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Woman's Section
Special Features
VOI,. XXXI V.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1915.
NO. 21.
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CRIME LAID TO FAULTS
IN TRAINING CHILDREN
Mrs. Schoff Tells Kugene Women to Pay More Attention to Boys and to
Make School a Pleasure, not a Prison.
EUGENE. Or., May 22. (Special.)
"Stealing belongs to all classes of
society. Kleptomania is synonomous
with lack of home training. Punish
ment of a child will not stop it; home
education, tho development of ideas,
will. Reform schools must be abol
ished as incubators of crime, and the
school must substitute. Modern child
labor laws are a menace to children,
driving: them into the streets and into
mischief. Parents must be educated
to eliminate 75 per cent of the present
SOO.000 annual infant mortality. World
peace, problems of sociology and the
abolition of crime depend upon the de
velopment of the home life and the
education of the fathers and mothers
of the Nation." Such was the message
of Mrs. Frederic Schoff. president of
the National Consress of Mothers, and
director of the home education division
of the United States Bureau of Educa
tion, to the women of Kucene at the
Eugene Commercial Club this week.
"IHin't object because tho children
litter up the houne with their play,'
she continued. "We don't like their
noise, so we let them bo out on the
streets to ploy. We don't like to an
tr their questions, and they fro
somewhere else to find out away from
the home supervision."
Correspondence lessons in mother
hood and homemaklng is the Govern
ment's project under the home educa
tion department of the Bureau of Edu
cation to bring about these reforms
through the home.
"The fathers and mothers have more
teaching- to do than all the teachers in
the world," she said. "Yet they are
the most unprepared. The work of
the home underlies the whole civic life
of the Nation. So many babies die
and so many people go wrong- because
the. parents fail to see the right and
tho wrong way.
"We- can't do anything further for
tho children unless they live." she ex
plained. "With the death of 300,000
babies a year. 75 per cent of whom
can.be saved, it is a crime not to edu
cate the parents. No one can save the
children but the mothers.
"Children are not born wrong they
have not had the proper surroundings.
If a child steals he has not had the
training that teaches him that it is
wrong to steal and teaches him to re
spect the rights of others.
"Punishing a child is not going to
stop it. This is not constructive. Teach
him what is the riirht thing. Tut ideas
into his head. . Tell him of the knights
of old and of the ideals of manhood.
It is a slow process. To administer a
punishment requires less patience.
"Nine-tenths of the children arrested
are boys. To think that we have so
failed in our duties to boys. Men are
not worse than girls they haven't
been given the right treatment. The
fathers have been too busy to tend to
them.
"It is almost a proverb that the
children of wealthy parents are unable
to equal the standard of their fathers.
It is false kindness to make things
too easy for a boy and to give him
money. It Is unfair to the boy not to
let him bear his share of the work.
Teach the boy self-control and prevent
drunkenness and crime. Give him some
responsibility. We Ignore the fact that
they need social life. He longs for
excitement. Fill his life so full of
good things that he won't have time
for tho evil things.
"Schools are made prisons for boys.
They are tied down to lessons, not in
terested in life, and by forcing all Into
the same mould you have wronged the
children. If a school is all right you
couldn't keep the children out. The
fault is not with them; it's with the
parents.
"One cause of boys' going wrong is
that we force them into doing what
we don't want them to do. Our pres
ent child labor laws will be one of the
greatest menaces to children. It is
absolutely wrong to prevent them from
doing anything to earn money."
Ice Cream Tempts; Job Lost.
CLEVELAND, May 16. Miss . Ira
Vegney, 1790 East Fortieth street,
waitress in the restaurant of Curtis
Wheseemore, 0504 St. Clair avenue, was
discharged because she ate her em
ployer's ice cream, according to testi
mony before Municipal Judge Baer.
TV'hessemore withheld $6 from her
wages for the ice cream, and Miss
Vegney sued him. She was awarded $5.
YOUTH ELUDES PURSUERS
Bostonian Breaks Away From Po
liceman and Makes Escape.
