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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 14, 1916.
WATER WASTE AND
EABOR CAPACITY
i By Franklin.
B ARE living today in the dawn
y of an age in which power Is the
' ' basis for our material progress,
i'ha productive abilities of our 100.000.
00 people are increased by the use of
robabljr 126,000,000 horse power of me
hanlcal energy, not including animal
;Ower .flirntshed by 30,000,000 horses
ind mules. M"ost of the mechanical
-nergy is used in the form of electrical
current When applied to industrial
uses 'one electrical horse power does
1 ha work of .ten men without tirinf?.
.That Is, tone electrical horse jower,
(continuously operated, does as much
fvork as 30 men working in eight-hour
hlfts.
Conservation of human labor goes
iand In hand with utllltizatlon of me
chanical energy, and utilization- of
that form of energy mom cheaply and
J east wasteully developed accom
plishes the maximum In freeing man
from muscular toil and -Increasing hie
productivity. In the last decade we
have harnessed for our utilities and
Industrial needs something like 6,000.
'000 horse power of water. This means,
in terms of human" energy, that
streams which, before that time, flowed
to waste are now doing work equiva
lent to the labor of 180,000,000 men
working eight nours a day. This de
velopment alone represents three times
the productive capacity of tlie unaided
' hand labor of our adult population.
) Thl accomplishment" stands for real
progress, but. as compared with out
possibilities, It la not such progress
as We should have obtained. Although
wa are utilizing today H, 000,000 horse
power Of water, we are annually, dally
neglecting and wasting ten times that
amount, largely because of our inap
plicable laws, since most of the water
powers not In use are under govern
.ment control, and the present laws do
not adequately make provision for
their fullest development and use.
There Is In non-use Jn the I'nlted
States enough water power to equal.
If harnessed to the wheels of Industry,
tha dally labor of 1,800,000,000 men. or
SO times our present udult population.
We are depleting our fuel supply In
tha manufacturing sections of the east
and middle west, while In the far west
are mountains of undeveloped raw ma
terials -adjacent to unused water pow
ers whose development would mean
the establishment of srrat new In
dustries In new manufacturing centers.
" Wi are robbing our farm lands of
fertility and failing to realize the ut
most of our agricultural opportuni
ties because of our dependence upon
foreign sources of high priced sup
plies for chemical plant foods or fer
tilisers, while mountains or phosphate
rock, lime and lignite in the west
await only the magic touch of atmos
pheric nitrogen extracted and fixed
with the aid of cheap hydro-electricity
to furnish a low priced and plentiful
supply of fertilizing elements.
Millions of acres of lands rich In
plant foods lie arid and waste in the
.western country which can be con
verted into fertile and productive
farms, gardens and orchards merely
by pumping into them the waters of
the streams flowing through them.
This miracle of making the desert
bloom awaits for accomplishment only
the laws which will permit capital and
enterprise to engage In the harnessing
of these streams so that they can
pump themselves onto the thirsty soil.
To conserve these vast natural re
sources Is the greatest attainment to
Which the statesmanship of our day
can supply itself.
. To be truly prepared for war is to
be fully prepared for peace.
HOW HINDU CARE:
f- FOR HIS
By Dinshah Dadabhai Dordi.
WHY should such a dire disease as
pyorrhoea alveolarts be peculiar
to the "civilized" people only?
Why Is it not common in India, ex
cept perhaps among the Europeans
and Parsees, who presume to pass
"themselves as the most educated peo-
pie? I will draw a superficial sketch
Of the oriental people in the observ
ance of their dally life; perhaps It
lyrill serve to prevent, to some extent,
the spread of this disease. In any
'.event the American people can find
In it food for thought.
When the orthodox oriental rises in
.the early morning he does not drink a
' Cup of hot coffee without washing his
. mouth and cleansing his teeth. Fre
quently he uses a twig of babul or
' acacia tree or even a nimb tree's ten
der twig for a toothbrush. First he
' chews one of the ends of the twig and
forma it Into a. hnmh with thu
. provlsed brush he cleanses each and
. every tooth and washes out the dlrtv
sediment and gargles with clean water.
'..This done, he washes thoroughly the
aame brush and again employs It to
crape his tongue.
i It takes him aboutflve to ten min
utes to cleanse. Then again he gar-
,'gles the whole mouth with the tongue
.But this final task is to gargle me
throat In order to carry out this
! end he thrusts his fore and middle
. fingers right into the pharynx, and
-.thus tries to throw out all the phlegm.
V. This done, he goes straight to his
bath. There he again cleanses his
mouth, nose and eyes, with frequent
draughts of warm water. This being
over, many persons usually take a cup
' ,f hot tea or coffee. But those who
. (d0 not make use of such drinks enjoy
; themselves by chewing betel nut. betel
leaves, cardahons. cloves and the like.
