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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1912)
1HE SUNDAY- OREGOXIAS", PORTLAND, JUNE 30, 1912. 17 TRUSTEES SPLIT III FIGHT Oil FERRIII Vote 8 to 8 on Resolution to Force Retirement of Pa cific University Head. FACULTY MAKES CHARGES Trcsidcnt Replies Citing Reasons Wliy He Shonld Hold Place In Institution Allegations Said to Be Vague. After a heated discussion lasting all yesterday afternoon, the board of trus tees of Pacific University divided even ly on the proposal to ask th resigns tion of Dr. W. N. Ferrin, president of the institution, the vote standing eight to eight. The vote came on a resolution seeking Dr. Ferrin's retirement. La ter by the same vote the majority re port of the investigating committee, which favored retaining the president. but absenting him from the Univer sity on a financial campaign for one year, failed of adoption. Still a third proposal was submitted later by Judge Stephen A. Lowell, pro viding for Dr. Ferrin's retirement ii one year. It also failed of passage, eight to eight. The meeting was held at the T. M. C. A. and was an executive session. The vote was by written ballot and the chairman of the board voted among the others. The majority Teport of the investigating committee was signed by B. S. Huntington, G. H. Marsh and E. P. McCornack. It sought the absent ing of President Ferrin for the year to solicit the funds to make up a con dltlonal offer of $40,000 from James J. Hill and contemplated the appointment of a dean to govern the university dur. ing the year. H.art Rnr,,r. SfinatlASK The minority report was presented by Philip K. Bauer and W. T. Fletcher, both alumni members of the board, Mr. r icicner Deing ine omciai represent. , I .w- A I ... A liiinl Thl. t-O port reviewed at length the case that has been made out against the Ferrin administration, declaring that alumni, faonltv and Mtlxe-na nf Forest Grove are unitedly in favor of a change of executives. It told of his failure to bold faculty members in the past and that the signers held properly should originate wun me trustees i-emneuw. The even division of the trustees leaves the situation unchanged. An other meeting wIM be held next Sat urday at the Y. M. C. A., but It is not known that the question of the presi dency will come up again. Faraltr Present Statement. One of the strongest arguments against Dr. Ferrin yesterday was a formal statement from the faculty. At a previous meeting the faculty had presented a short - statement, asking for Dr. Ferrin's removal. Yesterday a longer letter embodying faculty senti ment was sent In, signed by all but two members. Professor Alexis Ben Korl and Professor L. B. Shippae. Professor Ben Korl sent In a letter agreeing that President Ferrin should be superseded. Professor Shippee, who had signed the first faculty statement, was absent from Forest Grove when the second statement was prepared. Teachers In the Conservatory of Music did not sign the statement. The faculty charges Include the declaration that Dr. Ferrin lacks ad ministrative ability, tact and qualities of leadership. Is autocratic and arbi trary, and that he has been vacillating to such an extent that the teachers "have been . unable to depend on his support in matters where they had every reason to expect It. and have been assured that they would receive It." The faculty statement follows: Reasons Are Given. Forest Grove, Or.. June 1. 1912. To the Board of Trustees ot Pacific Uni versity. Forest Grove, Or. Uentlemen: Whereas It has been reported to us that the statement signed by the mem bers ol the faculty relating to the efficiency or the president of the Institution does not set forth reasons In support of the opinion expressed therein, now. therefore, we. the undersigned members of the "u"r Tualatin Academy and Pacific .University do herebv submit the following declaration of reasons which prompted us to sign the said statement. . .... We were at the time we signed said state ment and we still are of the opinion: Klrst That President- Ferrin lacks ad ministrative ability. .Second That he lacks those qualities of leadership which Inspire confidence and loyalty on the part of the faculty, students and friends of the university. Third That he has no well-defined com prehensive plan for the development of the Institution; at least he has never outlined such a plan to his faculty or sought to en list their co-operation In carrying It out. Fourth That his lack of tact and his au tocratic and arbitrary methods of conduct ing the affairs of the Institution constantly result In loss of students, alienation of former friends and alumni and the positive antagonism of many who should be sup porter financially and otherwise. Faculty Wishes Overruled. Firth That the work of the Institution during the past year has been greatly de moralised. owing to the fact that In mat ters of attempted discipline on the part of the faculty, the president haa deferred to the clamor of the