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Tr w&. THE LAKE SHORE NEW8, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1913- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY __----------------------By----------------------â€" THE BOWMAN PUBLISHING CO., 526 Davis Street, Evaneton. Albert H. Bowman . Arthur Roberts . . James Leonard Lee Managing Kditor Associate Kditor .. . City Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 A YEAR AH matter for publication In any week's issue should reach our office not later than noon on Monday. Entered as second-class matter June 28, 1911, at the postofflce at Evaneton, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY. JANUARY 30, 1913. M THE FIRST CHANGE FOR 19IS. This issue of The Lake Shore News marks an important change. The ma- s"' terial difference is in the size, being if' â- . Increased from five to seven columns •'â- â-  and the length of the sheet to the lat- >- est approved dimension. -•:â- ' • The editors of the publication are ll ; hopeful that this improvement,â€"for it [;: is as such we view it,â€"will be ap- pl; proved and appreciated by readers and 'fe advertisers, and they promise other changes will be made just as fast as conditions warrant, and that always J In the future, as in the past, they will make an earnest effort to please the most of the people the most of the | time. ] Ours is no half-way policy. When j we are for a thing we are for it, when : against it we are against it, and in a : way that leaves no doubt in the minds | of the people who are our readers. | When the Evanston News, which was j |he predecessor of tbe Lake Shore! News, and tbe first paper owned and i edited under the absolute management i Of the present editor of this publica- |M^tion was started, the citizens of the; fpnorth shore had their first taste of an , fitM!"independent newspaper, subservient i his boy on more trees and borers be- hind a windbreak. Chore laws are ancient, simple and Inexorable: Do the thing half feared or dreaded, at the time appointed, without being told again, as well as If the master stood alongside. Bring in the wood the same when the pile Is icebound and go back after the dropped stick. Get the yourg cattle through the barway, though thpy break and go around you twelve times and again, and dark comes, and you are crying. Warm your fingers afterwaid. Don't tell. The majority of American children have been rather abruptly bereft of chores! In the morning hours when the soul of childhood lies almost bare In the clear, expectant eyes, from school-out till supper, from supper to bedtimeâ€" something more than play is needed. Children feel this and wait, and prowl about for material of a stouter weave, something fibeTed with the full life roundabout and impend- ing; and, adventuring ungulded, they get knowledge and scars. Organized play will not fill this gap in education. Manual training has limitations. But in every home lie neglected means of giving to its youth a strengthening and character-making j apportionment of the day's work. Partly because of chores the rural youth, despite increasing proportion- ate disadvantages, will go on regu- larly to the hard, high places. Land about a home means chores. * * * DO OUR SCHOOLS EDUCATE? The New York Independent in a re- cent issue comments rather bitterly on the system of education in American institutions of learning. The editorial is entitled "Complacent Ignorance," a caption which contains in it the con- tempt and scorn which Its writer pro- fesses to feel for the high school and college courses which produce only a smug complacency as a cloak for a co- lossal ignorance, which said courses In no wi»e diminish. The "cheerful optimist" who maln- neither to a political machine nor to | tains that our schools and colleges are what It thought was, for the time, pub- FfJi'W'lte opinion, and the manner In which ;'pS both the general public and the busi- ' S|gj.aeaa interests of the whole nortn ^;||§ ahore have supported The Evanston i$£^rH«MU and The Lake Shore News indl- K-pi «ate« that the policy then adopted was |;:;,,:" the right one. ||toa/ The Lake Shore News strives to give ::&t»e new* aa It sees it, as trained re- •i"5;.porters gather It, without color and ;J|w1Uurat malice. The whole staff has or rjp^fara At no time and under no condl- Iptkma to print any story that is un- *^ clean, unchaste or in any way unfit to feater the beat homes and be read by |the moat carefully nurtured children, ^Whether they be boys or girls, and the !advertising department la Instructed â- ever under any circumstances to run â- Btrathful or unclean advertisements, or advertieements for tobacco, whisky lor any alcoholic drinks or medicines. Our intention and ambition is to pobliah a newspaper that will be a to the communities in which paper circulates, and we shall the continued success of our by the support the public to us and to our efforts. x m m TBE HEED FOR CHORES. Not long ago Collier's printed a r-oditorial, entitled "Chores," an |4KpoBltion of the theme of the value #|fef regular occupation with a measure | ||:pf reeponalbillty la the character de- Pvalopment of children. The picture «j|fitww* la none too attractive and needs ||tB be viewed from a considerable dis- ji^Wsoa to arouee any desire for emula- v'tlon* and one wonders how the boy of f!tav aecond generation progressed with '|? that particular chore. But the moral /U~mXn» one, applicable to children 'la all elassos of society with only va- tiatfoa in the nature of the "chore." -';jtom atory follows: H â-² boy helped to plant fifty apple tma. "Battening next month the Mat be hunted.