The  M. A. C. RECORD. 

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE. 

V O L.  I I. 

L A N S I N G,  M I C H I G A N,  T U E S D A Y,  J U N E.  26,  1906. 

N o.  39 

Montana  Agricultural  College, '05, 
whose  thesis  was upon  the  subject, 
" T he  Relation  Between  Quantity of 
Manure  and Soil  T e m p e r a t u r e ." 

BACCALAUREATE  SERMON. 

THREE  CHAPTERS  IN  THE  BOOK  OF 
I-IFE. 

Text,  Acts  X VI,  6-11  : 

It  is said  that  the masterpieces  of 
literature  are  never  the pure  creations 
of  literary  skill,  but  are  suggested 
by  the  well  nigh 
forgotten  and 
seemingly  unimportant  events  of t he 
past. 

It  is also  said  that  in the  writing 
literature 
of  the  masterpieces  of 
four 
factors  are  essential:  ( i)  A 
location:  (2)  A  t i m e:  ( 3 ) . C h a r a c 
ter  :  (4)  A  sequence  of  events. 

FIFTY-EIGHT  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1906. 

i,  Neilson;  2, Hough;  3, Taylor;  4, Rasmussen;  5, Martham;  6, Kenrick;  7, Mastenbrook;  8, Case;  9, Peters;  10,  Linkletter; 
11, Bates;  12, Keech;  13, Langeler;  14, Wilson;  15, Hebblewhite;  16, Farrand;  17, Lamb;  18, Spencer;  19, Fisk;  20, Salisbury; 
21,  Liverance;  22,  Poole;  23, Lawrence;  24, Matthews;  25, Northrup;  26, Cavanagh;  ij,  Stevens;  28, Bucknell;  29,  Freedman; 
30,  Angell;  31, Potts;  32,  Francis;  33, Hebblewhite;  34, Dorsey;  35, Taylor;  36, Alexander;  37, Ranger;  38,  Phippeny; 
39, Smith;  40, Skeels;  41, Locke;  42, Bray;  43, Campbell;  44,  Kedzie;  45, Robinson;  46,  Farley;  47, Adams;  48,  Boomsluiter; 
49,  Spragg;  50, Grover;  51, Stanton;  52, Hagadorn;  53, Lambert;  54, Anderson;  55, Sanborn;  56, Willson,  C. A.;  57,  Barnett; 
58,  Armstrong. 

COMMENCEMENT. 

Commencement  D ay at M. A. C. 
for  1906  is a thing  of  the  past  and 
more  than  70 names  have  been  add 
ed  to the alumni  roll  of  the  institu 
tion.  T he  weather  from  Saturday 
evening  until  Wednesday  w as  al 
most  ideal, Wednesday  especially  be 
ing  just  cool  enough  to  enjoy  the 
exercises.  T he  baccalaureate  sermon 
on  Sunday,  J u ne  17, was  delivered 
by  R e v. R. W.  McLaughlin  of  the 
P a rk  Congregational 
C h u r c h, 
Grand  Rapids,  and was  thoroughly-
enjoyed  by all present.  T he speak 
er  gave  for  his  subject,  "  T h r ee 
Chapters  in  the  Book  of  Life,"  a 
synopsis  of  which  is  given  else 
where  in this  issue.  M a ny  alumni 
and  friends  were  back  for the  so 
ciety  parties  and all seemed  glad  to 
again  visit  the old campus. 

T he  reception  given  by  President 
and  M r s.  Snyder  Tuesday  evening 
was  well  attended  by  the  seniors 
and  their  friends,  faculty  and others, 
and  was  certainly  an  enjoyable  oc 
casion.  M r. Monroe  and M r.  Bliss, 
of  the  State  Board,  with  their  wives, 
Dr.  E d w a r ds  and M r.  Boomsluiter 
aided  in  receiving  the  guests,  w ho 
were  then  presented  to the members 
of  the  senior  class.  Refreshments 
were  served  in the dining  room, and 
the 
large  enclosed  porch  on the 
south  furnished  an  ideal  place  for 
the  punch  bowl.  A  number  of 
faculty  ladies  assisted  in the  parlor. 
T he  senior  class  assembled  at the 
chapel  Wednesday  morning,  and 
promptly  at ten  o'clock  marched  to 
the  armory,  and  were  escorted  to 
seats  on the  platform,  after  which 
the  following  program  was  given : 

Music. 
Invocation,  R e v. C. E.  T h o m a s, 

Lansing. 

Address,  Hydraulic  P o w er  D e 
velopment,  M r. J o hn  R.  Lambert, 
(Engineering  Course.) 

Address,  W o m e n 's  Influence  in 
Public  Affairs,  Miss  Alida  Alex 
ander  ( W o m e n 's  Course). 

Vocal  Solo,  Song  to the  E v e n i ng 
Star  (from  Tannhauser),  Wagner, 
Mr.  Gage  Christopher. 

Address,  T he F a r m er  in  Politics, 
(Agricultural 

M r.  C.  A.  Willson, 
Course.) 

Waltz,  O p.  70,  Chopin;  W a l t z, 
O p.  64,  Chopin,  Miss  Z ae  North 
rop. 

Address,  Building  National  F o u n 
dations,  H o n.  George  H.  Maxwell. 
(from  II 
Trovatore)  Verdi,  Mr.  Gage  Chris 
topher. 

Vocal  Solo,  II  Dalen 

Conferring  of  Degrees. 

Many  and  favorable 

comments 
were  made  upon  t he  addresses  of 
the  class  orators,  whose  papers 
were  certainly  well  written  and 
T h e se  orations  are 
well  given. 
published  in full  elsewhere  in 
this 
issue  of  the  R E C O R D,  as  is  also  a 
the  address  of  the 
synopsis  of 
speaker  of 
the  H o n. 
the  day, 
George  H.  Maxwell,  w ho spoke  on 
"Building  National  Foundations." 
T he  music  by  Miss  N o r t h r op  de 
serves  special  mention,  h er  work 
eliciting  much  favorable  comment. 
T he  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Science  was  conferred  upon  the 
five 
following  persons,  all  except 
or  six  being  present. 

A D A M S,  E D W IN  H., e 
A L E X A N D E R,  A L I D A,  W 
A N D E R S O N,  A.  C R O S B Y,  a 
A N G E LL  H A R R I ET  C, W 
A R M S T R O N G.  A.  S C O T T,  6 
B A R N E T T,  H O W A RD  H., e 
B A T E S.  E R A S T US  N., 6 
B I R D,  R A L PH  C,  6 
B O O M S L U I T E R,  G E O R GE  P.. & 
B R A Y.  M A RY  J. W 
B U C K N E L L.  H O W A RD  C. & 
C A M E R O N,  A R BA  H..  6 
C A M P B E L L.  F L O RA  L. W 
C A S E,  F L O R E N C E,  W 
C A V A N A G H,  J O HN  G.( 6 
C H A M P E,  S I L AS  E.. & 
C R O S B Y,  H E N RY  H., a 
D O R S E Y,  M A X W E LL  J ., a 

F A L C O N E R.  A R C H ER  E. 6 
F A R L E Y.  F R ED  A., a 
F A R R A N D,  B E L L,  W 
Fl  SK,  J AM  ES  E.,  e 
F R A N C IS  H O W A RD  L.,  6 
F R E E D M A N.  B L A N C H E.  W 
G R A H A M.  R A L PH  C. 8 
G R O V E R,  F R A NK  N., e 
H A G A D O R N.  E A R L,  SL 
H E B B L E WH  I T E,  - G I L B E R T,  6 
H E B B L E W H I T E.  G R A C E.  W 
H O U G H,  W A L T ER  K.,  a 
K E D Z I E,  R O S E M O N O.  W 
K E E C H,  R O L LO  E., 6 
K E N R I C K,  E A RL  W.. 6 
K I N G S C O T T,  W A L T ER  J ., 9 
L A M B,  C A SS  A.,  C 
L A M B E R T,  J O HN  R.. e 
L A N G E L E R,  M A R I N US  B., 6 
L A W R E N C E,  C A R O L I N E,  W 
L I N K L E T T E R.  F R A NK  D., a 
L I V E R A N C E.  F R A N K,  e 
L O C K E,  T.  F R A N K,  6 
M A R K H A M,  A L L A N,  e 
M A S T E N B R O O K,  H E N RY  J ., 6 
M A T T H E W S.  M I L D R ED  M.,  W 
M O R G A N,  W I L L I AM  E., e 
N E I L S O N,  W I L H E L M,  6 
N O R T H R U P.  Z A E,  W 
P E T E R S,  G E R T R U D E,  W 
P H I P P E N Y,  I.  M A X.  6 
P O O L E,  J O HN  E.. 6 
P O T T S,  R AY  G., a 
P O T T S.  R OY C  a 
R A N G E R.  K A RL  F., e 
R A S M U S S E N,  R A S M U S,  e 
R O B I N S O N.  L U LU  B . .W 
R O B S ON  A L B E RT  N . ,f 
S A L I S B U R Y,  H U GH  C.  6 
S A N B O R N,  L E S L IE  M.. e 
S K E E L S.  D O R A,  W 
S M I T H,  E R N E ST  F., 6 
S M I T H,  L E S L IE  J ., 6 
S P E N C E R,  L O U IS  M., 6 
S T A N T O N,  W A L T ER  E..  a 
S T E V E N S,  K I N T ON  B.,  e 
S T R A N D,  W.  C,  6 
T A Y L O R.  J O S E PH  H., e 
T A Y L O R.  J E N N E,  W 
Wl  L L S O N,  C.  A., a 
W I L S O N,  W I L L I AM  P.. e 
W I L S O N,  W I L L I AM  E., 6 

T he  degree  of  Master  of  Science 
was  conferred  upon  Charles  G. 
W o o d b u ry  of  M. A. C.  T he sub 
ject  of his thesis  was  " An Economic 
Study  of  the  San  Jose  Scale;  its 
Allies,  History  and Methods  for its 
Extermination." 

T he  M. S. degree  was  also  con 
ferred  upon  F r a nk  A. S p r a g g,  B. S., 

these 

And  these  conditions  of  great  lit 
erature  are all  found  in  this  state 
ment  of  historic  fact  in the book of 
Acts. 
It is  a  seemingly  unimport 
ant narrative—containing  ten  names, 
whose  only  importance  is in  what 
once  was or  may have  been,  rather 
than  in what  n ow  is—names  which 
have  for the  most  part  disappeared 
from  the  m a p.  D ry  and  uninter 
as  names.  B ut 
esting  enough 
Browning  founded  his  great  poem 
" T he  R i ng  and the B o o k"  on a  for 
gotten 
pamphlet.  H awtho  me 
caught  his  suggestion  for  T he 
Scarlet  Letter,  from  a  curiously 
w r o u g ht  initial  on a  scrap  of  paper. 
A nd  some  day a genius  of  literature 
will  find  his  imagination  kindled  as 
he  reads 
forgotten  words, 
and  guided  by  historic enactment  he 
will  give  the  world  a  great  story. 
in the  writing of 
F or  the  factors 
such  a  story  are  all  here. 
(1) 
Location.  T he  P h r y g i an  region— 
and  the shore  lines of two  continents 
at  the points  marked  on the map as 
Troas  and  Philippi. 
(2)  T i m e— 
the  middle of the  first  century  of the 
Christian  era, while  Caesar  is  upon 
his  throne  and  the R o m an  E m p i re 
is  ruling the  world. 
(3)  Characters 
—an  unnamed  man,a  devout  woman, 
a  ventriloquest  maiden,  a  group of 
selfish 
traders, a  weak  magistrate, 
an  angry  mob,  and  Paul,  the  man 
of  Tarsus,  the student  of  Gamaliel, 
the  messenger  of the  celestial  Christ, 
the  P h r y g i an 
who  passing 
region,  enters  T r o a s,  and 
finally 
this  man,  the 
reaches  Philippi, 
central  figure,  whose  commanding 
personality  modifies  the  events  as 
the  other 
enacted  and  dominates 
characters  as  mentioned. 
(4) T he 
sequence  of  events  is found  in  the 
relation  of  P h r y g ia  to  Troas  and 
Troas  to  Philippi,  which 
thus  re 
lated  shows  the p o w er  of  truth  as it 
gains  possession  of  one  life  and 
thro'  that 
forms  the  world. 

life  disturbs  and 

trans 

t h r o' 

A nd 

in  the  writing  of  such  a 
story—having  thus  provided  the in 
troduction 
three 
chapters—entitled  P h r y g i a — T r o as 
Philippi. 

there  might  be 

or  Allegiance 

I—Phrygia 
Truth. 

Chapter 
to  the 
T he  narrative  states  in few words, 
that  Paul  is  journeying 
thro'  t he 
P h r y g i an  region—having  been  for-

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26,1906. 

BACCALAUREATE  SERMON. 

(Continued  from  page  one) 
bidden  by  the  Holy  Spirit  entrance 
into  the  rich  and  populous  province 
of  Asia—that  soon  in  his  journey 
ing-  he  comes  over  against  Mysia, 
the  desirability  of 
which  suggests 
turning  east  by  north,  into  the  prov 
ince  of  Bithynia  but  is  again  forbid 
den  by 
so 
hedged  in by  the  imperative  prompt 
ings  of  the  unseen  spirit,  he  faces 
the 
at 

the  Holy  Spirit  and 

reaches 
continent 

.  westward  and 
lines  of 

soon 
the 

shore 
Troas. 

N ow  the  very  statement  of  these 
facts  with  the  commanding  person 
ality  of  Paul  in  mind,  suggests  mys 
tery  enough  for  the  greatest  story. 
W h at  does  it  mean?  A  man  ap 
parently  as  free  as  the  wind  blowing 
over 
the  P h r y g i an  highlands,  yet 
not  free.  A  man  desiring  to  do  one 
thing  yet  doing  another.  W a n t i ng 
to  enter  one  region,  yet  journeying 
Forbidden 
on 
entrance  into  the  provinces  of  Asia 
finally  entering 
and  Bithynia  and 
the  city  of  Troas.  W h at  does 
it 
mean? 
It  certainly  means  that  here 
is  a  man  not  his  own  master  but  the 
servant  of  another. 

to  another  region. 

H ow  unswerving  his '  allegiance 
to  the  voice  of  the  unseen!  W h at 
cares  he  that  the  army  shaking  the 
earth,  the  gold  filling  the  coffers  of 
trade,  the  social  prestige 
radiating 
the  palaces  are  not  his.  He 
from 
the  voice  of  truth  and 
had  heard 
must  obey.  He 
is  alone,  yet  not 
alone.  Losing  for  a  time  the  devo 
tion  of  earth,  he  gains  for  all  time 
the  friendship  he  enters 
the 
struggle  and  throws  down  his  gaunt 
let  upon  which  are 
the 
words  :  "  T r u th  against  the  W o r l d ." 
And  this  is chapter  one  in  the  life 
of  every  earnest  man 
in  his  pursuit 
of  truth.  At  the  very  threshold  of 
our  life's  work  it meets  us and  speaks 
with  commanding  authority.  And 
no  man  can  live  his  best  until  hav 
ing  heard  its  voice  he  responds  with 
absolute  allegiance. 

inscribed 

into 

the 

Not  until  a  man  is  ready  to  stay 
influential  province  of 
out  of 
Asia  because  the  Holy  Spirit  forbids 
i t;  not  until  he 
is  willing  to  turn 
aside  from  the  unexplored  province 
of  Bithynia,  because  the  spirits  of 
J e s us  suffers  him  not  to  enter;  not 
until  he  is  willing  to be  driven  on  to 
u n k n o wn  Troas  by  the  unseen  voice 

can  the  first  chapter  be  written  in 
tho  pursuit  of  truth. 

Vision 

Service. 

II.—  Troas,  The 

Chapter 
of 
Chapter  t wo  begins  where  chap 
In  the  sequence  of 
ter  one  ends. 
events  Troas 
P h r y g ia 
follows 
and  is  its  outcome.  T he  facts  as 
stated  in  the  narrative  a re  that  Paul 
in passing  through  the  P h r y g i an  re 
gion 
turned  aside  from  Bithynia 
and  Asia  and  came  to  the  city  of 
Troaz. 

It  would  be  interesting  were  it 
possible  to  interpret  the  feelings  of 
this  man  as  he  entered  Troas. 
Its 
picturesqueness,  located  on  a  high 
fringe 
bluff,  stretching  out  as  a 
along  the  shore  line  overlooking  the 
yEgean  Sea 
across  whose  blue 
gleam  could  be  seen  dimly  the  shore 
line  of  Europe—all  this  must  have 
appealed  to  him. 

