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VOLUME VII PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, AUGUST, 1916 NUMBER 1 BOYHOOD DAYS ON AN INDIANA FARM

No Child Labor Laws Then-\Vol'1, me and placed me near the large, hot in the constitution, and hence it was Must Be Done, with. Some stove in the middle of the room. The an ungodly government. But their Schooling and Fun on kindness of the teacher made a last­ hearts were in the right place. ing impression on me and I have I recall again in the same session, the Side loved her ever since, though I do not when the spring rains were on, and think I have' ever seen her since. the flowers were coming up in the By E. A. Bryan, Pullman, Wash. r remember this one circumstance. woods, and the ground was soft and (Reprinted from the Washington On the day of the election I whis­ springy, and the streams were full, Farmer of Spokane, Wash.) pered to a boy in school, "Who did Anderson told the boys that they your father vote for? Mine voted must not go down to the "crick." So My birthplace was on an 80-acre for Lincoln." The same evening they did. Not only this, but they farm in Perry township, Monroe when the roll was called I answered jumped across it to show that they county, Indiana. The farm was "perfect," for it was then the custom could and "durst." I jumped across about three miles east of Blooming­ to have the "scholars" tell at the end it in a narrow place, but not all of ton, the county seat, also the seat of of each day whether they had been me, for my inertia was not great Indiana University. I waG born in a perfect or imperfect. EvidGntly I enough to carry my body on over my one-room log house, into which my had forgotten the m isdomeanor or feet, so I sat down in the "crick." parents had just moved. perhaps I was still more imperfect. Anderson lined the big boys up in My parents had moved from Ohio At any rate, the other boy did not a long row and laid on with a heavy a few months before my birth, and forget. Up shot his hand with the switch as hard as his strength and my father had become pastor of the information, "Albert Bryan talked." that of the switch permitted. None Presbyterian church in Blooming­ For it was one of the characteristics of them cried, I think, for it was a ton. He had purchas"ed the farm of the "perfect" that they must not matter of the Spartan creed that a from William Cubit. The farm had allow the guilty to escape the just boy mustn't cry under the switch, been mostly splendid forest of beech, punishment for their evil deeds. I and he did not often do so unless he sugar maple, poplar, walnut, oak, paid the penalty aftcr school. got very mad; then his feelings were hickory and ash trees; and being apt to get the better of him. Preceding Oivil \Var thin limestone land with a thin but Anderson turned over the small rich covering of vegetablc mold, was The same fall, during the intense boys to the tender mercies of my in Ill"any parts well worn out already, excitement preceding the outbreak aunt, who took them outside and, in gullies of red clay showing in all the of the civil war, my older sister, Liz­ turn, turned them over her knee, and fields. The land was quite rolling zie, with others, mape a United used nature's weapon with force and anq. thus the more liable to "wash." States flag. The big boys cut a tall, effect. I often wondered about this A small orchard of seedling apples straight poplar flag pole from the turning over the knee process, was already old. thicket across the creek, and carried whether it is intended to give clear­ My first recollection of going to it to the school ground, erected it ance to the weapon or effect to the school was to the old Perry town­ and unfurled the flag. The next blow. I can testify to the latter ship number one, a rather large nirrht tho "rebels" cut it down, for from stern experience. brick country school building about there was a large section of "copper­ About that time I remember a lit­ half a mile froI!! our home, down heads" in the vicinity. tle about a sharp religious division the "branch." The point of remelll­ Many of the big boys were "Cove­ (but no religious quarreling) in the brarrce was a very cold, snowy day nanters," who were all strong anti­ neighborhood. Then I thought of which must have been in the winter slavery. They took part in the flag the people as belonging either to the of 1859. I r"ame into the school raising, though it was rather awk­ childrf3n of Israel or the Canaanites. room very cold,' bundled UP " with ward, for none of their creed could I was one of the children of Israel­ woolen muffler about my neck, feet vote at the elections, because the so I thought. I did not then, nor un­ stinging. The teacher unbundled name of God was not acknowledged til I was "grown, realize that the chil­ ,\\"1 " __ / ~ It e:;qJ, 2 : ~ I THE POW WOW dren of Israel and the Jews were one caution and not too often was was warm from the grinding, home and the same. "Jesus wept." on the saddle underneath me. Well I remember the "new school­ I do not think these verses did us This same summer, I think, when I house." It was in the corner of the any harm, and the fact that we said was 11, I had two runaways. In one woods. Around it were beautiful them seemed to do others good. of these the horses-Julia and Frank beech trees and some sugar trees. A -ran up the street of Bloomington. Took Pa.rt in Farm Work mile of hardwood forest lay back of Julia fell and was hurt internally, it. Here the beech nuts and hickory At home I early took part in all from which, likely, ,;he died the next nuts and acorns lay thick on the sorts of home work on the farm. We winter. A few weeks later, after I ground in the fall, and so did the had a big, wide open fireplace that had passed Haltzman's woolen mill, autumn leaves. On the corner of the took in wood four feet long. To pile the team started to run and I lost school ground was a very tall, the corner full of crooked limbs and control, but held to the lines. At the straight oak tree. To throw a rock pieces of split wood and to roll in the first corner I swung to the left and or a ball as high as that tree was an big back log was a daily task in the again at the next corner, and had ambition to which few small boys at­ winter. The pile of charred coals them headed up a long hill. They tained. from the back log formed the basis tired gOing up this and a neighbor We played base and town ball and of a quick, warm fire in the morning. easily stopped them. bull pen, and three and two cornered The open fire was used much for When old Julia died the next win­ cat, and jumped the rope and fox cooking in the winter. Potatoes were ter it was a family tragedy, for that chase. We climbed trees and ran roasted in the ashes. Corn meal left us only Frank, and we loved foot races and "yelled." We plaYfld mush was cooked on the crane over Julia, whom the folks had brought war; for the great civil war was on. the fire. On the hearth the old­ from Ohio with them. Getting the Wa.ter fashioned Dutch oven was used to About this time my sisters began One misfortune-or good fortune cook corn "pones" and other deli­ to teach school. I had to take them -was the water. The cistern had cacies. In the late fall the "render­ to their respective schools and go to been plastered with lime mortar, and ing" of lard a,:nd in the early spring bring them home frequently, or take everybody and the teacher, too, testi­ the "stirring off" of maple sugar add­ things to them. As they were far fied that it was undrinkable. Be­ ed to the fragrance, if not the com­ apart this took much time. There sides, the new shingles blackened it. fort, of the living room. were other reasons why I got practic­ So it was necessary to go more than The cutting of the winter's wood ally no schooling from 1867 to 1870. a quarter of a mile to a beautiful was no small task, to which was add­ I was working on the farm, helped spring which came out of the hillside ed the hard task of hauling it from part of the time by hired men. under an overhanging limestone the rough woodland tract. I have Interested in Sheep rock. Moreover, two must go,. for a letter which was written to my We had a few sheep at home, and children are small and the bucket uncle in Kansas when I was nine my interest in them grew as the years was large. If the weather was fine years old in which I told him of hav­ went by. I became rather the best it took a long time to go and come, ing cut a cord of wood for Aunt shearer in the neighborhood, though for on such an errand one takes no Sarah, for which she paid me $1. In I think I never sheared over 40 in note of the flight of time. Then the same letter I told of having, with one day. Uncle Harvey gave me a when the water arrived those bring­ assistance, cut another cord of wood lamb that had come in the fall. I ing it were tired, and there were and hauled it to town and .traded it kept it over winter in the barn, and many treble voices asking, "May I for a pair of boots. I remember that it finally became a fine, fat wether, pass the water?" The big "dipper" the boots had red tops in front and which was finally sold to assist the served aIr from the same bucket, and copper toes. When I look around me family purse. In some way I got if one dipped too much, none must be for a boy of nine I can not think it other sheep, which increased until I wasted, so it continued to be used possible, and would think I had owned several, which finally followed until the dipper was dry. "Oh days failed to remember were it not for the wether. I also had a pig or two, of sanitary fountains!" the "documelitary evidence." which made good eating for the en­ Everybody had a testament as a In the summer of 1866 (I was then tire family. At an early period I text book. I remember yet some of 11 years old) I recall that I cultivat­ could kill and dress a pig or lamb or the verses committeed by me-and ed Seven acres of corn with a double sheep quite well. A great drawback others. shovel plow. The custom was to give in my farming at this time ' was a "Destruction and misery are in it ·four plowings, and I think I did lack of horses and tools. their way." most of it, though perhaps not all. We had some good young apple "And the ways of truth have they During these years I did most of the trees-Winesaps, Red .June,. PDarly not known." milling. That is to say, we used corn Harvest, Maiden Blush and others. "Their feet are swift to shed meal for mush and bread nearly al­ They hel.ped out the ..living, but blood," were three of. the favo.rites, together. . The corn was .shelled and brought in no ·money. We did have though what they meant or who they taken to the mill in a long, seamless some very good selling "free-stone" were talking about I did not then sack th'rown across the saddle. I peaches. Spurred by my thrifty nor do not now know. A greater waited until my turn at the grist aunt, Alice Bryan, I once tried to favorite which must be used with came and then took the meal, which peddle some peaches at the train. I " .. THE POW WOW 3

