they could have witnessed the in­ magne and Harun-al Rashid in thv
vasion of elementary rights made in ninth century. The attempts of the
this state in the name of American­ Saracen* (and now of the Turks) to
ism.
rule according to the dictates of the
Publish«! Every Friday at Unto Sta­
Knowledge comes but wisdom ling ■ Koran made it next to impomible to
tion, Portland. Oregon
are. In the art of reading—accord ' deal with Christians in the Moham­
ng to the statistics—Oregon’s adult medan courts.
LAWRENCE DINNFF.N. Editor
population is near the top, but inj
Entered a* aecond-elaas mail mat­ those qualities which go to make up
MISCELLANk
ter February 14. 1914. at the m»t- real education *v must conclude that :
offica at l>enta, Or., under aet of con- Oregonians are greatly lacking. That
By Aulolycu*
gres», March 3, 1879,
this is not merely vur personal view ! 1 think the time has come for a
is shown by the nation-wide response complete and trank explosion of the
Subecription Price - -81.50 a year to the Oregon vote on the school Santa Claus myth. 1 mention thu
quite openly at the beginning in order
measure; scores of press opinions and that you might keep this column from
5812 N'inety-eecond Street
educators* opinions have come to cur the nursery if yotf think it imprope«
Phone Auto. 822-28
active, but in no case have we read I reading for the juveniles. 1 wish the
praise of the new Oregon law from Sunday supplements would make the
a source outbid* of Oregon. The exposure. They do these tiungs so
graphically, ami in several colors, amt
universal verdict of intelligent Amer­ could show j ou by means ef diagrams
ica is against Oregon’s choice in thia that St N whois* has a very weak
matter.
counterpart in the corpulent gentle­
If the public schools were distinct­ man who is depicted carrying load*
ly .»«perior to the private establish­ of expensive toys to children who have
plenty, and some shoddy goods and a
ments this tyrannous measure might couple
of oranges to children who
be borne with some degree of pati­ would appreciate a square nieal. Santa
ence, but everybody who has any ac- Claus is occupying too much of the
quaintanee with educational condi­ stage at Christmas. We want leas of
tions knows that the public schools him and a little more of the Christ
are floundering in a bog of despera­ Child.
tion due to the lack of competent in­
Keep .8anta Claus in the program
structors in the country schools and if you like. But be fair to the chil­
to overcrowding in the larger centers dren. Put them wise to his real im­
FOR H EALTH
where the teaching staffs are efficient. portance. It is foolish to argue that
Here is a dispatch from New York the child will "understand later on.”
The first thing they will understand,
within the past few days:
MY PRAYER
when they dacover the truth about
“Fiftv-fbur per cent of the rural Santa Claus, is the fact that their
I pray. Oh Lord, that some great A-hoo! buildings in New York state parents have bed most despicably.
are more than 50 years old. and «5 And how is the child (having one»
aoul.
per cent of the teaching force have found you out in deception) to dif­
Who lives to help my kind.
ferentiate in his acceptancg of the
May banish selfah thoughts from me had no normal school training, said other things you have told him with
Professor O. G. Brim of Cornell uni­ equal earnesthess * If Santa Claus
And take possession of my mind;
That I may be inspired to do some versity, before the annual conference proves to be a delusion the child may
of the American Country Life asso­ reason that the story of Bethlehem
deed—
is a myth. Give the child the real
ciation.’*
Somehow, with bniah or pen.
facte in the esse. Tell him (what
New
York,
of
course,
is
not
the
To cast some light on darkened ways
the rest of the world is trying to
worst state in regard to school equip­ ccnceal) that Qiri^mas is the feast
That hide the Right from men.
ment. Many of the southern states of the Babe of Bethlehem, and that
I pray. Oh Lord, for strength to bear pay miserable wages to their teachers Santa Claus » the patron of store­
in the rural districts. Until State keepers, who drag turn out annually
Today what fate may send.
