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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12
WHITE pATHFINDER

Ia anticipation of an exodus OF motor cars
to Savannah for the Thanksgiving races The
White steamer Pathfinder has Just completed
a survey OF the best route between New York
and the southern city. Part OF the route
selected the most eonvenient-that between
Roanoke, Va. and Atlanta. Ga.-has been
hitherto comparatively unknown to touring auto
lists The distance is 274 miles. and the
White Pathfinder averaged 100 miles day
without hurrying
Among those on the road Sunday in White
steamers were DR.. and Mrs Pardee and party
In the ex-g0vernOr's car; G. y. Daniels and
party In his touring car. and George Daniels IN
DR.. Pardee's runabOut The was 70 Sunol
anb return. and was in the form OF picnic.
as lunch was taken, and the spread was under
the trees.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12
DoRANDo SAILS FoR AMERICA

LONDON, Nov. 11.-Dorando, the Ital-
ian runner, who made such a sensa-
tional finish in the Marathon race here
last summer, sailed today for New
Yogk. He will run race in America
with John ]. Hayes, the winner of the
a "a fhon
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12
NEW AUTO RACING CLUB

Preparations are under way for the forna-
tion of a racing club TO conduct contests on the
Long Island motor parkway. The American
automobile associa tion- Automobile Club OF Amer
lea peace agreement 1t will be remembered. pro
vided that future Vanderbilt cup and Grand
Prize races should be by such organiza-
tiOn. Arrangements being made by the
Long Island motor parkway officials for series
OF sprint races over the cement stretch TO be
held on Saturday, December 5. Cars which
competed in Long Island motor parkway sweep
stakes (for selling above 81 O01) on October
10, those in the Vanderbilt cup race, and cars
which TO compete In the Grand Prize race
in Savannah on November 2e, will be eligible
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12

and said: Where is my ears l Will give You
Just two hours 10 get her ready to travel. but
lust to show you my hearts in the right place !
| VIII give you check for the car He
got the ear within the time specified.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12
CALIFORNIA
STANFORD

Average Of points per game:
c.,,<. For Against
stanford ....................e1 is
From these scores Stanford has a
big lead on its opponent. From an
attack and defense viewpoint the
scores both show Stanford to be the
stronger and IN the average scores
won her games two points to every
had one point scored against her to
every two that the blue and gold did
Again, take the Vancouver games
and it is doubtful if either varsity
played in its true form. In the first
game with California the blue and gold
played d fine game. and on the fol-
lowing saturday their exhibition was
poor. The same remarks reversed ap-
ply to Stanford in it's games.
The backs of Stanford have played
magnif1cently this year and their com
California backs have also been good
performers, but somehow lack the
finish of the cardinals. 1t is in the
forwards, however, that California
hope to win Saturday They have an
admirable pack and one that will do
big deeds. Their forwards are fast
and heavy lot, and in the serum are
The Stanford pack is big fast
lot and probably outweighs the blue
and gold serum by a few pounds. The
Vancouver forwards were the Water
loo for both California and Stanford
but 1 think the blue and gold per-
formed much better against them than
the cardinal.
In the two previous years of Rugby
the blue and gold pack has been excel
lent, and this year the work is better
than ever. Should the game be loose
open one, l expect to see the blue and
gold forwards do things that will
bring the spectators to their feet every
minute of play. California, under loose
open forward play conditions on Satur-
day stands every show to win. and in
fact their chances are far brighter
than last year..
: Should the game be one of heavy
scrums and the cardinal backs fed well
by their half, it will be a hard matter
for the blue and gold defense to stop
the wonderful passing rushes for
which the cardinal team is noted.
AS far as condition is concerned,
neither side can put that forward as
an excuse. Both teams are in the very
best of condition and fit for hard and
fast game.
Taking everything into considera-
ton. it looks as If the game will be
evenly contested. and what advantage
one side has over the other is very
slight and will depend on the attack
and mode of play of the two teams.
Graduate Managers Merritt and Stew
art of California and Stanford have
been indefatigable in their efforts to
have everything in proper shape for
Saturday.
A rumor has been circulated to the
effect that the price of tickets is
higher than in previous years. This
is not so.
The attendance will very likely be a
record one, as most of the tickets have
been sold
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12
Do You Want $500.

Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page 10.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12

But Tor the expert eye Of an automobile
enthusiast stanley Kcfchel might not have had
fo face BiIiy Papke 10 learn what a real jolt
ca 10 gossip along Fillmore street last night
Kcfchel was out driving hls automobile Tues
dar afternoon Stanley was whiring along the
road az fair pace when an automobile man
took a very sharp glance ~ The machine. lie
saw at once that the steering gear knuckie was
w0bbi7 and second look told him that the
eorfer pin cut to a mere thread from
friction. The automobile man hailed Ketchel
and told him 80 time 10 save him from serious
results.
Had Ketchel been running his machine in
front OF q car IN the condition it was ia and
attempted 70 manipulate the steering gear be
would have probably met with an accident
day In the morning he went out on the road
with his automobile and after he was ont several
miles he got out of the machine and logged
back 10 camp on foot after it,
Tho former champion then did his routine
gymnasium Hork after which be dOnned the
gloves with bis sparring partners, Mike Mcclure
and Charles Mayer Ketchel Is showing won
derful hitting power in his workouts and has
al the old dash and snap. lie is very fine
ana popular boy personally, and the fans always
take kindly 70 him and cheer his every good
point in The camp. and be surely has many
hne- excellent traits for . fighter.
The old confidence Is back with ketchel.
Re seems 70 be pleased as a kitten in a silk
rug az Milletf's and is confident that he viii
BE- able 70 regain his lost laurels from Papke
when be meets him.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02

TRADE SCHOOLS ARE NEEDEr
Defects In the Present Educational
syatem.


Il the annual convocatioD Of the uni
versity Of the state OF New York, held
October %. DR.. Edward J. Goodwin, presi-
dent of Packer institute, Brooklyn. emf
phasized the need for trades and Industrial
schools and courses. He said, in part;
A second system of education for the
United States is vet to be worked out.
When completed Il must provide for both
character development and adequate equip
ment for the battle OF life. In recent times
the American school has not kept pace
with national progress in production and
methods of doing business. The majority
Of children need a different training In the
public schools from that which has been
IN vogue. Both the secondary and the
elementary schools are seriously defective
in the matter OF adjustment to present
conditions. While there has been some
broadening of the scope ard Improvement
of the quality Of instruction, educators
still largely ignore the interests OF that
great and growing class of boys who are
to be wage earners, artisans and trades
men.
The Indictment against our present
scheme of elementary instruction Is that
1t overburdens the memory with u%ninter-
esting and useless material Something
must be done to induce these pupils to
stay in school and finish courses that will
prepare them to perform well their parts
in the practical affairs of life. The con-
ception of trades schools. industrial and
business courses, is the only thing that
will do this.
There are two great reasons for the
establishment of trade and industrial
schools and courses. The first is the good
Of the youth themselves, the second is the
welfare of the nation in the upbuilding
Of its industries. The system of appren-
ticeship has disappeared, and. somehow,
the public school must be made to take it's
place. We are gradually coming to recog-
nize the injustice of organizing our high
schools in the interests of the few alone
who are able to a liberal or semi
liberal education. The demand for some
special training for the vocations is based
upon the impulse to rescue unfortunate
boys from social submersion, and to afford
every willing worker a fair opportunity
for self-support.
What are our high schools doing today
TO meet the growing demand for skilled
workers of all sorts2 Practically nothing.
They contribute in New York state, for
example. less than 2 per cent of the men
who yearly enter the so-called "unlearned'
professions. There is need OF skilled labor
in the development of the courtry's re-
sources. The time for system and science
in business is here. We must meet 1t or
suffer disastrous consequences.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
uNIvERsIrY oF MIssouRI
Progress of work on the New AEri-
cultural Hall.


