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ETONItfG PUBLIC iDEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1919 -'Trwr.
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WITWIER WOULD TEST
SCHOOL BOARD iVIINDS
University Professor Proposes
Psychological Test of Mental
ity of 'Archaic" Body
' Dr. Llghtncr "vYitmer, professor of
psychology at the University of Penn
(tylvaola, offers to hate the members of
what ho terms the "archaic Board of
Education" examined psychologically to
determine their "Intelligence, intellec
tual capacity, general Information and
Initiative."
The offer Is made In a itatomcnl Is
sued by Doctor 'Witmcr in which he
pleads for reform In the method of In-
structing backward pupilf, fu the teuools
' of. this city.
School teachers here will never pet
adequate salaries from the Board of
Education, the profesffor asserts. He
advises them to organize tor higher
salaries.
All the funds derived from an in
crease of $3,000,000 In school taxes
would advaneo teachers' salaries 45 per
cent, ho said, compared with a 75 per
cent advance In the cost of living sinre
1015.
Doctor A Hour's Statement
Doctor, Witmer's statement, in part,
fallows :
"It is camouflage for, Doctor Garber
and Doctor Wheeler, propagandists of
the Board of Education and probably
acting under Mr. Gratz's orders, to prc
' sent an array of public school activities
showing that our public school sjstom
is not lacking in kindergartens, classes
for backward children, high schools nnd
other features which are an integral
part of the public school system cvetj
wherc. "When you are inquiring Into
the productivity of a field, you will not
be satisfied by the exhibition of a bushel
oi potatoes, even though they are big
potatoes and of good quality. You. will
ask how many potatoes the field Vro
duced to the acre and at what cost in
Mm, labor and money. Tho efficiency
of the public schools is to be measured-
in terms of its product me hciiooi
children of Philadelphia, the majority
of whom leave school to go to work at
or before tho age of sixteen.
"Jou arc losing $8,000,000 a jear,
largely because of the control exercised
over" your schools by privilcgo nnd
wealth in the person of Simon Grata,
their most powerful and conspicious
agent. t
The Backward Children
"Fifty per cent of-your children who
go to work at or before the ago of
KTppn have cither failed to complete
a six -year course of instiuction in eight
years or more or-they have completed
this course only after they have lost two
years or more. These arc the back
ward children of the Philadelphia public
schools. It is camouflage to all the
orthogenic classes, of which there arc
100 in Philadelphia, -classes for 'back
ward' children, for at least 80 per cent
of these children arc feeble-minded, nnd
many of them are imbeciles of low
grade. -
"From the report of the supcunteud
ent of education I obtain the facts
from which I estimate that at lcast-UO.-000
children begin work every year. At
least one-half of these 10,000 chil
dren are two years late in getting to
work because they arc two years or
more backward in their progress. If n
boy or girl can earn $S a week, or
.$100 a year, each and every backward
child produced by tho Philadelphia
school system is costing the working
people of the city $S00 in two years.'
loss of wage.
, Assails Compulsory Sludy
"The total loss to tho wage-earners
otfblladclphia is 58,000,000. Put this
down in the bill when jou take the
control of the. schools from the agents
of privilege and wealth.
"An elaborate survey is not necessary
to establish the i dative competency of
the fifteen members of the Board of
Education. ' Very simple tests, which I
would be glad to make without expense
to the city, enable an examining psy
chologist to assign each and every mem
ber of the board to his relative rating
with respect to intelligence) intellectual
capacity, general infoimation and 'initi
ative. .
"Turn from Mr. Gratz and his asso
ciates on the Board of Education to the
' superintendent's ofhee nnd leurn to un
derstand and nppieciati the significance
and value'of jour supeiintendent's ic
' port for 1017. Po not nsk tho Phila
delphia Board of Education for an in
crease in wage to compensate jou for
the increased cost of living, but join
the union recently formed in affiliation
with thoyVmerlcan Federation of Labor.
"You will never get a juht wage fiom
or through the Philadelphia Board of
Education. You will get it onlj when
you unite to demand it from the reluc
tant hand of piivllege nnd wealth.
"And again; I nsk the workers of
Philadelphia to listeu. Mr. Gratz hah
' control over tnq assessment of the
houses which you own or in which jou
live and pay rent. He sajs that Phila
delphia is a city of homes and he
doesn't like to raise the tax1 rate on
your homeSi He ulso controls the as
sessed values of the homes and business
houses of the rich, and is just as anx
ious not to raise, the assessment on
these) although he makes no boast about
it.
