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CHILDREN IN THE STREETS
MAGISTRATE DOUGHERTY, threat
ening yesterday to put line on parents
who permit tliclr children to piny recklessly
In heavily traveled streets and to cultivate
bnblt of riding on the tailboards of trucks
and wagons, desired, apparently, to put
unusual emphasis on a needed word of
teaming.
Traffic laws and the rules established and
accepted for the regulation of motor vehicles
reflect the desire of the authorities and
Motor drivers to keco the streets safe for
vcrybody. It is not asking too muoh to
nxgest and even demand that parents do
their necessary part toward keeping little
children from accidental injury.
The yearly number of traffic accidents in
which children ore hurt grows steadily.
Public opinion and the opinion of jurios arc
usually satisfied to put all the blame on
motor drivers. Yet a broader view ought
to be encouraged for the greater safety of
children themselves.
There ought to be rigidly enforced police
tnles to discourage the youngsters who daft
In and out of heavy traffic currents seeking
free rides, and parents themselves should
be the first to discourage and even punish
that extremely dangerous habit.
UP TO THE EXPERTS NOW
fAT THE present historic moment there
jri. is probably less public disposition in
the United States to discuss the compli
cated detailed aspects of the Irish situation
than for perhaps a century.
This attitude is not only inspired by feel
ings of the most heartfelt end hopeful ex
pectancy, but by the knowledge that at last
tho problem is In the hands of high official
xperts.
"I am sure," declares Mr. Do Vnlera,
thot the atmosphere in England and Irc
knd Is ripe for peace."
Mr. Lloyd George is unquestionably eager
to find a basis of settlement.
The meeting in London begins under
auspices considered almost unimaginable a
few months ago.
The spectacle Is n tonic for civilization,
Which has of lato freely lamented its own
deficiencies.
Honorable peace in Ireland would warrant
In mankind a return of something of its old
yride.
END OF AN EYESORE
RESIDENTS in the neighborhood of
Forty-second street, between Spruce
and Locnst, will learn with grntlficutlon
that the plans have been drawn for the new
DUildings for tho Episcopal Divinity School
to be erected on the site of the Chirk rcsl
dence, and that estimates of the cost have
been asltcd from contractors.
The plans provide for n dormitory, a
chapel, a library, lecture rooms and resi
dences for the faculty. There is ample room
on the nve-ncrc tract for this group of
buildings without covering it all. The
buildings can be surrounded by lawns and
walks in such a way as to add to the at
tractiveness of the whole neighborhood.
The plot Is an offense to the sight nt the
present time. The Clark residence was torn
down a few years ago, but since the trustees
of the Divinity School bought the land it
has been allowed to grow up to weeds and
underbrush. The fences have fallen down
and rubbish of various kinds has bepn
dumped on it. If the work of building is
to begin In the fnll it will not be much
more than n year before grace ond beauty
displace the present iinsightllness.
SCHOOLS AND BUSINESS
SO FAR as appears, the survey of the
local school system begun by the Edu
cational Committee of the Chnmber of Com
merce Is for a different purpose from the
urvey now in progress under the direction
of the State Superintendent of Public In
arruction. The Chamber of Commerce is apparently
Interested in n standardized system of busi"
ness education which, while decreasing the
percentage of Illiteracy, will also equip the
graduates of the schools for an intelligent
understanding of the work which they will
have to undertake when they begin to earn
a living.
The Interest which the business men in
the Chamber are thus taking In the schools
Is R wholesome thing. They would not be
troubling thcmsolves with the matter if they
had not become convinced that the best way
to secure well-equipped recruits for their
establishments is to look into the training
that these recruits receive in school. If the
business men Insist that the graduates shall
be ablo to write on intelligent letter and to
understand tho elementary principles of
arithmetic and to know something about the
reography of tho world as well as of their
fro country, it may come about that the
boy and girls not so equipped will be kept
In school until they mako up their de
fclencles. ,
.INSPIRATIONAL FOREIGN POST
AN AMICAlirJS special Providence ap
X pears to goern our relations with
France as reQected In the personalities of
llho American Ambassadors to that Republic.
Robert Bacon ond General Horace Porter
characteristically exemplified the existence
ef these happy conditions. Precedert was
admirably sustained by Myron T. Ilerrick,
Who rsturns to hli former post in Porui
Mcipient of the most cordial good win of the
afire French nation, and Hugh C. Wallace,
tho retiring legate, now back In America,
Nema also to hare preserved the traditions.
