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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1910.
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Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
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Does Dr. Cook's new grammar con
tain the pronoun "I"?
Congressman Burton Harrison can
not bo expected to exult over the open
door policy.
What the democrats so much dis
like about President Taft Is that he is
making good.
And now the city building Inspector
is asking for an automobile at public
expense. Next!
Now, all you people who have been
wanting to know what the colonel
would do when he returned ask him.
Noptune is too wise an old god to
deny the freedom of the ocean to a
man who could make the sphynx talk.
Now comes some advanced reformer
and urges us to conserve our wisdom.
But what will we use In the mean
time? Carry the big stick, but speak softly.
That is, when you hit a man, hit him
so hard that he will never come back
at you.
Judging from the earmarks of that
letter, our old friend, "Tom" Black
burn, must also be coddling a "sting
of Ingratitude."
Pennsylvania boasts of a cow that
sold for $3,000. Pooh, why, Nebraska
has cows whose sirloin steak would
bring that much.
The Houston boy who swallowed
the bottle of Indelible Ink doubtless
meant to draw the color line more dis
tinctly In Texas.
It Is taking a mean advantage of a
man for all these democrats to an
nounco their candidacies while Mr.
Bryan is touring 8cotland.
y Douglas county la accredited ' four
delegates in the coming populist con
vention. Where are the four? Here
Is a chance for volunteers.
, Chicago's offer of 12 5,000 to any
aviator who will fly from New York to
Chicago looks like a cheap scheme to
divert population from Gotham.
Somebody asks why the colonel did
not commit himself on the Dronosittnn
of abolishing the House of Lords. The
colonel discusses only live topics.
Dundee has Just votod bonds for
new pavements and Btrect Improve
ments. All right, Omaha will help
'pay the debt off after annexation.
Even at that. Isn't It a trifle expen
sive to the taxpayers of Omaha to
make them pay $8,263,295.49 Just to
ee the Bee Building company replace
one tenant with another?
Texas Is making rapid progress and
It Is due, no doubt; to the fact that so
many Nebraskans are lending tuoir aid
to the state's development, meantime
retaining their residence here.
The Americans sat by and watched
those British, German and French fel
lows flip around In their little air boats
and then, getting Impatient, showed
them how to navigate the air.
Life Insurance claims paid In Ne
braska during . the year 1909 are said
to aggregate 1,300,000. How much
wat takva wt f Nebraska for pre
miums on life policies la not stated.
The Eailroad Bill.
The new railroad bill as reported
out of conference committee is prac
tically assured of becoming a law in
that form without further change. The
bill, "as is always the caso with such
far-reaching legislation, has been mod
ified In various features from the orig
inal draft as Introduced, but still re
tains most of the important provisions
urged by the president, and tbo
changes have, for the most part, been
In the direction of strengthening and
filling in the first outline.
The new railroad bill breaks ground
particularly In throo Important sec
tions. First, in the creation of a commerce
court, which Is to be made up of five
judges detailed from the circuit bench,
and to have, exclusivo Jurisdiction, sub
ject to limited appeal, over all cases In
which orders of the state commerce
commission ' aro questioned. This
court Is to be a special court dealing
with this one subject, expediting the
litigation that may come before It and
doing away with the delays' ot the
present system, which often amount to
denial of Justice.
Second, the enlargement ot the
power of the Interstate Commerce
commission over Tates. Hitherto the
commission has had no authority to
take any action except on complaint,
but now under the new law It will be
able to Inaugurate proceedings of its'
own Initiative wherever the rate sheets
filed by the railroads appear to be un
warranted.
Third, the Jurisdiction of the Inter
state Commerce commission la ex
tended to embrace telephone, tele
graph and cable companies, putting
the latter in the same class with other
common carriers engaged In interstate
traffic.
There are other provisions of
scarcely less Importance, euch as the
long and short haul clause, the com
mission to Investigate stock and bond
Issues and the penalty clauses. '
The new railroad bill and the postal
savings bank bill will stand out with
out question as the two great measures
of constructive legislation of the pres
ent congress.
When the original interstate com
merce act was passed It gave the Im
petus for creation of Btate railway
commissions in nearly all of the states,
and this new railway legislation may
be expected to be a starting point, also,
for further legislation giving the state
commissions corresponding authority
and power where they do not already
possess it.
