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lFVrT,15TON. OKECJON, WEDNESDAY. MA KCII 23. 1910.
NO 6857
WEATHER REPORT
fair tonight and tomorrow.
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GREAT ASSEMBLY
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THE SESSIONS TODAY
Seven Hundred Strong.Teach
ers of Four States Discuss
School Problems.
Pendleton Tl trows Doors Open to the
Teachers of An Knipire Vast
Crowd Is Well Handled General
Session Held Tills Morning and Dif
ferent Sections Meet Separately
This Afternoon Big Reception Last
Night a Huge Success Excursion
Will He Hun to Reservation Friday.
With at least six hundred teach
ers already In attendance and others
arriving by every train the big con
vention of the Inland Empire Teach
ers' association' is now underway. The
general session began at 10 o'clock
this morning and during the forenoon
the large M. E. church wa filled with
teachers and local people. For the
next three days the convention will 6e
underway and the time will be devot
ed to general sessions In the big
church and to sectional meetings In
the Methodist church artd at the Bap
tist and Presbyterian churches.
Croud Well Handled.
Although the convention has
brought hundreds of outside people
to the city, so well have arrangements
been made for the accommodation of
the throng that all have been well
cared for and rooms are now reserv
ed for those who are to arrive tomor
row. The large delegation from Wal
la Walla will reach here on the local
train tomorrow morning.
The task of providing the delegates
with accommodations has been in the
hands of a committee of which Clar
ence Bishop Is chairman and Mark
Moorhouse, secretary. So well did
that committee handle the task yes
terday that general praise has been
freely given by those attending the
convention. Under Mr. Bishop a bri
gade of young men from the high
school met the trains yesterday to
show the teachers to the headquar
ters In the Commercial association
rooms. Autos were In waiting at the
depot and these were used to take the
teachers to the association rooms and
then to their various rooming places
throughout tho city. In this way the
crowd was handled quickly and sys
tematically. Trip to the Agency.
Under the auspices of the Commer
cial association an excursion will be
run to the Umatilla agency Friday af
ternoon and tho teachers will be giv
en an opportunity to see the work of
the agency school unde. the superin
tendence of Major Swartzlander. The
excursion will leave here at 2:80 Fri
day afternoon by a special O. R. &
N. train of six cars. The expense of
this excursion Is to be borne by the
committee on arrangements and all
those In attendance at the convention
are Invited to make the trip. The ex
cursion train will be under the per
sonal supervision of J. H. O'Neill,
traveling passenger agent who Is now
here and will remain until after the
convention has adjourned. The ex
cursion Is to leave Pendleton prompt
ly at 2:30 and returning will leave the
agency In time to arrive in Pendleton
at 4:45.
Tins Evening.
At the Methodist church this eve
ning a lecture is to be given by Dr.
William L. Bryan, president of the
University of Indlnna. His subject
will be "The Education of the Dis
position." All those registered as at
tending the convention and who wear
the convention badges are to be ad
inlted free. Others are to be charged
an admission of 28 cents, the fund
going Into the treasury of the Inland
Empire association.
The following musical program Is
to be rendered during the evening:
1. "Death of Isolde," from Tristan
and Isolde Wagner
Miss Faye Bartholomew
I. "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice"
from Samson and Delilah...
Salnt-Saena
Mrs. J. 8. Landers.
S. Address: "The Education of
the Disposition"
, W. L. Bryan, President State
University, Bloomlngton, In
diana. Tills Morning's Session.
Though the largest educational
gathering the Inland Empire has ever
seen was Inaugurated last evening
with the big reception, the real ses
sion of the twelfth annual convention
of the Inland Empire Teachers' as
sociation was not convened until a few
minutes after 10 o'clock this morn
ing. The meeting was then called to
order by City Superintendent J, S.
Lnders of this city, who la president
of the eastern division of the Oregon
Teachers' association, which la hold
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OF TEACHERS OF
MEETS III ANNUAL
ing its annual convention In conjunc-
tlon with the larger gathering.
Prof. Landers Introduced President-
eloct H. C. Sampson of Cheney, Wash-
Ington, who delivered his inaugural '
address and the convention was in full
swing.
Before the speaking began the large
audience joined In singing "America"
and this was followed by the Invoca
tion delivered by President W. H.
Bleukney of the Pendleton ucademy.
