Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1910, Page 8

BAKING POWDER Yoo simply eantot got a3 good re- Sults from the cheap and big ean Biscuit ““Full Valus™* \C—- kind—the baking cannot be as evenly ralsed—{t eannot be as deliclons—it eannot be as pure and wholesome— becanse the quality Is not there And 1t cannot be any more sconomi- oal. Oalumes is medium in price— thé standard 1-1b. size oan costs 50 Leeas of It I8 required nnd the baking 1scertaln 1o be better. Try one can ~If not satistactory your money will be retarned.. Highest Award— Calumet Recoived Werld's Pure Food Exposition, FREE—large handsoms reetps book. Bend (o and slip found fn poand can. YANKEE (RARACTER LAUDED Franklin and Edwards Two Great Types, Says Prof. Phelps. OMAHA CLUB HOLDS CELEBRATION Washington's Nirthday 'Dinnér Ob- served with Danquet and Addresses ~—Shallenberger Wants Desfr- able Citisens in Office. Sparkling ‘with wit and eplgram and bristling with sound, comimon mense was the address. dellvored Tuesday tvening at the Washington birthday dinner of the Omaha club by Prof, Willam Lyon Phelps of Yala university, Tor fully an hour the educafor from Old Bl held his audience intonsely Intefested in the characters of two great Yankees, Hen- | jamin Frankiin and Jonathan Bdwards. Wiile paying tribute to these two repre- sentatives of American character the spodker Ald not overlook the virtues of the | Father of His Country George Wash- irigton, to whom he gave all glory and honor. Covers were lald at the dinner for 190 guests. Dinner was served at 7:30 o'clock, ‘afier which eame the program of toasts, consisting of but three numbers. John Lee WebSter acted as toastmaster, introducing Prof. Shallenberger, the Iatter responding to the toast “‘Good ('Ikll!n-h}p." Rotsing Yell Greets Speaker, There was a lusty yell from the guests when the oducator from, New Haven rose for his address. The toastmaster in intro- ducing the ' speaker declared that the boast of Americans was in the future and not in the things that have been wrought in the pist. “Tho conquest of commerce is our aim," sald Mr, Webster. “Schools and colleges form the advance guard for the conquer- ing of lgnorance and the attainment of commereial success.” “Two representatives of American char- acter, ‘Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin, " was the theme dnnounced by Prof. Phelps. These two men, he sald represenced every tralt in the good true American. “Franklin and Edwards were exact op- posites in echaracter,” sald the speaker. “Every virtue that we ean attribute to the typlcal American we can find in the personalities of these two 'types. “On the one side we seo Jonathan Hd- wards—deeply moral, spiritual, Intellectual, highly religlous. On the other side, we and Benjamin Franklis,—practical, useful, humorous. “We ean look upon Bej in the light of & great bengtactor. He was the: most useful man in €he world at his time, for his contribitions to American lite were manifold. We' can safely call him the greatest American in history. He rep- resented the practical in life, the progres- wive, the ndustrious, “We may represent these two men in still another comparison. Edwards was the reflective, the conservative ocharacter; Franklin was the every-day, the useful, the progressive. “Today we might say that Hawards rep- resents the east and Benjamin Franklin represents the west. Here we can seo the contrast between the eastern and ‘the,vest- ern man In conquering commaorce.: Bth the east and the west are winning out in the eonquests of commerce," In an interview Prof. Phelps paid & high compliment to the western men in the east- ern universities. He declared that they were among the best students in college; that théy were winning out in all fields Franklin only Phelps and Governor | endeavor, and that the apirit of the west 18 & valuable influence In eastern life. Wanted—The Cltizen Mayor, Governor Shallenberger in his ndqress on “Good Citizenship” sounded a cléar note when he lamented the fact that many pub- lic spirited men kept out of munfcipal. af- fairs. He alluded to the offies of mayer and pointed out ¥uch ehsracters as General Charles F. Manderson and John Lee Web- ster as desirable eitizens for the office of the mayor. “The highest iribute te the eountry s g00d citizenship,” said the gevernor. “The right ot representative government is a grent and valuable asset, Yot we win that only by personal sacrifies, Things worth having in life are won In this way—by personal saerifice. “The mame of George Washington fs one of our greatest among the names of good citizens. We ean never forget his examples, not so long as thero fs an English tongue. We have freedom today, one of the greatest of clvllization Nebraska fmust not forget The department of superintendence of the ing to hold it apolis beginhing March 1 and continuing four days: Upon this body of men de- volves the work of planning the most ef- fective