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Page Si»
THE
WESTERN
Thursday, May 31, 1923
AMERICAN
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The funds for the building of such a cottage » re p u rh a p a 50
l<er cent subscribed, but there is great need of help.
Every good citizen should feel a personal interest In the es-
itablishment of this home. It is time that we stop criticising the
institutions that are now caring for our dependente until at least
Mr. Fred U Qlfford, Imperial R ip rtw n U lIrt of The Klan in the Weot such time as we shall be able to provide for our own.
'and Grand Lragon of the Realm of Oregon, has iuatruotod Tlje Wratcrn Amer­
There has been much discussion of the idea of establishing a
ican to publish the article appearing below by Judge Walter H. Brans, P resi­
somewhat «similar institution in connection with the Old Peoples
dent of the Children's Farm Home. Mr. Qlfford also requests that eeery effort
be made to promote this great humanitarian cause, saying "He glees twice I Home near Forest Grove, but nothing tangible has yet been ac­
complished or even undertaken. It therefore seems appropriate
who gIVes quickly." and that "all should glee until It hurts."
and proper that an appeal be made for help in establishing an in­
stitution capable of saving from economic loss a large percentage
By W. H. EVANS, President Children s Farm Home
NE of the facts that marks the human race as superior to that of the potential criminals in our community.
Make it a matter of personal interest. It is not a question so
of any other is the ability of the genus homo to adapt himself much of the amount you may subscribe as it is a question of know­
to change and surroundings. Someone has said it is this ability ing that you sincerely believe in and are willing to back such an
that has permitted the human species to exist in the face of an­ institution because of its aims and objects and of the good it is
tagonistic forces much more powerful and capable of wreaking de­ capable of accomplishing. My first recollection of »'Masonic fra­
struction. His power of adaptability to environment, to accommo­ ternity was an explanation made to me that some playmates of my
date himself therein and to provide for himself wherever he may earliest childhood were being cared for by the Masonic Lodge, or­
be situated has not only marked the species as superior, but has phan children whose father was a Mason. We have always been
contributed toward its perpetuation.
taught to take care of our own. May we not avail ourselves of the
This preface is made only for the purpose of pointing to the opportunity so to do?
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fact that the species responds to environment—that both charac­
«li&JMMUNI
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ter and conduct are controlled by environment and will not be con­
CHILDREN S FARM HOME
tradicted.
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OF THE W. C. T. C.
( ' « r i l l l l s Oreaos
The dependent child is and always has been an object of pity
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and, to a greater or less extent, an object of public concern. The
In consideration of the fast that there Is no Protestant non-sec­
tarian provision for dependent and orphan children of Orrgon. aside
effect of environment is perhaps more markedly discernible in the
from the Children s Farm Home of the W. C. T. U.. at Corvallis, and
case of dependent children than anywhere else.
In view of the present pressinc need of constructing additional build­
ings to provide for many dependent children, I hereby pledge and
Court records are replete with illustrations of the fact that
agree to pay to the Treasurer of the CHILDREN'S FARM HOME, the
the dependent child is apt to become delinquent, and that the de­
sum of................................
...... Dollars ($------
) on the
following terma aad conditions:
linquent child easily develops into the criminal. The statement
| — ..........to be paid In cash The balance to be paid to one or m ore'
haa been made that 2400 children pass through the Court of Do­
installments before January 1. 1924.
Name----------------- ------------------ ----
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mestic’ Relations in Multnomah County yearly- I have no exact
No
............. ...... .... .
.............. Street
figures as to the percentage of this number that is dependent.
Solicitor------------ —....... ........—----------- -
t REAL HOME fer Dependent Children, Nat J e st an In-dilution
Perhaps 50 per cent of them are in that class.
Make checks payable to “Children'« Farm Home" aad mall them to
It is safe to say that not all of the dependent children are
Mrs. Ada Cnruh, Financial Secretary, 616 Stock Enhance. Portland.
Tbrought to the attention of the courts. Perhaps there are 300
Telephone Main 0S37.
more at large in this county who have never felt the help even of a
Fr»« S taters bat the sufferers were
court of domestic relations. If we are right in our assumption
not the Catholics. A splendid Prot
that 1500 dependent children live in this community, and are far­
; estant boys' orphanage at Ballyconree
ther right in the assumption that a large percentage of dependents
near Ualway, founded In the days of
become delinquent and eventually criminal, it needs no further
the potato famine and exercising a
argument to convince the thinking mind that a serious problem is
I beneficent ministry ever since, was
burned to the gruuad last July. The
at hand, and that is the problem of placing dependent children in
surroundings which will contribute toward making of them good The following letter and article boys were reecaed by British destroy­
ers. as Greek children In Smyrna by
and ureful citizens. .
