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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
WRECK OF THE 1910
~ HAROLD CARTER.

II was a slack evening In the ONCE,
] remember. and q group OF US we're
sitting chatting around the reporters
table fsrthest from Cunning. the night
editor. who had looked around rather
frovningly once or twice. as II the
conversation disturbed him
Brosd's hancee was to arrive that
evening on the 1910 from Washing.
ton. and Broad. who had been cele-
brating In honor OF the event, was
telling us all the details OF their re.
cent quarrel and reconciliation.
: "sh-hl" said some one; and Just
then a boy entered with a late edi.
ton OF the Planet" wet from the
press. and handed II to Dunning
"Mr. Broad" he said sharply, and
then. changing his mind, left his seat
and hurried toward us MIR. Broad,
! want you to go out to Crayneld In.
stantly. The 1910 from Washington
has been wrecked outside the station
Hurry. and telephone all the news
And say. try to get a list OF the dead. ="
wy 'ous oaiu bIodug bduh
down into his seat. He buried his
face in his hands and his shoulders
shook convuisively Somebody ex.
planned the situation in a few words.
and Dunnings face took on an express
sion OF intense sympathy. He placed
one arm about Broad's shoulders and
drew him 10 his feet.
Too bad. old man." he said. But
] guess you'll be crazy now unless you
get to Crayaeld as soon as possible,
so perhaps II would be the kindest
thing to let you cover the assignment"
Yes, I'll CO." cried Broad, pulling
himself together
Then. one after another. he detailed
us; one to the railroad Offices, anoth-
er to the presidents house. another to
catch the general manager Mt his club.
was among the few not assigned
and. retreating to my desk. waited.
We did not like to think about the
subject. II was too CHASTITY for con-
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08

Could you expect 10 rear a fine trot
ting horse or good steady farm an.
final II you sent the beast In It's early
youth TO n nun who trained stableful
OF fancy saddle stock Can you ex.
pect your hoy To go through the ordl
nary rural high school and have him
stay hitchcd' on the farm These
propositions are identical The aver.
age county high school holds up ideals
and teaches topics that will necessarily
lead the hoy To sigh for city career In
the learned professions. so called.
Are you aud to blameI or course
Se are. II is only necessary for the
trent, the taxpayers. the everyday
folks who hold the purse strings to say
Here, We have had enough OF an edu
cation that Is 80 old that It ls musty--
an education that h all books. Give
our children an education that fits
them for life here ~ home"
This new education that will nj peo-
pie for life Is coming. hut II II coming
too slowly In the country. our very
best young blood Ii being siphoned out
of the country and into the city. The
cities do not need this fne new blood
the country does.
IL Is quite easy to say that the cry
IL rising. Back To the farm" But II
IL not at all easy for the city man to
go-in fact, the city man. the man bred
and born In hig city. can hardly 20
back 70 the soil with any degree of
certainty that he will succeed. lie
lacks the technical part OF farm work
that comes through daily contact with
live, growing things, that contact
which the country hoy has had since
the day he first began 10 notice things.
II these statements seem at all too
strong simply pick up the Kentucky
Educational Directory OF 1912 Turn
20 the list of county high schools on
page "a aud run through them. out
OF about lSo approved high schools ia
are classical or English high schools
aud only thirty-six are scientific high
schools.
Just - long ~ our country boys are
pushed through schools that are elias
steal IN their tendencies just So long
will our rural population drift city
ward, for their education has devci-
oped them most carefully for that life.
II YOUR BOY Is TO FARM
TRAIN HIM FOR A FARMER
II YOUR Roy rs TO RE A PRO
TESS ONAL MAN TRAIN HIM IN
THAT DIRECTION
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
THIS IS 1918.

Would you plant and harvest ss IN
ts5ol
Would you light your house ss In
1857
Would you cook over the fire ~ in
ta5o,
Would you uss . "murzls loader" ~
in 1897
Would you breed rsIorbseo ~ in
fs5o7
II everything on your farm and In
your home bears the mark OF 1918 why
VIII you insist upon school that was
planned In 1870?
IL your children are to live and earn
q living in 1919 would II not he better
20 give them n 1918 educatloni
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
BY ALL MEANS.

