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THE BEE: OMAHA, TflUJiSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, lm. YJliyit Pays To use -Some Things You Want to Know New Ideas in Education. Cm Small Bitcuii V7 1 f The Cheap and Big Can Kind la this cm jn (rt r mtxtiBc bat ( mors itluBf powder, ft b put k qntntiiy ooJjr not la ecesoiny sot fa MtufoctiM. INSTEAD OF CHEAP ANO IIS CAN DAKING POWDER Too simply cannot ret m food re sult from the cheap and big ean N kind the baking cannot be e evenly 'F' .- - WOMVW V V UUIIUIVUf IV MDDot be ai par and wholesome became the Quality li not there. And It cannot be any more eoonoml el. Calumet I medium in prloe the standard 1-lb, size eon eoeta Ho. Lett of It li required nod the baking it certain to be better. Try one can ' If not satlsfaetory your money will be returned Cabinet ReeeW Hlte.t Awmri WerU's Pur Feed KpttiB. FREE large handsome reelpeboek. Send io and slip found in pound eao. Big Bhcutt "Full Valu," Gnu f - ALUMS ..aici!f'!.. 1 YANKEE CnARACTER LAUDED Iranklin and Edwards Two Great Types, Says Prof.. Phelps. OMAHA CLUB HOLDS CELEBRATION Wanhlaitton's Birthday 'Dinner Ok rfd nllk Itanqaet and Addrm.es Vhallcnberger Wsnti Desir able Cltlsene in Of flea. ftparkllng with wit and epigram and bristling with Round, common sense was the addrss. dellvored Tuesday evening at the Washington birthday dinner of the Omaha, club by Prof, William Lyon Phelps of Yale university. ' Tor fully an hour the educator from Old Ell held his audience Intensely Interested In the characters of two great Yankees, Ben jamin Franklin ' and Jonathan Edwards. While paying tribute to these two repre sentatives of American character the speaker did not overlook the virtues of the rather of Ills Country George Wash ington, .to whom he gavo all glory and honor. Covers", were laid at the' dinner for 130 guests. Pinner was served at T:0 o'clock, after which eame the program of toasts, consisting of but three numbers. John Lee Webster acted as toastmaster. Introducing Prof. Phelps and Governor Shallenberger, the latter responding to the toast "Good Cltlsenshlp. " Rousing: Veil Greets Speaker, There was a lusty yell from the gueto when the educator from New Haven rose for his address. The toaetmaster 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 ps.et. "Tho conquest of commerce Is our aim," aald Mr. Webster. "Schools and colleges form the advance guard for the conquer ing of Ignorance and the attainment of commercial success." "Two representatives of American char erten, 'Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin, " was the theme announced by Prof. Phelps. These two men, he aald represem.es every trait In tha good true American. "Franklin and Edwards were exact op posite in character," said the speaker. "Every virtue that we ean attribute to the typical American we can find in the personalities of these two types. "On the one side we see Jonathan Ed wardsdeeply moral, spiritual, Intellectual, highly religious. On tha other aide, we and Benjamin Franklin, practical, useful, humorous. ' . "We ean look upon Ben Franklin only In the light of a great benfactor. He was the most useful man in he world at his time, for. his contributions to American life wer manifold. We can safely call him the greatest American In history. He rep resented the practical in life, the progres sive., the industrious. . . "We tnay represent these two mea' In till another comparison. Edwards was' the reflective, the conservative character; Franklin was the every-day. the useful, th progressive. y ' "Today w might say that Edwards rep resents ; the east and Benjamin " Franklin represents the west. Here we can sea the contrast between the eastern and the, west em man in conquering commerce." Both the east and the west are winning out in the conquests of commerce. In an Interview Prof. Phelps paid a high compliment to the western men In the east ern universities. He declared that they wer among the best students In college; that they were winning out in all fields of endeavor, and that the spirit of th west 1 a valuable Influence In eastern life. Wanted The Cltlirn Mayor. Governor Shallenberger In his address on "Good Cltlsenshlp" sounded a clear note when he lamented th fact that many pub lic spirited men kept out of municipal-affairs. He alluded to the office of mayor and pointed out such characters as General Charles F. Mandersoa and John Lee Web ster as desirable cltttens for the office of the mayor. "The highest tribute to the country Is good cltlsenshlp," said th governor.'