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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1909)
0 The Herald W.T. FOGLE, Editor. Entered u aecond-eUaa matter September 8, 19fW. at the poet office at Monmouth. Oregon, under the Act of March S. 1879. IS9CED EVERY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One year Six months $1 50 cU FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909. The Normal is dead, long live the Normal. This is the way it would have been stated some ages ago on the death of a king While the Normal has never been a king she has been a ' Queenly old lady and deserves a royal funeral. Her malady was pernicious political anaemia, contracted during the closing hours of the late lamented legis lative assembly, superinduced by an overweening desire, on the part of certain flotsam and jetsam of that notorious assem blage, for cheap notoriety (and they got it), also because of pe culiar conditions and a mis understanding of the ideas en tertained by a majority of the people of this state regarding educational matters. For a native-born citizen of this natur ally, great state,' who desires the common people to have the best possible education that can be given in the public schools, it is humiliating to have to write that we have no state institutions in which the teachers of the public schools can receive train ing. Too many people of this state believe that the teachers of the common schools have a snap and that they are a set of lazy, 'time to hide the truth to a large indolent jersons who live on the degree. Simply because we be fat of the land and then want tOjlieve a thing is so, is no reason graft the tax-payers for their ed-jthat it is so. Many a jury has ucation. ' This idea will have to' believed a man guilty of murder be educated out of the minds of and be has been hanged, only in enough of the legal voters so ' after vears to rind that a mis that they will appreciate the sit-J tike was made and the man was uation and help to establish a i innocent. Comparison and in rirstclass Normal school in this J ductive reasoning, with a large state that will not only give the amount of horse sense will often coming teachers theoretical and prevent making mistakes in practical training, but that wili i theories. If a man claims he is help in forming them into ideal! telling the truth and another is citizens in every sense build- not and that those who differ ing them up along all lines and J with him are frauds, etc., etc., giving them an education equal I better take his statement under to that of the State University. By this we do not want it infer- red that we wish the Normal school to take up a classical course. Not at all, but we mean that the education of a teacher should be just as perfect and just as high along the lines nec essary for him or her to follow, as the University man's is along classical lines. How Ions- it will f be before this state of affairs comes into being we are unable to sav. but we are able and will-ti'" , ... ing to state that the town of Monmouth will go ahead just as if nothing had hapiened, firm in the belief that at some time in the future there will come to the people a realization of the struggles she has jnade to keep in existence the Mother of Nor mals, of this state. When that time conies we may reasonably expect restitution in part, to be madeyet it will be impossible to rejay to those who have sac rificed time, talents and money for the upbuilding of the public ohool system of this state, more, than a Haction-U part of their; losses. Let us hope that upon the foundation of anxieties, heart-aches, tears, wasted energy and financial losses, may arise in the future of the superstruct ure.e ducationally, one of the grandest institutions of its kind m the world. The decision of Judge Gallo way in the Crater Lake road case will undoubtedly be upheld by the Supreme Court. While there is little doubt as to its be ing a fine thing for Med ford and adjacent territory it is question able as to whether it would be of any particular value to any other part of the state, unless it be some of the Portland hotels, which would catch some of the tourists that would eventually cross the state en route to other places of note. Taken altogeth er it was a piece of class legis lation and that is what the people are trying to guard against. Let the Government set aside a sum to make a road into the Park and then if the Jackson county people want to do something to aid in the work, the rest of the state will not ob ject, but it isn't fair to the tax payers of the state at large to have to pay for something that will be of benefit to but a small portion of the people. Only the rich can use the road any way, as the poor have to work and have no time for such trips. One should be careful in tell ing the truth. It often gets one in trouble. We find this out quicker in the newspaper busi ness, than in most any other walk of life. This does not nec essarily mean that we must al ways lie, but it seems to be the way of the world at the present advisement, for in a majority of cases there is a dark complex- iioned gentleman lurking in the fuel supply. The Herald has formed a com bination with the Pacific Month ly whereby we can offer that ex cellent western magazine and the best family county paper Pushed is county for the ; exceptionally low price of 11.65 jfor lKth for one .vear- This ls lVT """" ew suomt u- ers or for renewals. The price of the Pacific Monthly alone is 11.50. Romance ef the Bioodhotfnd. No breed of dog? makes a more interesting study than does the bloodhound. It leads one from the beaten track of canine interest into the realm of history and romance. In the wars between England and Scotland it was often used in track ing fugitires. Both Wallace and Bruce had many hairbreadth escapes from bloodhounds. On one occa sion the hounds were so hot on the trail of Bruce that he only escaped wading down a stream until he found refuge in an overhanging tree and o succeeded in throwing his Pl!r?um 0jj the eccEt Country Life. 2 SEEP f Phone 331 You Burp W. ATLEB V. O. Boots FIRE LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID A- N. Poole Contractor and Builder. Blue prints made to scale from original drawings. General Carpenter Work Phone 187 A. B. WESTFALL Painter and Paper Hanger Monmouth Oregon J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. 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