administration of the laws of the states as they relate to the kchools. Expert administration ok superintendence 1. a comparatively new thimg. The offics of county superintendent long has been po- litleal more than edutational. Today the aim is to have every teacher backed up by a strong superintendent. Even .in the roral communities these superifitendents are being selected more for their avalla- bikty tralned school workers than as politiclans to be rewarded for service. Perhaps the most important movement In the school world, from a national stand- point, is the effort to teach sclentitic agri- culture In the eountry schools. Of course this was {mpossible so long the little red school house remained the expre of American educational tendencjes. No teacher could impart even a smattering of pgricujture in an ungraded sohool where he had to run the gamut of instruction. But the recent success of the effort to consolidate the rural schools, and to trans- port the children to d from them, has been followed by & mov: nt to teach agri- cuiture to them. Assistant Seerstary Haye of the Department of Agriculture,’ says there are 300,000 little red school houses in the United States, two-thirds of which are situated in communities where farming is the prineipal oecupation. He belleves that the 200,000 sttuated smong. farmers could be eonsolidated into 30,000, a6 that scientifie agriculture could b& taught 'in each of them. In thése times of :high pricds it is inter- esting to note whilt ‘effect such a consoli- dation and course of Instruction would have upen the production of staple crops in America, It is a conservative estimate that the techrileally trained farmer can got who operates his farm by main strength and awkwardness. But suppess he got only would add 260,000,000 bushels %o the annual privileges of cltizenship." In the nrotrn\l one-fourth more out 6f his operations? He that good citizenship 15 one of the most desirable assets in life.” This afternoon, at the request of Willlam M, Davidson, superintendent of publie in- struction, Prof. Phelps will address the teachers of the public sehools on “How to Get the Best Out of Boaks.” While in Omala the eastern educator is the guest of Victor Caldw: with whom he graduated from Yale in 1837. This is the teacher's second trip iIn the webt, during which he has filled engagementd at Bt. Louls, Kansas City and Jetferson City. SOUTH OMAHA PIONEERS OUT IN SPITE OF COLD Washington's Life Reéviewed and Lessons Drawn from it for Modern Use. About the only formal celebration of Washington's birthday in South Omaha was the meeting of the Pioneer Historical society during the evening in Library hal This meeting was attended by a fair audl- ence consfdering the eold wave which scems to heset these monthly meetings of th loneers. A program was presented consisting of a review of the life of Wash- ington by Mrs. C. L. Talbot and s discus- slon by members of the elub, The girl's quartet of the South Omaha High schoel rendered a number of selections which enlivened the program materially. . The young women have exeeptionplly good volces and their efforts were confined to a class of music well within the range ef thelr velces and experfence. The duet by Mrs. Sage and J. C. Carley was much enjoyed, Only three of th Ploneer quintet were present. These were Carley, Smith and Broadhurst. Thelr selec- tons always please. The South Omaha market and most of the South Omaha merchants conducted business as usual during the day. The postoffice was closed after 10:30 a. m., and the city” hall bullding was closed all day. The flags were displayed over all publie bufldings. A hollday was deelared for all the sehool children during the afternoon, and in most of the schools the teachers gave a perlod o the discussion of the rea- sons for ohserving the day. | ) P A 4 A Break for Liberty k from stomach, liver and kidney trouble is made when a 2%e¢ box of Or. King's New T.ite Pllls is bought. For by Beaton Drug Co. ) You ean glve Chameeriain's Cough Rem- edy 88 confidently to a babe as to an adyl, Bullding Permits. Henry Grimm, 2813 - Boulevard, frame dwelling, $1.800; Frank Kriss, 630 Hickory, trame dwelling, $3,200. A Man's Shoe Sold on Manly Principles. When you put your foot jnto a ‘‘Wolfe's- Columbus” Shoe you not only feel the sense of comfort and satisfaction that goes with a high-grade, well-fitting shoe, but you kmnow you are getting a square deal. We not only give you a better shoe than you can buy at even a greater price—but we stand back of thom for wearing qualities. And please remember, we do not sacrifice style, fit or comfort for long service ‘:'.". jast as much consideration in the making as the sells “Wolle' A they are made in a way that gives them a bus’ To Desicvas Catabrgus «x falesmar cont ou requost WOLFE BROS. SHOE CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO wheat erop, 600,000,000 bushels to the corn crop, and more than 8,000,000 