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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1913-03-14

La croyance populaire veut que
ION attribute au genie, au talent
les exploits dun individu ct meme
quill doit dominer parce quill a du
talent. La v6rit6 est quill apparait
en- maftre d nos yeux parce quill a
cultiv6 son champ mieux que ne Ia
fait son encourage. Tout autre
personne peut etre aussi bien
dou6e, mais Pentra1nement est in
f6rieur. LIE genie est fills du ira
vail.
J'ai pass6 ma vie au milieu de
beaux talents sans valeur. J'ai WI
aussi des talents extraordinaires
monter, par le travail ct lapplica-
tion, ct Sc maintenir, acclam6s par
des gems qui ne travaillent pas a
developer leurs propres talents.
Non! vous ne marquerez pas len
droit Oh fnit le talent ct commen-
ce le genie. Tous deux sont de la
meme substance. Un fort talent
qui s'exerce d6passe ais6ment le
genie qui Sc n6glige.
La rencontre, dams un meme in
dividu, dune puissante cervelle ct
du courage pour f6tude produit
cette merveille: lie genie.
Ne regardons pas Phomme ''arri-
YES" mais plut0t au temps Oh il
pr6parait sa vote. LIE d6ploiement
de ces resources dams les grandes
occasions de sa vie publique nest
que rutilisation du -gagn6.
On appelle celia du g6nie-je le
veux bien.
BENJAMIN Suite.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1913-03-14
WORCESTER VILE EPIS.
COPALE

Boston.-Des rumeurs qui SEM
blent autoris6es circulent depuis
quelque temps ct dissent que les
lignes de certains dioceses seraient
chang6es prochainement de ma
Mere a en- former un nouveau don't
lie point central serait la vile de-
/ Worcester.
Ces arrangements seraient on ne
peut plus int6ressants pour les ca
tholiques du Massachusetts qui
verraient un nouveau diocese Sc
former dams les limites relative
ment 6troites de leur Etat.
II serait entendu que lie nouveau
diocese serait surtout pris dams lie
diocese de Sprinfeld qui est tres
6tendu, dependant les centres COM
me Hopkinton, Hudson, ETC., qui
Sc trouvent actuellement dams lie
diocese de Boston Sc trouveraient
inclus dams la nouvelle division.
Cette nouvelle ST ellie est vraie
ne manquera certainement pas
d int6resser les lecteurs franco
americans qui pour la plupart
sont catholiques ct ne voient pas
dun mauvais cell la formation de
petits dioc4ses surtout dams des
parties Oh lis sont en- grand NOM
bre ct Oh lis tendent devenir la
majorit6.
Cette nouvelle division serait
efectu6e de facon a faire de la viii
lie de Woscester, la vile 6piscopa-
lie. CONNIE on le salt, la vile de
Woscester est une vile de pres de
10000 habitants don't tout pres
de 5000 sont franco-am6ricains,
poss6dant de bellies paroisses bien
organis6es ct tres prosperes.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1913-03-14
Bureaux: sos Avenue Centrale

lib6rer mont cess6 depuis rinstant
meme de leur arrestation, de pro-
tester de leur innocence. lis ont
meme fourni au ministere public
des informations qui, malheureuse-
ment, mont pas induit lie procu-
reur a dlriger ses recherches du
cote qu'on lui indiquait.
"Dans nos lois, on ne trouve au-
cune clause obligeant lie gouverne-
ment de PEtat indemniser ceux
qui sont victimes d'erreurs judici-
aires semblables a celles don't nous
venons de parler. L'Etat ne peut-
etre poursuivi. II reste done au
Corps L6gislatif de s'occuper de
l'affaire. A notre point de vue on
devrait faire plus que de rendre les
deux innocents q la libert6, car rien
ne rachetera les soufrances morales
qu'iIs ont endur6es ct les DONNA
yes de toute sorte qu'ils ont d1 su-
bir.
"Maintenant il y autre chose d
cOnsid6rer:
:'Le procureur est moins charge
d'accuser que de d6couvrir lie cou-
pable. II est, avant tout, un ms
trument de justice ct non un pers6-
cuteur. La main de la Justice ne
doit point frapper l'innocent, ct a
aucun prix le procureur nest tenu
de maintenir une accusation sill la
croft NAL fond6e.
I'll vaut mieux CONNIE dit lie
proverbe, risquer de lib6rer un cou-
pable que de s'exposer a punir un
innocent"
De fait, il y a, dams toutes les
prisons, des detenus qui ont etc
condamn6s sur des preuves pure
ment morales ct qui protestant
contlnuellement de leur innocence
Combien d'erreurs terribles ont
etc commises de cette sorte? Les
Lesurques sont nombreux.
-L'Opinion Publique.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1913-03-14
CapituIatiOn
de Janina
LES GRECS VEHEMENT DE S'EMPARER
DE CETTE VILE APRES UN SIZE
GE DE QUATRE MOIS