. "Th right ef representative government is a great and valuable asset, yet we win that only by personal sacrifice? Things worth having In life are won In this way by personal sacrifice. "The name ef George Washington is one of our greatest among the names of good cttirens. We ean never forget Ills examples, not so long as there Is an' English tongue. We hare freedom today, one of th greatest privileges of eltlsensh.lp.s. In the progress of civilisation Nebraska . must not forget that good citizenship IS one of the most desirable assets in life." . This afternoon, at the request of William M. Davidson, superintendent of publle In struction. Prof. Phelps will address the teachers of the publle schools on "How to Get th Best Out of Books." While In Omaha th eastern educator Is the guest of Victor Caldwell, with whom he graduated from Tala in 183T. This is the U,v wlthout spending everything It makes teacher' second trip in the west, during which he has filled, engagements at Bt Louis, Kansas City and Jefferson City. SOUTH OMAHA PIONEERS OUT IN SPfTE OF COLD Washington's Life Lessons Drawn Modern Reviewed and from . It for t'ae. About tho only formal celebration of Washington's birthday In South Omaha was the rmetlng of th Pioneer Historical society during the evening in Library hall. This meeting was attended by a fair audi ence considering the eold wave which seems to leset these monthly meetings of the pioneers. A program was presented consisting of a review of the life of Wash Ington by Mrs. O. L. Talbot and a discus lon by members of the club. The girl's quartet of the South Omaha High ' choel rendered a number of. selections which enlivened th program materially. .The young women have exceptionally good voices and their efforts were confined to a class of musle well within th rang ef their voices and experience. , Th duet by Mrs. Sage and J. C. Carley was much enjoyed. Only three of the Pioneer quintet were present. These were Carley, Smith and Broadhurst. Ttielr selec tions always please. The South Omaha market and most ef the South Omaha merchants . eonduoted business as usual during the day. The postofflce was closed after 14:M a. m., and the city' halt building , was closed all day. The flags were displayed over ( all publle buildings. A holiday was declared for all the school children during the afternoon, and in most of the schools the teachers gave a period to the discussion of the rea sons for observing the day. , JL . A Break for Liberty from stomach, liver' and kidney trouble ' la made when a ZSe box of Or. King's New Life Pills is bought. For sal by Beaton Drug Co. I , Too ean give Chamfcer'.a:n' Cough Rem edy as confidently to a babe aa to an aduit. Building Permits. i ' Henry Grimm, ISIS ' Boulevard, frame dwelling, $1,800; Frank Krlss, 620 Hickory, frame dwelling, 13.200. k A Maris Shoe Sold on Manly Principles. When you put your foot into a "WolfeV Colambus" She you cot only feel the tense of comfort And satisfaction that goes with a high-grade, well -fit ting shoe, but you know yeu are getting a square deal. We not only give you a better shoe than you can buy at even a greater prkerbut we stand back of tlrSm for wearing qualities. . , - And please remember, we do not sacrifice style,' fit or comfort for long service IGW p Th department pf superintendence of th National Educational association la arrang ing to hold it' annual sessions In Indian apolis beginning .March 1 and continuing four daye." . Upon this body of men de volves th wrork of planning the most ef fective administration of the laws of the states a they relate to- the schools. Expert administration or superintendence I- a comparatively new thing. The office of county superintendent long haa been po litical more than educational. Today the aim is to have every teacher backed up by a Strong superintendent. Even . in the rural communltlea theae superintendents are being selected more for their availa bility as trained school workers than aa politicians to be rewarded for service. Perhaps th most Important movement In tho school world, from a national stand point. Is tha effort to teach scientific agri culture In. the eountry schools. Of course this was Impossible so long a th little red achool house remained the expression of American educational tendencies. No teacher could Impart even a smattering Of agriculture in an ungraded school where he had to ruo the gamut of instruction. But the recent success of the effort to consolidate the rural schools.; and to trans port the children to and from them, has been followed by a movement to toaoh agri culture to them. Ailnt Secretary Hays of th Department of Agriculture," says there are 900.000 little red school houses in the United States, two-thirds of -which are situated In communities where farming Is the principal occupation. He 'believes that th 200,000 situated among farmers could ' be consolidated Into 30,000, so that scientific agriculture could