Superintendent Barker has the right
idea lie PROPOSES To establish an az
ricultural course In the West Liberty
<Sigh school. That should have been
bne az the outset. Wonder II there
be any who are 40 shortsighted as 70
oppose; We hope not. An awful how
would be raised II some one should
propose TO take history, grammar OF
civics out OF the curriculum. Agricul
turc Is Just as important as either OF
these = Editorial Licking Valley Cou
rler.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
9th Door-Berea College

This 10 the crown Of the whole Institution al
courses in all advanced subjects.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
$500 IN GOLD FOR PRIZES
IN CORN AND TOMATO
GROWING.

TWO CAPITAL PRIZES OF
$3.50 IN GOLD EACH ARE Of
FERED ny MIR. J. Is. INFER
RAN FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
WHO ARE MEMBERS OF
CLUBS WORKING IN KEN
TUCKY. IT Is HOPED THAT
THESE TWO HUGE PRIZES
WILL CAUSE THE YOUNG
STEERS 10 PUSH THEIR
CROPS no THE LIMIT.
THE BOYS CORN CLUB
Roy WHO is CHAMPION
FOR THE STATE AND
GROWS MORE THAN $50
BUSHELS OF CORN ON HIS
ACRE WILL RECEIVE $3.50
IN GOLD.
THE GIRL WHO ENCELS
IN HER TOMATO CANNING
OVER ALL THE OTHER
GIRLS IN THE CLUB WORK
IN THE STATE AND CANS
OVER 500 QUARTS WILL Sc
CURE $3.50 IN GOLD.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
18th Door-Berea's Normal School
Door-Berea's Preparatory Academy Cour,

This College training In Mathemat
c Sciences Languages History
Academy Berea department.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
Questions Answered

BEREA, FRIEND OF WORKING with ls
affiliated schools. making
but
Of It's students giving highest
far possible n every way
OUR SCHOOL is LIKE regulations
people
from the best families and
who be sick the College provides doctor
All
boarding hail.
training getting
off
Write the Secretary coming
PERSONAL EXPENSES clothing
with different
COOPERATIVE STORE articles
umbrellas and other articles a
LIVING EXPENSES really 10
the fine buildings which
For table board without
ding 40 60 person
library
returned when the student
Second INCIDENTAL FEE to help school
buildings hospital library nothing
teachers all instruction
students $500 a Academy
$500 In Collegiate
PAYMENT MUST BE IN ADVANCE
the the Instalments
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08

The great German gun kings. the
Krupps. have made commercialized
warfare a more important considera-
ton than dollar diplomacy.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-08
TRAIN YOUR BOYS
and GIRLS RIGHT
Don't Lot Them Waste Time
on Useless Studies.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT /?

A Boy Trained For a Profession 10 Not
Apt to Be contsnted or Successful
az . Fsrmer-Yet Agriculture Is
Quite ss Important as the Classics o.
the Learned" Professions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
e e

the two cities, but points-the spi-
der's thread in the center of the
transit telescopes.
Standard time is reckoned by
even hour meridians From the
120th degree, or eighth-hour me-
ridian, west of Greenwich, through
the western portion of California
and over the Pacific to the 1S0th
degree, or twelfth-hour circle, is
four hours. But Manila is still far
Their west of the twelfth-hour circle
by four hours standard, or eight
hours east of Greenwich. There
fore. it is a. m. standard on We'd
nesday at the instant that is is
noon in San Francisco, standard,
on Tuesday. And eight hours east
from Greenwich is four hours west
of the 1SOth degree. And that is
the time distance of Manila from
boJH important points.
Always the earth rotates from
west to east, generating real time
This causes the sun to appear to
move Westward. g., the day
moves to the west. Simply because
we see the sun. its motion has ever
been used to measure time. before
accurate stellar astronomy. Then
the earth must rotate during six
teen more hours to bring the day
from noon on Tuesday to a. m. on
Wednesday in San Francisco.
Lore Observatory, Cal.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19

