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ALL ANGLES OF EDUCATION UNDER
DISCUSSION AT CHEMAWA MEETING
Noted Educators at Institute Describe Work Being Done at Indian Schools and Instruct Teachers in the Most
Modern Methods of Dealing With Intricate Problems Encountered.
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BV HOWARD HALL,
Superintendent Falem Indian School,
of
C'hema
THERE is now in session in Che
mawa. Or., a summer institute for
the employes of the Indian Serf
lie in the Northwestern states. Six of
these institutes will have been held at
Haskell, Lawrence. Kan.; Santa Fe, X.
M.: Sherman Institute, Riverside, Cal. ;
Chemawa, Or.; Tomah. Wis., and Rapid
.City, s. L., on the closing day. Aygust
2th. The institute has been a recog
nized factor in educational work for
more than a quarter of a century.
Commissioner Sells and Supervisor of
Schools II. B. Peairs, appreciating the
splendid results that have came from
them two years ago, have had in. their
minds and hearts a strong determina
tion to have these institutes, which are
now in session, the best ever held, not
only in the Indian service but in any
eystem of schools. No expense of time,
effort and money has been spared in
preparing programmes and courses
which will be a distinct and beneficial
help toward increasing the efficiency,
loyalty and co-operation of the 6000
employes in tLis service.
The institutes in 1316 have a spe
cial emphasis in that a new course of
tudy is being introduced into the In
dian schools. Although attendance is
not compulsory and the expense of
coming must be borne by each em
ploye personally, the attendances have
averaged from L'25 to 400 at each in
stitute. Kach session has been under
the direct supervision of Supervisor
Peairs and his assistant. Supervisor
Coon. The former has spent 30 years
of his life in the Indian work, and no
man could know Indian schools better
than he. The latter, while a recent
acquisition to the Indian school work,
has been connected with the public
schools of our country and the Phil
ippine educational work for a long
number of years. He has been a close
student of industrial education, not
only in America, but in Germany.
France, Switzerland and Japan. These
supervisors have secured the very best
talent from the' universities, agricul
tural, normal and extension schools
to conduct the various departments of
the institutional work. Special at
tention was had to secure men and
"women who knew the industrial and
agricultural conditions peculiar to the
given locality of each institute.
Honorable Cato Sells. Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, has visited each in
stitute and entered closely into its life
and sessions. His strong personality,
splendid democracy and forceful deliv
ery of his convictions and purposes
have done more to secure good results
from the institutes than all other
forces together. Every employe who
has heard him received a strong im
pression that he is a subordinate to
a great leader, who is thoroughly in
spired with the true advancement of
the Indian in all lines which will
make him a worthy citizen and a
strong co-worker with all true Amer
icans. There is no doubt but that th-i
several thousand men and women who
have heard him at these institutes
will return to their work imbued with
a new hope, a stronger courage, a
purer inspiration and an absolute con
viction of the future work necessary
to successfully civilize the ' red man.
The appreciation of the Commissioner
and his leadership is fully attested
everywhere he goes by the unanimous
'Indorsement not only of those who
work with him, but by the splendid
citizenship who keep in touch with
what he has done and it yet trying
to do.
A summary of the advancement in
the Indian work during the past three
or four years, as given by the employes
at these institutes, is hardly creditable
to those who have been engaged
other Talks and who have given little
attention to the Indian and his life.
The achievements have been remark
able and in many instances revolution
ary and far reaching in their effect. It
will not be out of place in this article
to epitomize a few of the accomplish
ments solely for the knowledge of those
who do not know what is now taking
place to raise the Indian to our stand
ard of civilization and righteous living.
Health.