b taught' In each of them. , In these times of .high price's It is Inter esting to note whs.t "effect such a consoli dation and course of Instruction would have ' upon the production of , staple crops in America. It Is a conservative estimate that , the technically trained farmer can get one-half more out of his soil than the man who operates his farm by main strength and awkwardness. But supjae he got only one-fourth more out Of his operations? He -would add 260,000,000 bushels to the annual wheat crop, 600,000.000 bushels to the corn crop, and more than S.000,000 bales to th cotton1 crop. The total Increase on these three crops alone, therefore, would be worth more than $1,000,000,000 at current prices and these do not constitute more than half tho product of th farm. And It is Inevitable that such increases would foroe prices down, so that the world oould on Its living.. The growing demand for teachers of agriculture has meant a corresponding de mand for, higher' courses In that branch of study, aind many of th colleges arid universities are beginning to make a fea ture of courses In it. Dr. T. O. Heatwole of th University of Maryland Is seeking to have established in Baltimore a great school of technology, modejled after . the Massachusetts Institute, where southern youths may be trained in tho higher branches of technical education. Among these branches, of "course, Is agriculture. He takes the view that if the south Is to develop to Its full Industrial possibilities it must have a great school where Its men ean be fitted for leadership in th solution of Ms Industrial problems. While the possibilities of agricultural education are so great, it Is interesting to note that th people apend $29 per capita for tobaeco and liquor and 'only $3.60 for education. They apend $7,O0KO0O for per fumery, $24,000,000 for mineral and soda waters, $11,000,000 for confectionery and only $12,090,000 for school books. What might ' be th result ' to the nation If It were to reverse the proportion and spend $2.60 per capita for drinks and tobacco and $29 for education? Open-air schools for tubercular children ar among the new developments In the educational world, eight cities now having such schools. The children who' are found to be' suffering from tuberculosis are segregated and sent to these schools Just aa many days aa tho weather will permit. It has been found that tho little sufferers themselves are Immeasurably benefited and that at the same time It serves as a great protection for other children. . . , Nearly all Important cities are beginning to eonslder - th health of the children. Statistics were recently gathered from 860 leading American cltiea with a population 3 22,000,000 and an enrollment of 4,000,000. these 211 have examinations to discover Oh presence of transmissible diseases, 234 make examinations for defective vision, 171 for breathing troubles and 119 for bad teeth. Tha legislature 'of Washington has psssed a law providing that no school shall be built hraftr on a alt which affords less than sixty square feet of play ground for each pupil. Th International Kindergarten union Is arranging to hold Its annual convention (n St. Louis this summer. It was there. under the patronage of the lata commie aloner of education. William T. Hariia, that the kindergarten was first made an adjunct of the public schools. The move ment has since enjoyed a . phenomenal growth, with the result that the child who attends knows as much at as the aver age school-boy used to know at 10. NThe National Story Tellers' league also will have a convention this summer. Hamilton W. Mable Is president of the organisation and It Is growing rapidly. The eiffort Is to revive the gentle art of story telling, and each community Is expected to organise a local club. Th league Is now able to support a journal In -the Interest of the movement and high schools everywhere are being Invited to found local clubs. Newton, Mass., haa brought the card In dex Into Its schools. A card Is entered for each pupil when he starts to sohool, giving all the Information about him that Is Im portant for th teacher and the superin tendent to know. As he progresses through the succeeding grades his record Is kept carefully on this card, and In this way his credentials always can be shown wherever he goes. Massachusetts cities, and towns ar famous for their advanced educational ideas, and Lynn haa one that is equal to the best. The Federation of Women's Clubs of that city has undertaken to maintain a juvenle restaurant. It aims to keep a bill of fare suitable for the needs of school children. Coffee is left off th bill as be ing too stimulating for them. A sardine sandwich may be had for I cents, tomato soup for S onnts, a glass of milk for 