France has returned the compliment by
ending such statesmen of high ability and
persona charm as Cnmbon and .Tussnrond,
the latter now tho veteran In point of serv
ice of the diplomatic corps in Washington.
That the duties of nil thesp representa
tives on both sides were rendered easier by
& freedom with which Americans and
Frenchmen oro enabled to speak well of
curb other is undeniable Envoys from
J?rto have of late years seldom or ncter
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been criticised at born lor wwjnlwi
I friendliness toward the Nation to which
they have been assigned; nor have any of
our Ambassadors In exchange been in
vidiously accused of being "pro-French."
"All" iVance," declares .Mr. Wallace, "is
at work, nud the people are looking forward
to a long period of peace nfter the great
struggle they have passed through. Franco
Is coming back rapidly. Sho is working
and saving."
Americans are unreservedly glad of this
progress. The sincere affection binding the
two Republics Is inevitably an inspiration
and an aid to their constituted representa
tives. Encouragement of this sort develops the
best in diplomatists as In less elevated indi
viduals. Since tho Franco-Prussian War
at least virtually all our envoys to Paris
have been intrusted with congenial tasks
that Inake for success.
WORLD-TROTTING STATESMEN
PICK UP USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
Lloyd George and Lord Curxo'n' Might
Get a Finishing Education In
the United States
PEACE conferences und discussions that
begin with prayers and end in rioting
are not new in these diverting times. Rut
there Is something odd nnd peculiarly sig
nificant in thp circumstances of an interna
tional congress for disarmament which has
among its preliminaries the i-ort of violent
battle which Lord Northcllffe Is wnglng
ngnlnst Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Lord Curzon with a view to keeping these
two dominant members of the Rritish Gov
ernment out of the I'nlted States nnd away
from the conference at Washington. Now
wo know that the desire of Englishmen is
really fur peoce In our times and in the
times to come.
The Northcllffe press flew into a thunder
ing rage when it learned that the Rritish
Premier and his Foreign Secrotnry were
about ready to assign themselves to a new
and imposing American mission. It called
Curzon "pompous and unfit." It dismissed
Lloyd George as an impossibility because
"in tin United States ho Is viewed and dis
trusted as the man who encompassed Presi
dent Wilson with his wizardry." North
cllffe is in deadly earnest when he tells the
people of the Isles that the greatest desire
of mankind will surely go unsatisfied if
there is not truth, frankness, plain dealing
and general straightforwardness at Wash
ington when the statesmen of the world sit
down again to strive for continuing peace.
Rut America is not afraid of Lloyd
George. It knows him. The Rritish Prime
Minister Is unquestionably the Sentimental
Tommy of international politics. Is he not
always revealing a desire to do great and
good things In drnmntic ways, while the
spotlight shines warmly upon him? Isn't
he always ready to regard the mere post
ponement of a question as a happy solution?
Rarrie's Tommy could live a bright life
time in n day and forget tomorrow utterly
nfter he had evaded a crisis or a decision
for twenty-four hours. So can Lloyd
George do.
Curzon is a vastly different sort of person.
He may be pompous. He is not altogether
unfit. He Is perhnps the ablest living advo
cate of government for and by big business.
He was amused by the Versailles Confer
ence. While Mr. Wilson talked of self
determluatlon in Paris, Lord Curzon was
quietly about the business of establishing
British control in Persia.
It is precisely because Lloyd George and
Curzon are ns they are that they should
.me with the Rritish disarmament mission
to the United States For they hnve a great
deal to learn, ami travel in foreign lands
always has been good for the minds of Em
nerors, Kings, Premiers and even Presi
dents. Other men may be depended upon
to make the pence of the world. Curzon or
Lloyd George alone or together certainly
couldn't be depended upon to make it. Rut
why should they be denied an opportunity
to acquire knowledge?
The Washington conference, ns President
Harding appears to contemplate It, will hnve
two central purposes. It will endeavor first
to find a prncticul woy for the elimination
of armament competition between nations
thnt ought to be friendly. And It will de
liberately try to drag out into the light for
publtc scrutiny tho plans of limited groups
In various countries who. for criminally
selfish rensons, consistently obstruct the
work of those who want to make nn end
to wars. It will be In many ways nn ad
vertising conference, n conference for pub
licity. Vncient Kings with becoming beards nnd
nice personalities used to travel abroad to
make new friends. A Premier or a Presi
dent with charming manners nnd the gift
of expression can do much to moke his
people understood to other peoples nnd to
win for himself a sort of friendship which
his own land ultimately must share.
