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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
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CONDENSED NORMAL SCHOOL STATISTICS.

of a by Washington for eiu-
normal schools received total OF Si5
Ashland Weston Norma received total oil
+ for the biennial period and Monmouth nothing
Washington the committee recon-
the normals The Oregon eg
Off
4 out a cent.
the University of Oregon in
normal schoo 81 have
number and states have none
Does make a third?
Shellons bulletin also state supefnehdeh
+ fayors sngen ormals md
teachers the Norman
1O20S S4192S In oregon the
1900s S2O These figures snow
school training in Oregon Is ex
S facts
Health remarkably good There has
Normal School save
Marndae who here sick man. and
seldom ILL., No student has been "hazed"
In with sections carry
ing o. all except man passed
through and went 10 spokane ana
points, Why?
For all purposes Normal School has
date of its first appropriation the sum oil
Washington normals
much Eenburg normal getting
$4,000 Cheney normal 100000 and the Bengham norman
$15S,O2O.
enrolled School OF
per Umala county The remainder represented
counties
xcor 1907 -Os was the
ne the private funds This
compares to Rhode $2IS Massachusetts, S150
s14O In Michigan Sss student
Minnesota stf Pennsylvania $751; Illinois S75 and
I Virginia S9S 900 , 49,
Normal School, 20
present time ,,.,
Nearly supplies students and patrons from
Porta chief city of the state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
THE NECESSITY FOR

tsalem Daily Capital Journal.
Those who contended for one nor
NAL school as against three or '~~f
concede that there is a necessity LIVE
such an institution.
The difference between one vi
three or four is theory.
There is then the objection thsN
three schools of this character form
q combine.
Rut that Is not an argument
against on institution for training
school teachers. :,
Can the training Of public school
teachers with safety be let to Sec
tartan colleges?
The worst enemy OF normal schGois
will not admit that.
Can the Methodist, Baptist, Pres
bvterian or Catholic colleges supply
all the trained public school teachers
that are needed?
If they could would that be de-
sirable? -
Must not the state establish th'
standards Of public education?
The only charge that was made II
the legislature was that they rorrne'
n political combination to get appro
priatlons.
But the same charge was mad
against the scalp bounty biIL IN
crater lake road bill, the pilot bill
the Eastern oregon. asyrdm bill.
It would be useless to tell u
Honorable Senators, whose only CT
was wipe out the normal, school
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
A SINGULAR SOLUTION"
WESTON Leader. Feb. 19.)

(Weston Leader, Feb. l9.)
Upon what meat hath fed the state
senate of Oregon that it hath grown
so abnormally swelled with sense
of it's own Importance?
This peculiar body has:
Ignored the action of the last pre-
ceding legislature, which left the set
tlement of the normal school question
to a state board of control.
Ignored the recommendation Of this
board, which with the exception of
one regent, Mr.. Aver, decided that
three normal schools should be main
tained in Oregon, at Monmouth, Ash
land and Weston, and that a dormi-
tory is needed by each school.
Ignored the action of the lower
house, which by large majority vote
appropriated s1O6,000 for each of
these three schools.
Ignored the wishes of the state su-
perintendent of public instruction,
Mr.. Alderman, who is familiar with
the work of the normals, and has
earnestly expressed himself as in IA
vor of their maintenance.
Ignored the recommendation of
Governor Chamberlain, who declared
in his message in favor of three
schools.
Taken no thought of the work of
years in building up the normals to
their present state of efficiency-a
work accomplished despite a weight
of opposition and hardship unknown
in any other state in the union.
Shown no consideration for hun
dreds of normal school graduates,
whose diplomas will be objects of
ridicule when their parent schools are
killed.
Attempted to deprive eastern Ore
gon of its only state educational in
stitution, whose usefulness is shown
by the fact that 1t has a larger at
tendance than ever before, and larger
than that of any other normal in the
state, although it was closed for one
year by the referendum, and has had
to fight for its very life at every ses-
sion of the legislature.
Ignored the wishes of the people as
expressed at the polls in June, 1906
when they sustained the general ap-
preparation bill by three to one on
referendum vote in which the normal
schools wer the only issue of inn
portance.
Voted to abandon school plants
worth we'll above three figures, In
cluding the Weston normal, which al
very conservative estimate is wortf
SIS, 900 as school property, although
1t would scarcely bring q tenth of tina
sum if sold under the hammer, TIT
large brick building constructed b!
the state at cost Of something like
$4,000 would be valueless for an,
purpose except as a home for th'
school and would be relegated to ruin
vacancy and vermin.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
A Queer "Reason.".
(Weston Leader.)

