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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1926)
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1926 M O R A L E D U C A T IO N IN SC H O O LS youth as a product o f the school? Why does the youth who seems to be responsible in the school, who obeys the rules with seething cheerfulness while in the schoolroom, who accepts he restraint of the school room with out question, why does this youth prove irresponsible outside o f school? Is there something lacking in the school training? Undoubtedly there is. The thing that is lacking is self- control and self-dependence. The training of the school has not carried over into the situation which the child meets outside o f school. With the restraint gf the school gone, and the restraint of the home gone, the youth must act on his own respon sibility and so often he chooses the wrong way. Now I am not going to say that tho school will ever be able, alone, to develop enough self-re straint in a child so that he will act rightly in every situation. I do not know that it can be done. It is plain to me, however, that in many, many cases the influence o f the school does not carry over into the situa tion outside the school. I know that many a child will do the thing when out from under the restraint o f the school that he would never do on the school ground. “ It is easy enough for us as teach ers to say that the moral training o f the child is no concern o f ours, that it' is a responsibility o f the parent; but when the parents will not take the responsibility, or as is more often the case they are unable to meet the situation without our assistance, then they have a right to demand that we stand ready to help,” concluded Mr. Jewett. CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN ¡ness building «rill be started at once. One o f the greatest responsibilities Forest Grove— Contrmce let for placed upon the schools at the pres construction o f $30,00q building, at ent time is the responsibility for mor Masonic and Eastern Star Children’s al education, advocated superintend Home. ent o f schools H. P. Jewett as he spoke at the Parent-Teachers meet ing Friday afternoon. “ We are real Portland— Northern Pacific brings izing more and more as time goes on first o f ten deluxe observation-chib that the greatest purpose for which cars. our schools exist is the training and development o f good citizens. We Oregon City Sand & Gravel Co., are not merely teaching reading, geo will erect three-story building. graphy, arithmetic, etc., but we are training future citizens. With this Oregon 1926 road funds of all idea in mind we as teachers must dir ect every effort to the development kinds, are expected to exceed $7,000, o f those traits of character which 000. make a good citizen. I need not en umerate to you all the qualities o f a New York Life and Metropolitan good citizen. It is sufficient to say Insurance companies paid $54, that he must be honest, truthful, re 576 premium taxes in Oregon, for sponsible, law-abiding, obedient, have self-respect, and be morally clean. 192?. “ With these introductory theughts in mind, I want to take up two ques Astoria— Paving begins on Astor- tions with you. I feel that you as ia-Svensen section o f Columbia High parents have it right to be more com way. pletely informed as to our purposes and plans as a school, and that you Portland receives national prize have a greater right than you may be for cities o f 100,000 or more, for using to take a part in setting the best progress in reducing fire loss. standards o f your schol. “ The first question I shall discuss Ashland— 250-ton retort of Hart is this: “ What is the school doing in the way o f moral education? “ Our man Syndicate, said to prove satis school systems, especially the hi*h factory for extracting oil from shale. schools are under fire, all over the nation. People are pointing to the Salem— Adam Engel will build 12- youthful crime wave, to the liberty apartment house, to cost $58,000. and license which some o f our fou n g people take, to the jazzy spirit o f the Hood River citizens will support t'mes. THey say that our young move for new $169,000 high school. people are without restraint; that Florence— Stout Lumber Co. will they smoke, booze, and are morally lax. Our critics draw this conclu O R E G O N W E E K L Y IN D U S T R IA L rafe its logs, from Siuslaw River to R E V IE W sion, and I must admit there is some Coos Bay. truth in it, they say, "Oar school systems must be falling down if this McMinnville — I.infield College Roseburg — Grant-la n d timber type o f youth is their product.” from nine O. & C. tracts, for $56,000. plans $500,000 plant. _ “ I haven’t the time in this discus Astoria— Surfacing o f Cannon sion to analyze.the situation com Multnomah County will make war Beach Highway «will begin at once. pletely; to point out all the factors concerned, or all the influences at on tin-can and careless picnickers Hermiston— All records for honey work. Iwish however, to point out along county roads. production being broken here, this a few facts which must be consi Salem will be center o f five thous year. dered. I believe that home o f the criticism directed against the school and acres o f strawberries, grown for Toledo and Newport join in cam is justified, more so in some schools canning and packing. paign for Yaquina Bay Harbor pro than in others. However, I do not believe that the schools are failing in Astoria— Pacific Newsprint Mills. ject. their task to the extent claimed. In Oregon highway commission will Inc., plans to begin soon on $4,000, the first place, we can not deny that the responsibility for the moral train 000 paper plant, with total invest oil 400 miles o f macadam highway this year. ing of the child rests absolutely in ment o f $11,000,000. the home. The school must work in March lumber exports from Coos harmony with this training, it must Portland— Northwestern Electric Bay had value o f $61,195. supplement that training and in no Co. will build $50,000 substation on Oregon farms have 3251 radio way undermine it. If a child comes sets, and 5771 tractors. from the home with high standards East 32nd street. o f moral conduct he must find the Marshfield will start 1926 with 22 standards o