Canada Seeks Trade Treaty.
In view of the independent at
tltude Canada betrayed toward' the
United States' proposal of reci
procity some months ago, the Canadian
government's request now for a trade
treaty with this country 1b of unusual
significance. Canada has Indicated to
Secretary rtnox. Its desire to begin ne
gotiations for a treaty as soon as pos
sible, which in all probability will be
early In the autumn.
The United States has much to gain
from the right sort of treaty with
Canada. This country is in a much
different situation commercially . than
It was ten years ago, when almost any
Bort of treaty with us would have been
a material aid to Its developing Indus
tries, but now it Is able to obtain better
terms for itself. Of course Canada's
present Bollcltude is for its wood pulp
Industry. It all but has a monopoly on
spruce wood and Its business from that
source Is securing about $10,000,000 a
year. It Is supplying the United States
with 23 per cent of Its pulp wood and
seven-tenths of Its wood pulp, and
American capital is seeking investment
In paper mills over the line.
These figures clearly indicate ' the
wisdom of Canada's fortifying this In
dustry with a measure of tariff pro
tection, and In view of the fact It be
hooves the United States to proceed
with negotiations that will give us a
fair trade-reciprocity treaty. It Is not
the time to talk of what might have
been accomplished a decade ago, for
the United States still may derive much
actual benefit from such an agreement
and it cannot blame Canada for seek
ing to "protect Its own. Industries. Cer
tainly we should desire the most har
monious trade relations with the Do
minion that it is possible to establish
without sacrificing any of our own in
terests. 1
See America Firit.
Two years ago the railroads insti
tuted a movement they call "See Amer
ica First," designed to stimulate travel
In the United States, and though funda
mentally commercial from the rail
roads' standpoint, it was educational
as well in its results and should
havo been maintained with vigorous
effort. But this year more .Amer
icans are going to Europe than
ever bofore, and they, will scatter
added millions in the various countries
over the Atlantic.
European travel, too, is educational
and a means of culture and knowledge
tor those who can afford It, not to be
discouraged, but it is nevertheless a
fact that mony of the travelers could
got more education and aa much cul
ture of a practical sort nearer home.
In Europe, Berlin is Germany, Paris is
France, London is England, but In the
United States no city, no single state.
represents in any fair measure the
characteristics of the nation to the
man seeking a knowledge of the coun
try. What can one tell of California
who has never been outside of Boston
or New York? Or what does he know
of the Yellowstone who has only seen
the Green mountains of New England?
Or what does the man who has lived
his life in Chicago know of the
great northwest, with its fertile pral
ries and boundless resources? What
do half the people of tle country know
of the-south, its resources, industries
and living problems? Ours Is a cosmo
politan nation, and a land whose topog
raphy, climate, horticulture, agricul
ture, fauna, Industries, vary radically
with different sections and localities,
so that to obtain anything like an in
telligent knowledge of the country,
one has to go over It and study It. And
it is large chough and interesting
enough to engage a traveler for an in
definite length of time.
Ambassador James Bryce, one of the
greatest world travelers, says he found
In tho United States the most sublime
scenery in the world. Americans who
spend annually $4,000,000 seeing Eu
rope, ought to be able to get as much
pleasure and profit out of the beauties
and interest of their own land as this
English statesman. It will do us good
as American citizens and patriots, to
say nothing of our education, to culti
vate this "See America First" fad.
Poor Oklahoma.
Oklahoma deserves all the sympathy
and commiseration generous folk may
give it. It has a poor chance to make
a decent start In lifo as a state. To
begin with it was encumbered with a
constitution for which Mr. Bryan him
self modestly admits he drew the plans
and specifications, and then it had for
Its first governor Charles N. Haskell.
What could be expected but trouble
for an Infant commonwealth with such
ail' Incubus upon it? Its young life
thus far has been a period of blunder
and mistake. It has been embarrassed
at every turn of the road and held up
to tho contumely of its older sister
states until its own people must feel
the pain of such circumstances. To
be sure, Mr. Bryan, after ho had
drafted this constitution, told us it
was the best constitution any state in
the union had. But it has not worked
out that way. Mr.- Bryan also pro
claimed Governor Haskell the Ideal
man for the place. Well, the governor
has been at such great disadvantage
since certain governmental Investiga
tions began down there that he has
scarcely had a fair opportunity to dis
play all his glowing virtues about
which Mr. Bryan Informed us.
