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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30
Teaching the Children.

At New York public school the
principal asked for answers to the
question "Why does the president ap-
point a day for Thanksgiving9n Here
are some of the answers -, 49,
"Because Columbus : discovered
America..' Z +, = + r ~ !
"Because the president s party won
in the last election.'' . .-..>
<<Because on this day the Puritans
had their first dinner :. - >. ~
Only one boy: answered, "To, give
thanks for all.,the benefits of the past
year"
These answers appear grotesque, but
on the whole the fault. was probably
more with the parents than with. the
children. Very likely they had never
been succinctly and plainly told what
Thanksgiving meant. They could not be
expected to learn it from the presi-
dent g proclamation. - ~. i.
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servable at the height Of oursprosperitJ

IN W. ~ X '@.s% ~, :
And in this general advance mo- Sec
ton Of the country appears to better
advantage than our own northwest.
Favored with abundant crops, the
Mecca of the most desirable class of
immigration and prospectively, the field
of enormous undertakings In. railroad
building and other constructive work,
there is every reason to anticipate a
still higher degree of activity and
prosperity in this section during the
coming year. p -. =
In this Minneapolis shares literally
now and is destined to cut still more
important figure in the coming years.
Indeed, her own people are just begin
ming to realize what, in the nature of
things, there is in store for this city.
They are beginning to understand that
the logic Of events is building up. here
at the Falls of st. Anthony a city
which for commercial Importance is
destined to be- surpassed by none in
the Mississippi valley except Chicago.
A little study, with map, Of the field
Of trade. naturally and. inevitably con-
nected with this city cannot but i'm.
press the. student with the peculiar
strength Of position as a commercial
and financial center occupied by Min
neapolis. With no great distributing
center on the south. nearer than Omaha
and none in the northwest nearer than
Winnipeg, and none, this side Of the
mountains on, the west, b Minneapolis
holds the key TO a situation larger and
more promising than, that occupied by
any other. western city except the one
named, and vastly better from the
standpoint of freedom from effective
competition -..-...,... - -.
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TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
something to insure greater rapidity
Of movement relief for the shipper
won16 not sha uraat I@N II

5.-4t4 lS
something to insure greater rapidity
Of movement relief for the shipper
would not be great. &
The same thing Is found on all roads,
oar own northwest lines as well, but
the illinois Central affords the best
illustration ina large way. IF re-
ciprocal law were in force, that the
railroads considered too drastic, they
might stand upon their rights Of re-
fusal to allow their rolling stock to
leave their rails, insist upon the trans
fer of all cars at terminal points and
thus throw burden upon terminal
facilities, already breaking, that would
bring on congestion indescribable.
1t is not necessary to assume that the
roads would do this to. see the point
Of 1t. The fact is that reciprocal
kdemurrage law must be eminently fair
or it will do harm rather than good.
The feeling Of retaliation against rail
roads, If such feeling exists, must be
eliminated from law-making bodies, or
nothing lasting and beneficial will
result. <s->., I $ s
That a reciprocal demurrage law, or
something Of It's nature will come seems
almost certain, for tho public is in
herently right In it's demands. It is
fundamentally wrong that all right Of
inficting. penalty should rest with the
railroads ana that shippers and re-
ceivers, suffering from inadequate serv-
ice, should be without redress. This
must be remedied..; But It may be well
to understand at the start that 1t is a
big and complicated question. Indeed,
that lawmaker who will evolve a plan
of reciprocal demurrage that will stand
all legal tests, accomplish it's purpose
and meet the views of both the rail.
roads and the shipping public, will have
accomplished task scarcely less her
culean than that of solving the tariff
problem. ~
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Dramatic, Editorial. Social.

enable members to work out their half
formed plans, according to the expert.
ence Of other states and countries.
They will not have to begin at the
bottom and work out plan by theory
and experimentation, but can have the
benefit of ideas and results collected
from the world at large Such a plan
would not be likely to reduce the num-
Der Of bills introduced, but it would
certainly raise their standard. If it
would prevent some Of those sad and
costly mistakes mistake that are always creep
ing into new legislation, It would soon
pay for itself.
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UNHAPPY REFLECTIONS.