** said the -How often T How longr ; •akad the boy. "Ones a month during the span seasonsâ€"for years. I'm go- -:«B*- to leave it to you." Kneeling or jhalf lying for hours In the rotting sanlch, the boy dug and cut and wired .,.jottt the small enemiesâ€"for yean. He •|:1dom«d that once a week was necessary * JjUr sane perioda. Boys went by to Jhaaabsil and swimming. They called jBhenHy across the creek lot, but nel- 'Ikfr aide spoke of his quitting to go. «lt was one of his chores. The new evehard was out of sight of the house. Bat letting a row go till next month. I'Ow. had days when ice storms were irtsattng la, did not occur to him. Vaay tUnes ha loft a tree and a big rem raaniieling borer, his staying pilar all drained oat through the sore i£*g*%.l *** came back the next day 4RBd the aext. It was his chore. When fttostts&ar*; was well lata bearing and 'lirfde* a irtadstona destrojred two- laJris of it Tbe bey who lag the beat patiimtly at the gain credence from a people so sane and undramatlc as tbe American citi- zens. We aTe wont to listen more or less unmoved to Hamlet's philosophy concerning the restraining effect of "dreams to come," all the time feeling that tbe Prince of Denmark is not quite responsible for his words or deeds. We are of the opinion that were the fear of hell eliminated from the faith of tbe American people to- day, there would not be any general committing of suicide tomorrow, tbe day after, nor any day to come. * * * THE BAD BOYS' FRIEND. Although by virtue of his possession of a fortune which is counted by mil- lions, Neii W. Nobbis, of Milwaukee, Is eligible to membership in tbe leisure class, as a matter of fact, Mr. Nobbis, a young man in the early twenties, bids fair to be one of the busiest of the citizens of Milwaukee. Still mind- ful of the days of his own boyhood, and filled with understanding and sym- pathy for tbe erring youth who come under the jurisdiction of the probation officer of his city, Mr. Nobbis, In tbe capacity of a volunteer officer, has tak- en upon himself to help in th# solution of the problems which come before tbe Judges of the Juvenile court, in the shape of bad and unruly boys. Tbe city of Milwaukee and the boys on the streets, are to be heartily con- gratulated on the possession of their "volunteer officer" In this department of tbe city governmept. It may be that Mr. Nobbis' investment of time and money will not yield any consid- erable return financially, but he will be able to count the profits of his ven- ture in the greater manhood of the ris- ing generation, and he, too, is to be felicitated. i\i %k â- &â- , A CHANCE TO HELP. The efforts of Mr. Fred 11. Ri.ndue, secretary of the Industrial Service movement of the National Y. M. C. A., to interest public-spirited people in Evanston and students of Northwest- ern university, who may be moved by concern for the foreigner living dispelling Ignorance, instead of teach- \among ug and lgnoTant of our ,an. STATE HISTORY MISSTATED J.Seymour Currey Finds Errors in New Encyclopaedia Britannica. PUBLISHES CORRECTION President of Historical Societv Authority on History of State. a portage into Lake Michigan from Lake Peoria cannot be correct. "It is said again that in the war of 1812 the Indians, owing to their dis- satisfaction with the treaties of 1795 and 1804, espoused the cause of the British, and in 1812 they captured Fort Dearborn on the present site of Chicago, and massacred many of the prisoners.' This gives a distinctly wrong Impression, and it would seem that an equally brief statement (If brevity was necessary) might have been made conveying a more accurate description. The fort was abandoned, not captured, and the garrison was massacred after it had left the fort. Neither the men composing the re- treating force nor the women and children accompanying it were prison- ers at any time previous to the attack, and only those who survived became prisoners." STAT EBB Ak M K OF EVA^ISTQK . . A TRUST COMPANY President J. Seymour Currey of the Evanston Historical society goes after the scalp of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica in the current issue of The Dial and those who know say that he now has said scalp hanging at bis belt. Errors in Illinois References. President Currey's contention is that the world famous reference work is in error in its statements about Il- linois history and a careful conning of his interesting remarks in this con- nection is sufficient to convince even him who runs that President Currey is right. Inaccuracies in Last Edition. lng "the manners and consciousness of I complacency," is invited to try various test for the grade school