And  then  his  scholarly  resources 
—how  they  must  have  been  d r a wn 
upon  as  he  realized  that  he  was  in 
the  world-famed  Troas,  the  city 
that  Julius  Caesar  once  thought  of 
as  the  capital  of  the  Empire,  the  city 
to  which 
to 
trace  their  ancestral  origin. 

the  R o m a ns  affected 

But  there  was  something  else  in 
this  city—something  of  more  impor 
tance  than  anything  mentioned.  A 
man  has  never  seen  the  best  of  a  city 
who  has seen  only  its hills  and  wind 
ing  streets  and  water  front;  when 
he  has  observed  only  its  commerce 
at  the  wharves  and  on  the  highways 
and  in 
the  bazaars;  when  he  has 
visited  only  its  historic  monuments 
and 
traditional  spots.  A  man  has 
never  seen  a  city  until  he  has  seen 
its  people,  and  not  as  a  mass,  but  as 
individuals.  A nd  this  is  w h at  Paul 
saw.  He  looked  upon  men  as  they 
moved  by  him  -—some 
sorrowful, 
others  g l a d;  some  strong,  others 
w e a k; 
some  young,  others  old; 
and  by  and  by  out  of  the  vast,  pro 
miscuous 
throng  upon  which  he 
looked,  there  came  into  the  circle  of 
his  friendship  an  unnamed  man  des 
to  alter  the  future  course  of 
tined 
his  career. 
Is  it  too  much  to  think 
these  two men  moving  out  to  a  quiet 
spot  on  the  bluff  overlooking 
the 
sea  and  soon  lost  in  a  deep,  heart  to 
heart  conversation 
the 
things 
excellent. 
that 
A w ay  in  the  distance  the  shore  line 
of 
is  dimly 
seen.  A nd  Paul  must  have  forgot 
ten  the  disappointments  and  myster 
ies  of 
the  Phrygian  region,  as  ab 
sorbed  in  the  conversation,  his  un 
tells  him  about 
named  friend 
the 
lands  from  which  he  has 
distant 
come — about  their  homes  and  tem 
ples,  the  sins  and  sorrows, the  temp 
tations  and  possibilities  of  their  peo 
ple.  A h,  this  was  a  conversation 
worth  listening  to,  for  this  conver 
sation  has  profoundly  affected 
the 
course  of  human  history  for  well 
nigh  two  milleniums  of  years. 

the  western  continent 

are  more 

regarding 

the 

conversation 

T h e re  have  been  many  conversa 
tions.  But  what  are  they  when  com 
pared  with 
at 
Troas  between  the  Oriental  mission 
ary  and  the  Occidental  physician, 
between  the  man  of  Asia  and 
the 
man  of  Europe, between  the  apostle 
from  the^east  and  the  traveler  from 
the  west. 

F or  East  is  E a s t,  a nd  West  is  W e s t, 
And  n e v er  the  t w a in  shall  meet, 
Till  each  shall  s t a nd  p r e s e n t ly 
At  God's  g r e at  j u d g m e nt  seat. 
But  t h e re  is  n e i t h er  East  nor  W e s t, 
Border  nor  b r e ed  nor  birth, 
W h en  two  s t r o ng  m en  s t a nd  face  to  face 
T h o'  t h ey  come  from  t he  end  of  t he  e a r t h. 

But 

the  conversation  between 
Paul  and  L u ke  ends.  T he  great 

conversations  of  life  have  an  end 
ing.  T he  men  separate. 
P e r h a ps 
it  is  the  close  of  day.  T he  chill  of 
approaching  night  is  creeping 
into 
is  dropping  over 
the  air.  T he  sun 
the  shore  line of  Europe. 
Twilight 
is  settling  upon  land  and  sea.  A nd 
lonelv  man  among  men, 
Paul,  the 
far  from  his  own  home,  yet  follow 
ing  the  star  of  truth  in  his  soul,  his 
mind  filled  with  strange  and  disturb 
ing  thoughts,  wends  his  way  back 
lodgings, 
into 
the  city,  seeks  his 
in 
and  soon  is  lost  in  sleep.  A nd 
his  sleep  he  dreams,  and 
in  his 
dreams  he  seems  to  be  again  stand 
ing  on 
the 
city,  this  time  he  is  alone.  Off  in 
the  distance  is  Europe.  D o wn  on 
the  shore  his  unnamed 
is 
standing  and  beckoning  to  him  and 
seeming 
into 
Macedonia  and  help  us. 

the  bluff  overlooking 

to  say,  come  over 

friend 

to  truth  in 

T he  Allegiance 

the 
land  of  Phrygia,  leads  to  the  vision 
of  service  in  the  region  of  Troas. 
A nd  this  is  chapter  two  in  the 
life 
of  any  true  man  in his  pursuit  of  the 
truth.  F or  truth  at  its  best  is  more 
than  an  abstract  idea—more  than  a 
cold  syllogism  with  its  major  and 
minor  premises  and 
conclusions. 
T r u th 
is  a  suggestion,  a  dream,  a 
vision.  T r u th  fires  the  intellect  and 
kindles 
T r u th 
drives  one  from  P h r y g ia  to  Troas, 
and  reveals  a  continent  of  need  and 
upon 
its  shore  line  a  Macedonian 
calling  for  help.  Unless  truth  ac 
knowledged 
in  P h r y g ia  creates  a 
vision  of  service  in  Troas  something 
is  wrong. 

imagination. 

the 

The  Re 

Phillipi, 

Chapter 

III 
gion  of  Action. 
A nd  when  he  had  seen  the  vision, 
straightway  we  sought  to  go  forth 
into  Macedonia  concluding  that  God 
had  called  us  to  preach  the  gospel 
unto 
therefor 
from  T r o a s,  we  made  a  straight 
course  to  Samothracia  and  the  day 
following 
from 
thence  to  Philippi,  which  is  a  city 
of  Macedonia,  the  first  of  the  district 
a  Roman  Colony,  and  we  were 
in 
this  city  tarrying  certain  days. 

them.  Setting  sail 

to  Neapolis  and 

from 

the  singular  to 

You  are  familiar  with  the  exegesis 
of  the  passage,  and  have  noted  the 
change 
the 
plural  in  verse  10.  A nd  when  he 
had  seen  the  vision, straightway  we 
sought  to  go  forth 
into  Macedonia. 
W hy  did  not  Paul  remain  in  Troas 
and  meditate  upon  the  meaning  of 
his  vision  and  admire  its  beauty. 
W hy  this  sudden  departure?  W hy 
does  the  historian  state  the  situation 
as  follows  :  And  when  he  had  seen 
the  vision,  straightway  we  sought 
two  an 
to  go  forth  ?  T h e re  are 
lived 
s w e r s:  (1)  Life  at  its  best  is 
in  the  region  of  action, not 
the 
realm  of  vision.  One  of  the  appar 
ent  contradictions  of  life  is  that  its 
exaltations  are  in  the  valley  and  not 
on  the  mountain  top.  P h r y g ia  leads 
to  Troas  but  Troas  drives  on  to 
Philippi.  Troas  is  but  the  spot  on 
the 
which  we  pitch  our  tent  for 
night,  Philippi 
in 
region 
which  we  abide  for  the  years. 

the 

in 

is 

T he  historian  has  caught  the  sig 
nificance  of  this  thought  and  given 
the  true  proportions  in  the  narrative. 
O ne  verse  for  the  vision  but  forty-
three  verses  and  three  books  of  the 
N ew  Testament  to  record  the  action 
following  the  vision.  A nd  this  is 
true  to 
life.  T he  vision  of  duty 
yonder  in  Troas  is  the  work  of  a 
moment,  the  beat  of 
the  heart,  the 
tick  of  the  clock. 
(2)  Another 

for  Paul's 
passing  from  Troas  to  Philippi 
is 
he  must  go  from  his  vision  in  order 

reason 

to  keep  his  vision,  the  vision  stays 
with  the  man. 
If  a  man  stays  with 
the  vision  the  vision  goes  from  the 
man.  This  is  one  of  the  profoundly 
true  paradoxes  of 
is  but 
another  statement  of  truth,  that  only 
the  man  w ho  is  willing  to  lose  his 
life  is  able  to  save  his  life.  E v e ry 
man  must  be  lost.  Either  he  will 
lose  himself  or  the  world  will  lose 
him. 

life. 

It 

is 

T h o 't 

Paul  has  the  vision  in  Troas  and 
In 
immediately set s sail for  Philippi. 
leaving  Troas  and  going  to  Philippi 
he  does  not  lose  his  vision  but  finds 
it  in  action.  F or  every  heroic  ac 
tion  is  the  outcome  of  a  noble  vision. 
A  true  action  is  related  to  a  strong 
thought. 
lightning 
a 
traveler. 
It  is  always  leaping  from 
some  Troas  to  some  Philippi,  from 
the  shore  line of  some  E u r o pe  to  the 
shore 
line  of  some  Asia.  T h o 't  in 
its  expression  is  omnipresent.  T he 
flower  that  blooms  in  the  garden, 
star 
the 
stream that  flows  across  the  meadow, 
the  waves  that  boon*, upon  the  rocks, 
are the expressions h< the  mind  of  one 
who  creates  and  suVains.  T h is  is  a 
thoughtful  universe,  .remulous  with 
orderly  life, and 
the 
world  about  us  are  but  God's  raised 
letters  that  spell  ou.  mind.  Paul 
setting  sail  at  Troas  was  driving 
westward  by 
trade  winds  of 
the 
thought. 

things  of 

the  sky, 

shines 

that 

th'f 

in 

the 

antecedent 

And  there  is  a  sequence  of  events 
in  moral  living  as  in  the  manifesta 
tions  of  nature.  Not  that  the  result 
the  normal  out 
will  always  seem 
come  of 
cause. 
Night  follows  day,  and  the  harvest 
follows 
the  sowing,  yet  both  are 
related.  And  so  when  the  action  in 
Philippi  is  compared  with  the  vision 
they  seem  unlike.  T he 
in  Troas 
unselfish  dream  of  service 
in  one 
city  and  the  selfish  group  of  traders 
in  another  city.  A  quiet  conversa 
tion  and  the  peaceful  bed  of 
repose 
on  the  eastern  shore  of  the  y-Egean 
—and  the  back  streaked  with  blood, 
and  the  damp  dungeon  on  its  west 
ern  shore. 

But  Paul  discovers  what  everc 
man  must  discover  in  his  pursuit  of 
truth,  that 
the  unselfish  vision  of 
in 
service  must  be  wrought  out 
conjunction  with  selfish  men.  And 
there  is  a  reason  for  this.  T he  vis 
ion  is  individual,  and 
the  action  is 
social.  A  vision  so  long  as  it  re 
mains  a  vision  is  but  the  possession 
of  one's  inner  life,  but  the  moment 
the 
that  vision 
is  projected 
sphere  of  action,  it 
and 
affects  other  lives. 

into 
touches 

immediately  passed 

But  Paul  not  only  dreamed,  but 
the 
he 
from 
realm  of  his  dreams  over  into 
the 
region  of  action  and  in  this  region, 
amid  the  selfishness  of  men,  he  at 
tempted  to  work  out  in  actual  living 
the  dream  as  experienced. 

truth. 

And  so  young  men,  it  remains 
for  you  to  write  the  three  chapters 
of  life  in  the  pursuit  of 
In 
your  college  days  you  have  written 
the 
introduction,  having  surveyed 
the  field,  and  discussed  the  material 
at  hand.  Y e s, if  you  will, you  have 
found  a  title  for  your  book  of  life, 
is  " T he  pursuit  of  T r u t h ." 
which 
A nd  now  for  chapter  one  which 
is 
P h r y g i a,  or  allegiance  to  the  truth. 
T he  world  which  awaits  you 
in 
which  you  will live  is your  P h r y g i a. 
it.  To  the 
Y ou  will  pass  through 
southward  is  Asia  and  to  the  north 
ward  is  Bithynia.  Will  you  pass 
the 
them  by,  under 
authorative 
inner  voice  of 
command  of 
the 
to  your 
truth  and  press  westward 
still 
Troas? 
T he  Holy  Spirit 
is  still 
speaks.  T he  voice  of J e s us 

sounding  in  the  soul.  All  depends 
upon  your  answer. 

But  of 

the  dream  of  service  in 
Troas  is  the  outcome  of  loyalty  to 
truth  in  P h r y g i a,  the  heroic  action 
in  Phillippi  is  the  outcome  of 
the 
in  T r o a s.  You 
dream  of  service 
will  find  Philippi  not  far  away. 
In 
the  dream  at  T r o a s,  the  man  stands 
over  on  the  shore  line of  Macedonia. 
T he  dream  as  experienced  on  one 
continent  is revealed  as  coming  from 
the  other  continent.  And  the.  duty 
that  awaits  you  is  to  sail  over  your 
yEgean  from  the  land  of  dreams  to 
the  land  of  action.  And  when 
this 
is  done  you  will  realize  the  meaning 
of  the  poet's  words  : 

I slept  and  dreamed that life was beauty, 
I waked—to find that life was duty. 
Was then thy  dream  a shadowy  lie? 
Toil on, sad  heart,  courageously, 
And thou shalt find that  life to be 
A noonday  light, and a truth to thee. 

It 

is 

JOHN  R.  LAMBERT. 
in 
T h e re  is  a  certain  fascination 
speculating  upon  the  future  line  of 
progress  of  science,  in  wondering 
what  inventions 
the  next  century 
will  give  to  the  world,  and  what  in 
is 
dustrial  conditions  will  be. 
easy  to  assume 
that  because  the 
nineteenth  century  was  one  of  un 
precedented  growth  in  many  ways, 
the  coming  century  will  carry  for 
ward  science  and  industry  at  a  like 
rapid  rate.  But  human  progress  of 
all  kinds 
like  a  wave,  now  ad 
vancing,  now  receding  ;  some  treas 
ures  it  leaves  with  man,  others 
it 
it  rolls  back. 
takes 
O ur  proof  of 
in  history, 
which  teaches  that  there  never  has 
been  uninterrupted  progress  in  any 
particular  direction 
a  great 
for 
the  arts 
length  of  time.  Many  of 
of  the  ancients  which  had  a  wonder 
ful  g r o w th  are  now  known  only  by 
traditions;  but 
they 
founded  have  lived  and  have  g r o wn 
after  the  manner  of  the  coral  reef. 
Each 
generation  has 
made  its  offering  and  has  uncon 
sciously  guided  development  in  the 
most  needful  direction. 

from  him  as 

the  sciences 

succeeding 

this  is 

T he  industrial  life  of  a  nation  is 
continually  varying.  N ew  stand 
ards  of  living  create  new  industries, 
new  inventions  relegate  older  ones 
railroad 
to 
the  scrap-heap. 
industries 
developed  hundreds  of 
and  brought 
into  existence  others. 
Steel  manufacture  and  coal  mining 
the 
are 
intimately  connected  with 
railroad. 
locomotive 
its 
depends  upon  steel  and  coal  for 
very  being.  Without  both  it  could 

steam 

T he 

T he 

THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

A 

the 

the 

locomotive  must 

that  point.  To  some 

not  exist  as  such.  A nd 
time 
must  come  when  the  price  of  coal 
will  prohibit  its  use  as  a  fuel.  T he 
then  yield 
steam 
to  some  form  of  motor  car. 
century  ago 

idea  of  a 
scarcity  of  timber  appeared  absurd, 
but  the  United  States  has"  already 
the 
reached 
idea  of  the  exhaustion  of  our  coal 
supply 
coal 
deposits  are  finite,  and  as  far  as  we 
know  every  ton  burned  is  absolutely 
the  power  of 
lost,  since  it  has  not 
reproduction  that  timber  has.  T h us 
we 
the 
steam  engine  will  of  necessity  be 
of 
checked, 
sources 
other 
the 
energy  will  be  sought  to  turn 
wheels  of  industry. 

the  development  of 

incredible.  Y et 

and 

see 

is 

are 

T he 

quite 

since 

question 

there  are 

In  addition 

to  utilize,  but 

naturally 
a r i s e s — W h at 
the  possible 
sources  of  our  future  power?  Great 
the  gas 
things  are  expected  of 
engine 
the  gas  can  be  ob 
tained  from  the  cheapest  grades  of 
fuel. 
four 
natural  sources  of  energy,  namely, 
the  wind,  the  waves,  direct  solar 
energy,  and  running  streams.  T he 
energy  of  currents  of  air  is  fairly 
is  extremely 
easy 
that 
variable; 
is  not 
for  power 
the  windmill 
required  continuously 
is  successfully  used.  T he  power 
of 
tides,  although 
great,  is  difficult  to  utilize  and  does 
not  give  promise  of 
commercial 
success  even  in  its  local  application. 
T he  direct  rays  of  the  sun  can  be 
used  to  heat  boilers  and  thus  gen 
erate  steam.  T h is  source  of  power 
is  of  very  limited  extent  on  account 
flow 
of  climatic  conditions.  T he 
ing  stream  affords  perhaps  the  most 
satisfactory  solution  of  the  problem 
of  power  development  on  a 
large 
scale,  and 
increasing  use  of 
the 
water  power  is  merely  a  returning 
to  one  of 
of 
the  oldest 
utililized  energy. 

the  waves  and 

forms 

discovered 

Before  W a tt 

that 
steam  could  be  used 
to  drive  en 
gines,  flowing  water  was  the  great 
est  source  of  power. 
Its  use  for 
performing  work  dates  back  to  an 
extremely  early  age.  W i th  the  ad 
vent  of  tne  steam  engine,  hydraulic 
Fuel 
development 
was  cheap,  and  until  the  last  twenty 
years  there  was  no  method  of  trans 
mitting  the  power  generated  at  the 
water-fall 
It  re 
mained  for  electricity  to  supply  this 
deficiency  and  to  make  hydraulic 
development  a.success. 

to  any  distance. 

lost  ground. 

is 

T he  earliest  use  of  water-power, 
as  nearly  as  can  be  determined,  was 
in  India  and  E g y p t.  A  primitive 
water  wheel  was  used  to  grind  corn. 
It  was  what  is  known  as  a 
flutter-
wheel,  and  consisted  of  radial  vanes 
inserted 
T he 
in  a  central  shaft. 
these 
water  was  directed  against 
vanes  with  no  attempt  at  confine 
In  Sicily  a  crude  form  of 
ment. 
impulse  wheel  introduced  by 
the 
in  use  at  the  present 
Saracens 
the 
day.  T he  early  history  of 
water-wheel 
unim 
portant,  since  it  was  not  until  the 
that  any  great 
nineteenth  century 
improvements  were 
introduced. 
T he  overshot  and  breast  wheels 
were  then  developed.  T h e se  were 
the  wheels  used  in  the  grist  mills. 
T he  overshot  wheel  is  the  one  rep 
resented  in  familiar  pictures  of  old 
mills.  T he  weight  of  the  water  in 
the  buckets  causes 
to 
revolve.  And,  after  all,  the  power 
of  water  is  always  due  to  its  weight. 
It  is  continually  descending 
from 
the  higher  to  the  lower  level,  being 
raised  again  by  the  sun,  and  falling 

is,  however, 

the  wheel 

again  as  rain.  T h is  cycle  of  nature 
is  complete  and  continuous. 

