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J VOLUME XXVI
III! NEW FACES
IAMON6 FACULTY
additions to Force of Professors and
Instructors —Agricul-
ture and Horticulture Faculty
Considerably Changed
■ The college year 1914-15 begins
•Ith a large number of new pro
fessors and instructors among the
members of the faculty. The de
partment of agriculture and Uov.'
culture, especially, are under«< ing
additions to and changes In their
teaching forces, while in botany,
home economics, English, and eco
nomics, also, there are enlargements
of the instructional corps.
William Hyslop succeeds R. ('.
A«hby as professor of animal hus
bandry. Hr. Hyslop grew up on a
Urge stock farm In Scotland, was
graduated from the University of
Bdinburg, later came to America and
took post graduate work under
President Henry J. Waters of the
Agricultural College of Kansas, has
been at the University of Ohio for
the !aai two years, where he had
charge of the training of the stock
Judging teams which made an ex
ceedingly good showing. He has
traveled extensively In Canada and
Europe, studying live stock and live
stock conditions, and since his elec
tion to the State College position has
visited most of the Middle Western
agricultural institutions.
T. H. Wright, Jr., succeeds O. W.
Holmes In the dairy division as in
itructor In dairy manufacturing. He
has just graduated at Ames, there
being the honor man of his class.
He Is farm-bred, and during his
course at Ames, did much practical
work in the college creamery, and
since graduation has been working
In commercial creameries In prepara
tion for his Instructional work.
Mrs. Helen D. Whittaker, who has
had seven years of successful poultry
experience in the Puget Sound
country, succeeds Miss Lillian
Blanchard as instructor In poultry
Industry. Mrs. Whittaker. in addi
tion to her long and successful career
in poultry production, is a graduate
of the University of Chicago, taught
In the State Normal School of Minne
sota, later was transferred to the
faculty of the University of Minne
sota, and a little later took up the
Poultry business in Western Wash
ington. She is a sister to Architect
J. K. Dow of Spokane, who designed
the large auditorium and library
building of the college.
| Richard Hanna, who for the past
seven years has been In charge of
sheep and swine at the Ontario Ag
ricultural College, takes charge of
sheep, swine, and beef cattle at the
college this year. Walter McNeill
succeeds W. D. Foster as foreman of
the college farm, and comes from a
similar position on the large uin-
Tersity farm of the University of
Minnesota at St. Anthony Park.
T- J. Newbill will be state leader
°* boys and girls club work in the
bureau of farm development. He is
*n 0. A. C. man, and has had large
high school work In Portland, the
last two years being principal of
'heir industrial school. His school
»t Portland was the first to bring
the educational garden contest prizes
*est of the Mississippi river. His
work was so excellently done and so
highly appreciated that he received
attractive offers to take similar work
nnaer the U. S. Department of Edu
cation at Washington, D. C. The
summer just past he was east, lectur
,n« in the Illinois Normal School,
*&d also was employed by the Holden
Committee to lecture on better farm
,n * in Ohio.
R. N. Miller, in the bureau of farm
development, will undertake the
*ork of farm efficiency agent. His
*°r* will be somewhat unique in
character, but of great importance in
the operations of the bureau of farm
development. For example, he will
"Jake an examination of and report
u Pon 70 farms of a certain class, and
this report, scrutinized in the U. S.
office of farm management, and the
college people who co-operate with
that office in the farm development
Work- will be the basis of recom
mendatlons made to the county agri
cultural agents now established In
the counties covered by Mr. Miller.
he work of the latter will therefore
°°t be outside of the counties which
aye taken advantage of the law pro
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The Pullman Herald
int r ULLMAN HERALD
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—— Devoted to the beat inter of Pullman and Hie beat farming community in the Northwest turrounding it.
* "ullman and the best farming community in the Northwest surrounding it.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
CANDIDATES TRAINING
Fair Sued S.,uad Turns Out Nightly
—Close Fights for Center and '
Quarter— Men Are
Likely
The Pullman high school football
squad is nightly being put through
its paces by Coach Scheer and i 8 fast
rounding into torn,. The prospects
for a championship team were con
siderably brightened during the
past few days by the appearance of
Theodore Dodd, Fritz Gelkins and
John Mllcher, each of whom shows
considerable class, a pretty fight is
being waged for the center position
between Will Goff, Dwlght Stephen
son and Mackie. and up to the pres
ent time it is a toss-up between the
three men. Another pretty race is
that between Captain Price and
Dodd, both of whom are after the
quarterback position in earnest.