students, granting their petitions, against the best Judgment ot the '"stith That members of the faculty have found him vacillating to such an extent that they have been unable to depend on his support In matters where they had every reason to expect It and have been assured that they would receive It. ' We respectfully submit that the forego-l-ig reasons, which can be substantiated uy speclfic Instances, constitute ground for our action In the matter of the statement, which was presented to the board ot trustees on the first day of June. "Among the documents In the case was Dr. Ferrin's letter In reply to the charges that had been brought against him. Referring in his letter to the complaints from the alumni. Dr. Ferrin noted that In the letters from the alumni, replies were received from one third of the 20S living graduates of the university and that out of these 4 suggested a change in the admin istration. He declared that the com plaints made In the letters were "so general as to be vague" and attributed much of the criticism to a feeling of antagonism that "had Its origin In disturbances In which the alumni were involved In their student days." Those criticisms, ho held, should be of little value In the action of the committee. Reasons Are Cited. To the complaint that the enrollment had not increased as It should under his administration, he replied by -saying that the Increase of the high schools In the state had acted to limit the attendance in the academic courses, but held that It had brought about a substantial upbuilding In the col legiate courses, which. a maintained, should be given emphasrs In the future development of the, Institution. Against the complaint that the school had been "running down" under his administration, he recited the list of contributions to the endowment that had been secured In the last five years. Involving contributions from Andrew Carnegie and from many prominent business men of Portland. Be attributed the unfavorable crlti- cisra on the part of the faculty mem bers to "destructive criticism on the part of soma of the trustee's," and reg istered a vigorous protest against "the undermining work done against" htm by these trustees." The minority report of the Inves tigating committee la long and con tains a full review of the case against Dr. Ferrin. It begins with the asser tion that the college should have the support of trustees, faculty, alumni and friends, and that, "the president nor the board has any right, autocrat ically, to close their ears to the pray era of the faeulty. alumni and others.' The report Includes 'the faculty statement, and concerning it says: "President Ferrin replies to this pe tition by saying that Trustee Bauer, In an Interview, misrepresented facts and poisoned the minds of the faculty and secured this petition. To you who know the caliber of this faculty, such a con- AGRD WOMAN PASSES AWAY - AT HOME IN PORTLAND. IT's' ' & & .11 K.'alsS. i V -"; f p ' A J f j: Mrs. Mary A. Stowell. Funeral services of the late Mary A. Stowell; held from the chapel of Portland Crematory Tuesday, were conducted by Rev. D. M. . McPhall, of the Baptist Church. Many friends paid the last tribute of respect to the memory of Mrs. Stowell, who was 78 years old and had the dis tinction of being a great-great-grandmother. She iad been a resident of Portland for the past four years and Is survived by two sons, Anthony John, of Port land, and Dr. H. M., of Hough ton, Mich. tention Is preposterous and puerile. This trustee did not create this Judg ment of this sober-minded faculty; he simply found It and reported It, and, moreover, discovered that it had ex- sted for years. Attention is then called to the fact that In a period of 11 years, 33 mem bers of the faculty have resigned, of which the statement adds. Dr. -Ferrin admits eight have resigned for "in competency or allied reasons, ar.n that 17 moved on to better positions or to complete their scholastic training elsewhere, "which Is very significant," the report adds, "in the face of ' the fact that five of the young men of the faculty ' today say they will stay If President Ferrin resigns, but surely will go If he is retained." Attention is called to the fact that 10 of the 12 members of Whitman College, who were there in .1901, are still with the college, while only two of the Pacific University faculty of 1901 remain. . Letters Are Summarised. The report refers to the circular let ter sent out by an alumni committee, to which 74 replies were received, 190 letters beine sent out. The following summary of the poll Is presented. Causes for lack of growth and popu larity: Executive weakness. 49; lack of harmony, 14; lack of advertising. 10; lack of interest by the board, 6; chang ing fnculrv. 7: other reasons. 15. Remedies suKgrested Change ol ad ministration, 65; more co-operation, a; more advertising, 4; everything satis factory, 2; miscellaneous suggestions. 