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The Washington times., 1909-03-21
WORK FOR IDLE MEN

ROANOKE. Va. March FIT has
heen announced that the Roanoke shoDs
or the Norfolk and Western railroad
viii AZ once begin work on an order Tor
30 a1t-steel coal hoppers, 10 be used by
lie road. This work will give employ
nent 70 a large number or men now
The Washington times., 1909-03-21
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The Washington times., 1909-03-21
BUSINESS BETTER
THROUGHOUT NATION
Railroad Earnings, Bank
Clearings, and Foreign
Trade All Increase.

Business conditions are gradually max
ing progress in a conservative and safe
manner.
When the tariff has passed into the
enactment stage there should be more
real evidences of Improvement.
Railroads have learned the lesson Of
economies. and while business is not
what the managers would like t. have
IL the increase OF I2.7 per cent for the
last week is not devoid of encourage
nnent, even though the comparison is
made with the months when the panic
effects were the most severely felt in
the railroad world.
TEere is also a source Of some salts
faction in the steady Improvement i'm
business As evidenced through the clear
inSs OF the banks being 145 per cent
greater. while in the big METROPOLIS.
because OF the depression in stock trad
ing the decrease was materially less
Not only were the ciesrincs much larger
than year ago, but they compare
not unfavorably with that of the nor
mai year l9C%, indeed they show 56
per cent increase over the figures OF
that NaaT
The Washington times., 1909-03-21
Foreign Trade.

one finds encoura cement in the good
increase in the volume Of our foreign
trade, the imports at the port Of New
York last February being very large.
while last week the imports were
larger than in the corresponding week
IN 1908 and also 1907. and but a little
less than IN the same week in 1907
Exports are also increasing. and but
Tor the speculative conditions in the
wheat market, would be much heavier.
The textile trade of the nation is
good Footwear is moving freely
though the stocking up may be hind
e1st by the prospect of some conces-
sifelS 10 buyers as a result OF probable
tariff changes.
Failures are fewer and the business
ntereSts OF the country are giving
their time and attention to the up
building of the internal commerce of
The nation along conservative lines
The Washington times., 1909-03-21
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Mattheson R2Bs Algat2mobns &C.. Of
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
WHAT LEADING LEGISLATORS
SAY.

CONTINUED from Page Five.)
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
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redwood, will no longer flood with
radiance the intellectual and musical
gatherings that responded to the calls
for normal entertainments. The ex-
quisite bas-relief of Aurora, the last
alumni gift, will please no longer the
artistic sense of the normaPs guests
and the magnificent pictures upon
the walls of the assembly room will
but accentuate the prevailing gloom.
The $4,000 main building, for which
no caretaker has been provided, will
ultimately fall into decay. The bats
ard the owls will roost in its belfry
and the rats and the cockroaches
seek refuge in its corridors, stairways
and recitation rooms There are books
in plenty, but none to read; pianos,
but none to play; classrooms equipped
with every article of school furniture.
but none to teach or recite; labora-
tories, but none to experiment; a kin
dergarten for the training school,
but no children; a campus, but no
students to make merry thereon with
athletic sports and games. OF a ver-
ity, 1t is easier to destroy than to
create. The splendid work Of years
has been undone in a few fateful
days by the iconoclasts of the Oregon
senate.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12

every appropriation allowed to go
through the senate pay tribute to
killing three normals and erecting
one in Portland. When the final APP
propriations the senate combine al
lowed to become laws were itemized,
It was found that even though the
lawful normal grafters' did not get
a cent, the appropriations made by
the legislature reached high-water
mark for the state of Oregon.
In order to destroy the normals
in the interest of Portland's lust, the
senate handed the state a second
insane asylum, boulevard road
across the Cascade mountains to Cra-
ter lake, scalp bounty law, $350,000
for a new wing to the old asylum,
the removing of the deaf mute school
into the city of Salem from point
seven miles out of town, and other
new features here and there all
over the state, and yet when we
read the Oregonian we are solemnly
advised that if it was not for the
normal schools Harvey Scott would
surely make Oregon take the place
of "Billiken, the God of Things as
They Ought to Be-"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
Mr.. Ayers Conversion.
(East Oregonian, Feb. 26.


