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SIC0.t-CLSS MAIL MATHS
Fhllidrlphll, Monde;, Oclebrr 15. 1917
YOU CAN'T BEAT WHEELS
"TNABIL1TY to travel meant that people
stayed home. Staying at homo meant
serfdom. Serfdom meant discouragement
to Inventive talent. Discouraged, inven
tion meant continued Inability to travel.
And the man who was bound to the land
was bound to the landlord.
Wheels will free any one who wants to
be free. When Peter the Great opened
his window on Europe ho opened the door
to a Russian revolution. When Nicholas I
signed the order for the Moscow-Petro-trad
railway he signed the abdication of
Nicholas II.
When the British Torlc3 founded an
empire they destroyed Toryism at home.
For the people of England could travel to
the ends of the world and be free, so they
had to be given more freedom at homo to
keep them there.
The States of the West compete with
Aach other and with Canada for inhabi
tants. They compete by offering more
freedom than their neighbors. "Come
live here," they say; "we will givo you
workmen's, compensation, initiative and
referendum, mothers' pensions, equitable
taxes, woman suffrage, progressive Re
publicanism, progressive Democracy
anything you like, only come; and usk for
what you don't Fee."
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Cities compete. New York wants to
spread out over all western Long Island.
It knows that people can get Into a rail
road train In the twinkling of an eye and
put 3000 miles between themselves und
' Tammany, Wheels can do the same for
v any one who wants to get away from
government by murder. No one has to
stand for the Vares or for McNIchol or
for Judge Hylan and Charlie Murphy.
North and South call to liberty-lovers and
opportunity-seekers. "Go West, young
man," said Horace Greeley. "Go North, so
South, as well as West," cry the new
prophets. Wilmington, now waging a
tras fight, with labor demanding reform
and progress, beckons from one direction,
calling for Inhabitants. "More Inhab
itants," 'demand Rochester, Bridgeport,
Detroit, from other directions. And al
ways, Jiand In hand with this call, goes
the fight for civic reform at home. "Let
us make the town clean for the
strangers."
Wheels will bring us the 4,000,000
people we should have, but wheels can
also take away many of the 1,750,000 we
have now. Wanted, the moment the war
ends: A million men, engineers, archi
tects, chemists, teachers, doctors, to re
construct Europe, to fill gaps In Austra
lia and Africa, awake to grsater freedom
and progress, but needing men. The
whole world will call to every graduating
class of the University of Pennsylvania;
t will be able to absorb every one of
them. The graduates will not need to
settle down under tho Vare-Smlths and
Fenrose-McNIchols. Will not? They need
not now. Two thousand of them aro out
of town on war work, In Europe, every
where. Will they como back? Why
should they, unless wo give them some
thins to como back for?
Six years ago a group of former rhlla-
eJelphlans were sitting around a table In
& New York restaurant late one night.
One of them watched a ticker. "Boys, the
-Aw,.' town's elected Blankenburg!" "Im-
" posslblel" "No, It's true." Of those half
;Vreen former Phlladelphlans four left
jfew York and returned to work in their
satlve city within the next year.
1 You cannot beat wheels. Wheels will
make or unmake us before we know
Where we are.
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JETTISON OF KAISERISM
IT IS premature to assume that the
morale, of tho German fighting forces
'is gone. There la little evidence from
front to Justify such a conclusion.
'It, i true that unsatisfactory rations and
, uperlorlty of the Allies In artillery
: combined to render German opposi-
sturdy than It once was; but
points to the fact that the
his back gets to the Rhine the
herola the ordinary German sol-
tttr "
U would be absurd, on the other hand,
to dtaejfrttnt the effect of American Inter
vention ad the President's notes. Mr.
WHmii ftpt tVvH wedpa botween
ffco OffM te-toflh- Em-pew,
man society that enables Vorwaerts to
declare that "in these arduous times
criticism even of Imperial acts must bo
allowed." "When tho war began tho
Kaiser was above criticism. That Is
why there was war. Ono of tho things
we are fighting for Is to bring it about
that never again will the Kaiser bo above
criticism by tho German people, for so
only will tho world bo safo from tho ag
gression of Kalserism. Truth gets a
hearing finally, even If tho President of
the United States utters It and tho Ger
man people aro tho ones who must listen.