AI the same time they make particu
lar use of catechu, lime paste and
' : sometimes tobacco.
Now, what is the significance of
this daily practice of chewing pans
supari (betal leaf and nut)? How and
why this simple dally practice is su
perior to many antiseptic tooth pow-
. ders and brushes of the civilised na-
iiuuo uutui w oe mnue clear. As I
-'did in a recent letter to the New York
. liedlcal Journal, let us refer to the
;wuui or ine in in o twig.
A babul tree is the nrod
gum acacia, us oarx la extensively
usea ror tanning purposes. To brush
; the teeth s early in the morning with
-'Its twig Wans, then, to make the
mouth and gums astringent. Again,
-to use a nimb twig means to disinfect
-(the whole . mouth, because nimb tree
leaves, bark, roots and seeds arc
,-tenalvely used as disinfectants and
germicides. (In malaria fever this
If Hair's Your Pride
'. Use Herpicide
K. Lane
This preparation, in its best sense.
Involves the fullest use and coordina
tion of all the natural resources and
industrial attainments and activities
of the nation. There is no good rea
son why the United States, with its
wealth of resources, its leadership in
science and Invention and its peerage
of labor, brains and democratic ideals,
should be dependent upon any other
nation or country for any of the things
necessary to either the fullest enjoy
ment of peace or the most complete
preparedness for undesired conflict.
More than 40 per cent of the poten
tial water power of the United States
lies in the comparatively narrow strip
bounded by the Cascade mountains and
Sierras In the east, the Pacific ocean
In the west, Canada in the north, and.
Mexico in the south. Some of these
water powers, now unused, are among
the cheapest 1n the world. Long dis
tance, high voltage transmission has
almost annihilated distance In making
hydro-electricity available in this great
western empire.
Development will open to the west
an industrial era of such possibilities
as have been almost undreamed of.
The fuels available include natural
gas. oil, lignite and coal. The coal,
reduced to coke, offers raw material
for the production, by electric smelt
ing processes, of the carbide extensive
ly used for illuminating purposes.
Here at hand are great deposits of
limestone that will furbish the lime
required to form calcium carbide used
In the fixation of nitrogen and the pro
duction of ammonia. At hand, also,
are mountains of phosphate rock
awaiting the irrstal lation of appliances
to free Its content of phosphoric acid
and combine It with ammonia as a
fertilizing agency at less cost than any
known.
Sodium sulphate, sodium carbonate,
and sodium chloride are here, the lat
ter offering material for electro
chemical production of soaps, bleaching
powder, etc., In time of peace and for
the making lm wartime of the deadly
chlorine gas now devastating the
trenches of Kuropean battle fields.
Iron deposits are here in abundance,
which, with fluxing and reducing ma
terials at hand and cheap hydro-electric
power as the agency of reduc
tion, may make the Pacific coast a
competitor with the Ohio valley In
the production of special grades of pig
Iron and the manufacture in electrical
furnaces of high grade steels. Also
at hand are the materials for the man
ufacture of such steel alloys as fer
romanganese, ferrochrome, ferrosilicon,
ferrotungsten, ferromolybdenum and
others. There are rare metals bari
um in the form of sulphate and carbon
ate, zinc and copper, gold and silver
all awaiting the magical touch of the
cheap electrical potentiality In our
wasted stream flow.
As a by-product, and not an unim
portant one, of the atmospheric nitro
gen plants, we can produce cyanide,
giving new life and impetus to the
mining and production of precious
metals from low grade ores. In fact,
this material either as a by-product
or from metallic sodium produced
with the cheap power available, should
make the Pacific coast the logical dis
tributing center for cyanide used in
gold extraction. Our Alaskan copper,
now shipped aa far away as New Jer
sey for smelting, may be cheaply and
profitably reduced and manufactured
by electrical processes, on the Pacific
coast, and the same hydro-electric
power which will bring these indus
tries into existence will 'afford the
energy for cheapened transportation
of their products over electrified rail
ways. MOUT
tree is very useful because its bark,
leaves and oil are used as febrifuges.)
As disinfectants its bark, leaves
and root are burned and the smoke is
allowed to spread in the surrounding
atmosphere, and thus purification of
air is aimed at. Thus the act of wash
ing the mouth, throat and the nose
with copious amount of water means
to thoroughly cleanse these organs
from the decaying particles and sedi
ment accumulated there during the
night. This washing process refreshes
those organs and prepares them afresh
to undertake the whole day's function.
leaving those adjuncts, we come to
the betel nut and leaf. Such Celicacies
are used sometimes before oreakfast.
Dut mostly after taking food. Now
the betel nut Is again an astringent,
which encourages the flow of saliva,
so a quantity of water accumulates
in the mouth. This nut also cleanses
the gums and teeth. Then we come to
the betel nut. It is a fibrous sub
stance which cleanses the sediment ac
cumulated on the tongue generally. It
Is also a strong carminative and di
gestive. Leaving that, we come to th other
ingredients namely. lime paste,
cloves, cardamons, tobacco and the like.
