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Show IA I IOWA X w T1MKS. PAKOWAN. OREGON, ITAII Shirtu'nistirfa German Education Must Be Recast in Democratic Mold !v , ,, i.dwahi) it A.'JII N I t- - T Mr-Iloun- d KArKIIAGK hulls 1 anil Cnminrnlutnr. O N 1'tc Mrrrt, N.W.. man elementary schools. It was his practice to ask the fourth grade Washington, l C. e you going to "What children: are we r '! Wi.. uniludnl "twill WASHING ION the And without be?" slightest hesI ills tr one, itation .'H'T iit cent (join tin going to l.nc two i.( ,'i r V'i'r they would answer: "Butchone of t' itte cobbler or ' er, baker, r'lldic 'ic.is.iiy to pl.iof the I. nuntN on w ich gt never it whatever have h been, II" r .u ( e may fit i ct .tii oil' ini ril the i "'tie w:l! te that it could be anything , .unit dreaming i'iw" t' 'll t! an it Gerdecided is else, because their way already had Si i, a t r M cD u ! f i o of South many. Lifts for been chosen for them. This revelae are that ha fa i alma said hi wouldnt tion, Dr. Zook said, was as heartx beforming to him as when again and a pint h of Mind for the "i breaking tween ore of the four out of five of the chilw ini f t again, rritory ' Sin Tiinii.is II. w most t o e r f u "no" to the question: i answered dren C'c I!.i ky I), i, a ,1 i forces for democDid you have any breakfast toLy ,ij Lt en "i I.t t1 e Artier-- i racy, to mark the western limits day?" c a n public Contrast the life of these children id the Unite cl States an thus set a one d school, with the American children who boundary to man's ambition of the most antiDal otter lien thought differentspend eight years together in the democratic forces ew of the fur tru.le that grade schools, many of them four ly They ki of old Germany, more in high school, where all comhad drawn nun to it.e Oregon the Prussian eduhad Clark und Lewis pete on equal terms, where ability country cational system. be assayed, where ambition can can brought hack tales of a rich land. conWhen congress meets it must be estimated. By 1830 some of the French CanaI sider the report of the mission of dian employees of the Hudsons Day educators who were sent to the School Plant Hit Wicompany had located farms in large catches of tuna, sardines, American zone by the state and war Soon Americans and other commercial fish. llamette valley. to study education in Hard by War departments Huntto take drifted in up farms started shipbuilding This is only one facet of the probOregon's Germany. They came back with a ers, trappers, missionaries and adfrom scratch during the war and careful and detailed , includ-lem with which the educators who study, L venturers drifted in and out of Oredeveloped into a giant industry al- ing a description of conditions and must guide German education will 1838 and Whitman Spaldgon. In most over night. a set of recommendations which, if have to deal. There are a great ing, with their wives, established a In 1942, more than 11 million dol- they can be carried out, will have many physical difficulties, too. In mission hear the present site of lars worth of gold, silver, copper, a vital effect in building democracy the first place, there is a dearth of Walla Walla, a second at Lewiston i and chromite was mined in Germany. buildings, of teachers, of equipment. quicksilver and a third near the present site in Oregon. Many of the school buildings of Spokane. Even the massacre of Perhaps an educational system are rubble. Oiegon is still the land of the pio- based on the American model may Many have been the Whitmans by the Indians in 1847 neer, and thousands of people from not be sufficient to democratize requisitioned for various uses did not deter the pioneers. all over the United States each year Germany but I think it is no ex-- 1 by the military government. In America Moves West. follow- the broad paved Oregon Trail the winter there is the question to state that without such "Oregon or But!" America was aggeration to the Great Northwest. TTie trail a system, democracy never will be ot heal this winter probably moving west. The British had to is no lunger the hazardous route of achieved in the Reich. will be one of the worst and Northbe headed off, and the Great this is one of the most difficult yesteryear, but it leads to the same west settled by Americans First I had the privilege of attending a glamorous country the pioneers conference presided ovey by William there were a few wagons headed problems to overcome because found a century ago. Many of Oreof the shortage of coal in the toward Oregon; then there were of state Benton, assistant secretary gon's great resources are as yet un- in American zone. thousands. charge of public