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back of the decision to take up teaching as
a profession?" interpolated
Undoubtedly So" replied Doctor Fine
gan. THE man or woman who goes into
teaching is thinking, for the most part, Of
others rather than himself. 1t is a high
calling, a sacred trust, responsibility of
transcendent importance School teachers
ere a class unto themselves like the clergy
in that they are the servitors of humanity.
As l said before in another connection,
know plenty of school teachers who would
be powerful successes in other lines, but
who are content where they are because
they like to teach and are successful in their
profession.
There may have been cases. and prob
ably are, of persons who take up teaching
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Opportunity? Was there ever a wider
field than is afforded in the realm Of edu
cation? In my own department right now
1 need twenty men Of executive caliber. Big
business may assert that the hardest thing
to find is men OF high class executive abi
ity. 1 say the same thing applies to edu-
cation. If young person wants to climb
higher than a teachers job there is virtually
no limit. Supervisors, organizers. superin-
tendents. normal school heads, prep school
head masters, college presidents, state and
national administrative leaders-is there
any limit?''
AS he paused for an instant l took an
other tack.
why should a young person take up
teaching as a life work? What should be
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ing from an economic standpoint" 1
ventured
IF a man or woman wants to make money
hand over fist l should not advise him or
her to go inte the teaching field" said Doc
tor Finegan. playing square with the facts.
The educational arena is no field for the
get-rich quick type. This is no commercial
proposition, and the rewards are not
measured in dollars and cents. The rewards,
however, are treasures far finer than mere
gold. They are hsllowed rewards that pay
dividends not to be classed with the emolu-
ments of other trades and professions"
But the movement to increase teachers
salaries?" / suggested.
Exactly" continued Doctor Finegan.
"All over the country the movement has
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the guiding infuence?' asked, thinking
of the motives that should direct a collegian'
10 decide upon the educational field.
'The desire to render real service to hu-
manity," was his prompt and unequivocal
rejoinder.
Then there is an element of idealism
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because it is something to do But back
of most teachers, I believe, there was IN urge
to take it up because of the desire to per-
form real service for others. This is truer
today than ever before. Teaching means
service-service for others"
"Whst of the attractiveness Of teach
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scores and scores of students or place them
on the waiting list. The world today is
keener than ever for education. People the
world over realize, perhaps. as never before
the value and imperative need of thor
ough education as an armor, plate to be put
On for the battle of life.
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CHOOSING A CAREER: AN EDUCATOR GIVES VALUABLE Hi
Dr. Thomas Fhagm Makes Work the Cornerstone Success Advising
Young Plans for the Part They Shall

Copyright. 1920. By Public Ledger Coz
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ENNHAT essential qualifications should
young person have for teaching
was my last question.
Love of children and love Of teaching" q"
he affirmed. "Ahsbility, kindpess and above
all patience. 1 should emphasize patience.
II the young person has no prediction for
work Of this sort, no desire to impart knowI
edge, truthfully and accurately, be can
hardly hope to succeed. Every man must
like his Job to make a 20 Of il.
Two prime points we already have
touched upon. Let the student seeking
career keep them in mind as be considers
the teaching profession. First of all, a
specialized training that will carry him to
the top ranks, and, secondly, the supreme
desire to render service to humanity. Serv-
ice is the keynote of education from our
standpoint
His parting message for youth was:
Tell them they must work and pIcd .n6
dig before they can get roins In say IN.
Of LIES activities. There is no other VI,
Tell them to play fair and sqsar~, and u.
world will reward their honest sfsrt TT
them TO be real men and woman v&~sxpv
they do, thinking tot sloRs Of t3~s e
individual Kuecs~, tut II ccA~"
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THAT'S what Doctor Finegaa himself
J. did. He practiced what he now
breaches. He was born the son of a poor
blacksmith in the obscure village of West
Fulton, in Schoharie county, N. Y, just
west of Albany. After school hours, when
he had come home from the crossroads coun-
try school, he worked with his father in the
blacksmith shop. But young tom" had no
ambition to become the village blacksmith.
As be stood glsring into the heat of the forge
or hammering horseshoes on the anvil, the
boy Toms thoughts were elsewhere.
He wanted to be a school teacher. The
ambition lived in his mind and heart con-
tinuslIy until it became an obsession with
him. So a school teacher he became. Hardly
had the ink dried on his high-school diploma
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A World i'm the Dumps

