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About The Silverton journal. (Silverton, Or.) 191?-1915 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1914)
Published «vary Friday mornins at Silrerton. Oregon, by J. E. HOSMER, Editor. Thia paper atanda for freedom of thought, free dom of the pre«*, freedom of apeech. equality of opportanity and the religion of ritfhteouaneaa. It ia radically «vpo«ed to every form of auperatition and tyranny, or iiaenaniK or permitting any form of evil. But Alas! Graft and greed, special legislation and political corruption are about to cause this nation’s downfall. The Liberties of others are disregard ed, every one is so busy looking out for his own interest, that he has no time to be his brother’s keeper. On account of a poor, weak, help less girl’s wanting to shield her honor and escape a living death, who came and asked for protection from those who received her and told the editor of this paper, through a sworn state ment, and because he was willing to let others know, so they could help her to escape death; some one hunted and tried to kill her, even threw a stone through the bath room window in which she was bathing and cut a deep gash so that before they could stop it bleeding it had soaked several towels and sheets with blood. A poor, weak, helpless female! We all have had a mother and some sis ters and we would not want to see any lured into a place where thej- would be forced to disobey God and their conscience. We would protect them against this if it were our own sister or mother and would go even to denth to help her. Re men, not chumps and against that which appeals to you as wrong, register your Protest. A man who thinks for himself, let others know, so they would not fall into the same trap. This editor has to suffer in prison. Where are the Protest-ants? Are there any ¡who, like Luther, Huss, Ja- rome, etc., will protest? Yes, I hear many answer: “1 would protest, but it will hurt my business or my polit ical influence, etc.” Can you not see in the near future that we will be in bondage to Rome? œnmttUttttttntMnMnnnuttJuwmmnnnmntmxnnuttmttmtmjnmnni.jnmn? EAT MORE BREAD It’s good for you if made with THE GEM THEATRE, MOVING PICTURES Never Gets Old ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST Instructive und Educative. For Sale at C. W. Rogers, Geo. Cusiter, Julius Alm IDE RIEL TEACHER ME RURAL PASTOR Intelligent and Consecrated Leaded ship the Need of the Hour. By Peter Radford. Lecturer National Farmers* ttnlea. The rural pastor hue greater possl- ' biliUes than auy other factor In our Lecturer National Farmers' Union. national life. The rural civilisation With the i < development of rural af the Twentieth Century has opened life, there comes the demand for In up a new world of activities for him. creased edu* ational facilities Mid the' There He before him unexplored con- I impure of universal education which tlneuta of usefulness, unemployed Is sweeping the country calls for in-' forces of civilizatluu and tremeudous | A Nation's Greatness Depends On lu telligent a .d consecrated leadership responsibilities such as have never Subjects in our rural schools. It is upon the before confronted the (maturate. rural teacher that one of the heaviest i The need of the rural communities burdens of civilization falls, for not today is Intelligent and consecrated WE MUST GROW OR DIE! Have you ever considered what maue only must he lay the foundation of leadership There must be a marshal this country a great nation? Con The Sih erton Journal must keep its Subscription list education, but he must also instill into ing of forces that build life, strength sider the European countries about the pupils the real love for country en character and brouden vision. The growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but ’M the ume America was discovered. life, which will hold him ou the pastor should deal with living prob want to give even more than value ivceived. Blocu flowed freely men because farm and help to stem the townwaro lems. In addition to the service he Get us one or more at fifty cents a year. Use now renders he should help us lift Ude. church and state were muled. Millions the following blauk: sacniiced their Lives for conscience In the city, the teacher is a cog la the market basket, hold out a help A FREE PRESS the vast wheel of educatloual machín ing haud to the farmer and develop sake. ery; in the country he le the wheel. the potential energies of the commu This country was a place of refuge It is he who must mold the character, nity he seeks to serve. from the tyrannical rule of the Pa inspire the ideals and shape the des A More Useful Ministry. pacy. People fled to this country to tiny of the farm boys and girls, an-1 The farmer needs the personal escape death at the hands of