When Mr. Sells became Commissioner
in 1913 he found the impression very
prevalent, not only in his department,
but all over the country, that the In
dian was a "vanishing race," and that
in a. few decades more he will have
wholly passed out of our life and ac
tivities, hence it was not necessary to
have a work and propaganda which
would prepare him for - a permanent
citizenship and place in our National
life. The Commissioner would not ac
cept this as true, and at once began
to secure accurate vital statistics to
ascertain just what the life conditions
of the Indians had been in the past
and were at present. While he found
these conditions appalling, they were
not wholly discouraging, and showed
no obstacles which could not be re
moved with a humane and sympathetic
organization and work. From that day
the regeneration of the Indian as to
health has been the paramount issue
under his regime. It has taken several
years with arduous labor and a maxi
mum of publicity to convince Congress
nnd the citizens of the United States
that the Indian is not a dying race and
that true humanitarianism demands
that we save them and prepare them
to take their proper place in our citi
zenship. It was found in carrying on
this work that there were many special
Interests in the 24 states concerned
with Indians who were the authors and
sympathizers of the idea that the In
dian was a sick man and could not live
much longer. These interests were
rleadlv anxious to have him sick that
they might secure his lands and re
sources at a minimum price. Had Com
rniFsioner Sells found that the Indian
was a dving man and that it was im
possible to save him. his policy as to
Indian affairs would have been wholly
w different. He is too good a business
man to build and conduct costly schools
for the education of children who are
riving and to spend millions of dollars
in an honest supervision of property
when its owners will not live to use it.
and to keep a great corps of physicians
and hospitals in active service when
their work was futile and accomplish
ing nothing.
Two dreaded diseases were found to
have a strong hold "n these people
tuberculosis and trachoma. These were
the wr 'o be first noticed. A medical"
and educational campaign was immedi
ately begun to eradicate tuberculosis
and trachoma where possible, and
where not possible to stop their spread.
The commissioner influenced commit
tees of Congress to his belief and con
victions and as a result J300.000 was
givn him tor the erection of hospitals
and sanitariums. This money was not
spent tn the butlding of a few costly
hospitals, but was scattered over much
territory in small buildings, costing
from $5000 to $25,000, thereby reaching
a maximum amount of patients with
ti.is mo.iey. Although the time was
short for an actual demonstration of
the efficiency of these hospitals, it was
demonstrated that their work was jus
tified and Congress has recently again
piv n a like amount. When this is
spent, practically ery reservation and
school will have hospital and sanita
rium facilities. In addition to these
facilities, the department has 1S2 phy
sicians, 81 nurses and 7-S field matrons
who devote their time and talents to
Improving the health and sanitary
conditions on the Indian reservations
and in Tndian schools. The above
named forces are supervised by 30
specialists who travel over the 24
states concerned, devoting their entire
time to the health, eyes and teeth, es
pecially, of the Indian children. These
traveling supervisors re required to
keep in touch with the rapidly in
creasing knowledge of all measures
which tend to check the spread of dis
ease and to suggest to the department
appropriate ways and means for im
proving the health and sanitary condi
tions of each locality visited. They
visit all the schools, teaching to the
young students the vital truth of right
living, the worth of health and strength
and the prevention of those deadly
diseases, which in the past have been
permitted to make great inroads on
the schools and reservations. The
work done by these men has encount
ered many difficulties which have
gradually been overcome, as former
dependence upon medicine men is still
strong in many places and it has been
a hard worlt to get the Indians confl-
PIO.VEER WOMAV IS BL'RIED
AT SHE1,BIH.
Mr. Mary K. Gibbons
ALBANY, Or., Aug". 12. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Mary K. Gibbons,
who died, at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. J. W. Miller, at'
Shelburn, August 4, had been a
resident of Oregon for the past
33 years. The funeral was con
ducted in the Catholic Church at
Shelburn, August 7, by Rev.
Father Arth ur Lane, of Albany,
and interment took place in the
Miller cemetery, near Shelburn.
Many people from this city, where
Mrs. Gibbons was widely known,
attended the funeral. Mrs. Gib
bons, whose maiden name was
Mary Ellen Harrington, was born
in London, England, in 1851. In
the Spring of 1883 Mr. and Mrs.
