The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1904, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1904. 23 — = \OTHING TERRIBLE WHO THINKS IT INDEED N NG IN ; | THE PRESENT WAR SAYS A GLORIOUS SPECTACLE THE PRESEN : | . CT | .Copyright, 1904, By McClure, Phillips & Co. ] : % 'R % SR 66 S is a tur-ible war.,” said + <+ | up on th’ roof an’ encourage th’ scrap. ‘Go | wudden’t let th’ common people fight at all. . i:g::nd, mixin’ it up. w‘itthtlh’ l.l.llama iv Mr. Hennessy. in there, Olaf! ‘Banzai, Hip Lung, ye're | That's th’ way it used to be. Whin wan iv ibet, or our own invincible champeen “Nawthin’ tur-ible about BARN FIGHT BETWEEN doin’ well £ me!” ‘There goes wan iv me | th' ol’ Kings in Brian Boru’s day had a WHEN WAR WOULD BE h'klfl' on th” Imp'ror iv Germany? If they 1 Mr. Dooley. “It's a CZAR AND THE MIKADO brave fellows. I'd almost send something | spat with a neighbor both iv’ thim ordhered ONE LONG MANEUVER d‘fh"t like th” weapins 'hfyyd have me per- . ar. 1 can’t say more thin —_— tp his widow if I cud larn her name! And | hats at th’ hardware store an’ wint out an’ B —— mission to use axes. I'd go further. 1 . ‘ er wars ye've iver | " i so it goes. Bill Ivanovitch is settin’ at | pounded thim tiil their head ached. That's ’ 2 wudden’t bar annybody fr'm fightin' who sh s been apthec: Germen-warei] 144 FIERE S fhe : Czar, IN 1| home with 15 ‘wité aa’ focty simall cHidher. | o way & onght (oo e maibs Gese b4 ] 2 have arm;fies compgs,ed wanted to fight. If annybody felt th" mar- wi s 1 be markin’ examination ROOShya an’ here’s th He has just done a good day’s wurruk an’ | iy Rooshya an’ th’ Mikado iv Japan fell = ony Iv 0O 'Cer§' ye tial spirit in time, he wud have a place to papers. or English wars, which is th’ same lmp'mr iv Japan. They his salary iv nine cints is jinglin’ in his | out. What wud be dacinter fr thim thin spose they d iver get use it up. I'd have armies composed on’y as s from childher, or our own mi s pocket. He sets at th’ head iv th’ table, | to have a gintlemanly mix-up? Nick Ro- near enough ‘to h iv officers. It wud be gr-reat: D’ye s'pose war, which is like gettin’ | 3 have a diff'rence iv carvin’ th’ candle, an’ just as he has dis- | manoff, th’ Russhyan champeen. an’ Mike ther:to hurt? g L they’d iver get near enough to each other " fined twinty millyon dol- | | opinyon. Lave thim fight it || thributed th’ portions among th’ fam’ly an’ | Adoo, th’ cillybrated Jap'nese Jiu Jitsu ban- { | OTNEr+to hu to hurt? They'd complain that th’ throuble Ay % g : A B in’ in’ L% P 5 " iy : if“'i‘i;’a“ in the Philippeens. out. It’s a good healthful ex- kept th’ wick f'r himsilf, there’s a knock at | tam, come togither las’ night before a “Supposm Gin'ral Kur with th’ long-distance guns was that they It's a gloryous war. | : : th’ dure, an’ a man in a fur cap calls him | crowd iv ripresentative sports in a barn on potkin had to doall th’ fightin’*| | cudden’t be made distant enough. Sup- W be finer to th’ iditor iv a London | | ercise. [I'll arrange the pre- away to thravel eight thousand versts (a | b’ outskirts iv th’ city. . Th’ Rooshyan was T It would: ‘be posin’ Gin’ral Kurypotkin had to do all th” ne t th’ spictacle which he can liminaries, fix the polis an’ verst bein’ Schwartzmeister's way iv de- | seconded be Faure, th’ Frinch lightweight, fateids . fighting f'r himsilf. It wud ‘e betther fr « iv th’ dauntless Jap'nese hurlin’ e y , : scribin’ a mile) on a Rooshyan railrood) an’ | an’ Bill Honezollern, th’ Prooshyan whirl- betther fr h‘mv because thin him, because thin he cud ordher an ad- at their gijantic foe an’ reck- be hivens, I'll referee th fight f'r Gawd an’ his Czar. It's th’ ol' | wind. In th’ Jap’s corner was Al Guelph, he cud ordher an advance vance without bein’ so crowded comin’ down their lives that England | | fight. Whiniver th’ boys are || firm. Whiniver I'm called on to fight £T | who bate th’ Llama iv Thibet last week, an’ | | without bein’ so crowded | | back. ‘Supposin’, to gratify his heeryoic An’ what cud be.more sublime Gawd an’ me counthry I'd like to be sure that th’ senyor partner had been consulted. But Bill Ivanovitch puts on his coat, kisses th’ fam’ly good-by, an’ th’ nex’ his wife sées iv him is a pitcher iv’ th’ ol’ man an’ a Jap he niver. met before locked in an en- Rosenfelt, th® American champeen, who has issued a defi to th’ wurruld. * Before th’ gong sounded th’ Jap rushed over an’ sthruck th’ Rooshyan a heavy blow be- neath th’ belt. A claim iv foul was en- thered but not allowed, an’ at th’ tap iv th’ i ready I'll find th’ barn. “Who wudden’t walk to Bloomington, Illinye, to see | that sturdy but prudent spirit,. he had to ordher himsilf to carry a thrunk, a cook stove, a shovel, a pickax, an ikon an’ a wurrud iv good cheer fm th’ Czar two thousand miles over a clay road, an’ if he did it successfully an’ didn’t spill anything he might hope to be punctured be ke banker in Paris thin th’ thought v th’ increased activity on th’ banks iv th’ ought to stir th’ blood iv th’ American citizen.” | ne,” said Mr. Hennessy comin’ back. “An’ suppose Gin'ral Oyama had to walk bare- footed across Manchuria an’ ng? It to,” said Mr. Dooley. “War is | | warryor, th’ K]ng iv F_ng]and, durin’ embrace, and both iv thim as dead | gong both boys wint at it hammer an’ SUbSiSAt f’l’ four months be a bayonet. An’ suppose Gin'ral O‘ytmhld. Or, perhaps, I'm wrong. | ivin? G /ith th’ Ll as anny Mikado or Czar cud wish their most | tongs, but it was soon apparent that th’ whettin’ his beak on a cuttle- to walk bare-footed acrost Manchuria an’ nyhow sthrange thing. Here’s th’ | !’T‘IIXH’I. it up wi ama lile subjiok. Th’ Jap don’t know what it’s Rooshyan, though heavier, was not in as fiSh bone. War wud be wan subsist four months be whettm his beak zar ya an’ here’s th’ Imp'ror iv | | iv Tibet, or our own in- all about. In Japan he was a horse. There | go0d condition as his opponent. It was ti : ith on a cuttlefish bone. How soon d’ye think I ey I ve a diff'rence iv opinyon. vincible champeen takin’ on ar're no rale horses in Japan. Ifithey were | Walcott an’ Choynski all, over, on’y th' continyous manoover wi there wud be a battle? War wud be wan lave thim fight it out. It's th’ people wud have more to eat. So th' | Rooshyan hung on with gr-reat courage. At wan iv thim manooverin’ continyous manoover, with wan iv thim thful ixercise. I'll arrange th’ Imp’ror iv Germany? If citizens iv th' counthry harness thimsilves | th ind iy th’ twintieth round, whin both e R R R e amereri wesk an’ O %:her ,,,,,,m: fix th’ polis, an’, be hivens, they didn’t like the weepins. up an’ haul the wagons. All ye have to say ! boys were on th’ ropes, th’ ref'ree, th’ well- R ’ . east. They’'d niver meet till years afther I'll riferee th’ fight. I make th’ offer now. Y P * to a Jap is, ‘Git ap,’ an’ he moves. So th’ in’ east. They d niver meet ) aiins known fight ter, Misther Rotschild gloryous sthruggle”. they’d have me permission Bl bbb o e Lt two high-spirited monarchs feel ! | Mikado says, ‘Git ap,’ an’ th’ little fellow | e iver th’ pens? A couple iv lemen get rile blood threatens to blow up iverything down to th’ photy- boys are ready I'll find e offer also goes f'r Sicre- | into conthro- to use axes.” | = 4 stout, | an’ S 2 varsy. Instead of layin’ their stovepipe hats f on th’ table an’ mixin’ it up they hurry home | an’ invite iv'rybody in th’ house to go out an’ do-their war-makin’ f'r thim. They set he gets whin he is kilt is wurrukin’ fav'r'bly. him feel good. “Now, if I had me laves his fireside an’ his wives ‘an’ fam’lies an’ niver comes home no more. news fr'm Tokyo that Gin'ral Odzoo’s plans That ought to make Th’ best is a remark in th’ way, Hinnessy, I | refree declared th’ bout a dhraw. bad blood was aroused be a claim be th’ fighters that durin’ robbed iv their clothes be their seconds. a fianancial entherprise th’ fight was a frost. Th’ box office receipts did not akel th’ rent iv th’ barn an thrainin’ decided that as th’ , Considerable th’ battle they were As expinses, an’ th’ fight was a till years afther th’ gloryous sthruggle.” . dhraw he was entitled to th’ stakes. “Wudden’t it be walk to Bloomington, Illinye, to see that sturdy but prudent warryor, th’ fine? Who wudden’t King iv| it too INTERDENOMINATIONAL PEACE . BY RABBI JACOB VOORSANGER, Pastor of Temple Emanu-El | | | | N T E R DENOMINATIONAL peace is an essential condition in the progress of civilized society. All interpretations of religion tend to the uplifting of the masses and the introduction of moral agencies whereby the value of life is enhanced, and to that extent the seal of divinity rests upon every manifestation that exhibits the un- doubted relationship of God to man. Interdenominational peace has rarely ( [ | | | | | l{\BBl J. VOORSANGER. I been disturbed in San Francisco. The churches and synagogues have not been passively tolerant of each other; nor have they labored under the restraint imposed by the absence of state recognition of either church or creed, but, under the guidance of large hearted, generous and pro- gressive leaders, they have recognized the universal mission of religion and the absolute necessity of translating that mission according to the tradi- tions, the genius and