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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, ' OCTOBER 25, 1917.
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than. Addraaa cfeeages aa often aa requeated.
King Corn need not worry oter the silence of
a grain pit or two. He has the goals.
If you cannot do your bit on the bonds, Join
the Lucky Seventh on the joyride to the Rhine.
Every Liberty bond fashions t kick against
Junkerdom. Buy kicker and get the exercise.
It is not a question whether the Liberty loan
is subscribed, but only how much it is oversubscribed.
Wheatless and beefless days remind us that
. ham or bacon, flanked with cornbread deliver; the
pep just the same.
The spectacle of the kaiser's bankers telling
. their troubles to the Danes serves to enliven the
gsyety of harassed neutrals.
The knell of doom sounded for Zeppelin war
. ships forecasts the ultimate! fate of human gas
i bags. Imperial Germany shrould worry.
Guests will accommodate themselves to "eat
) less" days and "wheatless" days just so long as
, the hotel keepers stop short of "sheetless"
. nights. ,
' It is worth while noting as the war enters the
t winter stage that none 01 tne royai sanrt rattiers
are yet numbered among the "killed, wounded or
'missing."
Reports" of food riots in Austria merely
, glimpse a situation verging on desperation. The
f winter outlook is one of tragic gloom for millions
i of victims of the war lords. v
, Mediation backs the sober second thought in
f ending strikes in mines and manufacturing plants
-'producing essentials for winning the war. All of
'which weaves new laurels for impartial arbitra
tion.1 . v
This discovery of 10,000,000 pounds of sugar
secreted in a Buffalo warehouse supplies a clue
worth working throughout th country. A thor
ough search of warehouses might reveal unsus
pected foodj stacks. '
Still tawing over those spring building trade
strikes. Why waste good money in j litigation
when every mechanic in Omaha has employment
at good wages if he wants it? - Or is it just to
help out the lawyers?- - u ' .- '
Sources ot power down south 'seem closely
united on the proposition that cotton should not
be sold for less than 30 cents a pound. Should
'the deal work out, the cotton belt will need little
.urging to buy a, bale of Liberty bonds.
'The French cabinet crisis has been passed
with the retirement of the holder of only one
portfolio. When our American cabinet is reor
; ganired on a war efficiency basis it will take
' more than one change -to meet requirements.
Price fixing of food and fuel nears accomplish
ment in New York and Chicago through co
operation of officials and dealers. ' Like results
are possible in every community if the problem
is approached in a patriotic spirit of "live and
, let live." V -. . .
Food licensing applies to dealers doing a busi
ness of $100,000 a year or more. Two-Thirds of
the dealers thus escape the official tag. Law
makers assumed that with the big fellows hob
bled the little fellows would stand without hitch
ing. But will they? There's the rub.
Rumor as a Weapon
Jfaw York Time-
As the channels of print are rapidly closed to
the German government's propagandists in the
United States, they are resorting more and more
to the spreading of poison by word of mouth. We
are not now speaking of those who do the Ger
. man government's work without knowledge, the
pacifists and socialists, but of the actual agenfs of
Wilhelmstrasse; for it is certain that this poison
cannot be the product of any others. The Ger
man agent pervades the land. In every commu
nity where he stops overnight a full-blown rumor
. pervades the town next day. It came from some
body on the "inside," somebody who "got it
straight," and it is whispered from .one, to another
until the whole community is uneasy and agitated.
Sometimes the rumor is the one to which the
Kational Committee of Patriotic Societies paid its
respects recently, the rumor that a transport has
been sunk with an American regiment on board.
It is usually given with the utmost particularity,
including the name of the regiment, the names of
the survivors, and all the details. This bars all
possibility that the rumor Is mere accidental ru
' rnor, of the usual wartime kind, for the particu
larity of detail argues an author. . Sometimes the
story whispered by the German agent is that there
has been a mutiny; in such cases the camp and
the regiments engaged in the outbreak are named.
