Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 August 1897 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. 1897.

GOOD times are here and better times are at hand.

IT is said that Klonkike means "plenty of fish." It is to be hoped that they will not all prove to be "suckers."

LADY barbers have invaded Danville. Right on tbe heels of the strike of the saloon keepers this gives to that city a unique position on the map of Illinois.

IT is conservatively estimated that the wheat crop of tbe United States this year will be about 100,000,000 bushels more than last year, and the deficiency in Europe is estimated at 223,000,000 bushels.

ATCHISON, Kansas, the place where our new Methodist preacher comes from, is to have a curfew signal in the form of a powerful steam whistle, which will be blown at nine o'clock each night to warn the wandering youngsters to bed. It may be that the old familiar refrain will have to be amended to "Curfew Shall Not Toot To-night!"

THE car service superintendent of the Big Four says that not one of the ten divisions of the system has cars to handle the business offered. Not only is there a big movement of grain, but of miscellaneous freights, and that business must be taken care of as well as the grain traffic. This means prosperity all along the line of that magnificent system, Crawfordsville included, calamity Bhriekers to the contrary notwithstanding.

THE Louisville I'imcs, a Democratic paper, sings a different-song from the average Democrat organ when it sayB:

The clouds of gloom and depression have melted away from the face of the business world, and in their stead appear the rosy tints of confidence and hope. The old refrain* "There's a good time a-comin'," begins to have a meaning once more.

We commend these cheerful words to the calamity howlers that neck o' woods.

THE JOURNAL observes through its exchaDgeB that the township trustees throughout the State properly observe the law in regard to the publication of their annual reports. From these reports the tax payers are fully informed as to the receipts and expenditures, and they can see at a glance where every dollar of their money has gone. The only exception to this rule are the trustees of Montgomery county who doubtless have some good reason for withholding this valuable information from the people. The JOURNAI, would be glad to print any or all these reports if the trustees will furnish the copy.

TIIE London underground electric railway, which has found it advantageous to comc to the United States for an cquipmment, is laid in two deep tunnels, 85 feet below the surface. At present the length of single track is thirteen and a half miles, but the bystem will be extended. The current is taken from a third rail. There will be thirty-five locomotives, each hauling seven cars seating 300 persons. At the stations forty-nine high speed electric elevators of American design and make will be installed, each able to carry 100 passengers per trip at a speed of 1-0 feet per minute. The fare will be4 cents and the estimate of passengers is 48,000,000 per annum

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S civil service order is very generally commended by the press and the leading minds of the nation. It prohibits removal from government positions without specified cause and without giving the accused an opportunity to make defense, principle which everybody must com mend as fair and just and one which cannot but result in an improved con dition of the civil service of the coun try. To be sure, it is not pleasing to those spoilsmen who insisted that men should be removed from office simply because they were of another party, no matter how good their record had been, but it is thoroughly in line with the declarations of the Republican party, which, in its St. Louis platform assumed responsibility for the civil ser vice law and renewed its declarations that "it should be thoroughly and hon ebtly enforced an extended wherever practicable.'.'

IIOW TO KEEP HO ADS IX llEl'AlK. For many years the JOURNAL has urged the necessity of a road bvstem that would provide for constant repairs—that is, a system under which it will be Eomebody's duty to repair every defect in the road as soon as it appears. We have repeatedly urged that under such a 6y6tem we would have perfect roadB, and that, too, with a lessened taxation for repairs In support of our position on the subject we take pleasure in publishing the following article from the Youth's Companion:

The country roads in England are well made with deep foundatiouH and ample provision for drainage. Finer examples of the road-maker's art can not be found anywhere else in the world. Scientific construction wou\d not protect them, however, if they aid not receive constant supervision and daily care. They ate never allowed to pet out of order.

The road mender is always on the ground, and he is constantly at work. Whenever he detects signs of wear at points where the water does not drain off rapidly after a heavy rain, he met-ds the break by filling in a barrow of broken flint, supplies of which are stored by the roadside ever half mile He is a scavenger as well as a road mender. He goes over the road every day and removes everything which is unsightly, Owing to his unremitting care, the road is always free from litter as well as in perfect repair.

There are no ditches at the sides there are no ragged ruts or pools of water in the center there are neither stones nor stumps of trees, nor refuse to disfigure the roadways, and there is a homely sense of tidinesss and orderliness which is a source of delight to everyone passing over it.

