Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-05
T AND NOTIONS.

Ihere Is no immediate probability that
Mr.. Rothschild or any of his family or
Mr.. 1ckelheimer will give up his business
and move to Palestine, despite the large
amount of enthusiasm manifested at the
recent Zionist congress held in Basel. The
Rothschild family could buy the entire
country without having to mortgage their
home or call in all of their investments
elsewhere. If any present resident objects
to selling out. the RothSchildS could doubt
less procure condemnation proceedings by
twisting the tail of some of the monarch
ical beasts which feed in their pastures.
Palestine is not such a bad country to live
In. and inasmuch as there are already TO-
0N Jews there, it would not be so strange
IL the Children of the Promise all over the
world should drift back to the old country
and possess it. Many of them, while not
so well fixed as Ickelheimer, are doing too
well where they are among the Gentiles,
hut many would be willing to CO. The plan
is much more promising than that of Mr..
DebS.
Mr.. w. z. kearns, of Topeka, arises to
call attention to the case of 5.0CO,OG0 farm
hands. He declares that the householding
farmer is to the farm hand as much of a
tyrant and oppressor and plutocrat as the
money power" is believed to be toward
the farmer. The m movement and
the Populist party ave done almost moth
Ing. Mr.. Kearns declares, toward improv-
ing the conditions that are so intolerable
to the wage-earnig people of the farms.
The promoters declared it to be designed
for the uplifting of the lower classes of
society and of the agricultural people, yet
the lowest and humblest class of the farm
Ing people themselves were entirely ig-
nored. Mr.. kearns declares that farm
hands UQf InGC nary 1~I --,> $500 A.
blessings of civilization than other work.
men and that the farmer is supposed to
own their time. yea their very selves. soul
and BODY. Now hat attention is called to
this we expect to see a special session of
the Kansas legislature called to raise the
wages and fix the hours of farm laborers,
Will you do it. Populist brethren?
President Jordan's theory of college dis
cipline is a sound one: 1.-THE petty re-
straints that may aid in the control of co.,
lege sneaks are an insult to college men
end college women" But it is possible to
abuse the declaration that "a college can
not take the place of a parent" Not alto
gether, that is true; 1t cannot undertake
10 do sp~anking-more's the pity sometimes.
But yet a college government cannot act
altogther like the government of a city.
For instance. a city has not the privilege
OF separating offenders from its COM
munion. Yet this is apparently the only
penalty approved by President Jordan, 1t
Is a good one. But Mr.. Jordan certainly
does not want the world to understand that
his faculty never give students t~heshenefit
OF advice and admonition. A college is like
no other institution. The faculty do and
must stand in a measure in loco PARENTS.
Yet as between parents and children, the
more nearly students can b. treated as
self-governing men and women, the bet
ter. But even the state Furnishes,
President Gilman suggests that the much
talked of national university take the
smithsonian institution as its nucleus.
Doubtiess the chief consideration in the
mind OF most disinterested scholars In ad-
vocating a national university has been
that the library Of congress, the Smith
oman institution and other great store
houses OF culture in Washington would
FURNISH to hand a great part of the equip
ment, or, rather. that the national uni
versity would be primarily an organized
effort to make systematic use of these
treasures. More or less rivalry and jeal-
ousy will hamper the attempt to establish
a teaching university at the national ex-
pense, but a! research university, with
scholars of national repute as supervisors.
lHtI OWL l0VeSIlgas
lions. but paid to give a portion of their
time to advising and directing younger
scholars. is an ideal which would deserve
universal approval.
Professor Peck, of Columbia, is making
RAPID progress toward acquiring general
reputation as a snob. Awhile ago he in
formed US that education is too common.
Now The brushes "Fonetik Refawrm" with
the declaration that it is ''hopelessly. UNI
speakably and sickeningly vulgar" which
men and women of taste and refinement
VIII reject with a shudder of disgust" OF
course no person who makes any preten-
sions to taste and refinement will dare.
after that to leave the me" Off the word
programme, or write tho" for though.
We don't write that way ourselves. But
we recall that German culture and
scholarship has in the past twenty
years approved and adopted a spell
ing reform. True, the Germans al
ways were a little brusque and rude in
their manners. To be frank with Pro-
lessor Peck. there is no surer expression of
hopeless and unspeakable intellectual con-
ceit than to call opposing opinions vulgar.
we don't like too much 'fonetik refawrm''
ourselves.
Andrew Lang. in Cosmopolis, gives fer
vent expression to the feelings of dumb
thousands regarding Hall Gaines The
CHRISTIAN He calls the book "a noisy,
tedious thing of froth. not fire." 1.-The
moral purpose of the art, like that of a
namooyant poster. may charm the Hitter
ate, but literature has no concern with
such work as The Christian nor true re-
ligion and undefiled with the hero" Some
good people think much better of the book
than this, but those who have been unable
TO feel anything else than WEAKNESS and
disgust toward the book will be comforted
and strengthened by the support of so
good and sane a judge as Andrew Lang.
he does not even concede to the book any
considerable artistic value, holding it to be
inferior to Mr.. Gaines other books.
PRESIDENT Tucker. of INT college.
saiu some very ~straightout things last
month at the Plymouth church Jubilee
his general theme was that the church
must lose itself. or be willing to lose itself
IN ana tor humanity. BY this Mr.. Tucker
concerned the notion that the church is
an emo IN itself. 1t has been regarded too
exclusively as an institution for securing
indiVldual salvation for its members. a mu-
.uai hre insurance company for the world
to come. But Mr.. Tucker wants In 900 IN
the church. not preparation for something
to come. but participation in something
present incidentally. Mr.. Tucker said
some refreshing things about the annals
ing doctrine OF the arbitrary election of
the few against the many as the old
ideal OF a church saved out of the world
opposed to the ideal which he advocated
OF a world redeemed by the church A
great many people nave thought these
thoughts. but 1t means progress when tho
head Of a great UNCONVENTIONAL school can