affairs, at which developed, but completion of the Chairman Zook and members of the The Oregon Trail a torturous, As to teachers, more than Bonneville power project and others cut dusty, dangerous road of the Germans were dismissed mission were present. assures ample electric energy. A educational 1 came away through the prairies of Kansas not because of their participation in the deeply impressed, fantastic desert of sagebrush is and Nebraska, climbed over the only with the factual data present- Nazi setup. NATIVE GOVERNOR . . . Gov. changed to the richest of farm ed (I was familiar with some of mountains of Wyoming, crossed There are few books. There is a chief Earl elected Snell, lands by an irrigation ditch. Oregons the deserts of Idaho and trathe but also the with data) imporpaper shortage because there is no in executive 1912, was born in Olex. The wonders of Oregon make versed more mountains and tance of the program as a means machinery to make paper. There for good living and prosperity, streams to reach the Columbia of determining whether democracy is no machinery because there is no towns. A part of Oregon Territory but nature also made it beautiriver and the Pacific coast. or totalitarianism will dominate steel. There is no steel because was cut away to make the state of ful and scenic. Even today, the deep ruts still western Europe and perhaps the there is no coal. And so the vicious Washington in 1853, but in 1859 OreCrater lake, Mt. Ilood and her world. circle continues, affecting the whole The Oremayf be found, and ox bows, wagon gon became a state. sister peaks in the Cascade wheels and lonely graves are scatquestion of supply and equipment. gon Short Line, opened in 1882, gave range, the Oregon Caves, Waltered from the Missouri river to Portland railroad transportation System Mixture of There are, on the other hand, lowa lake and hundreds of other Astoria, bleached and silent re- across the continent. some things on the credit side. For Servant Master, scenic attractions are a lure minders of Oregon, the Land of the We know how Germanys history, instance, the fact that the Germans Thus Oregon emerged from a that tourists cannot escape. Pioneers. an inborn respect for learning woninto a wilderness her modern political and social institutions, have As the fur trapping declined, agriMore than 400 miles of shoreline and after a generation behind the with agriculture, all have derland. tended to a create peculiar are spread along the great Pacific. culture took its plac6. Industries iron curtain" they' are literally fishing, manufacturing, were set up. First cannery on the Hundreds of lakes, winter sports type of thinking which has resulted starving for information concernfaciliand recreational a caste with a in mining system strange Columbia was established in 1888. areas, lodges, health and play re- mixture of I can ties that are world famous. and ing the rest of the w'orld. Gold was discovered in Jackson and and more than 23,000 miles of sorts, to conthis own from my testify on inthe of the Farm owners operate 85 per cent paved highways are offered by Orepart Josephine counties in 1852, and versations with a number of the dividual German. The indusof all and the superfiOregon farms, The boundary-disputmining flourished. gon. young people, as well as the older try brought in 220 million dollars in with Great Britain was setIn 1943, Oregons population was cial and erroneous explanation is 1942. Oregon's rangeland supports 1,197,457 and the number increased that the German is half dominating ones, who had had at least a glimtled without war, and Oregon beof the world before Goeb-belcame American to the core. The pio- more than three million head of somewhat m the next two years. and half servile. There isnt space mering to into here German livestock. go psychology neers had won their fight! Oregon still is growing, still receiv- but there was one It is generally admitted that the m the eduRich Timberlands. Establish Government. ing new pioneers over the Oregon cational missions point first two objectives of the occupawhich was report With a territorial government esOregon has nearly 30 million acres Trail. tion forces have been realized more The trek to Oregon started a cen- emphasized by their chairman and tablished, the capital was set up at of timber, including Douglas fir (the fully in the American zone than anyechoed Assistant of by SaSecretary but later moved to state tree), pine, hemlock, cedar and tury ago. It was Americas first Oregon City, else. I refer to denazification where State exwhich Benton, lem. Discovery of gold in Califorpartially spruce. Wood products, papef, wood great migration, and