Wexler, last year's second string
fullback, is fast getting into form,
and will make a strong bid for that
vital position on the varsity team
this year. Martini, of last year's
team, who was kept out of practice
the first few evening with a lame
knee, is back for light work and is
showing up as well as ever. Milcher
13 another likely candidate, and will
make a strong bid for a position, as
will also Baird. Daniels, a new man,
is doing good work and is to be
teckoned with when it comes
to the selection or a team.
Principal Breckner Is now helping
Coach Scheer whip his team into
shape, and the boys are all working
with a will. The team has been
greatly encouraged to exert its best
efforts by the hearty support given
by townspeople, and Pullman may
expect, a team that will do credit to
her excellent high school.
GRAIN PRICES
Fortyfold wheat 81c
Club wheat i" Hue
Red Russian ' 78c
Oats, per cwt .sl.lO
Parley 90® 95c
Golden Rod Rebekah lodge, No.
87, will next Saturday evening cele
brate appropriately the 63rd anni
versary of the founding of the order.
All local Rebekahs, as well as visit
ing members, are urged to be
present.
CITY IST PAY
$210 FOR EASEMENT
Difficulty Between City of Pullman
and .1. S. Klemgard Is Arbitrated
by Committee of Citizens
The city of Pullman will pay tc J.
S. Klemgard $210 for an casement
which will permit of the running of
a storm sewer pipe through his
property near Reaney's park, this
sum having been agreed upon by a
committee of arbitrators selected
to settle the difficulty. During the
absence of Mr. Klemgard in Califor
nia the city voted to install the storm
.sewer system to drain Collere hall,
et.d decided to run the trunk sewer
through theKlomgard property. !'„•
on his return to Pullman recently
Mr. Klemgard found his lawn par
tially ditched and immediately
served notice, through Attorney D.
C. Dow, upon W. A. Moss, who had
the contract for the construction of
the sewer, to cease his activities so
far as his property was concerned,
alleging that the city had taken no
prej s to gain his permission to run
the rewer through his proper:* The*
«: ly (fitred to pay Mr. Rlemgard
$|i) 0 for an easement which would
permit of the completion of the line,
hi, -his was ret used, ami Kiemgard
demanded $300 for the easement,
claiming that in places the 18-lnc'
pipe would be only four inches :nder
the surface of his lawn, which would
result in considerable damage.
For several days the parties to the
controversy discussed the situation,
but were unable to come to terms,
when it was decided to settle the dif
ficulty by mediation proceedings, A
committee consisting of J. B. San
born, R. A. Langley and E. E. Gal
lagher was selected to sit on th*
case, and after they had considered
all the evidence, the sum of $210
was decided upon as fair compensa
tion. Mr. Klemgard at once accept
ed the verdict and executed an
easement, which permitted of the
completion of the sewer.
PULLMAN. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 18. 1914
BEGINNING OF THE GREAT WAR
DESCRIBED BY AN EYE WITNESS
Professor and Mrs. Oscar Brousse Jacobson
Saw the Transformation of France Into
an Armed Camp and the Wounded
Returning from Battle
Professor and Mrs. Oscar BroUSSO
Jacobson arrived in Pullman Mon
day night on their return from
France. They had some very inter
esting and exciting experiences,
which are enumerated In the follow
ing article, which Professor Jacob
son has very kindly prepared for The
Herald:
Friends have often asked us to re
late our experiences and adventures
in Frame during war time, and our
impressions of the great tragedy, the
tragedy wherein seven million men
are engaged in murdering one an
other. Seven million men in the
prime of life and high-tide of perfect
health, all of them parts of a mass
ive machinery of organized man
slaughter, contending with all the
j implements of destruction that, mod
ern sicence can devise.