If the war proved anything conclusively
It proved that the nations of the enrth need
above all things better acquaintance with
one another nnd interpreters of ability nnd
intense earnestness. Sooner or later we
shall realize that all statesmen ought to
travel the world at Intervals and get down
from their pedestals and mingle with the
crowds and seize opportunities to talk di
rectly nnd simply with the peoples of for
eign countries.
A look at the United States and Cansdn
would be good for Lloyd George. It might
even bring enlightenment to Lord Curzon.
NOT TOO MANY LAWYERS
THREE local lawyers hnve announced
thnt they are candidates for election as
delegates to the Coiihtitutional Convention.
There should be lawyers in the convention
ns n matter of course, but it would he n
mistake to have it composed entirely of
lawyers.
Tho Constitution lays down tho funda
mental rules for the management of the
Stnte charities, for the conduct of the public
educational system, for the chartering of
corporations nnd for a dozen other activities
of the people.
Thcfre rules cannot properly be revised
unlets the convention contnius men fnmillnr
with the matters affected. It is manifest
that the delegates should be representative
of all tho interests in the Commonwealth.
These Interests Include politics as woll as
other things.
Political experts can guide the convention
from the rocks of visionary and impractical
changes, for thoy know better than the
politically Inexperienced what can be done
and what cannot be done. It Is their busl
ness to understand the state of public senti
men. Yes, whoever else may be In the
convention, there must be a leaven of poli
ticians. They, however, can be trusted to
see to this. Such danger as there mny be
lies In the possibility of too large a repre
sentation of the politicians.
It Is not too early for public-spirited
citizens interested in bringing the Consti
tution up to date to nnnouuee their candi
dacy and to begin to seek the support of
the voters.
The redrafting of the Constitution is too
big n task foT mere ward workers to under
take, but unless better equippod men offer
themselves there will be grnvo dnnger that
the word worker will get the nomination in
many cases.
The men who drnfted the law providing
for the convention foresaw this danger and
provided ngalnst It Governor Sproul Is
authorized to name twenty-flvo of the dele
gates, and It Is assumed that he will select
rrnun of the most rerrrcsentattv citizens
, mmtm 1 nt4. jfe
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA,
assumed thnt tho abilities of these men wl'l
be so great that their advice will have to
be considered (seriously by tho elected dele
gates. Rut however this may be, It Is up
to the voters to nominate nnd elect the high
est type of men who can be Induced to serve.
FOOLING WITH EXPLOSIVES
mHERE is not the slightest justification
- for the Hall proposal Increasing tlm
price of gas, passed by Council yesterday.
At the best it is a makeshift.
At tho worst It Is n surrender to the gas
company.
The gas question Is the most dangerous
explosive thnt tho politicians of this city
ever handled. It cleaned the gang out
of the City Hall once. It was the provoca
tion for the first Committee of One Hundred
ever appointed. It has burned the fingers of
every man who has ignored the rights of
the people in tho premises.
We note these fn'cts for the information
of the members of City Council who are
now monkeying with tho matter.
Councilman Hnll Ignores tho recommen
dations of the Gas Commission for the ne
gotiation of a new lenso. He proposed not
long ago thnt the price of gas should be
raised to $1.26 a thousand cubic feet and
thnt the U. G. I. should get $1 of this
sum. Then ho got n bill for gas consumed
In his house for six months and professed
to be so outraged by Its amount thnt ho
hastened to call on the president of the
U. G. I. He remained with that official
for nearly nn hour and came nwny smiling.
Now he proposes thnt the price of gas
shnll be $1.10 and that the gas company
shall receive $1 of this amount nnd that
the rest shnll go Into the City Treasury.
The present price is $1, ns every one knows,
and twenty-five cents of this is paid over
to the city by the gas company.
Mr. Hall's plan is to give the gas com
pany twenty-flvo cents more for ervery
thousand feet that it now sells, and to do
this as a temporary expedient pending the
negotiation of a new lease. The negotiation
of that lease cannot be postponed indefi
nitely, for the present lease expires in 1027.
So long an the city retains the present
price of gas it has something to trndo with
when it comes to mnkc the terms for a
renewal of tho lease. The moment It sur
renders tills ndvnntage it becomes almost
powerless to force an equltnblo lease from
the operating company, and it puts Itself
In the position which the city now occupies
in relation to the P. R. T., with which it
is trying to negotiate a lease for the opera
tion of the Frnukford clovatod line. The
P. R. T. is in n position virtually to dictate
the terms to the city. It cannot be com
pelled to operate the Frnukford line. The
city hns no hold on it of any kind.