sold them at five cents a. dozen. A lier, I worked at h~uUng brick to Carmel country church, near Han­ boy .tried to rob me of some and. I build the new United Presbyterian over, and in it there were many knocked him down. But I was too church. I hauled the same as the young' people who were great for timid ' to "cry" my fruit or to ask men, who were paid $.1.25 a day. I "oyster suppers" and flinging school~ anybody to buy. I was much sur­ was paid 50 cents a day. Finally, I and school exhibition~. We went prised when a brakeman took a struck. With much fear and trem­ to the partie's over the da.rk country whole dozen. bling I said to Mr. Willen; the con­ roads in a spring wagon and did not In this period, too, we participate­ tractor: "I think I ought to get more always get home ' as early r.s WE: ed i.n what would now be called ."co­ wages." "How much do you think should. I had never tad half so .operative" work. On our place and you ought to get?" said he. "About much social life, an(1 for the mos'.; others we had 10g-roIlings, wool 60 cents a day," I said. So it was part it was wholesom"" though there pickings, quiltings, apple cuttings, agreed that for the rest of the time were young men of cur set who had corn-huskings, wood-choppings, not I should get 60 cents a day. The seen rather too mucn of the worle to mention the matter-of-course hog~ . next summer I worked for the same for the good of all. Still, I never killings and threshings. The man, my wages going for my clothes saw them drink anything worse than "parties" were of three kinds­ and the rest to the family income. cider. "singings," games (kissing) or danc­ The winter of 1872-3, and, also I The second winter I taught my ing parties. My father and mother, think, in 1873-4, I walked or rode salary was advanced-25 cents a though strict church people, pre­ from home to coIiege for part of the day. I think I earned it. The neigh­ ferred the dances (square dances) to year. Part of the time, in mid­ borhood wa.s German. There were the kissing games. winter, I "bached" with another stu­ 11 Schneiders, nine Schriebers and Moved to Bloomington dent. I bften walked in three miles seven ·Voights. It was my hardest 'In the spring of 1870, when. I was to college, climbing the 10 or 12 rail experience in teaching and govern­ iIi my 14th year, we moved to Bloom­ fences by the way and being present ing. ington. My two older sisters were in for the 8: 00 o'clock class, returning On. returning from my first school college. I entered the old Center after 12: 00 for my noon ·lunch and I proposed to my mother to buy for school on Sixth 'street, near Dr. spending afternoon and evening at her a three-year.old colt. She as­ Bryan's residence. On the first day home doing the chores and studying. sented, so the bulk of my earnings of that early spring morning I ap­ Fortunately, tuition was free, except went for a horse with which to work proached the school building reluct­ one small fee. the farm. I built fences', broke up antly for I was very timid and fel~ Teaches School "sod" and did pretty well, though and must have looked very "green." In the summer of 1873, when I the price of corn was low-25 to '31) A slender, black-eyed boy came out was 18 year old, I asked the trustees cents a bushel. One summer! rent­ of the crowd of boys that were play­ of Hanover township for a pOSition ed a piece of "bottom land,'· and ing "scrub" in the school yard and as school teacher. Much to my sur­ with the help of my brother, ·Nill. said, "You are Albert Bryan, I ain prise I received the appointment.. I farmed it pretty well. Alber.t Woodburn. Come and play can remember now just where I s'~t R&-enters College scrub." From that day to this we on the front steps when I opened and In January, 1877, Ire-entered have been friends. "Albert Wood­ read this epoch-making letter. ',Iy college ( to continue till my gradua­ burn" is better known now as James salary was $30 a month. Board I eft tion. The irregularities of my '!n:use Albert Woodburn, the distinguised me $1.50 a week. were a serious handicap. It was professor of American history nnd My school did not exceed 15 pu­ seven years from entrance to gradua­ author of books on this subject. pilS, I think. There were three big tion. Thirst for Educa.tion girls, young ladies, in fact, much It had been the dearest wish of Beginning then, I developed a more mature than I. One big boy father and mother that all ~h~ sons thirst for an education. Albert with a bad reputation came a little should be preachers. It was not ex­ Woodburn was not much of a stu­ while. The rest of the children were pected that the youngest, Joseph, dent-he loved play too well. But I younger and all were d.ociI-~ . I should do so, for he was so lively stUdied, and he began to study, and taught the lowest class by the "a, b, and loved a "good time" so well that we both made progress. ~ learned c," method. It was surprising that he did not promise well fora p,reach­ the constitution of the United States one beautiful little girl whom I er. Yet he was the only one of the perfectly, and began to "see some taught by that method was rea!!i 13 three to study for the ministry. sense" in grammar. the New 'Testament very well before Will and I, with becoming docil­ In the spring of 1872 I came to the end of the term: It was not the ity, expected, of course, to be preach­ the conclusion that we must go back fllult of the method nor of the teach­ ers. Will was a good preacher be­ to the farm. ' The family was in er. The beautiful little. girl died fore he was 10 years old, using the straightened circumstances ' and we young. barn floor as an audience. He per­ could not pay the rent. We had one Social Experiences form€d all parts of the service very horse, and possibly one cow. So out My pedagogical ·~xp(Jriences were creditably, making .a perfec~ imita­ to the farm we moved and I began surpassed by my social experiences tion of Dr. ' Nutt, the· then president with enthusiasm to put in a crop. this fall. There was a very i:'ig of Indiana University-which posi­ During this period, or a little ear- neighborhood centering around the tion Will now holds, becoming a 4 THE POW·WOW

university president instead of a and a fair scholar and began to hope two-thirds of the appraisement. preacher. that I would be able to do something .Property was very low in Blooming­ The pastor of our church told me worth while when out. ton and had been for a long time. confidentially that he thought I After Gradua.tion would make a fairly successful min­ Jim thought that with his political ister-not the highest class, but a Shortly after graduation came the influence he could get a lower ap­ very fairly successful preacher. He chance of getting the superintend­ praisement and he felt sure that no­ thought I might attain a pastorate, ency of the GrayvlIIe schools, which body else would bid; that if I could he said, that would pay $1200 a after a while was made a reality. The raise the money for the fir.st pay­ year, in the course of time. As that salary was $80 a month and the ment of one-third I could earn the was the salary he was then receiving, term was seven months. I thought rest. I was persuaded. Jim got it this was very complimentary, but my myself very fortunate. appraised at $1000. I bid $666.70, hopes did not rise so high. Still, I But before taking the Grayville which was 3 1-3 cents more than the was not drawn by mercenary moUves schools I wished to buy the house necessary two-thirds-and it was in this direction. and lot which we had rented for knocked down to me. I ·sold my In the latter part of my college some time. Jim Ryan, the black­ h,'rse and sheep and borrowed from career I began to feel that I had smith, un-educated but shrewd and the bank the balance to make my some little power, though was held good-hearted, urged that I buy the first payment, and eventually was back from anything like self-asser­ property. There was an acre of able to pay for it all. tion bY my timidity-"oashfulness," ground and a six-room house, which I went to my Grayville school with some call it. I was especially awk­ had once been a church-my father's joy and fear. With me was my ward and unusued to social ways, church, in fact-but made over long brother, Will, then not yet 18 years though with some taste for such since into a dwelling. The former old. From that day forward the things. I was also conscious that I owner was dead and it had never pathway, though difficult, neverthe­ was looked upon as a fair speaker been sold because nobody would bid less has led in the right pirection.