The real reason why the normal
schools have been abandoned lies in
the belief that there is no reason to
educate and graduate school teachers
at the expense of the state. 1t is be-
lieved that school teachers, as others,
preparing for professions, should ed
ucate themselves. The state doesn't
educate plumbers nor boiler-makers,
nor sheepherders, Yet all these and
many more. are essential to the state.
Besides, it is believed there is too
much merely literary education these
times, and not work enough to fur
.nish supply of milk, eggs and butter,
pork and beans. Again, members of
the legislature, moved by the crowd
of normal advocates, were trying to
trade and to log-roll everything, to
get what they wanted.-Portland Or
egonian.
So? Then why should the state,
at the agricultural college and uni
versity, educate those who are "pre-
pairing for professions?" And will
the Oregonion gindly be specific and
point out a single example of vicious
legislation that the normal schools
have "log- rolled" through the legis-
lature? They have fought for their
lives, It is true. Would the Orego-
nian have them whine and crawl like
craven dogs under the lash?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
THE NORNLALS.

XOregon Daily Journal, March 70
II is the lack of orderly and SOUND
in the normal school
nolicv that keeps the schools constant
iv in an unsettled state, and constant
~ before the legislature in a hait
starved condition and begging for the
means of existence. 1t has been a
had condition for the schools, as has
been seen in past times when there
uas lack of provision for some OF
,hem The thing that is needed, and
,hot ought TO be supplied, is sem
sible and stable arrangement OF tne
normal school policy, based on the
needs of the state, and taking INTO ac-
count that supreme factor OF wha'
the people of the state are Wiling t'
pay for. If it be q policy that com
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
Portland's Dormitories.
(Ashland Valley-Record.) J

(AShland Nalley-Recoru.)
President Bowerman, of the state
senate, in an article over his own
signature on 1.-THE Work of the Ses-
sion," in the Portland Telegram,
gives as his reasons why the lone
normal at Monmouth" bill, offered as
a compromise by the house in the last
hours Of the session, was defeated,
was that Monmouth was very small
town and would require dormitories'
OF course Portland could supply the
moral needs of the students in Its
various lodging houses. Parents in
various parts Of the state could feel
very secure as the moral squad
rounds up the Portland lodging
houses every few nights and peep in
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
NORMAL SCHOOLS OF OREGON
WHY THEY SHOULD BE MAINTAINED

that there was no combination for
the normal schools.
The charge of graft could not be
substantiated for single dollar.
The state has abandoned its po-
sitting the standards Of puOiic instruc-
tion.
1t will now be race between the
private and sectrarian normal schools
OF which there are score III Ore
gon.
Which shall predominant in sup
ulying your public schools with in
structors?
Misled by false cry Of economy,
Oregon has indeed been placed In a
humiliating position.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10

Continued on Page siI.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10
A SAD SPECTACLE.

(East Oregonian, Feb. 20.)
It is a sorry spectacle at best The
assault upon the normal schools has
been a damnable piece of business. It
has been unwise for countless rea-
sons, and it has been rankly unjust.
The opposition came primarily from
an element, led by the Oregonian, that
hates to see money spent for any
purpose. no matter how meritorious,
unless t goes into their own mitts.
Regardless of truth and regardless of
any sense of justice, these forces have
slandered the normal schools night
and day. They have caused unin-
formed people to believe the normal
schools were "nuisances,' when in
reality those schools were doing the
most righteous work in the state. The
only thing in Gods world the matter
with the normal schools is they have
been so persistently libeled. starved
and harrassed in general that they
have been unable to do the work OF
which they are capable.
What will happen if the normal
schools are killed is sad to contem-
plate. The people of the state should
not stand for central normal school
in Portland. If they do they are fish
To establish such a school would be
to create a high school for the bene-
fit of Portland, but at the expense
of the state.
Oregon cannot depend upon Other
states for normal training. Student!
from this state are admitted to the
Washington schools and many o
them go there. But in order to entel
they must pay high tuition or pledg'
themselves to teach for three years il
that state.
If the normal schools are kille'
there will be but one result. TIT
heart will be taken out of the com
mon school system of the state. II
an educational way the state will hav'
to go backward. 1t will be disgracet
in the eyes of the educational world
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10