Athenes, Greece. La forteresst
turque de Janina en- Epire. avee
sa garrison, forte de $4,000 hom
mes s'est rendue jeudi 6 mars I
l'arm6e grecque apres une defense
h6roique.
La resistance offerte par la VILE
est Pun des plus brillants fats de
guerre de la campagne des Bal
kans.
La cap:tulation fut pr6c6d6e
dun terrible bombardement quj
dura deux jours ct deux NUTS
Tous les canons grecs disponibles
ainsi qu'un grand nombre de ca.
mons serbes tir4rent sans relache
sur la vile durant ce temps.
On estime qae 10000 obus envi
sont tomb6s sur Janina.
Les batteries turques des forts
de Bizani, de Manoliaria, de Sakir
ct des autres forts furent, Pur
apr6s Pautre, r6duits au silence
sous la pluie des projectiles.
LIE general commandant Les
troupes grecques par une feinte
habile fit croire aux turcs que son
attaque porterait sur la droite et
des que lie gros de Parm6e ottoma-
ne Sc fut jet6 de ce cote, il lanca
toutes ses forces sur la gauche
l'arm6e turque, surprise Sc replia
en- d6sordre ct les forts de Bizani
incapables de couvrir cette retrai-
te cesserent lie feu.
Les grecs s'emparerent des hau-
teurs de Sakni ct d'Elas, captu-
rant de nombreux canons, puis.
tout a coup, parm6e grecque Sc de-
ploya dams un magnifque mouve-
ment enveIoppant ct la d6faite des
turcs devint inevitable. Des r6gi-
ments enters abandonn4rent la
lutte Sc sauvant vers la vile.
Enfn, le general Esad Pacha,
gouverneur de Janina, Sc rendant
parfaitement compte de l'inutilit6
dune plus Tongue resistance envo-
va des parlementaires au Prince
Constantin de Greece pour lui an
noncer quill etait pret Sc rendre.
Lorsque la nouvelle de ce bril-
liant fait d'armes arriva a Ath6nes.
la foule Sc lvra a des manifesto
tions d'enthousiasme extraordinai-
res. Toutes les rues de la capitale
sont pavo:s6es ct de ,or6es en- l'hon-
neur de la victcire qui Went d'etre
remport6e.
LIE siege de Janina commenca en-
d6cembre. II durait done depuis
pres de 4 mois.
La garrison turque poss6dait
$50 canons don't 86 gros canons de
forteresse.
Janina est une vile tres impor-
tante; d6fendue par de nombreux
forts modernes.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1913-03-14
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les Grreur$
.1uditiaire$

Nous cueillons dams le New
Haven Journal-C Courier, Particle
suivant:
"L'an dernier, a la suite >de Ia
confession in-extremis dun crimi-
mel, on d6couvrit qu'un negre du
nom de Hawley, qui 6tait d6tenu
depuis de tongues ann6es a la pri-
son de pEtat, 6tait innocent du
meurtre don't il await etc reconnu
coupable aux assises. Ce negre
await pass6 en- prison plus de vingt.
cinq ans. Naturellement on lui
rendit la libert6. Maintenant vol
Ia qu'on Went d'apprendre que
deux habitants du comt6 de Fair
field, qui ont etc condamn6s Pun q
vingt ans ct pautre a quinze ans
de travaux forces pour tentative de
meurtre, sont, eux aussi, innocents
LIE coupable, un Italien, est retour-
ne dams son pays ct, pendant une
grave maladie qui NIT ses jours en-
danger, il avoua tout.
"On va demander la relaxation
Immediate de ces deux malheureux
LIE magistrat qui fut charge dc
poursuivre ces derniers lors de leu
process, va etre le premier q recla.
mer leur mise en- liberte.
"Ces deux cas- nous lnsplren1
quelques r6aexions:
"Que doit faire l'Etat en- parei
cas-? car lEtat une conscience
CONNIE chacun des individus qui L
constituent.
"C'est PEtat qui a priv6 injuste
ment ces hommes de leur libert6
qui a bris6 leur vie, terni leur re-
putation, d6shonor6 leur nom. Or
nous dira peut-etre que PEtat q ag
avec bonne fol. C'est possible
mais enfin le nal qui a 6t6 commits
c'est lui qui en- a 6t6 lauteur.
Lies deux d6tenus que ron Y.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1913-03-14

