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SUPERINTENDENT 1. DAVENPOR
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BOARD CONDEMNED
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AT PARENTS MEETING YESTERDAY
Tlicfircwhi. li h,ls Ions been I took part in ihc mectiii"
sinoldcnnir m the parent-teacher onlv three m,.,. ,.-...,,7.
circles of the citv has been fanned
into n blaze Ijv the wholesale drop,
pins of tenehcrs bv the school ad
niinistrution. Tlic fire Touched such proportion
at a called mcetimr of the l'arcnt
Teachcr council, which is coirtposed
)f tho officers of the various I'nrcnt
Teacher associations of the citv, held
-vestcrduv afternoon at the public li
brary that n resolution calling' upon
Superintendent Uavenport to rein
was read. It would have been adopt
ed uiianiinouslv in view of the temper
of the nssaiablaL'e, hnl wiser council
prevailed and it was decided to hold
the resolution in abeyance tint il alter
tonight's mcetim: with the school
board at which Ihe hoard's siili. iiml
superintendent's side of the situation 1 '"- "'.e K,n"l hoard as well
There were
inelnilinc )i
iiinui. tremblim: newspaper reporter.
JtciiMin for Dissatisfaction
The onlv male speaker was Win. .1.
Warner, assistant postmaster, who
arrived late. He said that the wav
he looked at the situation after hav
iin: delved into it from everv iimrle
was that if a teacher backed up Mr.
Davenport she was a very efficient
educator, hut if she ilid not back
him up .-he was onlv a mediocre
teacher. His brief remarks were
irreeted with approval.
In fact, everv utterance of Ihc
speakers was met with head nods and
"ves sirs" of approval, and some
times liandclappinir broke forth.
One speaker who advocated clean-
is expected to be civen. and at which
the I'arent-Teaeher bodies will de
mand tho reason whv each teacher
was lopped off from next year's
staff.
Slass Mooting Tonight
The meetinir tonisrht with the school
lioard is in the nature of a public
mass meetinir and the I'arent
Teaclicr council urires the parents of
the pupils and all school patrons to
nltend. The meetinir is expected to
bo vcrv intcrostinir. The meetinir will
He' tjold at the hisrff school' huildinir
it A1 birins at 7:!!0 o'clock. ' ,.
.';Tho .'' superintendent and school
lioiird were invited to, attend yester
day; afternoon's hiirricdlv arra'nired
meeting at 4 o'clock, but thev could
not attend because of the time, set
for the mitherinc ?,nd invited the
I'arent-Teaeher council to attend the
board's reeular nioctihir tonisrht.
Can't Ignore Situation
Mrs. K. V. M'uddox president of the
council, in calling the meetinir to
gether, and stutimr its purpose,
stilted her roirret that things had
reached such a staire in tho educa
tional affairs of the citv, but said
that the situation could not he
ienored as the school administration
had treated a number of the oldest
and most efficient teachers unfairly
and with injustice bv dropping them
from next year's tenchimr staff. "We
don't want to e rash,"' Mrs. Maddox
said,, "but we want to see that jus
tice is done."
She then stated that the meeting
was open for expression of opinion.
The spcakinir was slow in starting,
but after .one or two .had spoken, it
besran rapidtv to warm up, the
spenkers bohhiuir up one after
another as pop com does in
the nan. All the remarks were of
the same tenor, nncoinplinientarv to
the administration of Superintendent
iJuvcnport and the school hoard and
commending a number of the well
known tea'chers who . had been de
posed. A number of the deposed
teachers, as well as teachers who
had been retained were present and
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the superintendent, aroused cnthu
siasia.
One fact hroiiirlil out at the meet
ing was that the school hoard mem
bers never viiled the schools, and
several teachers said that Superin
tendent Davenport had never visited
their rooms and irivcn them Tiersonnl
advice or personally consulted thcia
about their tcacliimr. One teacher
said that in six vears onlv one mem
ber of a school board had visited her
school room and he was Mr. lJahner.
who made his visit a vear or two
ayo.
Miiny Speeches Mndo
Kxcerpts from the various talks
made at the mcotinir are the follow
ing:
"We have the riirht as tax pavers
and parents of pupils to know- the
reasons of the superintendent and
school board for the droppinir of
these teachers. This dropping of ex
perienced, efficient teachers is all
the more remarkable because of the
irreat shortaire of teachers irencrallv
throughout the I'nited States.
"'I'he teachers were rejected in a
wav that is not onlv n ureat injus
tice to them, but to the school pa
trons and pupils.