theological foundations of each of them. We have always sought to emphasize the | points of agreement in our religious systems, and rarely pressed the points of divergence, wherefore it has come to pass that there is religious amity in San Francisco, and we have rarely been harassed by those unfortunate religious controversies which bring church and religion into disrepute and cast dishonor upon the name and the glory of the living God. All churches should strive to main- tain this religious amity. Controversy is perversive of social peace, and no prejudices are so dangerous as those generated by churchly wars. Creeds striving for supremacy by other means than the force of conviction have ig- noble ambitions behind them, .and while these in the end must defeat themselves, the warfare- they have caused lacerates the hearts of the pious and well intentioned and opens the door not merely for sectarian hatred, but for the ridicule of the im- pious, the scorn of the scoffers and the skepticism of the thinkers. When religions are at war God weeps and the devil grins his broadest. Mephis- topheles is never so happy as when | mischief bears ripe fruit. Religious amity should and must be maintained. We must honor and re- spect each other, no matter by what name we invoke God; no matter how we are trained to think of him. We must recognize the capacity of each | church and denomination to promote the happiness of society, to raise it to moral and intellectual hélghts, where divinity is easily accessible—not the far distant, incomprehensible being whose abode is on the summit of un- scalable mountains or in the infinite distances, too far even to be bridged by human thought. Human love brings divinity straight to the homes of mankind; human prejudices and hatred would prove that God is far away, even from the most gorgeously adorned altars. The love of man for man is the strongest evidence of the existence of Deity; the hatred of man for man is the rankest atheism with which society can be afflicted. The man who boasts of his infidelity is harmless in comparison with a church that seals its sweetest faith with per- secution and fanatical insistence upon its exclusive selection. The spread of religion and pure morals is not so “They’ll niver do it.” said Mr. Hennessy. “There have always been wars. “An* fools,” said Mr. Dooley. “But wudden’t ye defind ye'r own fire= side?” + “I don’t need to.” 1 keep on coal enough me fireside will make » said Mr. Dooley. “Ii hot £r anny wan that invades it.” = —4- much hindered by the social evils that, like rank weeds, spring up in the richest soils, as by its own agencies. If the methods pursued to save so- ciety breathe passion and contention; if the emblems and symbols of faith bristle with daggers of hatred that stab sentiment to death and make the Christian attributes a laughing stock among those who since the beginning have proclaimed God to be a fiction; if revealed religion prescribes and persecutes man is justified in saying that God is the offspring of disordered brains; if religion saves and helps, brings peace among men, teaches the true, good and the beautiful, becomes the pre-eminent factor in the creation of every reasonable condition of indi- vidual happiness, then atheism may do its worst, for the world will be God’s world and every kingdom will be his kingdom. Whatever we believe religiously can only be enhanced in spiritual value by our respectful and reverent attitude toward ather beliefs, and to that ex- tent that we refuse to recognize the in- ‘tegrity and divine call of other faiths, to that same extent do we cast reflec- tion and suspicion upon the integrity of our own. 2+ ADVANTAGES FOR TEACHER! Instructors Receivin ELP the teachers” is the slogan which is now heard in every part of the country where good schools are valued. These helps are given in various ways. The University of Wash- ington, at Beattle, has just opened its second year of Saturday courses for teachers, ag in the past year they have been highly appreciated by many in- structors of that city and vicinity. By these alds the university gives to teachers, without charge, oppbrtunities to continue their education and to dis- cuss advanced methods of teaching. These Saturday courses will be given by the departments of Latin, English literature, history, pedagogy, political and social science, chemistry, geology, botany, zoology and mathematics. One of the history courses deals with the makers of the nation by g series of lectures on the lives of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Jackson, Clay, Webster, Lincoln, Grant, Lee and others. Local