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Arizona republican., 1912-03-10
WOMEN IN EDUCATION.

X recent compilation of educational statistics shows that in the state col Ieges and universities of the United States the percentage of women teachers averages about 9. In n- stitutions west of the Mississippi the figure rises to 13. and in the east drops to but 6.
 In individual cases extreme varia- tions occur In the Florida State Col lcgc for Women 56 per cent of the teachers are women; in Ohio Univer- sity. fl per cent; in the University of New Mexico. % per cent, and in the Kansas State Agricultural College 2S per cent. On the other hand, there are twenty eight state inSutu- tions in which no women teachers It all are employed. The University of California has six women on its teaching staff of 3O3. the Massa chusctts Institute of Technology one in a total of 224. the University oi Maine two amonty seventy -nino teachers. and Cornell sixteen in q total of G52 instructors and pro- fcssors.
 Special percentages based on d
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10
HENRY l. ST|MS0N, SECRETARY OF WAR,
 DELIVERS GREAT SPEECH FAV0R|NG TAFT

{ Oregon but that in a fifty-years' trial
 in New York, as applied to consttu
 tional questions, it had been a failure. Should the national republican who lives in New York be read out
 of this party?" he asked. 'because he
 declines to accept the referendum
 as the best remedy to cure the
 abuses of popular government in his own state?
 Tt only confuses and abstracts to l drag into a national campaign the
 prejudices and shibboleths which have
 arisen in the contests of the different : states. MT. TaftS administration
 must be judged by the attitude with
 which he had approached and the
 success he has attained in dealing 1 with these national problems, and not
 according to the views which any of
 us may hold upon these local ques- | tions of state machinery"
 The secretary of war drew atten- ton to the investigations that have
 been made under President Taft into 1 problems that had been the subject of serious controversy for years The
 work of the tariff board. the Had | ley Railway Securities Commission
 and the Hughes commission on sec | ond-c class mail matter were typical he said. of the methods sought by MT Taft to ascertain facts.
 "I doubt if there has ever been an administration where so many vital questions of progress were under
 careful. scientific investigation and scrutiny by commissions of competent experts" he said. There is nothing dramatic about such a method; but a reform accomplished in the light of
 such carefully accredited facts is
 more likely to be permanent. This is the very essence of MT. Tafts method as a refOrmer."
 President Taft has been most falsely villified and abused" in con- nection with the tariff, said Mir Stimson. and has. in fact. taken the | republican party out of the grasp of the special interests benefited by the tariff and has made a part of
 the republican progressive policy the
 downward revision of the tariff law schedule by schedule.
 1 "Is not this tremendous achieve
 ment in the direction of national l progress" asked Mir. Stimson, ito ! completely rescue his party from the
 methods and influences which. if un- l controlled, would inevitably turn it ] into a party of special interests and reaction? Is it not right in standing to the uttermOst. even to the cXer- else of all of the executive powers 1 of veto. against the old privilege. , breeding methods of tariff revision 1 employed by the democratic house of representative? Is he not right in | insisting even against popular clamor 1 that we shall make clean break with the past and that no tariff re 1 vision shall take place except upon i these conditions and after a scientific
 study by q non-partisan board of cX-
 perts?'
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10
ANOTHER ARCTIC TRIP.

In his book, Nearest the Pole" Admiral Robert F.. Peary tells of sec
 ing in June, 1906. from the summit of Cape Colgate north of Grant Land and again from Cape Thomas Hub
 bard. the northernmost point of AXel- Heiberg Land. the snow-clad sum mits of distant land in the north vest above the ice horizon. He To-
 cGted it at about loo degrees west longitude and S3 degrees north lati- tudc. or about 130 miles from Cape Thomas Hubbard. and gave it the name of Crocker Land in honor oi the late George CrOcker of the Peary Arctic club. The fact by the way. that Peary had previously seen this land. to which Cook also referred in tis account of his journey. appears to have been generally overlooked in the Peary- Cook controversy.
 pr. R. A Harris. tidal expert of the United States coast and geodetic
 survey. in his monograph on Arctic
 ideas. published last year. makes the deduction that great land area or archipelago or very shallow water
 exists to the north of Western Amer
 iCan and Eastern Siberia
 The discovery of this unknown land
 is the object of an expedition for which the American Museum of Nat
 uTaI History and the American Geo graphical society have issued a pros 70 pcctus. Yale university also is CO., operating in the enterprise. as arc Bowdoin College. the New York Academy of Sciences and various individuals. including Admiral Peary, General Thomas IT. Hubbard and former President Roosevelt. The eX- petition is to be conducted by George Borup and Donald E. MacMillan, two young men who were among Peary's most valued assistants in his trip to the pole. The plan is to sail early 1 next summer to the Arctic. establish | headquarters on the coast of Grin | rCll Land across Smith Sound and somewhat to the north of Etah. spend the fall and winter in transporting 1 supplies to a secondary base at Cape | Thomas Hubbard and start from i there early in the spring of 1913 for 1 Crocker Land
 This expedition under men well ] trained for Arctic work. young and enthusiastic offers every prospect for
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10
WEATHER OF 1911.

