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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1919)
2 TltE OKEGOX STATESMAN : SUNDAY, APRIL . Ul . " ' " : : : : 1 SCHOOLS COLLECT FUNDS FOR ARMENIANS: ATHLETICS BEGIN ENGLISH COURSE TO BE STANDARD IN FOUR STATES Council of English Prepares Outline to Be Tried Out in Northwest CONFERENCE IS SUCCESS Salem Well Represented at Spokane Association Meeting This Week Salem schools were well repre sented at the Empire. Teachers as sociation meeting at Spokaae dur ing the past week. Delegates from this city were Superintendent John itr f.AA in.. - wn r -principal of the Garfield school, and Miss Edna Sterling, head of the high Marls,, state club leader and E.-F. Carleton, assistant superintendent of public instruction, went- from the state house also. ' 1 Mr. Carleton is" a member of the committee' 'on accrediting for the northwest association and was kept busy passing on. credentials of all high schools in pregjon. Washington. Idaho and Montana, lie said that the reports from this state were in much better shape than, those from any other and that -Salem high was nno. ni wnA ev -.i-k I a appran ran unnni onestion. -' The council of English, of which Miss Sterling la a member, worked one of the schools accredited without requremeit3 for each, four years of hgh school and this. report is to be published and sent to all of the dis tricts with the request that the Eng lish teachers try it out for a year. At the 1920 meeting its working out will be discussed. The object of the plan is to make the English "j . Delegates to the convention were ' royally, entertained at banquets and dances. Part of the Salem folk re turned yesterday and the remainder are due to arrive tonight. . -. Persistent Birds Unable to Keep Nest Over Door Birds around the Richmond school building seem to appre ciate the interest the children have been taking in them re cently and it is a joke among the children to speak of the ef forts of a pair of robins who have vainly endeavored to build a nest over the front door for the past week. Each morning when the children have come to they have been hard at work with materials for their home school and spoiled the result of their labor by opening jhe door. . 4 Meeting Monday Night to Take Up Problems For the purpose of discussing neighborhood and school problems a community meeting has been called for fonday night at 7:43 in the Grant school. Only 1 parents . living In the district are planning to at tend.! Justice of the Peace G. E. Unruh will preside. . A short program of music will be rendered by tne pupils and several short addresses by patrons are sched uled for the evening. HUMANE WEEK TO BE CARRIED OUT IN SCHOOLS Entire State Will Aid Kind . ness to Animals Campaign from April 21 to 27 LEAFLETS ARE GIVEN OUT Special Sermons to Be Fea tured in Churches' Li brarians Are Prepared , : - . - All Oregon will observe "Kindness to Animals Week," from April 21 to 27. The public school and the churches will have programs aad several departments of state will as sist In the campaign for humane ed ucatioii conducted by the Oregon State Humane society. Mrs. F. V Swanton, state secreary, has been in Salem and the past week inaugur ating the work. Governor Oicott is a hearty supporter of the cause of humane education and promised his aid. He said: "During my adminis NO SKATES WHILE TOTS- STARVE TEACHERS MAY KEEP JOBS All of the teachers oT the Turner, schools have been Invited by the school board to retain their positions Tiext year. The board held a meeting' thls week end all members agreed to 'offer all of the Instructors thei present places for next fall. Lincoln School Youngster T .to Armenian Fund-Neighbo Friday saw the close of the Ar menian relief fund drive begun last Wednesday at Lincoln. Teachers had worked hard to create interest' in the campaign and met with the best effort . of their pupils. As is nearly always the case when solicitations of, this nature are car ried on. little heart grirping inci dents came to the attention of the teachers and made them wonder again at the truth of the old adage about there being so much ogood in the worst of us. ? - , ( , The principal was ' at her desk when the office door opened to ad mit a laddie whom she thought she knew rather well from former visits. To her surprise he began emptying his pockets and handfulls of pennies rolled upon the desk. "I've been saving for months to buy me a pair of roller skates," he explained, "but I guess I can get along without them when the little urns Penny Treasure Over rs Help Lydia in Collecting -4 kids are dying by the roadside; that i what got me." "There," with a sigh of satisfact ion as the last coin' lay upon the heap. ,thkt ought to save a life foi a while anyway." ' Out he strode with the air of a young conqueror over self this time, to be sure,, and yet the princi pal had thought oh, well, one can never teU. And then another came In. .. "I couldn't give anything because, you see, I never have any money for myself, but I went' around to the neighbors who haven't-any children and asked them to help me out." Lydia pressed a much crumpled Only two little stories out of many and et how tfiey reveal the heart of a child. J Stepping to the tele phone, the principal, Mrs. Von Ech en. sent a mesage to headquarters that a trifle over $100 had been raised by her boys an(TgirIs. tration I pledge your society 'that I will do all in .my power to make Ore gon a better state to live in for animals and humans. 1 Superintendent J. A.. Churchill of the department of public Instruction will issue a spial bulletin to all county school superintendents, and distribute literature through them a that each teacher in the state will have suitable leaflets for a daily program and a textbook on kindness to animals. 