MuBlcal numbers were furnished by
Miss Harriet Young, who rendered
Chopin's "Polonaise In A Flat" In a
charming manner. Jubi before the
adjournment of the morning session,
Miss Edna Zimmerman delighted the
gathering with a double number,
"When Two That Love Are Parted,"
by Secchr and "Philosophy" by Em
mell. President W. L. Bryan of the Uni
versity of Indiana, who is the princi
pal speaker of the convention, made
his first aftpearanee this morning and
delivered a strong and Interesting
address on "Work and Play in Edu
cation." The essential feature of his address
was that the schools are confronted
by two new difficulties. One is in the
great masses who are to be taught and
the other In the great and Increasing
range of things to be taught The so
lution of the second problem, he held
was nt in casting out essential sub
jects, but in selecting the few most
essential things in each subject und
In securing an Intensive mastry of
these.
This the speaker insisted should be
supplemented by free play about the
core of things mastered. He declar
ed that at the best, work comes to
have the freedom and joy of play.
Dr. Bryan delivers an address this
evening in the Methodist church on
"Tho Education of the Disposition."
The' Inaugural Address.
Ia delivering his inaugural address,
President Sampson Bald In part:
The present day witnesses a great
movement toward the conservation lf j
natural resources of the forests, min
erals, water power livestock, agricul
tural products of everything. In fact
of the material world. A Theodore
Roosevelt, a President Taft. a Gifford"
Flnchot, a United States congress,
the. press, pulpit and intelligent men
und women In the United States to
day, are giving much attention to the
subiect of conservation. But the
things of greatest value and of great-j
est necessity for conserving are our Kansas City, Mar. 23. For two
hoys and our girls. In them, finally, hours and IT minutes la'sl night Dr.
we find our greatest ambition, our n F Roller of Seattle, and stanis
greatest success, our greatest hope, I ? Ro , wrestled here
our greatest happiness. It Is. then,
of their conservation I .would speak, without a fall, and then the police
The welfare, of a democracy rests j stojiped the contest. Referee Dav
upon the success, the usefulness and i Porteus declared the match a draw,
the happiness of all the people. That There were few idle moments in the
a few should be developed to a high j contest. Roller was on the offensive
degree of efficiency, of hnrplness and , the greater part of the first hour. In
of success Is not sufficient, far bet
ter is It that the whole mass of the
people shall be lifted somewhat than
that the few shall be lifted to a high
legree of efficiency and the mass re
main below. We shall have found
Indeed the proper and best conser
vation of our bovs and girls then. If,
In each one of our communities
every boy and girl can reach 100 per
cent of his or her own posslblo phy
sical .industrial, social .mental, mor
al and spiritual efficiency.
Problem Is Immense.
This problem is larger than the
professions, larger than the school,
than i
larger than the church, larger
tho press, larger than the home, larg
er than the community, larger than
the nation itself. , It Is, in fact,
a problem In which all of these forc
es must co-operate, and It will be
solved only by the most earnest,, most
Intelligent co-operation of all these
forces.
Its solution will require the best
brain of the nation, and It la a prob
lem worthv of the whole thought and
life and consideration of the best and
most intelligent men and women.
That It Is being given more thought
and effort today than ever before. I
am aware. That this generation will
not solve the problem in its entirety,
I know. That we are making great
nrntrrnss In it' I am sure. That I In
this paper can but slightly touch so j
big and so vital a problem, I am cer- ,
tain. I can only hope to focus a mo-
ment's attention, perhaps, on this the J
most vital, most Interesting problem j
I know. . I
As I said before, we will have solv-
ed the problem of conservation if we ,
can get each Individual to reach 100
per cent of his possible development
and capacity. But Is this 100 per!
cent of efficiency reached today? A ,
moment's thought of conditions as j
they actually are shows us conclusive- i
ly that the much to be desired con
dition Is at present far from realised.
Turn where you will a host of dere- ,
llcts, of failures, of "shorts" or Inef
flclents. conronts us. The lame, the !
halt and the blind are about us. Dis
ease and death through lack of true
conservation are rife on every hand.
