The record-union., 1899-10-20
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.


teachers should wear good clothes, and
! take special pains to present neat
anG attractive person to the pupils.
This is very essential. It's importance
cannot be overestimated. Looking
back over the school life every grown
person remembers how he or she was
attracted by the teacher of wholesome
appearance, and repelled by the one who
was Indifferent or had bad taste in
dress. Almost invariably amiable quail
tiles went with an attractive outward
appearance. The eyes and senses of chill
dren are preternaturally sharp. If any
one thinks they can be greatly fooled,
let him remember the time when his
parents or teacher thought to fool him,
and how very seldom they succeeded in
doing it,
THE REAL EDUCATION
Oakland Enquirer: In talking to the
Stanford students yesterday the new
President of the University of Cali
fornia said: Il have taught classes day
after day in Brown, Harvard and Cor
nell, yet I have never been disappointed
when my boys turn up and tell me
that they have forgotten everything
| about Greek. The real education is
rubbing up against men and learning
the problems of life, and not memor-
izing few subjects. The bureau draw
er idea is not my idea of university.
1t is not a place to isolate young men
from life in order that they may wait,
nor to postpone the problems of life
This ought to be gratifying to those
persons who entertained a sort of fear
o 1f 1nf
hold sufficiently broad views of educa-
tion and Of life to make him good
head for great university.
AN ISSUE FOR THE WEST.
| Oakland Tribune: The entire West
should stand as a unit in the effort
that is being made to secure for this
part of the country the appointment to
the vacancy on the Interstate Com
mence Commission. There is no branch
Of the Federal Government in which
our interests are more vitally or more
directly concerned than in this par
ticular commission, for to it is referred
every question regarding railroad rates,
freight tariffs and in fact as the title
implies, everything pertaining to inter
state commerce.
From the standpoint Of locality we
are entitled to a place on the board
| for there are five Commissioners, and it
/ is but fair to have every section of the
country represented. Questions arise
especially in the Western States, where
the conditions are constantly changing,
that cannot be properly handled with
out local knowledge, and unless we
had direct representation on the COM
mission, vital interests pertaining to
our commercial welfare would at times
be in Jeopardy, and might be decided
to our detriment. where such would
not likely to be the case if there were
some one on the board thoroughly con-
versant with the situation.
This is not a matter for California
alone, but for the whole West, and Ore
gon is already hard at work as is
shown by the announcement in the dis
patches, that the Portland Chamber of
Commerce has sent a strong appeal to
Washington on the subject AS an in
dividual proposition the position is a
good one, for it pays 81, 500 a year and
all expenses, in addition to which it is
practically for life. There is undoubt-
edly fierce struggle waging for it,
therefore, in that regard, but the West
should consider the issue rather than
the individual, and if there cannot be
a combination on one man there should
be no throat-cutting, such as generally
takes place. The prime object of our
appeal to Washington should be that
the vacancy go to a Western man. The
personal end of it should be made a
secondary consideration.
CONSUMPTIVES MAY COME.
San Diego Union: The decision of the
State Board of Health not to attempt
to exclude from California consump-
tives coming from other parts of the
country was wise one. In the first
place, had the board really undertaken
to quarantine against persons suffering
from tuberculosis, there is reason to
believe that the attempt would have
been only partly successful and that the
efforts to enforce such quarantine
would have aroused a storm of indig-
nation against this State. Tt is an
easy matter to pass resolutions to ex-
clude consumptives; the execution of
such purpose would be hardly possible.
Of the people with tuberculosis who
seek CALIFORNIA; mild climate, not all
have the disease in so advanced a
stage as to be readily discernible Many
have been told merely that they have
weak lungs and believe that while
they may be threatened with consump-
ton, it has not yet fastened itself up
on them. Only careful examination
made by a skillful physician would
determine just what ails these people
with weak lungs" 1t would be hard
ly practicable to make these visitors,
one and all, undergo such an examina-
ton before they were permitted to
enter the State. Fancy each member
of one of the big winter excursion
parties having to run a gauntlet of
doctors armed with stethoscopes, be-
fore he or she could cross the line into
California! And yet this is the only
way in which the suggested quarantine
could be made effective. The State
might as we'll erect a Chinese wall
against the rest of the country, for
this would be the practical effect of
such a quarantine. The Board Of
Health has acted wisely in dropping
the entire matter. 1t were just as we'll
not to have brought it up.
THEY ARE BLIND.
Los Angeles Express: The logic of
events has proved SO strong against
certain Democratic newspapers that
they have lost what little discretion
they had, and keep jangling away on
the moldered string of criminal ag-
gression." They base long arguments
against the Administration upon the
extraordinary contention that the Unit
ed States has set out to enslave the
people of the PHILIPPINES The glorious