. Rut so long as the price of gns remains
at $1, one-qunrtcr of which is turned into
the City Treasury, the city will bo able to
say to the gas company that if it will make
such and such extensions of its plant and If
it will provide gas of such and such a stand
ard of heat or light it may charge such
and such a price, n price based on a fair
estimate of the cost of manufacture and
distribution.
The Hall plan should be vetoed nnd the
plan of the Mayor, recommended in accord
ance with tho findings of the Gas Commis
sion, is the one that ought to be adopted.
It provides for a conference between a
committee of Council, the Gas Commission
nnd the City Solicitor, on the one hand, and
the gas company on the other, for the pur
pose of agreeing on the terms of a new lease
which shnll take the place of the old one
nnd which shall provide for such extensions
of the plant ns are necessary to meet the
growing needs of the city.
HAIL!
MEN of the matchless Jimmy Shechan's
mold arc not often Irreverent or reck
less in the presence of their accepted auto
crats. They seldom fail to manifest all
needed signs of humility nnd grntitudo when
they happen within seeing distance of the
Presence. Rut the Rolshuvik mood of
iconoclnsm seems to he spreading danger
ously even about City Hall.
"What king?" demnnded Jimmy Sheehnn
when a guard stopped him at the door of
Councilman Hall's sanctum with the an
nouncement that he must wait until tho
king, who was within, finished his busi
ness. "King who?"
"Vare!" said the City Hall guard In a
frightened whisper.
"I thought," sold Mr. Sheehnn, In the
manner of n man whose soul was suddenly
illumined by the spirit of '71, "that we had
douo uwuy with kings!"
Have the years diminished Mr. Sheehnn' h
powers of logical perception? Who but a
king would give him half a wagonload of
monoy each year for doing next to nothing
In the office of tho Register of Wills? Does
he suppose that the (to use his own term)
jack comes from On High? Does he be
lieve thnt the people relinquish all this
wealth voluntarily?
Perhaps the City Hall guard under-stated
the case. Had Jimmy been told that Uio
Ameer of Ambler, Brother to the Seven
Bright Ones of the Political Zodiac and
Heaven -Sent Protector of the Poor was
within Mr. nail's chamber he would prob
ably have understood and IcisBcd the floor
nnd gone upon his way.
A JUDGE UPON JUDGES
RESIGNING us contributing editor of
the Puw.io Lhdokh, William II. Toft
lias tnkon particular pains to emphasize
"the degree in which a Judgo should sep
arate himself from general activities ns a
citizen und member of tho community, "
The point, he admits in his valedictory, "Is
not usually fixed by statutory law, but by
a due senso of propriety, considering the
naturo of his office, and by well-established
custom."
"A Judge," maintains the Chief Justice
of the United States Supremo Court,
"should avoid extra-judicial nctivitios, not
only because they may put him In an atti
tude actually or seemingly Inconsistent with
absolute impartiality in the discharge of his
judicial duties, but olso because he owes his
whole time nnd energy to Ills judicial work."
There can be no qnestion that the Na
tion's highest judicial officer hns admirably
expounded his own ense, Its application,
however, need not be narrowed. It is here
with respectfully referred to President Judgo
Brown, of the Municipal Court of Philadel
phia, and to his colleague on the bench,
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwcll, and to any
other Judges who are Inclined to dabble In
the unjudicial business of give-and-take
politics.
There may be some justification for the
action of the powers that be In Insisting
that slnekers In custody be made to com
plete their prison terms so thnt there will
be no future difficulty In enforcing the draft
In case of another war, but it Is regrettable
that another and mora effective means to
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AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Report of Visiting Nurses Opens Up
Wide Field for Those Who Desire s
to Do Good In the World
By SARAH D. LOWIUE
SOME ONE remarked about Cha'rles
Dickens that tho orily character' he ever
used that could uot bo found at least ; in
shreds and patches In real life was Miss
tavcrsham In Great Expectations. And yet,
"lly enough, hers was tho only character
tnnt ho did not crentc, since her strange case
nail been reported nnd had been verified in
J will contest nnd cnm'e to Dickens' notice
through tho newspnpers of the day.
