TIIJ3 SUN'DAT OKEGONTAN. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 17. 191G. flOTED EDUCATORS SCORE TENURE LAW INSPIRATION FOR MAGAZINE COMES DURING GREAT GRIEF Mrs. Florence Crawford Is One of Busiest of Women, Writing Comforting Articles and Lecturing Four Times a Week. Survey of 1913 Calls Measure i Thoroughly Bad and Vicious . Special Legislation. 18 4 ;PeTWe of Ch. yVjlr mas Shopping Is Surging y-s mmWmi-? in Thro' Aronspn's Doors W&MM BOARD VETOED BY COURTS Attoniejs Certain to Appeal From Adverse Decisions and Almost Sure to Win Finally, Says Report on Schools. . That the present tenure in office law, which safeguards the positions of I'ortland schoolteachers, and which Is sought to be amended by a. measure to he submitted to the coming session of the Legislature by the School Board, was long since formally recognized by some educators as undesirable. Is shown by reference to It in the school survey, made in 1913. It was In that year that the law was passed. The survey re fers to It as "Vicious special legisla tion." The exact language of the sur vey Is as follows: "If the board of school directors were to attempt to dismiss any teacher, except for open Immorality or rank in subordination, the board would find itself face to face with a new law, passed by the last Oregon Legislature, which provides for practically perma nent tenure- for all teachers, principals and supervisors. This law applies only to the Portland school district and not to any other school district In Oregon. It Is an example of Vicious special leg islation, under the guise or a general law. Appeal to Courts Certain. This new law provides that teach ers, after two years of service, cannot be dismissed except after formal trial before the board and with formal writ ten charges served, notices of trial and attorneys present. This means that the person bringing the charges, superin tendent or principal, and each super visory officer indorsing them, will be put on trial by the accused teacher's attorneys, and not the teacher herself or himself, "Almost any attorney can create enough errors, during the trial before the board, on which to appeal to the courts if the board dismisses the teacher, and with almost a certainty that the courts will regard the pre ponderance of common evidence and the technical flaws as more important than the professional evidence and the interests of the teachers in the schools. The almost certain result Is reinstate ment, with full back pay. Result Declared Bad. "The law is not essentially different from the San Francisco or the Balti more laws and the school boards in both places have practically given up trying to dismiss anyone, however in competent they may be. The inevitable result on these systems has been bad, very bad, and the same result will in evitably come in time to Portland If this thoroughly bad law is not re pealed." The school survey, conducted by ex perts headed by Ellwood P. Cubberley, professor of education at Leland Stan ford University, was regarded by the school directors as a valuable docu ment. Numerous changes were recom mended In the Portland system, and it is toward the survey recommendations that Superintendent Alderman has been working. The board of directors recognizes in the survey the thoughtful work of ex perts in matters educational, and they are backing it up in many details. The amendment to the tenure in office law they regard as essential and they will work hard for the passage of the meas ure at the coming legislative session. The teachers in the city schools, through their organizations, have gone on record as opposing any change in the tenure law, and they will bring as much pressure as possible upon members of the Legislature to retain it in full effect. RELIGIOUS PLAY ARRANGED Pupils of Madeline School Will Pre sent It Thursday. A religious mystery play will be presented by the pupils of the Madeleine school. .ast Twenty-third and Siskiyou streets, next Thursday night. Early-day Christmas carols will be interspersed in the play, and the -whole atmosphere will be that of the medieval. Biblical scenes form the basis for the action throughout the offering. The Madeleine choir will render sev eral solos with Mrs. Charles Shea, Mrs. A. F. Petzel and Miss Nona Lawler participating. The following pupils will take part in the presentation: Mildred Seufert, Marjorie Markillie, Helen Markillie. Almehda Gill. Agnes Dunn, Mary E. Driscoll, Isabelle Cook, Charlotte L. Jones, Regina Gill. Martha Landers, Marion Mathisen, Robert Cole, Harry Lind, Donald Condon. Joseph Jail, Ed ward Casey, Joseph Shea, Clinton Twohy, Harold Rudolph, Francis Schaecher, Raymond Dunlap, Raymond Gangloff and Armand Marlon, IDAHO EDUCATOR TO SPEAK Miss Ethel Redfield, State Superin tendent, to Address Teachers. Miss Ethel Redfield, newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Idaho, will