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Thinks He Has Solved Old
Problem Of Trisecting Arc

fundamental principle of so dividing
the primary arc and its radius as to
create a secondary arc having ras
dius constructed by dividing primary
radius into as many even parts as
that even number in the sextodecimaI
system Of numbers (those obtained
from two by doubling) which is next
lower than the odd number desired:
or. IL the next number numerically
lower is not a number in the secto-
decimal series, select the next lower
one that is, and having by repeated
dissection divided the primary radius
into the even number of units which
this (sextodecimaD number indicates,
add enough of these units to make the
total number equal to the odd numbep
of parts into which the arc is to bd
divided.
Bisect primary arc into twice as
many divisions as primary radius Is
divided. Then construct chords on pri~
mary arc by first uniting each pair Of
adjacent sections (unite in fours if arc
is greater than two-thirds circle)
into which primary arc has been di-
vided, and drawing lines through the
ends of the now doubled divisions of
primary arc, disposed in such a man
ner as to make them form the sides of
a regular inscribed polygen as related
to the primary arc.
Then construct an extra index chord
by passing a line across the ends Of
the two middle sections now regarded
as doubled and made into one; raise
this index chord and its sector, as in
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trisection, to a point indicated by tho
extended radius and then proceed as
In trisection.
1t will be noted that the number Of
chords that can thus be formed, if the
divisions of primary radius represent
one number lower than the odd num-
ber into which the arc is to be divided
Will correspond to the total sections of
extended arc; also that the primary
are cannot be extended by any more
of it's sections than the number of
possible chords formed by connecting
smallest divisions of are as above indi-
Gated, in addition to such extra chord
disposed as index chord will allow.
AS applied to another odd number
division of arc such as seven, for in
stance, proceed as follows:
Bisect primary radius into four
parts, since four is the sextodecimal
number next below seven: add three
of these SECTIONS to the radius to form
the secondary. radius. We have the
relation OF four to seven On this ex-
tended secondary radius describe a
secondary arc. placing an, extra. or
index, chord across the two middle
divisions. as in trisection; then pro-
ceed as in trisection.
1t will be seen that when index seq
.ment is in position with relation to ex-
tended radius. the two chords. one
passing through either end of the in
dex chord and on to secondary arc.
the space subtended on the secohdarv
arc will equal one-seventh of the whole
arc
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be deceived with regard to a private
individual and misrepresent him for a
time; but with reference to public men
and measures it's knowledge is more
intimate and competent than that of
any other agency possibly can be; and
/ know that 1t Vithholds unjustly to
the p,iblic one hundred times where 1t
speaks wrongly once of the individ-
ual."
Horace Greeley gave out this def
ance:
whoever asserts that I at any time
was hiding under Windust's table is a
branded liar and villain!"
He wrote this after the draft riots
og 1858 when the Tribune Office was
attacked and the editors enemies
spread the report that during-the ex-
citement he had sought refuge under
a table in a restaurant. The great
editor. whether he knew 1t or not, was
personal journalist.
with his dogmatic earnestness, his
extraordinary mental qualities. his
moral power and his quick sympathy
with the instincts OF the masses, he
was in a peculiar sense the tribune of
the people" -
That was the way James G.. Blaine
estimated Greeley In eulogy written
after the editors death. Greeley's own
explanation of himself is more peril
nent TO the present theme. He said:
Whatever of talents or energy i
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eralizing influence OF the American
press, and while he was a Democrat
always he really set up standard for
the politically independent paper. and
showed that it could lead as well as
live. Ever since 1872 he was a leader
as long as he remained in harness, and
nearly always liberal.
Before Henry Watterson died per-
sonal journalism had changed its dress,
but under any garb it remains personal
journalism. Nobody would recognize it
new as being the same thing which
existed when the elder Bennett and
James Watson Webb were clouting
each other on the head with a stick
every time they encountered on the
street.
Personal journalism to-day wears
better made clothes, that's all.
When a cultivated young French
man. used to laces and velvets, came
to this country and studied the jour
nalistic expression of young, raw de-
n ocracy he naturally missed the ele-
gancies Of European traditions. And
this is what De Tocqueville said about
American newspaper men OF his day:
The journalists of the United States
are usually placed in q very humble
position. with scanty education and
q vulgar turn of mind.
THE characteristics of the American
journalist consist of an open and
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main sections; these sections again
bisected into four smaller ones, thus
allowing to be constructed the three
chords which are ultimately to become
the three sides Of a part Of a regular
inscribed polygon which is later to de-
termine the trisection measurements;
middle Gndex) chord was raised be-
tween two perpendicular lines. one at
each end, maintaining it parallel to
it's primary position to point onelalf
length of primary radius distant, where
the middle point Of arc which it sub
tended coincided with the end of the
extended radius. Secondary arc on
secondary radius was described to show
disposition of the two other sectors.