A woman I know said she could never see
n l"iy that was as exciting as the tilings
that had hnppcncd In her own. family, and
I. for one, am always turning the corner of
life ou some little dramn thnt seems too
strange, or too good, or too exactly balanced
to bo true.
I heard of rather a beautiful and beautl
rally worked out little drnma not long ago
that has stuck in my mind to wonder about,
THERE wns a certain lady of this city
, .who was "given" to that somewhat old
fashioned virtue, hospitality. To entertain
guests was ns natural to her ns to provldo
for her own large family. She wns In a
certain sense "in society," but she wns
never very formally of society. The per
sons that she entertained might bo fnshton
able, might be plain, might be stupid and
might bo clever, they might also be rich, or
just ns likely poor the point with her was,
1 A. ey -f?r ,Viy reason need her hospi
tality? Would It bo convenient or both
convenient und pleasant, or only convenient
and plcnsuut but also in n sense necessary,
because they were poor or lonely or ill or
troubled, or wanting n good time without
Knowing how to get it? Or were they going
somewhere, or coming from somewhere nnd
needed n perch? Or were they friends of
her friends, or Just ns likely ns not uo one's
friends 7 Her house wns not n largo house,
her Income was not a largo income nnd her
life was an Immensely nctivo one outside her
homo, but the great passion of her llfo waa
hospitality.
If she had to chooso the kind of gueoc
she got the greatest satisfaction out of, it
would be one who wns ill. She liked to
fcol that every possible thing that could be
devised to make thnt person comfortable was
being done. She sometimes sacrificed her
fnmily on tho altar of this enthusiasm, and
sometimes thoy rebelled I have been told.
Aot when she asked poople in to die that
she could make them feel wanted nnd cared
for up to the last moment thnt they seemed
to hove understood; but she sometimes had
very inconvenient illnesses harbored in her
spare bedroom, with nurbes spilling over into
the family rooms; Illness such ns insanity,
thnt brought even n dangerous clement,
ccrtnlnly a very disturbing one, Into tho
house. Perhaps the reason she herself took
oven such disturbances calmly was she wab
VerV milnli fntnrnita.1 in t.nUin.1 .......... ..rl
was always helping persons of ability to go
into the profession. She had n score of
trained nurses who were her devoted and
grateful friends, on whom sho could call for
help for hor friends. So well was this
known, indeed, that even doctors relied on
her to get them ono or nnother of her good
nurses if they were put to It for a specially
skilled ono for a difficult casa.
NOW It so happened that when this
bounteously hospitable womnn enmc to
die she wns stricken very suddenly awo
from home and in a placo where there were
no nurses available except one charity nurse
employed to work among tho poor, who
could only come by tho hour. So that this
woman, who had been so noted for minis
tering to ill nnd to dying persons in hor own
homo, wns n guest when sho died, and wns
beholden for tho skillod care thnt she got to
tho kind ministrations of a visiting nurse.
And I am told by her family thut ull the
sweetness nnd caro sho had given to others
in hor own house were, ,lt seemed to them,
given back with unmeasured kindness in the
two short dajH she lay uuconsclous und
dyiug in some one's else house.
If she lind hod any premonition of what
wns to be her fate in going out of tho world,
she could not have devised her life more
aptly to prepare for It. But she hnd had uo
premonition ; sho had only followed the good
and engcrly generous dcslrt.s of her heart.
ONE aftermath of the little drama or
shall I say epologue at all events what
an outsider observes as the direct conse
quences of tho way that woman happened
to live, and die, is thnt all her childreu arc
iu one way or another interested in help
ing ill people, especially those who are
emergency cases and need emergency
nursing. My attention was cnlled to tho
fact that more than one of them wns keen
about visiting nurse organizations aud
then the possible reason for this keen In
terest came to me.
WE SOMETIMES have to have a poign
ant lesson which touches our own
safety or comfort or happiness or thnt of
those near to us in order to enter into even
tho obvious needs of other persons, but the
need of public nurses, upon whom the pub
lic can call for pgrt-tlme service, thnt very
straitened incomes can afford, is too nppnr
ent to need uny prodding of personal dungor
or sorrow.
I received from the Director of Public
Health today, or from his office, a plea that
is to be send brondcust for a Inrger stnff of
city nurses to be used in connection with
tho public schools. It looks like n well-thought-out
plan. Aftor rending it over
my eye fell on a blue book that lias lain
on my desk for two months or more the
year's story of tho Visiting Nurse Society.
