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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
The COLLEGE WOMAN'S MISSION

Professor Albion w. Small, head Of the
department of sociology in the University
Of Chicago, has an illuminated paper
in the Independent on ''The Social, Mis-
sion of College Women" His conclusion
is that college women should make it their
mission to establish the balance and SYM
metry of human life, by living and show
ing how to live. They should seek to be
partners with men, not competitors. The
American man is SO busily engaged in
providing the means of living that he has
little time for satisfactory living and no
time or strength to plan correct life
The college woman should widen and i'm
prove the whole family and national life
by making the improvement Of human liv-
ing her profession. ID, This does not mean
that she is to be merely cook and a
housekeeper. -s%. -r. ~sE 3
The college woman, if anybody, should know
the things that are really worth living for
and she should realize that they will never
be common social goods until one family
after another adds them to it's possessions
The amenities Of life, the adjustments of
work to rest, of amusement to serious effort;
refuge from the noise Of men and the strife
in the Vanity Fair Of society; impulse to prac-.
teal love of our kind, and to working faith in
God and man; association of person with
person in frank commerce OF all that is hui
manly likable-the arena for all these is first
ana foremost in the home, not merely as the
asylum of the family, but as the rendezvous
where families may mngle in the intercourse
of the higher life,
Professor Small thinks that such should
woman, and is it not true that already she
is making it her mission? At present
there may be tendency to too much diff
fusion of effort, tendency to belong to
too many clubs and to participate in too
many different schemes of social reform
and improvement. But certainly most of
the real living int ellecutal and refreshing
social living, that we have in the common
life of America to-day comes from the
women. They read the books, classic and
current They keep up and encourage the
devotion to art. They are the handspring
of municipal cleanliness and beautifica-
tion. They are the conversationalists
they are the ones who give us something
besides shop to talk about; they are the
ones who refresh our ideals of civic and
patriotic virtue; they are the ones who
inspire us to try to do about all the aver
age man can do for the general bet
ment Which is to make his daily bread
winning work hopeful, inspiring and ele-
waiting to others as we'll as himself
If it were not for the American women
especially the college women or those who
have been educated in other ways, Ameri-
can life at the threshold of the busy
twentieth century with TRADE" as it's
omnipresent and alluring motto in this
strenuous nation, would be dull, monoto-
nous, sordid and without uplifting tenden-
cies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
IMPORTANCE OF PURE WATER

! The January number of the Santarar
has a timely and instructive article by
DR.. A. L. Wood of Brooklyn, NJ Y, or
| ''The Influence of Water Upon Health anG
Longevity It's exposition of the disease
and mortality that can be traced to i'm
pure water is startling. r.-
Nicola Tesla is quoted as saying that
for every person who perishes from tbs
effects of stimulant at least a thousand
die from the consequences of drinking i'm
pure water. 1.-THE precious fluid which
daily infuses new life into us is likewise
the chief vehicle through which disease
and death enter our bodies" Of the
64O6 lives which the Spanish American
war cost the United States, 5,43S were lost
through disease. DR.. Wood says that if
the soldiers had been provided with pure
water nine-tenths of that number
would have been saved. During the
year ending May 81, 1900 there
were 35,379 deaths from typhoid
fevr in the United States, nearly
all of which were caused by disease
germs in water. There are many other
fatal diseases which are caused by the
drinking of water holding disease germs.
Diarrheal diseases belong to this cate
CORY, and they caused the death of 46, 907
persons during the period mentioned. The
annual death loss from impure water is
probably not less than 100000, or 1000 a
week. Then there are the vast numbers
Of persons who recover from these dis
eases with their constitutions impaired,
many to be invalids for the rest of their
lives.
Dr.. Wood dwells on the impurity of
city water and holds that at the best it
must be more or less impure. But even
if it be impossible to secure absolutely
pure water for general distribution
through system Of pipes, it is certain
that the more it approximates purity the
fewer deaths it will cause. Here in Min
neapolis we have had appalling demon
strations of the varying degrees of dis
ease caused by varying conditions of the
water supply. At the best Mississippi
river water is not harmless, but it has
been demonstrated that water distributed
from the lower pumping STATIONS IN LIE
heart of the city, is much more dangerous
than that from the Camden Place pump
ing station, which escapes the pollution
Of the surface drainage of the city, 1t has
been shown that whenever water from the
lower station is turned into the mains,
there follows, as soon as the germs have
an opportunity to assert themselves, a
pronounced increase in the number Of ty-
phoid fever cases in the city. There is
no doubt whatever about the connection
In view of such facts, ought not the
creation of a pure water supply to be the
first thought Of the people and the mu-
nicipal authorities? 1t is truly mat
ter of life and death. AS such it, really
ought, in every community, to have pre-
cadence over ali other ordinary municipal
problems.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
MILLIONS AND MILLIONAIRES

