The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-03-13
SCENES IN EUROPE.
President of Washington State School
Tells His Experiences.


Tells His Experiences.
Following is the address delivered b,
President f. A. Bryan, of the state col
lege, to the wheatgrowers of Washing
ton at their recent meeting in Pullman
in which he recited various observa
rions he had made during his recently
completed trip abroad:
"The one thing that impressed M,
while in Europe was the fact that W.
Americans do not fully realize tn,
greatness OF our own land, and its op
portunities, and the greatness and op
portunities of our own people as com
pared with our brethen in Europe. ThC
opportunity for the average man is 81
much greater that we can hardly con
ceive the difference. In Europe mar
is 6orn in class from where he canno
escape, and he accordingly fits himsel
for that class. There is stratifcatior
after stratification, and it is practically
impossible for an individual to pass
from class to class; and think that the
freedom of the American people is one
of the greatest things which We have
here.
"ln Italy the poverty and distress
were very interesting, although it ex
cited the greatest pity. 1t seemed al
if there were no end of beggars. They
begged in almost every way imagina
BILE. Whole families could be seer
begging together by means of musica
instruments. In one case ! noticed 6
woman holding an umbrella upside
down to catch the coppers, while the
father played the guitar, and the child
rem each played some sort OF musical
instrument, and all were begging. Sew.
eral husky looking fellows dived into
the sea to get coppers worth about q
half cent, and begged the people tc
throw the coppers in. 1t seemed as il
one-half of the population lived off the
ether half.
81 was very much interested in the
horses. The average horse in Paris for
the heavy draft work is very good an
imal indeed. There were great num-
bers of magnificent stations that would
have sold in this market for from two
Thousand to three thousand dollars,
and they were all Of very high type,
One thing that impressed me both in
London and Paris was that the average
coach horse was much larger fellow
than we have been accustomed to see
for that work. l think that we people
here in America should look toward
breeding larger animal that we have
in the past, and unless we watch our
selves, we will be inclined to breed
down. In Naples there were many cab
horses, and about ninety per cent OF the
cab horses driven we're stations. One
thing that was very interesting to me
was that they do not use the bit. They
use an instrument that fits over the
nose, and above the nostril is apiece
which extends out about three inches,
and when pulling horse to stop, they
pull on the nose.
'In goil g up the Iiber. river north
of Rome, / I'm st every wagon that l
met was being drawn by oxen, either
by tandem, or with yoke. The oxen
were all very strong fellows, quite
large, we'll built, and had huge horns
rising above their heads. There die
not seem to be the beef type of cattle,
nor was there any milk type. / sup
pose their cows, were, OF course, useC
for milking purposes, but they were
not apparently bred to either type, but
rather to the OK type.
"The poorer class of Italians do moi
know what 1t is to have meat in any
quantity. The average man is. too pool
to be able to buy beef, as they would
have to pay not less than twenty-five
cents pound for it. Kids are used fol
flesh there great deal. The swine
there were very large, and rather more
of the type of the bacon hog than like
our Berkshires or Poland Chinas. They
use goats milk great deal, and es-
pecially in Naples. In the morning
you would see women and men driving
goats around from place to place, as
the customer has the privilege of hav-
ing the operation of milking performed
in his presence. The goat selected is
MIXED, and in many cases you will see
goat being taken up in an elevator, or
up stairway, wherever the customer
may be, and then MIXED in his pres
ence.
''In Italy the tillage is of very in
tensifed kind. There, many of the
Italians have their own vegetable gar
den, and raise their own vegetables.
Here we pay twelve or fifteen cente a
head for caulifower, and in Italy you
can buy a dozen heads of caulifower
for six cents, and that will make il
clear why the Italian is able to live on
a vegetable diet SO we'll. The people
train their vineyards upon trees, and
in many cases there is hardly any top
to the trees, as they had been cut down
TO stumps for the vines to climb on. ]
did not get decent apple to eat until
/ was on board the ship, and had some
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