Coquille Jerald. F Ü B U S H E D E V E R Y TU E SD AY L e tte r fr o m Elijah Smith. S. O. Co President Rufutes Long­ standing Rumors W it h Cold Facts. Elijah Smith in a letter to F. A. D- r ■ DEAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Stewart, of the PortO rford Tribune, answers a former artiole in that County Official Paper. journal from the pen of J. H. Up­ D ev o ted to th e m aterial and sooial up­ b u ild in g o f the C oquille V alley partionlarly ton, wherein be rorrects a current t 't d o f Ooo§ County gen erally. dvanoe, 92.00 rumor of long standing, which has rear, in adv iu bsoription. per year, bad such persistent circulation that it has heretofore been accepted as N ew C o u rs e o f S tu d y . the truth by many o f our people. Salem, Or., May 3— Superintend- The epistle of the Southern Oregon of Publio Instruction J. H, Acker­ Company's president follows: man has prepared and submitted to 27 Broadway, New York, April 12, 1905. the state board of education a re­ Mr. F. A. Stewart, Port Orford, vised course of study for the pub­ lic schools of Oregon. The course Oregon,— M y Dear Sir: My atten­ the board will consider at its meet­ tion has been called to the state­ ing on the first Monday in June. ment, or mis-statement, of J. H. The new course, if adopted will go Upton, with respect to the Southern into effect with the school year, be­ Oregon Company and my relations ginning this fall, by which time to it, published in the Port Orford copies can be printed and contrib­ Tribune, of a recent date. It is in­ uted. The elimination o f unneces­ deed most astonishing that people sary work in arithmetic, the consol­ will invent and set aflost such bald idation of civil go.em inent with his lies, or become resjioneible for tory, the restriction of grammar to statements, which are w/hout the a two-book course uud the use of least shadow of truth, or nv foun­ the elementary history and Dole’s dation whatever, in fact. Simple “ Arneiieau Citizen” as reading books lies. Atrocious in their conception in the fifth and sixth years, are the and evidently malicious in their in­ principal changes found in the new tent. course as compared with that now I am tempted to vary an estab­ in effect. lished rule with respect to newspa­ Among the subjects entirely eli­ per items, and no matter what may minated in the study of arithmetic have been the purpose or intent of are troy weight, apothecaries’ liquid Mr. Upton, his false and unwarrant­ measure, the metric system, present ed statements should not be per­ worth, true discount, bank discount, mitted to remain uncontradicted or exact interest, anualaud compound denied. Neither the present Southern Ore­ interest, stocks and bonds, average Company or the Oregon of payments and all problems that gon oome under these subjects. Sec­ Southern Improvement Company, tions 7 and 8 of the mental are also which preceded it, were conceived, eliminated. This does not mean organized or promoted by Elijah that less time will be given to the Smith; he not only did not promote study of arithmetic, but rather that either of those companies but never the same length of time will be promoted any company in all bis given to the subject, but it will be life, and is hardly entitled to either concentrated upon those branches the credit or discredit, whichever of the subject whicli the child is applies to such business, of being likely to find of practical use An ‘ a promoter of some renown.” Elijah '-mit,h became interested other change iu the course, so far U Mai Southern Oregon ns arithmetic is concerned, is t no in th joining of written aiul mental arith­ Impio'. ement Company sometimes metic together by topics. Under the after it was organized by other new course when a boy ¿is studying parties, when It required additional addition of fractions in the written capital to prosecute the work for arithmetic be will be studying the which it was created or to save the same topic in the mental, and so on work already in progress from be­ through the two books. This is be­ ing stopped for lack of funds. Be­ lieved to be an economy of time and ing appealed to for assistance he invested quite a large sum of money, effect. Probably more important than and did it, so far as be knows and the change that has been made in believes, on exactly the same terms arithmetic is that which has been and basis as did every other party made in the study o f history. Here­ who become interested in the enter­ tofore civil government has studied prise. Although at the time the as a separate subject. Now it will outlook was rather less promising be studied in connection with his­ than at the start, and the day has tory. Whenever any event in his. never dawned that would enable tory relates to a sectoin of the Con­ him to get his money back with in­ stitution, that section is studied in terest, and this is equally true as to connection with the portion of the all other stockholders. I t is not true that the stock was history which makes it of particular originally sold to poor people, nor interest. were