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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29

one of the best values of the move
ment will be found in the lesson it
teaches to general education, that real
education consists, after all, in Gre
ating a curiosity, q consuming desire
70 find out and that this curiosity may
be excited in divers ways but most eff
fectively by recognizing the peculiar,
individual tastes, talents, or needs,
and from a sympathetic development
OF those peculiar, individual interests
reaching out in overwhelming circles
OF related and inter-related interests.
And, if education learns to dignity all
vocational life by giving it considera-
ton in its various forms and relations,
VINO shall say that this will not have
q profound influence in helping US as
nation to develop a unity of pur-
pose out of the wonderful diversity of
conditions and opportunities which our
country affords and of which we are
justly proud, but which, in a social
/ democracy, should somehow be made
TO administer to the common good?
THAT you have erected this com.
modious and perfectly appointed man,
ual arts building indicates that you
viii be inclined to agree with me-
| feel that the most fitting thing which
could be said at these exercises
would be q sincere and wholly rever
ent paraphrase of Lincoln's famous
Gettysburg speech. You will recall
| that he said: The world will little
note nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what
they did here Similarly what is said
! on this occasion will be soon forgotten
! but future generations will recall with
gratitude the generosity, energy anC
wisdom of the citizens and official.
of Rock Island who haze today placed
into commission this new educationa
agency, in order that popular educa
ton shall not disappear from our land
but rather shall be enriched anc
adapted and readapted to the growing
and complex educational needs Of al
American democracy.
1T is not for us to dedicate thi.
building but rather that we dedicat,
ourselves anew to this great cause o
the education Of the people, by tn,
people and for the people, that boil
culture and efficiency shall continu,
TO be the distinguishing characteristic
of our American citizenship"
PRESIDENT HURT SPEAKS.
The Dominees again enterta; me,
with a song. President H. w. Hur
of Lombard college, Galesburg, CAV,
the next address of the evening. Tn
topic of Mr.. Hurts talk was "Schoo
as a Preparation for Life" Mr.. Hur
spoke of the question Of deciding upol
career for life and in a brief wa
gave a number of aids toward fndin
the correct profession. Mr.. Hurts al
dress proved to be most interestin
|. and instructive.
EAVELAED PRESENTS BUILDING
rsident H. II. Cleaveland of tn
boar 4 education next presented tn
building TO the people of Rock Island
speaking Of the value of the buildin
and congratulating them upon havin
the Manual Arts structure, conceded t
/ be one of the best in this section {
? the country. S. W Searle, for tn
people OF this city, accepted the builC
; ing. thanking the board of education
: in the name OF the people, for the;
efforts in having the building erecLe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29
suits" Among other things Mr..

suits" Among other things Mr..
Leavitt said:
In fact the widespread interest in
this whole matter is forcing the re-
versal Of many long cherished notions
regarding schools and school work
Foo example, it was only as yesterday
thai teachers all over the country were
telling their pupils that the school
was kind of sieve, a mechanism for
selecting and sizing" the pupils as
merchant sizes his beans and to deter
mine which are fitted by nature fof
a. education Today children, with
the help OF parents and teachers are
(o- should be- selecting the school
which will serve their purposes best.
las necessary accompaniment of
this selection theory was the idea
that the work of this day or this grade
was to prepare for tomorrow or for
the next grade or the next higher
/ school. The present movement focus
I e5 its attention on the immediate pres
cnL 1t says.
Look well to this day, for it is
! life, the very life Of life. In its brief
/ course lie all the verities and realities
of your existence; the bliss of growth,
the glory of action, the splendor OF
beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream and
tomorrow is only a vision, but today
well lived makes every yesterday a
dream of happiness and every tomor-
row vision Of Joy.
,-ly ,s.alt
About ten years ago one OF the
most eminent Of American educators,
serving the National Education asso
citation on an important committee
whose duty It was to determine the
relations between secondary schools
and colleges, insisted that the best
preparation for college was the best
preparation for life.
REoRGANIzING SUBJECTS.
"A committee Of the same associa
tier is today working over the ques
ton OF the reorganization OF high
school subjects. This committee is
composed OF a large number of mer
ari women representing all subjects
spc both the college and the high
school. The committee has decided
with practical unanimity. that prepare
ton for college should have no con
sideration whatever in the arrange
ment Of the public high school cur
Ticulum. The committee maintain.
that the best preparation for life i!
the best preparation for college. anc
that II the college does not recognize
the fact, so much the worse for the
college. Another reversal which Il
most enlightening.
Perhaps | might well say right her,
that in all ! have said i have no
meant 10 intimate that yocationa
courses should not, or could not, o.
did not, lead to college, or that col
lege work was only for the profession
o. that high school children shoult
not consider college work as WORT
preparing for or worth taking. | hav'
only meant TO say that college worl
should grow out of high school worn
and that the college should not el
pect high schools Il shape thei
courses by college entrance require
ments which are generally fixed b,
the traditions OF a leisure class edg
cational ideal
In the university which has givel
me the right TO represent it there /
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29

