THE OREGON I DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21," 1911.
Playground Expert Wants lit
. Social Center, Clean Diver
v sion Supplanting Wrongdo
' - ing, He Points Out
Tha schoolhouss mutt become the
community ctnter u well aa the educa
tional center If It la to hold Its place
in the life of the peolple, and the church
V muat appeal to the physical man aa -well
' aa the moral being if It regains its hold
upon the religious instincts of man, ao
cording to the tenets of the Playground!
j association of: America- . I H. Weir,
secretary of the great welfare ihove-
' ment, spoke last night at the Lincoln
high school to an Intensely Interested
audience upon the work of the associa
tion and the reforms needed to make
AmerJcanZJMelwhfctllthouldibe. - He
very forcefully brought out the delin-
,' quencies of the school and the church,
demanding that the esclusivenesa of
- each be cast to the winds and that the
work be done with men and women,
boys and girls, they are, not as the
churches f and . mechanical - teachers"
, would have them be.
Secretary Weir dwelt at length on the
old idea that the choolhouse was in
tended as a place, where children were
,' gathered rTor "the . purpose of forcing
book learning down their throats. He
showed that the social feature of educa
tion, the commingling of- children, is
one -of the, most valuable branches of
education, and that by . opening the
school building to ' night schools, ' to
clubs, . to ' gymnastic - exercises, to
swimming pools, and other forms of
amusement properly supervised, doubl"
or treble the good can be obtained from
the public money expended in education
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"" Flaygronnds and Good Conduct. ,
- Mr. Weir showed the tremendous
growth Of the playground movement
during the last five years, and cited
many . Instances of the good acoomi
pllshed. In Cincinnati the Juvenile courts
have been given short shifts since the
children were given opportunity; to play
. and congregate In places-of amusement
with clean atmospheres. While the num
ber of cases was more than 18Q0 In a
- year It was shown that last year but
' too cases were .taken care of, and many
of them were from other cities. In New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and
' other cities similar results were at
tained, t ' - -. - - "
' "Where the schoolhousea are open
seven days and seven evenings each
week,, where simple apparatus is pro-
vlded, where an effort is made to get
children together in play, there la but
little need of officers and - Juvenile
courts," said Mr. Weir. , Where the
, school work is buttressed by an active
church managed with an Idea of keep
big the boys and the girls In Sunday
school and churcn after they have grown
to , youth, the community has aothing
to fear In the: way "of crime arid court
expenses. The church and the school
are the most potent factors In the or
ganization of society, outside the home
. and to them we must look for the gen
erations of able and honest men and
women, or on the other hand 'for the
reign of rlme and social disaster which
must follow misdirected energy in the
days of development
Energy Mast Get Oat.
"Juvenile court officers tell me that
. Invariably the grcrter part of the cases
, coming before them are the result of
misdirected play-spirit Boys and girls
must do something, or they would
-dwindle and die. Herd them In dingy
schoolhouses for seven or eight hours,
' five days a wet-k. without adequate
playgrounds and without - organized
vplay. and you leave thera in Just the
right mood to commit devilment Allow
- them to go back to the schoolhouse In
night classes if they choose, give thera
amusements sucll as will Induce them
' to play for all their Is in It, and they
. will love their lessons and their teach
ers in a new way. ...
"The spirit which cornea from i the
:? college demanding athletes who 'be
come expert In one thing and who bar
the general run of the students from
- doing anything but yelling on the side
lines is wrong In principle and must be
corrected In-the schools. Games and
amusements must be provided that will
r allow the Whote school or more than
one big, school to take part It Is not
enough for a lively boy to ay that
our schooUwoadeadeasy, The boy
must feel that he had cart in the vie.
tory, even though he knows that his part
' Oe Oronnas -when Cheap.
' - "Portland should avoid the mistakes
- of the older cities of the east It is
costing 'millions of money to get play
grounds now, where thousands would
have done the work If it had been done
t at the right time. While land is, cheap
. . while the best locations can be had
while the spirit moves, get playgrounds
all over the City.. The Investment will
pay better than any other Investment
.Jnal ,ean be made, not only in mon-jy
but in manhood and womanhood as
-well. ,.v:
Dr, JT. W. Wetherbee of the park board
presided at the meeting. The several
., organisations of women In the city were
.well represented as was the city ad
ministration. At the close of Mr Weir's
address a number of questions were
asked about the results obtained In
t Titles where public playgrounds are be
ing managed in connection with the.
schools or in connection with the city
parks. Mr. Weir will speak Friday night
at Washington high school, on the east
side, and the lecture will be Illustrated
with a number of pictures of play
grounds In America and in JEurope.
