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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-08
ACTION OF BOARD
DRAWING COMMENT D 1
Resolution Thought by Some to
Be a Slap at University,
Whichis Denied.
sUPT. CHRISTENSEN TALKS.
He Gives Light on Tie Question and
Regrets That all Improper Con
struction Was Made.

The resolution passed by the city
board of education Tuesday evening.
lcensuring educational institutions that
take teachers away from the city
schools during contract with the board,
caused considerable discussion in
school circles yesterday.
The resolution was by some inter-
preted to apply more particularly to
the University of Utah. but Supt.
Christensen says that such is not true,
bur that the coat was intended for
anybody that it might fit. II is true
that the Training school, a department
of the University, had added to its
corps OF teachers from the ranks of the
city schools AS to why this was done
and how 1t was done, explanations are
not forthcoming from Supt. Christen-
sen and President Joseph r. Kings
buhy, there being little, if any variance
IN; the statements. Yesterday the for-5
mSl authorized the following, as his
view of the situation:
BY PROF CHRISTENSEN.
TT is to be deeply regretted that
the purport of the resolution adopted
by the board of education Tuesday
night was partially lnlSundefStOUd. Or
course, the University of Utah was
not the object of censure. UNIVERSE
ties and colleges are not in the habit
5ofGrecruiting their faculties from ele-3
4mentary schools Possibly the fact
that several teachers have withdrawn
from our schools to accept more lucra-
tive positions in the Training school
may have been responsible for the in
ference made.
~ am sorry hat The resolution has
been the occasion for so much discus
sion, and that it has been given such
wide publicity. However, L recognize
that it is a legitimate Item Of news
for publication.
y CITY rs FORTUN ATE,
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subject of the pleasantries OF the day But
the fact is we'll known. And many VINO
will float up to group of NJ e. from
any old place. east or west. north or
south. and relieve his system of a new
one" will have the whole crowd weeping
into his back hair for very gratitude
Never was this better exemplified than
last Friday. when John Sharp Williams OF
Mississippi the minority leader. who
was educated at Heidelberg and else
where. to illustrate the republican atti-
tude on tariff revision, got off the follow
ing ''pome:
When asked my girl to marry me she said.
She knew that knew her father dead
She knew that | knew what life he had led:
She knew that knew what she meant when she
said.
Go TO father
Mr.. Williams may not he aware of the
fact. but that merry quip was rheumatic
and decrepit in these parts long before he
ever came to Congress. | shouldn't won
der. if the truth were told. that about the
! time Mr. Williams was at Heidelberg.
clustering with students around the stein
banged board. some predecessor of his in
the House was Go to Fathering."
Another sad thing about this elderly jest
is the fact that pretty nearly every mem
Der of Congress- republican and democrat
ic. nearly passed away laughing at IT..
right handy in the Congressional Library.
A Powerful Flute Player.
Lewis Miller. clerk of the House COM
mittee on the District of Columbia. is
chirking up a bit these days. For the
last couple of weeks Mr.. Miller has been
in state of profound depression He
has not smiled He has not spoken other
wise than solemnly. There seemed. from
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tenton of the House membership oftener
during the past week than in the
whole previous period of its existence.
For the little disks that constitute the
ears Of the ACQUISITION system on the
floor look as harmless as ink-well tops.
conversation floating around. in addition
to the formal utterances they are sup
posed to record. is nothing short of a
caution. And every word that finds its
way. by accident or design. into these
little ears" is sent flying over the wires
to the receivers of the system. which
have been installed in the House press
gallery and some committee rooms at that
end of the Capitol. and which will be
eventually installed In every room of the
new House office building as well.