BOSTON, May .15. A crowd of 2000
joined in the chase for a boy prisoner
who broke away from Inspector Fel
ton pust as they turned Into Pember
ton square a few days ago on their
way to police headquarters. The boy.
who was arrested In the store of W. &
A. Bacon Company, on a charge of
stealing two pairs of shoes, gave his
name as Louis J. Flint. 19 years old.
of East Fifth street. South. Boston,
which the police say Is fictitious. The
inspector placed one handcuff on his
prisoner and held the other in his hand.
As the two turned the corner of
Pemberton square the boy broke away.
He ran across the square with cuff
dangling from his hand, knocking over
two men who attempted to stop him,
ran up Beacon street to Beacon place,
where he scaled the wall into the
Granary burying ground, and ran out
of the Tremont-street gate, down
Bromfield street to the corner of Prov
ince street and Province court, where
he escaped.
The cries of "stop him" diew the
crowd and it impeded the police in
their attempt to catch the thief.
HISTORY OF FIRST WHITE SETTLER
IN OREGON REVEALED AT HIS GRAVE
Resting Place of Ewing Young, Who Took Up Home in 1831. Is Visited by T. T. Geer, Who Compiles Data
of Romantic Early-Day Events.
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BY T. T. GEER.
THK man or woman who is not
fascinated by a delve info the
early history of Oregon is to be
pitied for the lack of an enthusiastic
temperament which. in many ways,
contributes to the enjoyment of life
and to a more complete appreciation
of the fact that at least this, portion
of Old Earth is good to look on and
even to be on.
The beginning of Oregon's history is
unlike that of any of trie other states
of the Union in that it was tsv,Uled and
claimed by citizens of the United
States, largely, at a time when it did
not belong to the United States nor to
any other country. The first serious
move in this direction was made by
Jason Lee and his companions in 1834,
followed by degrees and slow degrees
by stockmen who were attracted by
its immense resources as a grazing
region, and by others who had heard
of its unusually favorable combination
of soil and climate for the production
of all kinds of cereals, vegetables and
fruits.
So gradually did all this come about
that it is quite possible actually to
designate the particular incident and
the person who figured In- the begin
ning of things in the settlement and
ultimate acquisition of "The Oregon
Country."
Hiving Young Flrnt Settler. v
The purpose of this article is to set
forth some of the details of the coming
to Oregon of Kwing Young In the. year
1834, he being the first independent
American white settler in Oregon, so
far as the matter can be determined.
He was born in Tennessee but the date
of his birth is not known. He was in
California as early as 1828. trapping in
the San Joaquin Valley. Afterward he
went to New 'Mexico, where he mar
ried a native woman, by whom he had
one son. Joaquin by name: After a
little while, however, his restless dis
position returned and, leaving wife
and child, he revisited California and
in the Fall of 18S4 fell in with Hall
J. Kelley, a school teacher from Bos
ton, who had made a painstaking study
of Oregon from such books as he could
find.
With a party of 16 the trip was
made to Oregon, overland, bringing to
the new country about 100 horses and
mules. They stopped at the Methodist
Mission near Salem, which had been
established that same Summer by
Jason Lee and his companions, and it
is a matter of record that they as
sisted the mission in making a cart
the first ever constructed in all this
Oregon country.
In the Fall of 1S36 Young conceived
the idea that there would be "big
money" in the importation of cattle
and horses Into the Willamette Valley
and at once organized a stock company
for the purpose of carrying it Into ef
fect. There were 13 subscribers to the
stock, amounting in the aggregate to
14600. of which Young himself took
$1100. Jason Lee J600 and Dr. Mr.
Loughlin Jo00. In the party, of which
Young was chosen leader, there were
ten Americans and three Indian boys
taking paKEage on the Alni liian brig
Loriot. Difficulty was encountered in
getting permission to buy the cattle
wanted, but this had been surmounted
and the journey, with S."0 head of cat
tle, begun by the first of July, 1S37.
