The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-14
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Coeducation.

The theory op which coeducation was
started was that the sexes were equal IN
mental power and no distinction in cur
riculum should be made. As a fact many
of the brightest scholars, if not the pro-
foundest students, in coedueational insti-
buttons have been women. But it ought
to have been evident at the start what is
apparent now, that Notwithstanding
equality of W the equipment neces-
sary for men and women in their normal
career in life is essentially different. No
mother is any the worse for her knowl-
edge of Greek and the calculus, but any
woman is better for having certain train
ing which would be of no benefit to men.
It has not proved, as was expected, that
association in classrooIns has led to pre-
mature maria ges. The reverse seems to
have been the case. Men do not like to
be In classrooms with women where their
own deficiencies must be exposed. 1t seems
a bar to sentiment and often fatal to af-
finities. The young man who attends a
mans college and gets along only moder-
ately well may assume more airs of excel
lence than is his due, but it suits his
vanity more than to be under the inspec-
ton of those toward whom he desires to
be chivalric. The truth would spoil a
good many weddings, has ruined many mar
riages, and SO the young men are going
in for mutual ignorance once more. And
they are probably judicious in their idea.-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bank RObbing.
Though the old-time bank robber who
operated forcibly on the safe has entirely
disappeared and the modern system of
cages, bookkeeping and espionage have
made 1t difficult for employees to sequester
much money unless by a general conspir-
acy. banks still continue to lose heavily by
theft. Indeed, the bonding companies that
are now the chief sufferers from these
crimes report that in the first half of the
current year the total of cash stolen from
banks in the United States was nearly five
and a half million dollars, an increase over
the amount stolen in the corresponding
period of preceding years. More perfect
methods of protection are evidently needed.
There Is nothing specially new, of course,
in the information also given out by the
bonding companies that about half the pro-
ceeds of bank robbing in these days goes
directly into Wal Street. Half the remain
der goes into racetrack gambling, and the
other quarter in the good old way in
which wine and women chiefly figure
Providence Tribune.
The Pacific Coasts Due.
Some Of the Eastern newspapers have
spoken of the cruise to the distant Pa
cife' in a way that suggested that the
Atlantic fleet would be foated into alien
waters for the exclusive benefit of an
alien people. Yet no more lovaj Ameri-
cans can be found anywhere than on the
Pacific coast. and If the people of this
coast need or wish the presence OF the
duty, and It should be the pleasure. of The
FEDERAL authorities to send it hither.
such seems to be President Roose-
correct. Besides. when Mr.. Roosevelt said
the coast line of California, Oregon and
washington is ''our coast line" he might
just as emphatically the fleet of An,erican
citizens Of the Pacific coast as it is the
fleet Of american citizens on the Atlantic
coast; The Presidents noisy critics will
Post-Intelligencer.