THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 23, 1821.
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THK STATE SCHOOLS
A STORY from Salem in a re
cent Journal would indicate
misunderstanding on the part of
.some members of the legislature re
fir'ding the matter of financial sup
port for the state Institutions of
higher learning. There is criticism
of th,ese institutions on the ground
that appropriations are requested
from the legislature or activities
supposedly provided for in the mill
age tax measures. The fact is that
neither the1 university nor agricul-,
tural college is requesting appropri
ations for work for which the mill
age funds are provided.
No appropriation is requested for
the. work of the university at Eu
gene. To provide for the medical
school at Portland, however, there
is dependence upon the legislature
as heretofore. The medical school
has always been financed entirely
independently of the other features
of university work.
The regents of the agricultural
college . likewise are making no re
quest from the legislature for addi
tional funds for resident instruction
or regular college work provided for
in the millage measures. The exper
iment station work and the extension
service were not provided for in
were organized and have always been
financed through special congres
sional and state legislative enact
ments entirely apart from the in
structional work at Corvallis. They
are maintained cooperatively by. the
federal- government, the 'state, and,
in some of their features, by, thei
several counties. In fact, the branch
experiment stations, as well as cer
tain special agricultural investiga
tional work and the extension serv
ice, are operated under conditions
such that it would be impracticable
to provide, for them through millage
levies. They were not included in
the budget estimates of require
ments, nor given any consideration
in determining the amount of the
levy provided for in either of the
millage measures, the one passed by
the legislature, in 1913 or the one
that was approved by the people at
the last primary election.
The. report to the secretary of
state lists the legislative appropria
tions for experiment station and ex
tension , 'work during, the past bien
nium, and indicates the needs for
the next biennium, should such
work be continued. Evidently these
are the items under discussion by
members of the legislature. As taken
from the report, they are as follows:
The legislature- two years, ago
made appropriations for special in
vestigations in dairying, in soils, in
horticulture and crop pests, and in
general-agriculture, amounting in all
to $52,500 a year for the biennium. -As
shovrn in the report, if these in
vestigations are to be continued it
will be necessary to renew the ap
propriations. Again, several of the
branch; experiment stations are
maintained cooperatively by the fctate
and the federal government. Con
gress last year reduced the 'appro
priations to the department of agri
culture, and as a result, part of the
support theretofore given was with
drawn from the Oregon stations. It
Will be necessary, therefore, to pro-
vide additional funds for these sta
tions. Asj estimated by the director,
the amount required, including cer
tain unavoidable increase in costs, ia
$lji,500 ajyear.
lixcept ;in one particular, the en
tire extension service ia now per
m4nentiy financed under federal and
stajte lawa.fTJnCer the federal Smith
Lever act, money appropriated to
th several states for extension work
In agriculture and home economics,
except $10,000 a year, given uncon
ditionally, must be duplicatedJjy the
state, for this purpose the state
legislature, at its lat regular ses
sion, appropriated $38,000 for the
biennium. The Smith-Lever appro
priation is increased from year to
yeLr until it reaches its maximum
in 1923. :The amount available to
Orison for the two years, 1921-1922,
is $73,000, to secure which it will
be jnccessary that the legislature ap
propriate $33,000.
It is apparent, therefore, that the
question to ,be determined by the
legislature is as to whether the ex
tension work under the Smith-Ijever
act and th important agricultural
investigations mentioned should be
continued. Certainly no provision
was -made for these features in the
millage measure, and no attempt
should be made to divert millage
funds from the purposes originally
contemplated.
Would it be sound policy to legis
late a number of men, all with fami
lies, out of business by passing at
Ralem a bill to turn the handling of
bonds in Oregon over to two octhree
semi-banking institutions in Port
land? Nothing less than that is pro
posed in house bill 77. Its passage
would absolutely drive a number of
men who are doing a legitimate and
wholly commendable business into
the ranks of the unemployed.
TEACHERS' TENURE
THE tenure bill has been changed.
' Provisions that were a protec
tion, to the teachers have been cut
outj
One change is the deletion of the
provision under which teachers were
classified according to the special
training they have received. Under
the changed bill, a drawing teacher,
no matter how thoroughly trained
and competent in her work, could
be assigned to classes in manual
training, or a teacher of physics in
high school could be sent into the
primary grades. The teachers insist,
and with seeming justification, that
the change removes the last vestige
of tenure from the bill.
- Of other objectionable changes,
one deletion removes the provision
under which, before a teacher could
be dismissed, her principal was re
quired to show that he had given
herj all possible instruction and aid
in helping a less experienced teacher
in Adjusting herself to her work in
the- Portland system. This release
of all principals from a just respon
sibility in . case of charges, very
clearly means a purpose to give the
board a perfectly free hand in the
demotion and removal of teachers,
and would be a very near return to
things as they were in the old days
when no teacher had the slightest
assurance, of continuance in her po
sition: Ko far as, the teachers' tenure is
concerned, the bill is vitally weak
ened for the teacher as compared
with the measure that was published
and debat ed during several weeks in
Portland before the legislature con
vened. In effect, it is a near repeal
of tenure, and would give an un
worthy board all the power needed
to introduce politics, machine meth
ods and ' many . forms of personal
government and private manipula
tion into the schools.