Sometimes he poses as an Englishman or a Ca
nadian with a friend or relative in the army or in
the foreign office, and in this case his story is
that the British are holding their army at home
and making the French and colonials do the fight
. . ing for them; in such cases he particularizes in
figures and .dates. Sometimes he masquerades as
a newspaper man or a government officii.!, and
whispers the "inside" information that Japan is
getting ready to dedare war on the United States.
These are only a few ot his lies, a few of those
which come constantly to nespaper offices
through frightened and excited inquiries by the
dupes, not of the German agent, but of other
dupes who have given currency to his Stfcries. One
, and all, they are false; and their purpose is to
spread alarm and distrust among Americana,
Germany's Shaky Chancellorship.
The report that Dr. Michaelis has placed his
resignation as imperial chancellor in the hands of
Emperor William may require verification, but
it may be safely taken to be a true reflection of
rapidly developing conditions. When Dr. Mich
aelis took the post he did so plainly as a make
shift and it was a question with everyone how
long, or rather how short, a time he would con
tinue in power. Since then the situation of Ger
many has not improved, but on the contrary, has
steadily grown worse, and the chancellorship is
decidedly shaky.
Sometimes a change in engineers marks an
improvement in the operation of an intricate
piece of machinery, but repeated changes are sure
to have a bad effect, This applies with equal
force to the operation of Germany's complicated
war machine. The elimination of Dr. Michaelis
as chancellor, and the substitution by the kaiser
of some new engineer may not necessarily pro
duce an immediate crisis in Germany's internal
affairs, but it will surely blazon the already visible
handwriting on the wall, and unfailingly fore
shadow the irresistible advance of world
democracy.
Petain's Thrust Effective.
General Petain has delivered another telling
blow against the German right wing in France,
the more effective because it is along a front
where the French a few months ago made great
sacrifices with an almost complete failure to ad
varice. Gains of a considerable distance against
the Germans in 'this sector are of immense im
portance to the general campaign of forcing
Prince Rupprecht to withdraw from the front he
is holding so stubbornly and to break German
control of the coast of Belgium. This great
turning movement is the key to the campaign,
and each step so far taken has brought it that
much nearer to consummation., Verdun was
high-water mark for German offensive on the
west front, and now the great armies of the
kaiser are devoted to resisting advance of the
allied forces. Farther to the west the British
have bent back Rupprecht's army foot by foot,
and n6w the French have forced another retire
ment along a distance that adds much to ad
vantage already "gained. These "bites" into the
German line are in accord with the plan adopted
over two years ago, and are being carried out
with a precision that answers the assertion that
the war is "stale mate" on the western front.
Americans may with profit study the varying
aspects of these moves, for they indicate ac
curately She work that awaits our boys in France.
Blow after blow of this kind will be needed to
dislodge the Germans from France, Flanders snd
Belgium, and Americans must strike many of
them.
Rising Tide of Patriotism.
Affairs in America are coming to sdeh orderly
array as permits a survey of the whole country
in connection with the progress of preparation
for the business of war. A review of all ac
tivities should comfort any who may have
doubted the capacity of the people for patriotic
response. Some things may not have moved fast
enough to suit the impetuosity of a few, but not
only is the tremendous undertaking of enlisting,
organizing, training and equipping a mighty army
well set on its way, with all its manifold and com
plex details co-ordinated and operating with pre
cision, but the equally important work of getting
tha citizens onto a war basis is proceeding in a
most satisfactory, way. The Liberty loan is but,
a single manifestation of this. Last spring's great '
drive for greater food production, the present
conservation campaign, and all their attendant
services, show how willing the people are to co
operate in the provision and preservation of
valuable supplies when it is for the good of all
Price control, trade regulation, and every un
usual step taken by the government has been met
with such ready assent as must convince any ol
the sincerity of the nation. Greater sacrifice will
yet be asked, but none that will not be made by
Americans in defense of their ideals. The tide
of patriotism never ran stronger or deeper than
now, and its waters are sweeping away much
that was artificial and unworthy in our national
life. War has welded ns into one nation, strong
and determined, an irresistible force for the right.
Sights of Unions and Employers.