A  fairly  high  efficiency  can  be 
obtained  with  overshot  wheels,  but 
they  are  clumsy  and  expensive  at 
best.  Some  forty-five  vears  ago  a 
monster  overshot  wheel  was  built 
on  the  Isle  of  M a n. 
It  is  seventy 
feet  high  and  develops  about  one 
hundred  and 
power. 
T h is  giant  has  been  compared  with 
It  was 
the  more  modern  wheels. 
that 
found 
power 
would  develop 
like  conditions  would  need 
under 
in  diameter. 
to  be  only  eight  feet 
T h is  fact  represents  in  a  way, 
the 
progress  of  hydraulic  engineering 
during  the  last  century. 

that  the  Pelton  motor 
the 

fifty  horse 

same 

its 

t o  spend 

the  water 

reaction,  and 

in  developing 

Modern  hydraulic  motors  are  the 
different 
t wo  very 
outcome  of 
type, 
the  reaction 
in 
f o r m s;  one 
which 
through 
flowing 
curved  vanes  caused  the  wheel  to 
revolve  by 
the 
other  the  impulse  type, of  which  the 
old 
flutter-wheel  was  an  example. 
T he  turbine  belongs  to  the  former 
class.  T he  history  of  the  American 
turbine,  like  that  of  many  other  in 
ventions,  is  an  illustration  of  A m e r 
ican  ingenuity  and  faith  which  does 
not  hesitate 
time  a nd 
ideas.  T he 
money 
peculiarity  of  the  American  turbine 
is  that  it  receives  water  on  the  per 
iphery  and  discharges  it  downward 
and 
towards  the  center,  while  the 
foreign  wheels  receive  water  on  the 
top  and  discharge  it  below. 
It  was 
only  after  years  of  experimentation 
and  selection  that  the  present  mod 
els  were  brought  out.  F or  the  very 
high  heads  of  mountain  streams  the 
impulse  wheel 
i s  better  adapted. 
T h is  wheel  has  buckets  of  peculiar 
shape  upon  its  circumference,  upon 
which  water  is  directed  by  nozzles. 
It  was  first  used  in  the  California 
mining  regions  under  the  name  of 
the  hurdy-gurdy  wheel. 
It  was  in 
vented  by  a  mechanic  Pelton,  who 
knew  how  to  make  wheels  that  sat 
isfied  his  customers  although  he  did 
not  understand 
theory  of  hy 
the 
draulics. 

in 

to 

electric 

Let  us  turn  now  to  some  of 

the 
applications  of 
these  motors  to  the 
generation  of  power  for  commercial 
purposes.  T he  invention  of 
long 
distance 
transmission  of 
energy  was  the  great  incentive  to 
hydraulic  development,  so  the  credit 
belongs  as  much  to  the  electrical  en 
gineer  as 
the  civil  engineer. 
Some  of  the  first  plants  to  be  built 
in  California. 
in  this  country  were 
T h at  at  Fresno,  installed 
in  1893, 
line 
transmitted  electricity  over  a 
thirty-five  miles  long.  '  T he  power 
was  used  for  factory  purposes  and 
for  pumping  water  with  which 
to  irrigate.  T he  Niagara  plant  is 
the  country. 
one  of  the  largest 
Y e a rs  ago it  was  the  dream  of  en 
gineers  to utilize  some  of  the  wasted 
energy  of  Niagara  Falls. 
T he 
transmission  of  the  power  by  com 
lines  of 
pressed  air  and  by 
shafting  were  proposed.  One  sys 
tem  which  was  capable  of  a  limited 
application  was  for  each  factory  to 
have  its  canal  and  turbines.  T he 
present  Niagara  power  plant  is  far 
superior  to  any  that  could  have  been 
devised  according 
those  plans. 
T he  falls  are  made  the  means  of 
lighting  cities,  operating 
electric 
cars  and  factories,  and  in  fact,  all 
that  electricity 
the  various 
can  do.  T h e re 
such 
plants  throughout  the  country,  some 
located  at  natural  falls,  but  more  of 
them  at  dams  in  our  rivers. 

are  many 

things 

long 

to 

that 
than  others  in  water  courses 
to  furnish  working 
can  be  made 
the  Great 
heads.  T he 
region  of 
In  Michi 
Lakes  is  one  of  these. 
gan  our  many  rivers  are  dammed 
intervals.  T he  heads 
at  frequent 
those 
obtained  are  not  so  large  as 
falls,  or  in 
obtained  from  natural 
those 
regions. 
mountainous 
the  hydraulic  engineer  has 
places 
opportunity 
in 
genuity,  for  every  proposed  plant 
treatment 
requires  its  own  peculiar 
efficient 
the  most 
to  determine 
combination  of  machines,  and 
the 
most  economical  expenditures. 

to  exercise 

his 

In 

Hut 

houses 

hydraulic 

T he  continually  increasing  use  of 
increasing 
electricity  has  made  an 
power. 
for 
demand 
its 
town  now  must  have 
E v e ry 
lighted 
streets 
by 
and 
electricity,  and  a  .very 
satisfactory 
way  of  generating  it  is by  means  of 
power 
stream. 
some 
the 
companies  are 
the  ones  w ho  use 
the  most  water,  their  demands  are 
great.  T h e re  is  some  fear  that  so 
much  water  will  be  diverted  around 
their  beauty 
Niagara  Falls, 
will  be 
that 
enough  power  can  be  obtained  from 
dams  and  falls  without  imparing  any 
of  our  natural  scenery  ;  and  surely 
our  many  streams  are  capable  of 
furnishing  all  of  that  kind  of  power 
that  can  be  used  for  some  vears 
to 
come. 

that 
Let  us  hope 

lost. 

WOMAN'S  INFLUENCE  IN 
PUBLIC  AFFAIRS. 

ALIDA  ALEXANDER. 

T he  nineteenth  century  witnessed 
great  and  permanent  changes 
in 
nearly  every  department  of  life,  but 
perhaps  none  more  important  nor 
widespread 
than  woman's  altered 
relations  to  society.  Like  Minerva, 
the  goddess  of  wisdom  and  skill, 
w ho  sprang 
full 
panoplied  for  war  from  the  brain  of 
Jove,  the  twentieth  century  woman 
stands  today,  fully  equipped  for  al 
most  all  the  callings  of 
this  era  of 
diversified  interests. 

full  g r o wn  and 

the 

law.  But 

A  century  ago  no  provision  was 
made  for  her  education  beyond  the 
most  elementary  branches  ;  the  only 
proper  sphere  for  her  activities  was 
in  the  home.  Even  fifty  years  ago 
individuality 
woman  possessed  no 
before 
legal 
status  within 
the  half-century  has 
greatly  changed,  due  largely  to  the 
efforts  of  such  women  as  Susan  B. 
A n t h o ny  and  Elizabeth  Cady  Stan 
ton,  who, 
the  face  of  ridicule, 
fought  for  the  principles  which  they 
to 
believed  to  be  right,  and 
lived 
see  scorn  and  derision  changed 
to 
respect. 

her 

in 

Some  localities  are  more  favored 

T he  birth  of  Minerva  was  at-

in 

and 

Heaven 

tended  bv  great  disturbances  of  na 
ture. 
earth  were 
shaken  ;  the  sea  tossed  in  great  bil 
lows,  and  the  light  of  day  was  ex 
tinguished.  Disturbances 
the 
economic  and  industrial  world  have 
come  at  the  same  time  as  woman's 
the  new 
transition  from  the  old  to 
thought 
r e g i m e;  and  many  have 
that  the  light  of  day  was  to  be  ex 
the 
tinguished  by 
womanly  woman,  and 
feared 
downfall  of  the  home.  T he  error 
of  this  idea  has  been  shown  over 
and  over,  and  no  longer  does  it  ap 
pear  even  as  a  cloud  on  the  horizon. 

the  passing  of 

the 

all 

from 

to  extend 

responsibility 

But  " n ew  occasions 

teach  new 
duties  ;"  added  privileges  and  newly 
recognized  rights  mean  new  respon 
sibilities  for  woman. 
It  has  not 
been  thought  expedient  in  most  of 
our  states 
the  right  of 
to  woman,  a  fact  which 
suffrage 
them 
many  women  use  to  excuse 
selves 
in 
public  affairs.  However, 
the  ab 
sence  of  one  privilege  does  not  free 
one  from  responsibility  in  all  things. 
W h e t h er  woman  wishes  it  or  not, 
the  conditions  of  modern  society  re 
quire  more  and  more  that  she  shall 
help  to  mould  the  future  and 
influ 
locality, 
ence 
in 
state  and  nation.  Educational 
stitutions  are  coming 
recognize 
this  fact,  and  giving  h er  instruction 
in  matters  of  public  concern,  as  in 
In 
political  science  and  sociology. 
is 
this  respect,  however,  England 
far  in  advance  of  America.  T he 
educated  English  woman  is  expect 
ed  to  know  politics  as  well  as  she 
does  the  fundamental  principles  of 
arithmetic. 

the  present 

in  her 

to 

today 

W o m an  has  long  had  a  certain 
power  in  public  affairs  through  her 
influence  over  husband,  sons  and 
brothers.  This  power 
she  pos 
in  greater  measure 
sesses 
than  ever  before,  for  she  has  learned 
to  wield  that  influence  intelligently  ; 
to  her 
and  now  it  is  not 
own  household 
she  may  do 
few 
today  a 
generations  ago.  She  may,  if  she 
has 
the 
the  ability,  make  use  of 
public  platform  and  the  press. 

for 
thing  unheard  of  a 

limited 

itself 

It  is  generally  admitted  that  some 
of  the  most  influential  public  speak 
ers  and  writers  on  public  questions 
J a ne 
today, 
are  w o m e n ..  Dr. 
Addams,  of  Hull  House, 
is  an 
illustrous  example  of  this  fact,  and 
the  University  of  Wisconsin  has 
honored 
in  honoring  her  by 
calling  her  to  a  lectureship  at  the 
coming  summer  sessions.  Notice 
her  synopsis  of  the  course  on  " T he 
" T he 
Ideals  of  Peace." 
N e w er 
purpose  of  these  lectures  is  to  trace 
a  gradual  development  of  moral 
substitutes 
the  displace 
for  war, 
ment  of  the  older  ideals  of  patriot 
ism  by  those  of  a  newer  human-
itarianism 
.  .  .  T he  more  aggres 
sive  aspects  of  this  humanitarianism 
are 
for 
social  amelioration,  in  the  protective 
legislation  which  regards  the  weak 
est  citizen  as  a  valuable  asset,  in  the 
the  social  waste  of 
protest  against 
child 
the  demand  for  a 
in 
higher  standard  of  life  because  of 
efficiency. 
the  need  of 
T he  state  is  thus  protecting  its  civic 
it  formerly  defended 
resources  as 
its  citizens 
time  of  w a r;  and 
in 
industrialism  versus  m i l i t a r i sm 
to  be  nurture  versus  con 
comes 
quest."  Must  not  such  discussions 
as 
these  be  productive  of  great 
good  to  the  commonwealth ? 

in • the  movements 

industrial 

traced 

labor, 

One  of  the  strongest  weapons  in 
political  reform  is  education  W h en 
is 
we  consider  that 

to  the  mother 

THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

that  woman's 

to  a  large  extent 

the 
the  child,  and 

share 
the  citizenship  of 

early 
left, 
training  of 
that  a 
large  majority  of  the  teachers  in  the 
public  schools  are  women,  we  must 
in 
a d m it 
determining 
the 
next  generation  is  very  great.  T he 
teacher 
is 
the  public 
ordinarilv  well  informed  concerning 
questions  of  public  interest. 
the 
school  and  its  curriculum  be  right, 
we  need  have 
the 
future. 

little  fear 

school 

for 

in 

If 

the 

suffrage 

W o m an  might,  if  she  would,  do 
much  in  determining  the  character 
of  these  schools.  She  has,  in  most 
in 
states, 
right  of 
school  matters,  but  only 
rare 
instances  does  she  use  it,  perhaps 
in  case  of  some  very 
important 
question.  One  of  the  greatest  evils 
of  our  school  system 
is  its  con 
nection  with  politics,  and  woman, 
party 
necessarily  without 
affiliation,  might  help 
remedy 
this  trouble. 

strong 
to 

in 

to 

their 

against 

them  wherever 

As  school  officers,  local  and  state, 
women  have  proved  their  efficiency. 
holding 
Prejudice 
such  positions  still  exists,  but  pub 
lic  opinion  is  gradually  being  forced 
to  admit  their  worth  in  that  relation. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  women  are 
the  minority  on  school 
always  in 
results  are  directly 
boards,  good 
traceable 
they 
have  occupied  the  position.  T h ey 
have  more  leisure  than  the  men  on 
the  board,  can  do  more  school  vis 
itation,  and  come  into  more  direct 
teachers.  W o m en 
touch  with 
have  served  on  school  boards 
in 
man}-  states  and  in  nearly  all  of  our 
larger  cities,  but  it  is  in  N ew  E n g 
land,  the  educational  center  of  our 
country,  that  they  have  been  given 
the  largest  opportuniU 
for  service 
along  this  line,  and  it  is  from  N ew 
England  that  the  most  glowing  re 
ports  of  their  success  come.  T he 
consensus 
gathered 
mainly  from  men  w ho  have  been 
brought  into  official  relations  with 
them  is,  that  they  are  a  valuable  aid 
in  the  efficient  administration  of  the 
public  schools. 

opinion, 

the 

of 

its  public 

Man}-  a  village  and  city  owes 
most  of 
improvements 
and  whatever  of  beauty  it  may  pos 
sess  to  its  public  spirited  women. 
The.first  Village  Improvement  So 
ciety  in  the  United  States  w as  or 
ganized  by  a  -woman.  Since 
that 
have 
time 
sprung  up  in  nearly  every  town  in 
the  country. 
done, 
though  local  in  character,  has  been 
extremely  valuable.  Do  not  parks, 
libraries,  a 
good 
beautiful 
environment  and  order 
tend  to  make  better  citizens? 

school  houses, 

organizations 

T he  work 

similar 

than 

fitting 

land  should, 

Other  organizations  look  beyond 
mere  material  things, and see,  threat 
ening  the  health  and  morality  of  the 
nation,  evils  which  need  to  be  right 
ed.  W h at  more 
that 
the  educated  and  public-spirited  wo 
men  of  our 
through 
such  organizations  as  the  W o m a n 's 
Club,  the  Y o u ng  W o m a n 's  Chris 
tian  Association,  or  the  W o m a n 's 
Christian  Temperance  Union 
take 
part  in  the  agitation  for  pure  water, 
and  pure  food  supply,  for  the  clos 
ing  of.  gambling  houses,  for  better 
conditions  for  wage  earning  women 
and  children,  and  for  the  enforce 
ment  of  such  laws  as  already  exist, 
the  enactment  of  better  ones, 
and 
traffic? 
with  regard 
W ho  is  more  vitally 
in 
these  matters  than  the  womanhood 
of  our  country ? 

interested 

to  the 

liquor 

We  may  think  that,  beyond  keep 
ing  these  questions  before  the  public 

mind,  woman  has  no  p o w e r;  but 
there  have  been  instances  in  which 
she  has  been  able  to  influence  even 
national  policy  in  the  right  direction. 
T he  United  States,  after  years  of 
indifference,  was  at  last  induced  to 
sign  the  Red  Cross  Treaty,  through 
the  persistent  efforts  of  one  woman, 
Clara  Barton,  imbued  with  the  jus 
tice  of  the cause  for  which  she  plead 
ed  did  not  think  five  years  of  tire 
less  effort  too  much  to  devote  to  this 
purpose  ;  and  she  was  rewarded  at 
take  its 
last  by  seeing  her  country 
rightful  position  among  the  nations, 
on  the  side  of  justice  and  mercy. 
If  one  woman,  unaided,  could  ac 
complish  so  much,  what  may  we 
the  organized  ef 
not  expect  from 
forts  of .her  sisters? 

justified 

the  arts  of  peace. 
she 

In  the  mind  of  the  Greek,  Min 
erva  the  goddess  could  be 
fearful 
and  powerful  on  occasion,  and  in 
turn  gentle  and  fair.  She  was  at 
once  the  goddess  of  w ar  and  the  in 
structor  in 
If 
lead  her 
w ar  was 
people  on  to  victory,  while 
in  the 
in  agriculture 
household  arts  and 
she  exercised  her  benificent 
influ 
ence.  May  not  the  modern  Min 
erva,  in  the  simplicity  of  her  wis 
dom,  and  the  power  of  her  gentle 
the  day  when  benefi 
ness  hasten 
cence  and  justice,  beauty  and  truth, 
shall  dominate,  and 
the  highest 
ideals  for  public 
life  shall  be  at 
tained ? 

THE  FARMER  IN  POLITICS. 

C.  A.  W I L I . S O N. 

Our  government 

is  formed  and 
based  upon 
the  principle  that  all 
people  have  equal rights  and  should 
in  securing 
have  an  equal  interest 
and  maintaining  those  rights.  Our 
forefathers  having  witnessed  the  op 
pression  of 
the  common  people 
through  a  lack  of  representation, 
sought  to  found  a  government  that 
would  give  equal  representation  to 
all  classes.  T h ey  founded  it  on  the 
theory  that  that  is  best  which  pro 
ceeds  from  the  people  governed. 