MEMORIAL DA YToTe"
OBSERVED BY SCHOOLS
I' . 8m Burets of The JoirriwM
Falem. Or., March Sl.Believlng that
v memorial day should be appropriately
' bs-ved by tha schools of the state,
State Superintendent Alderman has pre
, pared circulars which he is mailing out
to the school v suggesting programs.
Where there are Grand Army posts the
exercises will be vnder the auspices of
- the Grand Armyj.but In many communi
ties there are no posta of the Grand
Army, . and in those communities the
schools will hold exercises May SO, in
dependently, in memory both of the
- sailor dead in unknown graves aa well
the soldier dead. '
Maldrn Trip of New Liner.
Baltimore, Md.. March 21. With a
lsrg pry of guests reprinting- the
" ro)iin'-rrIarTl'eanI-iull(ris "of" nevTiaT
outhero cities, the new steamer Bu
wanuee of the. Merchants' and Miners'
TtanKpwlatlfMi company sailed from
tmuitote tuday fa her -maldifo voyage
u Hxmnmlt and Jacksonville. 1 '
THIS CLASS OF MARCH
WEATHER BRINGS GRIN
T0 IMMIGRATION MAN
Oregon's old residents declare
that they never In all their lives
before experienced sucb splendid
s March weather, while the rall-
' road immigration agents oalmly
e assert It is for the benefit of the
. colonists, who might mlsunder-
stand the philanthropic inten-
. tlons of Oregou mist
- When a pair of robins began to
build the foundations of their
summer home the other day, the
.weather wise said it was ine
first sure sign of spring's com-
ing, and When they saw a man
with a brand now straw hat on
Union avenue (yesterday their
conviction was increased.
4 Meanwhile father has to mow
the lawn one erenlng, and plant
radishes the next, while the rest
- of the family ara so seriously
ill with spring rover mat mey
n't help hlmi the-early onions
are perfuming the breaths of the
populace, and work on tne new
steel bridge is being rushed to
get the last pier finished before
the first high water, Which the
warm weather will bring f ioib
the mountains. ;
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ML ANGEL STUDENTS
HOLD ANNUAL DEBATE
(Special Dliptteh to It JoaraiL)
Mt Angel,. Or., March 2t-'Resolved,
that the United Btates should rorury
tha Panama canal" was the resolution
adopted by tha Students' congress In the
annuar debate held In the college audi
torium Sunday night. The debate was
a very close one, and there was a doubt
as to who would be tho victor until the
decision of the Judges was announced.
The affirmative contended . mat
treaties of neutrality were not worth
the paper they were written on when
some strong power could gain an ad
vantage by breaking them, in substan
tiation of which they cited the record of
England In many Instance They point
ed out that it was absurd to expect a
nation to leave a work unprotected i
whicn she naa maae ner own oy men
an enormous sacrifice of money, labor
and Ufa, as the United States has done
In constructing the canal.
The DrlnciDal contention of the nega
tive was that the canal, fortified, would
become a legitimate prize of war, and
they showed how the glgantlo under
taking could easily bo lost to tne uni
ted States by such a course. They
showed that conditions were such at
the canal that fortifications would be
weak against the onslaughts of some
man-of-war which, by destroying even
one lock, oould easily put the canal out
Of commission.
Those who upheld the winning side
were Patrick Waisn, or ova scoua
and Joseph Heeysacker of Forest Grove.
Opposing them wers John Davis, of
Missouri, and John Casteiio, or Nebras
ka The Judges were Father Buck, of
Forest Grove, and Fathers Benedict and
Paul, of St. Benedict's abbey, all alumni
of the college.
MRS. WALKER, 83, TO
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
(Bneeltl r!rtch to Tb Jouranl.i
Forest Grove, Or., March 21- Mrs. Mi
nerva Walker, one of the bfst known pio
neer women'Of Washington county,. will
celebrate her eighty-third bir'y r-:
morrow on the farm where she baa
lived continuously for the past yours.