One of the paramount laws in Okla
homa is the initiative and referendum,
for which, In Nebraska, Mr. Bryan has
sought, so persistently to force an ex
tra session of the legislature. It is
through and by virtue of this law that
the people have recently voted in Okla
homa on the proposition to remove
the state capital from Guthrie to Okla
homa City, and the law worked with
such pre-eminent success that the
people cannot tell which city Is their
capital. When the first news of the
returns came the governor seized his
coat and hat and went to Oklahoma
City and set up headquarters in a
hotel, proclaiming that the capital, but
he was followed In a short time by a
federal officer witha writ to estop him.
Now they have two state capitals pend
ing disentanglement. .. , .
Assuredly Oklahoma, with ,. all its
magnificent natural resources, is an
object of sympathy.
The governor of Oklahoma transacts
business under the official seal of the
state, while the assistant secretary ot
state uses what is supposed ' to be a
duplicate seal. But this is not the
first incident of the kind on record.
Nebraska's embezzling" "state treasurer
was pardoned out of the penitentiary
under a seal other than the official seal
of the state. The latter was in the
office of the secretary of state, but the
seal used by the governor was an old
one found stowed away In a dark vault.
Tho Post does not xchana with tha
Omaha World-Herald,. . but . the Memphis
News-Sclmltar tells us that tho World
Herald declares tho Post is a mouthntcca
of corporations. For (ho benefit of the lead
ing public we will say that a "mouthpiece
of corporations" Is the aDDellation usuallv
applied by' small demagogues to newspapers
that nro not Impregnated with populism,
aslnlnity or other forms of congenial in
sanity. Houston Post.
The Houston .Post exchanges with
the Jeading paper in each city. It is
on Tho Bee's list.
Speaking of the retirement after
twenty-two years of service ot the
president of Lincoln's Public Library
board, the Star of that .city declares,
"Had the office been elective and sal
aried it is almost a cinch that none so
good could ever have been induced to
try for It." Alas and alack! What
treason to the sacred initiative and
referendum!
While it is hardly within the Juris
diction of the Police board, tha recom
mendation of its scouting committee
that more cars be furnished during the
rush hours to facilitate street railway
traffic will strike a popular chord with
the concatenated society of strap
hangers, whose membership is con
stantly Increasing in Omaha.
All of the reports to get Mr. Bryan
into the senatorial race by putting
pressure on him through petitions sent
out from Lincoln carefully refrain
from stating where the petitions orig
inated. We trust Mr. Bryan O. K'd.
the form as satisfactory to him before
he left for Europe.
How many more saloons do the
brewers propose to plant In Omaha?
We now have one liquor license to
every 600 ot the population. The
next demand will be for a limitation
of the number to one to 1,000, county
option or no county option.
Through his newspaper organ Con
gressman Hitchcock announces that he
is on principle opposed to any retire
ment allowance to superannuated gov
ernment employes unices the pension
i
fund comes out of the employe's
wnges. Wage workers will pleaso take
notice.
Observe that the Flexner report on
medical education advisee the Junction
of the two halves of the College ot
Medicine of the University of Ne
braska, preferably at Omaha, where
alone the necessary clinical material Is
available.
When Mr. Roosevelt first took office
wo were boasting a population of 75,-
000,000. Today wo claim all the way
from 90,000,000 to 100,000,000. Then
Bay the people did not adopt bis
policies.
Reformer Elmer Thomas has at last
paid a visit of consolation to his old
pal, Convict Erdman, who happens to
be detained in Jail. The only wonder
Is that he did not send his wife In
stead. Vp-tn-thc-MlnutP Kenture.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In order to add another feature never
dreamed of on the original return from
Elba, why doesn't some rough rider of the
air take an aeroplane flight out to meet
hlmT
1'oHtteal Pine Dreams.
Chicago Record-Herald.
If anyone in Washington la losing sleep
over the imagined "new party" hints In
Plnchot-Oarfleld utterances he is worrying
about the faintest shadow ot the idlest
dream.
