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1 WESTERN Thursda FACTS OF OREGON SCHOOL BIL SHOW ERROR OF US OPPONENTS They wars living In squalor and Idle- * ness, In a vast bouse o f crime and misery. They bad been allowed lo loaf «n masse7 m tbe dog-house, playing cards, fighting, drinking, commltlng | unnatural acta— a veritable bell-bole of bestiality. All this waa reformed | promptly by Warden Smith and the DiitiniuiiKed Minitier o f Pendleton Demolish#« Objec prison, during the abort Urns o f his Incumbency, has been transformed tion« end Point« Out How A ll Private School« Can Into a great industrial home, or re- Continue and Grow More Prosperous and Useful. formatory, whose Inmates are treated humanely and like men. Every man ----------- * t Is required to do nsefnl work, to be Opponents of Uw O n r n Public Infringement on religious rights and productive. *■ Nrhniil lllll will dr.palr of answering privileges of parent and child. It does Idleness Always Fatal. I ho M t b r of that i m i A rt by I hr not In any roapect touch religion. It Warden Smith declares that a good Ü m . W. A. Grossman, pa<lur of Ihr .loala only with education nnd »poet It kept Idle for a year under H r « t thristtaa I hurrh o f Pendleton, ries that the plaee whore the' child O w . « I t o « bolew. Nr. (ir iH i» w i,i shall be taught public subjects;.Is In prlaon environment, never afterward »o r» Ico for the common rau»r ol the public school. But I f mentally or will be worth much. Hla constructive Ain oilranU n will bo renumbered physically defective, or too far from aim sow la to so develop the Indus gratefully bjr t i l White Moa. public school, U>«n privets Instruction tries of the Institution as to earn sub may bo gtvan. What could ba more stantial profits for the B ute, which T o (ho Editor: f a ir than ih ls f * shall be divided fairly with tbe pro Ho far It aooma that not ono single You say tbe child belongs to (he ducers, so that, aa he said, a man foot or raaaon h i» boon given, abort parent and not to the state? I<et*a shall not l«%ve the prlaon with a ing that It would bo necessary tor any see about this. If a parent la unduly measly f t , discouraged and handi Pfrocblal or any other privato school cruel to his child, or la Incapable of capped. subject to tbe wblma and per In Oregon to cloae when the school caring for Its health, education or secutions o f police, but with a sub bill gooo into affect In l t l ( . WlUt op morals, we w ill see how surely the stantial bank account for a new start ponents of the bill eaylng so much state w ill take that child In band nnd In life, the basis of Independence and against It, it arema rather strange that pul It under- proper care— whether the self respect. In th li splendid cause »omo of them have mil shown why parent objects or not. Again, who the Warden la asking all thinking peo salti schools would bo cloood. Moro seta the educational standard for the ple to give him active support, asking assertions lo this effect have bean child the parent or the state? la- all decent, law-abiding Oregonians to made In abundance, but these nre fu- deed. <the stale does. Then, If the support their own Institution, helping Ule and laconclualvs. We must deal | state controls the educational standard him to make It all that It ought to with substantial facta and not with ; of your child, whether you like It or be. Oovernor Pierce, wboee views co- vague theories. I aot, how incidental and secondary la taclde with those o f the Warden. Is Why uot every private school aend the matter of tbs state directing. givin g loyal aad- steadfast support to 1U pupils to the public school for through popular vote, the place wbeM (he policy o f reclamation and reform their public school studies i^ d n - tbat education shall be given ! In ' and to make the prison self-sustaining. seres to lU elf instruction In matters fact.