bliles to the cotton! crop. The total Increase on these three crops alone, therefore, would be worth more than $1,000,000,00 at current prices—and these do not oconstitute more than haif the products of the farm. And it is inevitable that such increases would force prices down, 80 that the world could ive without spending everything it makes on_its living. The growing demand for - teachers of agriculture has meant a corresponding de- ‘| mrand for, higher courses in that branch of study, and many of the colleges and universities are beginilug to make a fea- ture of eourses in it. Dr. T. O. Heatwole of the University of Maryland is seeking to have established in Baltimore a great school of technology, modelled after = the Massachusetts institute, where southern yonths may be trained in the higher branches of technical education. Among these branches, of course, fs agriculture. He takes the view that if the.south is to develop to its full industrial possibllities it must have a great school where its men ean be fitted for leadership in the solution of #s industrial problems. While the possibllities of agricultural éducation are so great, it s interesting ‘to note that the people spend $20 per capita for tobseco and liguor and ‘only $3:50 for edueation, They spend §7,0000000 for per- fumery, $24,00000 for mineral and soda waters, $51,000,000 for confectionery and only $12,000000 for school books. What might be the result to the nation if it were to reverse the proportion and spend $2.60 per eapita for drinks and tobacco and $9 for education? ? Open-air schools for tubercular children are among the new developments in the educational world, eight eities now having such schools. The ehildren who are found t6 be suffering from tuberculosis are segregated and sent to these schools just as many days as the weather will permit. It has been ‘found that the little sufferers themselves are Immeasurably benefited and that at the same time it serves as a great protection for other children. - Nearly all important citles are beginning to consider the health of the children. Statistics were reeently gathered from 3% leading American cities with a population 22,000,000 and an envoliment of 4,000,000. ' these 211 have examinations to dlscover presence of transmissible diseases; 234 make examinations fof defective vision, 171 for breathing troubles and 119 for bad teeth. The legislature/of Washington has possed a law providing that no school shall be bullt hereafter on a site which Affords less than sixty square feet of play- ground for each pupil. The International Kindergarten union s arranging to hold its annual convention in St. Louls this summer. It was there, Seniors Observe Washington Day High School !tudanfi Honor Memory of First President by Formal Exerois: The commemorauon of the birth’' of George Washington was held at Young Men's Christian association bullding Tu day evening by the students of the Omnaha High school. The program was in charge of the senior class of the school, and in Some Things You Want to Know New Ideas in one-half more out of his soll than the man #pite of the Inclemency of the weather, & #004 number of the puplls of the h school &nd thelr parents were DI A Chandler Trimble, president of the sehior class, presided at the exerclses. The Rev. E. H. Jenks and Profs. Bernstein and Wool ery addressed the pupils. Mr. /Bernsteln made the opening speech. setting forth the p ilfties for the pres- ent senior class to make a lasting memorla! of themselves as a class more by making ! their class the most demecratic one eve: known In the high school than by leaving' merely a picture or plece of statuary. Mr. Woolery spoke to the puplis on the ! {ite of Washington and his many noble eharacteristics, their effect on this country and on the present government of the United States. He showed how Washing- | ton's great spirit had always worked for the best Interests of the American people avep after his death and how it was even now working to make & better government and a better people of the United States of teday. o Dr. Jenks showed the many improvements of the present age over the past generation, in both material, moral and spiritual ways. He cited Washington as_an example of & perfeot Amarican, even though he did thinss that in the present age are not even lawfu'. such as keeping slaves. He lllustrated the | man Frank Corbett. great growth of this mation since the day of Washington and prophesied ‘more and greater things that the rising generation would see. The remainder of the program consisted of some humorous recitations by Miss Jas- Education. under the patronage of the late commis- sioner of education, William T. Harris that the kindergarten was first made an adjunct of the public schools. The move- mient has since wnjoyed a phenomenal | growth, with the result that the child who | attends knows as much at 6 as the aver- age echoolboy used to know at 10. \The