Nobody can blame the teachers
for their protests against the bill.
With some past boards in Portland,
they have had bitter experiences and
fault cannot tje found with them in
opposing even a near return to the
told order.
A wise course would seem to be
to kill the present measure and let
the board and a strong committee of
teachers take plenty of time and
agree upon a bill that will be satis
factory to both. The teachers want
efficiency. Every teacher in the
next grade ha4 to make up by added
work for the inefficiency of the
teacher in the grade just below, iff
such there be, and it is absurd to
pay any attention to the contention
that tenure makes for general inef
ficiency. Though 30,000,000 Bibles are
printed annually it will, at the pres
ent demand, take 50 years to supply
the world. The American Bible Soci
ety says the demand is greater than
publishers can meet. China alone
asked for 1,000,000 more Bibles last
year than could be supplied. The
old book is the world's best seller.
CLEAN ADVERTISING
THE, substantial increase in circu
lation of the weekday and Sun
day editions of The Journal is ac
companied by a similar increase in
advertising volume, which increase
since December 1, 1920. has been
greater than that of any other Port-J
land newspaper.
From December 1, 1920, to Janu
ary 21. 1921. inclusive, the gains in
advertising volume of the four Port
land newspapers are as follows:
Oregon Journal .11,129 inches
Morning Oregrorilan 8.987 inches
Portland Telegram 7,210 inches
Portland Newa 3.643 inches
jEarly in December, .1919, The
Journal, subscribing to the doctrine
otj "Truth in Advertising," adopted
a policy of rejecting from its col-
umns all , advertising matter which
it deemed objjectionable. Included
in this category are quack medicine
and wildcat financial advertisements.
The Joumai has rigidly adhered
to thia policy since that date and in
so doing has gone miWh further in
this regard than, other Portland
newspapers and occupies a place 'of
distinction among all the newspapers
of the L'nited States for clean col
umns. During the calendar year 1020 The
Journal carried 859,693 inches of ad
vertising as against 779,528 Inches
in 1919, a gain of 80,165 inches. A
less discriminate advertising policy
would have swelled this gain by
40,000 inches.
The substantial increase in the ad
vertising volume of The Journal over
other Portlartd newspapers since
December 1 list establishes the fact
that "Truth in Advertising" is not
only good morals but good business.
One detective dead, two patrol
men dying, a bystander in the hos
pital with two bullets in his leg. a
bandit slightly wounded and in jail,
are the fruit of two pistol duels be
tween police and a yeggman on the
streets of Seattle. The bandit whose
automatic was so deadly was finaily
felled by a blow on the jaw from a
patrolman's fist after the latter's re
volver had been emptied. Mankind
will continue tO' be held up, to be
rebbad, be shot, be murdered and be
bedeviled so long as pistols are man
ufactured. In fact, that is what pis
tols are made for.
WHERE IS THESP1S t'.OING?
WHAT is happening before the
footlights? Is the stage turn
ing to uncleanness? Is the little
speck of decay which has always
infected it about to become a cancer
which will ultimately despoil and
consume it?
There are portents which suggest
that negative answers do not' dispose
of these question. For instance,
London sends a report that itw stage
is besotted with disgusting revela
tions which are fit only for a cham
ber of horrors. A recent dispatch
informs us that the gruesome, the
salacious and the fantastic are run
ning riot in the current offerings.
Crowds jam the buildings, we are
told, but leave in disgust and revul
sion, only to return again and again
for more of the same slush.
From Chicago a few days ago
came a story regarding a perform
ance of the opera "Aphrodite" by
Mary Garden, an American girl who
has attained high rank in grand
opera. This play was declared so
vulgar the audience had to hide its
embarrassment and mortification in
comments on the weather. Clothes
on Miss Garden in one scene were
reported to have been conspicuous
by an almost utter absence.
But not only on the stage proper
is this cankerous growth manifest.
Like a plague, it is spreading to the
cabaret and the ba,nquet hall, which
in their nature are akin to the stage.
Witness that rare bit of deviltry con
tributed by the shoe dealers' associa
tion at its annual gathering at Mil
waukee within the month. So eager
were the delegates to put a "kick" in
their prosaic lives that they had
their banquet table served by wait
resses who wore syncopated bathing
suits.
Who or what is to be blamed for
these unhealthy signs? Is it the
public?. Or is; the blame to be put
on those who, cater to the public's
amusement? The answer probably
would be six of one and half a dozen
of the other.; We do not have to
seek far to .find the public's Joint
culpability. Recall some of the
jokes we hear on the vaudeville
stage. Many of them we would not
dare explain to innocent girls, and
many others of them are unprint
able. Again, nearly every vaudeville
act is aimed at a risque climax. Yet
millions go to see and hear and laugh
at these things. There you have a
tacit copartnership which exempts
the stage from the larger onus. If
the patron stayed, away because of
these offensive offerings, the vau
devillian wouldn't serve them.
