The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-26
SOCIOLOGICAL
Brewers Favor Temperance.

Defining temperance as neither
abuse nor <disuse," the United States
Brewers association ended its Milwau-
kee meeting with platform of prin-
ciples designed to correct popular mis-
conceptions Of their position. It as
serts that the brewers are ready to CO.
operate In the work Of reforming the
retail trade or the saloons to the end
that the saloon may become "a place
for wholesome recreation and amuse-
ment" 1t repudiates the charge that
legislation for the protection of the dis
orderly saloon. 1t deplores the fact
that both the prohibition and the anti
saloon movements aim at 1.-THE exter.
mination Of our business and says
that when the desire to better the trade
takes the place of that aim the brewers
will as brothers help and stay out of
politics.
Food For the School Children.
Against the advice and desire Of the
regular charity organizations of New
York special committee for the relief
crowded east side has taken up the
work Of relieving immediate distress
BY opening a free lunch room with the
money contributed by the public. Ad-
mission Is by tickets which are dis
tr1buted by the teachers, but the tick
cts are marked price 5 Cents" and
that price will be charged to those
seeking admission at the door. This Is
done to relieve the, children from
feeling that they are objects of char
tty." The regular charity workers in
sist that the condition of the children
on the east side is no worse than in
other parts of the city and that it is
the regular thing anyway. Superin-
tendent Maxwell Of the city schools is
again advocating his plan for public
school meals at the public expense.
The Central Federated union appoint
ed committee to resist the idea of
charity and insist on giving the poor
a chance to work.
New Light on Heredity.
More than 5000 doctors Of Holland
have carried on for a long time a series
OF observations bearing on the laws Of
heredity, and the results are now pub
iished by two of their number, Hey
mans and Weirsma. They find that the
ability to coordinate thought and give
expression to it rapidly in most cases
comes from the father. Forty-four per
cent Of the sons of mathematically
minded men inherited the love of scien-
tific pursuits, while only II per cent
Of the daughters of such did likewise.
The gift Of clever talk and of self crit
ictsm came from the father. So did
the traits of good nature and sensitive
ness. Tendencies to crime were re-
ferred to the father; also to dementia
and melanchoia. Interest in all kinds
OF sports was traceable to the mother
usually.
Status of Reformed Church.
During the annual session of the |
In America ut Asbury Park the report |
showed a membership of 11T,139 in |
about 700 churches.
Jesus Not Jew by Race.
Professor Paul Haupt of the depart.
ment of Semitic languages at the Johns |
Hopkins university, in making the clos
ing address at the meeting Of the
American Philosophical society In Phil |
adelphia. caused sensation by adj |
vancing proof Of his assertion that |
Jesus Christ was not one Of the He
brew race. He showed that the orig |
IN t,,H l.; 90 Col haI
deported in 739 B. c. by their con-
queror, Tiglath Pileser. to Assyria and |
Fredia and that Assyrian colonists
were sent to Galilee. most Of them be-
ing Aryans. In 103 B. G. the king of
the Jews forced the descendants Of
these Aryans to accept the Mosaic law
and become Jews by custom. But their
dialect betrayed their Aryan extrac-
lion. .s,ssx,,,.sa1