~ The Press on the Chances of E. A. Bryan for United States Senator

Addressing a meeting at republi­ democratic party made to this prob­ school, is probably one of the best can headquarters in Spokane, a few lem in the Underwood tariff? It has posted men in the state today on the days ago, Dr. Enoch A. Bryan said: taken from the farmer what scanty needs and resources of the common­ " An expert upon agricultural COI1­ protection his products previously en­ wealth. The college has built 20 ditions in Germany has recently told joyed, and we saw our C!1untry flood­ structures during his presidency, and use that the strength of that nation ed with beef from Argentina, eggs in order to get the best out of the ex­ in the present war has been due to from China and potatoes from Eng­ penditures, he has studied all the the fact that more than 50 per cent land. It has had a tendency, pos­ many questions involved, until he of its people are still devoted to agri­ sibly, to reduce the cost to the con­ now is almost competent to go into culture. It has been added that had sumer somewhat. But the greater the contracting business himself. it been otherwise, Germany never problem of simplifying machinery so Other people than Dr. Bryan are au­ could have held out. as to eliminate the great profits that thority for the statement that the "If that be true, we have reached are taken between producer and con­ State College has a more complete and passed the danger point, for sumer is a subject that the demo­ plant than the State University, de­ not more than 40 per cent of our cratic party has left severely alone." spite the fact that its appropriations population is devoting its energies -From the Spokesman-Review. have been limited to at least one­ to agriculture. half those of the other big school. -Port Townsend Leader. "The price we have paid for our Dr. Enoch A Bryan, candidate for manufacturing and transportation the republican nomination for the achievements has been greater than United States Senate, was for more Dr. Enoch A. Bryan is the ideal we have realized. Perhaps not too than 20 years president of the State candidate for the eastern portion of great, but there is need for con­ College, at Pullman, having resigned the state to advance. He is perfectly structive legislation, a direction of from that position some months ago. fam iliar with all conditions in the forces in new channels, to relieve un­ While acting as head of the institu­ state, and he played an important employment, labor troubles and the tion he has had many problems to part in the solution of the problems Increased cost of liVing. study and solve, and owing to the that have been encountered in the "What kind of an answer has the character of the wors: of the big state development of the state during the .. THE POW WOW 5

pastquafter century. His interests peared in the Recorder, the Spokes­ that a strong second choice will go have been broad and varied, and his man-Review said: to Dr. Bryan or .Rev. Spalding. It is election would mean more than the The showing that Dr. Bryan and becoming increasingly clear that a advancing' o( a single type or group the Rev. W. A. Spalding are cousins large majority of the seconds not of interests. It is expecting too (thirty-second), competing .against "thrown away" will go to Bryan, an­ much to ask that the west side of the each other in the senatorial race, was other reason, perhaps, why Poindex­ state unite on any candidate, yet Dr. one of the political sensations of the ter and Humphrey each are anxious Bryan tia. receiving his share of sup­ week. Opponents of Bryan are in­ for 40 per cent of the first choice port. from that distrlct.-The Colfax clined to jump to the conclusion that votes-which they are exceedingly Palouser. Bryan had been instrumental in get­ unapt to get, with six candidates in ting his reverend relative into the the field, two having come out fol­ The inference that Dr. Enoch A. race for the purpose of insuring sec­ lowing the filing of Dr. Spalding. Bryan, at his present age of 60 is ond choice voting, but there has not "too old" to merit the nomination been developed yet a scintilla of evi­ Mrs. Sarah E. Flannigan, progres­ for United States Senator, has stirred dence pointing tin that direction. sive leader of Spokane, has lined up up a retort from the Albion Journal, I with the Bryan forces in eastern whose editor concludes his rather Says the Journal of Kent, Wash.: Washington. She says she is "only lengthy reply as follows: Enoch A. Bryan, President of the. one of a number of former progres­ "A good many years ago, the late State College at Pullman for 20 sives who have hitherto been sup­ Henry Wallace, founder and for years, has announced himself as a porting Senator Miles Poindexter for many years editor of Wallaces' candidate for United States Senator. re-election, but are now assisting the . Farmel', w~nt to one James Wilson Mr. Bryan has been a very im­ Pullman man's campaign." and asked him to accept from Major portant factor in the agricultural de­ McKiI1'ley, the. appointment as Secre­ velopment of the state, and he is in Addressing the Lincoln Repub­ tary of Agriculture. Mr. Wilson de­ close personal touch with all ,'the lican League in Spokane a few days murred, saying he was 63 years old, other great industries that serve to ago, Dr. Enoch A. Bryan said, in and had finished his life's work. He give our state a "place in the sun." part: finally accepted the appointment Mr. Bryan stands high as an edu­ 'temporarily.' His 'temporary' ap­ cator, and would take to Congress "I only mention my own record of pointment lasted for 16 years, and in his excellent training along this line. 23 years at the head of the Washing­ that time he founded the greatest ton State College because this state Department of Agriculture the world Says the Seattle Post-Intelli­ is so large and its people are so busy has seen. James Wilson is still liv­ gencer: that they can't be expected to keep ing, hale and hearty, at his home in The fact that republicans of King track of all the candidates before Tllaer, Iowa, and it is a safe bet that them. county will ~et behind Representa­ 20 years from now, at the age of 80 tive Humphrey has made a deep im­ "During 50 years, the economic years, Enoch A. Bryan will still be pression on republicans elsewhere in prosperity of the United States has' living, having finished out a couple the state. Generally there is a dis­ been built up undetra protective of terms as United States Senator. position to follow King county's lead tariff system, which system has now Bryan's work is no more finished in this matter. It is considered un­ been set aside by the }lnderwood at 60 than was James Wilson's at 63. likely that supporters either of Rep­ democratic tariff bill. Both are of the old-time, oak-like resentative Humphrey or of Senator "It isn't particular schedules in Scottish ancestry, people of whose Poindexter will exchange any second that bill against which popular con­ blood are said never to die, but sim­ choice votes. The beneficiaries of demnation has now been massed, but ply 'dry up and blow away'." the second choice votes will be Dr. it is against the principle behind it. Enoch A, Bryan of Pullman, or W. A. Democrats who believe the cost of Says the Recorder 'of Olympia: Spalding of Cedarhurst. The Hum­ food products could be decreased by Another angle to the fight for the phrey supporters express supreme letting the bars 'down for admission nomination for United States Sen­ confidence in the ability of their can­ of these supplies from other coun­ ator was added when W. A. Spalding didate to win on first choice votes tries, instead of by attempts to lower of Seattle filed his declaration of alone. The Poindexter campaign , is its cost to the consumer without af­ candidacy with Secretary of State I. now in the process of organization. actual producer, have found that the M. Howell. He makes the fourth They will be in a better position to effect is only temporary. man to enter, the others being W. E. judge public sentiment after watch­ "The country Is now demanding Humphrey, congressman from Seat­ ing the effect of their candidate's the election of a Congress and a tle; Miles Poindexter, present Sen­ canvass, which begins this week." President which will see to it that ator, and E. A. Bryan of Pullman, In this connection, it is now under­ the protective system is returned. former head of the State College. stood that Poindexter I:;; mak,inghis Men must and will be elected who That means the fight goes into the oid,for· 40 per cent of finst, so as to can , be cou:1ted upon to support the second , choice class, there being four eliminate 'second choice votes from party, sicne that is the only way that candidates. the count-an admission, virtually, a change can be made possible."~ Shortly after the above item ap- of the Post-Intelligencer's contention The Spokane Cbronicle. 6 THE POW WOW