There are some things which
should not be brought before public
gaze garbed as grim realities. The
three graces of mythology offer a
trinity more beautiful than anything
which may be conceived by the hu
man mind. But they must te left to
the imagination if we would retain
their beauty. Three scantily clad
women enacting these roles not only
violate a supernal image, but add
to it the vulgarity of the common
place. It is to be doubted if a nude
woman ever did anything for stage
art except to drag it down. A pretty
ace holds its charm under the most
searching ecrutiny, but it takes a
rugged fancy and a mind lacking in
true moral values to 6ee innocent
grace and beauty in the uneven
movements and sharp angles and
protruding joints of the human form.
In the latter the phenomena of dis
concerting suggestion are scarcely
ever lacking.
It is the province of the stage to
amuse and instruct, but it should
leave the field of affectionate my
thology and nuptial allegory and sin
less nudity to tte poet, the painter
and the sculptor.
THE UNHAPPY LOAFER
AN OREGON manufacturer of
metal ware announced a reduc
tion in the price of his product a
short time ago. The costs of ma
terial, he explained, are still at war
levels. But the workers are more
efficient. He was able to pass to
the trade the cut in ' the cost of
production due to increased volume
of output. The reduced price in
creased sales and he was able to
give his employes more employment.
There are other employersj who
say that. as Jobs become more; difr
Ificult to obtain the men strive to
hold them by putting more energy
into the day's work. This is as de
sirable a result of the readjustment
period as the abandonment of ex
travagance by the people of the
country as a whole.
A railroad president said to the
employes of his line, "We cannot
ask our shippers and our passengers
to help us pay the wages of anyf man
who is loafing on the job." During
the war when there were two or
three jobs to every available man
this sentiment could not beenfOrced.
It can be now. The loafer is out of
joint.
DIVIDING THE WATERS
FROM a pamphlet issued by the
Bend Commercial club, the in
formation is gathered that the Cen
tral Oregon metropolis fears indus
trial calamity should the waters of
the Deschutes river be diverted for
the irrigation of the 100,000 acres
known as the north unit.
The club suggests that a commis
sion of unprejudiced personnel be
appointed to "study the most effi
cient uses to which the water of Cen
tral Oregon can be put, having in
mind the greatest development of
the section in the long future."
The deliberations of such a com
mission, the settlers of the north
unit contend, would unwarrantably
delay the execution of plans now
many years advanced and perhaps
endanger rights won from the gov
ernment and the state by dint of
long endeavor.
Thus the issues of the controversy
are made clear. It at once becomes
apparent that th'e problem is one
that must be so!ve"d by adjustment
between the interests involved. Port
land, for instance, is not more con
cerned for the industrial future of
Bend than the reclamation of th
potentially fertile expanse of the
north unit. The well being of every
district is earnestly desired and an
advantage to one at the impoverish
ment of another would not be con
templated. Nor would any outsider view with
equanimity the loss of any right by
those who have justly earned it.
But there is a phaje of the dis
cussion which has large public im
port. When the pioneers of the north
unit began a heroic campaign for
the watering of their arid acres
many years ago, the coincident de
velopment of hydro-electric energy
was an unknown doctrine.
Now it is as evident that reclama
tion and pow.er development should
be developed under common plan as
that agriculture, industry and trans
portation should proceed contempor
aneously. Every irrigation project can, or
should, develop a head of water
usable for power purposes. The
water that miraculously brings the
land into fruition can also be made
to generate the power for the ener
gizing of industry, the illumination
of dwellings and towns and even the
operation of farm machinery and
domestic appliances.
What are the facts in connection
with the Deschutes?
The general reclamation project of
the Deschutes is divided into four
units. The north unit embraces
about 100,000 acres in what has long
been known as the Agency Plains
country. The plans for its reclama
tion involve winter storage of water
in a reservoir of 23,000 acres at Ben
ham Falls, about 12 miles above
iiend, and the use of the channel of
the Deschutes as an aqueduct to a
point below Bend known as Aubrey
Falls, where a diversion dam would
turn the water into the ditches both
of the north unit and of the west
unit, the latter covering some 30,000
acres.
The Bend "protest is premised upon
the assertion that the winter Btorage
contemplated would so lessen the
flow of the Deschutes that the log
ponds of two large sawmills would
freeze and an important industry
would be handicapped. i
The irrigatlonists contend that the
flow of the Deschutes would con
stantly be sufficient for both pur
poses. They reject with fervor the
Bend suggestion that they use the
waters of Crooked river, their in
sistence being that the flow of the
latter stream would be insufficient
and that to draw from both sources
would be prohibitively costly.
UMATILLA RAPIDS
PENDLETON and other Umatilla
county communities are talking
about harnessing Umatilla rapids in
the Columbia river. The j result
weuld be about 320,000 horse power
in hydro-electric energy and the ir
rigation of several hundred thousand
acres of Washington's and Oregon's
contiguous lands. By electrification
the river-might then be made to op
erate trains as well as supply cur
rent for industrial, domestic and ag
ricultural uses. j
When so many acres thirstily
await productivity, when soj many
people eagerly hope for home mak
ing opportunities and when so many
peoples are hungry for the products
of soil and industry, every day that
passes without definite move O com
bine the reclamation, powr and
transportation features embodied in
the large use of the Columbia is a
day wasted.
