EASTERN C LA C K A M A S N E W S
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Eastern Clackamas News
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T H E A M E R IC A N P R E S S A * S-' C IA I ION
Thursday. September 23. 1920
covery of Michael Faraday, the not­
ed chemist and scientist.
Faraday
was a poor boy, but this teacher dis­
covered his latent talents and set
about to develop them.
Thus to
iiim was the honor of making an ex­
ceptional contribution to the scien­
tific world in the person of Michael
Faraday.
The teaching profession ill paid
ami on the whole lightly esteemed,
is a glorious one, and none affords
more abundant opportunities for
lasting service to humanity than it.
To those who are engaged in it,
we pay our homage, and when des­
pondent and depressed from carping
criticism of an ignorant sort, or lack
of appreciation from those to whom
they are rendering lasting service,
we bid them recall their goodly heri­
tage, of master minds, of heroic sac­
rifices, of noble aims, endeavors and
achievements which in spite of much
toil and pain often times fitter op­
position and misrepresentation, tri­
umphed in the end.
“ R espondete n a t a u b u s !”
Slug the Garden Slug
Relief for German
And Austrian Children
By spraying “ slugged” plants
with Bordeaux mixture, 4-4-50,
We have received a communi­
cation
from the committee in
and spreading a poison bait,
Portland, for furnishing relief to
made of one part calcium arsenate the German and Austrian women
to 16 parts chopped lettuce leaves, and children. There is no doubt
that there is terrible distress from
in small heaps about the plants, under * nourishment among the
good protection is obtained. For children especially in Austria.
several years A. L. Lovett, ento­ The situation is acute and winter
soon will be on them. Those
mologist o f the O.A.C. experi­ wishing to contribute can obtain
ment station, and A. B. Black, the necessary information from
the secretary, C. T. Steir.lein,
assistant, have been trying out 420 Chamber of Commerce, Port­
many ways of slugging the slug, land, Ore.
and find the above best. They
NOTICE
have published their findings on
There will be a mass meeting
the slug, its feeding and breed­ of the citizens of Estacada, Ore­
gon, at the city hall at the hour
ing habits and its control, in a of.eight o’ clock, p. m. Septem­
new bulletin, “ The Gray Garden ber 30th, 1920, for the purpose
Slug,” just off the college press. of nominating an entire ticket
I f bothered by slugs, and of for city officers, viz. mayor, re­
corder, treasurer and five coun-
course you are, send for free copy cilmen.
S. E. Wooster,
to the college at Corvallis.
9-16-23
Recorder.
An Ominous Portent
The explosion in New York city
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T h e T e a c h e r ’s O p p o rtu n ities
last week which caused over
The teacher often Hods his work*
thirty deaths, and two hundred
very prosaic and uninspiring, es­
pecially in the smaller and more re­
wounded besides wrecking prop­
mote schools where lie is cut off
erty
to the extent of two millions
from professional association and
educational environment and atmos­
and a half, was the work of an­
phere. He has to depend on his own
archists. There is no reasonable
resources to save himself from petri­
fication.
But the depressingness of
doubt but what it is the evidence
his situation affords an opportunity
of a diabolical nation wide plot,
for him to.magnify his office by ris­
ing to and surmounting the condi­
and if prompt a n d sufficient
tion.
measures are not taken, it will be
A great
English schoolmaster
owed his subsequent success to his
repeated in other cities. We have
first teaching experience.
He was
been expecting something of the
curate in an English village, and
part of his duties lay in teaching in
sort to happen, and would not be
the National schools. Here was the
surprised if worse is yet to come.
problem which presented itself to
him:
We cannot but help thinking that
“ How on earth the Cambridge
Governor
Cox’s repeated asser­
honor man, with his success and his
brain world, was to get at the minds
tions that the big business inter­
of those little laborers’ sons, with
ests are attempting to buv the
their unfurnished heads, and no time
to give?”
presidency, are but adding fuel
He felt that, they bad to be got at
to the flames. In this campaign
or else he had failed.
He likened himself to a key which
more than ever, it behooves poli­
must lie made to tit the wards of a
ticians
to be careful what they
lock, and then went to work to
make himself tit the lock so he
say and allege, for the political
could unlock their minds and open
and social atmosphere is charged
tlie secret chambers of their hearts.
In his dairy lie pathetically records
with gasses which coming in
how hard it was to get into shape,
contact with other inflammable
their shape and lit (lie twists and cor­
ners of blocked and ignorant minds.
gas will explode with sufficient
But he was well repaid in the end.
force to shake the country to its
for lie afterwards confessed at the
height of bis career, that “ Every­
foiyidations.
thing I most value of teaching
thought, and teaching practice, and
Senator Chamberlain is no
teaching experience,
came • from
that.”
And lie was never tired of
doubt reckoning on a number of
Affirming as a fundamental truth,
republican votes as heretofore.
that the lowest teaching work re­
quires the highest teaching skill.
His war record has commended
Bet tlie teacher in some lonely
him to them and the American
post, where he is isolated and appar­
ently forgotten except for an official
Legion feels grateful to him for
visit from th* county superintendent,
his efforts on behalf of the boy?.
enthuse bis flagging interest by re­
calling that bis work is to be esti­
But there is this point to he taken
mated by its possibilities, that he is
into consideration, and that is the
laying foundations on which will
depend the security and dimensions
contest for the majority in the
of the subsequent superstructures.
U. S. senate will he a close one,
What he does will largely determine
what the high school and the col­
and it is most important that if
lege will be able to accomplish for
Harding is elected, he shall have
bis pupils.
▲ ■4 what Is more, faithful work
a republican senate to back him,
in the elementary schools Is more
otherwise he will be seriously
l ruin ul of results of a personal na­
ture than In any other department
handicapped in all he endeavors
because the* minds of the pupils are
to accomplish.
i'i a plastic stat«* ami more suscepti­
ble of being moulded. A teacher in
fie grades has tin* opportunity of
Change in Partnership
tneradicably impressing hini-«lf on
*ho»e whom he instructs.
He can
D. E. Morgan of the firm o f
••nd them out to subsequent teach* ••*»
and classes hearing his own intel-
Morgan Bros, has sold his inter-.
lectual inag«* and likeness.
] ,
e ; t t o W. H. Kandel. He does
Again he will have the opportuni­
ty of discovery.
\s he unlocks the
n >t not know yet what he will do
minds of his pupils and reveals thiir
hut will remain here for a time
contents, he may discover some rar«*
gem, which but for him would lie
while looking around and decid­
forever hidden. A celebrated Scotch
ing the matter. We hope he will
teacher declare«! that the greatest
thin- h«- h i*f « \«r done, wa* th** dis­
c m^lnde to stay in E ta a la.
Thursday, September 23, 1920
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