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IT'S THE ENVIRONMENT.
(Seattle Star.)
Eastern bankers estimate that this
country has approximately nine bil
lions in gold money, ordinary money
and notes due from foreigners on goods
sold, and they are warning against
"wild inflation of speculation."
Outside of Wall street, where the
gamblers are wild enough, the signs
of any "wild inflation of speculation”
are not visible to the naked eye.
Most of the larger cities of the coun
try report heavy increases in build
ing operations. It is true that many
manufactories are on night and day
shifts because of war orders. It is also
true that In many vocations wages
have been raised and hours of labor
reduced. But in none of these things
is there any dangerous inflation. Be
cause the return to normal conditions
of prosperity is unusually sudden Is
no sign of wildness. The average busi
ness man is doing no plunging and
the winter promises to reveal a con
siderable army of unemployed.
But locate anybody in the neigh
borhood of that Wall street maelstrom
of speculation and he'll be very apt to
believe that the whole nation has gone
mad over speculation.
THE ART OF ILLUMINATION.
(New Tork Press.)
"The progress of the lighting has just
about kept pace with the progress of
civilization."
This statement, made before the con
vention of the Illuminuting Engineer
ing Society in Washington, grips the
imagination. Man has developed great
forces to make light since the days of
the tallow candle. But even with the
coming of gas and electric lights a new
science was only begun. Within the
iast few years tremendous progress
has been made in the study of scien
tific lighting. Not only exterior
Illumination, for beauty’s sake, but the
proper use of illumination in industrial
plants stores and homes has made
wonderful strides.
Only a litle while ago the habit was
to place as many lights in un office or
station or reading room as seemed
necessary to vision. Now the problem
of indirect lighting, of semi-direct
lighting, of colored and reflected rays
and kindred uuestolns are solved in
scientific fashion.
There is a curious paradox in the
fact, that according to the scientific en
gineers, the two greatest forces in
progress of this science during the past
years should have been the war, an
agent of destruction and suffering,and
the Panama-Pacific exposition,a monu
ment to peace and progress.
SLAPJACKS AND HAPPINE88.
(Seattle Star.)
Honor the cook.
liless the crisp mornings soon here.
Pray for the sharp tang that makes
sidewalks creak.
Smile, hang you, smile aB you think
of the weather that is on the way—
the weather that makes you step
briskly, that makes your ears tingle,
that makes your nose red, that makes
your cheeks smart.
The day of slapjacks.
The kitchen, whose smells you have
abhorred during the hot months, be
comes the place from whence arise
most heavenly aromas.
Sniff it, breathe it, anticipate It, the
slapjack, and his alluring brother, the
sausage.
Qird your loins, fortfy your stom
ach, clear your minds of cobwebs, ex
pel from your system grouch and gout
get ready for that morning of mornings 1
—the first morning of this coming fall- !
winter season when you shall sit at
table with the honorable slapjack and '
the humble, luscious sausage before
you, for they shall tempt you to
overeat, and you shall be happy and
miserable because you could not re
strain yourself.
Waken, pessimist, waken to the
kitchen glories that await around the
corner of the season.
WHEN A BOY 8EEK8 THE WOODS
(New York Sun.)
There comes a time when nearly
every mother suddenly becomes greatly
ularmed over her young son. One day
he is quiet, well behaved, mannerly
and, apparently, quite civilised. And
all at once—the first thing she knows,
he is climbing rickety old trees to their
very tops with a home made arrow, or
he is walking miles, If need be, to find
a woods where he may play "Indian,'’
or highwayman, or pirate, with other
boys who have spontaneously become
as barbarous at heart as their cave
dwelling ancestors.
So he comes home covered with mud,
.eaving great wads of it upon the
stairs, and with streaks of it behind
nis ears. His shoes are likely to be
soaked through and though, so that
nis mother forces him to take ill tast
ing gargles and medicines, poor chap.
And his manners have departed. He no
mnger talks, he shouts. Perched on
ihe fence he carries on personal con
versation with a boy a block or two
away. He tears his clothes witn appal
ling frequency, and does not seem
alarmed about it. He gets into tights,
and comes home with a black eye, and
instead of feeling ashamed, he pro
claims from the housetop how he did
up the other fellow.
And even when he is asleep, and his
mother steals in for a last look—such
as all mothers take—-like as not she
a ill see his lips moving, as he lies
with a hand under a tangled head, for
although the scampering feet are still
and the sturdy fists are unclenched,
. rid, except for the deep and regular
| oieathening the little body is at rest, in
,.is mind he is still running races, kill
| .ng Indians, or pirating on the high
seas.
STUDENTS ARE SELF-GOVERNED.
(New York Independent.)..
Popular government in the form of
the initiative, referendum and recall
has found a home at the University of
vVashington. The adoption of a pro
vision placing matters of student dis
cipline in the hands of the student
oody has brought to completion the
several years’ tusk of establishing un
uei graduate rule.
The students elect yearly a president
vice-president and a board of control
which, like the national congress, is the
legislative body.
These legislators and all other
elected officers are subject to a recall
election upun the petition of 25 per
cent, of their fellows and may be re
called by a mujority vote. The refer
endum can be invoked by a 10 per
cent petition and measures intiative
oy 10 percent. A majority vote Is re
quired for action. The difficulty with
the initiative is the tendency of the
students to vote in favor of any initia
ted measure; however. It may be that
tremely good Judgment is used in re
gard to what is brought before the
body.
The censorship or the official stu
delit daily, originally a function of the
student board, has been transferred to
the president of the university. Thus
the organ of public opinion is placed
beyond the power of any faction in
control.
Judicial authority is In the hands
of the student discipline committee.
Financial matters are placed in the
hands of a salaried student manager
and a tax of $G a student is levied at
the beginning of the school year to
furnish necessary funds. The book
store and other student enterprises are
co-operative.
Student government at the Universi
ty of Washington has been eminently
successfully, and there have been no
abuses arising from this experiment of
self control. It has facilitated many
improvements in student affairs. The
board has now undertaken to abolish
cheating in examinations by establish
ing the "honor system.” Responsibil
ity sobers these undergraduate citizens
and they are receiving the best possi
ble training for the life of the republic.
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government by the bot**e er gallon.
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