An 

ideal 

strength, 

government 

is  one 
which  is established  for  the  mutual 
protection  of  the  people  and  where 
representation  has  been  instituted  as 
the  medium  through  which  the  peo 
ple  are  to  secure  the  necessary  leg 
stability, 
islation.  T he 
and  power  of  a  nation  lies  in 
the 
virtue,  intelligence, contentment  and 
general  prosperity  of 
the  people. 
Hence 
legislation  which  protects 
interest  to  the  injury  of  an 
one's 
other  is  subversive  of  every  princi 
ple  of  good  g o v e r n m e n t;  to  prevent 
class  legislation,  all  classes  should  be 
represented  in  the  passing  of  laws. 
In  the  earlier  history  of  our  gov 
ernment,  when  the  questions  of  most 

of 

laws 

should 

pressing 

had  charge 

urgent  and 
importance 
were  those  of  a  constitutional  char 
that 
acter,  it  was  quite  necessary 
the 
of 
those  w ho 
be  of 
passing 
the  legal  profession.  T h e ir 
train 
ing  made  them  more  familiar  with 
they 
the  art  of  government,  and 
to 
were  perhaps  better  qualified 
grapple  with 
the  legal  and  consti 
tutional  questions  that  arose  in  the 
past 
than  were  men  in  any  other 
walk  of  life.  But  there  is no  longer 
any  necessity  or  reason  for  giving 
the preference  to lawyers  in  selecting 
men  to  hold  our  public  offices  and 
to  represent  us  in  our  legislatures. 
We  have  arrived  at  a  t me  when 
all  great  fundamental  and  constitu 
tional 
practically 
settled  and  men  of  this  class  are  not 
to  any  great  extent  now  needed  in 
politics. 

questions 

are 

T he  need  in politics at  the  present 
time  is not the professional  politician, 
but  the  man  w ho  is  loyal  to  his  con 
stituency  ;  the  man  whom  the  office 
seeks,  and  not  the  man  w ho  seeks 
the  office.  We  want  patriotic  men 
w ho  think  and  act  for  the  best  in 
terests  of  the  class  which  they  rep 
resent. 
" M en  w ho  are  above  the 
world  in  public  life  and  in  private 
thinking." 

We  hear  a  great  deal  about  the 
lawyer  in  politics,  the  business  man 
in  politics,  but  do  we  often  hear 
about  the  farmer 
in  politics?  T he 
legislation 
influence  upon 
farmer's 
is  more  often  exerted  in  an  indirect 
manner. 

T h e re  is  no  class  of  people  in  our. 

country  today  w ho  exert  as  whole 
some  and  beneficial  an  influence  up 
on  legislation  as  our  too  often  de 
spised  rural  citizen.  T h e re  is  no 
class of  people  who  are a1; conversant 
upon  problems  of  national 
import 
ance  and  problems  which  have  not 
as  yet  attained  to  the  dignity  of  na 
tional  recognition.  T he  farmer 
is 
always 
to  discuss,—and  to 
discuss  intelligently,—questions  of 
importance  be 
state  and  national 
cause  of  the  interest  and  patriotic 
feeling  which  he  has  for  his  coun 
try.  He  realizes  that  his  occupation 
lies  closest  to  the  foundation  of  the 
government  and  is  the  first  to  be  af 
fected  by  unjust  legislation. 

ready 

While  an  individual  may  wield  a 
great  influence  in  politics,  yet 
it  is 
the  number  of  supporters  he  has 
back  of  him  that  makes  it  possible 
for  him 
to  make  his  influence  felt. 
It  is  the  organized  action  of  a  large 
number  of  people  that  wields  pow 
in  national  legisla 
erful  influences 
tion.  Hence,  in  order  to  study  the 
influence  of  the  farmer  on  politics  it 
becomes  necessary 
that  we  studv 
him  through  his  organized  efforts. 
E d m u nd  Burke  said  that  " No  men 
can  act  with  effect  who  do  not  act  in 
concert." 
In  an  address  delivered 
before  one  of  the  Michigan  State 
Grange  meetings,  J.  J.  W o o d m an  a 
past  Grange  Master,  said  " No  great 
reform  has  ever 
state  or  national 
been  effected,  except 
the 
through 
influence  of  organized  and  united 
effort,  and  no great  interest  has  ever 
received  legal  and  just  aid  and  pro 
legislation  or 
tection,  either  from 
the  influence  of  public  opinion,  that 
had  not  some  medium  or  organiza 
tion  through  which  its  importance, 
its  merits,  its  wrongs  or  neglects, 
could  be  made  k n o w n ." 

Some  of 

the  strongest 

farmers' 
organizations  that  have  existed  and 
influenced 
in  America 
legislation 
are  the  Grange  or  Patrons  of  H u s 
bandry, 
the  Patrons  of 
the  F a r m e r s'  Alliance,  and 

Industry, 
the 

THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

5 

the  nation. 

lawmakers  of 

F a r m e r s'  Clubs,  and  of 
these,  the 
one  that  has  been  most  potent  in  in 
fluencing  legislation  is  the  Grange. 
Because  of  the  fact  that  it  has  al 
ways  taken  a  non-partisan  stand,  its 
views  have  always  carried  consider-  . 
influence  among 
able  weight  and 
It 
the 
their  purpose  to  agitate 
has  been 
and  discuss  evils  and  their  remedies 
until  they  became  party  issues,  and 
then  leave  them  to  the  great  politi 
cal  organizations  to  enact  into  laws. 
As  exemplified  by  the  problems 
which 
this  organization  has  acted 
upon  there  is  no  class  of  people  in 
the  world  w ho  has  greater  breadth 
of  views  than  the  American  farmer, 
nor  has  there  been  any  problem  too 
g r e at  for  them  to  cope with.  T h ey 
have  been  instrumental  in  develop 
ing  the  natural  resources  of  the  na 
tion  through  improving  the  harbors 
and  opening  up  the  waterways,  and 
by  encouraging  the  building  of  rail 
roads  ;  they  have  sought  to  prevent 
the  constriction  of  the  money  mar 
ket  by  advocating  a  more 
liberal 
and  abundant  circulation  of  money  ; 
they  have  fought  for  the  prevention 
through 
of 
quarantine 
they  have 
laws,  and 
fought  for  the  prevention  of  fraud 
by  the  enactment  of  pure  food  laws. 

the  spread  of  disease 

to  build 

Intimately 

connected  with 

itself.  T he  agitation 

the 
G r a n ge  organization  is  the  agitation 
of  the  transportation  problem.  T he 
profits  of  the  farms,  many  of  which 
had  been  mortgaged 
the 
roads,  were  being  rapidly  absorbed 
to  pay  the exorbitant  freight  charges 
levied  by  the  railroads,—in  some  in 
stances  exceeding  the  value  of  the 
first 
article 
began  in  the  subordinate  granges, 
where, by  petitions  and  memorials, 
influence  was  brought  to  bear  upon 
the  state  legislation  of  some  of  our 
Western  states,  resulting  in  the  en 
actment  of  laws  limiting  the  amount 
which  might  be  charged  for  trans 
porting  freight  by  the  railroad  com 
panies  to  what  was  deemed  just  and 
reasonable  rates.  These  laws  were 
resisted  by  the  companies  and 
the 
cases  were  carried 
to  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  where, 
after  having  the  cases  under  advise 
the 
ment 
court  affirmed 
the  constitutionality 
of  the  laws  and  established  the  doc 
trine  that  "  W h en  private  property 
is  devoted  to  public  use,  it  is  subject 
is  the 
to  public  regulation."  T h is 
doctrine  that  acts  as  a  foundation 
upon  which  all  subsequent 
legisla 
tion  has  been  built. 
It  made  possi 
ble  the  establishing  of  an  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission,  a  commis 
sion  that  was  instituted  because  of 
the  pressure  brought  to  bear  upon 
congressmen  by  the  organized  ef 
forts  of  farmers,  and  which  was 
given  power  to  hear  and  adjust  all 
grievances  against  the  railroads. 
It 
is this  doctrine  that  has  made  possi 
ble  the  Railroad  R a te  bill. 

than  a  year, 

for  more 

the  contrary 

to  encourage 

T he  motive  in  farmer 

legislative 
movements,  in  regard  to  transporta 
tion  problems,  has  not  been  to  re 
tard  or  discourage  the  increasing  of 
railroad  growth  and  facilities,  but 
the 
on 
building  of  railroads,  until  today  our 
country  has  the  most  extensive  rail 
road  system  of  any  country  on  the 
globe.  T he 
first  action 
farmer's 
against  excessive  railroad  rates  was 
to  try  to  reduce  the  rates by  compe 
tition. 
they 
the  building  of  more 
encouraged 
improvement  of 
railroads  and 
In 
facilities. 
water 
1875  the National  G r a n ge  petitioned 
congress  to  improve  the  levees  and 

In  N ew  Y o rk  State 

transportation 

the 

to 

open  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi 
to  navigation  so  as  to  provide  for 
transportation  of  western 
cheaper 
Failing  by 
to  market. 
products 
these  means  to  lower  freight  rates 
and 
lessen  discrimination,  they 
next sought to regulate them  through 
an  interstate  commerce commission  ; 
accordingly  in  187S  the  grange  be 
gan  to  agitate  the  control  of  the  in 
terstate  commerce  by 
the  national 
government,  but  not  until  eight 
years  later  was  the  interstate  com 
merce  bill  passed. 

the 

But  the  railroad  rate  question  was 
important 
the  many 
but  one  of 
questions  with  which 
farmer 
grappled.  F r om  1S70  to  1880  this 
country  was  infested  with  a  class  of 
legitimatized  by 
frauds 
that  were 
our  then  existing  patent 
laws.  A 
farmer  could  not  buy  a  piece  of 
machinery  and  feel  certain  that  he 
would  not  have  to  pay  from  $10  to 
$20  royalty  for  some  improved  part 
of  the  machine. 
In  fact  there  were 
dishonorable  firms  w ho  would  sell 
a 
large  number  of  machines  in  a 
locality  and  then  in  the  course  of 
time  a  stranger  would  pass  over  the 
same  territory  and  threaten  all  the 
purchasers  with  prosecution  unless 
they  paid  a  royalty  to  the  owner  of 
the  patent.  A  farmer  could  not  ob 
tain  his  water  supply  by  means  of 
a  drive  well  without  fear  of  prose 
cution. 
Iowa  State 
Grange  made  a  test  case  of  a  drive 
to  the 
well  lawsuit  by  carrying  it 
United  States  Supreme  Court  where 
unconstitutional. 
it  was  declared 
T he 
in 
succeeded 
finally 
farmers 
getting  Congress  to  revise  the  pat 
ent  laws  so  that  the  manufacturers 
and  not  the  user  would  be  liable  for 
the  violation  of  a  patent. 

Finally 

the 

introduction  prevented. 

A m o ng  other  important  national 
laws  that  the  farmers  have  been  in 
strumental  in  securing  are  stringent 
quarantine  laws,  requiring  that  em 
igrants  and  live  stock  be  placed  in 
quarantine  at  ports  of  entry,  so  that 
any  contagious  disease,  which  may 
be  present,  may  be  discovered  and 
its 
T h ey 
have  been  in  a  large  measure  re 
sponsible  for 
the  passage  of  strict 
inspection  laws  for  m e a t;  for  mak 
ing  the  agricultural  department  at 
Washington  a  cabinet  d e p a r t m e n t; 
the  passage  of  pure 
for  securing 
food 
the  in 
discriminate  immigration  of  foreign 
ers  ;  for  securing  the  passage  of  a 
law  making  it  unlawful 
to  counter 
feit  dairy  products;  and  for  estab 
lishing  rural  free  delivery  of  mails. 
At  the  present  time  they  are  agitat 
ing  the  good  roads  movement. 

l a w s;  for  preventing 

In 

this  state 

farmers'  organization 

the  farmers  have 
made  a  saving  of  $8,000,000  in  taxes 
or  about  $1,500,000  per  annum, 
the  equal 
the  passage  of 
through 
tax  law.  T h is  law  was  drafted  by 
a 
and  was 
passed  as  the  result  of  the  demands 
made  by  the  farmers  and  their  or 
ganizations.  T h e ir  first  efforts  at 
the  passage  of  a law  were  unsuccess 
ful  because 
they  had  no  way  of 
proving  that  they  were  being  taxed 
unequally  since  there  were  no  sta 
that 
tistics  on 
they  must  have  statistics  to  prove 
the  necessity  of  better 
laws  before 
they  could  pass  them,  they  created 
. the,office  of  tax  statistician, and  then 
after  sufficient  statistics  had  been 
collected  to  prove  the  necessity  for 
better  taxation,—and 
the  necessity 
was  even  greater  than  they  had  an 
ticipated,—they  secured  the  passage 
of  the  equal  taxation  laws.  A m o ng 
problems 
other 
which  the  farmers  have  taken  great 

taxation,  k n o w i ng 

important 

state 

interest  in  are  the  pure  food  laws 
and  the  primary  election  laws. 

to 

l a w s;  it  is  also  exercised 

But  the  farmers'  best  influence  is 
the  enactment  of 
not  confined 
good 
in 
preventing  the  passage  of  bad  laws. 
T he  method  of  procedure  of 
the 
farmer  and  farmer  organizations  to 
prevent  the  passage  of  a  bad  law  is 
to  give  publicity  to  the  law  and  its 
supporters.  Publicity  is  one  of  theO 
surest  and  simplest  checks  on  evil 
legislation.  A  legislator  or  congress 
man  will  not  vote  for  a  bad  meas 
ure  if  he  knows  it  to  be  such  and 
knows  that  he  will  be  exposed  if  he 
supports  it. 

Farmers  have  ever  stood  for  equal 
rights  on  all  and  discrimination  to 
none.  Their  vocation  gives  to  them 
an  independence  of  thought  and  ac 
tion  that  makes  them  conservative, 
slow to act and considerate  of the  gen 
eral welfare of the people.  T h ey  act in 
concert  only  on  pressing  occasions, 
for  the  redress  of  grievances  or  for 
the  common  defence;  and  hence 
they  remember  with  sacred  pride 
that  it  was  in  their blood  that  Amer 
ican  liberty  received  its  baptism  and 
that  their  power  has  decided  every 
vital  event  of  our  history,  in  war 
and  in  peace.  No  great  political 
event  has  ever  been  accomplished 
in  our  country  without  the  consent 
of  the  f a r m e r;  though  some  great 
evils  have  been  endured,  because  of 
they 
their  patient  patriotism,  until 
tolerated. 
longer 
were  no 
T he  conservative  men  who 
think, 
balance,  and  weigh  opinions  before 
acting  upon  them,  must  ever  come 
from  the  agricultural  class;  and  the 
greater  number  of  these  men  we 
legis 
have 
latures  the  more  practical  and  whole 
some  will  be  our  legislation. 

congress  and  our 

to  be 

in 

BUILDING  NATIONAL 
FOUNDATIONS. 

to 

in 

the 

T he  keynote  of 

the  address  of 
Mr.  Maxwell  was  the  idea  that  we 
should  bring 
consrtuctive 
work  of  our  family,  social  and  com 
mercial  life 
time  of  peace,  the 
same  fervent  patriotism  and  devo 
tion  to  the  public  service  that  would 
inspire  the  whole  nation  if  we  were 
in  the  throes  of  a  bloody  conflict 
with  the  people  of  some  other  coun 
In  illustration  of  this  he  re 
try. 
the  preservation  of  our 
ferred 
forest  resources.  T he  wasteful  im 
providence  with  which  we 
have 
swept  the  forests  out  of  existence 
was  contrasted  with  the  elaborate 
care  with  which  we  have built  forti 
fications  and  navies  and  equipped 
our  armies.  A nd  yet,  said  M r.  Max 
well,  we  have  little  to  fear  from  any 
foreign  foe.  But  we  have  much  to 
the  wreck  and  ruin  that 
fear  from 
will  inevitably  follow  our  destruc 
tion  of  our  forests. 

to 

to  erosion  that  the  rocks are  washed 
bare  of  soil  and 
reforestation  b e 
comes  impossible. 

recently  seen 

We  are  told  by  experts,  and  no 
one  contradicts 
the  statement,  that 
at  the  present  rate  of  consumption, 
our  entire  forest  resources  will  be 
exhausted  in  less  than  forty  years. 
it"  stated  at 
I  have 
thirty-five  years. 
If  we  are  to  guard 
against  this  exhaustion,  the  T i m b er 
and  Stone  law  must  be  repealed,  and 
all public timber lands must be  includ 
ed  in  permanent  Forest  Reserves, 
the  title  to  the  land  forever  retained 
by  the  National  Government,  stump-
age  only of  matured  timber  sold,  and 
young  timber  preserved  for  future 
cutting,  so  that  the  forests  will  be 
perpetuated  by  right  u s e;  and 
the 
National  Government  must,  by  the 
reservation  or  purchase  of  existing 
the  planting  of 
forest 
in  every  state 
new  forests,  create 
National  Forest  Plantations 
from 
which, through  all  the  years  to  come, 
a  sufficient  supply  of  wood  and  tim 
ber  can  be  annually  harvested 
to 
supply  the  needs  of  the  people  of 
each  state  from 
the  Forest  Planta 
tions  in  that  state. 

lands,  and 

Unless  we  take  time  by  the  fore 
lock  the  next  generation  will  see  the 
United  States  practically  a  treeless 
nation,  without  wood  or  timber  for 
the  uses  of  our  people,  and  devas 
tated  year  after  year  by 
ruinous 
floods.  Already  the  scarcity  of  tim 
is  being  felt,  and  every  man 
ber 
who  builds  a  home  must  pay  the  in 
creased  cost. 
In  Michigan  I  under 
stand  that  some  of  your  most  impor 
tant  industries  are  crippled  by  the 
shortage  of  timber. 

