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HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1922
DEBATE ON SCHOOL
MEASURE IS WARS
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BUY IN OCTOBER
Lower Prices, Better Terms
Ciigdeii W eel Sale
This is your opportunity to buy America's most popular floor
covering at substantial savings the lowest prices, in fact, we have
ever quoted on this product. If you have not yet had Congoleum
in your home you owe it to yourself to at least see what beautiful
sanitary and practical floor covering you can buy for amazingly little
money. Don't delay come to this store tomorrow and
SELECT YOUR
Gold Seal Congoleum Art Rugs
WHILE LINES ARE COMPLETE
IT IS EASY TO CLEAN
No tiresome sweeping or
heating is necessary. A damp
cloth removes every speck of
dirt.
NO FASTENING REQUIRED
Congoleum lies flat on the
floor. It will not curl or "kick
up" at the edges or corners.
No tacking required.
Note These Low Prices
sale $7.85
sale $9.80
sale $11.70
$9.50 Congoleum Rugs, 6x9 feet,
$11.60 Congoleum Rugs, 7tx9 feet,
$13.95 Congoleum Rugs, 9x9 feet,
$16.25 Congoleum Rugs, 9x101 feet, sale $13.75
$18.60 Congoleum Rugs, 9 x 12 feet, sale $15.95
per square yard
3 yds. wide
Gold Seal Congoleum
by the yard, special
On Sale in Furniture Department.
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KE
LLY BROS. CO
Universal Ranges and Heaters
No More Tread
Separation
It can't occur with SEIBERLING Cords
because tread and side wall are made in one
piece of tough, wear-resisting tread stock.
YES, WE SELL THEM AT
HOOD RIVER GARAGE
You will see them everywhere:
SEIBERLING CORDS
The Equinoctial
Period is at hand, and the wise
automobile owner is going to
be prepared against the rains
that always accompany this
season of mid-Autumn.
If your Top is leaky
don't worry
just pilot your car down to
SEVENTH AND COLUMBIA STS.
and the
WARREN
ALTO TOP SHOP
WILL
DO
THE
REST!
Why Consign Your Fruit
You can get cash in full here. We are making
up cars of Winter Nellis pears.
WarehousesHood River Odell.
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U)c C. M. KOPP CO.
F. L OLLEMAN, Mgr. Columbia Dist Thoae 3242
1920
Dodge Touring
For Sale
Driven on pavement only,
had extra rood care and is an
exceptionally good buy.
BENNETT BROTHERS
Portland Steamers
DAILY SERVICE
Lv. Hood River 8.30 a. m. daily,
extrpt Saturday.
Lv. Portland, 7.15 a. ni dally, '
except Saturday.
Fare to Portland, $1.00
Iaily Service Portland to Astoria.
The Karkins Transportation Co.
JACK BAGLf V. A-nt.
With D. C. Lewis, former Multno
mah county member of the legislature,
supporting the measure on behalf al
the Oregon Consistory of the Scottish
Rite Masons, and Elder Martin, of the
Seventh Day Adventist church, here
from California, opposing it, the bo
called Compulsory Education initiative
bill, to be voted on at the November
election, was debated Monday night at
Fine drove Orange hall. I he meeting,
one of a series being held under bus
pices of the grange, drew a large
attendance.
Mr. Lewia, who prefaced his re
marks by declaring the question one of
the greatest that has ever been pre
gen ted to the state, urged its support
on the grounds of Americanism. He
asserted that the intermingling of the
children of all classes will bring about
a better understanding of each other
and thus will enable citizens to escape
entangling alliances. He declared that
private and parochial schools develop
caste in America.
Mr. Lewis, who admitted that he did
not belong to any church of any kind
or character, twitted his opponent
with being concerned with a mathe
matical problem rather than one of
conscience, referring to the Seventh
Dav Adventist belief in Saturday as
the Sab With instead of Sunday. He
declared that anyone thoroughly famil
iar with the Lord's Prayer and the
Sermon on the Mount was properly
fitted for Christianity.
The proponent of the bill denied that
the proposed measure will deprive citi
zens of their rights of pursuing their
religious belief as they desire, declar
ing that under the law parents win
have nights and 169 days of every year
to teach their children in matters of
religion at the home fireside.
"If I had a boy. he said, "who
couldn't learn to be a Christian in 15
davs' time. I would say Good bye, my
boy.' Not a single solitary citizen of
the state of Oregon, not a single, soli
tary citizen who is here tonight who is
not better than the church to which he
belongs. If Christ were here tonight,
I believe he would be for the bill.
