NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering A SINGLE six-term for President of the United States is proposed in a resolution passed by the United States Senate last Saturday. This resolution, introduced by Senator John...
...Accordingly, among the many excellent modern plays produced by the Society, we find William Ellery Leonard's "Glory of the Morning" representing Wisconsin's past history, and Zona Gale's "The Neighbors" representing local village types...
...Path-finder...
...It contemplates the substitution of the following for the first paragraph of Section 1, Article 3 of the Constitution: "The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America...
...In this and other respects it resembles the Wisconsin law er ted in 1911...
...V. S. Bailey was re-elected president and W. H. H. Richardson secretary and treasurer...
...He will write for LA FOLLETTE'S a series of brief, lively, informing, interesting sketches, under the general heading "Notes on the Present State of the Theatre...
...La Follette Knows"—Wilson President-elect Wilson made another outspoken declaration of sympathy for progressives and progressive principles, irrespective of party, in a recent address to the members of the New Jersey Senate...
...Kansas, W. H. Thompson, Democrat...
...The payment of all necessary campaign expenses by th state Is proposed in a bill recently introduced in the Rhode Island Senate by Senator Edwin E. Pierce, Democrat...
...Several hundred group meetings have thus far been held under this plan with exceptional success...
...The spirit of hatred and revolt against constituted authority with which the minds of convicted men become inoculated through the degrading sights and scenes incident upon executions is hard to eradicate or overcome...
...Following the suit to dissolve the International Harvester Company under the Sherman act which is now in the courts, a plan has been carried into effect by the managers of this trust to divide the domestic and foreign business between two corporations operating "separately" although it is announced that the stock of the newly formed International Harvester Corporation will be held in the treasury of the parent concern, the International Harvester Company...
...A City That Advertises Its Tax System Lethbridge, Canada, calls itself "a city of homes...
...This case has aroused wide interest...
...In England the government would vote him 5,000 to 50,000 pounds...
...It provides for compulsory continuation schooling for six hours weekly, three years for boys and two years for girls, after the age of fifteen...
...Question 17 is "What system of taxation is in force...
...All revenue is obtained from the taxation of land values only...
...Arkansas, Joseph T. Robinson, Democrat...
...Nevertheless, and in spite of this condition, the work of prison reform, will go forward in Oregon, and will demonstrate, I am confident, the absolute success and absolute economic utility of the plan...
...Like the school and the church and the printed word, it reaches nearly all of the people...
...Nevada, Key Pittman, Democrat...
...If it is approved in the House and ratified by three-fourths of the states within the next four years, It appears certain that the measure will automatically extend the four-year term to which Governor Wilson was elected last November to March 4, 1919...
...About to shake hands they suddenly stopped...
...From the cheap motion picture show to the expensive grand opera, it has its appeal—and its influence—for all classes of citizens, young and old...
...The plan is somewhat similar to the Cooley proposal in Illinois, but differs in empowering the local school board to appoint the board to have charge of vocational training...
...The immediate idea is to encourage a Middlewest Mrama built on the history and characteristics of this section...
...cooking, sewing, millinery, and embroidery for the girls...
...The failure to abolish hanging will have no direct effect upon my policy of ;prison reform, however...
...cause he studies every angle of every question...
...The school proceeds on the theory that in many cases the distaste of these children for school is due to the fact that the ordinary studies are not adapted to their particular needs...
...This means that the workingman's house is not taxed, neither are business blocks or the residences of wealthier people...
...Senator Brown, Republican leader in the Albany Legislature, said, "It is shocking to think of the state suing a war hero with a body execution...
...A Great Lincoln Memorial Congress voted last week to erect in Potomac Park near the Washington Monument a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, at a cost of two million dollars...
...More About the Steel Trust Two interesting witnesses were held recently in the government's suit to dissolve the United States Steel Corporation under the Sherman antitrust law...
...The term of the office of President shall be six years, and no person who has held the office by election or discharged its powers or duties, or acted as President under the constitution and laws made in pursuance thereof, shall be eligible to again hold the office by election...
