 0)deriy habit of writing poetry. !
this country is changing and that sim
plicity is making men stand on their to say one has such a platform, but The head waiter of a London hotel
has recently retired with a fortune
The stores have tango skirts, tango
shoes, etc., but they never seenj to
name any clothes after ordinary
wholesome gymnastic exercises.
metropolitan newspaper. It is easy
to say one has such a platform, but
the people would like to know what
u:i:... .
Shoriff RHo-nr Marvin nf Wnllnwn "'" V" I"
worth.
Mrs. Lucy Mustard of Idaho, asks a
divorce from William, her husband.
Another case of "Too much Mustard."
county, is to have a competitor this
time for the office. Giles Plass, one of
the best and squarest men of that
section, has consented to enter the
race and it is doubtful if Mr. Marvin
! ciples advocated when the candidate is
elected. Men are what we want in of- the rest-of it'
i fice, not halfed-baked spasmodically
insane individuals.
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of $75,000. Those acquainted with the The first baseball came of the season
breed are wondering what he did with was played on the high school grounds
Foreigners are said to be driven in
sane by the rapidity of American life.
The black hand bomb also has its
j Orville Wricht. on account of his
will have the unanimity of support he contro, of the vintion industry, may share in the general nervousness and
has frequently enjoyed in the past.',evy , tax of $1 000 on ea..h air b, rapidity.
From several Wallowa people comes pIane buUt , tUs country 0l.viUe (
the intimation that Plass is gather- mil,ht nlsn HH tn his inom. thrnuh 1 The Paris cafes now require wait
ing strength in many places and the
Saturday.,",., The "Old Town Nationals"
defeated: a school nine with a score of
16 to 11.., The batteries for "Old Tom
Nationals'' were Matott and Stewart;
for school Mart and Larson. I lusts
the secondltime the "Old Town Nation
als" defeated the school "Bear Cats."
The next game will be' played in two
weeks:; The game was not very spedy
on account oi a arizznng ramj "
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Plasterers and Contractors.
t Inferior and exterior work of
all kinds, Cement Work, Con-
S crete Foundations and Flue build-
ing V k3 AH work guaranteci
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commissions from undertakers and
prediction is freely made by Wallowa Lnnufaeturers of eplints for broUen
county people that the Plass-Marvin bones
race will be a hot one and many seem
tn think Plass has a little the best of
the game at the present time.
ers to wear kid gloves. But that isn't
going to improve the flavor of the
soup if they use gasoline in cleaning
them.
Thaw is now appealing "to the pee
pul" of New York to stop prosecution
of him. ' He is a fine mark to appeal
, to the people for anything. But you
will see that a lot of blubbers will
Pendleton has twenty of her citi
zens under indictment for different '
crimes. When Mayor Matlock "came st0rt a fight for him
back" it was presumed that he was
of the Hi Gill frame of mind bound
to give a first class administration,
Canada has deported one criminal
and the United States refused to re
ceive him. It looks as though the
only place that man can go is up in a
balloon.
When a man gets so lazy that he
; won't keep the lenses of his classes
A New Jersey woman was sentenc- , ,. ...
' clean, you can't expect him to see
ed to live a month away from her
noted for its purity. But it seems husband just because she pulled out a j '
that Matlock let the days of '49 get handful of hair. By that time there j)r Giltner declares we shall soon
the best of this present day of reform ought to be enough of the new crop be compclled to subsist mostiy 0n
and regulation. to get another hold. Rah And , lokist rpmflrlt9 fW
Up in Baker county Sheriff Ed.
Rand has backed into the race again
which puts George Herbert in the
President Wilson hnd as well quiet
down. His career has suffered a ter-
"Every day'U be Friday by and by."
rible setback. For Congressman Laf- banla by bandit3 for ransom
Two Americans were held in Al-
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