Everybody who has ever been inside of
the Capitol for more than a minute knows
that the House. when in session. is the
nOisiest kind of place. being reminiscent
at times of the popular impression of an
Irish wake. So It's very apparent that If
all the little ears of the acousticon system
were left open at one and the same time
the result at the various receiving ends of
the line would be merely congiOmerate
roar very like the sound of the restless
ocean that one hears when holding sea-
shell to the ear. So the ACQUISITION Is
operated from the public gallery opposite
the Speakers throne. where a temporary
switchboard has been installed and where
an operator sits during all the time that
the House is in session to stop up all the
ears except those necessary to record the
proceedings of the House-that is. to dis
connect all the transmitters except the
one or two nearest the member OF MEM
berS speaking.
OF course the whole thing Is rather in
the experimental stage yet. but some
of the results attained have been really
remarkable, and there doesn't seem to be
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his air of gloom. to he somebody dead
in the House office building. So the other
day | asked him about il. and his face
frightened up quite little. He seemed
To want TO talk.
Its my flute" said he: my German
silver flute that has been with me since
Hector was a pup. Never. in the past
twenty or thirty years. forget just how
long-have l been without my flute. When
l am tired l play the flute to rest my
self When | am rested I play the mute
to become pleasantly fatigued. When l
am sad play to be gay, and when | am
gay 1 play to get sad. My flute is my
constant companion. my main source or
joy. my only eternal. everlasting. un-
changeable friend
After this talk with Mr.. Miller I went
out and found the dusky messenger VIII"
is intruSted with the laborious duty ~
seeing TO il that nobody steals the south
west corridor of the building.
Did you ever hear Mr.. Miller play the
fluter' / asked
''he sure can play. Mr.. Jones down
stairs he's fren OF mne-oh. yes. he's
a white gentlemsn-he lost his mother
n-law-yasSir. she fine iady-a
month or ago. and he say h. amt
never shed a tear till he heard Nj
Miller'S flute. Oh, yassr, he wanted 10
cry and he done tried hut il Just seem
he couldn't Mostly he wanted 10 sing
But one day | done toll him about Mr
Miller and his flute. and he come up And
We sit down outside the District com
mittee room doah. and in minute Mr..
Jones, he began To cry. And he's been
up three or foah times since then. He
say il makes him feel more respectful.
What does Mr. Miller play? Deed and
deed ! don know. but IL sure power
full sad. It's grand. 1t would make A
dog cry IRVING &. NORWOOD.
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much doubt that. when the experts who
are installing the system are able to de-
termine. by experience. the best location
for the ears of the ACQUISITION. and have
become more adept in switching on and
off with the shifting of the center of de-
bate about the floor. it will be possible for
a member to sit in his room In the House
office building and follow the proceedings
on the floor just as closely as though he
were in the chamber itself.
Just the other day. while Serene Payne
of New York. the republican floor leader.
gestible mental burdens. I picked up the
ear piece of the acousticon which hangs
by the desk of Charley Mann. the super
intendent of the House gallery. And al
though Mr.. Payne was standing about
thirty feet from the nearest active ear of
the ACQUISITION and was talking in his or
binary. everyday voice-which resmebles
a tallyho coach and four rumbling across
q shaky wooden BRIDGE could hear every
word he said without the slightest trouble.
Since then I've tried the apparatus a score
or more Of times sometimes with equal
success sometimes not being able to dis
tinguish a word. 1t was told. and l sup
pose it is true. that whenever this hap
pened one or more OF the acOuSticon 8
ears which were not then supposed to be
in use had inadvertently been left open
by the operator to gather in all the un-
necessary sounds around the chamber.
One day last week. lust before the
House met, I stopped to ask some more
less pertinent question of a member
to whose desk one of the ears Of the
acousticon was attached. He didn't reply
at once. He just got out of his seat WIN
a Disguised glance at the little black DISK
Clutched me by the arm ana lea me out
in the public corridor.
