THE SPRINGFIELD UNION: THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 19. 1913. FOUNDED JANCARY 4, 1864. Entered at the Springdeld, Matter, 86 Second -Class Mail Thursday, June 19, 1913.
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MEATS AND THE FOOD LAW. By the revocation of a rule that had been In force since October, 190f, the enforcers of the federal pure food law will be enahled to bring a newly and salutary measure to bear against venders of meats that are spoiled, misbranded or otherwise violative of that statute. Under the regulations put in force by President Roosevelt following the enactment of the food and drugs act, meats, it appears, were 'exempt from the requirements laid down in respect to other foods, and the only way to head off tho sale of bad meats was through the meat 10- spection act, which failed to provide relief in respect to meats properly Inspected, but subsequently impaired by improper handling or too long keeping. nor could the device of 8 seizure be invoked to secure the prompt results indispensable in a case of this kind. There epems to nave been no good ground for such exception.
Since there 1s nothing in the Jaw that calls for any special consideration for meat packers or meat dealers, it is hard to see where the Roosevelt administration derived its authority for using the executive power in this extra-legal manner, The great majority of people, it is safe to say, did not know that meats were not A.S much subject to seizure as any other class of foods, if found to be unwholesome or fraudulent. It is not clear why the exemption ever was made or why it was permitted to stand for long. As an instance of extra-legal action it is matched by the creation of the Remsen board, whose status may well the next subject of consideration by the present administration In its. efforts to uphold the pure food principle. ATTITUDE OF PROGRESSIVES IV NEW YORK MAYORALTY CONTEST.
As to what constitutes progressiviam, men's viewe differ widely In these times, no policy urged as progressive has seemed to possess more posttive elements of value than that finding expression in our cities, by which party lines have been subordinated in the interest of emclency and honesty, In order that the better elements of all parties may stand as 8. strong, united force against base and selfish interests that promote immorality, graft, waste and every species of misgovernment in population centers. Never have the good results of this plan been more in evidence than in New York city in the last few months, when 8. district attorney elected by fusion has scored a phenomenal succession of victories over the powers of darkness and for the first time in many years an entering wedge has been forced for the reformation of the police department. At this juncture the rare and exceptional opportunity la presented to good citizens of all parties to support Mr.
Whitman for mayor. And at this very juncture the leaders of the Progressive party are opposing the district attorney on the ground thus fet forth by Timothy L. Woodruff: "The fight between the Republicans and the Progressives has been so bitter that the Frogressives feel that any Republican, so-called at the present time, should have been a Progressive last fall In order to be good enough to be mayor next fall." Thus broad-mindedly and magnani3 mously does Mr. Woodruff defne the principle on which he and County Chairman Bird ask the Progressives of New York city to be governed in the coming campaign, It la fortunate for Mr. Woodruff, and fortunate for the presidential standard-bearer of the Progressives, Col.
Roosevelt, that no such record of amiiation was required in the last campaign, on the eve of which Col Roosevelt and Mr. Woodruff considered themselves just AA much Republicans 8.3 Whitman or any other members of the party. Had such a test been Imposed then, no Republican could have a place on the Progressive ticket. It is quite possible, however, that if Mr. Whitman would be considerate as to renounce affiliation with the Republicans and proclaim himself A Progressive, the Woodruff leadership would relent and condescend to give him support; WA cannot say positively as to that.
But Mr. Whitman is not asserting his Republicanism at this time, and the motives that actuate large numbera of 'citizens to support him for have nothing to do with parties nor with any future national contest. They are bent on making New York a decently governed city, In itself A large and important undertaking. and one that Col. Roosevelt at one time regarded 88 quite worthy of his best effort A8 police commissioner.
It. 1a quite evident that Progressives are 40 much divided over mayoralty situation that Measra Woodruff they and Bird will And it very diffoult to muster A. respectable following in their demand for some candidate who did not support Mr. Taft for President. They may personally incline to Gaynor or they may seek to urge Borough 'President McAneny Into the feld, but All sensible voters not blinded by prejudice and free to voice their own convictions must realize that Mr.