IT'S all there-every bit of it
in the Mother Goose book
The little boy showed me the
pictures this very morning.
There was a crooked man and
he went a crooked mile" OF
course, he did, poor, crooked man;
he never could walk a straight
one to save his life. And he
found a crooked six pence
crooked, to be sure it was. II It
had been straight it would have
been in a good, sensible, straight
purse somewhere or in a till or
anywhere else where the good,
straight money goes. And it lay
against crooked stile."
He bought a crooked cat which
caught a crooked mouse''-that's
the only kind the poor, crooked
cat ever does think of catching.
And they all lived together in
the little crooked house"-poor,
crooked things, poor. warped.
twisted out-of honest proportion
creatures! wonder if they
thought they were happy. living
in their crooked way in the lit
tie crooked house?
I suppose so. know a crooked
man who's so proud of being
crooked that he never let's you
forget it for one minute He's
always talking about fools and
easy marks" and something he
calls "come-ons By these names
he means, have discovered, hon
est men and women who believe
what they are told unless they
have strong. reasons for disbeiev-
ing ii.
He was rich when I first knew
. the crooked man. He lived in a
fine house in the fine part Of a
fine city. He had a stable full Of
fine horses, two automobiles, a
French chef and a little black
eyed wife who wore a many dia-
monds as a Hindoo idol.
He's poor now, the crooked man
oh. very poor. So poor that he
can't even hire anyone to send
special meals TO him at the prison
where he is. And the black eyed
wife has run away with the chef.
And the crooked man is quite
alone for all of the eopIe who
f1attered him and laughed at his
strange talk Of come ons" and
easy marks" are busy laughing
at the jokes Of the man who
bought the crooked mans house
the day he went to the peniten-
tiary.
went TO see the Crooked Man
the other day He once did a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
"And He Found a Crooked Sixpence"
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

favor for one love and cant
quite forget that-crooked though
he is or may be. Poor thing"
thought when / waited in the Rrsv
gloom Of the warden's gray office
for the Crooked Man to come
from his cell. Poor thing He'll
want 10 talk about straight
things and straight people now. I
suppose.
But he didn't, He's crooked
yet, the Crooked Man: born so
and will stay 80 as long az he
lives.
I don't think the Crooked Man
likes straight money or honest
prosperity. I believe he'd rather
cheat someone out of 500 than
earn $1,000 fairly and honestly.
That's how he is made. He isn't
sorry for what he did that got
him into the penitentiary-not he,
lie isn't a bit ashamed Of It. Hes
ashamed of being caueht-that's
all He feels foolish about that;
but never mind, when he gets out
nell show 'em-he7l fool EN-
the honest mem who mt him
behind the bars. There must be
something crooked about them.
There is about everyone. He'll
find it out. he'll track EN- down.
he'll get even-see if he doesn't.
TURF straight? Keep honest
Do the square thing? Why. he
can't-poor, crooked man-he
couldn't to save his life. That.
why he thinks no one else can,
either.
wonder why?
1t buys so little-the crooked
money-and it's always crooked,
too. the thing the crooked money
buys. and nobody wants ANYTHING
to do with 1t but crooked people.
I'd rather be poor than have any
Of it, wouldn't you-poor and
honest and self-respecting and
light heartfelt
It's a kind of disease, tho
crooked way OF looking at things.
A disease like meningitis or lock-
Jaw or anything else dreadful and
mysterious. Let's hope we never
catch it. And if any friend Of
mine ever sees me stopping in nv
path to look even a little longing
ly at a crooked sixpence that hap
pens to fall in my way, l hope
that friend will love me well
enough to turn me around in nv
tracks and keep turning me till I
come to my senses. For do not
want to live in crooked house"
or have anything to do with
what crooked sixpence will buy
do yoU7
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
Is the United States to Be Dis
graCed by Ill=Treatment of
Mrs. PankhurSt?
Such Woman Deserves Honor Warm Welcome and Thanks
for the Work She Has Done.

