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XJBLB BIOItxMAW OKEGOMAN,. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 190o. EDUCATION IS ITS CONGRESS iMen Whose Work It Is to . Awaken Minds of the American Youth. TOPICS OF CONSIDERATION W. T. Harris, LL-. D., United States Commissioner of Education, Ad dresses the Conference on ' ' Lines of Civilization. EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS TODAY. Auditorium, Lewis and Clark Fair, entrance to Congress at Twenty-flfth-streot gate. Session begins at 9 A. M. Presiding. E. V. Llttleflold. General topic, "Elementary and Sec ondary Education, Including the Kin dergarten." jAddross. "The Problems of Classifi cation," Frank RIgler, Superintendent or School?, Portland. Djsousslon led by A. B. "Warner, Su perintendent of Schools of Spokane. Address, "Education In a Democ rat," F. Louis Solden, City Superin tendent of Schools, St. Louis. Address, "The Relation of the Pa cific Coast to Education in the Ori ent," Benjamin Ide "Wheeler, presi dent of the University of California. General discussion. 'Men and women whose master minds are devoted to the intellectual uplifting of humanity and educational advancement of the American nation, are guests of Portland this "week. Yesterday forenoon the auditorium at the Lewis and Clark Exposition was occupied for three hours by an audience of a high order of intelli gence and culture, that was manifest In many ways, to listen to the addresses comprised in the programme for the first day of the Educational Congress. Prob lems of the American school, from thoso presented In the remote rural district to the institutions of higher education with onormous endowments, are included in the scope of the brightest mentalities of the prosent day directing and executing the .details of a system of free education that Is not surpassed In any country on the globe. Point Need of Efficiency. Statistics presented by various speakers might have been taken as criticism, but I it w,as only pointing out the need for j even more efficient and better organized labor that the history of the future may tell more eloquently of the intellectuality j of the populace of the United States, for j by comparison with England or Germany, the percentage of illiteracy In this Coun try seems appalling. Among speakers of thellrst session were no less distinguished students of school question than the Com missioner of Education of the United States, and Commissioner of Education of New York, both of whom have attained more than national fame as among the foremost thinkers and writers on educa tional affairs. There were fully 800 persons present in the auditorium when Dr. J. R. Wilson, of the Portland Academy, opened the session with a brief address. In which he felici tated Portland and Oregon upon the presence of the eminent visitors. He de clared that the people of Oregon owe a debt of gratitude to State Superintend ent of Public Instruction J. H. Ackerman for getting a bill through the Legislature that authorized the use of a portion of the institute fund to defray expense? of the congress. In this connection, he com plimented A. L. Mills upon the service rendered the cause of education by his Influence in the matter as Speaker of the House, -and thereupon introduced Mr. Mills, who, as one of the vice-presidents of the Exposition, had been delegated to represent President Goode. Welcomes the Visitors. Mr. Mills warmly welcomed the visitors to the Exposition, to Portland and to Ore gon. He presented some school and financial statistics, and declared that one of the greatest of recent educational cam paigns was in the eradication from the public mind of wrong understanding of financial questions. W. N. Ferrln. president of Pacific Uni versity, was then Introduced as presiding officer of the day, and delivered a brief speeoh touching upon the hope to accom plish through co-operation Improvement In educational work generally, and be speaking at all times the united effort of those whose life occupation Is that of instruction. TV. T. Harris, LL. D.. United States Commissioner of Education, was present--ed as -the foremost writer and thinker of the present time on matters of education, and delivered an address that received the closest attention of his auditors. Address by Dr. Harris. Dr. Harris said in part: ""Work of education Is the direct work of helping Americans to help themselves. "Symbols of the highest civilization are the railroads, the newspapers and the .schools. "Fifty years ago enterprising people of Missouri conceived the idea of a rail road from the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast, which may be likened to the am bitions for acquisition of new country and new wealth that imbued Columbus and navigators of the fifteenth century in seeking a passage to India, then the ideal land of wealth. In La Fayette -Park,' St. Louie, upon completion of the Pacific railroad, Thomas H. Benton said: " 'There Is the West; there is India, pointing to the Pacific Richer Than India. "Little was it thought then that this coast would be richer than India has ever been and that Its commerce would exceed the commerce of Europe with In. dia. Fifty years before Benton's addres-3 Lewis and Clark had made world history by the explorations of Oregon, which we celebrate this Summer. The Educational Congress Is most happily conceived be cause it celebrates one of the permanent aspirations