^Jbe child belongs both to the Success la aaaureJL and this w ill mean for which such private school eslata? pnrent and to the stata. But this con the saving, o f fa s t sums annually to Fundamentally, a private school does trol la nek In the seflbe o f an Im the taxpayers. t not exist lo teach public school sub perialisti^ Oermany- -for tbe glory of B oon Parties No More. jects. Its purpose la to Implant In Its the «tate -but tn the sense of a de booie Disgraceful and lawless pupils the specialty for which If was m o c ra c y -a "governm ent of the peo parties wera held frequently in the eatabllahed. for example, religion, ple. by tbe people and for the peo prison b e fo re * Warden Smith came. home economics, etc. It leaches pub ple." Thus, the child belongs/to the Let ex-Warden Lewis, Upjohn. Put lic school subjects because the State slaty, and aa a member of the state, nam and the rest dare deny this charge compels It to do so and because such the latter guarantees to safeguard Its and Are #111 publish tbe names and subjects are Incidentally necessary to welfare. details. U la not our purpose to In the pupils' equipment. Before and o f-! Be Blur on Private School jure anyone, but only to give the ter public sohool hours la when the But such control by the state la no people tbe essential facts, so that they private arbool can do Its work. {s lu r por slgm against any good prt- Lot ua keep clear the ; w np w « * d n Smith and re- — Impracticable, do you aay? Then, vale, school cowardly m la cre.a u who ara I ash In reply, how about the « I r is ' fact that the ba.lc Institution for I Junior College »1 Kugene. Ora.? Dur ing the last 11 years of Its history II has sent Ita glrla lo the public schools of Eugene and tbua saved expense sntf energy of teaching those studies Itself. It leacbca religion and homo economica before and after public school hours -the purpose for which the school waiffounded. Besides, this private school has had no el£le law compelling It to do ap It has dons, nor w lfl the proposed law affect It In the least. -H ere Is the vital question: I f the Qlrls' Junior College can do this and prosper, why cannot all p ri vate schoolb of the state of Oregon do the same? Thin , too, the proposed law la no making American elUseu. la the pub- lie achqol— not the private school. The latter, la for a private puijpose, aa above Indicated. » True, Ood knows that the boys and girls o f public school age need more religion. Bo. why close the private schools? Why not continue the specialties for which such schools exist * Why not aend all pupils lo lha public school for public school subjects and lat the private school continue to leach religion, etc., aa usual? I f the O ld s' Junior Collage —a private'sch ool—does so, why not all? Let's quit theorising on this matter and get down to facts and ar-. gnnienta which go to tbe merits of the question. ‘ raise about 3000 chickens this year. The Rhode Island Red la preferred. Tbe Slats owns about 360 acres of land, much of It poor soil, and has about 300 acres undor lease. The ±=£¿5 (CuiiUuusd from Pag* t) Warden's task la to so develop this of barrels full'd with syrup, etr.. Is land and other Industries ay to feed on exhibition. -• j adéquat agd clothe adequately about 600 me«. There waa a bilge waste In the pur-1 icernlno the I Concerning Escapes. chase of fuel, under Lewis and hla Reclaiming Men at State Prison board of control. He had on hand, when Warden Smith took charge, an immense quantity o f the cheapest slab wood, for which thousands o f dollars was paid, and oil In vast quantities and at fancy prices was being used for fuel. Warden Smith uses wood fuel and supplies It from the prison mill. ____ Graft In Beef Purchases? Anyone would smell graft or «roes wastefulness In the contracts for the purchaaa of beef, made six months ago by the Olcott board o f control. Warden too Upward of* prisoners are work ing outside the prlaon. mostly In the : wood and logging camps. Out o f this number 19 had run away down to May 6. but five were retaken and two were | found who ran away during a previous administration. Ono man who ran away In 1911 was bcought back last weak. In 11 years, from 1911 to 1923 the runaways numbered 263, or an 1 - average o f 33 a year. In 1911 there ! were 18 and In 1913 the number In creased to 47. Conditions in 1912 were similar to those existing now 1 nnd the warden la keeping down the average. None has escaped from In- j p rll0 B w a U i Hmlth necessarily must carry out these i „ , . a Dealing with the prisoners as hu- rontrarls, and all others Ilka them. man M |vaC()> we)1 worlh gav|ng. the The beef contract