My warmest foe-my dearest friend, D.. %. :,
=. AS both I must extol him. -.. -.
He'll wear my clothes; my cash he'll spend
At times I can't control him. X t-
BE makes my house his house at will,
70 Don't wait till invite him. Fllr' %
he gets me sore-the rascal-still s -
e 1'hesftate to smfte him., - a5.-s G::..*
He talks about me everywhere. as,r: -
And sneers when I accuse him.. -
He kissed my sister, I declare, .....
When she tried to amuse him. 40 ~"
He burns my smokes, he drinks my wines,
Ny best jokes-he repeats 'em; - -.
Those bonbons-from a friend O. mine.
Ny pony cart and auto speed, s,.-. ,.l -.
: He drives about unheeding. . -,s..g, y.
The very books want to read,
always find him reading. e. -.
He knows some secrets that I'd swear
~ Were safely in my keeping, $3.50
And when I'm tired my softest chair y.
He occupies a sleeping. 49, r. .,
Great Scott! Is confidence misplacedf
he loves my wife. the bandit!
His arm extended round her waist.
How well she seems to stand 1t
Now friend or foe-we're vis-a-vis,
Ny collar button-pass sir, Z. =
Come! shake your head and laugh with me,
From out that looking glass, sir.
/ Jerry j. Cohan in the Spot Light.
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AOToMANIA

Have you seen whiskered wineY
Whose name Is Pocket Mike?
He's burnin' up the desert
In smelly, four-wheeled bike.
He struck pocket somewheres
That paid diamonds to the ton,
And he yells: Bring me an auto
I have long been needin' one."
I'm tired" he says, ''of punchin'
Them burro beasts o. mine,
: So, fetch me red devil
That can go one-forty- mine;
Don't give me no blamed chuffer.
3 But let me take the wheel
I'll play the game lone-handed,
So just watch me make the deal"
He's stampeded seven round-ups
And he's wrecked an ostrich farm & Z
And I'm Cactus clean to Kyote go,
He has left trail o. harm;
So we're huntin' with posse tt
For this benzine-crazy cuss,
And he'll see day Of sorrer--
II that thing don't stampede us.
Denver Republican.
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An ENCOURAGING raging Outlook.

!. It is theseastom in the business world
cat this season Of the year ID make a
more spr less careful estimate S.of the
year business compared With that of
thessyear before. Whether the trans:
actions are all figured out in detail OF
I q mere estimate is, made, it is the time
OFF year to take some account Of what
has been accomplished, how it compares
with the results Of previous years and
whether the conditions show satisfac-
tory improvement. " ], !. i
81 There is the same inclination to
estimate general results and find salts.
faction in evidences Of continued pros.
perity and larger commercial activity.
There is no purpose here to go into
detailed figures. They cannot be &C.
curately stated atsthe present time, but
it may be in order to. emphasize briefly
the fact that the year j eoey, in the judg-
ment OF men Of large business expert
ence, has exceeded any previous twelve
month in the history of the country.
We have been making new records from
year to year until it seems as if the
height of prosperity had been reached,
and yet conditions. for: advancement
were never better than they are now.
Never, for instance, was there such a
demand for laborS skilled and unskilled,
as there is now and never at wages
nearly SO high as. those which prevail
at the present time. IT, is true that
the cost Of living has increased and
that the higher wages do not indicate
accurately the improved condition of
the working classes, and yet the fact
that there is work for everyone who
wants to work lis the. most important
feature of the. case. It matters little
by comparison. how big: or how small
may be the wages earned. The point
Of first Importance is the opportunity
to. earn. Unquestionably a large ele-
ment Of the wage-earning population
were better off relatively during the
hard times than now. Those who had
good positions at established salaries
which were maintained were better off
then than they are now in most cases
with larger salaries and even proper
tiouately increased cost Of living. And
yet, the community as a whole is the
gamer by the present condition Of
things because now there are no idle
people who wish to work and the gen.
eral good is greatly enhanced.
Occasionally there Is q pessimistic
note, cry Of warning from some
skeptical and pessimistic observer, but
with q sound currency and increasing
population, with enlarging foreign
trade and enormously increased home
consumption there appears to be no
reason to doubt a continuance Of good
times indefinitely, /.
There is, Of course, danger that ex-
travagance may bring disaster, but ex-
travagance is not the order Of the day
as it has been in other times Of great
financial prosperity and activity. The
savings departments Of The banks In
dictate this. These treasures have risen
to proportions never before attained
and Indicate 8 more general disposition
TO econony and thrift than was OBJ
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supply. The Tuskegee trained negroes,
1t may be said, are but drop in the
bucket. It would be more just to say
that they are seed sown which may
harvest q solution OF the race problem.
The Tuskegee institute men and women
are not the negroes who are having
trouble with the whites. They not
the ravishers nor lynchees. They are
among the people who are making the
new south.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30
"People's High Schools, :"

