The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1906, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Proprietor SPRECKELS. . ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 2 THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO JANUARY 28, 1906 POEN D. CONSULAR REFORM. 'R foreign trade depends greatly upon the quality of our con- ar service. That service heretofore has been inefficient. ‘resident Cleveland began its reform and President Roosevelt ewed the effort last year, by trying to put it on a civil service > it permanency and fill it with fit men. > 1, Consular Agent and the personnel of the whole serv- ve knowledge of the country’s commerce and be in sym- s extension. There should be no divided allegiance. At men of foreign birth and citizenship are in our consular 395 consular agencies, 290 are held by for- 180 consular clerkships, 120 are held by for- 60 per cent of our vice and deputy Consuls are tish empire, of 114 vice and deputy Consuls 83 ionalities than our own. Of important vice consul- eigners. In a total of n Germat 1 at held by foreigners. own that these non-sympathetic officers have access 1 ords, which disclose the commercial efforts of , and which give private instructions in matters le, it will be seen that our interests are committed no interest whatever in our welfare, but whose 1 sympathies are all in opposition to us and our r fees at all consular posts. ries of the service. Americans are to go the hundreds of positions now held by foreigners, e preposterous policy of putting our official con- h of our commercial rivals. Appointments to I be made by the President, but nominees must I i s. . They must know something about ¢ ign commerce, and have some knowledge of s g the economics of international trade. They st k 1g of the law-merchant and of international law. nt of kind has not been considered at all. The e been controlled by partisan political considera- ige bill and its enforcement will develop a pro- e the consular service an honorable career. er it with the assurance that merit will win pro- lleges and universities will soon begin, in their merce, to train students especially for this service. ve on | is a very desirable part of a Consu visions of the public service we have many men o will be drawn upon in the beginning of this con- be found in the diplomatic and consular Department, and in the customs service and Ce 1erce. The branches of the public service in been employed have furnished the consular training v be provided by colleges and universities. ¢ Committee on Foreign Relations, in reporting the sad ne ice of Congress and the State Department to he service that have long been recognized and dis- t business associations of the United States. ify consular service in grades, to which the force will be assigned, and in which the hority to transfer officers from one station ta rs ranking as Consuls General, who shall inspect ional banks are inspected by bank examiners, e charge of consulates which have gone wrong, just rs take charge of banks which go wrong Consular A transferred from one post or one branch of the service, st as men are now transferred in the domestic classified service. otion will depend upon merit entirely, and the service f the best features of that of other great commercial the politicians may not like to see such a plum crop heir reach, the producers and merchants of the country joice in the reform of a service that is so intimately and in- y related to their welfare. The Pacific Coast is especially interested in our consular service in Eastern Asia. Other nations are alive to this. Belgium has just transferred her able and experienced Consul in San Francisco to a cc generalcy in Japan. As an example of what will be the working of our new system, it may be noted that he had long service .at Bangkok and knows the Asiatic trade and people, and his Govern- ment takes advantage of his experience for the benefit of its Japanese trade. If we are to hold our own, we must be as wise as the little kingdom of Belgium. W ey. DEMAND FOR A SMALL RAILROAD. ITHOUT any drum beating or the use of a brass band, a small company began building a small railroad, to start from the town of Merced and stop near the Yosemite Val- 1 The work on it was well under way before it got into the papers at all, and ties were being spaced on its roadbed before the g railroads sat up and took notice. Then they wanted to adopt y, and upon being refused they threatened to run right over s has not been done yet, and now half the track is down, and two thousand vigorous and profane workmen are working and swearing their way up the canyon of the Merced and the locomotive will soon be winding up the track they leave behind them. 5 Now comes the Western Pacific, from afar, but looking around for good things that others have overlooked, and gets franchises and rights of way to build down to Merced to connect with the baby ¢ f the mountains. Simultaneously appears an extension of this ilroad up the South Fork of the Merced to Wawona, within g distance of the Mariposa Big Trees, and there you are! The impossible is done, and by a railroad so small that it broke ground without ceremony, and emp'ays neither lawyer nor press agent, and all of the big roads are kowtowing to it. Since the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley road was built no project has roused as much interest as this little mountain line. Its history is