Judge Leslie's decision in the injunction case,
instituted by the attorney general of Nebraska
against certain labejr unions and employers' as
sociations of Omaha adds another interesting
chapter to the literature dealing with the rights
of unions and employers. It is important, be
cause it is thfj first of its kind, a proceeding
brought in the name of the people to determine
the rights of the public, which is the innocent by
stander in all labor disputes. The police power
of the state is frequently called upon to establish
and maintain order in time of strikes or lockouts,
but this is the first case in which the equity'
power of the( court has been invoked by the state
to take control of an industrial situation on be
half of the whole people. This quality of novelty
has already brought wide attention to the case,
and the outcome is certain to get serious con
sideration from all who are interested in the prob
lem. ' '
Judge Leslie finds that both sides have been
at fault to some extent and restrains certain
unions and certain employers from pursuing un
lawful acts. He recognizes the right of both em
ployers and workers to organize, and to proceed
in a lawful manner with their business as or
ganized bodies. Neither side is to have undue
advantage in this respect. To this decision there
can be no reasonable dissent ,
The outcome of this case ought to help bring
about a better understanding in Omaha. The chief
cause of the local disturbance has been a dispute
over nonessentials, each side trying to impose
its views on the other, instead of seeking for a
common ground on which they could meet. Har
mony is always possible, and should earnestly
be sought, for it is a requisite to real progress.
Why invite proposals when state contracts
are to be let if the constitutional safeguards cut
no figure with out democratic state officers. If
the. commissioner of printing can take state print
ing jobs himself, what is to prevent every' other
purchasing agent from doing likewise? And how
exacting a state officer will be to make himself
live up to a contract which he has let to himself.
A maximum of eight and one half cent sugar
for Chicago should mean even a shade less for
Omaha with a transportation differential The
oniy way to hold down the price of sugar, how
ever, is to' be sparing in its use.
General Leonard Wood 'may not be specially
popular with the War department bureaucrats at
Washington, but he will 'find that his popularity
here in Omaha is undiminished. - -
More About Furs
By Freierte J. Haskin
Washington, Oct. 22. The unusual popularity
of "wolf" furs this fall is largely the work of the
United States eovernment.
This sounds strange enough, inasmuch as the
government is not generally regarded as a fashion
arbiter, but it is literally true. For the past year
the biological survey has been waging war upon
the coyotes of the western prairies; because these
animals are destroying a great deal of live stock,
especially sheep, ihc resultant peltries have
been sold to the fur industry by the government
in order to defray the cost of the campaign and
in this way about 20,000 coyote hides have been
thrown on the market in addition to those re
ceived from ordinary channels.
It is the regular strategy of the fur trade to
popularize whatever furs it has in large quan
tities in order to get rid of these and also be
cause only furs on hand in large quantities can
supply the demand. The popularity of fox in
recent years is not due to the fact that the
women prefer to wear fox, but solely to the
growth of the industry of raising fox in cap
tivity. At the same time the rare and beautiful
mink fur is not at all popular, because the trade
has not enough of it to supply a popular demand.
Hence few mink furs are "made up," few are sold,
and the price of the raw fur declines. The big
fur houses nevertheless go on buying mink, and
when enough of it has accumulated, they will
popularize it and sell off their accumulated stock
at high prices.
Thus the power of fashion over the feminine
mind is turned to good commercial account. Ths
year everyone who can afford it is wearing fox,
and everyone who cannot afford fox, is wearing
the hides of sheep-killing coyotes, which is very
commendable. The coyote is a small variety of
wolf. The true timber wolf is almost as large
as a panther, and his hide can be used only for
rugs.
These facts about the fur industry were gath
ered in conversation with Prof. Ned Dearborn of
the biological survey, who is the government ex
pert on fur-bearing animals. He has a cabinet
in his office which contains a large assortment of
furs, with which he illustrates his statements.
He has also in northern New York near Lake
Champlain a little farm of 10 acres where he is
experimenting in the raising of fur-bearing ani
mals in captivity. He firmly believes that this is
to become a great industry, and not only that
great quantities of fur will be produced from do
mesticated fur-bearing animals, but that this fur
will be very superior to that grown in the wild
state. Already ranch-bred fox is recognized as
superior to wild fox, and the skunk, which is the
only other fur-bearirig animal tfeat has been ex
tensively domesticated, has been deprived of the
white stripes which make it necessary to dye the
wild peltries.