IISfDIA'S ANGEL
OF UNREST
Gandhi, Who Seeks to Achieve a
Throwback to the Vedas and the
Junking of Western Civilisation,
Honored as a Prophet, by Mil
lions, Whose Return to
Sanity Britain Hopes For.
Foreign Editorial Digest
Consolidated Treea Association)
Describing conditions in India. Sir
Valentine Chirol, former member of the
royal commission on India, declares that
revolutionary influence has moved "with
more of a breakneck speed" there than
anywhere else ,in Uie world. The fol
lowing article appears in the London
Times :
"When I left India the famous pro
nouncement of August 20, 1917, had just
opened up to India, as the. not unmerited
reward of Indian loyalty" in the great
world-crisis, the prospect for the first
time of a real share in the governance of
the country and of uJtimate . partnership
on equal terms in the commonwealth of
British nations.
"I return here now on the eve of the
first elections for the popular assemblies
born of that pronouncement, and 1 find
a large and extremely vocal section of
the ioliticaIly minded- classes, whose
aspirations a whole series of far-reaching
reforms embodied in the new govern
ment of India act were intended to sat
isfy, banded together to render them
abortive. They hearken to a new prophet,
and his gospel i as simple as it Is mas-
sive: 'Away with Western civilization!
Go hack to the ancient days of the
Vedas !'
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"Nor doos the, secretary of state's
whilom: friend, Mr. Gandhi, confine him
self to generalities. His commandments
are precise and .particular. He has not
only said but wTitten. that western civil
ization is of its nature Fatanic, whereas
the civilization of ancient India has no
peer: and when it is said, that she has
not prosressfd, that '. is her virtue and
her anchor and the proof that she is stilt
sound at the core.
"He condemns violence as one of the
outward and visible expressions of the
materialism with which western civiliza
tion is instinct. He therefore deprecates
for the present any attempt to destroy
British rule by open insurgency, thougrh
he hints occasionally at what may have
to he done ultimately when a lashkar of
10,000. OUO Hindus Is ready to leap to the
sword. He prefers to rely for the present-
on Indian 'soul-force,' which, ' if
applied in accordance with his injunc
tions, will induce the complete paralysis
of British rule. It will not even be
necessary to drive the British out of
India if they will become Indianize,d,
for they can then be tolerated. But if
they wish to retain their own culture
their place is not in India. The future,
anyhow, lies in the hands of the Indians.
Let them henceforth refuse to serve gov
ernment in any capacity. Let Indian
lawyers refuse to practice in the courts
of law and let judges leave the bench.
"Let schoolmasters refuse to teach on
Western lines ; let schoolboys and stu
dents desert the government and state
aided schools and colleges and universi
ties, of which the foundations laid by
Macaulay have been the foundations of
slaverjk Let Indian parents build up
'national' schools and colleges and uni
versities on the sure foundations of the
Vedas. Let Indians leave off wearing
European clothes or clothes made of im
ported European materials. Let them
spin and weave their own stuffs. Let
them give up strong drinks. Let them
eat Indian food; let t&em give up even
sugar and tea, since the making of sugar
and the growing of tea have fallen into
the hands of European oapitalism. Let
even husband and wife prefer to remain
childless rather than see children born
unto them in thui dark age upon which
Western civilization has set its sinister
seal. Let them, above all, and as their
most urgent and immediate duty, boy
cott' the elections and refuse to be
nominated or to vote for the new coun
cils which are to fasten more tightly o'n
their necks the fetters of their slavery.
a e
."Mr. Gandhi is not of high caste but
only the son of a bunnia merchant. He
does not come from the Deccan. but
from Gujarat, a much less distinguished
part of. the Bombay presidency. He does
not claim to- be anything but a man of
the people. His frame is small and
fragile and his features homely. He
lives in the simplest native way, eating
the simplest native food, which he is be
lieved to prepare withxhis own hands,
and dresses In the simplest native home
spun. His private life is as unimpeach
able as, for that matter, Mr. Tilak's was.
His language is as replete with refer
ences to Hindu mythology and scrip
tures, but more direct. His manners are
gentle and free from affectation. In
private he will meet even officials in a
friendly way and fffeliver himself of his
opinions in fluent but quite uncompro
mising English. In public he blurts out
the truth as he conceives it with as little
regard for the feelings or prejudices of
his supporters aa for those of his op
ponents. No one can suspect him of hav
ing any axe of his own to grind. He is
beyond argument, because his conscience
must be riht. His austere asceticism
and other-worldliness have earned for
him the name .and reputation of a ma
hatma i. e., of one on whom the mantle
of wisdom of the ancient Rishis of the
Vedlc age has fallen. As such he is out
side and above caste.
"He read , for the bar in England,
whence he brought back to India, where
he practised for a time, the contempt
for Western civilization which he now
pjeaches so vigorously. The study of
Tolstoyan literature, the one product of
Western thought - whieto finds favor In
his eyes and Tolstoy was a Russian,
and, as such, half an Oriental has had
a profound influence in shaping his life
to self-renunciation and imbuing him
with a deep distrust of European civil
ization, of which he can see only the
materialistic side.'