Faites faire vos invita-
tions de marriage aux ate
liers de l'ECHO.
Files seront bien faites
ct ne couteront pas cher.
Prix soumis par Ia mall
le.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26

and onehar gallons annually Shy nearly
eighteen gallons.
Marion county half rural, half urban, d. b
Reimer county clerk, has population of 22.4
During the hot weather of August. this county
drank 994375 gallons Of liquor. indicating per
capita annual consumption of ISL gallons. Dur
ing the month OF September, when 1t had grown
somewhat cooler. the consumption OF Marion
county fell to 4.160.5o gallons. which indicates
per capita yearly consumption of only 225
gallons.
Johnson county. agricultural. and which may
be taken rs typical of the large majority of
counties In the State. reports through w. ].
Moore, its county clerk. consumption during
both months OF August and September OF
4,575.25 gallons. a per capita consumption for
the 1925 people OF that county of IA gallon for
the two months or at the rate of IL gallons
year.
AS the larger part OF Kansas outside these
three counties is agricultural and as the consump-
tion in the one agricultural county from which
figures are quoted is smaller than In the urban
counties it is moro than likely the average for
the State as estimated from these three counties
is smaller than given. Certainly the estimate
h conservative one
To us IT seems to be demonstrated conclusively
that though prohibition does not prohibit In
Kansas-and sensible man claims that It does
1t certainly reduces the consumption many
times. even after taking into consideration the
amount manufactured iuicitly within the State.
which is extremely small.
Being informed OF these figures is there any
wonder that prohibition Is SO etrenuously OPP.
posed by the brewers distillers and distributing
agents. and being informed Of them is II not
wonder that the man who says he would favor
prohibition II 1T were effective can continue so
10 say without doingF
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26

There are 616,I6s children Of school age in
Virginia. OF this number 409,8 1877 are enrolled
in the public schools of tho State OF this latter
number only 26S.241 in regular daily at
tendance
These figures are startlingly significant
In rough they tell US that there are 2os,711
shildren entirely outside of the public schools
Of the State, and that of the 40g, 1877 pupils
enrolled only 283.241 in daily attendance
Therefore, out Of the original 816 16s children
Of school age, there are 342.927. half
who getting practically no benefit from the
schools of the State!
Against these sinister figures there few
offsets that amount to com paratively little in
aggregate. There 23.662 children enrolled
in private schools in Virginia Granted that an
extra 10000 receive some sort of homo training
and that $4,000 OF those enrolled, but not In
daily attendance gather some school advan-
taEes--yet the astounding percentage OF 22a,265
remains who absolutely without school ad-
vantages. who predestined iilteratcs
one might imagine that the negro race was
largely responsible for these amazing figures,
yet the following tables do not bear out the
hypothesis:
White children OF school age 38s, 4os
White children OF school age enrolled, 2ss SEA.
White children Of school age in attendance.
I1S9.3s6.
Colored children Of school age 2177so
Colored children Of school age enrolled.
12o.564.
Colored children Of school age IN attendance,
1855.
From the above figures we see that there
are l09,585 white and 97196 colored children
entirely out of the schools. and that OF the
enrollments only 99,437 white and 46,709 col
ored children are in daily attendance.
Twist the figures may, the tragic fact
remains, that there one hundred
thousand white children In Virginia today who
are receiving no schooling! In passing 1t is
useless to eliminate the negro from the roll
of i1lteracy, and claim security therefor simply
because II la the negro race. Ignorance Is a
curse to any State, and Its menace is in exact
proportion to the elevation degradation of
the people among whom its exists.
Before going further. let us remember that
OF the precious 263241 children, who In
regular daily attendance upon the schools of the
State. tens of thousands of them only see the
inside of school houses for five months out Of
the twelve months OF the year!~-Virgtnia journal
of Education.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26
A st-Growing Reform