suggestive. How many other projects are pos- sible, of value to the State and of profit to themselves, that the big roads have overlooked? What scenic or productive regions may be tapped by small railroads that the big ones will want? This is the time of plenty of capital, and if such investments are open it may be easily had, and after the enterprises are completed the peopie and the State will have the benefit. If the sharp-eyed gentleman who spied out the chance for the small road to the Yosemite will step out in the open he may hear of somethiflg to his advantage. S particular class to which the pupil belongs is a question con- sidered by Albert Britt in “Public Opinion.” He is in faver of so doing and makes his plea on behalf of the workingmen. Our pretty theory of social equality he characterizes as being practically a fiction, as a large majority of men have to live out their lives in the class into which they were born. He finds fault with our present educational system in that it trains youth to a fitness for and an ardent expectation of a higher calling than any but the very exceptional ever attain to. Thus while benefiting the few it CLASS EDUCATION. PECIALIZING education so as to adapt it to the needs of the trade centers of vast importance to our commerce, | o turn consular fees into the treasury andi These fees will go 1en who speak other languages than | s equipment. | it seeks to apply the practical remedies sug- | regular inspection service is created, | vice is once filled it passes out of politics and into use- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1906 - CAN HE HOLD | E States have on deposit In savings | banks three billion dollars. Six per {cent of all this money is in the banks |of the city of Cleveland, says Leslie's Weekly. Although Cleveland’s population is only one-half of one per cent of the | population of the whole country the me- tropolis of Ohio holds in savings $185,- | 000,000, or more than 6 per cent of the | country’s total savings-bank deposits! In the proportion of this fund to the num- ber of its people the largest city of the “Buckeye” State far surpasses any other American or foreign community. Cleve- land is the savings city of the world. The reasons for this condition and its effects involve the same important and interesting facts. Not long ago & deposit came to a Cleve- land savings institution all the way around the world from Bangkok, Siam. Another came from Shanghai, China. Hundreds of them have come from the Philippines. Money for savings has been sent to Cleveland from every country of Central America and half of those of South America. Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawail have contributed. England, all sent money ta be kept in the savings banks of Cleveland, Ohio. Accounts have come to these banks from two of the countries of Africa. Every State in the Union and four of the provinces of Can- ada have persons who are depositors in the Cleveland savings banks. You will ask two questions: *“How does it happen that these deposits from all parts of the globe are attracted particu- larly to Cleveland?” And the other ques- tion is, “Why does Cleveland hold such a France, Germany, Italy and Spain have. Savings - Bank City of the World. | IGHT million persons in the United | large percentage, proportionately, of the savings-bank depogits of the United States?” The answer to the, first question is, the spread of the banking-by-mail idea; and the answer to the second question in- volves the commercial condition and growth of Cleveland itself, by which its savings banks are enabled to pay 4 per cent on deposits, while the savings in- stitutions of New York, Chicago, Phila- delphia, Boston and other cities dare not pay usually more than 3 per cent. “Clevelanders have learned at home the advantages that our savings Institutions offer,” said E, G. Tillotson, vice presi- dent and manager of the Cleveland Trust Company, one of the large savings banks of the city. This bank has assets of $23,- 000,000, and deposits amounting to more than §25,000,00. ‘‘We point out to those who write to us for detailed information the surprising results of constant, per- sistent saving. Let me give you an ex- ample. If a parent deposits $1 at the birth of a child, and adds at each succeeding anniversary of the birthday a number of dollars equal to the number of years that the child has lived, the amount by the time the son or daughter ds 21 years of age, computed at 4 per cent interest, com- pounded semi-annually, will equal $300. This would be a substantial nest-egg to begin life with. “The man who deposits only 25 cents a week, drawing 4 per cent, compounded semi-annually, will have to his credit at the end of five years, $73; at the end of ten years, $162; at the end of twenty years, $403; at the end of forty years, §1204, The man who saves $5 a week at this rate would be worth at the end of forty years the snug fortune of $25,888.” — IT DOWN? —NEW YORK WORLD. i MAKE YOUR BLUFF. F you'd like to be accounted as a highly clgver chap, l As a favored child of Genius whom she fondles in her lap; If you have a dark suspicion that you're rather commonplace, And would fain convince your neighbors this is not at all the case; If, although you are not witty, you've enough of common sense To observe that many winners wear the shoddy of pretense; 1f, in short, your clay is common and you'd like to gild the stuff, There's a simple