"He threw himself into Indian politics
Just when the promise of very liberal re
forms was driving the moderate and. the
extremist Bchools of Indian nationalism
apart, and after a local "no rent' cam
paign the Rawlatt acts, of which, by the
way. the provisions most generally
dreaded at the time have never yet been
applied, started him on the inclined
plane of fUtyagraha, or 'civil disobedi
ence.' He urged his followers then as
eloquently as he does today to refrain
from violence. The terrible outbreak in
the Punjab to which that movement di
rectly led gave him pause, but only for
a short time.
e
"Deeply shocked at first by the hor
rible outrages committed by Indian
mobs that cheered his name, he soon
forgot them, in the bitter resentment
provoked by methods of repression
which he and they regard as designed to
terrorize and to humiliate a whole people
rather than to punish the actual crim
inals. Just at this juncture, too. the fa
natics of the Caliphate agitation per
suaded Mr. Gandhi that the peace terms
imposed upon Turkey were designed In
the same spirit not so much to punish
the Turk as to humiliate the whole Is
lamic world and destroy the spiritual in
fluence f a religion professed by 60,
000.000 fellow-Indians.
"He resumed his campaign more
wildly and blindly than ever, and trans
lated his doctrines into more Impracti
cable commandments, ready to Justify
them out of the Koran, and out of the
Bible, too, as well as. out of the Hindu
scriptures. He appeals to all creeds and
castes ' and classes, but chiefly to the
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
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A store of moisture found in Ofegon
mountains was only water. i
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There is very slight similarity between
light hens and blonde chickens. j
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"Pay bills promptly- is a slogan some
times far more easily uttered than prac
ticed. v I
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Nearly a million dollars are to be spent
on a new Portland theatre.
Still ' some
. :r -4-
iojk say business is poor.
I t
The old world probably never will
travel fast enough to escape the beatiti
ful fact that love is blind. i T
; t
Indicted doormakers will not be! h'eld
responsible for making the kind tfeat
slam in the faces of book agents. "I
, if
Bet a dime Michael Kalich. after
drinking some of his own brew, couldn't
pi uiiuumc nis name wiuiout ai
i r
ncre ana mere.
lurtie is everything from a tes
tudinate reptile to a beefy condtmfent
for soup, tut by any construction it
is not an automobile upside flown. I
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town"
Dr. Owens Adair of Astoria Is divid
ing her time between the legislature -at
Salem and the Hotel Portland.! Dr.
Adair, though 80 years of age, has never
lost the sparkle in her eyes that she had
when her name was Derthlna Angeline
Owens, when she was a barefooted little
girl on Clatsop; Plains. She is certalfily
a woman of one idea, and that Is, the
betterment of humanity. She it as
who worked so long in securing the
passage of the bill for the sterilisation
of perverts and the criminally insane.
The bill finally became a law and; a
state eugenics board was created t(j pass
on all cafes of this character. I !
"We have," said Dr. Adair, "a law
on our statute books making ii compul
sory for a man to be examirreVl before
being married. While many couples who
are unable to successfully pass the law
evade it by going to Vancouver to .be
married, it is nevertheless a start In the
right direction. What I hope to do
now is to have the scope of the taw
broadened so that women as well ?as
men shall be given a physical examina
tion before marriage. We have 25
inmates in the Institute for the Feeble
Minded here In Oregon. We haVe at
least 5000 feeble minded In Oregonj Ve
are spending . over $100,000 a year in
supporting the feeble minded, yet We
are doing little or nothing to prevent he
increase of the feeble minded. Itfis
becoming an intolerable burden, and' a
needless burden, to the taxpayers.) Tin
der our present commitment law 'we
Nave authority to examine and sterilize
any patient who is judged to be feeble
minded. TJiere should be a law pre
venting the marriage of feeble minded
people ; this is. until they are steriiizf d,
so that they shall not be an additional
burden upon the state in increasing the
population of our feeble minded.
"The present board, in whose harida
this matter rests, consists of Dr. F. M.
Brooks, Dr. R. Lee Stelner, Dr. J. tS.
Smijh, Dr. L. R. C'ompton, Dr. Andrew
C. Smith, Dr. Wilson D. McNary and
Dr. W. T. Williamson. They ! have
already passed on several hundred leases
in which sterilization has been j per
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fifed
A aermon on the delinquent child, with bime
training aa hia text, ia here delirered by jitr.
Ijockley. who illustrate the right way with the
youth by describing the work being done jon
Chester A. Lyon a "Bi UroUier larmj' ijear
Iebanun, Or. 13
In a recent issue of the Union Record
of Seattle there appears this significant
statement by Henry Drum, superintend
ent of the Washington state penitentiary
at Walla Walla: "It is fundamentally
necessary, to insure the permanency 'Jof
any race of people, that their social life
be so directed that its childhood, regard
less of its parentage, be nurtured both
physically and mentally to the highest
degree. Problems of every other char
acter are secondary in importance, jj I
should like to se an organized and ag
gressive movement to enforce this ifsut."
