East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-10-26

and an unframed teacher when the
child starts out.
Reteaching Is Costly
Statistics show that in the great
state of Oregon il costs the state at
least 100000 yearly TO re-teach the
children who have failed because of
4 incompetent teachers. The monetary
/ consIqerauon. however. is only incl
dental The great consideration Is
/ that when a child has failed and the
next year is compelled to take the
course over again, you have thereby
taken from that child S life one full
year which neither you nor anyone
felse can give back to him
I We have over six thousand teach
! ers il th{s state. Those who leave
the teaching profession leave vacan-
1 cies which must be filled. These va
cancies ran about one thousand year,
4 ly-. The one normal school in this
state will furnish from 150 to $50
trained teachers per year. The bal
lance of the vacancies must be either
fllled from other states or with un-
trained teachers. The fact is that
ninety per cent of these vacancies are
filled with unframed teachers. Can
We afford to allow this lost year by
our boys and girls who have failed
to be charged up against us for not
trying to cut down this ninety per
cent? The establishment of two more
normal schools in the state of OREGON
is a big step toward supplying this de-
ficiency.
Eastern Oregon Left Out.
Eastern Oregon is particularly cut
cut of the advantages of d normal
school. At the present normal school
at Monmouth there are only 24I
students from the sixteen counties of I
eastern oregon. This number of stu +
dents at our normal school is only 4
about one per cent of the require
ment to Keep the teaching force of .
this part of the Inland Empire up to
standard. In comparins eastern Ore
gcn with the Willamette valley, we
find that all the state institutions OF
| learning are situated in that valley. |
In addition to this, the Willamette I
valley has numerous institutions of
learning established by religious de,
nominations and private endowment. I
These Institutions of learning serve as
ccnters of education and culture for
those localities, while in all of eastern
Oregon, as well as southern oregon, /
there is not one such institution. Ger
tainlK the people of eastern Oregon
should demand the establishment OF 4
normal schools so that they can have .
educational facilities and centers Of /
culture. Every man and woman who .
lives in Eastern Oregon have the in
terests of the boys and girls at heart /
should vote for the normal school .
measure. The good people of Port /
land and Multnomah county have /
heretofore generously supported the
eastern part of the state in IT'S deve1-
opment and we earnestly APPEAL to !
them again to give this measure a
good vote. because it vitaIly affects
the development of this part of the
state, which is tributary 10 the great
metropolis Furthermore, inasmuch I
as the legislators OF eastern Oregon
have supported the institutions of the
state located in western Oregon (and
We are justly proud of them), we APP
peal to the voters of western Oregon
to support us in our attempt to progress
upon the same great plane as they.
What Wilson Says.
President Wilson says: Next to
the duty of doing everything possible
for the soldiers at the front, there
could be, it seems to me. no more pa
Eriotio duty than that or protecting
The children, who constitute one-third
1f our population Our children
will be our future citizens. Upon them
will fall some OF the reconstructivc
work after the war. Our national
government endorses preparation for
;uch reconstruction work The pro-
ectiOn of our children demands |
proper educationaN facilities. The
preparation of proper educational IA
,ilities for orr work after the war is
Necessary. A vote for the normal
ohools. as placed upon the ballot, is
ne of the basic steps Of this work.
he board of regents Of normal II
chools have said that they will not II
onstruct these normal schools until HI