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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
TRAINING CHILDREN
FOR CITIZENSHIP
Cooperation Of Pupils in Government
of Schools Develops Self-Control
and Other Civic Virtues.
by Associated Press.l

San Francisco, Cal, July 12.-"Civic
depravity" was denounced by Richard
yelling, of New York, one of the
speakers at a section meeting OF the
National Education Association today.
His subject was Pupil Self-Govern-
ment as a Training for Citizenship"
Mr.. yelling said, in part:
Eight years ago | addressed this
association on training for citizenship
in the schools. We were then at the
beginning of a wave of civic right.
eousness which passed over the coun-
try. | say passed over advisedly be-
cause there seems to have been a
lapse into the lethargy of the older
days as is evidenced by the conditions
in many places.
The vote selling in Ohio, Indiana
and my own state of New York indi-
Gates not merely low tone of citizen
ship but a civic depravity. The Lori
mer case gives a clue to the lack of
intelligent interest of the citizens of
Illinois in the selection of their public
servants. The deadlocks in many leg
islatures bespeak the trafficking and
log-rolling that still obtain where the
servants of the people are supposed to
be registering the popular will. In the
main the interest of the people in
their public affairs Is confined TO the
weeks preceding the annual elections.
The only other times they are aroused
from their civic sloth are when a
scandal is uncovered or public ofii-
cial is under prosecution.
rs not this condition or things an
indication of the failure of the schools
in effective training for citizenship!
My viewpoint is that of citizen. Sew
eral years ago | looked into the matter
of civic training in the schools. !
found that the only attempt to prepare
our children for their life in this
democracy was a study of the struc-
ture and functions Of government EN-
cept in rare instances, this dry pur'
suit of the theory of government was
not coupled with any activity whereby
the pupils were exercised in the bust
ness of being good citizens.
is it not reasonable question to
ask. Has our sublic education rom
the standpoint of citizenship been a
paying investment
II advocate pupil cooperation in the
OF the schools as method
of exercising our children in ddno-
cratic life. Forty principals OF eie-
mentary and high schools in fifteen
states report that they are successfully
the plan; five thousand
children rejoice in their democratic
school life. The movement is growing.
1t should grow faster 1t is high time
the National Education Association
took up this subject for a thorough
inouirv I"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
THAT MYSTERIOUS DICK
TO DICK LETTER
Miss Abbott Tells Her Story to the
House Committee on Expen-
dtures Today.

WASHINGTON, July Washington is
awaiting with much interest the story
to be told today before the house com
mttee on expenditures in the interior
department by Miss NJ. F. Abbott, who
claims to have copied from the files
of the interior department a letter
from Richard S. Ryan to the then
secretary, Richard A. Ballinger, show
ing that Ryan sought the aid OF
Charles p. Taft in securing President
Taft's approval of the opening of the
water front on Controller Bay, Alaska.
I'D to this time Miss Abbott appears
to have been the only person to have
seen the myterious letter.
According to published accounts,
Miss Abbott will testify that she
found attached to a typewriter letter
from r. S. Ryan to II. A. Ballinger,
dated July 10, 1910, this note or post
script:
Dear Dick-I went to see the
president the other day about this
Controller Bay affair. The president
asked me whom | represented, | told
him. according to our agreement that
| represented myself. but that did not
seem to satisfy him. so ! went for
Charlie Taft. and asked him to tell his
brother whom | represented. The
president made no further objection
to my claim. Yours,
[Signed1 DICK.
The list of witnesses made up by
the committee conducting the inquiry
is said to include the following
Charles p Taft, brother of the presi-
dent; Daniel Guggenheim, head Of the
Alaskan syndicate; Frank H. Hitch
cock, postmaster general; Walter H.
Fisher, secretary of the interior: X. S.
Rryan, and a large number of land
office clerks.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
Sale of Western Horses.