Upholding Professional Glory.
New Tork World.
The feat of a lone highwayman in hold
ing up a tralnload of passengers In New
Mexico shows that the profession of train
robbery at least has suffered no deteriora
tion under the civil service rules.
The Rich Have Their Troubles.
Indianapolis News.
With so many people being robbed ot
valuable Jewelry and being fined for try
Ing to fool tho customs officers It will be
seen that the rich have other troubles In
addition to the perplexities caused by the
high cost of living.
Hopeful Si KB for Missouri Editors.
St. Louis Republic
We are glad that that newspaper man's
home Is td be but fourteen miles from St.
Louis, for the 2-cent rate Is a thing of the
past In this commonwealth and print paper
is still going up. But almost any of us
could walk fourteen miles.
Novelty In Saloon Reform.
New York Tribune.
Dispatches from Cincinnati tell of the
Indictment for four saloon keepers for vio
lations of law on evidence collected by the
Ohio Brewers' "Vigilance bureau. The
Ohio brewers are on the right track. They
can themselves end many of the abuses
which have brought the liquor trafflo Into
disrepute and encouraged so widespread i
recourse to prohibition as their only ef
fective remedy.
An Old Railroad Cry.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe Is the
radical conservative of the country. He
now Insists that railway owners are re
sponsible for a management they can not
control. Many of them pleaded this 'as
defense some, years ,ago, when indicted
for offenses before reform began. And
late revelations of mismanagement In the
buying ot materials and supplies for tha
Illinois Central, with which the govern
ment has had nothing to do, indicate that
some railway management Is always badly
neglected.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Possibly r tha well-known - tendency of
Speaker Cannon to run over people ex
plains the refusal of congress to equip him
with an automobile.
An American woman who, by discussing
politics In Berlin, managed to stir the calm
waters of diplomacy, was unhampered by
any knowledge of the subject under de
bate, and, following precedent, made the
most of the opportunity.
Charles N. Prouty, T2 years old, a wealthy
no manuiaciurer, in spencer, Mass., a
church deacon end state senator for many
years, won a twelve-mile walking match
from B.' Eugene Browning, a prominent
merchant.' The match was from the town
hall at Spencer to Franklin square, Wor
cester, and Mr. Prouty won by seven min
utes. , .
Frankle McClure of Gabbcttsvllle, Ga.,
who is 11 years old, can dispatch trains
and operate the telegraph key kust as
plaverly as her foater father, who has been
in the business raoro than twenty years.
The girl learned telegraphy when she was
6 years old, and. It Is said, that she takes
as much amusement in it as other girls
do with dolls.
Twenty-eight years ago George Fiderell
died In Pittsburg. At the time of his
death he had (300 on deposit In a savings
bank. The bank has been trying ever
since to locate his heirs, but only suc
ceeded In doing so a few days ago, when
it handed to William Fiderell of Salem.
O., hl brother and only surviving heir,
the sum of $1,16184.
Cleveland has a viaduct with a draw
bridge on IC Cautious people might think
that automobile scorchers would drive
carefully there. But the other night a
young man driving en automobile, ap
parently at the rate of from forty to
fifty miles an hour. Ignored the warning
lights of the open draw, dashed through
tha Iron gates and fell to his death ninety
feet below.
Our Birthday Book
' Tone 10, 1910.
General Wesley Merrltt, retired as brlga
dlsr general of the United States army,
was born June 18, . M38. After serving
through the war In the union army he
made several Indian campaigns In the
west, and was also in command in the Phil
ippines during the Spanish-American war.
Robert Cuscaden, violinist, is celebrating
his thirty-first birthday. lie was born In
Chlllcothe. O., but educated In Omaha and
later studied abroad. He now resides In
Berlin, where he Is devoting himself to bis
profession.
Fred K. Penney, retired banker, was born
June Is. 1S58. at Adams, N. Y. lie has been
In the banking and merchandise business
In various cities In Iowa and Nebraska,
and still retains bis Interest In the First
National bank of Wood River.
William T. Denney, railroader for twenty
seven years, la fit years old today. He Is
grand chancellor for the Knights of Py
thias of the domain of Nebraska, having
been elected to that position a year ago.