The Norfolk vrginian-Pi1ot, one of the ablest
and soundest newspapers in the South quoting
from the Charleston News and Courier another
representative Southern newspaper, the state
ment that "EugenIcs Ia no longer a Joke" adds:
WAS 1t ever one? To apprehension
nothing could be more serious than subject
which deals with the protection of the innocent
unborn from the deformities OF mind and body
that ensue on marriage between diseased per-
sons"
The subject Of eugenics as a science is broader
than the mere effort to forbid the marriage OF
tho UNIT and tho reproduction of these tainted
with or predisposed TO physical mental in
trinity, but of the first concrete efforts
Of the eugenists is TO educate the public to the
gravity Of tclerating marriages which In all
probability must end in the procreation of the
unfit either physically mentally There are
many who still endeavor TO laugh away this
movement, and to dismiss it as rnpracticable
and undesirable Yet 80 rapid has been the
growth OF sentiment in favor of eugenic marriage
that in this conservative old State the subject of
regulating marriage Is taken up seriously
by two great churches and Is being seriously
and forcefully urged by several OF the leading
newspapers of the State. Naturally some OBJ
lection to the regulation of marriage with q view
to the procreation of a higher standard of man
hood and womanhood was expected to encounter
opposition. but the opponents appear to
be losing ground while the eugenists are clearly
gaining It. We pleased to observe that SO
influential Journal as the Virginian- Pilot has
spoken so deClBveiy IN faVor or the reform.
Every great reform goes slowly, but IL II has
merit and be concerned with the well-betng and
happiness of the masses of the people, 1t will
grow until 1t overthrows all opposition and so
permeates public sentiment that this will ulti-
mately crystalline into law ecclesiastical and
statute. ALREADY it is a distinct and noteworthy
advance that with the small agitation of the
subject II has nevertheless grown to such an ex-
tent that two great churches have taken serious
action with reference to it, one OF them favoring
ala
brate marriage unless and until the prospective
bridegroom produces physicians certificate
of his freedom from communicable disease of
immoral origin. Aside from the mere preven-
ton Of many tragedies OF marriage and cases of
wrecked health and faith In the present gem
Grafton the proposed regulation will have Its
largest effect on posterity. Another OF the Inn
mediate effects OF this eugenic movement q
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26
CURRENT COMMENT
Death of Peary's Steward.

Death took from a humble home on a lit
tie island on Casco Bay. the other day, loyal
and faithful man. just how much of Peary's
attainment OF the pole was due to Charles
Percy who filled the minor but responsible
post OF steward, will. of course. never be known
When one recalls the tales of misery, of death
from disease and scurvy. that dread plague Of
the North, among the earlier explorers and
compares them with the uniform good health
ana MT condition of the peary expeditions one
cannot but conclude that to Peary's excellent
dietary and ever-ready provision for the inner
man was due much Of the immunity from dis
ease in port and camp and the physical we'll
being with which every took and kept the
Held. Steward of both f1906 and 190s) Roose-
Welt expeditions and OF the earlier (1899) Diana
and (1901-1eo2) Windward- Erik auxilliartes
Percy passed four winters in the far North
and in his patience and steadiness under most
trying and sometimes perious conditions as
we'll as In his daily rounds. gave excellent ex
ample of good discipline, fidelity to duty and
manly confidence in final success With the ma
tives Percy always fast and faithful friend
and his understanding of them and their wants
had much to do with their cordial friendship
and uniinching loyalty to the expeditions
Brooklyn was his home for awhile. but when the
Arctic work was finished nothing was more be-
coming and natural than that Percy veteran
Of the North, loyal retainer. should follow his
leader to the peaceful island on which ne died
close 20 the his lifelong companion and upon
which seemed his real home-Brooklyn Eagle
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26
"Crzaei and Unusual Punishment

There lie a proposition in congress to put a
federal extinguisher on DeIaware's whipping
post the ground that flashing the bare
back Is one OF the Cruel and unusual punish
ments which prohibited by the eighth
amendment to the constitution.
The whipping post is barbarous, but it would
be interesting to know how the United States
courts, which would have to settle the matter,
could pronounce a punishment "cruel and un-
usual" which may lawfully be inflicted by par
ents their children.
This form OF barbarism has been eliminated
from the lives Of most Americans by the sponta-
neous growth OF intelligence, of the ethical
sense and OF the spirit of humanity. It's public
infection survives only in that little eddy and
backwater Of the American stream known as
Delaware.
The Delaware people say that the whipping
post has the effect to keep thieves out OF their
State This may be true. but what do the peo-
pie of the adjoining States say about that? Do
they like 10 be made refuge for Delaware g
thieves and other criminals? Perhaps the con-
stitution does not guarantee unrestrained inter
state commerce in criminals but equity sug-
gests that It ought to.--New York Mail.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26
u4ILTTRACY IN TIE SOUTH.