Whitman is the logical candidate of B. fusion movement, which alone can assure the defeat of Tammany in the coming municipal election. It is fair to assume, therefore, that he will get a very substantial following from that quarter, since the Progressive party, In New York as elsewhere, is rapidly disintegrating. BEET SUGAR LOBBY AND ITS ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE THE PRESS. The Senate lobby investigators are bringing to light some very Interesting things in connection with the efforts of the beet sugar industry to shape legislation and to create favorable pubilo sentiment.
The seizure by the deputy sergeant-at-arms of 8 batch of correepondence, which was discovered in the Washington office of the American Beet Sugar company, shows that the vice-president of that concern, who admits having spent half a million and perhaps more during his twenty-three years as lobbyist at Capitol entertalned a committee of the House in New York while it was carryon its investigation of the sugar industry. One of the letters sald that courtesies extended in this manner had had "a good effoot" and the belet was expreased that the report of the committee would be "less than had been expected. This affords an Interesting sidelight on the "perfectly legitimate" expenditures of the sugar lobby. Apparentthese lobbyists think that 607 long as they do not actually hand out cash' to law-makers anything else they may do in the wAy of exerting influence is eminently proper. Tho public, however, will not take this view of it.
The old days of buying votes outright have gone never to return. The modern method is slicker, but quite a8 effective. "Courtesies" of one sort and Innother are extended in general fashion. as for Instance, seeing that investigating committees are lavishly entertained 50 that they will feel under more or less obligation to deal kindly with the affair under consideration. It is this sort of lobbying that President Wilson accurately defines as "Insidious." But the efforts of the sugar lobby were by no means to making life pleasant for senators and representatives, who, by the way, were just as much to blame for accepting the favors of the lobbyists as the lobbyists were In extending such favors.
The sugar Interests thought it would make things easier for them In Washington if they could create a friendly attitude on the part of the press. They were perhaps disappointed that so much of their "literature" was consigned to editors' waste baskets, so they proposed to purchase a one third Interest in an infuential Chicago newspaper, in return for which the newspaper wag to make a specialty of the sugar tariff and help the business in various other ways. This deal evidently fell through; at any rate, the correspondence does not indicate that the desired interest was acquired. But If the industry failed to establish an organ in Chicago 1t apparently succeeded.in getting published a good many articles favorable to It by an arrangement with a press association that makes a specialty of supplying material for country newspapers "It is not patented inside stuff," said one of the letters which has come into the possession of the lobby Investigators, "but goes on the outside of the paper as news. I am trying it out in limited way in Indiana and if successful there believe we can get 8 big line of publicity at 8.
very reasonable figure in this manner." Here again the beet sugar interests are not more blamable than the newspapers that were 80 unmindful of their proper obligations to the public as to news columns, unless it be contended that the sugar interests by taking the Initiative were more culpable. That, however, afforde no excuse for A newspaper thus betraying its readers, who look to it for uncolored news and certainly do not exto find advertising mater in the guise of news. Any legitimate Industry has 8. right to 8 fair hearing In the press, and such right is usually accorded it. by all square-dealing editors.
But when a special interest of any sort sceks to control the press the fact soon becomes known to the detriment of the spectal interest and' to the very great injury of the newspaper, which soon finds its influence and Its usefulness gone. It is a curious thing that some newspapers should be willing to Jeopard their own success by permitting! themselves to fall into the control of corporate Interests or to have their policies shaped by their advertisers. A newspaper that thus yields its selfrespect sooner or later suffers A loss in circulation and prestige and is held that in contempt by the very agencies have corrupted it. A newspaper like an individual must sustain A good character if it is to succeed and be a real force in the community. Sugar or oll or railroad-controlled newspapers are invariably found out sooner or later, and once public confidence in their Independence is destroyed, no amount of money expended by the management will suffice to get back lost circulation or re-establish the newspaper in the esteem of its remainsoling readers.
The vast majority of newspapers are not open to any improper influence, but we regret to say that a sufficient number apparently are willing to sell their souls to bring all newspapers more or less under suspicion, particularly In these day's when countless Investigationa of one thing and another have made the public suspicions of about everything and everybody. Purely aside from any question of ethics, which should and in most instances does govern the newspaper profession, considerations of self interest alone ought to be sufficient to keep 9. newspaper free from entangling alliances. Potatoes selling at six cents 3. bushel in Chicago exceeds the wildest dreams of the late Gov.