"Indeed, tho anxiety of Mr. Gratz
and his associates to keep the real es
tate owned by men of privilege and
wealth from being unduly taxed has led
to such Inequalities of assessment, that
uutll he publishes the assessed nlues of
real property lu Philadelphia, you arc
justified in believing that the burden of
taxation rests more heavily upon you
thun it docs upon the class whose inter
ests Mr. Gratz to zealously guards."
BULLET ENDS FLIGHT
OF ALLEGED HOLD-UP
Man Near Death After Patrol
man Who Interrupted Rob
bery Attempt Fifes
ACTRESSES OF YESTERYEAR
ADMIT MUSICAL COMED Y ART
Women From Edwin Forrest Homo, Guests of Ioru liases,
Compare Modem Theatre With That in
Which They Were Stars
Walter Thompson, who gave an ad
dress on Thirteenth street abovo Spring
Garden, wns probably fatally shot bv
Patrolman Miller, of the Tenth and
nuttonwood streets station", when he
and a companion, it Is alleged, were
interrupted in the act of robbing James
Durrau, of Jamestown, N. Y., at Thir
teenth nndNectarine streets shortly
after 2 o'clock yesterday morning.
According to the story of their victim,
Thompson and Daniel Douglas, Ninth
and Knee streets, approacnea anu asisea
fnr 'match. When Mr. Durran nut
his hand in his pocket to comply with
the request one of tnem saw :
"You migk as well give us your
money at the same time.
Then one or me nignwnymen urew a
revolver and had covered him when Pa
trolman Miller came round the corner.
Seeing him, tho men btarted running
down Nectarine street and the polico
mua called to them to halt. 'When they
refused he fired once to frighten them.
This had no effect nnd he opened n fu
sillade, with the result that Thompson
was shot four times in tile body. He is,
at the Hahnemann Hospitn), where he h
not expected to live.
Douglas gave up the flight and sur
i eudercd.
FAITH IN PROHIBITION
Anti-Saloon League Official Appeals
for Enforcement of Law
"The eighteenth amendment is the
nation's law. It Is the law of the na
tion's God. We believe it will be en
forced. We must elect men who have
respect for the eighteenth nmendment
and fidelity to the oath to.carry it out."
This is the gist of n sermon by the
Rev. Homer W. Tope, district supci -iutendent
of the Anti-Salooh League,
who spoke last night in the Third Bap
tist Church, Gcrmantown.
"In tho lull between July 1 and Jan
uary 1, liquor men tell us, the luw will
not be enforced," said the Rev. Tope.
"The nature of the corrupt politician
has not been changed. Hence we must
remember that the work is but begun:
that eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty. I do not believe that the law -less
clement will triumph. This ele
ment has been against local option,
stnte-vvidc prohibition, Sunday closing
laud pure food rcgulatious for jcnit,."
WOULD GUARD- EXPLOSIVES
U. S.'Mlne Director Asks Leglslia
tures to Continue Reforms
Washington. April 21. An nppe.il
to State Legislatures to enntt laws whit li
will continue the reforms brought about
bv the wartime federal statute pro
hibiting possession of dangerous explo
sives by irresponsible and crimiunl per
sons, was made yesterday by Van II.
Mnnning, director of mines.
The federal law, passed solely as a
war measure, which was meant to
keep explosives from the hands of dyna
miters, bomb throwers and alien ene
mies with evil intent, will expire upon
the ratification of peace by the Senate.
"Musical comedv' Why, we lore
it'"
This confession comes from six gentle
old ladies who were tho fair Ophelias
and the tragic Juliets and the romantic
Rosalinds when the world was almost
a half a century younger. They nre
now spending the closing years of their
lives at the Edwin Forrest Home,
Holmesburg, Pa On Saturday they
were the guests of Nora Bayes at her
malnec performsnee at the Lyric
Theatre.
In the pride of their beauty they
numbered among the best in the do
livery of heroic interpretations. They
were destitute of the trick aud artifice
of the modern Mace They represent
the older mellow manner of acting, and
jet they "love" musical comedy.
"It's beenusp we folks of the stage
somehow always stav young." said
Mrs. Carrie Lee Stojle, who is sixty -seven.