All hope of n successful war of aggres
sion has disappeared In Berlin. It hns,
In truth, become now a war of self-dcfcnso
for tho bureaucrats. What tho German
people aro slowly realizing Is that they
cannot Bavo themselves and Kalserism
too. Jettison of the latter will lesult.
VOLUNTEER METHOD OF
FINANCING
THE United States hns raised Its armed
forces In two ways: by selective con
scription and by voluntury enlistment.
The Government Is likewise financing tho
war In two ways: by conscription and
by volunteer loans. Conicrlptlve finan
ciering has taken tho form of heavy ex
cess taxation, which touches every busi
ness and Industry In tho land. In raising
huge amounts by loans, however, the
Government depends entirely on the vol
unteer spirit. No man Is compelled to
buy Liberty Bonds. The Government Is
not endeavoring to obtain loans by com
pulsion. It simply .states the raso and
assumes that American citizens will do
the rest.
What man can look his neighbor In the
face if that neighbor has given a volun
teer son to the cause but he himself has
not loaned a dollar? What human being
In this great crisis of humanity, when all
that men hold dear Is nt stake, can lock
his money in a vault and decline to in
vest a part of It In the great enterprise
on which we have embarked? It is. In
deed, monstrous that a personal appeal
should be required In tho cases of so
many persons who ought to como for
ward of their own accord and buy bonds.
Mr. Citizen, when our children ask
you what you did during the great war,
will you be content to say that you did
nothing that the Government did not
compel you to do? A man can bo a Ben
edict Arnold passively as well as actively.
To retain thirty pieces of silver that the
Government needs and you do not may
be as dastardly a deed ns to accept thirty
pieces of hllvor after tho manner of Judas.
Tho Liberty Loan campaign Is well
under way. There is no longer time for
hesitancy. Tho dollars must begin to
come out of their hiding places in far, far
greater volume. When Undo Sam Is
willing to pay 4 per cent for tho uso
of cash, cash cannot afford to be loaned
to anybody else.
QUERY
WHY should tho Baltic Sea bo a Ger
man ocean? We more than suspect
that a Blake, a Nelson, a Farragut or a
Dewey would before this have dominated
that area as completely as the other seas
of the earth are now controlled by Allied
navies. With Halg striking mighty blows
In Flanders, the overwhelming fleets of
the Allies should also be engaged In ag
gressive thrusts.
COAL
THE coal situation temains critical.
The output does not measure tip to
requirements and prices aro so high as
to presage bitter suffering In the great
cities during the approaching winter. It
Is probable that tho Government acted
too slowly in providing for the control of
tho situation. Although Pennsylvania Is
the great' coal-supply State of the Union,
a fuel administrator was appointed only
a few days ago, and with winter at hand
his ofllce Is not yet organized for elll
clent work.
We pointed out recently that the pub
lic duty In the circumstances Is to lend
William Potter general moral support
and to abstain from criticism. It stands
to reason that no relief can bo obtained
except through organized effort. Mr.
Pottor represents such organization, In
the form of tho Government itself. Un
less the fuel administrator can get re
sults, results cannot bo got. It is our
expectation that in tho near future a
remedy for present conditions will bo
found. While we can anticipate no radi
cal price reduction, wo can hope for a
great Increase In production and for
prices far lower than those which would
have prevailed had not tho Government
intervened.
NEW REASON FOR WHEAT-SAVING
THE loss of 700.000 bushels of grain by
fire In Brooklyn should be a solemn
reminder to every one of tho necessity
for an economy moro strict than ever.
Not a bushel can bo spared. Every ono
ot thoso bushels was needed, and tho
only way 111 effects of this mlsfortuno
can be avoided Is byour going without
that much grain.
We must be prepared to face the fact of
such reverses and meet them by imme
diate personal self-sacrifice.
Bolo Pacha had tho coin, but ho
did not have tho goods.
Maybe the town can be thankful that
tho police have not arrested tho court.