I've quit saying anything while sea, ed
at my desk" said the member. because
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had he not been so tremendously nervous
and worried. His abscess developed first
eleven years ago If he had drawn a
little ether into his lungs at that time. and
allowed a surgeon to remove the thing
he'd never have been bothered by it
again. but he hated anesthesia. There
fore he would only permit his surgeon to
lance the thing. 1t was a dermoid alb
scess. and. of course, it came back and
resumed operations in time. He had it
lanced twice again during the ensuing
years. His medical men told him each
time that the trouble never could be rem
edied until the abscess was completely
removed. but that. to have 1t removed en-
tirely. he would have to submit to an
anesthetic. else he wouldn't be able to
stand the pain of the operation.
when I told him, out of hand. that
wouldn't think of adding him to my list
of patients if he would not permit the
administration of an anesthetc so that
| could get at that abscess once for all
and dispose of il. it was almost comical
10 observe the mans grief and distress.
1t was the more comical because this man
was a huge lummOX of a hardy. rugged
individual. with n body, barring that alb
scess. AS sound a bell of brass Well
he had his ideas about that anesthetic
business. he certainly had and he told
me all of them and all about them. Folks
died under anesthesia a blamed sight
oftener than they came out of it, and so
on and so on. until | began to look at
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in the suit of black store clothes and the
too shiny turn-down collar.
Say. look a-here. doggone 1t. anyhow,
You paper-collared Zeke. what right have
you got That's how he started to
burst it out but he didn't get beyond
that. For about three and one-eighth
seconds after he'd begun to nncoil that
he was incontinently/ chucked into the
seat right behind him. and the small man
In the store clothing had gun about as
long as your forearm. with a. dark steel
blue barrel. damned right under the gay
boys left eve.
SON. the little man with the shiny
collar was saying to him in quiet tone
that yet above the click of the
wheels. EFF yo' all was growed up yit-
which yo' hahn tan asst folks in kind
ly. decent. respectful sort o way. like
sure-'nough men asst such things. t Ticker
up with yo'. they hain't nobody 'ud be
pleaseder to do that same than this yere
paper-collared Zeke. But 1t jes' hap
pens. son, that yo sure are a onnery
pup. and yo' all don't need t Ticker up
at all. tn same not bein' good FIR goph-
ers with yore kind of disposition. What
yo' all need is some milk. an 1 hereby
invites yo'. respectful an civil. t par
take o a drink O. milk on me. Barkeep'
summoning me. this we're ombrey will
have glass O. milk FIR his'n. Yo' kin
fetch me a glass O ticker FIR mine
well, 1t wasn't exactly the kind of do
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take up the thread Of civilized life, lead
ing gray rum.ess days until the spirit
moves them to hit up the club car again.
The great majority of these chaps are
men who don't touch anything to drink
in their home towns. They've probably
found out that they can't get away with
it among their home folks and acquaint-
ances without damaging their regulations.
And So when they feel that they just
must suds-up they kite to the station. get
a ticket on a train that has swell buflet
attachment get the pickle on and then
off again and then drill home about their
business bit pallid and dewy about the
forehead. and wait until they're ready to
do another buffet-car stunt. Some OF
them as I say. make two or three round
trips before they think they're due for
the simple. stationary life again. and
often they look as if they'd been pulled
through hawsepipe when me time
comes for them to get off and be nice.
Eve got to give it to them that most
OF these railroading spree boys behave
pretty we'll The thing Is a part OF their
system. you see. It's a proposition that
they consider they've got to go through
with and they're naturally decent. quiet
fellows. anyhow, else it follows. as mat
ter of course, that they'd just stay at
home and raise the dickens when they felt
like it and let it go as 1t lay.
ION these buffet car trips they spend
their coin with the greatest lavishness.
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yarns and morbid theories of their own
about the effect Of anesthetics. They'll
relate stories of friends of theirs or peo-
pie they've read about who've died under
the effect of anesthetics. When they
catch sight of a newspaper headline.
Died on the Operating Table. they
spread it out triumphantly before the
Doctors eyes and invite him to just look
at that will he, and then say that there's
no danger in properly administered an
aesthetics! They never think of the
thousands and thousands of cases. every
day. in which anesthetics are admins
tered without the patients dying. or. in
deed. ever being in the slightest danger
of death. They cite the cases they read
about or hear of. and then they burn up
their nervous systems brooding over these
isolated instances.