And  yet,  in  the  face  of  this  con 
dition  which  is  nothing  more  nor 
less  than  a  crisis  threatening 
the 
complete  destruction  of  one  of  our 
greatest  resources  as  a  nation.  Con 
gress  busies  itself  with  a  multitude 
of  matters  of  infinitely  less  impor 
tance  and  refuses  to  repeal  the  Tim 
ber  and  Stone  Act,  under  which  the 
remnants  of  our  unreserved 
last 
national  forest  lands  are  being  fed 
into  the  insatiable  maw  of  the  tim 
ber  speculators  for  less 
than  one-
tenth  of  their  actual  value. 

that 

legislation 

We  are  told  by  the  men  in  Con 
gress  w ho  make  committees  and 
shape 
the  money 
cannot  be  spared  to  acquire  and  save 
from  destruction  the  Calaveras  Big 
Trees  in  California,  or  to  create  the 
White  Mountain  and  Appalachian 
Forest  Reserves,  and  preserve  their 
forest  resources  and  save  the  water 
power  used  in 
the  manufacturing 
industries  of  N ew  England  and  the 
in  the 
S o u t h;  and  the  same  men 
same  moment 
the 
refuse 
most  shameless  waste  of  a  nation's 
resources  that  ever  disgraced  a  na 
tional  lawmaking  body  by  refusing 
to  repeal 
the  T i m b er  and  Stone 
Act. 

to  stop 

Destroy 

the 
immense  areas 
will  destroy  the  farms. 

forests  and 
over 
flood  and  drouth 

Destroy  the  forests  and  you  will 
at  the  same  time  destroy  many  of 
our  most 
industries  by 
the  exhaustion  of  our  supply  of 
wood  or  timber. 

important 

Destroy  a  city  by  bombardment 
or  fire  and  it  can  be  rebuilt  in  a  few 
years,  more  beautiful  than  ever. 

Destroy  a forest  on  the  plains  and 
it  may  take  more  than  a  generation 
to  restore  it. 

Destroy  a  forest  on  the  mountains 
where  the  soil  is  thin  and  poor,  and 
it  may  take  centuries  to  restore  the 
forest  if  it  can  ever  be  done  at  all. 
T he  destruction  of  the  forest  cover 
leaves  the  mountain  sides  so  exposed 

life  of 

N ot  only  this, but  in  Arizona  and 
N ew  Mexico,  where  the  forests  are 
the 
the  country, 
the  very 
joint  Statehood  bill  proposed 
to 
give  a 
floating  grant  of  several 
million  acres  of  land  which  the  land 
speculators  w ho  would  control 
the 
legislature  would  use, to  get  control 
of  and  destroy,  every  acre  of  unre 
served  timber  land 
terri 
tories. 
T he  country  owes  a  debt 
of  gratitude  to  Senator  Burroughs 
of your  state  for  his  aid  in  preventino-
that  bill  from  passing  the  senate. 

in  those 

It  seems 

these 
incredible 
things  should  be  done  by  congress, 
but  there  are  reasons  for  it. 

that 

In  the  first  place  the  people  at 
large  take  no  interest  in  the  preser 
vation  of  their  own  property. 

6 

THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

create  and  upbuild  them.  L et  every 
this 
student  who  goes  out  from 
the 
institution  go  with 
splendid 
spirit  of  a  soldier  to  fight  the  great 
battles  of  peace  for  higher  national 
ideals,  for  a purer  public  service, for 
the  preservation  of  our  national  re 
educational 
sources,  for  a  better 
system,  and  above  and  beyond  all 
for  the  multiplication  of  homes  on 
the 
the  children  can 
g r ow  to  manhood  and  womanhood 
in  the  uplifting  environment  of  a 
rural  community  where  the  evil  in 
fluences  of  the  cities  can  be  forever 
kept  at  bay. 
In  such  an  environ 
ment  children  can be  reared  to  cit 
izenship  next  to nature  from  whence 
they  can  d r aw  health  and  vigor 
both  moral  and physical  for  the  dis 
charge  of  all  the  duties  of  life. 

land  where 

It  is  not  in  the  cities  that 

this 
country  now  needs  the  service  of 
the  flower  of  its  patriotic  manhood. 
It  is  in the  country  where  the  great 
national  problem  of 
the  improve 
ment of  the rural  life  is  to  be  solved, 
where  more  beautiful  towns  and vil 
lages  and better  roads are to be  built, 
to  be  established, 
better 
schools 
telephones  and  trolley 
lines  con 
structed  and  all  the  influence  put  to 
w o rk  that  will socialize  the  country, 
the  isolation  and 
and  drive  away 
hardships 
its 
formerly 
drawbacks. 

that  were 

We  must  not  only  stop  and  re 

from 

in  every  country 

tide  of  population 
the 

verse  the  great 
that  has  heen  drifting 
country  to  the  cities.  We  must  de 
centralize  industry  and  trade  as well 
as  population.  T he  patriotism  that 
is  latent  in  every  heart  must  find  an 
outlet 
town  and 
village  in  the  w o rk  of  village  im-
improvement,  of  creating  an  envi 
ronment  for  human  life  where  the 
highest  utility  and  beauty w i ll  sur 
round 
the  entire  community,  and 
where  a  local  civic  loyalty  will  pre 
vail  that  will  anchor  the  people  to 
their  own  hearthstone  and  where 
their 
they  will  live  content  under 
own  vine  and  fig  tree. 

T h is  local  pride  and  love  of  home 
and  the  home  town  is  one  of  the 
strongest  of  human 
feelings  when 
It  should 
once  it  is  deeply  planted. 
be  cultivated  in  every  possible  w a y. 
N o t h i ng  should  be  left  undone  to 
stimulate  or  cement  it.  Every  mem 
ber  of  such  a community  should  cul 
tivate  a  spirit  of  comradeship  and 
co-operate  to  advance 
the  general 
welfare  of  all.  T he  merchant,  the 
small  tradesman,  the  country  editor, 
the  church,  should  all  work  togeth 
industry 
that  end.  H o me 
er 
should  be  encouraged  in  everv  pos 
sible  way.  T he  whole  community 
should  co-operate 
to  protect  and 
stimulate  the  trade  of  the  town. 

to 

T he  home  paper  should  be  liber 
ally  patronized.  T h e re 
is  no  one 
thing  capable  of  more  far  reaching 
and  enduring 
influence  for  good 
than  the  country  press.  One  of  the 
influ 
most  unfortunate  of  modern 
ences  has  been  the  trend  of  com 
mercial  evolution  that  has  borne  so 
heavily  on  the  country  editor  by  the 
development  of 
the  metropolitan 
family  and  mail-order  papers,  filled 
with  temptations  for  the  rural  peo 
ple  to  stimulate  the  centralization  of 
wealth  and  trade  in  the  cities  by 
supplying 
needjs 
through  far  distant  and  practically 
unknown  sources.  This  trend  to 
ward  the  centralization  of  trade  and 
industry  in  the  great  cities  walks 
side  by  side  with  the  centralization 
of  wealth  and  population  as  a  men 
ace  to  our  national 
future.  T he 
danger  it  threatens  can  only  be ob 

ordinary 

their 

viated  by  awakening  the  people  at 
large  to  a  realization  of  it. 

T he  great  central  and  controlling 
that  must  rise  above  all 
thought 
others  as  the  national 
ideal  is  the 
conviction  that  the  real  bulwarks  of 
the  nation  are  the  homes  of 
its 
citizens  and  that  the  first  thought 
and  highest  ambition of every  young 
man  should  be  to  establish  a  home, 
a  self-sustaining  home  on  the  land 
where  he  can  enjoy  the  real  happi 
ness  of  a  well  spent  life  and  not 
make  the  mistake  that  brings  disap 
pointment  and  misery  to  so  many, 
of  setting  up  the  accumulation  of  a 
fortune  as  the  goal  of  his  life's  am 
It  is  a lure  which  of  neces 
bition. 
sity  must  wreck  thousands  in  order 
that  a few  may  succeed;  T he  man 
w ho  earns  enough  to  live  comfort 
ably  without  luxury,  as  every  intel 
ligent  and  industrious  man  can  who 
education, 
has 
and  w ho  does  his  duty  to  himself, 
his  family,  his  friends,  his  country 
and 
to  humanity,  is  the  man  w ho 
really  succeeds  in  life  and  who  gets 
the  greatest  happiness  and  satisfac 
tion  out  of  it. 

sufficient  practical 

To  create  a human  character  of the 
highest  type,  with  everything 
that 
implies,  is  the  most  admirable  of  all 
human 
that 
every  man  and  woman  must  and 
can  do  for  themselves. 
"A  time like this  demands  strong men, 
Great  hearts,  true  faith  and  ready 

achievements, 

and 

hands; 

Men  whom  the  lust  of  office  does  not 

kill, 

Men whom  the spoils of  office  cannot 

buy, 

Men who possess opinion  and a will, 

Men who  have  honor,  men who  will 

not  lie, 

Men who can stand  before a demagogue, 
flatteries 

And  damn  his  treacherous 
without  winking; 

Tall  men, sun-crowned,  who  live  above 

the fog, 

In  public duty  and  in  private  think 

ing." 

MONDAY  NIGHT  PARTIES. 

T he  Columbians  gave  a  delight 
ful  party  in  their  rooms  Monday 
evening  of  commencement  week. 
Baker's  orchestra  furnished  music 
for  dancing.  T he banquet  was  held 
in  Club  G. 
J a m es  G.  Moore  acted 
as  toastmaster,  the  following  mem 
bers  responding  to  toasts  :  V.  R. 
Gardner,  L. J.  Smith,  W.  B.  Liver-
ance,  and  C.  W.  E d w a r d s.  T he 
guests  were  D r. and  M r s.  E d w a r d s, 
M r.  and  M r s.  Brewer,  Prof,  and 
M r s.  Sawyer,  M r.  Rider  and  M r. 
Foster. 

T he  Union  Literary  building  was 
the  scene  of  gaiety  on  Monday  even 
ing,  when  that  society  gave  the  last 
•party  of  the  year.  D r.  and  M r s. 
Gordon  of  Lansing 
acted  as  pa 
trons,  and  their  banquet  was  held  in 
Club  E.  K.  B.  Stevens,  '06,  acted 
as 
toastmaster,  and  most  excellent 
to  by  D r. 
responded 
toasts  were 
Gordon,  C.  G.  Woodbury,  E.  A. 
Willson,  C.  A.  McCue. 

T he  Hesperians,  Eclectics  and 
P hi  Delts  gave  a delightful  party  in 
the  armory  on  Monday  evening, 
J u ne  18.  Fischer's  orchestra  of 
Kalamazoo 
furnished  most  excel 
lent  music  for  the  dancing,  and  an 
enjoyable 
time  was  the  verdict  of 
T he  patrons  of  the 
all  present. 
evening  were  Sec. and  M r s. Brown, 
Prof,  and  M r s.  Vedder,  Prof,  and 
M r s.  S h aw  and  Prof,  and  M r s. 
Kedzie. 
T he  Tics  banquet  was 
given  in  club  B,  where  the  follow 
ing  members 
to  toasts: 
H.  J.  Mastenbrook,  R.  C.  Bird  and 

responded 

A.  C.  Bird.  H.  H.  H o g ue  w as 
toastmaster. 

T he  Hesperians'  banquet  was 
served  in  the  dining  room  of  t he 
W o m e n 's  Building,  where  R.  S. 
Graham  acted  as  toastmaster,  while 
the  P hi  Delts  enjoyed  their  banquet 
at  the  Boat  Club  rooms  in  the  city. 
R o b t.  F e r g u s o n,  '05, acted  as  toast-
master  for  the  latter  banquet. 

T he  Olympic  society  held  its  an 
nual  commencement  party  on  J u ne 
t he 
18,  1906.  At  eight  o'clock 
members  and  guests  commenced  to 
assemble  in  the  society  hall,  which 
had  been  decorated 
in  gold  and 
white  and  potted  plants.  After  a 
the  gavel  w as 
short 
sounded  and  the  following  program 
was  rendered  : 
President's 

address,  H. 

reception 

L. 

Francis. 

Instrumental  solo,  "Valse  A r a 

besque,"  Locke,  Neal  P e r r y. 

Article,  ' ' O ur  A l ma  M a t e r ,"  B. 

B.  Clise. 

Instrumental  duet,  L.  B.  and  E. 

C.  Hitchcock. 

Article,  " T he  Olympics,"  W.  H. 

Small. 

After  the  program  the society  as 
sembled  in  club  A,  where  the  fol 
lowing  menu  was  served  : 

Cherry  Cocktail 
Consomme  Royal 

Baked  Trout 
Olives 

Saratoga  Chips 

Sliced  Tomatoes 

Veal Loaf with  Dressing 

New Potatoes in Cream 

Green  Peas 

Parker  House Rolls 

Fruit  Salad 

Grape Juice 

Orange Jello 

Pineapple  Sherbet 

Assorted  Cake 

Cafe 
M r.  E.  A.  Holden  acting  as 
toastmaster  introduced  the  following 
toasts: 

"Left  W o h l ,"  R.  R.  Rasmussen 

'06. 

"Farewell!  A word that  must be,  and hath 

been, 

A  sound  which  makes  us  linger;  yet— 

farewell." 

To  our  Seniors,  P. H.  Shuttle-

worth  '07. 
"Give  them all kindness;  I'd  rather  have 
such men my friends,  than  enemies." 

T he  Goal,  W.  H.  Parker,  08. 
"  Fail  not for  sorrow, falter  not for sin, 
But  onward,  upward,  'til  the goal ye win." 

Our  Fussers,  C.  Busch  '09. 
"  And thty  strolled,  strolled, strolled, 
Well  it  really  doesn't  matter  where  they 

strolled." 

the  banquet  dancing  was 
After 
till  morning  M r s.  A r m 
in  order 
strong  of  Hanover  and  M r s.  Mc-
Devitt  of  Jackson  were  patrons  of 
the  evening.  A m o ng 
the  guests 
were  P.  B.  Pierce  of  A nn  Arbor, 
Misses  Burch  of  Bolwin,  Miss  Mc-
Devitt  of Jackson,  Miss  D.  Keating 
of  Detroit,  Miss  Christie  of  Sante 
F e,  Mexico,  Aliss  Pickell,  Okemos, 
Miss  Campbell,  Charlevoix. 

T he  society 

loses  the  following 
men  as  graduates:  H.  L.  Francis, 
A.  H.  Cameron,  R.  Rasmussen,  J. 
M.  Phippeny,  A.  S.  A r m s t r o n g, 
W.  Kingscott. 

T he  reports  that  have  been  cir 
culated  in  regard  to  fire  on  the  for 
county 
est  reserve  in  Roscommon 
have been greatly  exaggerated. 
In 
stead  of  a  square  mile  of  planted 
timber  being  burned  only  100  acres 
were  burned  and  this  is  the  poorest 
part  of  the  reserve  where  our  im 
provements  had  been  made.  Sev 
eral  fires  have  started  this  spring  on 
the  reserve  but  they  have  all  been 
extinguished  before  any  damage 
was  done. 

" W h at  is  everybody's  business  is 

nobody's  business." 

A nd  worse 

In  the  second  place  we  have  not 
yet,  as  a  people,  risen  far  enough 
above  the  mere  worship  of  Mam 
mon  to  realize  that  we  are  deliber 
ately  sacrificing  to  the  Golden  Calf 
the resources  without  which  we  can 
not  exist  as  a  nation. 
this,  we  are 
than 
crowding  our  working  people,  both 
native  and  foreign  born,  into  an  en 
vironment  where  congestion  of  pop 
ulation  is  degenerating  our  workers 
and  rotting  their  physical  and  moral 
fibre.  W h e re  will  you  find  any 
citizenship 
in  the  slum  and  tene 
ment  districts  of  our  cities  to  whom 
you  can  effectively  appeal  for  help 
to  stop  the  waste  of  our  forests ? 
T h ey  know  nothing  about  it  and 
care  less.  T he  first  need  of  any 
nation  is  an  intelligent  citizenship, 
and  the  slums  and  tenements  of  our 
great 
into 
cities  are  maelstroms 
which  our  citizenship 
is  being 
drawn  to  its  destruction  in  a  stead 
ily  increasing  volume. 

We  are  suffering 

just  now  from 
a  spasm  of  national  hysteria  because 
what  everybody  whoever  took  the 
trouble  to  go  and  look,  knew  long 
ago  the  revolting  conditions  under 
which  the  great  packers  of  Chicago 
have  been  operating 
their  plants, 
and  because  diseased  meat  has  been 
sold  for  food. 

But  you  may  draw 

the  worst 
picture 
that  your  imagination  can 
paint  of the horrors  of  the  slaughter 
ing  and  packing  of  meat  in  those 
establishments,  and  nothing  you 
can  imagine  equals  the  horrors  of 
blighting  the  lives  of  the  thousands 
of  children  w ho  are  condemned  to 
live  and  grow  up  in  the  foul  phys 
ical,  social  and  moral  miasma 
that 
the  whole  slum  district 
permeates 
of  Packingtown.  I t is  a national  dis 
grace  and  is  bound  to  prove  a  na 
tional  curse. 