Superintendent Churchill secured a to give impetus to the purchase oi'
For courage to endure tomorrow
luxuries.
minimum wage law for teachers in
WSiat 'ere may serve Thy end;
in
Oregon
many
rural
districts
were
"Tay Pay,” which is the more
That I could help all those in need
paying mere pittances to the instruc familiar name of Thomas Power
Within my scanty reach;
O’Connor, has been again elected to
tors.
That I may not forget to watch.
the British House of Commons. He is
And practice what I preach.
74 yvaia of age, and has spent exactly
SAFETY FIRST
half of hi3 life as the parliamentary
I prey. Oh Lord, that wars may cease
reprv.-entative cf voters in the Scot­
The scene of this article is nip- land division of Liverpool. For 37
To devastate the land:
p-aed to be anywhere from Seventy- years "Tay Pay” has retained the
That man with man may be at peace,
second street to Fifty-second street , confidence of his constituents. This
In peace all nations band.
is a remarkable record of public
on Foster Road.
That men no more may cry for bread.
The writer is one of the hundreds service. He stall follows the profes­
Prejudice may lose its sway.
sion of journalism, and is known as
of school pupils that daily croee the the grand obituarist, fer no man of
Class hatred be forever dead;
busy street.
importance dies without an adequate
For these, Oh Lord, I pray.
lYierefore, this is an appeal to the tribute from “Tay Pay.” "His type­
—S. GRAY.
children to “stop, look and listen” . writer," scys a writer in the Fort-
nightly, “is wreathed with immor­
before crossing Foster Road.
telles, and the tears fall warm and
A QUESTION OF RIGHTS
Travel on this street has increased . free as the letters
greatly since it was opened to traffic. I
.. — ■■ flow
There are now before the United Machines come from Lenta, Damas­ In soothing sadness of bis warbled
ww.’ "
States supreme court several cases cus, Oregon City and other points
involving questions of elementary and it is natural that the motorists j
educational rights.
Though these should take the shortest and best j Speeders and other violators of traf­
fic laws totalling 4791 fell into the
cases are only remotely related to route.
The parents of the school pupils hands of the motorcycle speed squad
the questions of educational rights
which have recently been raised in shculd advise their children of the of the Portland police force during the
Oregon they are perhaps of suffi­ rianger from the ever increasing traf­ past 12-month period, according to the
cient interest to merit a word of com­ fic in order that the accident chart annual report filed with Chief of Po­
lice Jenkins. Fines aggregating »23.-
ment At ary rate the disposition may be kept as low as possible.
Co-operation of parents and motor­ 355.35 were collected from drivers.
which the high court makes of these
As a result of the tremendous num­
cases may give some notion of what ists is asked in this matter of observ­
bers of motor tourists visiting the
its attitude would be should the Ore­ ing safety first.
Oregon caves of the Siskiyou national
gon compulsory school attendance law-
forest, which followed the opening
come before it
NOTFS AND NEWS
last season of automobile roads there.
Two of the cases arise out of an .
Ohio law of 1919 forbidding the use , A man discoursing on the progress Fred Cleator of the Oregon office of
of a foreign language in the elemen­ of the world in the past 50 years was lands will see about utilisation of
tary schools of the state both public asked what u progress. After much state land in that region for recrea­
and private. In the one a teacher, thought he concluded that it has con­ tional purposes.
and in the other a trustee of a Pro­ sisted chiefly in the extension of the
Cargo lumber shipments from the
testant parochial schoo 1 seeks to | use of the ba'htub and other sanitary Columbia river for the month of No­
escape a fine levied under the law. , conveniences.
vember were much less than during
A third case has gone to the court
the previous month, according to sta­
from Nebraska where a similar law
The Irish Free State government tistics compiled by Deputy Collector
has been contested by the Nebraska has done well to release Mary Ma •- of Customs Lamb at Astoria. Sixty-
district of the Evangelical Lutheran Swiney before her hunger strike ter­ nine vessels loaded at the mills on the
synod. In this case a Polish Catho- ' minated fatally. As Talleyrand would river In November and their combined
lie whose children attended St. Fran­ have said her incarceraticn was worse cargoes totaled 48,354,418 foot of lum­
cis parochial school in Omaha appears than a crime, it was a blunder.
ber.
as intervenor.
