The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08


sufficient enumeraors to cover these 79 rather
indefinite miles and to count every nose in the
city the sound the proposition is made to sup
pement the work of the United States census by
of additional local enumerators named by
Seattle
But here the rest of the country wakes up
It is foregone conclusion that Seattle will not be
permitted to butt into the work of the federal
government and make an1khumeration, primary
or supplemental, which will suppant aid the
federal census takers. There are other ambitious
cities on the coast and if Seattle is to be per-
mitted to tell on her responsibility how big
She is the rest will want to have hearing at
Washington too. We could do some counting
here in Los Angeles if they would only let us;
and San Francisco, if granted the privilege of
taking her own census, will appear in the reports
with at least million. There is only way
to maintain the intermunicipal peace the coast
and that is for the federal takers to do
their work in their own way and let that
stand.
This is what happens when two of trade fall
out I'VE could do some counting here in Los
Angeles if they would only let us" True for you,
my boy.
THE YOUNG IDEA
proposition to institute course in "gunnery'
for the Pasadena public schools has elected from
the superintendent of schools in that town rather
interesting enumeration of the multitudinous
variety of things which every schoolboy ought to
know. In Pasadena the parent is eliminated or
and the young idea will be taught not only how
to shoot, but likewise that it is we'll to go in when
it rains Superintendent Hamilton explains:
Our present of study includes very
excellent outline morals and manners and civic
duties and health series for all grades all of
which includes much on carefuness and thought
tuness, not only for others, but for ones SELF
This includes admonitory instruction with refer
ence even to crossing streets occupied by street
car lines, getting and off cars the avoidance of
throwing into the streets and alleys pieces of
glass, nails, wire, stones other things by which
horses other animals may be injured or bicycle
and automobile tires may be punctured This is
only small item in a very extended course
running through the grammar grades, and we are
not planning anything particularly new but in the
light of the many deplorabe accidents which occur
on the fourth of July and at other times | feel
that definite Instruction should be given to all
children with reference to these things, also
PEACE WITH A GUN
Mr.. Hamilton is convinced that the American
boy should be instructed that firearms are dan
gerous. He was himself in boyhood impressed by
his preceptors with sense that gun is dangerous
when it is not loaded, and he is "sure that
this teaching was not lost on him." He concludes:
All this teaching with reference to the use of
firearms fits in very we'll with that about the great
peace movements which we are so much interested
in presenting to the pupils. | am very sure that
will find fault with instruction in
"gunnery"
In this fashion instruction in gunnery takes its
place alongside of the construction of battleshps
to promote peace.
WILLIS POLK'S POLES
Willis Polks aspiration after trolley pole
which shall be thing of beauty is not fulfilled
by the cast iron pillars that begin to rear their
brick tops in Market street Mr.. Polk has attempted
to do too much with mperfectly plastic mate
rial. The treatment should have been conven-
tional rather than natural. Mr.. Polk has mixed
the two methods There is a row of conventional