rule to guide you, and it's merely: Make a bluff! Make a bluff through thick and thin! Bluff’s the thing that's bound to win; 'Tis the bronze that hides the plaster, the cosmetic on the skin. Life is like a game of poker; when the cards are running rough, Then's the time your chips to muster for a bluff, bluff, bluff. Madame in her silken garments, with a brain of thinklets shy, And milord, a sponge to gather lucre that is floating by; Sweet Miss Fritter, whom her Chawlie deems a thing of perfect grace, And that Chawlie, vague and useless, with a vacuum of face; All the foam upon life’s river, all the scum upon its top, Shifting, drifting, dancing, glancing—painted belle and dizened fop— These, if you inspect them duly, set their pretense ’gainst their stuff, You will find are merely playing in a game of social bluff. Bluff, you duffer, while you may! Bluff’'s the game that you should play— 'Tis the polish on the brasses and the gilt upon the clay. Though your thinker's quite inactive, strut and swagger, swell and puff, For a fool may win successes with his bluff, bluff, bluff. There are “artists” (hear the chatter!) who are somewhat shy on art, And “musicians” (all admit it) who would break old Music’s heart; “Poets” (these ad infinitum) who a poem ne'er have writ; But they make their bluff a winner, so it matters not a bit, You shall find these “artists” posing in the giddy, social fold, leaves the many discontented by the disappointment of false hopes, to drop back into the mass of humbler workers, but with less effi- ciency, pride and satisfaction in their calling than they would have had if the years wasted in a smattering of other studies had been given in specialized training for the work of making a living as wage-earners. There is a measure of truth in this idea, but it might easily be carried too far. It is one of the ideals of America that rigidly fixed conditions of class and caste should not be established. Edu- cation specially fitting a man to stay in the class in which the accident of his early youth found him, if it thereby denied him the foundations of a liberal education and a broad culture, would tend to permanently keep him in that class. One of the chief aims of our publicly provided education should be to teach young people those things of general importance which everybody should know, whatever fosition. in the social scheme they may occupy shen they leave school. g We cannot give actual equality, but we can try to give equality of opportunity. The average number of years devoted to school life are none too long for the acquiring of this general training which should be universal. Specialization must always be supple- mental. We do not want a class of blacksmiths, farmers, or artisans who are unable to appreciate the best in literature, who know nothing of the greater truths of history, who are unable to appre- ciate a sound argument in sociology, and who have not the neces- sary foundations on which to perpetually build'up broader culture in their leisure hours. This foundation will make them more im- portant as men, and at the same time more intelligent and efficient as workers. The safety of our institutions demands that we have no class shut out from such general education. The special training of trade or profession may be added to it, but should not crowd out any of the school years necessary for the foundation of equality And you'll hear admirers crying, “Don’t you see his brass is gold?” You may deem that merit’s better, but, good Lord! their game's enough, Since they have no way of winning save by playing out their bluff. Bluffy you lobster, then, I say! [ Bluff's the thing that’s sure to pay, 1f in brain you're somewhat lacking and the For the world doth teach us ever, if we're only “up to snuff,” That a clown may win a jackpot with a bluff, bluff, bluff. ISUNDERS’TOO.D | 1| ETERN SHE M. AL FEMININE. ! Shel had promised to come to town and go to luncheon with him, and about noon she opened his office door. Her husband's volce at the 'phone made her stop to listen. “That you, Darling?” he was saying. wife's coming down to-day, so we ‘can’t have that spread. But we'll have it morrow. Meet me at the usual place; you know. Yes; all right. Good-by."” She sli) quietly away, and, although until 3 o'clock, his little wife did not come to go to luncheon with him. he got home that night she fought it out with herself and de- explanation. L termined to have an 8o she said, as calmly as could: - Mwnhf' do you usually go out alone to “Why, yes'' he answered. ‘That is, unless Darling goes with me.” “Darling?” she eried. “For pity’s sake, 4 v, , Jack Darling. Don't . why broken you g‘me you have to play; Millicent—I'm in love with both of them, ‘Which would you advise me to marry? Hortense—Whichever one asks you. INNOCENT. He—Has she been married long? She—No; but she still thinks that her husband eats cloves because he likes thém. A PORTIA, SHE. Tess—Gladys says she can think of ten good reasons for not allowing a man to kiss her. o Jess—Oh, so can I; but I can think of eleven why I might let him. GOT OFF EASY. mmu.mt girl told awful fibs about e. Polly—You're lucky, dear. She might have told the truth. A BREAKFAST DIALOGUE. h:r; m,-nll—!! . you were talk- ‘your sleep last 5| Rt w ot S e SRR it THE MAJOR'S PARADISE. ALK about an earthly paradise,” remarked the major, as he blew a cloud of smoke, “you can’t find it up in this country. Nopey: I should