The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-12
GOODS CALLED DOWN
CALIFORNIA EDUCATOR ACCUSES
PRETTY GIRLS OF STEALING
CHERRY BLOSSOMS.
Angry Young Women Are Now De
mandng That the Professor Be
Disciplined by President.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April -.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 12.-
Prof. Bernard Noses once Philip
pine commissioner and professor in
history at the University of California,
has raised storm of indignation
among the "co-eds" of that institution
and today there are about 900 angry
young women demanding that the emf
nent educator, who was chosen by the
president of the United States to a
place on one of the most important
commissions ever appointed in Ameri-
ca, be disciplined by the university
president.
Professor Moses does not believe in
sparing the rod and spelling the CO.
eds. Yesterday he suddenly put aside
his dry books and devoted himself to
the more interesting but unpleasant
task of calling to account the women
students of the university.
Prof. Moses words were directed
largely against sorority girls, who used
his peach and cherry trees for house
decorations. This Dissertation of his Or
nounced as nothing less than theft and
he quoted the commandments to show
that it is wicked to steal his bios
SONS. The best of tor rather the
worst of it's that Prof Moses was a
guest of the very sorority that used
his fruit blossoms. or else he would
never have known it.
Evidently Prof Moses has been con-
templating this thing for a long time,
for all that he had to say he read
from typewriter notes. First he de-
voted himself to coed conduct at re-
cent meetings: then he talked about
etiquette: then co-education, and fl
nally about fruit blossoms. Here is
what he said, in part:
Professors Sermon.
ut is not often that 1 undertake
to preach sermon, but l think l am
justified in undertaking one this after
noon. The conduct of some OF the
women students of the university, l
wish to say is noticeably wrong. I re-
fer to their actions in class and al uni
versity meetings. They leave very Of
ten before meeting is half over. At
the last meeting when we were being
entertained by a great historian, this
was very manifest. 1 noticed that the
men stayed in their seats as they
should have done.
Il have always been a supporter of
co-education, but I lately have OBJ
my opinions in regard to that institu-
ton. One of the things to which I re-
fer is the devotion of women to soro-
rites and society rather than to study.
Il wish to refer to a piece of van
dalism that was recently practiced
and of which I am the victim 1 have a
little orchard that I have been cult
waiting for twenty years and only late
ly have the trees reached their prime
The agent for the place was Informed
a while ago that the trees were being
broken and he stopped it. but only
yesterday, while I was a guest at a So
rority house on College Avenue, l no
ticed that the decorations We're peach
and cherry blossoms. They had come
from my trees. Some of the branches
were at least eight or ten feet long
1 thought it was the worst piece of
vandalism 1 had ever seen.
Thou Shalt Not Steal.
"Now, there is no defense for this
sort of thing. There is command
ment that says, Thou shalt not STEAL"
and that is really what it amounts to-"
So indignant have the members of
the SORORITY Pi Beta Phi become over
the words of Prof. Moses that this af-
ternoon they sent a committee to Pro-
fessor Wheeler stating their side of
the case and asking that Prof. Moses
be asked to apologize.
President Wheeler was not at the
university, but the sorority girls ex-
planned their position to his private
secretary. In speaking of their demand
for a retraction on the part of Prof.
Moses, Miss Maud Schaeffer, a promi-
nent member of the sorority said:
After hearing of the accusations
against us, we determined to explain
the whole matter to President Wheeler
as we think a gross injustice has been
done us. We had permission from
Cheeny & Berry, the real estate
agents, to get these blossoms, and to-
day they confirmed that permission.