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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
THE WRONG WAY To EDUCATE.

The cry mental discipline" evident
ly finds little favor in the mind of
George Horace Lorimer, editor of the
saturday Evening Post, for in a recent
issue of the read by more than a mill
lion and a half weekly he attacks the
present system of education in the
following language:
"Is mental wood-sawing useful?
Are the intellectual faculties of a child
strengthened by sheer drudgery?
Does brain-muscle increase by dog
ged pegging away at a task that fails
to excite the slightest interest?
These questions are not new, but
the Judgment of Chicagos school SUI
perintendent against compound inter-
est. compound fractions and memoir
lied historical dates in the elementary
grades naturally raises them afresh.
The conventional answer is that the
exercises named, while, admittedly use>
less in themselves, furnish splendid
mental discipline-the harder and
drier the task. the more benefit
child derives from it. The pupil will
certainly soon forget how to work
compound fractions for nobody ever
does work compound fractions, but
he will have gained much BRAIN
muscle.
Is the mind of a child, We wonder,
very different from the mind of a
man; and what intelligent man ever
seeks mental improvement in a task
which does not interest him? What
adult, for example, will read an alb
solutely uninteresting book? The old
fashioned educational theory was a
sort of continual driving of an unwil-
! ling horse to water: and it is still sus-
pected that the impression that a
given task makes upon the mind of a
child is in proportion to the effect put
/ forth TO master it-easy come, easy
So. but every reduIhS duuit' we I'M
agine, knows that the book to which
| he drove himself with a club was pre-
/ cisely the first one to fade from his
memory, and that his mind retain;
things in about the proportion to the
! pleasure experienced in acquiring
them. You can drive the horse tC
water. but can you make him drink
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
THE FARMERS UNION.
Pendelton. Ore. June .

Pendelton, Ore, June 20.
Editor East Oregonian:
1t is my opinion that there should
be cooperation between all legiti-
mate interests, that our railroads
and our farmers have common
grounds for it,
farmers organization should be
a harmonizing influence rather than
disrupting. and we are certainly work
ing toward that end.
We recognize in merchandising.
manufacturing and transportation
interests just as legitimate and ne
cessary as farming but feel that in
the prosperity of the latter there is
protection to all that must be re-
spected.
BY economiZing in marketing our
products we are following a principle
which is recognized as just in every
institution and if by organization we
can effect the saving to home circu-
lation of even one cent per bushel
just that much is added to all legiti-
mate local interests.
BY thus economizing farmers will
he able to pay up old bills and place
business on cash basis. which is one
of their main objects.
As to the methods of accomplishing
this it is expected that we look at them
from our own viewpoint rather than
that of the men who are constantly
endeavoring to place profits into the
hands of our great distributing ter
minals.
| believe that the mischief done is
due to INSCRIPTIONS men who. by
their system of speculation and un-
just price making. are working a
hardship upon all fair and high
minded men, and that merchants and
manufacturers as well as farmers are
at their mercy.
1t looks to me as though the present
financial unrest is due to the hoggish
ness of our great American termin-
ais, that, as distributors of farm pro-
ducts, have found such fertile field
in farming the farmer. and to my
mind the question of allowing the
many millions yearly accumulating in
their hands, representing far more
profit than received by all farmers
combined. to continue to go with
them or with the farmer, is a pedti-
nent one.
! The farmers therefore, are the
great home protecting force that mus
he organized. He is strong. for he
can live independently without the
aid of others while others cannot liv,
three days without him.
| Potentially the farmer is the great
est power in the world. In reality
until of late. he has had less influ
ence over his own destiny than an!
other class
Among us are successful business
and professional men who have gont
into farming because of the possibil
ity of better and surer profits: sue
cessful educators who have found il
the farm the cOnsummation of thei
ideals of living. and greatest of al
there are successful farmers. who
after a lifetime of toll are satisfied
that no better profession can be at
tanned
I cannot help thinking that unde
the capable leadership of our stat
president. F. \. Skies, of Milton
these men will exert powerful in
fluence upon the destinies of tn
oregon farmer
c. A. HILL Organizer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
A PLEA FOR LOYALTY.

