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Member N A T IO N A L E D ITO R IA L A SSO CIATIO N
THE TRAINING OF YOUTH
I By Rev. Hugh T. Mitchelmore)
The training of youth- for life is not a new
problem. It is as ancient as the family and as
modern as today.
W e need an enrichment o f the individual’s
personality, the high utilization of his instinc
tive powers and the achievement o f a free, but
cooperative place in society.
Education in America specializes on the
impartation of information, the'storing up of
the mind with mathamatical, grammatical, his
toric and scientific facts.
We must have that
force back of these which furnishes meaning and
purpose, goal and drive to all the rest— W e must
have God.
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The addition of God to our educational sys
tem does not limit in the least the so-called se
cular education. Instead of limiting we must
liberate. True freedom is not “ a tightly buttoned
up’ system of thought, bound up with prejudice
against‘all things which will not fit into either
spiritual or materialistic catagories. The spirit
ual interpretation o f life is not averse to study
in the scientific field, but insists there is a field
of spiritual reality which is perceptable to the
eyes of faith.
Religion belongs to education.
The state
cannot give it. The church must do this primarily
through the home and the stimulation of those
ideals and practices of family religion which bal
lasts the life of the youth with steadying
spiritual conviction that no winds of temptation
<Tr opinion can drive it to shipwreck.
The
church school must furnish the youth with the
spiritual power which is necessary to fit them
to live their best, to live clean, courageous, so
cially useful lives.
, If our youth fail to reach the best that may
be their# then those who have the pow-er to
teach, the family and the church, have fallen
short of their highest possibilities.
WILL PENDER REGAIN LIBERTY?
The Daily News
. John A. Pender, convicted of the murder
of All's- Daisy Wehrman and her three-year old
son at Scappoose, Oregon, September 4, 1911,
and who was pardoned from the state peniten
tiary September 11, 1920, is a convincing ex
ample of the loose policy of paroling and pardon
ing convicts from the state prison.
October 26, the pardoned murdered w alked
into a trap in Portland, and was barelv prevent
ed from dealing death to a 15-year old girl who
had been used to apprehend him, and after he
had attempted to assault her.
Since the recent arrest he has been identi
fied by various women a s ! having assaulted
them or of having been in neighborhoods where
other dastardly crimes were committed similar
to that of the slaying of Mrs. Wehrman and her
little son.
Developments have proved Pender one o f
the most dangerous sexual perverts in the coun
try. There is no longer any doubt but that it w as
he who crushed the skulls of Mrs. Wehrman
and the little innocent boy with a hammer, and
thea riddled their bodies with bullets after he
had assaulted the woman. The same fate would
have been meted out to the 15-year old girl who
was used to trap the fiend had not officers acted
quickly.
♦The fiend in the guise o f a human being has
been plying upon the public since his uncondi
tional pardon in 1920.
Several little girls have
bee murdered since then and circumstances
point the finger of suspicion at Pender. There is
no telling the total o f his list of outraged victims.
It was Osw ald West, who, as governor com
muted a death sentence imposed upon Pender
to life imprisonment. It was Ben Olcott who. as
governor, issued a conditional pardon to Pender
in 1920, following a recommendation of the
'tate parole board. What a sad mistake the
former executives made when they permitted the
fiend to live and turned him out to prey upon
women and girls. It is with great relief that we
leaim that Pender is to be returned to the peniten
tiary to spend the remainder o f his life.
But will he remain, in confinement the re
mainder of his life? Is there, not strong possi
bility that oversympathetic men and soo-sisters
will secure his release 15 or 20 years from now?
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“ Do you really think that the cials o f the precinct hold a special
Court will decide in the State’s election within its borders for
favor?” asked Miss Louise Leon three precinct laibor Commission
ard, o f her companion and asso ers, constitutional provision and
municipal
I.aw,
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attorney, Donald W'aldo.
I The question was asked on a ‘ »'“ t ‘ hey should, said laws had
beautiful June afternoon on a bal- provided tha$ when such, officials
cony on the east side o f the State
elected and qualified their
capitol building a' Sa’ -m. Ore-1 obligations, powers and
duties
gon. The speaker was u lady of wprp *uch ‘ h« ‘ ‘ hey should pro-
attractive fuce and form. Her eyes vide work to those seeking work,
were a dark brown Her complex- j The l'as,. was appealed to the Su-
ion a light
chin ful
and Preme Court. The case elicited
slightly dimpled, above which was Krea‘ interest within nnd without
a mouth that when it twitched 'h e stute. The crux o f the conten-
spellet! mischief. Her lips were Uon wa8- DoP8 organized society,
tem ptingly attractive
but free ** represented by the state, or any
from sensuality. Her companion ,rac‘ ‘ona' l>ar‘ thereof, owe the
was a man o f such phyqiue that I PeoPh‘ an opportunity to work?
the most critical could find hut ^ 8 two hundred years before, the
little to* criticize. —
The two were n question agitating the eastern Am
couple that would cause any*one erican people, was taxation with
to look upon with admiration and out representation, so now the
to give a second glance in passing. question agitating the people o f a
western state was, Does the state
Man and maid had a tired look,
owe the people thereof the right
as well they might
The scene
to work, without exploitation, Or
pread o\it before them from the
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should industrial Tree
freedom he the
W O M A N ’S P A G E
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was It beautiful restful . . .