T h e re  is  only  one  remedy 

for 
those  horrible  conditions  of  life  for 
the  children,  and  that  is  to  get  the 
working  people  and  their  children 
out  of  the  slums,  and  into  the  sub 
urbs  where  they  can  have  sunshine 
and  fresh  air  and  pure  and  nourish 
ing  food  from  a  home  garden. 

Let  us  realize  once  for  all  that 
this  problem  of  the  children  of  our 
working  people 
is  our  greatest 
national  problem,  and  go  at  its  solu 
tion  with 
the  same  patriotic  and 
self-sacrificing  national  heroism  that 
led  the Homecrofters  of Japan  to go 
into  battle  with  their  lives  in  their 
hands,  like  hand  grenades,  to  throw 
at  the  enemy  that  sought  to  crush 
out  their  national  life. 

Let  us  catch  the inspiration  of  the 
slogan  of  the  Homecrofters'  Move 
never 
ment  in  this  country,  and 
cease  our  work  until  we  have 

" E v e ry  Child 

in  a  Garden  — 
Every  Mother  in a  Homecroft—and 
Individual,  Industrial  Independence 
for  Every  W o r k er  in  a  Home  of 
his  own  on  the  Land." 

T he  Creed  and  Platform  of  the 
Homecrofter 
tells  how  it  may  be 
done,  and  any  one w ho wants  a  copy 
of  it  can  get  it  without  any  charge 
by  sending  a  postal  card  addressed 
to  me at  the  Fisher  Building  in  Chi 
cago. 

T he  Great  Cities  are  our  greatest 
menace  in  this country.  Our  great 
est  danger  lies  in  the  centralization 
of  population  and  trade  and  indus 
try.  T he  hope  of  the  nation  is  in 
the  farm  and  suburban  home,  and 
town 
in  the  country  and  suburban 
and  village. 

Let  us  go  seriously  to  work  to 

\ 

ALUMNI. 

'66 

Charles  H. Watson,  secretary  of 
the Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insur 
ance  company,  Milwaukee,  suffered 
a  stroke  of  paralysis  on  April  9, 
while  engaged  in a  bowling  match 
at  Recreation  hall  and  died  the  fol 
lowing  Saturday  at  the  age of  63 
years.  M r. Watson  was  one of M. 
A.  C.'s oldest  alumni  and  that  his 
work  in the above  company  was ap 
preciated  is  shown  by the  remarks 
of  Second  Vice  Pres.  Skinner  w ho 
addressed  the  employes  of the  secre 
tary's  department  after  the death of 
M r.  W a t s o n.  He said  in  p a r t: 

rests 

T h e re  is a burden  of responsibility 
upon  every  one  of  the  company's 
servants,  from  the  president  through 
all  the  grades  of  service 
including 
the  youngest  messenger  boy.  T he 
burden 
lightly  on  young 
shoulders,  b ut it  is  there,  and t he 
faithfulness  and  ability  with  which 
the  duties  are discharged  form  the 
measure  of  usefulness  of  each  one. 
Mr.  Watson  was  honest, 
industri 
ous,  untiring  in  the  discharge  of 
duty.  As clerk,  bookkeeper,  assist 
ant  secretary  and  secretary  he met 
all  the requirements,  was  faithful  to 
the  trust  imposed  in him. 

He  has  been  so much  a part  of  the 
daily  life  of  the  company,  especially 
in  all  that  relates  to  the  insurance 
part  of  the  business,  that  his  loss 
will  be deeply  felt  and we shall  find 
it  difficult  to  realize  that  he will  no 
longer  be  with  us.  T h e re  are  very 
few  here  present  who  can  remember 
Mr.  Watson  was  not an  important 
factor  in  the work  of  this  depart 
ment. 

T he  employes 

then  adopted  the 

following  resolutions: 

Resolved,  T h at  in  passing 

from 
this  life  of our  long  time  associate, 
Charles  H. Watson,  we have  lost  a 
worthy  leader  and  a good  friend. 

We  tender  to  the family  our  sin 
cere  sympathy  and desire  to express 
to  the  trustees,  officers,  agents, em 
ployes  and the policyholders  of the 
company  generally  our  deepest  re 
gret  because  of the  loss  of an  officer 
so  well  qualified  by  ability,  experi 
ence,  industry  and  faithfulness  to 
give  excellent  service. 

F or  many  years  his  work  has 
been 
important  in  the  progress  of 
the  company  and  his ability  and  un 
tiring  energy  in  forwarding 
the 
work  will  be sadly  missed. 

' 7 2-  74. 
J.  Gary  Phelps  paid  the old  col 
lege  a visit  on  J u ne  15,  which  was 
the  second  visit  since 
leaving  here 
in 
'74.  M r.  Phelps  occupied  a 
room  first  in Saint's  R e st  and  later 
in  Williams  Hall.  He  spoke  of 
many  interesting  events  and  pranks 
of  the earlier  students,  one of  which 
was  the  pulling  up of the old wood 
en  pump.  He  spoke  of  chopping 
wood  at  $1.00  per  cord  which  he 
said  was  probably  all  he  earned. 
M r.  Phelps  is  now  manager  of  the 
Brass  and Iron  Bed  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids. 

'86 

M r s.  W.  K.  Irving 

Lapham  with 
ographer  with 
Harvester  Co.,  Nashville,  T e n n. 

( B e r t ha  A. 
'86)  is  n ow  sten 
International 

the 

'97 
L.  S. Munson  leaves  his  present 
position  soon  to  take  charge  of the 
ink  making  division  in  the  bureau 
of  engraving  and  printing,  W a s h 

THE  M.  A. C. RECORD. 

7 

ington.  H is  work  will 
consist 
partly  of  laboratory  work,  but will 
probably  mainly  be  the  practical  end 
of  the business. 

A  baby  girl  weighing  9^  pounds 
was  born  to  Mr.  and  M r s.  E. W. 
R a n n ey  of  Greenville,  Mich.,  on 
J u ne 11. 

' 0 1. 
On  Sunday, J u ne  10, occurred the 
marriage  of  Don  B. Jewell  to  Miss 
Vida  N.  Norris  at  Battle  Creek, 
Mich.  M r.  and  M r s. Jewell  will be 
at  home  at  Painesdale,  Houghton 
county,  after  Sept.  1.  M r. Jewell 
has  been  principal  of  schools  at 
Assyria  the past  year. 

'01 

J.  C. Green,  with  ' 0 1, who  until 
recently  has  been  engaged  with 
the  R o ck  Island  R. R., has  passed 
the  N ew Y o rk  civil  service  exam 
inations  and  has  been 
appointed 
bridge designer  in the  state  engineer 
ing  department. 

' 0 1. 

L.  G.  Michael,  chemist  in  the 
Experiment  Station  at  A m e s,  la., 
states  that  he  is  lining  up the boys 
at  that  institution  to  determine  the 
advisability  of installing  a  boarding 
club  system  upon  much  the  same 
plan  as  that  in  vogue  at  M. A. C. 

early  months  of  this  year. 
Since 
M ay  1st  he  has  been  acquiring  a 
varied  engineering  experience  with 
the  Cambria  Steel  Co.  His address 
is  60  V e n a n go  St.,  Westmont, 
Johnstown,  P a. 

'06. 

I  am  enjoying  mv  work  here 
(Stillwater,  Okl.)  at A',  and M. Col 
lege.  T he  days  are  often 
quite 
warm,  950  to  ioo°  F ., though  the 
evenings  are  cool  and  delightful. 
H a y i ng  and  harvest  is  about  over. 
Oats  are being  cut,  and the  corn  is 
tasseling  and  being  cultivated  'for 
the  last  time.  Cotton  will  soon  be 
in  bloom  and ripe  peaches  are  ready 
to  be  picked.  O ur  dairy,  myself 
with  two  helpers,  is making  on  the 
average  900  pounds  of butter  a  day, 
all from  hand  separated  cream.  We 
shall  probably  start  the  first  short 
course  in  creamery  butter-making 
inquiries  con 
next  winter.  Many 
cerning  it are coming  in  already. 

Mr.  W. R.  W r i g ht  is here  enjoy 
ing  the study  of microscopic  friends 
and  foes  in  the department  of  bac 
teriology.  This  is  a  dairy  section 
and  a  fine  field  is open to us as dairy 
men  and  dairy  bacteriologists.  M ay 
M.  A. C. equip  other  men for  such 
fields  and  may  they  find  their  oppor 
tunity. 

V e ry  truly, 

R OY  C.  P O T T S. 

'o3~'o4, 

Taylor,  sp.  'o2-'o3,  J a s. G.  Moore, 
'03,  R ay  T o w e r,  '03,  B u rr  Hesse, 
'03,  Annie 
'03,  Bessie  Buskirk, 
Hebblewhite,  s p. 
Irene 
Farley,  sp.  'o3-'o4, J.  H. Prost, '04, 
Katherine  Slaght,  '04, M.  W.  Taber, 
'04,  Grace  Ames,  sp. 
'o4-'o5, 
Margaret  McCarty,  sp. 'o4~'o5,  Zoe 
Wimple,  sp.  'o4-'o5, Ralph  Stevens, 
'05,  Katherine  M c N a u g h t o n,  05, 
Clyde  Stringer,  '05,  Victor  Gardner, 
'05,  M ay  Butterfield,  '05,  George 
Nichols,  '05,  Bernice  Jackson, '05, 
Charles  Swales,  '05,  Lillian  Ander 
son  with  '05,  C. S. Hicks  with '06, 
Daniel  Updegraff  with  '07,  E va 
Keeney  with  '07,  Burt  Stowell  with 
'07,  Bernice  Black  with 
'07,  G uy 
Bolte  with  'oS, Adele  Keating  with 
'oS,  Grace  M c G r a w,  '08. 

RESOLUTIONS. 

W H E R E A S,  D r.  H o w a rd  E d w a r ds 
has  given  sixteen  years  of his life in 
faithful  and  efficient  service  to the 
Michigan  Agricultural  College, and 
has  endeared  himself  in  the  hearts 
of  its students,  and, 

W H E R E A S,  he  is  now  about 
to 
leave  this  institution  for a  new field 
of  action,  be it 

R E S O L V E D,  that  the  class  of  1906 
express  its  appreciation  of  his  ef 
forts,  both  for  them  and  for the 
institution,  and be it  further 

R E S O L V E D,  tftet  yv/f  hereby  ex 
press  our  gratitiiHtf'and  extend  to 
him  our best  wishes. 

M.  J.  D O R S E Y, 
G.  \V.  I I E I ' . I U . K W H I T E, 

Committee. 

M. A. C. AT U. OF  M. 

'96,  from 

the  following: 

T he  Detroit  F r ee  Press  published 
a  li»t  of the I", of M. graduates re 
cently,  and  among  the  number  ap 
pear 
George  A. 
Parker,  M.  A.  C,  '97,  graduated 
from  the  Electrical  Engineering  De 
p a r t m e n t;  Joseph  T.  Berry,  M. A. 
the  Department  of 
C, 
Medicine  ami  S u r g e r y; 
John  A. 
Dunford,  M.  A. C, '02,  received the 
degree  of  B. S. in  Mechanical  E n 
gineering  ;  E,  E, Gallup  was  grant 
ed  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
and  F r a nk  J.  Phillips,  '03,  received 
the  degree  of  M.  S.  in  F o r e s t r y; 
Bernard  Nagelvoort,  with 
'03,  w as 
granted  the  degree  of  B. S. in  Me 
chanical  Engineering. 

William  H o w a rd  Smith,  '75, re 

ceived  the decree  of  M.  D. 

FARMERS'  CLUB. 

A  large  number  of  coming  agri 
culturists  heard  D r. G. A.  Water 
man  speak  on  Rural  Education  in 
the  F a r m e r s'  Club  last  Friday.  T he 
discussion  was  led  by E. H.  R y d er 
and  helped  on  by.others.  Some of 
the  points  of  interest  brought  out 
were,  that  the  rural  school  is  less 
capable  today  than  it  was  20 or 30 
years  ago ;  this  is caused  mostly by 
low  wages,  which  are lower  in pro 
portion  than  they  were  30 years  ago. 
To  have  a good  school  the  teacher 
and  pupils  must  have  enthusiasm, 
and  a  large  school  is  necessary  to 
bring  this  about. 
If  more  children 
are  in a single  school, then  more are 
going  to get interested,  hence  a  bet 
ter  school.  This  is a  plea  for  cen 
tralization  which 
today  gives  the 
city  such  an  advantage  over  the 
country.  T h is  plan  is  practical  as 
has  been  demonstrated  in  Ohio  and 
Indiana. 

T he  proposition  will  involve  an out 
lay  of  from  $30,000  to  $40,000  an 
nually  which  he  states  is  quite  an 
undertaking  but  the  students  are 
all  anxious  for the system.  M r.  M. 
expects  to  go  to  Columbia  about 
J u ly  1, and hopes  to  stop  at M.  A. 
C.  for a short  time. 

' 0 1 - ' 0 3. 
T he  J u ne  number  of the  Quart 

Zeta 

erly  Alfha 
publishes  a  fine 
half  tone  of the Babcock  chapter  at 
Madison,  Wis.,  among  whom  are 
George  C.  H u m p h r e y, 
' 0 1, and 
James  Moore,  '03. 

'OS-
W.  M.  Barrows,  w ho has  been 
studying  for an advanced  degree at 
Harvard  during  the  past  year,  will 
teach  botany  in  the  summer  school 
at  the  University  of  Maine  during 
vacation. 

'05 
J o hn  W.  Bolte,  w ho  has  had 
charge  of the poultry  department  in 
Utah,  will  go next  year  to  Kingston, 
R.  I., where  he will  have  charge  of 
the  work  in that  college. 

'05 
C.  I.  Auten,  '05,  located  68 miles 
of  railroad  near  Chicago  during the 

T he  following  is  from  the Daily 

N e ws  and Observer  of  Raleigh  : 

T he  horticultural  department  of 
the  college  was  also  strengthened 
by  the election  of M r.  F. C.  Reimer 
as assistant  professor  of horticulture. 
Mr.  Reimer  has very  flattering  of 
fers  elsewhere,  but  preferred  to  re 
main  here.  His work  during  the 
past  year as instructor in  horticulture 
was  very  practical.  He  kept  the 
students  in  the  field  most  of the 
time.  U n d er  his direction  the  col 
lege  campus  has  been  put  in  fine 
shape,  the  green-house 
remodeled, 
and  all the  horticultural  work  of the 
college  has  been  placed  upon  a  high 
plane. 

ALUMNI  AT COMMENCE 
MENT. 

A m o ng  others  not already  men 
tioned,  t he  following  alumni  and 
former  students  were  here  either  to 
attend  commencement  exercises or 
for  one  or  more  of  the  society 
parties : 

D.  S. Cole, 

'93,  M r s.  M.  L.  Ire 

land  ( I r ma  T h o m p s o n ,)  '00,  Louis 
Appleyard, 
'00, and  wife,  Grace 
Lundy,  sp.  'oo-'o3,  M. L.  Ireland, 
'01,  E . . I.  Dail,  '02,  Miss  E.  Russel, 

8 

THE  M. A.  C.  RECORD. 

ing  recommended  by  the  committee 
for  adoption. 

Resolutions  expressing  apprecia 
tion  of  the  w o rk  of  D r.  H o w a rd 
E d w a r ds  during  his  sixteen  years 
of  labor  at  M.  A.  C,  w ho  leaves  at 
the  close of 
the  year,  were  adopted, 
as  were  also  resolutions  concerning 
the  resignation  of  Miss  Avery,  in 
structor  in  Calisthenics  for  women. 
It  was  recomended  by  the  com 
mittee  appointed,  that  a  department 
of  entomology  be  established  dis 
tinct  from 
the  department  of  Zoo 
logy,  which  shall  be  in  charge  of 
Prof.  Pettit  with  the  title  of  Profes 
sor  of  Entomology. 

T he  secretary  was  authorized 

to 

purchase  500  feet  of  fire  hose. 

T he  contract  for  the  military  uni 
forms  was  awarded  to Jacob  Reed's 
Sons  of  Philadelphia. 

T he  amount  of  $5000  w as  set 
aside  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing 
additional  live  stock  and  making 
exhibit  at  State  and  County  fairs. 

w ho  will  take  up  the ' w o rk  at  the 
head  of  the  R h o de  Island  college  in 
the  near  future.  Plates  were 
laid 
for  eighteen, 
large  enclosed 
porch  serving  as  a  dining  room. 

the 

M r.  F.  I.  Rittenour,  of  the  chem 
ical  department,  does  not  expect  tc 
return  next  fall,  but  as  yet  is  unde 
cided  as  to  plans  for  the  future. 

M r.  H o w e,  w ho  will  enter  Col 
the  sum 

lege  next  fall,  will  spend 
mer  in  President  Snyder's  office 
during  Miss  Yakeley's  absence. 

J.  S.  Shaw,  in  college  last  year, 
is  chemist  at  the  Dupont  P o w d er 
W o r k s,  Del.  He  expects 
to 
be  connected  with  a  company  in  St. 
Louis,  manufacturing  similar  ma 
terial. 

later 

A m o ng  other  of  the  senior  class 
whose  parents  or  friends  were  pres 
ent  at  commencement  were  M r. 
Bates,  M r.  H o u g h,  M r.  R a n g e r, 
M r.  L a m b,  M r.  Cavanagh,  M r. 

from 

L a r ge  numbers  of  district  schools 
today  have  only  8  to  10  pupils, 
while  if  four  such  schools  could  be 
centralized,  one  $ 50  teacher  might 
be  employed  instead  of  four  $25 
teachers  with  a  good  balance  left  to 
transport 
the 
the  children 
more  remote  districts. 
established 
that  has 
three  normals  in  Michigan  since  '92, 
is  to  train  rural  teachers,  yet  nearly 
all  the  normal  graduates 
take  city 
schools  while  8th  grade  graduates 
teach  the  rural  schools.  W hy  not 
take  the  children  to  a  $ 50  teacher 
instead  of  sending  a  $20  teacher  to 
the  child. 

