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Monmouth Herald
Monmouth is Located in the Best.Section of the Best Valley of the Best State
FIRST SOCIETY
PROGRAMS
Given in Normal Chapel
On Last Friday Evening
Last Friday evening the Ves
pertine society began in earnest
another year of literary work.
The first program was carried
out with enthusiasm and a great
deal of talent was revealed in the
musical and dramatic numbers.
Miss Radabaugh sang two inter
esting numbers for the joint ses
sion and Miss Tomkins gave two
instrumental solos. Following
the business session this program
was presented: Reading, Miss
Bowerman; A Human Piano, a
clever stunt; A Play, "The Un
buried Woman"; Vocal Solo, Miss
Haskins; Humorous Dialogue,
"Uncle Josh and Aunt Jerushy."
From the interest displayed in
this program, the year's work
promises well!
From the interest taken in the
approaching production of "The
Melting Pot" Saturday evening
the chapel will be filled to ca
pacity. This opportunity to see
one of the foremost dramas of
American life is an unusual one
and both students and towns
people are fortunate in seeing
this play in Monmouth.
v Delphian Society
The Delphian Literary Society
of the Oregon Normal School
gave its first program of the new
school year last Friday evening,
October the sixth, at seven-thirty
o'clock. The first thirty minutes
of the evening was given over to
a joint meeting with the' Vesper
tine and Normal Societies. Miss
Grace Boardman and Miss Elea
nor Anderson of the Delphian So
ciety entertained with vocal and
instrumental solos. After this
delightful program the Delphians
adjourned to the Training School
assembly room where they list
ened to a very entertaining pro
gram from their own members
and invited guests. The first
number on the program, "A Con
ventional Mix-up," directed -by
Miss Schmidli, was unusually en
tertaining. Those taking part in
it were the Misses Ball, Mass,
Parrott, Schumassen and Tobin.
After this Miss Maude Moore re
peated, by request, that old folk
tale, "East of the Sun and West
of the Moon." Next came "An
Interruption," given by the Miss
es Perkins and Earsley, which
was very clever. Miss Agnes
Carter then gave a Scotch dialect
reading which was enjoyed by
all. This was followed by a very
interesting and helpful talk on
the "Appreciation of the Beauti
ful." by Miss Laura J. Taylor
The society takes this opportunity
of thanking Miss Taylor1 for an
enjoyable half hour. We were
yery fortunate at this first meet
ing to have with us our former
President, Miss Ellen Jackson,
ho gave us some valuable bits
f advice concerning Chapel
Ta'ks, McMurray, Type Senten
ces, etc., which we are sure will
? of untold benefit if followed.
Following this Miss Parrott, our
critic, gave us a very favorable
Monmouth,
report on the success of our first
meeting.
Friday morning Mr. J. B. V.
Butler represented the faculty in
the .chapel period by a very
splendid talk on "The Drift of
Modern Education." With his
usual broadminded point of view
Mr. Butler touched the big phases
of the subject with peculiar force
and brought his audience to a
clear realization of the immense
responsibility resting upon the
individual teacher. By his clear,
incisive treatment of the subject
Mr. Butler set both students and
faculty to thinking on this tre
mendously important problem.
It is always a pleasure to hear
the large phases of these inter
esting subjects presented in a
big way.
Miss Jessica Todd, Dean of
Women, accepted an invitation to
speak at the Annual Harvest
Luncheon of the First Congrega
tional Church of Portland, last
Wednesday, and she reports a
very pleasant and interesting
meeting.
Pres. Ackerman spent Thurs
day of this week in attendance
at the Jackson-Josephine teach
ers institute at Grants Pass, and
on Friday attended the Willam
ette University exercises incident
to the inauguration of President
Doney.
Mr. Pittman spent a few days
at Monmouth during the past
week, and gave an interesting
talk at chapel, in which he spoke
of the splendid rallies being held
at the several institutes by form
er students of the Normal. A
very pleasant Normal School
rally was held Tuesday evening
at Dallas. The members of the
faculty present were President
Ackerman, Mr. Evenden, Miss
Parrott, Mr. Gilmore and Mr.