Rome. A Friend of Liberty. if he is fitted by nature for the taaa-i. touch of the pastor. The Bubacription price haa been changed from $100 to He seldom 1'hey were willing to endure priva not only will the results of hta ef ’ comes In direct contact with his hal- 50 cents per year. tions and hardships; they grubbed out forts be reflected in the pupils, but lowing Influence, except when be 1s a few acres, slcfwly and patiently they gradually the whole community will baptised, married and burled. We MOVIES EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL, planted and reaped meager crops (pro be leavened with a new ambition for need to further extend Christian In SILVERTON. OREGON. viding the Indians did not get their progress. fluence in the homes, as well as to scalps beforehand) and in 20 years Educative Forces—Value For Good or Me can organize around the school spread the gospel tn China; to ia- ., for which send THE JOURNAL to Enclosed And *......... there were about twenty thousand Pil. the main Interest« of the boys and struct our children in the art of liv- Bad the following: grims who fled from Europe to this girls and develop the Impulse for oo | ing, as well as to convert the barba operatiou, which In time will displace rian and the Hottentot, and we should country where they could exercise Naine ___ We often have heard tne ¿School, the old competitive individualism and ! devote our energy and talent to the freedom of conscience and escape the Address Church and Press spoken of as our make rural social life more oongenial solution of problems of our own Io- tyrany of Rome. and satlsi'ying. The possibilities for ; cality, rather than consume our en , great educative factors and sometimes In a little while many of the best Name mechanics and thinking people of Eu the Stage. Now tne “Movies” have making the rural school the social ergies In fighting vice sud Ignorance and economic center of the commu beyond our borders. It is as impor Address „___ ..............------ rope had fled. For fear all would come to stay and will add another vi- nity are a!most endless, and the facul tant that we discuss from the pulpit, , taj force for weal or woe to the future leave, the persecution had to cease, ties of the rural teacher may have the building of macadsm highways Name generation. Which will it be? That full play, for it will take all his time from the church to our homes, as but America had the cream. The Pilgrims were a good people. depends upon you, good citizen. Address and ingenuity if he attains the full that we preach of the golden streets '1 ney had just come out from under The child takes in more through the measure of success. of the New Jerusalem. It is as much Name a part of the duty of the pastor to Rome, and while they had a few prin eye than through any of the senses, Mu«. Be Community Leader. exhort us to own a home while on ciples of liberty there were dangers of especially when objects are in motion. Address A noted c >l--ge professor recently earth as to Inspire us to build a man- going to extremes. Roger Williams He is a great imitator. What he seis, things are now re- . sion In the skies and that wo should Name warned them of this. They could not he soon mimics. What he hears, he i Ka.d that thr i qulred of a rural teacher. The flrat construct Christian character In our see it then, but did later. repeats. “Actions speak louder thai. requirement Address that he must be strong own community, rather than that we In this anxiety to keep church and words.” In fact, the great advantage erough to cs«'<bl.sb himself as a lead flght foreign sins In other lands. Wo state separate, they would not allow of sight over hearing is so marked er in (tie community in which he lives wsnt a religion we can farm by as any one but a Puritan to vote, think that this fact has changed our school and labors; second, that he must have . well as die by.# ing this would keep the Catholics from system to a marvelous extent, in a good gru.ip ou the organization and Christian Influence Needed. gaining control and uniting chur. and i bringing before the children objects, management of the new and scientific There is an emptiness in tho life slate. I particularly objects in motion to pro farm school and, third, that he must of rural communities and wa want anantajattnnntamttuttmuttnrmannttmmntmnnttuunuttutmuuwutttutu: Th s was wrong as it did not give J duce correct impressions and set the show expert ability in dealing with preachers who can weave into the the modem rural school curriculum. their neighbor the same rights as they mind to acting. social fiber, educational pastimes, If he lives up to the opportunities of- desired themselves. They saw their Keeping this ever in view, have you fered him as a rural leader, he will profitable pleasures and instructive