The people of the state of Wash­ cern in their work in initiating and borhood with well defined bound­ ington are to be congratulated on securing co-operative support of aries. The old pioneers lived and their opportunity to send Dr. Enoch vr.rious movements looking to social died in these regions; their children A. Bryan to represent them in the and agricultural betterment, has grew up there, intermarried, and United States Senate. Too frequent­ been observed and applied with some their children grew up and inter­ ly we send rich men, political ma­ success in tile county work in Wash­ married. Down on the flat, alI the nipulators or youngsters to Congress, ington. children know each other and play and then rave at the results; but The difficulty considered in this together, and the people know each with Dr. Bryan we have none of connection, and which it is desired to other, and, actually, often dislike to tnese. Physically he is strong, mor­ overcome, arises from the many peo­ have a stranger come in and settl', ally sound, and mentally he possesses ple and farms and problems con­ amongst them. Up on the ridge, an intellect that challenges anything fronting th() county men. Or, stated maybe only three or four miles away, in the state. He is a scholar, and another way, by having his atten­ il> another community whose children that oft, and generall misused word tion occupied by the sickness of know each other and play together; can be applied to but few in the J ones' cow, the refractoriness of but they may neither know or play Northwest. In bearing he is digni­ Smith's new binder-or old one­ with the children down on the fJat­ fied, yet easy of approach, while his the new 'weed on Johnson's farm ] 0 unless, perchance, in competitive personality is at once compelling, miles away, the late incursion of po­ contests, ridge against flat,' tow'n and inspires the greatest confidence tato bugs in the southVlestern corner against town. and so on. in those with whom he comes in con­ of the county, and so on in perplex­ "With the above conditions in tact. ing and numerous details, the county mind, suppose the county agricul­ We have the chance offered to man may be kept from taking 'up a tural agent tries to send a man of elect to the United States Senate a stUdy of marketing the county's the flat neighborhood up into the statesman of the highest caliber, a main crop, which may be r,iruwber­ ridge neighborhood to promote corn- . man spoken of and qualified for a ries, apples, potatoes, wheat, or growing. It may seem easy-the flat cabinet position, and we should not hogs; the vr.lue of which runs into settler may be a hustler and the fail to elect him.-The Republic hundreds of thousands each year; ridge is only a few miles away. But NeWs-Miner, Republic, Wash. and the absence of a well developed the plan will fail, almost invariably. market for "hich loses the farmers The flat farmer can promote corn­ In a recent issue, the Yakima Re­ from P5,OOO to $50,000 a yeer. By growing successfully among his public suggests that the real reason having so much running around to neighbors who live with him on the that Dr. Enoch A. Bryan of Pull­ do, the county agricultural agent is flat, and the ridge farmer can pro­ man is running for United States l,ept from taking up and putting Il).ote corn on the ridge; but can Senator this year is to get acquaint­ through a really big constructive un­ not send one into the other and not ed, so that four years from now he dertaking. rislr failure; which is to say that can make a campaigp against Sen­ The plan developed in the county neighborhood Jines in the country are ator Wesley L. Jones. work of Washington has as its aim, a fixed and definite, though in\ sible 'When this matter was broached en the " conservation" of the county ag­ thing, and that it is of prime'\im­ Dr. Bryan recently, he exclaimed riculturist's time. Following this portance for the county men to lot tte them and be guided thereby. " Nonsense! " plan, the county men worlr co~oper­ Continuing, he said : atively with org!'.llizations of the "'We are trying, in Washington, "Soon after I resigned the presi­ county, including such as granges, to pay strict attention to neighbor­ dency of the State College, sugges­ farmers' unions. commercial clubs, hood Jines, and existing organiza­ tions commenced to come to me in fruit-growing :o>.ssociations. ::.nd the tions. Vl e are now asking the county numbers from people who were good neighborhoods-with. special empha­ granges, farmers' unions, fruit-grow­ enough to tell me that I ought to run sis on the lutter, and In the han­ ers associations, and so on, each to , for Governor. This did not appeal dling of which there arises the little elect three members of their group to me. A considerable number of point in "sociology" here refer red to, as an 'agrlcutural committee.' When my friends also mentioned the sen­ and which State Leader R. B. Cog­ one of our county agricultural agents atorial campaign. I gave this a Ion explains: desires to present a proposition to great deal of attention, with the re­ "We do not realize at the first. the members of any organization, he sult. that I have become a candidate." superficial glance, how fundamental does not go to each individual in the a thing is a 'community' or 'neigh­ organization and try to convert him WOR){ O}<' STATE LEA]}Em . borhood.' Go back to the beginning to the plan he has in, mind. He goes of a 'neighborhood' in the olden parts to the agricultural committee which ....of. n. B. Coglon Develops Plan of western states, and you will find, the particular group, organizati,on, or tOl' Increasing Efficiency of very often, that it began in a wagon­ neighborhood has elected, and en­ CQQnty ,Wo..k ' train crOSSing the plains. . A number ~ists the co-operation of that com­ of pioneers settled on the 'ridge,' in nilttee. If Itis a . home-~ade silo" or A little point hi. "sociology" which the 'flat,' ~at the forks of .the river,' a way of eombatt~ng the .stra1'o'Bel,'ry county agricultural agents ' the· coun­ or 'at the head of the lake.' Each weevil, or tuberculosis in their cows, try over bave learned is of vital.con- place of settlement became a nelgb­ or hog cholera, or what not, he first THE POW WOW 7

·gets thffi elected committee to back summer, the fall, the winter; and strations and lectures on poultry his plan: if necessary, he modifies emerged tho next sprIng as a beetle, raising, gardening, pigs, rabbits, and his plan to the point where he can ready to lay more eggs. other lines represented by the boys' secure the hearty endorsement and Messrs. Melander alld Yothers f,ind and girls' club organizations of the co-operation of the committee-in its that· under conditiOns obtaining in 'county_ own 'rleighborhood, mind you! After the central part of the state, the A telegram from Extension Direct­ that, results come fast; for, quite in­ beetles can be quite fairly depended or W. S. Thornber, now at Washing­ variably; these elected committees upon to come out from the middle ton, D. C., states that arrangements will campaign actively and effective­ to the latter part of the strawberry have been made for a co-operative ly , in their groups for the suggested picking season. . When they do come series of demonstrations of an -ap­ program of useful work that they out. they are thickest, naturally, in paratus designed to put out .separ­ have endorsed; and the county agri­ those parts of strawberry rows which ator fires, in the smut-infested wheat cultural agent can go on to another show the results of the attacks of the · sections of Washington prior to the neighbQrhood, ridge" flat, forlts of weevil maggots upon their roots­ opening of threshing. The first the river, or county school district, really ,\ damages the ~ra;wberry demonstration will be at Walla as the case may be, and start another plants. Walla July 17. campaign." It was observed also, that for a Elmer Johnson, U. S. rural engin­ few days after coming out, the eer, will represent the federal gov­ REMEDY FOR STRAWBERRY beetles were rather inactive in egg­ ernment In the demonstrations. WEEVIL laying; and. obviouslY, the thing to J. L. ASHLOCK. do was to kill them before they laid The troublesome pest of the their eggs.. WASHINGTON MOLESKINS strawberry patches known variously To do this, various schemes were "With moles averaging 100 to the as the strawberry weevil, the grave­ tried, and the one that worked best acre over large areas of western yard bug, the strawberry crown was to take pieces of canvas which Washington, and their skins of high birdler, the sleepy weevil and the had been painted over with linseed quality, worth 35 cents each, the re­ pitchy legged weevil has received at oil-to make them air-tight-and turns from mole-trapping, properly the hands of entomologists of the lay these tightly over the Infested done, ought to mean money to those State College, a set-back in its depre­ parts of strawberry rows. Under the who do it," says Director W. S, dations, is fairly indicated by the canvas was placed saucers of carbon Thornber, Who, in WashIngton, D. C., season's investigations of this pest. disulphlde. For five feet of canvas recently conferred· with zoologists of Though known' all over Washing­ in one row, a saucer containing two­ the national Department of Agricul­ ton, particularly In the western and thirds of an ounce of carbon disul­ ture concerning the possibility of up­ central part, this enemy of the straw­ phide was placed, and the rapidly building the mole-trapping 'and fur berry-growers is a familiar one in evaporating gas, being imprisoned producing industry in the western strawberry patches from Maine to under the canvas. killed the beetles. counties of Washington where moles Califor·nia, and not excluding Can­ Growers are advised to lay down abound. ada. As the outcome of their sea­ their canvas at once, on the first In the zoological laboratories In "weevil spots" that appear In their son's worlt in central Washington, Washington, Director Tbornber ex­ Professors :Melander and Yothers of strawberry ground. for if tbe Infesta­ amined mole skins of European im­ the Washington Experiment Station. tion spreads widely, too much' can­ portation and compared these with found a weak spot in the general vas will be required. mole skins taken from near Puy­ armor of the life history of the allup. It was evident to all, he says, strawberry weevil, and at this weak AUTO EXCURSIONS that the Puyallup product was of spot attacked it with the gas of car­ Today; automobile excursions from m-uch higher class than those from " bon disulphide. the counties of Douglas, Chelan and Europe. Tbe fur was better, and the In following through the life cycle Spokane are arriving in Pullman, skin thicker and firmer, not showing of the strawberry weevil-as it is bringing scores of visitors from these on the inside "pin points" of fur called in the Kennewick valley-Me­ counties who will spend several days sticking through, as was true of the lander and Yothers found that it is inspecting the work of the State Col­ thinner skins from Europe. the habit of the insect to live under­ lege, The Chelan and Douglas A mole skin cloak made even of ground in itll maggot form during county auto excursions are headed the inferior European mole-which sJ;ring, summer and fall. In May the by County Agricultural Agent A. M. prior to the outbreak of the war was maggots ·transformed Into the adults. Richardson of Douglas. The Spo­ the chief source of supply in the or "beetles;" and these came out of kane excursion is headed by County American market-costs, averagely, the ,ground. The weevil beetles did Agricultural Agent J . R. Shinn. $1 .000. Directory Thornber was not damage the strawberry plants An excursion 'of the boys and girls given positive assurance in Washing­ seriously ; but . the hnportant thing of Whitman county , wbo are inter­ ton that the Washington mole skin they did was· to· lay eggs in the sur­ estedin the boys' and girls club was by the federal zoologists ranked facesoil\vhich hatched' ·out the mag­ work organized by State Leader T. superior to tbe European · Irnporta­ gots which lived in the soil on .1, Newbill, Is visiting the college this tions wbich now have practically through the rest of the spring, thb weew and attending canning demon­ ceased. 8 TEE POW WOW

