The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
New York Politicians Wanted to
Run John Mitchell for
Governor.
CONSTITUTION, HOWEVER,
STOOD IN THE WAY
Candidate Must Have Been Resi-
dent of State for Five Years
to Be Eligible.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.



NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Verlly the lot
of the politician is hard one in these
days of uncertainty. For instance. The
pre- convention, unofficial slate makers
had all fixed it up nicely that John
Mitchell, former president Of the Mi
ners' union, and present wheel horse OF
the Civic Federation, should be the Re-
publicaN candidate for governor of New
York. There comes an inconvelastlc
upstate judge with the suggestion that
the constitution Of the state prescribes
that no man can be governor who has
not been resident for five years,
whereas Mr. Mitchell has been a
citizen of the Empire state only about
two years. Thus is the work Of those
who pick states in advance made dou
bly, difficult.
Has Melon Habit.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie has contracted
the melon habit. She is convinced there
is nothing quite so toothsome as a Geor"
gia rattlesnake watermelon or Rocky
Fork muskmelIon. Hence since the be-
ginning of the season there has been
sent to Skibo castle overy week half
dozen Georgia rattlesnakes and crate
of Colorado Rocky Fords. The melons
are carefully selected in Georgia and
Colorado and are given the care neces'
snry to get them to be In prime condi-
ton.
Care Of Children's Eyes.
"Nearly all the school work Of the
child requires the use of the eyes" says
DR.. Z. NJ. Jones of Denver, Colo. "The
whole course of instruction is arranged
on the suppositlon that the scholar has
good sight. But to suppose good sight
for all children is TO make mistake
and may work great injustice. One OF
the best health officers Denver has ever
had,' continued DR.. Jones, "was very
near sighted. He knew it when a boy,
but was not allowed to wear glasses:
One day his teacher told him to read
something from the blackboard across
the room. He could not do it. The
teacher told another boy to do it, and
he read Ii, Then, turning to the boy,
who was so near-sighted he could not
have read it at n quarter of the dis
taDce, the teacher again told him TO
read 1t. Again the boy said he could
not. So his ears were boxed and he got
ten dement's for obstinacy.
1.-THE new law requiring the examin-
alton of school children s eyes has put
to an end everything like that in Colo
RADIO. The scholar cannot be abused by
teacher who does not know his sight
is defective. Neither can the scholar
impose on the teacher by claiming a de-
feet he has not got. A child who is to
be promoted. or who wishes to enter
school above the lowest grade, is ex-
amined to learn whether he knows
enough to go on with his work in any
class. This is requirement which
should be the law everywhere,
Apache's as Civilizers.
HfThe Apache Indian has done a great
deal towards wiping out the charges
against him." says r. G. Greenhow Of
Los Angeles. EStrange as it may seem,
the members of this time ferocious
tribe have done most Of their labor in
the construction of the greatest monu-
ment to civilization which this country
now possesses. The contrast between
the nature of their activities thirty
years ago, when they were scalping and
burning right and left through the
southwest. and now is remarkable A
large part of the labor in the construc-
tiou Of the immense Roosevelt dam in
Apaches. / have watched them work,
and / learned from men in charge of
the construction work that they proved
to be tractable as well as Industrious
The people Of the United States will
never realize the Importance Of this
dam unless they see it. The structure
is composed Of sandstone and cement.
It rises nearly 300 feet above Salt
river 1t must be as long as from the
\ r1i 70
base is as wide as half the length of a
good city block in Washington A
twenty-foot roadway runs along the
top. / was told during my visits to the
works, that the lake which would be
formed by this dam would be the larg.
est artificial body Of water in the
world. j am not o statistician, but
learned enough Of the purposes of the
structure to give me pretty fair idea
million acres of land will be irrigat-
ed by the storedup water. / was in
formed that the crops Of single sea-
son from this irrigated land would pay
for the entire inycstment Of nearly
50 100000 1t is certainly a remark
able piece of engineering work.
To Settle Negro Question.
"The south soon would be able to set
tie the negro question if all communi-
ties would adopt the policy of Gull.
man, Ala" says J, NJ, Sanders Of
Huntsville. Ala. "CulIman docs not al.
low negro within her corporntae lin
Its. The town was originally settled
by lot of Germans from Europe and
Pennsylvania shortly after the Civil
war and after about ten years exper-
icnce with large number of negroes
who lived in the town and surrounding
country, the people decided they would
have to get along without 'tho broth
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