THE- OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, THURSDAY. DECEMBER S 14, 1918.
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ORGANIZED TEACHERS :
. TO FIGHT MEASURE TO
UNTIE BOARD S HANDS
Instructors - Impugn Motives
of ; Directors in Tryirjg to
.- Remove Existing Handicap
SAY JUDGE IS CONFUSED
Tchr Sajs 0ntnbln Got
SUsa Vp la Coaaldariag- tb
Caaf of Kn. Alexander.
When the school board goea out to
enlist' public , sentiment for the
amendments hlch it proposes to the
teachers' tenure of office la it will
find itself opposed by the teachers
and all the additional Influence they
tan organize.
That the teachers will flht the bill
prepared by Ir. Alan "Welch Smith
and Indorsed for submission to the
legislature by other board ' members
was stated with emphasis by a group
of the teachers immediately following
the first announcement' of the bill
for amendment of the .tenure of office
law- In Th Journal yesterday evening."-
"What the school board seeks
to do is to re-establish the old con
ditions that we worked so hard end bo
long to.icprrect;' said' one of the
teachers- : v .
4 "The board Wenfbers saj"' they, want
lhelr hands untied. What'they want
Is. lo 'hire and fire' without let or
hindrance. 0
t Would Hot Dare Talk.
W observe that the board mem
bers say they .have been handicapped
Jit 'conducting school affairs by the
t&ntirer of ofIce law. As a matter
f fact the board has administered the
in a way to make people think it
kn -Imperfect measure, wlien in spite
et this unfriendly administration the
taw has -brought Justice, a better
spirit and more effective teaching.
."In the Olden days, before the tenure
of offlco law, a teacher scarcely could
call her soul her own. She would never
have dared speak her opinions as L am
: doing. She could be discharged with
out cause. Under the tenure of office
law, more teachers have attended sum
mer, school, more teachers have taken
tip college extension work for credit
tn,ore teachers have traveled at their
own expense to study educational
. methods elsewhere. The tenure of of
fice law has made teachers all over the
United States look toward Oregon. It
will' be a sad and unfortunate thing' to
take backward steps. Yet if the
Amendments proposed by the school
board are adopted it will be equivalent
to wiping the tenure of office law off
the statute books."
Bays Qentenbeia Was Confused.
The point was made that long drawn
out contests over transfers of teachers
are ' totally unnecessary. Th intent
of the law is to put principals on. the
same basis as other teachers In the
' matter of transfers. The teachers who
made the statement yesterday evening
are convinced that Circuit Judge. Gan-
tenbein cop fused another law for the
tenure of office law in sustaining Mrs.
Ale via Alexander's" protest -against
transfer from the prlnclpalabip of the
girl's department of Benson . poly tech
nic school to a place as high school
instructor. ' ,
"As the law -was recently Inter
preted," reads a formal statement of
the teachers, "tUe school boars is de
prived of the pswer to transfer teasn
ers but any one reading the law care
fully will see that such Is not the
Intent ... bectlon 283 says; The word,
''teacher or teachers" as used In this
et shali Include supervisors and prin
cipals and instructors who are In the
employ of the school district or dis
tricts speciftc in this act.'
"Following the section providing
that teachers who have been regular
ly appointed two successive terms by
the board of directors shall be placed
upon the list of permanently employed
teachers, comes section 286.. which
reads:
Bays sTecesiary rower rzlits.
" 'Teachers so placed upon such list
shall not be subject to annual appoint
ment, but shall continue to serve until
dismissed or discontinued In the serv
ice by the board in the manner herein
provided, subject to the rules of the
board concerning suspensions, but
such rules shall be 'reasonable and
for the good of such schools. They
shall serve in such positions and shall
be subject to such assignments and
transfer as the board may from time
to time determine, or as may be pro
vided for in its rules.'
"That is perfectly clear. The school
board has all needful power to make
transfers and to control school affairs
In the Interests of efficiency and Jus
tice, but not to be arbitrary and un
just." Christmas Shoppers
See Jewelry Holdup
Sarins; Bandit Who Bobs Market Street
Store la San Tranoisco Pursued
Through Crowds and Brought to Bay
San Francisco, Dec. 14. (P. N. S.)
One of the most daring daylight
holdup's in the downtown district took
place., yesterday within eight of
hundreds' of Christmas shoppers, when
a lono bandit entered the Macey Jew
elry store, 904 Market street, held up a
clerk and finally was captured after an
exciting chase through crowds, in
Which a shot was fired.
The robber entered the store and
asked a clerk to show him diamonds.
As the clerk placed a tray of jewels
on the counter the man drew a gun and
ordered him to hold up his hands.
The clerk dropped to the floor. J.
Stein, another clerk, drew a revolver
from a drawer and the holdup man
fled. Stein pursued him, firing as he
ran and brought the man to bay in a
blind alley.
Ravages of Cancer
Result in Suicide
North Bend, Or., Dec. 14. Levi B.
Law. known as "Daddy" Law. an aged
resident of this city, committed sui
cide by hanging himself some time
Tuesday. His only relative is a son
residing in Portland. He had suffered
with a hopeless case of cancer for
three or four years. Rev. E. Sutton
Mace called at 'the house today to see
Mr. Law, and finding the house locked,
discovered the body banging in the
woodshed.
