THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2S, 1917.
TEACHERS TALK OF
PROMINENT EDUCATORS OF OREGON ASSEMBLED AT THE OREGON STATE TEACHERS' CONVENTION
NOW IN SESSION.
mu m GILL TO
SEX INSTRUGTIOFi
SEEK RE-I
Report of Committee Gives
Decision Result of Attempt
to Disbar Him From Prac
ticing His Profession.
Indorsement of Circular
Prepared by Society.
WARNINGS ARE ALSO GIVEN
EXPOSURES ARE PROMISED
ELECTION
Oregon State Association Adds 2 00
Xew Members to Its Roll Ses
sions Are Held In Lincoln
High School Auditorium.
Declining- to make definite recom
mendations, without qualifications or
Conditions, the social service commit
tee of the Oregon State Teachers' As
sociation, in convention at the Lincoln
High School auditorium yesterday aft
ernoon, presented its report on the
adoption of sex instruction in the pub
lic schools.
The report of the committee, which
was not acted upon, but which-is un
derstood to embody the best sentiment
of teachers in the trend toward sex in
struction in Oregon schools, gave in
dorsement to several methods, and
pointed warnings in others.
"After careful investigation the com
mittee does not feel qualified to answer
the question categorically," ran the re
port, "for the reason that everything
depends upon what Is meant by sex In
struction. Hygiene Society Circular Indorsed.
"Should sex instruction be adopted
and made a part of the course of study
In the public schools of Oregon, the
committee indorses circular No. 17 of
the Oregon Hygiene Society, which has
been prepared especially for teachers
under the title of 'The School Teacher
and Sex Kducation." "
The committee also gave its unquali
fied commendation to the use, under
proper supervision, of the exhibit pre
pared by the Oregon Social Hygiene
Society for older boys, and also the
moving-picture film beHig shown by
the society, entitled "How Life Be
gins," and urged strongly that both
exhibit and film be shown in every
school in the state.
Further, the report warns that school
authorities should not permit enthusi
astic volunteers among teachers to ex
periment, for the reason that in sex
matters too often a little information
does service for more harmful igno
rance and misinformation.
Itinerants Sfcenld Be Avoided.
Itinerant sex lecturers should be
avoided, the committee urges, declar
ing that often they are Ignorant or Ir
responsible, or at least fanatical. Es
pecially should all commercial or medi
cal lecturers, whose business is lectur
ing on sex hygiene, be avoided.
Standard rural schools and the re
commendations for their operation
caused the first tilt of the convention
yesterday afternoon, anent the require
ments named In the committee report
for a superior school.
"The teacher must be a normal school
graduate doing successful work, or one
who has had five years of successful
teaching experience," was the pro
vision offered for adoption. Amend
ments rose Instantly, in attempts to
lessen the rigor of the requirements,
one being that graduates of high school
training schools be qualified, and an
other that normal school graduates
must have had at least one year's suc
cessful teaching experience.
Amendments Are Lo.t.
Though both amendments found
many partisans, the weight of opinion
leaned heavily toward the original pro
vision and, after considerable spirited
debate, the amendments were lost.
The report of the committee de
clared that state-wide standardization
had done more for the upbuilding of
rural schools than any other movement
ever inaugurated, and that a uniform
syBtem must be rigidly adhered to If
the best results are to be obtained.
Among the requirements for standard
rural schools, recommended by the
committee, are these: That the flag
must fly on all school days; the total
amount of window space must equal
at least one-fifth of the floor space;
that rooms shall be attractive at all
times, and that framed standard pic
tures shall be displayed.
A superior school must first meet
the requirements of a standard school,
must have a furnace or heating plant
other than a stove, must have a library
containing an encyclopedia of at least
five volumes, must be supplied with
piano, organ or vlctrola, must pay a
minimum salary of $75 per month, and
must be connected with some form of
organized community work.
200 Kew Names Are Jarollea,
Members of the association were
greatly gratified yeBterday by the reg
istration of new recruits from the
teaching personnel of Portland's
schools. When the convention went
Into session its roster bore 2112 names.
