The record-union., 1899-12-15

the subject. Naturally they tackle
the salary feature of Government ex-
pense first, because the wages paid to
officers and employees are easily ascer-
tanned and can be readily compared
with their own earnings, and the COM
rensation of employees in private ca
pacities. As result of such compare
son they reach the conclusion that most
men in office are better paid-a great
deal better paid-than the people out
of office, who work hard to get the
money with which to pay the salaries
Of those holding official positions.
FRESNO ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
Stockton Mail: The Fresno Demo
GRAFT" while not doubling that Cali
fornia's Congressional delegation will
do it's best, expresses the opinion that
many Of the present generation may
be in their graves before the appropria-
ton which may eventually be made will
hear fruit in the two rivers Of the
county flowing with a strong, equable
current in their channels during Au-
gust, September and October" The
Democrat rightly says that the
storage and timely distribution of flood
waters represent no great engineering
difficulties, and calls only for the jul
dicious expenditure of money. So it
adds:
LAS Congressional aid is a mere hazy
speck on the horizon, while the need is
right now, it is gratifying to the Demo-
craft to be able to state that plan
will be shortly submitted whereby the
work, so far as Fresno County is con-
cerned, can be done by it's own people
and the result become the property Of
the citizens without being responsible
or indebted to either State or Federal
aid, or mourning increased county tax.
alton"
The Mail" wishes the same could be
said Of San Joaquin County, where the
view of a Congressional appropriation
is Just as distant and hazy here as it Is
in Fresno.
SHIRT SLEEVES TO SHIRT
SLEEVES.
Alameda Argus: The Tulare reg
ister," commenting on the failure of
the great publishing house of Harper
Brothers, say it is another instance
of the fact that it is only three genera
ton from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves"
That is, a man begins life working in
his shirt sleeves, attaining great sue
cess, it may be, but his grandchildren,
inheriting ease and love Of luxury,
fail in the essentials that made their
ancestors success, and find themselves
finally with their coats off, toiling as
did their grandfathers for a living.
This may prove true of the Harpers,
but it is not proving true of other noted
families. Every generation of the AS
tors, for instance, has been richer than
the preceding one. The Vanderbilts are
IN their fourth generation as million
aires, and every generation has pro-
duced brains to greatly augment its
wealth. In the domain of journalism,
the unique example of James Gordon
Bennett is afforded, who is a greater
editor and has maintained, in increased
power, against terrific competition, the
newspaper which his father founded.
TIC be sure, the third generation has not
showed upon the scene yet-and. in
deed, there is not to be a third gen.
Grafton, but the second is worthy to be
counted. Then there is the Gould fam
lily. That family seems to keep all that
Jay Gould won, and to go on increasing
it handsomely.
TRUSTS.
Woodland Democrat: If the trusts
continue to grow in strength and IN
number, it is only a. question of time
when the commercial traveller will have
to go. This will be a great injury to
both the hotel and the railroad bust
ness. It is not to wondered at that
the commercial travellers, almost to a
man, are fighting the trusts. The
greatest surprise is that the hotel men
and the railroad companies are not in
line with the drummers.
YOUNG WOMEN AND EDUCATION.
Visalia Delta: The remarkable in
crease in the number of young women
enrolled in the graduate course Of Yale
is the striking feature of the graduate
department catalogue, issued by Pro-
fessor Andrew w. Philips, Dean of that
department. 1t is only six years since
the faculty threw the graduate courses
open to young women at Yale, yet to-
day, out of a total attendance of 29O
students in the department, more than
half are graduates of women's col
leges. A diploma from a college is es-
sential for the women to gain entrance
to the Yale graduate department.
About thirty of the young women
come from Wellesley, Vassar and
Smith. Ninety-four are registered from
colleges widely scattered.
Put Her Into 'Bits Of Travel"
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