When a central school fails to at
tract large attendance, it then is usu-
ally more expensive proportionally
than a system of local schools Colo
RADIO is a case in point where the cost
Of training a student for year reach
es the high figure of $24S per year,
rate higher than that of some OF
the most efficient universities which
have a much more extensive plant.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-10

We have now at Monmouth 112
students who have paid their tuition
and completed three weeks of the
second semester; S5 of there are in the
senior class. To close down the
school at once will mean loss of not
less than $50 each to all nonresident
students. Even then they cannot en-
ter any other institution in the state
and complete the years work.
shall not recite the wrongs of the fac
ulty or innocent citizens who have
moved to these towns for the benefit
of schooling for their children
President L. D. Ressler.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

  
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30

Philadelphia, Pa. Especially. -
Without any untoward incident the
battleship Utah, the largest in the
Navy as at present constituted,
gracefully slid from the ways at the
New York Shipbuilding plant in
Camden, dipping her stern in the ice
fringe along the Jersey shore and
throwing the whitened particles high
in the air, as thou.,h in acknowledge
ment of her pretty sponsor, Miss
Mary Alice Spry, of Salt Lake City,
Utah, who enthusiastically waved her
hand along with her fellow Utahans.
1t was just about 1905 o'clock when
this newest addition to Uncle Sam s
feet took her initial dip.
"Oh! I think it was just splen-
did," exclaimed Miss Spry, after she
had done her part. 81 am so happy,
and it was so successful"
Long before the time set for the
launching hundreds of the employees
and their families had gathered be-
meath the great covered ways, while
scores OF officials and other digni-
taries took up vantage points at the
prov OF the giant craft
Many braVed fate by climbing up
into the topmost portions of the
great structure, hanging by girders
and iron beams. but all forgetful
of their peril in the excitement of
the event. 1t is estimated that at
least 10000 persons gave vent to
their enthusiasm when the Utah's
hull slid into the murky waters of
the Delaware.
With a strong swing of her right
hand, Miss Spry sent the bottle of
wine against the prov, bursting the
glass into fine particles and bathing
the red-painted steel in a foam that
likewise sprinkled gayly-dressed
women and their escorts who were
standing below, and in a right firm
voice, in which there was no trace Of
nervousness, Miss Spry said: "I
christen thee Utah.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
SENATOR M'LAURIN DEAD.
Mississippian Suddenly Succumbs To
Heart Disease.

Jackson, Miss. Especially United
States Senator Anselm Joseph Nc
Laurin died suddenly of heart dis
ease at his home in Brandon. Miss.
The fatal attack seized Senator Nc
Laurin while he was seated in rock
ing chair in front of the fireplace in
his library. He fell forward without
speaking a word, and life was extinct
when members of his family reached
his side.
The sudden death followed within
a few moment remark by Senator
McLaurin that he was. feeling better
than he had felt at any time since
his recent severe illness, resulting
from ptomaine poisoning.
AS to a successor to Senator Nc
Laurin, II is pointed ont that an ap.
pointment might be Immediately
made by Goveror Noel. The Leg1s-
lator will convene early In January.
Former Governor James X. Varde-
man and John Sharp Villa ms. Sena-
tor-elect, are mentioned by many Ia
connection with the selection OF n
successor to Senator McLaurin. Sew
eral months ago Mr. Vardaman an
nounced his candidacy for the sub
sequent term. Governor Noel would
not announce whether he would
make an appointment or refer the
selection 20 the Legislature. Mr.. vii.
liams' term as Senator does not begin
until next spring.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
THE FINDINGS.

First-The report of the expe-
dition sent TO the university by
DR.. Cook is the same as that
printed in the New York Herald
during the months OF September
and october last.
Second-The copy of Cooks
notebooks does not contain any
original astronomical observa-
tions whatsoever but only results.
Third-The documents present
ed are inexcusably lacking in in
formation which would prove that
the astronomical observations
therein referred to were really
made; and also contain no de-
tails regarding the practical work
OF the expedition and the sledge
journey which would enable the
committee to determine their re-
liability.
The committee, therefore, is Of
the opinion that the material
transmitted for examination con-
tains no proof that DR.. Cook
reached the Pole.
The report is signed by all six
members OF the committee, who
were assisted in their inquiry by
Knud Rasmussen, the explorer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade ana
Market Reports.