The editorial writer on the Portland
Journal evidently had Pendleton in
mind when he wrote the following
under the caption, Oregon Youth and
Oregon Colleges"
Several young men from eastern
Oregon towns have lately returned
home from Seattle, where they have
been attending the University of
Washington during the past year.
This is the case every year and the
number of Oregon young people at
tending that institution and others
outside the state is quite large. OF
course, young people bent on secur-
ing a higher education, or their par
ents, have the right to select what
ever institution they please, but it is
regrettable that so many of them ego
out of the state for the purpose.
when Oregon is so we'll equipped
with excellent colleges. There may
possibly be some advantage for some
sity, although this advantage is prob
ably largely imaginary but it is diff
ficult to see why Oregon young men
should go over to the University Of
Washington. when this state has its
state university, its agricultural col
leee. Willamette university, Pacific
university and several other good in
stitutions Of higher education. These
colleges are. certainly as good for all
practical purposes as the Washing
ton university is, and it seems to be
a species Of disloyalty to Oregon
for young people thus to turn their
hacks upon her excellent educational
Institutions. They are maintained at
great expense. are being constantly
improved. and are really up to date
ard worthy in every respect, and the
people Of Oregon should take pride
in them, and support and encourage
them by their patronage and favor.
Young men ought TO be proud to
say that they had graduated from
home state college, and TO feel glad
to have been themselves factors in
IS upbuilding and success.
The Journal hopes to see the Ore
gon colleges more Loyalty supported
by Oregon youth and their parents
hereafter. in this respect. In this
case as in others, the motto, Pa
tronize home industry should be
adopted Build up the oregon col
leges and make them. IL they are not
50 already. the equal Of any in the
country Many oregon youth will
enter college for the first time next
fall, and some OF them have per-
haps not yet decided where they Will
go. and we hope that this appeal
may decide any who are doubling In
favor Of some oregon college. Be-
come an oregon-made graduate, and
be proud Of it. The education to be
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

that followed your former pres-
dents speech in Paris, when he call
ed attention to the decline of the pop
ulation i'm France.
"All England admires Mr.. Roose-
welt" added Mr.. Groom. "No for
eigner ever visited Europe who gained
greater admiration and applause than
he has. They like his candor and his
courage. There may have been some
criticism of his speech regarding Eng
lands policy in Egypt, but l firmly
believed that a majority of the English
people approved t."-Washingtor
Post
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
Years of Suffering
Catarrh and Blood Disease =
Doctors Failed to Cure.

Miss Mabel f. Dawkins, 1914 Lafay-
cite ST., Fort Wayne, Ind, writes:
"For three years l was troubled with
catarrh and blood disease. l tried sew
eral doctors and dozen different rem
edies, but none of them did me any
good. "A friend told me of Hoods Sar-
,saparilla. | took two bottles of this
medicine and was as well and strong
as ever. / feel like a different person
and recommend Hoods to any one suf-
fering from catarrh."
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called SarSatabS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
WOMEN IN PREDOMINANCE.

an England as in the United states
there are more women than men"
:. A. Groom. a solicitor of
London, at the Arlington.
The annual summary, which he
Gently was published, states that the
estimated population of England and
Wales in the middle of last year was
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

That school election yesterday was
as harmonious as a democratic "as-
sembly'' in Oregon or a meeting of
the Umatilla county republican CEN
trail committee.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

GIVING AND LIVING.

} Forever the sun is pouring his =
gold =
On a hundred worlds that beg =
and borrow; .
} His warmth he squanders on =
SUBMITS cold, =
His wealth on the home of =
} want and sorrow, =
To withhold his largess of preci- =
Gus light =
B Is to tury himself in eternal =
night; =
} To give is to live. =
B The flower shines not for itself Z
B at all,
, Its joy is the joy it freely diff =
D OF beauty and balm it is prodi- 4
, gal, 4
, And it lives in the life it 4
. sweetly loses.
D No choice for the rose but glory I
D or doom
. To exhale or smother, TO wither 4
. or bloom:
. To deny is To die.
= He is dead whose hand is not 4
y opened wide
= To help the need of sister or
y brother;
= He doubles the worth of his life
. long ride
. Who gives his fortunate
. place TO another;
= Not one. but a thousand lives
q are his
= Who carries the worlu In his
= sympathies:
o To deny is to die.
D Exchange.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Press dispatches say the people of
Nevada are enthusiastic over the prob
able staging of the big fight in their
midst. In many respects Nevada is
still a frontier settlement.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
To Head OFF German Railway

