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Evening star., 1925-05-24
Schools of Nation Breaking Away
From Machine-Made Education

of the term by examinations, instead of hav-
ing to turn In written work daily. At the
same time there are countless outside activ-
tiles. like foot ball. dances and fraternities,
to tempt him away from his books.
so the whole idea behind the Orientation
week is to adjust the freshman to his new
life. He is taught how to take notes, how to
follow lectures, how to plan his time He is
allowed to attend a few dances and athletic
games just so he will find out about the
outside activities which sap his strength and
time. And, in the end, he is better prepared
for college and not nearly so many of his
class funk out before the end of the year"
English vs.. U. s. Education
What do you think of the criticism that
American schools are inferior to English
schools?" I asked DIR. Tigert.
The criticism is easy to make because
most people think that the American public
school Is the same what the British call
their public schools. Eton and Rugby
called public schools, but they more
elusive than some of millonaires' private
institutions. 1t takes money to enter them
but it takes more than money to enter Eton
and Rugby. They are public in name, but
most exclusive in practice. Top hats in the
daytime and dinner jackets in tho evening
is the style there.
ION the other hand, our American public
schools are the most democratic in the world.
We take students from every walk of
life from gutter and tenement. and give them
one or the DeSt eQuCdtlOnS Inerc Is 10 Oe ndu
any place.
"The public school system is peculiar to
American democracy. England has the equiv
alent of a caste system The people of its
different castles do not mingle together in
any way. They do not even speak the same
language. The whites and the blacks of our
South are strictly segregated racially. but
even they speak the same language even to
the same accent. But the different classes
in England such different accent that
it is frequently dificult for them to under
stand each other"
Love of Education Grows
How does the American school system
rank in comparison with that of other coun-
tries?" was the last question I put to DR..
Tigert.
This country ranks ninth in literacy. which
means that our system of teaching people how
to read and write is worse than that which
exists in nine other countries. But most OF
the countries which rank ahead Of us are
small and compact. like Denmark, Holland
and Sweden They have homogeneous popu-
lations while ours is the most racially mixed
on earth. In Germany they require their kids
to go to school almost at the point of
bayonet. We less efficient, but sometimes
| think we get further in the long run.
There is one thing that we can be proud OF.
That is the desire for education in the coun-
try. It is illustrated by the colleges. They
. are turning away almost more students than
they can accommodate. We can't educate all
our people overnight, but we can say that
the love of education is spreading more
quickly here than in any other country IN
the world"
Evening star., 1925-05-24

This lack of correlation is natural when
you consider the history of the high school.
II is comparatively recent and unfinished
product. Remember that the colleges of this
country are very old. William and Mary,
Harvard and Yale were all founded back be-
fore the country itself became an Independent
nation. The second step was the public
school, which in those days a grammar
school only. The high school was an after
thought II organized to bridge the gap
between the grammar school and the college.
Since il is young, il is still in the rough. II
will change very much the colleges help
TO guide it.
AT present some universities, like Maine
and Chicago. are giving excellent co-opera
ton TO the high schools. They hold what is
called 'Orientation week. That means that
they set aside week before college starts.
when all the freshmen come up early and get
broken in at the game of going to college.
College Life Different.
Remember that going to college is tre-
mendously big thing for the average boy or
girl Just out of high school. The work, the
method of attending class, the system OF
studying is entirely different. Instead of
being watched all the time, the college stu
dent is free and on his own. Instead of being
forced to attend classes. the college man can
cut more or less at his discretion. He is held
responsible for this work chiefly at the end
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Others Paid But Not America.

our entire system of government is
based. If a small minority can halt
the progress of legislation and delay
the public business, what becomes OF
our boasted majority government? It
is not only minority rule, but 1t sets
aside the verdicts of the country as
they are recorded in elections in CIV
ing approval to policies enunciated by
those whom the majority Of the peo-
pie commission to serve the country
as the directing majority in govern
ment. 1t is, as Lincoln said in his first
inaugural: IF the minoritv will not
acquiesce, the majority must-or the
Government must cease
In correcting this manifest abuse 1t
is not necessary to abridge a single
power vested = Congress by the Con-
stitution: nor B 1t necessary to invade
in anv degree the just and proper
rights of minorities. 1t was intended
that public business should be openly
transacted and that decisions should
be arrived at only after aniplest dis
cussion. 1t is by no means necessary
to establish gag" rule to abolish the
rule that allows f1libuster ambuscades.
Indeed, to abolish the fllibuster is to
facilitate the discussion of business
~~operly the dutv Of Congress to con-
slider.
In focusing public attention on the
need for 6revision of-the .Se0ate's
procedures the Vice President fs4V Voic-
ing the opinion OF many Senaa0.R and
a ~ublic conviction that legislative
processes should be }iberalized whsre
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Paprika Plentiful
Hungary Is Happy

