Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-05
CARNIVAL RAISES FUNDS
FOR FOOTBALL TEAM
STATE UNIVERSITY GAY OVER
RESULT

Indians Form Subject of Dis
cussion by Prof. A. L.
koerber
BERKELEY, Oct. 4.-Never was such
wealth of color, such diversity of dress,
such a display of costumes or such gen.
erous outpouring of people known as has
Just occurred at California day at the
Alameda county carnival. The object was
to raise money to properly equip the
Rugby football team. On Friday night
the great Greek theater was packed with
ten thousand people to see the rally,
which acted as a grand dress rehearsal
for the carnival. From-that moment until
late the next night joy reigned supreme.
Over six hundred men appeared in cos
tume-ballet girls danced with red devils,
cave men marched with Cinnamon, ne
groes with Indians, and Kolb and Dill
played with the Katzenjammers. On Sat-
urday afternoon the parade marched
through Berkeley and thence were car
ried to Oakland by the Traction company.
The circus did not draw half the crowd
that watched the students, thousand
strong, march up Broadway and again
board the cars for Idora park Until a
late hour the clink of good money was
heard, and now the football fund is a
thousand dollars the richer.
Order prevailed from start to finish
with not an Objectionable feature to mar
the day. For once the college student
had chance to even up on the profess
sors. AS a man high up in the faculty,
who had been arrested by fake policemen
and brought before fake judge on the
charge of carrying concealed money"
remarked, who wouldn't help?"
Creation Myths of Indians
The Indians of California differ from
other Indians in having a systematic
myth of the creation and in recognizirg G
a supreme power in the shape of a
Deity. So says Prof. A. L. Kroeber of
the University of California in his latest
discussion on the religion of the Cali
fornia Indians. Those of the southern
part of the state attributed the origin of
man, animals and plants to the first par
ents, heaven and earth. Prof. Kroeber
goes on to describe how the medicine man
or doctor receives his peculiar powers in
a dream but sometimes inherits from his
father or grandfather the control of GER
tain spirits that endow him with magic
power. Disease is not only cured, but
caused by the medicine man. The In
dams describe pain as small wormlike
through the air and enter human being
and give rise to sickness.
The public ceremonies of the California
Indians are less spectacular and sensa-
tional than those of many other Indian
tribes. They are unusual for the great
number of mourning ceremonies. Dances
are held principally to bring on good
crops and weather and abundance of
game, and to prevent disaster such as
earthquake, flood and disease.
University Helps Farmers
President Wheeler in his recent speech
at Fresno declared that there are four
ways in which the university helps the
tilers of the soil. '"The first is the solu-
ton of special problems by research of
the university scientists. am not sure
that this applied science is not higher
than pure science. This service to the
public is the keynote of modern educa-
tion. The second way is the dissemina-
tion of knowledge through bulletins I
am afraid that these bulletins are not
read as widely as theX should be. They
are of the utmost Importance to the
farmer. The third way is the correspond
ence school. This department is growing
by leaps and bounds. Through corre-
spondence with farmers regular uni
versity extension course is created
Through it men are arriving at a con-
ception of the dignity of being farmer
and of the relationship of work of the
hands to the intellect.
1--WE have cnly low and petty view OF
life when we live by the rule of the
thumb. He is a slave who follows only
traditional routine without zest in hi:
work. 1t is not being in bondage tha
makes man a slave, but ignorance ant
| the routine that shows no interest in life
The man with zest in his work looks ou
| to the skies. He owns the universe be
cause he understands it. He is the maj
who knows. The fourth way is the agri
cultural course at the university. Thi
course is growing more rapidly than an.
other at the university. 1t shows an in
crease of from Is to 20 per cent this yea
over last. There is tremendous deman,
for the graduates for teachers more thai
can be supplied. The graduates are no
sent back to the farm-they are sent ou
to secondary schools and other places.
New Day Dawning
| Continuing, President Wheeler said: 81
new day is dawning for education i
which men will not be trained to becom
a little better than their fellows, or t
win more honors, or for the sake of learn
ing some obsolete or decorative knowl
edge. Men will study in order that the
may be of greater service to their fellows
They will study that their fellows ma
have knowledge. These farm schools wi
be suited to the boy from the farm VIII
can form an intelligent appreciation G
the things that he is working at in life
This is a new view of education. train
ing a man for the actual life in which h
will engage instead of hanging somethin
on him like a cloak or, an emblem an
calling it education and there will b
more Of it in the future. The hope c
the nation lies rather in the cultivate
of the family farm as call it--th
small farm of forty or sixty acres, wher
a man can support his family and him
self, than in the great owners Of thre
or four thousand acres each"
On October 20 to sl at the universit
farm at Davisville, will be held the stat
farmers institute under the direction {
Prof. Warren T. Clarke of the depAr
,oa,,t NJ ooric111t,lre a This promises to