it has never and demilitarization. These are imthis It reveals phenomenon. nia opened a market for lumber, alcohol and other rich industries are ceased. The modern pioneer the plains On the positive but portant negative. the factor perhaps greatest single flour and other Oregon products. based on Oregon's forests. the lachemist, the democratization lags. We vessels connected PortThe Columbia is a famous salmon borer, the farmer, the industrialist that can block democratic evolution side, know very little about what is hapland with San Francisco and stage stream, netting more than seven milis discovering a rich frontier in in Germany. This factor, the mission says, has cultivated attitudes pening in the Russian zone but a naroutes joined the principal cities and lion dollars a year, and there are the Oregon country. of superiority in one small group tion that has progressed as far in and of inferiority in the majority of moulding the minds of its own peothe members of German society, ple, undoubtedly is not neglecting making possible the submission and its efforts in Germany. lack of self determination upon The recommendations outwhich authoritarian leadership has lined in the missions report inthrived. clude similar projects for the The bars go down on the path of future, as well as various other steps extending beyond the democracy for the German child in the fourth grade of elementary schools themselves and operatschool. It is here that the fortunate ing through the parents and 10 per cent who are to be the suteachers organizations and other r leave the unfortunate 90 groups. There is no intention to periors t W cent, for at this point when the per A Js - ', upon the Germans superimpose !',1 '!( ' ' ' v v children are about 10 those who I - . itr any system against their will. So ... K' v 'i ,t far there has been excellent coexpect to attend the universities and J"' operation and educational circles prepale for a professional career J are set aside in secondary schools. in Germany are enthusiastic It is largely the financial or social about the steps already taken. position of the parents which forms They hope that trained educathe basis of selection for these sectors will come to Germany; they would be only too glad to send ondary schools. The overwhelming their people to this country for majority of pupils, a large proinstruction. They may not know portion1 of whom deserve university education because of their ability, what democracy is but there is finish elementary school and then go plenty of evidence that they on to vocational want to find out. education. This makes a fundamentally undemthe report as forPresumably ocratic division of the educational warded to the of state will secretary stream. receive his approval, and congress Until they are 10 years old little will have the Fritz and Johann have studied and upon the whole opportunity to pass program but, as the played together in something ap- report concludes: The development the proximating comradeship of two of this program is not the responsiAmerican boys, though ones father of the government alone. owns the bank and the others tuns bility Equally, if not more, important is a tailoring shop. But when they the intelligent backing of the leave the fourth grade, their ways American people in the reorientatand each from part then on, ion of the German year We have the wall between them grows high- committed ourselvespeople. to a program er. LAND OF SCENIC GRANDEUR , . . Gems of beauty stud the Oregon in which education plays a critical Multnolandscape. (1) Dr. Zooks voice was filled with role. mah Falls is world famous. (2) Renowned Mt. Ilood rises majestically over peaceful farmlands of WiThere must therefore be no real emotion when he described one llamette valley. 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Robert Gray sailed into a broad river which he promptly named Columbia af'er the ship which had carried hum from the east coast of the United States, down to the southern tip of South America and hack up the Pacific coast In Captain Grays pockets were sea letters signed by Pres. From that day George Washington on the history of the Oregon country and the Columbia river are one and the same. Through Pres. Thomas Jefferson's efforts, Lewis and Clark were commissioned to explore the Oregon country in 1803. They reached tht mouth of the Columbia, which is miles wide, on N'ny. n, 1805, Fort Gassop, a site near P present city of Astoria. The Columbia provides important navigation facilities for more than 400 miles, and the Snake provide still more channel for shipping. the world. 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