Mr. Lewis declared that public
schools developed better citizenship
than private or parochial schools, lie
gave what he purported to be statistic
of the federal government, which
showed that 65 per cent of the inmates
of penitentiaries are Catholics, while
five per cent are from public schools.
The Catholic criminals, he said, are
products of parochial schools.
1 want it understood," said Mr,
Lewis, "that 1 am not attacking
churches but am arguing to make them
better."
Mr. Lewis declared that public
schools were needed in such cities as
Portland to Americanize the foreign
inhabitants. He declared that Ameri
can citizens owe J it as a duty to their
state to have their children intermingle
with the foreign population in the
schools and thus instill into the for
eigners patriotic principles.
Mr. Lewis declared that citizens aia
not have the natural right to supervise
the education of their children.
As a natural right." he declared,
"I might go out and roam the hills
naked, but civilization has stepped in
and said I must not."
He accused the churches of setting
themselves above the state. His at
tacks on the Catholics were especially
bitter. Ha read excerpts said to have
been taken from a Jesuit publication,
of Tacoma, in which it was declared
that members of that church should
seek to escape taxation for public
schools and that it was the duty of
every Catholic family to keep their
children out of public schools, lie de
clared that six Oregon school districts
in Marion county are no longer free
but controlled by the Catholic church,
with sisters, in their black gHrbs, en
gaged as teachers. He declared that
the picture of the Pope was shown in
a public school of Buffalo, N. Y., in
stead of the President. lie declared
that an American history, written by
Father O'Hara and to be found on sale
in a Portland book store gave but 13
lines on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
"You will be told," he said, "that
the bill is unconstitutional. If so, why
are the Catholics and Knights of Co
lumbus raising $5(10,000 to right it. As
a lawyer I would be willing to go to
the Supreme Court and argue the bill
from every standpoint for much less.
They said this about the Volstead Act.
If a person has such a natural right,
he can educate his child to be a thief."
Mr. Lewis declared that the bill
would reiuce taxation instead of in
creasing it, asserting that it would re
sult in parochial and private school
property reverting to other uhcs and
becoming taxable. Under existing
conditions, he declared, with many
children attending parochial, sectarian
and private schools, the number of
teachers of public schools are reduced
and this results in a reduced pro rata
share that may accrue from the Towner-Sterling
Uiil now before Congress.
Mr. lwis declared that the proposed
bill would have a leveling influence on
the children of the country. He de
clared that it would cause the black
smith's son and the banker's son to sit
side by side in the ichool loom.
"It gives you working people a right
to place your children in a school be
side the richest citizen of the land,"
he declared.
The accusation has been made, Mr.
Lewis declared, that the bill is fostered
is fostered by the Ku Klux Klan and
various other alleged intriguing secret
organizations. He asserted that the
b II was backed by the citizenship of
the best people in the state. Mr.
Iewis ended his main dicussnion by de
claring Portland to be a growing city
with its problems of foreign amalga
mation. He urged that the people of
rural Oregon help Portland solve the
problem by otmg for the compulsory
ichool bill. If you permit the Seventh
Pay Adventist or the Catholics to
have their parochial or private schools,
he said, then you must allow the I. W.
W. the same privilege.
Elder Martin in his opening remarks
denied that the alleged mathematical
problem as ascribed by his opponent
had anything to do with his conscien
tious ttlief. The question, he assert
ed, is w hether the stte or the parent
is the proper guardian of the child.
"I hold no brief for the Catholics."
raid Elder Martin, "but 1 would p.iint
out to the ged man that the major
portion cf the Catholic children of the
nation are in put-lie schools. Did they
learn their criminal instincts in -the
public fchcols?"
Klder Iewis cuoteJ from a recent
address of President Harding, who
c'ted as a menace of the times the
growing religious intolerance cf many
of the ;eiple.
"Any man who stands lefore you on
a ground cf rel'giccs intolerance." he
declared. "I say is rwt a f.t man to
represent you in the legislat jre."
Kl'er Lewis rr.a.le caustic response
to h'r. Ii' ass'rtion as to his abil
ity to defend the on constitutional
grounds. He declared that the rro
(urent cf the measure would have to
mike a oeuer ir,o irg man ne naa mi
t s argument tt th bill before bej
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Wesley Barry in "School Days" at
Rialto, Mon. and Tues , Oct. 9 and 10
would gain much of the fund of $500,-
000. Elder Martin denied the state
merit about tax reduction. He declared
that in California his church organiza
tion paid taxes on property and stated
that he assumed a similar status in
Oregon. He characterized the princi
pies of the bill as despotic asserting
that Mr. Lewis had admitted as much.
in that he would make the banker s
son sit where the state willed.
