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: K,,ri; Till", (1AZKTTK-T1MF.S. 1IKITNKK, UKKfiOX. TIirKSP.U. W.C. S, T.i-Jl. , . 1 Here's Exactly What Armament Conference Looks Like fc' E oem ssy Uncle John I rr. ' I v5kVt; STmSi work done on your car or h k: r v$V , i rpKfii rn h tit it r.s srt- mr . . . vw'i- i Jack Turner j ii dl Harrlman flanwe illTmrniinitv rvirell I Hardman, Oregon '" mnn.n.m -,, I This photograph was taken while the armament conferenre in Washington was in session and with all the delegates in their seats around the rectangular table, the secretaries and stenographers being in the center. The numbers mark the most prominent delegates present, as follows: (1) Admiral Kato, (2) Prince Tokugawa, both of lapan, (3) Ambassador lusserand. (4) Delegate Viviani. (5) Premier Driand. all of France; (6) Senator Underwood, (7) Elihu Root, (8) Senator Lodge. (9) Secretary Hughes, of the United States- (10) Arthur Balfour, (IH Ambassador Geddes. of Great Britain. (12) Sir Robert Bor den, Cinada. (13) Spimvosa Sastre. of India. (14) Delegate Schanier, of Italy. THE CIRCULAR LETTER. How dear to my heart is the cir cular letter that comes to my sanctum each morning by mail. It's offer and argument couldn't be better, though honest Johh D. had concocted the tale. ... 1 gobble each state ment with exquisite pleaiure, and swallow with gustto, the smug guar antee; it's funny to think how they 've gotten my measure, and put up the patterns expressly for me. . . 1 fain would reply on the spur of the moment, and fill out the blank with a moderate check. 'Twould settle my nerves and abolish the foment that bulges the veins in my pulsating neck. . . . The plum-colored slip, with it's fervid reminder it drives home the bargain with rivet and clinch; the oil stock, or auto, or dol lar stem-winder in either event, sirs, the thing is a cinch. . . And there's the envelope that comes in so handy, in mailing the coin so it can't go astray, believe me, my dears, that the fellow's a dahdy, who reaches my heart in that circular way. The circular letter, that goes 'em one better that offers me bargains from shoestrings to hat the big yellow letter, the sure money-getter, that knocks the home merchant as blind as a bat. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Is Your Home Paper. It Is A Very Fine I Investment At $2.00 Per Year. R If 11 :1 une uoiiar i 1 1 e ! j 1 1 The Auto Repair Shop wishes to announce that our work on big cars will be ONE DOLLAR per hour instead of $1.50 per hour, as you formerly paid for your car repairing. CONTRACT PRICES ON FORD WORK Estimates Cheerfully Given All Work Guaranteed Fell Bros. One Block East of Hotel LABOR HEAD ASKS FOR EVOLUTION OF SCHOOL SYSTEM Secretary Declares Present Methods Do Sot Give Proper Equipment. Children Face Life With Unworthy Tools; Mew Suggestions Made. By JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor. Editor's Note. James . Davis is knoun in labor circles throughout the United States. The mere fact that he was made a member of the Presi dent's cabinet at a time when the keenest brains of the nation were needed to guide its destiny shows in itself that he is a man whose opinions must be respected. ; preciation of the finest things in life I but they can never secure those fine j things unless they are equipped to : expend to best advantage every pow 'er nature gave them at birth and 'America's educational system today is neglecting too many of those pow ers and feeding to excess others. We Americans have long been justly proud of our free public school system. For the more easy-going life we lived a dozen years ago it did very well. Now, it seems to me, our deepest, fundamental notions ot what a system of schooling should be are in need of a complete reshap ing. We have been sending our children out into the world to work their way upward, but with blunted tools in their hands. Now they need more accurate fitting for the work they are to do, and we must supply it. Life's Real Needs. Let us look at the matter more in detail. Every vear a certain propor tion of our children must begin work and leave school at the end of the grammar grades. They leave these grades with the elements of arithme tic, geography, history, English and other languages hardly much more Those who are fortunate enough to finish high school have, of course, eone much farther into mathematics The national system of education needs reformation. It has stood still in its fundament als while every other art and science has advanced. The American vouth of todav is be- and history and the languages, and ing turned out of schools not fitted into the past and present activities of to give his best to the battle that an the world what we call cosmogony, ever growing complex economic situ- But the point I am making is that this ation demands. He is being bedecked system of education strikes me as be- with educational pretties , a dress ; ginning at the end instead ot at tne uniform that must be cast aside to ! beginning. All these studies given give place to the dull drab of the !our children have been useful enough working garb, and the time he loses i but except for mathematics and Eng- in making that change is a precious hsh study, they all constitute a train time of strength and enthusiasm, of I r I I it i ii Ii "Be Independent Make a part of your earn ings work for you. rotecl yourself againsl the Heady drain of needless and impul sive spending. Insure