These laws were aimed at the
In a series of papers contribute«i MR. THOMAS HAS QUIT KLAN
teaching of German, but, of course, to the New Republic, Walter Lipp­
(Continued from Page 1.)
apply to French, Italian, Polish and man makes a frontal attack on the cer and containing information con­
other foreign languages as well. As so-called intelligence tests and ap­ cerning some crime. Mr. Hawes an-
the plaintiff’s attorney in the Ne­ parently drives the testers off the nouced that in his opinion such a law
would prevent the circulation of Ku
braska case puts it, the aet "assumes field.
Klux propaganda and more especially
that it is dangerous to the welfare of
would deter the brave knights of toe
the state to study poetry in the langu­
One of the most famous stunts of invisible empire from sending anony­
ages of Homer, Vergil, Dante and the intelligence testers was to apply mous threats in this way. Violation
Goethe.”
their intellectual yardstick to a mil­ ' of the law would be punishable by a
In the Ohio eases the plaintiffs de­ lion or more men in the training i fine of not more than 11000.
A k-tter written to Senator Walsh
clare that there is in this country a camps during the war and then pub­
by a Texas attorney declares that
consttmt and growing endeavor to lish a grave indictment of the nation «luring the past 18 months there have
withdraw those safeguards with which to the effect that the average intel­ been 500 “tar and feather parties and
the federal and «tate constitutions ligence of the army was that of a boy whipping bees” in Texas and men an i
were presumed to have surrounded of 14 or such a matter. The absurdity women and children have been sub­
the individual and to set up the doc­ of the affair seems not to have oc­ jected to outrages at the hands of tke
trine that the individual possess«! curred to them. A standard of meas­ klan without any of the offenders
being brought to Justice. The Texas
only such rights as the legislative urement which put a million norma) attorney includes thia observation:
majority sees fit to leave him. To American adults in the 14-year-old Klan Naturalizes for Its Government
uphold the law in this case, they say, class is manifestly a highly inac­
"The crusade in Texas is directed
not only against the negro, Jew and
would be to leave the constitutional curate standard.
Catholic church, but against any and
guarantees without meaning.
all persona whe do not subscribe tn
In their argument with the British ‘Klanocrafy.’ They have no reaped
EDUCATION WEEK
representatives at Lausanne over the for the laws of the state nor for the
use of the Turkish straits by war­ institutions founded under our laws,
A consideration of Education week ships the Russian spokesmen seem to when there is a conflict between th«
would be incomplete without some ref­ have the better case. Exclusion of two jurisdictions. All men who dr
erence to Oregon’s recently-achieved alien warships from the Black Sea not belong are called aliens and I
proud eminence in the educational is a vital interest of Russia; freedom judge that they consider theirs a
world. Oregon is second only to Iowa, ef.entrance for warships is only a separate government from our con
stitutional government. We on the
in literateness; in spite of which secondary interest for Britain.
outside are called ‘denizens’ and ar«1
happy situation Oregon is apparently
not citizens. The process of naturali
very backward in education, for true
The Turks, in {heir new-found ration makes the member a citizen of
education would have equipped the strength, want to get rid of the "ca­ the invisible empire, whatever that is.”
Simmons "Emperor for Life”
eitisenry of this commonwealth with pitulations” by which foreign powers
On that same day word came fron
the spirit of the founding fathers, as are able tn maintain their own courts
President Harding calls them. The of law and other pri’.jleg,^ in Turkey. Atlanta where the "imperial klon
men of the generation which forrnu- Special privileges for foreign mer­ cilium" of that klan was in session
that Colonel William Joseph Simmons
Inted the Declaration of Independence chants and travelers in what la now f«,under of the organization, has beer,
would turn over in their graves if Turkey go berk to the time of Charle- elected “emperor” for life.
Rit Scott fierald
LUSITANIA CARRIED i Classified Ads. j
£
NO ARMS OR TROOPS
1
«■
None of Liner's Load Consid­
ered Explosive, According
to Official Report.