The cornerstone OF the new 1905 900 Agri-
cultural hall. to be the handsomest build
ing OF the University Of Missouri group at
Columbia, was laid Monday morning with
Masonic rites, A. NJ. Dockery, former gov
ernor of Missouri, acting as grand master.
Among the speakers were b. II. Bonfoeyn
Of Unionville, Mo-, a curator Of the uni
versity; Norman j.. Colman of St. Louis,
who was commissioners Of agriculture under
President Cleveland; DR.. b.. T. Galloway,
an alumnus OF the university. now chief Of
the division of vegetable pathology of the
Department Of Agriculture at Washington
DR.. A. Ross Hill, president Of the Univer-
sity of Missouri; DR.. r. II. Jesse, former
president, and Dean Henry J. Waters Of
the College of Agriculture.
In a copper box sealed in the stone was
placed an ear OF corn. ranked by the Col
lege Of Agriculture the nearest perfect Of
any sent in for this purpose. The ear was
raised by Alexander Maitland Of Richmond.
NO. 1t is an almost perfect specimen Of
Reid's Yellow Dent and was graded 1854
per cent. Thirty ears were submitted in
the contest from all parts OF the state.
DR.. Charles A. Ellwood, professor of
sociology at the University of Missouri, in
an address in Kansas City Thursday on
Problems of the American Home" de-
clared that II present tendencies continue,
the American family and American ~civiliza-
ton will pass away. DR.. Ellwood gave
statistics to show that America leads all
other countries in the proportion of divorces
to marriages. He said that IL the present
ratio continues, one of every four mar
riages will result in divorce by 1850. DR..
Ellwood urged as remedies legislation to
make 1t more difficult to obtain a divorce,
and education.
The students of the University Of Missouri
from Oklahoma, about twenty-five in num-
Der, recently organized for the year. War
rem H.. Orr of Lawton was elected presi-
dent. The object OF the club is to advertise
the university in the new state.
At the convention Of the Missouri State
Library association in Moberly II. o. Sew
erance, librarian OF the University of Mis-
souri,, wal elected president CT the a~ssocia-
ton for the coming year. The next meet
ing of the association will be held in CO.
lumbia.
In a religious census of the students of
the University of Missouri taken recently
II was found that of the 1900 students now
in the departments Of the university at
Columbia 1,610 are church members. Thirty
two denominations are represented ard OF
these the Christian. Methodist and Baptist
churches lead in membership in the order
named.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
Grand leland Con.n.

a piano and vocal recital was given AZ
me presbyterian church on the evening OF
October 10 by Director Earl C. Smith. Man
ist' and Mrs. Cornelia Bent, vocalist Al
though the weather was unfavorable the
church was well filled. ThAse local artists
nave a strong hold on the music loving
people Of Grand Island.
A reception was recently given nv the
college to the patrons of the college and
their friends. About 400 people came in re-
spouse to the Invitation. A pleasant even
Ing was spent in conversation, In Iistenins
to good music and in partaking OF les
cream and cake.
Last year the Baptist women OF Nebraska
aided greatly in Installing the water and
electric systems throughout the buildings
This year they have determined 10 spend
several hundred dollars In finishing the
work already begun and n providing rubb =
mating for the floors Of the buildings.
A lecture and entertainment bureau has
5een established at the college and there
yin be sent TO the high schools. churches
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
Educational Notes,

Miss Jane Brownlee recently spoke to
1900 teachers in Cincinnati and to 600 In
Columbus, o., on the ethical training OF
children. For several months she has been
kept busy addressing teachers institutions.
and it seems significant that many pro
grams at such meetings have recently dealt
almost exclusively with character building
in the schools.
Mrs. Mary e. Emery has given 5000 0
to the Mechanics" institute OF Cincinnati,
in memory OF her husband. The building to
be erected with the money Will be Tor edu-
cational purposes and will very much ad-
vance the work of the school,. There will
be a museum and rooms for exhibits ana
the hall will be the center of interest In
the concert season in Cincinnati.
In the examination that disclosed that
5000 Chicago children were going to school
hungry, and that 10000 others have not
sufficient food, it was. brought out that a
large proportion OF these pupils are IN the
lowest grades. This may be due partly TO
the fact hat children from needy families
NAV be taken out of school early and put TO
work in spite OF child labor laws, But the
Chicago investigators report that In general
their experience has shown backWardness IN
study to be due In large part 10 iack OF
proper food. OF more than 5000 such cases
examined, for instance, IS per cent were
the result OF mal-nutrition.
Al the recent meeting of the American
Street and Interurban Railways assocla-
ton at Atlantic City veteran managers de-
Immediately after he leaves his alma mater,
is almost useless and hopeless at least
two years being required to ft him FOR
positions of responsibility. This sweeping
criticism of college training crops out so
often in the conventions OF business men
that 1t must have some basis in tact. Inc
recent movement among a number OF our
higher institutions OF learning to provide
university business training Is In response
to this criticism, and follows demonstrated
success in similar lines in German schools
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
Normal Notea.