Pingree of Michigan. One lesson of the regrettable encounter between Senator Martine and one of the principal witnesses for the mine owners at the West Virginia hearing Monday was that members of A senatorial investigating committee should not engage in conviviality with persons who are involved in the investigation and are likely to taunt them about it afterward. WHAT THE TESTS OF LOCOMOTIVE NO. 1338 ESTABLISH. The 'experimental tests made Tuesday with the New Haven road engine No.
1338 and its train which caused the fatal collision at Stamford last Thursday, while not conclusively 'relieving Engineer Doherty of responsibility, certainly seem to show such 8 large measure of "Irregularity" of that engine In its "braking' power that it is probable had any other engineer been running the second section 1 last Thursday the results would have been the same, provided the engineer did not "reverse" as Doherty tried to do but failed. It is only fair to Engineer Doherty to assumo that he handled his air according to the best methods taught him by instructions and experience. Probably any other engineer might hAvA made his applications of air in substantially the same manner, The fact that the methods adopted were ineffective is merely a lesson of the accident and should not militate against the engineer in the Anal conclusion. Judging by the action of engine 1338 In the tests, the collision would have been averted if the engineer had used more urgent methods In his first application of the brakes, but the tests conclusively showed that with this engine, and presumably with all others in this class, similar air-pressures fall to produce similar results on different occasions. In other words, the braking apparatus 1s not depend-' able and the only safe application of the brakes for an engineer driving one of this type is to resort to the emergency Immediately after he has made his first application of air.
Commenting on the results a of the tests, one of the Federal experts is authoritatively quoted Ag remarking that they came out of New Haven with a braking system, but when the tests were over they had none--the braking apparatus having failed endirely in the last test made. Yet this condition resulted, according to this expert, from no more serlous strain on the brakes than would be occastoned by an ordinary day's run. Two self -evident points have developed thus far in connection with the investigation Into the wreck- and both of these are contained in the suggestion In The Union last Saturday morning. One of these relates to the working reliabllity of the brakes of the colliding engine and train, and is the measure of responsibility resting upon the operating ofof the railroad in sending out the train in charge of an engineer who had had practically no experience with this type of engine. NOT SPEEDY TARIFF REVISION AS PROMISED.
It will occur to a good many persons that the promises held out by the Democratic leaders of 8. speedy and prompt disposal of the matter of tariff revision by the new Congregs Are not being lived up to. by a good deal. The Chicago Post complains because "from the start of the present segsion the tariff bill has gone along at a turtlo pace." The Post asserts that "time has been wasted so apparently wilfully that there can be no question at all about the intention to obstruct and to attempt to tire out somebody in the hope of a concession on this point or that point" Now, there is only one thing that can justly delay in this matter, and that is 8 genuine attempt to rid the bill of crudities and bring something approaching scientific study to bear on the solution of the problem. As con(cocted by the House committee, the Underwood bill undoubtedly was of A crude oharacter, and it Is not apparent that 1t fe losing any of Its crudities as a result of the delay to which it is being subjected.
Careful study and Illuminating debate are of value, but plain log-rolling and tactics of A dilatory and harassing nature are not likely to be helpful in formulating just and well-balanced piece of legislation. In revising the tariff the party started out on the in refusing to consider the Information bearing on the difference of the cost. of productinn here and abroad, available from the reports of the late tariff board and other sources, refusing to recognize any other than revenue considerations as valid. It has been reported, with how much truth we cannot say, that notwithstanding their professions of scorn in respect to the tariff board's work, the Democratic leaders sobered by the great volume of protection sentiment, have In reality given serious consideration and respect to its findings and have been guided In a considerable degree thereby. It is to be hoped this 1g true.
The work of the tariff board is far from being the valuable instrument it would have been had the board been permitted to continue its researches, but It 1s a far better basis of legislation than the slapdash system first chosen by the Democratic leaders. What is troubling the party, apparently, at this juncture is its chron1o Inability to get together in an emergency. The Senate is the real battleground of contending forces within the party, and nobody can predict how long it will be before the tariff bill emerges from that body and reaches the President's hands. It took the last previous Democratic administration almost a year and a half to get the tariff revised, so business men should not expect too much of the party in this instance. Canada likes to regard herself as the fatrest jewel in the British crown, but on top 'of her refusal to make Great Britain present of three dreadnoughty comes the report that King George has lost $100,000 In Canadian PaciAc.