Now the catechu gum is always a first
class astringent. It acts on the swol
len throat and furred tongue and in
flamed gums. In conjunction with
lime paste. It acts aa an astringent
and an antiseptic, stops bleeding gums
and disinfects the whole mouth
(gumc, teeth. saliva, tongue
throat, etc.)
Then cardamons and cloves come
into requisition; these act as carmina
tives, deodorants (or purifiers of foul
breath) and disinfectants. And over
and above these characteristics the
latter (cloves) acts as a powerful anti
septic. It soothes pains of inflamed
gums and decayed teeth It is rea'ly
a powerful and at the same time aro
matic germicide.
Then comes the turn of tobacco
Those who cannot take alcoholic
drinks, opium, etc, require some stim
ulant. In tobacco such people find
a suitable agent to appease their crav
ings. Those who chew tobacco with
the betel leaf assert that it helps not
only the digestion but It prevents gum
boils and acts as a powerful germicide.
Some native physicians recommend
a tooth powder consisting of the com
mon salt, seeds of mueuna prurlens.
cummin seeds and tobacco in suitable
proportions. This is a fine recipe, ex
cept perhaps it blackens the teeth It
kills the germs of the teeth and fixes
the loose teeth. A very common tooth
powder is prepared by burning almond
shells and betel nuts together.
But the one thing always to be re
membered is that they wash their
mouth, teeth, tongue and nose as well
as their eyes several times a day, es
pecially after meals.
No wonder, then, that the people On
tne whole are free from pyorrhea.
Leather and canvas covers to be
laced over automobile springs to keep
them clean and dry have been patented.
TOE "A. B. C" OF EL
i : :
As soon as I make up my
By
Jack Lait.
(fonyrlEht. br J. Keeler.)
SMYTH & FL'RMAY was a grand old
firm. Smyth was Just Smyth
John or Jacob or James It didn't
matter. He was Smyth, and Smyth.
There had never been any male other.
But Furmay was Jr. He not only was
the junior partner, he was the junior
Furmay, D. E. Furmay. Don E.
Furmay was his full name. What
the "E"' stood for doesn't count.
It had been his father's name.
But father, who had gone into busi
ness with Smyth many years ago, had
retired, and the young Don sonned into
the firm, which manufactured tele
scopes, or pumping machinery or glue
or something.
Old man Furmay proposed to spend
the residue of his life span in pleas
ure, recreation and laziness. He waa
incredibly wealthy, so he bought a
deep, sea going yacht. It came F. O.
B., somewhere in Maine, arriving at
a private landing near New York on
the flossy side of the Hudson.
Old man Furmay liked his yacht
much. And he announced that a cruise
of a few lands and a sea or two was
about to begin.
Furmay and Smyth sat on the ve
randa of the Furmay summer home,
looking out at the yacht, and Furmay
said to his old companion in com
merce: "Do you think the kid can run the
works alone?"
"Why should he?" asked Smyth,
who was likewise rich enough to re
tire, but was not of a retiring dispo
sition. "I was thinking of taking you and
family along on the cruise," said Fur
may. Now, a sea voyage, in search of
Pleasure Island is an attractive propo
sition to anybody. It struck Smyth
In a very weak spot. He hemmed and
coughed and said he didn't see
why not.
Young Don, when he heard of It.
was for it. He loved the idea of
being left alone in charge of the
big, plant, with full power, unham
pered to kick out a few of the old
fogy methods which had earned a
few million dollars and to install a
few of his own which had occurred
to him 'while he was at college.
There being no dissenting voice,, the
ayes had it, and the plans started.
WOMEN live longer than men. es
pecially if they have Insured
their lives with an endowment
policy, which puts more of a premium
on life than on death.
This Is the remarkable statement
made by an insurance company which
has been making a study of the rela
tive longevity of the sexes. The com
pany has come to the conclusion that
men die younger because they live
harder after the age of 60 or there
abouts. Women notoriously take all sorts
pf liberties with their health. They
wear thin clothes and expose their
necks and shoulders and ankles to the
wintry winds without a shiver.
When they are young they take
chances with their digestions that no
man ever would take.
However, they do these things when
they are young. As their years ad
vance they lead a quieter life, with
less and less social gayety. m
Men, on the other hand, says this
actuary, always act as if they were
young. When mother's life work is
practically done father still is hustl
ing for a living and he is being
pressed more closely everywhere by
the boys.
The result is that men's bodies age
much faster than their brains, and no
matter how good they may feel thev
pay for their good time with short
ened life.