There is $23,000,000 in the City
Treasury, but what good will It do men in
jail?
The world's series seems to bo sim
ply a question as to which team can loso
four games first.
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When you lend money to Uncle
Sam you -do your pocket good and you
do your soul good.
Why not settle the whole thing by
letting the Germans march straight from
Riga to Siberia and stay there?
It Is reported that the Mayor has
boycotted the Philadelphia newspapers.
It Is a pity he had not first boycotted the
Fifth Word.
AVhy attack the Jews In the Fifth
Ward case? They seem to have been
auoui tRej oaiy onw,wJio had Ideals and
EVENING LEDOER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1& 1017
HO A T . QTTD-DT .V P A XT !
BE -INCREASED
"Liquor at Mines Should Bo For
bidden Longer Working
Dny Possible"
By W. HAYDEN McFADDEN
Former Mine Superintendent and Now Whole
ule Sflllntr Agent
THE dally press gives considerable promi
nence to matters relating to tho serious
conditions already, existing and the more
serious conditions to bo anticipated in con
nection with the supply of soft coal.
Fixing prices Is no remedy. The remedy
must bo applied nt the mines, to the trans
portation companies and the consignees or
consumers. Tho number of mines, the
MXtent of their development and equipment
imply a mtnlr.g capacity very largely In
cxceei of present output and probably
largely, In excess of our needs. There Is
a shortage of labor and most decided Inef
ficiency. Conditions prohibit any Increase
In number of workers, while tho present
number Is being decreased by enlistments.
The miner In now working at beet a short
right-hour day. but unfortunately he cele
brates every holiday.
The salo of liquor should be absolutely
prohibited In eery county of every State
where eua Is produced, nt least until condi
tions become normal.
Tho working day should for the duration
of tho war bo Increased by presidential order
to ten hours and temporarily to twelve
hours, If other conditions warrant. Exist
ing abuses nnd differences between employ
er and employe should be remedied. At
union mines tho miner is toieraDiy "
protected and is usually paid a dollar for
pa cry dollar earned, and at somo nonunion
tump tho men are also given an honest
deal, but rt-y often and this 3 the case
A'lth some of the very largest producers In
the central Pennsylvania district they are
In plain Kngllsh. robbed of a part of their
Mfnlngs
Methods of Paying Men
The miner Is paid a certain agreed-upon
rate per ton for the coal loaded on pit
oars nach miner, has a certain designa
tion number and Is provided with metal
check. one of which he attaches to each
pit car he loads The contents of tho cars
lire weighed ot the "tipple" Immediately
before bplng dumped Into the railroad car.
At union mines tho weights aro recorded
by a welghmnster representing the opera
tor and by a rlicck-wclghman representing
the miner Tho weight Is announced by
ona or the other and any difference Is ad
justed then nnd there. At the close of the
day a comparison of "sheets" Is made
and differences. If any. are again adjusted
At the closo of each semimonthly period
Mieets showing the total for the period for
each miner are posted In conspicuous places
an altogether fair business procedure
j ho cheek-wclghman Is paid by the union,
lu.ids being provided by certain assessment
ngalnst each employe, which assessment Is
collected by the operator and by him paid
oer to tho union . The miners are further
represented by a "bank committee." to whom
they make their complaints and who In
vestigates and In turn confers with the
mine foreman or superintendent, and gen
erally succeeds In adjusting matters. But
at nonunion mines the miner Is called on lo
accept Just what tonnage Is credited to him
by the company welghmaster. and he hns
no way to know whether he Is or he Is not
honestly credited.
We do not suggest that the Government
compel any operator to recognize formally
labor organizations, but wo think they
should all. without exception, be compelled
to authorlzo their employes representation
by check-welghmen and bank committees
and collect nt least tho check-welghmen's
aues On the other hand, It should be made
a criminal offense for any man. committee
or organization to call a strike without
lirst arbitrating tho matter and permitting
the complaint to bo adjusted.
