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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1910)
> Jantum Mnrö Independent at Scio, Oregon, aa seeond-clasa dl matter. M'Y FRIDAY BY ÿ « EK ItmBiaroa. .tarrioj* ratrhi *3 years ... advance th wrapper. OVKRT1«IM GRA I FX. M«tonry notices, per line »Wedding comments, per line........... . ........................ US ‘ jpda, to be changed weakly if desired, one column •*. each insertion, per inch ........................................ r 11 m « s locals per line first insertion................................ *>b-- quent Insertion per line.. ................................ Of •ini'- standing ad», contracts marie on application. Y ELECTORATE WILL | DECIDE -------------- Ctors will have to pass upon the normal schoo, Ä rail. It will lw remembered that our last re to provide u maintainance fund for these Knd sinC* that time they have had but a desultory a^fach of tlieau scliool». Individually, are ap- (ur support. ■cj n>o«t peonie, la considered M I*.- >•»:.- t'¡. i,i Li-vt t. • 'ucational pur|M»ea, y Olde these «chools a permanent lying furmahv* what «U these two rountrca, which ar« now maintaining their own high Schools, to help maintain high schools for Folk, Jack- son ami Umatilla counties? High schools are all that th« normals have hitherto been and it ia all that they will, probably, amount to in the future, if again undertaken by th« state. All education, the News will freely admit, ia meritorious. Boys and girl* who desire advanced educational instruction, should be encouraged in every reasonable way. But there ia a limit to the coat, which th« people can afford to pay, for the moat meritorious of propositions. The state is now overk-adr-d with collages. To increase th« burden by taking on college« ai Monmouth. Ashland and Werton. would be manifrslly unfair to the counties which are erdeavormg to help themselves. A normal evurae of instruction is, no doubt, a valuable adjunct to the boy or girl who ia fitting himself or herself tor th« vocation of a teacher. A man or woman cannot b* too well prepared fur the life work be or she undertake«. But the history of our normal schools of the past is. not fifty p«r cent of th» ir graduate* follow teaching as a life work. They use it aa a stepping stone for something better. A larger salary in oth«r lines, ia something which, even, the normally educated teacher at state expense cannot nor will not resist. So, unless the teachers, which the state educate* are require ! to give a specific number of year* in th« public school* in return for the free technical education given them, the state it the loser. She has educated teachers who refus ed to teach. This is true of the past and will bo true of the future, if norma) instruction is again undertaken by the state. But, for that matter, th« state ia now educating doctors lawyers, dentists. druggi«ts, civil engineers, eleetricia i«. : lack smiths, csr;M-nt«rs, printers, housekeepers, farmers, dairymen, etc. The graduates of these specialties give th- state nothing in return for their instruction, except prod clti<cn»hip. Tbe county high school can do equally as much, o far aa they go. A* a matter of fact, the state made a grave mistake wh- n it undertook college work, it couki not do so except in vio'stion of the state constitution and without i-speci iiy favoring certain localities ami persons. Our present sla e colleges secured their establishment through a political con «piracy to which the normal school counties were a party. Even the teachers In these colleges, especially the levding ones, have » cured their positions because of the political pull which they could wield. At least, we know that a number of them have secured their posit luna In thia manner. The atate cannot correct this mistake by increasing the disease, which would result if the normals are again taken on. State tax moneys can only be expended equitablv. through the medium of the (»ubllc schools, that is to say for srhuol piip Every viter, if he will be honest with himself and In* neighlMir, will admit the juatnesi of this contention. » • ('UK I \l. SEPPEI ES Received direct from A. J. Reach & Co., maker* of the best goods on the market. COOL ICE CREAM, CIGARS, DRINKS, TOBACCO. STATIONERY. POST CARDS ano GROCERIES 0. Q. COUCH OREGON .THE IWPROVf0 \ efePÆl COPPER RIVETED OVERALLS We want A Splendid Overall for every uae. Cut generous* ly full. Two hip pocket«. Felled «earn«. Con linuoua fly. t«kx Srf Wm. lURPIfY, GRANT I CO. M an ufat infer« 2000 “measures V amt towns Your CHICKENS .' who have a Your TURKEYS $*ir reinstate .