Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-02-20
Look at the legal ads under New

Look at the legal ads under New
To-day.
The proprietors Of the new hotel
are enclosing their adjoining lots with
high board fence.
MFR. B arnett, representing the Port
land Oregonian, was in the city this
week in the interest of that journal.
For some years pseudo-scientists !
and shallow skeptics have sedulously |
promulgated the idea that there Is an |
unceasing warfare between science and
religion. The ignorance and fanaticism
of many religious teachers have done 10
littls injury to the cause they have been
attempting to upheld through their ina
hility to take rational views of the ideas
advanced BY really scientific men. If
materialism and evolution have
shaken the confidence of any
enc in the grand fundamental
truths of Christianity, narrow-ninded,
bigoted believers have been as much
to blame IS the advocates Of those
theories. Every earnest christian and
honest skeptic should be able to meet
those arguments which have been ad-
vanced to show that mau--body and
mind--has been evolved and not created.
All these are ably answered in book
called ga Study of Origins, or the Prob
lens of knowledge, of Being, and of
Duty" published by James Pott & Co.,
II Astor Place, New York.
The following tribute to Weston
is taken from the February number of
The Normal Monthly: A matter Of
prime importance, and one which is too
frequently overlooked in selecting a
school is the moral character of the town
in which the school is located. Stud
ents become, for the time being, prac-
tically a part of the town. They inn
bibe its spirit, are more or less subject
to its influences whether evil or good.
In point OF morality and intelligence
there probably is no place in Oregon
superior to Weston. For that reason,
no better place in the State could have
been selected for the location of school.
Parents can feel perfectly safe in send.
r their children to Weston. They will
: find the people, generally, hospitablc,
4 intellectual and moral. The govern
ment of the Normal School allows nc
II student to remain whose habits have &
pernicious influence upon his associates
;, While perfect freedom is allowed to al
who conduct themselves uprightly, i
is determined that the morals of rh
students shall be most carefully guarded
= by excluding everything that would ten
=, to lead them astray.
elect as school director some man, one {
whose chief qualifications was the nun
~ Der Of children he had to send to schoo
There would be more sense in reversin
'' this, by electing some one who had Z
Us children to educate in the district. A
fection too often blinds the reason. ii
X parents of bad children, and there a
x, such, cannot be convinced that the
ag dear ones arc as unruly and mischievo1
r. as children can be. Who has not heal
some misguided and deceived parent e
TX claim "my boy never tells lie, or '.n
It. boy never swears," or "my boy new
rs PLAYED truant," when it was notorio
he fact that the boy in question was one
D. the worst little scamps in the countr
ne But who could convince the fond al
foolish parent of his darling's misco
IA duct? Now if such q man with such
70 boy. or set Of boys, happened to be
:. school director, and his boy or DO
were to cause trouble IN the sche
;. room, and Just such things have HI
m pened, would this director do justice
IN the sch ooiteacher! The answer is (
- vious, and in view Of the fact that in
disagreements between teachers a
49, scholars, the fault probably lies "
;ua the pupil nine times out of ten, the
,s rectors should be without bias i'll
90. matter if equal justice is to be me
Mo out. 1t would be good idea always
49, elect as directors men who have
children in the school during his te
of Office.