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were submitted to The Portland News American.
In the early Angio Saxon civilization dependent children usu­ ind rejected. The Woatern American "Protestant ‘ cherche, are being
ally found th eir way into the workhouse and from the workhouse la pleased to give apace for this eye- wrecked. T hat at Moyrua with rec­
into institutions kept by public- funds that were little better than opener. especially from an author so tory and school was. on November 7.
completely gutted and burned. In
placea of living death. Later on in our Anglo Saxon civilization distinguished and sincere.
such cases, Btbl*. and prayer books
municipalities and states undertook the task, indeed the obliga­
are torn up. font4 broken or defiled
tion, of caring for these dependents in institutions called orphan­ 'E d ito r Dally News: In your Issue and the walla
with obscene
ages or orphan asylums, usually large institutions wherein chil­ of today (Friday. May 18) I find an scribbling
4 families that
dren were housed in circumstances that could not contribute in Edltorlalette,” from which I qnote: hare Uved In In
for osnturtes are
any great degree toward developing the'dorm ant good in every “No peace In Ireland for generations, now refugees. Is
perishes. every
either killed or
child. Students of sociology early discovered that the housing of predicts Shaw Desmond, one of Erln'e Protestant haa
large numbers of children in institutions served as a sort of a leading journalistr. Fighting has be­ driven away. Stan Fein gunmen have
leavening process. It made some of them better for the associa­ come a habit over there, with brief swarmed over from Catholic Ireland
Into Ulster In the hop« of fomenting
tion, perhaps, but I believe the general consensus of opinion has breathing spells.”
disorder. .of breaking down tka new
been that it has made more of them worse for the experience.
There Is more of the same sort, all government thare.”
The modern idea of housing and caring for dependents cen­ because Desmond, _ and the Editor of There la mare of the tam e sort;
ters about the home idea. It undertakes to establish as nearly as The News, both fear to reckon in the but what can be said of the craven
problem the one factor that bolds the dally press of Amarlca that dare not
may be done without parental love the home life for the child.
key to the solution. Such cowardice print a syllable of all this, while bark-
It is a singular fact that Oregon, with all her splendid spirit will receive Its reward when this
Irfg-loudly at the Russian soviet; whlla
of patriotism and sociological service that has been manifest in factor la held up before the eyes of publishing columns of Catholic pur
many ways, has absolutely* neglected to undertake in a scientific the world in all Its hideonsness as It rings about their lamb-llke Intentions
manner the care, of the dependent child. It is true that the State Is surely going to be.
here; and priest-inspiring defenses
with its magnanimous generosity is contributing, large sums ol Let me Introduce that factor here, and denials of practieaa th at have been
money every year for the care of dependent children, but the chil­ in the words of ah Irishman and a a part of papalIsgt over since Us
Roman Catholic, Michael J . M. Mc­ founding In the flfthy century. We
dren whom the State is now supporting are all housed in institu­ Carthy,
scholar and barrlster-at-law. are to send an armad fore« Into China
tions modeled after the type of institution that has existed, wher­ He says:
because a few persona hava been cap­
ever one has exerted, in this country since its early founding. "It Is sacerdotal Interference and tured by bandits; bat we must not
domination, beginning In the Infant even be told of this papal inspired
They are all in orphan homes.
The need of a change has been known for many years. It school and ending with the legacy for savagery going on la Ireland. Why?
lias been recoimized that somethincr nneht ♦*> b** ‘kr® ?ot only be­ masse« after death, that will be found I am contributing time, typewrljyr
to be the true and universal cause
cause of the fact that dependent children under present conditions of that universal degeneracy upon and paper to send something to you
that I know you dare not print; bnt
cannot be given the scientific care and parental attention that which we commiserate ourselves."
you will read It and perhaps curse
should be given them, but because of the further fact that a large After this, he draws the contrast the Intolerable conditions that com­
percentage of dependent children must, in existing circumstances, between the poverty and ignorance In pel you to drop It Into th e . waste­
be cared for in religious institutions of different faith and doc­ Catholic Ireland and the Industry, basket. Resides, I am taking a carbon
trine than that espoused by the parents of many of the dependents. prosperity and progresalvenesa of whlah I shall send to The W estern
Protestant Ireland.
These existing circumstances prompt the W. C. T. U., an or­ Of Cork, this Catholic Irishman American, which probably will print It.