a steadily growing feeling that the
completion of any serious four year
high school course should be accepted
as fulfilling all entrance requirements
ana the present requirements are
more fully in accord with the prin-
ciples which l have tried to present
than are those of any other university
of which have any knowledge
Again the movement for vocational
education has resulted in bringing to-
gether in considerable unity of action
number OF agencies or interests
which have been working for the bet
terment of children generally, but fire.
quently working at cross purposes and
with only partial understanding of lie
rea. conditions. For example, there
are associations OF business men and
manufacturers who believe that chill
dren should be taught much earlier
than they now are the necessity and
the value of hard work. There are
the National Child Labor committee
and some representatives of organized
labor who believe that the children
should not be allowed to work at all
until 16 years of age at least. There
are sociologists who tell us that the
dangers of child idleness are far great.
err in the United States today than
the dangers of child labor To these
discussions the officers of the juvenile
court, the social workers, the, factory
inspectors and the health officers all
contribute literally but each with a
partial view. 1t seems clearer and
clearer TO me that the educator occu
pies the strategic position where he
can and should bring together in sub
stantiai unity of action all these ex
celient, but partial, agencies. 1t is
significant for example, that nowhere
else can CAPITA and organized labor
come together in such substantial &C
cord as on this one question of voca
tional education.
Finally l believe that of all the sub
divisions of vocational education, pro
fessional, domestic, agricultural, com
mercial and Industrial, the last nam
ed is of greatest immediate import
ance in the American city.
Il believe that industrial education
so far from being a narrow utilitarIaI
movement, allies itself with the broad
est and ! may say the most spiritua
movement of the century, the promo
tion of genuine brotherhood. Broth
erhood is possibly only where Their,
is frankly accepted the ideal of unit!
in diversity. II the family means any
thing it means equal consideration, re
spect, love and safety for its seyera
members, even though the member
vary greatly in ability, aptitude, in
terests, activity and successes, as sue
cesc is measured by the worlds stan
, dards. Here are found common love
. a common interest q common sharing
in any good that comes TO the family
great satisfaction that all are no
, exectly alike, that each can contribut
|, something peculiarly his own, yet al
. the members together form one fan
/, lily.
DIVERSITY Is KEYNOTE.
Unity in diversity; this is also tn
r keynote of Industrial education. 1t
: promoters are learning to treat wit
: equal respect and TO strive equal
: hard to administer 10 the needs c
the future factory worker, the futur
] accountant, the future electrician O
. fha ftffnra 1u1inaar haliava m,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29

