The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-17
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COl<LEI1AIE2I &FsE1C1ENCY.
There is much discussion going on
in the world relative to the efficiency
of college instruction Upon this
point President Pritchett of the Car
negie Foundation, says, "a critical ex-
animation of what we are getting out
of the expansion is probably more to
be desired than further expansion -
That is to say, the efficiency of exist
ing educational enterprise is more
important than the increase of it,
There is a great demand for bigger
institutions, for grander laboratories,
for finer apparatus and larger libra
ries, but before that demand is COM
piled with, we must be sure that what
there is already is made the best use
of. There is a feeling growing that
this is not the case. Mr.. Cooke of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers, is quoted as follows: There
are few if any of the broader prin-
ciples of management which obtain
generally in the Industrial and COM
mercial world. which are not more or
less applicable in the college field, and
no one Of them is now generally OBJ
served" He further says:
THE college professor must take the
position that he is not an individual
set apart, and that in the long run
he must be governed and measured
generally obtain in the other occupa-
tons. Ohio State Journal.
A MISFIT
The leap from monarchy to republic
is proving to be an out of the frying
pan into the fire situation for Portugal.
Even the optimists of the stating eigh-
teenth century rights of man. and
human equality maxins will learn
by and by that Republican or Demo-
cratic self-governnent is primarily
capacity rather than a right-the ca
DacitV must DreCeOA the right.
AS might have been expected from
the prevailing political training Of the
masses Portuguese incapacity is already
transplating itself into political chaos
lutionary government. The working
classes expected an immediate mil
lennium of prosperity, employment and
wages. bread and games galore. In
stead of which political unrest and I'M
certainty, the recourse to paper money
by a government at its wits end, and
the emigration of capital and enterprise
and consequent Industrial stagnation,
through dread of radical and confisca-
tory legislation. The old story. People
are not remade over night by a revo-
lutionary change of institutions.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
SEEING THE RAISE.
Increased expenditures are called for
for the navy, in view of the criticisms
Of neglect in the face OF advances made
by other powers. There is apparent
determination in Japan not to let their
naval program further lag. For sup
plemcnting and improving the navy
$1,000, 600 yen is to be expended in the
next six years. For the next fiscal
year 100000 yen is appropriated
Speaking of the navy, Marquis Katsura
says that conspicuous innovations
adopted by other powers in the types
of their warships. make it imperative
for Japan to increase its naval expend-
itures. From a washington dispatch
to the New York Herald.
In poker phraseology, Japan is merely
seeing the raise of the other great pow
ers. There is a lingo press in Japan
that equals our lingo orators. The eff
feet of jingoism on both sides of the
Pacific is materially to increase the
burden of taxation in both countries
rather than radicaliysto change the rela-
tive strength of the two nations. Com
spicuous Innovations may be rewrit-
ten "burdensonle extravaganza The
game Is similar to poker, sometimes
called "bluff."-Lsouisville Courier-Jour-
nal.