T he  plea 

the  graded 

training  of 

A g a in  the  high  schools  continue 
city 
the 
schools  while  many  country  boys 
and  girls  are  barred  by  not  having 
had  the  same  kind  of  training  or  by 
the  $ 15  to  $35  tuition  for  each 
year. 

T he  city  high  schools  teach  chem 
istry  but  not  agricultural  chemistry, 
physics  but  not  soil  physics,  and 
botany  but  not  of  the plants  that  the 
farmer  boy  k n o w s;  all  of  which 
tend  to  lead  the  rural  boy  or  girl 
from  the  country  to  the  city.  W h at 
is  wanted  is  a  central  township  or 
county  high  school  independent  of 
city  or  town  where  the  student  will 
to  appreciate  and  love  his 
learn 
country  life. 

BOOK  BUYING  ASSOCIA 
TION. 

Cash  account  statement  of  the  M. A.  C 

Book-Buying Ass'n, 1905-6. 

R E C E I P T S. 

Cash bal. on hand  Sept. 21, '05 . 
Merchandise  sold 
Membership  tickets 

$335 28 
13.807 93 
195  75 

$14,338 96 

BttOVJ  TMCDflM-RCD  CtOAR 

E X P E N D I T U R E S. 

For  merchandise  .  . 
Business  expenses 
Cash on hand 

. . . ..  $13,267 54 

1,062 00 
942 

$14,338 96 

MERCHANDISE  ACCOUNT  S T A T E M E N T. 

Dr. 

Inventory on hand Sept. 21, '05 .  $2,092 85 
Merchandise purchased  . . . ..  13,267 54 
1.034 91 
Excess over cost 

Or, 
Merchandise sold 
Inventory June 21, '06 

$i6.395 3° 

$13,807 93 
2,587 37 

$i6,395 3° 

COMPARATIVE  SUMMARY. 

1904-05 

1905-06. 

Merchandise  sold .  . $14,876 23  $13,807 93 
1,062 00 
Business  expenses  . 
2.587 37 
Inventory 
195  75 
Membership  tickets . 

875 45 
2,099 85 
252 75 
LILLIAN  KENDALL,  Mgr. 

STATE  BOARD  MEETING. 

T he  State  Board  held  its  regular 
meeting  in  the  college  board  rooms 
on  J u ne  20.  Those  present  were 
P r e s.  Monroe,  Messrs.  Bliss,  Bus-
kirk,  Marston  and  Pres.  Snyder. 
It  was  voted  to  hold  the  Round-
the  coming 
Ionia 

Up-Institute  at 
winter. 

Prof.  Pettit  was given  permission 
to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  Ameri 
can  Association  of  Official  Entomol 
ogists  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

T he  report  of  M r. O. C.  Simonds 
relative  to  the  arrangement  of 
the 
campus  was  received  and  placed  on 
file,  certain  portions  of  the  same  be 

A B O UT  T HE  C A M P U S. 

Mr.  Kenney  is  receiving  a  visit 

from  his  parents. 

K.  B. Stevens  spent  the week  fol 
lowing  commencement  in  working 
on  standings. 

J.  C.  Wilcox  and  L.  G.  Rinkle 
will  spend  the  summer  working  for 
the  Hort.  Dept. 

M r.  F.  R.  Smith  '87, a  farmer  of 
Somerset  Ctr., was  present  at  com 
mencement  last  week. 

A  baby  boy put  in  an  appearance 
the  home  of  Prof,  and  M r s. 

at 
Fletcher,  Tuesday,  J u ne  19. 

M.  P.  Carney  '94, visited  college 
friends  commencement  week.  M r. 
Carney 
is  an  architect  of  Battle 
Creek. 

R.  A.  Small  and  A.  H.  Chase 
the  street  cars  are 
the 

will  see  that 
properly  manipulated  during 
summer. 

Prof.  Fletcher  will  spend  two  or 
three  weeks  in  Georgia  soon  where 
he  will 
the  peach  in 
investigate 
dustry  of  that  state. 

Mr. J.  G.  Halpin,  of  Kingston,  R. 
I.,  has  been  elected  to  the  position 
of 
instructor  in  poultry  husbandry 
for  the  coming  year. 

Shuttleworth  W.  E d w a r ds  and 
E.  I.  Wilcox  will  be  kept  busy  this 
summer  presenting  to  tourists  the 
beauties  of  Mackinac  Isle. 

President  and  M r s.  Snyder  en 
tertained  at  dinner  on  the  Friday 
in 
evening  before  commencement 
honor  of  Dr.  and  M r s.  E d w a r d s, 

Falconer,  Mr.  Mastenbrook,  M r. 
Armstrong,  M r.  Kenrick,  M r. 
Locke,  M r.  Sanborn,  M r.  Stanton. 

R oy  T o w er  who spent  commence 
ment  week  at  M.  A.  C,  is  in  the 
color  department of the Patton  Paint 
Co.,  Milwaukee.  R.  J.  W e st  is 
analytical  chemist  for  the same  com 
pany. 

Mr.  C.  H. Swanger,  of  the  chem 
ical  department,  will  not  return  as 
instructor  next  year, but will  remain 
in  his  present  position  as  chemist  in 
the  Bureau  of  Animal 
Industry, 
Department  of  Agriculture. 

a  monthly 

A  recent  number  of  The  Chemi 
technical 
cal  Engineer, 
journal  published  at  Philadelphia, 
contains  a  special  article  on  the  sub 
ject  "  Copper  "  written  by  T h o rn 
Smith,  '95, of  Ducktown,  T e n n. 

M r s.  Pearl  Kedzie  Plant  '98 and 
daughter,  Margaret,  have 
b e en 
spending  the  past  week  with  M r s. 
Plant's  mother,  M r s. E.  M.  Kedzie 
and  will  go  to  their  summer  cottage 
near Frankfort  on the 25th and  spend 
the  summer. 

Messrs.  Cavanagh,  Rigterink, 

and  Spurway,  w ho  have  been  re 
ceiving  special  instruction  in  chem 
istry  in  beet  sugar  production  under 
M r.  Reed,  have  been  offered  posi 
tions  with  Lyons  Beet  Sugar  Co., 
Lyons,  N.  Y. 

M r.  Nelson  Niles,  w ho  has  been 
a  special  student  in  landscape  gar 
dening  the  past  year,  has  accepted  a 
position  with 
the  Moon  Nursery 
Co.,  Morristown,  Pa.,  one  of  the 
leading  nursery  and  landscape  gar 
dening  firms  of  the  east. 

0 

R o b e rt  W.  R e n n e r,  w h om  many 
of  the  M. A.  C.  students 
s i n c e ' 83 
will  remember  as  the  popular  club 
the 
steward,  is  now  steward  of 
Nashville  Golf  and  Country  club, 
Nashville,  T e n n.  H is  daughter, 
Loa  w ho  took  some  work  in  college 
while  here,  is  now  M r s. J o hn  A. 
Croke,  her  husband  being  a  profes 
sional  golf  player.  M r s.  R e n n er 
has  been  having 
trouble  with  her 
eyes  for  the  past  year  and  a  half 
and  is  now  totally  blind,  but  hopes 
are  entertained  for  her  ultimate  re 
covery. 

T he  old  ice  house  near  the  river 
came  near  being  totally  destroyed 
by  fire  on  Tuesday,  J u ne  13.  T he 
whistle  brought  the  hose  company 
quickly,  but  some  difficulty  was  ex 
perienced  in  getting  water,  and  to 
add  to  the  trouble,  about  50  feet  of 
hose  was broken  off.  T he  blaze  was 
extinguished  only  after  quite  a  quan 
tity  of  ice  was  made  unfit  for  use. 
T he  derrick  over  which  ice is hauled 
from  the  river  was  saved  only  by 
cutting  off  several  feet  next  to  the 
to 
building.  T he  fire  is  supposed 
have  caught  from  a burning  rubbish 
heap. 

GROWING  ROSES. 
To  secure  best  results  with  roses, 
select  a  spot  as  sunny  and  airy  as 
possible.  T he  soil  should  be  rich 
and  well  drained.  A  heavy  or  clay 
subsoil  is peculiarly  adapted  to roses, 
to  enrich  it,  nothing  is  better 
than 
thoroughly 
cow  manure. 
Sand  soil  is  nearly  as  satisfactory  as 
clay, but  requires  more  manure. 

rotted 

In  planting,  the  roses  should  be 
sst  somewhat  deeper  than  they  were 
in  the  pots. 
If  budded  or  grafted 
plants, set deep  enough  so union  may 
be  below  the  surface  of  the  soil. 

T he  danger  with  budded  roses  is 
that  if  the  shoots  coming  from  the 
roots  are  not carefully  removed  they 
will  chooke  out  the  choice  sorts  and 
nothing  will  be  left  but  wild  roses. 

Roses  may  be  planted  either  in 
the  fall  or  spring,  though  I  prefer 
the  latter.  T h e re  is  less  danger  of 
a  severe  winter  cutting  back 
the 
shoots,  or  of  alternate  freezings  and 
thawings  exposing  the  unestablish-
ed  roots.  M ay  and  J u ne  are  the 
best  months  for  planting.  T he  beds 
should  be  protected  from  the  north 
west  winds.  Give  a  southern  or 
eastern  slope,  if  possible. 

After  planting,  cover  beds  with  a 
light  mulch  of  manure,  this  will  be 
all the feeding  required  the  first  year. 
After  the  roots  have  become  well 
established  fertilizer  may  be  applied 
more  freely.  Every  fall  five  or  six 
inches  of  mulch  should  be  placed  on 
the  beds—cow  manure, if  possible— 
and  the  residue  raked  up  and  carried 
away. 

Don't 

that  has  already 

leave  the  branching  spray 
wood 
flowered. 
T h is  will  never  produce  fine  flowers 
again. 
It  is well  to  leave  long  stems 
when  cutting  flowers,  if  new  wood 
is  beginning  to  show  at  the  base  of 
in  the  case 
the  plant. 
Especially 
of  hybrid  perpetuals  should 
these 
older  branching  stems  be  cut  out if 
If  the 
you  want  autumn 
older 
produces 
spray 
no  flowers  worth  having  while  the 
weak  and  crowded  g r o w th  affords  a 
harbor  for  rose  pests. 

flowers. 
it 

left 

is 

Roses  in  perfect  health  and  vigor 
are  less  liable  to attacks  from  insects 
than  those  that  have  -been  neglected 
and  are  stunted.  Prevention  is  bet 
ter  than  cure.  T he  best  way  of  pre 
venting  attacks,  is  by  the  free  use 
of  water,  spraying  plants  daily. 

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Miss  Irene  Farley  visited  College 

friends  on  J u ne  15. 

Mrs.  Lambert  of  Niles  was  the 
g u e st  M r s.  Landen  commencement 
week. 

Miss  Marguerite  Barrows  o f 
the 

is  home 

for 

Smith  College 
•summer. 

Mrs.  N o r t h r o p,  of  Thompson-
ville,  visited  her  daughter,  Zae,  the 
past  week. 

H.  H.  Barnett 
from  his  mother  and 
mencement. 

received  a  visit 
sister  com 

W.  B.  Liverance,  '07,  will  assist 
Instructor  Foster  in  the  M.  A.  C. 
Dairy  during  vacation. 

C.  H.  S p u r w a y,  '08,  will  weigh 
the  Grindstone 

a nd  test  cream  at 
C r e a m e ry  this  summer. 

G.  W.  H u g h es  works 

for  H o n. 
T.  F.  Marston  on  his  farm  near 
Bay  City  during  vacation. 

Miss  Alexander 

received  a  visit 

from  her  mother  and  aunt,  of  Gen 
eva,  during  commencement. 

T he  parents  of  J.  H.  and  Louisa 
T a y l o r,  of  Almont,  attended  com 
mencement  exercises  last  week. 

M r s.  F.  H.  E a rl  and  sons,  of 
Piano,-111.,  are  visiting  at  the  home 
of  Secretary  Brown  and  M r.  Earle. 

H a n n ah  Bach,  a  former 

special 
student  and  assistant  in  music,  spent 
commencement  week  with  M.  A.  C. 
friends. 

C.  H.  Carter  will  work  for  M r. 
W.  H.  Price  of  Woodville,  Ohio, 
d u r i ng  vacation.  M r.  P.  has  a  large 
dairy  farm  and  Carter  will  be  kept 

busy  putting  up  milk  for  the  city 
delivery. 

Mrs.  M c M a n us  of  Honor  was 
the  guest  of  her  daughter,  Miss 
Ella  McManus,  'oS,  a  few  days  the 
past  week. 

M r.  and  Mrs.  Peters,  of  Sprfng-
port,  were  guests  of  their  daughter, 
Miss  Gertrude  Peters,  during  com 
mencement. 

" B a b e"  Kratz  and  W i rt  Doty 
the  Kansas  wheat 
have  gone 
fields,  where  they  will  w o rk  during 
the  summer. 

to 

Quite  a  number  of  candidates  took 
the  entrance  examination  J u ne  20 
the  four-year  courses 
and  21  for 
next  September. 

Instructor  E.  H.  R y d er  will  teach 
history  during  the  six  w e e k s'  sum 
mer  course  given  by  the  Mt.  Pleas 
ant  N o r m al  School. 

M |k  Lilla  Lawrence  and  daugh 
ter,  Helena,  of  Hudson,  were  pres 
ent  at  the  graduation  of  Miss  Carrie 
Lawrence,  Wednesday. 

Mrs.  C.  D.  Smith  was  called  to 
her  old  home  in  N ew  Y o rk  state 
the  past  week  on  account  of  the 
serious  illness  of  her  mother. 

A  portion  of  the  graduating  class 
(law  course)  of  the  U.  of  M.  paid 
their  annual  visit 
to  the  M.  A.  C. 
campus  commencement  week. 

A  neat  announcement  of  the  an 
nual  exhibition,  domestic  art  depart 
ment  of 
the  second  ward  school, 
Allegheny,  has  been  received  by 
several  M.  A.  C.  friends  of  Miss 
is  in 
J e an  Barris,  with 
charge  of  the  above  department. 

'05,  w ho 

T he  day  school  and  M.  A.  C. 
Sunday  school  held  a  union  picnic 
the  grounds  Friday,  J u ne  22. 
on 
Tables  were  spread  in  the  armory 
on  account  of  the  rainy  weather. 

D.  M.  Faunce  and  wife  of  F r e 
mont  and  Ellis  Faunce  and  wife 
of  Shepherd  were  guests  of  ye  editor 
and  family  commencement  week. 

A.  L.  Darbee  with  '06,  who  was 
out  of  college  the  past  year,  will  be 
employed  at  M.  A.  C.  this  summer 
and  will  again  take  up  his  college 
work  in  September. 

for 

P.  V.  Goldsmith  '07  has  a  posi 
tion 
the  summer  with  J.  S. 
Hopkins  &  Son  of  Roodhouse,  111., 
producers  and  distributors  of  certi 
fied  milk  for  St.  Louis. 

M r.  Rosen,  our  Russian  student, 
will  work  on 
the  farm  of  Mr.  L. 
W h i t n ey  W a t k i ns  during  the  sum 
mer  and  will  without  doubt  gain  the 
valuable  practical  knowledge 
for 
which  he  is  searching. 

A m o ng  those  of  former  students 

w ho  were  here  for  the  earlier  com 
mencement  festivities  were,  Misses 
M ay  Quick,  Alta  Gunnison.  May 
Merrill,  Edith  W a r r e n,  E.  Kenyon, 
Myrtle  Severance  and  Minnie  Flint. 

T he  commencement  party  was 
enjoyed  by  nearly  125  couple  in  the 
A r m o ry  Friday  evening, J u ne  15. 
T h is  was  the  first  of  the  commence 
ment  parties  and  was  attended  by 
several 
former  students.  Baker's 
Orchestra  of  eleven  pieces  furnished 
music.  Prof,  and  M r s.  Vedder  and 
Miss  Gilchrist  were  the  chaperons. 
Miss  Yakeley  and  Dr.  W e t m o re 
sailed  Saturday,  J u ne  23, from  N ew 

for 

Y o rk 
Italy.  T h ey  will  visit 
Naples,  R o m e,  view  the  mountains 
trip 
of  Switzerland,  and 
through  France  and  E n g l a n d,  re 
turning  to  America  soon  after  Sept. 
1st. 

take  a 

report  for 

the  printer. 

'o5-'o6 
T he  institute 
is  now  ready  for 
It 
contains  papers  read  at  the  Round 
up,  and  is  also  a  report  of  the  insti 
tute  work  done  in  the  state  during 
the  past  year.  T he  report  is  to  be 
illustrated,  several  cuts  of  the  corn 
special  being  presented. 

