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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, UA GRANDE, ORE.
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POLITICS IN EDUCATION
The American Association of University Profession, in
blacklisting the University of Mississippi, the Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Mississippi State
College for Women, and the Mississippi State Teachers' Col
lege, outlawed degrees conferred upon graduates of these
schools, left the institutions without standing in the educa
tional world and removed from good standing any full
fledged professors remaining in them.
These institutions were previously dropped by the Associa
tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern
f States, and by the American Society of Civil Engineers, while
the school of mechanical engineering and the medical school
of the university are on probation, and the law school is un
der investigation.
This drastic move follows the more drastic action of Gov
ernor Bilbo, of Mississippi, in summarily dismissing 179
members of the four faculties, and replacing them with po
litical henchmen having no qualifications for the positions.
But the educators were not prompted merely by the hope of
vengeance. When the four institutions ceased to be adminis-
tered and taught by trained educators they ceased to be in
stitutions of higher learning and lost their claim to recogni
tion as such,. . ; -(r v' ,
Bilbo claims he has "reorganized" the state schools But
education and politics do not mix because politics must al
ways come first in the politician's mind. Wherever and
whenever politicians have used state supported educational
; institutions as pawns in the game of politics the cause of edu
cation has suffered. Governor Bilbo has certainly injured the
young people who turn to his state for learning. And out
siders see in this policy his own political suicide.
NEW YORK (P) Katharine Cornell
may be an American girl from Buf
falo. N. Y.( but she prefers to play
English horolnes.
The first role to award her stardom
was that slightly declasse ladv of
English society, Irish March, in "The
Orecn Hat." In "The Letter" she was
an English wife Isolated at a colonial
post in the tropics.
In "The Age of Innocence" she did
play an American heroine, a New
York lady of the seventies. She re
turned to her British performances
in "Dishonored Lady," the case of a
murderess who poisoned her Cockin y
sweetheart.
Miss Cornell now continues hr
favoritism for English heroines In
her newest play, "The Barretts of
Wimpole Street."
In this she Impersonates Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. The pnrt of Rob
ert Browning will be played by Don
Aherne, a young actor from London.
With this play Miss Cornell be
comes her own manager, and Bhe
hopes eventually to head her own
repertory theatre.
"I havo my own Ideas about what
z want to do on the stage In the
future." she says, "and I know that
X can carry out those plans so much
better .if I have full charge over my
productions. That Is why I'm becom
ing independent.
"I believe the theatre will profit
If ttiere Is a return, to a certain ex
tent, to the actor-manager plan that
used to prevail in the days of Sir
Henry Irving.
"This play about the Barretts and
Browning Is my first independent
presentation. In London it caused
some controversy when members of
the Barrett family protested that it
did not present their ancestors In
their true perspectives.
"I am producing the play over here
without a single change from the
original, and I don't think there will
be much, If any, protest. It Is, I am
sure, an authentic picture of a very
notable family."
Miss Cornell Is married to Guthrie
McClintlc, stage and screen director.
Ho always directs the plays In which
oho appears. They live quietly in an J
apartment on the banks of the East
river, and aro seldom seen in public.
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Pendleton Man's
Death Will Be
Investigated
PENDLETON, Ore., Jon. 29 An
Investigation into the death of Henry
Schneider, believed to have commit
ted suicide here last Monday morn
ing, will bo held Immediately, It was
announced yesterday by C. C. Proeb
stel, district attorney of Umatilla
county.
An Investigation was not though!
necessary at Ilrst, Mr. Proebstel suld
because it appeared to Ralph Folsom.
county coroner, that the death was a
plain caso of suicide. Complaints from
many persons, however, who believed
certain details of Schneider's death
needed explanation prompted him in
ills decision to demand a formal in- i
vestlgation. - j
Schneider was found shot through I
the breast with a 12 gauge shot gun
In the yard of Charles Goodyear at
713 Marie street. Goodyear, a butcher
shop proprietor, was Schneider's em- i
uioyer, ana lound Schneider when he
came out of his house to enter his
garage about 6:30 a. m. Monday. '
Detnils Not Consistent.
Chief among the details not en-1
tlrely consistent with the suicide
theory was the fact Schneider seemed
in good spirits the day and until lata
at night before his death. According
iu a statement oi tranK Kcnnelder,
the dead man's son, Mr. and Mrs.
Schneider and he had been at Meach
am Sunday afternoon to watch the
skiing there. In the evening they had
played cards until about 11:30 at the
home of Mrs. Schneider's sister, Mrs.