Gibbons located in Gilliam
County, Oregon, and resided there
continuously for 23 years, resid
ing between Condon and May
vine. They took a prominent
part in the upbuilding of that
section of the state. In 1906 they
came to Linn County and pur
chased a large farm near Shel
burn, where they have resided
since.
dence. This is now being done rapidly
and the number of cases treated by the
physicians is increasing and hospital
and sanitarium treatment is being
fought more and more as their worth
is demonstrated. On account of the
i-istnitary life of the old Indians who
will not chancre their ways sc readily,
as much as was hoped for has not been
accomplished in stopping the spread of
tuberculosis, but in most of the Tndian
boarding schools trachoma is no longer
a problem. Experience has shown that
where control can be had over the
children, and where careful and per
sistent work is done, the disease can
be prevented and cured. No chance i
lost among the -"amp Indians to con
siantly exploit the value of operation
and treatment of trachoma and many
Indians are. now seeing the specialists
and takirg advantage of the opportuni
ties offered. Seven well-equipped dent
ists are row traveling over the Indian
country taking care of the teeth of
II school children.
Commissioner Sells is firmly of the
opinion that every Indian baby has s
right to be born under proper environ
r.ient and every inducement is now
teing oifered to the Indian mothers to
avail themselves rt nursing and treat
ment than can be given in the school
and reservation hospitals, wherever
available and a vigorous campaign to
save tne babies has been inaugurated
throughout the entire Indian country
By this means many mothers are able
to return from the hospitals to their
nornes in a strong and healthy condi
tion and w-ith a knowledge cf how to
properly care for their babies, and this
is a grtat factor in reducing infant
mortality and thus perpetuating the
muian race.
Industrie.
Perhaps more attention to the curing
of the Indian of his dependence and
preparing him to make his own living
has been done under this administra
tion than has been done during all the
i unner administrations together. It I
tne nrm conviction of the Commissione
and the department that the Indian's
future is in agriculture and stock
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The Indian Motorcycle Picnic, held last Sunday In Pabney Park, on the Columbia River Highway, was a
hujre success, about 1 50 motorcycl e enthusiasts attending:.
The first event of the day was the race against time in the sand on the beach of the, Sandy River, In
which Henry Kurtz and Ernest Long- tied for first plae. each winning- priz..
The second event was a race between Long: and Kurtz, and this time Kurtz won. The sand made ridinp
very difficult and a lot of spills taken by the riders furnished amusement for the crowd.
Ice cream, lemonade and hot frankfurters were furnished by the committee in charpe, consisting of
Howard Lystul. J. K. Hook and P. J. Wyatt. Indian agents, and IV. J. Finke, of Ballou & Wrisht, distribu
tors for the Indian.
It Is planned to make the picnic an annual event.
raising. He is a large property owner,
and this property consists of agricul
tural and grazing lands. While the
Indian as a whole must be educated to
agriculture, he is naturally a herdsman
and a shepherd. In Oklahoma. Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and other states a large
per cent of the allotments are devoted
to farming, and the Indian is being
taught to use his lands in this work.
In Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada
and elsewhere the Indian lands as a
whole are not suitable for farming,
except in small areas which can be
irrigated, but are more or less suitable
for stockraising. These people are
being taught and encouraged to raise
cattle, sheep and horses. The success
ful results both in agriculture and
stock justify the time and work that
have been given to the extensive super
vision of these two industries. A few
actual examples will illustrate the
splendid work that is being done, and
the co-operation the department is hav
ing from the Indians themselves. Three
years ago one reservation had 2800
acres cultivated. Today this reserva
tion has more than 1 5.000 acres under
cultivation. The prosperity and happi
ness that this work has brought to
the people of this reservation are so
apparent that in a short time every
family on it will be prosperous and
successful makers of their own living.
On another reservation the -profits se
cured from a tribal herd were more
than $200,000 In 1915. This herd and
its profits will grow from year to year
through experience and education until
these people, once poor, will be rich
and affluent.
The Navajos. the great sliePpmen of
the Indians, have increased their In
comes in the last three years more than
threefold, and they are today as happy.
contented and prosperous people as can
De round on the American continent.
Another reservation has collected
in grazing fees $30,000 in excess of
that which had been secured before.
