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Suties EDUCATIONAL SIDELIGHTS BY MRS. J. McNAUGHTON STEVENS In the Chimney Corner, April 20, 1920 Independent Friends: Here is the second installment of Sidelights, letting a' little lijjrht in on the doings of the Teachers in Minot, April 9 and 10. Hope a little light will shine out in cheering radiance, too, for the doings and saying of an Educational Association are import ant in the body politics. Dean Goff man, president elect of the University of Minnesota has recently made a strong argument for the dignity of the teaching profession and against the idea that nas drawn some of us into a union, affiliating with the Fed eration of Labor. He says of course we are all workers and we serve the community, therefore we are employes but we are independent workers and ought to be in order to lead our pu- ils intelligently up to the greac of life. And a strike ought to be unknown to us, in our practical dealings. Yet we all feel that the laborer is'worthy of his hire, and the pay ought to be good. The pay of toaay, nowever, is so much better than that of the early nineties in Dakota, that it is sad to see how many are slipping away to other work and the rewards of teaching are not all in money, tho that is absolutely nec essary. What a nice looking body of people those teachers are! No, I don't mean just the women folk. Those stalwart superintendents, both city and county "the earth resounds beneath their tread," as Burns said of the Scot tish peasant who lived on oatmeal. I venture to believe a purpose in life is the best aid to digestion. Spring hats? Well, they were not light and airy—the spring sun had not driven winter clothes to the cedar chest. But the blossoms seemed to be gleaming when those pretty girls in the Normal Glee Club walked up, two by two. And what a glorious volume of sound they produced! One sidelight that interested your renorter was the presence of gen erations of teachers in one of the departments. Miss Eva Torr is prin cipal of Anamoose, and has years of successful work behind her. For years she taught in Berkeley High School, California. Near her sat her niece, Miss Mary Ida Torr, a graduate of De Pauw University, Greencastle, In diana, and a strong worker on the staff of MacHenry county. High up at the back of the room where the young •stalwarts climbed to an improvised gallery, stood Robert Brock, a North Dakotan born and bred, who crowned his school work with a course in In- diana, and he is now serving as prin cipal of Layton Rural Consolidated He is nephew of Miss Mary Torr and grandnephew of Miss Eva, who is still young and young-looking. All 3 are dcing good work for the citizenship of North Dakota. Ten years ago a trio of teachers used to attend the Minot Summer school. They made 3 generations, but were Daughters of the Spirit. The youngest was Miss Beatrice Pendroy who was first .beginning her life work. She is teaching today in the Gran ville High. The middleweight was Miss Anna Otilie Gjellstad, then teach ing in her home school in Walters' district in the bend of Mouse River, A $10.00 Reduftion on Lumber! The average home requires about 15,000 feet'of lumber. At a 10 dollar per thousand reduction you will save only 150 dollars. Supply and demand regulate prices. At pres ent the demand for building materials is far in ex cess of the supply and from all indications it will remain so for at least four years, if not indefi nitely. If prices do decline 10 dollars per thousand in the next four years the money you will have spent for rent at only $30.00 per month during that time will amount to $1,440, or one-fourth the value of a new home. When you consider the money spent, the loss of comfort, enjoyment and satisfaction of owning your own home YOU WILL DECIDE TO BUILD NOW. Your products and labor traded for dollars will buy MORE lumber to-day than ever before. Investigations show a shortage of 3,000,000 homes in the United States. Help overcome this shortage and make your family happy and comfortable in a NEW HOME. Delays Are More Expensive Than Immediate Building Piper-Howe Lumber Co. "A Safe Mace to Trad* Phone 68 E. C. BRITTIN, Local Mgr. Minot, N. D. Exclusive Representative of NATIONAL BUILDERS BUREAU and the best schoolmother, several County Superintendents say they ever had. She was rejoicing in her pupil graduating to the desk. She is now the happy wife of H. J. Leyton, chief civil engineer for the Great Northern at Superior, Wis. The grandmother of the trio was the writer, who num bered Anna GjeMstad among her pu pils when she was principal of Towner in 1893-4, and many a day