The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1902, Page 10

THE SUNDAY CALL. | What Captain Henry de B. Waite Has to Sal Rbcut the Matier. | 5 F we are required to drill—why, we'll drill, that’s all. 1 I don’t care whether we o it two hours a week as now or five hours as may be required. It’s I don’t see why anybody should object, though, to having it What's five hours’ drill a week to-a lot of young men?" It ean’t hurt anybody.' | The War Department furnishes this university with almost a | hundred thousand dollars a year. every college day but one. | can’t drill five times a week for a might reply to us, “Try dril then.” work that two hours a week is. ing tén times = week for half the sum, I shouldn’t blame them if they did. b A hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money for the little That hundred thousand goes to the agricultural and mechanical colleges and to the drill. all the samg to me. If we should say to them, “We hundred thousand dollars,” they s the buzz of Berkeley nowa- drill—some 1 university ussing it ays there is mothing as you may use wishing to, for those King matter into 1 they will do as they e thing. or no ariH,” captain’s deci the fon. y be very ring by th e mistake is often of imme: g the negative of alcohol instead of s over the plate and al- run off at one corner. 'The heory of drying a film by the ap- plication of aleohol is that the water con- in the film is driven out by the cation of ‘the spirits, and the only er way to apply is to hold the neg- one hand and gently pour a little bottle on the surface run from one te and off at the y, and in this forced from the &and the alcohol which remains dries a very few moment: the 3 phing of horses, dogs or nimels of any kind it is just ortant that they should be posed nt” as in the d some method ided for attracting the attention and holding it for the few brief seconds exposure it is a foregone conclusion being photographed will 1 nterest and spirit in the result- ing picture. In all cases where pets or imais of any ki are to be the central objects of a picture there should be some besides the photographer to devote re attention to the subject. possible focus should be spot to be occupled by fore it is placed in posi- when once located, its at- be aroused and fixed in a somewhat away from the cam- If this is attended to by some one who is famillar with the animal’'s characteristics will be much ized, and another €e that this method has is ves the photographer free to e attention to the camera. y photographs of such sub- Jects as this fail utterly of interest and value si from the omission of this very simple treatment. 4 the photographing of interiors where winGows or objects with bright refiected ces come into view, or in out-of- door exposures where trees or buildings photographed against a clear ~sky- -halation or backed plates almost indispensable. Sub- kind photographed on an nary plate frequently present blurred earances around the edges of win- or refiecting surfaces, due to the ac- of the light passing through the fiim ted at angle from the the glass plate back to ace of the film, acting al- mner ace o the under su % — “We'd better accept what comes to us and be thankful.” But the twenty-five hundred don’t look at th atter in any such calm and phil- osophical light. They are arguing and contending and debating and talking it over and fuming and sputtering and com- plaining and in general doing what one freshmen,terms “registering a kick.” “There’s no sense in it,” says one. “It’s all tommyrot,” says another. “Like to know what “we came to the university for,” growls a freshman. Our time is too valuable,” objects a jor officer. Rob won’t have a minute left for me,” walils a co-ed. “The dear boy will be so exhausted with all that marching,” complains a fond @ amztclrs most as a double exposure would upon the edges of the illuminated portion of the bright object. This may be avoided to a very large de- grce by the use of non-halation plates, or if such are not available, the ordindry dry plates may be prepared in the follow- ng manner: Mix a falily thick paste mazde up of equal parts of caramel and whatever mountant is used for mounting photographs. Apply (in the darkroom) enough of this dark colored paste to the glass side or back of the plate to thor- oughly smear it over. This may be done either with a brush, sponge or piece of soft cloth. When this has been evenly and thinly laid upon the glass, piace on it a plece of red tissue.paper or postoffice Ppaper cut to the size of the plate and in- sert the plate in the holder. The paper will protect the holder and keep the car- amel backing from being removed. After the exposure has been made and before the plates are developed, the paper must, of course, be removed and the caramel covering wiped from the back of the plate with a damp sponge. Care must be exercised in this operation that no traces of the caramel are allowed to get on the film side of the dry plate. Those who have gxperienced dificulty in photographing interiors with windows and subjects of a light nature will find this wethod of working a material assistance to them. One of the most Important lessons that | the beginner can learn is that an expens- ive lens is not nearly as important a fea- ture in a good photograph as a knowledge of how properly to use an inexpensive cne. This Is demonstrated every day by the cxamination of photographs made by beginners and experienced workers with lenses of all kinds and prices. It wil, as often as not, be found that some o6f the finest. work is produced by the less ex- pengive lenses and the whole secret lles in the fact that the user of the low priced lens knows the limitations of his instru- ment and how to get the most out of m, while the possessor of the more expensive instrument is very likely to conhtent him- self with the thought that if the lens is an expensive one the results may be left to take care of themselves, Twenty-five cents and a little time spent in obtaining and reading the proper kind of a text Dbook s productive of better results than $2 added to the cost of a lens, without a knowledge of how properly to use it. ——— “Help!” “Help!” came the cry of ais- tress through the midnight stillness. The policeman in the neighboring door- ‘way stirred uneasily. ‘“Advertise in the want column,” he muttered, and resumed his nap.