price, wholesale quantities. Is 944 cents a pound, “ Warden's long experience In prlaon work, bis finished education In sociol ogy angj psychology, have led him much as should be paid for prime beef. wisely to the practice of a policy that The quality af meat that has been de-1 aIwaya work, WB„ th, 1)e(|t Itvcred was hot satisfactory and resulta. Warden Smith la a fiumani- Warden Smith has been doing bis best ! tartan and In no sense a con'' herder. to get a better grade. He will be able He la firm and Inflexible ln*cnforce- to control this Item when the Olcott ment of dlecipline. bat always kind contract expires. For one thing, and and patient. He understands the un- a big help, ba has fixed up an old- forunate men of every type nnder hla fashioned amoke-houae and Is curing care and deals with them as sin his own pork. Tho aim of the Warden cere friend, appealing to the highest Is to produce everything possible for motives to which they w ill respond. uso at the prison. He found the entire Problem of Reform. Instlutlon nnd nil of ItW properties ‘ ‘high-graded" nnd run down. He 1^ Prisoners aren't taken from tho top establishing high standards and e ffi of society, but from the bottom and ciency. Tho swine Industry Is going each man Is different from every to pay bandsomofy. He has about 300 other. Each m u st#)« restrained, re porkers and la weeding out tho acruba, formed. and by kindly treatment roln- changing to thoroughbreds, having splred with the desire to live honestly bought som# fino sows for this laud- j and decently, to reghln freedom and able purpose. The Holatcln herd o f , be useful to society. Warden Smith's milch c o *s number abont 26. The high resolve Is to send each man eut chicken Industry Is promising and this better In every way than whon he ar ts a hobby of tho Warden’s family, rived, with a new spirit and ambition. About 3000 chloks (lavo been hatched ! Ho» found the prisoners living like out and 1000 are on setting. He will animals, degenerating, discouraged. *. I * « AMERICAN a door la rge saongb lo i admit aa aver- uaod col tag sug age BMW Thpa» anus gestive sa»» Ir Inhumanly to man gestiva o of f m mah'» hoi and the crueltes of other days, due to Ignorance, are vf«w»d by visitors with feelings of borrtSf and expressions of a m a s«-men t. ’ A Revolution ' M A U R O T IR E & R E P A IR C O . G A S C O O K IN G Salvaging Olrott Uteres . I 606 > m > (SERVICE STATION e In tbe bnlhi o f the basement the form er admtalat ration stored vast quantities o f perishable vegetables N I N T H and O A K — T W O s d p j ^ t —J £IR . g t Q H T H ana C O U C H onions, potatoes, etc . and o f canned i PO R T L A N D . ORBOON goods, aow mostly spot led. Numer ons employes ware observed at the task of salvaging great qnaatltiea of potatoes and onions picking the good from tha bad. Get that word "am p lores," for Warden Smith Insist» that It Improves morals. The stig matised word “ CONVICT" has bean barred as far as possible. Tbe pres ent usage la “ employe,’’ "Inm ate." or W t Da A il Kinds a t Alterations, ( leasing gad Fresstmg • "prisoner,” and tbe word “ employe" j la used on all tbe signs and posters' Phene V « Broadway 8241 erected) tn the prison's Indastrlal de partments. S. E. Corner Sixth and Pine Portland, Ore. Saving fa T aller Hbep The New Smooth top ---------------------------------------------- St------------- More than >600 net cash waa the w ith saving to the State In tbe tailor sbop Oven Heat Control New Spring Goods at Morgan’t — . alone (commissary department) In has all the good points of W , «re now stock ed wlth a complete Une of noe whlte goods for spring— April, aa compared to April of last aH other ranges and none Basitali Long Cloth» Oc. Me and SSc—Pino Japaaooo Nalnoook. vory Soft year, with far greater efficiency. Tbe and fine, p r ie » Ile lo Sic por yard—Kee our Lin-Weeres In fino aheer n s- of th<lr » hortcpw^ngg ■ tortai for Baio'Decesso, SS ìnebeo wtdo aad rinlabod Ubo linen, prteo Me to same average applies to tbe7 bakery. «Se por yard—w e pay aU poetane—Givo sa a Irta! order. Everything now Is figured cloaeiy in MORGAN D R Y GOODS STORE dollars and cants. Countless econo Pitene M M wood 1004 1«23 Cast llt ll st. mies ara > being affected. Instead of baying expensive new