Men. in brief. are more headed
than women. Take that from me. | am
fully aware that the contrary view is the
generally accepted one But l utterly re-
iect and repudiate the contrary view.
Men. in most essential respects. are vast
~ more pig-headed than women
II will cite YOU a little Illustration by
way of proof. Recently was called in by
II man who showed me a sort of pet of
his. The pet was recurring abscess. 1t
was nothing very deadly. although he
had allowed his fear of anesthesia to pre-
vent its elimination for altogether too
long time. | should have felt like sm-
ing at this mans story of that abscess
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my watch. Then, every ounce OF him
fighting me in advance. he told me that
he'd take the anesthetic--told me in a sort
of my -be-upon-your-head way
and the next day l brought the etherizing
doctor and a nurse along. and the oper-
alton was performed at his home and
he'll never have another absceSs. in all
human probability. as long as he lives.
up TO the last conscious gasp that man
was agfn me and all Of my murderouS
kind. AS a matter Of fact, five minutes
yelling for a cigarette. and he wasn't
even sick at the stomach. as a good many
ether patients are. A cigarette said he
and leetle more of that ether. 7 Hke
it, New kind of a jag And wasn't he
blithe and merry about it-after it was
over. But l wouldn't remind him of what
a sad figure he'd been cutting in the
world for eleven years or So going up
and down his walks with an abscess fool
ing around in him that he could have been
well rid of at first If he hadn't possessed
that foolish prejudice against half an
hours voluntary Inconsistencies. Now
it is perfectly certain that any woman
equal i'm intelligence TO this man would
have submitted to an anesthetic and had
that abscess removed in the first place
That's only one reason why I am con-
tending that men really are more pig
headed than women. and there are plenty
Of other reasons, if only | had time 10
cite them.
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10 PEAKING broadly. 1 should say
that women have less fear OF
death than men, said surgeon of
great experience. II base this belief en-
tirely upon my own observation. for L
don't know what the theorists have to say
a bout it, Women will undergo serious
surgical operations with far less trepida-
ton than men. II you are given TO
analysis, you may account for this in any
cre of several ways. You may say, for
example, that women are always in closer
:ouch 30 ~ speak, with death than are
men. ! refer 20 their bearing of children
You may say, again. that women are
physically more obtusc than are men. and
this Is an established scientific fact. The
average woman can endure a far greater
amount Of physical pain than the avera ge
man. You may contend. again. that wom-
en- have less ina Sination than men. which
causes them to regard dearh with less ter
:or than do men. Well, this last fact
hasn't been so well established. am in
cIined TO believe. though, that women
,cally are less imaginative han men.
But. whatever be the nature of the
prop that supports them. women surely
approach the operating table with "A great
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deal less of visible fear than do men.
Probably l shouldn't use the word wish
BILE here, because if woman is afraid OF
anything she will show 1T. A man, even
when he is in deadly fear, hates to show
fear, tries to cover 1t up. This reasoning
brings the women even higher atop OF the
men in the matter of courage in APP
preaching operations. The woman would
show fear If fear obsessed her. The man
fights against revealing his fear. and yet
can't crowd it back. The great funda-
mental differences between men and
women in their nervous and mental make
up are more clearly shown by ,heir re-
spective attitudes in approaching surgical
operations than by any other method of
comparison.