Mra Walker's maiden name was
Knlghten. She was Born In Jefferson i
county, Mo., March 22, 1828, and crossed I
the plains with her parents In 1847. i
The! party made the slow and toilsome !
Journey by ox team and suffered many
hardships and privation's enroute. March
2, 1848, Miss Knlghten was married in
this county to Robert Walker, a pioneer '
of 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Walker located
on 640 acres of land, donated by the
government, the year of their marriage,
their farm being located near the town ;
of Roy, about four miles northeast of i
this city. j
Mrs. Walker is strong and vigorous
despite hegreat age, and her lntellec-j
tual powers are undiminished. Her mind j
Is a veritable storehouse of incidents of i
ine eariy uaj, anu duo ims must in
teresting stories of the adventures and
vicissitudes which were the common lot
of the hardy pioneers of the great Ore
gon country. j
Two railroads now crops Mrs. Walk- j
er's farm, one steam and one electric, j
and the "change from the bridle path 1
and pack horse to the railroad, Which
has taken place since she was a girl. ;
epitomizes the changes which have
transformed the west from the abode of ;
wild beasts and savages to an empire
of civilization. Mr. Walker died in 1898. !
Of the children born to this pioneer I
couple, six are now living, aa follows: j
Mrs. B. J. Lyle, Stimson, Idaho; Robert ,
Walker, West Fall: Will G. Walker.
Roy; James Walker, Hood River; Sam
neFalkeraWMl trout, Forest Grove.
Valuable Team Drowned.
(Sperlal Dlnpntcl. to Th JoamiM
South Bend, Wash- March 21. What
was probably the most valuable team
of carriage horses In southwest Wash
ington was accldently drowned while
being driven to this city. The horses
became frightened and Jumped from a ;
bridge into a slough, tha driver barely 1
escaping by Jumping from the carriage .
as it left the bridge. The team was the j
property of Mrs. J. W. Masterson, wife
dairy ranch near this place, and was
purchased by her in Portland about
two years ago.
Of the 16 members of the board of
aldermen of Poughkeepsie, N. T.. eight 1
are union men. !
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LOGGED OF LAND
55gie
Offices in Failing Building Are
Empty; Not 'Even All Those
$2 Bills Paid In to President
Can Be Found. ;
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The spacious offices of the fogged
ntt Tjincl Development rnmpany, nn tha
fourth floor of the Failing building,
have been vacated, the landlord-has
scraped ' the names off the doors' and
the furniture man has got the two desks
that comprised the furnishings.
Ionard P. Spear, president of the
company, chief stockholder and general
man of altwork, -baa left the cltyr- Be
fore he left, however, he told District
Attorney Cameron that all persons want
ing their 12 . bills back could get them
from John Hughes, attorney. Falling
building. When a reporter asked Mr,
Hughes about it, he said it was the
first he had heard-of it.
Leonard Bpear, who promoted the Un
ion Coal It Development company in
Seattle, some time ago, told the district
attorney he was unable to get as much
logged off land aa he thought he could.
Money back to the dissatisfied, he said
but the trouble Is jthat the dissatisfied
do not know where to get their money.
The first Intimation that came of the
presence of the Logged Off Land &
Development company, which was incor
porated by Spear. K. R. Miller and Vic
toria Spear, the latter two holding three
Bhares, was flaring advertisements.
'Two dollars down and two dolltfrs a
month," they read, for logged off land
In Chehalls county.
Bays He round vo Title.
Some SO employes of the Oi-W, R. &
N. interested themselves Jn the propo
sition and purposed to buy land. They
delegated one of their number to in-'
vestlgate. and sent him to Aberdeen and
Hoqulam to go out over the land. He
got a description of the property from
a salesman named Crawford and lour-
neyed to Aberdeen, where he discovered,
he alleges, that the LOgged Off Land
Development company had no title to
the land described, and that Its namwVflld
not appear on the county records. A
little Investigation showed that the
Washington Colonization company
owned the land.
The correspondent for The Journal at
Aberdeen telegraphed that an examina
tion of the records of Chehalls county
showed no such company as the Logged
Off Land Development company listed.