Now Regent Aver of the normal
school board comes forth with prop
ostion in favor of two normal
schools, one for eastern and one for
western Oregon. This is the same
Aver who submitted the minority re-
port favoring but one normal school
and that in or near Portland. Now
that the normal schools have been
slain, Mr.. Aver admits that he was
wrong. He admits that he mad not
fully investigated the subject. 1t is
too bad he did not make this admis-
sion while the legislature was still
in session. This post mortem con-
version is not very satisfactory.
Nevertheless Mr.. Aver is right when
he says that there should be an east
ern Oregon normal school. We need
a normal school and always will.
There are Is counties in eastern
Oregon and they constitute two-thirds
the area of the state. These counties
want good schools. But to have
teachers and they cannot have the
latter unless provision is made Ior
normal training in eastern Oregon.
Eastern oregon young people will not
go abroad to secure normal training.
A few will do so of course, but those
who do will not furnish one-tenth
enough teachers for eastern Oregon.
Most of those who go abroad for
normal training also teach abroad.
Provision should be made for Offer
ing normal instruction during the
next two years. If the people of Wes-
ton can keep their school going, re-
lying upon the state to support it
after the next session Of the legis-
lature, very well. If they cannot do
SO, then good strong normal course
should be provided for in either the
Pendleton academy or the Pendleton
high school.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
Oregon's Villification.

(Ashland Valley Record, March 81
The Oregonians incident slanders
and misrepresentation of the nor
NAL schools of the state for the past
several years have given the schools
an undeserved reputation among
many people of being institutions
that were not giving fair return to
the taxpayers Of the state for the
money appropriated.
The Oregonian's statements con-
sisted of a rigmarole varied from
year to year, though it was vigorous
ly applied, elaborated and illuminat-
ed during the weeks that the Oregon
legislature was considering appro-
priation bills.
One specific charge is
The schools being located in vari-
Gus parts of the state their coun-
ty delegations were compelled to
stand for them, regardless of their
merit as state institutions, that the
result was combination on other mat
ters before the legislature for consid-
Grafton, and a log roll the work of
which wrought injury to the state
taxpayers in sustaining the normal
schools; that one of the schools at
one season (many years ago) secured
some kind of an appropriation by
switching one vote in a critical per-
iod in a contest that resulted in the
election of a United States senator.
Granting the Oregonian's state
ments are literally true, and that it's
time-worn, hoary-headed story about
that one vote breaking a senatorial
deadlock at certain hour, secured
an appropriation for a normal school,
and granting that the senator (who-
ever the tale might say his name
was) proved to be the ''rottenist"
one Oregon ever delivered at Wash
ington, D. c., yet what assurance
have we that the millennium will set
in the day the one normal rears its
head at Portland? What assurance
has the prejudiced Willamette valley
taxpayer farmer that he will be re.
lieved of log-rolling then?
What information has he that ev-
en- Portland's desire to slaughter the
three normals did not cost him some-
thing as log roll already?
The Portland Telegram, Senator
Bowermans chronicler, after the ad-
journment gave Portland people the
information that the Eastern Oregon
creature that the Portland politicians
had made president of the senate,
had carefully organized the ways
and means committee as we'll as 9TH
er committees so that if the senate
really wanted to wipe out the schools,
the opportunity was present" Also
that "he was assisted by number
of senator's who had voted together
on number of other measures"
Who was this interesting aggrega-
ton? They were the senators rep
resenting the prospective beneficiary
and the senators from the peniten-
tiary and asylum districts and made
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
AsHLANQs VIEW or THE STATE
!. NORMAL SCHOOL QUESTION