Prof. Dearborn now lias on his farm blue
foxes, fishers, martens, minks and skunks, and
is steadily increasing both the number and va
riety of his stock. He has already done areat
deal to popularize the raising of mink in cap
tivity, but the present scarcity and resultant un
popularity of mink fur has checked the growth
of this industry. Prof. Dearborn is not now re
ceiving nearly as many requests for information
on the subject as he was before the war began.
But he is confidently looking forward to the time
when mink will again become popular,
At one time Prof. Dearborn thought he had
discovered a new and important fur-bearing ani
mal in the American jack rabbit. The fur of
some of them looks exactly like that of the prized
chinchilla. Examination under the microscope,
however, showed that the fur of the jack rabbit
has a weakness in that there is a flaw in each,
hair, causing it to break when the fur is subjected
to hard usage. So the jack rabbit was saved from
fame as a fur-Wearing animal.
One of the most abundant animals in America
of the fur-bearing varieties are the squirrels; but
none of the rrlore common American squirrels
produces fur of commercial value, although quan
tities of Russian squirrel skins are imported every
year. Prof. Dearborn found upon making a study
of the situation that there is one American va
riety of squirrel which has fur of the finest qual
Thia i th Ahhntt snuirrel of the southwest
it is easily the most beautiful of the American
squirrels, having a silvery gray fur. an enormous
silvery tail, long tufted ears, and is unusually
graceful in its movements. It Inhabits the great
yellow pine forests of the lower slopes of the
southwestern Rockies, and is seldom found in
abundance. Prof. Dearborn reasoned that this
animal was .worth more as an ornament in his
native woods than his hide would be draped about
the neck of that all-destroying animal the woman
of fashion. Hence he has not said much about
the fur value of the Abbott squirrel. It would be
an interesting and possibly profitable experiment
to try to domesticate it
Fur farming is in its experimental stages, but
its possibilities are evidently considerable. For
the man who likes to be a pioneer in new move
ments, and is willing to wait a while for large
returns, it has great inducements.
Kaiser and Sultan
Naw York Tlmai-
"A dispatch from Constantinople says the sul
tan of Turkey has conferred on the kaiser the
diamond star of the Iftichar Ofder, Turkey's
highest war decoration, and that the kaiser pre
sented to the sultain the star and chain, of the
Hohenzollern Order with diam6nds. "
, The martyred dead of "Scio's rocky isle,' for
centuries unavenged, the victims of Turkish mas
sacres in Herzegovina, signs of Turkish atrocities
in Bulgaria's rocky fastnesses, the hosts freshly
slain in Armenia, upon the one hand; and upon the
other the shades of all the millions who lie in
graves upon the battlefields of France, Belgium
and Poland, of Galicia and Rumania, of Mace
donia and Mesopotamia, and of thousands who
have been sent unwarned and unknelled to burial .
beneath the waters of the sea, looked upon this
strange, astounding scene. These two men, in.
their unapproachable supremacy v as the world's
greatest destroyers of human lives, with hands
drenched in blood, blood enough in all literalness
to incarnadine the seas, affixed each to the breast
of the other, an order of highest 'distinction, sym
bols and testimonies of exalted rank in the ter
rible art they practice and do not shudder at .
Alexander Borgia should have been there to
confer his blessing upon this twain, who have' so
far surpassed him that his deeds of horror dwindle
to mere peccadillos. - . .