A  letter  from  H.  H.  Crosby  gives 
his  last  address  as  135  N.  Cook 
He  says, 
Ave.,  Memphis,  T e n n. 
"I  continue  to  enjoy  my  work  here. 
I  am  expecting  Fred  Farley  to  join 
me  soon  after  commencement. 
I 
am  very  sorry  to  have  to  miss  the 
the  week,  but  there  was 
events  of 
no  way  for  me  to  be  there.  H o me 
g r o wn  peaches,  dew  and 
black 
berries,  raspberries,  tomatoes,  can-
telopes,  etc.,  have  been  on  the  mar 
ket  for  two  or  three  weeks." 

in 

that 
that  of 

Prof.  Pettit  was 

rivalled 
army  worm 

the  eastern 
part  of  the  state  recently  to  give  ad 
vice  concerning  the  control  of  cut 
the 
worms  which  were  ravaging 
sugar  beet  fields.  T h ey  were  found 
their 
in  such  large  numbers 
work  almost 
the 
places. 
dreaded 
T he 
the 
southern  part  of  the  state  to  investi 
gate  the  cause  of  the  dying  out  of 
It  had  been  sup 
apple  orchards. 
posed  that 
insects  were  the  cause, 
but  it  was  found  that  the  destruction 
was  caused  by  the  excessive  amount 
of  water  in  the  soil. 

also  visited 

professor 

in 

IO 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

WOOD'S  LAKE. 

H a ve  you  been  at  Wood's lake  in  the  Spring 

time, 

The  balmiest  days  of  the  Spring  time, 
When  wild  flowers  are  springing  and  robins 

are  singing, 

And  the  sun  is just  rising  in  Spring  time? 
'Tis  a  picture  most  rare,  most  enchanting 

and  fair, 

On  a  clear  balmy  morning  in  Spring  time. 

H a ve  you  been  at  Wood's  lake  in  the  Sum 

mer,— 

A  hot  dusty  day  in  the  Summer, 
When  breezes  are  blowing  and  wavelets  are 

flowing 

And  rocking  the  lillies  in  Summer? 
On  a  cool  shady  seat,  it  is pleasure  complete 
To  sit  by  Wood's  lake  in  the  Summer. 

Sit  watching  the  fishes  in  Summer, 
'Mid  the  lily-pads  rising  in  Summer; 
While  the  boy  in  his  boat  sits  and  watches 

his  float 

As  he  angles  for  blue-gills  in  Summer; 
And  pulls  in  his  fish  with  a  swirl  and  a 

swish 

When  he  catches  a  blue-gill  in  Summer. 

H a ve  you 

ever 

seen  Wood's 

lake 

in 

Autumn,— 

Some  bland  hazy  day  in  the  Autumn, 
When  the  sun  is  declining,  its  last  rays  just 

shining 

And  lighting  the  island  in  Autumn, 
Till  its  trees  are  all  glowing 

in  Heaven's 

own  showing 

Of  scarlet  and  gold  in  the  Autumn? 

O  what  can  be  finer  in  Autumn 
Than  the  lake  of  an  evening  in  Autumn, 
When  twilight  is  falling  and  farmers  are 

calling 

"Co  Boss"  to  their  cows  in  the  Autumn; 
When  the  musk  rat  is  sailing,  his  long  wake 

a  trailing 

Across  its  still  waters  in  Autumn; 

When  the  lake  is  the  stillest  in  Autumn, 
And  the  waters  are  clearest  in  Autumn; 
When  trees  in  perfection  are  seen  by  reflec 

tion 

From  its  still  glassy  surface  in  Autumn; 
When  the  full  moon  is  shining,  its  beauties 

defining, 

T he  fairest  and  finest  in  Autumn? 

Have  you  looked  on  Wood's  lake 

in  the 

Winter,— 

The  icy  cold  days  in  the  Winter, 
When  the  trees  on  the  island  are  bare  and 

the  highland 

Is  white  with  the  snows  of  the  Winter;— 
W h en  the  song  birds  have  flown  and  the 

blue jay  alone 

With  the  chickadee  stays  jn  the  Winter ? 

I  have  gazed  on  its  beauties  at  all  times,— 
In  Spring  time  and  Summer  and  Fall  times 
And  feasted  my  soul  on  the  beauties  that 

stole 

O'er  my  spirit  when  gazing  at  all  times; 
Till  the  lake  pass  away,  there  will  evermore 

stay 

Those  visions  of  beauty  at  all  times. 

[Written  by  Francis  Hodgman,  class  of 

1862,  on  April  22, '06]. 

RESOLUTIONS  ADOPTED  BY 
THE  COLLEGE  CONFER 
E N CE  ON  ATHLETICS 
SATURDAY,  JUNE  2,  1906. 

i.  T h at  no 

student  may  play 
more  than  four  years  in  the  aggre 
gate 
sport, 
and  that  this  participation  be  con 
fined  to  undergraduates. 

intercollegiate 

in  any 

2.  T h at  no  training  table  shall  be 
the 
maintained  at 
association,  and  no  boarding  charge 
paid  by  the  association. 

the  expense  of 

teams  who 

3.  T h at  no  student  be  allowed  to 
is 
play  on 
the  college 
fresh 
below  the  grade  of  college 
that  no  person  be 
men,  provided 
to  compete  in  any  contest 
allowed 
after 
term  unless  he  has 
been  in  regular  attendance  at  the  in 
stitution  he  represents  for  at  least 
twelve  weeks  during 
the  current 
college  year. 

the  fall 

4.  T h at  no  student  shall  be  allow 
ed  to  compete  in  any  contest  w ho  is 
not  taking  at  least  two-thirds  of  the 
full  schedule  of  recitations  and  lab 
oratory  work  required  in  a  regular 
college  course  and  is  maintaining  a 
grade  satisfactory 
the  college 
faculty. 

to 

5.  No  student  shall  be  permitted 
to  participate  in  any  contest  so  long 
as  he  has  more 
than 
tions"  standing  against  him. 

two  "condi 

6.  T h at  no  person  w ho  has  parti 
cipated  in  any  intercollegiate  game 
as  a  member  of  a  college  team  shall 
be  permitted 
in  any 
game  as  a  member  of  any  other  col 
lege  team  until  one  year  after  his 
withdrawal  from  the  first  college. 

to  participate 

7.  T h at  the  list  of  eligible  com 
petitors  of  any  college  for  any  con 
test  shall  be  signed  by  the  secretary 
or  registrar  of  the  faculty  of 
that 
institution,  and  any  protest  shall  be 
made  to  the  secretary  or  registrar 
of  the  faculty  of  the  institution  in 
which  the  protested  person  is  a  stu 
the  presi 
dent  and  the  decision  of 
institution 
dent  or  faculty  of  that 
shall  be  final. 

8.  T h at  there  shall  be  no  prelim 
inary  training  prior  to  the  beginning 
of  tbe  academic  instruction. 

9.  T h at  the  football  season  shall 
end  on  the  Saturday  before  T h a n k s 
giving. 

10.  (a)  T h at  no  person  shall  be 
eligible  to  play  on  any  team  in 
the 
M.  I. A.  A.  who  shall  after  entering 
college  become  a  regular  member 
of  a  professional  or  semi-profes 
sional  or  any  paid  team, or w ho  shall 
play  in  more  than  eight  games  dur 
ing  the  summer  vacation  at  which 
an  entrance  fee  is  charged. 

(b)  T h at  no  person  shall  be  eligi 
ble  as  above  w ho  shall  play  base 
ball  on  Sunday  after  he  becomes  a 
student  of  any  college. 

11.  T h at 

this  conference  views 
with  disfavor  the  championship  ser 
ies  of  baseball  and  football  games. 

12.  T h at 
this  conference,  views 
the  employment  of 
with  disfavor 
professional  coaches for  football  and 
baseball  teams. 

These 

13.  No  action  taken  by  this  con 
ference  shall  be  retroactive  in  effect. 
the  ex 
resolutions,  with 
ception  of  Rule  10,  are  quite  satis 
factory  to  our  faculty.  T h is  rule  is 
a  compromise.  Our  faculty  has  in 
the  past  endeavored 
to  live  within 
the 
the  rule  and  permit  no  one  on 
team  who  had  played  with  a  semi-
professional  team  during  the  sum 
mer.  Several  of  the  other  colleges, 
notably  among  which  is Albion,  have 
encouraged  summer  playing,  believ 
ing  as  members  of  the  faculty  af 
for 
firm,  that 
college  students 
their 
time  during 
to  ball 
the 
playing,  engaging  themselves  with 
professional  or 
semi-professional 
teams. 
If  rule  10,  as  it  now  reads, 
is  enforced  rigidly  and  in good  faith, 
it  will  at  least  remedy  some  of  the 
present  evils, but  at best it is  far  from 
satisfactory. 

to  give  up 
summer 

it  is  even  desirable 

T he  six  colleges  of  the  M.  I.  A. 
these  resolutions 
A.  have  adopted 
and 
the  athletics  within  these  col 
leges  in  the  future  will  be  governed 
accordingly. 

'°5 

Announcements  have  been 

re 
ceived  of  the  marriage  of  Mr.  J o hn 
W.  Bolte  and  Miss  Jessie  Brown  at 
Grand  Rapids  Thursday,  J u ne  2 1, 
1906.  At  home  after  Sept.  1,  K i n g 
ston,  R.  I.  Both  young  people  are 
graduates  of  1905. 
T he  R E C O OD 
extends  congratulations. 

L A W R E N CE  ©. 
V AN  B U R EN 
P R I N T I NG  CO. 

WHEN  IN  NEED  OF 

DANCE  PROGRAMS  or 

SOCIETY  PRINTING. 

122  Ottawa St. E. 

Stalker  Prints 

" Swell"  Dance  Programs 
Fine  Stationery 
and  other  good  things. 

117  nichigan  Avenue  West 
Ground  Floor. 

rorrect 

Clothes 
For 
Young 
Men 

The Clothes Shop 

BRUCE  N.  HICKEY 
120  N. Wash.  Ave. 

DIRECTORY 

LAMING  BUSINESS and 
PROFESSIONAL  M E N — 4k 
T he  n a m es  in  this  Directory,  as  well  as 
those  of  all  our  other advertisers, are  of  reli 
able  parties.  We  hope  that  the  faculty  and 
students  will  take  pains  to  patronize  those 
who  patronize  us. 

BARBERS. 

M  A.  C.  BARBER  SHOP,  Rooms  in  New 

Bath House.  H. A.  Sias, Propr. 

BOOKS  AND  STATIONERY. 

A M.  EMERY.  116  Wash.  Ave.  N.  Books, 

Fine  Stationery,  Engraved  Calling1  Cards, 
Fountain Pens.  Pictures, Frames.  Fine Framing 
a Specialty.  Up-to-Date  Styles. 

CITY BOOK  STORE.  Fountain Pens, Drafting 

Tools,  Stationery,  Card*  Engraved,  Pocket 
Books, Card  Cases  and  Bibles.  Tennis,  Football 
and  Baseball  goods,  Crotty  Bros.,  206'  Wash. 
Ave.N. 

ALL  MEATS 

. . .. 

May  look  alike  to  you,  but  there  Is  a 
very  great  difference  in  the  quality  we  h a n 
dle  and  that  sold  by  s o me  other  m a r k e t s. 
We  handle  none  but  the  very  best.  L i ke 
the  pudding,  the  proof  of  good  meats  is  In. 
the  eating.  A  trial  will  convince  you  that; 
you  ought  to  trade  with  u s. 

We  make  daily  trips  to  the  College. 
BOTH  PHONES.  Careful  attention  given  to. 

'phone orders. 

GOTTLIEB  REUTTER. 

Washington Ave. South. 

DRUGGISTS. 

date.  Corner store.  Opposite Hollister Block. 

R  OUSER'S  CAPITAL DRUG STORK.  Up to-
ROBINSON  DRUG  CO., successors to  AlsdorC 

&  Son,  Drugs  and  Druggists'  Sundries.  1022 

Washington Ave,  N. 

DRY 

eooos. 

THE  IEWF.TT  &  KNAPP  STORE.  Dry 

Goods.  222-224 Washington Ave.  S. 

ELECTRICAL 

SUPPLIES. 

CAPITOL  ELECTRIC CO.  Electrical Supplies, 

Telegraph  Instruments  and  Telephones.  11 

Mich,  Ave..  E. 

FURNISHING  GOODS. 

j'LGIN  MIFFLIN.—Ladies'  and  Gentlemen's 
j  Furnishing Goods.  See  ad. 

FURNITURE  DEALERS. 

M  J.  *  B.  M.  BUCK.—Furniture.  Cor.  Wash 

ington Avenue and Ionia Street.  See ad, 

HACK  AND  BAGGAGE  LINES. 

O RDER  your  hacks  for  parties  at  Carr's  Hack 

Line.  Livery in connection.  410 Washington. 

Ave.  N. 

HARDWARE,  STOVES  AND  TINWARE. 

NORTON'S HARDWARE—General Hardware, 

Stoves,  Tinware,  Graniteware,  Cutlery,  etc. 

Ill  Washington Ave. South.  See  ad. 

INSURANCE. 

THE  DYER-JENISON-BARRY  CO.,  LTD., 

Incorporated) Hollister Block.  All  kinds of  the 

best insurance.  Strongest agency in city, 

JEWELERS. 

CHAS.  A.  PIELLA.  Jeweler  and  Optician. 

121 Washington  Ave.  N.,  Lansing, Mich, 

LAUNDRY. 

THE  AMERICAN  LAUNDRY solicits a share: 

of  your  patronage.  Remember  the  number, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  S.  New  Phone  No.  420. 
Julia Flndley & Edwin  Lewis,  Props.  S. W.  Dotjr 
and I. D. Smith, College Agents. 

MANICURE  AND  HAIRDRESSINS. 

Parlors.  Masquerade  Wigs 

MRS.  O.  T.  CASE—Manicure and Hairdressing 

for  Rent. 
Switches  made  of  cut  hair  or  combings.  The 
France-American  Hygienic  Toilet  Requisites  a 
a  specialty.  New'phone  118.  222% Washington 
Ave.  S„ up  stairs. 

MILLINERY. 

FOR  Fine Millinery  go  to  No.  226 Washington, 

Ave.,  S.  New  Phone  112. 

MUSIC,  PIANOS, 

e r e. 

GRINNELL  BROS.  Pianos, Organs and every 

thing  in  the  line  of  music,  219  Washing, 

ton  Ave.  N. 

BOOK  BINDERS 

GEO.  G.  BLUDEAU  & CO —Bookbinders  Ac 

count  book  makers,  paper ruling-,  library and 
fine art bindings, file boxes, map mounting, albums, 
Docket  books,  etc.  Citizens  phone  No,  56.  109 
Wash.  Ave.  N. 

sheet music. 

—  G O  TO  BAKER  MUSIC  CO. for the up  to-date 
PIANO'TUNING,  J.  Parker.  Action Work  a 

Specialty.  Teacher of  Violin and Saxaphone. 
Parkers'  Orchestra, 119 Pennslvania Ave. N.  Cit 
izens  'phone 689., Lansing, Mich. 

W AGENVOORD  &  CO.—Bookbinders, Blank-

book Makers, 109 Washington  Ave. South.  : 

BOOTS  AND  SHOES. 

D.  WOODBURY.— Boots  and  Shoes.  We 
shoe the students.  See ad. 

CLOTHING, 

LOUIS  BECK.—Clothier.  Gents'  Furnishings, 

Hats  and Caps.  112 Washington Ave, North. 

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

H  H.  LARNED.—China,  Glass  and  Lamps. 

105 Washington Ave. S. 

DENTISTS. 

A F.  GORDON,  D.  D.  S.  M.  A.  C.  '91,  U. of 

M.  '01.  218  Washington  Ave.  S.  Phone, 

Citizens 685. 

E.  STOPFER,  D.  D.  S.  Office  105  Wash-
ington Ave. S.  Citizens' Phone 1049.  Former 
M. A.  C. student. 

W.  MORSE, D. D. S.  Hollister  Block, Room 

H.  MOORE, D. D. S.  Office  411-13 Hollister 
Building, Lansing, Mich.  Citizens phone 475. 

N 
R 
D E  PARMELEE,  Dentist,  117J4  Washing 

ton  Ave. S., Lansing,  Michigan.  Citizens' 

817.  Citizens Phone 52, Bell Phone 396. 

Phone, office  275;  residence, 261. 

OCULISTS. 

CHAS.  G. JENKINS,  M. D. — Diseases of  Eye, 

Ear,  Nose and Throat.  Hours, 9  to  12  a.  m.„ 

and  2  to  5  p.  m.  Citizens  Phone  No.  1980. 

Rooms  203-204 Prudden  Block. 

PHYSICIANS. 

12 A. M„  2 to  4  and 7 to  8  P.  K.  Office  at  31* 
Washington Avenue S.;  home 219 Capitol Ave, 

J  W.  HAGADORN, M. D.—Office  hours,  H  to 
DR.  H.  W.  LANDON.  Office  and  residence, 

M. A. C.  Office  hours from  7  to  8:80) a.  m., 
and 1230 to 2, and 6:30  to  8  p.  m.  Sunday  office 
hours 4 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m.  Now  phone 1560. 

lege, Mich.  Citizens phone 1502. 

m.;  2 to 4 and 7 to  8  p. m.  Agricultural Col 

DR.  OSCAR  H.  BRUEGEL.  Hours  9 to  11  a. 
JOSEPH  FOSTER,  M.  D., Eye,  Ear,  Nose  and 

Throat.  Hours 9 to 12 a. m.;  2 to 4 p. m.;  Sun 
days, 12 to  1; Evening 7  to 8.  Corner  Allegan 

St.  and  Capitol  Ave., Lansing.  Both 'phones. 

PLUMBERS. 

SHIELDS  & LEADLEY.  Plumbing and Heat 

ing.  300  Wash.  Ave.  N„  Lansing.  Both 

Phones. 

SPORTING  BOODS. 

J 

H.  LARRABEE.  Base  Ball  Goods,  Foot 
Ball  Goods, Tennis,  Golf,  Guns,  Ammunition 
and  Fishing  Tackle.  825 Wash,  Ave,  S,