Tertiary RADIUS was drawn to show
the ultimate position of primary
chords in forming the three sides of
part of regular inscribed pologon.
through whose vertices radii were
drawn from center, on which arcs
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~ ECAUSE Henry watterson was
~ the last Of coterie of per
sonar' journalists, the last leaf
OF the tree that produced the news
paper giants of the Civil War, there
are mistaken people who smugly say
tand perhaps think) that this kind
Of newspaper making is dead thing.
How foolish!
"Marse Henry" as he delighted to
be called. is the greatest exemplar of
personal journalism the profession has
known. He loved his profession and
dignifed il. Journalism and he are
mutually indebted. One of his grea,
tasks to which he brought every quail
fty he possessed. was to foster bet
ter understanding between the North
and the South. No journalist or indi-
vidual worked so hard for it. and
nobody was better fitted for the task.
Everybody liked him, and that is
Pf@oViidbtyf 1871 IL, III very at
tractive sense? Especially was he the
"well-beloved." the Benjamin of the
newspapers, endeared to many who
Opposed him politically.
IL YOU read his autobiography. pub
lished but short time before his
death. which was recent. YOU may be
disappointed by the rambling arrange
ment Of the old mans memories, but
you can't fail TO find an almost uni
versal sympathy with poor humanity
"Marse Henry" appeared to find good
in everybody.
But his journalistic reputation
among the people is that Of a hard
hater and hitter, an editor who welded
the bludgeof as often as he did the
pen. and when he changed that
weapo= for The foil 1t was to spit an
enemy on its slenderer md more sa
tirlcal stirf5cc.
.staer traits have accreted about
this man as they do about all men
who raise themselves or are raised
above the common level to form a
legend that may be almost wholly
false. They accreted about Lincoln
IN the herd you still find individuals
who believe that the great Enamel
pator spent a great part OF his time
1E1iing queer stories. IN the herd there
- more individuals who regard Wat
terson as the pirate OF the literary or
Journalistic seas, who never took down
the skull and crosshones and attacked
everybody, good. bad and Indifferent
who differed from him in morals eth
les and politics.
TO be crude and concrete, the gen
eral opinion Of this man heldeby tho
last generation was that he was drunk
half OF the time.
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education that it does not recognize
this or incorporate it into its scheme
of studies, but allows the student, who
of necessity at first is ignorant of the
higher implications of his studies, to
pursue the subjects that are of only
immediate practical value and so
compels him to remain forever medi-
ocre worker in a limited field, or to
overtake his error by further study at
a time when he may find it difficult or
impossible to do SO.
This is one of the difficulties with
which our colleges have to contend
constantly. The student of chemistry
is aversNto studying differential equa-
tions and the student of history to
acquiring a reading Knowledge of me-
dieval Latin, because from their unin-
formed viewpoint they have no prac-
tical value But the faculty, speaking
with larger experience, prescribe
them early in the courses, knowing
how necessary they will be in few
years.
But the objectionable sin of the So
called practical education is that it al
locates it's recipients in early life to
the little corners of life and condemns
them to remain there forever. The
cook remains a cook, the plumber a
plumber and the dentist a dentist. Fre-
quentiy, too, it appears later that the
choice of profession has been i'll made.
The plumber should have been dem
tist and the dentist a plumber, but
it is too late to make the change. Each
is doubly damned. first by being forced
into corner and then by finding him
self a misfit even there. AS they be-
gan their practical studies in early life
and proceeded Immediately from them
to the wage earners' bench they
have no time and no opportunity to
acquaint themselves except in the
most superficial way with any other
field of knowledge. They have-they
can have-comparativel little in COM
mon with one another.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Shall we Give Our Youth
A Stone Instead of Bread?

Shall we. then, who have some
knowledge of these things, who are
indeed their custodians for the present,
forbid our youth to approach or divert
them to purely utilitarian studies?
Shall we give them stone when they
ask for bread? or course not! The
temple of learning should always be
wide open to those who will enter and
it's richest treasures spread in the
sight Of all. 1t is true that not all will
remain to worship, but even those who
tarry but moment will take back to
the market place some memory of,what
they have seen, and that memory VIII
gladden. the whole day.
And there is one other consideration.
There are still some of us who see in
the youth standing at our door a man
made in the image Of his Creator,
made a little lower than God, enabled
by that kinship to recognize His
fingerprints on the rocks, His plan in
a sinsick world. How should we re-
ceive such a one but with an invita-
ton to explore this world, which is
just now his home, and to develop to
the utmost the godlike qualities which
he finds within himself?