Nutiogal Story Tellers' league alsa will have a convention this summer. Hamflton W, Mable 8- president of the organization and it 1s growing rapidly. The effort is to revive the gentle art of story telling, and each community is expected to organize & local club. The leagus is now able to support a journal in .the interest of the movement and high schools everywhere are being Invited to found local elubs. *Newton, Mass., has brought the card in- dex into Its schools. A card Is entered for each pupll when he starts to school, giving all the Information about him that is im- portant for the teacher and the superin- tendent to know. As he progresses through the succeeding grades his record is kept carefully on this eard, and in this way his credentials always can be shown wherever he goes. Massachusetts cities,and towns are famous for thelr advanced educational ideas, and Lynn has one that is equal to the best. The Federation-of Women's Clubs of that eity hes undertaken to maintain a Juvenile restaurant. It aims to keep a bill of fare suitable for the needs of school echildren, Coftee is left off the bill as be- ing too stimulaling for them. A sardine sandwich may be had for 3 cents, tomato #oup for 3 oents, a glass of milk for 2 cents, and other things in proportfon. Chicken sandwiches and ice cream, at § cents each, have. the oall, though the average lunch is said to cost only § eents. Some 500 lunches Are served each day and the business is self-supporting. Much of the work is done by’ the girls in the cooking classéy, who are pald for their services. Young merjca will hatl Thspector James L. Hughes of Toronto as a modern John the Baptist crying in the wilderness of ed- ucation. He predicts the bookless school. He thinks that each ohild must be taught by a different method, and the whole thing must be done by the teacher. Other edu- cators are being converted to the idea that the best learning for the ohild comes, not rom books, but from the minds of good teachers, Chicago's new woman superintendent of schools, Miss Blla Rlagg Young, has'in- augurated many new departures ip school work singe she assumed the reins of school government. One of these innovations is to secure the consent of factory owners to the employment of boys in palrs, one boy to work one week and the other the mext. In this way the factory suffers no depletion in the force, while the boys are enabled to g0 to school. In this way many a poor family in Chicago can send Its boys to school, the whilé having an income from thelr work. The children’s playground movement has reached its highest success in Chicago, whare $500,000 {s spent each year. New York, second among the cities in total expenditure, gives only $128,000 to playgrounds. Chicago gives as much to the playground movement as all the other im- portant cltles together. fomeones has been gathering ' statistics concerning college and non-college women. More than 2,000 random Inquiries were sent out and ‘answers received thereto. It was found that college women have better health than non-college women, 778 out of each 1,000 enfoying excellent health, and only elght out of each 1.000 beéng in poor health. The average college woman was found to marry later in lite, but her family is slightly larger than of the mnon- collega woman. The former also has the adyantage of the non-college woman In helght and ‘weight, due perhaps to her athleties. On the other hand, college men are Jess inclined to marry and have smaller families than non-college men. Statistics of ‘Harvard graduates show that training there furnishes the young man with a kind of armor against Dan Cupld's darts, and that in most cases this lasts for a number of years. Perhaps the two most learned boys In the United States are both sons of Har- vard professors. The work of yoing Wil- llam James Sidis, who rattles off philo- sophie discussions of the fourth dimension, and other things no less involved, with the ense of a Mohammedan saying his prayers, recently passed the Harvard entrance, ex- amination. He finds a riyal in Norbert Welner, who graduated last summer from Tutt's college while still on, the sunny side of 16. At 18 months he knew the alphabet, at 8 years he oould read and weite and by the time he was 10 he could give the average high school graduate a tight educational wrestle. At 12 he en- tered Tuft's college and found it easy salling, finishing the four years' course in three years. With all his oducation he has not lost his boyish love for sports and athletics. By FREDRICK J. RASKIN. Pomorrow—Growth of the Telephone. mine Sherraden, mandolin duets by Fred Fernald and Robert McCague, accompanied by Bevers Susman, and some &elections sung by the Omaha High School Glee elub. All in thy little sketches showed that dramatics and music were not belrg neg- lected ‘at the high school and they were all made to give several selections before the crowd would let them go. BOTH LEGS OFF, MAN