fAQM EIGHT. DAILY EAST ORBGON1AN. PKNBLJETOtf, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, ltl. TEX PAGES. 4 Yoimf Easter Mat 5 IReady - 1 " . t You know the renutation of this store for its Millinery choicest, most beautiful styles, largest assortment, greates values. The present showing sustains and enhances that reputation. Hundreds of Hats here for you to choose from trimmed and untrimmed in the newest and most fashionable shapes and colorings. Hats to please every taste and to suit every face and figure. There are New York and Paris pattern hats and scores of clever creations by our own designers all ready to put on and wear: You'll probably find just the Easter hat you want among these. Come and look through the displays It will be a real treat. VOGUE MILLINERY PENDLET0N'S HEADING STYLE SHOP-Opp. P. o- INTENDENT ACKERMAN TELLS OE EDUCATIONAL TENDENCIES IN OREGON An interesting account of the con dition and progress of education in Oregon was given by State Superin tendent of Public Instruction J. H. Ackerman, at this morning's session of the Inland Empire Teachers' asso ciation. The subject under discus sion was educational tendencies and Prof. Ackerman had been preceded by representatives from Washington, Idaho and Montana. He spoke in part as follows: The existing organization of public education In Oregon is the result of a long evolutionary progress reaching back to the date of the legal estab lishment of our school system. It has been adapted at this point and that to existing needs as public in terest in education has waxed and waned. It contains some adaptations to needs which no longer exist, and new adaptations to existing needs are slowly being made, both through leg islative progress and through changes in the work of the school room. I will attempt no historical study of this progress of evolution, but will confine myself to mentioning some of the existing results of the progress. In any statement of progress it is difficult to separate means from ends actual items of progress believed -by the speaker to be progressive. In an effort dealing with such highly com plex sociological problems as does the public school system, becomes almost impossible to say with assurance just what gains have been made in the ultimate purpose of the system, name ly; the making of good citizenship. If however, we set out to accomplish results without public school system, we are at least bound to scrutinize its parts and see whether they are work ing as contemplated. For instance, If we find that a large proportion of pu pils are attending school, a larger proportion remaining in school and a larger proportion entering and grad uating from the high school, then we know that the public school system is at least leaving its mark upon larg er proportion of our prospective citi zens. Attendance at Schools. The first question which naturally occurs is. How large a percentage of the total number of children of school age are going to school? The statutes of Oregon do not constitute any range of ages as "school age," unless the census requirements "between the ages of four and twenty" constitutes such a school age. Under the former system of reporting attendance, the BANISH CATARRH. Breathe Hyomcj for Two Minute and Stuffed Tp Head Will Vanish. If you want to got relief from ca tarrh, cold In the head or from an Ir ritating cough In the shortest time breathe Hyomel (pronounce it Hlgh-o-me). It will clean out your head In two minutes and allow you to breathe freely. Hyomei will cure a cold In one day, It will relieve you of disgusting snuf fles, hawking, spitting and offensive breath In a week. Hyomel la made chiefly from eu calyptol, a soothing, healing, germ killing antiseptic, that comes from the eucalyptus forests of Inland Austral It where catarrh, asthma and con sumption were never known to exist Hyomel is pleasant and easy to breathe. Just pour a few drops Into the hard rubber Inhaled, use as di rected and cure is almost certain. A complete Hyomel outfit, Includ ing inhaler and one bottle of Hyomel, costs only $1 at druggists everywhere mad at Tallman A Co. If you already own an Inhaler you can set an extra bottle of Hyomel at druggists for only I Co. returns were not at all reliable, but under the present arrangement, al though far from being strictly reli able, the returns are a vast improve ment on those previously made. From these reports it is safe to conclude that at least 94 per cent of all chil dren in the state between the ages of four and twenty are or have been r- gularly enrolled in some education al institution, either public or pri vate. Altogether the attendance rec ord of our schools is one in which we may take a genuine and well found ed pride. Few Items speak better for that purpose which is, if not funda mental, at least of prjmary import ance, for there can be no expectation of efficient schooling, no matter how excellent the teaching, unless attend ance is regular. Why Children "Drop Out" A matter which has been raised to great prominence in educational cir cles has been the extent to which children drop out of school. It has been pointed out many times that comparatively few children ever set