11. Some of the alumni gave several susrarestlons in each case. In reply to a contention by Dr. Fer rin that the alumni letters were in spired by improper purposes actuating the Investigation, tne report, aeciares that the poll was assented to by the chairman of the board. Mr. Hunting ton. 'The poll was honest and true, and the response to a circular letter was large, it is said. Board Not Obeyed, la Asserted. Giving Its attention to complaints that "mlsrht properly originate witn the board," the report says the presi dent has started out on two endow ment campaigns and let them peter out." that the school has "been man ing time for ten years," while other institutions have been growing, and that Dr. Ferrin has failed to obey the exnress instructions of the board. It is also said that or tne iuu,uuu wnicn Dr. Ferrin says ha has raised, 318.500 was insurance money. 32500 was prom ised during the administration of his predecessor, and that an iis.oou de ficit has been added. Comparison is made with the work of President Ho- man. of Willamette, in raising Jtoo.ooo in four years. It was further declared that the ministers of some of the Congregational Churches, to which they should be able to look for support, had been actively opposed to Dr. Ferrin. The college town also was held to be opposed to him and a definite list of causes for the strained relations between tne town and the college was given. The report in closing contained a declaration of the desire on the part of the signers to treat ur. rerrin wun perfect fairness. We are not unminaiui ui mo ivua .,-, r service nor his good qualities," it says, "but we trust we are mindful of the college, whlcn is Digger man me man. Our pleas are not simply against President Ferrin. but tney are ror our Alma Mater, whom we love and wish to serve. It la reoorted that the debate over the various proposals affecting Dr. Ferrin's future status with the univer sity was spirited. Although the vote was by secret ballot it was reported last night that the aivision on iu several motions was as follows: Sup porting the administration, B.'S. Hunt-ina-ton. J. R. Wilson.-Mil ton W. Smith, Judge Charles E. Wolverton. A. L. Mills. rLnrtro H Marsh. Judge J. Q. A. Bowlby and E. P. McCornack: opposing the ad ministration. Dr. Luther R. Dyott. Judge Stephen A- Lowell. Kev. pnniip Ji. Bauer. John' E. Bailey, E. W. Haines, Newton McCoy, W. T. Fletcher and Na poleon Davis. ROYAL GUEST LIST SMALL Garden Party at Windsor July 18 Limited to Personal Friends. LONDON, June 29. (Special.) The list of guests for the Royal Garden Party at Windsor, July 18, will not be so large as at first expected. The vis itors for the most part will Da con fined to the personal friends ot their Majesties, together with the members of the official and diplomatic service. Their Majesties will receive tne guests on tne xerrace, two or. ine Guards' bands will be on duty, and there will be a variety of entertain ment provided for the guests. 'airWariiin Do Saving Money Is H Maldiig Money- Closing-Out Sale of Superb Rose Show Pianos Uprights, Grands ; and Player Pianos Ends Next Monday Night 1 .SO'tt iI22':..,';ifi ;'..i: - i V.tl.i! ' v - . T ' m ! a. .-I iMSsm smm-t m At J&4e42f' 1 ; 1 fetes -Sb rr -J"1- -".i&r- " p I THE BIC PIANO STORE ; . jj j J ILM '' 1 i . . ie v f! S.,., - '-- nf -msn-lr mnmi-iiisn n nnl , ..Wij... 1VT1.nnlMm(,11...,.r i.issw iuuj wii imxs i. .1 i f .irrr-mrn-. 1 f lS, ,f , if" imT"--. m fo r i- ft - . Sale End Ja!y Tlird. Look lets This! At Seventh and Alder Ii you are interested in taking' for $286 a piano for which you will surely have to pay $455 to some San Francisco branch house or round about dealer when these are gone, you'll have to come to Eilers Music House right away. It needn't be all cash arrange confidential terms as suits your convenience: The remaining $515 styles, all of them brand new, as beautiful as fingers ever touched, are to be had for $322. . There are also a number of very beautiful genuine Circassian walnut styles of most elegant design and there are two instruments in marble wood. These and the instruments enumerated below are the remaining exhibition pianos which attracted so much attention during the Eose Show. . ' If you want one of these (and at these reduced prices every home not now owning' a good piano should want one) then you must come first thing Monday or Tuesday, m any event not later tnan Wednes day, because on July 3d this sale positively closes. . If there are any instruments left by that time they go to the whole sale department, on Sixteenth and Pettygrove, to be sold to dealers. J264 and S256 now secure a number of new styles never seen heretofore, In struments not quite so tall as the above and for which at least $435 would be asked in the usual way of selling. We : offer all of them . for 264 and $256 as stated on our new one, two and three-year-payraent . plan, with simple Interest added, or on our new $2 a week arrangement. Pay $2 down and $2 a week. - . . - Player pianos go for greatly reduced prices now, too. Nowhere In our establishment is the principle of llttle-proflt-per-plano sell ing, which has made the Eilers Music House the foremost In the Nation, more apparent than In our player piano sell ing. It has taken real effort to accomplish It, but we are now In position to state that our player pianos are no longer subject to price dictation by arbitrary high-price fixers East. We can sell them now at fair prices, embodying one factory profit, and that only a small one by Eilers Music House. Free li brary service Is also included in the reduced prices. There are over 30 different makes and styles of finest player pianos to choose from. Space forbids mention In detail. Suffice to say that 9575 styles may be had for 9444. $700 styles for $535. 