The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler Brings
News of Former Presidents
Plan for Western Trip
Head of State University Makes
Record Breaking Trip From
Europe Home
Says 0xfOrd=Cambridge Rugby
Team VIII Play California
This Fall
Especial Dispoioh 10 The Cal1

Especial Dispoioh 10 The Cali
N ERKELEG. March 2O.-After 4
record breaking trip of 10 days
- from the port of CherbOurg
France. DIR. BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler,
president of the University Of CaiifOr-
mia. arrived here tonight after an alb
sence Of six months, during which
time he delivered a course of lectures
before the University of Berlin as
Roosevelt professor. This honor con-
ferred upon him by kaiser wilhelm
had been previously given 10 Presi-
dent HadIey of. Vale, and Professors
Burgess and Felix Adler of Columbia
University.
Roosevelt TO Lecture.
Doctor Wheeler broughts the an
nOuncement that Roosevelt will lecture
at the University of California in the
spring Of 1911, and that combined
OxfOrd-CambridSe Rugby foot ball
team will play the blue and gold on
the local campus some time in SePtem-
Der or October Of this year. This team
.yill tour the United States and Canada,
and among the players viii be Rhodes
scholars from this country.
The head Of the university received
2 number OF letters from Roosevelt in
Africa while he was in Berlin, and
Doctor Wheeler said that all Europe
awaited the visit OF the former presi-
dent
Il believe that Colonel Roosevelt is
Immensely popular in England he
continued. and admired there for his
lsi- play tactics, his sportsmanship and
ststssmsnship. He viii deliver series
!, a. lectures here in the spring OF 1911
The subjects and dates viii be an
nounced later"
Praises German Methods
Declaring the hope that a body of
trained men viii emerge from the
chaos Of American municipal govern
rnent. DR.. Wheeler said that they
could not be better fitted for Office
than II they were patterned after the
German methods.
The digging Of sewers and the lay
iaE = a street pavement is a business
and not political affair" significantly
remarked the head OF the university in
discussing the training for Office Of
TIE Germans.
we are far behind Europe in these
matters De said, and We could do
wen 10 follow in their footsteps in
many things The German system is
accurately arranged. all according TO
rule Il is mighty definite system,
Immensely organized.
Germany is now reaping the bene-
ITS Of their years Of training which
began in 1915. and it is today the most
prosperous country in the world
Germans Are Prosperous
TANNED by the SIavs on the one
hand and the French on the other it
is ike the pressure which produces
anthracite coal The Germans are now
extremely prosperous; there is no un-
employed class. and they are harvest
ing in from years of training Of their
people.
They are coming 10 the big from
TIE small things. and the peril Of their
sr.nsition is whether they can stand
the prosperity
The best men Of the state 90 into
\ public service. while here the best men
30 into the service of the corpora tions,
IS lawyers or in other capacities.
1T does not necessarily mean that
because the German goes into the serv-
ice Of the state that he is a politician.
lie las plenty of politics. it is true. but
his life work is the position he holds,
and he distinguishes between the bust
ness Of sewer digging. for instance, and
politics.
There a man enters into a study OF
municipal problems and trains himself
for the Office OF mayor or superin-
tendent Of streets HIS position is OF
life tenure. and he is out OF the pale OF
politics and its influence.
The German cities are admirably
governed, Berlin being probably the
best governed Of them all. Everything
is taken care Of. The police. street and
IRE departments are excellent.
All Departments Efficient
j remember on one occasion when