Is an attitude? of harshness 'and Re
pression of the dhild justified? Are ive
justified in demanding of our children
the subjection of their life plans to" oiir
ideas? . ' . ;1 !i
Governor Olcott has brought 'to the
attention of the legislators of Oregon
the need of a more intelligent handling
of the delinquent boy. problem. So often
we put money above manhood, profit
above principle. :
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Down at Lebanon is a farm called tfie
"Big Brother Farm." It is run by Jr.
and Mrs. Chester A. Lyon. Its crop j is
better citizens. This farm has nothihg
to do with the Juvenile court nor any
other similar Institution. It is run by
the boys themselves, under the Buper
ivlsion of Mr. and Mrs. Lyon. Fr6m
a small . start, eight years ago, whfen
they took 12 boys who were prob
lems, as their guests, it has grown till
there are now 75 boys. No restraints is
put upon the boys. They can run away
if they please, but the appeal to the boys'
sense of fair play and square : dealing
means that there are no runaways. Force
is not used. They are not 'nagged,
scolded' and harassed. "Do", is substi
tuted for "don't." Every young 'animal,
whether it is a kitten, a puppy or a bey.
Is full of animal spirits and must have
its playtime. The boys here go swim
ming, go on long hikes, play football aind
baseball, and work in the fields to sup
port the farm. There are BCores of boys
who have been guests of this Big Brother
Farm who are making good in business
and professional life In Portland. In
fact, very few of the boys who have ben
guests of this farm have not made good.
1
Strangely enough, Mr. and Mrs.f Ches
ter A. Lyon do not solicit aid. Many j of
the boys who are now making good send
checks to enable them to take other boys.
Many of the citizens of Lebanon donate
masses, always emotional, intensely Ig
norant, depressed by two appalling epi
demics of influenza far worse than the
plague, grievously harassed by the Ap
palling increase in the cost of living,
haunted in many partji of the country
by the fear of short crops if not famine,
owing to the shortage of rain, and agi
tated In the towns by the novel excite
ment of strikes. Wherever he goes and
he is untiring in his Journeyings vst
multitudes to whom politics means little
unless quickened bjj religious emotion,
flock to hear him, or rather to worship
him, for it is no mere political leader, bjut
a saint' who speaks to them. We hsive
never yet had to reckon with a Hiredu
saint as a political factor a Hinidu
saint, too, who, man of peace though fhe
may be. is ready to walk arm in arm
with such a fiery Mahomedan as Ma
homed Ali, assuredly no man of jpeape.
The more stolid Western mind may pre
fer to dismiss Mr. Gandhi as a rnadmin,
but In the East a touch of madness ia
apt to be taken for an additional sgn
of inspiration from the gods. -jl
. " :i I
"The crown of martyrdom Mr. Gandhi,
however, still lacks. He constantly In
vites it- In nothing else does he betray
so much of ., the serpent's guile One
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Many of the legislators at Salem are
willing now to admit the truthfulness
of the long-standing charge that Salem
is a 9 o'clock town. La Grande Ob
server. ,
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Every time New York boasts that she
is the financial center of the world, Los
Angeles considers the price of wine
grapes and then ciiuckles. Salem Capital-Journal.
.e
We notice in late dispatches that
President-elect Harding is in favor of
building a larger navy, but hopes to re
duce expenses. Hame old bunk
Eugene Guard.
Every country boy whose part of the
chores Is doing the milking will agree
that the Illinois girl who quit milking
to become a bandit had provocation for
the act. Eugene Register.
e
There was a fistflght In the legislature
yesterday. A dignified lawgiver heaved
a book at an editor. This will result in
a law being passed prohibiting prise
fighting in this state. Other vital busi
ness was the introduction- of three fish
bills. Medford Mail Tribune.
formed. Although Indiana, Wisconsin
and many other states have a some
what similar law, Jurists say that the
Oregon law is the best of the kind, and
other states are copying it -
"A few weeks ago, the dairymen of
Tillamook county shipped a carload of
scrub bulla to the stockyards here. They
realize that scrub sires are a menace
to the dairy industry. - Stockmen will
pay high prices tor good sires to head
their herds, but when it comes to hu
manity, anyone, no matter how much of
a scrub, is considered good enough to
be a father of children. U Is unfair
to the children themselves amL it is
unfair to the taxpayers who have to
support their progeny. The day will
come when the Importance of this sub
ject will be realized and when those who
are trying to further the benefit of
humanity will not be sneered at and
made light of."
Mrs. A. W. Spencer "of Gardiner, at
the mouth of the Umpqua river, is. reg
istered at the Seward.
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Mrs. W. F. Wade of Imbler, the center
of a rich farming country In Union
county, is registered at the Cornelius.
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K. L. Shortrldge of Albany is a guest
at the Imperial.
..'.
Hugh McCall of Vale is a Portland
visitor.
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George Fosborn, hailing from Ash
land, is at the Imperial. ' .
-
T. H. Easterly Of Hood River is reg
istered at the Hotel Oregon.
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E. B. Hughes, whose home is at As
toria, is a guest at the Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Arnold of Sheri
dan are registered at the Hotel Benson.
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H. E. Johnson and J. T. Turloy of
Heppncr are Portland visitors.
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J. M. Gllbreath .of Rainier is 1 a guest
at the Cornelius.