Then, too, as their years advance
there is no let-up in the chances they
have to eat, drink and be merry with
the boys and girls, while the signs of
advancing age usually bar a woman
from participation in gayety of this
sort.
Statistics show that the greater
number of centenarians are women I
and that there are nearly a third
again as many old women as there
are old men.
Between 55 and 65 the deaths of
men exceed those of women in a
marked degree.
And, as the insurance company
pointed out, the average, woman pol
icyholder with an endowment policy
lives longer than the one who has a
straight life policy.
"The longevity of the endowment
woman undoubtedly is a question of
spirit and the determination to live
until the policy matures," is the way
it is summed up.
Non-Skid Attachment.
A brand new Idea In an anti-skid
dins attachment for " automobiles has
mind I'll writ. Oh, no. Tell you
Don had not been let in, somehow,
in the first announcement, on the
fact that Smyth's family had been
invited along and had accepted.
Smyth's family consisted of an el
derly Mrs. Smyth, who suffered ter
ribly from colds, and Olive Smyth,
less than 20. a combination peony and
violet, brunette, slender, dreamy,
opalescent. So this guessing contest
dies young Don's interest was in
Olive.
-
He didn't want Olive to go on the
cruise or on any cruise except one
in the Justly overwritten fbarque of
matrimony upon the high sea of bliss,
etc. The idea of having her sail away
for months wasn't to his taste from
any angle. But he was helpless. Her
father had said she was to go,, and
in the Smyth family that ended spec
ulation. The night before the good yacht
Mermaid was to cast off, there was a
party aboard her -nice, new upper
deck, where there was a parlor, a
set of amazing cabins, a ballroom,
a smoking lounge and other architec
tural equipments of a millionaire's
man-of-Joy. A string band teased its
instruments. The breeze blew soft
and swishy. The moon was ruddy but
not rude.,
Don and Olive had just ended a
dance of delirious delight. He led
her out to a hammock where he sat
her, and she, with a pressure of her
hand In his, sat beside her.
They had been friends for many
bully years. They had gone to schools
together. Don had never thought of
any other girl more than maybe once.
Olive let him take her to picnics in
childhood, proms in adolescence and
formal functions in the post-debut ma
turity of youth at its most adorable
stage. In the Smyth-Furmay walk
of life young folks Jo not "go to
gether." But Don and Olive had gone
together nevertheless. Everybody had
It that they would marry.
Still the question had never been
directly put and no answer had been
directly hinted.
Tonight, with the wonderful girl
beside him, the river calm and the
breeze, oh, so fondling; with the
girl about to sail away, far away, for
a long time, a very long time, weeks
maybe It had to come!
It was not unexpected. Olive didn't
even say that It was. It couldn't have
been. But her answer did not come.
CE
been recently patented by a Missouri
genius. It is not an Improved tire, as
most of the non-skidding schemes are,
but an attachment which is placed on
the hubs, and, when occasion arises,
it is thrown into action by a lever
operated from the chauffeur's seat.
The apparatus as placed on the end
of the axle has a cam arrangement
which, under normal conditions, holds
the legs or blades in a position clear
of the ground, but when any tendency
of the car to .skid is shown a move
ment of the lever turns the cam and
the blades are thrown into action and
protrude beyong the periphery of the
wheel, where they engage with the
ground and hold the machine steady
in Its course. These blades are sup
plied with an automatic action by
which they accommodate themselves
to hard or soft ground, as the case
may be.
Effect of Altitude.
The curious fact has been demon
strated that high altitudes apparently
have a marked effect on the power
obtainable from a gas engine. Re
cently one was erected several thou
sand feet above sea level, but upon
testing failed to give the desired
power. An investigation followed, and
the loss in power was attributed to
the height at which the engine was
operating. The general conclusion
was reached that a gas engine loses
about 1 per cent of Its Indicated horse
power per 1000 feet of elevation.
Concealing Periscopes.
By painting periscope tubes with
parallel stripes ' representing the
colors of the spectrum it is reported
that the United States navy depart
ment hopes to make these members
of submarine craft Invisible to an
enemy. It is thought that when re
fracted the colors will appear as a
white ray, practically indistinguish
able at a distance. ,
In Place of Gasoline.
E. D. Lewis, of Elmira. N. Y.. an
inventor, says he can make a motor
perform the same function as gasoline,
with one ounce of sulphuric acid to
each gallon of water.
The acid can be purchased for less
than a cent an ounce. Lewis says the
hydrogen gas generated by a battery
current would show a hlg-her test than
the best gasoline on the market.
He would equip the regular gasoline
tank with two electrodes, .one positive
and tha other negative. . ; These, con
what, I'll wireless."
She was voiceless for what seemed a
long time. Then she took Don's hand
and said to him like the honest dar
ling that she was:
"Don, dear, I've known you about
all my life, and never for a moment
did I less than like you very awfly.