besides. But the most interesting section of the meeting in Minot was the school officers' section. There our worthy masters and mistresses, disputed warmly over the new schedule or sal aries presented by the Welfare Com mittee of the State Association. They the Welfare Committee had met in Fargo and they sent out thru the county superintendents 18000 copies of their proposals. The Independent published said ro posals on its front age April 15th. So keenly did they discuss the schedule that a committee of 5 was appointed to meet 5 teachers and Dr. Crane headed the list. He presented their conclusions to the general meet ing Friday, April 9, as their joint recommendation. Now watch grow. Jean McNaughton Stevens. Dr. Pidgeon Delivers Great Lecture Dr. E. Leslie Pidgeon, twice inter national president of the Rotary, de livered one of the very best lectures ever heard in the city at the high school auditorium Tuesday night on Social Responsibilities, his lecture be ing the final number of the Minot Normal Lyceum course for this sea- Dr. Pidgeon is pastor of one of the largest churches in Winnipeg and his address Tuesday night was not only intensely entertaining but he deliver ed a sermon that could not help but prove of^ vast benefit to every person who heard his message. Dr. Pidgeon fnade a plea for par ents to be more careful in the train ing of their children. He exploded the old theory that the young folks in order_ to amount to anything must sow their wild oats. Every thought and every act is registered on the brain of the_ child and as he thinks and acts, so is his character moulded. A student in sculpture is given the most perfect model from which to copy and so should the character of our children be formed. The speaker believes that environ ment is more important in the moral development of a child than heredity. The child of criminal parents, if it be healthy, placed in proper sur roundings at, say three months of age will stand just as good a chance of becoming an upright adult as the child of moral parents. Governor Frazier Flew to Mountrail County Governor Lynn J. Frazier was car ried in an airplane from Bismarck, N. D., to Wabek, Mountrail county 'last Saturday where he delivered an address in a consolidated school. He covered a distance of 115 miles in one hqur and fifteen minutes. The re turn trip was made without incident. This is the first time in the history of our state that a Governor has used an airplane for business purposes. \mKIRCH MEET 5 WAS HELD SUNDAY Speakers Outlined Program for Campaign for Funds Week Beginning April 25 The Interchurch Mass Meeting held Minot high school auditorium on Sunday evening April 18 was well at tended, Rev. C. J. Tingley of the First Baptist church presiding. The sing ing was led by a mixed choir and the audience sang old familiar hymns, from memory. The speakers of the evening were all Minot men. Rev. C. L. Clifford of the Vincent Methodist church presented the interchurch world movement. He pointed out that the world is passing through a cru cial stage because of the passing from an old to a new order, Christ revealed God to the world two thousand years ago, and though much has been done, yet a large part of the world h«s not been touched by Christianity. Thou sands of people never have enough to eat, one half of the people in the world live where' there are no Doc tors, Nurses, Hospitals or Sanitation. Far more than half of the people of the world are illiterates, two third* have never heard the name of Christ. in The Interchurch World Movement officially commenced in January of this year and is securing a complete survey of world conditions. More than thirty denominations are co-operating to meet the world's needs wita con structive program. This is not fed eration or organic union, but simply co-operation. The first task is to get a complete survey a program on the facts revealed in the survey. Besides the need of mon ey there is a call for one hundred thousand young men and women to go into the work and carry out the program. It was co-operation that won the recent wcrld war, had we learned the lesson sooner there would never have been a war. Let the les son we have learned he applied to our Christian program. Dresses 12 Suits at $25.00 out the program it is necessary to raisea budget. This Interchurch bud get is the sum total of the participat ing denominations and the sum total of aN comes to 9330,770,000. This money that is raised by the denomina tions is to, be spent direotiy by or through denominational channels, as the churches may wish. In every community there are many who will be glad to help this