1t is too much to hope things to
go right in week like this, and the
home run fans of America might
have known that something would
happen to their hero, the most val
liable mountain of flesh in the uni
verse. "The time is out of joint"
said Hamlet, most understanding of
all glooms, some years back; and
here, in the midst of crucialing tow
ard pennant, Babe" Ruth dislo-
Gates his knee sliding to second. BY
such mischances are dynasties and
pennants lost and won.
The only silver lining we can de-
scry lines the hat of that youngster
whose father personally conducted
him in the wake of the Yankees with
the understanding that they were
not to return home until Babe" had
knocked a home run. If the bet is
not off-and it is the way of grown
ups, we regret to say, to read con-
venient terms and exceptions into
promises of this nature-this young
man has a pleasant holiday ahead
that may run into weeks and take
the pursuit Of home run into many
states and cities.
For the rest of the universe we
can see nothing better than to con-
cede the week to fate and hope for
better seven days to come. This is
not to counsel knuckling under to
bad luck. The idea is rather to
chuckle at the old gloom's cunning
and neatness of execution, and, Civ
ing him his due, make ready for a
fitting retort. A sense of humor is
not at all incompatible with
scrappy comeback. In fact, a fight
ing grin is about the worst enemy
the dumps can face. Try one and see.
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raw material consists Of events that
have occurred. The newsman who
becomes a prophet fails as prophets
generally do. But when predic-
ton is plainly presented as such no
particular harm is done, for the SEN
sible reader discounts its value and
is not deceived.
"The New Republic" shows the
dispatch writer's Of "The Times"
were poor prophets. That's all.
Otherwise, as is now clear, the news
from Russia, allowing reasonably
for exaggeration, has painted q
correct picture. AS to the big mat
ter, the truth has been told. This
big matter relates to how the Boil
shevist regime has worked. An ex-
pertinent long talked of was launched,
and the world needed to know how
it Jared and how Jared the Russian
people under it. AS to the result,
there is now no more basis for doubt
than there is for doubt that the Boil
shevistic group has successfully con-
solidated, for the present at least,
an autocratic military power.
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Celebrating the Blonde

Are blondes to become extinct
This question jostles it's big brothers,
the world problems. 1t is said the
number of blondes is rapidly dimin-
ishing, no reason being given. To
hold that it is freak of fashion
will not satisfy the social philoso-
pher. Fashion can do much for
women-it can change the COM
plexion as we'll as the fgure-but
artificial blondes cannot content the
lovers of blue eyes and yellow hair.
We are now told again that the
brunette "is coming into her own"
Has she not had her own all along?
Styles in hats are to work this
miracle. The colors for the fall sea-
son will be copper, ochre and cochin,
all of which favor the dark beauty.
1t is hard measure for the blonde.
Must she dye her hair to be fashion
able? No statistics are needed to
enforce the conclusion that the bru-
nette has long been getting the bet
ter Of it. This isstheswork not Of art,
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News Out Of Russia