Irrigation plants of small and large
magnitude have been built and im
proved wherever practicable in the
arid region. Under an active regime
80.000 acres is now being put under
water on one reservation in order to
save water rights which have gradually
been taken from the Indians by the
wh ites. A constant, active, common
sense supervision is now beine ex
tended to all the agricultural and graz
ing sections of the 1 ndian country to
ncrea.se the agricultural and stock-
raising" activities, so that within a few
years the Indians may bo wholly self
supporting with a guaranteed assur
ance that their future life will be one
of reasonably hard work, prosperity
and happiness. The department is in
full accord with the old law that one
must earn his living by the sweat of
his brow, and little encouragement is
given to the man who wants sustenance
and rations from Congress. Little help
is being given except to those who are
indigent and sick. None of these, how
ever, are purposely neglected.
No trouble is had by the department
in its agricultural and stockraising
propaganda with the poor Indian. He
is ready and is willing and anxious to
accept anything which will improve his
lire. bo much cannot be said of the
Indian who has inherited great wealth
from his resources. He is the one who
is defiant, disobedient and slow toward
adopting those laws and measures
which will benefit him and his country
ine uepartment realizes that a pros
perous and happy home rests not alone
upon the husband and father, but that
the wife and mother is the great factor
in these two essentials, hence it is
bending every effort to educate the
Indian women to a better home life.
Seventy-eight field matrons now visit
a large majority of the Indian homes,
bringing about better housing and san
itary conditions, and stimulating the
women to go development along mod
ern and sanitary lines by precept and
example. The matron spends her en
tire time teaching the women how to
take care of her home, 'how to improve
her cooking, how to make vegetable
and flower gardens, how to dress and
keep her children, in fact to teach her
all things which enter in the home
making. These field matrons will be
increased in number until everv In
dian home is directly and constantly
under the supervision of some good
woman who has the true missionary
spirir.
Schools
There are 60.000 Indian children of
school a ge within the United States.
The educating of a large number of
these children is cared for in the public
scnoois. in 3 4 non-reservation schools
126 reservation boarding schools, and
2 J 8 day schools. A goodly number of
pupils have been enrolled in the publi
schools of the various states, and the
relationship between the public school
authorities and the Indians has been
very satisfactory. In most communities
there is little opposition to the enroll
ment of healthy children in the white
schools. Where public school facilities
are available and Indian parents are
not owners of taxable property, the
Government now pays a reasonable tui
tion. In some schools Indian children
are admitted without tuition, even
though their parents pay no taxes. I
is the conception of the present Ad
ministration that public schools offer
the better educational facilities for the
Indian. Public schools are a better
melting pot. In them the Indian child
comes in actual and intimate, contact
with the white ohlldren with whose
future he is to be so closely connected.
The natural lack of confidence, timidity
and slowness of the Indian are more
rapidly lost in the public schools than
in his own. The competition in public
schools partakes of the competition in
after life. Becoming a successful part
of this competition in school prepares
the Indian hoy and girl for the later
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life of the state in which he will live.
Where public schools are not available
It is the intent of the department and
the Government to increase the number
and capacity of Indian schools to cover
every demand made for these 60,000
children. ,
It has been the conviction of leading
educators in the Indian service for sev
eral years that the schools have not
met the requirements placed upon them
and have not done the work in prepar
ing the Indian children for life that
was required and expected of them. Mr.
Sella had been the Commissioner only
a short time until he. too, felt the lack
of unity, co-operation and adhesion in
the educational system of the Indians.
Kach reservation and each school had
in a large measure its own courses.
plans and facilities. When the super
vision of a reservation and school was
given to another man this necessitated
a change in all school conditions to
conform with the peculiar eccentricities
and fads of the new superintendent.
After a two years' study of the schools.
the Commissioner decided to place all
schools under one concrete system, with
uniform course of study, require
ments, rules and regulations. In 1915
he called a committee of his leading
educators to Washington, who from
their knowledge and experience pre
pared a tentative course of study which
is now being successfully introduced in
all Indian schools. This course of
study takes care of every phase of
Indian education and covers the day
schools, reservation, boarding schools
nd non-reservation boarding schools
from the kindergarten department
through the entire 12 years given in
the larger schools. This course has
not only been received enthusiastically
by the 6000 employes, but has met a
splendid reception In educational sys
tems other than the Indian service.