Idle Cars
Say we aro a company now ready tp
produce moro coal, will work two hours or
four hours extra two, more likely than
fnur, os conditions can hardly be adjusted
to work twehe hours dally to any advan
tage and Increase our output 23 to 35 per
c;nt, and will have every one keep sober and
work six dajs weekly what disposition Is
to bo made of tho coal? Wo aro a mine
rated at, say, twenty cars, or 1000 tons
daily. Very occasionally tho railroad pro
vides us with twenty curs, generally about
ten, often less than ten and frequently none
at all The railroad official tell us they
are short of cars and short of motive
power. We take a trip to the general of
fice In Philadelphia. We observe that for
every 100 cars "moving" there aro from
500 to 10U0 standing idle, loaded and empty,
and that for oery locomotive "moving" It
tetns to us that there aro at least ten to
ilfteen standing Idlo nnd unmanned maybe
more, maybo less
We observo that at all Industries loaded
cars ar standing and very few men em
ployed in discharging their contents. We
redd In our trade papers that the average
daily movement of freight cars Is so many
miles dally and the average dally perform
ance ot locomotives approximately 25 per
cent more. First as to the locomotive. We
remember that not so many years ago the
railroad which we have In mind, and whoso
offices we are visiting in Philadelphia, was
under tho capable management of an of
ficial whose theory was that a locomotive
should be kept In motion until It fell apart,
kept red hot all the time; as soon as she
reached the end of her run, clean the (Ires,
put on another crew or same crew, make
another run and overtime, etc
If we aro correctly Informed, the modern
theory and practice Is that a locomotive
needs the same rest as does the engineer
and Is In actual service about eight hours
dally. Why not lncrcaso the operation of
these locomotives to twelve hours dally and
increase their dally mileage 50 per cent?
In effect, why not mako 100 locomotives do
the work of 150? The railroad manage
ment will probably answer, "Wo have not
got the men."
Messrs. Railroad Managers, be patriotic
and manly enough to forget our resent
ment against the brotherhoods and discon
tinue our efforts to restrict tho men to
eight hours' work and eight hours pay!
They call you "pencll-and-paper" rail
roaders. Set about getting their good will
nnd co-operation. Individually It will not
cost you a cent and you will feel better.
Your stockholders will profit and will
esteem your work more highly. Otherwise,
Mr. President, exercise your authority and
compel both parties to adopt an overtime
system.
"Get After Consignee"
Get after the consignee. The miners are
ready and able to load 60 per cent more
cars and the railroad is prepared to speed
up the movement E0 per cent, but the cars
aro rot unloaded, There Is no reason why
the consignee should not unload every car
placed on his siding within twenty-four
hours unless he is too stingy to employ
the labor or Is too stingy or too Improvi
dent to provide a place to Btore his con
signments ana, in consequence, puts us all
In a hole by using -,hat ought to be our
cars for his storage purposes.
Yes, of course he pays Jl or $2 a day
for the privilege, but we urge the Inter
state Commerce Commission to rule that
cars must be unloaded within twenty-four
hours after being placed, under penalty of
charges of J 25 per day demurrage. 25 for
second twenty-four hours, 50 for third
and an increase of 125 additional for each
succeeding twenty-four hours' additional
detention. The commission should double
this penalty If It does not bring the con
signee to time, and an embargo should be
ordered against all Incoming and outgoing
freight to 'such consignees as do not toe'
the mark,
We are not prepared to say anything
about i2 coal except that we are readv in
bet our Christmas dinner that the now
discredited, economic law of supply and de
mand wit) gain Its supremacy over prlo-,
xing nojmaiier flow supreme uio authority
V,i
Tom Daly's Column
BEDFELLOWB
Ain't no ona to otad aa me
When they's lady 'Company
Comet to visit us an' tlay
All that nlpht until tft day.
Ain't much tlecpln'-room at all
In our house If's made so small
But my Pa he'll altcayt 'low
We kin "double-up tomchow."
'Nen when all my prayers Is said
Ma she tucks me Into bed
'Way 'tcay over on ono side.
'Xen I feel real satisfied
To be sleepy an' to go
night sprang off, because I knous
When I 0ako fust thing Ul tee
Will he Pa In bed with me.
'.Yen for fiml I tell you what,
'Afs the time I have a lot.
I Jlst crawl on Pa an'' shake
His old head till he's aicake.