New York The Cunard liner l.uai-
tania. sunk by a German submarine in
1915 off the Irish «-oast. carried uelih
•r guns, troops «or exploaive». but did
carry 5400 cases of ammunition, the
official report o( the vvaael'a cargo
made public by Dudley Field Malone,
collector of the port at the time,
shows, accordlag to a copyrighted
story tn the New York World
The Malone report, the newspaper
•aid. waa made to Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo. It waa dated June
4. 191». and was called tor after the
German reply of May 18 to President
Wilson's first Lusitania note of May
13 had set up the contention the
Lusitania had been armed and that
her rapid sinking waa due. not to the
torpedo, but to the exploalon of am­
munition.
Mr. Malone said he had determined
to give out the text of the report be­
cause of still Insistent appeals to him
for tn(prmalioa regarding Its content»
The report states that when the
Lusitania sailed from New York, on
May 1. 1915. on her laat trip to Eng
land, she did not have any guns of
any caliber or description on any
deck, mounted or unmounted, masked
or unmasked.
If any individual rwoervtsta of any
nationality sailed on the Lusitania on
this trip they did so as individuals,
paying their own passage and receiv­
ing their own individual ttckela.
Referring to the question of the
presence of explosives on the liner,
the report said that the ammunition
set forth as part of the cargo did not
contain exploalvea within the inter­
pretation of the statutes and regula­
tions as interpreted by the depart­
ment of commerce in the ruling pre­
viously quoted.
NEW CONGRESS
BEGINS LABORS
Washington. D C —Congreee cloned
its two weekn' extra session and start­
ed its regular session Monday with
an Intervening period of only ten min­
utes.
The routine sessions winding np the
special session and opening the new
developed little business and drew
small crowds. Formal surrender of
the senate republicans to ths demo­
cratic filibuster against the Dyer anti­
lynch Ing bill ended the tie-up and al­
lowed confirmation of about 1700 de
layed nominations before the final
gavel of the special session.
Members of the new progressive
bloc tn congress won their first legis­
lative victory Tuesday by obtaining
from the senate agriculture commit­
tee a favorable report on a resolution
to amend the constitution to provide
for direct election of the president and
vice president.
The amendment also would change
presidential inauguration day from
March 4 to the third Monday in Janu­
ary. and members of the senate and
house would begin their terms of of­
fice the first Monday in January after
tbe biennial elections.
Congress
would meet in regular session annually
on the first Monday In January.
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By
London.—The centuries-old struggle
between England and Ireland ended
when the legislation giving the sanc­
tion of law to the new settlement with
Ireland passed Its final stages In the
bouse of lords, which for generations J
has bitterly opposed any accommoda
lion with Ireland.
There now only remains roysl as­
sent, a matter of formality, and every­
thing will be ready for the new Irish
government to come Into existence ■
with excellent omens In the expressed i
desire even of many of tbe "die hard" ■
statesmen In England to give it every '
opportunity to succeed in Its work, j
The appointment of Timothy Healy i
sa governor general of the Irish free ;
state Is recognized as an auspicious
event. Mr. Healy throughout bis po-;
lltlcal career has been one of tbe j
strongest opponents of British con­
nection and therefore cannot be sus­
pected of the slightest sympathy with
British views antagonistic to Ireland j
Central America Peace Meet Opens.
Washington, D. C.—Under the firm |
and friendly guidance pf the United i
States government, the five small pow
ers that comprise Central America,
gathered around a conference table in ■
the historic hall of the Americas here
to work out a program for permanent.
peace and tranquillity In the area that i
has been the cockpit of so many little
wars in tbe last century.
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Auto. «32-37
Dairyman
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Yott Bldg., since July
1, 1922.
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IS ENDED
Constitution Is Approved
House of Lords.
Smile Every Day
Foot Muscles
Strengthened
Men’s arches are
strengthened by wearing
the Cantilever Shoe, be­
cause this shoe has a flexi­
ble shank which harmon­
izes with the natural
action of the foot, allow*«
good circulation and
healthful exercise of foot
muscles.
fits snugly and supports
the arch while permitting
nature to build up
strength.
CANTILEVER SHOE CO.
353 Alder St
Medical Bldg.
PORTLAND, ORE.
282 Alder street