The first indication we had of un
usually strained relations between
the great powers was on July 28,
while traveling near Geneva on the
Swiss border. Madam Jacobson
wished to telegraph our relatives at
Grenoble. She was politely but
firmly refused the use of the serv
ice, with the added information that
matters of grave importance to the
nation were preventing the use of
the telegraph to civilians. We did
not then know that the wires had
been taken over by the military au
thorities. After this date events
happened with such a whirlwind ra
pidity that they left us dazed and
stupified.
On August l the military took
over all means of communication and
transportation. All cities were placed
under martial law and nearly all
business stopped. Bulletins were is
sued at the Prefecture and posted
all over the city advising all Ger
mans and Austrians to leave the
country within 24 hours, free trans
portation being placed at their dis
posal to several frontier towns.
Then the general mobilization be
gan, and for three weeks we lived in
a huge military camp of thousands
and thousands of French troops.
The efficiency of the French offi
cers during the mobilization was
wonderful. There was no excite
ment, no confusion, no noise. Every
man was uniformed and found his
regiment, his company, and did his
duty, like a member of a crew of a
circus that comes and is going in a
night. This is all the more remark
able when one considers the colossal
size of the army. 1 noticed, for in
stance, among others, the .'l4O regi
ments of infantry. The whole coun
try was practically raided for horses
for use in the cavalry, artillery or
transportation, and one of the most
pathetic sights was the thousands of
peasants leading their only horse or
two to the military headquarters.
Soldiers, everywhere soldiers.
They came in swarms and hordes,
settling in the parks, streets and
public squares. The colleges were
full of them. In the boys' and girls'
schools, the art school, the museum,
the hospitals, the closed factories
and stores, everywhere, the troops
were quartered. Grenoble, being a
strongly fortified frontier town, was
one of the centers of military opera
tions for eastern France.
We saw the French nation trans
formed into a colossal army; saw the
brave, but none the less pathetic,
farewells of wife, mother and sister.
Every household was giving up some
j near and dear one. It was the usual
thing to see a grim looking soldier
j carrying his baby on his arm or bid
ding his old and feeble mother
j goodby.
We saw the thousands and thou-
sands of young Frenchmen gladly,
bravely, cheerfully, but quietly, de
part for the firing line at the rate
of about 100 train loads a day. We
saw the French girls run the street
cars and generally do a man's work
after their brothers had all gone to
the front. We heard the booming of
the distant cannons. We saw the
execution of German spies. We saw
the cream of the army of Great
Britain go into action at dead of
Bight, and yet it was difficult to be
lieve it all to be real —that this was
actually war.
The night before war was declared
the whole city of Grenoble was
awake and on the streets, but there
was no disorder and no bombastic
gaiety, nor did we hear one unkind
word uttered against Germany.
There was a joke or two about the
kaiser's mustache and general ap
pearance, but nothing low or mean.
in Paris there was some destruction
of German stores, 1 have heard, but
there was absolutely nothing like
the mobbing of foreigners, Including
Americans, in Berlin.
But to come back to that memor
able evening before the war: A few
regiments of the Alpine Chasseurs
began singing the national song, led
by a young officer standing on a
table in front of one of the down
town cafes, and Boon the whola great
army, as well as civilians, ourselves
included, joined in. After the
national anthem came many battle
hymns and marches from the time of
the great Napoleon, and songs of the
republic, then again the Marsiellais.
A strange, intense feeling of sacri
ficing patriotism for "la patrie" was
uniting everyone into a band of com
radeship, and people who had not
been on speaking terms for years on
account of political or other differ
ences were seen quietly discussing
the gravity of the situation. There
was the suspense of grave apprehen
sion, but the supposed excitable
Frenchman was the calmest, the
most composed personality im
maginable.
If 1 should attempt to describe in
one sentence the spirit of the French
people, the army as well as the
women, on the eve of war I should
say "It was a night of devotion, like
a religious meeting, without a ser
mon." When the war came, every
body seined relieved — relieved that
at last the awful suspense of 40
years of spying and cat-like watch
ing of their more powerful neighbor
was at an end. We had occasion to
speak to many people In all walks
of life. All were of the same opin
ion, nobody wanted war, but every
one felt relieved when it came—
"win or lose, let's have it over with,
and let's live in peace afterwards. If
it is the fate of our country to be
destroyed, let it be now."