Pittman.
Mr. and Mrs. Ostien, with
friends from Bandon, motored to
Portland and the Columbia High
way last week-end.
The members of the faculty
who gave addresses at the Polk
County Institute were Mr. Gentle,
President Ackerman, Mr. Pitt
man, Miss Mcintosh, Miss Ar
buthnot and Miss Dinius.
High School Notes
On Thursday we resumed our
school work after the first vaca
tion of the year, Institute. The
teachers report a most enjoyable
time while at Dallas and come
back with some new ideas and
plans which will be put into
practice soon.
Friday, last, the Junior class
organized. The election went as
follows: President, Burton Bell;
Vice President, Ralph Brown;
Secretary. Wilda Fuller; Treas
urer, Delbert Skeen; Sergeant-at-Arms,
Hilda Olson; Member
of Executive Committee, Francis
Arant
The enrollment in high has
reached 92 and there is no more
seating room.
C. A. Dobell took four pure
ua Tompvs over to the sale at
Independence Tuesday.
Polk County, Ortgon, Friday,
PUSH WEST
SIDE ROAD
Association Formed at Dal.
las to Further Project
Good roads boosters from four
counties assembled at Dallas last
Saturday night and enthused one
another over the prospect of a
permanent hard surface highway
from Portland down the west
side of the Willamette valley. An
organization was formed to be
known as the Pacific Coast High
way Association and officers to
the same were elected. Repre
sentatives present from the three
counties subscribed themselves
as charter members to the asso
ciation.
Prominent people were present
from Yamhill, Polk and Benton
counties and Mr. Holman of the
road department of Portland was
present. A number of enthusi
astic talks were made to the del
egates and several phases of the
matter were brought out. The
matter of the location of the road
was touched on very delicately,
the opinion prevailing that the
first thing was to secure the ac
ceptance of the west side for the
highway out of Portland. In the
lack of positive information the
talk had to be general. Possibly
there were to be two highways,
one for the east side and one for
the west. But if there was to
be but one it was indispensible
to be early in the endeavor to get
a location.
R. C. Holman of the county
court of Multnomah county was
Portland's representative at the
meeting. He spoke of the im
portance of action at this time
of the resources of the Willam
ette and the benefit an improved
highway would be traversing
both sides of the valley and going
from one center of population to
another. Proposed by-laws were
read and adopted and then passed
around for the signatures of those
present as charter members.
Although not present, R. J.
Moore of Newberg was chosen
president and Wm. Vinton of
McMinnville made secretary after
Oscar Hayter of Dallas had de
clined the honor. Mr. Hayter
responded to a call for a talk in
a most conciliatory tone, express
ing the intention of Dallas to join
in for the best interests of the
county. Mr. Vinton spoke and
J. B. V. Butler of Monmouth re
sponded in his usual happy strain.
Dr. Butler of Independence also
responded briefly and President
Ackerman, when called on, called
attention to the proposed six per
cent amendment quoting the sec
retary of state as authority for
the conclusion that this amend
ment would greatly hamper the
state. This amendment was dis
cussed later and a resolution was
adopted, giving it, as the sense
of the meeting, that the amend
ment should be defeated. Among
others who spoke were Mr. Pat
terson of Eola, Judge Malone of
r-nrvallis. Prof. Skelton of 0. A.
C. and Prof. McCullough of the
same institution. The latter gen
tian is the investigator of the
Independence bridge and his re
October 13, 1916
marks were listened to with
strong interest. He rejoiced in
the fact that Marion county's
court had asked the federal gov
ernment for an expert to codify
the road laws of the state. It
was a big job but he thought it
was a good sign that Oregon re
alized its road laws were in need
of codifying.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing the coffee pot in which the
soldiers had theirs boiled during
their visit to the border was trot
ted out and coffee and sandwich
es served to the hungry. The
meeting was, held in the Dallas
Armory and J. R. Craven pre
sided. Road Meeting Friday Night
A road notice has been posted
calling a meeting of citizens of
this road district to be held this
evening at 7:30, at the Elkins
school house for the purpose of
choosing three delegates to the
county road budget convention
in Dallas on October 21, 1916.