beyond the, lower grades, and the question has been raised. Is not our whole American system seriously, if not fatally, defective? I'nquestlonably, a smaller propor tion of children pass completely through the system than we could wish. It is not fair, however, to con sider the subject from data at hand during any one year. Rather viewed from the consideration of many years so as to find the trend, would seem to be the only just method. It is, for instance, a dispiriting thing to find that the number of pupils who reach high school is only a small per cent of -those who might have done so, but a very encouraging thing is to find that the enrollment In American secondary schools has Increased ISO per cent, while the population has been Increasing 20 per cent In the nation at large, between 1890 and 1900, this ratio or increase held true, giving evidence that a constantly larger proportion of pupils were pass ing through the entire course from primary to college. Length of Year Gauges Progress. The length of the school year fur nishes in practice a rough gauge by which to report progress. True, it Is often argued that a school of twenty weeks with a good teacher Is better than one of forty weeks with a poor teacher. The argument would be sound if tHere were in practice so great a difference in available teach ers. Under existing conditions about the same grade of teachers will be found In a given district, whether the Bchool year Is twenty weeks in length or forty weeks. This being the case, the longer school year is to be taken as evidence of better school ing for the children, particularly as better teachers and Improved teach ing are usually found In practice to go hand In hand with the longer year. The Hawley bill, passed by the last legislature, in which provision Is made for a minimum term of six months' school in every school district tells the story nt progress In this direction. In turning to seek the causes of the general and steady Improvement along the lines of attendance and lengthen ed schooling, it is natural to refer to legislative enactments which are cal culated to produce these results. The moBt Important among these have been: Legislative Enactments. 1. The revision of the school code, which code has served both as a uni fying and a stimulating force through out the past ten years with a con stantly widening activity. X. The adoption of the uniform course of study. The Inevitable ef fect of this In encouraging attend ance and regularity and lengthening the term of years during which the individual could attend school is too obvious to require comment. 3. The high school net has not only been effective both In the notable In crease of the proportion of children availing themselves of high school education, and in the stimulation of the organization of many new high schools, but also of exciting schools to better adapt themselves to the needs of the Immediate constituency. 4. The ten cent library law and the organization' of the Oregon library commission have been potent factors in improving both attendance and regularity. 5. The compulsory attendance law may be viewed as the final act in putting us in full command of our problem of attendance, so that the same may now be looked upon as practically solved. All these" causes working together have probably afforded such a stimu lus to the quality of school room work as to make a force for better ment, much beqond the aggregate of their individual effects. Work of Teiwher and Pupil. In estimating the work of pupil and teacher upon the studies and ex ercises of the school room, It Is Impos sible to arrive at any such definite conclusions as those presented rela tive to attendance and regularity. In the first place, in the absence of any regular inspecting system, the su perintendent of public Instruction can only draw Inferences from the character of the work In such schools as he has seen, believing the latter to be typical of their classes. In the second place, it is difficult to speak with assurance of progress for the reason that what knowledge Is of most worth to one generation fts apt to be all unknown to preceding gen erations. ' Tt Is often stated that our schools are inferior to the schools of former days, because the children do not know so much. The statement Is worthless In any case, because no liv ing person has access to data which would Justify any such positive gen eralizations, either one way or the other. The school masters and the governing boards who preceded us, left scarcely a scrap from which we can learn what they taught, or what or how thoroughly the pupils learned. Comparisons Not Equal. Analysis of the assertion to which reference has Just been made usually discloses that the person making the statement has a conception of useful knowledge 'entirely different from that which guides the modern teach er, and furthermore he Is almost al ways found to be comparing intellec tual giants of the past generation with the average nupll of today. For In stance, he asserts that his son knows no geography because the latter can not compete with his father In giving the names of the capltalu of' all the states or a list of the capes on the coast