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EL PASO DAILY HERALD SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1900.
THE DAILY HERALD
Published Every Evenlno Except
Sunday
BT TBI
Herald News Company
EL PASO. TEXAS.
LITTLE PLAZA. - - iTILEFHOKK 116
An Independent Republican
NEWSPAPER
Rigid Enforcement of Existing Laws
Is the Pint Step Toward Mu-
nicipal Reform.
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A PLEA FOR KINDER6ARTENS.
At the request of The Herald Ernest
E. Russell secretary of the chamber
of commerce has with painstaking
care prepared an article on the kinder-
garten as a part of the public school
system which is presented to our read-
ers in today's issstie.
The Herald has many times in the
past brought this matter to the atten-
tion of teachers parents and school
trustees. Strong protests have been
made- in this place against the advance-
ment of the kindergarten age and the
school age aud reasons have been ad-
duced why the advance can in no way
le justified except perhaps as a purely
temporary expedient adopted of neces-
sity to meet a pressing exigency.
The Herald is aware that certain
members of the board of school trus-
tees advocated the advancement oi the
age of admission on the ground that
it was a desirable policy to pursue ir-
respective of the actual pressure there
might be at any particular time on the
kindergarten and school lacilities. But
it cannot believe that this sentiment is
.shared by tne majority of the members
of the board. If so. it is a pity.
that as Mr. Russell remarks rather
bluntly some will say mothers can
not e depended upon to train their
young children as they should be train
ed. except in rare cases.
The public school is more than
bureau of Information for the benefit
of those who voluntarily apply for it
It is more than a mill to manufacture
the raw product of the immature mind
into useful articles of daily need. 1
is more than a nursery to reliev
mothers of the care of their cnildren
It Is the very groundwork of our fa
brie of civilization: it is for the pro-
tection of society that society taxes
itself for the support of schools and
compels those to contribute to thei
support -that have no personal Interest
in their maintenance: it is a struggle
for self perpetuation that is going on
all the time in our body politic and
the public schools are a legitimate de
velopment of tnis struggle and did not
proceed from any motive of philan
I h ropy.
From this point of view it becomes
a question of the first importance what
we shall do with our children. Hence
tne discussion of the place of the kin
dergarten in the educational scheme
is especially pertinent. The Herald
would be glad to hear from the people
on this matter.
VOTE THE STRA.I6HT TICKET.
It is strange that more public inter-
est .has not been shown with regard
to this matter. No one who has ever
taken the trouble to look into the
character of the work that is being
done in our kindergarten and primary
grades than which there is none bet-
ter in the country can fail to be im-
pressed with the necessity of getting
an early- start if the faculties and
talents of the children are to he given
their fullest development. Much of
the good effect of the well planned
work of the first years of school is
totally or largely lost if the child is
permitted to become individualized
specialized centralized before enter-
ing the public schools. 1 ne efficacy of
the whole system rests largely if not
wholly on the fidelity with which the
plan of unfolding is followed. To un-
fold to minister to develop to guide
to strengthen to make self dependent
to "lead out" or educate in the true
sense and last of all to impart in-
formation this briefly. Is the true
system upon which modern public
schooling should be. and theoretically
is. based.
Mr. Russell has well brought out the
point that the term "kindergarten age"
is likely to create a wrong apprehen-
sion of the problem involved. It is
the stage of mental development rath-
er than the age in month or years
that should really determine the ques-
tion of admission to the kindergarten
but of course at the present stage of
public educational organization this is
impracticable. It can. however. In-
approximated. Mr. Russell might' have gone even
still farther into the discussion of the
actual economic value of the kinder-
garten to the community as a "child
saver." as he expresses it.