address the Portland Grade Teachers' Association at its next meet ing in room A of the Central Library on Tuesday. The meeting will be held at 4:15 in the afternoon and will be open to the public. The educational system of Idaho will be the general subject discussed by Miss Redfield. The speaker will be in troduced by Miss Viola Ortschild. presi dent of the association, who became acquainted with Miss Redfield during the meeting of the National Educa tlonal Association at Salt Lake City in 1913. BANKER. TAKES NEW POST I H. llollenbeck to Handle Montana for Hamilton Institute. F. H. Hollenbeck, assistant secre tary of the Lumbermen's Trust Com pany, has resigned that office to be come the Montana representative for the Alexander Hamilton Institute, of New York City. Mr. Hollenbeck has been with the Lumbermen's Trust Company in various official capacities for four years. For the last year and a half he has served as bond buyer through the Pacific Coast. Mr. Hollenbeck left Friday for New Tork and Chicago and will return to Montana to take up his new work about .the middle of January. I I s T , 1 ' t ' ' " ' 1 i! v ' V j - jit' ' f . t - . 1 l s r 4 X y x - 3 V ' " ' ' i - ty' f yf A S y.' A,i ' y f A , -. N 'J"" i-' 1 - f . $ ? Si''-',- i ? r r ' -' s I I -y ' $ ' l i -4 -t ' ' : i ' ; - si - v 1 1 i : a ' ' -1 - -? ' - l A 3 e - t - J - J " . I - ' 1 ' 7 y-A vvT. fyor enc: BY HELEN S. GRAY. TWO years ago a little magazine. The Comforter, was started in Portland. Fifty - two persons, friends of Mrs. Florence Crawford, the editor, showed their faith in her by subscribing in advance as soon as she had announced what she intended to do. From the name one might conjecture that she was led to call It The Com forter because all, or almost all, who come to her for counsel and help come with a heartache: but that isn't the way the magazine got its name. For a year previous she had fre quently been .moved to publish a mag azine, but had always dismissed the idea as Impracticable, as she had very little money, and it seemed to her that the field was already fully occupied by Unity, The Master Mind and other sim ilar publications and that she had had no preparation for such work,- that is, no special training to write. She had contributed a number of short articles to various magazines Sunset, Unity, etc.; but that is all the writing she had ever done. Inspiration Comes Suddenly. One evening she was grieving over something that deemed to be no longer endurable and went to her Bible for a helpful thought. Lying underneath was a magazine. The sight of it re called to her mind the desire that she had felt so persistently. Then a strange thing happened. A voice spoke to her and said the two words "The Comforter." Instantly she knew 'she was to publish a magazine and give it that name. Its field would then be distinctive. Next she saw that on the cover would be a dove of peace. At three turning points in her life she has heard that voice speak. It never uses many words to convey its message to her, but the few it does utter are so charged witn meaning that no doubt as to detail is left in the mind. As its motto each number bears the words, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." Mrs. Crawford's familiarity with the Bible and various unhappy experiences in her life are two of the principal fac tors that have given her great spiritual insight and understanding. A third was an illumination she had about 10 years ago. In a brief flash all that she has taught and written since was revealed to her in seed form. Where some people see only coinci dences Mrs. Crawford sees the working of spiritual laws. Such "coincidences" have happened to her hundreds of times. For instance, she was prepar ing to give a Halloween party and was writing on cards for her guests mes sages Joy, peace, tenderness, temper ance, etc. As she wrote the word temperance she thought of a man who had just con quered the liquor habit and hoped he would get that card. That evening when all of the 50 cards, tied into en velopes with bows of yellow ribbon, had been drawn, the two men she had wished would draw the messages of tenderness and- temperance did so. There was only one envelope remaining in the basket when she drew. The card in it bore the words that she had felt she would always like to have in her consciousness as she wrote them down. Lectures Also Are Given. Besides publishing a magazine and writing almost everything in it her self, Mrs. Crawford lectures four times a week, Sunday morning and night, Thursday afternoon and Friday night. She has her office upstairs in the Woman's Exchange building and at present holds her lectures there. She calls her headquarters a center of ap plied Christianity. Her work is inter denominational. Mrs. Crawford is a director in the Oregon Prisoners' Aid