The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-27
HEADS | WIN,
I. TAILS YOULOSE
Sends Debate Team 10 Cornell
TO Contest With Columbia
A Woman
CBy Glenn Guernscy)


New York, Foo. 22.--"We will
send our debating team mp to Cor
NELL. II we lose we will be ridlculed
for allowing a woman TO beat u.s.
and n we win we will be belittled
for winning from woman"
So doposeth the cynical and wo-
manwlse Mr. Woodbury. president OF
the Columbia University Debating
union, as he spat reflectlyely on the
floor while airing his Views OF
"sklrts" In general and Miss Eliza
beth A. Cook in particular
Is Miss Cook. II will be remembered,
won a place on the Cornell debating
team. which is to meet the Column
,bia team al ithaca next Friday. The
ungaIlant Columblans protested
against Miss Cooks debating on the
ground that the more chiyalrous
judges might be Influenced In their
decision by her presence on the Cor
nell team, regardless
AS there Is no rule to prevent the
appearance OF Miss cook the Colum-
blans have accepted the situation
with very bad grace and viii play the
game according TO rule The wind
tanners OF Or. Buffers institution
OF learning would have saved them
aelves great deal OF ridieule II they
had reached this philosophical con
clusion some time ago. instead of
making public display Of their hot
heads and cold, very cold neither ,exI
tremeties
Pity Poor Ole Virginia.
There Is an old proverb as to the
proper origin OF charity, (which I re-
frain from repeating because Il was
long since worn out butwhieh might
be made applicable TO the charity
SHOW" TO be pulled loff by Mrs. Wall
dorf Astor and other society leaders
az the Plaza hotel next week, The.
entertainment which promises TO be
scream. is for the benefit OF the
poor whites OF the Virginia noun
tains. to the utter neglect Of the poor
whites OF the East Side, New York
Mrs Astof spent her girlhood days
In the Old Dominion and an appre-
ciatlve public Is informed that ''her
sympathles 60 OUT 70 the poverty
STRICKEN mountaineers OF her native
state. When one considers that the
program OF the charity show includes
nine living pictures, four dances and
pantomme, in which Mrs, Aston
will play Plerrette In lie Reveillon
de Pierrette,' and that the costume
will cost many thousands OF dollars,
II Is impossible TO doubt or mistrust
the reticent and transformations spirit
OF philanthropy which animates the
leaders OF the social Four Hundred.
New York, New Jersey.
Social divisions in the metropolis
Are not based entirely on ratings In
Dunn and Bradstreet The West
Side scorns the East Side, the Har-
lemlte looks down upon the resident
OF the Bronx and all Manhattan
filings shafts OF satire at the citizen
OF Brooklyn. And the butt OF all
Jokes is the lowly person, who COM
mutes TO New Jersey.
There is a story OF westerner
who, when asked where he was from,
drew a revolver and replied From
Arkansas, Now laugh darn youlp
~ the past some such forclble meas
urcs would have been necessary to
Prevent the Jersyite from becoming
the object OF the plying smile OF
New Workers.
But every dog has his day The
Jerseylte Will have his next Tues
day, when the new North river sub
way viii he opened with blare Of
irumpets and fluter OF flags and a
burst OF subterranean oratory pres
ident Roosevelt will press a button
lnaugurating the ceremonies and
Governor Hughes OF New York and
Governor Fort OF New Jersey viii
start from their respective states at
The same time, meeting on the state
line under the river II
The new tube. II is expected. is but
The predecessor of many others,
which viii ,brins the cities and towns
~ North Jersey in closer connection
with the Business districts of the mo.
tropolls than Is the Bronx or Har-
lem.
With the solving Of the transpor-
sation problem, the time is probably
not far distant when North Jersey
VIII be the site Of single city great
or FAR than Brooklyn and when the
home address Of millions Of New
Workers win be. not New York, n
". hut New York, n. j.