Vlrst he'll lay real still an' play
He's asleep an' goln' to stay.
'Xcn he'll raise up In the air,
Growl an' cut up like a bear
Come to eat me up, an' I
Laugh an' cqucal an' yell. O mvl
Wc jlst run things, me an' Pa,
Jtavln' lots o' fun, till Ha,'
In the next room, sex: "You. boys
Best git dressed an' quit that noise."
I wlslit every night 'at we
Might have lady-company.
COUSIN ELLEN
WHO REMEMBERS
ALL ABOUT THE
CIVIL WAR
TELLS US
That tho Mr. Cooper who started the
first Cooper Refreshment Saloon and who
was tho Mr. Hoover of hie day was a real
sure-enough coopei, because ho made
barrels and kegs at his shop near Swan
son street and Washington avenue. First
of all ho Just started on his own hook,
dealing out coffee and sandwiches to the
hungry soldiers who passed his place, and
by and by the neighbors chipped In and,
next thing you know, there wero great
long tables spiend out and thousands
upon thousands of soldiers were fed as
they camo ftom the tars on Prime street
und from tho ships lauding them at the
Navy Yard, which was right thero nt
Washington avenue then.
That they never had any troublo get
ting recruits thoso days. A flfo and a
drum would como down the street and
ono by one men would fall in line nnd
they'd bo taken to ono of the camps
whero they'd be sworn In.
That everything was very high at the
stoics, but there was always plenty of
money, except once when the Govern
ment didn't pay the soldiers for eight or
nine months, and ladies used to go around
among the soldiers' families paying out
fifty cents a week to them for tho support
of each child.
That everybody helped everybody else
and lots of families that hadn't been on
good terms before tho war got to be the
best friends ever you saw.
That war Is terrible, of course, but
some good's got to come out of It. For
she went through one and she's young as
she ever was.
In This Our Day
Some men by making both ends meet
- Bellevo themselves In clover,
But most men's Joy is not complete
Unless the ends lap over.
Our brief reference to Francesco Cesco
In a recent lssuo moves Dr. Howard S.
Anders to seize his pralseful harp and
elaborate upon tho themo.
"I doubt If many In Philadelphia," says
he, "have had oven tho slight Intimacy
which I enjoyed with Cesco for two brief
summer periods in Provlncetown, Mass.,
where ono can llvo tho simplo life best of
any coast resort I know.
"Your apostropho in proso about tho
oasis qualities of floral and horticultural
growth of Cesco's quaint little eating
place (restaurant smacks too much of a
lobster palaco or business men's hashcry)
was not too exuberant, at all.
"An Itnlian artist really owns the place
an old Colonlal-perloded fisherman's
cottage; gTeat place for mackerel you
can eat It dally for a month and not get
tired of it. You go up to his studio by
an outBldo staircase almost lost In vines
and garden-growth. Tho old rafters, wide
oak boards on the floors, low ceilings, odd
shelves, closets nnd Now England antique
fittings are charming. It's a regular ren
dezvous for some of tho Provlncetown art
colony that yearly busies Itself there
during tho summer months. The 'eats' are
Cesco's choice ho markets direct and
knows how to cater It a la royale to the
democracy.
"But you sho ild havo seen and heard
him ono blithesome afternoon in August,
happy and free as a lark, hatless, collar
less and coatless as usual, In white
trousers, singing Italian 'la-la's' to a
group of Yankee and Portuguese flsher
men at tho end of a picturesque old wharf
while lifting and tossing his Byronlo
head and thumping tho bottom of a tin
dishpan."
MELBA
The xeorld was ravished with a golden
voice,
Sunken now to a thin memorial dust.
And all those cars which shrined the
living tone
Time Is consigning steadily to rust.
A maglo metal dtso takes up the tale
For perpetuity, and spins the thrill
To unborn others; but new singers rise
And the divine voice must at last
lie still.
Yet one sure Immortality remains,
An Indissoluble among tho spheres
When history thall have dropped the
diva's name
"Peach Melba" will go ringing down
the years
STANLEY K. WILSON.