city, was elected library assistant. of similar amount boxed in the same Miss Slagle is experienced .tn the way. The system of marketing REGENTS ADD TO work, having been employed at the strawberries put in operation by the Tacoma public library for some time. Benton County Strawberry Market­ Chester C. F~rr, a State College ing association, deemed responsible COLLEGE FACULTY graduate, was named agricultural in part for this saving to the county, agent for Snohomish county, the ap­ is now being extended to the mar­ pointment to date from July 15. A keting of live stock, potatoes, and Stare College Board Held Meeting at part of the salary will be paid by the other crops of Benton county. Puyallup Monday--Governor commissioners of Snohomish county, County agricultural Agent Lee M. Lister in Attendance part by the United State department Lampson, who formed and is presi­ of agriculture and the balance by the dent of the strawberry selling asso­ State College. ciation, reports 200 cows tested in The selection of a number of in­ Mrs. Grace Baker Hulscher, last the county, an.,. 400 voluntary ap­ structors for the different depart­ year at Toppenish, was elected to a plications for tests. ments of the State College occupied position in the department of music. In Wahkiakum county, County Ag­ the attention of the board of regents Mrs. Hulscher will have charge of ricultural Agent Geo. W. Nelson is of the college at the meeting held classes in public school music, de­ handling two leading lines of work Monday at Puyallup, when the re­ signed for the benefit of those stu­ -dairy testing, and increasing the port of President E. O. Holland con­ dents who are preparing for teach­ acreage of cultivable land. Two cerning vacancies was considered. ing positions. She will also organize hundred and sixty-three farmers Governor Ernest Lister was an inter­ classes in the city. have begun to test. The cultivated ested attendant a\ the meeting and Miss Zelva Mecklem, a graduate of land of Wahkiakum has been in­ evidenced a keen interest in the do­ the State College and last year in­ creased from 3000 to 8000 acres ings of the big educational institu­ structor in the Chehalis high school, since the a.dvent of the county agri­ tion. was added to the elementary science culturist in that county. Leon S. Finch, a graduate of Cor­ faculty as instructor in English. In Grays Harbor county, Agent C. nell University, was elected to the Homer Dana, also a State College F. Monroe is giving most of his time chair of chemical analyst in the de­ graduate, was elected to a similar to the organization of cow-testing as­ partment of chemistry. Mr. Finch position in the same department. sociations, promoting the home-made has had considerable commercial ex­ James E. Crites was elected part silo, introducing forage and silage perience at Niagara Falls, and comes time instructor in physics. crops and testing cattle for tubercu­ to the State College highly recom­ The resignation of Prof. O. E. losis. In King county, County Agri­ mended. Draper, instructor in the commercial cultural Agent Floyd M. Rader is Prof. L. F. Jackson of the depart­ branches in the department of ele­ working on drainage reclamation of ment of economic science and his­ mentary science, was accepted. Prof. flat lands, boys' and girls' club work, tory, was named acting head of the Draper goes to Ellensburg Normal and co-operating with various department for the ensuing school school to accept a position as head granges and school districs to in­ year, succeeding Prof. A. W. Taylor, of the newly organized commercial crease the interest and effectiveness resigned. The appointment is a department. of the club work. In Clallam and temporary one. W. N. Philips, a member of the Jefferson counties, County Agent O. Asher Bobson was elected in­ commercial department faculty, re­ T. McWhorter is giving a good deal structor in the department of eco­ signed. Mr. Philips expects to en­ of his time to silo-building, forage nomics science and history. Mr. Bob­ gage in business pursuits. crops, and the organization of test­ son received his A.B. degree in eco­ L. J. Fletcher, Instructor in agri­ ing associations. nomic science and history from the cultural engineering, resigned to ac­ In Okanogan county, the introduc­ University of Kansas three years cept a similar position at the Uni- . tion of inter-crops in the orchards, ago, since when he has been doing verslty of California. silo construction, promotion of for­ advanced work in agricultural eco­ Resignations from members of the age crops for both hay and seed, the nomics and rural sociology at the library staff. were accepted as fol­ forming of many bull associations, University of Wisconsin. lows: James G. Dickson, assistant combatting of blackleg in cattle, and Guy C. Warfel, a graduate of the to librarian; Miss Lora M. Green, as­ cow-testing, are leaders in the work Colorado School of Mines, was elect­ sistant to librarian, and Miss Lalla of the county agriculturist, J. A. ed to an assistant professorship in Egge, assistant cataloguer. Hughes, who has just resigned, and the department of mining engineer­ is now succeeded by H. P. Smith. ing. AUONG THE COUNTY An association of range stockmen Assistant Professor G. H. Jensen AGRICULTUIUSTS was formed, the purpose of which is was elevated to an associate pro­ to keep all "scrub bulls" off the fessorship in physiology and pharm­ Benton county strawberries this range, making the herd increases, acognosy. year sold for from $35,000 to $38,­ from now on, of registered sires. Miss Virginia Slagle, daughter of 000 more than has been received In Douglas and Grant counties of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Slagle of this from any previously produced crop eastern Washington, County Agricul­ '1'lIE POW WOW 9

turat A,gents A. M. Richardson of SPARKS FROM THE GRIDIRON Douglas and H. W. Reaugh of Grant are studying new forage crops, the COACH WM. H. DIETZ W. S. C.'s football team is this handling of "summer fallow" to pre­ sum mer vigorously engaged in min­ vent "blowing" and conserve moist· ing, carpentering, farming, selling ure, and the introduction of ,live RETURNS CONADENT clothing and silos, lumbering, help­ stock, such as sheep, cattle, and hogs. ing Uncle Sam take care of the na­ In Walla Walla county, Agent O. V. Brings New Ideas a.nd Promises Sur­ tional forest reserves, and making Patton is similarly occupied, except­ prises-Veterans Returning­ near-war on Mexico, and, so far as is ing the problem of "blow soils"; and known now, practically the whole New Men Expected is helping develop the hog-growing squad will be back to renew training industry, along with which goes more under Coach William (Lonestar) emphasis on corn production, which Coach Dietz has returned. The Dietz on September 18, when college grain is needed to "finish" the hogs. question, "When is the big Chief com­ opens. The -dairy industry and cow testing ing back?" which every Washington The Hanleys, Dick and Roy; Full­ associations also command attention State College football enthusiast has back Doane, and Herreid are mining in Walla Walla. In Spokane county, been asking for a month, was an­ in the Coeur d'Alenes and British Co­ Mr. J. R. Shinn has as his chief lines swered when he arrived in Pullman lumbia. Zimmerman, the end, is of work, the development of forage Thursday noon. He was met at t1le farming on his home preserves at crop rotation, handled in a way to train by Athletic Director Bohler and. Almira. Fullback Brooks, when last enable the farmers to substitute bare, at once escorted to the council cham­ heard of, was running a milk wagon unproductive summer-fallow with ber to talk over plans for the coming in Everett. Boone and Durham are crops of peas and oats, or vetch or season. After a winter ~p\mt in Cali­ in the forest reserves somewhere in clover which often are siloed in lieu fornia, the redoubtable Indian ltl:ld.er Idaho. Finny is helping Doc Bohler of corn. In this county is reported a of the Vii. S. C. tribe of football Wll.;'­ build his new house, but expects to rising interest in live stock, includ­ riors, returns with renewed enthusi­ begin harvesting near Pullman soon. ing dairying, production of beef cat­ asm for his fall campaign, and, it is Loomis, who has a talent for sales­ tle, sheep, hogs, and poultry. rumored, with a fund of new ideas­ manship cultivated in his home town, which means several surprises in Seattle, is selJing silos in North Da­ ONE DATE OPEN store. The football at W. S. C. this kota and making good. "Digger" IN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE year should be worth watching. Boone, a machinist by trade, is, Coach Bohler announces the W. S. working in Chehalis. Bartow, sub­ I?ootballs Sent Out · C. football schedule for this fall as center, is doing something at Camas follows, with only one date, at pres­ Veterans of last year's team are -probably lumbering. Michael is ent, unfilled: already sending in word th11t they selling clothes in Chehalis; and Oct. 7-Alumni, at Pullman. will surely be back, and Director Langdon, ex-all-Northwest center, is Oct. 14-0regon Agricultural Col­ Bohler has forwarded footballs to somewhere on the Rio Grande. lege, at Pullman. .oW" men in some of the most in­ News that Langdon, the mainstay Oct. 24-University of Montana, accessible parts of the continent, of the team, and upon and around at Missoula, Montana. ranging from Canada to Mexico, as a whom the vital part of the Dietz scor­ Oct. 28-Multnomah Athletic reminder of the season and a means ing machine was built, had gone to Club, at Portland, Oregon. of keeping the men in trim. war saddened W. S. C. football fans, Nov. 4~University of Idaho, at Room for New Ca.ndidates and the gloom thickens with the ap­ PulJman. proach of ' the football season. It is Prospects are bright for an eleven Nov. II-University of Oregon, at generally conceded that his going de­ as good as the championship team of Eugene, Oregon. tracts at ieast 25 per cent from the last year, which defeated Brown Uni­ Nov. 18-0pen. football outlook for next year. versity at Pasadena; but with Nov. 25-Gonzagl' University, at Coach "Lonestar" Dietz, one of the Spokane. twenty-two men on the first team, 161,000 Indians in the United States and with almost that many more Nov. 30-Wtitman College, at that now wears "store clothes," spent needed for a second team, there is Walla Walla. the summer somewhere in the United always an urgent call for good new materia!. States not at Pullman. When last H. G. Satterthwaite, who success­ heard of he was taking a part in a fUlly coached the football team of Pasadena 'Vants Champions "movie" down in Claifornia, where Pullman high school last year, has Word comes from California that the movies are made. Dame Rumor accepted a similar position in the the east is being canvassed for a team of Pullman is unable to say just how high school of Anaconda, Montana. of championship class to meet the important a part he is taking in the LYman W. Ward is at Goldendale champions of the west again at Pasa­ movies. OccaSionally somebody says Part of the time, and the rest at Ca,­ dena on New Year's day;. and the the coach is in California spending mas. ,He is proprietor of the Grand State College looks forward to earn­ next year's salary in the visitation ocf Theatre at Camas, and county en­ ing a championship again this year movie camps, However, there aiJ­ gineer of Klickitat. as last. peared, some time ago, an illustrated 12 '1'lIE POW WOw.

