Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-01-20


will undoubtedly in the long run be
a good thing for the university. For
the past year or two there has peer
smouldering fire among those con
nected with the Institution, spirit
OF rebellion which vept cropping uI
from time to time. Whether or not
it was the injustice of the president
towards his, subordinates, or lack OF
subordination on the part OF the dis
pruntled members of the faculty and
their friends, matters not. There has
been dissatisfaction, and it sooner or
later had to came to head. Inc
action of the majority of the Regents
in demanding the resignation OF tn
president, without any specihc charges
of misconduct, and without giving
him the privilege granted to the mean
est criminal, while drastic, will surely
cause the legislative probe to be IN
serted TO the very bottom OF the mat
ter, and the facts will come out where
we can all see them, and perhaps
smell them. OF course the efhclency
of President Hendrick has been Gam
aged. no matter what the findings OF
the legislative committee, but even II
he is exonerated from all blame IN TIE
row. h will not be the right man tor
the nIace unless an entirely new set OF
nrofessors and instructors is engaged
The institution could not go on III
the way it has for some time and Dc
success Either the president must
a-e full swing and the hearty coo'
zen of the faculty, or the great IN
,ttutiion will go to pieces. "A nous
divided against itself must tai.
Without doubt. as nearly all the
State papers have said, the president
was entitled to a hearing. Even Il
he was a complete failure, dictator
and a martinez. If he had been guilty
of breaking his promises, or any ana
everything that a man in his position
should not have been, he was entltlet
10 an opportunity to tell his side OF
the story. The Regents, in their OF
fetal capacity, are the representatives,
of the people of Nevada, and not OF
any prticular cliqu- or parcel OF the
people. If there was anything SO bad
about the management or conduct OF
the university that it warranted tn
dismissal OF its highest othcer, thos'
who own the concern, who pay the
money to carrv it on, and whose son
and danohters must depend upon II
for their education, are entieled to
know it. and if the president has beer
doing the right thing. he is entitled to
have il known. 1t is unfair to smothe
anything to the detriment OF the uni
versity. Public opinion is the cour
of last resort in all such matters. !ano
the sooner this is understood, the bet
ter. Let the legislature hold mos
rigid investigation, let the proceeding
be public. and let the blame for tho
temporary ruin of Nevada's creates
institution fall where it will.
To count back three generations /:
but very small portion OF the periot
since history began to record human
progress. 1t is but three generation
since the farmer really began TO ques'
ton the methods of his rrandfathers
construction of the devious method
OF providence and to wake up to the
necessity of lending intelligent as
sistance to the benehcent bounty o.
providence. He has learned tina
providence aids the belligerent, and
charitably ignores the ignorant
Three generations ago the tarmel
scorned the aid of machinery. To the
average farmer, labor saving machin
cry was a device to aid the slothful
The fact that with machinery more
and better work could be accom-
plished was scorned by him. Brawr
and an unfaltering faith in God wa,
to him more effective than education
How he has awakened can be no bet
ter illustrated than to call attention
to the fact that at time within the
memory of most of us the old farm
wagon box was filled with straw ant
the family once a week, sometimes
once a month. was taken to town t.
attend meeting Today the old churi
that sent our grandmothers to tt
grave at fifty is supolanted by the at
tomobile in which she drives to tbs
meetings of the Federation oi
Women's Clubs. where they discus
of women to whom the privilege q
voting has not yet been given Thi
is condition that Can not be talkel
away. The farmer of a generation
ago was but a necessary cog in th>
wheels of humanity; today he is So
cial factor. His place as the real
aristocrat of society is not dream
but growing actuality.
Among the fantastic and divertin 8
headlines now being inflicted on news.
paper reading New York, one in tho
Telegram, Neutral League to Keep
Peace by Force, United States Aim
President favors Scheme" remind
one much of Mark Twain's story Ct
his Virginia City life in "Roughng it,
and his character. Buck Fanshaw. Il
was him that put down the riot last
election before it got start; and
everybody said he was the only man
that could have done it. He walked
in with a spanner in one hand and 9
trumpet in the other, and Sent four
teen men home on shutter in les
than three minutes. He had that ricf