The young king of Italy is reHrted
to be desirous of doing his country a
good turn and has set his energies to
work to riil it of malaria Itesiiles the
mosquito which is directly responsi-
ble for the malady there are the
At one of j swamps and marshes to be got rid of.
the meetings of the school board when The mosquito larvae in a jm.imI or
this matter of the age of admission was J marsh can le destroyed by kerosening
The Herald opposed the proposition
to put a republican county ticket in
the field this fall on the grounds as
before stated that there was not the
slightest chance of the nominees lie
ng elected and that the movement
would simply result in turning loose a
large slush fund of the democrats who
would poll a larger vote for the dem
ocratic electors than they otherwise
would and create a false impression as
to the real political preferences of the
reputable people of the city.
Without having changed its opinion
with regard to the policy of the move
which has been taken. The Herald
accepts the action of the convention as
in a sense binding on the members of
the party and hence advocates the
polling of the heaviest vote possible
for the full republican ticket. The
onvention. and its nominating com
mittee are to be congratulated upon
heir success in selecting such a clean
nd desirable ticket. No republican
ill have the slightest excuse for fail
ing to support the ticket to the full
est possible extent. The republicans
do not Intend lo raise a slush fund or
to spend any inc.ipy in the campaign
except in ways that are" entirely legi-
timate. Rut with this limitation the
party will make a strong showing: it
cannot be called a fight.
Every republican should come out
and vote a week from next Tuesday
and should urge his friends to vote.
With such a local ticket in the field no
republican need le ashamed to cast his
vote for them and to let his neighbors
know it. If by any chance an" of the
republican nominees should be elected
no republican should have to confess
his failure to help.
The present campaign under the
circumstances is somewhat unusual.
But we have a chance now to show
our strength without the aid of a cor-
ruption fund and the very novelty
of the thing ought to be enough to in-
duce even those republicans who sel-
dom take any part in local political
affairs to come out and show their
colors.
In connection with the novel cam-
paign this is a good year to watch the
democrats. Our own consciences being
free from blot we republicans will be
in better shape than ever to call the
opposition to account for the abuses of
which both sides have in the past been
guilty. There is an opportunity for
the local republican party to do a great
ileal toward purifying elections but
the very first step is to take care that
we ourselves are free from blame.
Quibble as you please there is no
compensating circumstance that will
atone for the crime of buying a man's
vote a crime that is more heinous.
more dangerous to the fabric of society.
than that of selling the right to vote.
There being no possible excuse or mit-
igation for this offence the party or
faction that sets out to make local con-
ditions better must start by being
itself de-ent. The next step is to make
it so hot for the fellows that deal in
votes that they will have to change
their tactics.
lft us take the first step this year
ami see that we. as a party do not go
back. It is a question of fundamental
right and fundamental wrong. There
is no middle ground.
expensive ellieit praiseworthy task.
Undoubtedly by decreasing the malaria
he will increase the good morals and
the prosperity of his realm.
The mill and factory inspection of
the state of Washington says that wag
es in tne saw mills of the state are
from 10 to 12 per cent higher than
they were at the time of his last re-
port and that in other industries wag
es are also higher. The scarcity of
(aliorers is well indicated by the failure
of the hop-growers to secure enough
men to harvest their crop. They were
compelled to use an unusually large
number of women and children .and
Japs were taken into the yards for the
first time. The saw mills have appeal-
life but by methods thnt would put a solely by his development and fitness
savage to the blush. We cannot be for such advancement. It is a mis-law-abiding
and yet trample the law take to regard the kindergarten and
under our feet. We cannot be civi- the public school as in any way sep-
lized and yet imitate the ways of the arate or distinct. Ti.e work of the kin-
savage dergarten should change and meree
gradually and insensibly into that of
the public schools. To discuss the
age at which the child should leave
the kindergarten and enter the miblic
school is as idle as to discuss the ques
tion wnen tne rivulet becomes a river.
There are no sudden leaps no distinct
gaps in the child's physical and men-
tal growth. No more should there be
any sudden leaps or distinct gaps in
the methods for training the child.