buckets, (or ex K C. TH O R ESE lf C. TH O BEgEX C. T J I0R E 8E 5 ample, the hundreds of cane and con i tainers are utilised, perfectly adapted for all purpooee. earing 60 cents to .a © dollar on each. Tbe commissary store« include the huge qnantitles o f woolen and duck uniform goods, ex travagantly purchased by tbq previous ‘ * admtnstmtloo. This stuff was found at the piled in heaps upon the dirty floor of the basement opposite the dungeons. It haa been salvaged and put In or der— an Inheritance from the old re gime that w ill last yet for years to corner i - * ; ___ t ■ wants you to see the n «w spring Employes are busy la tbe new clothing factory and tailor sbop, II. E. C om er Second nnd Yam hill, Yam hill Street Side where tbe men get their wardrobes Portland, Oregon " and necesaarlee. Each man la fitted properly. ‘ I f tbe slxe is "eccentric." extremely large or small, tbe article TH O RESEN C. TH O R ESFS * ■J C, T H 0 K K 8 E 5 C. T O P E E S E * Is made epee tally. Expert «k ill la evident in tbe making o f tbe uniform ,rjrln« 10 • “ <> suits and tbe prisoners all appear neat p,,B* ,or r* form* tlon- The Eugenics Board the other day and tidy. Allowance Is made fo r tbe was Interviewing a prisoner. On one shrinkage o f woolen goods from cleaning and washing and nothing of « a * » 1®0- happened to remark, ho valne Is thrown away. drunl‘ ‘ »a ide the Prlaon. Drunk .Miracle tn the Laundry on liquor? ha was asked. Why, cer A large assortment to select T h e em ploy«# seem proud of thetr tainly. He added, however, that no id » * ’ '; from, gad capable salesman to liquor It obtainable under tho Smith new laundry. F orm erly H was “ hay help you. administration. This Warden doesn’t w ire," as they described It. Nobody *9*J allow a guard around with the smell cared. Clothing waa washed Indiffer of liquor on hla breath. If an employe ently and It took an hour and a half f, THE wants to drink liquor he mutt go some to dry them. Everything now is made where else and be quick about It. This spotlessly clean and tha drying pro Warden 1s grim ly antl-booxe and cess requires only seven minutes. A Tini rita' knows fully the power for evil con little Ingenuity and constructive ef ' 112 Sixth Street PHONE SELLW OOD 1089 fort turned the trick. This was a Ut Clothiers Haberdashers Tsllore tained In one alcoholic drink. ile thing, maybe, to an outsider, but Consider This Crime. * It meant a whole lot to a prisoner. Office Phone :W «I nut toe* ARE YO U BUYING YO U R M ILK AND CREAM Certain evil and designing men The old Olcott laundry used to be a lately have been trying to supply FROM TH E R IG H T D A IR Y * Danunon A Anderson mere loafing room for forty to fifty boots to the honor men who .are em man. Now just enough are employed CempesMea Fleers, Bruta Boards ployed at the wood camps, 10 to 40 sad T ilin g there to do the work. There is no Raw a n d Pasteurized All W o rk Guaranteed miles from Salem. Jugs o f liquor haste, no waste, no driving. . have been placed in conspicuous placate 426 Durham Avo. Portland. Ore. M ILK AND CREAM Bread of the Bests Kind where the prisoners sorely would see The huge kltcheiy Is Os clean aa them, and some o f the stuff was found. W e start new routes April 1 as follow s: sqap and elbow grease can 'make It. AMES GROCERY Laurelhurst, Mount Scott and Woodstock Instead o f drinking the 'moon.' as the Tbe employes there are likewise. Albina, Irvington, Alberta, Alameda, Rose City. conspirators had intended, thus start GROCERIES - M EATS - F R U IT S Bread Is prodaded in a large electric ing a riot and wholesale runaways, Present routes are: -v VEG ETABLES bakery. Meats, vegetables, soups, etc., f Sellwood, Stevens. Ladd. Hawthorne, Bast and the prisoner who found It delivered It are cooked in large steam jacket ket " ' West Moreland and tbe W est Side. Phone Tabor 8736 1440 E. Gllsan S t to the guard. T v e been a drinking tles. with umbrella-like canopies over man in the past,” the unfortunate but head. When SmRh took charge these Orem We are Producers and Distributors. A ll of our Milk noble fellow said, “ and this waa a sore Iron canopies, from which steam- tuberculin tested cows READ temptation to me, as wall aa to tbe fluids drip Into the kettles, were en other boya; but here It