your surplus againsl loss throngh theft or carelessness Open A Savings Ac count Here FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK ! Heppner Oregon k plastic vears that yield too easily many times to the fingers ot circum stance and environment, of ideals that may be shattered by the rude hand of necessity. Children should be trained to ap ing for the finer things of life rather than for life's practical needs. Let me hasten to say that I am not for curtailing in any measure the training of the very humblest of our children for enjoyment of the finest 1 things in life. The point is that this BLOODLESS SURGEON AT WORK This photograph, taken in a hospital operating room in New York Oty, shows Dr. Adolph Lorenz, the world's most skillful bloodless surgeon at work saving a little girl from lifelong cripplement. Dr. Lorenz has just arrived in this country from Austria to perform hii bloodless surgery on many American crippled children. He was our trnllesl enemy, but an enemy no lonper training should come at the proper time, and that life can mean nothing to him until he has been taught some means of earning his livlihood. Our colleges themselves yearly release to ! the world great crowds of eager young people highly trained in the appreciation of life s hnest things. They know the great deeds and the great works of art of the far past. They have a deep understanding of natural and economic law. They have been taught to understand and enjoy life, and measure the present against the background of the past. But all this is for enjoyment and understand ing, it is not a training for actual work. Many a college graduate en ters the world wise enough, but actu ally bewildered and helpless. Chance for Youth. f would not for anything surrender or curtail the trainng we should give our children in appreciation of the fine things of life. But long ago it struck me that for the safety of the individual and for the safety of the country, the ideal system of education for the average young boy or girl in our land consisted of at least a high school training and the acquisition of some practical trade. This has been no idle theory of mine. The theory has been in practi cal operation in the home school started and maintained by the Loyal Order of Moose, at Moosehcart, not far from Chicago, along the Fox riv er in Illinois. Experts have been generous enough to praise this ex periment in the highest terms. They have pronounced it not simply a re markably successful thing in itseit. but a model to the rest of the country in sound education. The idea of Mooseheart occurred to me when I was a worker in the iron mills of Pittsburg. There I saw heads of families die and leave their dependents totally helpless, the chil dren with little or no education and driven to work without the slightest training. Often they were dispersed so that brothers grew up apart and unknown to each other throughout their lives. What Mooseheart Is. Mooseheart is not an institution. It it not a sectarian retreat. It is not a reformatory. It has no officialdom to rule it. From the first it has been a free and untrammeled experiment. In the first place, Mooseheart is a home. Mothers are there, so that they need not be separated from their children. Babies have been born there, of expectant mothers left without aid by less fortunate mem bers of our Order. This home at Mooseheart is a comfortable little town of homes, cottages, offices, school buildings, work shops, a hos pital, an auditorium and everything that belongs to a home community. The tract consists of more than 1,000 acres, and the tarm mat supplies it with milk and other foods is at the same time a model school of agncul Hire. In the midst of the place is f lake for water sports and the whole some exercise they promote. And we have not forgotten a football field, a baseball diamond, and a playing soace for all. We have an orchestra and a band of over 100 pieces. The students who form these bodies do not simnlv scrape and toot and make noise; they are under the training of a skilled and inspired instructor, and they play the best of music and play it well. Some of the houses and buildings were designed by Moose heart students, from materials shap ed in the schools and shops. While the students were about it, they fash ioned ornaments for these buildings, as well as blocks and lath. 5choo Is Gaining. Even now barely well begun, .Mooseheart has grown in the eight years of its life so that 1,034 chil dren, from babyhood to young man and woman-hood, enjoy its advan tages. It is distinctly on the make. We are now building a village for babies under school age. They re ceive, in babyhood, a care that rs scientific and practical but yet sym pathetic and homelike. At every stage all institutionalism is carefully avoided. No uniform has been adopt ed. The children wear individual clothing, and when they arrive at a suitable age, they select their own At a still later age, they make their own. At all times they romp togeth er as a huge happy family, as much as possible, out of doors in the coun try air and subject to the influences of the natural loveliness about them. At Mooseheart the rod is spared. We find it an effective punishmeht to de prive the misbehaving of the privil ege of going swimming, or seeing the baseball and football games, or the movies. For we regularly exhibit motion pictures in the ouditorium and we are favored with the latest and best. Trades Are Taught. Where