"When I was very jouug I
came from England, and I did the so
called legitimate work nnd I acted in
tho good, old-fashioned way, which I
adore because it is so wholesome nnd
sincere. But 1 changed with the
years, so that mv last role was with
annle ward In 'Madame President.'
"No. The old method of strutting
and fretting your little hour on the
stage is n thing of the past. In the
davs long ngo we cherished our distinct
conventional method Hut thn new,
more restrained, vet franker method,
provided therp is honest sincerity be
hind it, is the finer for these days. And
mostlr, I must admit, because that's
the kind of ncting the niidiences want.
"May I miv this for Norn? T think
she is the most delightful, legitimate
musical comedian on the stage today.
She is charming."
Amv Lee, of the original Girard Ave
nue Stock Company, whoso repertory,
at one time extended down the entire
list of drnmatlc heroines, believes that
an actor cannot burlesque well unless
he or she can do the "legitimate" well
"It's like n carirnturlst," he snid
"He cau't iirtfullv draw a funnv man
at all. unless ho can rlrnw n renl man
well. How could he burlesque a poMuro
if he didn't know how to mnke the pos
ture'' Nora Bajes can do Shakespeare
iut as well as she can burlesque I
know, for I've seen her do Shake
speare "
"I think there is a kind of burlesque
that is thoroughlv artistic." (.aid Mrs
John Jack, widow of the relehrated
"Palstaff " Mrs. Jack's stage name
wns Annie Tinnan She will be remem
bered bv the older membeis of the fnm
ilv, espetiallv for hei portrnval of Lndy
Tenzle, in Sheridan's "A School for
Scandal."
"Such acting tlc-ervrs n grnprnus
place on our stage However, I know
the younger actors will forgive mo when
I tonfesM I have n strong affection for
the sweet nrtors of my dnv, who had,
besides mcie hitorlonic abilitv. a poetic
vision and n 7cal to create a living char
acter."
Old in bodv, but very young in spirit.
these melting Desdomonas of jears ngo
smiled through tho merllev of songs,
jokes and dancing. Miss Svtlnej Cow ell,
long associated with Sir Charles AVvnd-
ham, nnd Miss Ada Oilman, of tho old
Boston Museum, and Miss Limit Lewis
heartily indorsed the sentiment favoring
musical Comedv with reservations, of
course. Reservations expressed in the
wistful silence or modulation of their
volets rather thau in actual words
"The stage totiav is t harming e
t,iemely charming. However I"
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Our Own Stocks
Values to $29.75
Those lovely ruffled frocUs, tliose with
tunics and others artistically draped.
Choice of silk satins taffetas and those
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wool Beiges and JersejB in moio talloictl.
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Women's Spring SUITS $
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All-wool serges and popUno in new ttyles.
Girls' Gingham'
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Hundreds of Philadelphia Homes and Seashore and Mountain Collages Will be
Made More Comfortable During the Warm, Lazy Days to Come by This Great
Display of Summer Furniture
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Children's Sprinff
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C'f navy blue serge tJ7VU
IRM in our belief that here in the "City of Homes" there are more people 1
interested in beautifying the home and making it more livable, than in any
other single community in the world, we have made unusual preparations
in the assembling of our Summer Furniture for the coming season. We
have provided more Furniture and a greater assortment than ever before.
Great care has been taken in the selection of styles, and we have rigidly barred
all that is garish and unworthy, choosing only the artistic and the reliable.
Most important of all customers have our assurance that prices are the
lowest consistent with honest quality andgood taste:
A Wealth of Attractive, Artistically Chosen Styles
for Cottages, Bungalows, Porches, Lawns and Gardens
Beautiful New I A
Reed Furniture
How Many
Rooms Has
Your Home?
Have jou ever considered the
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providing a light cool, airy EXTRA
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Tlilnlv how much of jour time
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summer dajs It Ih the most popu
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entire household from early morn
iliff until lonp after nightfall
It requires but little to mako the
transformation A screen or two,
perhaps a rug and a reading lamp,
a few moderately priced cretonne
cushions and ono or more com
fortable pieces selected from this
l'urnlture Display.