In special article, whose immense
bulk implies industrious research.
1.-The New Republic" reviews and
summarizes some of the dispatches
concerning Russia which have ap-
peared in "The New York Times"
The apparent object is to convict
THE Times" Of misleading Ameri-
can public opinion, and, as dispatches
OF similar tenor appeared in practi-
cally all American newspapers, to
convict the American press gener-
ally of this offense.
The method adopted by the inves-
tlgator IS singular. He excludes from
consideration the merits and de-
merits of the Soviet government. how
it worked in practice, what effect it's
dominance had on the welfare of the
Russian people, how it insensibly
changed from communist experiment
to despotic personal or group tyr
amy, and how, to keep power, it's
leaders adopted the nationalistic and
imperlalistic policy of the Cars.
The Investigator, moreover, does
not regard as germane to his task
information as to the extent of the
Red Terror The inquiry is practi-
clally narrowed to the single point
of whether the dispatches accurately
predicted the course of military
events in Russia and foreshadowed
the establishment of the Bolshevist
power.
TO this end the dispatches are clas
sltied as "optimistic" or "pessimistic"
that is, from the standpoint of the
Allies. They fall into the former
classification when speaking favor
ably of the chances of Kerensky, of
korniloff, of Kolchak, of Denikine.
OF Yudenitch, of the Poles, or of an
early collapse of Bolshevism. Thew
are IN the other list if they foretell
Bolshevist military victories. SO linz
tied, the review, of course, shows
that the dispatch writers, when
their words are examined in the
light of events, were commonly
wrong.
No one has been able to formulate
an altogether satisfactory definition
OF news. What is rated impor-
tant by one man is not so rated bv
another. SO it is inevitable for
many to complain of the Judgment of
newspaper editors. But though there
is no agreement as to what news is.
there IS general agreement as to
what it is not.
1t is not prophecy. News deals
with the present and the immediate
past, and little with the future. Its
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The Judicial Nominations

In recommending for denomination
Justices Erlanger, Giegerich, Guy
and Platzek, Democrats, and Ford,
an independent Republican, the Re-
publican committee has followed the
practice of not opposing a sitting
,, justice if Of fairly good record. The
same rule was. applied to Judges
Grain, Democrat, and Rosalsky, Re
publican, of the Court of General
Sessions. The rule worked against
the Republicans this time, but it is to
the credit of the committee that it
did not finch.
For the other places on the ticket,
where there are vacancies or appoint
ments to fill vacancies by the Gov
ernor, the committees of both par
ties coincide in making differing rec
concentrations. 1t will be agreed by
all citizens, without regard to party,
that the Republican committee has
submitted an exceptionally meritori-
Gus list Messrs. 1sidor Wasservogel,
James O'Malley, Robert McC. Marsh
and Henry K. Davis Off the recon-
mendation in regard to him is con-
firmed in the Bronx are all men Of
high character and professional at
tainment.
Those examining the Tammany
recommendation are challenged by
the name Of District Attorney
Swami, which Charles F. Murphy
unexpectedly drew out of his pocket.
The surmse is heard that the reason
for the recommendation is that Tam
many wishes to kick the District At
torney upstairs and to have control
Of his Office during the eighteen
months he has yet to serve. In the
war between the House of Murphy
and the House of Hearst Mr.. Swami
has been too much a Hearst errand
boy. In the proceedings relaing to
the investigation Of an "overshadow-
ing crime" he has been most eager in
his observation-disclosures, and Tam
many may naturally fear it may
have burden to carry in a more i'm
portant campaign. eff he so loves
Hearst, let Hearst elect him as
Judge. We provide the opportunity"
So the whisper is said to pass in
Fourteenth Street circles. Perhaps
this is good Tammany reasoning, but
where does the public get off if Mr.
Swami is elected in the hurly- burly
of Presidential contest?
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A Notable Figure

