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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1904)
PAG TOUlk ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19. Che morning JMorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. 3y mail, per year $6 00 Ij mail, per month ,'. 50 By flftrriers, per pnnth 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOItlAX. By mjul, per year, in advance $1 00 yiHi QNgg H C ERRATIC, PERHAPS, BUT BENEFICIAL. There is some good in nearly everything if it can yst be pointed out. Quite recently newspaper writers have been furnishing the public with all the ietails of the extravagance of a young New Yorker, who has engaged apartments at a metropolitan hotel at a cost of a fortune a year, and who has arranged for filtered air and other things of like nature. Most f us, perhaps, have put the young fellow down lor crazy, but he is, if we accept the Examiner's Tersion of it, quite a public benefactor. Our San Francisco contemporary says: i: j. A very tall young man, named Mr. Thomas, has rented in New York city a hotel apartment for him elf and wife at the rate of forty-five thousand dol krs per year. Mr. Thomas' father worked hard, jbung Mr. Thomas is playing hard which is a good filing. When one man rolls up a snowball, the best possible thing is for the sun to melt it And when father rolls up a great money ball, the best pos ble thing, usually, is for the son to melt that. In the course of melting his money baU Mr. Thomas has rented these very fine apartments, and fte reporters describe them in detail The air in the room is filtered; dust and microbes have to stay outside. There is an arrangement which makes it possible for the rich- young man to regulate the temperature by merely turning a dial. The ordinary individual reading the description f Mr. Thomas' apartments would think it useless waste, foolish extravagance. But the ordinary indi vidual would be mistaken, as usual. The wild lux- wry of today is the ordinary man's way of living tomorrow. Those' things which we all take for granted now would recently have been looked upon as foolish, insane extravagance.. f The great Queen Elizabeth had no spring .'bed, bo carpet on her floor, no airtight windows, no bath tuh of hot and cold water. ; She would have been vastly surprised could she lave been told that in the American country, of which Drake and Raleigh told her wild stories, there would one day live millions of people with earpets on their floors, bath tubs in their flats, and tunning water everywhere. ' Only, a few years ago the man who wanted to ee pipes laid to supply water would have been com pelled to dig up some ancient Roman bath. Today the laws of a civilized city compel the owner to upply running water, even to the poorest tenement louse dweller. 5 Everybody ought to breathe pure, filtered air; tvery person especially the mother of young chil dren should be able to regulate the temperature tf an apartment at will. The "extravagant" features of Mr. Thomas' liv ing rooms will be ordinary, every-day commonplaces . lefore long. Someone must begin by encouraging auch things, and it might as well be young Mr. Thomas, who has the money and who is not other wise engaged. Such young men are useful in paying for ex pensive extravagance in the way of health devices last automobiles, or other useful inventions. Their automobile toy of today will in the future be used ly workingmen, and will curb the railroad and atreet car trusts. The ordinary citizen would consider Mr. Thomas' apartments very luxurious, compared with his own. But Queen Elizabeth, before mentioned, would look with envy at the living arrangements of the or dinary suburban commuter. She had to wear a nightcap to keep her from meezing; she had to have her bed ironed with a pan f hot coals to drive away the dampness; she had wore than a thousand dresses, but not a cake of de tent soap, nor a porcelain tub, nor steam heat, nor a decent carriage. Mrs. Jones, out in the suburbs, is better off than he was. And in a few years Mrs. Jones will be Eving more comfortably than Mr. Thomas is living bow. He is a pioneer, and he is useful like the aaan who risks his life in a flying machine. the race for the Vanderbilt trophy on Long Island protest 1 against the use of the roads and went to the extent of asking for an injunction restraining the road supervisors from giving up the road to the chauffeurs. They knew the danger to them selves and to their families, and to their teams and stock but the supreme court justice to whom they applied for the injunction refused to grant it, hold ing that the grant of the right-of-way was a mat ter wholly within the discretion of the supervis ors. And so the race was run, with death claiming its innings in one victim, and waiting to claim others out, of the number who were seriously injured. Because of the grant by the supervisors, the public which paid for the road and which was