Yesterday afternoon the membership
had increased to 2312, the majority of
new members being Portland teachers.
The subject of retardation of pupils,
discussed In a committee report, waB
heard at yesterday afternoon's session.
The committee declared that retarda
tion among pupils In city schools was
largely due to rural pupils coming to
the city, and asserted that better rural
schools, keener interest on the part of
patrons, more normal school graduates
as teachers, and improvements of the
school plants were obvious remedies.
Not without social features is the
convention of Oregon teachers. Each
afternoon and evening offers enter
tainment when the issues of -modern
pedagogy have ' been threshed out on
the convention floor.
Dr. Boyd Will Lecture.
This evening the University of Ore
gon alumnae will entertain with a din
ner party at the University Club for
all the college people, the teachers and
members of the Portland Association
ef Collegiate Alumni, and those at
tending the convention. Dinner v.-Ill be
served at 6:30 o'clock, and reservations
must be made in advance through the
Steward of the club.
A feature of this function is the talk
to be given by Rev. John H. Boyd,
who will repeat "The Unmasking of
Herman jr for the assemblage.
Ball at Hotel Portland.
Tonight the management of the
Hotel Portland will entertain the
teachers with a ball, given from 8 to
10 o'clock, in the ballroom of the
Hotel.
All visiting teachers are invited to
attend a special meeting on Saturday
noon, at 1:1a, in room 110 Lincoln High
. Kchoo, for the purpose of considering
the benefits derived from teachers' or
ganizations. Dr. H. D. Sheldon will
make a brief address, and a general
discussion will follow.
It is urgently desired that all teach
ers interested in organization, as well
as those already organised, will attend.
The meeting is under the auspices of
the Portland Grade Teachers' Associa
tion. Miss Gertrude Greathouse, chair
man of the league committee, will
preside.
The committee on nominations re
ported yesterday afternoon, presenting
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bull. Superintendent of Bandon Seno
University of Oregon, Present Vlce-
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ark, COnnty Superintendent of Harne
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President of Association and Nominee f
omlnee for Vice-President. 4 G. A. B
n. n It II. Dunbar, Superlntenden
d Pledge Campaign. 6 Edna I. Wells,
led ice Campaign Placed Her County i
sent Secretary-Treasurer of the Associa
y County Lillian Watts, County Super
t (Left to Right, Upper) A. C. Himp
tendent of Baker County! L. W. Turn
alter Schools. 2 H. D. Sheldon, of
or President. S P. A. Tledgen, Super-
riacoe. Superintendent of Ashland
t of Klamath Kalis Schools, Who Aided
Superintendent of Klamath County,
n the Front Rank. 7 E. D. Ressler,
tion and Nominee for Re-election.
nominees whose election will come be
fore the convention for decision on
Saturday afternoon, as follows: For
president, H. D. Sheldon, present vice-
president, dean of the school of educa
tion. University of Oregon; for Vice
president. F. A. Tiedgen, city superin
tendent, Marshfield: for secretary
treasurer, E. D. Ressler, present incum
bent, dean of the school of education.
Oregon Agricultural College; for mem
bers of executive committee. J. W.
Todd, city superintendent, Salem, and
E. H. Whitney, principal Ockley Green
School, Portland.
The first general assembly meeting
of the convention will be held this
morning at the Lincoln auditorium.
Among the speakers will be Frank M.
Leavitt, professor of industrial educa
tion. University of Chicago, who has
just accepted an associate professor
ship in the industrial schools of Pitts
burg; E. G. Crawford, vice-president of
the United States National Bank of
Portland, and Richard Burton, head of
the department of English. University
of Minnesota,
Teachers Offer Aid la War.
Unanimous indorsement of the sug'
gestion that the Oregon State Teach
ers' Association definitely identify
itself with some patriotic work, prob
ably furtherance of the plan to edu
cate wounded soldiers in industrial
lines, was given yesterday afternoon by
Oregon teachers at the close of the
representative council session.
Viola Ortschild, teacher in Couch
School and prominent member of the
Portland Grade Teachers' Association,
opened the impromptu and enthusias
tic discussion by declaring that the
association, in addition to inculcating
the ideals of patriotism among school
children, should bear its part in war
work.