pupil of pupils of primary schools, high schools and college. The tests for the grade school pupil consists of ability to read a page from a simple story, a paragraph -from a municipal ordinance, or a card of in- structions for employees of a mill. Tbe ability to write a neat and legible band is to be added to tbe accomplish- ments of tbe grammar school child be- fore tbe charge of misapplied effort on the part of tbe educators, professional or amateur, can be refuted. For the high school students, there would be four tests: One, perform the arithmetical operations that arise in everyday business accounts and in sim- ple mensuration; two, correct a care- lessly written composition or a galley of printer's proof; three, read at sight a newspaper ia any one foreign lan- guage; four, weigh or measure solids' and liquids as accurately as a pharma- cist's clerk is obliged to weigh them. The college graduate, if he would uphold the dignity and honor of his alma mater, must be able to "talk easily, felicitously and accurately, when unexpectedly called on, upon some one phase of English literature, upon some one chapter of American or English history; two, in an emergency help an engineering acquaintance make calculations involving no mathe- matics beyond elementary algebra and trigonometry; three, explain in a sim- ple way, but accurately to a group of settlement workers, the biological basis of the germ theory of diseases like tu- berculosis and typhoid; four, write a decently expressed letter to a foreign correspondent In French, Spanish, Ger- man or Latin." It would be interesting to see some of these tests made In the various in- stitutions in Evanston. Tbe News be- lieres that a fair proportion of the stu- dents in grade and high schoola and la the university, would be able to meet the requirements of the experiment, •nd that the "cheerful optimist" In our city, at least, would be able to con- tinue in the happy belief that out educational institutions are really "dis- pelling ignorance." * * * "WHAT DREAM8 MAY COME." Dr. Euot, president emeritus of Harvard university, has declined to be listed among the "Immortals," but that seems not to prevent his receiving his due share of attention from the public Because of hia unbelief In a place or state of eternal punishment as thf portion of erring man in the hereafter. Dr. Euot has been placed In the same category as Col. Robebt Inussott. by Rev. Lcthib Towhsbkd who deduces from Dr. Buor's declaration, "no fctuV a companion belief in "no God.'* The Bar. Mr. Towifssns denounces the promulgation of this doctrine on the ground* that If it were not for the ****** the day of reckoning parson in the commit suicide guage, and therefore unable to protect himself from the dangers which such ignorance breeds, should be met more than half way. It is an enterprise which can bring only good to every- body concerned, to the alien laborer and to the persons sufficiently philan- thropic to make the sacrifice of time and trouble to dispel some of tbe dark- ness of ignorance in which tbe illiter- ate immigrant lives. When Mr. Rtndoe returns next week, it is to be hoped that he will And a sufficient number equipped with the necessary qualifications and ready to render this service for the good of the "stranger within our gates." * * * SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND. Miss Aitnrs Moboatj's demonstration to prove to a company of working girls that a twenty-five cent dinner, consisting of a chop, potato, and apple pie la good enough for anyone calls to mind one of Qeobge Auk's early "Fa- bles in Slang." This fable relates the experiences of a woman, favored by tbe gods In her possession of the goods of this world, in a well-meant endeavor to help those whom she considered too far removed from her to admit of any intercourse. The more restrained of those whom she visited simply de- clined ber aid; the children pelted her with tin cans and other missiles. The woman was hurt and felt unapprecia- ted; those whom she would have helped were angry. Each failed to under- stand the other. The moral which Mr. Ade draws is applicable to Miss Mobgan as well as to tbe lady of the story, "When uplifting, get under- neath." * * * OUR DIFFERENT WAYS. We are sorry that Miss Asqotth, the daughter of the British premier, should bare been disappointed or displeased by anything American, especially with the American press. "In Eng- land," says Miss Asqotth, "we allow the press men to approach and glean information." Perhaps the English press man has been gifted with a higher degree of lmaginatlonathan bis American brother. Perhaps he has more of the leisure which has always been supposed to be the one possession of tbe "gleaner." Perhaps the harvest of interesting facts Is more bountiful in England than with us. Or it may bo that Miss Asquith has received j from us a larger measure of attention than has been her lot at home. What- ever the explanation, we are sorry to have failed to corns up to the notch in Miss AsqoiTH's idea of oourtesy. * * m At the Progressive dinner down town last night Axsmn J.Bs^msxDQB, or soma other afltlered diner, anhonfeced