Harry Huckstcp. They all then re
turned home.
Cagle Turns Clerk
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Associated I'rcss Photo
Christian "Red" Cagle, Army grid
Iron star for four seasons has
turned his talents to the New York
stock exchange, and now Is a floor
clerk fora , firm of Wall street
brokers.
which they thought at the time to
be an automobile backfire. Schneider
was in his shirt sleeves, another in
cident officers term peculiar.
Police Will Investigate.
The present investigation will b3
made by city police, Proebstel said.
Diift tn thp iaft hp is fit nrpspnt rnn- ' .mMBMMMHHHMBaMn i
Chief of Police Lemons, who mips- riiirt.lri(7 n. murHr nnvn in rnnrt.
tioned Mrs. Schneider shortlv after Proebstel is unable nt the nres?nt .
body wa3 discovered Monday time to take a personal part tn the . ticn. Is the grandmother of Luxury.
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Virginia Plantation Life Is O'Neiirs Choice
NEW YORK m That growing
literary colony in tho valleys of Vir
ginia will havo another distinguished
member next year when Eugene
O'Neill returns to this. country.
The author of "Strange Interlude"
has chosen the tidewater region of
Virginia, in the vicinity of Chesa
peake bay waters, as tho place where
ho will settle down on a plantation
when he brings his new play here in
1932.
O'Neill will find many of his con
temporieo Bottled near by his future
home. In Virginia he will be a neigh
bor of James Branch Cabell, Sher
wood Anderson and Ellen Glasgow.
Just over the Maryland border ho
will meet Henry L. Mencken and
Llzotte Woodworth Reese, the poetess.
Not far away, In the Carolinas, will
be Paul Green, Julia Peterkin, and
DuBose and Dorothy Hcyward.
This will bo the last year O'Neill
will spend in his huge chateau, the
Chateau du PIcshIs, In Tours, Franco.
He has resided there- for tho last two
yearn with his wife, Carlotta Monterey.
It was in his chateau that he wrote
"Dynamo," and it is there that he Is
writing his latest play, all details of
which he Is keeping in secrecy.
When O'Neill comes home it will
mark the end of a four-year pilgrim
age begun shortly after "Strange In
terlude" was first produced. At that
time O'Neill was In poor health, and
he made a futile attempt to travel
Incognito.
He visited China and tho Philip
pines, then turned back to his chat
eau in Tours, where ho lived for
many months in seclusion. It was
only last summer that he would con
sent to see visitors.
CLASS PIANO
TEACHING TO
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able to reach tho trleixer
MiotKnri Pull I.eliBtli.
The shotgun found at the side of
Schneider's body had a full length
barrel It was declared this afternoon
by the first police officer to reach
tho scene of the shooting Monday
morning. There were no. sticks or
other Instruments in the vicinity
with which Schneider could have
,,. , , , , ,, Pulled tho trigger, he said. Since the
Slating that class piano teaching , mn had both his shoes on and laced
nas been successfully demonstrated lit is thought improbable that he
morning, stated, however, that he Investigation, since the presence of
wo wi wmicmer nau not oeen at several sheriff s deputies are required
home all night. . in court, the city authorities will be
Sheriff's officers, also, believe it asked to open tho Investigation. The
would have been extremely difficult coroner will also probably be asked
for Schneider to have fired the gun to hold an inquiry.
himself. In an experiment performed j
last night at the sheriff's office, one william "Hcri" Fmiv nf North
siotLlunTmn,,1' f? S Stata COleT' Who SSd
snotgun at himself and tried to pull no1 , fr,,h(lli ii hoidine ' tha
he trigger. Although he has except- l' honora in bolC
ionallv lone arms hn vm nnlv hr,i 6cnot1 8 DOtmtS in Boxing.
John Campbell, outstanding ' Ala
bama halfback, has signed as back
field coach at the University of Ken
tucky. '
If the deaf are mado to hear, as
reports from the University of Cali
fornia indicate, they will not be with
out sound reasons for regret as weir'
as rejoicing.
"Six hundred Americans are pennl-.
less in Paris and cannot get home.".
We'd be looking for that Latin quarter.
LONELY INVENTORS
Probably many thousands of men and boys who labor with
mechanical devices in the hope of developing- something new
mid marketable, were cheered by William A. Kinnan's state
ment that the day of the individual inventor has not passed.
Mr. Kinnan, who is first assistant patent commissioner,
spoke on behalf of the individual worker in reply to those
who have said that successful invention is now almost ex
clusively the product of research organizations of modern
industry.