that had its origin In the heart-hunger that lead people of Europe out in search of the land of the golden king, a search which finally led not to kingdom but to democratic republics and to pelf-governments of America. ""Man escapes from the too great pres sure of tradition and too servile obedience to the past by Immigrating to the border land of opportunity, where he can do for himself. If his Ideals are wise ones and he has skill he should reap a nice reward: if his ideals are unwise or his practical skill very small he will reap Doverty and all manner of misfortune. But in both cases his life will be a reve lation of himself as an individual, and not a mere slavish execution of time worn usage? and modes of doing. "The field of .opportunity- JEidi. ua ta free ourselves from the weight of the past. But that servitude of the past is only one kind of slavery. Present needs and necessities furnish anothor kind of slavery and the past helps free us from the thraldom of the present, and this is the lesson of our congress. .Edu cation helps man to understand the past and to bring it to aid of the .present. All its discoveries, all its bitter experi ences, all its great successes go to the aid of man through education. "Man's self-activity becomes fortunate if he can profit by the observations and thoughts and intentions of his fellowmen. Great as he may be in ambition and in the raw material of an individual career, he will not succeed except insofar as it reinforces his Individual might by the aggregate might of civilization except he reinforces the present by the past. "Education has been and is the chosen instrument of success, for it can in the deftest manner give the new individual the knowledge of the progress of mankind in the conquest of nature by science and art, the method of organizing people Into free institutions by which they mutually reinforce one another. "Education changes the past from a tyrant to a friendly auxiliary from an oppressive burden of blind customs to an illuminating theory which all may see, each for himself "Education gives man freedom because it gives him insight the ability to see and understand for himself both the past and the present, and he can use them to build with. "Let us look far in the light of this movement of civilization towards the borderlands, and in the presence of this great Exposition of resources and pro ductions at the work before this con gress which is laid out In the programme of the five days coming. "The pupils and the work in the dif ferent grades are shown in the several exhibits of the Exposition. The special interests of the schools today center in such problems as the substitution of the well-graded schoql for the rural, un graded, which exists In the sparsely set tled districts. It is in process of being supplanted by the graded schools: thug the new device of transportation to the central school of the village.- The make shift teacher Is being replaced by the professionally trained teacher, the grad. uate of the normal school." Andrew S. Draper, LL. D., New York State Commissioner of Education, was next introduced and delivered a most In structive and interesting address on "Un settled Questions in the Organization and Administration of the Schools." The ad dress was replete with epigrams and per tinent points that were appreciated by the congregated educators,- and presented food for reflection on many phases of ochool work. Some of these expressions are reproduced In another column. The lecture on "Adult Education and the Extension of the Schoolhouse." to be given by Dr. Henry Lelpziger. supervisor of lectures in New York, will be illus trated with about 75 stereoptlcon views, designed to give an idea of .schoolhouse activities In the City of New York. The lecture is to begin at S In the evening and is to be followed by an Informal reception. Nebraska Exhibit. Free moving picture exhibitions. Ne braska Pavilion, Agricultural Palace. EXCERPTS FROM ADDRESS OF ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL. D., AT EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE There are certain fundamentals of the American educational system which. It may well be said, are settled. They are settled by common thinking and universal acceptance; by legislative sanction and Judicial determination. They are looked upon as the necessary basis of our political system; as the e sen Hal support, guardian and guide of & democratic tons ef government. From the standpoint of school administration every American child is bred in the. purple. He is to have everything, that the richest child in the world can have in the way of Instruction if he will take It, and all of the fixed in fluences, direct and indirect, censure him if he neglects to take it. Every boy must inter from all he hears that he will be discredited unless 'he fellows an exclusively intellectual pursuit, and every slrl must "believe that ner happiness depends upon her becoming literary and .knowing about art and the opera, and wearing silks and directing servants when the stlks are often elusive and always Illusory and the servants are more eluMve and illusory still. We have a continuous and pretty well articulated school system, from the kindergarten to the university. Teachers and children are continually enjolaed to be thinking of the next school above. A teacher -whose pupils do net pass Is discredited. A child who dees net Pass is In peril of