I'm die luft, in die luft fiegt die pap
rika," or I'm the air, in the air, flew
the paprika-" SO goes a popular Wen
nese refrain which makes a little fun
at the expense of the Hungarians.
For 1t is we'll known how necessary
paprika is to life in Hungary. What
would be goulash or gypsy music
without paprika? And an American,
a Mr.. Gilbert, proprietor Of the Hotel
Astoria in Budapest, once had a cor
ner on the paprika supply! That was
back in 1920. Now there is an over
production Of paprika in Hungary
In Szegedin there are more than so
carloads of ground and l20 carloads
of unground paprika- The producers
are trying to influence the Hungarian
government to abolish the export
taxes in order to enable them to sell
the surplus abroad, Perhaps, there
fore, paprika will soon fly more freely
in the air over Vienna and other
European cities. Americans also buy
paprika from Hungary, but for them
Il must be swee.ened.i
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Butler Calls on His Party
To Cird for Fight in 1926

pendent candidate in case Tammany
rejected him.
Then he seemed to have slipped
cog in his failure of McCooey, the
Brooklyn leader, to swing into line
for his nomination. In the past fort
night there have been several indica
.tions Of the unlikelihood Of Mr.
McCooey, with his strong Kings
County following, taking up the
mained silent, letting his threat OF
Hylan or split Democratic party soak
in upon the faction which Is baking
at Mr.. Hylan's nomination. Mr..
Hearst thinks that he has the whip
hand in the situation and that it
rests with the Tammany leaders to
have peace or war in the party.
Wants Citizens Ticket.
The latest development in the
coming fight between the Republicans
and the Democrats over the election
Of a mayor in November Is the de-
termination of the Republicans Of New
York County that they must abandon
thought of a straight Republican
ticket for the campaign and substi-
tute a fusion ticket. Chairman Co
neig of the New York County COM
mittee told members of their organ
iZation at a meeting last week that
the substitution of one Tammany
man for another would not solve the
problem of shaking off Tammany's
stranglehold upon the city.
He insisted upon the nomination Of
a citizens ticket behind which all ele-
ments determined to see the city re-
deemed from misrule could unite He
said that whatever Hylan Is, Tam
many is his partner. Tammany men
occupy all the public offices. The
organization in every instance has sup
ported the so-called Hylan policies,
whether in the board Of estimates, in
the Legislature or in the city or State
campaigns and Jointly they fool the
people on subways and the other is
sues. Tammany and Hylan must
stand or fall together.
McAdOo's Trip East.
Mr.. McAdoo's eastern journey from
the coast has been by easy stages.
during which he has stopped Off in
several cities to consult with local
Democratic leaders who are his
friends. He expects to remain several
days in New York City. His trip has
been attended by conflicting reports
as to his objective
Some Of his friends have denied that
he .is working on his presidential cam.
paign, but reports persist to the con-
trary. The prevailing accepted be-
lief Is that they are stirred by recent
activities Of Gov. Smith. Democratic
politicians who are not favorable to
the nomination of either Mr.. McAdoo
or Mr.. Smith have been aroused with
a consequent recurrence of discussion
in opposition to these gentlemen.
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Life i'm the Far Country.