New York, July 12.-Hundreds of
horses from Iowa, Nebraska and the
Northwest will become city equines
as the result of a big sale held here
today. The shipments for the auction
are largely well matched pairs of
grays and blacks, much in demand for
New York liverymen and undertakers.
The supply of this kind of utility
horses has for months been far short
of the demand, and the bidding will
be spirited, with record prices offered
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The opponents of the initiative, ref
erendum and recall base their opposi-
ton chiefly on the assumption that the
people do not give the necessary
thought to problems of legislation.
This implies that it is best to have a
class of professional politicians, sepa-
rate and apart, who shall act as guard
ians for the people in all matters per
tanning to legislation and office-hold-
ing. This is and always has been the
stock argument of those who are a
privileged class in church and state.
If 1t be so, then there never can be a
government of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
THE PRIZE.

A prize was offered for noblest deed,
No matter the station, or race, or
creed.
One came who was stately, and rich,
and great:
Il have given my millions to church
and state"
And one who had written with brill
liant pen.-
And thoughts are mighty to uplift
men.
Another was lovely, and sweet, and
fair,
With her laughing eyes, and her
golden hair.
Il have frightened my home, and my
circle wide"
And beauty and grace are the nations
pride.
One came who was ragged, and feet
were bare:
A girl of the slums, with a timid air.
Il am hungry often, and faint she
said,
But every night, when / go to bed,
"A part of my crusts put outside
For homeless dog, or a cat that
cried.
'Tis little, | know, but God will see;
If done for the least, we have done
it for me-"
The prize is won for the outcast child:
For pure religion and undefiled.'
Sarah X. Bolton in C. r. World.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
Texas Sheriffs Meet.

Houston, Texas, July 12.-County
officials from nearly all the counties
of the state are in attendance today
at the annual meeting of the Sheriffs
Association of Texas. County judges,
clerks, treasurers, assessors and col
lectors will meet with the sheriffs to
discuss numerous matters of impor-
lance.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
Pharmacists in Duluth.

Duluth, Mimi, July 12.-Nearly a
thousand druggists and members of
their families met today in the twenty
seventh annual meeting of the Mime
sofa State Pharmaceutical Association
A trip to the iron range will be the
principal entertainment feature of the
four-day convention
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
Colorado Bankers.

Denver, Colo, July 12.-Over two
hundred and fifty of Colorado's lead
ing financial institutions are repre-
sented in the convention opened in
Denver today by the Colorado Bank
ers' Association. A number of promi-
nent men will discuss financial topics
during the session of two days.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

Thirty-one years ago the pastor of
a church in Sherman said to the writer
that in few years more the use of
tobacco would be considered immoral.
DR.. Wiley's prophecy that smoking in
public places would soon be obsolete
brought this to mind.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

Both pros an dantis can quote scrip
ture enough to make your head cwim
The Bible has good deal to say
about wine and strong drink" but
never once does 1t mention either To-
cal OntiOn or statewide
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

Judge Wright, of the District of Co
lumbia supreme court, threatens to
put Samuel Gompers in Jail, and
Gompers says Judge Wright ought to
be impeached Whatever else may be
said of the union labor leader, he is
no Weakling
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The Gainesville Register doesn't like
The Eagle even little bit, because
we find flaws in its immaculate Bailey.
That's all right; but the Register
ought not to clip from The Eagle and
give credit to other papers. This is
not only ungenerous but unjust
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

A Kurten correspondent writes:
please remind the voters, on the
22nd when the water wagon comes
around, that it takes whisky for snake
bites; so lookout for snakes" The
worst snakes are the imaginary ones.
Lookout for that kind.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

Bryan is as dry as a bone today,
Not ''drap of the craytur" can be
had for love or money-so they say
If there are any blind tigers or boot
leggers in town they are lying so low
we haven't seen, heard or sme't one.
But We haven't been hunting.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The New Jersey law which docks
of the state is good one. There is
no more justice in paying governor
than a laborer for work he doesn't do.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The Indians on some of the reserva-
tons are wearing sheets instead OF
blankets during the hot weather. From
skins to blankets was one step in
civilization; from blankets to sheets
iS another
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