...Opponents of this resolution looked upon it as in many respects a defective measure that might lead to unlooked-for complications...
...He is, too, editor of the Wisconsin Series of Printed Plays (a by-product of the Society's work), first published locally but recently undertaken by The Bobbs-Merrill Company...
...Discussing the Drama in German life and in American life, he said: "The America of beauty and culture will come after the America of wealth and power...
...Turn Prisons Into Character Hospitals A Penitentiary should be a School of Citizenship and Not a College of Crime By Governor OSWALD F. WEST IREGRET, of course, that the electorate of Oregon have seen fit to perpetuate the barbaric custom of hanging in the state, but though my conscience tells me that the verdict is wrong, morally and economically, I have no quarrel with it and I have abided by it...
...It is Governor Sulzcr's opinion that there should be no delay in ending "flagrant abuses, shifty schemes and clever combinations to catch the unwary and to mislead the public...
...The Page bill was passed by the Senate as a substitute for the Lever-Smith bill which had passed the House, granting about $3,-500,000 and providing only for the establishment of extension courses in agriculture and home economics in connection with the state agricultural colleges...
...One exclaimed, "Oi thought it was you and you thought it was me, but now it's nayther of us...
...Hanging as a rule will be the order of the day in Oregon during the remainder of my term in office...
...The theory of the Society is to utilize social principles now awake in this district to secure better art and more ordered principles of beauty...
...Referring to Senator La Follette's leadership, Mr...
...The Wisconsin Dramatic Society is the first experimental stage society In America...
...Helen Longstreet, widow of the famous confederate general, offered to raise the sum which is alleged to be due the state by General Sickles, among the agged and maimed followers of Lee...
...This bill authorizes maximum appropriations of more than $14,000,000 for agricultural and trade educationa, work...
...In this indirect manner every hanging makes reformatory work harder and more uncertain of definite result...
...It was he who conceived and, in 1910, organized the Wisconsin Dramatic Society...
...Accordingly, Lathrop school gives them what is known as "pre-vocational" training...
...Those means and measures which, during the past two years, have been adopted for the reformation of the convict and his establishment as a law-abiding citizen will not be modified or abandoned...
...Charged with a shortage of $23, 476 in his accounts as chairman of the New York State Monuments Commission, General Daniel E. Sickles was arrested last week in a suit brought by the state to recover the money...
...The academic branches are also taught in this continuation school, but they are taught in close relation to the industrial subjects...
...Since its establishment in Milwaukee (in which city its local management is in charge of an earnest, able and experienced director, Mrs...
...He said, "I am simply overwhelmed by the action of the House which means that we are at last to have a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, befitting the patriot and benefactor of man...
...A resolution was passed in which the members were pledged to do all in their power honorably to secure the nomination of Senator La Follette for President of the United States in 1916...
...Classes in plumbing, bricklaying, and concrete work will be formed as soon as the demand warrants...
...The measure has not yet passed the House but Congressman Rucker of Missouri, chairman of the House Committee on President and Vice-President, announced to the press following the action of the Senate that his committee would give immediate consideration to the resolution and favorably report it without delay...
...Illinois Deadlock Ended The long deadlock in the Illinois Legislature over the election of a speaker of the House was ended last week by the election of William Mo-Kinley, Democrat, a young member from Chicago serving his first term...
...It likewise met with the support of many of the inner circle of the Republican Old Guard...
...It would establish courses of instruction in trades, industries, home economics and agriculture in the various public schools of secondary grade, provide for state agricultural schools, testing and plant breeding stations, the education of teachers and general extension work...
...a hospital for the treatment and cure of criminals, rather than a place of vindictive punishment and recruiting station for super-hardened and perverted criminal mankind...
...Wyoming, Francis E. Warren, Republican...
...Professor Dickinson has made a careful and intelligent study of the American theatre of today...
...Here is a subject that concerns us all...
...Eugene Kuehnemann, the great German philosopher who came to the University of Wisconsin as the first Carl Schurz professor, spoke a word of encouragement and help to those who look forward to the flowering of a national art upon the soil of our vast material riches...
...New Jersey, William Hughes, Democrat...