'The school administration, in its
efforts to maintain the schools at
hisrh standard should do il bv evo
lution and not bv revolution. We
are all in svnipathv with ninintnin
insr a hiirh standard, hut lonir proven
teachers of known efficiency should
be retained in service, although thev
are not unite up to the normal
school or college standard set bv the
administration. Thev staved witlu
Ihe Med ford schools tciicliitir durintr
the war. although thev could have
none to other cities at much increased
salaries and thereby made our irirls
and bovs better bv their example."
"Would it not have been much bet
ter if the superintendent had ouietlv
hinted to the teachers who were to
be dropped that thev should not make
application to teach here next year?
This would have left them in a much
better position to find schools else
where. As it is. a ureal injustice, has
been done them.''
I''ulllrc Outlook Dubious
"The Medford schools are ruined
for next year if these discharges of
capable teachers are allowed to
stand, thromrh the fact thai the
teachers will all he nervous and ap
prchensive ' for fear .of doinir some
Iriflimr little thinir wrontr. The schools
arc even somewhat demoralized for
the rest of this vear because of this
teachers situation. Whv, in the hiirli
school today the students were busy
all day lonir in eircitlatinir and draw
ing up petitions for the retention ol
this or that teacher that was
dropped."
"If the dropped teachers were de
posed because of not bcinir in sym
pathy with the administration, why
then, everv teacher in the Medford
schools should feel the ax. Thev are
all of one senliincnl.''
"If Mr. Davenport wants to dis
miss these teachers perhaps that is
all the more reason why thev should
be retained." (Applause).
"Bv removimr five of its best
leachers, the backbone of the staff
of Washington school has been taken
nwav.
"This is a matter for our rejuve
nated chamber of commerce to take
up and act on for the public L'ooil."
Gudrun Walberg as "Sunshine Lady"
at Page Next Monday
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VISITS K. P. LODGE
meetings. Since the I). O. K. K. tem
ple has been installed ovorvone is
workiiiK lor the next ceremonial at
Vreka eaily in Jane.
At last nis-'ht's meeliiiK of the
Knights of Pythias il was anntAinced
that the fcraud chancellor of the do
main c;' DrcKon. Julian V. Hurley
would pay an official visit to this
lodge. March J'.Mh. As slate senator
he has represented eastern Oregon
tor several years with saecefs. He is
an able 'and hrilliaut speaker and
local knights are looking forward to
all interesting session. A delegation
Oi knights from Jlornhrook extended
an Invitation to their ball, 1'riday,
March 1'Jth, the event being a sort
of house-warming of their newly pur
thaseil hall. "Standing room only"
will have to be displayed at future
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Paul's Electric Store
Main at Central Phone 90 t
('otnpnriitivo foinmrnts, hv ninnvlniust oxtirborant cvt'tiin
tern critirs ol' tho easnu's itiusical
(.'omeilv output, M-enis to iriuaist a
genuine treat in llie (Vtrtliedining ap
pearance at the Pa-re theatre. Monday
niglit. Manli 1", ol' "My Sunshine
Lady," LcCcnil and Heeler's bril
liant, fairy-tale nuiHical pl;iv.
Kxtravnirnntlv flat:eil and color
ful, unusually happy in its cast of
musical conu'ilians and 'Vnncs,'1 an
abundant chorus of aniplv dressed
beauties, and wilhall, reyclliur in tliat
rarity in these dnvs nf - musical
shows (a really funny plot.) it has
been niiite ircneralh -oncedel liy
eastern reviewers thai it "possesses
about all of the essentials to musica!-
entertam-
inent of anything iliseovered on
Iroadway since the duly first na
tional advent of the two and seventy
five hundredths per eent."
The hook and Ivries by Howard
McKenl ltiinii's and the score hv llar
bv A I ford b rings logether one of the
itttst. )ritniiug' combinations of au
thor and composer since (iilbert and
Sullivan's voi:ue and their delightfully
successful collaboration in this work
has given them ptolnincnce, second to
no other duo of present day young
writers for the stage.
The play is properly plotless, vet
the situations are breezily connected
and the relations of (he ijianv pictur
esque ciinwciers m Hie luuicous eoin-
'omedv T)opularity and otfers the idicatioii distincllv interwoven
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A vigorous campaign in .lackst.n
county has heen started against vio
lation of the game laws and notice
lias been served ly local gamo war
dens that violators will bo prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
On Sunday Game Wardens Ed
Walker and I'at Daily started their
offensive against violators and in
record time made two hauls, one in
the Little Butte district, and llio eth
er on tho Applegato at tho other end
of the county.
In Iho first raid Louis Walsh aud
Lester rradshaw were arrested when
caught in tho act of dogging deer.
They confessed their crime -before
Justice Taylor Monday, Walsh, owner
of the dogs and an old offender being
fined $T0 and llradshaw, his compan
ion, $25. lloth yo'ung men belong to
prominent families in the Wellen dis
trict. On tho Applegato Hoy Pike and
Robert Tnhbs were arrested in the
act of dynamiting fish just below the
government hatchery. As fines for
this offense exceed f'JO'O bnih young
men were held for the grand jury,
altho they offered lo plead guilty.