You will come upon a hundred incon-
sistencies. equally divided between the
men and the women, in probing this mat
ter. For example, the woman who at
sight of mouse Will hop atop Of chair
in a frenzy OF hysteria. or faint outright.
will undergo an operation in which she
knows that she has something less than
an ever chance without turning hair.
man OF proven courage. who would
take chance on trying to pull the eyes
out of a mountain lion with his naked
hands, If ii came to that. absolutely I'M
afraid of anything in life, will become as
invert citrate as jellyflsh and AS whipped
as a dog under a porch over the mere
likelihood that he will have to subject
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view. but | wasn't sure. never ran
fruit ranch. But the other day there
came to the office. formally addressed to
the editor of The Star. a letter from an
indignant citizen of Ashland, Oregon:
The acreage mentioned was 1l:' and the
original investment was S14.O09. SAYS the
Ashland man in his letter referring doubt
less to Mr.. Jones interview. Then he goes
ahead. "A sale of part of the land one
year ago brought sSOo.O0o and the re-
gross sales Of fruit were 500 and al
lowing 5000 for cost of maintenance the
net profit was 81 $50 400.
Now. that is nothing. We are So IA
miiar with figures and profits like that
out here. that I'm surprised that Repre-
sentative Jones mentioned anything so
commonplace. l might tell Of an apple
that we raised on the Sunrise orchard
near here last year. and | mention 1t not
boastingly. but just by way of recording
a fact. 1t was summer apple called
t he Senator There We're a number of
large ones. but this particular one out
stripped all the others. We were saving it
to send to Portland, but left it until the
branch bent over so that the apple rest Ell
on the ground. 1t grew until IT attained
such a great size that 1t toppled over one
night and rolled down the hill taking off
the corner of a neighbours barn and land
ing in Bear creek. where it damned the
! waters SO the mill could not run. The
neighbOrs came with their teams and
chopped ii in pieces and hauled 1t away
and kept the whole blamed township in
apple sauce most of the winter. j. Nor
ris Brooks.
| guess Represen, alive Jones of Wash
ington will be good after that.
Congressional Chestnuts.
1t is positively pitiful how far behind
the times members of Congress are on the
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ings | liked in my car. but I sort Of fig
ured that the purchas sing youngster !lad
earned kind of rebate like that for.
the demandy way he had about him. and
SO / fetched glass of milk and a hooter
of red-eye on a tray. With his left hand
the small man in the store clothes handed
the glass of milk to the sulky youth while
he kept the gun damned under his nose
with his right.
Lap it up. son.. says the sawcd-or
AN here's looking at yo,' II sure will dc
yo good
''The young man. grinning foolshly.
took a couple of sips of the milk. and then
the small man took his gun down and
slowed it away at the same time tossing
off his glass of liquor with a jerk.
Then. with a few words of admonition
about the proper way to ask
folks to drink. and suggestion
two about how to treat folks
that don't care to drink. the small man
strolled out of the car. The heavy-wad-
ded youth made the remainder of the
journey in one seat in the buffet. car
pouring the fussy fluid into himself in a
meek and quiet manner. Before the trip
was over We found out that the small
man who had taught him that lesson OF
decorum a United States marshal
from Arizona with a man-mauling record
that made the late Luke Shorts look like
a page out of the Home Mission proceed
ingS"
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They usually have the drawing room in
the sleeping car though they rarely oc-
cupy it. and they fix 1t up with us that
they'll be properly taken care of-that
they'll not be creased along. for instance.
by con men of any kind and rolled. and
all like that Most Of them are cham
payne persons. The amount of the hiss
schnaps that some of them can put out
of view in the progress OF an eighteen
or twenty hour run is enough to make
anybody who has ever come up with that
next-morning feeling just grope expert
mentally for his head to watch them.
While we don't. as say. have any bother
worth mentioning with these regulars who
know how to do their little stunt quietly
and systematically. we're pestered good
deal on these cars by other sorts Of
through ticketers, particularly by the
high spikers with wads who. having their
lump already with them when they climb
aboard make a bee-line for the club
car and start in with the idea that they're
going to buy everything on the roller for
themselves and for everybody else In
sight OF their eyes and sound of their
voices.
Some Of these chaps are Of that type
you know the kind-that call 1t 'openin'
wine, and others are just ordinarily
pleasant people elevated to the extreme
of the purchasing idea. But there are
lot Of quiet folk slipping modest things in
these buffet cars all the time who decline