...From Mr...
...A little pamphlet has been published in which "fifty-eight questions about Lethbridge are answered...
...Control Stock Exchange"—Snlzer Governor Sulzer of New York, in a message to the legislature last week, urged the State supervision and regulation of the New York Stock Exchange and other stock exchanges...
...Senator Williams of Mississippi, Democrat, who took a leading part in the debate, characterized the Bull Moose leader as "the knight of the twentieth century with the political theories of Alexander Hamilton...
...The only way a man can justify voting against La Follette is to know more about the subject than La Follette knows...
...During my administration the Oregon Penitentiary, if I can accomplish it, will be a school of citizenship and not a college of crime...
...New Mexico, A. B. Fall, Republican...
...And he pointed appreciatively at the work of The Wisconsin Dramatic Society, as a genuine and significant beginning toward this desirable end...
...Dickinson who sensed the need and the opportunity of an organization to interpret and to cultivate the artistic expression of community and national Self by means of the Drama...
...Wilson said: "Senator La Follette Is strong be"Notes on the Present State of the Theatre" AN ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE leaving Madison, the other day, Dr...
...Because of its social character, the Drama is the form of art that naturally comes first in such a program...
...They contended that instead of bringing the presidency nearer to popular control, it would really remove it still farther from the direct influence of the voters...
...The brutalizing effect of capital punishment on the community in general and the convict in particular, will, I regret to say, militate against prison reform...
...Roosevelt repeated the testimony he gave the Stanley Steel Investigating Committee in Congress some months ago concerning the acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Steel Trust during the panic of 1907...
...He reiterated that he had given his sanction to this deal "to save the country from disaster" and declared emphatically that "not one thing could have been known to me about that company that would have altered my action...
...In some cases, notably Maeterlinck's "The Intruder" and Goldoni's "Mistress of the Inn," the society's production was the first to be given the plays in America...
...the other was William Ellis Corey, formerly president of the United States Steel Corporation...
...South Carolina, Benjamin R. Tillman, Democrat...
...Texas, Morris Shepherd, Democrat...
...A dozen plays have been produced in Madison and Milwaukee theatres under the direction of Professor Dickinson—plays ordinarily inaccessible on the professional stage...
...And he adds, "This is not a question for compromise but for legislation according to the Cromwellian maxim thorough.'" —At a recent meeting of the La Follette Learue of Phelps County, Nebraska, it was voted to maintain the organization during the coming four years...
...To supplement this, Dickinson originated for Madison and other Wisconsin cities a system of libraries ot modern plays whereby the plays are read in groups in such a manner as to retain the effect of stage acting...
...The buildings and machinery of industries are also exempted from taxation under this system...
...The first will appear in these columns next week, Watch for it, and for those to follow...
...E. P. Sherry) and in Madison, there have been others similar to it founded in different parts of America, some of which, like the Chicago Dramatic Society and the Colorado Dramatic Society, adopting the same name...
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...Pierce states that this is "the first bill founded upon the principle of requiring campaign expenses to be paid by the state rather than by the candidates and their friends that has ever been introduced in any legislative body in the world, so far as my information extends...
...Arkansas elected W. M. Kavanaugh, Democrat...
...A bill providing for vocational continuation schools has been introduced in the Washington legislature...
...When he gets up to speak, he knows what he is talking about When he has finished speaking it is difficult for a man to vote against him and give any convincing reason for doing so, because La Follette has presented the case from the standpoint of the man who knows...
...The "Lathrop Industrial School" has been organized for the purpose of educating children over 14 years of age who have reached the fifth grade and find the work of the regular school distasteful...
...Senator Cullom of Illinois has been most active in the long fight to have such a memorial to "the great emancipator" provided by Congress...
...The final roll call resulted in the following vote: Senators voting against the resolution: Bourne, Bradley, Curtis, Gallin-ger, Jackson, Jones, Lippitt, Lodge, McLean, Oliver, Page, Richardson, Sanders, Stephenson, Townsend, Borah, Bristow, Clapp, Dixon, Kenyon, La Follette, Poindexter and Shively (Democrat...