A love of truth, patience in search
for it, deep respect for other men
and their work, a high sense of duty
and responsibility and consciousness
of the vast deal that remains to be
done before man shall have attained
the ideal contemplated in, the COM.
mands "Subdue the earth and rule
over it" and fThou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself are or
should be some of the fruits of cul-
tural education in a Christian COM
munity, and who will say that they
are not needed? Fer it should be OBJ
vious to all that our time and country
call loudly not so much for men that
can do things but rather for many
men and women who, out of rich and
we'll informed wisdom, know what
to do.
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had exposed When the editor was
released from Ludlow Street Jail
prominent men of Boston wishing TO
honor him rendered him dinner. Mr..
Bowles declined i'm a letter that was
received by the nation as the platform
of new reform movement. In this
letter he exposes the feebleness of the
journalism OF that day.
American journalism" wrote he. lis
now but in its feeble infancy; but we
have more to fear at present from its
good nature, from it's subserviency.
from it's indifference, from it's fear to
encounter prosecution and loss OF
patronage by the exposure of the
wrong and the exposition of the right.
MY own observation is that the
press rarely does injustice to a thor
oughly honest man or cause. 1t may
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An Exalted View of Truth Has
Built Up English Labor Party

1T is undoubtedly sthis exalted out
look upon the world of truth that has
made the Labor party in England the
! power it is in Parliament and enables
it to contemplate with equanimity the
possibility of it's being called upon,
perhaps in the near future, to under
take not only the problems peculiar to
the laboring classes but even the di-
rection of the whole national life. Such
an accomplishment would never have
been possible had they confined them
selves to the problems of labor in the
narrow sense of the term AMI re-
stricted their education to courses of
practical utility.
The fundamental difference between
the advocate of practical studies and
the advocate of cultural studies is that
the former sees in the student merely
or mainly a wage Garner or artisan,
while the latter regards him first and
chiefly as human being. The trus-
tee of one of our women's colleges
(not my OWN who declared that if he
had his way every young woman in
attendance there should be required
to learn how to cook beefsteak only
betrayed thereby his very limited con-
ception of, the duties, capabilities and
responsibilities of women. r
1T is indeed an excellent thing for
any one to be able to cook an appe-
tizing meal, but is this one attainment
to be singled out and made the basal
studies for all women for all their
lives? Moreover, let it be said in pass
ing that a man or woman Is mistaken
who imagines that the demands of
modern housekeeping can be supplied
by course in cooking" or n few
courses of domestic science" The
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
ANOTHER COLLEGE HEAD DEFENDS CULTURA

There is one argument in favor of
practical training which deserves more
than passing notice. 1t is claimed,
and it must be acknowledged, that
those who learn to do something early
In life and continue practicing 1t
through life require dexterity which
others have not; and, pressing this
a point further. that nation organ
lied on such a basis, each member
trained to do one thing and only one
thing we'll, and all directed by wise
common administration. will be able
to complete successfully against all
rivals. The answer Is that this is true
as far as, and only as far as, it relates
to material things, but that in order
to attain to this primacy 1t is neces-
sary to sacrifice all higher values.
Did not Prof. Eucken, watching the
progress of Prussian organization,
warn his fellow countrymen that in
perfecting their workmanship they
were starving their souls? And did
we not ourselves see the moral bank
ruptcy of Germany?
1t would be an exaggeration, of
course. to suggest that we are in any
such danger In America. Our common
ability to read and the myriad cheap
newspapers and magazines with which
we are blessed-and cursed-guaran-
tee a very considerable common stock
Of general information on all subjects
and every kind of human endeavor.
But this very safeguard illustrates
very well the point / am making. for
1T is only short time ago, as his
torians measure time, that this same
knowledge Of reading, which is now
universally recognized to be the most
practical of all accomplishments, was
regarded as a highly cultural study,
so much so that those that possessed
it were looked down upon with a
naughty disdain by those that studied
and exercised the more practical"
arts Of hunting. fishing. carousing and
fighting.
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coarse appeal to the passions of the
populace, and he habitually abandons
the principles Of political science to as
sail the characters of individuals, to
track them into private life and dis
close all their weaknesses and errors.
"The personal opinions of the editors
have no kind of weight in the eyes Of
the pubstc.''
Safnuel Bowles was a personal
journalist who criticized his craft more
constructively than the F'renchman.
The Republican under him became a
journal OF national influence through
its vigorous and continued denuncia-
ton of corrupt leaders and their con-
nection with politics.
II will be remembered that Bowles
was arrested through the efforts Of
Jim" Fisk, q corruptionist whom he
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Modern Life Too Complex to
Be Ruled by Technical Rules

And what is true of cooking is also
true of other practical courses. Mod
ern life in any civilized community is
intricately complex to a degree hither-
to unknown and undreamed OF. No one
can go far in the pursuit of any voca-
ton, however simple, or the explora-
tion of any phenomenon. however ap-
parent. without being forced to
acquaint hifnstelf with much larger
field of knowledge than he at first an
ticipated. 1t is the sin of practical"
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longer; so am going to be married
to one of the most splendid women in
intellect, In heart. in soul. in prop
erty, in person. in manner, that /
have yet seen in the course of my
interesting pilgrimage through human
life.
g. I must give the world
pattern of happy welded life, with all
the charities that spring from a nup-
tial love. In a few days I shall be
married according to the rites of the
most holy Christian Church to one of
the most remarkable, accomplished
and beautiful young women of the
age. she possesses a fortune.