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CAMPAIGN TO SECURE
$1,000,000 IN.1R1Y
DAYS-IS COMMENCED
American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief
Seeks More Funds,
RELIEF IS BADLY NEEDED
Christmas Ship Can Supply Only
ComparatlTelr Small ZTumber for
raw Weeks 99,000,000 Heeded.
New York. Dee. 14. The American
committee for Armenian and Syrian
relief has begun a campaign to raise
$i,000, 060 In the next SO days.
The committee's receipts last month
were $839,924.03, practically all .of
which has already been cabled to var
ious distribution centers to meet Im
mediate needs, or' has been used to
purchase food and clothing to go on
the United States collier "Caesar."
America's J916 Christmas ship, which
sails for Beirut next week.
The destitute victims dependent on
the committee's efforts number 2,
000,000. throughout Turkey. Persia,
Syria and Palestine. The cargo of the
Christmas ship, which will minister
only to the region around Beirut, will
provide necessities to a small propor
tion of these 2,000,000, for not more
than two to three weeks. Kntlre reg
ions about Tlflla in Russia, Tabriz in
Persia, A dan a, Smyrna and Konia
must be served at once by direct
remittances by cable.
Altogether at least $5,000,000 is re
quired to preserve the women and
children survivors of massacre, de
portation and lack of food. Not only
food but shelter, bedding and clothing
must be provided to protect these suf
ferers from the cold. The money to
be raised in the next 30 Cays will be.
cabled for these purposes to the
American relief commissions In the
various distribution centres. Gifts
made at once through the committee's
treasurer, Charles R. Crane, 70 Fifth
avenue, will form a part of the ear
liest of these remittances.
Among the members of the commit
tee who are working for "A Million
Dollars In 80 Days," are Henry Mor
ganthau and Oscar Straus, both for
mer ambassadors to Turkey, Charles
W. Eliot, Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop
Greer, Arthur Curtlss James, Dr. John
R. Mott, James L, Barton, Samuel T.
Dutton, Arthur J. Brown, Frank' Ma
son North. Talcott Williams, and
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
The entire expenses of the commit
tee are met privately by certain of
its members, so that every cent re
ceived is used directly for relief.
Declares Insurance
Industry Menaced
Alleged Legislative Abuse Amounts to
Confiscation, Says Mark T. lccXse;
Xemedy Is Urged.
, That the insurance industry of-the
United States faces ruin through. the
menace .of legislative abuse was the
word brought to tat Insurance Federa
tion of Oregon yesterday by Mark T.
McKee, national secretary of the Coun
cil of Insurance Federations, speaking
to some 1ZS Portland insurance men
at the Multnomah hotel.
Mr. McKee pleaded for government
regulation but not confiscation, con
servative improvement and fair chance
for competition with the state in work-
Ingmen's compensation. He Urged
closer cooperation between the several
branches of the insurance industry and
greater publicity to prevent unfair
.competition. His' theme was "The
Business of Insuring Insurance."
' At a meeting of the Oregon Federa
tion yesterday C. D. Babcock, former
member of the State Industrial Acci
dent commission, was elected secre
tary, succeeding Louis Sondhelm, who
resigned recently. Offices will l.e
maintained at 103S Chamber of Com
merce building.
The national lnsuranca federation
was organized five years ago and now
has branches lh 42 states with s total
membership of 100,000. The Oregon
branch was organized six months ago
with F. E. Beach as president.
The Oregon federation is seeking to
raise a fund of $400 a month for "in
suring insurance," and a portion of
Mr. McKee's remarks yesterday was
devoted to commending this step.
Texas Man Indicted
For Firing Home
Dimmitt, Texas, Dec. 14. (I. N. S.)
Although what were thought to have
been his charred bones have been
buried, J. A. Morgan was Indicted here
today for arson in connection with the
burning of his home near Spring Lake,
November 6. Morgan was arrested in
Sweetwater today and brought to Dim
mitt. Morgan's wife, also Indicted, was ar
rested here. The bones found in the
ruins of the Morgan bogje were ex
humed in an investigation by an in
surance company and physicians pro
nounced them as those of a domestic
animal.
Irrigation Congress
Being Held at Bend
riftr-thres Delegates la Sesslom Tots
to Protest Projected Balee lm Tees
for VaUonal Forest Pasturage.
' Bend, Or., Dec 14. Fifty-three del
egates met yesterday in Bend In the
second annual Central Oregon Irriga
tion congress. Matters important to
central Oregon were discussed, and It U
hoped that the congress will have
something definite to offer to the Ore
gon Irrigation congress which meets
in Portland In January.
The delegates came from all 'of the
northern part of central Oregon. They
voted to protest against the Increase
in the fees for grazing of livestock in
the national forests-rtcently suggested
by Chief Forester Grave.
'SPENDING SPREE' IS
WHAT BIG DRUGGIST
SAYS EAST NOW ON
W, M. Berg, Manager of Owl
Drug Stores, Says Drugs
Have Reached High Cost.
