Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-07-07
A MODERN CAVE OF ADULLAM

Now York has had some remarkable stunts lately
among them the preparedness parade in which it is
claimed some 10000 took part. This however was not
a marker to what she is having just now with 22OOo
educators gathered inside her DOORS These are not
teachers mind you but the real thing educators 1t is
motley gang and represents every lad, ana fancy the
erudte and idle can imagine.
There is an old saying that it takes nine taors to
make man. If the educational crank is to have full and
uninterrupted swing the day is not lar distant When II
will take nine educators to make the average boy or girl
over into an encyclopaedia OF utterly useless ODDS ana
ends and at the same time among them make the nearly
wndbroken and badly spawned taxpayer shy at school
house and kick the traces and run away at the men
ton OF education
all kinds and characters of the breed each with his or her
net hobby which is groomed for the occasion and ready
to be ridden by its owner at every opportunity MAJOR
General Leonard Wood is there and strongly advocating
military training in the schools OF the country both
pubc and private Other upfters want instead manual
training and lots of it. Some long haired samples insist
that music is the main object in life the only thing that
will make existence in this vale OF trusts bearabe.
Other short haired individuals assert that athecs alone
should be the goal for which the young should strive
They think bull pup and pair of boxing gloves superior
to Beethovens sonata as soul thrilers
The square rugged feminine thinks girls should be edu
Gated to be manly learn all the tricks of business and
incidentally get the ballot and manage the politics OF the
country They advocate educating the mind FEMININE
away from ribbons laces gewgaws and tatting; they
want less silk hose and more clothes.
The modest little school maam from Oshkosh is shocked
by what she Sees and she much in the way OF an
atomical exhibits due to the prevailing styles of gowns
which are decolete top and bottom They think back
to the farm and old days" will cure this. Kansas wo-
man is leading fight for political pot pourr, "modesty
and suffrage" Ella Flagg Young, armed with court de-
csons and fluent tongue is shouting for educators rights
and battling for teachers organizing union and joining
the American Federation of Labor Incidentally she
made some illusions the corruption of politics and
politicians yet advised her hearers to become OF tha
class Dr. Anna Shaw is there telling everybody Just
what to do to make the wicked republicans and still more
wicked democrats through and have congress pass
bill providing for amending the constitution and giving
women the ballot Several urging and direct
ing the fight for aiding the American Federation OF
Labor though what it wants with the aid OF this choice
gathering of adullamiteS is not made clear Dr. Woods
Hutchinson who is sort of literary sarcomatous tumor
and solution of continuity for startling IDEAS praised the
dog tent and insisted the military life all that would
ever give young Americans the purbus unum and Erin
go bragh necessary to their physical development
And it went through the grand selection OF SHINING
educational lights and moral upifters. just what the
public schools have to do with all these things past all
finding out but the educators evidently want all OF them
taught practiced done something with In the school
rooms Of the country They insist that the human being
must be caught young all these things be crowded
or hammered into his her Uranium they will stick
After three days session not has spelling writing or
arithmetic been mentioned which shows how far afield
the educator is from the practical teacher They will
probably do sensible thing just one. They will some
time adjourn