The feed-back circuit, the neutrodyne, and the vacuum
cleaner are mentioned by Kinnan as examples of compara
tively recent inventions developed by men who worked inde
pendently. Undoubtedly many similarly important things are
being developed today by those who labor aloijf. Genius lias
been defined as the ability to correlate two apparently separ
ate ideas or phenomena. Many important inventions show
evidence of such correlation, which may as readily be the
product of a single mind as of an organized group.
Cupid may be blind, but he does not have to carry a tin
cup or sell pencils to make a living.
commlttoo with great skill. Little or
no friction Is found In the committee
and bills havo been reported out with
a minimum loss of time.
Possessed of a dry wit, courageous
and frank, Wood enjoys tho respect
of all his colleagues. Many of them
call him "Will," and ho hos many
closo personal friends. Ills old friend,
Joseph Byrns, was chairman of the
democratic congressional committee
In the last campaign, and he acted In
the same capacity for tho republicans.
These two Joke each other about
politics when they are together,
whether It be in the capltol, while
fishing, or waiting for duck In a
blind on tho Potomac.
. Give the devil his due, but do not spend money on him that
you owe to other people.
There would be little knocking if we had no backs and
people had to say things to our faces or not say them at all.
Wo grow while we are green. . .
ripe we begin to go to seed.
, It is when we think we are
In Washington
WASHINGTON Two days before
his 70th birthday, gaunt, grey, blunt
Will Wood of Indtiinu, chairman o
tho powerful house appropriation
committee, stood before a micro
phone in a Washington broadcast lug
studio.
A nation-wide hook-up of stations
was 10 carry ms vou-e. me Miujtvt
on which he was to talk was a lay
out of his tho evils of tho direct
primary. Much in the manner he
employs when he addresses the house.
Wood said: t
"The direct primary gyMcm of
making party nominations has done
more to break down representative
tiovtriimrnt t nan nil ot her cauttos
combined. . , .
"The theory of the direct primary
Is that the best man will win. but
In too many instances the winner
turns out to be only the best adver
tiser, or the one best supplied with
cash. . . ,"
the appropriations committee, arose
to do him honor.
"The gentleman from Indiana."
nnUl llyins. "is entitled to feel niter
long years of faithful service that he
litis the respect, the confidence and
the friendship of all his colleagues."
From tho republican side. Burton
French of Idaho arose and said:
"If we miht appraise his ngc by
his efficiency, by his work, by his
enthiiMasm. by his ftdrlltv. we should
say that Just now he Is reaching the
prime of life."
Nothing was said about his pri
mary speech at that time. But later
me nay. when permission whs
WASHINGTON Random notes in
A Washington Day Book;
Gilbert K. Chesterton, tho famous
Brit lull author, visited Washington
recently to debate with Cosmo Ham
ilton on tho question "Is Psychology
a Curse?"
We discovered him the afternoon
before his debate, arising from a
sofa concealed behind some palms In
a hotel lobby. He presented the ap
pearance of an amiable lion, wearing
Informal morning clothes, a detec
tive story magazine bare-faeedly pro
trudliiK from tho pocket of his coat.
Ho said that lie read detective
stories nearly all the time, and made
no attempt to conceal the "vice.
His own crime stories, ho remarked,
had been written largely for his own
amutement, but tho bad tiling about
wrltlnn detective stories yourself was
that "you were the only person in
the world who couldn't rend them."
UK MAY SIT '
Chesterton has been lecturing in
Notre Dame university during his
stay in this country. In the univer
sity hp enjoyed the status of profes
sit. Obviously ho was pleased about
this, becaiiKo he took the trouble to
diderentiate between a lecturer and
a professor.
A lecturer, ho said, has to wear
formal evening dress and stand up.
A professor may wear what he pleases
and sit down.
Gleanings from a conversation with
him which consumed the better part
of an hour:
He has no doubt at all that the
next war. If there should be one, will
betun tn or about Poland.
lie would have concurred tn the
principles enunciated In the Pope's
ency Ileal on matrimony even before
he became Roman Catholic.
Ho considers communism as repre
sented in Hussia a "late fulfillment."
He feels he Is the last of the ilcmo
.ts. and defines a liberal and demo
nt as a man who believes govern-
men ts not a Job for specialists but
ir the normal function of every mem
ber of the community.
Ways and Means
Committee Will
. Check EpeTnses
ALESf, 'Jan: 20 ) Deterrnirted
to sift critically the traveling ex
penses estimated by state .depart
ments and activities for the years
1931 and I9ua, the ways and means
committee asked for a tabulation of
these from the official budget. This
was furnished last night and showed
a total oi 13,100. tho commit
tee did not have time to scrutinize
the figures, and they weren't men
tioned, but will bo considered Inter.