"A Spending Spree" Is the way W
M. Berg, secretary and general man
ager of the Owl Drug Stores, char
actertzes the way people are making
the money fly In the cities , through
which he passed on his way west from
New York, where he visited R. A.
Miller, president of the Owl Drug
stores.
"We are encountering considerable
trouble In getting supplies for our
stores especially holiday goods, which
were ordered as early as March. The
diffe rent manufactuers were over
Joyed when we cancelled certain or
ders. About the wage question, the
employes are getting as much or more.
Dividends are higher but the spending
is that much more brisk.
"In New York they are thriving Jn
every way, but nothing is being done
to protect against a reaction, whicn
seems inevitable.
"Chemicals have about reached their
height as the American manufactures
are producing 'those most needed the
foreign supply of which was cut off
by the international conflict Some
drugs are declining: but others will
take some time before they regain their
normal price.
"The farther west you get from
New York the most substantial the
business seems to set."
Mr. Berg's stay in Portland was
brief. He left yesterday afternoon for
6'an Francisco. His trip to New York
lasted two months.
VETERANS OPPOSING
'SPECIAL SESSION' OF
LOCAL DELEGATION
Scheme Bad Business; Up
State Members Got Idea
Multnomah 'Hogs Things,'
The Multnomah delegation wilKnot
organise and hold a little "special
session" during the latter days of
December as it did two years ago if
some of the veterans of the delegation
have their way about It. They con
tend that the organization of the del
egation for the purpose of considering
prospective legislation ana aeciaing
the position to be taken upon It by
the members of the delegation in
house and senate is bad business en
gendering conflict and suspicion on
the nart of un state members.
Twn vonra am the dftleretlon or
ganized by the election of E. V. L.H-
tlefleld as cnairman ana riowaon
Stott as secretary and then proceeded
dative into nronosed laws, contem
plated appropriations and all other
supposed legislative matters coming to
their attention. Public officials were
hauiAd nnto the carnet and given the
once over to determine whether they
should be consolidated, abolished or
merged. Men who had pet measures
to propose to the legislature were
called in while the delegation dissect
ed the children of their intellects and
returned the quivering remains.
Aft.r fftrh autoDsv the delegation
either turned its .thumbs up or down
as Its pleasure alctatea ana every
timn ta Airitu described their arc
thav nnird somebody in the eye. with
the result that when the Multnomah
delegation went, Into action at Salem
everyone squinted at it out of their
still tingling optics ana Degan 10 mui
ter about the "Multnomah machine'
nri the sDeclal session.
As a consequence there Is some
little hesitancy on the part of sev
eral of those who served in the 1915
the nronoaal to organize
the delegation this time for the for
mal consideration of any legislative
matters, other than strictly Mult
nomah county matters. They con
tend that while the old plan sprung
from the slogan for "a business ses
inn" it nmvd tn be bad business be
cause outside delegations got the idea
that Multnomah county was trying 10
hog the legislature.
New Gymnasium Class.
The city Is to hold, gymnasium
classe3 and establish a community
house in the Sellwood Y. M. C. A.
The use of the building has been do
nated to the city, and Park Super
intendent Convlll Is now arranging for
classes. This will make the third
community house under the direction
of the park bureau. The others are
the community house la Alblna and
the one in Peninsula park.
Arm, Officer Is Divorced.
Ban Francisco. Dec. 14.(P. N. s.l
Sarah Stetson "Wallace was granted a
divorcs' today from Colonel Hamilton
Htons vrauace, chief quartermaster of
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5ew WOMEN'S AEZ?
146 Fifth Street, Between Mormon and Alder
Holiday Specials
COATS
Shingles Held Up
May ffe Released
Fresno. Cal., Dec. 14. (U. P.) The
supply of shingles in the hands of
Fresno lumberyards, which have been
condemned by Sealer of Weights and
Measures Jayne, will be released if
dealers stamp each bundle with the
approximate number of shingles in
each.
Jayne condemned the ' shingles, he
said, because he found that every bun
dle examined was ahort of the required
total of 260. The shingles were re
ceived here from Oregon and Washing
ton. Gas Fumes Fatal
To Leak Inspector
Everett, Wash.. Dec. 14. (P. N. S.)
Eric Olson, "trouble-shooter" of ths
Everett Oas company. Is dead today,
overcome by gas fumes when looking
for service trouble, nine 4sqrs ago. Ia
all this time he did not regain con
sciousness. Ths pulmotor was first
used, then blood infusion, admlnistra
tion of oxygen and salins Injections,
iSll- to no avail. vv..v-.v;--i.:
$27.50 COATS AT $14.75
Velours, mixtures and the very latest mustard
color, at only
$14.75
Values to $37.50 at Only $14.75
Silk, serge and velvet Presses, in all the new and wanted
styles. Also combinations of silk and serge, serge and
velvet, silk and velvet.
Our entire stock of Party Dresses will be sold J yi
at only J
WAISTS
Values to $6.00 at Only $2.95
Our entire stock of Crepe de Chine and Georgette if
Crepe Waists at only..r. da70
ROSENTHAL'S
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