The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-01
STRANDS ADDED TO
CIVILIZATIONS FABRIC

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were the consolidation Of smaller church,
e., tie nnai approval Of Presbyterian
creed revision, celebration Of NVesloS's
3DOtjI anniversary, the death Of Arch
bishop Temple, Of England (slircecded ~
lDavldson). completion OF Methodist 500
100000 thank offering. Spectacular New
Yorlt crusade Of Dowieitcs. building Or
largest auditorium at Battle Creek ny
lnr church at New York by Christian
scientists. All denominations have ar.
Mated Informally III campaign against
divorce. 55 sf. h,
one word cpitomizes the years cdu-
cntjonnl effort and spiratlon-.pra ct'cal-
-ity. This Is true Of Germany. france,
England and especially Of tho United
states. It applies from primary grace
to graduate university work. The most
Impressive instance In our own country
was the $4,000 900 school Of professional
Journalism entrusted to Columbian UNI
versity by tho munf1cencc of Joseph
Pulitzer, editor Of the Now York World.
The teaching OF practical journalism was
begun also at Kansas University. IN
domestic science we're started. At Yale
and elsewhere insurance was tnught, ana
at Chicago now department was dc-
voted 10 elaborate courses In fire protcc-
ltion. Forestry was taken up, at Cali
fornIa, cattle killing at Iowa and garden
Ing at Columbia. Western Reserve start.
ed school for librarians Mlssuorl had
a travelling school OF farm work by rail.
Columbia established q. chair OF Chinese.
on Il 1n
ton to actual gardening. both for train
Ing. and support. Throughout the Norm
more attention was paid to manual train
ms and kinderga rten work. Charles ~.
schawb began the establishment OF q
series OF trade schools !.
There was a continuance OF the era OF
expansion. The enrolment OF students IN
public and private schools and colieses
rising to new records, and the total OF
many factions running into the tens OF
millions Throughout this country a con-
carted effort was made by teachers IN
public schools to secure higher salaries
Nevertheless prominent churchmen.n no.
tably Cardinal Gibbons and Dr. Greer, OF
New York, began a vigorous .assault5 on
our educational foundations because OF
the failure OF the schools to inculcate
religious spirit, and seriously proposed to
reorganlze by letting the churches take
their proportionate share OF the schools
and operate them.
'The General Education Board was
cha rtered by Congress and began work
throughout the South. w.
steps were taken to educate 100 Fili-
pho children In this country.
I'M FIRST Rhodes scholarships were AWARD
ed in this country.
Moseley commission from England
studied our schools Harvard opened
German and Semitic museums
Travelling medical university for coun-
try doctors in Germany.
Trinity college protected free speech OF
Prof. ,Bassett, who offended BY eulogy
uf B. Nashingt on @
The New Factors in
The Social Equation.
Society as a whole, and especially our
own country OF boasted liberty within
Ia ~, has been: confronted with an appal-
ling disregard OF law and legal process,
amounting ato an epidemic o. crime = ms
is X condition, however theories may
differ as to It's cause. And 1t needs no
detailed list or statistical complication
TO prove that 1t has 9been intensified In
the; twelve months past. 1t stares US IN
every one OF the negro alynchlngs (nearly
1901 plus the unspeakable crimes that
Inspired u those IS extra legal remedies.
More than in any former year the North
has such instances to answer for without
the apology Of an gu numbering negro
mass which the South has to deal with
This phase OF Il the epidemic has, OF
course, It's practical political bearings.
growing out Of opposition In the South
to Federal appointments Of negroes.
unquestionably the number and brutal
ity OF murders. the suicides, the robber-
les. the arsons. the forgeries. the bribe-
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very young. like Chicago's boy bandits,
have exceeded all former records. So
biologists are trying, with new. zeal to
find and remove the cause OF this decay
and many are tracing 1t to the accum-
mutation OF vast fortunes and the ex-
travagance and unequal distribution OF
opportunities. u.
THE alleged tendency of modern so.
ciety to avoid the responsibility Of rear
Ing children came In for widespread con-
domination through. President Roosevelt's
letter in commendation OF Mrs. Van
vorst's '.Woman Who Tolls. His char
acterzation of this tendency as race
suicide was echoed by the many though
denoun ced 4 by some who regard quality
Of offspring as more important than
quantity.
The increased number Of divorces In
Guiding y many In so-cdlled high society
ment OF pulpit and press for moro uni
fern restriction Of the marriage rela-
ton, though a strenuous minority sees
health In utmost liberty.
The beginning Of the organization Of
domestic servants has added to the per-
plexity Of the servant problem, which
has been solved by the cooperative fam
iyS club.
The theoretical side Of the great prob
lem OF labor and capital has been changed
by tho national orga nization of employ
ers, thus Strengthening federated capital
az against organized labor.
Along with the failures of woman's
suffrage In New Hampshire, and the re-
strictlon OF co-education IN Germany and
in this country. there has been popu-
lar reaction against the most radical
movements In the interests OF women
The extravaganza and display Of the very
r!cl, in America have tended to empha-
size class distinctions. causing such ex-
hibittons Of folly as the hysterical mol,
Of women at the Goelet wedding, a ma
t!onal organization for social service has
got under way with Josiah Strong a