The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21

children were safe from the touch of
the moral destroyer because such
things were not talked about be-
fore their children or With them, or
discussed in tie pages OF family pa
pers. The day of the o'trich is
gone by, so far as the sex question Is
concerned! OF late this has been dis
tinctly proven by a courageous group
of public benefactors who have had
the moral grit to tell the truth
straight from the shoulder" This
crusade has had able support in
Judge "Ben" B. Lindsey, the famous
"prubation Judge Of Denver; Judge
Julian w. Mack, of Chicago; Mar
garef Deland. the author; Charles
Nelson Crltention, president of the
National Florence Crlttenton Mis-
sion, and others. sFs,
Rnal reports on the acreage and
condition of the winter wheat crop
here and abroad increase the appre-
hension caused by the last govern
ment statement and indicate that
! 1909 will be an unusual year In the
crop world The reduction In the
amount of land sown TO wheat is
particularly marked. Reports re-
ceived here indicate that the rye
crop ap.o went into winter quarters
in much worse shape than was at
first supposed The necessity of
bumper crops this year, as a basis
70 returning prosperity, give these
reports a significance, that they 9th
ervA.Se would not have, as well as
making II certain that the attention
of the entire commercial world will
be focused as never before on the
condition of the crops, from the
movement when the first spring news
sings in over the wires in March un-
til the last fields are harvested late
in the fall. The year promises to
be a sensational one. According to the
government report the area eOwn to
winter wheat shows a decrease of
/ 762 900 acres and a falling off in
condition of nearly six per cent. as
compared with last year. The new
ly seeded acreage in rye Is put at
four per cent loss than last year
and Its condition at nearly eight per
cent below normal The situation in
Europe, except in Great Britain and
France, is very unsatisfactory. Wheth-
er the crops, here turn out success
fully or not by the end OF the season
depends partly upon weather condi-
tons dultng the remaining weeks
of the winter. but, so far as wheat
is concerned, the prospect is gloomy
Unusual preparations are being made
by the Agricultural Department and
the big, private crop reporting sys-
tenn which has its headquarters in
Chicago. to cover the crop situation
thoroughly
The 'ibig stick miniature ably
welded by the strenuous superin-
tendent of Chicago school, T.. G..
Cooley, now has descended upon the
Art Institute, its recent record hav-
ing been second only TO the big stick
major. The Teachers Federation
lHt 'DOOlN WIuhlt Nht Thtlu -huSNNlit
the advocates OF the sudden upllft
and the traducers or tho Chicago
schools have had their turns. Mr..
Cooley was a blacksmith before he
becgme a teacher and learned to
swing hard and often when neces-
sary. Now he has whacked the long,
tapering fingers of Art because of lax
supervision of the teachers who Sc
cured better salaries by short
courses at the Institute. The
standing of the institute, except as
AN accredited art school, was not
challenged. but the long taperng
fingers still are making panied and
deprecaung gestures. Charles L.
Hutchinson, president of the institute
rays its standing is such that II
cannot be questioned, at least, should
not be. "Sir Casper Purdon Clarke
spent some time with lis recently"
he said, 'and on returning to the
east he told a friend that our
school was the best he had seen
either here or abroad. Sir PurdOn Is
director OF the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art in New York and for thirty
years was with the South Kenslng-
ton Nlu4eum in London. The Art
Institute stands on its merits"