...They have proved themselves to be effective, and even more successful than was anticipated...
...The officers of justice replied that they could not in the discharge of their duty refrain from bringing the suit because of General Sickles' war record...
...All the Democrats, except Shively of Indiana, supported it as in keeping with the plank in the national Democratic platform declaring for one term of six years for the President...
...He is the editor of several volumes of plays, and has lectured extensively on the Drama...
...Senators who voted for the resolution: Brandegee, Brown, Burnham, Burton, Catron, Clark, of Wyoming, Dillingham, du Pont, Gamble, Guggenheim, McCumber, Nelson, Penrose, Percy, Perkins, Sutherland, Smoot, Wetmore, Works and Cummins (all Republicans...
...News Notes —Four hundred women from all sections of the United States appeared before the House Committee on Presidential and Congressional Elections last week to appeal for passage of the French bill to give women the right to vote for representatives in Congress...
...Governor Dunn's choice for speaker was Assemblyman Rapp, but he has expressed no displeasure at the election of McKinley...
...Mutual Mistake Two Irishmen approaching each other smiled in recognition...
...Courses in bench wood working, shopdrawing, pattern-making, printing, carpentry, and shop-electricity are provided for the boys...
...The two bills are in conference and the differences between the House and the Senate may prevent final action during the present session...
...The theatre has an important place in our social scheme...
...Delaware, Willard Saulsbury, Democrat...
...There were three days of rapid and at times heated debate over this resolution...
...Senate Passes Page Bill The Senate passed the Page vocational education bill on January 29...
...It was Mr...
...Among the laws he recommends, one provides imprisonment as a penalty for violation of the statutes...
...The best results can not be secured when regenerative and reformative doctrines are taught beneath the scaffold and in the fact of vindictive and medieval vengeance...
...It was he who put vitality into it, and guided its steps through the uncertainty of infancy into what is now becom'ng a most promising stride...
...Corey the government's attorneys secured testimony to support their allegation that the Steel Trust participated in an international steel rail pool...
...Democrats Gain Senators Democrats won eight and Republicans two United States Senatorships as a result of the action of state legislatures last week...
...One was Theodore Roosevelt, formerly President of the United States...
...Ashurst, Bankhead, Bryan, Chamberlain, Chilton, Clarke, of Arkansas, Fletcher, Gardner, Hitchcock, Johnson, of Maine, Johnston, of Alabama, Kava-naugh, Kern, Newlands, Overman, Owens, Paynter, Perky, Pomerene, Simmons, Smith, of Arizona, Smith of Maryland, Smith, of Georgia, Swan-son, Thomas, Thornton, and Williams (all Democrats...
...He denied that in approving this deal he had been deceived by Frick and Gary...
...In fact business of all kinds is exempted, land values forming the sole basis of assessment" School for the Discontented There is a school for discotented school children in Kansas City, Missouri, according to information received at the United States Bureau of Education...
...Here is the answer: "Lethbridge has adopted the single tax system...
...This resolution, introduced by Senator John D. Works of California, was in the nature of a constitutional amendment and passed the Senate by a vote of 47 to 23, only one vote more than the necessary two-thirds...
...Corey said that as late at 1910 an understanding had existed with foreign rail manufacturers under which the steel corporation agreed not to compete with them in their own countries and foreign manufacturers in turn agreed not to seek business in the United States...
...Charges were -nsistently made that the election of McKinley signifies an agreement between Rrepublicans and Democrats whereby the Republicans are to be given the long term United States senatorship, the short term going to the Democrats...
...Corey testified to the existence of a steel rail pool among American manufacturers as late as 1904, under which prices of rails were kept on "an even keel" and business divided...
...Professor Dickinson is in charge of the contemporary drama at the University of Wisconsin...
...That, in truth, was a tribute to the efforts of one man—Professor Thomas W. Dickinson of the University of Wisconsin...
...Such pupils frequently appear "backward" or lazy, when in reality all they need is a different form of educational activity...
...It apeared in the debate that the third term candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt caused Senators to give their assent to this proposal to limit the tenure of office of the President...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 6