The year 1911 will long be remem- bered for the violence of it's weather The spring opened mild and delight ful. but in June a torrid wave of unparalleled severity swept over the country. The cities baked and gasped for breath. while the burning sur and hot winds withered the corn and cost the farmers million dollars d day. A little later England was scorched and France and Germany sweltered. The mercury went above 100 degrees in western Canada. and whalers brought back reports from the Arctic regions of open water where always before there had been solid ice The reports from Mexico and Central America would well de- scribe the lower regions, but it is
 said that the summer in Iceland was most enjoyable.
 In August the elements took a diff | ferent turn and the flood gates of 1 :he heavens were opened. Kentucky and the South Atlantic states were deluged. and the Philippines were more thoroughly drowned than they had been before since the time of
 Noah Alberta was visited by frost which ruined hundreds of pioneer 1 farmers. A cyclone devastated Costa | Rica and d violent gale swept the 1 South Atlantic coast, destroying a | great number of vessels. During the
 later fall. the North Atlantic was | tormented bv a series of more vio-
 lent storms than were known to the ta1. tain In hp1 hp
 southern states were visited by a
 killing frost. while December was re-
 markable for it's high temperatures
 Aside from the extreme heat, the frosts of the far north and the sunny south. and the violent storms
 at sea. the year 1911 was still eX- ceptional. The mean temperature of
 every month except November was above the average of that of the 4C years covered by the records of the United States Weather Bureau. The average daily excess was from four
 to six degrees.
 With only one month out oi twelve below normal. one may well | ask if the climate is not changing Il and getting warmer. This important II question Is ulSCuSSeu DN GIdHClS Moleno, in tEe March Popular Me chanics Magazine. He says:
 since burning coal produces car bon diOxide it may be inquired
 whether the enormous use of that Il fuel in modern times may not be an important factor in filling the at I mosphere with this substance. and consequently indirectly raising the temperature of the earth. In the 1 United States about 500.000.000 tons or coal were mined in 1911. Suppose | four times this amount were mined T and burned in the whole world. When T this amount of coal is burned 1000, GOO, 900 tons of carbon dioxide are put into the atmosphere. The question is. simply, whether this this is an I appreciable fraction of that which the atmosphere already holds, and Il whether there are any important
 ways in which it is being removed from the atmosphere.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10

manufacture is the nations greatest industry.
 Five to ten pounds of vanadiUm to the ton greatly increases tine tough ness and strength and doubles the life the material employed in the con truction of automobile parts. locomo- tive frames and many other things m which steel of d high quality is re- quired. If thesquantity produced can be made great enough, and the cost of production low enough, 1t can be used generally for rails and for struc- tural steel
 Vanadium is mined from sandstone beds that outcrop in the canyons or san Miguel and MontrOse counties If it occurs throughout the beds. as well as in the outcrops. the supply will be practically inexhaustible. Kirby ThOm- as in d recent issue of the Mining and Scientific Press. expresses the opin- ion that the ore will be found through out the beds. In this he agrees with other engineers familiar with the tieIJ-
 Given d supply of ore, the general use of vanadium in steel manufacture depends upon reducing the cost of eX- tracing the metal from the ore. Dur ing the past year the price has ranged from 8 to S a pound. This means limited market MetallurSiSts who have been working on the problem say that the cost of production per pound can be cut to 50 cents or less. If this can be done. the market will be linn nf Ir world It will take vanadium out or the rare metal class and make It staple in steel manufacture
 So encouraging is the outlook that welI-postcd men are predicting that within ten years vanadium will be the most important mining industry of the state And well-pOsted capital whcA- ever the opportunity occurs. Is pick ing up vanadium property.-Denver Times.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10