together and took his journey into far
country and there wasted his substance
spent al. there arose a mighty famine in
that land: and he began TO be in want.
And he went and Joined himself to cit
lEen OF that country: and he sent him
into his fields to feed swine. And he
would fam have filed his belly with the
husks that the swine did eat. and no
man gave unto him.
w HnS ns'ion an ,urna inaI''SSs, s%sy ?F }ro% "a
~ God, from the conscious
ness of a vital relation to,
as we'll as responsibility to
God. life's finest interests are i'm
periled. The moral degeneracy of
nations has marked the way of their
swift decline. During the Reign of
Terror in Paris an attempt was made
to abolish God and all sacred institu-
tions. For the figure of the Virgin
in Notre Dame. there was set up in
the sacred place an effigy of a low
creature of the streets. Seeing the
folly of this, Robespierre declared
that if God were abolished from the
life of the nation today, the people
would invent a new god tomorrow.
The normal life of the Individual, as
we'll as of the nation. demands the
recognition of the sovereignty of
God.
In the parable from which the
above passage is taken, the great
Master attempted to show that aliena-
tion from God, or life in the far
country. spells out disappointment.
disillusionment and moral degeneracy.
The phrase far country" is an apt
one, for it implies not only alienation
from life'S normal environment, but a
new set of conditions that are inimical
to all that makes for happiness and
Jesus described. away from all home
wasted his substance in riotouS liv-
ing" The Substance" he wasted
was not merely his material posses
sions, but the finer things of his
moral nature. In fine, he deliberately
cut himself loose from every influence
that contributed to his moral char
acter. Once he had done this his de-
cline was swift and certain. With the
loss of Substance" went the loss of
self-respect.
There is a deep significance in the
Masters word that when "he had
spent all, there arose mighty famine
In that land, and he began to be in
want" and hiring himself to a citizen
he was sent into the field to feed
swine. No single statement could
have more strikingly suggested the
utter degeneracy of the young man.
The whole story finds abundant
illustration in incidents that lie about
us every day.
The world is full of men and women
who have had some far country eX-
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Gamer Backs Vice President i'm Senate Reform

ness. In the Nset session the Senate
should give early consideration to this
necessary business of setting it's house
in order.
Copyright. 1e25)
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Americas Debt-Funding Policy
AS 1t Affects Europe Now Fixed

to all of debtors alike, irrespective OF
the amounts they owe us.
9 France. Italy, Belgium and all others
concerned have been given to understand
that under circumstances will the United
States consent to fund the debts in con-
nection with German reparations payments
France and others can do their bookkeeping
in their own way and propose certain
schemes of payment to the United States,
but the latter will not consent to becoming
involved directly or indirectly, with repa-
rations. Reparations one thing, and
the money owing us by allied powers is
entirely another thing. America Will insist
that they be. kept wholly apart
g. The Coolidge administration will con-
duct funding negotiations in Washington
and nowhere else. If proposals are made
that we send commissioners to Europe, or
let Europe deal with our diplomatic repre-
sentatives there, such proposals will be re-
jected.
A. At least two governments, Italy and
Belgium which owe us, respectively. S2,13s.-
900 900 and $3.50 100000 desire to await our
funding settlement with France before COM
ing to terms with These governments
have been informed that such suggestion
does not meet with American approval.
Our policy is to deal with each debtor ma
ton entirely independently of any other
s. The United States. in accordance with
President Coolidges message to Congress on
December 3, 1874, Will lIlSlSt uPoH lie iiShI
to fund European debts on the basis OF ca
pacity to pay. Mr.. Coolidges exact words
were: Terms and conditions may have to
conform to differences in the financial abili-
ties of the countries concerned.
g. At the outset of negotiations with any
debtor nation it will be informed that cancel
lation of it's obligations to the United States
Treasury either in part or in whole, is not
a debatable question.
Others Paid But Not America.
States that a whole series of interallied debt
settlements has been going on in Europe dur
ng the past year or two. Some of the small
,r nations like Rumania. Czechoslovakia and
have been liquidating so-called
,ostra1. ..relief credits" to countries like Great
Evening star., 1925-05-24

T HE following is a brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
i seven days ended May %:
Evening star., 1925-05-24

AVE the public schools of this country
- become mere educational factories to
turn out students with single-track
- y a.LGnir o-xaa.ad do do q
Evening star., 1925-05-24