Many high authorities have pronounced
it the greatest industrial course ever
prepared. Notably among these are the
Chicago university and
the famous
Manhattan Agricultural
College of
Kansas. Both of these Institutions,
with their experts in education, re
viewed the course after it left the com
mittee and before the report was pub
lished. The demand for copies of it
from all pftrts of the world demon
strates the need of It. not only in In
dian schools but in other systems. It
Is confidently expected by the depart
ment and its employes that the new
regime of education ill revolutionize
the Indian life and character within a
few years, and will accomplish more
within the next 12 years than has been
accomplished heretofore in generations.
The vital force of the course is that the
hand of the Indian is trained equally
with his mind. This training begins
when the child enters the kindergar
ten at five or six years of age and
continues every day. week and year
until he finishes his education. The
new course is perhaps the greatest
piece of constructive work ever sent
forth from any department within our
Government.
Liquor.
In the past the Indian has more read
ily accepted the vices than the virtues
of the white man. His greatest vice
has been the use of liquor. This de
leterious poison has done more to re
tard the mental and physical advance
ment of the red man than all other
forces put together.
Mr. Sells had been the Commissioner
only a few weeks when he issued a
circular declaring the above facts to
b true and that from that time forth
every activity of the Department and
its employes, together with all Na
tional and state, civil and judicial
powers must be used t entirely eradi
cate this evil from the Indian life
and character. Tbe Commissioner
warned the employe' that they could
not be successful teachers of temper
ance and sobriety unless they were
I prominent examples themselves, and
that in the future the 6000 employes
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must refrain from all use of liquors
that were Intoxicating. He has en
forced this rule strictly, and has re
moved from the service a number of
employes who would not obey It. The
Commissioner has reorganized the
force of liquor suppression officers,
and he has now a large number of
men working under Supervisor Iarson
in all sections of the Indian country
assisting local officers and courts in
the enforcement of Congressional
statutes against the sale of intoxicants
to Indians. To secure a better en
forcement and more convictions he has
dug up old statutes and treaties. The
most prominent piece of work that
has been done was making one-fifth
of the State of Minnesota dry under
the Chippewa treaty of 1S55. Two re
cent decisions from the fnited States
Court will make the enforcement of
the statutes prohibiting the selling of
whisky to the Indians easier. One is
that whisky cannot be sold to an In
dian although he is ah allottee. Another
is that beer is placed in the same
catagory as whisky, wines and other
intoxicants. Reports come from prac
tically all of the reservations that the
use of liquor by Indians is decreasing
and that the boot-legger and blind
tiger are not ao bold as formerly, and
have been wholly driven from many
fields. This work will b conlinued
by the Commissioner and hia employes
until every drop of liquor is driven
from the Indians' 1 each. Congress ap
preciates this work, and has recently
shown Its Interest by appropriating
$130,000 for its continuance $50,000
more than last year. This appropria
tion passed both Houses without one
dissenting vote. All true citizenship
and all forces are in sympathy and
co-operation . with the Department In
this fight except those interests which
receive a , direct profit from selling
liquor to the Indians.
Property.
Besides caring for the health and
educating- the Indian, the Department
has no mean work In supervising and
protecting his property. The Indians of'
the United States have 65. 000,000 acres
of land which must be supervised
While a large per cent of this is found
in the arid and desert regions and is
of little value except for stockraising.
millions of acres arc as valuable and
ful I of resources as can be found
within our country. The Indian has
85,000,000.000 feet of commercial tim
ber yet standing- which must be super
vised as to contracts, cruising, manu
facturing, etc. The 1 ndian has $28,
000.000 worth of stock and cattle which
must receive their proper attention
from the department and its super
visors. Some idea of the magnitude of
this work will enter the reader's mind
when the grand total of all the In
dians property Is given to hi in as
about $700,000,000.
Under the Government's policy of
holding the Indian and his property In
trust, all of this Immense amount must
be wisely honestly and economically
supervised and cared for. Much of the
time of .the Commissioner and the
courts must be spent In protecting the
Indian and his property against un
scrupulous men and Interests, who are
constantly striving in nearly all sec
tions of our country to secure owner
ship and control of this Immense prop
erty at values not equitable and just to ,
the Indians. Fortunately for the In
dian, the better citizenship of the
United States Is in sympathy with him
and his progress and gladly holds up
the hands of the Commissioner in his
efforts to protect them and to save for
them their wealth and resources until
they have reached that state of civi
lization and business acumen which
will justify them to handle it them
selves. Vltlmate Reanlt.