But, really, now, isn't it dirty
shame and disgrace the way the leg
islature treated the normal schools
and left them stranded as it were in
the middle of term, with forces of
teachers employed and contracted
with by the states agents, the nor
NAL regents, for the full school year,
and no money to pay them. With
hundreds Of students whose tuition
money for the full term has been col
lected and put in the state treasury,
from which it cannot be extracted.
clamoring for a fulfillment of the
contract on the part of the state to
give them instruction for the remain
der of the year; with graduates who
have spent three and half years in
study now threatened with the dis
crediting of their work in these
schools, much of it done at q great
sacrifice. Isn't it a shameful spec
tacle, even as the legislators them
selves may view it in their sober
senses?
Only three states in the union, We
are told, are now in the class with
Oregon in not supporting state nor
NAL schools-Wyoming Nevada and
Delaware With our bid for desirable
immigration from the states further
east, what kind of an impression will
the news that Oregon has repudiated
it's normal schools make? What will
Tom Richardson say to circumvent it?
And, honestly, besides, wasn't it
cowardly thing to do to assassinate
the existing schools the way the sem
ate did? If the people of Oregon
want one normal school let them have
a chance to express themselves upon
/ it. But in fair play let them have q
free rein to make the selection of the
location. But let them also have a
! free rein to express themselves for or
against the solution of the normal
school question recommended by the
state board OF regents calling for the
| support of the three existing schools
at Ashland, Weston and Monmouth.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
advertising Oregon"

(Sdlem capital Journal.)
The senator's voted to abolish the
normal schools and established state
institution for consumptives at a cost
of $4,000.
Is that a good way to advertise Ore
gon?
The senate strikes down training
schools for public school teachers.
1t establishes another asylum In
eastern Oregon.
Is that good way to advertise
Oregon? .t1y.D
The senate passed a bill that every
young man must be examined by q
physician before he can get a mar
riage certificate, to show that he has
no vile disease.
That is to advertise the young man
hood of Oregon.
We display our defects, advertise
our liabilities and conceal our assets
too much.
We hide our virtues, reveal our de-
fects and advertise our vices.
We appropriate money for armor-
les, for horse racing establishments,
for salmon hatcheries; we create new
offices from deputy constables to SUI
preme judges in defiance of the COM
stitution-all to advertise Oregon.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
UNION FARMERS ACT.
Resolutions Are Passed Urging q
Special Session.

Our farmers are aroused over the
normal school situation. They pay
taxes, as we'll as the farmers of the
Willamette valley, and feel that East
ern oregon is entitled to recognition
in an educational way.
The farmers of this section have
identified themselves with the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative
Union, and are strongly organized.
Farmers Union No. 6 met and un-
animously passed a resolution ask
ing Governor Benson to call a special
session of the legislature. This doc
ument was signed by the entire men,
bership, over forty in number, and
forwarded to the governor
Farmers Union No. Immediately
followed with a similar resolution,
which is published below.
Many of the heaviest tax payers in
Umatilla county are represented am
ong the signatures to these docu-
ments:
Hon. F. w. Benson,
Governor of Oregon:
we, the Objects ana members Oh
Farmers Union No. of Umatilla
county, state of Oregon, denounce in
unmeasured terms the action of the
late legislature in cutting off the ap-
preparation for the maintenance Of
the State Normal schools, thereby de-
moralizing the educational system of
the state and creating a false impress
sion in the minds of prospective set
tiers.
We earnestly request that you call
a special session of the legislature to
provide for the maintenance Of the
normal schools until the normal
school question can be settled by the
power of the initiative, or until it is
placed on permanent basis at reg
ular session of the legislature.
Signed by J. H. Price, President;
w. A. Barnes, Vice President; d. C..
Kirk, Secretary, and others.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12

rolling"
point a they
responsible.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12

True, the fight is over now and fur
ther argument at this time may seem
useless But the subject of normal
education will come up again. 1t is
we'll that the people should know the
truth about the matter and it is for
this purpose the subject is treated
here. The substance of the whole
matter is that tn normal schools were
viciously slandered and then killed,
when they should have been support
ed and encouraged Some day the
people of Oregon will find this out
if they do not know the fact already.
East Oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
grades for practice schools. ."-Presi-
dent Graham, Maine, Normal.