Rather an unlucky jewel, in the minds of superstitious Englishmen. A South Carolinian, Editor Gonzales of the Columbia State, is slated for appointment as minister to Cuba. It will be interesting to see how he gets around drawing the color line In that black and white republic. It seems to be A. Democratic year everywhere.
A brother of Mrs. Champ Clark is slated for the position 3 of chief hostler of the police department of Kansas City, Mo. The truth probably is that the chili in the White House is not so much due to the mechanical cooling device us to President Wilson's own system of refrigeration. The Moros evidently felt that they couldn't wait until the Democratic administration got ready to grant them the promised Independence. Until something is done to put a stop to the disastrous wrecks the Now Haven road will be regarded as its own worst enemy.
It remained for a Democratic administration to make criticism of a tariff measure a treasonable offense. Current Jottings Beginning July 1 the government is going to conduct demonstrations throughout the hog-raising districts of the best methods of checking hog cholera. It Is estimated that this disease caused a loss of $60,000,000 last year, and it is by far the most costly animal disease. f.it can be wholly eliminated the public should get the benefit of the saving that will be ef- fected. The California carpenter who offered to give Senator Workg $1000 i if the senator would get him a.
position as postmaster at Santa Barbara, sees nothing wrong in his act, according to press dispatches. His explanation 1s unique, for he says: "Lots of times we carpenters pay the boss-carpenter two bits or four bits a day to get a Job, and nothing is thought of it." The man has been charged with attempt to bribe, and has been Indicted by A Federal grand jury. These extra Standard 011 dividends are becoming so common one wonders the companies go to the bother of announcing them. The latest Standard subsidiary to "cut a melon" Is the Solar Refining company, which this week voted to Increase its capital stock from $500,000 to $2,000,000, the increase to be distributed among stockholders, which is the came as saying that a 300 per cent. dividend has been declared.
And still the price of gasolene and kerosene up. The young Prince of Wales is no mollycoddle, whatever else may be said of him. Ordered out of the famous Bullingdon club at Oxford by his mother for taking part in a "Bullingdon blind," he recently attracted attention by being "captured" In maneuvers at Aldershot, and now it is announced that he marched 20 miles in the broiling sun, carrying rifle, knapsack and water bottle, sleeping in a barn with his fellow cadets and finishing in good condition. Some Prince, that, as they put it in the vernacular. Hotel men and merchants along Broadway, New York, are complaining that creosote oozing out of the wood block pavement is tracked onto their carpets and floors by patrons, and already has caused thousands of dollars' damage.
Similar conditions exist in Springfield, not only in streets where wood blocks have been laid recently, like upper State street, but also in streets that have been doused with oll to keep down the dust. It 1s an open question whether the cure is as bad as the disease, or worse. The Chamber of Commerce of the United Slates is authority for the statement that the port of New York 1g now the greatest commercial center in the world. It has compiled comparative figures for the year 1911, which show that the Imports and exports of New York reached the Sum of $1,793,690,123. London was second with $1,791,857,641.
Hamburg third, $1,674,187.176, Liverpool fourth and Antwerp fifth. In 1862 the imports and exports of the entire United States were only $380,000,000. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the civil rights bill of 1876 is unconstitutional when applied to Federal property as well 88 that of the states, there is nothing to prevent the steamship lines, the trolly lines in the District of Columbia and transportation lines on any of the navgable rivers from enforcing "Jim Crow" rules. In Hawali, for example, it is now legally proper for transportation lines to discriminate as. between Japanese, Chinese and those of the Caucasian race, just as the Southern states discriminate between the whites and the negroes.
That there lg the same amount of nutriment in a lump of sugar as is contained in an ounce of potato 1s one of the statements in a recent bulletin Issued by the Department of Agriculture, entitled, "Sugar and its Value as a Food," by Mabel Hinman Abel. The author sugar is a useful and valuable food, but that because of its highly concentrated character it should be used sparingly. While this may be very true, the children will continue to demand lollypops in inordinate quantities, and the average young woman will continue to have an Insatiable appetite for confections of all kinds. the Pasteur institute of France indicate that scientists at last have found a for whooping-cough, one of the annoying and distressing allcures ments of childhood. Some time ago it was discovered that the cough.
was caused by A germ, which the scientists succeeded in isolating. Dr. perfected a serum containing live whooping-cough germs, which, injected Into victims of the disease, cured 37 per cent. In three weeks, greatly improved the condition of 40 per and had no effect on the remalning 23 per cent. It is only a matter of time when a sure cure for the disease will be at hand.