9900 styles at $676. and the fanciest $1025 and $1100 instruments are now only $815 and $875, respectively. Baby Grands show still greater rela tive reduction. Special The Telephone Herald Have you heard the truly wonderful piano playing by the greatest artists over the Tele phone Herald Service, repro duced by means of the Welte Mignon, an imported German invention, now at Eilers Music House? A new service to all telephone subscribers, 5 cents a day. We are particularly anxious to elesa out some very fine genuine Weber Grand Pianos. The small sise Is reduced $S29 and the very fancy art styles go for $282 and $308 less than usual retail value. See them. These Webers war made according to the old Weber prln. clples, containing the famous "wonder ful Weber tons" which cannot found In the later "full Iron plata" pi anos having the Weber name. Also some Weber uprights, same reductions. Numerous other makes of Baby and Parlor Grands are also to be had at prices reduced so low that buying be comes a positive duty. As previously announced, we are not going to handle In future any of the Webers as now being made. We are closing out all Webers In stock. When these are sold, we discontinue the agency. The Webers now here were made according to the old-established Weber principles under the direct super vision of Mr. C B. Lawson, formerly the practical manufacturing head i of the Weber piano, under whose able man agement the Weber instruments ob tained that degree of tonal excellence for which they were noted at that time and which has been characterised as "that wonderful Weber tone." These Webers, and also some Weber uprights, together with a long list of many fine and highest priced Instru ments shown during our annual Rose Show Exhibition, are being closed out at prices positively so low that it seems downright folly for any home In rea sonably comfortable circumstances to content Itself with the possession of merely an ordinary piano. We'll take any ordinary or old plana in part payment for these fine . new ones at the reduced sale prices. Bear in mind that we are closing out instru ments that the proudest mansion" would feel complimented to possess. Superb Deckers and Kimballs and Chickeringa and Sohmers. Buy when the prices are low. Th country Is solid. The future Is surely bright for all of us living on the great Pacific Coast. Don't fail to get a good piano now at Eilers Music House, the Nation's largest, the House of Highest Quality, Alder street at Seventh. I HIGHLY EDUCATED HORSE ATTRACTION AT OAKS King Pharaoh Is Accomplished in Many Ways, Has a Rare Taste in Beauty and Is Sensitive to Colors. tsssssssssssssss...ssssssss sssssss -- t : - - A : ' hi- if- j ;t m) W1, 4 'S'VittvmifV v. t .. -r r 5-i""..-x'.-s.. ..: ';:"',:-'x -..; - v-i --' i.rmsLrvm-mmM , t THE NEAPOLITANS, TRIO OP ITALIAN STREET SINGERS AND TROCBADORS AT THE OAKS AMUSEMEA'T PARK. MOS'i" prominent of the new visi tors to the Oaks this week is King" Pharaoh, a six-year-old. youngster, who knows more than any six-year-old child In the public schools of Portland. King Is Just a plain, spotty horse, but he seems to have a brain equip ment that would shame almost a high school freshman, for there Is scarcely any simple mathematical problem that he cannot solve, rie can sureiy rem spell and so lar as can be learned he does it all himself. In fact, his train er. Dr. D. B. Boyd, is quite willing to aliow others to ask him questions when Boyd Is out of sight. - King has an eye for beauty.. He will without hesitation nose up softly to the prettiest girl and boost uncer emoniously out of the way the home liest man. He knows the boy with the dirtiest face, while his eye for col or is absolutely perfect. However kal eidoscopic be the colors with which he is tried King never falters. While King is entertaining the spec tators from the grandstand, his friend. Lady Livingstone, a member of bear nobility, will be showing her roller skating powers In the rink. ' Lady Livingstone announces " through her trainer that she can skate alone as well as any habitue at the Oaks, while young men of recognised ability in that line -will be allowed to accompany her on the polished floor. Attractive In every way are the Neapolitans, a trio of Italian vaudeville, street singers and troubadors, who th