great-enterpri tho they are not, for varioui reasons connected with any church. The mon ey given by these friendly citizens will be distributed among the denomin ations. Each church will make its own canvas in its own way, and there will be an interchurch committee who will canvas the friendly citizens dur ing the campaign week, April 26 to May 2. Rev. P. W. Erickson of the First Presbyterian church summed up the subject by saying that many would sacrifice and even die for American civilization, but these standards can not even be preserved unless our Christ, with all the blessings that worship of Him conveys, is given to the world. George Todd Died After Short Illness George Todd, aged 78 years, passed away{ at a local hospital, Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock from hemhorr hage of the brain. He was taken sick at ten o'clock Monday night. Mr. Todd had been living at the West ho tel since his return from Havana, 111., his former home, a short time ago, where he had gone on a visit. His health had been poor all winter, but he appeared on the streets each day. His son, Geo. H. Todd, an electri cian resided in Minot for years but two years ago moved west and is liv ing at Roseburg, Ore., at present Should Employes Share in Operation ef Industries? A meeting of the Presbyterian the next is to build! Men's Club will be held at the church Friday evening, April 23 at 6:30, when dinner willt be served. The sub ject: "Should employes share in the operation and management of their industries" will be debated by G. H. Bugenhagen for the affirmative and Jchn H. Lewis for the negative. Fritz Opperman, one of the school officers of Iota Flats township was a visitor in Minot Saturday, taking his Attorney V. E. Stenerson spoke of wife and little babe home from the the financial aspect of the work, not- hospital. Mr. Opperman is not op ing the fact that in order to carry posed to granting the increase asked With so many If'- spring and sum mer occasions that absolutely de an a S it re to need one isn't this a wonderful chance to get an extra good one at a very low price In Mixtures, Suit ings, Serges and Velours. Sizes 16, 18 and 36. Values to $59.50. Sale price $25.00 20 Suits at $49.50 In fine Serges, Tricotines and Gaberdines. Values at $6500. 0JA Sale price ... ..vflvivU 35 Suits at $65.00, In Navy Tricotines, Gaberdines atid Poiret Twills. Finely tailored suits. Copies of Hick son, Milgrum and Jasack. 0HC. Values to $85.00. Sale price vUUeUU Maay Stuonlag Wraps at Special Prices Leatherette Coats $19.50 Clever belted models. length. Motor Coats $25.00 In Tweeds, Polo Cloths, Mixtures and Serges. Values to $45 00. AA Sale price .(HI Coats at $49.50 In the new Polos, Novelty Sport Coats, full length Tricotines and Gaberdines, Sturdy Tweeds, Wraps and Capes. Values to $65.00. Sale price. AA c" ruiucs, oiuruy $49.50 for in teachers' siroua of having THE WILSER CO. Waoerly Block' Exclusive Women's and Misses' Ready-to-Wear Beginning Friday, April 23d, and continuing for ten dags'*' we will feature a special sale of Coats, Suits and Dresses. Better Suits of Every Type Reduced IMS, it A lucky purchase of Silk Drdsscis enables us to offer them at about the regular price. They are just in, and are in Taffetas, Tri Colettes, Plain and Figured Georgettes, Serges and Trico tines. A very opportune time to select a Spring or Summer dress. They are the usual high grade, well-made dresses carried by the Wilser Co. Wool Jersey Dresses $19.50 Ideal dresses for school, office, business and utility wear. Sale price $19.50, Wash Dresses it $10.00, 15*00 and 1100 In ^diles, Ginghams and Tissues Smocks In Voiles and Wonderlin Cloths. Af Values to $5.00. Sale price v«avU ft I but he is de-' started work dragging the fields Sat tipulated that urday and plowing Monday. He did school shall be'in session at least not consider Tuesday's snow would 20 days each month. I interfere much with plowing. F. C. Cook, farmer-dairyman from Lorenz Miller of Emmons county Logan, was in the city Tuesday. He has been arrested and held on $500 invested in a milk strainer which he bond charged with evading the draft, declared would come handy in keeping When Miner's train left for camp, the minnows out of his milk. He, the young men was missing. Toarng in Rouster, Sedu, Toarng Rouaer, Tmx, StudeWwr, Packard, Sana, Overland, Maxwell Show room open antu 9 P. M. FULLER MOTOR COMPANY Minot No. Dak. Coats at a Big Discount. DRESSES 1-3 OFF a J1- c* Tub Skirts $6.50 In Gaberdine and Reps. S Values to $10.00. Sale pricevOeOU $5.00 In Georgette and Crepe de Chines. White and flesh, $10.00. Sale price $5.00