Indifference to physical and moral
laws. Ignorance, all are handicapping
the boys and girls of today, and there
for the men and women of tomor
row. Our school, as we who are teach-
INLAND
CONVENTION
ers well know, are lamentably lack-
ing In efficiency.' They are no more
so than is the luw, the ministry, med-
Iclno, farming or business. Hut un-
til the public grasps more fully the
necessity for the conservation of
children before they enter the school,
and grasps more thoroughly the val
ue of this great force in conservation
the school will remain sadly ineffi
cient. Medical, dental and physical
examinations In the leading cities of
the United States show us that the
greater per cent of the children who
enter our schools are Inefficient In
some particulars. In New York city
66 per cent of the children needed
medical and surgical care or better
nourishment. Thirty-eight per cent
had enlarged glands In their necks;
31 per cent had defective hearing; 18
per cent had enlarged tonsils. Phy
sical Inspection In Chicago showed
that 52.8 per cent of the children had
physical defects of some kind. Den
tal Inspection in the city of New York
showed that 75 per cent of the chil
dren needed treatment. The follow
ing Is the result of the medical ex
aminations for the first semester nt
the normal school at Cheney. Of the
314 students who voluntarily present
ed themselves for Inspection, 15 had
defective ears; 47 had nasal defects;
56 had throat difficulties; 19 had en
larged glands in the neck: four had
wmk lungs; 16 had defective hearts.
And these all prospective teachers
are probably stronger than the aver,
age young people. Consider, then
what must be the physical condition
of thousands of pupils and students
throughout the northwest? Can a
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ROLLER FAILS TO
ROLL GIANT POLE
wkkstmxg norr declared
DRAW AFTER TWO HOI KS
Police Stop Contest Between Seattle
Doctor and Zhvsko When Match
Had Gone Over Two Hours Itouli
Tactics Used.
the second hnlf of the bout Zhyszsko
showed the better form. The Pole
had his opponent tired out at the end
but opinions differ as to whether he
could have won the fall had the police
not Interfered. j
At the end of two hours wrestling I
Jack Curley, representing Roller, an
nounced he was willing to call the con- I
test a draw.. His words infuriated Sun Francisco, Mar. 23. With the
Zbyszsko. " usual profession of the faculty and
"No, no," he shouted, Jumping out i students, reviewed by the regents and
of a clinch. "I wnnt to finish it." : prominent men of the state, and other
Roth men used rough tactics at times, ceremonies, the University of Call
Toe and head holds were used al- : ferula is today celebrating Its Char
most exclusively hy Roller. The bout ; ter Day. The principal speaker on
was for a purse of $7,000. It was even-
ly divided. -
Yuslff Mahmout won In straight
falls from Raoul do Rouen in a pre-j
llminary.
H. C. SAMPSON.
President Inland Empire Teachers' Association und lrcnklent of Cheney
Normal School.
N. P. PUTS MILLIONS
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ix-si:uvici: for northwest
Waller plains. Iocal Agent for the
Northern Pacific, Has Hwelvod
Announcement That $7,500,000 Has
Rccii Invested In N'ew Equipment
for Tills Section of Hoad.
Morethan $7,500,000 worth of
equipment has been ordered by the
Northern Par'fie for the use of its
lines In the northwest and is being
rapidly placed Into service, according
to' an official announcement Just re
ceived hy Walter Adams, the local
agent for the company. This will be
good news to Pendleton for the rea
son that much of this Is going into
the freight department and that a
large share of the wheat and live
stock produced in Umatilla county
is sent out over the Northern Pa
cific. 'With the N. P. as well as the
O. R. & N. spending millions in equip
ment it means that there will be no
dreaded car shortage this fall and that
the passenger1 service rendered will
be better than ever before.
While the greater part of this .im
mense sum of money will go into the
freight department, nearly $3,000,000
will be expended on the passenger
department.
The following Is the list of cars or
dered for the freight service:
Two thousand and 10 box cars, 800
flat cars. 900 gondolas, 250 ballast
cars, 22" refrigerator "Jars. 100 ca
booses. 500 old box cars rebuilding,
with steel undeiframeS.
The following equipment has .been
ordered for the construction depart
ment: Eight Lidgerwonds, . four steam
shovels, two pile drivers, five ballast
spreaders. 1.2 ballast plows, two 100
ton derrick cars.
Passenger cars to the number of
132 and of the value of $1,500,000
have also been ordered in addition to
r7 large-. and modern passenger en
gines. The total number of engines
ordered is 133 and the total cost Is
J.'.noo.ono.
