The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08
let LIGHT DESCEND
UPON THE EAST.
DR.. Wheeler Says Other
Side of Country La
bors Under Mistake
Advises Efforts to Pub
lish There San Fran
cisco's Quick Recovery

BERKELEY, July President
Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the State
University. who returned last night
from a thirty days trip throughout
the East. counsels San Franciscans TO
show the East, as thoroughly as the
country can be shown, that the town
ie TO be rebuilt and rebuilt at once.
In e statement issued today from
President Wheelers ONCE he said:
We found in Washington disinclina-
ticn on the part of Congress to legis
late specifically regarding San Fran
cisco Men. ] think. were afraid Of the
precedent that might be involved. The
plan which was finally worked out
whereby relief is to be given through
10 me good. There is the warmest
possible sympathy with 1.-THE city and
State in the distress.
I must confess that throughout the
East / found the full and established
opinion that San Francisco could
scarcely be rebuilt, at least in the
pluck Of the San Franciscans, but IS
inclined 20 believe that il is mostly
pluck without much hope OF realiza-
really Started any permanent build
ings9' What are they really doing to
show that the city is to be rebuilt?" l
think II very desirable that out of its
resources San Francisco should make
q beginning. The men who have been
trying 70 induce Wall Street TO make
the Beginning have found grave diff
culties confronting them.
OF his work done in the East during
the trip President Wheeler said:
have spent seventeen nights in
sleeping cars since / left California
about four weeks ago. / attended the
Columbia commencement and the COM
mencement at my alma mater. Brown
University. and visited Boston, inter
viewing some candidates for positions
here. The teachers of Boston. through
Principal Wallace c. Boyden of the
Boston Normal School. placed in my
hands s2oT6.e0 to be used for the aid of
teachers in San Francisco brought into
distress through the fire. l was twice
IN Washington in the interest of the
proposed legislation for the relief of
San Francisco. I made a trip to In
disnapolis TO lecture before the Irving
ton Athenaeum. I spoke on San Fran
cisco and It's Future" treating the sub
3ect in the light Of the geographical
position OF the city and the charac cter
OF its people. spoke on A similar
topic also al Columbia University at
the alumni gathering on commence
President Wheeler-s comment upon
the appointment of Professor z. E
Brown TO be United States Commits
sioner of Education was as follows:
The appointment Of Professor Elmer
z. Brown as United States Commits
sioner Of Education in succession to
ment 70 California That the head of
the Federal system of education should
be chosen from California would seem
70 intimate that something has been
going on in California that can fairly
be recognized as of the standard va
riety in education. DR.. Brown was ap-
pointed simply because the place came
10 him by a sort of natural right He
is the one man who has given the most
special attention TO the history of the
development Of American education. He
is a great loss 10 the university and
the State-to the State, particularly in
his connection with the State Board of
Education.