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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1926)
NOTED EDUCATOR OMR TIME WASCO FASTO* FA*M WOMEN CONFS* A unique conference was held Campbell Crockatt, an alumnus of Chicago recently when a number af women from farm homes gathered to board and creating another tribunal for nine years a member of the faculty, discuss their problems, needs and as the handling of wage demands, neither who was killed in an automobile acci pirations. The discussions centered congress nor the public intend to let dent at Davenport, Washington, last about the topic “What do farm wo Thursday, was on© of tNe leading men want?" Naturally it developed that they want practically the same from the rate increase caused by wage and while serving as professor of things that women in urban com Railroad bbor, as a class and as a economics conducted many researches munities want. The chief question at whole, b liberally paid. * At the present in hb chosen field. Hb most import issue b how to get them. As the time, bbor on the railroads of the ant investigations were those for the chairman of the conference said on United States is the highest paid class state of Oregon in connection with the opening the conference, “We haven’t Commission any right to sit here and say,'Well, of of bbor in the world, though working Interstate hearing on rail development in thb course there are all kinds of things the shortest hours. Farm bbor, for example, works from state and an investigation for the Car that we want, but we can’t get them, 10 to ¡2 hours, and the farmer him negie foundation for international so what is the use?’ It is the busi self and hb sons and often the wpmen peace in connection with the limitation ness of farm women to get advan tages for farm people, for the farm folks, longer than that, whereas rail of armaments conference in 1921. He was born in Glasgow/ Scotland, children of the United States." road employes work scarcely half as Apparently the most interesting of long, and receive from three to four in September, 1892, and after the com pletion of his preliminary school work the discussions was that concerned tunes higher pay During hearing on demands for was apprenticed for a year and a half with education and the farm home. to Lloyd’s marine insurance company When the committee formed for the wage increases, it has been repeatedly in Glasgow. Here he obtained his purpose analyzed the list of “wants' disclosed that some classes railroad employes arbitrarily restrict the miles first interest in transportation. He in its relation they run or the hours they work so came to Oregon and entered the found the items could be classified as to create the false impression that University in 1910. He received his f under three headings: the curricn- their wages are low and thereby jus:- bachelor’s degree from the University him, the teaching personnel, and the j* 1915. _____ • He served as pastor for the Christ branes, and the like Farm women The facts are that men in train ian Church it Wasco, Sherman County, service are the best paid of all, and Oregon, in 1913 and 1914 and was yet the most active and persistent in part of that time a student in a law of and of a better curriculum, one demanding wage increases. If they fice in Portland. He taught in the which gives to farm children wider feel that they must have more money, Tillamook High School in 1915, and opportunities to prepare for life— let them work the hours of other men, and they will get it without a wage from 1915 to 1917 he was professor of Lie in the country or wherever their English at'‘Spokane University, Spo vocational tastes and abilities may kane, Washington. During the sum lead them. Until they do so, it is wrong for mer of ¡918, after he had received Beside the need for better educa them to demand, and brazen to expect his master’s degree at the University tion for farm children, discussions the public to hazard a rate increase.. __ , .... . ci Oregon he was a reporter on the showed a deep appreciation of the in order that they may obtain a wage K I Yakima Daily Republic, Yakima. necessity for better educational op increase. Their hourly rate of pay is I Washington, and in the following portunities for adults and a realiza already high. 4 The trouble is they ! summer was connected with the em tion of the fact that happiness and work such few hours, not because they contentment in farm life depend on cannot work more, but because they ployment service thete. spiritual values even more than on themselves have agreed and resolved satisfactory economic conditions. not to. The public is in no mood to RADIO EXCEPTION TO RULE sympathize with pleas for wage in creases, under such conditions. Radio is in its infancy; but it the lustiest youngster of record. It It to a well established belief among has become a national institution for amusement, for education and for material application. Broadcasting from police stations and the sheriff's offices leads to apprehension of crooks who value. The people are demanding better political result for the money invested in higher education, or a smaller in vestment. The broad charge is made in a middle west state, that the state university is not enabling men to Broadcasting weather condi- a practical equipment on which to earn a living, .in short that there is ers. Radio has reduced enormously tco much theory. 3ILLTHE BARBER SAYS AMMTHM R HNOn. i should * K yean college training, find they have . “Most remarkable of all," says the taken a blind jump and landed on Los Angeles Times, "no serious abuse their faces. There is little doubt about of the radio has yet developed Science the greater need of curriculum better b unmoral Its inventions are gen suited to enable students to face the erally applicable alike to good and after-college period of their livea evil Weapons protect life by destroy ing life. Most health giving remedies Prominent educators consider that can also be used as poisons. Chern is- a of business integrity, try is alike a blessing and a bane. To gained through reading, advertiae- the present time, radio is a happy ments, to an essential part of a ser- exception to the rule.' ■ viceable education. Barvest BALL! Wasco It is interesting to read the produc tion figures in the field .of industry and agriculture in the United States. With a population of only some 118, dividuals. our total output b all the more astounding. The application of electric and steam power as an aid to Born to the wife of Marrin Howell, man power is