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0 SCHOOL ATHLETICS HELD VII NEED highway and the Lost creek bridge on the "Willamette highway were signed in Eugene today and repre sentatives of the different contrac tors said work would" be started" im 1711,11 EXPENSES CUT BY ROADS BODY mediately. The Warren Construction com pany has the contract to build the Goshen-Lowell section for $82,571. A. C. Mathews of Eugene received the contract to build the Cheshire Goldson road for $40,920 and E. D. Olds will ' build the Lost creek bridge located between Trent' and Dexter for J90J3.60. For the county court the con tracts were signed only by County Judge Barnard and County Commis sioner Harlow. Commissioner Sharp refusing to . sign as he expressed belief that the bids are all excessive. tor 1 f!flik4l Student Activities Part of Necessary Training. Force Is Reduced by High way Commission. RURAL EDUCATION LAGS BIENNIAL REPORT MADE of m m MIDNIGHT MATIXEE , WILL USHER IN NEW YEAR. California Superintendent Says Higher Standard Must Be Maintained in Country. Next Meeting Set for January 8, When Matters . Left Over Will Be Decided sr." 'v. THE MORNINTr OREGONIAK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922 Sr 0). 3 1 3 WJI Athletics and student activities in the public schools are essential to the development of social intelli gence, developing qualities of lead ership and an abiiity to co-operate, in the opinion of Will Wood, super intendent of public instruction of California, who addressed the City club at its luncheon meeting yester day at the Benson. "These two highly important phases of educa tional development can no longer be considered as fads and fancies,'" he eaid. The speaker explained the em phasis placed -on a training of social intelligence on the part of the stu dents which is now in operation In California schools. He pointed out the advantage to the community life , of any city of having a citizenry trained in social intelligence and characterized civic organizations as a post-graduate course of the edu cational system in development of this phase of character. , Social Institution Behind. "Juvenile delinquency is due to the fact that social institutions have not kept pace with the economic changes in the last 20 years." he continued, and urged that rural ed ucation throughout the country be placed on a higher plane. "Many families have moved out ef the rural communities because the one-room schooihouse has been kept there," the speaker said, and pointed to the urgent necessity of immediate expansion of courses of instruction in these districts. "The one-room schooihouse is as essential to modern education as the ox cart was to the automobile," he continued. "In California we have become aroused to the fact that when the American rural population has moved to the educational cen ters of the cities immigrants from the southern European countries have immediately taken their places on, these farms as tenants. -We have taken steps to bring our American population back to the farms, for we realize that the destiny of our cities and our nation depends upon the future education in the rural districts." Education State Problem. "Education in California has been made a state 'problem, not a local . problem," he explained in. pointing' out the remedial measures which had been taken to meet the situa tion In rural communities. "Legis lative measures have been brought about which eliminate the burden from district taxation for mainte nance of public schools and place it on the state treasury." he con tinued. This measure has provided for $60 each year per pupil for every pupil in the elementary .schools and $90 a year for the pupils of the sec ondary schools. Districts in California which are rich in children but poor in prop erty under this plan are to have equal advantages with those dis tricts in cities where property taxa tion for school maintenance has pro vided an excellent public school sys tem. "Greater state and county .bounties are being sought in the effort to relieve the burden from the poorer rural districts," he ex plained. Private Schools Discussed. "To meet the problem of private schools, which has been your prob lem in Oregon, we have decided to eliminate it as a problem," Mr. Wood declared. "Our public schools are KOing to be so good that there will tie no necessity for the private echool." VaBt. expansion of the public schools, more especially the second ary division which includes the high schools, which in his opinion has been the most significant develop ment in the history of the last 25 years, has been caused by a de manding pressure from business and industry, according to Mr. Wood. "The apprenticeship system in America is almost