ant suggestions made in the course of
the teachers meetings that have made
Minneapolis an educational mecca the
past week, emanates from the high
school council and the associated school
boards. These bodies have united in
recommending to the legislature the es-
Establishment Of a system of "people IS
high schools on. somewhat the same
plan as is pursued in Scandinavia. The
object Of these popular g high schools
is TO- give the. youth Of farming com:
munities opportunity to acquire the
rudiments Of agricultural, industrial
and pedagogical education. There would
be no requirements for admission and
the. instruction given would result in
better farming, g. better industrial re-
suits and better teaching. The2invest-
ment would, bring quick and direct
returns to the, farmers. the merchants
and all classes. ::-..r 800 = -...>n :. :
Superintendent smyser Of Morris
pointed out In an able paper on the
subject that If better knowledge of
the first principles Of farming resulted
an increase OF but rs cents an acre
in. the value Of crops, the profit to
Stevens: county alone would be $92, 900
in one year. He made the grim cpl
gram that "our youth should. be able
to, gain ind,1striaI edrcatiio ION Vi i 8
having to commit a erime:'' THE
young criminal is fitted out with a
good trade by the state, but the ordi-
nary youth has no such opportunity
!. As, for the teaching phase of the
question, 1t is well understood in edu-
cational circles that the crying need
of the country school is for better
teachers. These "people's high
schools would turn out better teach
ers than are now available-not as
well trained, of course, as. the grad
yates of The state normal schools, but
still far more fit for the work than is
now possible = s @:&*. ~
While no definite suggestion is made
as to how these schools are to be es-
tablished and supported, we under
stand that the plan best liked calls
for one such school in each, county,
supported by additional local taxation.
Care would be taken not to have them
duplicate to any considerable degree
the work Of the stateHagricultural col
lege or Of the state normal schools.
Indeed, they would be articulated with
these higher schools in much the same
way that the high schools Of the state
are now articulated with the univer-
sity. They would form preparatory
schools, in, fact, for all. who had as
Npirations for better and more thoro
work in these lines, But. their primary
object would be practical training in
agriculture, industrial pursuits and
teaching. Doubtless domestic science
would also be taught. r. III. *s
The scheme, uniformed as it still is,
must commend itself as an admirable
and highly desirable advance in edu-
cation. The legislature may we'll re-
gard well digested and practicable
plan to this end.
3 . s
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CHINA

~ 80 n TN. . #.@- - -1- 4 q !
TO amidst
Hoods have ruined
that the famine conditions daily growing that
unquesonaby
lett the famine district while concentrating the adjacent
For IS
ident ooseve Of
forelcn
plies and willingly
collecting
the
FIFTY dollars the
relief fund Of Oakland
Better and richer Will be happiness this holiday
yanstsl river Send to Kenneth
MINNESOTA
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IN SPITE OF IT'S FAILlNGs
Granite Falls Journal.

49," J GTanlL6 FSblS JOURNAL. |---
The Minneapolis Journal. If 1t has
some failings, like the rest Of us, is en-
titled to the thanks Of the people Of the
northwest for the work it has been do
ing in the way Of bringing the attention
of the public to the conditions that exist
in reference to the non movement of the
wheat crop Of the northwest by the rail-
roads, and the neglect of the same COM
mon carriers to provide necessary fuel to
the people. sf qse;
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1T HAD BURNED .

Dr.. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of
the senate, takes a sort Of fatherly inter-
est in the members. He once asked
certain senator with a good deal of So
Icitation if he was church member.
The senator was glad to be able to say
that he was. Two or three days later,
according to the story, DR.. Hale required
to the subject and asked the name of
the church The senator gave a name.
Two or three days later again DR.. Hale
remarked with regret that he had looked
up that church and that he was sorry to
find that 1t had been burned down twelve
years beforehand never rebuilt.
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THE uNsuNa SONG

n strive, but strive In vain + .
10 recall the lost refrain. II !
On some miraculous day !.
Perhaps 1t will come and stay;
In some unimagined spring
I may find my voice and sing
The song I have never sung. S
IT. d. A1dT1ch.
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FATE

Kansas City Times.
4 You need not subscribe to the general
doctrine OF REORGANIZATION to realize that
from the beginning Of the world James
Hazen Hyde was predestined to select a
bride from the choral profession.
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A WONDERFUL LITERARY GENIUS
Kansas CITY Star.

Kansas City Star
Mr.. Bryce will be especially welcomed
as Great Britain's ambassador to Wash
ington because he succeeded in writing
two volumes about social and political
conditions in America without showing
that he didn't know what he was writing
about.
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THE TARIFFS FRIENDS or LONG
AGO
Washington Herald.

After forty years of labor the French
academy has reached the letter "d'' In
the compilation of new dictionary. At
that rate the compilers will finish Id
time to come over to the United States
and see the tarin revised by. Its friends.
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Japan is again Inenacins the peace OF
this country with five Japs in Cuba, who
speak five languages each. Persons who
speak five languages are menace to any
country.
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One cannot but admire the generosity
Of st. Paul in allowing the state forty
years in which to pay the interest. Or
was 1t that St. Paul wanted forty years
in which to scrape up the principal?
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A Montana man has been indicted for
fencing in $4,000 acres Of the public do
main. 1t was proved that he was not q
member Of the senate -, &,t@
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Archbishop Ireland may not receive the
red hat, but he appears to have made
the monarchist plotters in the Roman
Catholic church red-heade~. :., 80
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Senator Plat says he knows there are
21.4oo newspapers in the country with
out being told about it every day. >: : q:
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:. That two weeks recess OF congress
will doubtless be improved by the presl-
dent in blocking out another batch Of
messages. x.,r .. ...la..s ill.,. ..
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scAREFuL RHEIMS DEMANDED

