Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-05-13
WHOLE NUMBER 2.6O6.

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racing there. While l was in Juarez,
lew months ago. strings of horses
we're sold so that their owners could
get enough money to leave Jaurez.
BookleS left in disgust, and far as
touts" and hangers on at the track
were concerned. they were jump
ing sideways, in order to eat, so to
speak. Juarez doesn't look like a
gold-mine to horse-race men.
While there is n school code in this
State which makes it a misdemeanor
punishable by fine or imprisonment
OF from ten to twenty days for in
sulting school teacher in the pres
ence OF her pupils, there should also
be a law. making the fine or impris-
onment the same, wherein a school.
teacher abuses or mistreats a pupil
without a good, first.c!ass reason.
Fair play is what Old Glory. which
is supposed to wave on the school
building, desires and wants. There
are some school teachers who are too
nervous and irritable to have charge
of pupils. Also some pupils who
need be sent to the reformatory, in
stead of public school.
The Seattle Times, in commenting
on the declaration of President Low
ell, of Harvard University, that
There is really no rock entitled to
the name of Plymouth Rock" and
no elm under which it can truthfully
be said George Washington accepted
the command of the American Revo-
lutionary Army, concludes thusly:
" Perhaps even the horse which
Paul Revere rode was a ringer. >"
How absurd of the Timesl Doesn't
the Times know thst a professor in
the East, not SO long ago, emphati-
cally made known, through a popu-
lar magazine, that Paul Revere never
made the famous ride attributed to
him. Now how could Paul have
used a "ringer?"
What We Learn at School," is
an editorial in the Seattle Times, is
sue of April Goth. and concludes
with the following:
"The ideal University is whole world
in which the spelling has been simpli-
fied-a symphony in which the difficult
technique has been arranged in the form
OF 'tive-finger exercises'-for the benefit
Of the youthful, and il may be that in
this general arrangement even amateur
theatricals have a we'll deserved place.
Seemingly, the writer of the fore
going doesn': seem to know that
" five-fnger exercises" are consid-
cred the most difficult of exercises
for the youthful student. AS to
amateur theatricals." universities
should eschew them altogether. Par
ents send their sons and daughters
to universities to learn the higher
branch Of the three RS, that's all.
If their sons and daughters wish to
become actor or actress, there are
many dramatic schools in the United
States which prepare pupils for q
stage career, and there is where
students who wish to become Fred
erick Ward, or a Mrs. Fiske, should
be sent. The State should not ap-
prOpriate a cent to q University
which allows in any shape or form
its students to take part in amateur
theatricals Of whatever description.
Universities should bar all theatri-
cal business amongst its pupils, un-
der penalty of expulsion therefrom.
Rev. ]. M. Cause, of the Univer-
sity Methodist Episcopal church, of
Seattle, is puzzled. He doesn't know
whether or not the church should
stand as place of amusement or
house of worship. He said recently,
as regards the matter:
"The origin of the name church is i'm
doubt. To some it comes from the
Greek, which means the Lords house,
a kirk but to some it has Latin deri-
vation in Circus, large assemblage i'm
circular form. And to this day it is q
matter of debate whether the church
should stand as place Of amusement,
as the circus, or the house Of worship"
If ministers, themselves, do not
know whether q church is circus,
or a house of worship. how can a lay
man be expected 10 know? From
the assertion OF Rev. Cause, it would
seem high time the ministers hold a
and 'resolute' whether or
not they are employed in a circus
tent, or house devoted to religious
worship.
Mayhap, after all, they are work
ing in an edifice of some sort, devot-
ed to politics. Anyhow, it's up to
the gentlemen of the cloth" to dis
cover, if possible, what sort of place
they are making their living in, and
give the city officials chance to
earn their salaries by manipulating
municipal affairs. Toll the bell,
please
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