a thing of the past." he said. "Vocational educa tion methods in the schools have supplanted the apprentice system. America needs trained mechanics, not cheap labor, and the logical so lution is to train American boys for modern industrial fields." Cost Held Cheap. He explained that nearly 200 courses were now being offered in the public schools and that the cost of vocational training in California had been $1,600,000 last year. "But that is cheap when you must consider that the riches of any com- i munity are in the developed talents -Vof its people," he said. "No city has ever been bigger than its hinterland, and the rural dwell ers of one age throughout history have been found to be the city dwellers of the next. Thev must h educated," he declared in conclusion.;' 'And as civilization becomes motfj complex the task becomes greater. " PRIZE CAR CAUSES SUIT Alleged Winner of Moose Cr(upe Demands Auto. Action growing out of the adver tised awarding of a motor ce ape by the Moose lodge, No. 291, at' Its re cent entertainment in the audito rium nas Deen started id circuit court oy tne Iinng or a suit Ly J. H. Day against Harry Anderson. The action seeks to re clover the coupe, said to be illegall y withheld tne piaintir. its -yalue was given as $450. Anderson filed a motion asking that tha Moose lodge be substituted as defendant In the suit for the reaeon . tat he was merely acting as an officer and agent of the lodge. According to E. V. Iittlefield, at torney, who filed -the replevin suit for Day, the lattor 'tas winner of the car. The reaso.n the lodge offi cials .give for not turning over the car to Day, according to the attor ney, is that the Ciclxet Day had was one tin a package ; that was stolen and never accounted for. Roscoe Alls, Dancing, Singing Comedian and Other Artists . Head Programme. mmmm u : 1 MM! MKv $ i All the snap and the comedy that a new year show should have are promised in. the interesting pro gramme of Orpheum vaudeville which opens itB brief en gagement at the Heilig theater on Sunday afternoon. This new show J brings in the new year with a popu lar midnight mat inee, starting at 11 o'clock Sunday night andcontinU' ing until a splen' did series of amus ing vaude v 1 1 1 e numbers have been presented. The new programme is headed by Roscoe Ails, the famous dancing, singing comedian, assisted by Kate Pullman, his syncopated orchestra and Charles Calvert, in all the last word in that style of entertainment. These artists will have a big place on the New Tear's eve programme, too. The Ails act Is programmed as '"A Conglomera tion of Melody and Jazz," and is said to warrant fully that classification. Added attractions on the new bill are Wilfred Clarke, assisted by Grace Menken and company, pre senting "What Now," and Bert Fitz gibbon, the original Daffy Dil, who is Introducing his brother Lew this year. Other big-time attractions, all of which will take part on the mid night matinee Sunday night, are Edward Miller, singing eemi-classi-cal numbers of general interest; the El Rey sisters, in a novel dance revue; Jack Haney, eccentric pan tonine Juggler and the Keliors, nov elty entertainers. ' YOUTH IS HELD SUICIDE MURDER THEORY NOW ABANi DOSED BY AUTHORITIES. . Coroner and Detectives Satisfied, That Chauncey Morris Fired Fatal Shot Himself. Convinced that the youth kfled himself. Deputy Coroner Leo Goetsch announced yesterday room ing that an inquest will not be neld to determine the cause of Zea th of Chauncey Morris, 14-year-olid 1 jvlam ath Falls youth, whose bod y was found Thursday night in a , cabin back of the old county pot" it farm on the Canyon road. j The fact that the bullet " cround in the right temple was ra? irked by powder burns and that tj lorris had talked to his companion , John Y. Tol, 17-year-old Lincoln high school student, of suicide eai Uer in the afternoon, Is consider d sufficient evidence that the fata? i wound was self - inflicted, D e p V ty Coroner Goetsch said. .; ; The boy's mother, Mrs.1 Bertha Olson of Klamath I talis, left for Portland yesterday t ,? take charge of the body. Funenl services will probably be held fr ,m the home of Mrs. Olson's mother) Mrs. Jack Hob son, 1115 Division ef eet. H. A. Thatcher, lieutenant of de tectives, believes t that windows of the cabin had bef n broken by shots fired by hunter and that the five empty cartridge" shells found on the cabin floor hej . been ejected from the revolver by. Morris after shoot ing at targets in the afternoon. Toll Bjfidge Proposed. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. 