The other morning the P. U asked
editorially how much, the German people
havo been changed by the war, and our
own dear paper, with sisterly helpfulness,
comes right along and prints this:
A late report this afternoon said that
the British were in possesion of all of
Poelcappelle exsept the brewery. Ar6u4
WHERE
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A SIX-HOUR DAY
IN THE SCHOOLS
"A Rational Adjustment to Gain
the Modern Ends of
Education"
By A. S. MARTIN
Superintendent of Schools. Norrlstown, Pa.
THE Six-Hour School Day and Directed
Study Is a fundamental departure from
the short high school day of the statlo
school systems. It Is a rational adjust
ment to gain the modern ends of educa
tionpreparation to live In a teal world.
It provides a school day long enough to do
all required work In tho school and elim
inates the ell of home study Incident to
the short school day. The long school day
enforces the rights of tho citizen to have
the public school education take place In
tho building erected and equipped at public
expense for this purpose nnd under the di
rection of the teacher paid by the public
to do the teaching.
Directed study is essential because It Is
more Important to know how to study, how
to Investigate, than to know a limited num
ber of facts of knowledge ; directed work Is
desirable because a method of work In the
shop Is more valuable than the ability to
construct a limited number of articles of
wood or of metal. This direction so nec
essary 13 impossible when tho school day
Is short.
The short school day provides only for
the hearlng of classes. The building, with
ItB libraries, laboratories and shop equip
ments, is closed to the student until 0
o'clock In tho forenoon and after 2:15 or
2:30 In the afternoon. Tho teachers, as a
rule, do not begin their work before 8:30
and finish their work at 2:30 or a little
earlier. In fact, in certain Instances the
close of the school day begins a work dis
tinct from the service of the school dis
trict, but to the teacher of equal Interest
with his school work.
This anomalous control of the high
school building a control which excludes
the learner nineteen hours of the twenty
four compels home Btudy at night. The
stuaent suffers from the handicap of poor
facilities for study, lack of libraries, ap
paratus and intelligent direction. Twenty
per cent of all the high-school students do
not have the opportunity for home study
and 20 per cent have not the inclination for
study at night, and others need the stimulus
of systematic direction for effective study.
Defects of Short Day
School administrators who are more
solicitous of the welfare of the students
than of the ease of repeating traditional
programs, who nre more Interested in tho
scholarship and the efficiency of the student
body than in many hours of leisure which
the short school day brings, recognize the
defect of the short school day with ItB
haphazard study, and for this reason they
favor the longer.day with Its larger service
for the community. They recognize that
modern life requires a basio training in
academic subjects as welt as In vocational
sublects In English, mathematics. sclenxA
and history, and In manual training and
snopworn; sicnusrapny, DOOKiteeping and
typewriting; and domestic science and do
mestic art. The long school day Is neces
sary to do this work well.
The lack of adjustment of the length
of school day and the nature of the work
of many of the high schools are evident
when the number ot students who graduate
Is compared with the entire number enrolled
In. the high school Frequently failures
cause more to leave from discouragement
during a given year than the numcr of
graduates for that year. Tha aairram.tnc
of the statlo public high Behoofs w Known
In a general way. to the public notwithstand
ing that reports of the number jf failures,
the negative features of the school, are not
easily accessible to the general public
High school principals and teachers of
course know these facts, but readjustments
are seldom made by the high school facul
ties. ,
The teacher Is prone to view any change
from a narrow point of view because of
his restricted experiences of life, Many
teachers have taught ten, twenty or thirty
years and have never seen any other teach
er teach. I have known high school prin
cipals who taught many years and super
vised for a longer term of years and who
had never visited any other high school.
Teachers of this type do not have the
mental experience for the grasp of the
values of the teaching profession and for
ths interMetotkm ot the ideas of those
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least a day In twenty to observe the work
of other teachers and the management of
other systems of schools than those in
which they sene, it cannot be hoped to find
them enthusiastically on tho side of prog
less unless- progress Is defined ns Increased
wages, fewer hours and less work.
The six-hour day and directed study had
its Inception in the United States at Nor
ristown about five years ago. The plan was
brought to the attention of the superin
tendents of this country through a news
circular of the Commissioner of Education
at Washington a few months later. It has
since been adopted in many ot the cities
of the United 'States.