2 cents, and other things In proportion. Chicken sandwiches and Ire cream, at 6 cents each have, the call, though the average lunch Is said to eost only 6 eents. Some 600 lunches Sre served each day and the business Is self-supporting. Much of the work Is done by' the girls In the cooking classes, who Young America will hail Inspector James L. Hughe of' Toronto as a modern John the Baptlnt crying In the wilderness of ed ucation. He predicts the bookless school. He thinks that each child must be taught by a different method, and the whole thing must be done by the teacher. Other edu eators are being converted to the Idea that the best learning for the child comes, not from books, but from tho minds of good teachers. Chicago's new woman superintendent of schools. Miss Ella FJagg Young, has' In augurated many new departures In school work slnee she assumed the reins of school government. One of these Innovations la to secure the consent of factory owners to the employment of boy In pairs, one boy to work one week and the other the next. In this way the factory Buffers no depletion In the force, while the boys ar enabled to go to school. In this way many a poor family In Chicago can send Its boys to school, the while having an Income from their work. The children's playground movement has reached Its highest success . in Chicago, where STiOO.OOO ' is spent each year. New York, second among the cities in total expenditure, gives only $123,000 to playgrounds. Chicago gives as much to the playground movement as all the other Im portant cities together. , Someone has been gathering' statistics concerning college and hon-oollege women. More than, 3,000 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 emjoylng excellent health, and only eight out of each 1.000 being In poor health. The average college woman . was found to marry later In life, but her family is slightly larger than that of th non college woman. The former also has the advantage of th non-college woman in height and weight, doe perhaps to her athletics. On the other hsnd, college men are lees 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 Cupid's darts. and that in most cases this lasts lor a number of years. . . Perhaps the two most learned boys In the United States are botl; sons of Har vard professors. The work of young Wil liam Jamee Sldts, . who rattles off philo sophic discussions of the fourth dimension and other things no less involved, with the ease of a Mohammedan saying his prayers, recently passed the Harvard entrance ex amination. He finds .a rival n Norbert Welner, who graduated last summer from Tuft's college while .still on, the sunny side of IB. At 18 months he knew the alphabet, at t yeara he could read and welt 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 ana found It easy sailing, . finishing ths four years' course in three years. With all his education he has not lost, his boyish love for sports and athletics. By FKEDiaiOX 3. KASKXST. , Tomorrow Growth of th Telephone. Seniors Observe r Washington Day in Jip COLUMBUS" SHOES AU these thins have just much consideration in th making th wHef qual ity itacU. la tact, they ar mad ia a way that glvn tbtai a snap, st and shape, keeping quality that meet shoes don't kav. Tker'i e eho surprMM fe mot tor yuu-t tb store that Mill "WolU't-Cohimbwa" Shoes. Insist on tbm. ' Te Dealisi m I THE WOLFE BROS, SHOE CO, COLUMBUS, OHIO High Sohool Student! Honor Memory of First President by Formal ' Exercises. The commemoration of the birth' of George Washington was held at Young Men's Christian association building Tues day evening by the atudenta of the Omaha High achool. Th program was in charge of, th senior class of the school, and in pit of th inclemency of the "weather, a good number of the pupils of the high school and their parent wer present. Chandler Trimble, president .of the senior elass. presided at the exercises. Th Rev. E. H. Jenks and Profs. Bernstein and Wool cry addressed the pupils. 1 Mr. .Bernstein made the opening speech, setting forth th possibilities for the pres ent senior class to make a lasting memorial of themselves as a class more by making their class th moat democratic one evet known In th high school than by leaving merely a picture or piece of statuary. . Mr WrtnlArv anrtlr . n tha nurtlla nn h if of Washington and his many noble characteristic, their effect on this country and on th present government of the United Slates. He showed) how Washing ton's great spirit had always worked for the best Interest of ths American people even after hi death and how it wss even now working to make a better government and a better people of th United State of today. Dr. Jenks showed th many Improvements of th present age over th past generation, In