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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.
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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
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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
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