The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-01-28
news NOTES Of
NATIONS CAPITAL
(By F. J. DYER.)
Especial to Silver State,

WASHINGTON, JAN. 28.-Ezra P.
Prentice, retired chairman of the New
York State Republican committee, was
invited by the president to a diplo-
matte dinner in Washington week or
two ago. Lloyd Griscom, who gave up
diplomacy for politics, was also invit-
ed. 1t happened that both gentlemen
were invited to bring their wives. This
was all right SO far as Mr.. Griscom
was concerned, but Mr.. Prentice was
very much perturbed and he was put
to much trouble before he ascertained
that it was not absolutely obligatory
that he should be accompanied by, his
wife. This comforted him, for as q
matter of fact he was not married.
Seeking Oriental Trade.
Congressman Duncan e. Mckinley, Of
California, made a speech in behalf Of
the claims of San Francisco to the
Panama exposition recently, and in it
he discussed trade relations with the
Orient and advised his colleagues on
the house committee to aid the nation
in developing its commercial business
by naming San Francisco as the city
for celebrating the completion Of the
Panama canal. AS he frequently
makes public speeches at the request
of the president, and speaks in a large
measure with authority, the following
from him is of interest:
"The foreign policy Of the United
States is to reach out and as quickly
as possible lay the foundations OF
future trade and commerce. What
better agency could be used for this
purpose than for the opening in San
Francisco of great international fair,
%ho+ no{f of Aoio IN oIoon
proximity to us, in closer proximity to
us than any other part of the United
States, may bring to us their wares and
Exhibit them and thus become ac-
quainted with our American civiliza-
tionsf
1--WE have gone over into the Philip
pines. We don't know how long we
will remain there, but the Philippine
territory is becoming valuable. Last
year their consumption of products
amounted to 100000 Up to two
years ago we secured only $5,O00,000
a year of Philippine trade. Last year
our trade jumped to SIS 100000.
$50, out in the Asiatic countries,
out in these nations bordering the Pa
cifc we must look for the real expan-
sion and the real progress of industrial
and commercial America. l do not be-
/ lieve that for long time America will
be haulted I believe that we shall
find some means to restore our mer-
chant marine, and that we shall get
our share of the trade of the Orient.
Through the exposition / believe we
shall get that thing most desired, a
business interest with the Asiatic
lands and throughout all the Oriental
world that will be of lasting benefit to
our nation and to our people,
A Lecture on Education.
Representative Herbert Parsons, OF
New York, delivered a speech in the
house on January on an amendment
to the legislative, executive and judic-
ial appropriation bill providing $780,
90 for the bureau of education to col
lect and diffuse information regarding
education in the different states. Mr..
Parsons speech would be worth the
trouble of every person to read, and
doubtless a request to him would re-
suit in its being mailed to the appli-
cant.
In the course of his remarks the
gentleman from New York said that
"public education is the largest, as
we'll as the most important, business in
America and yet we have no avail
| aDle SUduudTuS ny WnlCu tnO ChSAOnSy
of school administration can be guaged.
We are far behind Germany, said Mr..
Parsons. We do not even know what
is being done in different parts of the
country The experience gained in one
city is not available in another. In the
matter of architecture, for instance, ii
"a country school board wished to know
what it could do best with certain
amount of money, it could not ind
out except in two states--Maine and
California The National Bureau OF
Education does not furnish such infor-
nation. ''From nearly every city IN
the land comes the call for help IN
making up new high school courses
which will prepare for life and voca-
ton the 100000 high school girls and
bows who want more schooling than
that given in the common schools, but
who do not want to 60 to college,
The rural schools contain majority
of the school children of the country,
and vet, strange to say, declared the
congressman, no one knows the results
of rural school work and experiment
in other states.
Mr.. Parsons sent to the desk, to be
read, an extract from speech by
Rev. DIR. John M. Thomas, president OF
Middleburg college, in which he spoke
of the need of work among the rural
teachers in New England and cited
the following answers given by three
teachers in an examination-greatly to
the hilarity of the house:
One teacher, naming four places OF
historic interest in the United States,
wrote: "Boston, Ticonderoga, Spain
and England"
Defining disinfectant, another
Teacher wrote: "Disinfectant is some
thing that does not agree with ones
system
The third teacher, defining "deodor-
;zer.v wrote: Deodorizer is per
son that has a desire he doesn't know
about