I never saw any, other man that I
liked nearly as well. But when you
talk of marriage, that means more
than liking. . To me It means the love
of my whole heart a gushing love,
not a calm, complacent giving In.
Whether I have such love for you
I do not know. I have never let my
self ask myself. I never knew whether
you would ask me to, so I could not
ask myself. But now that you have
been so dear and lovable and have
asked me, I must ask myself."
"Sweet girl," said Don. "Ask your
self. I'll help you. And I'll coach
you on an answer to yourself and then
you can transmit it to me."
"No, Don,'' said she. "I must wait
till I am alone. It isn't fair to me
or to you that I should be hasty. We
wouldn't be married, anyway, before
tomorrow, and after tomorrow I shall
be sailing away. When I'Tn away
if I feel lonesome and such if I miss
you you know."
Don bit his lips, rubbed his palms
together nervously and refrained from
doing the two things on earth he
wanted to do most at the moment
kiss Olive and light a cigaret.
"Well, honey when am I to know?
And how?" he pleaded.
"As soon as I make up my mind
I will write oh, no. Tell you what.
It will be so romantic. I'll wireless
you!"
And that is where it remained.
Next day the Mermaid sailed. Don
was at the landing with not enough
flowers to inaugurate an alderman,
just enough . for a corsage bouquet.
He saw the yacht pull away, his
father and mother waving handker
chiefs from the back rail. Olive wav
ing her hand to him and he bereaved,
bewildered, bewitched and burning.
To add another alliterative quality,
he was busy.
He had a great institution on his
hands and no little responsibility. But
he found himself wandering at his
desk. He sat there, but his spirit was
on the Mermaid, out on a gentle sea
under an amiable moon, in a sociable
breeze, with Olive.
Telegrams from everywhere came
nected with a storage battery, would
generate hydrogen gas, which, Mr.
Lewis says, will pass through any
carburetor into the motor as effect
ively as gasoline.
An open-air vent in the tank would
give an outlet for too high a pressure
of gas and backfire would be
quenched by the water.
For the Golfer.
Addressing the ball on the golf field
is almost as serious a matter as ad
dressing a big meeting, for there are
a thousand ways of going wrong and
one lonely way of doing it according
to Hoyle. The angle of the head and
the tilt of the nose must be arrived at
with mathematical accuracy, and after
that sucn matters as the position of
the feet with regard to each other and
the "pill" on the ground must be given
some attention. After that the club
must be seized with due regard to the
position of the thumbs and swished
through the air while the eye is kept
glued to the ball.
In order to assist the golf player In
taking care of all these matters, a Min
neapolis man. A. A. Peck, has re
cently invented a device to be worn on
the hat by which it is intended that
the stunt shall be somewhat simplified
by making use of a "sight" somewhat
in the same manner as the sharp
shooter has on his gun.
Cotton in War.
One thousand tons .of cotton are
fired every day from the mouths of
the German and Austrian cannon.
Cordite, one of the explosives employed
by the artillery of the present day, ts
two-thirds cotton. The raw material
is dipped into nitric acid, washed and
dried, and the material thus supplied
becomes the base of t h
1 It takes 400 pounds of guncotton to
make the charge for one shot from the
Queen Elizabeth's guns or from one of
the German 17-inch guns
Ouncotlon can only be made from
raw cotton.
Thunder Claps.
If the number of seconds between
the time of seeing a Hash of lightning
and of hearing the thunder be counted
an estimate may be formed of the
distance of the thunderstorm, because
lightning; is seen instantaneously,
while the sound of thunder travels
at a definite rate. An Interval of
about five seconds would Indicate that
the flash Is a mile away.
rushing at him all day long. They
had lost their punch. He was waiting
for the message the wireless.
And the second day out it came.
And here was what It said:
"78. 214 S.
Don looked twice. What in the
name of How Old is Ann did it mean?
He looked again and some more.
It was from Olive, certainly. The
message had been sent from the Mer
maid. She had promised him her
answer. But there had been no code
agreed on. And he knew no code that
might have been understood between
them.
He couldn't make head of foot of
it. He added up the figures He
knew there was no such solution
intended. But he added them up any
way. They totaled 27. That meant
nothing. He could see that it con
tained two words the first one of two
letters and the second of four.
What could that combination be?
It couldn't be "Yes. Don." could it? It
might be "No. dear." But if it were
"no." why the "dear?" And in what
language? But. that "no" had two let
ters scared him.
Don knew our old schoolboy code
where each letter In the alphabet is
numbered, running consecutively from
1 to 26, so that A is 1, B is 2, and
so forth until Y Is 16 and Z is 28.
He wrote it out laboriously and then
read the message with the key. He
got:
"GH BADE."
That had no rhyme or sense.
Ah. maybe she had reversed the
alphabet, making Z 1 and A 26. So he
turned the code upside down and read
his aerogram and came out with this:
"TS YZWY."