The New York Times estimates that
the gifts to institutions during 1901
amounted to $1O7, 800 900. The amount is
most impressive. 1t goes to prove that
our great millionaires are thinking of
others as well as themselves while ac-
cumulating their vast fortunes. There
are many, of course, who use their wealt h
only to crafty selfish desires.
Some ingenious person has theory that
the millionaires who are giving so freely
have looked into the future and seen the
approach of conditions under which the
millionaire will become extinct. Thus
they have lost the family pride motive
for perpetuating their fortunes. 4 This is
merely fanciful speculation. The fact is
that the millionaires are giving because
they feel that they ought to give-because
they have been convinced by rejecting on
the extent of their wealth that they are
really trustees for it's right use, rather
than it's absolute owners.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
The UNDERVALUED TEACHER

It seems to be the fashion now to de-
preciate the teacher. We are still at
tached to the public schools, even as of
old time, but the teacher no longer has
the standing in the community that she
once had. We talk endlessly and plan
tirelessly to improve our schools, but we
do little towards improving our teachers
We condemn our teachers to wear out
their lives in the tread mill of the end
less round of school duties and we make
no provisions for adequate reimburse
ment; we do nothing to make it possible
for them to live well-rounded, broaden
ing, deepening lives.
We agree that, after all, the PERSONAL
ity of the teacher is the chief thing in
the educational lives of the children-our
children-but what do we do to help the
teacher to maintain vital and resource
full and inspiring personality? Well, from
$40 to $50 a month and somewhat more
for the favored few. And then we. speak
of their little organizations for mutual
benefit as teachers trades unions de-
signed to intimidate the board of educa-
lLou anu oNucSAS ISfeuu0 Out OF the poor
taxpayer.
In 'The Worlds Work" for Febr6 ary
William McAndrew eloquently pleads the
cause of the school teacher, showing with
pitiless accuracy how poorly we pay the
teachers, upon whom the whole public
school system depends, less than we paw
street car conductors and street sweep-
ers, and then complain petulantly because
the public schools do not turn out better
finished products:
We have kept the pay of these i'm
portant public servants so low that the few
men who are found in the ranks of teach
ers are there because they have the few
good places or because they are merely
making teaching a makeshift It is too
true that large number of women are
teachers because they must live and can
find no better way of living than by the
scanty salary they may get for their Worl,
in the schoolroom.
them! And Y hat range of knowledge.
what multiplicity of duties we exact of
them! We expect them to be marvels
of versatility and tireless as machines.
and we pay them slips day
Yet, when it comes to the practical side
what are we to do? Already the public
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
He MEANS BUSINESS

