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The Herald D. L ST1TT. Editot. 4ct rfVanlil ISMKD KVKKY KKJUAY Subscription Rates One year Six month "5 cU Three months 60 c U Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY. JAN. 7, 1915. Galliltoli's Lemons The capture of Constantinople and the expulsion of the detest ed Turk from Kurope have been postponed by the decree of fate. The allies are abandoning their works on the Gallipoli peninsula ami sending their troops else where. It is said that the Ikitish forces will go to Egypt, or have gone there already perhaps. Where the French will go is yet to be revealed. The chances are that they will be stationed where they can do the most good, that is somewhere on the long battle line from Iielgium to Switzer land. The Gallipoli operations did not advance the cause of the allies a great deal. They were begun in ignorance of the con ditions to be faced and in carry ing them through blunders were made. Hut they have taught the world .1 lesson or two which may turn out to be worth all that the futile operations cost in men and money. The defense at Gallipoli was partly by laud and partly by water. The land defense was made with old-fashioned forts, trenches and modern machine guns. On the water the Turks met and defeated their enemies mines, submarines and a few rattletrap cruisers. They had no dreadnaughts and perhaps not a solitary ship would be aj proved by our board of naval experts. The allied attack by water was made with the most advanced naval resources. At least ono dreadnaught of the largest type, the Kli.abeth, took part in it and some of the others were of the very best and most modern construction. Hut the attack both by lam and water was a failure. I nude quate ns the. defensive equip' incut of the Turks may have seemed it was nevertheless sulli cient for the task that had to be done. The allies gained nothing whatever by their land and nava nu.icKs while, llieir losses were heavy. The lessons of this ex perience are fairly obvious, one would think. If the allies with all their naval and military re sources could make no headway ut Gallipoli against mines, sub marines and intrenched soldiers how can any foreign too be ex pected to transport troops across the Atlantic or Pacific, convey them safely past our defenses and march through our en trenched lines? The experts now say that i Helgium had depended on simple trenches instead of massive forts rv. it. um vrriiniis never couhi have passed far beyond the frontier In our preparations for the national defense it would be ju dicious, one would suppose, to heed these experiences and pro vide an equipment that meets current needs rather than some thing which has proved useless . I II -KMHHHM A in iiKMlt-rn war, however attrac tive it may be to theorists and armor plate makers Journal. Far Wed In the Throop College of Teelnioln.'V, recently re organize.!, the far western -or- tion of this country possesses an institution for higher technical education such as it has long needed to supply the. local de mand for men capable of direct ing great engineering enter prises. Considering to what an extent the prosperity of the West is built upon such enterprises, it is surprising that a Western institution of this character did not arise long ago. Throop College is situated at Pasadena. It has existed for nearly a quarter of a century, but prior to the year 1008 its energies were spread over a wide range of pedagogic duties and grades of instruction, between IMS and 1SJ13 the Iimml of Trustees carried out courageous and drastic measures of reor ganization, which meant aban- loning mi attendance of nearly )00 students in the various tie- lartmeiits, in order that what ittle was left of the institution might constitute a true technical college, analogous to the famous seats of technical learnini: in the Eastern States. On its new basis the college started with 27 students, while in the term end ing in Juno of this year the at tendance had increased to 91. At the last commencement ex ercises President J. A. B. Sober er announced that the institu tion had received 'from un un- naniiid friend a gift of 110,000 toward the equipment of a re search laboratory in physical chemistry and 110,000 a year for its maintenance; also that Dr. Arthur A. Moves was to direct the new laboratory, and divide Ms time between Throoj College and the Masachusettes Institute of Technology. This is unquestionably a notable event, and augurs well for the future growth of technical stud ies on the Pacific Coast. .uiomer evidence oi the pro- gressivecharacter of this thriving young college is the fact that one of the courses it now 'offers is a combination of engineering and economics such as is given at only two other institutions; viz., the "Boston Tech" and the Carnegie Institute of Technolo gy at Pittsburg. It consists approximately of To per cent engineering subjects and 2," per cent economics, using the latter term in a sense broad enough to include, for example, banking and business law and scientific management. Throop is noteworthy in the attention it gives to the physical welfare of its students. A stu dent must have the approval of the physical director of the col legewho is a regular member of the faculty before his ini tial registration; a careful health record is kept of each student, physical exercise is recom mended according to his indi vidual requirements, and ini pairment of his health due to neglect of such exercise may lead the faculty to limit his as sigument of courses of study. On the other baud, the college rather discourages specialization in athletics ami intercollegiate competitions. It is unfortunate that more of our colleges ami universities do not strike this golden mean between too much und too little athletics. Seien, tilic American. Consolidated Schools Jowa has over 100 consoli- (Uu rural schools. This has all come practically within the past two years. In lilli.'l there were only six con solidated schools. From that time until 1910 districts were organized at about the rate of one per year. The year 1910 gave evidence of an increasing interest Two districts were or ganized that year, two in 1911 and three in 1912. During the school year of 1913-14, however, sixty such districts wera organ ized. The enactment of the law by the thirty-fifth general assembly providing state aid to consoli dated schools was largely re sponsible for this great increase. The school buildings are good and well equipped. The influ ence of these better schools on the communities is evident. There is an increased interest in education and a better com in unity spirit Oregon Voter. Roads in Oregon Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Jan. 4. -Oregon has over 37,000 miles of road pre sided over by 878 road supervisors many of whom, it is fair to as sume, are not trained road build ers. In ten years ending with 1914 these men have spent nearly $21,500,000.00, or an average of nearly $2,150,000.00 per year, This annual expenditure has grown until in 1915 it is approxi mately $4,000,000.00. The proba bility is that it will continue to increase until it has reached a very much larger sum. There are few, if any, lines of public endeavor which call for so great an expenditure of public money. There can be no ques tion that the entire state is inter ested in getting the greatest possible return from this expendi ture. To this end Prof. G. V. Skelton, head of the Department of Highway Engineering of the Oregon Agricultural College, is offering during the Winter Short Courses a series of lectures on the fundamental principles of road construction and mainte nance. Among the topics cov ered will be earth, gravel and macadam roads, drainage, the adaptability of the different types to varying conditions and require ments of traffic, methods and costs, including some of the high er types of road3. There will be twelve lectures in the course. Th ere will be no fees charged for these lectures and all who are interested in better roads are urged to be present. 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