The engines are are of the largest
and most modern patterns in every
respect, including electric headlights,
superheaters, pneumatic firedoors,
etc. Eleven of them are of the fa
mous new Mallet type, two of which
were recently placed in service on
the Hlue mountain run of the O. R.
N. and which have attracted no lit
tle attention on the occasion of their
infrequent visits to Pendleton. Forty
are of the Mikado type, 57 of the Pa
cific and 25 are switch engines.
With the exception of the 11 Mallet
engines, which will not be delivered
until iiliout June, this power is being
turned out by the makers at the rate
of two engnes per day and a great
many of them have been received and
are being put In service as fast as set
up.
While 57 of these engines are for
passenger service their addition to
tho motive power really means that
many more engines for freight ser-
vice, as they will replace heavy, fast
freight power now temporarily in
passenger service.
t'lmrter Day at California.
the program Is Dr. Henry Smith
Pritchett, president of the Carnegie
I Foundation for the Advancement ot
Teaching, and one of the foremost
.astronomers of the United States.
S SECOET
OF
Portland Man Claims to Have
Discovered the Lost Art of
Preservation.
METHOD TO REVOLUTIONIZE
TH ECAXNIXG INDUSTRY
William II. Swett Claims to Have Dis
covered Secret of Preserving Flesh
and Cereals Csed by Ancient Egyp
tians Restores Roses and Corn a
Year Old to Original Freshness by
Application of Solution.
Portland. Mar. 23. Much interest
is lieinif manifested today In the claims
of William H. Swett, who says he has
discovered the secret if preserving
flesh and cereals, used by the ancient
Euvbtlnns. The discoverv is expected
to revolutionize the canning industry
and the preservation of meats, as
proof of his assertions, Swett exhibited
a number of roses that had been al
lowed to wither for a year. By the
simple process of moistening the pet
als, the flowers resumed their origi
nal freshness and color and the with
ered buds burst into bloom. Corn on
the cob, dried a year ago, was restor
ed by merely being placed In water
over night. The process, which de
pends on a certain element In the air
for its effect is Inexpensive, the -work
is quickly done and the products keep
indefinitely, according to Swett.
HARD RAIX AT KAMELA
THREATENS HIGH WATER
Kamela, Mar. 22. It has been rain
ing here more or less all day long.
Rain gauge at six o'clock this even
ing records six tenths of an Inch rain
fall . during ' the last 24 hours. The
snow Is going off rapidly.
Five Points Just west of Hilgard is
r ported very high and threatening to
do much damage.
Railroad officials have men patrol
ing and watching the track very close
ly. The south slopes are about all bare
now, but the north slopes and gullies
have enough snow to cause high water
in the creeks yet.
JACK JOHNSON'S PROSECUTOR
DISAPPEARS; JUDGE WRATHY
New York. March 23. The trial of
Jack Johnson, the pugilist, developed
into a threat from Judge Mulqueen
today to have the grand Jury probe
into the disappearance of Nat Pin
dar, the negro Johnson Is accused of
having attacked. When the trial
came up today it was discovered that
Pindar was missing. "This court will
not be trifled with," declared Judge
Mulqueen. "I Intend. to have a grand
jury investigate into the cause for the
disappearance of the prosecuting
witness and others." The court or
dered Johnson released on five thou
sand dollars bail and continued the
case.
CALIFORNIA'S VACCINATION
LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Santa Cruz, March 23. According
to'a decision of Superior Judge Smith
today, the California state vaccina
tion law is ' unconstitutional. The
ruling was made on a petition of the
state board of health for a writ of
mandamus to exclude scholars un
vacclnated from schools.
ONLY FOREIGNERS RESIDING
IN JAPAN CAN OWN LAND
Toklo, March 23. The house of
peers today passed a bill regulating
the ownership of land In Japan by
foreigners. The bill was amended so
only foreigners resident In Japan are
allowed to own land.
OXFORD DEFEATS CAMBRIDGE
IN THEIR ANNUAL REGATTA
London March 23. Oxford lower
er the Cambridge colors today In the
annual regatta on the Thames win
ning by three and a half lengths, af
ter a race of four and a half miles.
The distance was covered by Oxford
In twenty minutes and fourteen sec
onds, which Is 27 seconds behind the
record time.