history is treated by lectures and research work in the home field. Still another course is upon mod- ern European statesmen, through lec- tures, collateral reading and reports. Civics are given in a course upon a comparative and historical study of the American form of government. English composition receives attention " through a study of methods and prob- lems of composition in the grades apd the high schools. The course on read- ing is designed to assist teachers in solving the practical problems that wrise in the teaching of reading. Chem- istry students have the use of the chemical laboratory for general chem- istry, qualitative and quantitative an- alysis and physical chemistry. Latin instruction is furnished in an element- ary course. The algebra work supplies a brief review of algebra through quad- ratics and the study of advanced sub- jects. English literature hours pro- vide for a survey of its development by sketches of the origin and growth of English literature and the influences that have molded it as illustrated by the works of eminent authors. All of these courses are given Saturday fore- noons and generally with the heads of the departments in charge. The teachers of Chicago are now en- joying superior advantages for profes- sional training while carrying on their regular work. A second gift of Mrs. Emmons Blaine led to the establish- ment of what was at first called the College for Teachers, but is now called University College. This is a down- town branch of Chicago University where classes are given in the after- noon and evening and on Saturday for the benefit of teachers and others who are unable to attend classes in the daytime. About half of the students registered there are regular graduates or undergraduate students, but the work is open also to special students. salary is offered to every teacher who will pass certain examinations at the end of the year. It is unquestionable that the educa- tional impulses received by Chicago from the Columbian Exposition of 1893 were beyond estimate in extent and value. The -ublic schools are now conducted by the people and for the people, to teach the things the people want. Pull has been divorced from the appointment of the teaching force and the teachers are appointed solely on account of their fitmess for their particular positions. The Board of Edu- cation is becoming & strictly business corporation with the sole object of spending its $10,000,000 of annual ap- propriations for the best interests of the 280,000 children under their charge. The school bulldings built within the last five years are practically fireproof and of the advanced type of school architecture. One of the finest speci- mens yet built is the Wendell Phillips High School. In addition to its several laboratories, completely equipped, the bullding has a gymnasium, swimming pool and lunchroom. Open playgrounds are a feature of Chicago’s advancing school life. They surround all the new school houses and the Board of Edu- in furnishing new ones in localities now destitute of these fhdispensable appen- dnx-mthoh-!th.d-nwm g Aid in All Sections of the Country. T. Crane Manual Training High School. ‘While receiving the best instruction in literature, science and history, they are also working in wood and metal and are laying the foundation of a good technical education. The worth of this merchants and manufacturers of the are eagerly sought to fill positions of responsibility. Manual training, cook- ing and sewing will soon be introduced into all of the high schools of Chicago. In the upper grades of the grammar schools 14,000 boys were last year work- ing with the saw, plane and hammer, while an equal number of girls were learning to cook and to sew. The ardent commercial energy of Chi- cago, which ig thus finding vent in the “preparation for life” idea, will soon be represented in the great commercial high school the board is planning to build in the central part of the city. thus be grounded in the elementary commercial knowledge which is so needful for modern mercantile pursuits and which requires years for acquisi- tion when obtained incidentally in busi- ness. in about half of the city schools it may The gradpates of such a school will § Of the kindergartens now established sends their brightness to distant fields. Through the new and important meth- od of correspondence schools the educa- tional influence of Chicago is extending over the globe. The University of Chi- cago has from the start made a special training is so fully recognized by the |feature of offering instruction by cor- respondence in subjects of a university