1t scarcely behevable that intelligent man IN the
United Statesn out of public ofceshoud think of inter
feng with Mrs Pankhursts free coming and going in this
country
She is woman who has done nobly FOR WOMEN what
established this country did FOR MEN in 1776
The men established the United States Government
would permit the Government of England to tax them
WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
opposing England attempt inct taxation without
the right THE MEN of America killed thousands carry
ing a long
Government to tax WOMEN WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
In a dgnifed, decent and humane manner than
usually adopt Mrs Panhur and her associates have protested
and fought against unjust treatment of by
Is there anything Justify keeping of this
country treating her shamefuy with detention and
examination
We can tell the immigration authorities the United
that years Mrs Pankhurst will be honord
among the useful and admirable of human be
ings-male female
She has shown noble purpose and determination and lofty
heroism.
She has done that which absolutely necessary ENG
LAND where nothing be accomplished unless the entire i'm
perial government is influenced
Mrs Pankhurst political agator- not sup
posed political agitators the contrary this country
still SUPPOSED offer welcome the oppressed of other
lands
Panurst represents its nobes form protest against
tyranny injustice She has done than any other
an living to improve conditions
COURAGE AND DEVOTION that will get every
where among civilized people the right VOTE and thus the
portuniy influence public affairs in private affairs the
actions of men.
Mrs Pankhur confers honor upon this country when
she comes here and the honor should be appreciated
If there any talk of OBTAINING her questioning her.
treating her brutay at ports which freely admit any kind
of debauched Russian Grand Duke European
of the poor THERE SHOULD BE TEN THOUSAND AMERI-
CAN WOMEN AT THE DOCK TO WELCOME MRS PANK-
HURST AND TO SHOW THE AUTHORITIES WHAT THE
GOOD WOMEN OF AMERICA THINK OF HER.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19

telescope. or meridian circle. in
Greenwich, and as the immense
nautical as we'll as astronomical
literature of the world was then
based on this tiny spiders thread,
the astronomers at Washington,
and later everywhere where there
is an observatory, agreed to con-
tinue the custom, they did not
change the grand fundamental base
or world standard meridian from
Greenwich to Washington
So civilization now rests upon a
piece Of spiders thread one inch
long.
Since "a multiplied by - equals
800. the entire number of degrees
in a circle are included, all the
minutes and seconds. LAO and So
400.
Now, when the precise center Of
the sun crosses the spiders thread
it is noon in Greenwich. But they
had trouble. The orbit of the earth
is not round the earth moves fast
on January ?, and slow on July >,
and no two transits are of the same
interval between. And the orbit
of the earth is inclined to the
equator % IL degrees nearly, an
other source of trouble. Then the
diameter of the sun is 1924 sec
onds of arc. and it is difficult TO tell
exactly which is the center SO
they gave up the sun as time
keeper, for it is worse than a So
cent round clock.
Then they began on the stars.
for their images can be measured
with great accuracy when crossing
the set of half a dozen threads, to
secure an average and the true
time Of the center thread crossing.
OF course, the apparent motion
of the sun is due to the axial rota-
ton of the earth. When it is noon
at Greenwich it is l p. m at dis
lance Of 10 degrees east. and II
a. m. Is degrees west, and so on.
And then they had trouble, for by
going east and west these times.
l p. m, > y. m, II a, m, 10 a. m,
must meet on the other side of the
earth. Who would want to change
days in the middle OF a great city ?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
You Really COULDN'T Imagine George
Washington inVaudevilIe or Thomas
Jefferson YOdling.
And So You Can't Blame the Paris Temps for What 1t Says
About Mr. Byans Vaudeville Performances


is pleasant for country be made ridiculous by its
citizens.
But when the country is made ridiculous is well enough
to know it, and try to avoid such performances the future
We quote below the comment of lie Temps the leading of
fetal newspaper of Paris the performances of SeCr
tay of State who leaves interview with the Japanese Ambas
sador fill engagement entertainer sandwched
tween jugglers and yodlers.
The history of the United States would queery
if learned that during the discussion the
Independence Thomas Jefferson had left hurriedy keep
date at Oshkosh that Ben Franklin had said
I am due at Hammersen' in half an hour
We need not complain Europe judges this country by the
Secretary of statesupposed to be selected the
capable of representing the country.
This is what lie Temps has to say:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
-. In=ShOOtS -.

The habltual knocker would as
soon knock his friends as anyone
else.
Sometimes one succeeds by
embracing the other fellows OPP
portunity.
Most people who marry in haste
do not want to wait TO repent at
leisure.
The man who proposes YOU for
an Office may not always ne your
friend
There is no admiration in the
sympathy bestowed upon the man
Rho Whines
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
e q Longitude and Time
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.