The child is entitled to the best de
velopment that can be afforded It. For
a large part of this develoDment it
PROPER AGE DISCUSSED. SS??.!?""1
WORK OF THE
KINDERGARTENS
A Strong Statement of Their
Claims s a Part of the
School System.
PROFESSIONAL.
IRVIN JOHN
Civil and Meohaoioal
lECJ-. PASO
influences.
ever the state
can reasonably and
ed tn rough an eastern railroad for And Reason Rrought Forward Why properly supplement home methods by
more men. guaranteeing work for the
entire year. The return of a large
numler of men from Cape Nome.
where they made a failure will partly
fill the demand.
It Is a Mistaken Policy to Cut moI0n!; sKn opportunities and
ftfi th. nnhit. cku. n t.. means of development as the parent
Off the PnbllC ChOOlIng Of the oannot or will not nrovide the state
Children At ThN End. I should do so. It should do so not
Written especially for t.h Herald. . onlv because the child has a right to it.
Nothing is more to the credit of the "V ec?Ilse pumic po icy. tne interest
oi society as a wnoie. oemanas it.
Here conies in one of the chief' ar
guments for the kindergarten and yet
JAMES H." MABTINEAU.
GfriL Hydraulic an Mining Engineer.
Have Had Forty Years' Experience.
COLON1A JUAREZ
MEXICO.
city of El Paso than the fact that vears
Mr. Bryan is not saying much about ago she established and has since
free silver these days but harangues I maintained a public kindergarten as
ih. VnrLman t.. hm-e n soul hn u a department of the city schools. El
I Pflan (c lin t-t tKn wiala-i t simi-v T l.v
..ti . - I ' V Hi- Liirnrui i-iiii. a 't
iu.i uumer pan. .r. orywi nas uui ve tne . . -
even the dignity or a sincere ir nils- has taken this advanced position in
taken enthusiast for he has forsaken the training of very young children
the championship of the white metal. There are many people in El Paso
and prejudice is the only impulse of allnissjon to he kimergarten at the n.eeS tarefnl wat( hin8 to save il fom
his speeches. He is a man after the heeinninir of the nreenr r-h.l vear tne rara dangers that beset its path-
nlHr. onlv The best thlnirs that one from five to six vears. the school hord IV nam us ifuuer pnaill
L . . I Tilflllties to a rie-nt miwt n
can Kav of him after havinsr Keen this OOK "ac-Kwani step. Whatever tne x ' V" ' " ; "71
........ ... ... tion may have seemed to the board
one that Is often overlooked namely
the value of the kindergarten as a
child-saver. The kindergarten takes
the child at the age when it begins
to slip away from the mother's side
and go by itself or among other child
ren. Tnis is a time when the child
FOSTF.R
FTORNEY-ATL W.
apcvlA) Attention given to ReAl Et-
tAie And ProbAte Law. Will pract'ee
in All the courts.
BOOM I Af UNDY BLOCK.
Kf. "SO i EXAS
worked hard and has been gentleman- nevertheless It was a backward step.
ly. Good points in themselves but no I The school board is unquestionably in
measure against republicanism which
also works hard and has carried on a
decent campaign and besides has done
is doing and will do things.
favor of doing everything that the pub
lie interest demands and the available
funds permit. Now that the general
It may be said that this is the prov
ince of the mother. But experience
shows that the mothers cannot be de
pended upon. Either they do not know
how. or they have not the time or
they lack the disposition. Whatever
the cause the mothers cannot be de-
a . . .
mil-lie arhnni .... i ... i ppuaeu upon io provioe tne care ana
brought to the front by the school bond lran"S neeaea i.y tne cnua at this
election the people of the citv who be- "" .lu'ruKr; l"e.lml" neels
It is a pretty family urouu in inter- "eve In the kindergarten and esne- ""V.'