—Philadelphia Press. i mamma. Whether the protesting youths and the walling sweethearts and the anxious mammas will have things their way in what time alone will tell. The professors say there is no way out of the matter. They must all obey if the war coll hoard insists. It has lssued its new mil- itary regulations from Washington and from clear across a great continent those few words have upset a big university and put it into a state of discontent and states more strenuous for that matter. Although the orders sounded final enough to the naked ear, there is still doubt as to whether they will be carried cut. ® they must be they must; the uni- versity enjoys its grant from Congress, and it is not going to give up that grant after this score and more of years. But there are those who cling to the hope that worse may never come to worst, as they look upon it, and that the Univer: ity of California will not be turned into a military school. For that i{s what they fear. They say, these protesting students, that if they had wanted to go to West Point or any. mil- itary academy they would have taken measures to d6 so. They wanted to come to a university. That's different. They don’'t want to join Uncle Sam's ranks. They could have volunteered if they had been ‘desirous of a soldler life. They are students, not fighters. They don’t want to drill five times a week. £ During all the years that Berkeley has contained a State university it has been a semi-weekly event to drill if you are a boy and to watch others drill if you are a girl. On Monday and on Wednesday, . during the last hour of the forenoon, ths boys of the first three years have.donned their smart blue uniforms (except, alas, the freshmen, who must be drilled as an awkward squad in any clothes they hap- pen to have to thelr backs, be they busi- ness suit or sweater) and have marched forth to the music of the military band. ‘With their own officers in charge of their companies and the whole under the com- mand of a military instructor, whom ‘Waghington furnishes, they have gone gayly forth to the big fleld and have there made smart plctures of themselves in thelr long lines and wheels and counter- n:arching. “Guide right!” “Left dress “‘8houlder arms!” The co-eds have gurgled and admired from the. bleachers. They have brought such a plenty of enthusiasm to the drill {hat the boys have never thought of be- fug bered by the requirement. Twice a week wgs not bad when you had a bevy of pretty girls to admire you. But five times a week—that’s different. A graup of prominent officers, students of standing in the university, were inter- viewed on the subject. “We won't tell you a word unless you promise not to give our names away,” said their spokesman. “If it were known that we said what we are going to we'd be hauled up before a committee of the faculty and goodness only knows what would happen to us. We haven’t any right to complain. We are military of- ficers, under military command, and the first thing we are taught is to obey. It's a case of ‘Theirs not to make reply. theirs not to reason why.' But here's what we think: . “Five times a week Is too much to drill. We Paven't time. It takes too many hours away from our regular studies. “Besldes, it's too much exercise. We already have a lot of physiecal training work besides the military drill. We don’t need so much. This order is overdoing the thing. ““Of couyrse, if we've got to, we've got to, . But all the students are grumbling. It's safe to say that we have voiced their general opinfon. Don’t you say so The others said so. They sald so very forcibly. They had the'air of abused men. When they agreed that i they have to, they have to,” they took om the look of martyrs led to the stake. When they agreed that “it is too much” a flash of deflance came into the six official eyes. Ninety-eight thousand doilars per an- num is granted to the university becauss it has a grant from the Government. This money is to be divided among the agri- cultural and mechanleal colleges and the military department. It is a big sum of money and it enables these departments to live well. Along with the privileges 80es the requirement that the men of the university shail drill. For years twice a week has been sufficient for drilling purposes. Now Uncle Sam may turn our varsity cadets into soldiers befors we know it, full-fledged soldlers such as the army schools themselves turn out. It sounds very pretty, but on the other hand, is that what the boys go to Berke- ley for? If the orders go Into effect, It amounts to turning our University of California into a little military post. -Which sounds odd. The professors all say the same that -~ Captain Waite says. It would not do for any of them to say anything else. They have to be polite about the grant, and they camnot look a gift horse in the mouth. They must abide by the Wash- ington regulations and they must, more- Over, accept them cheerfully. Captain Waite is a retired officer who came to Berkeley two years ago. It was ordered lately that he should leave, but the order was revoked almost immediate- ly. This was a large slice of consolation tu the students, for they have grown greatly attached to him since that day two years ago when President Wheeler presénted him to the cadets in uniform, drawn up before the flagstafr. “‘Under the authority of the United Btates Government I place in command of this regiment a man who is celebrated n his profession,” said the president. “Gentlemen, I am very proud and happy to be placed in command of such a body of men,” sald the officer, and then thers were three cheers that burst from lusty young lungs and boded well. Lieutenant Colman had left them when the Spanish war broke out and these boys bad been without military instruction ficm that time until 1900. So they wel- ccmed the new commandant with their whole hetarts. They are glad enough that he Is to be with them now in their difficulties. But even that does not content them with drilling five times a week. Still the question that echoes from h: to hall and all over the campus is the same: Shall we drill?