The constant watching and spying
of Germany has sapped the life-blood
of a kind and peace-loving people.
As far as France is concerned every
man who went to the front had a
personal interest —a personal grudge
but it was not revenge for Alsace-
Lorraine, it was because of tho over
bearing, insolent and insulting atti
tude of the Germans, at home and in
France, toward them.
Well, the war came and we were
bottled up in the army camp, but
still we couldn't realize that It was
really war. Not until the train
loads of wounded began pouring in
did we fully become conscious of
what was happening. When we saw
the men who had left but a few
hours before, return, their uniforms
in rags and full of clotted blood and
dirt, their heads, arms, and chests
in bandages—then we were brought
face to face with the sickening real
ity of war. A returning troop train
of wounded had but one redeeming
aspectthe men who were able to
be about at all were all cheerful, al
most gay, and Impatient to be in the
fire again. Many of them told of
personal experiences of the actual
fighting.
One of the wounded told the fol
lowing story of the fighting north of
Paris: "We had hardly extended
ourselves prone along the grass when
patches of blue and green were seen
on the sky line and soon battalions
of the enemy were made out follow
ing each other at regular intervals.
Our batteries let rip and gouged
holes through them. 'Bravo!' shout
ed my platoon commander, as he
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ANNUAL TIE-UP ]
MONDAY KVENING
Freshmen and Sophomores Will
Cla.sh on Rogers Field—New
Rules to Govern
Tho annual Freshman-Sophomore
tieuPi tho opening gun In the su
premacy clashes between the two
lower classes at the State College,
will occur next Monday evening,
rules for the contest, having been ar
ranged yesterday by the Freshman
Sophomore rules committee, in con
junction with the executive council
of the associated students and a spe
cial faculty committee. The new
rules show many radical changes over
those of previous years, the most im
portant of which is the arrangement
of a schedule of points which will
preclude the possibility of the con
test being declared a draw, as has
been tho case in many previous
years.
A committee of judges, consisting
of 20 upper class "W" men, will be
selected to have charge of the affair,
and the rules provide that as soon as
a man Is tied his captors must take
him to one of these judges, who will
register his name and class, when he
will bo permitted to return to the
fray. The contest is scheduled to
start promptly at 8:15 and will con
tinue for 4."> minutes, at the close of
which time the class having tied the
greatest number of opponents will be
declared the winner.
The contest will be held on Rogers
field, which will he lighted by four
big bonfires, and a dead line will be
drawn a few feet inside the curb on
the field wit penalties for clashes
outside this line.
Robert Howard of Colfax will lead
the Sophomore warriors, while 11. J.
Carter of Olympia will serve in a like
capacity for the first year men.
OPENS NEW STORE
J. J. Van Bruggen, who several
years ago conducted a gents' furnish
ings establishment here, has returned
to Pullman ami this week opened a
new store in the room formerly occu
pied by John Squires, on Main street.
Mr. Van Bruggen has selected Harry
Struppler to manage the business
'and will carry a complete stock of
gents' furnishings. Mr. Van Brug
gen, who also has a store at Moscow,
will in the near future come to Pull
man to reside, and is now looking for
a vacant house.
BECK PURCHASES %
PULLMAN THEATRE
Former Itakery Proprietor Ituys
Establishment Prom ,). il. Al
bright—Will Conduct High
Ours Mouse
11. M. Heck, formerly proprietor of
tbe Model Bakery, Wednesday as
sumed active management of the
Pullman theater, which he purchased
from J. H. Albright, who opened the
show house about a year ago. Mr.
Heck will make extensive Improve
ments in the service of the house and
promises his patrons and friends the
best there is in the motion picture
and vaudeville business, He has
changed the name of the establish
ment to Heck's theater, and lias em
ployed Mr. Curtlss, a pianist of well
known ability, to furnish the music
for his performances. Mr. Heck will
feature high class vaudeville, stock
companies, musical comedy and the
best of the photo plays, and is
making arrangements for admittance 1
to a regular circuit which will give
his patrons two evenings of high class
vaudeville each week. The circuit
will be arranged with Colfax and
Moscow, each town taking two
nights, and none but the best produc
tions will bo staged.