Constantinople.-The porte has en-
tered into negotiations with British
capitalists to build railway from
Bassorah to the north shore of the
Persian gulf, whereby the German
Bagdad railway will be permanently
headed off from the gulf.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

1t is probably fortunate for the
home folks and the servants at Oys-
ter Bay that Teddy had chance to
relieve his mind in Africa and Eu-
rope.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

1t now develops that the farmers
had their scare for nothing and that
there will yet be a great harvest of
both wheat and barley as we'll as a
monstrous crop of grain and alfalfa
haN
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

The domesticated berry is now hav-
ing its inning but it will not be many
weeks until the far-famed Blue Noun
tain buckle berry will be enticing peo-
pie to the mountains by the hundreds.
Reports say prospects are good for a
big crop.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
REPLY TO JUDGE LOWELL.

Pendleton, June 21. 1910.
To the Editor:
l thank you for the kind invitation
to use your columns, to continue a
discussion with Judge Lowell anent
assembly. I feel that further dis
cussion at this time, by individuals.
would be most untimely. The public
at large can but feel we are both
usurping space which properly be-
longs to the editor. and our friends
the enemy. would be only too pleased
to have us thrust and thrust again
that they might rub salt in the
wounds.
"a wise old owl sat on an oak,
The more he looked, the less he
spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Let's initiate this wise old bird"
If 1 have failed to convince the
judge Of his errors, my effort has been
wasted, and I feel after reading his
lengthy effuson, that those who
would destroy organization can but
produce chaos.
The judge is prepared to burgeon
on most any subject, and will no doubt
find ample use for his pen.
F.. w. M'COMAS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

A bailiff went out to levy on the
contents OF a house The inventory
began in the attic and ended in the
cellar. When the dining room was
reached the tally of furniture ran
thus:
"One dining room table, oak.
"One set chairs (6) oak.
zone sideboardsAaak.
1.-TWO bottles whisky, full"
Then the word full" was stricken
out and replaced by empty" and the
inventory went on in a hand that
struggled and lurched diagonally
across the page until it closed with:
"One revolving ormat.5'-Every-
body's Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Nicholas Il. Miranda in his race for
the presidency of Mexico, has adopt
ed the campaign slogan, "Three cent
beer Evidently Miranda is stu
dent of human nature.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Men, not having been able to cure
death. misery and ignorance, have
managed to make themselves happy
by not thinking of these things
Pascal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
FOLEYSNONEYArbrAR
stops the cough and heals lunde

LEGAL BLANKS of every descr,p-
tion, for count. court. circuit court.
justice court. real estate, etc., for
sale at East Oregonian office.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

one great need of Pendleton is a
Y NJ. c. A. building where young
men could find wholesome employ
ment for their leisure hours.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Teddy is now domiciled at Oyster
Bay away from the maddening crowd.
Requiescat in pace.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

obtained in oregon will serve all
practical purposes just as we'll as one
obtained in Seattle. Chicago or even
Boston.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Now that Roosevelt is home the
cable companies will be able to re-
duce the number of their operators.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Eastern Oregon weather can usu-
ally be depended upon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

Many wonder if Teddy Jr. shares
his fathers views on race suicide
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

That was a mighty good ball game
even If the other fellows did win.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21

The harvest Of the golden fleece is
ended.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
The Motor Was Working Well.

