The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-22
Does the Present Game Fit Amer
leans to Conquer the
World?
SCIENTISTS TALK AT DINNER
Gossip of Candidates fer State Office
"A Third County Normal-Sun-
day State Fair Opening.

game of football Saturday III TINS CITY
opened the eyes of many to the impOr-
lance of this sport. wellington SAID
the battle of Waterloo was won on the
football fields of Elton and Rugby, by
which he meant in those boyish strug-
Giles were hardened the manhood that
showed in battle. Perhaps there Is
much about the game itself to admire.
1t is no place for milksops. Like all good
things, however, it is often abused.
Collegians who play football usually
have stuff in them for later life. Sta
tistics down east prove that. 1t Is
imperative, however, to keep the real
goal in view-not post but physl-
cal and moral training. To get this re-
Suit the game must be fair--nOt par
ticipated in by professionals nor en-
gagged in with malice or discourtesy.
The respective crowds must be good
natured. and congratulations on the
victory shared with the vanquished.
And the thousands of young people
who 60 long distances from home to
root for their teams must be per
suaded that they honor their univer-
sity by decorous conduct.
Talking of Science.
The Six O'Clock club of this city
will have a night with Late Things i'll
Science on Dec. g There are hosts
of experts to talk at these dinners,
mainly from the university, and among
those invited to contribute are Pro
fesSOrs COmstOck, the astronomer;
Jackson, the engineer, and Babcock,
the agricultural chemist. DR.. Charles
S. Sheldon has consented to tell OF
anti-toXins, in the uses Of which he has
been notably successful, especially in
diphtheretic cases. GAINESVILLE has
club along like lines. While ChicagO's
club runs out every few years, pull
ing itself together, however, after u
period of silence, GAINESVILLE has kept in
successive operation for many years.
Marathon and Dunn counties having
county normal schools we'll established,
Jefferson county is considering the
same step. The state pays half the
bills and the privilege is open to any
county unless there is already a state
nomal established in IT. The object OF
these schools is to raise the standard
of teachers at the crossroads schools,
whose immaturity and lack of fitness
have long been a subject of comment.
The county of jefferson has $50 rural
school teachers and less than twenty
five of them had any normal training.
and only five of the twenty-five have
had a full course in a normal The
state normal schools graduates are all
demanded in OUR cities.
Such a school does not imply an ex-
pensiye plant. The city of Jefferson
will extend to the county free of charge
three rooms i'm the high school build
ing.
FOG small S1eSs Feeble Schools.
There are signs THAT the crusade in
this state to amalgamate school dis
tricts is bearing fruit. For instance.
the school board of Sherman, Portage
county, voted to suppress three of it's
districts. The districts which have
been done away with had an attend
ance Of from two to four a day when
regular, while there were days when
the teachers were the sole occupants
of the school rooms. Hereafter all the
schools in Sherman Will he sufficiently
large to warrant their continuance. In
stead of small schools taught by cheap
teachers, there will be graded schools,
in which the pupils will he properly
The same teacher will not
he obliged to instruct every grade OF
pupil in the school, so that teachers
may be selected because of their pecu-
liar adaptability for certain kinds Of
work.
Other towns near by are figuring to
the same end. Let the work go on.
Talk of Men for State Offices
There is some gossip as to candi-
dates for places ON the next state tick
ct, though until the present chaos OF
takes definite shape, the
matter Of nominations is in the air.
If Governor IIaFollette is opposed at
state convention Gas leading stalwarts
insist he will be- his opponent may
be Senator Whitehead. if he would ac-
cept it. Walter Alexander, the Wau-
sau lumberman, is now the subject OF
a boom, as is Senator Fred Dennell,
the Sheboygan chair manufacturer
Or some popular German might be
named. Senator Mosher of New
Richmond has friends who think he
would make a creditable lieutenant
governor; Hoyt Winslow of Fond du
Lac has been mentioned for railroad
commissioner. Assemblyman Charles
Barker of Milwaukee, formerly a
Methodist Draac cher and famiIiarIx-