Experiments by Dr. Emile Roux of Various opinions regarding the advisability of making matrimony more difficult were expressed in Boston recently when the state boards of health and Insanity met jointly to discuss the subject. There is no doubt about the necessity of some legislation that will prevent the mesallianceg that are known only to officers of philanthropical societies or public offcials; the question 1s. "What shall be done?" The increase in the number of feebleminded persons has been alarming, yet there. are many legislators and others who prefer to Ignore the situation than meet it manfully.
Pioneers in legislation designed to prevent mesalliances may be sacrificed to their zeal, but in the years to come they will be recognized as benefactors of the race. Baltimore has just had an interesting demonstration of the independence of Wall street a community can 1 feel if it only has nerve enough to issue its bonds "over the counter." The city failed to float a $5,500,000 bond issue June 5 largely because of the tightness of the money market, despite the fact that the bonds were offered at 90. Charles H. Grasty, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, believed the public would like to buy the city bonds direct, and he offered $10,000 worth over the counter of The Sun business office.1 There was a rush for them, not a few of the buyers being women with market baskets on their arms, and small business men who would not think of going to a broker to buy stocks or bonds. Mr.
Grasty sold $966,000 worth of the bonds instead of the $10,000 worth he expected to sell, and the city withdrew its offer to sell at $90, since the interest In the newspaper sale sent many Investors direct to the commissioner of finance. The demonstration given by Mr. Grasty should do a good deal to drive away the Wall street bugaboo, and Incidentally, it la powerful proof of the value of good newspaper advertising. Dynamite in Farming. From Rochester Democrat and Chronicic.
The Inventive genius of man has brought to pass many. changes in our methods of doing things. What would the stage coacher of 75 years ago think of the trolly car and the express train of today? What would the farmer who followed his oxen with the crudest kind of plow think of the sulky plow turning several furrows: at one time? And, leaving the plow behind, it startles most of us to be told that dynamite has come into use for deep plowIng and other agricultural purposes, because it has been found that trees and crops planted in ground which has been broken up with dynamite root more deeply than ordinarily and thus absorb subsoil moisture from a great area and become generally more sturdy. In the great Northwest the ax and the plow have been found too slow, and dynamite has. been used for a number of years in clearing large timber tracts, and the explosive is now being used as well In the East and South.
It is contended that some of the enormous swamp lands of the South can be reclaimed entirely by thig method of breaking up the underlying hardpan and forcing drainage ditches with dynamite. In New England it 1s said abandoned farms have been reclaimed and made productive by tumbling the earth to pieces by the violent process, thereby literally exploding a theory -that the soil has been exhausted -by means of a real dynamite Municipal Lighting. From the Providence Tribune. Nearly 21 years ago the small manufacturing city of South Norwalk, established municipal electric lighting works at a cost of $22,500. That plant has been enlarged 13 times.
It now represents an investment of more than $200,000, is practically free from debt and has not cost the citizens one cent in taxes. A few days ago announcement was made that $20,000 worth of city bonds had been purchased by the city board of electrical commissioners out of the profts of the plant, and that it 1s the intention later to purchase more bonds. The methods used in this scheme of municipal financing are unusual and most Interesting in character. When the plant was established in It was determined to keep the operation of the system out of politics. This determination has been fully lived up to, and it doubtless explains the success attained.
first the commissioners were appointed, but after a few years they were elective. By a mutual understanding between the political parties one party nominates candidate each year, and he is indorsed by the other parties and is elected unanimously. As A result of this non-partizan plan there have been few changes in the board of three members, who serve without salary. This board chooses the general superintendent, and the present incumbent of that office has served continuously, since the plant established. Million for a Domestic.
From the Syracuse Journal. The Chicago Croesus, who announced that he would give $1,000.000 to the model domestic, who should remain in his service until her ministrations should be no longer required. has solved the long servant girl problem. He is said to be receiving enormous quantities of letters offering faithful and continuous service, and this goes to show that domestics can be secured by one having the genius and the money. All that the servant girls have needed 1s proper encouragement and a showing of appreciation.