the successful solution of the most important of the remaining Arctic problems. It's scientific value should be even greater than was that oi Peary's trip to the pole. Messrs. Borup and MacMillan have agreed to give their services. About $5O.- coo will be required however for eX- penses. of which about S15.00O already has been pledged. Further subscrip- tons are asked for by the American Museum of Natural History. an ln- stitution of such character that no question can be raised as to the le- gitimate use for scientific purposes only of any money entrusted to It. Buffalo Express.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10

study of the teachers at eleven schools selected at random gave the following results: There were 149 women teachers at these schools Ten per cent were full professors, , per cent associate professors. 10 per cent assistant professors and = per cent instructors. Twenty-four were engaged in teaching English-two as full professors. two as associate pro- fessOrs and seventeen as instructors. Modern language" came next in popularity. with three full professors and fourteen instructors Twelve of the women. three as full professors, were engaged in teaching home eco monies and domestic science. Phil osOphy claimed ten. eight of whom were instructors. There were twenty music teachers. all instructors, nine teaching school training" eight nat ural science. seven physical educa a tion. six each in mathematics and commercial courses and five Latin Jr Creek
 These figures say very little as to the special aptitudes of interests of the whole body of teachers in our machinery for higher education. be- cause the ground covered is so small; hut they are interesting as far as they go. However, the conclusion is Justified that women still play relatively unimportant part as teach CTS in our institutions for higher edu cation This is in striking contrast Co their practical control of the ele- mentary field. over 79 per cent of the teachers in New York states pub lie schools are women.-New York Globe.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10

the work for you--a live wire"
 salesman on the job 2i hours a day.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-10
EXPECTATIONS BUILT ON VANA.
 DIUM.

Colorado is looming up big in the future of steel manufacture-and steel
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
ACCOUNTANT MOORE FIRED.
Was Empliyed to Investigate Handlin,
Of State by Ex.Gov. vardaman.
cal friction.

Jacksonville publication of an open
letter addressed to the General Public,
by Charles j, More, the accountant who
was employed by Gov. Noel to examine
the accounts of ex-Gov. Vardaman and
other state officials and institutions, in
which Mr.. Moore severely criticised the
Joint legislative committee and Messrs
kincannon and Ross of the State uni
versity, had a sensational aftermath in
the legislature. The legislature adopted
a resolution dismissiug Moore from the
service of the state and condemning his
work rs an accountant. The resolution
adopted by the senate and house con.
demned the conduct of Mr.. Moore as ere
prehensible in the extreme, unbecom.
ing in an officer and n gentleman, and
exceedingly disereditable to the power
that appoints and retains such a charac-
ter in so responsible a position"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
DECREASE COTTON ACREAGE.
President Carter Issues Call to Discuss
This Proposition.

Jacksonville following appeal or
proclamation to the people interested
in the subject covered wal issued here
by President T. w. Carter Of the Mis-
sissippi Farmers Union:
Acting for the Southern Cotton Con-
gress, composed Of governors, commits
sioners of agriculture and presidents of
the Farmers Union of the Southern
states, I hereby call a meeting of the
people in Mississippi on the 25th day Of
January, in the school houses in their
respective districts to discuss the advisa.
bility of increasing their acreage in crops
other than cotton. thereby decreasing the
acreage to be planted in cotton this
year as much as possible.
"The Rockhill plan, as published in the
Union Advocate of Jan. 10, gives the
plan in detail of this movement. Every.
body of all professions are requested to
be present and take part in these meet.
ings and send signed statements of the
percentage of reduction agreed upon to
Mr.. Fred D, James, jackson, Miss. who
is the state manager of this department.
appointed by his excellency, the cover.
nor.
ct w CARTEp
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
1,0O9,4 s7 NEGROES AND 1,5os OF
OTHER RACES.
Negro Population is SEA- Per Cent, De
crease of 2.3 Per Cent Since 1900.
Meridian Largest City in
State.