1 Miss Cornalia Marvin of the state library will send out a collection of literature on humane treatment of dumb animal and a request that dur ing that week all books dealing with the subject be given prominence tn the library service. Some of the branch librarians are active work ers In the local humane societies and Miss Miller of the Portland li brary will have- charge of the educa tional work In Multnomah county. In all 60.000 pieces of literature will be distributed over the state through libraries and schools. Arrangements hav been to sup ply all the teacher . a the Salem schools with textbooks and leaflets' and some of the teachers will have programs. . Sacred Heart academy will put on a prize poster contest and award a silver and bronxe medal en graved with the names of the win ners who compete from the art de partment. The Salem Ministerial association will take up; the work of having sermons on kindness to animals and humane education through the ac tivity of their secretary. Rev. N. Al drich of Leslie M. E. church. Hu mane Sunday falls on April 27. Fath er Buck or St. Josept. Catholic church Is an enthusirrtlc humane society worker and has asked for a supply of literature on the subject from state headquarters.' and will de liver a pulpit address on the subject the Sunday following. All churches are asked to give up at least one ser vlce to humane society work. Milton I Meyers has promised co operation during "Kindness to Ani mals Week" on the parf of the local Rov Scout organization. Four Sa-. lem stores will have window displays, as one of the means of teaching the whole community to pay attention to care of animals. Large copies of the Horse's Prayer, a well-known poster. will be shown In the windows; The moving picture shows are ask ed to run one reel of a suitable ani mal screen and will all be furnished with humane education slides from the Portland society. Including a pic ture of the dog that saved anohter dog's life. Tba society will atao show pictures of the work done by animals In the great world war. Humane education workers who wish material for programs can get helpful suggestions bv j addressing Mrs. Swanton, State Humane socie ty, -court house. Portland. S P RING We are showing' the largest line of new Spring footwear ever shown in Salem, and at prices as cheap and in some cases cheaper than last year. Every shoe is an exclusive style We control all the large agencies and others can only show imitations oi these style makers. 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Meetings are held once a month at night and at this time Roman life and. customs are studied. Latin plays presented and songs sung. About 90 students belong and of these 14 last semester were present at every session and in addition ; had a "1" grade in their language course. It Is felt that the club adds much Interest to the study. In the last V c f I&ii ti'- iiVi ViV Ai "tT i av vV .- WJMmmX Our showing of cheap, medium and high grade rugs is very complete. Hop. 11 GO French Wilton, special $12180 RM?. $115 !x12 Wilton, now .... E3.00 Keg. $ IKi 0x12 Wilton, now .... 72.40 KK.'$ 85 Seamless Wilton, now... " C9.70 Keg. $ C8 9x12 Wilton, now .... 54.30 Jleg. $ 58 9x12 Axminst er. now... '42.00 Reg. $ 45 9x12 Axminter, now . . . 35.80 Reg. $ 40 9x12 IJrusel., now .... 31.80 Reg. $ .TJ 9x12 Ilrusel., now 26.80 j CONG OLEUM Has stood the test We carry a very complete line of yard goods as well as ready made rugs. Priced within the reach of everybody. 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Stiff & Son 404-448 COURT STREET three years the enrollment In the repanmenl has Increased SO per cent and there are so minr now in it that Miss Hummel and Miss Lena Herat were unable to care for all of them and Miss Mary f'arounatclan. a Willamette university senior, has an exira class. who visited a number of schools la the country enlisting the Interest of the boys and girls. The results of their tour have not yet been checked up. RAIN HAMPERS OUTSJDESPORTS Playgrounds Drenched-Few Good Days Put to Ad- vantage by Coaches i Athletics are rather at a stand still again, owing , lo the raining weather, which has drenched some of the playgrounds of the city. Alii of the junior highs are now select-! Idk their playgrotind ball teams, in which it Is planned to Include every boy la the Intermediate cehools of Salem. In addition to this each Jun ior high will hare It :egniar team which will participate In an Inter scholastic series. U. J. Mnrdock, coach of the senior high school, is now organizing the work at the various buildings, but stated yesterday that it was too ear ly in the season to get a definite angle on the prospects. Material In the seaior high ap pear to be excellent for baseball. The boys took part In their first game yesterday at Chemawa. As soon as the few days of bright we ther came early lu the week youngsters In the other buildings be gan to tarn out In force nt inter est was ken. A few clouds, how. eT". nave aeiuged the grounds and at Grant la particular the catcher Is compelled-' to stand on a raft pil fered from a woodpile. - MEMBERSHIP DOUBLED Membership in the Salem standard pig club was nearly doubled this week through efforts -of O. W. Eyre and Club Supervisor J, W. U Smith. Professor Matthews Is Speaker at Schoolhouse The student body of the Lincoln Junior high held Its semi-monthly meeting Friday. After the transaction of regular business, a program consisting of munic and readings was rendered. This was followed by an Interest ing talk on "A Personal Visit to Paris' by Professor James T. Mat thews, head of the mathematics de partment of Willamette university. The occasion was also ued for presentation or Palmer buttons and students certificates to the fortu nate ones of the advanced penman ship classes. Prof. Matthew also presided over this ceremony. Englewood Has And ah on Gab to Study Birds To Englewood school probably be longs the honor of having the first Andabon bl:d society organize! in, Salem. Vll Helena Wlllett, the principal, has aroused the Interest or about CO children ud they arw now studying the life aad habit or the feathered songsters in 'their classrooms asd planninjc to bull bird houses for jibe winged pet. 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