Patriotic Fund Proposed.
That the services of the State Teach
ers' Association would prove valuable
in th6 projects for assisting wounded
soldiers was Miss Ortschlld's sugges
tion, but she added that patriotic work
of some definite nature should receive
the Indorsement and pledged support
of the association before It adjourned.
E. F. Carleton, assistant state su
perintendent, suggested that all sur
plus funds of the association, at the
close of the present session, 6e een
tered In a patriotic fund, and that pro
visions be made for the increasing of
the fund through efforts of the members.
A committee of five was appointed
to investigate the feasible fields In
which the Oregon teachers may serve
collectively, and will report Its recom
mendation at the session tomorrow
morning.
Members of the committee are Miss
Viola Ortschild, of Couch School; E. D.
Ressler, of the Oregon Agricultural
College; J. H. Ackerman, of Monmouth
Normal School; A. D. Sheldon, of the
University of Oregon, and Miss Frances
Clark, School Superintendent of Harney
County.
W. T. Emery Hies at Fresno.
ROSEBURG, Or- Dec. 27. (Special.)
W. T. Emery, aged 60 years, a prom
inent fruitgrower of Coles Valley,
few miles northeast of this city, passed
away at Fresno. Cal., yesterday morn
tng after an Illness covering several
years. He was a native of this oounty
and had operated one of the largest
prune orchards In the Umpqua Valley.
His body will be brought to this city1
for buriaL
Phone your want ads to The Orego-
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HELBER IS UPHELD
Civil Service Board Nega
tives His Removal.
FOREMAN'S PAY DECREED
Commissioner Keilalier, Scenting
Such Action In Advance, Executes
Coup and Has Fcldman Named
as Superintendent.
By unanimous vote the Municipal
Civil Service Board yesterday decided
against City Commissioner Kellaher in
his transferring of control of the city
incinerator from William Helber to C.
H. Feldman.
The board ruled that the change
was a violation of the civil service
rules and that Mr. Helber should be
paid the wages of foreman in charge
of the plant during the time he was
subordinate to Mr. Feldman.
Commissioner Kellaher, anticipating
the action, had the City Council clear
the case of Its tangle on Wednesday
by repealing the ordinance which
made the changes in the positions. He
had the Council pass another ordinance
creating the position of superintendent
of the plant. He appointed Feldman
to this position yesterday. A civil ser
vice examination will be held for the
position and both Mr. Helber and Mr.
Feldman will be eligible to take this
test.
The civil service board. In Investigat
ing the incinerator changes, took testi
mony at three separate sessions. While
the board announced in advance that it
considered the changes as being In vio
lation of civil service provisions of the
city charter. Commissioner Kellaher
Insisted on the Investigation being car
ried out.
"As a conclusion," says the civil serv
ice board in its decision, "the board is
of the opinion that the Commissioner
In charge removed Mr. Helber without
authority of law. The ordinances mak
lng the change are in our opinion re
pugnant to and subversive of the letter
and spirit of civil service. Especially
are we constrained to this opinion when
we view a construction placed upon
the ordinances making the changes, to
effect solely a change of positions of
two individuals.
"We therefore find and adjudge that
William G. Helber is now and since
September, 1913, has been the foreman
under civil service in charge of the
Incinerator, and we further hold that
the attempted elevation of C. H. Feld
man as chief engineer in charge, which
In effect makes him superintendent,
is without authority of law."
This ruling affects the status of af
fairs only until yesterday. The Board
did not question Commissioner Kella
her" s right to appoint Mr. Feldman to
the position of superintendent tempo
rarlly until an examination can be held.
Lieutenant J. W. Spaulding, Sixth In
fantry, is confined in his quarters at
Chickamauga Park, it was announced
today, awaiting trial by general court
martial in connection with his rela
tions with Baroness Zollner, who is
held in the county jail on & charge of
espionage.
TRAFFIC PACT SUSPENDED
Public Service Board Takes Step to
Help Relieve Car Shortage.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 27. Subsequent to
a recommendation embodied in a letter
yesterday by Commissioner H. H.