of Africa. It may fce. If asked to compete with his son as to the knowledge of why and 'wherefore of wind and water supply, of great pop ulation centers, of trade "routes, etc., he would at once Teply that they did not teach such stuff when he went to s hool. Which knowledge Is of the most worth? Again, the father is proud of his accuracy as a speller, provided he Is not put to the test, and af his past ability to parse English sentences at the drop of the handkerchief. He avers that the son Is poorly schooled, because he cannot do what the father thinks he can. But the hoy loves good reading, knows a host of the great names of literature, enn enjoy something else than the newspaper, and can express himself In tolerably good English. And so on with arithmetic where the father is likely right with his tory, which father committed to mem ory, with the study of the human body, which father "never had." Again which knowledge Is. of most worth? Idle Assertions. And so it Is ldl. to assert thrt in quality the best scihoofls of the states are either better or worse as a class than they were last year, or the last decade., or . the last generation. No body knows. ' What is their condition today is to some extent another question. Even upon this point we can do little than guess our way along, for lack of ade quate. Impartial, scientific Inspection of all local systems. In connection with other duties, I have visited school rooms observing the conditions of buildings, outhouses, school rooms, and sanltaries, the at titude and spirit of the children, the subjects taught, the methods of the teacher and in a large number of In stances I have tested the children's at tainments. These schools have rang ed from what seem to me to have been the best, to what seems the worst school I have ever seen. The schools were of all types, city, village and ru ral, graded and ungraded, supervised and unsupervised, under normal graduates, and under pesons Ignorant not only of teaching but of the sub jects taught. School Districts Classified. I should divide the districts repre sented, as to the excellence of school work, Into two classes. The first class would contain all those schools In which an effort seems to be made by the teacher to stimulate "pupils' to think with, or course, varying de grees of success. The second class would include those schools in which the teacher appears to have no con ception whatever of his or her office, merely mills for grinding out memor ized recitations, schools in which If the pupil grows at all in power to think he does so in spite of the school rather than with the help of the school. The remark of one teacher as I left the school Is significant of the attitude of these teachers as a class. She said, "They would be all right If they would get down to study." It seemed not to have occur red to her that It was in any way a part of her duty to make, them "get down to study." Of course a dividing line cannot be drawn so that it can be said that schools of the first class all occur in certain districts and schools of the second class In certain other districts. Schools of the second class may be dismissed from further discussion, for, as to schoolroom work, there Is little In them worthy of the name of teaching or study. of this class Is most universally good. I have been profoundly impressed in districts of this class with the ex treme scarcity of evidence of turbu lence among the pupils, and of con foniions, fretful dispositions among the teachers. -The wellnigh univer sal rule seems to have been good will between pupil and teachers. In this connection, It Is Interesting and siB nificant to note the disappearing hos tility of children to schools. Wherea" a generation ago the boy who was fond of school wink was a sort of monstrosity, today ihere seems to he very little pronounced dislike to school. All this must make for an in creased ability of the neighbors of the future to get on well together. Subjects such as history and geog raphy, particularly, I found to be taught with a constantly Increasing emphasis upon an understanding of the facts presented as distinguished from mere memory of such facts. Vast Improvement still needs to be in this direction, but in this better class of districts Improvement seems to be steady. Importance of Reading. In most of the districts of the first mentioned class reading Is taught In such a way as to give the pupil pow ed to read the thought , from the printed page, a rare accomplishment with adults This once done, It be comes increasingly easy, especially in a state so bountifully supplied with literary books, to arm the pupil with the love of good reading, one of his best future safeguards. This Is the aim of the state and the record of children's use of the literary books, shows that it is taking effect.. Again, to a greater or less extent music and drawing are being made parts of the regular round of work in these schools. The broadening and refining influence of these studies Is well known and the effect can hard ly fall to be a pronounced uplift to the public taste In the next genera tion. The character of the school build ings and school rooms is constantly Improving. The