Washington.-The population of Mis-
sissippi, according to color, has been pub
lished by the census bureau:
The total poulation in 1910 was subdi
vided as to color as follows:
White, 7s6,119; negro, 1,oO9,4s7; all
other persons Indians and Chinese, Jap
anese and other Asiatics), 1908. The
equivalent figures for 1900 were:
White GAL 200; negro, 907,630; all 9th
er, 2,44O. For 1890 they were: White,
544,S51; negro, 1859; all other $3.50.
The negro population constituted 56.9
per cent of the total population of the
state in 1910, as against 5s.5 per- cent
in 1900 and 57.6 per cent in 1890.
The increase in the negro population
since 1900 was at about one-half the
rate for the preceding decade, the in.
crease from 1900 to 1910 being 1O1, 1857,
or 11.2 per cent, as compared with an
increase being, respectively, 144,919, or
22.6 per cent, al against 96,349, or IT.
per cent.
Meridian city had a population in 1910
of 24,2S5, comprising 1887 whites, 1891
negroes, and z other persons (Chinese).
The equivalent figures for 1900 were:
White, s,261; negro, 5,7s7; all other, 2.
For 1890 they were: White, SAP; ne.
gro, SITS; all other, 4.
The negro population of Meridian con.
stituted 40 per cent of the total in 1910,
as against 41.2 per cent in 1900 and 4s.7
per cent in 1890. The rate of increase
in the negro population from 1890 to
1910 was many times that from 1890
to 1900, the increase being, respectively,
1884, or 61.2 per cent, as compared with
600, or 11.8 per cent.
The white population shows an in.
crease during the last decade of $500
or 60 per cent, as compared with an
increase from 1890 to 1900 of 2,S19,
or 51.s per cent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
MURDERER AT LARGE.
Negro Farm Hand Believed to Have
Killed Ernest BRYANT.

Killed Ernest Bryant.
Meridian.-The murderer of Ernest
Bryant of Scooba, north of this city, 10
still at large. Bryant was murdered
Monday and was last seen Sunday in
company with Neeley Giles, a young
negro, who had jumped a contract to
work on the plantation of Bryant and
his father, John Bryant, near Scooba.
Sheriff Thompson Of Kemper county has
made two arrests on suspicion, but moth
ing as yet has been revealed.
Giles was last seen at IoJka, on Tues.
day morning, headed toward this city.
The citizens of Kemper are enraged
over the foul deed and are determined
to find Giles, whom they believe guilty
of the crime. Bryant left DeKalb Sun
day with the negro, having ordered him
to return to the farm and finish his con.
tract. The negro was given the shot
gun and ordered to carry it. He shot a
bird near DeKalb, and later the shell
was picked up and compared with the
two found where the murder is sup
posed to have been committed, and they
were Of the same kind.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
Bill for New County.

The bill seeking to create the new
county of Stone by taking slices Of ter
ritory from the counties of Harrison,
George, Perry and Forest, promises to
provoke one of the l%iveliest fights of the
legislative session. The people in the
territory affected are apparently in ia
vor of the new county, but a stiff fight
will be made by citizens IN other por-
tions of the counties involved. How
ever, sentiment in the territory involved
is not unanimous by any means, as
some of the citizens are seeing visions
of heavier taxation for the building of
4 courthouse, Jail, etc.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
SURPRISED DOCTOR.
illustrating the Effect Of Food.

The remarkable adaptability Of
Grape-Nuts food to stomachs 90 dis
ordered that they will reject every
thing else. is illustrated by the case
OF a woman in Racine, Wis.
Two years ago." she says, II was
attacked by a stomach trouble so 81
rious that for a long time / could not
take much Of any sort Of food. Even
the various kinds prescribed by the
doctor produced most acute pain. I
We then got some Grape-Nuts food.
and you imagine my surprise anS
delight when ] found that l could ed
1t with a relish and without the slighk
est distress.
When the doctor heard Of It he told
me I otake several small portions each
day, because he feared l would grow
tired of 1t as had Of all other food.
But to his surprise, (and that or
everybody else), l did not tire or
Grape-Nuts. and became better dav hys
day, till, after some weeks. my stom1
ach entirely recovered and I was abld
to eat anything my appetite craved. y
my nerves. which had become So
weakened that I feared 1 would be.
come insane, were also restored By
the Grape-Nuts food in connection
with Postum which has become our
table beverage. appreciate most
gratefully and thankfully the good that
your food Preparations have done ma.
and shall be glad to answer any lettsrs
inQuiring as to my experience" Mama
given by Postum Co, Battle Creek.
Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road -
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's q rea.
SON"
read \ sksvs letter. :
- .....s.... I2- AAs ss sl..s. me
interest. s@8Se
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
Vardaman Proclaimed Senator.