being eternally tost. This may not be really so dreadful to the Individual teacher and the individual chltd, though each thinks it Is. It Is not a matter of the value of the higher learning to the world at large; It Is a matter of the power and purpose of each individual to make It ef mast use to . himself. The unambitious or the Incapable rich, who are not in danger of doing much anyway, may very well go to college. If they can be kept from ruining the colleges while there. The rich who have work and sand in them will ordinarily soize upon college training while they enlarge the substance and illustrate the point and power of It. The poor must balance values; they will coolly calculate the worth of It to any plans which they may have, or they will leave It to chance and take whatever the consequences mar be. It is not true that good citizenship is gauged by the depth of culturing study or familiarity with philosophical theory. It rests upon the balanced sense which is the Joint product of decent breeding, ef familiarity with men and things, and of the labor which shows in things accomplished, either manual or intellectual, and in sweat upon the brow. The man who mends your shoes or makes your clothes Is likely to average Just a safe and potential & citizen as the one who tries to train your refractory -stomach, the one who fills you up with economic theory, or the one who supplies theological dednctlons to your mystified soul. If I Interpret the situation correctly, the common1 sentiment of the country fully sympathizes with the old-line literary colleges. It feels that there Is a place for them, and wishes thorn well. It has abundantly demonstrated Its decisive support of unlvemlty training in il4 of the Industrie. But it demands that the elementary tralnlng shall lead more decisively to the Industries and to buslnem, whether pcplls are going to the advanced schools or are going to work; and that the work of the lower schools shall be oafficlently concentrated and made sufficiently exact to cup port the expectation that pupils nhall be able to read Intelligently; write legibly, terform mathematical processes readily and correctly, and entertain oerieus notions of real work whon they leave the schools. The railroads are great educator. They educate us in much that Is good, and also In much that is bad. They train us in promptness and in evasiveness. The laws concerning them are not yet very well settled. They oierve no moral re straints not fixed by law, and they are past masters in the art of changing and evading the laws which they dislike. The Nation la Just beginning to realize that the fundamental political principle which holds all men and women equal before the law, with the now well-developed National policy which provides free Instruction to the very limits of human knowl edge to all who willy come and take it, involve an cxpenrc of unexpected magnitude and present questions of unprecedented difficulty In organization and administration. But there will be no turning back. More cheerfully than the people met any other tax, more cheerfully than any other people ever met any tax not vital to the Na tional defense and the saving of lite, the Americas people supply and will supply the funds for universal and liberal education. MRS. H. H. DE PEW. MEN OF NATIONAL NOTE ARE ATTENDING THE i. , I PROMINENT SOCIETY WOMEN WHO ARE MAKING SEATTLE WEEK AT THE EXPOSITION NOTABLE MISS CLAXA XJSWV6. fH ' r FESTIVITIES OF KING I0GEI0 Features of Great Carnival Which Will Be Given at Exposition. BETROTHAL OF COLUMBIA Parades and Masquerades, a Ball In the Auditorium and the "Storm ing of the 3Ioon" Are In cluded in Programme. ADMISSIONS. 18,814. Admissions to' the Fair yesterday were reported to be 1S.S14. The Lewis and Clark Exposition la to be the- scene oiVbrllllant festivities early in September. These festivities will con tinue for three days and will be known as the "Festivities of King Nogero L" Full announcement of the plans for tho carnival were made yesterday from Ex position headquarters. Exhibitors at the Manufactures building are the promoters of the afTalr, but the Exposition is lend ing Its hearty co-operation and financial rapport. King Nogero is to be the presiding monarch of the festival. He is to be a fun-loving Individual who will Insist upon his subjects sharing in his fun. He Is to be selected ty a committee from a list of names submitted by the public. He is to be betrothed to "Columbia," who is to-be selected In the same manner. One hundred maids of honor are to be se lected by voting contents In various cities of the Northwest. Many cash prizes are to be awarded at mask balls and parades, to which all will be welcomed. September 7 marks the opening of the festival. The evening will see the arrival of Columbia and her maids of honor. They will appear In a cortege of royal barges and will walk up the grand staircase to the music of the Royal Minuet. The party will then proceed to tho Trail, where a mask carnival will take place and prizes will be awarded In the mask competition. On the second evening the MRS. EDMUND BOWDEN, HOSTESS. WBn LEWIS AND CLARK EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS betrothal of Nogero and Columbia will take place on the Grand Terrace. The betrothal will be followed by group mask competition, a confetti battle, and the "Storming of the Moon," a raro Are. works exhibition. Tht; third evening will be the crowning