The presidents order, yesterday, for
bidding officers and employees of the gov
eminent Of, every description, in or out
OF Washington, to solicit in any way an
increase Of pay, or seek to influence in
their own interests any legislation in any
way, strikes hard at an abuse which is as
deserving of removal as the political as
sessment of government employees by par
tizan agents. The solicitation by en-
ployes for salary increase, accompanied by
minatory language, foreshadowing ven
geance at an ensuing election for non
compliance, is antagonistic to the settled
principles Of honest and efficient civil
service. Public Office, from the stand
point Of genuine civil service reform can
not rightfully be conferred as a favor
and bride; nor can it be conceded that
government employee can rightfully at
tempt to bulldoze a congressman for an
increase of pay, or promote busy and
meddling lobby to the promotion of his
own interests. This kind of business is
as destructive of decent and honest public
service as any of the malign Influences
which have been largely removed by the
establishment of the merit system.
The presidents snappy order covers the
whole range Of government service and
may hit big game, but it makes no diff
ference. 1t is right in principle and con-
sistent with the canons of civil service
reform The employees, under the merit
system, are protected from unjust and ar
bitrary removals and are secure and free
from the turmoil of anxiety so long as
they fill their positions ntelligently, eff
fectively and with fidelity. It is not for
them to seek to influence legislation. with
or without threats. In accepting the
positions they occupy they practically
pledged themselves to a conscientious
obedience to the laws of the public sery-
ice. The president, from the very incep-
ton of his administration has shown that
he means to have clean and honest pub
lie service, unstained by any Irregular
ties His order covers the whole area
of government. service. 1t is empha tic
and easily understood and the penalty
dismissal from the government service. is
severe enough to compel attent ion to the
prohibition -.*.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
SHIPPING INTERESTS CONSOLIDATION

A New York dispatch quotes w. J..
Plrrie as saying that there has been no
conference and no arrangements to con-
solidate the steamship lines engaged in
the North Atlantic traffic as reported.
Rumors OF combination Of steamship
Interests to control the worlds shipping
have been denied as Pigments of disordered
imaginations. Even the great consoIi-
dator, Mr.. Morgan, smiles at the credit
given him for design to attempt such
a feat as that.
What is proposed by the steamship
interests is, according to admissions here
and there, to effect joint traffic asso-
citation which will fix rates and see that
they are maintained. The interested
parties say they do not want financial con-
tsolidation or a merger Of steamship
Offices, but a traffic association which will
do away with the suicidal competition
which has Knocked out their profits in
tolerably during the past year, as 1t is
claimed steamers have been carrying grain
at low rate since lastApril. Rates have
dropped from 21s pence per bushel for
grain and IL shill1ngs pence per ton
for provisions at the beginning of 1901, to
y of penny per bushel and shillings
for provisions per ton in September, and
since then there has only been slight
gain. The regular steamship lines are
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01

Some time ago the Minneapolis Cham
Der of Commerce withdrew from member
ship in the National Board of Trade. The
reason for this was the fact that at the
annual meetings of the National Board,
anything of direct interest to MINNEAPOLIS
rarely came up. 1t is interesting to note
that at the thirty-second annual meeting
OF the National Board recently held at
Washington, D. c., nearly every impor
tant question of the day was introduced
although 1T was manifestly impossible to
give them anything like proper consider
alton in the three-day convention. Some
idea of the wide scope Of the organiza :
ton may be gathered from the fact that
among other matters, they discussed the
repeal of the duty on hides. the Chinese
exclusion matter the Cuban tariff. freight
rates, rivers and harbors' appropriations
national banking, reciprocity, crop re-
ports and the metric system
If it be true that the secret of success
is concentration, it would seem that the
National Board of Trade is attempting
too much in laying hold of every live
issue at once. Theirs is well-meant
effort spread out too thin. 1t lis doubt
full If the Minneapolis Chamber has lost
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
COURSE OF BUSINESS

