Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-05-13
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FRIDAY. MAY y, 1910.


VI hy Not sane Celebration
While many leading cities, headed
hy NV York and Chicago, and
thousands of oihrr municipalities,
drnn to tie village hamlet, are advo-
eating sane observance Of our
national holiday. aud al a time too
when tine boon OF cannon, the smell
of gunpowder and the glare of fire.
works carry with them a cherished
% mury OF o.d-time tributes to pa
triotism, it may be well to consider
the relevancy Of the Systematically
urged project of turning loose for Il
time, Saturday night. all rules of
order and decorum, abandon all re-
struint and offend both ear and
eye with noises and sights which are
plain subvclsion of law and the
guaranteed rights Of law-abiding cit
liens 70 maintain peace and quiet at
al times.
And for what purpose?
Professedly it is 10 give vent to a
superabundarce of Joy, and conserve
an object, which it is confession OF
poor Judgment to make strenuous
effort to overcome, so far as may be
possible. and correct SO far rs it lies
in their power SO to do. 1t is we'll
known fact that Our realty boomers
have systematically claimed from
fifty to a hundred per cent. more OF
population than we were entitled to,
and the Perkins Trias have persist
entity kept at the head of the page a
claim OF Folks Directory that it was
1880. The directory makers have
every incentive to quote the popula-
ton large as possible, to please pat
r0ns, and it is always regarded as
inflated" by seakers for the exact
truth, with money to invest in realty
or in development of enterprise.
The fact is, Seattle, Tacoma, Port
land and other cities pursued the
same plan and found themselves in
the same hole, and are performing
just as ridiculous, il not as diabolical,
tumbles, to secure a fair estimate.
No fair-minded citizen here would
have been surprised at a return OF
10000 inhabitants for our city, and
it might have passed without pro-
test, but depression to six or seven
thousand, despite all our castle
building, was more than we could
stand, and its truth is shown by this
ridiculous proposition 20 celebrate by
calathumpian and plug-ugly methods,
result that is ours by right.
Now, really, how much better it
would be to hold a musical festival.
or congratulatory feast of reason,
in which all could take part, men and
women. aged and young, the just
and the unjust, where law and order,
dignity and self-respect, a serious
outpour of soul, might formulate a
resolve and unite in an effort for bet
ter things in the future?
A sane" Fourth is urged simply
to guard against the risk of fire
when large portion of the commu-
nifty lose their heads" but where
special provision has been made
against that danger-point. When
an open town is proposed, it at
tracts an element that is likely to b.
come boisterous from excitement, or
other causes, and the effect that Hal
lowe EN- has upon young people, when
a relaxation Of restraint is sane.
toned by the authorities and is
winked at by the public in general,
is apparent in children of older
growth" when an announcement is
made that rule of disorder is to be
sanctioned, encouraged and com
mended. #
1t is mistaken idea that mere
noise and disorder is an indication Of
appreciation of results or joy at their
accomplishment Nor is it any nit
igation of the offense that an imita
ton of the so-called college yell is ad
vertised to be turned loose Saturday
night by the high-school students
who have on several occasions al
ready given evidence of loud-mouthed
vociferation. Much excuse may be
made for youth and the example sci
by high institutions of learning. bu,
that should really be q. warning
against the folly of the hot-heads Of
the big colleges who make athletics
and hazing the main incentives and
eliminating objects of higher educa
ton.
In contemplation of such silly con.
duct at times of the superior animal
doubtless led to the opinion of the
great bard
"Man. proud man,
Drest In q little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His pl4sgy like n
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep
EDUCATION OF THE FEEr.-PrOf.
c. A. Elwood, in the chair OF Sociol.
ogy OF the University of Missouri
in o recent address to the Presby-
terrain church said: :" AS an adyer-
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