Actual traveling expenses are estim
ated at $057,379, automobile expenses
$182,561 and expense of meals and
lodgings $273,210. They apply both
to travel both within and outside
the state, Including Journeys to con
ventions and conferences in eastern
cities.
Institutions of higher education
alono estimate their traveling ex
penses at $350,490. The state game
commission estimates that it will
need $115,000 for traveling besides
$25,000 for automobile expense and
$37,500 for meals and lodging, Cir
cuit Judges calculate that they can
travel for 90000, but will need $11,
800 for meals and lodging. The
dairy and food commissioner requests
SHOO for travei, $-1800 for automo
biles and $82000 for meals and lodg
ing. The forestry board estimates
the items respectively at $10,500,
$3070 and $0000. The state fire mar
shal put In $9000 for travel und
$11,000 for meals and lodging, and
the banking department $0000 and
$9500 for. the same items. For forest
patrol estimates of $4500 for travel,
$4200 for automobiles and $500 for
food and lodging nre put In. The
prohtbiton department wants $450,
$15,850 and $12,500 for three Items.
The state highway department's re
quests for the same three items are
$3000, $28,000 and $24,000.
Tho many other requests arc for
smaller amounts.
in a number of cities and that the
Melody Way was used with gratifying
results in the teaching of over 5000
children during its first summer In
use, the Adler Music store announces
that all children who have never
before take-h' music lessons will bo
given 15 fred of charge of they apply
before Feb.- 2. The lessons will be
given whether the student has a
piano or not.
The Melody Way has been given
the endorsement of J. T. Longfellow,
superintendent cf schools, and he has
announced .the offer in the schools,
it is reported.
The system of class piano teaching
is being introduced in an effort to
bring music Into more homes man-y
of them housing children of great po
tential talent but unable to take ad
vantage of private lessons.
could have pulled the trigger with
The condition of Schneider's clothing-,
reported to have been extremely
damp, Indicated he may have been
killed much earlier than 6:00 a. m.,
when persons reported having heard
a noise similar to a gun shot but
Clark Wood
- Says
We do not understand how Doc
Einstein, who is described as "mon
arch of the realm of pure thought,"
can do much monarching in California.
To justify his swap of Italian sear
planes for Brazilian coffee, Mussolini
will not be without sufficient
grounds.
Knowledge is power only when It is
useful, which is the reason why bo
many people possess little clso.
, "Sec Fred and Be Ahead"
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Tho University of Florida has
scheduled 21 baseball games for the
season, with two additional games
with Boston Braves and Newark
Bears still- pending. j
(iUiU'its to m; i,hi:nski
WASHINGTON (At Licensing of
gliders by the federal government,
twlco postponed, will begin July 1,
1031.
,",,,""' ui iir.is i incur nam iceiings. Every re tut est
1 wo aays later the house recon- can't be granted,
vened after the holiday recess. It ! Wood undoubtedly has not escaped
was the day of Woods birthday. His But generally speaking he is well
old friend. Joseph Byrns of Tennes- ' liked. A strict partisan, he is credited
see, rniiklr? democratic member of nevertheless Willi Having handltd his
PItoni I.M:
Charles Elmore Cropley, the youth
ful clerk of the supreme court of the
United Slates, is faced with a knotty
Lincoln's hand on the Bible
or upraised when he took the oath
asked tn print it in the Congressional !f oUic 113 President of the United
w-wu. n democrat could not retrain f --
frcm MigKt'siing to Vestal of Indiana. A Pfalt painter wants the In
who offered It, that: I fcimatWin. Cropley was asked to sup-
"U the gentleman knew that the)l,h lt because a chief Justice admin
speech attempted to deprive the peo- Is tered the oath.
plo of electing their own represent a- ' ' t l nothing unusual for the su
tlves at the ballot box. he would not'Pme court clerk to get such re- i
make such a request." quests. His office serves as a sort
J 9 clearing house for historians and
A II.K1 TASK ; the curious Interested in the court..
A chairman of the house appropria- ; It is an unusual day's mall that docs
tlons committee, by virtue of his: net briiur him some mivzlinn oues-
position alone, is moro than likely to 'tion. Four stenographers are kept
busy in his office writing routine
letters und answering queries.
Although ho has spent several
hours in research without avail on
thte particular request, he L) not
daunted.
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