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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.
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have been so
Y..ur GEESE
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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
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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
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»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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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