Lockley
supplies, for they know the merit of the
work that is being done. There are no
visiting hours on this farm. Visitors
are welcome 34 hours a day, 365 days in
the year. Mr. Lyons believes brute force
should be used only with brutes and not
with reasoning or reasonable creatures ;
and so there is no corporal punishment
on this farm. Every boy who hrfs been
on We farm keeps in touch with his Big
Brother and Big Sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Lyon, by correspondence or by occasional
visits. The boys are not preached to or
preached at, but in fireside talks andd
campfire council vital subjects are dis
cussed by the boys, and when they are in
doubt they appeal to Mr. Lyon and ask
his opinion on the subject. Theyi dis
cuss ail sorts of subjects with utter (free
dom. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon have revolutionary
evolutions
Ideas they believe there are more bad
parents than , bad beys and that delin
quent parents should be -committed In
stead of their delinquent children. Homes
In which there is constant discord,, or
homes broken by divorce, are the causes
of most delinquency in boys and girls.
Hasty marriages, lack5 of forbearance,
lack of home training by which boys
and girls are taught to be thoughtful and
considerate a husbands and wives and
as fathers and mothers these are some
of the reasons why we have the juvenile
delinquent and the problem of the ao
called bad boy. The children do not
ask to come into the world. Many chil
dren are unwelcome, and surely the least
that the parents can do is to give the
child a square deal when he does arrive.
If the father would be a chum to his
boy, in place of a severe Judge, we should
have fewer boys coming before Judge
Kanzler and other courts of a similar
nature. -
Greater frankness in the 'teaching of
sex truths in the home and in the school
would help to solve the problem. Chil
dren are Imitators. They follow In the
footsteps of their parents. Better parents
will mean better children. Net a citizen
of Oregon but ia Interested in the boy
problem, for If he has not boys of his
own, some boy is going to be the husband
of .his daughter,' or if he has no children,
better boys mean lower 'taxes for not
only are we manufacturing future crim
inals In our reform schools and penal
institutions, but we are paying higher
taxes to support them. The place to
start the training of the child is with the
parent. In other words. It all comes
back to bl matter of home training for
the future fathers and mothers of
America.
might almost say such a theatrical pose
as In his repeated suggestions that
government will surely arrest hlm. Not
only does ' he assert defiantly that he
means to destroy. British rule, but he
himself points out that the government
is quite entitled to protect itself against
him, and that his friends must not there
fore be surprised or provoked to vio
lence tf lt one day lays hands upon him.
But In vain so far has the snare been
set before, the government, which pins
faith on the gradual return of the Indian
people to sanity. In spite of Mr. Gan
hi's exhortations, and however sincere
they may be. any strong action taken
against him at the dresent Juncture
would almost certainly produce at least
some local explosions, and, with the
mempry of the Punjab still fresh in In
dia, that is not a risk to be lightly taken.
"Nor is it at all necessary to despair
of Indian sanity. There are already
signs of distinct reaction against
Gandhism, and in one of his latest utter
ances Mr, Gandhi himself betrays a note
of unaccustomed depression. I Another
year, he declares, will bring swaraJ
(home rule), if India be true to herself
that is. to him; but he adds significant
ly that her response has not yet. been all
that. he could wish."
The Oregon Gountry
Notthweet Happening In Brief Form tor the
Ituay Reader ; ' ;
OREGON NOTES.'
A rn I' 1r . . j--. , .1-
-- "''rii r lorence ana uiriinuv.
" the SlusUw .river will Mart operating,
abOUt Murrh 1
The recent iit. i i '
!. .u wiie cienericiai result, in
rodent floodl' destroyed thousands of
iwrtnY'H".1'"1' editor." orpanlaer and
i L. . ' 1 " " prouiems. nas been
Coun 8ecretttry uf " Oregon - Dairy
h-v 7 . ' ,llxp"f or (.rant I'an
:y?l. ""y "rt.to pro-
building I'urcnase or a hospital
onn'i? id th?r,? ,M fronv "'."(' to $rr.o..
In Tom vLh1 ? 'V'1 ""llrt 1,1 sight
LiGoId HUI.rlB U$,W nU":" ""art mlru,
A new professor, ,1. l -hMm'n of "
fpokan. has been A i!TnU
deynMrJlr'Vr0n fac"'!y it. the Themis
try department. .
rYA i)u,,n''k of measles among; Bend
children Iim i cauned the. quarantining of
1 home The source of con. anion hiui
not been. J raced. -
While the family wan tetniH.nirllv ab
Jjent from home a bnrr-lar t n t s v k.M ti.n
V.0n?,.of Verden Moffit at Salem. Mr.
Mofrit is chief of jiolicc..' '
At the. home of Georpe Taylor in Bond
a still, li0 irallona nf mini
three gallons of uhiskov were found,
and Taylor was fined " js'tm.
Klmat eonntv harks, havo'airreed tn
finance (ii,t(imnr. ,i t.n . .
registered tock Bt the se. ..inf. nnnu:'.i l
v. ... , ... , .-, .. in, urnirr wi nuv
..t me mamum-county tarni bureau.