Two more stars in Old Glory.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-21
A Reliable
Remedy
eIy'S Cream Balm

iS quiChlg dDSOTDeu'
Gives Relief at Once.
1t cleanses, soothes,
heals and protects
the diseased mem-
orane resulting from
Catarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
stores the Senses Of
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13

whose fathers ate hot cakes and fried
potatoes and heavy meats in the
morning, with no misgiving, and with
out after repentings
And the victims of dyspepsia and
dozen oeyr.te diseases multiply every
year. How can it be otherwise? Our
pater familas bolts fruit. cereal and
cream. boiled eggs and toasted bacon,
mullins and toast. and washes them
down an eager throat with a torrent of
scalding coffee inside of ten minutes
after he drops into his chair at early
breakfast time. One eye is upon the
watch laid by his plate. did ever any
man but an American time each mouth
ful-and this habitualiyD He gulps all
in silence. To talk one must have his
tongue and jaws free for minute, and
he is eating by the job-not the hour.
His whole body is as tense as the foot
tiptoed for the jump that will answer
the distant whistle of train or trolley.
His final gulp is in his throat as he
speed. His head throbs mad!y and his
heart thumps dangerously for ten min
utes after he has caught the car. He
never gives thought to the fact that
the outraged stomach is rising and beat
ing against heart and lungs. When his
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
Her Plum Pudding is Correct

T READ that recipe for plum puldlng
carefully and 1 find no mistakes In
= It. 1t is the English plum plediag
my husband used to eat in his old home
over the water. You ask what makes II
rise?' ! don't know. but suspect It is the
potatoes or the carrots-or both OF them.
II you like plum pudding. Try Il; - va
taste. use one egg, one-hali pint OF milk
"a liberal measurcD. salt and flour 70 make
gradually until Of the consistency OF grid
die cake batter: pour into pan With not
should be a quarter OF an inch thick, or
a little more. In the pan Bake quickly;
When the underside Is done. cut into
squares. turn. and brown the other sids.
Serve with rich gravy geaerally rake
IN frying y pan IKE pahheasg hetsr should 1a w9 not
be too thick. bt IL too thin it is difficult
70 turn T. Like Jenny Wren ;he ,las SSlps
until I learned how 10 DO it.
/ have sometimes served cold roast beer
n arin5nr 1ae ioIV1S VIXEN browned ada little boil
ing water. cover and steam until the water
IS gone. stirring. OCCASIONALLY; or chop and
rot water and stew tender until the water
has eyaporated. Make a, gravy by thick.
course. season to taste.
When stewing beef, or making. soup. boil
a few cloves with the meat. We like IT.
After freshening salt pork, put slices IN
the hot frying pan. pour a teaspoonful os
sprinkle with black pepper. This Improves
both pork and gravy. NV mother used to
freshen pork in milk slightly sour but
To hasten the cooking OF beans. add a
pinch Of soda. and parboil Drain, and
add boiling water.
/ fry a big onion add tomatoes, and
when the beans are nearly done, add the
onion and tomatoes and cook together |
also boil few cloves with my beans and
sometimes a tiny pinch of garlic. l always
use red pepper with tomatoes.
1 cook nacaroni in Ike manner. with
tomatoes. onion and garlic. II you like.
I agree fully with you as to children get
ting plenty OF sleep. Mine are generally in
bed bv o'clock. and wake at ; or 4
o'clock. as It may be; do not awaken
them II they wish 10 sleep in the day-
time they do so. sometimes out on he
ground in summer weather sometimes on
their bed. I throw a light covering over
them but do not awaken them. il 1t can
ONE OF THEM" C2edondo. CALI.
A capital letter. It makes US proud of
them. 1t is evident all the way
through that you have studied and mas
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
THE HOUSEMOTHERS EXCHANGE

them. The information viii greatly assist
one who is trying 70 support herself
l. W. valparaiso. Ind.)
Clean and wash the fish well. then
pack them in a keg or crock with layers
OF salt between. after rubbing each fish
on both sides with fine salt to which
has been added about a teaspoonful OF
saltpeter to a pound OF salt to firm
the fish. Turn and rub the fish every
other day for ten days. Then wipe and
hang in a close "meathouse' or other
small room or shed. Suspend from sticks
laid from side to side near the ceiling.
to which are attached iron or wooden
hooks. In the middle OF the floor (which
should be Of concrete or brick) build
fire Of hickory chips. such as is known
in the Adirondack woods as "a smudge."
and keep it smouldering and smoking
day and night for week.
This is the old-fashioned and some
what primitive method OF smoking
bacon and fish. There are newer ways
Of which somebody will write to you.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
The PERIL Of the Rush MEAL