mtional Dolitics to see Oueen Victoria clav Parents who are directly inter- .lralu.nK- . an?. lms necessitates ine
national pohtics to see Queen i torla I stp1 makp aJ practlva'ble and bringing together of a considerable
and her grandson. Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany. Joined in an alliance to pro-
tect each other's interests in China
to hold the old empire together and
keep the markets open on the Aineri-
proper effort to secure the early res-
number of children of about the same
tr.ri.tir.n r tha. Hnw.orun stage of physical and mental develop-
position which it occupied last vear. ment; Tne kindergarten is the only
ny restoring the age of admission tolf"" .
five vears I training: and every argument in sup-
Tho iwt .ikn.i.i 5. .i nmil. Po oi me puuuc scnooi system ror
an plan but it throws Russia and of age for kindergarten work at three l. lrannK or cnimren after tne Kln-
rance into a state of amazement and to six years. Many children at the "'"V' :' .si" JTl"!1' "
the balance of power In Euro. TtU"? Z Jrn.
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iiii-j nun i iuu t-AM.-i.j unr lutri ureiti.at unfits hum f.- i .o uo..lal mAtf.. I ...
t.
ods of the kindergarten. Probably the
If it were a question between two
majority of children are' ready to enter :vears of the Public kindergarten or the
The oppression of imperialism is be- the kindergarten when !etween four
and five years of age. Granting that
in the public schools the only practi
cable plan is to adopt some minimum
age limit the limit should certainly
not lie fixed alwjve five years. All ad-
mit that to classify children in the kin-
a.... ........ ...- ... ... "'f I The natural classification as in the
to the places where these are carried public schools is and must be accord-
on being centers of disturbance and ing to mental development and attain-
ginning to be felt in the island of Lu
zon. An article apiears eisewnere
telling of the determination of the
military government to suppress gam-
bling cock fighting opium smoking
disorder. Perhaps it would be well if
we had a little imperialism and mili-
tary government in ours.
inputs. Whenever a child reaches the
ast two years of the public high
school the state could not afford to
maintain the high school to the excu-
sion of the kindergarten. "The great-
est good to the greatest number." in
terpreted in the light oi the mutual
needs of the child -and the state de-
mands the most and best training for
these early tender years when there
are most children to train and when
by reason of the plastic condition of
the childish mind and senses the least
DON'T WORRY
It's Money -
In your pocket If tr e bona you bay or
build la constructed with
Building Material .
from oar yard; and you will make no
mistake If you buy yonr
FEED AND FUEL
of all klnda from as. Wn carry tba best
of everything in onr line.
El Paso Fuel Co ST
Offlice: 411 Santa Fe St.
The Herald's sjiecial Washington let-
ter in today's paper is especially wor-
thy of reading. It is brimful of ir-
resistible humor while at the same
time it contains much valuable infor-
mation. I). O'K's discussions of public
men ami affairs are without a parallel
among special letters from Washing-
ton and disclose keen insight and
careful observation.
New York loxers think they're in
worse luck than the Chinese variety.
New York has repealed the law fav
oring the sport and the mayors and
police of the cities all over the land
are as a rule against prize fights and
it is hard to arrange a fight. All of
the lesser lights of pugilism are out
of jobs.
duce the greatest effect in the direction
of all round development of the man
and woman and of the citizen.
Ernest E. Russell.
stage of development for kindergarten "mou"t of 'ffort a"d expense will pro-
work it ought to le put into the kin-
dergarten whether the child is three
years old or five years old.
Broadly speaking kindergarten work
includes every form and means of turn
ing the play instinct of the child to
account in training it. The play in-
stinct the iustinct of activity becomes
available for this purpose with kin
dergarten methods as soon as the
child's physical anil mental self-control
enables it
tasks.
SUPPRESSIN6 VICE IN LUZON
Weyler. who disappeared from the
newspapers a while ago. just lefore the
Spanish war. has appeared in print
again. Spain has appointed him cap-
tain general of Madrid the same post
that he had in Cuba and trouble has
begun. Weyler seems to be a persona
non grata in ins own country as well
as in Cuba and the United States.