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the sudden death of the
Rev. George F. Pentccost, D. D., pas
tor of Bethany Presbyterian Church,
of Philadelphia (the Wanamaker
church,, there ended the career of one
OF the most remarkable men of a
generation now passed He was a
powerful and original preacher and an
author of books which thirty years
ago had a great circulation. Intimate
friend of Moody, Sturgeon and, IN
deed, all of the foremost men of his
day, he had led a characteristically
American career.
Born in Illinois seventy-nine years
ago, when it was a raw frontier of the
West, the Civil War found him ro-
bust, courageous, energetic lad, and no
joined the Union army, serving in
Kentucky. With the end Of the war
he went to Kansas as secretary to the
territorial Governor. Here he came
into personal touch with men of ma
tlonal reputation of fifty years ago,
and there was predicted for him q
brilliant career.
Just then he was converted and be-
came pastor of a Baptist church in
Kentucky. The churches served by
him in Boston. Brooklyn and London
invariably experienced remarkable
growth, and the years have proved
the solidity of his work, for they are
still great churches Unsuitable as 8
worker, he remained in harness. when
by reason of advanced years he could
we'll have retired
His last pastorate was marked by
all the tokens characteristic of his
work. His sermons had all the old ten
derness and power, and in association
with John Wanamaker, the famous
Bethany Presbyterian Church took On
its oldtime vigor and spirituality.
He had planned to be on his way TO
Japan as delegate to Ike lnterna-
tional Sunday School Con, anton, TO DO
held in Toxic in September, srAsn death
overlook him.
With him has passed away notable
figure among fast diminishing NUM-
Der of great ministers of the past
generation. CT. SCOFIELp.
Douglaston Park, n. Y. aug. 10, l92a
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Absurd Philippine Reports
New York, Aug. 10, 1920.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With respect to some CORE
spondencc that is being sent to the
American papers from the Philippines
regarding the protests of the people
OF the islands against the extension of
the United States coastwise law to the
Philippines, allow me to quote for YOUR
and your. readers information the fol-
lowing official cable received from the
Secretary of Commerce and Commune
cations of the Philippine Islands and
transmitted to Mr.. Fidcl A. Reeves,
Director of the Bureau of Commerce
and Industry of the Philippine gov
e"hment, by the Bureau of Ipsular At
lars, United States War Department:
"Referring to telegram from you of
the I'd instant regarding sensational
reports transmitted to the New York pa
pers from Manila as to the possibility
of real trouble in the Philippine Islands
through the passage of the United
States coastwise shipping law, YOU are
right in branding them as absurd and
RIDICULOUS. While the sentiment of the
Filipino people is unanimous against
the extension of this law to the is
lands, it being considered prejudicial
to their interests, meetings and de-
iberations are held in the most peace
full manner and not conducted as n
movement against the United States
government or the American people, to
whom time and again we have shown
our loyalty. The Filipinos are simply
making use of their constitutional right
to peacefully assemble and petition the
constituted authorities for legal redress
to exclude the Philippine Islands from
the operation Of this Dioniao
Jakosalem." ARSENIC N. LUZ,
Mgr. Philippine Commercial Agency.
New York, Aug. 10, 1920.
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Thanks on Behalf Of Soldier

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May l use your columns AGAR
to thank the mon and women who
have responded so instantly and gen.
erously to my appeal for magazines
for young and gallant war shattered
soldier?
Beyond the immediate relief lies the
hope of something more permanent
and rcvivifying, which is what | had
also wished to elicit; some definite and
prolonged assistance. am very CRATE
fuI and | am begging the privilege of
from time to time, seeking aid through
your valuable paper for these distress
ing cases as l meet with or hear of
them through my volunteer work at the
War Community Service booths.
MRS. THAYER IACCACI
New York, Aug. 10, 1920.
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nearly double the imports of any
prior year. Yet the tariff is to be
for revenue only.
When the war came to Europe
this country, as the business world
generally recognized, was headed for
an industrial crash. The Under
wood tariff went into effect on Oc-
tober 8, 1913, and in the beginning
of 1914 it's effects began to show.
For six months the tide of imports
rapidly rose, and incidentally Amer
lean factories began to close. Is
there doubt of what would have hap
pened if Europe had not been COM
PEELED to turn to the making of war
supplies?
The tariff question is now little
discussed. But men of foresight, who
study signs, are making guesses as
to what will happen here when Eu-
rope reaches the full production tow
ard which she is swiftly moving.
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Pi@e! Bunk!
Whereby a Sim Feiner Replies TO
an Editorial

