The National tribune., 1909-03-11

The quitting. of Senator Platt was
almost pitiabie. He was much loved
by all the servants at the Arlington.
for he had been good to them, and
they to him. As he was half lifted
through the halls by his attendants. all
the servants lined up TO bid him goodby.
None Fof hisT colleagues of the Senate,
or friends of the House, called to bid
him adios. Everybody else about the
darlington who was leaving after years
of residence had his friends calling,
sending in cards, or standing round
to give him a last handsiiake. OF
them all, however-and Senator Platt
has helped every one of them at some
time or another-of them all, not one
remained to touch his hand as he was
leaving Washington forever. 1t didn't
look right, so it didn't Senator Platt
has truly been an easy boss; all he
asked was party fealty at all times, in
all places, and under all circumstances,
and his hand was ever in his pocket
to help accomplish this. He was ever
ready to help good man to some
thing better. and there are people in
Government employ today who owe
their positions, their homes, their
earthly all to Senator Platt. It's just
s case of benefits forgot" as usual.
Instead of White House stables it
will now be the White House garage
President Roosevelt did not care much
for a buzz wagon He preferred
"shanks's horses" or good big horse
or a pair of them attached , to a
brougham. President Taft likes the
buzz wagon, and he will have two or
three. He also rides horseback, but
1t takes pretty good horse to carry
him. He has some dozen horses for
Government use-tifat is for his Sec
retaries, and others who have right
<a h.. cfoh ffrsn i
ture, but for himself and Mrs. Taft
there is big seven seated auto. 1t is
beauty, too. There will henceforth
be coachman. and a chauffeur
President Taft will not drive the ma
chine himself. He says himself that
he does not like the activities of life
as President Roosevelt did. Just the
same. President Taft walked to church
Sunday morning. He and his brother
attended the pretty UNCOVERED church
on the corner of Fourteenth and l.,
known as "All Souls" in which Rev.
Edward Everett Hale often officiates
as pastor. President Taft has always
been a regular attendant there. Mrs.
Taft, accompanied by her daughter and
sons, attended old st. John, which is
just across the Park from the White
House, and occupied the pew which
Mrs. Roosevelt has had for so many
years.
The 'tSuffragettes" of Washington
organized the other day. and the first
pop out of the box announced them
selves as opposed to Governmental
institutions. They adopted as their
emblem 'the American Flag with only
four stars in the blue field" In the
first place a Flag with four stars is
not "the American Emblem. The
American Emblem has star for every
State, and a State for every Star.
There are now 46 stars in the blue
field. and the american who deliber-
ately cuts out any one or half dozen
or AZ of those stars is committing an
act that is unconstitutional and an
archistic. The Suffragists of the coun-
try set mighty lot of people against
them when they deliberately refused to
acknowledge the dominance of the
American Flag. A great big war was
fought over the endeavor Of a number
of States to removes their stars from
the Flag. and it was FINALLY settled that
those stars would remain on the Flag.
1t i'll beseems a lot of women who
must ask the protection Of the Flag,
to undertake to remove any of its
= stars. If only four States are fit to
be represented on the Flag, why is it
not better to remove to some one of
those States and live there? II the
Suffragettes want any kind of recog-
milton they had better put those stars
back.
The continued existence of the Ma
tional Conservation Commission seems
to be assured, Notwithstanding the ac-
ton of Congress, which has been in
terpreted to discourage the continu-
ance of this body.
President Taft yesterday conferred
with the joint committee of representa-
tives of the National and State bodies of
.1,r,f.r fNra rrvit he a
while no official statement was issued,
the information was impaired that the
WORK would go on.
All of a sudden, all over the country,
q great howl has gone UP over "edu-
cation" Rather a broad term, per-
haps, but that is exactly what is
meant-education in any direction.
One of the clubs of women here in
Washington had some eminent man
addressing them the other day on the
subject, and he rather stumped some
of the club mothers. He declared
against Kindergartens, and against
early education of any kind He
thinks that parents do not realize that
they are stretching" the brains OF
their children far beyond what should
be done. He thinks that the early
training in Kindergartens is simply an
easy and apparently reasonable plan
OF mothers 10 get lQeir C0liuTeH Ou'
of the way for at least half a day, and
that mothers do not realize just what
they are doing when they send their
children away from them in this fash
ion "A noted scientist in Washington
discussing this the other day. declares
that this attempt to make little old
men and women of children is respon-
sible for brain disturbance and incip-
lent insanity. The strict rules of any
school are not fitted for little children
Il makes the heart ache to see the
little fat legs and the thin ones twitch,
ing and working as the dear little
kidlets try to study out how letter
which is given with a kissing sound
can possibly be twisted into the hard
"k' sound when it begins to spell
"cow." Try it yourself, you group-up
and pronounce a Russian word as 4
should be pronounced, and leave ou
the silent letters and give those tina
are to be sounded an entirely differen
sound from anything you ever heard
and then see how tired your matur'
brain gets of the study. Yet you d.
not for an instant think of the worI
you are putting on poor little child
immature brain. The scientist is righ
when he says that the child kept ou
of school till it is ten years of ag
will learn twice as fast as the chill
that is put in school at five. Give tn
kid a chance to grow some. Thes
people who are bowling about "chil'
Iabe.f and keeping children fror