Under a new law operative this
year, if a district has a budget or
plan for road improvement that
calls for the entire levy of taxes
from that district the county
court is bound to allow the dis
trict to have its own money as
far as it goes. Usually about
fifty percent of the money from
this district has been used else
where and for this reason it is
important to have a plan of road
improvement that will be com
prehensive and that will take up
the tax money of the district.
W. J. Mulkey, Jr., of Eugene
spent' a few days this week with
his parents.
experience and the prorietor the
work. Each student should
work in one place for a stated
period and then he could try
something else, the aim being to
complete his education and by
trials discover what bent in the
working world he or she might
most profitably follow. Mr. Pitt
man elaborated this line of
thought very thoroughly going
over its advantages and disad
vantages. He said his aim was to start
people to thinking along this line
that in the end a condition might
be created the reverse of that
which at present prevails where
in defective or weak people are
given practical assistance and
trainng while normal children are
left to shift for themselves.
Some regular business connect
ed with the association was tran
sacted. The secretary, Miss Ar
buthnot, reported that some
where about $70 was realized by
Mr. Gentle's lecture last summer
which is to be used for the pur
chase of a work of art to place in
the training school. A committee
consisting of Miss Green, Mrs.
Gentle and Mrs. Edwards was
appointed to recommend a prop
er work for this purpose.
The question of finance was
brought up and a committee of
three, Dr. Matthis, Mr. Gilmore
and Miss Arbuthnot, was ap
pointed to make suggestions as
to this and report at next meet
ing.
The regular meeting night of
the association was set for the
first Tuesday of each month.
in the Union.
PITTMAN ON
EDUCA TION
Discusses Industrial Train
ing with Parent'Teachers
Industrial Education was the
subject of the address of Prof.
M. L Pittman to the Parent
Teachers Friday night although
the Evolution of Teaching would
have served equally as well a3 a
title. He spoke of the constant
struggle for efficiency to make
education more practical. Teach
ers are inclined to be conserva
tive and he asserted that private
enterprise often has led the way
to new pathways that had prov
en useful in preparing youth to
make a living in the world. He
instanced law schools, medical
schools, business schools as illus-.
trative of this assertion.
When private enterprise had
demonstrated that these schools
served a real need the public
schools had taken up their work
and were carrying it on success
fully. But the constant effort to be
more efficient led on into still
newer fields. It was not possi
ble for all boys and girls to bo
presidents or professors or book
keepers, and the tendency was,
once a line of this sort was de
veloped to follow it too exclusive
ly, thus creating an over supply
of talent in the particular line.
Mr. Pittman held that it is the
function of the Bchool to prepare
boys and girls for the work of
solving the real problems that
they meet in their every day life
and to fit them best to co-ordinate
in the team work of society.
He thought the tendency of
teaching was to make its mem
bership monkish or removed
from the practical things and this
was a tendency all teachers with
a true conception of their mis
sion were seeking to overcome.
The problems that the school
books presented, while they were
made as practical as possible,
still lacked the human touch that
the real problems of life present
ed and their application was fre
quently lost in this way. He in
stanced among the efficient
teachers of Oregon, Mr. Conklin
of the Wallowa school who was
doing a few things to solve real
problems. For one thing he
maintained a repair shop in con
nection with the school and to
keep it active he invited work
from the public. For instance the
owner of a chair with perhaps a
broken rocker or an arm could
bring the chair to the school and
the pupils would repair it The
repairing of the chair was a real
problem. The student was de
sired to prepare first a model and
submit it for criticism. When
considered all right the chair was
repaired.
This led to a practical sugges
tion on the part of Mr. Pittman
that the pupils of the high school
should, under an agreement of
the twenty three different pro
fcwlons and callings in Mon
mouth work for certain brief
periods for the different proprie
tors, the understanding being
that the pupils should get the