Society and every year in May has a prisoners benefit day and devotes the May number of her magazine to prisoners, "those be hind bars of steel and those bound by environment, associates or self." She selected May as the most appropriate time for this purpose, because it is in tife Spring in May that "lovely flowers are released from their prison buds because the sun shines upon them and their life is so quickened from within that they overcome all bondage." So with prisoners, " 'Our light' must shine upon them until they are freed within themselves and so are prepared for the outer freedom, which must fol low. In every heart a bloom is held in bondage awaiting the warmth of love to lure it into full expression." In the Oregon Penitentiary a number of the prisoners read The Comforter Magazine. Their sufferings are a plum met that enables them to sound the depths that others have suffered. One Cj-3fshrc? of them recently wrote to Mrs. Craw ford: "Dear friend: I could not call vou less after the many good and helpful things you have spoken through The Comforter. All your writings ate so true and helpful. I always thlnK of you as one who has reached great un derstandlng through sever- sufferin; of some sort. Your words cmio from the depths that are touched only, it seems, at such times. When things are going too easy for us we don't stop to do much thinking. Need for Class Related. "I beard you are thinking of starting a class here. Two of us have a list of 25 or more men here on a petition to the Warden to allow us to meet with you. . . . We are trusting and be lleving that soon you and other ad vanced thinkers will come to us. We surely do need you." With the world full of war and strife it is unusual to find a child with the consciousness of returning good for evil. Mrs. Crawford has a 12-year-old son who is strongly, imbued with that consciousness. In her lectures she makes clear the necessity of returning good for evil with an apt illustration: "If jou want to neutralize an acid, use an alkali: if you want to overcome enmitj, put in just the opposite. A test of what is well wrltUn is that we can read and reread it and each time find new meaning and interest In it. Much that Mrs. Crawford .nas writ ten stands this test. Her insight en ables ber to speak and write convinc ingly. Several extracts from ".ier writ ings are quoted herewith to show tha depth and beauty of her thought. "I like to think of my relation to spirit just as that of a bit of ice float ing in water. The water is in the ice and the ice is in the water. They are one in essence, the only difference be ing that the ice is formed and the water is formless. Ice can only be because water is." "Whether an obstacle in our path is a stumbling block or a stepping stone depends on how we regard it." Clouds Can Become Blessing;. "Giving is getting in the law of the spirit. The two are one. The get ting is the reaction of the giving. Therefore it is written. Let no man Beek his own but every man another's wealth. "Thanksgiving is like yeast in the dough. It is an active working prin ciple which creates or makes increase. "Clouds obstruct the light. If we lift up the clouds that surround us. EXPERIENCED MAN BECOMES SECRETARY OF INSURANCE FEDERATION OF OREGON. pwyag?t)y-reyw&. :;as t A' , ' C. D. Dabcoclc. C. D. Babcock, who has been elected secretary of the .Insur ance Federation of Oregon, has had much experience . in insur ance work. He was one of the original members of the State Industrial Accident Commission - i and had an active part in fram lng the blue-sky law now in ef fect. In his new field Mr. Babcock wilt be called on to conduct a campaign of education through the state on the various provi sions of insurance practices to create a better understanding between the buyers and the sellers of insurance. He will have his headquarters in Portland. In comes the rush of eager, alert, insistent humanity gathers "up its treasures of gold, silver and jewels and bears them away on the ebb. And ever come new throngs, like wave after wave, each gathering new treasures. And in eyes that sparkle with an ticipation I see "the light that never was on land nor sea." A light that rivals even the dia monds, though they glow with mar velous luster. ' It's a wonderful thing to give! To know that you can start the heart to singing so easy to do, and the reward what joy ineffable! And think of the thousands of good men and good women there are in Portland who are buying life time gifts for loved ones! And my prayer is that never a child shall awake on Christmas morn whose eyes shall not grow big and round at sight of joys hoped for, yet tearfully, perhaps hardly be lieved possible of realization. You were a child. And Aronson is hustling every loyal worker, from dignified Dr. Starr down to the Japanese janitor is hustling, pouring out the wealth of this treasure house into eager hands. transmute them, then they will come back as rain (blessings). O. Henry, the author, transmuted his sentence of three years in the penitentiary into a blessing." i "Just as the principle of mathemat ics may be used by ail, so may the law of faith. In other words, apples fall to the ground when a so-called bad man shakes the tree as well as when a good man shakes It." " 'All things whatsover ye desire, ask' (acknowledge God as the source of them and name them definitely). 