It is confidently expected that if the
same progress can be secured In the
future as has been made within the
past three years, within 10 years
the Indian will be largely self-supporting
and no longer a burden upon the
Government, A number of reservations
which formerly cost the Government
many thousands of dollars each year
in supervision and protection are now
self-supporting. Their resources as to
minerals, oil. grazing lands, etc., un
der business administration are pro-
d ucing such i n come a as to more than
pay all operating expenses of the su
pervising officers. This good condition
is expected to spread rapidly to other
reservations, so that, as said above,
practically all will be self-supporting
within It years. It Is the earnest ef
fort of the Commissioner and every
employe connected with the service to
rapidly prepare the Indian to take his
proper place in our National life, a
worthy co-worker and comjetitor of
the Anglo-Saxon. When this is done
the Indian Bureau will have accom
plished Its purpose and will close Its
doors. When this Is done the citizen
ship of the United States can justly
feel that it has at last given the In
dian a, square deal and paid to hin
some of the debts which it has so long
owed him.
Klamath Falls Hunter Hurt.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 12.
Special.) Syd B. Kvans. a grocer of
'.his city, suffered a severe injury to
his right hand this week when one of
the barrels of the viouble-barreled
shotgun with which he wan shooting
sat?eh?nt exploded. The accident oo
urred in Langell Valley, in Kastei n
Klamath County. It is not believed
that any bones were lost, although the
thumb and flashy part of the hand were
' t-rib(y man fried. A piece of the gun
tarrel as large as a nickle lodged in
lis hand.
THE THOMPSON" PIANO.
I'sualljr Sold tor S-tOO.
Your Advantage to Buy Now
Used- Pianos During "Make
$435
$400 1 LVr 65
C-Q7E Davis sz Sons, COOQ
W' J large uprlKht.. . OLOO
C9K Smith A: Barnes. I PC
itt l large, mahog'ny 9 I U J
$250atno!a-.n.ahO8;$ 25
? "inn Conrad, upright, CC
OOUU fairly modern. . W 03
Flayer. C
for J 3
tn vour home at our expense durinc
phone, particularly since our proposition
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Pla.00 Co,
AD CLUB TOLD TO STIR
UP PEOPLE OF OREGON
James L. Duffy Reports on Eastern Trip and Then Calls Upon Organiza
tion to Pitch in and Start Business Boom Without Waiting for Others.
A CAUL, to arms to the Portlanc
Club to gather the forces of
state into co-operation w
rms to the Portland Ad
f the
o co-operation wnicn
shall make for the true development
of the resources of the state, was Is
sued by James L, Duffy following his
report on- the National Convention of
the Admen, which he delivered at the
meeting of the club Wednesday.
"To my mind," said Mr. Duffy,
"there are two classes of people who
are dangerous to a community, the
knocker, and the man who is contin
ually kidding hhusclf along and think
ing he is doing something, when in
fact he Is doing nothing but talk. A
lot of us have been kidding ourselves
along, thinking that business will get
better, but doing nothing to make it
better, '-waiting for the other fellow
to do it.
"There are enough of the right kind i
of men in this club and in this room
today to arouse our citizens to a reali- :
zation of the urgent needs of our
community ; bring co-operation out of
chaos, beget harmony instead of petty
Jealousies, help get those freak laws
off our books that are keeping out
legitimate enterprises.
"We can start a movement to put our
farm lands on such a basis that a man
can farm the land and make a decent
living off of it, and not have to pay all
his profits in interest and taxes.
Knocker Can Be Killed Off.
"There are enough of us to kill off
t he knockers and make the truthjTul
booster again honored in the latkd.
Real estate men say there still is cheap
land here. If that is the case, let's
advertise. Most K;isterners think we
have nothing but $.100 to $1000 an acre
land. I don't agree with Victor Mur
dock that we have too many million
aires in Portland. Would that we had
a few more of them, of the Benson and
Y eon type.