r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Rav,.-
of Trade says:
Inc year is closing with the v,,
ume OF business back to mora 49,
the normal point and with consaa-
fully restored. The prevailiny NJ,
commodity prices, indeed, proar..
considerable irregularity, and n.
is much discussion among closo -,
dents of economic conditions a.
their effect upon the money ma,.
ana the Industrial and labor sitas'
tlon. But the business world sa..sr a-
10 be adjusting itself to the cons,s
tion that an era of high prices ~
set In to continue for an indean,,s
period. "uenni's
The sustained value of raw co,...
following the Government cotton
port, has confirmed selling nyico. ~ :,
cotton goods, and additional al
vances are made In bleached good,
denims, colored cotton and Via
print cloths for converting purnoSo'
Retail dry goods trade is yerv a.
tive and a large holiday business !,
being done. Dullness in export trsds
in cotton goods is combining with tSs
difficulty of getting prices up On
heavy cottons to force a curtailmen,
OF the output for a time in the East
ern and Southern mills makin,
them.
Bradstreets says:
Retail and holiday trade has hoe,
helped by seasonable weather and
the approach OF Christmas and makes
good comparisons with preceding
years, a few markets, in fact. report.
ing a record turnover for the sea.
son. Best reports come from ths
North and West, but Southern trade
also shows expansion, though this
class of buying is not yet at its full.
est. Jobbing trade reports are cheer
full, with special stress laid upon the
volume of reassorting demand to All
broken stocks
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30

Copenhagen Especially. = The re-
port of the special committee of
scientists, which the University of
Copenhagen appointed to scrutinize
Or. Frederick A. Cooks claims that
he had discovered the North Pole,
was submitted 10 the consistory OF
the University, endorsed by that body
and given to the public.
The report skaters completely, al
most contemptuously, the American
explorers title to such discovery, and
fills the officials and people of Den
mark with chagrin at the figure Den
mark is made TO assume in the eyes
OF the scientific world. The public
was prepared for verdict of "uot
proven" but did not expect its re-
cent hero TO be branded as an i'm
postor, Many still cling to the belief
that Cook acted in good faith, but
harbored a delusion.
Explorers and scientists almost
unanimously have lost faith In
Cooks honesty, while one of his
warmest supporters, Knud Rasmus-
sen. helped to frame the report. The
evening papers attack Cook and Sc
verely reproach him for hiding, which
ehVg iSbaiu 90 SiSh VI bN''NS
conscience.
The rector of the University, DR..
Salomonsen, when questioned as to
the possibility OF the university can
ceiling the degree which 1t conferred
on DR.. Cook. said that no decision
had been reached, but he thought
that the degree could be withdrawn
in the same way as a government
could deprive a person Of an order
obtained under false pretenses.
Commodore Gustav Holm, the Arc
tic explorer, and a number of the
committee said: Cooks claim that
he made the observations SO degrees
So minutes 46 seconds near the pole
proved Immediately that he was a
bad observer. but nothing indicated
that he was a swindler. Now his
papers convict him of being swind-
Ter. We examined Cooks observa-
tions first, and agree unanimously
that they were worthless. Loose's
observations were not used in the
papers Cook submitted to the uni
versity."
Professor Olufsen, secretary of the
Danish Geographical Society, said:
"It is the saddest event In my life
AS an explorer there seems to be no
doubt that Cook is absolutely unreli-
able"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
DIR. WI TO RETURN IN so YEARS.
Retiring Chinese Minister Hopes To
Live To The Age OF 200.

Washington, d. C. Especial. BE
ing visited by representatives of CON-
mercial bodies of Washington for the
purpose of saying farewell to him.
DR.. Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese Min
lister, promised that he would return
to the United States for a visit SO
years hence. if he did not sooner
make the trip.
Incidently the minister said he saw
no reason why man should not live
to be 200 years old II he met no acci-
dent and did not get sick, at the same
time inferentially suggesting that he
expected to make his span of life COW
er the 200-year period. A large dele
CATION of business men of this city
called on the minister to express
their appreciation of him personally
and the hope that he would return
as minister of China.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

