The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-09
::PENDENNIS' CHAT:
By j. s.

The St. Louis Republic prints news
item in which it quotes, Philander c. Clax-
ton, United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation; as saying: 81 would like to see a
magnificent university founded by this ma
ton at Washington with an annual appro-
priation of $40, OOO, 900, SO that thousand
of the best professors might be gathered
there to teach pupils from all parts of the
world, who would carry back to their ma
tive countries doctrine of brotherly love
that would do more than any thing else to
bring universal peace"
A Universal Peace College to counterfeit
the effects of the War Colleges. A thous-
and professors to teach brotherly love and
send their graduates forth to spread the
doctrine of universal peace throughout the
world.
When one considers all that has been
spoken and written since the beginning of
the war upon the causes of the war, and
the various reasons for strict observance of
the ethics of belligerency; one is forced to
admit that there is a need of academic
teaching.
Brotherly love and war are incompatible,
but as first step to universal peace, per-
haps the teaching of brOtherly love, as sug-
gested by Mr.. Claxton, would help to es-
tablish code of ethics, whereby a better
understanding, as to the duties and rights
of neutrals would be promulgated.
Mr.. Claxton's idea is grand, sublime
thought, and comes at time when some
tangible suggestion is needed in regard to
peace. There has been an overflow of SEN
| timent favorable to war, the College of I'm
Universal Peace suggests many possibilities.
Domestic Science is now being taught by
the correspondence method. Perhaps this
innovation is one of the up to date ideas of
the suffragettes and is intended to give more
time for political duties.
| The autumn styles as depicted in the
fashion notes, are of a pronounced military
type. Would it not be more consistent for
the ladies to wear frocks of unmiitary de-
sign? Peace is a goddess, Mars is of the
masculine gender.
"Write in your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
Emerson.
Some days are the best days for some peo-
| pie, but every day cannot be the best day
for any one individual.
The war heads appearing in large type
across the front page of typed and censured
| theories of what is happening on the Euro
pean battle fronts, are getting to be as mis-
leading as the ''Get Rich Quick" ads.
Because a thing can be well done in any
particular way is no reason to believe that
there are not many ways in which, or by
which, to do the thing better.
In view of the fact that efforts are being
made to establish large merchant marine,
| Pendennis believes that some poetic song
ster could make hit by composing song
entitled 81 Did Not Raise My Boy To Be
A Soldier But Would Like To Have Him
| Be A Merchant Mariner
Learn from your mistakes, but don't
cry over them. We best redeem the past by
forgetting it,
Ebert Hubbard.
But the past will not be forgotten, it in
trudes into the present and becomes part
of the present, in spite of efforts at forget
fulness.
One of the East Indian Princes who re-
Gently visited this country has very sug-
gestive name-Jagatjt Singh Bahador. How
mysterious? The very sound of that name
conjures up all the romance of the east.
But suppose that perhaps an east indian
would translate the name into something as
plain as John Smith.
1t is matter of great comfort and some
consolation to the amateur aspirant for lit
erary honors, to know that even Carlyle,
Tolstoy, and others of immortal fame made
grammatical errors when expressing their
ideas and opinions.
About the only sport an amateur literary
aspirant gets out of his effort, is the enjoyi
ment of a still hunt through the exchanges,
trying to find some of his stuff among the
clippings"