TODAY
night In the Spotlight,
John N. Willys, who is heading a na
tional campaign to rains H.000,000
with which to provide wholesome- rec
reation (or the men training In tha
national army, enters upon his 45th
year today, having been born at Can-
andaigua, N.Y., October 25, 1J7S. Mr,
Willys is a multi-millionaire automo
bile manufacturer of Toledo, O. Some
thing like 23 yeara ago he began hi
career in the bicycle buolnesa in his
native town, subsequently removing
to Eimira, N. T., where he became a
seller of automobiles. In 1907 he en
gaged in automobile . manufacturing
and In 10 years has succeeded in build
ing up one of the largest industries of
ita kind in the world. In earning his
vast fortune Mr. Willys worked from
7 in the morning until midnight for
several years, and he still works like
a Trojan. But he has so systematized
his great enterprises that he now finds
some time to indulge in his favorite
recreations yatching and picture
hunting. His collection of paintings ia
one of the finest in the west
One Year Ago Today In the War.
German torpedo boats made a night
attack on the British cross channel
transport service.
Left wing of allied armies In Mace
donia Joined with right wing of
Italian army in Albania, completing a
line from the Adriatic to the Aegean
sea.
In Omaha 30 Yeara Ago,
A couple of gentlemen are perfect
ing arrangements for the erection of
a mammoth building on the northeast
corner of St. Mary's avenue and
Twentieth street to be devoted to.
athletics. Thia building Is to contain
a bicycle track, pedestrian track, base
ball, hand ball and cricket grounds
for practicing purposes.
Ivanhoff Lennep, the feading zither
player in Bavaria, gave a private mu
sicaie at Max Meyer's to a numbers of
Class Consciousness
-Naw York World"
"I am not an I. W. W." said James H. Maurer,
president of the Pennsylvania Federation of
Labor, at the Madison Square' Garden meeting
Sunday night, "but I will say this for them: "Their
only crime is that they are class-conscious and
consistent, and they fight for their convictions."
The "convictions" for which the I. W. W. fight
are that every agreement with an employer is a
"scrap of paper," and that workmen must follow
the policy of sabotage; bomb the churches; flood
the mines; burn the crops; fire the forests and
the sawmills that turn out spruce for airplanes;
poison the soup, as in a famous Chicago case; re
sist the draft, and help the kaiser. This is hot
crime: it is class-consciousness.
And what a convenient theory for others than
the I. W. W.I Cocchi was merely class-conscious
when he murdered the daughter of a respectable
man and hid her body in nis cellar. The gun
men who killed Rosenthal were "cls-conscious"
and so was Becker, who engaged them for the
jpb. They too were waging war on society by
"direct action." "Jack the Ripper" was a class
conscious patriot ahead of his time. Possibly
that is what ails the German government. When
it started out on its career of blood and devasta
tion it was merely class-conscious, ''
prominent musicians, who were de
lighted with his work.
Stunt & Hamel are working on the
immense contract of grading South
Eleventh street for a mile beyond the
viaduct
Omaha experienced a foretaste of
winter, the thermometer registering
19.4 above zero. Water around the
edges of ponds and small bodies of'
water froze to the thickness of an inch
and pedestrians t had to don their
heaviest wraps.
James Fenwick and wife celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The
occasion brought together all their
daughters and their husbands: A. Vir
gil of Iowa City; Oliver Haverly of
Omaha; Al. Norris of Turner, 111.; A.
S. Town of Cedar Rapids, together
with two sons, John Fenwick of Lara-
(mie and James Fenwlclt af Kansas
Miss Margaret Mather, Emil Hab
erkorn and Mrs. F. Haberkorn are
stopping at the Paxton on their way
to Sacramento.
The Omaha Turnverein met in Oer
mania hall. President Helmrod pre
sided.
At Grand Army of the Republio hall
last evening a branch of the tinners,
the cornice makers, held a meeting
to discuss the nine-hour system. It was
unanimously voted to adopt it and a
committee was appointed to wait on
the various proprietors and persuade
them to shorten a day's work to nine
hours.
This Day In History.
1812 American frigate United
States in command of Decatur cap
tured British frigate Macedonia after
a battle lasting nearly two hours.
1817 Samuel McDowell, who pre
sided over the first state constitutional
convention In Kentucky, died at Dan
ville, Ky. Born in Pennsylvania, Oc
tober 27. 1835.
1918 First general assembly of
Alabama met.