Rear Admiral Schley says lie be-
lieves both Peary and Cook reached
the North Pole, and that Peary
should submit his proofs to the Uni
versity of Copenhagen, as well as to
the National Geographic Society.
A bill will be introduced in Con-
gress authorizing the United States
to purchase buildings in Paris and
Berlin for the use of the ambassa-
dors.
Governor Hoggatt, Alaska, in his
annual report, advocates the early
development of the coal industry OF
that country.
Citrus fruit growers of the Pacific
Coast filed a complaint with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
against the rates charged on their
products by the railroads.
Senator Smith, of Michigan, wants
the confirmation of Robert Bacon as
ambassador to France held over un-
I'll he returns to Washington on
January 10.
The President has been invited to
attend the Masonic celebration at
Alexandria. Va, on Washington
birthday.
The tests OF the big l4-inch gun at
Indian Head are proving highly sat
isfactory to the Navy Department.
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
tion OF William J. Mills, OF East
Las Vegas, N. M. TO be governor OF
New Mexico.
The Supreme Court took under
advisement the petition OF John r.
Walsh, the Chicago. banker, for q
writ OF certiorari.
Approximately 10000 acres OF
public land have been withdrawn
from entry In the West, according to
an announcement at the Interior De.
partment.
The bar OF the United States Su-
preme Court held memorial meet
ing in honor Of the late Justice
Peckham. of the Supreme Court.
Secretary Dickinson has decided to
appoint j. p. Fyne. of Chattanooga
Tenn. chief OF the police OF the
Panama Canal Zone. to succeed GIL
bert Porter.
Chang Yin-rang, the new Chinese
minister. was presented to Secretary
] OF stale Knox.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
Wholesale Markets,

New York.-Wheat-No. 2 red.
1860, sales elevator domestic, and
125 II nominal (. o. b. afloat; No.
Northern Duluth, 1.25 Is and No. 2
hard winter, 1926 1b T. o. b. a1oat.
Corn-No. 2 new, 701sc. elevator
domestic, II delivered and 6S t. 0.
b. afoat nominal.
Oats-Mix xed, 26@32 lbs, 46hc.;
natural white, 26Q32 lbs. 47G 50;
clipped white, 94@42 lbs, 4Sq52
Poultry - Alive easier; spring
chickens, 1cc.; fowls, 16; turkeys
$50 20. Dressed firm; Western tur.
keys, 22@25c.; chickens, roasting
1S@ 23; fowls, 13@ II Il.
Observation-Disclosures con-
tract grade, 11S a 1900.
Corn-Firm; December, 65156
&c.; January, IS 651s.
Oats--Easier; No. white, natur-
al, 50k a sic.
creamery, 36c.; do, nearby prints,
81.
Eggs-Firm; Pennsylvania and
other nearby firsts, free cases, S3c.,
at mark; do, current receipts, in re-
turnable cases, 81, at mark; West
ern firsts, free cases, 33, at mark;
do, current receipts, free cases, ZIG
81, at mark.
Cheese-Firm; New York full
creams, choice, 17Ac.; do, fair to
good, 16 " OF.
Live Poultry-Firm; fowls, 1870
15c.; old roosters, 101s oil; chick
ems, 13@15; ducks, 14@15; tur-
keys, 20@22 geese, 12@ 1S.
Baltimore.-Wheat - No. red
spot, 12O%c. May, 1.1S%. Settling
prices were: No. 2 red Western,
121c.; spot red, 1.20%; No. 3 red,
1.15A; steamer No. red, 1.l2h;
steamer No. red Western, 1.16.
Western opened firm; spot,
sc 3s @6615c year, 66ss q 6Gh;
January, 66h @66A; February
66A @67, and March, 67Q67h.
Prices sagged, and at the midday
call spot and year were quoted at
65%c.;. January, 65 * @6S%.
Oats - Quote: White, as to
weight-No. 2, 5O@5Oh; No. 3,
4S@4sk; No. 4. 46h@47. Mix
ed-No. 2, 47h @4S; No. 8, ASH
@47.
Hay-Quote, per ton: No. tim
othy. large bales. $3.50 1850; NO.
/ do, small blocks, SIS q 1880; NO,
2, do, $17@17.50; No. 3 do, sle
@16. Choice clover mixed, $l7:So
No. clover mixed, SIT q 100;
No. 2 clover mixed. s15@16 No. !
clover, $17.6o@1s; No. 2 clover
$16@17. No-grade hay, as to kind
quality and condition, $4,000 l2;oO.
Eggs-We quote, per dozen, loss
off: Maryland and Pennsylvania
firsts, S0c.; Western firsts, 3d. West
Virginia firsts, 80; Southern hrsS'
20; guinea eggs, Is a is.
Dressed Poultry = The market ID
firmer on choice turkeys. Ready saie
for desirable stock. We quote, per
lb.: Turkeys-Choice. 22@ z9c''
fair to good, 1910 20. ChieAenS,q >
Young, 14Q 15c.; old and mixed, 10
OLA. Ducks-12 a 15c. Geese
Nearby, 13@14c.; Western anu
Southern, 11@12.