The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-01

UiOuSAI OuI III luc Campaign SpctCucS
and candidates who have pledged
themselves to support legislation to
stop this public waste state that they
find growing sentiment in their ia
vor that is not to be accounted for by
party affiliations. This sentiment is
being strengthened all the time by the
vigorous campaign which is being
waged by the conservation league Of
America the headquarters of which
are in this city. Backed by President
Roosevelt, and having the active sup
port of both Bryan and Taft, who are
honorary officers, this organization is
trying to awaken interest in the crit
ical state of the national resources
as a result Of a hundred years Of
waste and unscientific methods. One
of the latest discoveries OF the league
Is the fact that over q billion cubic
feet Of natural gas is escaping every
day from oil wells, fambeaus and pipe
lines, for lack of the simplest provis-
ions to save it and turn it to account
Spanking has suffered a relapse Of
public favor for the Chicago schools
and the Christening rod is urgently
recommended from various quarters
as a cure for the rebellious spirit, now
rampant because of the war of exter-
termination being waged on fraterni-
ties. The president of the school board,
though countryman of Frobel, re-
Gently declared for good, old corporal
punishment-not too severe, but en-
phatic and convincing. Two preach
ers In sermons have approved the
plan. Both happened to be Congrega-
tionalists. One prescribed 1.-THE hand,
strap or slipper" The other said:
Il think the proper attitude of the
parent and good citizen to those boys
who were reported as loafing around
the front Of their frat houses, smok-
ing briar root pipes, would have been
to go there and reasoned with them,
and If they still rebelled think the
next step would have been to find a
good elastic barrel stave somewhere
and whittle it of at one end until a
good hand-hold is secured, and mix
with them for a few minutes in a way
that would have tendency to re-es-
tablish parental respect, authority and
sovereignty" The advocate Of "the
hand, strap or slipper" added: "And
4 would add to that the committing
to memory of several chapters of the
Book OF Proverbs, which deal with
parents and children, for we seem to
be training up a generation Of future
anarchists"
Color photography, for which SCI
entists and artists the world over have
CROPPED for so years since the old da-
guerreotype process proved that 1t was
possible, has been solved under heroic
conditions by an American artist,
Henry Raveli, who has lived for 20
years in the city Of Mexico. An ex-
hibit of his work, which. the Salamag-
undi club of New York was instru-
mental In having brought to this
country and which 1t gave an enthus-
iastic recognition, has been hung in
Thurber's galleries here. an event
considered a milestone In the progress
of photography. Like many important
discoveries. it was made after grim
fight, for Ravell's success was in spite
of temporary blindness and the re-
sulting poverty. Twenty odd years
ago he made. his start in New York,
both as a painter and magazine H.
illustrator. He won some distinction by
his Mexican pictures, "a fact which
took him to Mexico twenty years ago.
For several. years he painted Mexican
subjects and made copies OF old mas
terpieces for the mural paintings OF
cathedrals and churches. Then an at
tack of dengue fever left him suddenly
practically blind, all. the brilliant
scenes that he .revelled in reproducing
blotted out BY. seemingly hopeless
darkness. Afesr some years Of dis
tress, eyesightaretuFned enough to en-
abfe him to choose his subjects Tor