The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-06-07

To the Editor Of the SENTINEL.

University commencement can be classed
as out Of the ordinary. Memorial Day
was generally observed and business al
most entirely suspended after 10 A. NJ.
The exercises were very similar TO other
Memorial Days. Nothing new was said
by the president Of the day or orator. No
new idea was advanced, and the exercises
we're on a par with other parts of the
country. Memorial Day is set aside
among the nations holidays to teach the
children love OF country, love OF u
country's emblem and patriotism, but
there is hardly one town in q hundred
The same old ~hackneyed programme is
gone through with year after year, and
substantially the same speeches are re-
hashed that have been made for years. ]
know how hard it is to say anything new
ON such an occasion, but it has always
seemed to me that when a president Of
| the day or orator is selected men should
be chosen who will give the subject
thought enough to entertain school chill
dren, but usually men are selected to tell
q story a little above the understanding
of a child nine or ten years Of age and be-
low the man Of ordinary intelligence, 80
| that Memorial Day exercises have be-
come somewhat Of a bore to both old and
young. The speakers on such an occa-
sion usually succeed in pumping them
selves full Of wind and letting it escape
without pointing out the lesson Of true
patriotism or love of country.
The Baccalaureate sermon was deliv-
cred by Benjamin Ide Wheeler Of the
University Of California yesterday, and
was we'll prepared by a thinker, and bet
ter delivered by an advanced educator.
He took for his text: "The spirit was
made flesh and dwelt with u.s." The idea
tie California president advanced was
that the god of love was the only true
God. That without love nothing lasting
could be accomplished; that the "relig-
ion Of personality" was the only religion,
and that that could be practiced without
church or creed. His idea was a new
presentation OF religious thought.
This week will be full of ''higher educa-
tion," and in a few days or a few months
the young ladies and gentlemen gradu-
ates who now think they know it all will
find out how very little they do know
about the business world.
Those who have been banking on what
the Southern Pacific was going to do for
the up~building of Reno have had a dash
Of cold water thrown on them by the ru-
NOR that the medical department of the
corporation had decided that East Reno
yet On paper-was not so situated that
the sanitary conditions of the new town
could be perfect, and that the paper town
would have to be moved elsewhere. To
be perfectly candid and truthful, / don't
believe any one knows just what the
Southern Pacific intends doing in this
neck of its rightof way. There is a bakers
dozen or two who pretend to "know it
ALL" but l am inclined to believe that
they know less than others who pretend
to know nothing about that corporations
intentions.
The newcomers to Reno are finding out
"that all that glitters is not gold" and
are showing their disappointment by
careful inquiry and investigation before
investing money, and as a result the
boom OF two or three weeks ago is in great
danger OF being carried down the stream,
and property owners who added from 80
to 40 per cent to their rentals are q little
in doubt az to whether they acted wisely
or not.
Nate Rolf and Gene Howell are doing
small politics by each taking up space in
the papers telling the "dear people"
which n is entitled to the "credit" OF
making last years street carnival in Car.
son a success. That is original If not
statesmanlike.
Reno has a trust, or will have shortly.
An ice trust has been formed between the
Reno Cold Storage plant, Of which P. L.
Flanagan is at the head, and the Union
Ice Company, a California corporation.
All fever stricken patients must pay for
"frozen water" if they use it, and pay
double what ice has been selling for in
former years.
Among the most unselish and patriotic
displays Of gratitude" that has come to
light in the first year Of the twentieth GEN.
fury is Controller Sam Davis offer to get
off the Fusion party perch to make room
for that old Democratic war horse with
revolutionary ancestry, Major John Han
cock Dennis, who guides the editorial ia
Der for the Reno Journal. Controller
Davis is a %'silver man" and got onto the
Fusion ticket four years ago. Nobody
has yet been able to figure out just how or
WHY, but he got there and was elected.