•//<£’ .l/./A7.\7; ./ have been so Y..ur GEESE erecteti ami Your Dl’CKS When the town of Scio was located, the locator» must ' p atkiv <' that they look have been men of faraev-ing judgement. Of all portions of Your PORK right. They think they the forka of the Santiam. no «pot seem» so admirably situ v .«.tfhuM on account of school Your VEAL ated for the location of a country town. Two railroads are $$ have purchased property in these favored in operation within three milea of Scio, yet no point on Your EGGS iithcr words, they are akin, in spirit, to the public • either line saema able to attract business nor residence away ce havliHf been supported by the state they have For which we will pay from the spot originally selected anu art apart for a town by X>n to support themsllvcs. the early aettlera. the highest market price in these normal school counties, providing these Nevertheless the excellence of the location, Scio ha« not CASH. ’■^¡n taken on by the state, like Benton and made the growth which other town«, less favorably located ■ c-lll get back from the state treasury aa in the Willamette valley, have ma<!e. Neverthele»« there ia hey than they pay to it. should l>e a suffi- J r. LEFFLER. Manager iSuir action at the present time. They not a healthier country town in the atate, nor one which ha« a larger territory to draw from, with all of the road* north, upon the state's pay roll. Certainly, this i- .WsploiMiid financial engineering for these five rut and «uuth and with a downhill grade leading into Scio, she ha« been at a practical *tand«til) for many yearn, ao far I m counties, but it ia a little tough, in a financial kt*ued a* increasing in population, number of re* ale nee» and bual- for the other counties of the state. nesa house« are concerned. Nor ia there any more business t'”de from the financial viewpoint, there is an injustice transacted here now, than there was a quarter of a century <MNng contemplated to a vast majority of our boys and girl«, ago. There 1« a plain reason for thia handicap which, every- j which ought not to be permitted. For every one boy or body know«, is lack of direct railway connection. People, j£r\ who attends college, there are nine who muat be content who arc accustomed to modern railway convenience», will ¿¿>n the public schools can give them. Now not aclect a town for a home, where these convenience« do MAMUT ACTUXfl ad 4 PtALLF IM 1R »late applied all the money it ex- not exi«t, For thia reason, property value« in our town art- ’ • mmm - s for the benefit of the public much below value« in town« of the valley which do have these ^/hool« would or could I m - made modern convenience«. ne boy» and girl« would be Now, it is evident that If a railroad should be brought into 4" Their educational advantages town, our proj-erty values would, at one«, be doubled, buai- barged. But if we maintain a n< »• would increase and manufacturing industries would *o«.r It* “WK.'fcse nine boy» ami girl» are defrauded be undertaken. Everybody knows that the«» result« would I sjKistly their due. that the one boy or girl may re-1 •non follow the building of a railway into town. Yet a few I t*lan '**”•* •• JU**!? *lu*- Thia is unfair ami ia a people, who had subscribed to the subsidy fund of the late sfur<- which should appeal to every taxpayer in the «Ute. railroad project and who refused to pay their subscriptions, whether be lias children to edu-ate or not. DRUGGIST have caused the defeat of an enterprise which would have Oregon has exacted a law, whereby every county may been of financial benefit, not only to themselves, but to maintain a high school system. Thia law ia such that four Scio Oregon i every property owner in Scio ami vicinity. Thev have pre- or like school distrtcts may form a high school district for i Scio. O re 1 vented Scio from being placed upon the railroad map; they union high school purposes. in which each district interested Q- •O ' have blocked the progress of our town; they have prevented may exercise equal control ami share the expense; or any ’ j the future success of our fair, of our cvndetuierv and of any ¿(strict which