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FROM THE ARCHIVEMay 30, 1912·Oakland, Maryland

EDUCATION IN THE HANDS OF WEATHER BUREAU

Scanned from The Republican Current, May 30, 1912
EDUCATION IN THE HANDS OF WEATHER BUREAU
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HE HANDBOOK What Education Did. For Two Snowbound Prospectors Ey O HENRY iCopyright 1007 by the McClure company Tis tbo opinion of myself Sanderson rratt who sets this down that the educational system of the United States should he in the hands of the weather bureau. I can give you good reasons for it and you can't tell me why our college professors shouldnt he transferred to the meteorological department. They have been learned to read and they could very easily glance at the morning papers and then wire in to the main office what kind of weather to expect.

But theres the other side of the proposition. I am going on to tell you how the weather furnished me aud Idaho Green with a elegant education. We was up in the Bitter Root moun tains over the Montana line prospect ing for gold A chin whiskered man in Walla Walla carrying a line i hope as excess baggage had grub staked us and there wo was in the foothills peeking away with enough grub on hand to last an army through a peace conference Along one day comes a mail rider over the mountains from Carlos and stops to.

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