w hereby a Smn Fculer Replies 10
an Editorial
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; quote the following from re-
cent editorial in The Tribune:
"That has come to pass which was
foreseen would certainly come to pass
when large number of persons in Ire
land adopted the view that, while the
sacred right of self determination en-
TITLED ireland to insist on separation
from Great Britain, it did not give
Ulster the right to determine to remain
with England. Those in America who
have seen fit to encourage movement
which in the same breath declares it
demands freedom and in the next that
freedom shall not be accorded to large
and important Irish minority, which
largely lives apart may reflect further
on tho responsibility they assume"
OF course, this is bunk. And, of
course, the man who wrote it knew it
was bunk
Is there any community in the civil
lied world where a small minority is per-
mitted' to dominate the majority? Dur
ing our own Revolutionary War our
American Tories wanted freedom" to
remain with England. Were they per-
mitted to impose their will upon the
great majority who favored separation
from England? Our Southern Confed-
eracy also wanted "freedom." Was it
permitted to have it? The argument
that one-fifth of the people of Ireland
should be permitted to dominate the
other four-tifths is such preposterous
piftle that it is astonishing to see a
paper of the standing of The New York
Tribune permitting its columns to be dis
figured with it,
Let us recast the above quotation so
as to make it apply to the American
colonies:
THAT has come to pass which was
foreseen would certainly come to pass
when a large number of persons in
America adopted the view that while
the sacred right of self-determination
entitled America to insist on separation
from Great Britain, it did not give the
Loyalists of America the right to deter
mine to remain with England. Those in
England who have seen fit to encour-
age movement which in the same
breath declares it demands freedom and
in the next that freedom shall not be
accorded to a large and important Amer
lean minority which largely lives apart,
may reflect further on the responsibility
which they assume"
Now, what do you think of it?
And, by the way, does the editor of
The Tribune not know that the Ulster
men in the northeast corner of Ireland
arc not Irish at all, but merely the de-
scendants of the Scotch and English
carpetbaggers who We're planted there
by William III after he had stolen these
lands and driven the rightfu owners
into exile? SINN FEM.
st. Louis, Mo, Aug 7, 1920.
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It's There

A reader of The Tribune asks
whether or not the San Francisco
platform refers to the tariff, and if
1t does whether it reiterates the
revenue-only principle.
Yes, our old acquaintance has re-
turned-tucked away in an obscure
corner, but there. He was ignored in
l9l6, but he is back garmented in the
following language:
1--WE reaftirm the traditional policy
OF the Democratic party in favor of a
tariff for revenue only"
During the European conflict.
when protection was not needed be-
cause of the disorganization of for
eign industry, President Wilson was
a pretty good protectionist. He in
duced Democratic Congress to
pass a protective anti-dumping law :;
held import industries, such as the
chemical one, should be encouraged
by heavy duties, and advised that
steps at once be taken to preserve
in the postwar period the home mar
ket for American workers.
But it's different now; with i'm
ports mounting, we must not pro-
tect. Yet the total imports for the
first six months of 1920 were
$3.50, 100000 in value, and promise
% be $4,000. 100000 fog- the year. or
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The Dominican Business

A dispatch from Montevideo. Uru-
quay, following on one of similar
+ contents from Havana, is to the
effect that an appeal has been for
warded to President Wilson in be-
half of Fabio Fallio, described as "a
patriot poet" and now on trial be-
fore United States court martial at
San Domingo. Fallio is said to face a
possible infection of the death pen
atty on charge of having violated
the censorship decreed by an Ameri-
can military commander.
One of the on-understandable
mysteries concerning the Administra-
ton relates to the autocratic govern
ment which has been set up in San
Domingo by force. The American
people have not been consulted, or
even Informed, as to it's justifica-
ton. The officers Of a Loyalty consti-
tuted government, against which no
complaint is lodged, have been
chased out of the island. Travellers
report that the Dominican Congress
is not allowed to assemble; that no
election is permitted, and that even
the Dominican courts are not al
lowed to sit. There are rumors of
the application of the water cure"
and although these rumors be base
less, it is admitted that for long
period the Dominicans have been
denied every trace Of self-rue.
How the Administration reconcilcs
these acts with the principle that it
upholds elsewhere is not explained.
There is no defense or denial-only
silence. Yet the San Domingo bust
ness, news Of which is leaking out,
is compromising our good repute in
Latin-American countries. In times
past Latin America has been exceed
ingly suspicious of our motives, but,
happily, basis for suspicion has not
existed. But what is the American in
Latin America to say who is asked
questions about San Domingo?