Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-23
THE MAN WITHOUT A BOOK.

EN mortar-board cap and with his doctors gown strip
iii ped from him. We see him-schOlastcaly speaking
i'm his nakedness We see him in his Socaled IL
brary The shades are raised and the gas is lighted and
we can see the presdenemeritus of Harvard playing po-
ker solitaire pursuing some other unterary occupa-
ton He is not reading because there are no books IN his
library.
The other day the Boston Transcript threw few bou
oets to him on the subject of his command of the English
language and especially his gift for inscriptions wherein
another former president OF university has improved
on him. Promptly it received letter asking: Were you
ever in Eiots house? If So you know there no books
there and never have been. President Eliot may have
read books when he young but that was long ago"
So this is the "First Citizen of Massachusetts, as he
was recently voted is it? This whose house contains
no books and never did the who told the world
few wears ago not only that fvefoo shelf Of books
enough, but what books should fill the shelf
There are no "bes sellers in his meagre catalogue The
few books that he knows published century two
ago at the latest and some of them old the mum
mics The books descriptive of the capture OF the female
by the male the pursuit of the male by the female of
the Species entirely unknown to him. The books he
read when he young which was long time ago, were
not of that sort.
The books men and turning out at incon
teivabe rate which designed to just inside the
ethical measurements of the postal service he is disgrace
fully ignorant of.
These sociological novels in which the daughter of Old
Moneybags and the professional phianthropis she is
gradually falling in love with plan to rebuild the old mans
factory and place all his employees sort of henry
lord payroll he is denSey ignorant OF because tney were
not written when he young which was VIGOROUSLY
long time ago.
And down in Massachusetts they put this sort of il
terat at the head of university and keep him there and
burn incense to him as the chefest of the highbrows
Dr. Alters says bathtubs unsanitay and the habit
of bathing in them "unspeakable" He says the bather
Just washes the dirt and dead cuce off his or her person
and then waows in the mixture coming out with the idea
that he she cean while the dirt has only been spread
little evenly He advocates the shower bath and
thus makes an attack old friends the Bapsts and
renews the old quarrel between the advocates of i'm
mersion and sprnklng. The argument would apply
to the wash bowl and may conclude that if the lady
who prepares food has not sprnked her hands but
has simply washed them before getting them into pie
dough and biscuits she has fed us dirty unwholesOme
unsanitary mess What is really needed when the
beress such Dr. Alters get in the meght to dsinfec
him. put in hurryup call for the foo-kiler 1t might
be added that the board of health to which the sprnkng
advocate addressed his remarks swallowed the argument
bathtub, dirt and ALL and unanimously condemned the
bathtub and the custom of bathing If they get the
school boards of the country to adopt these newanged
ideas every boy in the state will rise up to bless hem
at least bless them before going to bed during the barefoot
season.
The Linn county pioneers annual picnic will be held at
Brownsville Thursday. 1t will hardly be necessary to
take the usual baskets of eatabes there to be feast
of reason to sneak and flow of oratory DR. Smith