Corey, the Oregon Public Service Com
mission today issued an order suspend
ing indefinitely from January 1 the
average agreement provision between
railroads and shippers.
The reason for the suspension Js "to
prevent injury to the business and in
terests of the people and the railroads
In consequence of the emergency which
the commission now deems to exist on
account of the war."
Cbmmissioner Corey also recommend
ed suspension of the reciprocal demur
rage provision, but a closer examina
tion of the enactment showed that this
would have to be done through a spe
cial hearing.
It is believed the action by the com
mission today will go far toward re
lieving the car-shortage situation.
TEN MILES OF ROAD ASKED
Coos County Association Modifies
Original Highway Programme.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Dec. 27. (Spe
cial.) The Coos County Good Roads
Association at a meeting held in Co
quille today deoided to ask the State
Highway Commission for the, 26 miles
of asphalted concrete highway 16 feet
wide between Coos Bay and' Myrtle
Point, the same as was promised by
the Commission.
The association, qualified the request
and will demand but 10 miles of fin
ished highway In the next year, since
that distance is the only part of the
road it would be safe to pave. This
10 miles Is between Marshfield and
Henryville.
Man Supposed Lost, Safe.
NEW BEDFORD, Mas 8 Deo. 27. Al
bert De MeLld, of this city, who was
reported among the missing when the
American destroyer Jaeob Jones was
sunk by a German submarine, was
picked up by the U-boat, Antonio V.
De Mella, father of the sailor, was no
tified today by the bureau of naviga
tion at Washington;
Officer Held on Espionage Charge.
CHATTANOOGA. Tehn., Dec. 27.
Latin-American Congress Postponed.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. S7. The gov
ernment today announced that the con
gress of the neutral Latin-American
nations had been postponed until April.
The congress was to have been con
vened in January.
Catholic Institutions Get Money.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 37. Bequests aggre
gating $125,000 were left to various
Catholic institutions by the will of Miss
Mary E. Boyce, who died last Friday
at the age of 77. The estate Is esti
mated te be worth l.e0,00.
Accused Seattle Chief Announces
That He Will Conduct His Own
Defense In Disbarment Case
Filed by Attorney-General.
SEATTLE. Wash., Dee. 27. (Special.)
Maybr Gill today announced that he
would file again for another term as
Mayor. He did sd as his answer td
the proceedings in disbarment insti
tuted against him and his former law
partners. Hoyt, Frye A Raley, by the
Attorney-General yesterday, and ha
proposes to start things moving in the
campaign immediately by hiring a hall
to declare himself.
Just as Mayor Gill's intentions per
colated through the minds of the poli
ticians another boom was sprung to
bring Harold Preston, a former State
Senator and candidate for United States
Senator in the days before the direct
primary took the Senatorial elections
out of the hands of the Legislatures,
into the race. Robert R. Fox, a wealthy
business man, who was defeated for
delegate to the Republican National
convention last year, also Is being
urged to get into the race, and Coun
cilman William Hickman Moore, Ralph
A. Horr. chairman of the King County
Republican Central Committee, and
Councilman Robert B. Hesketh are
twirling their fingers in political un
certainty now that Mayor Gill has
definitely announced his intentions.
GUI Promises Exposure.
Gill's campaign Is going to be an
other big event in the politics of Se
attle. Always he thrives best on op
position, and this time the entire field,
with the possible exception of Hesketh,
Is against him. Ole Hanson today
opened headquarters in the New York
block, and Austin B. Griffiths opened
headquarters in the White building be
fore the date of filings arrived.
In connection with the disbarment
proceedings Gill announced today that
he will conduct his own case. He also
said that he would not spend any
money in his primary campaign for re
nomination, but that he would go be
fore the people "and tell them a few
things that have been withheld from
them." It is expected that he will
open up the old controversy between
Major-General H. A. Greene, command
ing at Camp Lewis, and the city, and
explain the Gill version of why the
ban was placed on Seattle by the mili
tary officials.
Mayor Gill steadfastly contends that
he is not a member of the law firm of
Gill, Hoyt & Frye and that the dis
barment proceedings filed against him
are part of a conspiracy to destroy him
politically.
