Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-06-17

just established the North Bend
(Coos county,, Daily and Semi
Weekly Post. All these newspapers
are Republican, but the management
has never hesitated to support men
Of other parties when the interests
Of the people demanded such a
course. But as a rule Republican
government is preferred to that by
any other party.
In Iowa A. F. Hofer & Sons for
nearly twenty years controlled the
destinies of the McGregor, Clayton
county, News, and made it a we'll
| known newspaper In the Republican
party there. When the Republican
party eispoused Prohibition in that
state, they did not leave the party,
but after ten years of agitation and
strife, that resulted in making great
expense and not preceptibly diminish
ing the liquor traffic, but causing hard
feelings between neighbors and com.
munities, we were glad to leave it to
it's fate, and few years after we
came away the attempted laws to pro-
hibit the manufacturer and sale of in.
| toxicating liquors were repealed
Some have expressed surprise that
Hofer Brothers in Oregon have not
jumped at the chance to saddle pro
hibitory laws onto this state. If Iowa
with 100000 Republican majority
could not make that law a success
what would Pacific coast state ac.
complish? One of the Hofer Bros,
also established a German Republican
paper in the city of Des Moines and
successfully conducted the same for
going on two years. 1t was the only
German Republican paper in the state
at that time. Now that is the news.
paper record of father and sons and
we feel proud of the same as it ex-
tends over a period of nearly thirty
years.
That a father, three sons and five
daughters should have all been trained
to become practical printers in an
Iowa country weekly newspaper Office
was in itself a remarkable occurrence,
and but for the German family custom
of educating children to become work
ers, 1t might never have happened
But so it was, and when the sons
went out west to grow up with the
country, the daughters bravely stayed
with father and helped him get out
the paper and run the job Office in
Iowa, until the paper there was sold
out and the parents removed to Chi.
cago. Two of the daughters had
gone into the publishing business
there printing, editing and publish.
ing the Kindergarten Magazine and
the Child Garden and national organ
of the Mothers Club movement that
eventuated in national and interna
tlonal organizations. The national
Mothers Congress and the Interna.
tiona Kindergartener's association
are part Of history and have assemb-
led in large conventions in the largest
cities of the United States and Can
ada. The two magazines had a wide
influence and circulation that ran in
to thousands of copies. But this was
only part of the work that started
from the Iowa country printing office
The girls who became type-setters
in the country printing Office and liter.
ally picked up an education there and
in the Iowa High school in the town
OF McGregor, established three Kin
dergarten training schools in Chicago,
the Longwood Froebellan Institute,
the Pestalozzi-Froebel Training school
at Chicago Commons, Grand avenue
and Morgan street, and the Gertrude
House training school at 40 Scott
street, and part of the time a fourth
training school in South Chicago. In
these schools a great majority of the
successful kindergarten workers of
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and at this time of the year come the
dainty programs and graduating ex.
ercise announcements from these
several schools, reminl ling us of what
the pettlcoat branch of the family is
doing for suffering humanity at the
other end of the line, and like the
mother in the Cotters Saturday
Night, 1t is a pleasure to know that
those at one time altogether too nu.
merous girl babies are also respected
like the lave and have made their
way from the country printing Office
TO respected positions that must
awaken the pride of the sef-sacrific-
ing parents who so generously be