rahs for Mr.. Smith, nine for Mrs.
Smith. and niHe for prexy." A rous-
ing "Rockety-I' ended the proceed
ings.
TRIBUTE TO DIR. LINDBEHG.
DR.. C. +. Lindberg, professor OF
dogmatics in Augustana seminary, was
given a rare tribute yesterday after
noon when the senior graduating class,
of which he has been guardian, pre-
scented an oil portrait of the professor
to the institution. The presentation
took place in the lecture room of the
Denkmann Memorial library in the
presence of the senior class, officers
| of the school, and several distinguish
ed visitors, including c. A. Smith OF
Berkeley, Cal, who presented $4,000
to the school in connection with the
Ericsson bequest.
! Samuel Miller, q member of the
senior class, made the speech Of pre-
sentation, paying warm tribute to IL.
Lindberg as an instructor and as
/ guardian to the class, and expressing
the love and esteem in which he Is
held. DR.. Andreen accepted the por-
trait on behalf of the institution, max
ing short speech, after which DR..
Lindberg voiced his appreciation Of
the action of the students.
The entire body then filed to the
librarian's Office, where DR.. Andreen
officially entrusted the portrait to the
keeping of the librarian, Marcus Skar-
stedt. 1t will be placed in the large
reading room as soon as the portraits
Of the late MIR. and Mrs. F. c. a. Denk-
mann have been hung there. The
painting is a handsome work, and was
executed by Olof Grafstrom, art in
, structor at Augustana.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS.
Gustav Carlson and II. w. Linden,
students of the middle class of Angus
!. tana seminary, were announced last
! night at the seminary commencement
J as winners of the Mrs. n. Forsander
scholarship. Each will receive one
half of the proceeds OF 81 900 for one
} year The scholarship is awarded for
. merit in theological studies. especial
|, ly, church history, of which DR.. For
sander is professor. The fund of 81 900
was given by him in memory of his
/ wife, who died four years ago. The
; scholarship is usually given to one
student, but was this year divided
: between two.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29

rector of household arts; Abigail Dean,
director of art; L. L. Karnes. wood
work; j. F. Kolb, mechanical drawing
and forge work; E. E. Burch, mechan-
ical drawing; and A. c. Tagg, wood
work in the graded schools.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29
SCHOLARSHIPS WINNERS.

Chamberlarns Stomach and Liver
Tablets Will clear the sour stomach.
gweeten the breath and create heal
thy appetite. They promote the flow
Of gastric juice thereby inducing good.
digestion. Sold by all druggistS.
(Ady.) i
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-29
DIVERSITY Is KEYNOTE.

Unity in diversity; this is also the
keynote Of Industrial education. Its
promoters are learning to treat with
equal respect, and TO strive equally
hard to administer 10 the needs OF
the future factory worker, the future
accountant. the future electrician or
the future engineer. / believe that
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-28

Hooper, who raced as Mr. Chamblet.
the stable which a decade ago had
some of the best steeplechasers in
the country.
Doughboregan Manor is a splendid
old mansion for entertaining and
within it's walls have been some of
the most brilliant social gatherings
in Maryland.
Mrs. ]. w. Wadsworth and Miss
Harriet Wadsworth are spending a
few days at the Plaza in New York on
their way to their summer home at
Geneseo, N. Y. Miss Wadsworth's en-
gagement to Fletcher Harper was re-
Gently announced. The latter has al
most recovered from the accident
which befel him while riding a green
hunter some months ago and which
necessitated hospital treatment.
e 9 &
Miss Louise Parker, niece of the
late Commander Lucien Young, U. s.
A., gave luncheon at the Ebbitt
House to Mrs. John West Blaisdell of
Maine, Miss Laura Alma Graves of
Stamford, Conn, and the Misses May
and Edith Graham of this city. The
luncheon was followed by theater
party.
Mr.. and Mrs B. H. Warner will sail
on the Amerika June 10 for a visit
to the "land of the midnight sum-"
Denmark and Russia.
The family will spend the summer
at Geneva, ~ Y, where Mr.. Warner
has taken the Knapp house.
8 8 e
Mrs. Burnham, widow of Mai. Burn
ham, accompanied by Miss Norris,
leaves for the seashore Thursday to
remain most of the summer. Before
returning she will visit her old home.
Miss Helen Taft, who has been the
gnest of her aunt, Mrs. Thomas X.
Laughlin, for some time, has gone to
New Haven, Conn, to join her par
ents.
Lady Hadfield of England, and sis
ter of former Attorney General Wick
ersham, has arrived at the Shoreham,
by Mrs. Bird Grub.
& 8 8
Lieut.. Col and Mrs. S. A. Wolf,
after an absence of five months,
spent in Europe, have returned and
are at the Cairo.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-28
SAMOAN NATIVES
ARE CHRISTIANS

The most interesting thing about
Samoa is not its fair sc merry and
tropic flora, but its people, who have
often been described as the most noble
race in the Pacific-simple, honest. af-
fectionate, and, above all, hospitable.
Judge Dryer of Page Page, VINO is
visiting Sydney, stated recently that
all the natives were now Christians,
and evinced very marked devotion
to their church, even though they did
hot always adhere to its tenets. Tax.
ing them as whole, their contribu-
tions to religious enterprises far ex-
ceeded the Biblical 1.-THE, and, with the
exception of the Mormons, whose ad-
herents were few, the s:lissions in Sa-
moa were self-supporting. The people
were generous to remarkable degree,
and any stranger-white, brown, yell
low or black-was received with open
arms in any house, supplied with food
and sleeping accommodation, no ques-
tons being asked about compensation.
As far as American Samoa was con-
cerned, there were so few foreigners
there that this admirable trait had not
been stamped out by imposition or
abuse of confidence. In morality they
were superior to many other branches
of the Polynesian race and were ex-
celled by none. Petty theft was very
rare, and foreigners found that the
locks and bolts on their houses grew
rusty through disuse.-Sydney Herald.
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H. c. & 5. CO. IS
GOING TO CUT
Dividend

II was stated on good authority this
morning that the dividends on Ha-
waiian Commercial will be reduced
from % cents to Is cents, to take ef-
feet July l.. An otticial OF the COM
pany stated this morning that a cable
was expected from San Francisco to-
day or tomorrow giving notice that
the directors had ordered such re-
duction in dividends to be made.
1t is understood that the reduction
has been contemplated for some time.
Other companies in the last few days
have preceded it in cutting down divi-
dends. the last one OF which was the
Hawaiian Sugar Company, which cut
from 80 cents share to 20 cents, eff
fective beginning July Is. The Keka-
ha dividends have been reduced from
/ per cent to y of | per cent.
Representatives of the company did
not wish to discuss the reduction OF
Hawaiian Commercial dividends but
prefer to await the official notice OF
the change.
Hawaiian Commercial has been pay.
ing handsomely in dividends annually,
but the Forthcoming cut has been ex-
pected for some time and the market
price of the stock has been discounted
in advance Of the actual reduction. 1t
is not believed, therefore, that there
will be any particular depressing effect
on business as result OF the Hawaii
an Commercial announcement.
Besides the regular dividends, Ha-
waiian Commercial ha:; been paying
fat extras, but these have been dis
counted for many months.
The big company is not only AFFECT
ed by the market price Of sugar and
the tariff situation, but by prospects OF
a small crop this year, some estimates
placing it as low as $4,000 or $1,000
tons.
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MEAL SERVED in
GREWSOME STYLE
Symbols of Death Decorate the
Table of Guests of U. of
C. Professor