1856 Herat, capital of Afghani
stan, was taken by the Persians in vio
lation of the treaty with Great Brit
ain. 1867 King of Denmark Issued a
proclamation stating the conditions
agreed upon for the sale of the Danish
West Indies to the United States.
1869 William W. Belknap of Iowa
was appointed secretary of war.
1892 Mrs. Caroline Scott Harrison,
wife of President Benjamin Harrison,
died in the White House. Born at Ox
ford, O., October 1, 1832. .
1914 Russians pursued Germans
retreating from Warsaw within East
Prussian border.
1916 Franco-Serbians recaptured
Veles and threatened Uskub.
The Day We Celebrate.
J. W. Johnson was born just 47
years ago in Detroit He is Interested
in several electrical companies.
Carl S. Vrooman, assistant secretary
of the United States Department of
Agrculture, born at Macon, Mo., 45
years ago today.
John N. Willys, Toledo automobile
manufacturer, born at Canandaigua,
N. Y., 44 years ago today.
William A. Blount of Pensacola,
Fla,, president of the National Con
ference of Commissioners on State
Laws, born in Clarke county, Ala, 66
years ago today.
Edward w. saunaers, representative
in congress of the Fifth Virginia dis
trict, born in Franklin county, Va., 57
yeara ago today.
Kt, Kevi Thomas j. oanana, Disnop
coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of
Philadelphia, born in Ireland, 51 years
ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders. ,
Stockholders of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe railroad hold their
annual meeting today at Topeka.
Social problems arising from the war
are to be 'discussed by the . Illinois
State Conference of Charities and Cor
rections, meeting in annual session to
day at Joliet ' ' '
The 48th annual meeting of the gen
eral executive committee of the Wo
man's Foreign Missionary society of
the Methodist Episcopal church, one
of the most important missionary
gatherings of the year, will begin its
sessions today at Detroit.
More than 60 United States senators
and representatives are to start from
St Louis today on a journey to the
Hawaiian islands in the interest of
developing patriotism and giving In
timate talks on the war. Enroute
"America First" meetings are -to be
held in Kansas City, Denver, Colorado
Springs, Salt Lake City, San Francisco
and several other cities.
Storiette of the Day.
Up and down the village street
walked old Tompkins, dressed all in
his Sunday best and with a clean
collar on.
"Hello, old fellow!" a friend hailed
him. "Aren't you working today I"
"So," replied the Old man, proudly.
Tm elebratlng my golden wedding.".
"Really? Then you've been giar
rled 60 years!" . ,
"Yea, I have."
' "Then, Where's Mrs. Tompkins?
Isn't he celebrating, too?"
"The present Mrs. Tompkins," the
old man coldly rebuked the Idle ques
tioner, "haa nothing to do with It"
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Name la Necessary.
If "A neader." David City. Neb.,
will send his or her name to The Bee,
the letter so signed will be published.
Names are necessary, not for publica
tion, but that the editor of The Bee
may know with whom he ia dealing.
Amending Iowa's Constitution.
To M. L. Zellers, M. D., Hooper,
Neb.: Your postal card note ia a little
nazy, but to, your inquiry we answer:
The constitution of Iowa may be
amended by a majority of the vote
cast on the question submitted.
Knitting for Our Boys.
Omaha, Oct 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: Inyour Sunday issue of a
week ago you had a picture of Grand
ma Thomas, more than 70 years of
age, as sne sat knitting for our boys
across the water. I know Grandma
Thomas well, and the picture and edi
torlal comments which accompany it
are most beautifully pregnant of that
spirit or loyalty and patriotism made
manifest by so many womanly hands
an over our country today. At the
request of her children I am asking
.you to receive my humble tribute to
Grandma Thomas in her work bo im
portant at this time.
ARTHUR L. WARRICK.
Roosevelt Scares Them.
Council Bluffs, Ia., Oct. 22. To the
Editor 6f The Bee: Your editorials
on our hyphenated democratic organ
are good. To me it is perfectly plain
why they never lose an opportunity
to belittle Colonel Roosevelt. They are
scared stilt for fear that Roosevelt
will be the republican nominee in
1920. In their true minds they respect
and rear him as they do no other liv
ing American. This explains why the
democrats refused Roosevelt's request
to raise volunteers and go with them
to France.