night of the festival, especially as it will mark the coronation ceremonies and the awarding and presentation of prizes. Tho evening will conclude with a dress ball at the Auditorium, which will be an In vitation affair. In the parades and masquerades prizes totalling more than 11200 arc to be given away. The prize for the best float will be 52J0. The second prize will be $150. with a third prize of $75 and a fourth of 126. In the mask competition the first prize for groups will be HoO, the sec ond will be 51G0. the third $75. the fourth $50 and the fifth $25. In the Individual competition the first prize will be $25. the' second $15 and the third $10. These .prizes will be awarded for the best comic makeup, the best historic character, tho flnost costume, the best character, the most novel and original character, the ugliest and the bost national character. For couples there will be four prizes of 550, $3. $15 and $10. Awards will be made for the most novel couple, the handsomest and for the most comical of appearance. Other -prize offers are to be added to the list. HIGH PRAISE FOR FAIR MINISTER JOHN BARRETT IS VERY COMPLIMENTARY. Great Benefits Which Will Result to Portland From tho Exposition Are Predicted. John Barrett, United States Minister to Colombia, who has been, visiting Port land for the past three weeks, departed last night for "Washington via Seattle and will proceed East over the Northern route. Ho expects to sail for Bogota In about two weeks to take up his new work there. Last evening he expressed appre ciation for tho courtesies extended to him while in Oregon, and paid a glowing tribute to the .Lewis and Clark Expos! tlon- Mr. Barrett said: "Without com plimenting, but simply making a state ment of fact, I can say, after having seen nearly all the great expositions of recent years both at home and abroad, that none have been more complete and sue cessful within their limitations than this one. Not only is this my Judgment but it is the opinion of nearly all men and women of unbiased mind with whom I have talked. "We can be justly proud of the Impression we have made upon peo ple from the East and Central "West who have come to Portland to see the ex hibition. "It marks the graduation of Portland from a city or town of swaddling clothes, MRS. VT. B. JUDAH. as It were. Into the habllaments and characteristics of a cosmopolitan metrop olis. Formerly to name Portland without giving the state, meant Portland, Me.; now everybody understands Portland to be Portland. Or. It has been my experi ence to visit most happily, the county exhibits of Oregon In the agricultural section and also to go carefully through the corresponding displays in their re spective buildings, of California, "Wash ington, Idaho and Utah, and I must say that It has been like a liberal education to me on the resources of the Northwest. If the exhibition had been larger It would have been too large. It Is Ju3t the right size, so that everybody can get over it and see everything that is worth seeing. "The Forestry building will be a monu ment If left standing, that will attract people from all over the country. There Is nothing to compare with It In all the world. Nearly all persons with whom I have spoken also say that tho city should take advantage of this opportunity to make a permanent park out of the site of the Exposition, particularly to Include Guild's Lake and the Island on which the Government building now stands. "Grent credit is due to President Goode and his directors, as well as to the mem bers of the state commission for the sue cess of tho Exposition, and It will al ways be a source of pride to the people of Portland that It has been carried through so well and received such general approval from all over the country." Dr. Gladden Will Not Come. Another preacher has added hl3 name to the list of those who refuse to speak at the Exposition Auditorium on Sunday because of an open Trail. Bev. "Washing ton Gladden. D. D., has not only re sclnded his acceptance to conduct Sun day services at the Exposition, but he will probably not attend the Fair. Dr. Gladden was to have spoken next Sunday. No word having been heard from him by the Exposition a query. was directed by The Oregonlan yesterday to his home at Columbus, O. His reply re celved last evening, stated that for rea sons satisfactory to the Exposition com mittee and to himself he had decided not to Dreach at tho Exposition. As to his reason there can be no doubt, although It 13 not stated In the message. As ono or those who made vigorous protest against tho acceptance of a John D. Rockefeller donation for foreign missionary work It was ndt believed by many that Dr. Gladden would- appear at the Fair with an open Trail on Sundays. "Whether or not services will be held at tho Auditorium next Sunday has not yet been determined. Beaverton Orphanage Wards. Fifty bright-faced lads from the or phanago at Beaverton saw the Lewis and Clark Exposition yesterday. They were admitted to the grounds free and In charge of two sisters were taken to all points of Interest In the great wonder land. That their trip would bo complete an Exposition attache provided them some extra spending money and the lads spent an afternoon they will be slow In forgetting. MBS. nHX A POSTER. OTTLE WEEK BEGINS AT FA Musical Programme Forms the Feature of the First Day. RECEPTION IN AFTERNOON Ladies of Portland Are the Guests of the Hostesses of the Puget Sound City at the "Wash ington Building. ORDER OF THE DAY, AUGUST 29. 