The trip, as may well he Imagine.!, was
a trying one. with that number of prac
tically wild cattle to be driven through
a country totally uninhabited save by
Indians. Much trouble was encoun
tered in the Itogue Itiver Valley by rea
son of the hostility of the Indians,
which experience, by the way, led to
the expressive name which has since
designated that picturesque and pro
ductive valley. On their arrival In the
Chehalein country the cattle were di
vided among the subscribers to the
purchase fund according to their pro
portion, 200 having been lost on the
way, and the "long horned" cattle that
prevailed In Western Oregon for a gen
eration afterward were turned loose in
this paradise for stock and tho stock
raiser. II u rial Flaw In Vlsltrd.
In the Fall of 183'J there came to
the Young settlement a wandering New
Yo.-kei, 20 years old. named Kidney
Smith, who allied himself witli Kwing
Young as a hired man. and he contin
ued UiU relation until the death of his
employer on February 15. 1811. Youngs
illness wax of short duration, and at
the time of his death there was no one
present with him except young Smith.
He was buried February 17 on a knoll
in a pasture about 200 yards from his
cabin, to wbicli place the writer and
George H. Ilimes, secretary of the
Oregon Historical Society, went one'
day last week for the purpose of
viewing this moet romantic and inter
esting spot, so closely connected with
the early history of Oregon and where
the first incident occurred that awak
ened the settlers to the necessity of
some 'form of government. I
Hitherto they had. drifted along, each
man his own king and owing allegi
ance or obedience to no one but him
self. Ewing Young was the first man
to die in Oregon with a considerable
property and no heirs to claim It. Ac
cordingly, a meeting of the settlers was
soon called, and Dr. Ira L. liabcock was
elected supreme Judge, and it was or
dered that until a code of law should I
be afterward adopted Jud;e Babcock
should be governed by the laws of
New York State. His first official art
was to appoint Rev. David Leslie "ad
ministrator of the estate of Kwln?
Young, yeoman, deceased, intestate." 1
I ntirandrd Cattle llouitht.
While Young claimed the land ad far
as he could see. after the Spanish
grant system in California, he really
had no title but his "squatter's right,
which was of little value then, and
young Sidney Smith bought at auction
that right and all of the unbranded cat
tle for $200. He afterward secured
640 acres of it under the donation latin
act of 18fn. and lived there until his
death in 18R0.
John IT. Smith, the only son of Sid
ney Smith, now the owner of a largo
part of his father's farm, and Who en-
tertained Mr. Himes and 1 t his home,
told us that he often heard his father
relate a conversntlon he had Willi
Young in about 1840. Looking at the
adjacent hills he said: "Mr. Young,
some day those hills will be 'taken up'
by Mettlers." "Never." said Young, mc
little did he foresee the future that
awaited thut rich and fertile country.
And now follows a beautiful story
which is closely connected with Ore
gon's early history at the beginning
of things here. In the Fall of 1H4J
there arrived in the Tualatin Valley a
man whose nnmc wns Daniel D. Bailey,
with a wife and several children,
among the latter of whom were five
dmighters. the eldest being 18 ycin
old. Arriving in Oregon destitute and
finding the rainy season In progress,
he was in sore straits mm to what to
do or where to go, for 1845 was an
early day to be in Oregon. On inquiry
lie was told that not far away was a
young bncbelor named Smith, who was
living alone and with a considerable
log cabin maybe he could find "quar
ters" for his family during the Winter.
He immediately called on Smith, pre
sented his case and wnnts and found
him delighted with the proposition,
especially as Bailey had mentioned In
cidentally that if hl:-i family there
were five girl.t for white girls npn
senrce in Oregon those dus.
sidmy Smith, as ban ulready been
related, succeeded to the ownership of
lowing Young's farm, was born In New
York in ar.il was 3(i years old
when he took In his new tenants, but
this did not at nil l ter him from at
once deciding that the se.oiul Bailey
girl. Miranda. would make a more
satisfactory wife than her older sister
or either of the younger ones. It
turned out, therefore, that, by easy
stages, fully understood in all their
seductive details way out here In Ore
gon even at that early iay as well an
they are now, all th dirTn-ultie tf
there were any were removed from
their paths and on the morning of
May 6. 1S46. which was Miranda'
birthday, the two sauntered out tm
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