'believe ye have received' (Bee them already existing in spirit and being formed for you) 'and ye shall - have. This is the law that has been given to man in order that he may be freed from every form of bondage and ex ercise 'dominion in earth.' " Mrs. Crawford has also written a number of poems and songs, mostly flower songs. These have been set to music by Edith Haines-Kuester and three of them have already been pub lished. Two of the best poems she ever wrote are the ones entitled "Queen Anne's Lace" and "A Glad New Year." Dost regret the old year with its sorrow? Art thou striving the pafct to undo? Cease regrets. Who can tell how the sorrow May have fashioned the morrow for you? For the mouldering seed holds a blossom. In the midst of the false lies the true. And Just when the old year is oldest Ah, then is the New Year new. 9 HELD IN MURDER CASE Deatlt of Los Angeles Motorcycle Of ficer Yet Uncleared. LOS ANGELES. Dee. 16. The nine men arrested here today in connection with the killing of Thomas J. Kron schnabel. a motorcycle officer last night, were held in Jail tonight. Con stant questioning throughout the day by the police officials failed to con nect any of them with the crime. Five of the men were arrested fol lowing the statement made by Loma Allred, a 13-year-old girl, who said she was kidnaped by men In an automobile. The men were arrested In an automo bile bearing a license given by the girt. The girl said she was bound and gagged, but said she heard a shot fired at about the time and place Kron chnabel was killed. ODDFELLOWS TO CONVENE Grand Sire Fred C. Condy Will Pre side at Sessions in May. EUGENE. Or, Dec. 16. (Special.) Fred C. Coudy, grand sire. National head of the Independent Order or Odd fellows, of Denver, Colo., will attend the state convention of the order in Eugene, May 14 to 18, according to an announcement made by Mayor W. A. Bell, general chairman of arrangements for the convention The general programme will Include meetings, grand encampment arril Re bekah . asserr bly, general reception, street parade and conferring of de grees. Eastern Star at Cove Klects. COVE, Or.. Dec. 16. (Special.) At the first annual election of officers of Cherry Chapter No. 123, Order Eastern Star, December 13, the following were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Ella M. Anderson, worthy matron; John Dean, worthy patron; Mrs. Stella Dean, associate matron: Mrs. Mildred McCall. secretary; Mrs. Alice Duffey, treasurer; Mrs. Bessie C. Lay, con ductress; Mrs. Lela E. Powell, asso ciate conductress. In the month of July more than 10 miles of ships passed through, the Panama Canal. Afrgr;.. ARONSON'S BPqX Jewelers Goldsmiths Opticians tjYy f WASHINGTON AT BROADWAY cKp I played window-wisher today; not for myself; all I want is a book, a loaf and a jug of Bull Bun! It is you I want to have these things I saw' in Aronson's windows: $25 clock for ?18.75. $10 clocks for $7.50. $5 clocks now $3.35. $8.50 brass clocks $6.35. $5 cut glass bowl $2.50. $12.50 cut glass water set $6.25. $10 cut glass cake dish for $5. $7.50 cut glass dish $3.75. $20 silk umbrellas $13.35. $5 umbrellas for $3.35. $4.50 umbrellas for $2.95. $3.50 umbrellas for $2.35. Up to $5 rings, solid gold, set with stones, now $1. $1.50 gold-filled cuff links $1. $1 tie pins for 65c. $3.50 solid gold tie pins $2.35. $5 solid gold lavallieres for $2.95. $10 solid gold lavallieres $6.35. $10 solid gold lavallieres, with genuine cut diamond setting, $5.85. $20 solid gold lavallieres, with . genuine cut diamond setting, $15. $250 solid gold mesh bag $187. $150 Bolid gold mesh bag $108.50. $7.50 genuine cameo rings, solid gold, for $4.35. $75 traveling bag, with Parisian ivory toilet set, $54.50. $200 diamond lavallieres $148.50. $75 diamond lavallieres $56.5p. $500 diamond-mounted bracelet now $363.50. $200 diamond-mounted bracelet now $148.50. G. H. FLORY IS BACK LOCAL FORESTRY OFFICIAL TELLS OF ALASKA. TRIP. Uomestcadlsc on Chasruc-h liesene, Near Line of New Railway, Pro gresses Hapldlr, lie Says. Charles H. Flory, in charge of the operations in this division of the Forest Service, has just returned from an In spection tour of the reserves in Alaska. He was gone two months. The manner In which the field work In that section has been carried on is a source of pleasure to Mr. Flory, he said. Alaska