city that the graduates of this school i grade. Last year 1744 students availed themselves of the opportunity. The Northwestern University, at Evanston, has within the yo;ar adopted the plan and has a large correspondence school in connection with it. Probably the American School of Correspondence of the Armour Institute of Technology has the largest number of students receiv- ing special instruction by mail. The names on their list exceed 50,000. They are-located all over the world, over 1000 being in New Zealand alone. One re- markable thing in connection with this correspondence work is the age of the applicants. The average age is between 30 and 40 years. The oldest student in the Armour School of Correspondence is 74 years. Few of these students could fulfill the requirements for ad- mission to college, but many of them do excellent work in their chosen sub- Many of them wish to better THE AMERICAN WOMAN. By Chauncey M. Depew. HE American woman! The sub- T ject is so comprehensive that it would be impossible to do it jus- tice in the space accorded. You ask me to tell you what I think has made her what she is? Then I reply to you: The opening of colleges to women and the spread of women’s clubs. I doubt if women ever had true emancipation and equality until the latter half ‘of the nineteenth century. There has often been a parity of ma- terial conditions, but never the same opportunities for intellectual develop- ment. The whole question is narrowed to opening the colleges and universities to both sexes or giving equal advant- ages for higher education in separate institutions of learning. The place where there is the best demonstration of the democratic spirit is in the colleges. There, with the same standard imperative with every stu- dent, neither wealth nor family counts. All, whether the rich or those who are ficer has visited 159 houses, finding 173 children from 8 to 14 years not attend- ing. A large humber of these were induced to eriter school. Forty-three of the absentees were caring for younger children while parents were working away from home. For such cases the plan has been successfully tried elsewhere of establishing a day nursery at nominal expense, under the charge of a few women in connection with the works in which many mar- ried women are employed. Reports from a number of sections in California indicate a marked scar- city of teachers and many districts are without instructors. The opening of the San Jose NM— mal School was signalized by an en- rollment of unusual proportions, in- cluding many teachers from the East and several from- the Hawalian Isi- ands. In El Paso, Tex., the high school hag established a post graduate course for the benefit of those who are un- able to leave home to carry on the work of higher education. Some spe- cial studies will be offered in addition to advanced work of the curriculum of the school. 1 working their way, are judged by theif merits and attainments alone. The class goes out into the world and its members have varying and widely di- verging measures of success. When, however, the alumni gather at com- mencement on the old campus before the genius and embodied spirit of the university they are one in common brotherhood of the college and the common motherhood of Alma Mater. When girls as well as boys and women as well as men can claim this kinship and heredity of liberal learning at least, and for the first time in cent- uries, there is equality. A bright woman wrote recently that women as yet do not find repose in a club. They gather in groups and talk in couples, and when one is alone for a moment she frantically plunges for the first group, whether she is wanted there or aot. She has not got over the sensation that a woman who stands alone is a wallflower and one who sits alone is ostracized. viding for an examining board of three, to consist of the Health OM- cer, the family physician and another to be appointed by the president of the Board of Education. The physicians volunteered to donate their services in such matters and for inspection of the school buildings. MEAGER SAL@RIES. It may be some comfort to laboring mer to know that the salary of the poet laureate of England is $360 a year and a hogshead of wine thrown in. Of course, this represents only a fractional part of what Alfred Austin really earns; still it is all that he gets for being poet laureate to the English present poet laureate came in for the raise intended for Lord Tennyson. Even this small sum is mbre than the official salary of the Bishop of in his capacity of minister . 1 royal. He § : i 1 E HHH 23t : i i g § i i 2 g5