The senior class at a meeting today added
to the members OF the Peruvian staff an
art editor. Miss Ethel Williams of Peru and
an alumni editor, Mr.. Bert Swenson of
Shickley. Mr.. Swenson will secure the CO.
operation OF the presidents of the previous
classes in endeavoring to make this depart
ment better than ever before. MI. c. O..
Oline, president of the class of 1908; Mr..
Woodland, president OF the class of 1907, and
Mr.. Clifford Hendricks. president of the
class of 1906, are already working with him.
The members of the Peru Normal Alumni
association are plying their hand at writ
ing a poem on the subject, Painting Old
Peru" Among the first to succeed Is Hon.
T.. w. Blackburn of Omaha.
The little daughter of Prof. Bengston of
the State university, formerly of the Peru
State Normal, while visiting, in company
with her mother, at David City, recently,
had one OF her eyes badly injured. She has
been taken to st. Joseph's hospital at
Omaha and placed under the care OF DR..
clifford, who says that he has no hope of
saving the eye. The students and faculty
of the Normal express their extreme SYM
pathy with Mr.. Bengston and family in the
grief tina has come upon them.
AS the time for the State Teachers asso-
citation draws nearer the greater becomes
the enthusiasm of the students here are
gardlng H. 1t is now thought that much
larger numbers than had been expected
will attend. The senior, Junior and trainer
classes have voted resolutions urging their
members to attend.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
MOTHERS AND EDUCATION
Trend of Education Since the Decline
of the 'Three re-"

OF the 'Inree hB.'
The whole trend OF education changed
when the three RS" ceased to be its war
cry, writes Myra Kelly in Harper's Bazaar,
and it behooves the modern mother to real
ize this change and to adapt herself to 1t.
For, the school and the home are but
two agencies in the training of the child,
two powers which should work together for
good. and the ideal relation between the
two is that they should be as one. 1t was a
very great Teacher who taught that mo
man can serve two masters" Then let the
mother conform her rule and her judgments
to the laws of her sister kingdom.
Let her hold. for Instance, that the prin-
ciple OF self-activity is stronger than blind
obedience ever was; that emulation, as a
spur to effort, is the ~abomination of desc
lation; that a sound mind in a sound body
is more to be valued than riches; that a
keen eye for color and form, a steady hand
to guide a pencil or a tool, a mind alert,
eager and reasonable, a heart WHICH feels
its brotherhood with all living, growing
things, a free, frank speech, a generous
nature, and an honest tongue, are in them
selves a Declaration of Independence and
a Psalm Of Life.
There is another class of parent from
whom teachers suffer much. 1t generally
has but one child, and that child is gen.
orally a pitiful, conscientious, earnest little
creature, in sombeT hair ribbons and Com
fort shoes. Very frequently this parent has
been, in some prehistoric age, a teacher
Of mathematics in a high school. Now, a
spiritualistic seance at which Messrs.
Froeble, Peztolozzi. Herbart, Locke and
Spencer should appear and explain their
theories Of education, and at which Prof.
James should come from Harvard to pre-
side. while Prof. John Dewey looked in to
make a few remarks, would never persuade
that parent that her child's progress was
not to be gagged by an ability to spell OBJ
solete words and to worry her way to COM
piicated problems in long division.
why, she's been to school every day
for seven months; rain, nor snow, nor sleet
has daunted her. She has an umbrella, a
macintosh and a pair OF rubbers. And
yet, with all these aids to education she
cannot spell parallel
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
~MINNEsoTA's EXAMPLE
How the Agricultural College Has
"Made GOOd,0