"But lot this and similar organiza
tions set themselves to so mold pub
lic opinion that the man of wealth,
especially he who made his 'pile by
what the single taxer calls "the un
earned increment of wealth, the rise
in real estate values, who does not
employ a good proportion of that
wealth in erterprises that help in the
upbuilding of the community, sha I
become a pariah and an outcast from
the society of real men who have red
blood in their necks and are not afraid
to say what they think.
"We have a wonderful opportunity
as a club to do big constructive work
for our state. We should and must co
operate with and heartily support our
Chamber of Commerce, and we must
work with all other civic organiza
tions. But the Ad Club has a distinc
tive duty to perform, in addition to
fostering the movement for truth
in advertising, and that is to advertise
WOODBURN CITIZENS PRESENT OFFICER WITH HANDSOME
MOUNT.
MAJUIt KltKXK MOSHBEIIGbR AND PERBV.
PALM CITY. Cal.. Aur. 10. (Special.) Major Engme Moihbrrgrr
hM a new saddle hor. -Perry," Perry waa presented to the Major by
forma by Major MoKhbertter with funds Blven by the W'oodburn people,
as It was not found posoible to get Just the horse wanted before the
hasty departure from Orecon.
Company I, of Woodbury, of which Major Moshberper wii formerly
Captain. Rave him a complete riding outfit. Perry Is a fine sorrel,
and was broken for and saw service with the San rie?o police department.
, . vim '-j; ' .
Til i: THOMPSON Pl.lVKR, S43S.
laaaliy Sold for tm&o.
- Room
Sale, Viz.:
$l25KOC.0.u.a8e.S 25
$135. .f.'.".keS 28
$375 mahogany . . .'$238
$350
Hallelt & Davis,
SI45
$350T?1h5omod.p,.".o..n;$2l5
time of this nle. It is safe nd satis-
to exchange within one year and allow l
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in,arania frnm ..oh manufacture!
Warraatw Barked Wy
Q19 nnn nnn
our 6late. to hold old markets and cre
ate new ones.
"Victor Murdock and many others
from outside have told us to advertise
our wonderful resources and scenic
beauties, and that work is distinctly
the function of the Portland Advertis
ing Club; advertising for factories, ad
vertising our factory products, and
creating a National demand for our
goods. We can do it.
"We already have made a splendid
start in the matter of our scenic at
tractions. The Bergcr-Jones Pictures
sent Kist under our auspices have had
tremendous advertising value. They
I read: "Portland shames New York."
The article went on to tell how Mult
nomah County, in which Portland is
located, Is worthy of emulation by
New York County and city, in making
their Riverside Drive improvement.
The article told how Multnomah.
County had Just opened to the public
a great boulevard 42 miles long, and
paved like a city street through the
Columbia River gorge in the Cascade
Mountains.
Achievement I Relnted.
"The fact that stands out Is that
Multnomah County has spared no ex
pense to take advantage of every
scenic opportunity offered by one of
the most magnificent combinations of
mountains, canyon and ri ver. to be
found anywhere in the world. It ha
thrown out flying buttresses to carry
automobiles around sheer cliffs, anrtas
pierced mountains through with clois
tered tunnels that no bit of nature's
masterpiece may be lost to vision.
"The natural obstacles to the devel
opment of New York City's shorter
Riverside Drive are far inerior to
t hose encountered along t h Coin nib ia
Highway. And yet Portland with her
comparative handful of people has
shamed New York.
Ad (lab MuMt t.e Bust.
"Our opportunity is here. We should
look upon ou r menibersh ip in the Ad
Club as a privilege. We should re
member that the t rue worth of our
club is measured by the constructive
work we do for our city and state.
We can all be evangelists just as well
as 'Billy' Sunday, preaching the gospel
of truth, of better business, and of
beautiful Oregon.
"The time for talking and waiting for
the other fellow to help us is past.
The time for doing is here right now,
if we are ever going to make any
thing of our state. Boys, we've got
to peel our coats and get busy. We
must think and act and give freely of
our time and effort, through the Ad
Club as a medium, for the upbuilding
i of our community."
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have made known to Eastern people
our great Columbia Highway and have
drawn thousands of tourists to our
state. i
"One day while in New York I picke-I
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