mav have a suitable building can maintain a ‘ ¡other enterprise which direct railway connection whuld have high school and the county i« required to provide a main-1 caused fo l-e inaugurated. Thia ia a grave responsibility to tninaiH-c therefor at a pro rata expense per pupil. These I Notary Publie assume ami. we hope, under further consideration, they will Real Estate wyatt laws, if plac’d in operation, will place a high school education i conclude to make good the sums which they agreed to pay. Administrator of Estates within the reach of hearly every la»y and girl in the state. To illustrate: Scio has maintained a county high school They should remember that our future development, as a x>ans Negotiated, Abstracts community, rests upon ourselves and that, if we ever take luring the past year. Ihipils from four or tive adjoining Obtained and Examined our proper place in the march of development, it will be districts have attended. In fact, all pupils from these Office in Blumlierg Block I through our own endeavors. scie OM00N adjoining districts, who have passed the eighth grade have, ALBANY : ; ; Oasoo Arrangement* had been made by the promoters of the rail we believe, taken advantage of this opportunity to receive advanced instruction. They have received the ninth and road enterprise, to obtain tie«, steel, spikes, etc., at unusual t -nth grade instruction during the past year and are ready to ly good figures. The condensery people had arranged to —Manufacturer and Dealer in— O. PRILL, M. D. take up the eleventh and twelfth grade work, with the com supply the |50<>0 or $fi000 necessary to ensure the building of . the line. All that remained necessary was for subscriber« ing school year. Now but few of these pupils could or Mould have attended college at Eugene or Corvallis, or any to come through with the payment of their subscription». TrimntltK Rcpur Work SaUdte4 Are we not acting unwisely to allow thia sure source of of the normal schools, had they been in ojieration. All Work St th. tit Gsariat<v4 Eighth grade work would have completed their duration development to become a failure? Arc we not cutting off SHELBURN. OREGON Telephone, Exchange No. 11 at school, Their parents couM not afford to semi them off to ,’ur •""** *" "P',e our 1 «*•T college, but they could and did semi them to the high school .«CIO OREUOX at Scio. An advantage in education ia thus given to these I Portland |x*ople are dissatisfied with the award« made at : «wa boys and girls which, otherwise, they would not get. They the late rose «how in that city. There was dissatisfaction are better prepared for the battle of life, because of the with the a want* made at the late rose «how in Scio and, we high school in Seto. And what is true of Scio ami vicinity, presume, awards at any exhibition« of thia character where can i»c made true tn any other town ami vicinity in the state. there is competition, are sure to be a source of diaaatiafact* Centrally located, good Every county can establish a high school system, if it will. ion. Exhibitor« are cure to I m - of different opinions to those room«, price« moder* J. L. CALAVA* Prop The law has given them the authority to do so if they will. , of the committee which make the award«. The only ju«t ate, courteous Linn ami Ijrnc counties are the pioneers in the establish- and safe m-thod is to make the awards upon merit alone, Hacks connect aith all traina both al treatment mi nt of these county high schools. Lane was first. hut regardless aa to who the exhibitor« may be. Personal West Scio and Mank are. l.inn was a close accvhd and Scio waa the insttgnator for its favoritism in ma.ting awards, will wreck any competitive Conn Morrixm «nd Froot Streets <>ur rig« are first-class and oar borse» adoption in Linn. Now. we submit, is it right to require exhibition, no matter of what character it may be. good drivera. Price* reaeon a bl a. I POKTLANU OREGON Double Roiis Wall Paper MISTAKE SCIO PLANINO MILLS Selected Patterns N. I. MORRISON, Prop. for sale in quanti ties to suit you at Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Frames, Shingles Etc ujw» BARGAIN PRICES E. C. PEERY Estimates and Plans for Boildinis tarnished an short notice R. SHELTON W eatherford & Attorneyö-at-Laiü A. SHANKS A. Harness and Saddles (uriip Physician Ihe Scio Livery and Feed Stable e • ■ Surgeon THE ESMOND HOTEL *