three weeks, word has come in from The Pow Wow's guess is that Poin­ THE POW WOW a number of Bryan camps that Hum­ dexter and Humphrey will take be­ pbrey seems to have a little the best tween them very close to 60 per cent Published quarterly by the Alumni 0 " it. of the total vote that is cast; that it of the State College of Washington. The splitting up of the ticket in Dr. Bryan's supporters do hard and Joth the first and second choice fast work from now till September Entered as second class matter element of voting furnishes ground 12 as much as 25 per cent out of the July 29, 1911, at the postoffice at Pullman, Washington, under the Act for much uncertainty. Poindexter remaining 40 per cent can be won of March 3, 1879. is now making his fight for 40 per , for him, which, with a good swing cent of first choice votes, which will at the second choice, will pull him " J.~. Ashlock. '09 ...... Editor eliminate the counting of second safely into port, but with a mighty F. T. Barnard, '04. Business Manager choice and in all probability elect. small margin on 'his side. If Poin­ Verne Gaddis, '10. Subscription Mgr. Humphrey supporters likewise are dexter and Humphrey take more confident that they will get 40 per than 60 per cent of the total vote, ' Editorial and Business Offices, Ad­ cent. ' Looking at the proposition and Messrs, Spalding and Duryee and ministration Building. Phone 64 from both sides, it appears that both Mrs. Allen take more than 15 per Humphrey and Poindexter will crowd cent of the vote left by Humphrey Subscription, per year ...... U.OO up to as much as 30 per cent each, of and Poindexter, Mr. Bryan's chance the republican vote, and just about for the nomination will be in ex­ Pullman, \\'ash., August, 1916 breal{ even. treme jeopardy. If they do this, dividing fairly HR. BHYAN'S CHANOJi~S l"OR THE evenly between them, say, 50 or 60 TODAY'S OOMl\fENCEMENT NOMINATION per cent of the total republican vote, AT THE STATE COLLEGE from 50 to 40 per cent of the elec­ torate must be divided between four At the present writing (Augus, The commencement flower blooms other candidates-Mrs. John B. Al­ 24th), it we are franl{ with our· bravely at Pullman. Another year of len of Seattle, Rev. W. A. Spalding scientific and intensive culture of the selves, we must admit that in the six· of Seattle, Dr. Enoch A. Bryan of (;Qrnered fight now being waged for human intellect by the State College Pullman, and Schuyler Duryee of has borne fruit in 164 graduates, the republican nomination to the U. Everett. The best guess, apparently, S. Senate, there are many possibili· femininity as much to the front as is that neither Rev. Spalding, Mrs. masculinity. ties for the unexpected. Dr. Bryan'~ Allen nor Mr. Duryee will command The program has been an interest­ chances seem to be a little bettE'~' more than a negligible percentage of than even, with a fighting chance ing one, the grave and the gay duly the 40 to 50 per cent left by Humph­ intermingled to make the scholastic to pull out with a few hundred ma­ rey and Poindexter. On a basis of jority. salad, and wisdom tastefully spiced 40 per cent for division, with Messrs. with social pleasure. Religion re­ Several dangers beset Mr. Bryan's Spalding and Duryee and Mrs. Allee ceived proper recognition through chances for the nomination. The each taking approximately five per the baccalaureate address being election law which was passed by the cent, or 15 per cent of the vote be­ given by Secretary Baird of the last legislatu're requires voters in the tween them, 25 per cent would go American Missionary ASSOCiation, rural precincts to register the same them, to Dr. Bryan-leaving him 5 who was one of the famous band of as is required in the city. At this to 10 per cent behind either Hum­ Yale missionaries to this state more time it seems doubtful if m ore than phrey or Poindexter. than 20 years ago, and through the 75 per cent of the country vote can However, on this reckoning, the Rev. Carl H. Veazie, formerly of SpO­ be made to register. It looks now as county will go to second choice. It kane, addressing the Young Men's if Dr. Bryan will take a good pro­ is conceded throughout the state that and Young Women's Christian As­ portion of first choice votes in the Mr. Bryan will be the strong second sociations. Scholarship takes its inn­ country; but with the country vote choice candidate-and it is entirely ings today when President Wesbrook weakened by the loss of suffrage probable that his advantage in the of the University of British Columbia there by failure to register, this second choice will overcome his delivers the commence address, Hav­ source of his strength is almost sure ' handicap in the first choice percent­ ing him forms a happy instance of in­ to be reduced. age, and elect him. ternational fellowship. In the cities it is mainly evident However, if Messrs. Poindexter Between whiles graduating exer­ that the big fight is between Poin­ and Humphrey take between them cises manage to insinuate themselves dexter and Humphrey. More rural 75 per cent of the first choice voting, and launch the collegians upon their and city papers in the state are ac­ and Duryee, Spalding and Mrs. Allen careers of glory ()r usefulness or tively supporting Humphrey than take 15 per cent, Dr. Bryan will come both. Father anI' /lother are there, any.'other candidate. Also, more city in for 10 per cent of the total first trembling betwix:" :.: smile and a tear and rural papers are actively fight­ choice voting. The strong second at the fruition of years of self-sacri­ ing him than any other ' candidate; choice he is apt to receive could not fice, and sweethearts and lovers are so how he will fare in this matter over('ome this handicap, and it would not absent from the throngs. But can only be guessed, but in the last mean his defeat. class day, with its fun and frolic, its THE POW WOW 13