The family that expects a servant to keep the home life healthy and happy, while effacing herself, and all for a paltry $3 or $4 a week, I's expecting too much. The Chicago Croesus has set a new pace. He gets offers by the ton and is afforded an almost infinite field for gelection. Men have millions to epend in yachting, automobiling, horse racing, philanthrophizing and endless other fads; why should they not spend a million once in a while servant-girlizing? For the Sake of the Children. From the Philadelphia Ledger.
There Was a fine human interest touch in the Public Ledger's account of Col. Roosevelt's visit to Pottstown A friend told him he knew why. he had settled that liquor matter in the Marquette libel suit. "Why did I do It?" asked the former President. "You did it for your children." was the "You've got it right.
You've got it exactly right," said the Colonel At this time of the year there is a great subterranean tide in the hearta of parenta. They are seeing their sons and daughters graduating from school and Inwardly they are wishing they had built up for the young folks perfect examples of character and duty. It is a beautiful thing--this reconsecration of parents to their own, and it 19 so active as in June. going on a all the time, but never is it Doing a thing for the children means doing it right. It 18 just about noblest tribute that could be paid to the beauty and purity of childhood.
Edward J. Ryan's Reward. the Lowell Courter-Citizen. For nearly a. quarter century the name of Edward J.
Ryan has been familiar to newspaper readers as head of the New England division of the railway mall service. For 40 years he has been connected with that important part of the postoffice work. Now he has been demoted from the position of superintendent, and made chief clerk, with a reduction in salary of $1000 or more. Mr. Ryan will take his medicine like A man, but many persons interested in the service will want to know the reason for his demotion.
So far as the public is informed there has been no falling off in the efficiency of his management. It's a pretty poor reward for 8. lifetime devoted to the people's business, 63 Various Topics 7 The GingGing-Goophus Says: 1 "It is nearly always a hard job to USE NO HOOKS find an easy one." will Roosevelt find to shoot in Argentina?" inquires 8. Chicopee Falls reader. We haven't the slightest notion, unless, perchance, it may.
be the' sponge-headed idiot who Invented the tango. Skylark may be an appropriate name. for' an aeroplane, but not. in our perhaps prejudiced opinion, for a wooden parlor car on the New Haven road. The Ilight of Hospitality.
Mrs. Knaggs -John, why in the world Lard you give that fellow Jones such gushing invitation to come and vigit us? KnaggS--I didn't give him a gushing invitation. I merely said there would always be room for him under our, roof. Mrs. Knaggs -Well.
that's the same thing, ain't it? He'll expect the best room in the house. Knaggs-I don't see why he should. All I've promised -to do ds to And 8 place in the attic for him. Rural Delights. Mrs.
Knibb-So you're re living in the country now. And what do regard as the chief charm of rural life? Mrs. Glibb-The trolly system. Mrs. Knibb--The trolly system? Mrs.
Glibb-Yes: it makes it so easy to come into the city. From Col. George Marcellus Bailey's picture at the top of his column of "Paragraphorisms" in the Houston Post we get the impression that his mustache is luxuriant enough to cover the top of a mint julep and prevent the flies for which Houston is famous from sharing the ambrosial sweets with him. Norman Hapgood's assertion that polltics is a "high spiritual endeavor" must have been almost as Interesting and convincing to Bill Flinn, the Hon. Tim Woodruff, George W.
Perkins and a few others as it was to Col. Sweeney and the well- known marines. "Women's feet." says Y. W. C.
A. director, "are Perbaps A what leads so many women into temptation. Between Innings, Today my pen Or, shooting at the truth." mean slip a typewriter band Within the fold of my machine: And then I set a hectic pace, Like Honus Wagner up at bat, To fill my little bunch of spaceAnd let it go at that. Rice, New York Mall. Today I take my shears in hand And clip Friend Rice's verse and glut It down, although, you understand, The idea is not very new, And I set a hectic pace To write a follow-up that's pat; So, filling up no little space, I let it go at that.