mistake 'ater as many joined their ever stopped to think wnat your child train boys and girls distinctly for amusements. Too often we find the church and professed religion in order is taking in at the Movies ? The next rural lite, not only by giving them games of our young people a search to be privileged to vote, and in a time you take your boy oj girl the rudiments of agricultural training, for a suggestion In immorality and for MAX BURGHOLZER’S new book of 32 pages short time more of this class belonged watch the questions he asks about the but by enabling them to see the at a stepping stone to sin. The pastor to the Puritans than people who be pictures before him. Have you ever tractive Bide of farm life, and to real should supervise the growing lives of young people, approve their amuse lieved in their religion. Then they be stopped to wonder why he didn’t show ize that it is a scientific business, and ments, oreate expressions of joy and came a persecuting church, the very such intelligence or quick wit in ask one of the most complex of all pro pleasure that makes for Christian thing they were trying to avoid. The ing questions on your long drawn out fessions with opportunities as great character and bless their lives with as those of any other calling. Puritan blue laws were very rigid. A lectures or attempts at instruction? Christian modesty. man could not kiss his wife on Sun “School for Parents" Needed. The farm Is the nursery of civili Now the question comes, what kind day, he was punished if he did not go The duties of the rural teaoher are zation, and the personage of all re of impressions are you going to have ligious denominations. Too long has to church, etc. Roger Williams was placed before your child, good bad or more varied and complicated than the farm furnished the cities with banished because he did not think as none at a'l ? Allow us a reply. It will those of the city teacher, and he some their great preachers, until today tho the Puritans and because he wanted be either good or bad, for go to the times has to include the parents ia rural church is the gangway to city his neighbor to have the same rights directing his efforts for tho best re Movies the children will, sooner or sults. In communities where the old pulpits. The current should be re It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor. and privileges as he. He was sen later with you or perhaps with some er population is opposed to any de versed. The power of the pulpit is tenced to banishment from the col one less desirable. The pictures they parture of the younger generation most needed In the country where onies, and finally, to avoid arrest, he see will be ju3V~what you demand, not from established customs ia either tho fundemental forces of humsn life ittmmttmmmtmtmmnnnmutttmttttummmmttmnmmmmmmmmamtt was forced to flee, amid the cold and what the “Picture Man” wants. It is social or economic life, their co-oper originate. The farm Is tho power storms of winter, into the unbroken his business to supply your demand. ation can often be secured by calling house of all progress and tho birth forest. “For fourteen weeks,” he place of all that Is noble. Tho Gar Like the rest of us he has his living to community meetings and instructing den of Eden was In the country and says, “I was sorely tossed in a bitter make for his own chi'dren and don’t the parents on matters of community the man who would get close to God season, not knowing what bread or bed blame him if you don’t like his pic interest. It is related that a success must first get close to nature. Many did mean. But the ravens fed me in tures. Lay it upon your own lack of ful young teacher in a remote local communities are church-ridden. We the wilderness,” and a hollow tree too ity had weekly meetings attended by expressing yourselves. parents of his pupils, which Anally frequently have three or four churches often served him for shelter. Thus he Then this is the point: Would you evolved Into a “achool for parents" in a community with a circuit rider continued his painful flight through once a month preaching to small con the snow and the trackless forest, un deliberately sit down and saturate In which they were taught how to live gregations and all fall to perform tho til he found refuge with a tribe of In your child’s mind with stories of mur a community life in its broadest and religious functions of the community. dians whose confidence aid affection der, war, death, disease, abject pov biggest sense. In many Instances, more harmonious 8ocisl Features Essential. effort might result in a more efllciont he had won while endeavoring to teach erty, drunkenness, maudlin sentiment < > ality, sensuality and all other forms of them the truth. The successful rural school is the service. The division of religious