entitled to use it at all hours, and in all seasons, was warned from the use of it on the day of the race. The sheriff of the county lined the course with depi'its tc keep the owners of the road from using it, and to allow the trespassers the rights which were denii the public. ' .It was a case where not even Mr. Bryan conl have objected to resort to "government by injunt; tion." All traffic on the thirty-mile course, to be circled ten times, was suspended but what is the loss of the public compared to the winning of the Vanderbilt trophy and the determination of the question which Red Devil is the best I That a hfi was lost, that four lives are m tne balance am that the public suffered appear to be regarded as merely minor mention of inconsequential incident: in the determination of a question of interest to the auto fiends. Mr. Vanderbilt would have seriously objected to the temporary confiscation of his tracks for the determination of the best make of locomotive engines as between Prance, Germany, England and America the competing auto makers representing the four countries. Yet that is what the procurement of Mr, Vanderbilt brought about on the public highway of Long Island, and death and disaster waited on the competition. Is the game worth the candle t Or have the public no rights which the chauffeur .is bound to respect t O03000000000000$0 tO0 X o o IS IT WORTH A LIFET Is the problem involved in the determination of the best make of automobile worth a life in the solu tion of it T asks the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Farmers and residents along the proposed route of ILLITERACY IN THE SOUTH. In the worry and discussion of the problem o the condition and education of the negro in the south, that of the poor white people in that part o the country seems to have been overlooked, or at least neglected. Bishop Nelson, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Georgia, is calling for money to aid in the education of the poorer class of the whites. Sums of money have been donated by the north for and devoted entirely to the cause of the negroes, while little or no attention apparently has been given to the white people some of them just as destitute and ignorant, and in as great need of aid. ' In Georgia, one of the poorer states, the negroes payonly 3 per cent of the taxes, and yet get one- half of the school fund, while in addition they have received such aid as that of philanthropists from the north. That state has to pay for the education of one-eighth of all the negroes in the United States, and the people, of the south as a whole have had to bear almost the entire burden of the education of the negroes, while white children have grown up in ignorance. It is said that in Georgia 32 per cent of tne wnite voters are illiterate. Naturally it Would not be supposed that their condition, as a class, could be such as to require as great aid and attention as that of the blacks, kept in subjection and ignorance for so long, but it has been of long standing. Poor and despised before the war, they had nothing or everything to lose, as did the slave owners, but neither had they ad vancement to gain, as did the negroes, by whom they were despised and looked down upon as much as by the whites, being only "poor white trash." Through lack of ambition, due probably to their ignorance and poverty, they seem to have fallen into a rut, and to have become considered as more outcast than the blacks. No more effective means of bettering their condi tion than the establishment of good and efficient schools were needed, and enforcement of attendance, if necessary, could be found. Among 883,000 chil dren in Georgia, 570,000 are said to be without school facilities. Bishop Nelson has asked for $250,- 000 to remedy this condition of affairs, and surely it should be grafted as generously for the education of the white children as well as the negroes, in the south as in the north. There are 37 vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant in the United States marine corps (a position that pays $1400 a year), and Secretary Morton will have to fill them by November 15. He will give preference to boys from the west. Ap plicants must be between 21 and 27, and as for the examinations there will be a physical examination and then a professional test. ' The doings of those kitchen maida in North Brother island at the time of the Slocum disaster were rather startling. Can the American servant be such an unpleasant person as she is commonly depicted when ordinary, average species can rise at a moment's notice to such fine heights t P. A. STOKES The Store That Does Things." If you want to know what smartly dressed people will wear this sen son nsk STOKES Overcoats S $7.50 to $30.00 When y c u see alman (that looks as though ho must patron ize the swello-t of t a i 1 o r 8, chances aro he buys his clothes of STOKES. 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