Oregon having produced an onion
with a fifteen inch waist it is up to
Kansas and Texas to beat the measure.
Bryan grows more demagogic every
twenty-four hours.
The IJenver Republican says: "When
Yerkes has trolleyized St. Petersburg
there will 1k no need for the liear to
walk like a man if he has a nickel."
"Lite" sums up the olitical situa-
tion very neatly by saying ."Every
man in the I'nited States has a chance
to be president except Ilryan."
tinder discussion a niemlwr expressed
himself as being in favor of putting
the age ahead still further and even
of abolishing the kindergarten on
the ground that the child
at this age was better under the care
of its mother. Theoretically this is
true but practically everyone knows
or salting the water but the larvae
mi 1 1 i ply so quickly that one salting or
oiling will not suffice. The drainage
to rid the lands of stagnant waters has
liegun. but inasmuch as there are only
three or four places in Italy which are
free from the fever and chills the
young king has set himself a huge and
Roosevelt is forty-two today and
Secretary Ing is exactly twenty years
Teddy's senior.
A Word to the South
Wrnm the K'climood Time.
lawlessness Itegets lawlessness
brutality begets brutality torture be-
gets torture. Is it not enough in heav-
en s name that these terrible crimes
are committed liy the black brutes
but we must make the thing worse
and injure ourselves and southern so-
cietv by resort to barbarous torture
of the victim? Are we going to permit
these brutes to make us brutal? Are
we going to permit these savages to
make us savages? Are we going to be
more brutal anil more savage than the
brutal savage who commits the crime?
Itccausc a brutal negro commits a
nameless offense are we going to
trample our laws under foot and over-
throw our institutions and undermine
our society? These are questions we
say. that the southern people must
consider seriously and praverfull v.
Our institutions are in danger from
ourselves. We cannot expect to main
tain law and order and to raise up
our boys to respect the law ir we
ruthlessly trample the law under foot
and defy the officers of the law. and
not only deprive a man unlawfully of
An Order Directed Against Cock-
FlaMIng and AamM ng
The military authorities in North
ern Iuzon. says a Washington dispatch
to perform the simplest lhave taken steps to suppress cock fight-
The child that is big enough ing. gambling and opium-smoking and
to make mud pies or to form the tail such vices which are said to prevail to
end of a marching play or to lay a large extent. The district comman-
sticks across one another and build a der for the first district has issued a
make-believe house or to select and circular letter prohibiing all officials
arrange colors is old enough so that 1 from maintaining . "any public place
it not only can but ought to be placed lor public resort for gambling. cock
in the kindergarten. I fighting opium smoking or kindred
To debar it from availaole kinder- vices or allowing them to be carried
garten training after it has reached Ion in any street road square park or
this stage of development is to with-I other public place or public building."
hold a part of its birthright and to I It is provided that an alcalde chief
stunt its growth physically mentally I of police or other officials who fails to
and morallv. I do his utmost to suppress these vices
The kindergarten is essentially a I shall on conviction be liable to a fine
school of industrial moral and mental of from five to one hundred pesos. Any
training. without the scholastic or person who ownsor conducts any place
iMKik training of the public schools where such vices are practiced and
the kindergarten takes the child be- I any one who engages in such practices
fore its mind is ready for liooks. and is liable to a fine of from two to twen-
trains it to use its hands its eyes all ty five pesos or imprisonment at hard
its organs and senses; trains- it to labor from five to sixty days or both.
think and to draw inferences: trains The penalty is doubled for a second of-
it to a healthy subordination of its fense.
individual will and movement to the It is explained that the order is in-
guiding will of the kindergarten teach- tended to suppress the countenancing
er: teaches it to understand ana love i or the vices by tne public omciais. as
the elements of order beauty and so- I well as all public exhibitions of them.
cial law. I "It is not expected by this order."