Making his way at last, after many crime? You would sooner think of vital social and economic center of forces and breaking Into fragments of months of change and wandering to telling him ghost stories, because you the community and the successful moral effort are ofttimes little less the shores of Narragansett Bay, he can sometimes make the child see the rural teacher is the one who realizes than a calamity and defeat tho pur * there laid the foundation of the first unreality of them? The pity of it all that the responsibility of training lo poses they seek to promote. A pastor in a neighborhood, study If Elected, the moot Careful, Conscientious and Talented Legal state of modern times that in the full is that in the “Movies” the child takes cal leaders for the future devolves ing the economic, social, moral and | upon him. Organized play, Inter in these horrors with all the gloss and est sense recognized the right of rel Service will be given to the People of the State. community athletics, community fes educational problems of the commu igious freedom. The fundamental attraction of imagery. nity, presenting fresh visions of poten tivals, lyceum and debating clubs, Y. Now we have seen pictures that ap principle of Roger William’s colony Study the Principles he Advocates. M. C. A.'s, with occasional neighbor tial possibilities and native power was “that every man should have the pealed to the imagination as strongly hood entertainments, utilising home with beauty and new meaning, Inter- right to worship God according to the as any and yet gave information of talent, contests in cooking and various preting the thought-life of the com- light of his conscience.” His little real value. What could be more ap- other phases of home economics, In munity and administering to their State, Rhode Island, became the asy peab'ng to the child mind than the corn and bog clubs and other agricul daily needs, will contribute more to- lum of the oppressed. It increased and wonders of nature, travel and history tural activities are a few of tho meth ward the advancement of a locality than a dozen preachers who occupy prospered until its foundation prin of today. Wc ask for those and would ods employed by the successful rural the pulpits at irregular intervals, teacher in stimulating interest and ciples—civil and religious liberty—be like to know what more of our citizens enthusiasm while teaching them tho preaching on subjects foreign to the came the Tcorner stone of this Great have to suggest READ AND HELP OTHERS READ fundamental principles of successful life of the community. Republic. The children in one town went en community life. Church prejudice Is a vice that "THE ESCAPED NUN FROM MT. ANGEL CONVENT As this nation grasped this eternal thusiastic over the workings of the saps much of toe spiritual life of a - OR - community, and wasteful sectarian principle and framed her laws accord bubble spider whose actions are as Farming is a business proposition THE LAST STAND OF DESPERATE DESPOTISM" ism Is a religious crime against so ingly, she grew in greatness. She had wonderful as fairy land itself. and the farmer is the biggest business ciety. Denominational reciprocity the better mechanics and thinking one copy In another town we heard a small man in business. should take its place. Non-eupport class of all Europe for a nucleus to be child of three exclaim: “Oh there, copies 12 of church Institutions and religious gin with, and this religious freedom mamma, is he coming out of the peni 50 . copies Don’t forget the faithful old friend lethargy can often be traced to causes which tends to make every one happy, tentiary ? Are they going to shoot —the horse—remember he Is prone to Inherent with tho church. There 100 copies because all are classed equal. We him? become tired as well as yourself. should be cooperation between 7^ 82.00.................................................................... for 600 copies have the natural wealth equal to any churches and co-ordination of moral * * 50.00.................................................................... for 1000 copies Now, citizens, we appeal to you. country and our nation has grown in Some of the world's first gentlemen effort along economic lines, and there Which of these two occurrences will HELP AROUSE OUR AMERICAN PATRIOTS! greatness so much so that other na and scholars and patriots were farm must be if the rural churches of this take place in our town? J. E. HOSMER, Silverton, Oregon ers and today some of the world’s bsst state are going to render a ear vise tions begin to pattern after us, and which this age demands. An Interested Guardian- thought is given to farming. well they might • A NATION’S GREATNESS DEPENDS UN LIBERTY AND A FREE PRESS Bv Peter Radford. 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