head aches all day and an ugly purple
flush sufruses his face if he stoops sud
denly to pick UP a fallen book or pen,
he sets it down to nervous worry, or a
heated Office. or the pressure of busi-
ness cares; to anything and every
thing except to the violence he, has done
to the most valuable organ of his body
and the least respected.
ness men Of New York city died sud-
denly after a breathless rush up the
stairs OF the elevated railway. One fell
dead upon the platform; another as he
was entering the station; third after
seating himself in the train. OF each
1t was said that he seemed to be in his
usual health and had eaten hearty
breakfast" And then ran for the
train If the sentence had been added
1t would not have been necessary 10
summon a coroner. The story tells it
self.
One exceptionally judicious mother.
born fifty years ahead Of her age,
teaches her children from babyhood that
every article of food taken into the
mouth should be chewed. They masti-
cate oatmeal and swallow the crumb of
a roll with deliberation that amuses
some people. and is a promising sign to
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
For Guest Rooms

Tut more IN your guest room than
- the furniture, ornaments and
u plainest necessities. II a note is
to be hastily written before the arri-
val of the trunk with it's stock OF
stationery what could more pleasantly
greet the eye of your guest than
neat desk, furnished thoughtfully
with whatever is needed, pens. paper.
ink and envelopes. sealing wax and
stamps?
A work-basket IS always apropos In
every well-cared-for room for ones
guests; as many who would come to
tarry with you for a day or two would
not provide themselves with any sew
ing outIit. The dropping or of a but
ton or tape. a rip or tear-these are
accidents of day. Kind acts and
thoughts as manifested in these small
attentions are as great q welcome al
words.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
Vegetable Fruits

beg leave TO answer a query published
awhile ago relative to what is known as
vegetable oranges, and garden lemons. :T..
peaches and garden lemons They They
grow very much 5 melons do The seeds
are like those of the cucumber and musk
melon They are planted ro IN and mus ripen on On
the vines. as melons do. but the, fruit is
not larger than the orange and lemon;
When ripe they are peeled and sliced and
preserved as one would put up peachts. II
a few peaches are added. the effect Ii
good. You can hardly tell the real from
except that the preserve made from the
latter is very white and clear. On this
account 1t makes pretty sauce and pre-
serves.
Let these who have gardens try the vege-
table fruits and they will always raise
A. X c. Seattle. wash).
/ am sure that other amateur gar
deners besides myself have been deeply
interested in the accounts of what is to
most of us new fruit for preserv-
ing I have made a note of it, la
Contain Cutie. and purpose 10 order
both lemons and oranges next spring.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13

others. l heard playfellow declare
that they Chew their milk. They as
suredly have never been allowed to toss
it down by the glassful
Because, you see,' said the 10-year-
old who was laughed at for taking his
milk in sips, with breath between
mamma says that there are juices in
the stomach that will turn great big
swallow into a hard curd, but they can
take care of the little ones"
Sensible womanr breathed the un-
seen listener.
The school luncheon, devoured in one
tenth OF the intermission hour-choked
down in hot haste as one would pitch
coal into a furnace-is responsible for
more childish ailments than parents
suspect or than they would be willing
to believe Then. with the stomach sur
prised into inaction by the hunks ana
chunks thrust within the soft walls, the
unconscious criminal tears OFF to the
playground to complete the damage.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13

cottage the year through. Yet I reflect
sadly. sometimes. upon the proba bill
titles that the growing custom of COM
muting is responsible for the increase
Of what nobody now hesitates TO
name "the national dyspepsia" Hun
dreds of families have adopted the
sensible continental breakfast where
one held TO it twenty years ago.
Thousands partake lightly of hot
breads and viscid "buckwheats."
acknowledging the superior healthful-
ness of cold bread and crisp H.