E. F. B.
ganization that for more than fifty years has been caring for the tsys: "It has ereoted religlouslty and
- " E D IT O R IA L S T T B S .
welfare of dependents and unfortunates, to undertake the estab­ mendicancy on a pinnacle before
(From The News)
lishment of a farm home for dependent children, a farm home that which It bows down and worships and ' „ | n | re|and
shall be conducted along religious but non-aectarian lines, a farm the poor beautiful elty ‘has Its re- „No
No p<,ace
peace In Ireland for genera-
0f
home where all children regardless of sect, creed or the lack there­ ward.' The j.rlest-4-ducated Cn^ollc j t|OM pred|ct, BbMr
citizens of Cork are. In the aggre­ grin's leading journalists. Fighting
of may be housed in circumstances as nearly approaching, the gate, men without minds . . . I
ideal home as it shall be possible to make them—a place where express what hundreds of thousands of has become a habit over there, with
breathing «pells.
those physically capable may help earn their “board and keep,” Cork people themselves think; and I brief
** ‘Nations founded In bliiod drown In
would
gladly
turn
my
native
country
and a place where all of school age may have the privilege of at­
blood.' Desmond philosophises. ‘Ire­
off the road to ruin upon which It has land edn never be anything, can never
tending the public schools.
^ ^
through
In carrying out the ideals embodied in the children’s farm been traveling since the priests awoke be freed Mt|1
under Italian Inspiration, fifty years thr#w
generations of tolf-dtseipllne and
home a corporation was organized which is controlled by a board ago . . . If we examine the stand- training’
of directors of leading citizens, selected without regard to their mg army of priests and nun. who are - n « « ^ . , r„c ttr , „ too dark. It
affiliation primarily with an f organization. This corporation has quartered in such affluence In the city „ Ir„ h to pr#d)c| , flght tD, tead of
undertaken and is purchasing a well equipped farm near Cor­ of Dublin our astonishment cannot p, ac, But , flIf<OTenimallt l, not
vallis, adjacent to the great college there. They have laid out fall to be increased at finding so much ,earned easily by aew republic.. Our.
plans for the construction of a series of pottages, each capable of vice and misery among the lower ba, not fln teM |MrBlnK. M d we have
of the Catholic population."
nelrIy , rnnt
^
th , <Urt
taking care of twenty children. In each of these cottages will be classes
Here Is a quotation straight for the - of
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established » house mother, and in the boys’ cottages a house Ireland of today—Inhabited largely!
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father and mother, who will live with the children therein, who by by seml-lunatfcs produced by genera- _ Editor of Th* Western American—
example and precept and by loving care and attention will, it is tione of papal rule and ruin: This | Dear Brother: This letter explains It-
hoped, establish a home relation that shall, as far as possible, take from the Sunday School Times of self. The Dally Mews Is gagged and
,
hobbled by the Roman hierarchy,
the care of the one the child lost. Indeed, it is hoped to make it April 7, this year:
"Little
Is
known
in
America
of'what
neither more nop lees than all the
better than the home surroundings of many.
Is happening In Ireland. Our press other dallies of this rlty. The situs-
In recognition of the worth of the idea and in furtherance of does not report the burning of the , tlon Is so dlsgrae^il to alleged Amerl-
the objects the State of Oregon contributed $25,000 toward the Hlbernlan Society's building. It does can manhood and such a betrayal of
purchase of 25 acres of this farm and toward the erection of one not reproduce the picture before m e ! the people whole money supports
of the cottage»- Two of them are now under construction. One of 'discriminating violence.’ a photo- ] these craven shegte, that I hope you
is being built from funds contributed largely by communities out graph of thg wrecked Y. M C. A. on will print It
Ssckvllle street. Dublin, with the In­ I enclose also, the entire editorial-
side of Portland. An effort is now being made to secure funds for tact Catholic Club next door,
The ette from which I q » te . Tours very
the building of a third cottage to be known as the Portland Cot- battle was between Republicans and ! truly,
R. F. BALDWIN.
T
ta g e .
HELP THIS GREAT CAUSE
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WAR IN IRELAND
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When on your way to and from the
coast, buy your oils, arcuses, gas ami
aoceaeorlea from a 100 per cent Amer­
ican, 100 per cent fair and 100 b*r
cent eervlce.
LINDROFF GARAGE
Lafayette, Oregon
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When in Doubt Where to Bal
TRY TUB
Union Oyster House
1134 Washington Street
__________ Near Third____________
The lloare Tkralr^ of NeRwoed
Scilwood Jewelry
WANTED
First CUts Entertain­
ment All the Time
R H. Mowrey, Prop.
Jeweler aad WatehauUier
40 loganberry picker*. 16 scree, Sc
ry u s fur w o rk m an sh ip end pervie*.
per pound. City llinlla of Aurora T
m a h ararle W atrliw .
K apert W elch.
Shady camp around. Wood and clly
»'Irak and Jew elry K epalrlna
ISSI g a s t ISth Sir
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water furnlehed.
MILLER BROS. LOGANBERRY FAIIM
Aurora, Oregea
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BÔLLINGER HOTEL
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C. B NICI101J40N. Mgr.