FRISCO IS SELECTED
FOR EXPOSITION CITY
Santa Barbara, Mar. 23. The con
ference of cities decided In favor of
San Francisco as the location for the
exposition in 1915. Sandlego an
nounced Bhe will go right ahead with
her plans to hold the exposition there
despite the conference decision.
Conclude Allds Argument.
Albany, N. Y.. March 23. It is ex
pected that the summing up of the
Allds case by Conger's side will be
concluded today. Following this the
senate will devote fully a week to a
discussion of the case In open session.
Thus it now seems probable that not
before April 1 will the senate be ready
to take a vote on the question.
T
DEMOCRATS
BAY STATE
Eugene Foss Scores Big Ma
jority in Massachusetts
Congressional Election.
RESl'LT IS REGARDED
AS POLITICAL MIRACLE
Ili-pnbllcans Lose One of Strongholds
They Have Held for Year Lore.
Ing Goes Down to Overwhelming
Defeat In Election for Congress
man.. Foss Wins by Nearly 60M
Vote Result Is Considered of Na
tional Importance.
Washington Is Disturbed.
Washington, Mar. 23. A com
motion in political circles was
created here today following the
news of the democratic land
slide yesterday In the old col
ony. section of Massachusetts, In
which Eugene Foss was elected
to congress by a plurality of
six thousand. The preceding
.congressional election gave Loy-
erlng, republican a majority of
fourteen thousand. Democrats
here are jubilant and declare the
next house of representatives
will have a democratic majority.
Brockton, Mass., Mar. 23. The
political weathercock turned democrat-ward
In Massachusetts yesterday
when the old colony section, one of
the republican strongholds of the
state, placed Eugene N. Foss, of Bos
ton one of the country's leading ex
ponents of reciprocity with Canada,
in the congressional seat of the lat
William C. Lovering.
Mr. Foss accomplished what Is re
garded as almost a political miracle
turning a republican plurality of 14,
250 into a democratic plurality of
5.840.
The vote was: Eugene N. Foss of
Boston, democrat, 14,980; William R.
Buchanan, of Brockton, republican,
9,340. ' -
It was the most overwhelming de-
feat the republicans have met In Has-'
sachusetts since Governor Bates ws
overthrown by William L. Douglass
six years ago.
The result is. considered of mors
than state-wide importance, for Mr.
Foss stumped the Fourteenth district
on national questions and the people
backed him up with a hoop.
NEW ORLEANS TO BE
SCENE OF EXPOSITION
New Orleans. Mar. 23. The New
Orleans Panama Exposition company
will be formed in this city next Mon
day at a convention of delegates from
every parish in Louisiana, according
to plans announced today.
The Mississippi legislature has al
ready endorsed New Orleans as the
logical place to hold the 1915 fair,
and members of the congressional
committee appear confident that fed
erai aid will be forthcoming.
ARMY OFFICER'S WIFE
KILLED WHILE AUTOING
Washington, Mar. 23. Mrs. H. J.
Slocum, wife of Major Slocum, U. S.
A., was killed today when her auto
mobile was struck and demolished by
a street car near this city. General
Franklin Bell, chief of the staff of
the army, was in the machine but es
caped w-ith slight Injuries.
Princeton Players on Tour.
Princenton, Mar. 23. Members of
the Princeton Triangle Club, the
dramatic organization of Princeton
University, will begin a tour at New
ark tonight, presenting, "His Honor,
the Sultan." The trip will extend as
far west as St. Louis.
The production, a musical comedy,
written by Cyrus H. McCormlck,
right guard of the 'varsity footbaU
team, and the costumes and scenery
di signed by the undergraduates, will
be accompanied by a large under- ,
graduate orchestra.
Intemrhnn Men Meet.
South Rend, Tnd., Mar. 23. Inter
urban and street railway men from
munj cities will take part In the con
vention here today and tomorrow of
the Central Electric Railway Associ
ation. The principal business meet
ings will be held tomorrow, when In
tercity traffic roads etc., will be dis
cussed. Auditorium for Wichita.
Wichita, Kan , March 23. Bids
were received up to noon today for
the construction of a grent auditori
um, convention hall and market place
in this city. A bond Issue of $150.
000 was voted to supply the funds for
this proposed structure, which will be
one of the finest municipal buildings
of its kind In the west.
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