Is, untouched." veloped completely with a thick cak How many free men, o f the average ing of germ-laden grime, dripping kind, would have acted so nobly, so through holes Into the food vats. This loyally? Oovernor Pierce and Warden outrage was remedied at once. Three ON SALE AT Lew is Wilson and H. V . Franklin, Proprietors Smith were gratified by this Incident square meals are served daily. No | ____ «26 Tacoma Avenue Porttaud-VaueouTer W aiting aad said It merited the highest praise. man goes hungry and everyone is well Room Many a prison Jacket hides a hero's conditioned. The hospital has Ita own W E SO LICIT BOTH W H O LESALE AND R E TA IL heart, and this was one o f the oft- kitchen and separate paraphernalia N. W . Cor. T h ird and Main Sts. recurring proofs. Vancouver, W ash. Pood prescribed by the doctor Is pre The commissary, receiving and pared with sclentlflo oare. There are shipping department o f the prison, only three or four men In the hospital, Columbia form erly referred to aa Junk and gar two o f whom ought to be pardoned aa Gardner Battarlaa Cara bage. now la like that of a w ell-regu a matter of humanity, especially an lated army headquarters. Systqm has Indian boy. Thta boy never tires of CRESTON GARAGE been established. The cloth ing o f tha praising the kindly-hearted warden, OHbbls Bros. Inmates, worn when they came, haa who finds time to cheer him up. In 80th and Powell «ta.. been put In moth-proof bags and all spiring him to hear up under hla ter Phone gUnaet M U ______ Pertlend. O n . their belongings are kept Intact, rible affliction. A busy warden who awaiting tbs day of release. The un can find time to think about the trou fortunates arrive on an average of bles and pains o f a poor, friendless four a week and about the same num Indian criminal, doomed to die. ber leave. Every man departing now Inmates Keep Clean Is decently clothed, In garments that E very Inmate o f the pen Is re bear no suggestion of prison. The quired to keep him self clean, taking quality of everything la first class and K le a bath at least once a week. Hot and the ex-prlaoner looks like. • gentle cold water showers are provided. Juat milk and man, from top to toe. outside of the shops,, during the heat from healthy H ie gloonfy old dungeons, for years o f the day. a number o f employes 505 Union Ave. N. Portland, Oregon out of uae, have been rumlgated and were observed having a great time cleaned and can be used for storing all by themselves, naked as when they Route 6, Box iS$ things. The halts o f th|a floor, when were bom, swimming and diving In WArden Smith came, as wall as tha the btg flume which nows pest the Phone Bunset I7 U rooms aa a rule, were Inches thick in ahops. They were as unrestrained DR. L. R. PUGH filth. It waa a grimy, grewsome, and m erry as hoj*. Without knowing Please mention the Weotern American when balling. loatheaome place, and a source of they were observed, they cavorted and danger to health and morale. By played like seals; stayers and burg Office: R oom * t end 3 Leach Building a n n and Poster Read herculean efforts the entire floor haa lars. rapists and thieves of other days, Ree.: ITU Tlat & E. Portland, Oregon boon cleansed, together with all tbe but all equal her«.' A guard request rooms. An atmosphere o f cleanliness ed that nothing be said o f this p rivi pervades the gloom y place. The old lege which was accorded them. •'Non Funeral Directors , and Embaí mers dungeons tell their own story. Surely sen se!" said tha vlaltor, "th at"» the O E t TO A L L ” “ EQ U AL SE R V l IC It meant death to hqmure a human GROCERIES i finest tiling I’ ve, seen y e t " ~ Astoria, Oregon FrankUa Ave. Bet. U tk and 13th being In one of those awful tembe. en In the prison barbershop tha In- Phone 28« tirely without light and only a slit of * 682 W. Lombard St. a . Empire 0440 (Continued on Page 6.) r Englund & Henderson TA ILO R S I The J, H. Rankin Co. Bungalow M arket The Particular Market for Particular People In Tamhlll Publie Market Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Furnishings J. H. Rankin Co. & Thoresen utiRup i Western American WILLSBURG DAIRY W alborn’s Correct M illinery Sunny Brook Dairy We believe we deserve your patronage Daitlat CTW . K A R LSO N & SO N J. L. SCHAFER