Detroit News. i4..Ss rs
Very gradually we are reaching q
point where It will be unsafe for a
chauffeur, to be- running fast when he
kills q pedestrian.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

A Philadelphia man fell dead while CIV
ing Christmas present to his wife. He
had not done it often enough to get used
to It.
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The hiatus between, the theory and
practice of denaturing alcohol IS plainly
not bridged by ]. D. R r c,c,, ..-~ -.
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Mr.. Bryce IS great Gladstone in
one respect. He has been offered a peer
age and declined It, =
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NO cANTEEN DEMAND, EITHER

kansas City STAR stf9sa
In the recent military scandals 1t Is
gratifying to note that the salvation
Army has come thru entirely unscathed.
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The holiday pocketbook resembles the
bed Of a river which has gone elsewhere.
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Have you taken thought OF your Christ
mas shopping? You have but 35S days
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Every little while the courts get yer.
near George w. Perkins. = N--.s.
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POSTAGE RATES OF SINGLE COPIES.

All papers are continued until explicit order
searages are paid. ..=
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PARIs-Journal on file at American Express,
211 Rue Scribe, and Eagle Bureau, So Rue
Cambon. ,.
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NEW YORK OFFICE, CHICAGO OFFICE,
World Building. Tribune Building.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT on file at American Express
OFFICE, 8 Waterloo place, and U. 8. Express
Office, 50 Strand.
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WASHINGTON oFFICE-W. W. Jermane, chief
Of Washington Bureau. 9O1-9O2 Colorado build
ing Northwestern visitors to Washington in
vited to make use of reception room, library,
stationery, telephone and telegraph facilities.
Central location, Fourteenth and G streets NV.
Copies Of The Journal and northwestern news
papers on file.
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Sunday schools have taken in their
s. r.. o. sign. ..r..-.s-s = .,.,, =
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PUBLICATION OFFICE - Minneapolis, Mimi.
Journal building, 47-49 Fourth street 8.
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SwEDEN-Journal on ale at American Legation
Stockholm. -
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EAST SIDE oFFICE-Central avenue and Sec
ond street. Telephone Main No. g. =
TELEPHoNE-Journal has private switchboard
for both lines. Call No. 8, on either line, and
call for department you wish to speak to.
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DENMARK-Journal on file. at American Lega'
ton. Copenhagen.
st. PAUL OFFIOE-42O Endicott building. TETS
phone, N. W., Main 230; T. Q. 2oe6.
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NoRwAY-Journa1 on nle at American Consul
ate Christianfa,
The Washington times., 1906-12-23
BACK IS BROKEN
Of COAL FAMINE
Dakotas and Minnesota Safe,
Says Commissioner
Lane.

"The coal famine IN the DakOtas and
Minnesota has had its back broken,
said Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Franklin X. Lane yesterday, on his re-
turn from Minneapolis But the in
quiry into the ear shortage problem is
not yet over, and il is dificult to tell
what plan may be adopted to improve
conditions in that regard"
Mr. Lane was just back from the
most animated hearings the commission
has held in a long time.
People tiocked 10 the hearings as
they would TO a sensational murder
trial" he said. They were even
hanging on at the windows by their
eyelashes. never saw anything like
their interest"
The Washington times., 1906-12-23
Treat Woman as Slave,
Treat Her as an Equal
Still You're Not Right
By PROF. OTTO wEININGER.

absolute woman does not exist Woman
Is human and must be treated as hu-
man. even though she never wants TO.
Woman and man have the same rights.
Deny Her Suffrage.
This does not mean. however that one
must grant woman political rights.
From a utilitarian standpoint this is not
advisable. at least not for some time,
and perhaps never. In New Zealand,
where respect OF the ethical principle
has led to the granting OF Woman's suf-
frage, experience has proven this un-
wise. Just as we do not allow children.
idiots and criminals to take part in the
governing of the commonwealth. even
should they become a ma jority, we must
keep woman from influencing a cause
which we have reason 10 believe she
would hurt
Just as the results OF science are inde-
pendent of whether all agree concerning
them or not. thus one may fix woman 5
rights and duties without consulting her
she need not fear that she will be
cheated as long as we remember that
right and not might must prevail.
What Is right is right for woman as
for man; nobody dares forbid woman TO
do anything because Il is unWomanly,
and II is indeed a scOundrelIy verdict
which acquits q man for killing his wife
because she was Unfaithful as II she
were chAttel belonging to him