That was worse than the first.
Maybe the letters were Initials of a
series af words. Probably not. He
tried the first, "GH BADE." The D
might stand for Don. The rest might
stand for anything. Ditto when re
versed. Don called up the wireless office
and inquired whether there were any
official code any established code
any code at all. They had two or
three codes. But the message didn't
fit any of them. They suggested that
hi try making A 1, B 2, and Don
hung up.
He called in Killifer. Killifer was
a shipping clerk. " He ought to know
something about codes. Killifer puck
ered his forehead and looked at It
sideways, up and down, bottom up,
rear end first and, after deep reflec
tion, said It was probably two words,
one with two letters and one with
Don ordered him back to the shipping
department.
A whole day went by. Don tried to
reach the Mermaid with his S. O. S.
to relieve his doubt and suspense.
The air waves were tricky and com
munication couldn't be established.
Before many days should go by, how
ever, the wireless agent helpfully
volunteered oh, what was the use?
Before one more day Don would be
insane.
Don took the cryptic numerals
home with him. He got out a book
on such things. He read a mystery
story by Robert Louis Stevenson. He
closed his eyes and tried to think.
No go. Even as a boy he had always
been a rummy at solving puzzles.
The night was sleepless.
Business went to the dogs for the
time being next morning. Don locked
himself in his private office and
studied with red eyes and smoked
one cigarette after another and swore
a little at himself, of course and
ground his teeth and paced up and
across and kicked the desk and rep
rimanded the janitor, who insisted on
washing his windows at that particu
lar time and well, he put In the kind
of day you might expect he would.
It was almost time to go home.
What for? No one was home except
the servants. He could bite his under
lip just as well in the office. And,
all jesting aside, he had neglected
a lot of work which, wireless or no
Marconigram, had to be attended
to. So he fiercely grabbed a gob of
papers and started plowing through
them, writing "O. K. D. E. F." on
each as passed. There were some
questions of prices. He had to set
some figures.
In the affairs of Smyth & Furmay
numeral figures were not used. There
was a house code. And it was all in
the one name that was on Don's
heart Olive Smyth.
Observe the name. There are ten
letters in it. No letter is duplicated.
Almost every commercial house has
some such similar price making sys
tem. Olive was a baby when the sys
tem was Introduced by her father.
Taking the letters, left to right. O
was 1. L, 2. I 3, V , E 5, S 6, M 7,
Y 8, T 9, H 10.
Don was marking in some rrices.
He bad the familiar translations at
his fingers' ends. He never pondered
over the code. He always thought by
It when he thought prices. But to
night anything that had to do with
code got him.
And In a minute It flashed on him.
Olive had doubled back. She had
presumed that he was so familiar with
the figures as indicated by the letters
of her name that he could read let
ters from the figures.
He spelled it out in a moment:
"7 S 21 45'
"My love."
Don danced. He hugged the adding
mach:ne He rubbed the bruise where
he had kicked his desk, he determined
he would raise the janitor's pay. "My
love!" Whew! That w'as something
to come hurtling through the air oif
a vacht.
And Just then the wireless company
called up and said that Its senders
had found the Mermaid's receivers.
Was there anything?
Was tWere? Walt a minute.
If Olive had wired him in code In
the exuberance of her heart or be
cause she didn't want any other soul
on earth except him to know what
she was sending him he could do no
less. So he started to figure out an
answier in the same ten figures. It
couldn't be done. Try It yourself.
See what you can extract from
"Olive Smyth" that he could send
back to fit the occasion. The words
he picked out In addition to hers,
werp: "Let, me. this some." He over
looked two which will be found at the
tall of this narrative, showing that
Olive knew her own name better than
he knew it.
Den couldn't squeeze any sort of a
sentiment out of the ten letter limit.
So he thought of his own name. Don
E. Furmay. Hurrah! His name was
just as applicable as hers. Ten let
ters, no two alike. And In his name
he found plenty. So he wirelessed her:
"Miss Olive Smyth, aboard yacht
Mermaid.
"Take the key In the signature, read
and answer:
g97 7 10 84. 12 1497
"Don E. Furmay."
Olive got the flying answer. And,
since her Key came right with her
precious Jewel of a message, she un
locked the thin mystery and she fig
ured out that the figures read:
"Marry me, do dear."
Whereupon she smiled and gave
this to the operator:
And when Don got It he flew to
his name and unkeyed the phrase and
it read:
"MFTJ UNOOM."
What the
Oh, of course. Her name, not. his.
And this is what he got:
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CURRICULUM FOR
MODERN SCHOOL
ESTABLISHMENT of a "modern
school." in which the courses of
study would not be dictated by
tradition. Is being considered by the
general education board, founded by
John D. Rockefeller, and an outline
of the plan has been prepared by Dr.