.. Happily the patronage of
the public to THE HERALD is nearly
$4,000 dollars per annum. almost
equal to a Presidents salary.
Association, night and day, in sickness
and In health, in war and in peace
with a woman OF this highest order of
excellence, must produce some curious
results in my heart and feelings, and
these results the future will develop
in due time in the columns of THE
HERALD.
Meantime, / return my heartfelt
thanks for the enthusiastic patronage
of the public, both OF Europe and
America. The holy estate of wedlock
will only increase my desire to be
still more useful. God Almighty bless
you all. JAMES GoRDoN BENNETT"
Wien this outspoken editor, eager
to take the public into his most inti-
mate intimacy. died and with Henry
j. Raymond and Horace Greeley dead
short sighted persons started in to
say that the day for personal journal
ism had gone by and that impersonal
Journalism would take it's place.
They prophesied without taking Mr..
Dana into TIE account. nor did they
wait to see how his judgment Of per-
sonal journalism would be more than
justified by his own contemporaries
and by their successors.
MIR. Dana. however. realized what
some OF his contemporaries did not.
the fact that not so much the views
OF TIE editors as the news that the
papers contained would sell papers.
Thus we come back TO "Mnrse
Henry" and the quotation of some
wise words he wrote. Here they arc:
"As the world passes from the rule
OF force--force pf prowess. force of
habit. force of convention--to the rule
Of numbers, tEe daily Journal Is des-
tined, If It survives as power. TO be-
come the teacher the very Bible Vt
the people.
However impersonal It Ia news
paper) pretends to he, with whatever
or mystery 1t affects to enveiop Itself,
this public insists upon some Visible
presence. Thus personal journalism
cannot be escaped"
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were described to secondary arc be-
yond, thus making the three equal
divisions Of angle of primary arc and
all arcs toncentrically related. hM
There are various methods of apply
ing to the same result. 1t is not any
particular method of application but
the. principle itself to which we would
call attention.
: Having obtained a dividing unit in
the duodecimal system of numbers
by trisecting, it now is possible to go
on and construct arcs, angles and
circles having any desired number of
equal parts, both even and odd. 1t is
only necessary to bear in mind the
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have possessed have freely contrib
uted all my life to protection, to the
cause of our manufacturers; and the
manufacturers have expended millions
to defeat me. / even made myself ri
diculous in the opinion of many whose
good wishes i desired by showing fair
play and giving a fair field in the
Tribune to women's rights-and the
women have all gone against me-"
With this final personal plant
passed Horace Greeley. one of the
greatest OF American journalists, hui
man in his faults, human in his quail
ties. Better than any man of his time
he represented what is best and most
lasting In that kind of newspaper
making where the maker himself
chiefly counts.
What Greeley and the New York
Tribune were to the East Joseph Me-
dill and the Chicago Tribune were to
the West. George Henry Payne in his
History of Journalism" says of him:
without Greeley's temperamental
difficulties and without Greeleys great
ambition. Medil succeeded in devel-
oping n great newspaper. He
wrote to Horace Greeley to ask his
advice about the proposed third party
(Republican). We see from this how
easy II was for Greeley to influence
the country when men like Joseph
Medill looked to him as leader"
James Gordon Bennett and Henry
j. Raymond are names associated
with Greeley in the recognized trium-
virate Of personal Journalists preced-
ing the Dana and the younger Ben
nett era. Bennett was the first news
paper man who aspired to build an
institution that would be responsive
to him, and his paper was in the direct
line OF the development of personal
Journalism in America. Benefits
personal eccentricities," says Mr..
Payne, gave his enterprise an indi-
vidual flavor that caused the conserva-
tive element of society to view him
with horror, though the same cofiserv-
ative element came later to regard
THE NEW YORK HERALD as its special
organ and to look to IL for the proper
reports of its social doings."
Can imagination call up the figure OF
an editor to-day who would write the
kind OF personal tributes to himself
that were with Bennett OF frequent
occurrence? This is the way he an
nounced his forthcoming marriage:
To THE READERS or THE HERALD
DECLARATION or LovE--CAuuHr AT LAST
---GoiNo TO BE MARRiED-NEw MovE-
MENT IN CIVILIZATION.
''r am going to be married in few
days. The weather is so beautiful;
times are getting 80 good; the pros
poets of political and moral reforms so
auspicious that cannot resist the
divine instinct of honest nature any