Affairs do not seem to be going
smoothly for Mayor Hylan in his cam.
paign to capture the Democratic nomi-
nation for the mayoralty. Everything
was lovely and the goose hung high
for a halcyon period after William r..
Hearst came to his support with
threat ut nominating him as an inde-
Evening star., 1925-05-24

of Morocco, whose authority in the
territory under the French protec-
torate France Is obligated by treaty
to uphold against aggression from
without or disaffection within. Such
betrayal would compromise. perhaps
fatally, the entire French position in
Africa: moreover, it would give an
immense impetus to that revolt of
Islam" of which the premonitory
rumblings are audible to a good
many giaours. The French Chamber
meets tomorrow. May 25; conjecture
is rife as to whether or no the Social
lists will then make a common cause
with the Communists in repudiating
the empire. A powerful argument for
trucking to Abdul krim is the i'm
mense cost of the Moroccan opera
tions at time when France is
financially peculiarly embarrassed.
The Painleve government would go
down before Communist-Sociali
combination unless, contrary to en-
phatic protestations. Painleye should
consent to be succored by the Right.
Spain.-A royal decree. promulgated
on the 18th, announces the following
Constitutional guarantees are re-es-
tablished The state of siege de-
clared by the military governors of
the provinces and in the Balearic and
Canary Islands on September Is,
1928, is hereby lifted.
Matters which under the state of
siege have come under the jurisdic-
ton of the military tribunals again
return to the ordinary courts OF law
unless by their special nature they
are reserved by the courts for the
IL s,.,, .zIs
The decree is silent concerning
Parliament, but 1t is to be presumed
that ere long Spain will have another
Parliament. Primo de Rivera has
organized a party called the Polit-
ical Union. II, as reported, it has
a membership Of a million, it should
be able to dominate elections. The
declared object of it's formation is
continuance by it of the work OF the
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-23
ALL COMBINE AGAINST
DIAMOND CREEK DAM

''If permit is granted for the Dia-
mond creek project it probably will
have the same effect as to the Colo
RADIO river that the lifting of the en-
barge has in the Rio Grande valley"
says Gov. A. T. Hannett of New Mex
leo. 81 think it would mean the
death knell of the Colorado compact" /"
State Engineer George M. Neel
left this week for Washington, d. C., to
represent New Mexico at the hearing
before the federal power commission
on permit sought by James Girand
to build a hydro-electric project on
the Diamond creek site of the Colo
RADIO basin.
''This state is opposed to granting
the permit" said Mr.. Neel. 1T would
make it impossible to work out the
terms of the Colorado river compact
In our Judgment it would deprive New
Mexico of the share of water allotted
it under the compact"
Mr.. Neel said he believed all states
in the basin, except Arizona, We're OPP
posed to the granting of the permit
although he was not thoroughly in
formed as to this, his chief interest in
the matter being with respect to
what effect it would have on. develop
ment in New Mexico.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-23
MOTORIST in QUANDARY
ON KEKBY'S AUTO RULE

"Ihe certificate Of title" says the
second paragraph on the application
blank of the motor vehicle depart
ment Of James H. Kerby's office
t'need not be carried on the motor We
hicle. 1t should be kept, in a secure
place as are other valuable documents,
since after once issued, its possession
will be necessary to prove title and
its assignment necessary to sell a mo-
tor vehicle"
A we'll known Prescott automobile
owner got that far in the perusal of
instructions and duly filled out the
laborious blank Then he hannened
to open the costly 40-page book Of
blah which Mr.. Kerby has purchased
with the taxpayers money and dis
covered on the second page lot of
Facts every motorist should know"
He started reading. and lol he came
to fact No. z, which Isl as follows:
"Your license registration certifi-
cate and certificate of title should be
CARRIED WITH YOU AT ~ALL
TIMES, as a means of Identification. !"
The motorist scratched his head,
I'm between h and the iron
works, now" he said.
Seizing the envelope which the sec
retary of state had thoughtfully pro-
vided for mailing the various applica-
tion blanks-and remittances-to his
office, the citizen CRASHED his teeth
and with a stubby lead pencil, struck
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-23
LOCAL BREVITIES
+*+*+s++#**++++*s :

