rtrv s - i j r !,i. f. fcwt ' m EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEK PHILADELPHIA', TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919 15 GALDI SAYS SCHOOL EDICT INSULTS ITALY Omission of Italian Tongue From Optional Languages Hero Is Protested Against Announcement by the public schools 'Authorities thnt Latin, Orcek, French nntl Spanish will be optional In the higher schools hero has caused Cheva lier O. C. A. Ilaldl to protest nn 111 icgcd uiscriminaiion against uio itnnn tongue. Chevalier Daldl, ns president of the Federation of Italian Societies of Phil adelphia, lias written an open letter to Dr. Gcorgo AVhcelcr, associate superin tendent of schools, protesting against omission of tho Italian language from tho list announced. "You may tako out tho German lan guage so that when wo light again wc may not know what tho enemy Is sny ing nnd I find no fault," the chtvalier wrote, "but) when you discriminate against tho language of Dante, the lan guage of the discoverer of this country, the language of Mazzinl, Garibaldi. D'Anuuuzio, Ilixzo, Millo, DiaK nnd Marconi tho language of fiOO.OOU killed. 3.000.000 muUlatcd nnd 1!000 blinded, I must protest in tho name of 200,000 people who, though I have not consulted them, I am satisfied will agree with me that you have offered an Insult to nil the Italian blood thnt was shed to gain tho victory that wo arc enjoying today." THE VIM Leather Shop makes a greater variety of mechanical leather products than all other American leather man ufacturers combined. E. F. HOUGHTON & CO. 240 W. Somerset Street Philadelphia Ban Placed on Paregoric Paregoric, by reason of ltn being n habit-forming' drug habltunlly used by nddicts, will not bo sold nor supplied by members of the Philadelphia Assocl fift.iti nf Uphill nriicciuts without i physician's prescription. That decision ' wa reached at u meeting of the asso ciation. 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