"Made Good"
Agricultural colleges generally had their
beginnings in the bill introduced by Sen
ator Morrill, OF Vermont, in 1852, which
some time later was enacted into law,
providing that lands be set aside by the
government as they had been for the con-
struction of the Pacific railroads, from the
proceeds Of the sale of which schools
should be established for agricultural in
struction. 1t is interesting to note, says a
writer in Harper's Weekly. that In this
same year, when most of the white mem
folk were away on southern battlefields,
the Sioux Indians of the state of Mime
sofa uprose and massacred some 800 OF the
frontier settlers, and in the white mans
reprisai thirty-eight of the leaders we're
hanged on a single scaffold in the town of
So # may readily be believed
farming at that time had not been re-
duced to pedagogic form, and little was
done In any OF the states for years except
to provide a few lectures on bucolic sub
jects, for the purpose of hanging on to
the appropriation. When at last President
Farwell organized a real course of instruc-
ton, according to the lights of the time, It
was impossible to secure any student TO
pursue 1t, even by dint of bribery, which
the worthy praeses industriously tried.
Book farming was secuted and ridIculed
by every old-fashioned or practical
farmer. as 1t is in the way back" dis
tricts in many states even to this day. II
a boy wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor, or
even a parson, there was SONS excuse for
his wasting time in studying books, but
"farmin' was "farmin'," and 1t wasn't
to be learned in a school,. Times have
changed since then. The teachers them
selves have learned something. Many
secrets have been unlocked regarding the
chemistry of soils as determining their
treatment and the crops they will grow.
the scientific crossing of breeds of plants.
as well as animals, the Improvement of
seeds by the selection of exemplary single
heads from a plot where each straw is
numbered, over a period of ten or a dozen
years. one such process as this added 1914
per cent to the hard dollars in the pockets
OF the farmers who planted one such va
riety produced In the Minnesota station.
Spraying with mysterious college concoe-
lions eliminated the Insects from the orch
ards and doubled the value of apples In
the fruit market.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
RESEARCH CHEMISTRY
modern Apparatus Installed at uni
versity of Illinois.

Modern Apparatus Installed at uni
Versity of Illinois.
American universities are recognizing as
never before the economic value of prac-
teal work in research chemistry. This is
nowhere more apparent than at the Uni
Versity of Illinois at Urbana. In the last
three months the institution has expended
over $4,000 in installing new and more
modern apparatus for its students and also
mas equipped a new research laboratory in
physical chemistry. The addition 10 tho
oepaFement has been made with a view
instituting experiments similar TO
the well known coal tests in which Prof
o W. Parr determined the effects of
westhering on the various kinds of Illinois
and other Goals, and the nutrition tests IN
which DIR. II. S. Grindley investigated the
ieffects upon the human system of meats
winch had been treated with saltpetre. In
ADDITION to the new equipment eight re-
searuh ieilowships have been created and
the list Of associate professorships has been
increased by one.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
RoxIe,a College.

The growth Of the business college has
been phenomenal. At the present time there
are about 1000 private commercial schools
in this country, with a total enrolment Of
10000 students. This may look like an
extravagant statement, but it can be veri-
fled. All of the colleges and universities
combined cannot show as many students.
Moreover, the teaching of pushes or Of
business courses has been taken up by
many OF the older institutions hitherto de-
voting all energy to the sciences and class
les. Business Is the bread and butter
science"
Beginning this year the old and staid in
stitutions of Yale and Harvard are starting
business courses and a great list of sub
jects is covered. including cor
poration economics, problems in business
management, trade statistics. forest man
agement, business law, banking ard f~inan,e,
business organizations, etc.
The first winter term Of Boyles college
is announced to begin December l.
The college social. announced to be held
in Boyles college Saturday evening. October
81. has been postponed until next Saturday,
November 7. Before the date had been an
bounced SO many students had made other
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-02
Am AII-Rnund Rnok.

The book agent had spent a discouraging
morning in st. Louis and when he had an
opportunity to scan the face Of Eli Hobs at
close range he felt that there was a small
chance OF making a sale. However, he had
more h one method Of suggestion.
Sitting out there on the piazza after
moons with your wife this would be the
very book TO read aloud" he said, ingra-
t~iatingly. 70 Mr.. Hobs, taking the other
rocking chair and opening the large red
covered volume.
IL don't read and haven't any wife, Z"
replied Mr.. Hobs. dryly,
Dear me-" said the book agent. Well, II
your wife Is dead, perhaps there are chill
dren. Now. children find this book"
There are no children" interrupted MT
Hobs. There's nobody but myself and my
cat"
well" said the book agent, don't yoI
ever want a good heavy book 90 throw a
her. just 10 ease your feslinEAT