Dr. Frederick D. Renner, one of the
pioneers of Otoe county, was born June 16,
IS. In Bavaria. He located In Nebraska
City In MM. where ha established the Ne
braska etaete Zcltung. removing to Omaha
In 1371 te resume preeUvn of pie tu-pfss-slon,
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Around New York
mipplss oa the Current ot X.lfe
aa la the Orsat Amsrloaa
Metropolis from Bay to Day.
Cheered on Its "square deal" policy by a
coirt ruling conden.nlng the practice of
making butter cartons a part of the wolght
of the contents, the New Tork City bureau
of weights and measures aro Riving retail
butchers a run tor their skewers. An offi
cial of the bureau calculates that last year
5.S7.S62 pounds ot wood In skewers and
spieadors were sold to the ultimate con
sumer at meat prices. Hereafter any
butcher found welshing In this wod will
bo prosecuted. The activities of the bureau
has sent the retailers on a chase for new
scales, thousands of which havo b-en pur
chased recently. This fact shows how ex
tensive has been the use cf falsa weights
by many classes of retailers. High prices
and short weights iiavc In far too many
castes been the lot ot tho consumer.
Aviator Hamilton, hero of the flight from
New York to Philadelphia and reutrit, Is
a young man from New liilto In. Conn.,
rivaling raullian In daring and skill. He
can make a biplnno do things. Just before
sundown on Saturday, notwithstanding a
driving rain and a brink wind, lie muda
what has been described as a "night attack
upon New York harbor" that -is. ho showed
what an aeroplane, carrying u cargo of
dynamite, might have done In distributing
condensed earthquakes, but the notnhle
thing about his bour-and-utx-mlnutu flight
was the expei'tncss and daring ot his dips,
curves and upfllghts. One thrilled reporter
described It as "Weird, wild, grlpptiig.
Never before In tho history of New York
was there such a sight. II set tho imag:nn
tlon afire." One of tho thrilling tricks with
which Hamilton entertained spectators was
to fly Just above tho water level directly
In the course of an approaching tug, main
taining the low course until tho tug pilot
was almost frantic from fear of an antici
pated collision. Just when tho collision
seemed inevitable, however, the pilot of the
airship would lift thirty feet higher and
sail above the water craft.
When a smoking car, with thirty-five
passengers, on tha New York. New Haven
& Hartford, near West Roch-.'lle, on the
Boston Jay express, jumped tho track, a
railroad engineer in the tar, off duty, yelled
to the paetongcrs to "hang on Unlit," and
while the car turned ovor no one was hurt.
"Hang on tight" is good advice In most
upsets. The man who hangs on tight to
himself when his temper is upset will get
through without hurling either himself !
or others. The man who "hangs on t'ght"
to his earnings ends with a competence.
The man who "hangs on tight" to his
place, when business upsets come, gener
ally holds down the job. 1
When Aaron Litzsky, who runs a second
hand furniture store at 2378 Second ave
nue, was engaged with his wife In gliding
pjcture frames a woman came In and
expressed vlolen disapproval of an Ice
box she had bought earlier in the day.
"My money back!" she Tried to Litzsky.
He could not see It that way. She raised
her voice to such a pitch that several young
men ran in. When they heard her story
they sided with her. Then Litzsky, losing
his temper, picked up a two-foot-hih can
of (lit paint and hurled It at the woman
and her sympathizers.
They wero slathered with the ' golden
fluid. A youth grabbed a second can of
the paint and poured its contents on Lltz
sky's head. It saturated him from head to
toe. All he needed was a horse and a mo
ment's calm to look the statue of Sher
man at the entrance to Central park. And
Mrs. Litzsky, rushing to her husband's res
cue, soon looked Just like St. Gauden's
bronze trafflo policewoman on the same
pedestal. j
The , row finally reached such a height
that the police were called. The woman
who started the row faded away before
the peacemakers arrived, but, the gilded
youths and painted boss were there.
A short woman, wearing a white shirt
waist and a hat with three apples on It,
grabbed by the neck a chunky young man
who held a ticket In his right hand in the
waiting room of the Lackawanna railroad
station in Hoboken at 8:30 o'clock yester
day afternoon and screamed, "Give me my
ticket!"
"Gug-gug-gug," gasped the gagged
stranger as he struggled to release her
grip.