Moreover the kindergarten lays the I the circular says "to change the senti-
foundation of that discipline which is ment of the mass of the people nor to
a prime requisite for successful work I change their moral natures so that
later in the public schools. For this I they will be in accord with the ideas
reason the expense of the kindergar-1 of modern civilization. For this de-
ten is not to be viewed as so much I pendance must be placed on the good
added to the total cost of the public I example practices and teachings of the
school system. It is rather to lie I enlightened refined and educated peo-
viewed as a measure of economy. A I pie of this district.
child that has had a good kindergarten! "The prevalence of these vices has
training at the proper age before en- lieen'a serious hindrance to the men-
tering the public schools may be ex- tal. moral and material development of
pected to make better and more rapid the Filipino people and their con tin.
progress after entering the public I nance will in the future prevent them
schools with less demand upon the I from having a place among the peo-
teacher for discipline and instruction. I pie of modern civilization.
with less danger of railing to "it is hoped that the educated class
make the successive grades and with will endeavor'to impress upon those
less prospect of completing the public who are more or less dependent on
school course a year or two sooner them for assistance and advice the ev-
than if he hail not had such kinder- iis which indulgence in the evils bring
garten training. Thus what is ex- on the individuals and the community:
pended fin the child in the kindergar- and do their best to awaken an enligh
ten is repaid often two or three fold. I tened public sentiment among the pe o-
ly the saving in the primary interme- I p)e which will cause the vices to be
Forthe Toilet Tatle
our Complexion O reams. Toilet Waters
Perfumes and Powders are Indispensa-
ble for the refined and dainty womaa.
We have everything In toyet articles 1A
sponges loofahs sea salt. Bee soaps
bath nail and tooth brushes that are
of superior manufacture and reliable
naUtv.
FRED SCHAEFFER.
The Druggist.
diate and high school grades.
In other wonts the limit of attend
ance nMn the public schools will thus
be placed as it naturally should.be
placed not at the beginning but at
the end of the child's school course.
Iet the child be admitted to the kin
dergarten when he is ready for it. Iet
him go tin to the first grade when he
is readv for that and to the other
grades as rapidly as his development
warrants and demands. This is the
natural and therefore the proper meth
od. Any attempt to set metes and
hounds by the artificial method of fix-
ing age limits is unnatural and sub-
versive of the very purpose for which
the public schools exist. Six months
or a vear of kindergarten at the age
of four or five years will in most cases
do more for the physical mental and
moral development of the child than
three times that length of time in pub-
lic school work later.
The transfer of the child from kin
dergarten to first grade and from one
grade to another should be determined
prohibited in their homes."
Occidental Restaurant
Regular Meals 2 5 Cents.
Short Orders at all Hours. .Dinner from IB
to 8 p. m. Everything brand new aad
strictly first class service.
1A1 llf-ati Ct Between. Sun Antonio
1UJ U14II OI. and East Overland eta
The "STAR" Livery. Feed
and Sale Stables I rtRaga
BEST AND CHEAPEST
RIGS IN CITY.
NAT GREER. Prop. PHONE 62
When In JDAKEZ Insist upon having
"La Prueba"
Cigars manufactured by
BaIsa y Hermano Veracruz Mex.
The only Mexican cigars that have tb
entre to the leading clubs or the Ooltefl
States and Europe. Bpeclal brand. "FLOB
DE BALSA."
La Union ClgAr Factory
The best grAde of Mtx ctn clfArs
The Victoria Cs.'on a specialty. We
do a strictly wholesale business. MaII
orders promptly filled.
S. ALVAREZ Prop.
204 Mesa Ave. El Paso Tex as
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One Of the Matty g
vehicles which have become 3
tcpular this season Is our 3L
PNEUMATIC SURHY.
It Is one of the most stylish
and comfortable vehicles of
its class. Built of excellent
material by expert workmen.
Doesn't take a truck horse to
draw It or milliooarle to pay
ior it.
Come in and note its good J
point?. Other Interesting oar- ja
riapes here too.
H. P. INOAKE. 2
Santa Ke & W. Overland St
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