The election of Jan es X. Vardaman as
United States Senator to succeed Leroy
Percy was officially proclaimed. The
senate and house met in joint assembly
at noon, the journals Of both houses were
read, the vote was csnvassed and the re-
suit announced. After these ceremonies
had been finished Leutenant-G Governor
Bilbo declared that Vardaman had been
constitutionally elected to the United
States Senate for the term beginning or
March 4, 1913.
Senator vardaman then appeared be-
fore the legislature in response to an In
v~itaticn and addressed the men who had
just elected him to represent the state
in congress. The new senator spoke for
nearly an hour and was repeatedly ap-
plauded.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
Fight Juvenile R~eformatorv.

One of the singular developments Of
the legislative session is the manifesto
ton Of some lively opposition to tho bill
creating a Juvenile court and reforna-
tory for the purpose of dealing with
Maynard and defective childrea. The
opposition is showing itself chiefly in
the lower house among members who
say that a ~reformatory, if established,
would be populated chiefly by negro
children, and that there is little real
necessity for it, insofar as the white
children of the stnte are concerned,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
Is THE BATH
Some History Connected With the Exec.
utive Office.

~Jackson.-Earl Brewer is the thirty
fourth governor of Mississippi since the
state was admitted to the Union in
1917, a period of 95 years, and he will
go out of office just prior to the cele-
bration of the states centennial. He
is the second governor that Coahoma
county has furnished the state, James
L. Alcorn having been sent from there
in 1870, and served less than two years,
resigning on November 80, 1871.
The delta section of the state has
furnished the last four governors, Lon
gino being from Washington, Vardaman
from Leflore, Noel from Holmes, and
Brewer from Coahoma. The latter. how
ever was born in a hill county, Carroll,
and lived at Water Valley, Y~alobusha
county, until about twelve years ago.
The men who have served as the
states chief executives, in the order Of
their terms, are David Holmes, George
P%oindexter, Walter Leake, Gerard Bran
don, David Holmes second term), &C.
rard Brandon second term, Agram M.
Scott, Charles Lynch, Hiram G. Runnells,
John A. Quitman, Charles Lynch (sec-
ond term), Tilghman M. Tucker, Al
bert G. Brown, Joseph W. Matthews,
John A. Quitman (second term, John
I. Guion, James Whitfield, Henry s.
Foote, John ]. Pettus, John j. McRae,
William Neville, Charles Clark, VIII
liam L. Sharkey, Benjamin Humphreys,
Adelbert Ames, James L. Alcorn, Ridge
ley G. Powers, Adelbert Ames Second
term, John M. Stone, Robert Lowrey
1.-TWO terms), John M. Stone Second
term, A. j. McLaurin, A. Fl. Longino,
j. X. Vardaman, E. F. Noel.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
CITATION NOTICE.

The State of Mississippi:
Ars. Maria VI, Stephenson, vs. Paul +.
Stephenson.
No. $3.50.
In the Chancery Court OF NoXubee
County;
To Paul +. Stephenson, a nou-rcsi-
dent OF the state OF Mississippi, whose
place OF residence il unknown TO com
plainant, his last address known TO her
being Stockton, California:
We command you to be and appear
before the Chancellor OF our said Chan
Gerry Court at a term thereof to be hold
en- at the Court House in the City OF
Macon, in said county of NoXubee, OH
the ith Monday in April, A. d., 1912,
Then and there to plead, answer or de.
mur to the original bill in said cause
wherein YOU are defendant.
Witness my signature and seal of
saId Court affixed at my office in City
OF Macon, Miss, this nth day Of JAM
arv, 1912.
(SEAL) JNO. A. TYSON, Clerk.