The National tribune., 1909-12-16

program, and she set about to devise
some means of making these receptions
more significant, more distinctive, ant
more of q personal honor To the guest.
iof the evening and to those invited Il
meet them. To do this. it has beer
found necessary materially to reduce
the invitation lists, not by the elimi
nation of anyone in or out of officia
life who should be on the White Hous,
lists but by limiting the invitations tC
one or the other of the receptions. anG
not inviting the same guests to al
of the receptions. Only a few people
in official life will be invited to more
than one of the big receptions, and
no one out of official life, it is said,
will receive succeeding invitations.
One of the principal reasons for
limiting the numbers at the several re-
ceptionS is that fact that during this Ad-
ministration refreshments are to be
served during the State receptions
This has not been done since President
Hayes's Administration. The facilities
for serving refreshments to so large
company at the White House are COM
paratively limited, of course, and the
guests to be invited must be reckoned
accordingly. For tne larger affairs this
will mean a great undertaking. but Mrs.
Taft personally has gone over the situa-
| ton, and it is believed that her efforts
in this way will overcome the diff
culties.
A Captain of Industry.
There is an establishment in South
| Africa, which, like Tuskegee, is an OBJ
ject-lesson in how the negro race can
be developed under the right kind of
leadership. This is an Industrial sta
ton at Mount Silinda, in charge of C..
c. Fuller, layman working under the
auspices of the American Board. The
set of buildings, erected almost entirely
by school labor, is without rival in
South Africa. A new school house,
easily worth $4,000 to $4,000, was start
ed with only $1,000 in sight. knowing
how much the native pupils could con-
tribute in work. The bricks and tiles
were made largely by the boys, the
lumber was all sawed by them, they
made the doors and sashes and did all
the carpenter work. Mr.. Fuller says
that it is necessary to furnish the boys
work in order to make them self-sup-
porting, and their well-directed labor
makes il possible to build fine houses
at comparatively little cost. He be-
leves that thru the Christian school, in
which manual training is made an es-
sentiaI feature of education, these peo-
pie can be civilized. His own success
at Mount Siiinda amply justifies this
belief. When he reached there seven
years ago the region abounded in lions,
leopards and hyenas. 1t took a year to
bring up the traction engine from the
coast, distance of about 200 miles.
Immigration.
Some unique and very striking in
formation about the development OF i'm
migrants as American citizens is soon |
to be put out by the immigration Com |
mission. The first installment of the |
results of the investigation, which has |
been in progress for over two years. |
will be made public within few days. |
Other installments will follow at inter-
walls as the work is completed
One branch of study has had to do
with formation of the heads of immi-
grants and of their descendants and
with other anthrepological develop
ments. A series of charts, based on
great number of measurements, demon
strate that the heads of these children
of immigrants average two millimeters
longer than the heads of their parents,
but are narrower, and that their faces
are also narrower. These changes are
regarded as distinct proofs of increasing
and mental force, and
are credited to the better environment
and larger opportunities. The measure
ments were made on many immigrants
from Sicily and also from Russia. In
certain cases there was noted an in
crease of stature. /
Many other charts on kindred topics
have been made. These promise to BE- L
of a contribution to the sub
ject of immigration, which, it is said
has never been studied so thoroly and
as by the present Com
mission. The school children of immi-
grants have been studied to the num-
Der of 100000 and the records of their
school careers made up. This is un-
E.f.1 -fCsn int
esting material.
The first report to be made public
will deal with the white slave traffic.
The Commission has gathered a great
deal of data thereon. Another will be
On immigration homes. The work of
the Commission has already resulted in
the closing of four of those homes.
The Commission, composed of Sena-
tors and Representatives and a num- !
Der of other members, does not hope to
have all its information printed, but
Congress will be asked to appropriate
for putting much of this into book {
form Its reports will be followed by {
efforts to obtain legislation. altho no
program to that end has been yet form
llated for the approaching session of !
Congress. The immigration Commit I
lees of Senate and House will give the
matter early attention in the light of {
the recommendations the Commission
IS expected to make.
Filipino characteristics.
DR.. c. 7. Sibley, a brilliant young {
1octor, who is working in the Philip
pines under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Board, finds a rather poor brand
Of humanity in Mindanao, where he Is
stationed. In making recent tour of
the island with a y. s. Army officer, he
was impressed with the cruelty of the
natives, and believes that the cockpit,
which everybody attends, even mothers $
with babes in their arms is the school
IN which this trait Is developed. He
says: IF IL was ever the duty of the {
United States to emancipate the slaves,
then it seems to me even more its duty {
to annihilate the cockpit" He gave