=. The first month of the year 1902 ends
with a good record for the period Bust
ness has been active in all leading lines.
The plans for new business ventures are
being unfolded. Predictions were made
in the fall that our great wave of pros
perity had not yet reached the crest, and
that Notwithstanding the successive gains
for five years and the greatest record of
them all in 1901, there yet remained q
higher record for 1902 The returns for
the opening month would indicate that
the year may see the prediction borne
out.
AS spring draws nearer interest in the
iron trade is beginning to center in struc-
tural material Demand is already SO
great that higher prices are warranted,
yet the mill owners realize that build
ing projects may be killed by too sharp
advances in material and they are dis
posed to hold around the present level as
long as possible. The leading feature of
the week was the remarkably favorab BILE
report Of the steel corporation, Indicating
volume of business in sight even greater
than that of last year.
II. The mercantile and jobbing lines re-
port a good outlook for spring trade.
Buyers are little conservative as vet in
textiles, and there is some disposition to
wait where possible in the hope of easier
prices later. Lumber prices have been
firming. Up all around. "a ....,.
Uncertainty as to the maintenance of
tarlH on Cuban sugars had some unset
Ting effect in stocks, but was offset bv
generally improved feeling in railroads
Good advances were made in high class
securities, the strength coming almost en-
tirely from individual operations on
large scale. The public and the large
money interests are still holding off.
The country gained per cent in bank
clearings over the previous week, with
total OF 50, ISL, 122 ,942 90. Clearings out
side'of New York at $74S, 956, $500 show
an increase of 1876 per cent. Minneapolis
gained 143 per cent, with clearings of
$11, 1929 $500 H..
Manitoba wheat has been pressing for
sale again this week, and this with other
factors, weakened the speculative mar
kets. This Manitoba competition, in it's
present strength, is rather a new thing to
the trade, but it will probably be felt for
time yet, as there is considerable of it
to come. Even with very low inland and
ocean freights, Liverpool has held about
1c bushel out Of line with Chicago. Re-
dictionary firmness may be expected in
wheat at the first evidence of the starting
OF an export demand. Without this prices
are likely to go even under 73Ac for Min
neapolis May, the low point on the late
5 decline. Exports for the week in wheat
and flour, We're equal to 3,764,S73 bushels,
compared with 3,640,OOO bushels last week
and 3,776,0O0 bushels year ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01

handicapped by the slashing of rates by
the tramp steamers, which have been TAX
ing big quantities of coal to Germany and
France from this country to the dismay
OF the regulars.
Mr. Pirrie, who has been quoted and
who IS at the head of large shipbuilding
hrm, says that the companies ought to
come together and form joint traffic as
ISOLATION to protect themselves from ruin
Gus competition. The proposed traffic
pool, however, while strong in tonnage
and capital would include only the Brit
ish steamship companies and the lines
owned by Americans and flying the Brit
ish flag. The combination would have to
meet the rivalry of the North German
Lloyds, the Hamburg American and the
French line, the two German lines now
controlling the bulk Of freight and pas
senger traffic between New York and Ger
man ports There is no intimation that
these lines or the French line will come
into the proposed traffic arrangement.
The tramp steamers can't be kept from
demoralizing rates agreed upon, and it
would seem doubtful If such pool will
prove a financial success. With the Ger
man and French lines in it the chances
would be better. With respect to rail-
way traffic associations, they can COM
mand7 their own territory, but, on the
free ocean, the tramp steamers can run in
wherever they please and get freights by
cutting rates. consolidation of all
steamship lines and tramp steamers would
be necessary to destroy competition. Such
a combination would have free hand to
put up rates and impose a monopoly upon
the shipping element. 1t is fortunate
that there are insuperable difficulties in
the way of accomplishing such a merger
as this.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
MINNESOTA NATIONAL PARK
Katherine Louise Smith in Outing.