Willow Furniture
In addition to the Dec
orated styles we have a
large assortment in he
"natural, finish which can
be decorated according to
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If you have some particular color
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wo un execute the vvorlt, or ou
um choose vour i retonne cushion
materials ami draperies from tho
hundreds of different patterns In
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dot orated to match effectlel
Pi Ices r.itiRO from in undecorat
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orated fhaji s at $0 50 to a hand
Home 5-piei.H Suit, enameled In
gray nnd black, with effective color
harmonics of blue and red carried
out In the cretonne-covered cush
ions and backs at $175 Wl
In styles and finishes closely confoiminp to the
most recent decorative ideas. The popular finishers
are white, ivory'and brown with cushions of tastefully-chosen
cretonne. A great variety of prices
from $5.50 for an ivory-tinted Footstool, to a coloiful
Suit of 3 pieces, with cretonne cushions and back,
at $85.
Reed-Fibre Pieces
at Moderate Prices
Extiemely durable and rivalinp the Reed Turni
ture in beauty of designs. Practical blown and ivoty
finishes, with cictonne cushions and upholsteiinjr in
many bright and attractive patterns. Pi ices from
$2.75 for a child's. Chair to $61.50 foi an atti active,
comfortable-looking Suit of i pieces.
New Idea in the Old
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lb the painted piects in distinctively novel and
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have an excellent assortment of the popular rustic
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range fiom a tustic Tabouiet at $1.75 to $37.00 for a
3-piece Suit, in the new two-tone effects.
Rustic Cedar Porch p
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Scores of excellent pieces which will lend ne'w
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Chans, Benches, Gateways, Aibors, Summer Houses
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Also a Beautiful Collection of Quaint Painted Furniture Single Pieces and Com
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Long Cloth, Muslin
Long Cloth, 36-inch, in 12-yaid
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Long Cloth, 36-inch 35c a yd.
Bleached Muslin, 36-inch 25c
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33-inch Linen-finish Suiting
Muslin 31c a yard.
Mraubritlso & t lothl'r Aisln 11 lenlre
Time to Think of
Fur Storage
Wise people aie aheady plac
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Fur Rugs, Velvet Suits and
other winter appatel in our
splendidly equipped Cold Stor
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They know that by doing so
now" they pi event any early
season activity of mother moth,
and they aie insured against
anv possibility of loss or damage
while the things are in our care.
Prices aie moderate and are
based on ovvneis' valuations.
straw bridge & Clothier
t-pionl Tloor. Tilbfrt Street
The Great Semi-Annual
Sale of Floor Coverings
STANDARD RUGS in every desirable
weave and all wanted carpet sizes at savings of
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CARPETS every good make, including full
rolls and remnant lengths.
LINOLEUMS in more than one hundred
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ORIENTAL RUGS in room and small
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Men's New
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.Savings of one-thud and
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Player Rolls, 50e
HLRC'S A HIT:
"The Kiss 'I hat Made Me Cry"
'I iv it, and follow it up with
'Micl,ev." "Ja-Da." "Chong,"
"Maiy," ,ind then
"If You Ixiok in Her Ejeb."
Followed by giand finale of
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"Redemption of Alsace-Lorraine"
You will have a whole spring
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Flf'h I loo West
Boys' Mixed Cheviot Suits
Below Regular Price, $7.85
A special lot of 200 Suits of mixed cheviot, for boys of S to 17
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Boys' New Wash Suits, $3.75 and $4.00
Middy Suits, a style that boys like. Of plain fast-color .cham
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trd s, neauy ln'e11ir3g L Clo Al-Second Floor Filbert Str.et Eatt
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A VICTORY CONCERT
The Stravbridge & Clothier Chorus
Fifty Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra
and Four Prominent Soloists
Mrs. Mae Ebrey Hott, Sopiann Walter Pontine, Tenor
Miss Mabelle Add-on, Contialtfi Ptotr JI iszla. Baritone
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Wednesday Evening, April 30
A retrospect of epochs and episodes in American Historj, illus
trated bj music, verBe and tableaux A novel and varied program,
including Indian and Negro songs, ballads, martial and patriotic
rompositioii3, including 'THE CALL TO FREEDOM," by Victor
Herbert, and the "HYMN 01' PEACE."
RESERVED SEATS now on sale at Main Desk, at S5e, 50c
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Proceeds for the Straw bridge & Clothier Pension Fund.
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Cotton Damask and Napkins
Six of our exclusive designs in heavj Mercerized Cotton Damask,
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Danutsk Sac a yard. Napkins $225 a dozen.
Half-linen Huck Face Towels, special, $4.80 a doz.v
Face Towels with hemstitched damask border, at such a remark
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