The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-01-22

as an organization, are agreed that
there is a local disease in your school,
present the case 10 the physician and
let him apply 1.-THE needed remedy or
aputate the offending member. If the
disease is generalized and not local,
apply, through your local doctor. to
the head physician, the state superin-
tendent, and he will prescribe the
proper remedy.
You are fortunate here to have
conscientious and competent local
physician in Supt. Thompson.
The state is fortunate in having in
Mr.. Churchill, a conscientious, compe-
tent and Trustworthy man who is ever
ready to cooperate with you and | wish
at this time TO express his regret at
not being able to be here and address
you upon this oeassiOn. He is an en-
thusiastic believer in the value of the
Parent-Teaehers Circle and il is his
ambition to have such an organization
in every community in the state.
He believes that no effort can be too
great to put forth for the good of the
boys and girls of Oregon. He believes
that character building, Gthe making of
true and useful citizens, is the funda-
mental,object of all school work.
The industrial school work is no ex-
ception. In this the object is to digni-
fy labor and popularize the farm. To
establish habits of industry, thrift and
economy. 10 educate the rising gener-
alton to be producers, rather than
mere consumers. 10 create an effici-
ent, contented, prosperous and happy
citizenship.
In order to bring this about and
make our industrial work and school
fairs more elfectual and permanent,
Mr.. Churchill is inaugurating the club
plan and in this we solicit your hearty
cooperation. We propose to organize
agricultural clubs in all the schools
throughout the state. This year we
shall carry on ten different projects
and each club may take up one or any
number of these various projects. The
winner at the local school fair may
compete at the county fair, and the
winner there will go on to the state
fair, where two boys from each county
will be entertained free for the week
in a school camp, by the state fair,
provided the county pays their way to
Salem. The ten project winners there
will be rewarded with a free trip to
the Panama-Pacifc exposition in 1915.
The ten projects are: Corn raising,
potato raising, gardening, pig raising,
dairy record keeping, poultry raising,
manual training, cooking and baking,
canning and preserving, and sewing.
Cash and other special prizes will be
given others who do not win a capital
prize in one of the ten projects.
The general plan and outline is be-
ing printed and will be sent you in a
few days and we shall expect to see
this circle assist in organizing the boys
and girls into clubs and to cooperate
with and assist them IN their local
work.
You had a splendid fair here last fall
and we shall expect to see much
larger and better one next fall. We
shall also expect to see a good exhibit
by your club workers go to the state
fair and compete with the other east
ern Oregon counties for the cash coun-
ty prizes offered. You will soon have
the printed outline in your homes and
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to 60 more into the detail of this work
for fear would place myself in the
position of the fellow who could moi
make up his mind to get married.
In closing | wish to refer briefly tt
one other matter, and that is the swat
ting of the cigaret habit. The object
of the industrial movement, the objec
of all school work is, as have already
said, the making of good citizens. An.
counteracting influence should be com
batted and made unpopular. No on,
thing is doing more to undermine tn,
health, the intellect and the morals o
our boys than the vile cigarette. d,
not claim that it is such a wicket
thing that it will keep anyone out o
heaven, but | will venture to asser
that they do not smoke inside th
pearly gates. They may in that othe
place we read about-from all account
suppose they do. 1t is against tn
law to sell cigarets to minors ant
many large commercial concerns, real
izing how greatly they effect the effci
ency of their employees, are refusing t
hire men and boys who have the habit
, In view of these facts surely ever,
school influence should be brought t
bear against this gigantic evil.
1t is our ambition in connection wit
the industrial school work, NOR
! through appeal to pride and reasol
perhaps, than to the pledge system, t.
have at our first school camp at tn
= state fair next fall, 68 boys who ar
all nOn-smokers. The announcement
of this fact through their vocferou
: and impressive organized yells for
week at the fair, and the mention i
, will get through the press, will hav
: a most wholesome and far reaching in
> t1uence. Carrying out the same pla
=, with the winners we take to the Pana
= ma-Pacifc exposition next year, W
believe we can be instrumental i
, starting movement that will sprea
. like Wild fire. and not only give Orego
! wide publicity, but result in the earl
- banis6ment of this boy destroyer fro,
i the whole land. Is it worth while
= Are you with me? Hands up. Fine
y Thank you.
y Again say, the object of all thi
= movement is making men and women
- conserving our forces; preventin
waste, not so much of the water, tn
= timber and the land, but of the muscI
- and brains, the time and the lives {
= the boys and girls of Oregon, for the
=, are the most preGioes asset of all I'll
resources of the richest and greateI
r country on earth.
- The unused power of our strean
= that leap down the mountain and hill
=, sides to the sea is not lost forever, fl
" the action of the sun and wind wi
bring the water back where it may y,
- turn the wheels of modern industr.
! Not SO with the wasted energies
man. They are gone never to return.
The boy who is forced to 60 throue
this world with uneducated brain, u
;a trained hand and uneultured soul is b
% % the shrunken image of what he mig
~ have been. His personal deprivatiC
~ inns deplorable and the loss to socie
g is great.
- No effort that we can put forth
- ~ behalf of our boys is too great,
- task too hurculanean.
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