DIES George Coomstock, an Old Laboring Man, Saffers Frightful Accldent " in Railroad Yards. With both lege cut off, George Coom- stock, a laborer, of 2613 North Thirteenth street, dled in St. Joseph's hospital as the result of an aceident on {::c rallroad tracks at Fifteenth and Clark streets yesterday atfernoon. Toomstock was walking home when a switch enging of the Missourl Pacific struck & car which hit him, knooked him down and passed over his legs. Both wera severeq above the knee, Coomstock, Who was an old may, was bicked up by the members of the engine crew, who notified the police station and the injured man was attended by Drs. B. B. and T. T. Harrls and Dr. Thompson. He was then taken to St. Joseph’s hos- pital, where he died at § p. m. The engine crew consisted of Lngineer Bdwargs, Pireman Nick Kracht and Fire- DRESS GOODS SALG FRIDAY. Brandeis Stores Will Sell Fiue Sam- ple Pleces of $2 lmported Goods at The Yard, Five hundred pleces of imported sample pleces of high-class dresé goods will go on special sale Friday at Brandels Stores at & wonderful bargain. This group contains diagonal cheviots, coatings and French dress serges, broadcloths, Venstian sult- ings and gray tallored suitings. The lengths range from § to 1-yard pleces. They are now on display~ in our 10th street show windows, and any woman Wwho sees this display will certainly attend the sale. Worth up to § & yard. Friday on speclal bargain square at e yard. BRANDEIS STORES ‘Take the Post-Office . .Qut of Politics In attempting to charge up the deficit in his Department against the magazines the Postmaster- General has done the country a genuinggeven if an unintentional, service. He has drawn attention to the necessity for a thorough reorganization of the Postal Department. He has emphasized the im- ortance; of taking the Post-Office out of politics or all time. ‘ The Fifty-ninth Congress authorized an inves- tigation of postal affairs, and a joint commission, - headed by Senator Penrose and Representative Overstreet, made a thorough investigation of the whole subject. As a result, the Overstreet bill, which contains many excellent recommendations, was presented. It is not from guesswork that we' have concluded that the Departient is in need of radical reorganizationbut from the official reports f this Joint Congressional Postal Commission and of the disinterested accountants hired by it to investigate the business methods of the Depart- . ment. We quote from these reports, remember- ing that the findings and criticisms are not ours, ‘but those of a Congressional Commission and its authorized agents. First read these recommenda- tions from the preliminary report of the Joint Postal Commission, in this week’s number of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Then, read these extracts from the report of the, public accountants employed by the Joint Com- mission: £ * “The service has grown from small beginnings over a long KHM of years, hampered by restrictive laws which may have been necessary in the past and may even now be considered necessary to some extent for a Government dfifimunfi. but which would render it practically impos- i for any private business to survive. “The general absence of any efficient methods of account-~ ing has E:n brought, to light by the inquiry carried out the Joint Commission on second-class mail matter. report was refe to Congress on January 80, 1907, and our}vmintlon has confirmed the impression gath- ered from the study of it, that the whole of these ods are crude in the extreme and such as no private business concern or corporation could follow without the certainty of loss, if not of financial disaster.” Thete are half-a-dozen more of these extracts on the Editorial page of this week’s issue of THE| SaturpAY EVENING PosTt. In the Joint Postal' Commission’s report of 1907 we find: ““As an indication of the views n;mum {ntertained it is proper to say that the commission is profoundly impressed with the wisdom of the accountant’s report in recommending the following: “That the actual direction of the business of the Post-Office Department and 1 service be committed to an officer with necessary assistants to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for fong terms, so as to insure the continuity of efficient service, and that the Postmaster-General, as a member of the Cabinet, be chargeable only with general uupcr‘fiw;fy control and the determination of questions | of pol - We ask Congress to give us,a Director of Posts—as recommended by the Joint Congres- sional Committee of 1907, an officer who shall be non-political, and whose term of service shall not be subject to political changes, and who shall con- duct the workings of the Post-Office Department with the efficiency, economy and businesslike methods which distinguish high-class American business enterprise. , ( "Thg Curtis Publishir'l'g Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania