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All rlohts of republication of special dlspatchct herein nre also reserved. rhiUJrlpliii. ilurdijr, April 2). 19:1 ARE THE REFORMERS ASLEEP? A HK the voters who believe in Rood gov " eminent for Philadelphia going to let the Yare-Cutininghum-Hrowii-Wcglcin pn litlcnl thimblcsrlggers do nil the talkiiijr for thrni nt llnrrisburg during the 'Oinms week as they haw during the last month'.' If they arc. they may ns well resign them selves to seeing a tine i-rop of tricky laws, devised to hamper the present ndininistrn tion nnd defeat the reforms tlie voted for In September and November, 1010. slipped throtiRh the Legislature. The reform element has not done much to make Itself felt for good. It hns been quiescent most of the time. It hns been trusting pretty largely to the good faith and veto pen of Governor Sproul. This is not the right course. "With a Legislature influenced by more corrupting factors than have marshaled their forces on Cnpitol Hill in many sessions, the eminently respectables- are taking a lot for granted. Governor Sproul has made pledges to wive the city churter from evil tinkering, and he has been a tower of strength In this direction. Hut it is not fair to put the Tthole burden on him. He has more thfau this particular section of the state to look out for. nnd his hands should be strength ened by come showing of alert anil intelli gent public interest on tlio cltj s behalf out side of the jobholding professionals. Itcform ought to be militant against the things "the bojs" want to put ocr. It ought to be forthright and outspoken. The Job Combine know-, what it wants and is not ashamed to ask for it. even to barter for it. If reform is not sleeping more soundly than old Hip it w ill get bus) nnd show the members of the House what It thinks of the sneaky Aruu amendment, which is in tended to revive the business of the largest street 'leaning contractor in the world, now sndly languishing. The protest ought to go to llnrrisburg with a roar. Let the reformers see that the Aron bill is Killed positively and unmistakably as an indication of public sentiment in this city, rather than letting it rcipiire the over worked veto ux of the (ioernor. That would be a heartening sign even nt this late daj in the session. PRINCETON'S BENEFACTOR Till' iimiciuiif nifiir that diic of the new dormitories nt I'ruiccron I'nitersity was to be named for M. Taylor Ptne in recogni tion of his vertices ts made n few cla.ts before the ileal h of tli.it gentleman yes tercla.t . Mr I'jne, wlio was graduated from Princeton in 1ST", had been a member of Its board of tcustccs for many .tears, lie devoted himself to its mterots and gave generouslj to its needs It was lifting that he should be honored b hating a building named for him. ami all those who believe In saying nice things about a man who de serves them vttilln lie Is alive will icjoico that Mr Pt in knew before he died of the honor that was to be done him. HUGHES ON IMMIGRATION TT IUTTAI.IA nil i.f southern nnd east ern Kuriipi' wi'ie not one vast trap, the port of the I 'hi t '! Stall's would have been flogged before now with a tide of immigra tion siieh ns no (otinlt.t in the world ever was culled upon to fin Hewildered Imidi's in nil the distressed countries the sick, the unfit, the embit tered, the I'etol'ttionnri think of the I'nlteil States ns the aternge man is nccu. tinned to think of heaten Poverty holds them Illicit The nre hedged about bv military regulations The) uinnot lind transportation in Europe And if all who want to i nine to AiivrHii ii-uld reach the Atlantic ports there wouldn't bo ships enough on tin an to enrr.t them. Jut as order is leslored the heavy tide will m prense Seeretart Hughes t unlit suites the case in tin' retiiest for iiumediati restriction of immigration which he l,ns recently trims Jn.ltcil to I'oiigress. .Mr Hughes ought to be ll-liiii'd to nnd, upparentl) , Congress is in a mood to listen to him, an mteiesting fact prut id bt the passage of the restriction bill ji'sti-idut .A RAILROAD THEORY Dlt.' I:MHY It. .KtllNsilN .hose the proper platform from which to net forth his p'nu foi the solution of the inllroiid problem. It was the sneaker's sinnil nt the meeting of the Auiirnau Philosophical As. socintiou Dr. Johnson's plan in n ''in 1iii i ai the present luoment 1 1 mat be ideall) jierfeit, but there is no likelihood of its adoption in all its delnils for inn nt tears to come. In brief, it provides for the diminution of nil state eontri'l mer railroads nnd for turning the dircitlon of intrastate ns well ns of interHtnie con, nunc oter to tin fid eral goteiiiuicnl In order In bring this about Dr Johnson would have the uiilroads Incorporated by the fedi'inl government mid brought iiuder the dlicct iniitrol of Wiisliiiigtnn Some thing of this kind has been urged for .tears, not oul) for railroads, bin for nil big cor porations engaged in interstate i omuieri e. Ilut nothing has ionic of ii. There bus been teluctnnce to concentrate nnv moie potter In the national capital than is now exeictsed there Ilut no one kuowt, when this re luclancc will disunpeni Part of Dr Johnson s p'an is nliendt provided for bill ft is a pni't hn has litlle relation to cderul coutrol uti'fj it be ru I f gnrded ns the prepnrntlon for thnt coutrol. It Is the consolidation of the ronds Into great groups. The Ksch-Cununlns law ar ranges for this, but ml steps linve been taken for carrying out the plan. The crea tion of n transportation board of from Uirec to five members, to have executive control of. nil the railroads', ns suggested by Dr. Johnson, hns not been seriously con sidered in any responsible (tinrter. Yes. the Philosophical Society wns the proper plncc for Dr. Johnson to set forth Ills tnilrond itrogriun. It could be consid ered there ns tin exposition of theory, nnd discussed as such. There may come n time In the distant future when it will enter the realm of practical legislation. A PROGRAM SO GOOD IT HAS TO BE ADOPTED The Legislature Has Already Passed the Teachers' Salary Bill and the Other Educational Reform Measures Are Near Approval rplll' passage by the House by an nlmost - unanimous vote of the bill ("renting n State Council of I'ducntlon, following the passage b) both houses of the Legislature of the teachers' snlnry bill, put the Gov ernor's educational program in n fair wny of accomplishment. Governor Sproul urged in his nnnunl mes sage the abolition of the Stute Hoard of IMueation and of the College nnd Univer sity Council nnd the substitution for them of n State Council of I'ducntlon to take over their duties, lie also urged a law requiring proper qualifications for teachers and guaranteeing adequate pny to t'uiiort possessing those qualifications. ! it's recommended u fuller utilization Ct ' normal schools, an niucndment of the enni pulor education law so ns to Insure better educational opportunities for the children nnd an increase in the aid given bj the state to public education. The teachers' salary law, which also fixes stnmlnrds of fitness, is now before him, and of course he will sign it. The law cannot be enforced ns it should be unless the Legis lature provides the money to pay the state's slinre of the increased salaries. The Legis lature cannot be so illogienl ns to refuc to consent to the levenuo measures needed to raise the mone.v . The purpose of the bill ct eating a Council of I'dtientiou is to concentrate educational supervision in one body. The plan was recommended by Dr. 1'inegnn, the state superintendent of public instruction, ns part of his program for raising the educa tional rank of Pennsylvania from the twenty-first among the states to ns near the top Us he could get it He and the Governor hnve been co operating In good purpose op they could not hnve secured the approval of tlie legislators to as mm li of the scheme ns has x been adopted. Their case was so strong, how ever, thnt It hns been necessary to do little more than to stnte it to secure the approval of the lawmakers. There is no politics in it ns that term is commonly understood. lis sole purpose is to benefit the schools nnd through them to benefit the -people of the stnte. The control of public education and the chartering of degrce-grnnting institutions nre to be conicntrnted in the new stnte council, presided over by the superintendent of public instruction. It is understood thnt it is the dclre of the Governor nnd of Dr. Pinegnii that the new council shall be as vvjdcly rep resentative ns possible. It is to hnve nine members. The present State Hoard of L"d ucntion has onlv six. The members nre intended to be the representatives, not ol the schools, but of the tthole people of the state. This is because' it is believed that the direction of the genernl educational policy of the state should be In the hands of representatives of the people nnd not in the hands of professional educational ex perts. The experts can be trusted to enrr) out the policy when once the people have decided what it is to lie. If merchants and manufacturers and pro fessional men and fanners sit in the council the relation of the s bonis to nil sorts of Industry urn be governed more lntelligi ntly and with better results than by nnj nthei plan. The fanners, who nre interested in the eduintion of their children nnd also in the cultivation of their land, can give val uable advice ns to the most expedient length of the school )cnr. And the manufacturers are entitled to be heard mi the relation of child labor to education. No manufacturer, commissioned to consider the whole educa tional problem, could iirge a lelnxntion of the compulsory education laws for th benefit of his industrv. lie would be coin pilled by his desire to fulfill his functions n a gunrdinn of the )outli to take other matters into consideration. There would grow up in him what Gilbert Muriat has Intely culled profos.lonnl pride, which would impel hiiu to be as good an educational councilor as it was in him to be. There is sound pstclmlogt back of the plan of the Governor and 1 r I'lmgim to enlist busiijess men in the work of inising the standards of the schools Thev nn find men among the yonn. Ofill population of the cotniiionwinlth who will be glad to give their tune to this publii work and who will take pride m it POLITICS AND PATRONAGE TIIK nomiiiatioii of Gmige V. Aldndge. of Hoeliester. to be collector of the pott of New York brings nine more into promi nence u mnn who hns been nbhntred b the reformers for tnant yius Mr. Aldridg" i a politician of llie old school. He ha- pint id the game without too man) scruples He has been fnitlif.il to his friends nnd icleiitless to Ins emmiis, nnd in spile of nil the attacks made upon bun he has mnn.igul to hold his own for a generation He is now to" fill the most ini portnii: presiib ntial olhce to be glvi n lo nny New i oik politician It Would be possible, if one were so in clined, to write to his disi'iedit n long hoinilt on the staudaid- that Mr Harding has set up to guide him in the distribution of patronage. Ilut it is probable that he has set out merelt to deal with the material at hand and that he has decided to lefruin from involving himself in nil the complica tions that would follow if he should try to refoim his pnrtv in n wa) to suit tlnj ex treme reformers Mr Aldndge s a i npahlc man and lie will probably ninke a go id collector That he is also u piilitn urn will not be held against him save bt those who think that politic should be I mi lit peoplr who do not know an) thing about tin siiliji . t SOMEBODY SLEPT A SHOUT disputi h hus i nine oter the news lines to innnuuuic n slight earthquake slim k in Los ugelis t iniue from Los Angeles diuct. and for thai n a son it was the most astonishing bit of news in the papers. Weie tic prcs agents for California, for tin- Paradise of America, the Land of Dreams, the Land of Heart's Desire, asleep V Now mid then nt long intervals Los Angeles experiences slight Mirth tremors. Hut it is not considered proper to do any thing but go quietly about tour business when a trembler nn urn and attribute the disturbance In u slight attack of veitigo lluck a citizen of Los Ansebs in a i orm r and insist thnt the earth trembled dightl.t nnd lie will sny that there inustihnve been n new n ivlng picture merger at IIIollj wood or that Charlie Chaplin was smitten with a new Idea. In the gray of this mornlni;, therefore, the people of Los Angeles probably beard n rulllc of drums in the streets, .trie smmd of sliullling feet and of a strong liinu weep ing, and, a little Inter, n gust of gunfire, followed, ns the novelists sny, by the silence of denth. Tor one might safely wnger good money thnt the Pi ess Agent In Chief 'of the Loveliest City in This or Other Worlds, who slept nt the switch, was marched forth nnd shot nt sunrise. There oojild not bo an cnrtli tremor In Los Augcl-.'s'! It Isn't permitted. THE DECOY FAILS "AAE AIlK "iro"u,B ourselves," laments VV one Ilerlln newspaper, the Lokal An zelger, "helpless into the linnds of.n man whose message showed how far lie wns ie moved from German ideas and jeutlmcnts." How on earth was this conclusion reached? What, besides facts, remained to guide fliis sensntlonal German editor, who actually anticipated the tenor of Secretary Hughes' note? A little more of this sort of observation and Germany will begin to understand that only a few jenrs ago we raised ngninst her the greatest nrmy in our history; that we fought our wny to victory side by side with several of the nations of western ICurope, nnd thnt we nre not yet in n state of pence. Meanwhile. Mr. Hughes may be counted upon to be terse, prompt nnd explicit. His reply to an invitation from n nation with which we nre technically nt w.r to mediate between her nnd n grotvm of nations with which she is technically nt pence is one of the timellejt of state documents. Consid eration is promised for new German repara tions proposals, nnd the propriety of pass ing them on lo ;'. Allies ls'n nubject that fill rcnlrc lUontlon. Less than this the I'nlted States .ovvt-ii'-.ior.t coiAeJ hcarccly do In the sittintii)u. Anything more nf this time is out of the question, and n definite "No" disposes of the fantastic mediation ofter. The temptntlon to denounce such nn iden n mad Is modified by present knowledge and past acquaintance with German impu dence nnd propngnndn methods. It wns impudence from Herlln which hurled us suddenly into partnership with the Allies in the world war. It is Impudent miscon ception of our nttitude concerning the tieaty of Versailles that is discoverable in the clumsy German effort to drive n wedge be tween her former foes upon the battlefield. Propagandists, who hnve been .repeatedly blundering ever since the challenge was flung to civilization in 1,014, have unques tionably been stirring again, and with the customary consequences. It is not too much to sny thnt never since the bickering over the peace treaty began hnve the sentiments of America nnd the Allies been more closely in accord than nt this moment. It is a case of the German folly of 1017 all oter again. The mass of American public opinion, despite abiding criticism of the treaty and fears of punitive excesses, is without doubt solldl.v behind Great Hritain and France in the determination to prevent German) from wriggling out nf her obligations. The ex posure of n marplot nnd Pecksniff is com plete. .Mr. Hughes, ns n professional statesman, has succeeded admirably in keeping his tem per. Tirades against German v will not expedite the peine which is n world neces sity. It Is possible both to I eject obvious traps and to suggest an opening for negotia tions which sooner or later must be con summated. The compact wording of the secretary of Mate's note, dispatched within three hours of the receipt of a request steeped in bathos, significantly urges Gcr mnnv to cease sulking. There can be no doubt that If a new in demnities proposal were sufficiently in ac cord with actualities tills government would forward the program. The advance into Germany, fears of which have induced that count r.v to address, (he I'nlted Stales in such fawning terms, might then be uverted bv constructive negotiations. There is sound statesmanship in this aspect tif the case as viewed b) Mr. Hughes, just ns there is vigorous common sense in Ins flat repudiation' nf a childish decoy. CABLE HARMONY IN PROSPECT THK Stute Department, it is said, hns evidence of n virtual noccptanro b) 1'iaiice and Japan nf the principles govern ing the American irv of the cables con trovers) This-development Is constriinblc as a somewhat' more accurate index of the status of the Yap dispute tlinn can lie glenned from cither the Californinii or the Japanese press, Tokio has not replied hastily to Mr. Hughes' lur communication. In this in stance debi) may be constructive, for not withstanding the emphasis flint has been accorded the American position, it is vuutli remembering that we have mlvnnccd no clnini for thc possession of what is actually an insignificant Pacific islet and that ngree mi nt legaidlng the cables there would re lieve what has been called tension. If the general outlines of cable settip. ment are envisaged, there is prospect of arranging the details. The program of this government would nssign the line from Gunm to Yap to this country, while s,inc tinning Japanese control of the line running north from the island. The untangling of the cable snail, eten in principle, while it .would not suite the pending problem nf the Jnponcsc inundate, could hardly fail to exert a beneficent in fluencc. Itnmniaiis mil) tnke comfoit in the fact that the William Slinki-speare who was born .""" .tears ago today wns not the au thor of tho plats thnt bear bis mime It ls nlmost impossible to nccomplish nun h on u first biitliday. , What the cable companies lose i)(. world gains bv the sort of verbal economy practiced by Churles I'ruus Hughes The Pennsylvania. Legislatuie of 1 ; I hns only five more days to live, o duith, vvheie is thy sling? Attacking the I-'instein theory is aiconi pnnied by all the ilifliculties of lighting the unknowable. If they keep on spelling it motnrhusses the jo.vriile censorship will soon have to bu invoked. German c who remembered tin- song, "Tbe Ml Never Helicve Me, ' sang on the key . LOVE THOUGHTS j i Adapted from the Poets) rpHL Wooer speaks: " O in) hive's like a red. ied s( renin That's iitteied bj n loonl I) 111) lute's like a meloilli That's nitwits out o' tune. Sac s.'tft I would t lion wcit, my lass, As cleei) in love am I, And I will woo theelike nn ass Till u ' my Jul. gangs di). The Wooed ThillkH: Airy, fairy German) . Scar), prnjery Germany ; Passionately gasping, "Love us!" After having failed to shove us Dei p Into the sea , Is there, b) the stuis above us Aught like Gcruuiu) 'I n. t. o. ' WORK FOR WILL HAYS Foreign Lotteries Busy In This City Dr. Poole Talks About Allenby and Lawrence The Rise of Sam Lewis, Auditor-Gen- cral-Elect Ily GKOHGi; NOX McCAIN TF POSTMASTKIl GKNKHAL WILL II; J HAYS Is yearning to eliminate objec tionable features from the mail fccrvlce he might indulge his prentice hand nt rooting out the foreign lotteries which are doing ' n mail-order business thnt beats tho Chi cago record. ' t One of the worst features Is thnt they nre, most of them, state or government lotteries. The latest Js the "Great Plank Money Lottery," that proclaims itself under tlie direction of a certain western Kurope gov-' eminent. Just the same. Us nllurtng literature Is mailed from Germany. The explanation Is given thnt Its mail is "desbntched," ns the wnrped Knglish an nouncement declares, "from Germany to save postage." Anybody who is fool enough to fall for this sort of thing unci scud good American dollars In exchange for the debased cur rency of the lottery, even should a prize be won, deserves to lose his coin. One of tho circulars which came to me rends like the old Louisinun Lottery litera ture in its- most prosperous days. DH. FHKDI'HIC POOLK. formerly In charge of the Hncc Street Chinese Mis sion nnd of late years lecturer nn China and Japan, Is recently back from Lngland. After service in reconstruction work fol lowing the war he fell In with General Al lenby. the conqueror of Palestine, nnd Thomns Lawrence. . The result of this was n series of lec tures and a tour through the Hrltlsh Isles. It was the lia.rsh KnglMi climnte that cut short his engagement. Throat trouble or something of the sort. Odd, too, for the doctor Is n Hrltlsdier by birth, lie's be'en nvvny from the fog and rain and chill of the "blooinlnk" Isles for so ninny years that even his, vocnl cords icbel nt the Infliction. lie describes Thomas Lawrence ns one of the most lemnrknble men of this era. Lloyd George said that he is "the most romantic figure of modern times." LAWUFNCL wns Genernl Allcnby's most vnlunble aid in dealing with the Arabs. Dr. Poole describes him ns a young, un titled nnd modest I'liglishmnn, who was digging iirotiiid ninong the llittlte ruins when tlie war broke out. It wns his familiarity with the Arabs, their trnits, manners nnd even fighting customs, that led Allenby to drnft him Into service. He dresses likn nn Arab and Is familiar with the various Arab dialects. The gieat achievement of Lawrence's life wus when he succeeded in getting tlie Arnbs to revolt against the Turks nnd throw off the sultnn's yoke thnt bound them to the dynasty in Constantinople. Allenby. Dr. Poole says, is one of the kind of Kngllslimcn who "wears well" in contact with Americans SAMCKL S. LI'WIS. whoso claim to slate-wide dtinction is that be be comes auditor gencrnrou Mny- .'I, is one of the youngest men ever elected to that posi tion. His career is nn inspiration to every bov who has bruins enough to aspire to lie. and do something in the commonwealth of Pcjiiusy Ivuiiin. When u child his fntlier died nnd he hnd to begin life for himself. His first job wns watching cows nt pns ture. His wiigcs were fifty cents a month. It wns the regular wage scale paid for the same work in China. As he grew n few years older he grad uated into the job of clenning nnd tending n doctor1 horse. His wages here leaped to S'J n month. ft He was. meantime, getting nn education, 'attending the public school and filling in Ills odd time at any tiling Hint would bring in n nickel. The eagerness nnd manifest Intent ability of tlie boy I he did not tell me this) ut trncted the attention of Hiram Young, pub lisher of the York Dispatch. Hiram Young, as I knew him, was that sort of an American; he was interested in bright boys. "Sam" Lewis began selling the York Dispatch, serving a route, and finally wus taken into tlie business office of the news paper. He made good,. When Mr. Young became postmaster of Yt I; he carried young Lewis with him into the government service. That was Sam Lewis' opportunity to study law. He did so. Worked nt night oter Hlnckstoiie and by day over govern ment business. Ills nllilintioiis with politicians inocu lated him with the virus of political ambi tion No need to tell I he rest of the story. TIIKIUj is a certain very popular dub in Ilnrrbtburg noted for Its abounding hospitality and true democracy. Prior to the Sahara days of one Volstead It wus also celebrated for the brand of good fellowship dispensed nt the round tnbles that stand so Invitingly on its Ktuak and Ghinrdes nigs. On a certain night, just nfter W. J. Hrynn lind. ns a member of Mr, Wilson's cabinet, made one of his foolish brenks, a little group of state officials and lion vlvants were in tlie club cafe discussing politics unci cocktails. In a moment of temporary and exuberant patriotism it was determined to send n tele gram to the President dcmuudiiig the ills missal nf William J, v The message was sent. TT WAS also signed with thcrTull names nf tlie indignant put riots. Moreover, a copv of the telegrnm was tacked up on the club bulletin board, nfter which tlie pntriots adjourned for light liquid refreshments. A waggNh member of the club saw the telegram on the board and rend It. He adjourned to lhe wrltins room, nnd soon ufter the following appeared on a regular tclcgruph blank tacked beneath the original : Washington. D. C , Aug. , m. To Hon. John Jones, William Smith, Thomus Hoblnson, etc. Hiirroum, Clare- iiiout Club, llnrrisbuig: Your message received. Hrjnn is still beio and no doubt ton nic still theie. WOODHOW WILSON. The memory of thnt episode still lingers. It hns, In fact, become it tradition of "them good old cloys what was " The fAlor Question In Oklahoma Trout tho Okl.ihii!iiun Can u cow be ted and at the same time liavu n bi'lndle neck, a black head or any other distinguishing color markings such ns darker lines ai on ml her ied body? On this question ii jury in tin- Kay County District Court pondered all day and finally told Judge I til il that It could not reach a de cision. A haul, as plaintiff had a mort gage on ii led low. The cow's owner Is said to bate become hard up liiinui lally ami left the country utter selling the cow. The bank tried to take the cow from lb,. i.w vcivtner, who set rtp the defense tl(at his cow- is not ml nut a red lirlnille, in that her licuil is darkei nnd she has darker stripes nroiind her bodv Five of the jurors held out for the defendant. A Hopeless Race I'roin tho Nw ciili-unn Tiinei- l-li.ttun A scientist lias asserted that the 1 1 aril may rule the world a million .tears hence. .N'nt the lounge-liard ; even that would be au insufficient time for him to cvoluu- into unythnig wmth while. A Fellow Feeling I rom the 1'rotlUuuc Journal The Priuce of Wales offers n rewind of live! pounds for the return of two old briar pi pen he lost on his journey mound the world A hobt of smokers kuow Just how AN IMPUDENT ATTEMPT ' X&sv 3MMR 1 mZm - 1 , J sTlBIBhLL' -."lliffiwtJvi. SiVtTtsV' SWtfllf5fItllTiCJr - -. :-r-.sSCs " J ". JSl" ... - .. f Jr-.-tMiaBBBBWlBSieP" ' .-..-- .1 . --' -- ..- . -T' - ., .-"". .Ci' ,- ..,- ',.. "T If fsfJ'Li ' - . -' r"" ,' .- ..- -:frf".i,r rf' .... ,,tidatca NOW MY IDEA IS THIS m 1 Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They Know Best PR. JESSIE TAFT On the Need of a Mental Hygiene Clinic TIH'Hl'i is 11 level where every child Is callable of succeeding, according to Dr. ,Issie Tnft, director of the nicntnl hygiene clinic- of the Children's Hurenu. "If he Is placed In nn environment where the standard is too high for him he feels Inferior and falls; if, on the other hand, it is too low, be fails because he doesn't have the right opportunity," snid Dr. Tuft. "The object of the mental hygiene clinic is to solve the problem of the child who is classed as abnormal. The case mny be one of stnpidityjjr it may be one of n child of superior mentality who, through environ ment, has become lazy and indifferent. Whatever the condition, It can only be understood nnd reached by individual study. "There wns a time not long ngo when the only problem of placing n friendless child was flint of finding some one, nny one, to tnke it. Any town officials or group of city fathers would be competent to decide thai the Jones family, being respectable and God-fearing, were just the people to bring up Mnry Hrown, and thnt Mary wns n lucky girl to find such n home. Or, if there; were 1111 otphiiu iisyliim nvnilnblo, Mnry's fato would be, settled even more simply. There tin- individual case is treated, with dozens of others, collectively. Duly Toward Friendless "Case problems with children, as with adults, arise through some blocking of the main tieiuls of life love nnd creative work. We have lo lemember thnt In the Inst analysis the success of our treatment de pends upon our obtaining for tlie child at least a minimum of fulfillment in both. "With the distinctly Inferior child no amount of home treatment can undo the 1 fleet of his inevitable nnd constant failure1 to come 1111 to public school standards. It Is bete that we get our greatest problems of ileliiiquency, beginning nnd confirmed. If the ease problems presented to me by child-caring agencies 111 Philadelphia during the lust ye-or nnd a half nre nny criterion, the ciiiclal situation In all children's, work is lad, of suitable school opportunities for the dull noruinl child. "It seems to me our ellflicully lies in u fiiuilamentnl misconception of tlie relation of abnormal to normal, and n consequent belief that we- can do nothing witli so-called iibiionnnl children unless wo possess some mysterious technique which hns no relation or application to our everyday normal cases. Mental hygiene doesn't mean Inbeling dill-' ilren. but menus increasing their happiness and adjusting them. Look Into Personality "If, instead of marking off n group of children ns psychopathic or abnormal, we began trying to understand from the Inside the personality of every child we: lfhdertook to place, taking enough time; to get at the actual details of his mental unci social iiiake-up as consciously and systematically as we now do his teeth, tonsils unci adenoids, we- should go fur in eliminating many of the cases which now seem to belong to' the abnormal class, and there would remain a loinpiiiiithely small group of those who are too fur removed from normal to be treated without a special technique. "In this city, nt least, nnd I nm sure in tlie vast majority of city public schools still running along conventional neademie lines, then- is no possibility of obtaining for the dull normal child, who husNliccoine a be hatior problem bee-ause nf bis sense of in ferioiily and failure', the treatment that will touch his i-nse; that is. a school pro gniiii that is suited to his abilities. "He is not allowed in leave the public si I11111I when it gets beyond him ; yet to face fuiluie. ridicule, icpriuiaiids, day after day, is something which human uii'ture cnnneit do without efforts lo i-si-upc from so un bearable a situation The child will run nway either in body or in spirit. lie is bound to gain u sense of Importance, some how ; if not by good conduct, by bad. lie will take icfiige in siilleiiness, indifference or in more active, aggiessive attempts to conn-te-ract the hoicdoiu anil Inferiority of Ills position. If he cannot shine in school, ho can perhaps become the terror of the neigh borhood. Nreils Special Avenue "Thcte is mil) one" possible treatment for this typo of child : that is. to offer him legitimate avenues of successful -xpresslon see that he hns the right interests nnd thnt his nprmnl needs nre gratified. If school or work offers him n chance o act success V .r fully, he will sect social npprovnl just ns he apparently sought social disapproval before. "AH you need to do to prove this is to put such a child into n school Hint gives him work in .which he can succeed. He becomes the simplest of problems. Ills energv goes over into useful activity and ilniins oft from the unsocial I'lutnncls. Often he Is n new child in so short n time that the change seems nlmost ninglcnl. "Let the dull normal child use his bands first nnd bis intellect second; put him with his peers, not his superiors, nnd in the ma jorll) of cases lie will cense to be u problem, ''Let me illustintc with one particular ense: A little girl of eleven, a full orphan, had spent the greater part of her few yi'ius in hospitals. She was most uunttractivc as to nppenranee. unci that in itself reacted ngainst her. She- craved love and the little attentions we all need. There wns a lack in her life Hint led her to appropriate things small things, such ns food nnd bits of pt'r sonul adornment. She was classed as meiii tally deficient. Her personal appearance contributed to u considerable extent to this judgment of her. There wns nothing to make her feel nny thing but inferior. Try to Prevent Injustice "We took this child, unci besides giving her every chance to build up physically, we have clone everything possible to u rente self-respect. She now lias some of the little things that the feminine heart craves nnd she is more iittractlvc. So rar, none of the old fciielencies hns appeared. Change of environment nccouiplisliecl this. "We are endeavoring to prevent injustice. Instrnd of taking tlie opinion of an indi vidual, hi- are finding out, bv accurate, eleflnlte measurements: the source of the trouble. "The self is u very complex, elusive, changing phennmcnnii, and we should up. proach it with u humble spirit, nil open mind nnd n elesire not so much to judge us to understand," An Old Complaint I'min the W iitililnuinn I'liM. Tlie German Government js described as stunned.' which is what happens to every body wlieii dunned. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 Who is the present premier of Germany'. :. Who loinmnnded the Monitor in bet- b",'.viMVa;''.."l,h ," Mc,r,m" ' 3. Of what country is .Sofia tin) capital? 4 Who ran against .lames A. Garfield for the presidency? B. When was the Treaty of Versailles ele- ," J.r0vii'i" li" '" cffcct for "emiuuy unci lilt 1 1 1 1 H 1 G. Whom did Abraham Lincoln marry? 7. Who was Mctlernlch? 8. -What Is meant by the, expression, "enil- nent domain" '.' 0. What power dock the House of Henro- scntutlvi'B bold oter treaties? 10 When did Jane Austen lite? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Simon Hollvnr. the South American lib- Venezuela " " '" "" C"y f 'ar"l;'la- 2. Phoebus was the wiii-rocI ; ao c.illcil Apollo In classical mythology, 3 The word cuim-m Is frotn Hie l,. camera.' 11 loom or ihaiuber. 4 Gorillas mo nutltu ,n West Africa. d Th character of Ueriulotic occurs in M111K1 spea re's roinatiliu p.1, -T.u v Winters Tale." "u s. .Michael Far.iday was a famous HiiRhIi Physicist and chemist Ills Kl ! !.. illscovei'icH were In the llelds of ,- ."- siV'5! !!'."' "'"B1"1'""! Uln dales nro 1 1 J I -1 a li 1 7 llowland Hill, an L'iikIihIi vtiitei, bom n 1744, propounded the querv Wl v Jjjjf!,,11" U"11 '"I the good 8. KuculyptUH tiecs are planted In oviit-omo malarial conditions They have- I ,,'!',, oF'Tlo40.1" "'" ,ou"try a''0"1 ,llu city 9. Frederic U-nmliu- was a noleel Ki.-neb actor, especially celebrated for his Im- dTeTln'mei "' Mwl "' " 10 According to Wllllain Cowper. In Ins poem, "The Task." "the cup" tliV.t cheer, but not Inebriate" con lit In ten According to Ulshop Uerkeley, the content? of such csse.ls In tar wniVr" rr . , fr .f .- " Humanisms By WILLIAM ATHKKTON DV I't'Y '"pKPnESUNTATIVK PHIL CAMP Xv HELL, of Kansas, while indulging In the popular sport of autobiography, stated that he had been born of Scotch parents In Nova Scotia, ' "Isn't thnt unfortiinute." 1 said plain tively. "You. can never become President" "I cannot," ho ndmtyted, "but there are ccrluln advantages in my position Other men in public life, failing the president-;, can hardly escape the Intimation that the fault wns within them. 1 can nlvvnys lav thnt failure to the fact of foreign birth. It is n perfect nllbi." I went to see D.r. Wilbur F Crafts, hud Of the International Itcform lluienu, who, fpr twenty-live years lias occupied flint his toric old building in the shndott of the Cnpitol which harbored the Supreme Court when the Hrilisli drove it from its linme beneath the great dome in the war of 1S12, nnd hus fought his blue law campaigns from thnt point of vantage. I listened to this gnunf. lingular de scendant of the Pilgrims talk lie said he wanted the movies censored. He was against "harecm" scenes. lie pronounced it just that way. The double c was made very long. Then slip wns ngainst "cabaret" scenes and he snapped the t for nil that it was vorth. And he didn't think they ought to bo nllovvcd to wear "decollete" gowns and ho )roncuinceel it "de-col -let" with era plinsis on the "let." They always elo. There is a prescribed pronunciation peculiar to reformers. It must li,' written Into the constitution of the re formers' union mid an netite worker U piobiihly refused n cnnl unless he passe the pronunciation test. The abundance, of marriageable bnehelon and the dearth of young women to save them from their plight have long been no torlous vvlfere. men from (lie outside group themselves in' the Orient ns outriders nl commerce or ns representatives of tlieif governments, Henry Prnther Fletcher, now under secretnry of state, wns, some ycnis ugo, one of these languishing bachelors. Willanl D. Straight, then a consul general, shared his banishment nnd his celibacy Info this situntiou Inaelvertentlv wan dered n party which was seeing sights in the Orient nnd us members of which were two young women well known in New YorK nnd Newport boelnl circles. They tite Miv Dorothy Whitney and Miss Hentriee llnml. In proof of all the warnings Hint have been issued may be htfitcd the fuel Hint Mi' linnd is now Mrs. Fletcher and Mis "lut ni-y has been transmuted into "" Straight. There is u grent misconception in ll,e mind of the public with relation .,1n' ceited people, says Dr. Williniu A Will' government alienist and superintend' nt ei St. Elizabeth Asylum, nt Washington The flagrantly conceited mnn Is not vviiai he seems. Ho Is u man with verv pro nounced short nines, weaknesses lie knows those shortcomings, knows that hecaa-i' o them he is nt n disadvantage II'- ""'J front, his pouter pigeon strutting, is " cniaoullaging. lie is not really coiiecitru. He believes that other n !""' ""' '1'. over him. His seeming conceit N ' ""."fj' sion of his weakness to those who leml w sy inptoms tindcrbtaudiugly . ' When King Edward was a small M PhD lug around within the vv nil Windsor Castle, in England. Wi Ham Nr the commissioner of the Genera Land i' in' the Culted States, was a lad f ' tlie snine sl.e pluying aiouuil Just oiimu the same wall. Hut one was he gi'l " nf (Juce-n Victoria nnd tl thcr was tie son of n tailor who made Eton j.-n k.-tsv ror the boys of the famous prcpurnlory 1"I"IU"' that inline ncniby, and so they nevr s acquainted. ,ei Strnnge to sny, there live.l about In w nvvny nt the snme time unother boy of ilnr age by the name of tieorge hut"' ''l ' '' Four decades lolled by and, W I H'"'1 V was govei'iior of Ihn sovcielgn stnte ot i '' and Gi'orge Sutherluuel wns (be lepu" live of that comiiionvvciilfh in the "llg States Senute. Perpetual Motion riimi the Wiisldnaton I'vrnliut Hl''r . The stciiin roller refcrrci to "' i diHcusslon Is nlwnys descrlbeel as ben ' the hands of the jmrty In power "t '.'" piece of niHchlnvry that Is never rehire iru (mvlng earned repobo on tho scrni" w' i 1 . ,)lr.A sJ-V -K jt.- ... ....
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