OAKLAND.-With faces funereal,
and with slow and measured tread.
the while an orchestra played the
solemn strains OF the Grail" march
from "Parsifal," twelve men. dress
suited, stepped into the English room
a. the Hotel Oakland
The room was decorated in dark
leaved cypress, ivy. palms and other
everereens. The air was heavy with
the subdued smell of roses. hidden
away, indeed, but suggestive Of Obse-
quies. In the center of the room stood
the banquet board, loaded down with
a miniature presentation of grave
Yard. and before each plate small
tombstone appropriately inscribed.
The host at this, probably the most
original dinner ever given about the
bay, was DIR. W. r. Hume, associate
professor OF pathology at the Univer-
city of California, and his eleven
guests were graduate students and
members of the faculty at the medical
college of the State University.
Hardly were the host and guests
seated, after finding their places
through the tombstone place-cardsg
than soft-footed WATERS all dressed
in white as hospital internes served
the first course. oyster cocktails
frozen in ice slabs. Sweetbreads
were served in miniature collins and
sherbet followed, blood red"
With the roast pheasant came
sweet potatoes, laboriously carved
out into small skulls, mouths agape
and toothpicks for teeth. These were
Drowned by the heat of the oven in
which they we're prepared until the
appearance of the whole thing was
that of very old skull, with teeth
Drowned by age.
The Irish potatoes which went with
the roast were carved out into chains,
which should have clanked to carry
out the effect of the whole affair, but
didn't because they weren't metallic.
The menu card before each plate
was representation of skull and
crossbones. Rich red Burgundy was
poured as q libation to the gods of
medicine.
When the dessert was served one
of the most interesting features of
this novel dinner came to light. It
was ice cream served in skulls of
ice, set upon long cube of ice. In
side the cube we're small red electric
bulbs, all connected with small bat
terry under the table. When all had
been served, the battery was con
nected and the guests ate from IL
Illuminated individual ice-tables.
The cemetery which made up the
center of the table was lifelike to
the point of over-realism. Real sod,
through short-cropped grass, covered
the small hills and dales of 1t. Here
and there were small tombstones, and
half dozen large mausoleums dot
ted the landscape One of these was
Inscribed ITO Admiral w. r. Hume,
wrecked on bar. May he rest in
peace" The place card tombstones
were variously inscribed T' faith,
he could scarce be told from a
human" CRATER of limbs" gone
hcme," with hand pointing down.
ward, He should worry now"
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FRIENDS
CIRCULATE PETITION

A petition is being circulated to be
forwarded to President Wilson asking
that Edward r. Stackable United
States customs collector here, be re-
tanned in office by the present ad-
ministration
In the petition 1t Is recited that the
signers believe it to be to the best
interest of Honolulu merchants, and
residents in general. that Stackable
be held over during the term of the
new administration.
Many signatures, mostly those of
local merchants. have been obtained
The petition is being circulated by
Rudolph j. Buchly, manager OF the
". c. Peacock Company. II Is
desired to get as many Republicans
and Democratic representative men
here as possible to sign the petition.
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Argument will be heard in supreme
court at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
in the suit brought against her by
Esther N. Pilipo and Elizabeth K.
Pilipo Circuit Judge Cooper last
July entered judgment against her for
$2,O26.09. The suit is for moneys al
legged to be due the plaintiffs on the
lease of lands at Holualoa, North
Kona, Hawaii.
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WASHINGTON SOCIETY
By C. S. ALBERT
Especial star-Bulletin Correspondence

Especial Star-Bulletin Correspondence
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 49,
At the marriage Saturday, May 81,
at Stockbridge, Mass, of Miss Nora
Iasigi and Mr.. William Marshall Bull
lit at st. Paul's church, Rev. j. p.
Franks and the Rev. Thomas Yard
ley viii officiate at the noon cere-
mony Miss Iasigi who will be unat-
tended, will be given away by her
mother, Mrs. Oscar Iasigi Mr.. Henry
do Pont of washington and Delaware
will be the best man, and Messrs.
Scott Bullitt, Ross Todd and G. Gull
bertson of Louisville, KY, and Fran
els B. Crowninshield of Boston the
nshers. Mr.. Bullitt, whose home was
in Washington under the Taft admin
istration, where he was an official of
the department of justice, is a son
of the late Thomas w. Bullitt, of
Louisville. Following the ceremony
there will be reception at Glover
croft, Mrs. Iasigi's fine estate Mr.
and Mrs. Bullitt will make their home
in Oxmoor, KY. Invitations 70 the
ceremony have been received here by
the many Washington friends of the
couple.
9 g 9
Representative and Mrs. Lathrop
Brown of New York have leased
Doughoregan Manor. the historic home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carroll of
Carrollton, who have gone abroad for
the summer
The new tenants brought with them
a string Of thoroughbred horses and
are now taking part in the Pimlico
meet.
Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss
Helen Hooper of Boston and inherited
from her father, Robert Chamblet
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Navyy-Yus. doctor, l still got that
awful pain. Doctor-Does it hurt you
much. Navvy-Yues; it gives me q
awful twinge every time l twist. Doc
you mustn't twist. Navy
i don't.