responsible for such accomplishments. American workmen have more power at their command If some loved one has passed away in a distant city,, we can take immediate charge, relieving . you of the many details. The Crandall Undertaking Company Lady Assistants Wasco J. E. Norton Samuel Brtobine Sunday. production and high wages. There have been ups and downs in American agriculture and manufacturing, but that never before did the majority of individuals in the United States have as many of the necessities and luxuries of life as they do today. itors Sunday. Science for Service ’As one travels over the country he is impressed by the fact that new farm buildings are being built, old ones are Ireland had the misfortune to loose being repaired, the majority of farms have garages, automobiles, modern hrm marhinery, radios and a constant- True education combines theory practice, and its goal to Oregon's Land-Grant College affords the liberal training essential to personal culture and civic efficiency, combined with special training for leadership in fields vital in modern life. ed iwith electric light and power. Naturally there are exceptions to this one rule in some localities, but who takes a fair view of the country can help but say that it has been un usually prosperous. Never in the his Waaeo callers Tuesday afternoon. tory of the world have so many homes been built by individual owners, as Bud Moore 4 Grass Valley was a during the last two years in the United bnday. State* Walter J ham of Grass Valhy unpreced- he streets of Wasco ented conditkms we find a Friday. active group that favors Norman Macnab to carrying hb arm experiments in America. It would fashion our goverment along more his shoulder. have paternalistic lines, such restricted initiative, development and prosperity in many European coun tries. We can witness this agitation in all parts of our country, of late, performed Sunday at the Mid-Colum- it lias been manifesting itself most bb hospital bFS Wonderiiek. actively along the lines of public own ership of electric power. This has been noticeable in the campaign to re tain Muscle Shoals as a federal play E. D. McKee and C. H HowelL thing instead of leasing it for private development under public regulation. We have seen similar agitation for state development of electric power in New* York, in California and in Ore- ■ haa returned to Hood River. Basic and General Training— Hood River. Pinkerton, wag treated for a bad shin KIN MWWD CORCEAiJNi UQMOR A SflZUß MH PEOPLE DEMAND RESULTS otes. Geo. N. Crosfield has recovered sufficiently from his illness of last week and was considering returning to Seaside with hb family this week. The 2-year old son of C. E. Coats had the bottom of hb foot badly iac- brought to Wuct for treatment. Hollis Hull had hb trousers caught by a set screw on a revolving shaft while working on hb father’s combine severely bruised leg. Dr. J. A. Wonderiiek last week re- collaborating epidemiologist for Ore gon from the United States treasury department, Washington, D. C. The dnties of this commission have to do mainly in tabulating and reporting contagious diseases. The Thursday afternoon bridge club In the school of of Industrial Jou Music. - c' 2. Technical and Special Training With curricula leading to the bachelor's AGRICULTURE HOME ECONOMICS MILITARY SCIENCE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MINES COMMERCE PHARMACY ENGINEERING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FORESTRY Graduate work to offered in most of the schools. In addition to the Resident Instruction, the Experiment Station and Extension Service specialise in the application of science in every-day life. FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 20 For latest Catalogue and information address THE REGISTRAR Oregon Agricultural College mmmmmmmnmumnnmttmmttnimmoMttmmnnmnmmnaRBMMmR Bmnmmnmanmnm M oro T heatre MÒRO, OREGON “The PRAIRIE WIFE’ 4 So far all these moves to inject the state into business at the expense and discouragement of the individual, have been decisively defeated. In Oregon, advocates of putting the state into the power business have just failed to get even enough names on petitions to sub mit the measure to a vote of the peo ple In North Dakota, however, the non partisan league candidates have recent ly been victorious in a state election. This is the same league that a few years ago led North Dakota into a maze of socialistic undertakings from which the state has not yet extricated itself. How far it will attempt to go in re-establishing its old doctrines no one knows. There is some agitation in political circles in several other sec tions of the country to bunch the state into various branches of the in surance business. And so it goes o/er the country. The agitations which an noy and vex the majority of the people, might be likened to the fleas on a dog —they demand constant effort to counteract their irritating effect. CORVALLIS . Saturday, July 31, 192S . “ The Way of The Girl “ The White Desert “THE TORRENT Admission 10c and 30c Bsmnnonmmmmanm R ead &, G alloway GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles,"*,' Caterpillars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder Grin Ung, Oyx-acctylene apd Electric Welding The Dalles, Ore 616 East Second 8t Phone Main 4001 All business and employment is in Among those terlocked, and neither the agriculturist, manufacturer, capitalist or workman fiOMOCOOOOOKdaOOOOOMOOOOQOOOOOOQMM can profit at thte expense of his neigh Wonderiiek, Mm Art Smith, Mm V. bor. Putting the government into bus iness simply piles up the tax bill which last Thursday evening. Lone Rock - Thomas. If we are wise we will take stock of our exceptionally fortunate and pros THE CARELESS DRIVERS NEE^ perous condition of today, and not be led astray by political schemes which i MOST ATTENTION experiment at the expense of business In 1925, total fatalities in the and industry, whjch means at the ex United States involving automobiles pense of the workman and the consum- amounted to 19,564. Of these, 17,- Open Air Pavilion Saturday, August 7 Fresh Milk and Cream at all times. DELIVERY TWICE DAILY Leave orders at Moro Pharmacy Moro, Oregon GARAGE AND BLACKSMITH SHOP Dealen In Bar Iron and Steel Music by the Jazzy Foister Orchestra Plow Shares Sharpened ston results in avoidable accidenta underwriters to carrying on Double Trees and Single Trees WALT WHITMAN STATUE FOR NEW TORE UNDER AUSPICES OF Woodworking and that death or injury which they Tank Lumber and Hardwood »ooooooooooooooooooootsooootx