So the astronomers in Green
wich, now surrounded by London,
decided to make the civil day be-
gin in the mid-Pacific sea when the
sun was passing the 1S0th meridian
and low humans were awake while
high were asleep in London, whose
longitude is nothing. Everybody
fell in with the idea at once Of
having days begin when they slept
Let a ship be on its way from
Greenwich around the world,
jOurneying, like the star of empire,
ever to the west. Then. when they
are approaching the 1S0th degree,
let the officials begin observing the
ships chronOmeter at. say, shortly
before even hour of Q a. m, on De-
cember 81 Let them keep their
eyes on the seconds hand until 80,
10. >, and l second before 9. 1t
is still December 81, but when the
fraction of a second after 9 a. m.
has been reached it becomes 9 a. m.
on New Years Day, January l.
The change is when the post
bearing the hands of the chro-
nometer crosses the exact 1SOth
degree, measured either east or
west from Greenwich A source
of continual trouble in young stu
dents of astronomy. CALIFORNIA;
standard time is based on the 12Oth
degree from Greenwich west, and
not on any spider thread in the
State. Here are data from this
meridian of 100 degrees to Manila,
i. e., from 100 degrees west of
Greenwich:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
DR.. PARKHURST
Writes on Us
DUTY VS.. IDEALS
Men With High Ambitions
Help Raise the Moral
Standard of the World,
He Says -
Written for The Georgian
Bv DR.. G. H. PARKHURST

at the sacrifice of his own better
impulses.
II he has only himself to care
for. it may still be dificult for
him to decide what course to take,
but if he has a wife and children
dependent upon him the situation
becomes doubly and trebly difficult
Such a situation is one that tries
a mans soul, even tortures it. II
reduces It to a question of pocket
versus conscience, for when my
inquirer uses the word ideals"
he means simply the demand Of
conscience.
So that he might have put his
question in this shape-Shall
man ever go against his con.
science? Which might still be put
in yet more direct form: Ought
man ever to do what he ought
not to do? Put in that way his
own moral sense will dispose OF
the question without help from me-
or from any one else.
Just a word more. The situation
would, perhaps, be in some slight
degree modified If a man could
disobey his conscience without
damaging it. But he can not.
Every time it is violated it loses
some of its value as a guide and
monitor Pricked too often, the
moral nerve ceases to respond.
Men and Ideals.
Also. the men who stand by their
ideals are the only ones that mako
duty plain to the world and I'm.
press the world with the moral
splendor Of doing always that
which is exactly right. the only
ones, therefore. that help to pro-
mote the worlds betterment and
upIift. II would be gratifying TO
know what my correspondent con-
cludes to do.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19

AS long he interests the world-the world interested
in him.
No occupy LIES stage for long if he juggles
WHISKEY, CHARACTER AND MONEY together.
Sooner later he drops character and loses his money
He has only whSkey left
Then he is of % use to the world, AND OF NO USE TO
HIMSELF.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19

This needs but little explanation.
young starts on life stage in any kind of
he chooses to pick for himself.
Other have gone before hm-some good-some bad.
1t up him to make his act good possibly can:
His audience is the woodland every looking on a
critic.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19

Talleyrand Metternich and
Gortschakon would have looked
askance at Rryan's initiative. In
our skepuCal times, when diplo-
mats are no longer taken serious
ly. his venture is still more dan
geruus. Bryans tour is another
proof of the small consideration
attached to political career
across the Atlantic. In the United
states tins career Is the 'dernier
deS meters
When one has followed the
tenor Of Bryan's political career
one is less surprised to see him
in circus than in a ministry.
The only thing we could not con-
ceive of is why this loud-voiced
orator was ever called to direct
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19

This : hours 46 minutes q sec
onds is that given by the great
Ephemeris published four years in
advance by the United States Gov
eminent. as computed by the staff
of expert mathematicians in the
United States Naval Observatory.
And the hand of man hath not
produced anything with a greater
degree of precision. This is time
absolute between a point in San
Francisco and a like point in Ma
Mia, not anywhere at random i'll
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-19
Answer.

n ND this is much ado about a
n mere question OF longitude
and time This question
has long troubled a multitude of
others besides MIR. Bliss. I have
been asked as many questions
since the age Of twelve years about
time. perhaps. as upon any other
subjects save two, which are, is
the Bible inspired" and is evolu-
ton true" These two have led
all others in actual thousands. l
viii now answer the harassing,
simple question regarding lougi-
tude and time.
As longitude and time had for
centuries. since the foundation of
the Greenwich Observatory. and
before Washington was laid out
been reckoned from the middle one
of "a set of spiders threads i'm the
t!cpicce of the standard transit