isa-normaladvance-1915-00087

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE87iSxcimugegThe following exchanges were recehred thismonth:The Daily Maroon, University of Chicago.The Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University.G. N. C. Booster, Danville Normal College.The Clarion, Connersville High School.U. N. M. Weekly, University of New Mexico.The Interlude, South Bend High School.Marion High School Survey, Marion HighSchool.School, an educational paper published atNew York.The Cooper Courier, Sterling, Kansas.The Anchor, Hope College, Michigan.The Racquet, Wisconsin State Normal.The Owena, Spencer High School.M. II. Aerolith, Mission House, Plymouth,Wisconsin.Bulletin, Central State Normal, Michigan.X-Ray, Anderson High School.The Teachers Journal.The Goldenrod, Wayne, Nebraska.Indianapolis Medical Journal.Purple and Gold, Sullivan High School.The Student, Eastern Kentucky State Normal.The Northern Illinois, Northern IllinoisState Normal.St. Johns Echo, St. Johns University,Shanghai.The Technic, Rose Polytechnic Institute.If any reader of the Advance desires to lookover any of these papers, let him see the editorof this column.In the St. Johns Echo which comes to usfrom far-away Shanghai is a most interestingarticle, China and the Standard Oil Co. Itsays/that since the formation of republicangovernment in China, there has been no moreimportant event than the co-operation betweenthe Chinese Government and the Standard OilCompany for the exploitation of the oil fieldsin North China. The terms of the agreementare given, chief among which are the protest ofJapan against the agreement because Japanesecompanies wished the right of developing Chinese oil fields, and the objections of some of theChinese people. Finally the benefits whichChina Avill derive from the agreement are setforth. The concluding sentence says, So Avemay say that the establishment of this cooperation between the Chinese government andthe Standard Oil Company really marks thebeginning of a new era in the development ofChinas mineral wealth.An editorial Edison and Genius from theInterlude, South Bend, tells of a neAv achievement by Thomas A. Edison. At the beginningof the great war in Europe he was cut off fromhis supply of carbolic acid. As he needs a tonand a half daily in manufacturing his disks forphonograph records the loss required a suspension of this work. But Edison set to work andevolved a new practical process for producingcarbolic acid, completed a factory for the purpose, and so obtained the necessary supply. Allthis in less than a month after his industry Avascrippled. What is his secret of success? Askhim and he will tell you Work. He will tellyou that all his genius is one-tenth inspirationand nine-tenths perspiration. He has becomegreat by Avork. There isnt a streak of yellowin him. He Avill not quit.The following clipping is from the Education Pi-ess Bulletin: Across the water, instricken Belgium, they took a school yard fora burying ground. Why not? The teachersand the children had fled and the building wasin ruins. Where war reigns the chief indus-
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