The station eop went to the man's res
cue and gently Inquired what the rumpus
was all about.
Ho's got my ticket," said the woman.
"I haven't," growled the man. "I paid
for it, and It's mine."
"Well, it looks like mine," explained
the woman. "It's tha same shape and
color. I put It in my bag. whioh 1 placed
on the seat, and I saw him walk away
from it"
"Why don't you look In your bag and
make surer' suggested the cop.
The woman took a peck and found her
ticket.
"Men shouldn't carry their tickets In
their hands," said the policeman ae he
backed away from the backing wointn and
backing man.
Two venerable documents, one a grant
oy George III, made In I'M to tho com
mon people of the town of Jamaica, giv
ing thom the right of assembly and the
control of lands, and tho other the origi
nal charter ot the Long Island railroad,
figure in an interesting fight In the Queen's
County court. Tho fight is over the clos
ing by the railroad of old Hamilton street,
in the suburban town of Hollls. which was
laid out before the Revolutionary war. In
the ancient minutes of Jamaica the street
was designated as one of the "King's high
ways." The company makes no denial, but
says It was entitled to the street by Its
charter, granted 100 years after the time
of George II L .
THE COMMBIICB COMMISSION.
rowers of Railroad Ilegalatloa Ave
Vastly Increased.
Washington Post.'
With the broadened scope and enlarged
powers vouchsafed by recent court de
cisions and new legislation, the Interstate
Commerce commission Is taking rapid
strides In importance among . the instru
mentalities of government. At one time
since Its establishment in 18S7 Its authority
had been materially circumscribed by the
courts; but with the more recent, broader
Interpretations of the railroad laws the
commission's original assumption as to its
rights and duties have been admitted to the
full, and more.
Within the last few weeks Its hands have
been strengthened by the decision (.gainst
the railroads In the Missouri-Mississippi
freight rate case, which was strongly
fought, and which some of the western
magnates pronounce more Important In its
results than the government's Injunction
ult. Commenting on the decision in ques
tlon, the Railway Age Gasette says that
the victory of the commission "In what
may be called the boldest order It ever
made foreshadows the final triumph of the
Idea that, as judges of the facte In rati'
way rate questions, the Interstate Com
merce commission shall be recognized as
the supreme authority." The Gazette goes
on to say that the question which will come
before the commission In the Immediate
future, as the result ct the decision,
promise to be of the weightiest character.
Angrily, the Gasetto feels moved to say
that "a majority of the members of con
gress and about M per cent ot the voters
seem to think that any measure of rate
regulation which comes short of confiscat
ing the railway's property Is not only rea
sonable, but desirable and necessary." It
hopes Increased power will give the com
mission a higher sense ot responsibility, .
No less signal, though perhaps pot so
far-reaching, Is the victory the commis
sion has Just scored over the Pullman
company. The latter asked tha courts to
enjoin the commission from lowering the
sleeping car rates, but the federal circuit
court, In a doelslon handed down at Chi
cago, upheld the commission, and thus
established Its authority In a new direction.
DeclKiona in pending litigation and the
passage of the new railroad law promise
still further to Increase its powers.
THE WAT OF IT.
His hnlr Is red instead of black,
As she had planned for him;
Ills eyes that should be black as Jet
Are gray, but full of vim;
Ills stature Is not great, his looks
Scarce warrant him a thought;
But her thoughts go flying to him;
She doesn't check them, but she ought.
In fervor oft he's locking.
There's a hase o'er his designs;
She wonders what he's driving at.
And she tries to "grab the lines;"
Of eon me he doesn't permit her
He keeps serene his place
And she she's simply glad to drive
With him at any pace.
Now, In the game of lite we play,
'Tis he should lend the ace,
And she play her five upon It,
With shy, reluctant grace:
But, alas, she sometimes leads a five
He takes It with a lx.
The ace Is still a mystery
Unsolved oh, fiddlesticks
Omaha. Bayoll Ne Trele.
Talks for people
Colleu-e Athletics and Advertising;.
A certain politician is said to have
made the remark that he did not care
what the newspapers said about him,
whether It was good or bad, as long
as they kept saying something about
him. This politician had apparently
learned one of the fundamental prin
ciples of advertising.