Teach Students How to Study
At a parent-teachers' meeting in the in
terest of the high school the superintendent
proposed a six-hour school day in addition
to fifteen minutes for devotional exercises.
His outline of the plan of six one-hour perl
ods providing for directed study during tho
first half-hour of each period and an in
tensive recitation during the second half
of the period for all academic subjects and
for hour periods for laboratory work and
two-hour periods for manual work was en
thusiastically received by parents and later
unanimously adopted by the Board of Edu
cation. Norrlstown had then the traditional
five-hour day.
The advantages set forth at that time for
such an arrangement were summarized as
follows:
First, The long day and long periods
offer an opportunity to teach the students
how to study and how to investigate and
work.
Second. It places the work of the school
whero It should be and under tho direction
of tho person particularly fitted to direct It.
Third. One-half hour of study, followed
by one-half hour of recitation, avoids fa
tigue and at the samo time places the stu
dent under tho teacher's Influence one hour
instead of forty-five mfnutes or less.
Fourth. Tho work will be done largely In
daytime and the fatigue and eyestrain due
to night study will be eliminated.
Fifth. The student will gain time. Under
tho old plan much time was wasted In
study because the student frequently studied
under conditions unfavorable. He frequent
ly did not know how to approach his work
and became discouraged and lost time.
Sixth. It Insures somo preparation by
every student. This will make tho teach
ing moro effective. When pupils aro ex
pected to prepare their lessons at home,
many fall to do so.
Seventh. The evening belongs to the home.
It Is the time for the family hour, for
social culture and for legitimate entertain
ment. It Is also the time for relaxation
and the time when the mind should be di
verted from the business of the day. It
will mean closer companionship of parents
and children during the high school period.
Eighth. This plan recognizes the rhythm
of life a time for wqrk, a time for re
laxation and enjoyment and a time for
sleep.
Under this plan students who carry the
minimum requirement, twenty-three hours
of work per week, will have one full period
for study in school each day In addition to
the half-hour prior to each lesson. Twice
a week they will have two hours In addi
tion to tho half-hour preparation before
each desson. Students who are permitted
to pursue an additional subject will have
a full hour for study twice a week only.
Students who cannot gain a good .standing
In (heir lessons by using all the available
time for study 'In school are urged to supple
ment the school work by study fit home
until a satisfactory standing Is attained.
"FUNNIEST THINGS IN WORLD"
A girl with a stunning figure, big brown
eyes, peach-like complexion and wavy black
hair, lovely enough to become the bride of
a prince,' stood around the Union Station
today watching and waiting. Finally hep
face became Illuminated; a spindly, weak,
eyed, undersized young man slouched In
sight, homely enough to stop a clock.
The two talked, and every once In a
while the prlncess-llke girl dabbed her eyes
with a handkerchief. At last a train puffed
In under the station ahed. The young man
waved an Indifferent good-by to the beau
tlful creature who clung to him sobbing
until he boarded the train and was carried
swiftly away.
Is he her brothor, her cousin or her
uncle? No, he is her beau. Girls are the
funniest things In the world. Topeka Gobe.
WHEN CROOKS FOREGATHER
Bulgaria was bought with German gold
to enter the war aa Germany's ally That
hurried trli n' the Kaiser to Horia i.
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QUIZ
1. When will the next teialon ot Conrrm
open.
2. Where is Outer Daj?
3. A famoii book beilne with thll tentD:
".in i. mil n umaea into tnree pin.
I. IVanclB of .Wis! waa one of the
il waa one of the ireatHt ;
alnts. Where la AhUI 111
or mriMinn satnl
when did Francis
fi. What ore Kmber nnd Koiatlon Dan?
ma met u
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0. What Is the cfflclal name of the telecthtl;
conscripted array?
? "We oho It, therefore, to candor and li
the nmirahls relations eilstlnr between
the United State and thoie rowera ta
declare tluit we ahould rontlder anr au
tern to any portion of this hemliphere u
flanceroua to our peace and safetr,"
(t-uipi on ineir parr to extend tneir trft-
f rum Hum aocument is inia aenienear
8. What does i tradual rise In the barometer
indicate?
