Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-06-29

Lebanon Special: The strawberry
and flower show and carnival here
was attended by 10000 people and
this little city is the great gamer.
Especially good feeling prevails to-
ward the Capital City and Salem will
reap a return harvest of attendance
to the Cherry Fair from this section
of Linn county. The Salem Motor
club that came up with about an hun
dred people made a fine impression.
On Saturday a great many more Sa-
lem people came up and address of
Col. Hofer on industrial Education
was very much appreciated and he
was complimented by a great many
of the farmers and grangers from
miles around.
Col. HOfer's Address.
He complimented the bands from
Shedd and Lebanon on their fine APP
pearance and told a humorous story
that put the audience in fine spirits.
Senator Miller introduced the speak
err to represent the state government
in the unavoidable absence of Cover
nor West, Secretary Olcott and
Treasurer Kay. He said so much
dignity, ability and salary had never
been represented by nan before
in Oregon.
Col. Hofer eulogized Governor
Vests prison policy of giving all the
convicts employment. p For the first
time in the history of the state every
prisoner was engaged on some use
full labor for the state and many of
them were earning money for the
state and a little for themselves. In
dustry and humanity were being sub
stituted for the Winchester, the bull
ring and the Oregon boot. Good hon
est labor meant more for the moral
reform of any man or woman than
all the preaching and theorizing that
had ever been invented. He also
complimented Secretary Olcott on
supporting the proposition to take
basketball teams out of the state
normal school and prevent future
public exhibitions of a game that
produced displays of hoodlumism in
harem skirts that were not part of
the education of a young lady.
High School Reform.
Col. Hofer spoke of the necessity
of reforms in the course of study in
the high schools. If 10 out of 90
children who attended public school
never got to an university, what
sense was there in a course of study
%predicated upon an university de-
gree? Algebra, geometry, calculus,
trigonometry, and all the rest of the
-ometries and -ologies would not
help a boy or girl to put bread on
the table or clothes on their backs
unless they wanted to follow one of
the professions. Should public edu-
cation be prostituted to the advantage
of the one-tenth who were to become
the non-producing and professional
class at the expense of the produc-
ers? He spoke of the Salem schools
introducing drawing, wood work, nee
die work and domestic science as the
harbingers of a better day for the
growing generations, and the extern
sion Of that system would produce
more efficient citizens and make for
stronger homes. Grassland moral
ity professions of conversion to re-
ligious belief were not substitutes for
habits Of homely honest industry and
respect for labor.
Attacks Higher Education.
Col. Hofer made a hard plea for
extension of industrial education
among the higher institutions. This
work had started so years ago in the
agricultural colleges but even they
were drifting into commercialism and
professionalism. The people were
distrustful of appropriating nearly a
million dollars for salaries for pro-
~fessors and fine buildings for educa-
ton mostly for the benefit of the
one-tenth professional class who al
ready had advantages and there was
very little doing for the nine-tenths
who must always live by labor in
connection with the soil. The peo-
pie should not be taxed to produce
the high class b~ookkeepers, account
ants engineers, bankers, pharma-
cists, lawyers, doctors and newspa-
per men. These professional ele-
ments would get their equipment and
would live off the earnings of the
toilers. Public education must be
for the masses of the commoners,
the %toilers, the bronzed and the