Abraham Flexner, assistant secretary
to the board.
Formal grammar, ancient languages,
theoretical studies In modern languages
and the bulk of history and of puro
mathematics in the way they are now
presented are the subjects Dr. Flex
ner would remove from the curriculum
as useless and cumbersome.
"Aside from reading, writing, spell
ing and figuring," he writes, "the c ti
riculum would be built out of actual
activities in science, industry, aesthe
tics, civics." These' studies would be
forwarded with the use of "the access
ible world" as a laboratory to train
children "with an eye to the realities
of life and existence." The features
of this accessible world which a school
In New York, for Instance, would em
ploy, would be the harbor, the Metro
politan museum, the public library, the
Natural History museum, the Zoologi
cal gardens, the city government, the
weather bureau, the transportation sys
tems, lectures, concerts, plays.
Mr. Flexner makes no distinction be
tween the sexes. He says:
It Is just as important for a girl as
It is for a boy to be interested in the
phenomenal world to know how to ob
serve, to infer, and to reason, to under
stand industrial, social and political de
velopments, to read good books and to
finish school by theTBRe of 20. Dif
ferentiation at one point or another
may be suggested bv experience In
any event, the modern school, with Its
strongly realistic emphasis, will un
doubtedly not overlook woman's do
mestic role and family function.
Not only do American children as a
class fail to gain either knowledge or
power through the traditional curricu
lum, but Mr. Flexner asserts that they
spend an Inordinately long time In fail
ing. He says: j
The period spent in school and col-'
lege before students begin professional
studies is longer in the United States
than in any other western country. An
economy of two or three years Is urg
ently necessary. The modern school
must therefore not only find what stu
dents can really learn it must feel
itself required to solve its problem
within a given number of years th
precise number being settled in advance
on social, economic, and professional
grounds. Its problem may perhaps iir
formulated in these terms: how much
education of a given type can a boy or
girl get before reaching the age of.
let us say, 20. on the theory that a
that age general opportunities auto
matically terminate?
The education which we are criticising
is overwhelmingly formal and tradi
tional. If objection ts made to this or
that study on the eround that It ,s
useless or unsuitable, the answer comes
that it "trains the rhind" or lias bee.i
valued for centuries. "Training the
mind" in the sense in which the claim
Is made for algebra or ancient lan
guages, is an assumption none too well
founded; traditional esteem Is an Insuf
ficient offset to present and future,
uselessness. A man educated in the
modern sense will forego the some
what doubtful mental dlsclnllne re
ceived from formal studies: he will
be contentedly ignorant of things for
learning which no better reason than
tradition can be assigned. Instead, his
education will be obtained from stu
dies that serve real -urposes. Its con
tent, spirit and aim will be realistic
and genuine, not formal or traditional.
Thus the man educated in the modern
sense will be trained to know, to care
about, and to understand the world he
lives In. both the physical world and
the social world.
Mr. Flexner would place the burden
of proof upon the subject. If the sub
ject serves a purpose, it is eligible to
the curriculum, he says, otherwise not.
He continues:
Modern education will Include noth
ing simply because tradition recom
mends it or because Its Inutility has
not been conclusively established, it
proceeds in precisely the opposite way;
It includes nothing for which an af
firmative case cannot now be made out.
As has already been intimated, this
method of approach would orobably re
sult in greatly reducing the time al
lowed to mathematics, and In decidedly
changing the form of what Is still re
tained. If, for example, only so much
arithmetic is taught as people actually
have occasion to use, the subject will
shrink to modest proportions; and if
this reduced amount Is taught so as to
serve real purposes, the teachers of
science, industry and domestic econ
omy will do much of it Incidentally.
Th" same policy may be emnloyed in
deallnir with algebra and geometry.
What is taught, when it Is taught and
ho - it is taught will In that event de
pend altogether on what is needed,
when it is needed and the form In
which It is needed.
Precisely the same line of reasoning
would be applied to English, history
and literature. For example: There
has been a heated discussion for years
on the subject of formal grammar, i
which has been defended, first, on the
ground that it furnishes a valuable
mental discipline: second, on th.'
ground that it assists the correct use
of language. It Is passing strange how
many ill-disciplined minds there aio
among those who have spent years be
ing mentally disciplined, now in this
subject, tiow in that. Tho modern
school would not hesitate to take the
risk to metnal discipline Involved in
dropping the study of formal grammar.
It would tentatively, at least, also risk
the consequences to correct speech in
volved in the same step. For such
evidence as we possess points to the
futility of formal grammar as an aid
to correct speaking and writing. The
study would be Introduced later, only
if a real need for it were felt and
only In such amounts and at such pe
riods as this need clearly required.