The college teat is strong In athletic
sports receives much free advertising,
whether or not the faculty regards it
as good or bad.
There are few subjects so much dis
cussed among educators as college
athletes. In these discussions they
all overlook one point the commer
cial value of athletics to the college as
advertising.
No boy or girl want to go to an unknown
college, if they can manage to go to one
which is well known. It is the oollege,
mentioned most often in the newspapers
with which most people are familiar.
College sports are the spectacular side of
college life In America. It Is a part of
college life, that appeals to human interest,
and newspapers naturally devote spaoe to
the base ball and foot ball teams, the crews
and track teams. The class room has no
spectacular features and it lacks the ele
ments of what the city editor calls "a news
story." It is hot surprising that the foot
ball captain Is written about in the papers
and the professor Is Ignored.
Nevertheless, do not overlook that fact
the college is mentioned just the same. Its
name is repeated time and again. It is
kept in the strong light of publicity, which
has a value, regardless of any other con
sideration with reference to the effect of
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Mirthful remarks.
"Don't you think Smith has an odd ten
per'"
"No, he has a bsd temper, but I would
not call It an odd o.ie."
"But you've Just said Is wasn t vy'.
Baltimore American '
"I thought I told you to stop smoking."
said the doctor, severely. )
"I tried to," replied the patient, "but I
haven't the heort to disappoint the mem
bers of my family who look to me for pr.ze
coupons and base ball pictures." Washing
ton Star.
"In thtve days of high prices," ssld th
piengrr In the threadbare Prince Albert,
'It Is all I can do, on my salary, to keep
soul and bortv together."
"Yes?'' said the pasnenger with the skull
cap, making a rapid guess. "You are cither
a college professor or the editor of a churoti
paper, 1 presume." Chicago Tribune.
"Do you consider that tho money spent
on your win's college education was a good
Investment T"
"I should say we do. You Just ought t
see the curves that boy can put overl"
Houston Post. (
It Is said that the Nlcarnguans would
rather fight than eat.
Hut don't Jump at the conclusion that
this Is an Indication of greit courage.
It may mean poor cooking Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Is your wlfo going to Europe this sun,
mer?"
"No. 1'vo brliied a fortune toller to warn,
her to wnteh for a slim blond woman wli'V
Is coming Into my life." Cliio.igo ltecoi V
Herald.
"Do you believe that hor-.-shoes bring
luck?"
"I do. If they're attached to the win
ning horse." Buffalo Express.
"If I were the aviator you were ipek
Ing of, I would not take my wife with
me on my air voyages."
"Why not7"
"Because they both happen to be of a
"What of that?" '
"My dear fellow, consider the serious ef
fects of their fnlllng out on the voyne "-
Baltimore American,
who sell things
college athletics. Everyone has observed,
that strength in athletics has Its effect oa
college attendance.
Everyone reads newspapers and, whether
they are strong minded or weak minded,
they are Influenced by what they read. It
Is not true, that the average person is
much Influenced by the consideration of
whether the college has put forth a suc
cessful foot ball team, but It is a fact,' that
the frequency with which they hear the
college name and the constant hearing cf
something about a college, has a gresl In-
fluence In the public estimate of tluz In
stitution. The strong teajn gives the newspaper a
reason for giving the college space in its
news columns. With most educational In
stltutions, the news of athletics Is the only
news from the college, that comes to
newspaper. The fact, that a college gain
a reputation for training the muscles, a
well as the mind, may have Its value, but
Is Is apt to put the college in a false light.
This is not always the fault of the news
papers; more often. It Is the college, that
neglects Its own opportunities of sending tc
the newspapers news of a different char
acter. It Is not necessary, however, that 8J
college should depend upon such free adver
tising, as t may get In a haphazard way.
Newspaper spaoe is for sale for the purpose
of advertising. Advertising Is a force that,
can he used to not only keep the college la 1
the publlo eye, but it will convey whatevet
Impression Is desired by' the college man
agement t
Everyone - recognizes the tremendous
power of the press, in Influencing oplrson.
Advertising Is the part of this great force,
winch is legitimately for sale. If you bun
it, its value depends on how you use 1U
Advertising can be used to educate people
to know any Institution any business any
line of goods as It really Is.
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