Statewiders, Statewiders! Prepare for
the day
When the antis will meet you in bal
lot array.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

New Jersey is killing mosquitoes
with dynamite. In Texas they are
neither so large nor so numerous as
to require heroic methods like that.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

That mysterious Dick to Dick" let
ter, which is figuring in the Controller
Bay investigation, is as elusive as the
famous little black box in the reign
of James H.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The people of Bryan are more con-
cerned about the size of the block of
ice than about the tariff on wool or
statewide prohibition.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

Subscribers will confer a favor. on
the management by telephoning the
office promptly when carriers fail to
deliver the paper. or when change Of
residence occurs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The pro orator proclaims that NOR,
atty is at stake. The anti orator
shouts back that the fate Of liberty is
trembling in the balance. The sensi-
bic citizen knows that both are in
dulging in Oriental hyperbole and goes
along about his business.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

The Beaumont Enterprise prints a
picture of Congressman Martin Little
ton with an oYercoat on. If he wore
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12

an oyercoat in Beaumont last Sunday
he's not the man he is cracked UP
to he
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-12
BY COMMERCIAL
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION.

If all other lines of business had
adopted the ideas of many farmers
that the old system of farming could
not be improved on, we would still be
using the forked stick, with a one
cared OK, one man driving and one
holding the pillow, while the old reap
hook would still be used instead of
the modern binders and the old fail
instead of the threshing machine. A
remarkable condition is that farmers
have had their machinery improved
but will not listen to the soil culture
theories, conservation experiences and
results of demonstration work.
The sheep is the only animal that
has been Inundated by beins COM
PEELED to compete with vegetable fiber
on the markets. but Notwithstanding
the progress OF HIS powerful rival,
King Cotton, he has held his own and
today he is worth more on the market
than at any time during the past half
a century and his fleece is the yard
stick for computing values of all vege-
table fibers and King Cotton must get
prices from the sheep before entering
the market.
One of the wisest laws enacted by
the Thirty-second or any other legis-
lature was the one which authorized
the commissioners court of any coun-
ty to make an appropriation of not to
exceed $1,000 to be used in farm ex-
pertinent and demonstration work.
Every county in Texas will make a
good investment by appropriating the
whole thousand dollars and demon
strating to the farmers what crops
and what manner of cultivation will be
most successful to local conditions
and to educate the farmers to farm by
the most improved methods and to
discontinue the system of the long ago
The sheep is the only animal that
possesses three natural and unfailng
sources of revenue-food, clothing and
reproduction-and he has so success
fully managed these lines of industry
since the beginning of time that today
he is captain of industry among the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26
Last Hope Cut off

The failure of the extension ladders
cut on the last hope Of rescue. as owing
10 the rapid;ty with which the fire spread
the nrcmcn could not reach the upper
part of the building by way of the STAIRS
aud elevators and the scaling ladders
were useless, The tlrem"n. in a frenzy.
were compelled 10 stand and see the girls
drop To the sidewalk at their feet. The
rcmcn. with the police. spread fire nets
To catch the bodies of the falling women.
Several were saved in this manner but
others were killed when the nets broke
under the weight OF their bodies. coming
down from such height, When the
bodies crashed through the broken
meshcs they were turned into shapccss
forms on the stone sidewalks. one net
was living I'm the street after the fire
with SIX bodies tangled in IT, other Vic
Tins. misjudcmg the distance. fell wide
Of the nets and were crushed against the
fircmcn while holding the iifc nets were
struck by failing girls and severely in
Jured,
a large group of girls climbed out OF
the windows on the ninth floor and
gained moments RESPITE by crawling
to ledge which protruded from the
windows. Pressed by others behind
them they fell in clusters of two and
three to the ground
a half dozen others trcaded pcriously
close TO the edge OF the ledge TO q heavy
electric feed wire that swung across the
street. simultaneously they grabbed It
The wire gave way beneath their com
bncd weight as they swung Tor mo-
mcnt in mldair and the entire number
somorSaultcd, screaming. 10 death below.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26
Stores Like Moroues