Halloween decorations at Brooks
store.
Uniformity of excellence is charac-
teristic of photography at the Carson
studio.
Mrs. Jessie Ladd returned the first
of the week from Phoenix, where she
had been on business and visiting
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. E. Mccullough will
return to Prescott today after a week
here. About the first of the year they
hope to be back to stay.
Miss E. j. McAndrews of Phoenix,
representing the Arizona Daily Ga
zette, is here this week working up
circulation for that paper.
Lee Doyle went to Los Angeles
Sunday on business with the Lasky
Motion Picture corporation, which
sent for him. Lee will combine a GER
tain amount Of pleasure with his busl-
ness trip which will last about two
weeks.
M. ]. Pilkington got home the first
of the week from Omaha, where he
attended the American Legion conven-
tion and met a lot of buddies from his
former outfit in reunion. Later he
spent a few days at the home OF a
brother in Iowa, hunting.
DR.. C. L. Goodrich and wife and two
children of Fayetteville, Tenn, ar
rived Sunday for ten days visit
with Mrs. o. G. Womack and family.
Mrs. Goodrich and Mrs Womack are
sisters. On Tuesday they were mem
bers of a party which visited Grand
Canyon.
DIR. Vaughn S. Mcclure, chairman,
Tommy Long, Carl Dickinson, d.
Charles Ploussard and w. NJ. Cady Jr.,
have been named by the local Elks
lodge with instructions to get busy
and frame up entertainment programs
for each and all of the regular meet
ings of the lodge between now and
spring.
Sigurd Ehrenborg, jag mastare, or
forester, from Sweden arrived Satur-
day to spend a week at southwest
forest experiment station, as the
guest of G. A. Pearson, director, while
studying our forest conditions. He is
impressed with the clearness of our
air and with the unique beauty of our
scenery.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-23
PROPOSES GREAT NORTH
AND SOUTH HIGHWAY

A highway from Fredonia through
the Kaibab forest, thence by bridge
across the Colorado river at Lees
Ferry to Cameron, ending at Flag
staff, would make highway straight
across the northern Arizona strip,
connecting with the Old Spanish Trail
highway at Flagstaff and continuing
to Prescott, thence over the Hassa-
yampa Trail highway into Phoenix.
Such highway would, without
question, prove the most alluring tour
ist and vacationist route in any part
Of the country.
Conservatively speaking, thousands
of people could be brought into Ari-
zona and many thousands into Phoe-
nix on their way to and from Cali
fornia.
Such a highway would also lure
thousands of people from California
in the summer to spend their sum
mer vacation in northern Arizona.
This could be built by federal and
state aid, also funds from the forest
reserve could be obtained.
This highway will do the state
more good than any other highway
Phoenix Gazette.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-23

water tour enjoyed and reproduced
delightfully."- and faithfully her Jour
ney up the inside coast passage of
British Columbia and Alaska. High
lights were sparkling blue waters,
luxuriantly clad precipitous noun
tain sides, salmon leaping waterfalls,
tin cans, both empty and filled in
astounding numbers, glaciers in ac-
ton, seagulls, reindeer, placer gold,
mosquitoes and loss of sleep. Both
speakers we're given rousing apprecia-
tions.
Mrs. ]. O. Fordyce interpreted with
expression McDowelPs Moonlight"
MisssNatalie Sterling of Teachers col
lege gave an exquisitely interpreted
Chinese conceit in a graceful costume
dance.
Mrs. Lorna Jessup and Mrs. Estelle
Bjerg arranged the program and con-
structed attractive individual pro-
grams in which appeared this toast
composed by Mrs. Bjerg:
"Here'sEo the land that our hearts
entWirle-
Natureslovers' paradise, where the
sun u0tn zSfllfe;
Land where the San Francisco noun
tains rise
Till their peaks are lost in the cloud
rift skies;
Where the tall pines cast their
shadows long,
And the bullfinch MARBLES forth his
song;
Where twilight stealing chases the
dawn
In the bottomless crevice Of the Can.
yon's yawn;
And the enchanted desert is painted
aglow
In hues more vivid than the gay rain.
bow
Here's to the land of western splen
dor
Our Flagstaff country in all het
GRANDEUR"
The Rebekah ladies who SO gaily
decorated their dining room with pro-
cessions of Halloween cats, bats and
witches and served the appetizing
viands were Mrs. e. G. Mills, Mrs.
Lois Jones, Mrs. Charles Phillips,
Miss Rebecca Spear and Miss Emma
Piump.
New members are Miss MarcelIa
Sandon, Miss Louise Wild and Miss
Olive McNerney, all teachers.