f the school just as high. FAJtM POINTERS On the other hand if the school sets blocks paving and new sewes, cost a high standard o f moral conduct and ing more than $300,000. (O. A. C.) the child goes into a home atmos Hundreds o f thousands of dollars phere o f lower standards, who is to Klamath Falls— New $195,000 blame if the child becomes morally b remont School dedicated. have been spent for clover seed for irresponsible? Certainly the school land that simply will not grow clover is not to blame in thpse circumstan Eugene— Through freight termin until it has been sweetened by the ces. “ In order to be still more definite al on Southern Pacific moved here; application of limestone. in considering the question o f what several miles of new terminal track Lime is riot a simple fertilizer, like the school is doing in moral training already laid. nitrogen, since it is applied to correct let me state again the characteristics soil sourness and only incidentally to o f a good citizen and point out what Hood River— Mount Hood Hotel supply calcium. the school is doing with each. to be enlarged, and have new elec First, he must be honest. The pu Legumes, such as clover, alfalfa, pil who cheats or steals is promptly tric elevator. and vetch, if properly used feed the punished. Every teacher makes ev Clatanskie— Paul Border, famous soil, build fertility and maintain it. ery possible effort to hold up to the Limestone can be applied at any child an ideal o f honesty. Iowa dairyman, building creamery Second, truthfulness.— This is here. convenient time when the surface is / closely related to the first and at all fairly dry. Where clover is seeded times in onr daily work, preparation Newport— Oregon Oyster Co. tries onwinter grain, lime will need to be o f lessons, etc., the teacher demands Eastern oyster seedlings in Yaquina applied ahead o f the grain seeding. truthfulness. Third, responsibility.— Possibly we Bay. Lime will not take the .place of do not plan as completely for the de drainage, manure, fertilizers, or the Garibaldi— Maple Leaf chees fac velopment o f responsibility as we might, yet nearly every teacher gives tory has grown 33 per cent in past proper preparation o f the seed bed, nor can these factors take the place increased responsibility to the child year. o f lime. as he deserves it? The least we can say is that thei » is nothing about our Legumes, such as clover, alfalfa, Suthcrlin— Peppermint growers system to encourage irresponsibility. and vetch, that love lime have been, will set out 200 to 300 acres pepper Fourth, few-abiding and obedi and continue to be, the keystone in ent,— This is at the heart o f all our mint this year. efforts. Not blind unreasoning obe the arch o f any system of soil im Douglas County broccoli was best provement. dience. A recognition o f the fact that wherever a group Work together o f any section on coast, this year. Several o f the legumes will grow there must be a rule o f conduct, and About 400 carloads were shipped. on a moredately sour soil but they that all must obey this rule to the mutual benefit o f all. Fifth, self- McMinville— New $50,000 Eggles arc always more thrifty and valuable respect— We attempt to develop this if they have a sufficient supply of through recognition o f individual ab ton store block completed. lime. ility—-through the fashion o f good Eugene — $100,000 Wetherbee- behavior, precept, and example. “ All these things the school does Powcr* furniture store opened. from hour to hour, from day to day, Portland will be district headquar and month to month, quietly and e f fectively in the school room. It is ters of Tacific Northwest Advisory my firm apd honest conviction that Board o f American Railway Assor- I our schools o f today are wielding a deeper, more far-reaching, sane and lation, to speed up freight car ser ! effective influence than most people vice. realize. In spite o f the great amount o f adverse criticism o f the jazzy spir Oregon City — Record-breaking i it and moral irresponsibility o f our salmon fishing expected here this youth today, I believe our present year. generation o f young people on the whole are the finest, cleanest, frank Fourteen major sawmill* and box i est. most wholesome, manly and worn anly group that the world has ever factories o f Klamath County are cut known. If there is a lack o f moral ting 50,000,000 feet a month, anri JEWELRY That Pleases-- responsibility on the part o f some, employ 4500 men. Ten more mills it is not because o f the type o f moral will be opened this month. training in the schools but it is in REPAIRING That spite of this moral training. Klamath Falls — Weyerhaeuser “ I might go farther and point out Timber Co. pays almost ten per cent J many things that the school is doing SATISFIES! in moral education. I might show f all Klamath County taxes. how in the high school through stu Chiloquin—-Forest Lumber C o . 1 dent organization and activities we I f 70» don’t h o juot what you develop leadership and responsibility. J buys machinery for electrical plan and how athletics have a decided in ng mill, costing $38,000. | w ant, ask fo r it and I ’ll get it fo r fluence f«r good. I am not going to yon. give detail along this line but rather Eugene— Contract let for paving leave this question «rith this final thought. The »hole tone and atmos Tenth Av. nue from Monroe to Al phere of the school and the respon- madén, tot' $27.86«. »•tle teacher is one of respect for C resw ell— Plant b ein g built for v.hat is right and tolerance for no'h- Watchmaker A Jeweler ing bnt the highest standard of eon- j manufacturing pottery, to employ (A t Parson's) t*ur*~ ! twenty-five to thirty men. “ Why then if what I hare said ia true, do we h aa the irrespuiiatde j Gold Beach——New Gauntlett bus- PAGE THREE A four-ton crop o f clover removes 416 pounds o f limestone and a five- ton crop o f alfalfa removes 411 lbs. of lime and as muc!i as 625 pounds of an abundance o f lime is available. Various organic aen’ s wnirh produce soil sourness are produced l.’, tf*s e f fect of decaying vegetation. In a compact mass of freshly fallen leaves Free Foot Comfort DEMONSTRATION W E D N E S D A Y , APRIL 14 % Seven persons out of every ten have some form of foot trouble. 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