Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-15
History in the Making

| on SCnOol hygiene, Dut the eugenlStS
monopolized the deliberations.
Strangely enough, they, also, were
forced into admissions somewhat
damaging to their theories. DR.. Eliot
OF Harvard, who made some alarmist
statements about the white race dy-
ing of civilization, is a noted eugen-
ist champion, yet he confessed that
lit is not yet clear how good breed
ing can be promoted among free men
and women" For all that the eu-
I genie party continues its agitation
for the regulation of matters that
from the dawn of history and before
| have managed to regulate themselves
/ to the end that we are here a much
more vital and healthy race, as a
whole, than at many a previous
period. DR.. Eliot simply follows in
the wake of Professor Benson, who
in the course of rebuke to the eu-
genists said nothing as yet ascer-
tanned by genetic science justifies
wholesale tampering with the popu-
lation. Legislative tyranny and its
handmaiden brutality" he declared,
ARE increasingly holding sway under
the guise of applied eugenics-
we may well wonder how genius and
the arts will fare in a community
constructed according to the ideas
of, say, Pennsylvania politicians"
| Schools Run at Small Expense.
| Leaving the theorists on eugenics
and school hygiene for the more
profitable study of practical results,
it is gratifying to note that educa-
/ tional history is being made in Mich
igan by schools which have solved
the problem of becoming self-sup-
porting. The inspector of the United
States Bureau of Education reports
that in Ishpeming schools have been
kept in repair, new buildings have
been planned and constructed en-
tirely by student labor. In the past
six years high school students from
the manual training department
have been employed to repair the
various buildings. The boys have re-
paired roofs, laid cement floors,
built brick walls and installed
plumbing fixtures. In addition, CO.
operative farming has proved to be
a source of profit for public school
students and 'has served to keep
growing boys from drifting by giving
them an interest in agriculture.
This certainly looks like a realiza-
tion of the ideal of so many noted
educationalists who long since de-
clared that until scholars cease to
be trained at the public expense
solely and are taught to pay in work
at least the greater portion of the
cost of their training, they will never
be truly educated for the necessities
of commercial era.
New York for Women on Farms.
Another distinctive form of educa.
ton is seen in North Carolina, where
the women hold farm Institutes il
very much the same way as men
Recognizing that the home is the
foundation of the farm, these women
attend conferences solely for the pur-
pose of better instruction in matters
of health, house sanitation, cooking
bread making, time-saving appli.
ances, insect pests and every other
. matter pertaining to the betterment
farm home life. The theory is that
the best way to keep men and boys
, on the farm, and prevent the drain
to the cities, is to make the home
life so full of attractions and advan.
tages it will contrast more than ia.
vorably with life in the congesteG
, centers. Beginning in 1906 with 21
institutes held in 19 counties, they
have grown to 231 institutes in 9S
counties. 1t may not be amiss tC
mention that politics of any kind is
not allowed, fact which is set down
as responsible for the rapid growth
and continuous concord of the gath.
erings.