jests and earnE st, was 'the crown of t!:ie occasion for the .normal collegian, .It touches one again for the mo­ ment with th~ spirit of youth to see ORGANIZATIONS these high-hearted men and women WEST SIDE MIX kept calling Ada Whittaker-such is come from their school upon the • the power of long use and habit­ stage of active affairs, The world Chal)man, '09, Writes of Old-Timers' were there. They were not long un pokes a bit of fun at tbem, but it is Picnic at Edmonds, \\'ashington, the ground, however, before Ronald the fun of kindliness and at bottom June 24 Chapman, nicknamed " Sir Ronald" it bespeaks appreciation for their , --­ in the old days, and his wife, arrived proven worth and their potential val­ The" readers of The Pow Wow from Seattle, and opened up their ues to the commmiity. The state would probably agree with me if I summer cottage, at which place the needs them, society needs them, hu­ were to suggest that the good times rites were to be held. There was not manity and God himself all need which occur in such rash abundance more than time to get the coffee them. They will not be wanting to during our undergraduate days CO)Jle boiled and the dinner arrangements at much less frequent intervals when made when, on the next stage their fut~re responsibilities, their preceding privileges, their own selves. college days are over, and each one trooped in " Bromo" Seltzer and his Nature smiles"'TI.s the doors of college has a job to hold down. The office wife from Kirkland, accompanied (as open upon the world, and June man, the professional practitioner, they always are now-a-days) by the Strews her roses on their path.­ the housewife or whatever the occu­ dearest little Miss "Brom0" Seltzer Spokesman-Review. pation may be, find that the days and you can imagine. But old Bill Strick­ weeks are filled with a larger admix­ ler could not be outdone; and from ture of care and a much smaller distant Bothell he appeared, with OUTLOOI{ FOR NEXT YEAR modicum of that carefree abandon Mrs. Strickler and two babies! Can which characterizes the four years in you beat it? And no conscientious From all present indications, the the alma mater. But when pleasures baby judge living could ever have de­ enrollment ~ f the year 19.16-17 will do come they are, perhaps somewhat cided which of the kiddies in the be considerably larger than that of more appreciated, and of all the party was the finest. The amusing last or any preceding year. During pleasurable occasions none excell thing was that Maude Putman had the summer, extension workers sent those when the old bunch of good borrowed one of the babies on the out by the college have at every fellows get together and renew the , tramp out and was promptly con­ point where programs were held, friendships, pick up the broken gratulated by one of the "alumni by been besieged with inquiries concern­ threads of intercourse and generally marriage." ing the college, and there is no part hark back to those good old college No one more surprised the crowd of the state wherein these good in­ days. by her appearance than Margaret dications have not been observed. In Such an occasion was planned by Brislawn. Everyone supposed that southwestern Washington, a region the Seattle Alumni for June 24 at "Maggie" 'was back in the dry belt, which geographically and commer­ Edmonds. As is quite generally where the Brislawns thrive so well. cially is tributary to Oregon, and known, the weather of Puget Sound Inez Arnquest appeared from the where, as might be expected, many is occasionally wet and the commit­ city and Ola Kingsbury from Farm­ students attend Oregon or California tee in charge of this particular af­ ington. Stella Wilson just sort of institutions, the State College will fair proved to have very poor taste in dropped in fro m"somewhere in the this year draw a good percentage of this respect. In deed, it may be ad­ U. S. A ." Naturally, as is proper, students. Such a report is brought mitted that the Sound was giving an the aristocracy anrived late-their in by Melvin LeFrancq, a student excellent example of those damp, ears being delayed by trouble with whose home is in southwestern dark days for which it is so justly the chauffer. At least Floyd said Washington, and who has just re­ famous. Some, who. perhaps are not that Best Anne (Ford) and he had turned from there to work in harvest thoroughly acclimated, were deterred trouble, but Mrs. Rader unwittingly fields adjacent to Pullman. Le by reason of this unpropitious condi­ let out the fact that they, together Francq says that most of this in­ tion so that the hundred or more ex­ with Dick Miller and his wife, had creased interest in southwestern pected dwindled down to perhaps not been doing the town the night before. W'ashington, in so far as he has ob­ more than a quarter of that number. Anyway these men who hold office served, seems due to the splendid But to some of us old mossbacks the under the state are not expected to performance of the football team of weather could make no difference. be early. last season. The fact that W. S. C. Hans and Susie Mumm headed the While everyone was feeding-for easily moved the formidable teams of gathering of the clans by coming that seemed to be the only thing the both the University of Oregon and down from Everett and bringing a weather permitted-the Dalquist Oregon Agricultural College off the boat with them. Dr. Thomle, who boys showed up from their construc­ gridiron map seems to have left a used to be just plain "Norsky" in the tion camp on the G. N., and so made lasting impression with youth all days when he was a famous track our party just a little more complete. ,over the Northwest. man, and his wife, whom some of us The rain, which here is always

/ i4 THE POW wow kind to those who do not fear it. Opal Qreen, Toledo. gave reminiscences of student life in cleared in the afternoon and allowed Maude Harris, Pullman, R: 1. early days and told experiences as adjournment to the beach. Floyd Philip Hogan, Arlington. alumni members. promised to send The Pow Wow a Lynn S. Keyes, Kelso. , All members of the board of re­ photo of the whole bunch up a stump Etta Patterson Losee, Wilbur. gents and President E. O. Holland with .the tide coming in fast. It is to Lillian McDonald, Orchard Avenue. congratulated the alumni on the be hoped The Pow Wow has it. He Saidee Ethel McKenzie, Latah. good work done by them in the in­ also photographed the "fearless Solano Moffitt, Johnson. terests of the institution. / four"-or as some said, " the freez­ Forrest G. Murdock, Spangle. M. K. Snyder told of the good work ing four," who went in swimming. Elma R. Paulsen, Newberg, Ore. of Cupid in the alumni ranks, read­ Really, considering the day Susie Edna Peairs, Medical Lake. ing a list of 20 ,graduates either Mumm and Margaret Brislawn de­ Gladys Persels, Waitsburg. married since the first of June or to serve some credit for braving the Harriet 1. Pratt, Odessa. be married before the end of the cooling depths, but Bill Strickler and Alma C. Prichard, Roslyn. month. Ronald Chapman are too modest to Janet Scott, Lind. Hundreds attended the commence­ allow their names to be mention~d in Henry O. Skjervem, Sumner. ment reception at the president's this connection. .Juanita E. Stout, Sprague. residence tonight, which was fol­ Much was added to the spirit of Eliza Strand, Rosalia. lowed by the commencement ball the occasion by the receipt of a Lele­ Enoch Torpen, Pasco. in the gymnasium.-Spokesman­ gram from Prexie-no, Dr. Bryan­ Wm. T. VanVoris, Chelan. Review. or should I say Senator?-in truth Harold R. Vercler, Amber, R.' R. I am confused! The gre(.ting was John Wagoner, Oakesdale. The award of an honorary degree much appreciated and support in the Anna Waller, Sunnyside. by Washington State College to coming campaign was volunteered Florence Westacott, Palouse. President D. L. Huntington of the unanimously. In fact, a letter of ap­ Alta White, Melbourne. Washington "\\' ater Power company · preciation and endorsement was Esther White, Olympia, R. 1. is a deserving and richly earned re­ ordered written and was promptly Inis Williams, Spangle. cognition of his services to the de­ signed by everyone present. Alva Wright, Lind: velopment of hydro-electricity. Mr. Maria Yeaman, Ewan. Take it all together, while lacking Huntington has proved himself to be in class spirit and in worrysome fear Gladys Meyer, Kalotus. a master of electrical engineering, of having the grub swiped by surne Anne Nystrom, Preston. and such achievements as his at Post Laila Egge, Davenport. other classmen, the occasion was :l. Falls, Little Falls and Long lake real success. We never would have are a great service to the public.­ dreamed a few years ago of .3eeing AI,UMNI MEETING AND ELECTION Spokesman-Review. different classes sit down together so A better organization of State amiably. Indeed, when one :3ees '09 MARRIAGES and '10 eating together out of the College alumni will be effected as the same dish, the Millenium, wnen the result of the annual alumni meeting today, held in ' connection with com­ On Wednesday morning, August lion shall lie down with th ·~ lamb, 30, occurred, a pretty wedding at the becomes a near possibility., mencement week, 'when a movement for enlisting 'all of the 1200 former home of Mrs. Belle -Green, 508 Mont­ gomery street, in which the princi­ graduates in the interests of the col­ pals were Miss Lora Mae Green and The new alumni and their new lege was started. Mr. Lysle M. Buck. Both are gradu­ teaching, positions: Professor M. K. Snyder was elect­ ates of the Washington State College. 'Ella Alexander, Colville. ed president of the' association, with The former has been assistant librar­ Thrina Baker, Touchet. E. R. Jinnett, Daisy Busby, C. H. ian at the college since graduation in E. Beatrice Barnes, Palouse. Schuele, Floyd Rader and Joseph 1909 and has won a host of friends. William I:J . Beardsley, Uniontown. Matsen vice presidents. C. L. Hix Mr. Buck is a civil engineer and has HaroldJ. Beaver, Newport. was elected trustee for the four-year a positiQn in Portiand, Ore., where Aline Browder, Detroit (Park & term. F. F. ' Nalder, Joseph Ashlock he resides. and where they will soon Davidson Chern. Co.). and F . O. Kreager are holdover trus­ be at home. He received his B.A. Erma Clyde, White Fish, Mont. tees. degree in civil engineering in 1911 John V. Coughlin, ,Colville. C. F. Anderson, Edward Kienholz and was for several years a member James E. Crites, Jr., Pullman (W. and W. C. Kruegel were elected to of the football team. S. C. ). the athletic council. E. Mooney Curry, Chimacum. One hundred former graduates Iva L. Davidson, Pullman. partook of luncheon at Ferry hall. E. Saturday, September 2, at 2 : 00 Grace Day, Bowlder, Mont. F. Gaines extended a welcome to the p. m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. , Alene Dunn, Medical Lake. new class and a response was. made Cbarles M. . Mecklem, pioneers of Pa­ N'ellie 1. Douglas, Boistfort. by Mark Brislawn, president of the louse? oC,curred the marriage of their Paul H. Dupertius, ChehaJls. graduating class. 'w . D. Barkhuff, eldest daughter, Quevenne, to Walter Chas. D. Gaines, Ferndale. Duncan Dunn and Harold Doolittle A. Gatward of Spokane, the Rev. N. THE POW WOW 15