Grocery wagons and even push carts
were pressed into service to get the
wounded. most OF whom were young
girls. to drug stores and hospitals.
Stores In the neighborhood were turned
into temporary morgues when IL was
seen that the death list was likely To
reach A hundred or more, The first dead
bodies were taken TO the Mercer street
police station, and a few moments later
a crowd of relatives and friends Of girls
who had been employed in the burning
building stormed that place and were
kept back with the greatest difficulty.
AS the seventh floor fell one girl who
jumped from the window almost at the
same moment. and who landed safely in
a net shouted 10 the firemen.
MY God, There are over fifty girls
still on the seventh floor.
Shortly after the blaze started dozen
or more young women hung from the
window sills and in several cases the
flames swept out. burning their hair,
hands and faces until Il almost suffe
Gated them. They dropped sixty feet to
death on the sidewalks.
Two girls who jumped from the top
floor crashed through sheet iron graft
ing on the sidewalk. One girl. who was
rainly trying to persuade companion
not 10 jump watched her unfortunate
companions body crash on tho sidewalk
then she jumped. too. Both were killed
outright.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26

BY Leased Wire 10 The Tribune.
NEW YORK March 25.-lt is said
tonight on high authority that Charles
+. Murphy and Governor John \, Dix
have agreed that the only solution Of
the deadlock over the election of a
United States senator lies in clecting
Dix himself to the senatorship. This
statement is made on the authority of
one Of the shrewdest political leaders
in the state. He predicted tonight that
Governor Dix would be the next sen
ator and said that the developments of
the next few days wouid bear out his
prediction.
What he said was based on knowl-
edge and upon analysis of the sItua.
tion. but he would not say how mnch
he knew about the terms of the agree
mcnt.
The governor has not been inclined.
according TO his friends, TO permit his
name 10 bc considered for the sen
atorship. He processes TO be salts
fled where he IS. But il is under
stood now that he is far from salts
fled with his position and feels that
he would like to escape the harrass-
mcnts and difficulties surrounding the
chief executive of the state. He be-
lleyeS that the solution of the dead
lock through his Intervention viii make
HIM the greatest Democrat in the state
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26
Agreement SAID to Have Been Made TO Cut New
Yorks Gordian Knot; Murphy and the Gov
ernor Have Understanding

and he also believes that his election
would unite all the factions of the
party.
There is very little question in we'll
informed minds about the support
which would be received by the gov
eruor from the insurgents. All of them
would vote for him gladly and once
Murphy gave The word at least sixty
eight regulars votes would be cast for
him.
It is now almost certain that Viii
liam +, Sheehan is out OF the race. Dix
has accomplished that much by work.
ing on Chief Murphy. Today the word
went forth from Tammany Hall head
quarters TO all Greater New York
members Of the organization that they
were not to be obliged To vote for
Sheehan in Monday night s caucus. II
is not expected that the Monday night
caucus will give Il majority TO any one.
Then the caucus viii adjourn sub
icct To reconvenin9 by the chair
man and so the process Will 90 on.
As the situation develops, IT IS cx-
pected that man after man who believes
he would be acceptable TO the insur.
gents and the regulars will be per
suaded that he cannot be elected. II
will be demonstrated TO him before
his eyes. Then after the situation has
seemed TO become absolutely intolerable
and incapable of solution the govern
or's name will be placed in nomina-
ton and with hurrah and sigh of
relief he will he elected
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26
WORST NEW YORK DISASTER
SINCE THE SLOCUM HORROR