we do go far beyond the public school is in the vocational training that we make compulsory. The utmost skill is applied in fitting each child to the trade for which na ture and his own tastes have adapted him. The boys learn carpentry, far ming, moulding, machine-work, met- alwork and-work in concrete, and the like. The girls are taught house work, stenography, secretarial work, and kindred pursuits. They know dressmaking and domestic science. Whether as wives, as wage-earners, or as destined for a career, girls who leave Mooseheart are equipped for mastering life, for understanding life, and enioving it. So are the boys. But the point of this, the everlast ing point of it, is that while tnese voung people leave moosenean to take up life, and wnile they are trained to make the most of life and its fine thihgs, to the playing of mu sic and tne painting or pictures where they can, they all leave with some useful trade. Whatever hap pens to them in after life, they will the lips of listening friends; but just as Brown was preparing to resume, Jones, who was sitting quietly in a corner, interrupted him sharply and hopefully: "And did you happen to notice,' he asked, "a picture of me lending you a fiver in the autumn of 1919? Argonaut. Such a Good Baby. One hot afternoon a voung man in shirt sleeves was wheeling a baby carriage back and forth before a small house in Washington. He looked hot, but contented. "My dear!" came a voice from an upper window of the house. "Now let me alone!" he called back. "We're all right." An hour later the same voice, again, in earnest, pleading tones: "Arthur dear!" "Well, what do you want?" he re sponded. "Anything wrong in the house?" No, Arthur dear, but you have been wheeling Clara's doll all the afternoon. Isn't it time for the ba by to have a turn ?" Harper's Magazine. Wanted Instructions. A man, who had just returned from a four-week's pleasure trip to Col orado, stopped at the receiving tell er's window at the bank and handed in $100 in traveler's checks to be de posited to his credit. As the teller looked over the checks he asked : Mr. C., what kind of a time did you have on your trip?" A wonderful time, replied Mr. C. After a moment's thought the teller asked: "Would it be asking too much for you to chaperon a party of us on a trip next summer as you are the only person I ever knew who came back from a vacaction and was n't broke." Indianapolis News. Let It Stand. Mistakes will happen in the best regulated families, especially if one of the number is slightly deaf, so while it sounds rather cruel in print, the following incident wasn't nearly as funny as it sounds. The slightlty deaf person met an old acquaintance on the street. This old friend was always making big deals and telling of them. When he stopped his deaf acquaintance he be gan talking excitedly. The slightly deaf man listened, but didn't under stand a word. When the acquaint ance had finished he said: "Congratulations. Thai's fine. be found on the rock of self-support Mighty glad to hear it," supposing d self-preservation. Their self respect is as secure as their livelihood. SMILE AWHILE His Chance at Last. It was a thrilling story that Brown had to tell: Disaster, shipwreck, bravery against odds, and wisdom when all wits were scattered ex cept Brown's. "I had abandoned all hope," he said, when his narrative had ruh on for an hour. "It was the most hideous sensation imaginable and as I sank for the third time, my past life seemed to rise before me in a series of grini, realistic pictures. I saw everything I had ever done. A murmur of sympathy rolled from HOME SWEET HOME nj-njmsTL n kP; NCW THAT CHRISTMAS IS NtAH NOBODY KICKS ABOUT ME SMOKING IN THE PARLOR-OBOY! TWEV KNOW WHO WVS TOR THE PRESENTS AROUND HEKE -IMTHE BOSS TILL AFTER XMAS! 7 I II 1 I r i Tin :(1 JOHN! 1 WE SMOKING 1 hI1 Wf) in w parlor f V GOTTA HFSNTJ ME roc IVY I I GOV AWAY WITH IT PVE MINUTES i tiJ iF YOU flLUE yer SKIN DONT RUN DOWN ANYBODY'S REUSION. of course, that his friend was telling him of the successful consumation of a big deal. The acquaintance, slightly taken back by this, shouted that perhaps he didn t get him. With a long look upon his face the slightly deaf man replied that maybe he did n't. The acquaintance shouted as he started away: "I say I buried by mother-in-law yesterday." "All right. I didn't understand you, but the congratulations still hold good." And both smiled Kansas City Star. Doubles or Quits. "Spell your name!" said the court clerk sharply. The witness began as follows: "0 double T, I, double U, double L, double " "Wait!" ordered the clerk, "Be gin again!" The witness repeated: "0, double T, I, double U, E, double L, double U, double U, double 0 " "Your honor," roared the clerk, "I beg that this man be committed for contempt of court." "What is your name?" asked the judge. "My name, your honor, is Ottiwell Wood and I spell it 0, double T, I, double U, E, double L, double U, double 0, D." Lutheran. . Positive Identification. He was newly arrived in this coun try and was none too familiar with the use of the telephone. So he took down the receiver and demand ed: "Aye vant to talk to my vife." Central's voice came back sweetly, "Numtier, please?" "Oh," he replied, perfectly willing to help out, "she bane my second vun." FOR HAI.H Frantically naw Super ior dine drill, 20-7, 1175, and Iowa croam anparator. Archie Zeek, care of John Wllilenan, Heppner, phone SSXI. Advertisement. O20-4 I ! 1 ( if