Mayor to Plead Own Case.
"I really hadn't Intended to file; my
family did not want me to run again,
and I had decided to go back to the
practice of law, but last night after I
had been served with notice of the
disbarment proceedings, I held another
family caucus and we decided there
there was no alternative save running,"
said the Mayor.
"As I regard this latest attack as
merely the culmination of a series of
efforts to ruin me, though 1 have not
practiced law for four years and had
retired from Police Court practice in
February, 1911, when I was recalled
and resumed the practice of law, I in
tend to run again. I will go on the
stump and tell a great deal that I have
refrained thus far from saying. Of
course, X expect to be re-elected. As
for the disbarment proceedings, I do
not believe I will have any difficulty in
defending myself. I intend to handle
my own case and I know of nothing
that would in any way justify the at
tempt to prevent me from practicing
law."
DEATH'S DELAY BUT BRIEF
Fatal Accident Follows Miraculous
Escape by Only Few Hours.
OAKLAND. Cal.. Dec. 27. W. L.
Conlogue, of Coquille City. Or., was
killed last night by a Southern Pacific
electric train as he was crossing the
tracks of the terminal here in eluding
the police. Conlogue previously had
dived headlong through a window of a
moving train and landed unhurt.
He told a railroad company employe
that he was a German and that Gov
ernment men were after him. . Fol
lowing this he ran and disappeared.
He was ground beneath the electric
train a few hours later.
MOTHER WANTS SON BACK
Marine, Former Blacksmith's Help
er, Declared Delicate for War.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. Fearing
that the rigors of warfare would be too
much for her delicate son, a woman
living at Fresno, Cal., has written to
United States Marine Coirs headquar
ters here asking that the young man
be discharged.
"He 18 too weak and delicate to be in
the service," she wrote. "He is a black
smith's helper by trade, and I would
prefer him to stay at his last job."
The mother was Informed that, for
the time being, her son must remain a
marine.
Special Training School to Open.
TAPHANK, N. T., Dec 27. Brigadier-General
Evan M. Johnson, acting
commander of Camp Upton here, an
nounced tonight that a special school
for the training of officers in the
duties of higher commands and of bri
gade and division staffs will be opened
at the camp January 1. Field officers
and commanders of important units
will be taught how te co-ordinate vari
ous branches of the service. ,
Hindus Pledge Loyalty.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Expressions of
loyalty and assurances of support were
tendered President Wilson and the
United States Government in resolu
tions adopted at the convention of the
Hindustan Association of America to
day. The association is composed of
students from India In American colleges.
Major White Ordered East.
EUGENE, Or.. Deo. 27. (Special.)
Major W. G. White, of the staff of the
Oregon Coast Artillery, who spent
Christmas in Eugene, yesterday re
ceived a telegram ordering him to re
port to Fort Monroe, VaH to attend the
"School of Fire." Major . White has
been stationed at Fort Canby,
Months ago the United States Food
Administration began an investigation
of bakeries. They got down to facts on
the cost of bread-making the food
value of properly baked bread.
Following this, there went forth over
the country the question, "Why should
housewives bake bread when bakeries
will save fully 650,000 barrels of flour a
year through scientific methods?" An
ounce of flour wasted in 20,000,000
homes totals 650,000 barrels. How can
We better save wheat than by buying
bread from the grocer?
Franz United States Bakery, Port
land, is one of the most modern in
America. No home kitchen could be
equipped to bakd bread like it is baked
here. And to prevent further waste,
each loaf is machine wrapped in the
sanitary paper untouched from the
ovens to you.
Use Half and Half of
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Whole Wheat
The Big, Clean, Sweet Loaves
A Peaceful and Rest
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Whipped Tides a
.Wonderful Sight
Three Dollars for the Round Trip to any Clatsop
or North Beach point. Go Saturday, Sunday or
Monday; return Wednesday, Jan. 2. Trains at
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AT CLATSOP BEACH
The North Bank Road
Wishes Its Patrons a
Happy and Prosperous
1918.
Ticket Office, Fifth and
Stark-Sts. Station, Tenth
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