0 A. M. Educational Conference. Auditorium. 9 A. M. to 12 M. Concert. Admin istration Band, Transportation build ing bandstand. 10 A. M. and hourly thereafter Free moving pictures. Nebraska Pavilion, Agricultural Palace. 10:30 A. M. to 12 M. Concert. Che raawa Indian Band, Agricultural building. 11 A. JL Airship flight. Aeronautic Concourse (weather permitting). 1:30 to 2:30 P. M. Concert, Tenth Infantry Band, Transportation build ing bandstand. 2:00 to 5 P. M. Concert. Adminis tration Band. "Washington building. 2:30 P. il. Grand conoert. Royal Hawaiian Band, bandstand. Gray Boulevard. 2:30 P. 31. Organ recital. Professor F. W. Goodrich. Forestry building. 2:30 T. M. United States Life-Saving exhibition on lake. 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. Concert. Tenth Infantry Band. Government Terrace. 4:30 to 8 P. M. Concert. Chemawa Indian Band, Transportation building bandstand. 6:30 P. It. Grand operatic concert on Rustic Steps. 7:30 P. M. Grand concert. Royal Hawaiian Band, bandstand, Gray Boulevard. 8 P. M. Grand electrical illumina tion. Further information may be ob tained from the official dally pro gramme. Seattle has the center of the stage In the "Washington building at the Lewis and Clark Exposition this week. Seattle week opened yesterday, when a large delega tion representing the first city of the Sound arrived in Portland and proceeded to take possession of the Imposing state building, one of the very flnost structures of the entire Exposition. There are more than 200 Seattle citizens In attendance already, and this number promises to be supplemented each day of the week. There will be a special pro gramme every afternoon. Yesterday's programme proved a pleas ant affair. There was no spcechmaklng, thp. n.ftnrnoon belnir irlven over to musi cal numbers. Several talented Seattle mu sicians participated. The selections played by tho Seattle String Quartet were particularly enjoyable, and these players were encored many times. The quartet Is composed of "W. R. Hedley, John L. Gibbs, E. J. Castel and Le Grande Carter. Several fine vocal solos were rendered by Mrs. Clara Lewyn. From 3 to 5 o'clock a reception was held by the hostesses of the building to tho ladies of Portland. Several hundred In vited guests atended this affair, which proved a thoroughly enjoyable function. Buffet refreshments were served. Tho reception took place In the balcony, which was artlstlcaly decorated. Ferns, flowers and streamers were Intertwined with flno effect. Entering the balcony, the words "Seattle "Welcomes You" was done in colors against a background of ever green. The hostesses who gave this pleasant reception and who will preside at the building all the week are: Mrs. Edmund Bowden, Mrs. Ellsha P. Ferry. Mrs. Will E. Humphrey. Mrs. George E. Bragdon. Mrs. Thomas Burke, Mrs. J. E. Chllberg, Mrs. Samuel LeRoy Crawford. Mrs. Hartnell H. DePew, Mrs. W. A. Fos ter, Mrs. "W. B. Judah, Mrs. George Klt tlngcr, Mrs. N. H. Latimer, Mrs. Homer Hill. Mrs. John B. McDougall and Mrs. A. B. Stewart. Today will be known as Alaska and Commercial day of Seattle week. Tho other days are: Wednesday, School and College day; Thursday, King County day: Friday, Club day, and Saturday, Patriots' day. On the final evening a grand recep tion will be held, to which many Invita tions are being Issued. Ualllo Ermtnle Rives Here. Halllo Ermlnle Rives, the noted authoress, was among Exposition visitors yesterday. She is spending several days In the city before going to her homo In Virginia where she will wrlto her book of Western life for which she has been seeking local color on the Pacific Coast during tho past two or. three months. Miss Rives says she found the Coast and the West generally a very Interesting study and has picked up much valuable material for her forthcoming book, which promises to be among her very best, If not her masterpiece- WRONG SORT Perhaps Plain Old Meat. Potatoes and Bread May Bo Against Yon for a Time. A change o the right kind of food can lift one from a sick bed. A lady in Wel den. 111., says: . "Last Spring I became bedfast with severe stomach trouble accompanied by sick headache. I got worse and worso until I became so low I could scarcely retain any food at all. although I tried every kind, i had become completely discouraged, had given up all hope and thought I was doomed to starve to death, till one day my husband, trying to find something I could retain, brought homo some Grape-Nuts. "To. my surprise, the food agreed with me. digested perfectly and without dis tress. I began to gain strength at once, my flesh (which had been flabby) grew firmer, my health Improved in every way and every day, and In a very few weeks I gained 20 pounds In weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for four months I ate no other food, and always felt as well satisfied after eating as if I had sat down to a fine banquet. "I had no return of the miserable sick stomach nor of the headaches, that I used to have when I ate other food. I am now a well woman, doing all my own work again, and feel that life Is worth living. "Grape-Nuts food has been a god-send to my family: It surely saved my life and my two little boys nave thriven on it wonderfully." Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. There's a reason. Get the little book, "The Road to Well villel" in each package.