29. (Special.) J . toll bridge across the Wishkah rr ver at Wishkah street, to be operate 1 by the city, is suggested by the ch ,mber of commerce execu tive sessi on. The chamber's action was takjn following a protracted discussif ,n of the probability that the city could secure state aid for a free hor Idge. Reduction of force iand salary cuts aggregating J17O,00 a year, was made by the state highway commission yesterday - at an ad journed meeting. The retrenchment was the annual revision of salaries and was not influenced by the im pending change in the office of gov., ernor. .. As the road work is tightening up, it was found practicable to re duce the engineering force. Herb'Frt Nunn, state highway engineer, rec ommended eliminating two of , thi three assistant engineers; eliriina tion of one entire division and elimi nation of 17 resident engineer a, their crews and cost off machines ' There is $5,500,000 of unfinished w ork, and this has been redistribute jd among the engineering force by w grouping Rather than out pay. In many in stances it was decided to' reduce the force and ' doQble the ; work. The changes take effect Jar'mary 1. Oregon Salaries on' Average. Comparison of sal ,ries paid by other states, in a ta&le compiled by the federal governro.ent, shows that Oregon's highway 'salaries are the average. , Engineering cosf't for the last two years has been 4,9 per cent, and no charge has been, made for the sur veying and field engineering per formed Tor counties under the mar ket road law. The distribution of expenditures 9r the past two years in high-way Work, in addition to the engineering mentioned, was: Grad ing, a-O.SS jer cent; paving, 24.26 per cent; r ock and gravel surfac ing, ,16.17 ; per cent; bridges, 8.08 per dent; interest and maturities on bonds, lis per cent; maintenance ana bettf rment work, 4.04 per cent co-opera-' tjon on forest road worl 2.34 pe-. cent; administration and genera, supervision, 1.31 per cent. Bl'ennlal Report Completed. Accr01ng to the biennial report. Whicij! the commission completed yesta j day, the work accomplished in the f,ast two years totals 276.3 miles of V,aving, of which 200.7 miles are bitfjminous and 75.6 miles are con cra te; 831. miles of rock or gravel su' rfacing and 785.7 miles of grading 1) ie forest road construction In tha S'ame period is 77.2 miles of surf at rag and 71.1 miles of grading. ',' The total amount of funds ex ponded in the biennium, excluding market roads, is $30,905,265.49, of which state funds total $22,799 650.57: county, $4,800,233.55; rail road, $79,719.65, and government, for post roads, $3,225,651.72. Included in the state funds there is $724 970.53 of state funds for forest roads, to which should be added $67,142.21 of county co-operation and government forest funds of $836,765.18, making a total forest road expenditure of $1,628,877.92. Next Meeting January 5. The new . assessed valuation for 1923 reduces the constitutional 4 per cent bonded deb, limit for highway purposes to $40,379,966.64, . which, after deducting present bond sales, leaves $4,179,966.64 as the total amount of bonds which may be sold Owing to the absence of Chairman Booth through illness, Commission ers Teon and Barratt postponed a number of decisions until there can be a .meeting of the full board, Jan uary 5. At that time the commis sion will have several recommenda tions to make to the legislature for the benefit of the general road pro gramme. WEEKS WOULD AID CITY McNary Resolution in Behalf of Astoria Favored. ASTORIA, Or.. Dec. 29. (Special.) That Secretary of War Weeks has reported favorably on the McNary resolution appropriating $500,000 to dredge Astoria harbor and fill the streets was announced In a tele gram received from Senator McNary today. The message said Secretary Weeks concluded his report as fol lows: "It is my view that assistance may wisely be given the stricken city of Astoria and I commend the resolution to your favorable con sideration." Interesting Reductions at Berg's LLANE ROAD JOBS LET Work to Bogin at Once on Wil lamette ana Florence Highways. EUGENE. Or., Dec. 29. (Special.) Contracts for the construction of the Goshan-Lowell section of the" Willamette highway, the Cheshire Goldson . section of the Florence m CLE FR of New COATS and OCKS Coats as low as $9.85 Frocks as low as $7.45 See Our Windows wKfs aoornoser. Mr iil . . .-...-nr-v.'-'w wl Vm A 3 A Paramount Special 8-Act Production from the novel and Saturday Evening Post story by Katherine Newlin Burt. Bebe as a gorgeous dancer who plays with the hearts of men. A flaming love drama in a setting of lavish beauty. Comedy Educational Peoples Orchestra rwo Midnight Matinees This theater will run an extra show both tonight and tomorrow night commencing at 11 P. M. io raise in prices The Lowest price New Year's midnight shows in town and equal to any. 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