0. Where 1 Rhodesia and for whom wsi it
named? ,
10. What la the allusion In the lajlnr, "A oeu
of pottate"?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. Reorie Yanromer (1TSS-08) sailed with Cap
tain Cook. lie, clrcumnnilfated Van
couver Island later. It is named for bun.
2. The naval battles off Doner Bank and Jut
land were fought January 24, 1019, ail
May 3t, 1916,
3. Tho Desert of Sahara Is in northern Afrlr.
J. The German Emperor Is flftr-eUht.
fi. Compensation law-st To compensate thus
Injured at their work,
a. Liberty Bonds nre netotlable.
7. Fresco: Water-color laid on wall or eeUhil
before plaster Is dry.
8. "The sands are ninnlns out"l referring U
the old way ot telling- time by the bow
class, the sand running from one compart
ment to another.
0. Paros, famous for Parian marble.
10. A kloskt. A light open paTlllon In Tnrbr
and l'erslni In France and Belsinav a
structure for the sale of newspapers, for
a bundstaod, etc.
A UNION LEAGUE IN POLITICS
aT ONE of the largest meetings It hu A
il held In many years, the Union Leajut
Club went stronelv on record last JUrh'
as Indorsing the candidacy of Mayor Mltchel
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uiiu ma ruiming inuies uu mo a-m..
tlcket. A resolution urging all Republlcaai.
"In loyalty tb their declared principles el
nonnartlsanshln In munlclDnl affairs," tft
work nnrt vnto for Slavor Mltchel WM
unanimously adopted. Charles E. Hughs jH
president of the club, presided. Virtual v
every prominent Republican In the clir-
was present.
It read:
"Whereas, Tho Union League Club, en Q
February 8, 1917. declared for tne cononu
tlon of nonpartisan city government uJ
net Maw V.it-lr nl nis..nt onlnva and UfffCd
the Republican organization to assist int.m
electing an anti-Tammany usion uu --
tViA rrtmltiw ail diHiiri nnrl
"Whereas. In the candidacy of Join
Furroy Mltchel for Mayor there is P""""r
not only the square Issue of honest, Intslllr
gent, nonpartisan administration agalnK
the demands nf nnrtlsanshll) and SPOlIWHUl"
ship, but also the square Issue of unwaver
ing and energetic co-operation oi mo "
nvrnmnt wlfl, th "E-ler&l AdmlnlltTH
tlon In the conduct of the war and the tw ,
presslon of sedition. In contrast ww
Jldlbus efforts to make political capital wltn.
lackers and obstructionists; and
"Whereas, The Republican party l com
mitted to the principle of municipal noa
n.i.H.nn.liln V.n Amhn,4laf1 that nrinCiP
In the State Constitution, and by statute
has absolved loyal partisans from an
ligation to vote party tickets in municip'
elections ; and . '
"Whereas, Nonpartisan candidates m
city offices are usually nominated uii" -j-j
party name and emblem only because m
llshed machinery for campaigning ana w
complications of the election law mae un
iimvciiicni ; uuu .,
Hwi..M.. rrn, f.,i iUn n nrlmary a.
tended by only a small minority of th B
nnhiLon .a.. AonitAH In a scparai
partisan candidacy, which can have je,
hope of success and can only '" "' 1
foes of honest city government. "" ',1
trlotlo national servico, In no wls chnr!
the duty of all good vcltlxens to co-opwaw.J
for the success nf the Fusion movement;..
"Resolved, That the Union L?8u 'Jlyf
indorses me canaiaacy oi ju " i.j,i
Mltchel and hlB associates on the ."fil'JJ
ticket, and urges all Hepumicana. - a
atty to their declared principles ofJ'PjJ
partisanship in municipal affairs, to wwjj
and to vote for Mr. Mltchel and pis i "' a
luw candidates to the end that New J
may continue to have honest and expanp
atentlon given to its aamimsirsiiTf r
Urns and that the open ana "" .
mies of our country may e 4J"
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