Katherine Louise Smith in Outing.
This will be the only great park in the
interior of the country, and it means much to
the people of the United States and especially
to every man, woman and child in the Mis-
sissppi valley. THERE'S nothing impractical
in the idea, and sentiment grows steadily in
favor of it. 1t includes freshwater lakes
whose shore line covers over 800 miles, it
holds its original population, its wild animals
and fish and birds. 1t is primeval nature, as
Go1 made it. No ore can turn from these
magnificent scenes without prayer in his
heart that the hand Of commerce may be
stayed, and the pristine beauties of this spot
may be spared for the welfare of present,
and what is of yet greater consequence, OF
future generations.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
MINNESOTA POLITICS

Republicans of Lac qui Parle and adjoining
counties are bound to see j. F. Jacobson well
provided for If he runs for auditor, they
will fight for him, and if not nominated they
will insist that he be we'll placed somewhere
else. Jacobscns name has been suggested
for place on the permanent tax commission
when created, but being a member of the
legislature he is unfortunately debarred from
an Office for which he seems to be peculiarly
fitted In the same way he is ineligible to ap-
pointment on the railroad and warehouse
commission, should the old law he repealed
this winter.
In Brainerd it is said that the Buchanan
Ferris combination will support S. F.. Alder
man for the senate, and that Ferris is to get
something good in the way of a federal
office. Mr.. Alderman is we'll known Brain
erd attorney, and an excellent singer If AL
bert Berg is coming to the senate he will
want some one to sing duets with.
The Dawson Sentinel picks E. T. Young as
winner in the seventh district fight, and pre-
diets he will carry Swift Big Stone, Chip
pewa, Traverse, Kandiyohi, Yellow Medicine
and Lac qui Parle counties. ...
The Chasi1a Review bulletins Fred rGreiner
as candidate for the republican nomination
for SENATOR Phil Riedele and George Faber
are democratic aspirants.
Senator Benedict is going to have opposition
in Blue Earth county. James A. Ewing is
already an avcwed candidate. General Baker,
Colonel Gus Widel and Joseph Reynolds are
all said to be troubled with the lee.
Senator Johnson in the St. Peter Herald
suggests Senator julius A. Collier of Shakopee
for Heatwole's pacemaker in the third dis
trict Charles e. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
In Lighter Vein
A Simple Question.

Yes, you say, after all the tax question in
a very simple one. Let every man who has
property pay a tax on it. But suppose the
man has the property and no money to paw
the taxes with? There have been years when
there have been MANY such men in Mime
apolis-men of wealth VINO could not scrape
up the money to keep their property from be-
ing taken and sold for taxes. The discussion
OF the tax reform question in Minnesota has
brought out some information about the taxa
ton OF Jewels and there is popular idea
that jewels ought to be taxed as il they were
SO much money in plain sight. But what IL
me owner of the jewels has no money. not
even bread in the cupboard? Ainslee's Maya
llhe recalls celebrated case in point When
Mime Sherman, daughter of the general. was
married to Lieutenant T. w. Fitch, the Khe-
ave OF Egypt, DESTROYS Of expressing his
friendship for the old warrior. took from his
treasury a s20o0Oc diamond necklace and sent
IL TO the bride. But the American customs
lnsisted upon collecting duty of $40, 900.
Imagine a lieutenant, or even the old gem
efal, raising such sum. The bride wept a
pupllc SUBSCRIPTION was started to help her
out, and congress finally RENTED the duty
on the Jewels. But her troubles were not
over The tax collector demanded an annual
tax payment on them that was more than
her husbands salary. There was no escape
from it: the diamonds must be sent back to
the khediye Back they came from him again
with suggestion that the necklace be broken
up and the diamonds divided among the gen.
erals four daughters, thus reducing the bur-
den Of taxation to point where it could be
borne. And it was done. We all feel sorry
for Mrs. Fitch, but what about the man with
$1,000 lot and no money in the bank and no
sale for the lot?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01
anything by not being represented at the
last meeting.

II one-tenth of the interest and activity
now manifested on account of the new tax
law by the people who object tosits pro-
visions had been exhibited by them when
the commission invited and implored bust.
ness men in all lines to come and talk
the matter over, the directors would
proba bly, have less to kick about now