The road mender is hired to keep his section of the roadway in order. If he neglects his work, a more faithful man is put in his place. There is a road inspector for every division of the county, and he has control of the road menders of his section. The inspector acts under the direction of a subcommittee of a large committee of the county council.

An American expert estimates that 840.000,000 is expended annually in the United States on the highways without material improvement from repairs. If the English obtain better results at lower cost, it is because the systematic care of their roads iB a practical detail of common sense, efficient local srovernment. They have good roads because they pay for them in local taxation, and insist upon having them kept in order. With the same painstaking care, American country roads could be made to minister to the comfort and pleasure of rich and poor alike.

SCHOOLS of industry are what are needed in the United States, where American youth can be instructed in all the advances of modern science applied to manufactures commerce and the arts. There could be no greater benefaction to industrial America than the multiplication of them until theyshall be found in every important center atid for every branch of trade In this respect the countries of the Old World have furnished a lesson which this country might imitate with profit. The Kingdom of Saxony, small as it is, has no less than 111 technical institutions, including 10 of agriculture and 40 of commerce. Prussia has 200 6uch schools, with over 12,000 pupils 35 of the schools for painters and decorators, 10 for tailors, 9 for shoemakers, and so on. Every trade has at least one. The Iloyal Government appropriates 8600,000 a year for their support, besides liberal sudsidies from towns and cities, Berlin alone paying S70.000 a year. Baden, with only 1,600,000 population, spends 8280,000 a year on technical schools. Hesse,with 1,000,000 population, has 83 schools of design, 43 of manufacturing industries and many others for artisans of various trades. Bavaria, Wurtemberg and other States have similar systems.

The whole German people are being educated scientifically in the arts of industrial production. Certainly American industrialism ought not to lag behind its rivals of the Old World. 5

"BIIADSTEEETS," which is recognized as a most conservative publication, summarizes the business situation: "1. That the crops are good. "2. That the price of wheat and cotton has so greatly advanced as 10 nour scores of millions of dollars into the laps of the farmers, while the price of other staples has advanced in sympathy with these. "3. That short crops in Europe, India and Argentina assure a continuance of these high prices during the market season. "4. That merchants everywhere are leplenishing their 6tocks of goods as they have not done for several years past. "5. That in consequence railroad earnings everywhere show improvement. '.**• "6. That there are already signs of revival in industry, the manufacturers beginning to anticipate the new demand for goods. "7. That our exports for the last year have been so enormously in excess of our imports as to make us very heavily a creditor nation—a condition that does not guarantee prosperity but tends strongly to help it. "8. That there is everywhere among the farmers a feeling of hopefulness which has not existed for several years past."

MR BRYAN has not made any inquiries in the last few days about "general prosperity." He evidently concludes that the subject is is one for him and his followers to avoid."

MATTHEWS AND MOUNT. The New Albany Public Press, a Democratic paper of the straitest sect, makes a comparison between Matthews, the Democrat, and Mount, the Republican, not unfavorable to the latter. In its issue of August 4 this parallel is drawn:

When Democrats were searching with a lantern for a farmer to run for Governor in 1892, Claude Matthews was stumbled over and he became an accident. He turned out to be the tool of corporations and soon became the toady to wealth and power. He is known everywhere as a shadeitree farmer, a counterfeit Democrat, a peanut politician and a repudiated demagogue.

When the coal barons reduced the wages of coal miners to the starvation point and they resisted, Matthews, clothed with a little brief authority and being "commander of the army and navy of Indiana," called out the militia to shoot down the poor, helpless and dependent workingmen who had grievously offended railroad magnates and corporation greed.

Governor Mount, a Republican and an actual farmer, seems to maintain his official dignity and exhibits a feeling of humanity, by appealing to the people of the State to assist in any way to feed the starving miners and their families instead of putting the State to the expense of calling out the troops to murder men who believe they have been wronged.

Small men imagine they are statesmen and lords bv the the intemperate U6e of brief official authority big, brainy, humane men grow in public esteem and become great by exercising as little authority as possible.

RESUMPTION of work in mills and factories goes merrily on, with raising of wages and all the other outward and yisible signs of returning and 'increasing prosperity.

ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

Some Good Suggestions on This Important Subject by a Farmer,

To the Editor Journal. Last week you published an article that I intended as a note or private letter. I did not say that it was not for publication but I had written on both sides of the paper. There is nothing in it, however, that I am unwilling to see in print excepting the last paragraph. In that I said I would like to see men ^nd women to come and see me. This without explanation seems egotistical. As I did not write for publication I might say in a private note what would not be becoming in a newspaper article. My reason for writing to Mr. McCain was the fact that he has taken an active part in road making ever since I first read tbe JOURNAL, or since it has been under his contrc^. And my reason for making the requestxis that my wife can hear for me, and we cannot very well leave home together./.'4-Now let me say through the paper in part, what I would have said in private consultation with friends.

We must to some extent give public help to the poor because so much labor is running to waste through enforced idleness. If we can get up an organization that v?ill command the respect and confidence of the people we can employ many hundreds of days in road improvement.

Let me suggest that an organization be formed with A. Ramsey as President, with other officers and and Executive Committee to help him. Road improvement is coming to the front as one of the most important questions of the day, and anv improvement that is intended to make better roaus, with the purpose of giving employment to the idle voter will be popular throughout the country. The county fair authorities might aid the work by giving a part of their receipts on certain conditions. If the fair would give a certain per cent, of its receipts if the people would attend in such numbers as to make the receipts equal to the average of the past ten years. A very much larger attendance could be secured to the fair than will be there without some special inducement or they might grant some special privilege on the ground. The organization would require headquarters and a labor and produce exchange might be carried on to advantage at such headquarters. More might be added but this is enough to arrest the attention of those who wish to see labor in better condition by giving it some em ployment in road improvement.

SAMUEL B. HUJFGEN.

JH r. IScnuett Hugged.

James Bennett, from the bucolic solitude of Round Hill, rode into the city Monday afternoon on his wheel. He visited several dispensaries where malt vinous and other intoxicating liquors are kept on tap. In a very brief space of time he was dead to the world. He managed to drag himself in the rear of a Washington street saloon and stretched himself out on a bay wagon for an afternoon's sleep Complaint was made to the police station of his pres ence and Officer Grimes placed hitn in jail. He was up before the Mayor Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication. He left his bicycle as security until he could visit home folks and secure a loan.

A Flfly-Xwo I'ouiuier.

The JOURNAL force luxuriated in a mammoth fifty-two pound watermelon Wednesday sent with the compliments of Barnhill.Hornaday & Pickett. It was one of the first car load of the Posey county fruit.

ADMISSION OF WOMEN.

The Opinions of Eminent. Educators in Favor of Greater Educational Privileges.

In addition to forojer treatises along this line, we wish to present the testimony of other educators upon tbe question of admission of women to colleges. At the Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, the experiment has proven satisfactory. President Charles F. Thwing under date of July 17, 1897, thus writes: "Let me thank you for' your letter of«yesterday. In answer to its questions I beg to say: First, the co-ordin-ate plan (is exceedingly satisfactory. Second, whether it is a better plan or not so good as co-education is a question that depends upon the local environment of the college and also upon the individual students who are in the college. I think it is better for some boys to be educated with girls and also for some girls to be educated with boys. On the other hand, I think it is better for some boys to be educated with boys only and for some girls to be educated with girls only. Therefore your question is not to be answered by theory or category. It is a question the answer to which depends upon the personal and scholastic conditions. For us in Cleveland I am very sure that the co-ordinate system is better than any other."

The Assistant Dean of the Woman's Department of Oberlin, Ohio, has this to say: "Your letter of July 15, addressed to the President of Oberlin College has been handed me for reply. I answer your inquiries in order as numbered in yqur letter: 1. Ladies were admitted to this institution when first opened in 1833 2. They are received on equal terms and all course^ of study arc open to ladies as well as gentlemen. Formerly a course called 'Ladies' Course' was maintained which resembled the courses of the Female Seminaries of that day, but this was discontinued a number of years since, and while this was one of the regular courses of the college ladies were free to pursue the regular classical courses if they so desired, and many preferred to do so. 3. Yes, emphatically. (They sustain themselves) 4. Yes. There are four halls in which young ladies have rooms, and young men are received as table boarders only. Many young women Jive in private families in the village and in small boarding houses. Young men board, but do not have rooms, at the same houses as the young women. 5. Co-education is highly satisfactory. 6. The opinion at Oberlin is general that co-edu-cation is more natural and in every way more satisfactory than co-ordina-tion. 7. In the college classes th^ young men somewhat outnumber the young women usually, but the last catalogue gives the numbers equal. In the academy the young men outnumber the young women. In the conservatory of music young women are more numerous."