Democrat. Today, Jalen take my shears And welcome "Aller" out; My mood this morn is one of tears, Upon my path sit Gloom and Doubt. No pleasure lies in what I do, This job seems very stale and dat; And so I'll add a stanza, too, And Iet it go at that. Age-Herald. Today my mood is Ane and bright; I make the old typewriter roar; It seems that every line I write Is better than the one before.
And I could write this brilliant stur Unceasingly, right off the bat, But mayhe this will he enough, So let It go at that. Why worry about the high cost of living? From the West comes the cheering Intelligence that alfalfa run through A coffee mill and cooked like oatmeal porridge makes a delicious breakfast food when aerved with sugar and cream or milk. Bring on the bay. Let the meat trust go hang. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan are said to have a falling.
out. Wonder if the secretary will succeed I in drowning his sorrow in grape Juice, Haskin Letter THE PHILIPPINES FREDERIO J. HASKIN. Correspondence of The One of the newest and at the same time the most interesting of American universities is the University of the Philippines. It is now in its third year and already Is recognized as one of the leading institutions of higher learnIng In the Far East, ranking with the the best universities of Japan.
It is capstone of the public school system of the Philippine government, and as such is designed to impart to thousands of Filipinos the last word in the policy of personal efciency, practical training, economic and industrial development, which the Americans are implanting in the Phillppine. islands. The University of the Philippines was created by an. act of the Philippine commission, passed June 18. 1908, an appropriation of $50,000 being authorized for preliminary plans.
The institution now organized was authorized by an act of the Philippine Legislature of Jan. 30, 1911, amending the pro. vious act. It is wholly 8. governmental affair, authorized by Filipinos, paid for by Filipinos, destined in time to be directed largely by Filipinos, and always will be devoted almost exclusively to the education of Filipinos.
Fili- In short, it is a university for the pino, A8 President Murray Bartlett pointed out on the occasion of his inauguration in Manila, Dec. 20. 1911. Needless to say, everything is taught in English. university is composed of the The college of liberal arts, college of medicine and surgery, the college of law, the college of agriculture, the college of engineering, the college of veterinary science and the school of fine arts.
It is controlled by A. board of regente made up of government officials and citizens. Americans a and public Filipinos. instruction, Including the the secretary of secretary the interior. in whose department are the great scientifc bureaus of the government, and the director of education.
One of the regents is Rt. Rev. Jeremiah J. Harty, of Manila. The president of the university was formerly dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St.
Mary and St. John In Manila. Both selections were made largely because of the important part religion plays in Philippine affairs. A university council composed of the president and the deans of the colleges empowered to award the degrees directs the internal affairs of the university. The board of visitors comprises the governor general, the speaker of the Philippine Assembly and the Justices of the supreme court.
In Wide Field. a "The degreea are usual given. academic While and the scientific university is not ready so early in its career to offer doctorates, several of its departments provide splendid opportunities for research work, of which a number of Americans and foreigners in Manila are availing themselves. Botanists will find a rich storehouse in the herbarium of. the bureau of science with its 90,000 mounted specimens, two ly complete set of hooks applying to the fora of the Philippines and to All thirds of which are Philippine.
The botanical library contains a practical- of Indo-Malasia. The library of the bureau of science, the most notable in the Far East, is open to chemists who desire to complete their course for the degree of doctor of philosophy or to prepare a thesis on chemical relating to the tropics. Perhaps no university in the world 18 in A position to advance the practical study of tropical medicine AR 8. postgraduate course as is the University of the Philippines. Schools of tropical medicine are to be found in all parts of the world, hut many of them are in temperate climes, where actual contact with tropical diseases 18 almost Impossible.
The College of Medicine and Surgery supports a department of tropical medicine which 1s fully equipped and capable of offering facilities for study and research to medical men of other countries who would investigate the diseases of the tropics. Such vigitors are welcomed to the use of the laboratories and libraries of the bureau of science and of the college of medicine Veteran and lawyers surgery. of America and Furope And much to learn in the study of the Philippine codes. They are a composite of Roman law and the English common law. American legal forms have been grafted on Spanish jurisprudence.
Under the direction of the Philippine code commission A new and composite framework of national laws is being erected. To the zoologist in search of a wider knowledge the shores and waters of Manila hay furnish A large amount of Interesting zoological material. Extremely rich coral reefs are accessible by short steamer journeys. The bureau of science hag a and fairly complete college of Philippine birds. reptiles, animal Ashes and Insects.