both material, moral and aptrltual waya He cited Washington as an example of a perftat American, even though bo did th.nja that la the present age at not even lawfu1. aueh as keeping slaves. He illustrated the great growth ef this nation sine the day of Washington and prophesied ' more and greater thlnga that th rising generation w ould sea. Th remainder of th program consisted mine Sherraden, mandolin duets by Fred Fernald and Robert McCague, accompanied by Severs Susman, and some selections sung by the Omaha High School Glee club. All In these 'little sketches showed that dramatics and music were not being neg lected at the high ' school and they were all mad to give several selections before the crowd would let them go. I BOTH LEGS OFF, MAN DIES George Coomstock, an Old Laboring: Man, Snffers Frightful Accident In Railroad Yards. With both legt cut off, George Coom stock, a laborer, of 261S Korth Thirteenth street,, died In St. Joseph's hospital as the result of an accident on IVo railroad tracks at Fifteenth and Clark streets yesterday afternoon., toomstock was walking home when a switch engine of the Missouri Pacific struck, a car which hit him, knooked him down and passed over his legs. Both were severed, above the knee,' Coomstock, who wus an old man. Was picked up by the members of the engine crew, who notified tho poll co station and the Injured man was attended by Dra. R. B. and T. T. Harris and Dr. Thompson. ' He was then taken to St. Joseph's hos pital, where he diod at S p. m. The engine crew consisted of Engineer Edwards, Fireman Nick Kracht and Fire man Frank Corbett. DRKSS GOODS SALI2 Kill DAY. Draadela Stores Will Sell Flue tan. pie Pieces of $2 Imported Goods at TWo Yard. Five hundred pieces of Imported sample pieces of high-class dress goods will go on special aals Friday at Brandels Storea at a wonderful bargain. This group contains diagonal chevlota. coatings and French dress serges, broadcloths, Venetian suit ings and gray tailored suitings. The lengths range from t to U-yard pieces. They are now on display In our 16th street show windows, and any woman who sees this display will certainly attend th sal. - Worth up to $2 a yard. . Friday on apeolal bargain square at 7Vo yard. BRAND2US STORES. H Pol-0f Otf of Politic ike In attempting to charge up the deficit in his Department against the magazines the Postmaster General has done the country a genuine, even if an unintentional, service. He has drawn attention to the necessity for a thorough reorganization of the Postal Department. He has emphasized the imr portancej of taking the Post-Office out of politics for all time. r 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 Department is in need of radical reorganizationbut from the official reports of this Joint Congressional Postal Commission and of the disinterested accountants hired by it to investigate the business methods of the.Depart hient. 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 1 ; 1MB SMTtm MVMMINQ-POST Then read these extracts from the report of the( public accountants employed by the Joint Com mission ' 1 - ' " Th service has crown from small beffinninm over a long period 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 department, but which would render it practically impos sible for any private business to survive. . " The general absence of any efficient methods of account ing has been brought to light by the inquiry carried out by the Joint Commission on second-class mail matter, tfhis report was referred to Congress on January 80, 1907, and our investigation has confirmed the impression gath- 1 ered from the study of it, that the whole of these methods 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." . Ther e are half-a-dozen more of these extracts on the Editorial page of this week's issue of The j Saturday Evening. Post. , In the Joint Postal Commission's report of 1907 we find: i t "As an Indication of the views at present entertained it ' la proper to say tht 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 postal 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 long terms, so as to insure the continuity of efficient service, and that the Postmaster-General, as a ' , I member of the Cabinet, be chargeable only with general ' supervisory control ana the determination of questions ... , 1 of policy.'' LV""We ask Congress to give us(a Director of Postsas 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 wh6 shall con duct the workings of the Post-Office Department with the efficiency, economy and businesslike; methods, which distinguish high-class American business enterprise. ' ! The Curtis Publishing Company V ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of som humorous recitation by Miss J as