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heritage of everyone?
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one. Looking east from where they
Florence Riddick Boys
set they could see the beautiful
Oregon, a Son of his Father, the
Copyrighted
Salem prairie extending about PpoPlpt nn‘l o f his Mother society,
Plymouth, Ind.
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four
miles
to the opposite
side be ■ insisted that his powers and du
ing stopped on the left by a fringe ties were such that he should and
F L O W E R BULBS
o f trees that formerly was a fo r that he would do so through his
est that divided the Salem and agents or representatives, the o ffi
Some o f us resolve every spring
Howel prairies nnd on the right cials. Henro the case in Court.
that certainly next fall we will
by the far famed Waldo Hills. Hence these characters introduc
plant a profusion of bulbs and
Further east could be seen the ed at the beginning o f this story.
then, when fall comes, we get
fir clad Cascade mountains rising; Donald
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b,u«y and neglect it. Now is the ties after tier until the fartherest. Attorney (.eneral, Miss
Louisa
■time, and what joy they will be
was his
one» touched the eastern sky. On ....
to us along about Easter time!
The question and its decision
both the northern and southern
There are scores o f varieties of ends o f the line of vision stood, was with the Supreme Court. Ex
tulips to choose from. The Dar sentinal like, the snow clad peaks citement was running high. The
win is a wonderful variety. Nar o f Mount Hood and Mount J effer people had begun to feel the bless
cissus is lovely planted under a son, looking much like glittering ing and benefit o f Industrial Free
tree or along the edge o f shrub diamonds, » - as
dom. Progress
thereto
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bery, where it will come up year glittering rays o f the western sun. sl° w- Hinderances many. In spite
after year, just as if it naturaUy
A scene more beautiful than |
th« many hindrances the labor
grew there. A few hyacinths, near the one thus spread out to the Question was being solved. Distri-
the house foundation, will give a view o f the two seated high up in hution o f the products o f labor
touch o f dignity. Then there are the eastern wing of the Capitol were more equitably and just. Dull
the little crucuses, which come building would be hard to find CBr‘\ and the fear o f want, due to
right up and bloom through the even on the western coast of the the uncertainity o f renumerative
snow. They are to be scattered U. S. A.
disappearing.
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over the l^wn.
We surely ought to win this happiness and freedom unknown
One rule is to set the bulbs in | case for the State,” replied Donald before existed. The blessing o f the
the ground twice as deep as, they Waldo. “ We
social compact,
have
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are thick. Some people put hardy best and strongest briefs, to the '*'rpc‘ to all. Self employment he
tulips a foot underground and thus < ourt that it is possible to submit. | cau8P
public or collective own-
save themselves the trouble o f re Constitutionul provisions and con-! Pr*hip o f Collective used industrial
moving them every year. A fter stitutionu! law are on outf side o f an^ commercial properties with
the tulips have died down, th"y the case, also municipal laws, that t*,p'r use supplied abundance for
simply set out pansies or sopie oth have been lately enacted, sustain every one. “ The meek were inher
earth.”
er flowers over them and then, our case. True enough we had lit- ¡ting ‘ the
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next spring, lo and behold, here tie precedents <*o offer, but what
Where municipal, public initia
the tulips are ouf, chirp as can little precedent the opposition had tion in industry and commerce
be, ready to welcome the first rob to o ffer has beep made o f no had displaced private corporate in-
in.
avail or void because of recent iatipe industry and comtnerce the
To set the crocus in the lawn, Constitutional Amendment. Nev blessing diseribed existed. Shall
one merely cuts a slit In the sod, ertheless .the opposition is bitter the divine or legal, right o f the
makes a hole in the soil and slips l and cruel A* the grave. I have got Exploiter go the way o f the divine
the bulb under. The crocus, being , ten several letters, lately that do or legal right o f the king and
small, does qot need to go very not conduce to sleep “ privilege” priest o f a former age? Shall the
deep. The richer the soil, the bet dies hard,’ if die it must. Just what divine right o f the profiteer go
ter the bulbs will do; but do not influence, dire threats made by the way ot the slave owner o f the
purchased hirelings may effect past? These were the momentious
use fresh manure on it«
the Court Mind I do not know. Ex questions that the populace so an
pediency backed by selfish inter xiously waited
for the answer
FAR FROM SCHOOLS
ests so influenced the Court Mind this June after noon. In the fac
in the famous or infamous, just tory and shop, they waited more
Mothers, whose children find as you like, Dartmouth College anxiously if possible, than in the
school a bit irksome, should re Case in 1819, that the Court ren field, Women «s well as men had
mind them of places where( child dered a decision udverse to the tasted o f the blessing o f Indus
ren live twenty-five or more miles State o f New Hampshire. Said de trial Justice. Equality o f oppor
from school and arF thus deprived cision robbed the Government
tunity in the labor or work world
o f all the pleasant associations much o f its powers. Subsequent wnM »omething to tie too. It was a
and activities o f school life. In decisions o f the court have robbed CHndi‘ mn new to modern civiliza
some remote places. Outpost Cor governments, both Federal
and I tion- In many Christian, co-oper
respondence schools help such Mate o f powers that might have • tivp. Industrio-Commercial cities,
I children through the first eight protected the people but have fa il-! ma,lp *uch because the provisions
| grades. Our little ones may “ wish pd to do so, because o f said de- o f ‘ hpir Charters were such that
the school house *would barn” or C,* '° n-
| uP °n ‘ hpir. ‘ he charters adoption!