The department of biology has a well-equipped laboratory, and the equipment of the zoological division of the bureau of science 18 also satisfactory. The university has been very fortunate in its choice of professors, instructors and lecturers. Not only are they -The University men of proper academic training, but are well grounded in their individual specialties. They have in addition an intimate knowledge of the Philippine situation. They know the Filipino like a book, relatively speaking, of course.
Perhaps no white man alive ever corners the Malaysian ego long enough to get a real good look at it. At anV rate, they know all that can be known of their charges, plus their academio qualifications. For its faculty the university was able to draw from the supreme court and other legal circles, scientists from the bureau of science, from the hospitals recognized authorities on tropical medicine, etc. The Filipinos have not been overlooked. Indeed, it is the policy of the university to have Filipinos on the faculty wherever possible, and to increase their representation at every reasonable opportunity.
At the present time a pino, Rafael Enriquez, 15 dean of the school of fine arts, three hold full professorshipa, one lg an associate profeasor, one is assistant professor, 18 are instructors and 10 are lecturers. Ag the Filipinos advance the high places in the university will be turned over to them, and it is reasonable to suppose that A Filipino will be president of the institution in due time. As the pinnacle of the Philippine educational edifice, the university aims to be the last chapter of the hard. headed practical course which even now is being shaped to dominate all the public schools of the islands. Whila maintaining academic standards, it will encourage rather than impede the policy of "scientific management in scholarship." The university expects to have great deal to do with the intellectual, political and economic transformation of the Filipino people.
expects to lead in the economic development. 11 will send forth Filipinos trained AS foresters, physicians, scientists, law. agriculturists, veterinarians, businesg men, specialists, all dedicated to labor in every. branch of human activity to build up a' contented, prosperous, healthy, hom*ogeneous are found- race under social conditions that upon justice and righteousness. In ed other words, 88 Dr.
Bartlett epitomized in his inaugural address "effi. ciency, founded upon scholarship and Inspired hy character." When the scattered colleges werd formed into the present university A little over two years. ago there were 599 students. At the first ment in the spring of 1911 there were but 10 graduates, of whom. only three were awarded the degree of bachclor of March arts.
7, At 1912. Vice-Governor General the second commencement, Gilbert of handed bachelor of diplomas arts going to 16. 11 to 30, the deis gree signifcant that these 30 graduates, two of whom were young women, One of come the women a who graduated WAS A 10 different provinces. cian. the Miss Arst woman in the history of Marie Paz Mendoza of Manila, to carn tho doctorate of the islands medicine.
Today tho university has 701 undergradutes, besides 411 pl registrations arts. The to date in of the agriculturo leads with 260. school college Liberal arts comes next with 245, while law 18 third with 143. Medicine and surgery carry 72 students, engineering but are veterin- weak at present. The budget for the year ary scienco and 1913 is $327.000.
A system of echolarships for advanced study in the American benand Filipino scholars, now being nutEuropean universities, for lined, will materially increase the aneAt of nual outlay, and the building ultimate plans already expenworked cut call for diture of millions of pesos. From The appraisal of the rotate of the the Cincinnati Times- Star. T. Yerkes proves tin -that much of the wealth of our late Charles things multi-millionaires exists only. 1n the newspapers, whor* 8.
a row litigated of ciphers catate looms large, and that 1s an When Charles T. Yerkes died in 1905, expensive luxury. was reputed to be one of had the lived nation's in a ho very manner to wealthy confirm the public estimate. men. He Town houses, country housce, a A private gallery of the masters could and have lost library him- in self which for days were part of his dimplay.
a bibliophile But now the estate 538 withered under the acid test of appraisal. Tre net estate failed to reach the million mark. The cost of administration aggregated $405,000, or over 40 per cent. nt the amount of the bequests satisfled. projects, mentioned like the in Bronx the hospital, traction magnate's testament, will never become specifically more than a dreamer's image.
In his will Terkes wrote more than Yerkes A type of the species of millionaire bred by this country during the last quarter of the 19th contury. His was a. life extravagant in energy and in material satisfaction. He denied himself nothing, not even the posthumous luxury of an estate in which the lawyers became the unintended, but chief TOMORROW The Philippines. Commerce.
One Multi- Millionaire.
