Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-03-30
Rev. John A. Peake.

funds, and famous as leading Repub-
licans of the state.
"In a few days, the land office
eminent, respctible, already liberal
would receive notice from Washington
that this particular land had been
relinqulsned by the state and was
again oEen to entry. And every
foot of it was already plastered with
Mr.. Pratt's soldiers scri), now trans
ferred to the eminent business Elen
"Edisons Substitute for School
Books" contributed by Alien l.. Ben
son:
Now l hold that while school
books are made tor children; child
rem were never made for school
books. If this were not true, schools
would be the universal delight that
they really should be. My boy would
DOT be seeking excuses to c"aue
school. New York City would not
be spending more than $500 year
to pay truant officers German
children would not be committing
suicide to rid themselves of school.
instead, If schools were what they
should be, every normal child would
be eager to 90 to school. Children
are intensely inquisitive. They have
SYST teen born into new world
about which they are eager to know.
The very destructiveness of children
Is but an indication of their eager
Less to know what is inside of
things. The eagerness with which a
child plays shows how keen it is for
action. But school books neither
show anything in action, nor show
the inside of anything. They are but
pale shadows of things as they are. .
"Dr. Wiley Out" is the caption Cd
an article in the Literary Digest, on
the retirement of the great champion
of the peoples food supply. 1--WE
find in the press, which stood by DR..
Wiley almost unanimously when he
vas attacked, tho it sometimes criti-
cised his judgment or his methods,
many expressions of confidence that
he good wishes of the country fol
low him in his retirement.
1.-THE standard of resolution which
ne set In the detection and prosecu-
titn CT frauds can not be ignored,
remarks the New York Tribune, ana
1T will constitute his permanent leg
acy to the American people"
1t was because of a growing feel.
ing" in his mind that the differences
of opinion between him and his SUI
periors were "irreconcilable, and
because of consciousness of an Off
cial environment which has been
essentially inhospitable,' that DR..
Wiley felt himself compelled to quit
lis work as chief chemist. We read
further In his published statement:
II saw the fundamental principles
of the Food and Drugs Act, as they
appeared to me. one by one paralyz-
ed or discredited | have
been instructed to refrain from stat
irg in any public way my own opin-
ion regarding the effect of these
upon health, and this
restriction has interfered with my
academic freedom of speech on mat
ters relating direcly to the public
welfare"
In regard to his intentions for the
future he says:
Il propose to devote the remainder
of my life, with such ability as | may
nave at my command and with such
opportunities as may arise, to the
promotion of civic righteousness and
industrial integrity which underlie
the Food & Drugs Act, in the hope
that 1t may be administered in the
interests of the people at large, in
stead of that of comparatively few
manufacturers and deal
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