Mr. Beck assumed the lease on the
building occupied by the show house,
which has four years yet to run.
ALL-COLLEGE RECEPTION'
This evening the students, faculty
and friends of the college will have
an oportunity of renewing old ac
quaintances and forming new ones
at the annual all-college reception
given under the auspices of the
Christian Associations of the Col
lege. All friends of the college are
invited to come and meet the stu
dents and faculty. The reception
will be held in the college gymnas
ium from eight until ten o'clock.
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NUMBERS!
BRYAN DISCUSSES
EIGHT-HOUR LAW
Shows the Danger of Coupling Farm
Labor With Any Other Form
of l.a!ior
To the Editor:
The application of an eight-hour
law to agricultural labor of any
son would be an Irreparable Injury
not only to farmers but to all classes
of society. The first blow would fall
upon the farmers, It is true, but ulti
mately it would fall upon the con
sumers. It would "kill the goose
thai lays the golden egg." What
ever may be said of the merits or de
merits of the eight-hour law as ap
plied to other kinds of labor, agri
cultural labor follows a different
law and faces different conditions
and has done so from time imme
morial. There have been many per
iods of history when, under the law,
all other forms of labor must be
stopped and the workmen sent to the
fields to help save the crops, because
it was clear that the food for the en
tire community was at stake.
The farming business Is seasonal.
In this it is unlike most other kinds
of work. No one fa so much the vic
tim of the weather as the farmer. He
deals with greater uncertainties,
and stakes his future on the chances
of wind and rain and storm more
than anybody else. There are times
when he can not work. The weather
forbids it. Again, for long hours, he
must put forth the most strenuous
efforts or lose the precious grain
on which his own welfare and that
of everybody else depends. No
great harm has come of this unusual
effort In the past, balanced as It is
by periods of enforced rest, and none
is likely to come In the future. The
attempt to couple up the great pri
mary industry of fanning with labor
in the store, the shop, the factory,
and the railroad, is an unnatural al
liance which ought to be opposed In
the interests of both parties. In the
one there is a minute division of
labor; in the farming, the workers
must quickly turn from one thing to
another. in the factory, the work
ers are housed In ill-ventilated, and
unsanitary buildings; the farm
worker tolls in the open air under
healthful conditions. The nervous
system of the one is for long periods
subjected to the rumble of wheels,
the clatter of hammers, or the buzz
of human beings which requires a
'cessation of the strain"; the other
works under the quiet of the open
country. The one works under a
driving boss; the other is his own
master. The one has no interest In
the capital involved; tho farmer's
entire property is at stake. The two
do not belong in the same category
and labor legislation for the two
should not be Identical.
The bringing of these two things
together appears to be more for the
sake of votes than for the welfare of
the farmer.
At the experimental station we at
tempted an experiment to see how
near a 10-acre unit of rich Palouse
soil provided with house, fruit trees
and barn, would be a self-upportlng
unit for a family. The experiment
was a failure. The operation of the
eight-hour law In state work made It
a failure. I verily believe that under
normal farm conditions, it would
have been an entire success.
In the dairy industry, the milking
periods are 12 hours apart. It Is
not necessary, on this account, that
the day's duties should be more seri
ous or burdensome, and yet an eight
hour law would almost certainly be
invoked to require two relays of
workers and thus destroy the In
dustry In this state.
Farmers are too slow to act in
their own protection. About one
fourth of our voting population is in
Seattle. When we add the votes In
Tacoma, Spokane, Belllngham, Ev
erett, etc., we see that the 'cow
counties" are not strong politically.
It is not enough to 'bo opposed" to
the enactment of an eight-hour law
which would be applicable to agricul
tural labor. Active work should be
undertaken to defeat the coupling
of farm labor with any other form of
labor.
Yours truly,
C. A. BRYAN.
Mrs. Solon Shedd returned last
week from Corvallis. Oregon, and
was followed this week by Professor
Shedd.
