SMITH NOT STHONG
FOB LITERACY TEST
I
Where Would Some of Us Be To*
day?” Governor Asks ,The
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
CALLS THIS BEST RUN CITY
Theodore Roosevelt Asks Stand
Against Racial and Religious
Discrimination
(New York Times)
Speaking at the dinner of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the
Hotel Astor last night, Governor
Smith declared himself against the
literacy test and severe restrictions
on immigration, and asserted that this
city was the best governed in the
country. Theodore Roosevelt, Assist
- Secretary of the Navy, spoke
against religious and racial discrim
ination in this country.
“I am going to speak about restric
tions on immigration,” he said, “be
cause I feel strongly about them,
and I am going to speak also against
literacy tests that are too severe.
^ Suppose we had had the literacy test
sixty or seventy-five years ago, where
would some of us have been today,
and if we had had too strong a lit
eracy test on voting, where would
some of us have been?”
The Governor said that this coun
try had always held out its hand to
the oppressed and could not go the
extreme of requiring that a man be
a student before he could be admit
ted to this country. He said that he
knew of some men in the State in
stitutions who could write their own
names perfectly^ as well as the names
of other men, and still are not good
citizens.
Church and Family Factors.
My idea of a good citizen,” he
said, is the man who puts everything
in him to the job before him, who
raises a family and tries to give
them the advantages of the educa
tion which was denied to him; the
man who has allegiance to his church;
and whether he can read or write is
) not so important. He can he just
as good a citizen as the man with an
unbroken line of New England an
cestors.”
I carved that fight on a reindeer bone.
With rude and hairy hand;
I pictured his fall, on the cavern wall,
That men might understand.
EDUCATION
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a
log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue
And taught as an elder brother.
I don’t care what Mark Hopkins
taught—
If his Latin was small and his Greek
was naught—
b or the . farmer’s boy he thought,
thought he,
All through lecture time and quiz,
“The kind of a man I mean to be
Is the kind of a man Mark Hopkins
is!”
Philosophy, languages, medicine, law,
Are peacock feathers to deck the
daw,
If the boys who come from your
splendid schools
Are welltrained sharpers or flippant
fools.
^ ou way brag of your age and your
ivied walls,
You great endowments, your noble
halls
And all your modern features,
^ our vast curriculum’s scope and
reach
And the multifarious things you
teach—
Put how about the teachers?
Are they men who will stand in a
father’s place,
Y ho are paid, best paid, by the ar
dent face
When boyhood gives, as boyhood can,
Its love and faith to a fine, true man?
N'O printed page nor spoken plea
May teach young hearts what men
should be—
Not all the books on all the shelves,
Put what the teachers are themselves.
For education is: Making men;
So is it now, so was it when
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a
log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
—Arthur Guiterman
It is not book learning young men
need, nor instruction about this and
that, but a stiffening of the verte
brae which will cause them to be
loyal to a trust, act promptly, con
centrate their energies, do a thing—
“carry a message to Garcia.”—Elbert
Hubbard.
Every person is responsible for all
good within the scope of his abilities,
and for no more, and none can tell
whose sphere is the largest.—Gail
Hamilton.
REDUCE FISII LICENSES
BRITISH COLUMBIA FEES TO BE
CHANGED
VANCOUVER, B. C., April 21—
(Special.) —Drastic changes were
made by the Dominion government
fisheries department today in the
cost of fishing (licenses in British Co
lumbia waters and orientals were re
fused the use of salmon seines.
Licenses were cut as follows:
Old New
Charge. Charge
Salmon drag seines.$150 $20
Salmon purse seines.... 300 20
Salmon trap nets. 500 50
Herring purse seines.... 75 5
Herring drag seines. 50 5
Salmon gill nets. 10 1
Salmon trolling. 5 1
All other commercial licenses were
cut to $1 with the exception of can
nery licenses, which continues to re
main at $500 each, as it requires an
act of parliament to alter this rate.
Motorboats will be allowed to op
erate in district No. 2, or northern
British Columbia, commencing Janu
ary 1, 1924.
Fishing for sockeye salmon will
commence all over the province June
20 and the weekly closed season for
salmon, with the exception of trolling
will be 48 hours, from 6 a. m. Satur
day to 0 a. m. Monday. There will
be one exception to this, which will
be from the Fraser river bridge to
Mission, where the closed season will
be from 6 a. m. Saturday to 6 p. m.
Monday.
THE SCHOOL MEET
The school meet held in Juneau
recently was a great success. It is
something that broadens the students.
Nothing in the schools can take the
place of these contests especially the
academic work.
Wrangell alone was not present.
We sympathize with Wrangell in her
basketball controversy and believe
that she rightfully holds the champ
ionship by virtue of the plain agree
ment made here last year. But it
is one thing to stand on one’s dignity
and another to bite off one’s nose
to spite one’s face. Wrangell should
have entered the academic work. The
young people who missed that be
cause of an argument over basket
ball will never make up the training
they lost by not appearing in the
debates, the declamatory contests,
and other contests. Let Wrangell be
there the next time.