The Herald
D. E. STITT, Editor.
Entered as second-class matter September 8. 1908.
at the post office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1910.
THE NORMAL GROUCH
There is an old adage which
says, "Misery likes company,"
and this seems equally true of
the man with the grouch espe
cially when he can find another
grouch with an inclination in
his direction
The Oregonian has a grouch
on normal schools, but no doubt
there is method in its grouchi
ness, as it favors one such school
only and perhaps thinks that,
with the influence it wields, it
can land that one within the
precincts of Portland.
Now the Grunts Pass Observer
has a touch of the same disease
and while it, perhaps, has no
hope of securing a normal in
stitution within the confines of
that city, yet, it advocates one
such school and speaks in very
uncomplimentary terms of the
three which Oregon supported
prior to the election of a grouchy
legislature.
The Observer in its argu
ment against the normal school
proposition, among other of its
morbid vaporings, breathes out
the following as good reasons
for its position, and the Oregon
ian with the jemon of the gen
uine gossip hastens to spread its
spume. Following is the ex
tract: "These schools were of no
particular benefit to the state.
They were only squanders of
public money. There are very
few teachers in Oregon who
were trained by these imbecile
institutions. Oregon for years
has been getting teachers from
tiie eitst. There is a whole baud
of eastern teachers in the Grants
Pass schools, and they were em
ployed because home teachers
could not be had."
"These schools were of no
particular benelit to the state,"
is the first charge made and it
is an appeal to the grouchy tax
payer to withhold his support,
as the second sentence clearly
proves. Then follows the dec
laration that, "There are very
few teachers in Oregon who were
trained in these institutions.
Oregon for years has been get
ting teachers from the East."
Then the extract closes with the
information that "There is a
whole band of Eastern teachers
in Grants Pass schools, and they
were imployed because home
teachers could not be had."
That these schools were no
particular benelit to the state
might just as readily be said,
and even more so, of the State
University and the Agricultural
college, and yet the considarate
person finds that such is not true
of these institutions, for while
the student who seeks instruc
tion in t hese schools is only look
ing after his, or her, individual
interests, yet the state is gainer
because of the better educated
citizenship and usefulness of its
population, and especially is this
true of the aggricultural student
who carries his training into ef
fect as a prosperous agricultur
ist and who cheerfully pays his
proportion of state taxes to keep
up state institutions. The cost
soon comes back.
But the state certainly re
ceives a more rapid and valuable
asset from the normal school
training as the return comes
sooner and the influence is more
wide-spread in its touch. The
education of the boys and girls,
of the state, must be kept up or
its citizenship will be lowered
because of decline in knowledge,
hence, there must be instructors
and instructors must be trained
or else how can we hope for suc
cess and advancement? Who
would wish to return to the con
ditions of a half century ago?
No one.
The world is advancing and
intelligence is increasing. That
Grants Pass has to seek teachers
from the Kast but argues for the
reinstatement of the normal
school system, while the manner
in which the Observer inserted
that "because" in its reason for
employing the Eastern article
would indicate that the Oregon
teacher is preferred.
The objection to more than
one school is rather far-fetched
also, as the interest of the state
is to be conserved and conveni
ence of reaching the school and
the cost to those who desire to
prepare for teaching should have
proper consideration. There is
quite an army of teachers in
Oregon and the demand is still
increasing. If Oregon trains
her teachers the rural- schools
will receive benefit from such
training as the influence of the
normals will reach out to the
remotest parts of the state. We
cannot look too favorably to the
Kast for our supply of teachers.
It would be just as appropriate
to look there for our increase in
population.
The Valley Record says: "The
cost of living in Medford has
gone up. The saloons have all
combined and sent the price of
beer from 5 to 10 cents." We
have pondered over the prob
lem but we give it up; two prop
ositions confront us while a third
onelooms up in the back-ground.
We cannot decide whether beer
is the chief article of diet of the
Medford citizen, or whether it is
absolutely necessary to drink
beer in order to live in that city.
We have known ever since we
could reason that the alcohol
habit raised the cost of living by
creating conditions where drink
ers failed to pay their obliga
tions for the necessities of life
and other persons had to bear
the loss, also that increased tax
es resulted because of crimes in
duced by drunkenness, but the
Medford proposition is too much
ror us to solve; we give it up.
Rev. K. K. Zimmerman of
Portland gave a stereopticon lect
ure here, Tuesday evening to an
attentive audience in behalf of
prohibition, that was well re
ceived. M. Z. is an earnest ad
vocate of temperance, a clear
reasoner, and has a way of stat
ing his propositions that must
necessarily carry conviction with
it and even the drinker.although
bound hand and foot by his ap-
j petite and wedded to drink,
could not but accede his points,
however much he might try to
justify his own waywardness.
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Church Directory.
Evangelical Church
L. C. Hoover, Pastor
Morning service at 11 :00 o'clock
Evening service at 7:00 o'clock
Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.
Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
W. A. Wood, Pastor.
Morning Service at 11. a. m.
Evening Service at 7:00 p. m.
Sunday School , 9:45 a. m.
Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m.
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Sunday School, 10:0U a. m.
W. C. T. U.
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