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Corvallis Times.' NOT WITHOUT. HOPE. Official Paper of Benton County. eOBTAIXIS, OREGON, APE. 8, 1903. WHY IT HAS MERIT: if There is probably merit in Sen ator Miller's contention that cours' es in the : public schools are over loaded.' The tendency of the time is to compress - much into little The iourney across the continent must be made under forced draught and multiplied dangers in four days -when safety and good judgment dictate six. The man who plans to succeed, forces his physical and mental powers into service sixteen out of the 24 hours, when six or eierht ought to be the limit. : The child is hurried into school at six, and would go at an earlier age the law would permit. . The free dom and exercise - so essential to vigor and growth begin to be res tricted almost before , baby clothes have been laid aside. The restraint, bad air and inaction of the school room are hurried m on the young life before free air and child play have given the small frame a fair start in development. : Like a plant with half its sunshine 'gone, the growing child yields up more and more of its strength to keep a-pace with the overloaded courses, and when college graduation through equally crowded courses is attained, vigor, mental ' and ' physical', is dwarfed and blighted. This ,may not be the universal rule, . but it is pronouncedly the tendency. It is, however, the product of the stren nous conditions of this - over-stren nous age.; -.- It -were better for the child, especial ly if delicate, to stay out of school ' till ten than to enter at six. None should begin earlier 1 than eight. Most will enter at tne 1 latter age and pass graduation sooner than if entered at six. because the addit ional store of bodily and mental vigor will make progress faster, The best strength of the life should not be sapped in the school room-: ; A reserved force is needed at maturity when the- real battle for existence begins. A graduate over crammed with smatterings is as helpless for action as is a snake oven-stuffed with a newly swallow ed rabbit. There is mote danger of overloading than ' underloading public school courses, and that' is why. there is probably merit in ; the -Linn county senator's contention. .HOWARD WON. .Miss Wicklund Second Friday Night's Oratorical Contest at 0A& ,'" ''. "y. Before a well filled chapel? five orators contended for prizes at the . college -Friday night., r Roy How ard of last year's graduating Class, won first place and a . gold medal. He is, to appear for the .local College Prohibition Association in the state contest to occur at Dallas - Mayist. Second place and silver1 medal was taken by Miss Alice Wicklund; and a cash .prize ; contributed - by J. H. Harris,- was taken by Mark -McAllister. Three others besides the five were contestants,1 but they did not. appear on 'Friday evening's programme, v having been : elimin ated by, the judges on composition. The orators, their subjects and the order of their standing are as fol lows: - ' ' ''-.i :;i ' - Roy Howard, "Come, ' let us rea son Together;" Alice - Wicklund, ,A Curse and a. Remedy;" Mark McAllister, "It can Never be Le galized Without Sin;". H. C. Bro die, 'The , Army Canteen; " Mary Sutherland, t'High Ideals and Pa triotism.". The judges on composition were, Mrs Humbert. Rev. Reeves and Dr. Cathey; on delivery, Prof. Cordley, Prof. Skelton and Rev. Moore, Still : Want Corvallis to Move- A r v Morning-and Evening Tram. ' Independence people still want Corvallisites to ask - the Southern Pacific for a morning and evening train-service. When the former met R; Koehler and his associates in Portland,' the "latter ' told" them that Corvallis was not petitioning for the train. ? The railroad men seemed to have the idea that Cor vallis did not want it. Their nat ural conclusion was, if . Corvallis. ites want it, why don't they ask. . The matter is still in the balance. The railroad offered Independence a morning and evening . train via the, motor arrangement, - connect ing at McMinnville, but the latter rejected it, insisting on a through train to Corvallis. , The company has treated all their , requests with the greatest consideration, and lias seemed most anxious to accommo date. The Independence people are confident that if Corvallis would throw a united request for the train into the lap of the railroad com pany, the service would : ; be estab lished. - i ' Corvallis has done nothing yet,; No petitions have been circulated. It is still true as it was when Noah's ark floated on the : flood, , that an Isolated town is a dead town. It will continue to be true until Gab riel blows his trumpet at the crack of doom. In these days of quick transit md lightning changes, live men won t wait forever for a chance to go somewhere,.; They settle in towns where there is a chance to get out and get in, and that's' the biggest of all drawbacks to Cor vallis. t s TO SELL SEASON TICKETS. For Track Meets They all Occur This Season on OAC Field. Here are the dates for the -meets OAC will hold with other' track teams in the near future. '., All the contests this year are to take place on OAC field. The local tryout for places on the team occurs Monday April 27th, meet with McMinnville team, Saturday May 2nd; Dallas College, Saturday, May 9th; Paci fic University Friday, May 15th; University of Oregon, Saturday, May 23rd; Albany College, Friday, May 29th. , .?i Season tickets, similar ; to those sold for the football games are soon to be placed on sale. The cost of admission by single tickets for all games will be $i.6g. The season tickets, admitting holders 1 to all meets, will be sold at $1.00. ,.', As the games promise his year to be far more interesting than ever before) it is probable that citi zens generally will take advantage ot the reduced price, and buy sea son tickets, Theadmission of the University of Oregon game alone will be fifty cents. , . The tickets will be placed in the hands of school boys, who will be given a commis sion on, the sales made, - . K r; j: :Tbe candidates for places on the track team are now.; at t work. Director Trine is with thenrevery afternoon, except on .