think not. Who ever heard of an earthly paradise where a man has to dress like an Eskimo and is in danger of nipping his ears or feet every time he steps out of doors? Bosh! People who talk of such things don’t know any more about an earthly paradise than swine know about ragtime.” “Evidently you have seen, major?” “Seen! I've lived it, breathed it, dranlt in its glories till my very soul reeked with it.,” he replied, as he looked out at the snow flurries. “Where was it, major?" “Where? It's like the intoxicating odor of crushed rose leaves to ‘think of it. Way down in the Pacific, below that im- aginary line that girdles the earth, there is a little island rising up from the sea like an emerald set in a blue sky. 3 don't think its name is recorded. No matter, anyway. We were bound for Lahsiti in & trader and put in there for water. No, I wasn't soldiering those days; merely seeing the world. Well, I goes ashore with the rest in the whale- boat, and while they were filling the casks I sneaks into the brush. Strangely enough, 1 was never missed, leastwise I never heard of their coming back look for me. After they fills their casi and the trader is well under way again 1 emerges from my hiding-place and announces to the astonished natives that I was ready to renounce allegiance to the United States and make camp in their midst. All of wnich was greeted with veciferous shouts of acclama- tion and the serving of many gourds a8 jelpe, followed in the morning by a head like a boiler factory working over- time and & foreign, low-down taste in my mouth. However, that ain’t neither here nor there. It's the earthly para- dise I started to tell you about. If ever there was a fairy tale woven into the real thing, that place was it. upper case letters. Never been in that part of the world, have you? No? Then you don’t know what it is to feel the spiced breezes fan your cheek as you loaf under a grateful palm; to listen to the gentle lap, lap of the waves on the beach, that comes like the tinkle of music to your ears and lulls you into a drowsy stuper like the crooning of a lullaby: to hear the soft rustle of t wind through the palms at night, when the Southern Cross bends so low in the sky that you can almost grasp its tail; where food is yours for the picking— and a dusky maid does It for you; where the nerve-racking rankle of o street-car bells and such infernal traptions as alarm clocks are known; where strife is but a memory, and the days succeed each other like an endless dream: where tailor signs don’t stare you in the face, and dress, what there is of it. conforms to your own individual fancy. There was an earthly paradise for you! Boo! Look at snow.” And a far-away gleam came to the major's eyes as he looked out at the storm. “Were you contented there, major?* ““Perfectly.” “Then why did you leave?” “Jt was this way.” he said, and a pe- culiar twinkle came into his eye. “After I had been there a few months my tobacco gave out and I had to re- turn to the States for more. Can't get along without it, you know. A tramp trader brought me to Frisco, but I never could find another that intended to make the island. So I had to give up the paradise. Tough, wasn't it?” ‘We found afterward that the major had been indulging freely in a mew brand of tobacco of unusual strength; also complaining of dizziness in the head for of the human frame.”—Lippincott's Maga- zine. NATURAL CONCLUSION. excesding el Depew In nis (19 un- Daniel Drew was sent-minded man, as charming anecdotes has Had occasion to remind us. Here is a story, how- ever, that Depew never got hold of: Drew made a point of buying all his own clothing, against repeated protests from his wife, who was frequently at her wits' end to know how to manage his somewhat 111 assorted wardrobe. “Daniel,” she sald one day, “you must get some underdrawers.” (She spoke, of course, in the seclusion of their own apartments.) “Yes, my dear,” was the reply, had that night Daniel came home with a bundle containing undershirts. Under- shirts he had in great abundance, bu® of the article his wife had suggested his buying the specimens on hand were almost past wearing. The good lady's patience was exhausted. When next she prepared clean clothes for him she laid out two undershirts and no under- drawers. When he had dressed and gone forth she found evidences of his having donned both garments. Among that day's items in his note book the following was subsequently discovered: “The underwear of to-day is not what it used to"be. Underdrawers are made much too small in the legs—so much so, in fact, that one has to slit th up to make them go on. They fit lu-\s. ly about the walst and are not m ald to a man's sitting down. In fact, they seem not at all suited to the needs of the human frame—Lippincott's Magazi ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CRYSTAL PALACE —Old Subscriber, City. The Crystal Palace in New York City, containing an exhibition of goods from all nations, was opened July 14, 1853, PUNISHMENT—J. O. D.,, Suisun, Cal No captain or master of a vessel has a right to inflict any cruel punishment on any ome of the crew or subordinate offi- cer. Tricing up by the thumbs has been held to be cruel punishment, and the one ;ho authorizes such is liable to prosecu- lon. CRIBBAGE—C. R., Hayden Hill, Cal It o of @ 1] i g i : : ik H £ £ i Townsend's California glace ts and cholcest candies in artistic po etched boxes. New store, 767 m&" - s