Is destined to be a great roun- jS VICTROLA VI $25 VICTROLA IX $30 VICTROLA X $75 JT3 Sill- $100 diamond-mounted bracelet now $73.50. $500 diamond - mounted brooch pin $364.50. $50 diamond brooch pin $36.50. $400 diamond cluster ring $296.50. $150 diamond cluster ring $84.50. $100 diamond cluster ring $6S.50. $100 diamond solitaire rings now $69.75. $75 diamond solitaire rings $52.50. -$50 diamond solitaire rings $36.85. $25 diamond solitaire rings $17.65. $300 genuine pearl necklace for $212.75. $125 diamond-mounted gold rope bracelet for $89.50. $125 diamond-mounted bracelet watch, 14-carat gold, for $93.75. $65 14-carat white gold bracelet watch for $43.75. $60 Elgin, 15-jewel, 14-carat gold bracelet watch for $43.65. $50 15-jewel, 14-carat gold brace let watch for $36.85. $45 15-jewel, 14-carat gold brace let watch for $33.75. $38 ladies' Elgin, 15-jewel, brace let watch for $26.85. $37.50 15-jewel bracelet watch for $28.15. $35 Elgin 14-carat gold bracelet watch for $26.25. $30" 15-jewel, 14-carat gold brace let watch for $29.75. $30 15-jewel sterling bracelet watch for $22.50. $27.50 15-jewel Elgin bracelet watch for $19.85. $25 15-jewel bracelet watch for $17.50. I try. according to Mr. Flory, who trav eled over all of the steel laid for the Government railroad that is being built in mat territory. The country Is in the heart of a vast coal and agricultural district and there is ample provision for grazing on abundant lands,' Homesteadlng- on the Chaguch re serve, which only recently was opened to settlers. Is progressing rapidly, and the timber lands are being taken up rapidly, rs the lands are of easy access to the new line that Is being built un der the supervision of the Government. K. J. Coad, of Dallas, to Retire. DALLAS, Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) After 33 years of continuous business In this city, F. J. Coad. on January 1, will retire from the large planing mill business owned r.nd o -rated by him in Dallas since 1S83. Mr. Coad will move upon his farm near Dallas. Mr. Every T TT fl "TTI Awaits YOU Here Let us put one in your home THIS CHRISTMAS Service and appreciation go hand in hand. Whether you buy a $25 or a $200 Victroja, you are given the most careful service and consideration in our stores, and our appreciation is equally great. One of these Victrolas should gladden your Christmas this year. Our method of selling on terms provides the very easiest way and the greatest satisfaction. Call and let us demonstrate the beauty of these models, or cut out and send in this advertisement, checking the style wanted. 9- THE WILEY B. ALLEN CO. Portland, Please mall Vlotrola catalogues and particulars on Victor model checked. Style VI ( ). Style IX ( ), Style X ( ). a mo Address Your Money's Worth Mason & Hamlin Pianos, Player Pianos, Music Rolls Morrison Street at Broadway Other Stores San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles,, San Diego and Other Coast Cities $23.50 15-jewel bracelet watch for $16.35. $22.50 Elgin bracelet watch for $15.85. $22.50 Radiolite bracelet watch for $15.85. $10 bracelet watch for $6.85. $15 Elgin and Waltham gentle men's watches, 20-year case, $7.85. $18 Elgin and Waltham gentle men's watches, 20-year case, $9.85. $33 Rockford watches now $19.75. $25 Rockford watches now $15.35. $26.50 Rockford watches $19.75. $30 Rockford watches now $17.65. $60 Howard watches now $49.50. $125 Howard watches for $9S.75. $75 Howard watches now $59.50. $60, 19-jewel Howard watches for $49.50. $15 sterling military set $11.85. $12.50 toilet set for $8.85. $10 toilet set for $6.85. $20 Sheffield trays $13.35. $15 covered Sheffield platters for $9.85. $10 Sheffield covered platter $5.85. $7 Sheffield dish for $4.35. $10 Sheffield fruit tray for $6.85. $10 Sheffield vase $6.65. $1 Shefield mustard dishes 55c $92.50 Sterling 4-piece tea set for $69.35. $36 Sterling tray $27.50. $65 Sterling tray $48.50. $18.50 Sterling tray $13.75. $10 Sterling butter dish, covered, for $7.50. These are only the wonderful things I saw in the windows what must there be in the store itself! By William T. Terklna Coad is one of Dal'.as leadirg citizens. He has served many terms as Council man at various limes and has been a very active member of the Dallas Commercial Club. Suns to Choose Guardiun. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) Zetta M. Farrott has started suit for divorce against her husband. J. C. Parrott. and Is willing to permit her two sons to choose their guardian and custodian. Mr. and Mrs. Farrott were married May 3. 1S9-, in Latah County. Idaho, and the son. Carrol, is 20 years old, and Clifford, 16. Mrs. Parrott alleges her husband has prac tically deserted her and will not sup port her. Some spiders In Java make webs so strong that It requires a knife to sever them. Style of TTO IT A Oregon. or Your Money Back