new buildings are almost uniformly erected with an eye to architectural beauty as well as hy gienic excellence, with a commend able degree of success. The Interiors of the school rooms are usually dec orated by the teachers themselves or by the pupils, with results often crude It Is true, but a marked Improve ment over the squalid neglect for merly so widely prevalent and still so prevalent In districts of the other class. A tasteful school room can hardly fail to exercise upon the home of the future and In the direction of enhanced sweetness and refinement in the character of the coming gener ation. School Management Good. The school management of districts I "A Stubborn Cinderella." Mr Mort H. Singer, with the aid of the successful authors, Messrs. Hough. Adams and Howard, has pro duced numerous successful musical comedies at his beautiful Princess theater, Chicago, notably "The Prince of Tonight," "The Golden -Girl," "Honeymoon Trail," "The Goddess of Liberty," etc., etc., but the greatest of all was his musical show, "A Stubborn Cinderella," In 'which Mr. Homer B. Mason Is the bright, partic ular star and which will be seen at the Oregon theater on Tuesday, March 29. This clever play had a run of over one year In Chicago, continuing on Its merry way a year ago last summer after the torrid weather compelled the closing of the doors of every the ater in the city. Last summer It du plicated Its Chicago experience In Boston. "A Stubborn Cinderella" Is woven around the fairy tale, and In the sec ond act is Introduced a dream minu et that Is the feature of the play. A short scenario of the play follows: Lady Leslie la the daughter of a Scotch earl and Is traveling under espionage In America. Very Innocent of the ways of the world, she falls In with the hoys and girls of Columbus College, meets "Mac" who Is the life, and in fact the "whole works" of the college, and, deluded Into the belief that he is a great sculptor, falls In love with him, unknown to her guard Ian. The "sculptor" travels with the party and, in a beautiful scene In the second act. he weaves the Cinderella spell over her. In the firelight Lady Leslie sees the minuet. Her sweet heart leads her through It, only to disappear. "But my prince enme hack" Is her dream. And then fol lows the awakening. In the last act Lady Leslie Is to pledge her hand to her royni suitor. Grand Duke Bovls of Russia, by drinking from the loving cup, but she turns from It impulsive ly and gives her hand to her poor suitor. The scenic effects are mag nificent and novel. The second act set on the Mexican border Is worthy of Belaseo. The hotel natatorlum scene in the third act is an orange symphony. The local management gives every assurance that the same big production seen at the Princess theater, Chicago, will be shown here in Its entirety, requiring three bag gage cars to transport all its scenery and effects. The seat sale opens Monday, March 29. T. A. CUBE the only Exclusive Op tometrist located i Umatilla county. Office John Schmidt building, Pen dleton, Ore. Over to years practla fitting glasses. Remember I grind my own glasses.' Eyas carefully ex amlned and glasses ground to fit. To The Public I have added an up-to-date optical department which will be In charge of A. E. SERUM Optimetrist who has had years of practical experience. Tour optical work will receive thorough attention. A. L Schaofor Jeweler Fresh Fish V Meats and Sausages EVERY DAY. We handle only the purest of lard, hams and bacon. Empire Meat Go. Phone Main 18. NOTICE OP PROPOSED IMl'ROVB MENT OP JANE STREET BE TWEEN BLUFF STREET AND AND HIGH STREET BY BUILD ING SIDEWALKS THEREON. Notice Is hereby given that at a regular meeting of the common coun cil of the city of Pendleton, held March IS. 1909, the following reso lution was unaulmously adopted, vis.: Be It resolved, by the common council of the city of Pendleton that It Is expedient to Improve, and It Is hereby rroposed to improve Jans street In the city of Pendleton from the south line of Bluff street to the north line of High street, by con structing sidewalks and crosswalks along the west line thereof, such Im provement to be made In accordance with the ordinances of the city of Pendleton, and the cost of making the same to be charge and lien upon the lots and parts of lots and parcels of land in front of which such Improve ments shall be made, as pro-vlded by the charter of the city of Pendleten, and the owners of lots, parts of lota and parcels of fand fronting upon said streets where such Improvement shall be made shall be liable for the pay ment of the portions of such Im provements In front of their respec tive lots, parts of lots and parcels of land. And be It further resolved, that the recorder of the city of Pendleton shall cause a copy of this resolution to be published In the East Oregonlan for a period of ten days, and all per sons Interested In said Improvement will govern themselves accordingly. Dated this 17th day of March, lilt. THOS. FITZ GERALD, City Recorder. Evory Woman , u injur-. iea ana mould una . sbifat the wonderful Marvel "Jr uuugne iKa Is A DVUI. nthsn tint MM tamn ?tim fltltiem. fH.-l IuiaW T J- av.n tladta. KAHVELC0.,4baMM.Rtyer