At Granville, Ohio, are located the co-ordinated schools Shepardson College and Denison University. "By joint action of the respective boards of trustees, the library, museum, laboratories and class rooms of the latter institution are open to the students of Shepardson College, which is thus provided with exceptional facilities for the prosecution of its work. The cottage system, which secures to young ladies many advantages of a home, has been adopted, and proves uatisfactory." The late catalogue says: "The two institutions herein catalogued have no organic connection, but are laboring harmoniously, each in its own sphere, under the same presiding officer, in the interest of higher education."

Before his death President Mcllvaine of Evelyn College, at Princeton, N' J., wrote this word regarding the advantage in location: "We think that the care and attention which are given at Evelyn to the everyday life of the students, and the training which they receive in social requirements combined with our high collegiate advantages, is a new phase in the education of girls."

Ex-President John says: "God made the sexes to be developed together. Whoever would separate them antagonizes the thought of God. They are put together in the family. They develop physically from food eaten at the same table, from air breathed in the same dwelling "and from sunshine illuminating the same play-ground. They develop iusthetically from precept and example under the same roof. Tbey develop socially by commingling in the same circle. They develop morally and spiritually from the same divine word read from the same book and expounded from the same pulpit. Why then should that which is called education but which includes all the kinds of development just enumerated, together with the evolution of mental power, be made a single exception to the divine plan, and be made to demand the separation of what nature has joined together? The sexes are complimentary. The best education of the one demands the presence of the other. Let not the leaders in educa-

famous' tion quarrel with God's plan, but rather fall in with it."

Ex President John M. Coulter while at Indiana University thus ex jrei-f-ed his views: As I know nothiug of the University before they (women) were here I cannot tell whether the effr-ct has been salutary or not. but so far as I can compare with those institutions, which have not admitted ladies, their their presence is a decided benefit, They are admitted to all clashes upen equal terms with men. There are no dormitories for any students, and the ladies manage to be as independent in all matters of living and study as tl young men. I have never favored the annex system as I am familiar with its workings at Harvard, and know that it is a mere trilling with the question. In the annex the girls are never put upon equal footing with the boys. An annex has always seemed to me a good way of answering the question how not to do it."

The late President Young, of Centre College, Danville, Ky., in writing of the proposed co-ordination of Caldwell Female College, said: "I believe it will prove a great success, and in our case I much prefer it to co education."

From the foregoing quotations from prominent leaders in education it will be manifest that tbero is a difference of opinion as to the relative advantages of co ordinatedand co-education-al systems in vogue. This much, however, is evident. The affiliation of men and women in their education, in some form, is emphatically affirmed, as being desirable. No good reason is offered why the sexes may not with perfect propriety bs educated at the same institution. T. D. F.

WHITESVILLE.

The threshing is all done in this vicinity. Dr. Fall movsd to his farm at Garfield last week.

Several from here were in Crawfordsville Saturday. Agent Grissom sold nineteen tickets to Battle Ground Sunday.

Mrs Chas. Crooks is spending the week with Putnam county friends Sam Campbell and family, of Ladoga, visited at Mrs. Jose Goble'8 Sunday.

The ladies of the Universalist church will give an ice cream supper Saturday night.

A large number from here attended the Broach-Sanders suit at Crawfordsville Tuesday.

Joe and Anna Weeks, Henry Forgy, Isham Everson and Phillip Guntle attended the Bainbridge fair last week.

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In the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on the 5th day of August, 1897.

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Loans and discounts 836.905.05 Overdrafts 1,151.91 Duo from banks and bankers 10,178..'17 Banking house 1.829.74 Furniture aud fixtures 1,421.55 Current expenses 658.69 Tuxes paid 194 49 Premiums 78.56 Currency 3.379.00 Specie 1,560.49 Cash items 712.83

Total $58,060.68 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid iu 125,000.00 Surplus fund 2,650.00 Undivided profits 80.14 Discount, exchange and Interest.'.... 1,898 80 Dividends unpaid 240.00 Individual deposits on demand 25,74' .05 Individual deposits on t'me 2.500.00

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