The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-07-31
~ FRANCIS PHILLIPS.

New York. July 3O.-Soreshing has
gone askew of Late years in Oyster
Bay, while Colonel Roosevelt has been
vociferating anent race suicide ana
kindred subjects. Judging from the
warmth with which his fellow towns
men OF the Long Island village have
applauded his phillipicS on clildless
families for the last iour or five years
one might be led to conclude that Oys-
ter Bay was one of the most prolific
settlements in the country. The re-
port OF the last census, just made pub
lie shows that while other sections
of Long Island have grown tremend-
ously, largely through propagation.
Oyster Bay has made a gain Of but five
per cent. in its population since 1905.
To no one more than the Colonel is
the news of his home towns decay
more disappointing. Its apparent re-
lection of his idea of large families
is variously ascribed to the hard times
the increased cost of living and the
conviction that it is not practicable in
these strenuous times, with everything
operating against the multiplication
of the race. While the large family
may be good thing for some parts
of the country wher labor is scarce
and rent cheap, Oyster Bay. though
sticking as tenaciously as ever to the
other pet policies of it's popular idol
and most distinguished citizen, is will
ing to pass up to its neighboring vii
loo ho of oisin oh
Professor David Staar Jordan, presi-
dent of the Leland-Stanford Universl-
ty, Berkeley, Cal, SHE'D verbal brick
at Professor Harry Thurston Peck of
Columbia University this week before
his departure for Europe on the Min
netonka. Professor Peck, it will be
recalled is being used for breach of
promise by Esther Quinn, a former
woman journalist, who accuses his Of
trifling with her affections. Recent
ly President Nicholas Murray Butler,
chatting under the publication of love
letters purporting to have been sent
to the woman by Professor Peck, ask
ed the latter to resign from the chair
of Latin that he has occupied in the
University for many years. The re-
fusal of the pedagogue to do SO has
served to create a situation which will
probably stir up no end OF row when
the collegiate year opens in the au-
tumn.
1T is the duty of every college
president to bounce any professor who
is crooked financially or in his deal
ings with women" said Dr. Jordan.
college presidents the country over
have to keep their eyes open in regard
to just such matters as those that
have arisen in this particular case.
do not want to pass judgment upon
Professor Peck. but If what has been
printed about the case is true. Profess
sor Butler has but one course left
open to him and that it to throw out
the offending member OF his faculty.
Professor Peck, who is now under
suspension is preparing an elaborate
defence when his case comes uD for
consideration before the trustees of
the university.
The oft repeated assertion that ma
tive New Workers do not command the
same value with the big corporations
of the city as do men born and raised
outside of Manhattan, was interesting
ly emphasized the other day by an
advertisement inserted in one of the
large daily papers by one of the most
influential business concerns In town.
The advertisement said among other
things: I'VE have several opportuni-
ties for earnest, high grade men who
can develop into good executives. The
men We want are clean cut. morally
sound fellows from New England, the
West and the South. men who are
dependent upon themselves, who have
self-reliance, a sense of responsibility
and are in New York to win"
The history of the ''out of town
workers in New York has been one
of conspicuous achievement. At the
head of majority of the large mer-
camille, industrial and t;Guciary insti-
tutions, not omiting the newspapers,
are men bred on the farms of the East,
South and West, who starting at the
lowest rung of the ladder have work
ed themselves to the front through
grit and ability.
1t is this disposition to recognize
fitness from whatever source 1t pro-
ceeds that has made New York such
a good field for men from the coun-
try" Endowed as a rule with sound
health, an alert mind and a willing