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TED R. MOYER
SHOK SHINING PARLOR
Salesman for
I .ad la* - H a s h
DURANT AND STA RCAR8
AND CIGAR STAND
IIW Reread Street
Portland. Ore. Bast 670S
LEWISTON, IDAHO
R**.t Walaat T68S
J. A. HARDING
W« Will Pleas# Tua
Hpeclallslnx la
Liberty aad O rege Id Batter
r. B. Buxton
Mrs. C J. Buxton
W0 Per Cent Servie
L iberty C ream ery
I th an d Yam hill
BUXTON’S GROCERY
The Sellwood Shoe Store
Freeh Fraile aad Vegetable«
W * D eliver —t
P h en e T A b er so ts
o u I . Y am hill
HKRL1N K. DAVI«. P ro p rieto r
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Y am hill a t T en th S tre et
Rea's, Worn*«’, aad ('Andrea's
FINE SHOES
O pposite P ublic L ib rary
ist® a.
MAIN 47S7
R. H. RANDOLPH
C ea píete Ballding Service
Before ballding or planning the new Phone East Mil
for I hare ioq up-tfc
Portland
date plane to select from, Pinna IIO
and np.
SM E. 66th St
TAber 0640
ELECTRIC
Top Co.
T. P. CARSON
CONTRACTOR
M K. 74th 84. N. Pertlaad, Ora.
Phene Taker 6U7
PO RTLA N D , ORB.
B. F. Miller
BUILDING
CONTRACTOR
If You Are Going to Build
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P Ia n e ^ a n d ^ F u n U tu r e
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*M K. 60th N.
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or make alterations at your reel-
deuce or business place. I would be Mala lost
glad to help design your work. 61
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year* In Portland.
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and C u rtain s
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Insist oa Bias Stem 166 Per Coat
Whole Wheat
HEALTH BREAD
We nee no Patent White
Floor or Alum.
Hot bread daUy at 4 P. M. la
bulsnoM d istrict
BARKER and
LU X U R Y BREAD
Blue Stem Health Bread Co.
Ceraar Freut aad Harrtaoa Sta.
Phone Mala 8661
O tile* B o u rel 11 to 1) A. M ; 1 to I P . M.
DR. E. H. EAST
BARKER BREAD CO.
New Homo: 17th and 3Andy Boulevard
PHuilClAX aad SURGEON
Oftloe: SOS-4 P IR O « »look
Pboo* Beacon 461S
Pheae »Headway 8*4«
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PURCELL S CAFE
C. A PTBCSLL, Proprietor
Formerly Sliver art»
New
«der 109% management
114 MUUatswerth
FRANK HUFFMAN
Tailor Io Men and Women
nowaro n . ooioing
upuaei
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Watrkwahor aad Jeweler
W atch, d o c k an d Je w e le rr R ep airin g 1
B ag rev lq g an d ta p ld a r y
B x sert Diam ond B etting
Mall O rd ers P ro m p tly A tten d ed te
Room ON W ash in g to n Building
L'pstxlr*. Bet. Sd end 4th. on W eehtngton ;
,
P o rtlan d . Oregon
B roadw ay 7«S
w. O,
Up*
461 Washington Street
N. W. Welding and Supply Co.
Fawkee. j
Manager
M an u factu rin g
WELDING a&d BRAZING
Machine Work
The Portland Locksmith
G E N E R A L R E P A IR IN G
Expert Key and Lockwork, Saw FlUng,
Soldering, Grinding, Model Making,
Efectrloal Repairing
200'/» Fourth Streot
Between Salmon and Taylor
THE BEAVER
PHARMACY
Portland, Oregon
*Cyl&der* Bared
Seasoned Over-Size Pistons Famished and Ground te Given Sixes
Welding Equipment Repaired
Broadway 7209
88 First S t, Portland, Ore.
P. Living*ton. Prop.
Phong Sellwood 1496
600 Umatilla A t »
Portland. Ora.
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"R M AL HOM S C O O K IN G ” at
BOB'S
SSe Lunch 11.00 A. M. to SiOO P . M.
Brown Electric Co.
We are prepared to do all kinds of eleo tri cal work
In our new location. Let ue figure on your next job.
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33 Sixth St., near Astor
Astoria, Oro.
Phone 595
Smoko-“RUMMY" Cif arz
10 Cents and Two for a Quarter
JOHANSEN BROS.
1362 Franklin Street
A. L. CAMPBELL
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e ffic ie n t Oiling
an d Qrooelng
W hile Yeu
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.... ef (Seed
Oil* dnd Qaaolln*.
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CONTRACTORS
Pile driving and bndge building.
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raising
and moving.
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