savings banks “ ransacked” , Several changes have been made ami probably in uo single instance in reading. The lightening of were they ever applied lo, or though! arithmetic work in the first of, by parties who subscribed year has been accompanied by to the enterprise. Elijah Smith had heavier work in rending, so that by notbiug whatever to do with pur­ the end of the second year the chase of tho land, or other property primer and the first and second acquired by the company. On ac­ readers are completed, whereas the count of poor management on the second readers work has heretofore Coast and for other reasons, not extended into the third year. In unusal in similar cases, the business the fifth year the elementary history was unsuccessful and it became de­ will be taken up as a reader, and sirable to foreclose the mortgage Dole’s “ American Citizen" will be­ and change the bonds, which were come a reader in the sixth year. originally created, and which re­ All supplementary reading books quired absolute interest payments, have been cut out of the course, which conld not be met, into stock and tlioso will be used by the pupils which could not demand interest or only as library books. In no case will divedondB unless they were earned. the pupils be required to buy sup­ Every stockholder comes into the plementary reading books. In the reorganized company and on exact­ new course of study no books are ly the same basis and terms, receiv­ mentioned except those that were ing an equivalent iu the stock of the adopted as textbooks by the Text new company for their bonds in the Book Commission. Therefore every old company, and on the same rela­ book mentioned is to be purchased tive basis; they are interested in the by the pupils. company today, and with a single In language only tho two book i exception are the people who start­ course will heareafter be used, and ed with it, in the beginning, twenty the work heretofore done iu the years ago, except in some cases of third book will be made up by more death, where estates have succeed­ composition work. ed to the ownership, ami one small In geography only the coarse lot o f ten * ares formerly represent­ print matter and map questions will ing one bo 1 which has been sold be studied. The fine print matter, No stockholder has bean squeezed which is explanatory, will be read or bought out. by the teseher. It is also recom­ The interest of Elijah Smith in mended that in all schools employ, the present or-reorg*nired company ing three teachers o r less only the is the same, or the equivalent of it, elementary geography be used that he held in the origiual com­ What Mr. Upton's object Where three or more teachers are pany. employed the two book course may j or purpose was for making such be adopted upon an order of the niis-statements I can only surmise, but it ie rare to find more, and ap. board. lies in the In spelling all of part 4 of the pnrentlv intentional book, relating to synonyms, etc., is same small stiace than are comprised eliminated. Music and drawing in his published article, and I feel are optional throughout the course. it to be my duty to myself and as­ No change has been made in the sociates to correct them and state high school course. T errill»* K nee W i lli Hentla. an of the people in that section of Dairy Farm for Sale, the country, including yourself, be­ A fine dairy farm oonriiining 70 lieve I have been guilty of the methods described which I have al­ ai'res of bottom land *23 in tes of bill ways considered to he contemptible land, and adjoBLing the town of and dishonest, and if true, would Myrtle Point, Coos county, Oregon, justify Mr. Upton in asserting that and £ mile from creamery. Forty- I was without “ conscience” al­ five acres of bottom laud improved though from the charactei of bis and in good state of cultivation; 5 statements in connection with this acres slashed, burned and newly matter, he has very little conception seeded; hill land is all good for pas­ of what a conscience is, and is him­ ture; 3 acres of orchard in good self clearly not burdened with one eari bngcondilion aud different var­ ieties of fruit. House, bnrn and or controlled by it. j other buildings. W hile we have a Yours truly, number of other dairy farms for E lijah S m it h . sale, yet this is one of the best bar­ gains, as the location is all that Church Directory- could bi- desired, being mar town, C h b is t ia n C hubch . - - P i caching every school and creamery. Tnis is cer- Bandar at 11 a. ia. and 7:30 p. ra. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Christian Endeavor at I tainly a bargain for some progres­ 6:80 p. m . Prayer m eeting every Wedn 98- sive dairyman. Price $7,500. day evening at 7:30. A ll cord ially invited. The Every farmer raises some fruit. All could . raise f more and better fruit and make more money from I it if they read a first-class fruit paper like I $The National Fruit Grower Published at St. Joseph, Mich., in the heart o f the famous Michigan Fruit Belt. 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