The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13
SCHOOL LIE IN CHICAGO
PROF. A. j. SMITH PLEASED TO
HEAR COMPLIMENTS ABOUT ST.
PAUL CENTRAL HIGH
THE SYSTEM IN THE BIG CITY
Some of the Topics of the Day Dis
cussed by the ST. Paul Educator
Even POLITICAL Events Do
Not Escape His Eye.
Special Correspondent of the Globe.

Special Correspondent Of the Globe.
CHICAGO, Jan. n.-So many things In
terest me in this city that very much
fear that shall not be able to settle
down to the discussion of single topic,
but will irresistably fall into a gossip
ing habit that 1 fear will disappoint
and displease many of your good read
ers. The second city in the United
States is rapidly becoming the first in
many respects, notably 50 in political
and educational Importance and I find
it difficult to withhold the information
that may not otherwise reach all of the
reading public of st. Paul.
ST. PAUL CENTRAL HIGH.
First, then, am much pleased to men
ton Il recent reference to our Central
high school that greatly delighted me.
AS many of my friends know my daugh-
ter has entered the Chicago university,
having left the above school last June.
When, after an examination in French,
she presented herself to the dean for the
purpose Of having her credits registered,
he exclaimed, upon examining them with
surprise: Where are you from, and
what high school gives its pupils such
an opportunity?' He was alluding to
her work in German and French, 1t is
true, but l feel quite certain that in
other studies she took at the high school
she will manifest as great proficiency.
Without the slightest purpose to dis
parage the work Of any other school 1t
is not aniss to remind the citizens of ST.
Paul Of the splendid record made by the
school during the past twenty-five years.
l cannot now recall a single censure COM
ing from Harvard, Yale, Princeton or
Dartmouth bearing upon the work in
German, Latin or French but L have
heard many concentrations.
VIyIO a
ago first gave to the work of the school
its reputation for excellence and thor
oughness. Prof. Carel is probably the
only one now left; and the same devo-
ton to the cause of educa tion the same
sympathy with the hopes and schemes
and busy contrivings of the young; the
same ability to interpret the language
and philosophy Of the fatherland that
made his work eminently successful in
the past, characterize it today May he
and NIL those who have so nobly COM
pretended the scope and purpose of their
work and who have SO courageously car
ried 1t forward be gratefully remembered
and always properly honored by the peo-
pie Of your city.
PROF. JACQUES LOEB ONCE MORE.
! am very much afraid that our dis
tinguiShed scientist is going too far. He
has entered upon an attempt to discover
CROWN.
Heretofore whenever a man of science
has started out to discover the elixir of
life, or to invent perpetual motion he has
been looked upon as hopeless. He says:
IF one successed in finding substance
which accelerateS the process of cell
division at the normal temperature, this
will at the same, time lead to a suppress
sion or a reduction of the processes
which shorten life" He is of the opin-
ion that eff cellular tissues of the ami
NAL can be reduced in some way to I'M
differentiated material, development may
be started anew in another direction
In the language of our good president,
81 do not know how 1t may seem to you,
but to me it seems"-that I would hes:-
tate a long time before I would allow
myself to be battered into jelly-like
consistency in the hope that a new pro-
cess would renew life, or that develop
ment might set in in another direction. 1t
has generally been accepted as true that
with the complete destruction of animal
cell tissues a development does set in
in another direction, but one in which
the animal itself can have no possible
interest. We very much fear that our
good scientist has gone too far, and from
the materialistic point OF view is in pre-
cisely the same boat that many from a
so-called psychic, or spiritual point of
view" are sailing in today.
POLITICS.
Chicago has been the center of much
political agitation recently. There is
mighty struggle on at Springfield over the
election of a United States senator
! Shelby M. Cullom, long known as 1.-The
| man who looks like Lincoln" is being
practically approved, but he smiles Sc
renely and has no idea that the good
! fortune that has always followed him
will desert him now. But his enemies
are active, and the unexpected may hap
pen. I have great faith, however, that
| the venerable senator's star will be found
"Still In the ascendant when the caucus
| convenes. The most important event,
| however, was the visit of Mr.. Bryan on
| the Sth inst. He seemed as young ana
| buoyant as a boy, and as happy as he
| could be. His visit was a great disap-
| pointment to the Harrison crowd" who
| hoped that he would object to the anti
| Bryan organization of the Democratic
| state committee. He refused to interiors
| in any way, however, and think that a
| diSpassionate reading, and a reasonable
| construction of his address show that he
has no idea of leading the forces Of his
! party in 1904. He is not "soured," not
| cast down; has no personal grievance,
| and altogether is quite a wonderful sort
| of a fellow.
TEACHERS FEDERATION.
Coming again to the subject that af-
fords me greatest interest, viz, the work
2. of teachers, l was glad to learn that the
| Illinois State Teachers association had
unanimously approved the work of the
| federation. This favorable action was
due to the efforts of Miss Margaret
| Haley, who made a most vigorous speech
| which was loudly applauded. 1t seems
that she made some reference to the sys-
tenn of taxation in France before the
| French Revolution, and thought that con.
| ditions here in respect to both taxation
| and revolution would soon be parallel.
This quite Mortified some of the Chicago
papers that forthwith began to set up
scare headlines like the following:
anarchists Among School Teachers -
Are Chicago Citizens to be Compelled
to Pay Men and Women to Teach and to
Encourage Anarchy?' What are We
Coming to Anyway, etc, etc?'' Although
these questions were addressed to every
reader 1 made up my mind firmly from
the beginning that I would not answer
one of them, but that determination has
not prevented me from asking another:
IF these ladies have been entrusted
with public duties and responsibilities
under contract rights which are evade1
or not carried out, is it anarchistic to
endeavor to find a way by which those
rights may be secured?" But there are
other troubles also. 1t is believed that
the pension law is wholly Inadequate
and 1 mention this so that the ladies who
have heretofore worked so diligently in
st. Paul to secure a law of some kind
may, before they take their case into the
legislature, be quite sure that they shall