Sherman Hawk, pastor of the Metho­ married July 6 at the home of the Catherine Urquhart will teach dist Episcopal church, offclating. bride's parents iIi Harrison, Idaho. Germfm at Milan next year. A few friends witnessed the cere~ mony. Among the guests were the Clinton B. Stuht and Miss Hildred Harold D. Aten is studying at the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Churchill were married in, Omaha, University of California. His ad­ Gatward of Spokane, and sorority sis­ Nebraska, June 7. At home after dress is ' 2111 Cedar street, Berkele~ ters of the bride, who is a gr~duate August 15 at 1325 South Thirteenth C~. ~ of the Washington State Cellege, and avenue, Omaha, Nebraska. a member of the Pi Beta Phi chap­ Mr. G. Elmer Brown, an alumnae ter there. The groom is also a BIRTHS of the, State College, and proprietor graduate of the State College and a of two drug stores in Spokane, and member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. an enthusiast in everything concern­ He has received his master's degree Burdete, a son, Hugh Elmer, Jr., ing the college-which he shows by in electrical engineering from the May 29, 1916. copiously decorating the windows of University of Illinois at C!tampaign, his stores every time such a service where the couple will make' their Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. D. But­ is needed-went to the Rose Car­ home after September 12, Mr. Gat­ ler, Waitsburg, August 13, !!. son, nival at Portland, and afterwards ward having a position as instructor Donald Earle. visited friends at Medford. in the university. They were gradu­ ated in the same class from the Pa­ Born, to Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Lewis A. A. Eustis, '15, has quit teach­ louse high school. of Spokane, Wash., a son. ing at Republic and has gone into the mercantile business there. He is the At the home of Dr. and NIrs. C. E. Dr. :T. H. Bailey, a native of Penn­ proprietor of a general merchandise Grove, in the Altadena, yesterday sylvania and a graduate from the store. afternoon, their niece, Miss Corrine veterinary department of the Wash­ Cadwalader Rippeteau, became the ington State College, has 10cat0ll. in A. W. Bradrick gives as his new bride of George Phillip Howard of Palouse, having chosen this ;lla-:e hddress, R. F , D. 4, Box 10, Palouse, Colfax. after a thorough investigation of lhe Washington. Mr. Howard is the son of Mr. and advantages and di$advantages of Mrs. G. P. Moward of Colfax, a pio­ many of the Inland Empire towns. C. Clinton DuVall has moved from neer family of W,hitman county. He He will have his office in the lobJ.,y Colfax -to Kittitas, Washington. is a graduate 'of the Washington of the Northern hotel, which is 'lOW State College and a me:n ber of the conducted by Mrs. C. W. Poage, and Roy Jeffrey has accepted a posi­ Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternitY. informs the Republic that he experts tion in the construction department After a short wedding trip Mr. to be a permanent resident of PI!­ of the General Electric company at Howard and his bride will be at louij!e.-The Palouse Rel;ublic. Schnectady, New York, home to their friends at sf. John, where he has a large ranch. With the appointment of Chester Miss Mary ' Holzer announces a C. Farr as agricultural agent of Sno· change of address-Spokane to Box Juanita Lillian Gregory and Ray homish county, Washington now has 562, Uniontown, Wash. M. O'Day were married at the home 12 of these workers in behalf of bet­ of the bride's parents at Sunnyside, ter farming. At last-word from Lee Morrison, Washington, July 26. '02! He is at Megao:tic, P. Q., Can­ Will Strickler, superintendent of ada, care of International Boundary Survey. Harry M. Chambers, '12, and Miss schools next year. at Twisp,' Wash­ Phyllis C. Parkes were m'a~ried at ington, gave The Pow Wow a social C. O. Scott, formerly with the II Pendleton, Oregon, June 19. call and a , subscription renewal this summer. Thanks for each! Washington Water Power Company, at Long Lake, is' drafting for the James A. Williams of Colfa?" dep­ uty county sheriff, and Miss' Eva Miss L. ' Gertrude MacKay has been Coeur d'Alene Hardware and Foun­ dry company of Coeur d'Alene, Smawley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: transferred to the Shanley high Idaho. J. K. Smawley of Pullman, were mar­ school in pittsburg, and will teach ried in Pullman, June 14. household arts. H. H. Damman. formerly located at Hope, B. C., gives as his new ad­ Professor C. C. Todd, acting head Charles P. Dunn, '09, reports the dress, Box 155, Port Angeles, Wash­ of the department of chemishy since arrival of an assistant engineer, Ed­ the death of Dean Elton Fulmer, and ward Charles, weight six and one­ ington. Miss Hilda Musgrov'e of Sultan were half pounds, born June 23 , 1916. Athletic' Director Bohler !l.nd Coach married at Sultan in June. Thrina Baker gives as her new ad­ Dietz have been in Spokane this week . on 'business conn,ected with the ath­ Mr. E. L. Overman, instructor in dress, 605 North Grand avenue, Ta­ letic interests of the State Gollege. .. English, and Miss Marion Gray were coma, Washington. 16 THE POW WOW

highway engineers. , The trip cov­ knee so deeply that, but for the ered some of the best roads and pave­ prompt assistance afforded him by PULLMAN PREPARED ments In the west, and some of the his team mate, Arthur Durham, who worst. was with him in the woods at the His observations lead hi:n to be­ time, and carried nim within reach FOR ALL WHO COME lieve:­ of medical assistance, the result 'I'hat, given plenty of money, Our might have been serious. Boone, however, writes from Cunningham, Plenty of Rooms in Private Houses engIneers can produce splendid roads and pavements; Washington, where he has been dur­ --Conunittee on Lodgings Meets That very much of the money ing his convalescence, that the With Success spent on roads in construction and wound is now healing nicely and that maintenance is wasted; he will be ready on the field again That plain common sense in the this fall ween the referee'S whistle The city of Pullman has been !Ise of local road materials is fit a blows. building new houses all summer. discount; , This summer more than 20 new That every county needs men IN])USTHIAL CHEl\USTRY houses have been built on College trained in road-building, men who IS POPULAR FIELD hill because the demand for desirable know how to get the most out of the rooming places has increased with dollar. This shortage of trained Prof. C. C. Todd, acting head of the growth of the college. State road engineers is not confined to thp the department of Chemistry at the College students will find plenty of west alone, but is general throu8"h­ State College of Washington reports desirable rooms awaiting them when out the United States. the number of inquiries sent in by they arrive in Pullman and guides Eighteen state highway commis­ prospective students in chemistry and will meet all trains so that no one sioners report a lack of trained road chemical engineering to be far in ex­ may be embarrassed about finding engineers. Sixteen hundred highway cess of those received last year at this living quarters. IVlost students here, engineers are now employed by 24 time, and a record enrollment prac­ as in other colleges and universities, state highway commissions. Coun­ tically assured. prefer to live in private houses and ties and dties are employing 2000 The people at large seem to be re­ board with small groups. more. cognizing the multiplicity of oppor­ ' As a result of the work of the Two hundred fifty million dol­ tunities for men trained to work in chamber of commerce co-operating lars are annually expended in the the field of industrial chemistry­ with the college authorities many of United States for road construction a lesson driven home by the scarcity the best homes in Pullman have been and maintenance. of all kinds of synthetic drugs and opened to girls so that rooms near The new Federal Good Roads Act, chemicals which followed the break­ the campus and wholesome board at appropriating $75,000.000, requiring ing out of the European war. rensonable rates are available for all. as much to be appropriated by the Frank T. Barnard, registrar of the states receiving it, will add impetus President E. O. Holland of the college, has a partial list of rooms to road building and insure the de­ State College of Washington was available to students in Pullman mand for good highway engineers. present, on the invitation of W. S. which shows room for over 250 girls The State College of Washington, McCrea, president of the chamber of outside of th-e - dormitories and , in the Civil Engi,neering Department, commerce of Spokane, at the hearing sorority houses. A like number of has educated a large number of of the Federal Farm Loan Board in rooms are available for the young young men who are now employed Spokane on Monday, which Governor men who will enter the State College in road building, some of whom are , Lister crossed the state to attend. September 18, 1916. leaders in the extensive highway de­ velopment that is just now getting One of the features of the Spokane well under way. f<;XPERT ON HIGHWAYS Interstate Fair this week is the ex­ RETURNS FROl\1 TRIP We need more better trained men hibit of the prize winning cattle and to direct the economical expenditure sheep entered by the department of of our road money. We must stop Professor O. L. Waller, head of animal husbandry of the State Col­ th£ Department of Civil ' Engineerlni;, wasting it, for present methods of lege of Washington. Practically all transportation will soon demand hal' just returned from an 1800-mile the animals entered have records as good roads everywhere. e,utomoblle trip for the specific pur­ winners of prizes in previous compe­ pose of studying the highway situa­ titions and will be exhibited again at tion in Washington and Oregon. BOONE WILl, BE BACK the Washington State Fair at North He ::lays that the graduates in the IN SPITE OF ACCIDENT Yakima, September 18-23, and the course of highway engineering from Oregon State Fair at Salem, Septem­ the State College of Washington this Boone will be back in the game ber 25-30. Among the entries ' are year were all employed before the for the State College of Washington speCimens of Herefords, Shorthorns, school closed, and he wanted to find again this fall. The star fullback, GalJoways. and Aberdeen-Angus beef out at first hand, if there would be while serving as forest ranger in cattle; and Hampshire. Shropshire, I'- continued de-mand for well-trained Idaho during the summer, gashed his Dorset-Horn and Cotswold sheep; / /