Nothing was known of such a corpora
tion. Abstract companies that had re
corded all logged off land In the county
had no records showing the name of the
company.
Spear has not been in the city "much
since a few days after his advertise.
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ments appeared. His main office. In the
Falling . building was usually open,
though,. and there were a lot of attract
ive maps of logged off lands and etorlei
of easy money spread about One could
lip in tc- the main of f ice almost any
lima and wander about at will. It he
chanced to try the doors marked "Pres
ident" and Secretary" be would have
found both these offices bare, without
a piece of furniture.' But the doora were
usually kept closed. ;
Draft for Ben Protested, :
Some time - last week the furniture
man came around to see Why his fur
niture had not been paid for, and' took
the two desks away; The landlord said
last week that ha had got a draft for
the rent, but that - the draft bad been
protested. - V V if.-;-
Spear called on District Attorney
Cameron without invitation. He said
he feared his company might have been
complained against and that he wanted
to show that he waa "on the square."
He said he had had some trouble getting
title to the property he had advertised
and if anyone wanted his $2 back he
could go to Hughes and get it Spear
said he was going out . of town for a
few days.
hen It flratcame Into existence the
Logged Off Land Development company
ran half-page and one-tblrd naire ads
in a lot of papers in the northwest In
the mail Inquiries and bits of money
came thick andast. No one seems to
know where Spear is now. Hughes, who
said he did some legal . business for
the company and drew p its Incorpora
tion papers, said he did not know. The
solicitor Of the name of Crawford, he
said, had got out of the company.
J uoge uameron wants persons who in
vested in th company's land and have
not got their money back to communi
cate with him. ' -
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REDMOND GIVES GLAD
HAND TO COLONISTS
Itedmond, Or., March 21. The Red
mond Commercial club has a represen
tative stationed at Fallbridge, on the
North Bank road, to meet all incoming
celonist and passenger, train and look
out for people headed for the central
part of the state. He is supplied with
plenty of literature, and those who are
routed over the Oregon Trunk line are
accompanied by him across the ferry to
the Oregon side, and given all the need
ed Information as to this section of the
country. Another representative from
Redmond meets the homeseeker and
tourist at Madras or Metolius and fur
ther aids the newcomer in his search
for a location. So far Quite 'a number
of newcomers' have arrived here and
have bought J40 Irrigated land, and
otliers nave Invested In Improved farms
and ranches. Ample accommodations
have been provided here for all who
come, and the Commercial club will see
that the glad hand of welcome Is ex
tended to the man from the east who
wants to see this glorious part of cen
tral Oregon.
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WEALTHY AMERICANS
ASK LLOYDS TO INSURE, '
BABY AGAINST KIDNAPERS
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London. March 21. Announce
ment was made her today that
Lloyds : has .been ' asked by
wealthy persons living In an
American city to ; Insure their
child for 110,000c against kid
napers. The premium t to be
SO shiUlngs per cent ' It kid
naped, the proposed premium la
to be 10 shillings per ' cent to
cover any ransom up to 110,000.
According to Lloyda answer,
the child's safety Is to be guar
an teed only when taking the air
in a baby carriage, the upper
part of which : is enclosed In a
steel cage, and guarded by three
detectives. If the rates are ap
proved, the li.suranc becomes
effective at once.
While Lloyds refuses to con
firm the report, it Is generally
believed that the baby It is sought
) "Ttorhave insurwi 1s-Johirtftchotas-?4
Brown, the "million. dollar baby" -
of Narragansett Pier, who Is the
only- American child known tot e
take his airings in a steel cage e
such as is specified in the pro-
posal to Lloyds.
WOMEN'S MISSIONARY
. JUBILEE CELEBRATED
'New York March 21. -Three thousand
women, representing Dearly all religious
denominations, are to take part in the!
great celebration here, of the fiftieth
anniversary of the beginning of worn
en's -organised work-for foreign mis
sions in this country. Tho celebration
began today and will continue through
the remainder of this month. Carnegie
hall wtU be the scene of a series of ral
lies that will be addressed by speaker
of much prominence. The unique fea
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food products has been to. devise' ft
package for their products which will
insure the hdusewife getting them sweet,
fresh, without deterioration. .'
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sold in bulk) have a special cover forced
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which will constat of a number of tab
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