that the Republican party is dead,â€"â-  and at the same time word was com- ing over the wireg that Democrats and Bapohlicans wan dividing important in the Illinois state sonata, the Mocsers. for the moat part, hslng left to beUow their dlssatlsfa* o«J*le« the corral. He says, "I have found some mis- statements in the article on 'Illinois,' in the new (eleventh) edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In the ac- count of the discovery of the western country given in the course of the ar- ticle it is said that 'in 1672, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit father, explored the country around Chicago." This passage is followed by the ac- count of the expedition led by Joliet and Marquette In the next year (1673). Tbe writer thus states as a fact that Marquette had visited this region in the year previous to that in which the discovery of the Upper Mississippi and the 'country around Chicago' was made. There is no hint of such a visit by Marquette given anywhere in the 'Jesuit Relations'; Parkman makes no mention of it; and even J. O. Shea, whose exhaustive investigations con- cerning the activities of the mission- aries is well known, seems to be un- aware of any such visit in 1672. In- deed, tbe article entitled 'Marquette' in the 'Britannica' refers to the part taken by the missionary in these words: 'In 1873 he was chosen with Joliet for the exploration of the Mis- sissippi,' etc., there being no mention whatever of a previous visit to the regions discovered. In Volume LIX., page 87, of the 'Jesuit Relations' it is said that Father Marquette had long premeditated making a journey of discovery and exploration, having beard from the Indians who visited him at bia mission on Lake Superior of the Great River and the nations of the West, and he had made 'several efforts to commence this undertaking, but ever in vain,' and then follows the account of the expedition of 1673. "It would also seem that the name of Marquette is made unduly promi- nent in the account of the discovery, tbe Impression being given that he was the leader; whereas it is a fact that Joliet was the officer in command and Marquette the accompanying mis- sionary, in accordance with the cus- tom in all such expeditions sent out by the French. There was, Indeed, 'gloTy enough for both' in this great achievement, but the order in which their names should be given is to place Joliet's first. Shea, quoting Father Dablon, says that both Fronte- nac and Talon had 'selected for the enterprise the Sieur Jollyet, whom they deemed competent for so great a design, wishing to see Father Mar quette accompany him.' "Further on In the course of this article on Illinois it is said that tbe explorers Joliet and Marquette (the writer of the article invariably places Marquette's name first), on their re- turn from the discovery of the Missis- sippi, 'ascended the Illinois river as far aa Lake Peoria; they then crossed the portage to Lake Michigan.' But surely they ascended the Illinois river to a point much farther north than Lake Peoria. Marquette himself in his journal says that the pary found a village of Illinois Indians called Kaskaskia,â€"a name, by the way, which waa afterwards transferred to another locality in the southern part of what ia now the state of Illinois. This Tillage was situated about where the town of titles now stands, and from thence the explorers were guided by Indiana to Lake Michigan. Of course it was possible even from the village mentioned to reach the lake ow at least three different portages, though it is generally bettered that they entered the lake by way of the nwple InesCfiUagu portage. Thestate- â- aiv rharalOii, that the party made CHILDREN'S HOME MEETING. The regular monthly meeting of the North Shore advisory board of the Illi- nois Children's Home and Aid society will be held at the Home, 826 Ridge avenue, Monday morning, Feb. 3, at 10:30 o'clock. At 11:30 o'clock Mr. Wilfred S. Rey- nolds, executive secretary of Cook county board of visitors, will speak upon "Children's Work," followed by Mrs. Roy H. Goddard, violinist, and Miss Bates, accompanist. Luncheon, to which guests may be invited, will be served at 1 p. in., at 50 cents a plate. Good Woru for Snobs. A snob is entitled to some credit for leaving you alone, which is more than the bores rfnâ€"Atchison Globe THE (TH PJiAffMACY Walter W. D3»»fcJl, Ph. Manager KENItWORTH - - y' Telephone Kenil worth 56 and 43 ive WANT ADS LARBvafHOREjllEWS tint PHfotfJiUlfcOE 182 ALBJj*T>nQ,YDE PRESOIPTION DI Clencoe. III. U DAVID RUTTER & GO. INCORPORATED A NNOUNCHS the completion of the most ^1 modern coal yard on the North Shore. The only yard with a rescreening coal pocket. The only yard dealing exclusively in fuel. This means the best prepared fuel and the best service for our patrons. We deal in Anthracite, Pocahontas and Bituminous coals, in Coke, and in Anthracite Briquettes and Body Maple and Soft Slab Wood. Everything in fuel. We are exclusive sales agents for Cross Creek, Lehigh, Anthracite, Hi-Carbon Coke and 20th Century Briquettes. Main Office McCarthyJBldg., Chicago u Central An inspection of our yard would be