- Wednesdays. He ismuch encouraged, .but, like many others, prays all the time for better weather. The work taken by the. men up to the present has been very light. Scientific trainers like the experienced director, do not break down the. physical , forces of his men by over-violent, effort; in the beginning. , - . , WILL PRINT PAMPHLETS. - Describing" Benton Co'im'ty Citizens' League Orders Committee to go:.. .. V -j ' ' Ahead ; i:. ; The Citizens League,: ; after, sev eral months of inocuous desuetude voted Monday night, to order, the publication of a - large t number J of pamphlets " descriptive of ? Benton county,: to be distributed f by the Harrimau. immigration f bureau. The committee that collected the funds was empowered to edit and print the pamphlets. v ; , i ; ; One hundred and ninety three dollars is available for the purpose An additional $100 . was available at one time, but it is not now. It was the appropriation of - the commis sioners' court, but the warrant re mained uncalled for tor a month or two, and then the court ordered it cancelled. Whether or not it can again "be secured remains to be seen. Assistance is also hoped for from the city council, and a com mittee was appointed to attend the next meeting of that body and ask for an appropriation by the city The estimated cost of the 50,000 copies of the publication is $400, At the meeting, the League el-, ected officers. The men who .. are to serve the organization in offi cial capacity for the next year T are, M. S- Woodcock, president: E- Al len, vice president; Dr. Harper, nd vice president; E. E. Wilson, sec retary and W. H.Currin, treasurer, : B:' W. Johnson, E. R, Bryson and E. R. Lake were appointed a committee to devise plans for the betterment of the League organ ization, and to report recommend ations at the May meeting. HAS RESIGNED. X . Have You Seen .. - The new purees, wrist bags and chatelaines at Gehard's. None like them have been seen, before in Cor vallis, -The one you want is there, and if you don't come soon, the other lady will have it... . . lady 's belt dentify. Found. .: - Call at this office and For Sale, J5 each. ;.;.',--. ' v Spencer BickneH, , ', 1 Corvallis. And Retnrned to Corvallis 6. A Waggoner Goodman's Ailment. G. A. Waggoner returned yes terday from Alaska where ' he has held a government position at White Pass for several years ' past. He states that he may return to the North temporarily on private busi ness, but he has severed his connec tion with the government service. Meantime Mr. Waggoner's family have resided in Corvallis. ' . v An aged man was noticed Thursday wandering about town in rather an aimless . manner. :He was accosted by Marshal Miller, and the latter learned that the old gentleman wished to see J. B. Goodman of , this -r city. When taken to J., B. Goodman's home it was found 'that the wanderer was James Goodman of 'J Eugene -and the gentleman for whom he was in search is his brother. He had been on a visit to his son Allen, a hard ware merchant at :: Independence. The old gentleman left : Indepen dence Thursday on the cars in ap parent good health, but on the way up he suffered a stroke of paralysis which affected his mind. Relatives here telephoned the facts of his con dition to Allen, and the latter came up from ? Independence i on the freight train that evening, and took his father to Eugene Friday, where he resides ; with his wife. The j stricken man is 80 yearsof age. .-1 For Chief ot Police, - - I hereby announce myself as a candi date for tbe office of chief of police of Corvallis at tbe election to be held May 18th, 1903.' ' Sam King. Corvallis, April 1, 1903. v For Chief of Police. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the' office of chief of .: police of . Corvallis at the election to be held 18th, 1903. : i - a . a . M. Gleason, . Corvallis, April 6, 19O3. The Most Popular Min - In . Norw ay In Norway it is jornson's pictttrep, one sees in the places where in . other 1 mds one finds tboee of tbe king or the rnler of the country. In the shop wind-, ows of the towns and cities it is Bjourn son's photographs that iook ont at one, while even at the stations in the country colored prints of him. hang pn the walla Nearly every house in the land, .has, If is , biography and at least one of his .books on the family table. April , Cosmopoll tan. , ' A- QUEER ADDRESS. ' ' It .'Flustered : the, Postofflce,' Clerks 7 Who was the Letter for Anyway? " A letter with much mixed ad dress1, invaded the Corvallis v post office, 'to the vexation ot the clerks Monday. The superscription ran thus: Miss ' Philomath College. Corvallis, .court iiouse, Oregon." United States . of America , Central Asia, might with equal intelligence have been added, but it wasnt there. To heighten the dilemma, the missive bore a special deliverystamp, sug-'. gesting great haste. . ; It is supposed; that 'volunteers among the clerks' were asked for," who could deliver the missive to Miss at Philomath" -college and at the countycourt house at the same time, but all faltered when confronted with the job. The only known person which could have done it successfully is Postmaster Johnson, withhis great speed, which excels a railroad train, but he was too busy to go. - Whether Miss is a student at the Agricultural College, Corvallis in which also is the court house, or whether she is at Philomath . col lege, Philomath, seven miles from the court house was not learned from the postoffice clerk who sailed through the corridors of the court house Monday with the missive, hopelessly perplexed and evidently headed for the bug-house. 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