In respect to history and literature.
a modern scnooi wouia nave me cour
age not to go through the form or
teaching children useless facts Just be
cause previous generations of children
have learned ana forgotten tnem; and
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also the courage not to read obsolete
and uncongenial classics, simply be
cause tradition has made this sort of
acquaintance a kind of good form.
Neither Latin nor Greek would be
rinlaln.it In tVi. .Iirrlniil nm .. . . V. .t
ern school not. of course, because
their literatures are less wonderful
than they are reputed to be, but. be
cause their present position in the
curriculum rests upon tradition and as
sumption. A positive case can be made
out for neither. The literary argument
falls because .stumbling and blunder-in-
through a few patches of Latin
classics do not establish a contact
with Latin literature. Nor does present
dav teaching result in a practical mas
tery of Iatln useful for other pur
poses. Mature students who studied
j-atin throu-1! the high school and per
haps to some extent in college, find t
difficult or impossible to understand a
Latin document encountered In, say, a
course in history. If practical mastery
is desired, more Latin can be learned
in enormously less time bv postponing
the study until the student needs the
language or wants It. At that stags n
can learn mote l.atln In a few months
than he would have succeeded In ac
quiring thtougb four or five years of
reluctant effort In vouth Finally, the
disciplinary argument falls, because
mental dls'"llne Is not a real purpose;
moreover It would in any event con
stitute an argument Hgalnst rather
than for the study of Latin
Literature Is to be taucht In the
modern school primarily for the pur
pose of developing taste. Interest and
appreciation, not for the purpose of
producing persons who make litera
ture or who seem to know Its history;
we hope to train persons, not to writ !
poems, or to discuss their historic
place, but to care vitally for poetry -thoug-h
not perhaps without a suspi
cion that this is the surest way of lib
erating latent creative talent. The mod
ern school would. In the same way, en
deavor to develop a simultaneous dis
criminating and genuine artistic inter
est and appreciation rather than to
fashion makers of music and art.
So far I have discussed the modern
school only from ttie standpoint of Its
course of study. It Is time now to
mention other Implications of the real
istic or genuine point of view. If chil
dren are to be taught and trained with
an eye to the realities of life and exist
ence, tie accessible world ts llie lab
oratory to !e used for that purpose. Let
us imagine a modern school located In
New York city; consider for a moment
its assets for educational purposes:
the harbor, the Metropolitan museum,
the public library, the Natural History
museum the Zoological garden, thi
city government, the weather bureau,
the transportation systems, lectures,
concerts, plays and so on.
It is evident that, while in soma di
rections, the model n school would hav ?
a fairly lear path. In others It would
have to feel its way. Ir others it would
tltnde w'ould be distinctly tentative
and experimental. To no small extent
It would have to create apparatus and
paraphernalia as It mm eeds. Text
books, for example, almost invariably
conform to tradition; or innovate so
ellghtly as to be. from our point of
view, far from satisfactory The mod
ern school would thus at the start bo
at a great disadvantage as compared
with established schools that Seek
gradual improvement through read
justment. Hut it would have this ad
vantage. that it could reallv try Its
experiments with a file hand.
We go on teaching this or that sub
ject in this or that way for no better
reason than that Its ineffectiveness or
harmfulnet-s has not been established.
Medicines were once generally and are
still not Infrequently prescribed on ex
actly the same basis. Modern teach
ing, like modern medicine, should be
controlled by positive Indications The
schools should teih Latin ami alge
bra, if at all, just as the Intelligent
rtn e Nil' im ii nreHcrioew imiiiiwi-. irm iibii
it serves a purpose that lie knows and
can state. Nor will tact and Insight
and enthusiasm cease to be efficient
virtues. simply because elrrleiilum
and teaching method are constant ol-Ject-a
of scientific scrutiny.
In education, as In other realms, the
innulrlng spirit will be the productive
spirit. There is an Important , t hough
not verv extensive body of ed ucw t Ions I
literature of philosophical and inspira
tional character; but thcr Is little of
scientific nunlltv I he scientific spir
it la lout beginning to creep Into ele
mentary and secondary schools: and
progress Is slow, because the condi
tions are im fa vora tile. The modern
school should be a laboratory from
which would issue scientific studies or
all kinds of educational problems a
laboratory, first of all. which would
test and evaluate critically the funda
mental propositions on which It Is It
self based, and the results as they are
obtained.
P-innllv the modern school, seeking
not only to train a particular group of
children, but to influence educational
practice, can be a seminary for the
training or xeacpers. iirst, us own. mun
others who will go out Into service.
The difficult v of recruiting a satisfac
tory staff to begin with must not be
overlooked . I'd n n I i ti - -... , r.
been brought up and haye taught on
traditional lines. m the otner nana.
h nlrlt of revolt Is rife; and teachers
can be found whose riioriw nave ni-
niilv nassed bevond conventional lim
its. With these the, new enterprise
would be started.
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