1--WE prefer the smaller schools on
account of the closer touch possible
between student and teacher, and the
better opportunity for practice teach
ing."-President Mankota, Mimi,
Normal.
"A number Of small ones. Accom-
modate more pupils and keep in bet
ter touch with common schools
President Woodbine, Iowa, Normal.
"The area most adjacent to a nor.
NAL school is most effective. Hence
there is a greater stimulus from g
number of schools" President
Charleston, Illinois, Normal.
The closer you put a school to the
people the more of them you reach.
President Jacksonville, Alabama
Normal
Competition is as necessary in de-
veloping ideals in educational insti
tutions of efficiency as in business.
President Newpaltz, N. L., Normal
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12

Enemies of the school charge tha
they cost $1,000 per annum per stu
dent. But the figures show the cost
to be close to $75 per annum. This
is wide discrepancy. Then it was
shown on the floor of the senate by
Senator Smith, who fought hard and
consistently for the normal schools,
that the annual cost per normal stu
dent is lar less than the per capita
cost for university students,-East
Oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12

If the normal schools have been q
graft, then the angel at the door Of
heaven is also a CRATER. In the nor
NAL schools heads of departments
have been working for salaries that
would be scorned by store clerks.
They have been doing work of the
utmost importance on salaries that
scarcely were their living ex-
penses. AT Monmouth the profess
sors have offered to work the re-
mainder of the school year for $76
per month each in order that the stu
dents may comipete their work. In
that school are some of the strongest
educators in the state. They are
showing a self sacrifice that is COM
mendable. Yet these men are called
grafters. East Oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
Peace TO lrs Asnes.
(Weston Leader. Feb. 26.)

( Peace to the ashes of the Eastern
Oregon state normal school. The
bright sunlight will stream through
its broken windows upon scene OF
desolation and decay The statue of
Minerva. majestic, silent. inserutable,
will gaze upon an empty assembly
hall, whose seats were erstwhiIe filled
with ambitious students. The busts
of Lincoln. Sappho and Pestalozzo.
torlorn upon their pedestals. will
have none to inspire with feats of
emulation. The beautiful chandel-
ters, suspended from massive beams Of
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-12
DEMANDS SUBMISSION OF THE
n NORMAL QUESTION TO PEOPLE

Union, have protested against such
action by resolution addressed to
Governor Benson.
CLARK WOOD.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-01-07
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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-01-07
WHITWELL DEPARTMENT
Miss Louells Bull Is authorized
to receive and receipt for ubscrip-
ions to the NEws.

J. F. Meagher has gone to Pennsyl-
vania.
W. G. Adams was in the city sever
al days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Smith are visit
ing in Knoxville.
Mrs. Eva Hindson, of Tracy City, is
here visiting homefolks.
T. J. Quarles, of Tracy City, was
here one day last week.
Miss Vera Shirley gave the young
folks party New Years Eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Pryor Of Chatta-
nooga, spent the holidays here.
Misses Fannie Carlyon and Lois
Smith left Monday for Kingston, Ga.
John Wilson has gone to North Caro-
lima, where he has accepted a position.
Miss Caroline Frater, of Chattanoo-
ga, visited Miss Hazel Ashburn last
week
Miss Theona Morgan, of Tracy City,
is here on visit to her brother, J. r.
Morgan.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-01-07
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A noisy Scotchman had dispute
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A rather laxative female called on a
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In new light Presbyterian church
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A country squire asked iuggler,
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Wis, Catholic Sentinel.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-01-07
COUNTY COURT
Proceedings OF Session at Jas
per Monday.

The County Court met at Jasper
Monday, and the following is the
principal business done.
A. s. Kelly, Jr., was elected County
Superintendent of Schools, Mr.. d. A.
Tate, the present incumbent, not be.
ing candidate. Mr.. Kelly is young
man of much promise, and is son OF
A. S. Kelly, of Kimball, the we'll
known surveyor. Mr.. Kelly made a
neat speech accepting the Office and
promised to work faithfully for the in.
terest of the schools of the county.
Jonathan Turner was elected janitor
of court house.
The tax rate for 1909 was fixed at
$3.50
A committee was chosen to apply tC
Legislature to authorize quarterly
meetings of the County Court, instead
of half yearly.
J. R. Pryor, county judge, read the
following statement of settlement with
trustee, which was adopted.
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