mandolins and voice fairly capu- vate the audiences around the grand stand. The De Garros are a troupe of aerial performers whose apparatus is erected on the lawns and who are appearing twice dally, while Punch and Judy show continues to lure every youngster within reach of the show man's booth. . From a salary standpoint, the bill at the Oaks this week is the most costly of the year. King Pharaoh drawing a remuneration as great as a headline vaudeville attraction. ASSAULT ON KING PROBED Italian Officials Blame American Anarchists for Plot. ROME, June 29. (Special.) The po lice are convinced that the attempt that was made in March last on the life of the King was the result of an Anarchist plot Every effort Is still being made to discover the accomplices ot the man Dalba, who fired the shots. Last August the American police warned the Italian Government that three notorious Italian Anarchists had secretly left Paterson bound for Turin with the object of killing the King while visiting the exhibition there. The police failed to arrest the Anarchists when they landed at Genoa, but their hiding place in Turin was discovered and they were arrested there.. They were found to be In possession of re volvers and sticks of dynamite. The anarchists were- tried on a charge of attempted regicide and were acquitted owing to lack of evidence. They were, however, convicted for carrying weap ons and explosives without a license. Now the police suspect that when the Paterson plot was frustrated the .An archists Instigated Dalba to attempt the King's life here. The police are rein vestigating the case and are likely to reopen the trial. ' - LONDON CLUBSJN TROUBLE Men About Town Patronize Restau rants to "Loss of Exclusive Places. LONDON, June 2. (Special.) A few years ago the Man-About-Town was considered practically a mere nobody unless he was a member of a half dozen exclusive clubs, but times have - now changed, and it is an open secret that many of the West End clubs are In fi nancial difficulties.- The cult of the restaurant was In a measure responsible for the change, the hundreds of palatial establishments which have sprung up during recent years being a great attraction, and proving convenient- to people who wish to entertain their friends. - BRITISH POOR WILL PROFIT Working Girls to Have Garden Par .. ties In' Suburbs. LONDON, : June . 29. (Special.) A very cemmendable form of social serv ice Is that carried on by the Women's Social Institutes Union, and one of their schemes for the Summer is to arrange for kindly people living near London who happen to possess large gardens, 'to receive and entertain par ties of working girls Saturday after noons. All that' is asked of the hosts Is to give their visitors a plain tea, to al low them to play some outdoor games in their grounds, or, better still, to sit out-of-doors enjoying the peaceful beauties of nature, which, after the rush and noise of the city, are restful and refreshing to mind and body. v HUMBLE; WIVES , TAUGHT Domestic Science Instructors Carrj Work to Irish Cottages. DUBLIN. ' June 29. (Special.) A novel experiment In teaching domestic science in cottages has been carried out in Ireland on the principle that to at tempt to teach the poor household man agement with utensils and apparatus they can never have in their own homes is utterly useless. The commit tee of agriculture and technical instruc tion in Queen's County rented a cottage in the poorest quarter of Mountmellick for the purpose of teaching the sim plest forms of cooking, washing, sew ing and the utilization of material which Is usually thrown' away as worthless, to the girls and women f the neighborhood. : "Vegetables also wre grown by the students on a small plot of land. The success of the experiment was entirely due to the fact that everything was taught which would enable them to be come capable housewives on the most limited resources. ? Consul Felix S. 8. Johnson, of Kingston, writes that three doubledeck motor buses, (o cost 10.000 each, will be started In North Rosedale, a suburb of Toronto. It the City Council passes the recommendation roaae d the Board of Control, two of them for a 20-minute service and the third for emer. pencies and ruph hours. CEMETERY Beautiful MOUNT SCOTT PARK LARGE, PERMANENT, M O O E R N. P O R T 1. A -MI'S ON LY MODERN CEMETERY WITH PERPETUAL, CARE of all burial plots without extra charge. Provided with a perma nent irreducible Maintenance Fund. Location Ideal; Just out side the city limits on north and west slopes of Mount Scott containing 33S acres, equipped with every modern convenience. , PRICES TO SUIT ALL. SEKVICE THE BEST. ONE MILE SOUTH OP LENTS. REGULAR AUTO MOBILE SERV ICE FREE BETWEEN LENTS AND TUB CEMETERY. II ll II CITY OFFICE, S20-921 YEON BUILDING. MAIN 225, A 70IS. CEMKTERY OFFICE, TABOR U8; HOME PHONE RING B Sill. THEN CALL LOCAL 4301. FIRE SALE OF Slightly Damaged Groceries Will Continue All Next Week Corner 1st and Taylor Ja j m i o4.o 1 SSSSSSSSSSSBSSSSSSSSSBSSSSSSSBSSS