Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-09
Some Prominent Men

eleven cultivators. The bleachers will
look like q waving field of unknown tall
grass. The Junior Prom will be q noisy
barn dance, with a husking bee for the
wall flowers. In the meantime how
shall we pay the greengrocer?
The call of the wild is chirplng
nightly for Senator FRYE of Maine.
This is the time Of year when the SEN
ator hears the chirp. He looks bored
at the way the senate persists in
pottering around with legislation. He
would like to get away to his native
state, seize q fish pole passionately
and hustle away to the beckoning
brook. He is one of the most en-
thusiastic fishermen in the senate, de-
spite his years.
That former Governor Folk of Mis-
souri, takes himself seriously as a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for president is handed around in
a conversational way at Washington.
Some letters have been received there
asking support in the 1912 campaign.
MIR. Folk seems especially anxious to
have Tennessee lend props. He has
brothers there who are prominent In
Democratic politics, and their influence
may help some in dragging the dele
cation correctly. At any rate, he has
an eye on Tennessee and apparently Is
starting into the fracas long in advance
of the campaign.
In many cities of this great country
women are allowed to vote for school
officials Not so in Philadelphia, how
ever. That's why DR.. Robert Ellis
Thompson, president of the Central
high school, as they call him, dared
fo u,xy hot ha
ago. DR.. Thompson is no believer in
woman suffrage, and he didn't mince
matters in his speech. When that
speech was printed in the newspapers
the women called on him for retrac-
ton, but they didn't get 1t. DR.. Thomp-
son declined to re-anything except to
reiterate what he had already said.
That was:
''I do not believe in woman suffrage,
because women are not qualified Tor
the duty of the ballot. They are just
as capable and intelligent as men, but
they are more impatient of delay and
restraints. They want to accomplish
q thing Immediately and out of hand,
irrespective of means and results.
"It is this impatience that has given
rise to the lynch law of the south and
every time it is brought to bear upon
a case it proves that the southerners
are tinged with this woman's impa-
tience and are acting like women.
"Women's interest in public affairs
should be a personal, not a practical,
one. They are capable of bringing
about great reforms by their concert
ed movements for good, but with the
ballot In their hands their powers for
good would be nullified. Now they act
as whole. With the franchise they
would be split into political factions
and lose sight of their aim to better
humanity"
With marriage and divorce growing
every day into greater problems, some
are prone to think that they may be
taken up soon in a scientific manner,
and perhaps added to the curriculum
of the big universities. If this should
come to pass in the march Of events,
friends of Professor Brander Matthews
of Columbia university stand ready to
nominate him for a chair He has
often been quizzed by lovelorn smem-
bers of classes under his instruction,
and invariably, they declare, they have
found him ready not only to discuss
the subject at length, but indirectly
he has invited queries on these after
runners of love. One day a student
asked him just exactly what language
should be used and what was the
proper manner of proposing to the girl
of your heart. Without hesitation Pro-
fessor Matthews replied:
"There is absolutely no way. Pro-
posals are not made in mere speech;
words are futile
But" interrogated a bespectacled
youth, chow, then, are they made?"
"Why-er-they just happen, that's
ALL" returned the professor, gravely.