ing downward through tho woven wire
glass or a canopy 10 tho tagging below.
Her sisters who followed flashed through
tho air like rockets.
II was cghty-iivc feet from tho eighth
floor TO the ground. about Iinety-Nve feet
from the ninth floor. rs feet from the
Cornlce Of the roof, and the upward rush
of the draft and the Crackle of the
flames drowned their cries.
Six girls fought their way TO n window
on the ninth floor over the bodies OF
fallen fellow workers and crawlcd ont
I'm single file 10 an cight-inCh stone ledge
running the length OF the building. More
than hundred feet above the sidewalk
they crept along their perlous pathway
TO n swinging electric feed wire spanning
Washington place.
The leaders paused for their compan-
ions to catch up at the end OF the ledge,
and the six grabbed the wire simultane
ously. II snapped like rotten whipcorG
and they crashed down 10 death
\ thirteen -year-old girl hung for three
minutes by her finger tips TO the sill OF
a tenth-foor window. A tongue of flame
licked a. her fingers and she cropped
into a life net held by fremen.
Two women fell into the net at almost
the same moment The strands parted
and the two were added to the death
list.
a girl threw her pocketbook. then her
hat then her furs from a tenth floor
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26

would be rushed over TO the pier as soon
as possible
The chapel of the city morguc was
turned into an Identification bureau, and
The first five wagon loads OF dead ar
rived shortly after o'clock. There were
twenty-five bodies. most Of them burned
beyond recognition.
No bodies were laid out for the pur-
pose of identification at that hour. Lieu
tenant Sullivan decided To wait until all
the bodies In the ruins had been recov-
cred and moved to the morguc.
1T will surely be long after daylight
before most OF The bodies are Identified "
Lieutenant Sullivan said. "Thc method
Of securing identification decided upon
Will necessarily be tedious and long. but
we have decided that II VIII be the best
way in the long rum as we are seeking
TO prevent the pier from being overrun
with frantic relatives and friends"
Three unidentified women and two men
were taken TO Bellevue hospital In am
balances. Two of the women died short
~ after having been admitted to the in
Stiiution. At late hour the others
were lowering between life and death,
none having been Identified.
Mothers and fathers flocked TO Bellevue
hospital asking for word of their sons
Or daughters.
Husbands and wives begged at the
doors OF the institution for information
concerning this or that man or woman
thought to have been killed or injured.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26

the wells for aid that came from the
smoking roof by resting ladders from the
upper windows of their class rooms 10
the frantic men and women on the roof.
Men Showed Herolsm.
None OF the nre-bcsieGed hesitatcd an
struggling across these slender bridges
ci~hty feet above the pavement IN the
court beow-to the out-thrust arms OF
the students. II Is fact that none OF
the men on. the roof. wild with excite
mcnt they were. made move toward
the ladder till the girls had crossed TO
safety. Those who did make the fire
escape-and these were tut few who
had. I'm spite of panic. first thought of
lt-hudd!ed themselves into what ap-
peaccd as bad trap as the one irom
themselves let down into an absolutely
closed court and when through the eel
lar Of the Ash building they sought 10
make their way to the street they en-
count tered on the ground floor Iron shut
teTs securely clamped into place.
For A time they stood around or kDelt
in prayer, not knowing when the burn
Ing building might crash In upon them.
Some OF these dashed back and screamed
In the hope OF attracting the attention
OF the law students in the university
building. But there were so many agon-
ized cries ringing In the al that the
youths never heard the shouts from be-
I low.
Shlvering at the chasm below them.
scoTchcd by the fire behind them. there
was some that still held positions in the
windows when the first squad of flremen
| arrived.
The nets were spread below with ali
promptncss, Citizens were Communicated
! into tho service. as the firemen neceS-
sarlIy gave their attention to the one
engine and hose of the force that first
! arrived.
The cotapult force that the bodies
gathered I'm the long plunge made the
! nets utterly without avail. Screaming
| girls and men as they fell tore the nets
! from the grasp Of the holders and the
bodies struck the sidewalk and lay rs
| they fell. Some Of the bodies ripped bis
| holes through the life nets.