some fate consign them a vacation
The two persons described at *uch a city> Ppr*<»n or corporation
| but a week at home with the meas the beginning o f this story were was born or created. They wrr¿
les is Hkely to make them see
pro
descendant» o f Pioneer families. ( hriatian persons because
school in a different light. Mothers They were associates
together. vision in the Charter included the
can help by taking an interest lik assisting the Attorney General be- ^ ,,,dpn Rule as taught by Christ
ing the
teachers, and always
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Court in a case Jesus.
speaking an approving word to t that had come before the Court
(T o he continued)
everything which concerns school
from the Circuit Court o f Multno
lifs. The attitude o f the child to
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Brooks — Japanese gardeners
mah County,
coming
to said ,,„
Court
ward his school is very much a re-
from Precinct No. 10. John Dg*, |*iv* ««'■load celery toward build-
flectian
o f what he hears o f it et, el had brought suit for $300,-1
JaP*oesc school.
alt home.
olive,
If we are to judge from the past, that very thing
will happen and a rapist and murderer again be
released to prey upon helpless girls and women.
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THE GRASS NIBBLERS
“ I expect nothing from the middle class of hu
manity. They are but so many sheep nibbling at
the withered grass of life.” Thus Jim Tul|y, hobo
poet, after wandering up and down the highways
and by-ways that are this America. It is a poetic
bit o f pessimism, a poetic bit of nonsense. Not
that much of what he has to say in his observa
tions on the republic is not true Much of what al
most anybody says is true,including the more viol
ent inmates of our institutions for the feeble
minded. He believes we are money mad (where
have we heard that before?) and that we are con
trolled by bankers and lawyers and merchants
and thieves. All in all, he draw's a dismal picture.
But it is a misleading picture or, if it isn’t, then
this is one heck of a country in which some 110,-
000,000 of people live and move and have their
monthly installments.
Regardless, however, of the degree of accuracy
with which Mr. Tully has drawn up his indict
ments, we bid him to take heart with respect to
this grass-nibbling middle class of ours. Does the
good fellow realize that the history of America
and her progress is little more than the history of
the “ great middle class?” Abraham Lincoln, for
example, is a notable instance of \.hu. Lie great
middle class can do when it takes a nation. The
hobo poets weren’t expecting a darned thing of
humble Abe Lincoln in the year 1859. But just
look what they say about him today, in 1927. Out
of the woods and underbrush, a typical represen
tative o f the so-called lower stratum of our so
ciety, one Andrew Jackson made his W'ay.
This democracy of our is a direct outgrowth of
the dreams and efforts of the great middle class.
It has its weak spots, goodness knows, and what
the politicians can do to it at times is a sight to
See, but folks are moving along beneath its com
paratively beneficient protection— moving along.
The great middle class may nibble a lot of grass,
but it isn’t withered grass. It is the long^stemmed,
succulent life-giving herbage that builds brain
and brawn and now’ and again, sets men’s souls
on fire. We aren’t mad about money. Honest we
arpn’t. A ll we care about is the things that money
will buy. Americans are so notoriously great
spenders that the sight of a flock o f our home
grown tourists approaching the shores of foreign
land sends the darts o f good cheer and parsimon
ious anticipation shooting through that land like
needles through a pin coushion.
But criticism is good for us. There’s a whole
lot for even as to learn yet. Really there is.
LIFE AND GROWTH
Luther Burbank held a philosophy o f life that
brought inspiration and hope. He believed that
growth and development! was not merely mater
ial, that it was anincentive to the spiritual life. In
one o f his last letters he w rote:
“ Life is growth— a challenge to environment.
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings
with equanimity and pleasure and grow each dav
in some useful direction, then this splendid bal
ance o f cosmic forces which we call life is on the
road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.
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Burn*— Leven» Hol<>¡
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to
000 damage against Precinct No. 1
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10 for failure to provide John I)oe*
Umatilla County produced $15 -
lie et el with emnloyment. JUDGE-1 0<,0.000 in crop* and products this
ment
in
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plaintiff was rendered and a court
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Pendleton— James
Maloney decree was given for payment of
Grants Paso— Bulb growing de
ranch, 900 acres, has crop of 48,- the amount asked for, aiao an ord-1 vsloping into great farm monry-
■ 000 bushels wheat.
er demanding that the proper otfY- ' maker.
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