The Lynchburg Neaos doubts the wisdom Of
compulsory education though admitting the ne
cessity for action of some kind to increase the
sistently conducted campaigns with view to
arousing interest in the matter. prosecuted with
especial vigor In the more iliterate districts of
the State. might well he maintained. enlarged
and multiplied distinct branch of the States
educational seryice-tha reaching of -peapla
whose children do not attend school. and per.
suading them by appeals to their reason and
pride rather than forcing them by law to permit
their children TO enjoy the opportunities for im.
provement. which the school room affords" and
then voices Its doubts as to the wisdom OF com.
pulsory education in this wise:
For matter OF fact. we doubt whether
the latter policy would prove satisfactory from
the standpoint of the States power to enforce
it Moreover In n sense. education may be
likened unto religion. As long as the latter
is free--as long its temples are open to all
who care TO enter-as long provision ia
made by which children may be taught the
elementals OF Christianity a condition is fur
nished which only he made to yield its
best fruits by moral suasion and appeals TO
the better selves OF those disposed to stay at
home, or 10 keep their children at home on
Sundays. And with education.
A sufficient answer, II seems to u.s. can be
found in the fact that the percentage of ilieracy
is smallest In those States in which compulsory
education laws are in effect 1t might be noted
here that it is only in the Southern States that
such laws not on the statute books and 1t
Ia In the Southern States that the percentage OF
illiteracy "a highest. Figures given by the Vir-
ginia Journal Of Education prove that in this
State. at least, the negro cannot be held re-
sponsibe.
This Is an unpalatable truth. but truth new
ertheless. and 1t Will continue tos be the truth
until we cease to close our eyes TO it.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26
The Weather Bureau.

There IS doubt that the weather bureau
renders valuable service to the country. and
especially To shipping by It's attempts at fore
casting the weather. but its failures not in-
frequently more striking than it's achievements
During the past month or six weeks fair wealth
err has been mostly restricted TO the predictions
of the bureau. It is more less exasperating
sent out by the weather people that the weather
liz fair with light Winds when II Is raining in
torrents and the wind Ia tearing furiously
through the streets. OF course. the fact is TO
be realized that meteorology is young as a gel
ence. At the same time local conditions may,
and frequently do. set at naught seemingly rea-
sonable forecasts based widespread cycIonic
movements. But when all allowance has been
made. II liz not easy to understand why the
weather bureau should strikingly have failed
to give warning Of tho terrific storm which
overwhelmed Cleveland week ago and dashed
the great lakes into fury for days after. An
adequate appreciation by the workers In the
bureau at Washington. of what known TO
be moving eastward from the Rocky mQuntains
would unquestionably saved many lives. and
much shipping. 1t does not appear that the
masters OF lake vessels had any more impressive
warning tina nthe formal and familiar announce
ment of generally fair: colder. brisk to high
winds" The brisk winds proved to be a hur-
ricane. but either the weather care
less they knew no more about 1t than other
Observation-Disclosures Union.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-26

to exert tremendous educational and deterrent
influence to abate the social evil and to pro-
mote morality.
Shall 1t be said of us a people that we are
more particular to preserving the purity of
strains OF our cattle and horses than of our
humanity? The lessons Of science are being
taught the masses and they are becoming inter-
ested and aroused along this line. We are sur
prised and gratified at the rapid growth of SEN
hment in favor Of this reform. This newspaper
was among the first in the South to give its
voice to the proposition and take up the cam
paign of education and agitation which is sweep
Ing the opposition before 1t. In our Judgment
the church has nothing to fear. but rather much
to gain by espousng this reform. Inasmuch as
we decline to give women voice IN the church
or the State are under the greater obliga-
ton to give this great reform of which she will
be the chief beneficiary that consideration and
thought and action which It's Importance
warrants.--Danville Register.