Just to think that while Roosevelt
waa touring the country and writing
in magazines and in every way doing
all he could to rouse Americans to
the dangers of Prussian militarism and
our duty as a nation, all this time Sen
ator Hitchcock was trying to get
through congress a bill to prohibit
shipment of foodstuffs and munitions
to the allies, and now they have the
nerve to try and belittle Roosevelt
I guess they won't fool many peo
ple. When Roosevelt ran against
Taft I could not support him but all
I want is a chance now and I think
all republicans feel the same way in
cluding The Bee.
That's what scares the World
Herald crowd.
R. P. STEINWAY.
Credits in Rural High School.
Central City, Neb., Oct 20. To. the
Editor of The Bee: In an interview
with Chancellor Avery at' Lincoln, I
told him of an incident. I said: "Last
week I received a call from our old
home school district south of Clarks
in Polk county, saying that they were
trouble. I asked the nature of their
trouble. 'It is this way,' was the ans
wer. 'Two girls in our district grad
uated out of the eighth grade last
year. They want the ninth grade work,
but the parents of the girls will not
send them away from home. It was
brought up at the annual meeting and
voted to contract with a teacher to
teaeh the ninth grade. The board
made this contract with the teacher
and the girls started to school. After
a while they received a call over the
'phone from the county superinten
dent stating in substance that the state
department had ruled that no credits
could be given for ninth grade work
done In a one-teacher rural school.
Therefore these girls are wasting their
time, and will have to do their work
over to get credit.
".'The parents took the girls ut of
achool and kept them at home. The
girls and the teacher were getting along
well and the girls were learning, and
were in school their home school.
nd now oomes a refusal to recognize
their work, a refusal so strong that
they leave school in discouragement'
"This is the answer I gave: 'Go tell
the parents of these girls that there is
no jurisdiction by the state depart
ment as to how many grades a one
room rural school shall give. -Tell
them that under the contract wi(h the
school board the teacher can be re
quired to give these girls instruction
in the ninth grade subjects.'
" 'Yes, but how about the credits?
was the next question. ,
"Well, chancellor, I Just wanted to
swear and might have if I had only
learned how in time. Here these folks
were thinking more of 'credits' than
of learning, so I Just answered back:
'If the parents and the girls think
more of the credits than they do of
the learning, there is nothing that can
be done. Why do they want these
credits? I then asked. ,
" They are told that they cannot
go on unless they have these credits,'
was the answer."
The chancellor smiled in his genial
way and said, in effect: "The univer
sity has issued a statement to the ef
fect that in admitting a student it will
not require that students coming to
tha university shall show credits for
work done in the ninth or tenth
grades in a one-room rural school or
any school, provided the student can
pass a satisfactory examination, or has
finished his work in the high school
or college.
"We shall Issue a letter soon to the
high schools," he continued, "stating
that if they receive these students
from the rural schools and finish them
in these' schools we will accept them
without further inquiry as to credits
other than to satisfy ourselves that the
student is able to take up the work
he enters for."
While these are not the exact words
of Chancellor Avery they give the sub
stance of his answer.
It Is therefore pla n that it is up to
the parents and t'lc district in which
they live, to require the ninth and
tenth graded in that school. Where
there are too many pupils in one
school it may not be wise to require
the ninth grade, but where there are
only a few children (and there are
more than 3,000 schools with less than
13) you may and should require more
than eight grades. No power but the1
legislature can prevent the district
from doing this if they want to. The
Free High school law does not limit
yon to eight grades.
Parents and school boards, why not
stand up for your rights and the rights
t your children? Never mma tne
credits," get the knowledge. We are
not opposed to the giving of credit,
but we are opposed to its use as a
door to shut our children out of school.
W. H. CAMPBELL.
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"This one, mum," aald Maryt pointing
to the armless Venus of Alllo.
"And why do you like the Venua beat?"
"Sure, tt'a the alsiest to doost, mum,"
answered tha girl.
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