Daily and Walker believe thai
these two arrests will go far toward
dcing away with similar violations of
tho game code in southern Oregon.
In tho first arrest the two game
wardens hid behind a rotten log for
nearly an hour watching Walsh and
llradshaw and had the unpleasant ex
perience of having the shots at the
deer pass over their heads as pursued
by tile dogs It ran within Iwenty feel
of them, in neither easo did the of
fenders make, an resistance. In the
Rutte creek district altho there is no
public sentiment against killing deer
for food there Ih strung sentiment
against using dogs for this tpnds to
scare Ihe deer out of that part of the
country entirely.
Incidentally tho officers found a
strong run of steclhead in tho Apple
gate and predict that in spite of low
water there will be goorl hteelhead
fishing in Kngtic river this summer.
WASHINGTON". Mnr. !. C'liarce
that members of the house ways anii
means committee were "enileavoriii'-'
to, kill bonus legislation bv clelav"
were made Induv hv I'liairman Kord
nev when Ihe eoinmitlee resumed
heariiiL's on soldier relief legislation.
'I inn readv lo lieiriu business
now," the chairman said, when mem
bers sirjL'cslcd heariims be postponed
until niter the legislative eoniinil
lee, ol' Ihe American Lruion lias met
.March 22 lo further consider soldier
relief plans.
"I don't waul lo crowd this meas
ure, bill we know Ihe attitude of for
mer service men,'' the chairman con
tinued. "Kvcrv officer who had troml
pav doesn't want a holms, 'flic pri -vales
who suffered financial losses
are overwhelmingly in favor of some
relief plan.-'
lieiirescntalive Kitchin, democrat.
North Carolina, said treasury deparl
llient oflicials oilyht, to be heard bv
I In- committee before nnv plan was
worked out.
The committee decided to call Scc
reatrv Houston. Assistant Secretary
l.el'fine.wctl and (inventor llardiiiL' of
Ihe federal reserve board Thursdav.
RECORD PRODUCTION OF
MINERALS IN CANADA
OL'KUKC. Mar. 'J. A record value
of fin. 7111, Oil") for mineral produc
tion in Canada, was reach in jdll).
according to the annual retairt of
the Oucbec bureau of mine- of the
department ot colonization, mine-, and
fisheries, issued todav. The total
was nearly .2.(Hl(l.0(KI more than that
for lUks,
NO MAN'S LAND IS BEING
SEEDED WITH HUN GRAIN
I'AlilS. Mar. it. ( Krencli wire
less service) Sowinir of the devus
tnted areas of France has been ex
pedited bv deliveries from (lennnin
of oats and barley, accordim: to
orders of Ihe reparations eoinuii
sum. the minister ol the nueraiiM
rcu'ioiis reports that this seed is of
excellent finality.
If You ve
Arry Doutls
as to whether coffee .
is a friend to your
nerves, drink two
or three cupfuls at
bedtime and think
about it during the
wakeful night.
YouM also think of
P0STUM
Therm's a Reason
AUCTION SALE
Shorthorn Cattle
Held under auspices of Pacific Xorlliwcsl
tionauil Klamath County Farm Bureau.
Sliort-lhini Krcedci's' Associa-
21 Bulls 35 Head 14 Cows
Coiuiiynors V. V. (liven, Union, Oregon; C. 0. (larretl, (ilemlale, Oregon,
Sale Held at O. K. Barn
KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. MAR. 1 3
E. J. Fjeldsted, Sales Manager
Steels
in a Maxwell that
Defy Time
Tiik steels in a Maxwell arc as
good as the steels in any car built.
For the very mission of a
Maxwell is economy of trans
portation. One single superfluous pound
burdens the car's elliciency.
Therefore it had to he light
but it had to be strong; it had to
endure; it had to stand the worst
of road shocks.
To make it strong but light in
weight meant the very generous
use of those rare steels that pro
vide both.
In that way a Maxwell came
to be endowed with steels that
defy tune, defy wear, defy shock,
defy the moods of the careless
driver.
Vou will find a Maxwell de
livers extended mileage as long
life as any car built, no matter
u hat the price.
And not only long mileage
but economic mileage. Because
line steels give. little trouble and
light weight spins out the mile
age on a gallon of gasoline.
Such traits have made friends
for the Maxwell in ever growing
numbers nearly 400,000 to date.
Only 100,000 ran be built this
year. 1 natmransoU.UUU
will have to take another
car besides Maxwell
a second-choice car.
A. W. Walker Auto Co.
MEDFORD, ORE