The wirtar.f- txf . 1..-
- . j 't. nH hiiiiiih- lli&n Jill-
cattle and horses and 23. mm bead of
sheep upon the Iieschtlles national for
est) during the. grazing season of UCl.
vruie nood JRIvcr county's taxes are
fart in excess of Ihrwi. of m.iv fnr.n..e
yesr. iltireim nnin. ,.., .... ..;
half 0 the 14S6.H20 !1V whl. i. r,,-,. ,..,..,
owners will be called on to pijy, will
Plans for -the 'Introduction of hiMruc
tion in instrumental ''.music in -public,
schools are' creatine a .lonmiul for in
structors in this line, and a course for
this purpose will oiwn Miortlv fn-tlie. Uni
versity of Oregon whobi of music.
WASHINGTON"
Paving estimated to cost JHS.nnn is to
be undertaken at' Yakima . early next
spring. :
Eggs estimated in value at l.'fOO.nnn
were laid by Grays Harbor county bene
In 1920.
Karl Teitzel, who. lives 'near jfhrhalls.
was arrested a few days ago and fined
J2S.35 for not sending his H-year-old l.ov
to school. ....... . .
A complete still with four- Kallons of
.moormhine was discovered bv si
Hpnnirer wt the home of Llovd Hftlinir
-vai fi 13 IS! T . ,
With a total value of U,41.?M its
1921 crop, Tleton project lays claim t i
leading all sections of Vakirna valley in
sutceaeful production,
The value of the main 'crops heid I
Btorage In the Yakima- valley is ap
proximately 4.r,00.(0(i, of which - there
are 3500 carloads ofiiajv.
Grant Kerkendoll of Toledo 1ms J.iFt
finished the shipment nf two ca-r loads of
Certified - American Wonder' seed pota
toes to . growers in California.
City Treasurer Ford of Everett has
been authorized to offer for sale. -over
the counter f 100 000 municipal bonds
authorized at the November election.
The Schlomer sheep much ncsi'i Con
nell. contesting of 1 1.K27 'acres, together,
with stock., machinery and SB00 ewes,
has been sold to Felix, and Ramie I)e
Rue for J200.000. ...
Acceptance of a glas of liquor for the
purpose of immediately drinkim? it at t.h
express Invitation of the owner, la" not a
violation of the prohibition" law, accord
ing o a decision of the supreme court.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Stewart Sliou'dysged
73, who had resided in the fitnte of Wash
ington nearly all her life and in-wlione
honor the city of Ellensbunr was named,
passed away at Seattle a few days ao.
Several thousand acres of land In the
Horse Heaven irrigation district, "which,
were sold for failure to . pay irrimtion
district taxes, have l.eeen returned to
the- former o ners through a decision by
Judge John Truax.
IDAHO
Resolutions approving the leasing nf
land to Japanese farmers fur terms not
to exceed five years were adopted by
the Twin Falls Rotary club. '
The Jerome County Times, has sus
pended Its - daily publication hikI re
turned to a -once-a-week publication. :
Ground has been procured near the
city of Salmon for building a federal
fish hatchery for the purpose or propa
gating Chinook salmon. '
Shorthand reporters of Idaho 'met at
the Ada county courthouse hint- Thurs
day and; organized the. Idaho Shorthand
Reporter' association. .
Wheat prices were higher.. In Moscow
on Friday than they have been for threw
weeks, when dealers offered $1.41 for
club and kindred varieties.
Anticipating that there will still be
no demand for wool inhe spring, Idaho
wool growers have taken up the matter
of obtaining finances and storage for
the coming clip.
Miss Gertrude D Bats, teactver of,
music at the Weiser Institute, has been
called to her home a.t Bay City. Mich.,
by a telegram stating that lir father
had been killed In a batik robbery there.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
We've got too iiiany chewln' gum
taxes and not enough statesmen in
Washington to see that the. big estates
p- the big cities and the big, trusts
holdin' nine-tenths of the country outer
use needs tax In" and bad orter be made
to pay off the war debt first off and
fore any dividends. Somo of our tax
statesmen reminds me of Yeller Mike.
In" Texas, on the upirT' watershed of
the Nueces river. He lived mowtly by
shearln'- other people's sheep on "the sly
and sellln the wool to the second-hand
dealers In San Antonio. He 'lowed that
mebby he was a lee tie' feeble-minded,
but .he was -a wise man alongside of
the sheepmen that let him,' do It..
kihiow you a.
PO R.TL AN D
"Pendleton, is figuring on warming
the water for its swimming poo.td by
solar heat.
. The information comes from, the
public library. How did the librarian
get the item? .
Simply because the mayor of Pen
dleton spent a Sunday afternoon re
cently in the technical department
of the Library association of . Port
land looking into th? . subject.
He" obtained not a little data which
materially strengthened -his faith in
the success of such an undertaking.
With gas rates rising and the prices
of briquets and wood soaring. It is
little wonder that people are looking
for solar beat or anv other fuel sub
stitute that will aid economy.'
Every day such practical, questions
are being asked and answered by the
head of the technical department and
her assistants, but It Is less often
that visitors to the city avail them
selves of the advantages" of the large
and up-to-date collection in the pub
lic library.
Pendleton has a very good library
of its' own, and doubtless material
could have been found there as .well.
But if Pendleton does -carry out Its
idea of heating its "new swimmln'
hole" by the heat of the sun. 1'ort
Jand Will be proud of what was done
here td help the plan, along.
(To be continued)
)