The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-24
VALUE OF PUGET SOUND.

Journal Of Education. May -.

EilensburG school.
Journal of Education May Is
WASHINGTON IS a state Of SUCH poss.hSli-
ties that 70 racoun. her FEATURES OF ses-
csal promise, would seem 10 Dc drawing
on the imagination. The Sound would Re
a fortune 80 any state IN the untou. while
/ - Washington. with such ertesprislng sea-
port cities as Tacoma and Seattle, .!;h
score of other cities in germ, opening
| up all the coast trade south and the ever
growing and now booming Alaskan bus
ress and Offering ma.chiess facilities for
| the trade OF China and Japan. Puget sound
| is veritable bonanza On the shores %
| this vast body OF water IS land IN guam
tity and quality equal 70 the making II
. an empire when the enterprise OF the
Western country and The courage OF East
| ern capital can harmonic for that rar-
| pose Then the state as whole has such
| nmitiess resources in timber. coal, god.
silver. wheat fields. fruit lands and cattle
ranges that the fiight Of dreams Is nee
essary 20 hint ar what VIII some TIME ne
| in the state that adopts tne name Or the
Father OF His Country 70 Symbolic the
seed OF Abraham, the Father OF the
Faithful" who have peoQled and cars
tianized civilized lands.
do not forgive the conspiracy Of cir
cunstances THAI robbed ne q TINE u
know Tacoma and Spokane. cities whose
fortune OF location and taVorl;asm III 's~'o-
ership make them Indispensable III inc
I Washington trio Of great cites "hose ~
,aror;se and force so early and sJlhs'an-
TALLY focused all the possibilities OF 'h's
wonderful state. Grateful for what o'o
see of both, I wait impauently closer
knowledge, that may speak more ih.eiA-
gently OF that Of which l am 50 co'flue't'
The same limit Of time prevented 80 lhuSh
as a passing knowledge OF "''l'a 40
a,d me valley of boundless resources, or
of Whitman college. loved in New eng
,a,a as is no other institution beyond the
great river. ,,,,.,.s
In No ;nconsiderable degree does Eliens-
burg represent the educaNoha4 n.y.
nronhecv Of Washington. Here is the ohlF
normal school to which the state oN,e''7
Us financial supper, In these times OF Desi-
,ess strain The other two Tor soii'' ie"-
so, not clear 10 an outsider, have had no
appropriation these TWO years "u' "o''i
Relieve that with the maturity OF the pros
perity already in evidence theE wiz "oN'
be favored bv the next legislature Eiiens-
institutions The students gathered from
twenty-eight of the thirty-tour eoehtes u
the state. are either the cream o: the
schools or else the schools OF the Sta'e
ara richer in the hes; material for probes
sional harvesting than that of otner states
The trustees. also, are far above the ofdi-
nary board. in that they have SCI 4 pro
feesionai standard rarely thought OF.
.HtlElF H.
ties Good luck must have played al
important part III the faculty geunis' iof
there is a grade OF professional work. In
the scientific and pedagogic aspects, that
would open the eyes - any man widely
acquainted with professional ideals. Il IS
ten wears since. first knew Z. \. Getz.
the principal AZ that time high school
teacher AT Iiaze!ton, Pa. a man trained
under Drs. Brooks and Lyte at Millets-
Vile. q man with professional aspirations
that made it impossible for him to remain
with al the limitations OF secondary school
traditions. He came 10 Oregon, and after
a week OF companonship in lSSS. l saw
no more IL him until | found him in his
work at Enemsburg. where he is giving
a prof essional flavor 10 the normal schoos
life. which can bat tone up the intellect
ual activities of the stale for all time
There is method work and psychological
and historical, treatment OF education in
those classes. from which 1 have learned
mucn Of which to write ana speak on
many occasions on, tina, the statesmen
Of the hour East and West. would realize
how much p the future power and
grandeC. a. now state depends upoii
the best tsa::.l... ~ those VINO must teach
the children WaJ axe 10 be the men ard
women 10 inveovate and enuoble her
future!