Elder Martin quoted from the Bible
the words of Christ: "Render unto
Caesar things that are Caesar's, and
to God things that are God's." He
quoted from the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the Constitution of the
United States, which he declared in
guaranty of the right for unhampered
exercise of conscience in religious be
lief.
"I don't think much of this smug
Americanism that sets up a type of its
own and condemns all that do not
agree with it," he declared.
Elder Martin comparedthe bill with
the provisions of the German school
system before the war, declaring them
identical. He declared that German
ideals are coming here and conquering
some Americans, after American sol
diers had gone overseas to defeat the
German army. Elder Martin cited
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Pat
rick Henry, the Monroes, Hancock and
Theodore Roosevelt as the product of
private schools.
He Quoted from numerous hitrh edu
cational authorities as exponents of
the need for private schools, among
them Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent of Columbia University, who, he
declared, had denounced the proposed
Oregon law. P. P. Claxton, formerly
national superintendent of education.
he quoted as having declared the pri
vate schools and colleges the salvation
of the public schools. Elder Martin
decried the tendency fo legislation to
run riot and tend to regulate all hu
man conduct. He characterized the
aw as autocratic, paternalistic and
anti-religious, in that it tended to cre
ate a union of state and church and to
bring about conditions that prevailed
n pagan Rome and ancient Sparta.
He declared it Prussian and on all
fours with the ideals of bolshevistic
Russia. He prophesied that the bill,
f adopted, would be followed by an
effort to have the public schools teach
religion.
"But what religion?" he asked.
"1 believe my religion is right.,"
said Elder Martin, "but in my travels
over the world 1 have found it big
enough for all of us, and I also believe
n extending to all others the freedom
of worship that I ask for myself."
Elder Martin quoted Nicholas Mur
ray Butler as having commented as
follows on the proposed Oregon law:
"Instead of compulsory"Ieducation,
you will have a bill to make impossible
American education in Oregon.
Elder Martin characterized the bill
as having been born in deception. He
declared that the ordinary voter will
think the bill one to enforce compul
sory education, when in fact the state
already has such a law, and will unwit
tingly vote for it, without considering
it on its strict merits.
Mr. Lewis in his rejoinder declared
that the Ten Commandments take
away some rights. He declared that
no law was ever adopted without cur
tailing natural lights. He read a quo
tation from Roosevelt, in which the
latter had expressed himself in favor
of the public school system in its en
tirety and as being unalterably opposed
to appropriation of public funds for
sectarian educational institutions.
Mr. Lewis further developed the idea
of the law bringing about a common
intermingling of the children of rich
and poor.
"Who are the men we find opposing
this bill," he asked. Then he named
William Lndd, W-. I). Wheelwright and
Charles H. Carey, whom he character
iezd as millionaires, who wished to
maintain the private school systems
because their money could afford it.
Elder Mattm created a tense moment
n his rejoinder when he twitted Mr.
Lewis with having said that a man
had a right to steal. Mr. Lewis inter-
upled to declare that he had said a
natural right." Elder Martin, how
ever, maintained that the proponent of
he bill had used the word, "right.
The passage resulted in hisses from
or.e corner of the room, directed at the
minister, when the latter invited Mr.
Lewis to come down and attend one of
his little parochial schools and learn
how to say what he meant.
Elder Martin ended his reioinder
with pointing out that many good citi-
tens had come to Oregon in order that
they might enjoy the privilege of pur
suing their religious belief as their
conscience dictated. If this proposed
bill passes, he declared, many good
citizens may leave the state.
A. I. niaton presided at the debate.
The Baptist Church
To grow in the understanding of the
Bible we need to come to it as the sci
entist comes to nature, believing its
estiriKiry and rejecting no part of it.
This simple principle will be applied
next Sunday night in the oit n discus-
ion on VNhy liu Jvsus Give Com
mandments to His Apostles Ihrough
the Holy SriritT" Acts 1:2. This
open discussion will take the place cf
the evening sermon. At the morning
services tne subject for the sermon
will be 'The Resurrection." This
topic will also be that in the Sunday
sch'K-.l for all classes from the inter
med'ate up, for the month of Octoter.
Next Sumisy the Sunday school will
consider Christ's appearance to his
disciples on the first Sunday cf His
:eurrctiou. Junior IJ. . P. I. at
3 i p. m. Senior B. Y. P. V. at
Evening service at t.'M) instead cf 8
'raver meeting Wednesday at .30
i. m. C R. licf me, Pastor.
C"nic in an.l see th- ne Puick lf''.'3
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