There are certain things on a hot and
stifling evening In town, when the people in
the little streets escape to tho deserted pnve
ments of the larger empty streets tor a
chance to breathe, that one is thankful for
ceitain chances one has to help, even if the
help Is only vicarious thut is done with
one's money by some one else.
At such times I fiud in; self thanking the
men and women who nre keeping opeu the
public baths in Philadelphia ; aud the men
and the women, but especiully the mirscj,
who arc supporting tho Visiting Nurse So
ciety. Their record last year, which thoy will
exceed this yenr, was over 10,0(10' visits
made by sixty-live nurses in the eight cen
tcrs In the town branching out from the
main center at Thirteenth and Lombard
streets. The cost of a nurse for nn houi
is seventy-five cents, and the cost of run
ning tho society Is 51"r,()00 a year. Over
2000 patients are cared for In this way out
of a population of something over u mil
lion. There is no Stnte aid, and if the pn
tlents cannot pay tho full amount, tbo nurse
goes anyway nnd some one else pays some
oue who cares, which Is wheru you and
mysolf can come in.
THERE Is in Italy an ago-old society
known as the Mlsoilcordla. The per
sons who belong to It are from all rnnks of
life and are volunteers. Their services arn
rendorcd in secret, for during the time thoy
nre on duty they wear a covering on the
face thnt only shows the genoral outline
nnd the eyes. They bury the pauper dead
and in time of pestilence or culumlty of
other sorts, they nttcud to the sick nnd
dying and needy. It is pnrt of their religion,
this service, and they volunteer for life o.
for a set period of years, to be culled upon
by tho superior of the order nt specified
times. The fact that they wear n habit,
yot aro not recognizable as Individuals dur
ing their time of sorvico, is at once a pro
tection und nt the same time a sort of open
Bosame to plnocs where they would bo un
welcomo or possibly even in danger should
thoy offer their services ns men and citizens
with a noino and an address.
I was thinking 4s I read tho report of
the Visiting Nurses thnt it lny within our
power to belong to n great society of "R,.c
orrts of Misery nnd Records of Good Re
coverles," Wo may, In Imagination, put on
the well-loved uniform of the Visiting Nurse
nnd go incognito not in our persons, but
in mi,- own nower. nono tho less. lw
money is jowcfr and UMt U our money It
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Daily Talks With Thinhing Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
WILLIAM DICK
On School-Cost Accounting
COST accounting, or a report to the tax
payer on what he Is getting for the
money he pays for public school service,
has becomo nn indispensable feature of
public school administration, nccording to
William Dick, secrctnry of tho Board of
Education.
"Only In comparatively recent yenrs,"
said Mr. Dick, "has cost uceountlng becomo
a distinctive featuro in public school ad
ministration reports.
"School authorities of a decade or two
ago seemed content with statements show
ing enrollment and attendance of pupils,
receipts and expenditures, with limited sub
division thereof no particular attention
being given to uniformity in tho varied forms
of presentation.
"This prevented nnythlng like intelligent
comparisons with other cities or towns inorp
or Icis similar in character, size or locality.
Education Costs Moro
"However, in the over-increasing cost of
public education, through the almost uni
versal recognition of the fact that the pres
ervation nud progress of nuy notion depend
upon tho proper education and training of Its
outh, we nre now spending millions where
we ouce spent thousands.
"Tho taxpayer who provides tho 'where
withal' for tho schools (and in no branch of
public service more willingly) Is entitled
to the fullest accounting of his money
where It goes, whnt It accomplishes nnd
what It costs. Of course, until some method
Is devised of measuring the output of the
public schools thoro ciui be no defined state
ment of the profits attained. In other
words, there enn bo no declaration of divi
dends ns in the case of financial or indus
trial corporations.
"All that can be shown In denllng with
this human product. is the effect of improved
methods of instruction und orgnulzotlon
the uplifting of tho mental and physical
qualifications of our future citizens nnd
the betterment of the school plant. The
profits can only be accounted for us future
provision against the high cost of lgnornuco.
"With these nlms In view school offi
cials, national, State ond locnl, ore work
lug moro and more in unison not only to
show with much more detail than heretofore
what Is represented In public school expendi
tures, but in addition to bring nbout u
standardization of the forms of presenting
such facts thnt ull who will may read In
telligently. What Public Wants to Read
"Ono difficulty Is that people cannot or
will not tako the timo to read anything in
the way of public statements except the
headlines or that which is 'written up' In
a manner that will cosily appeal to their
Imagination.
"Statistics of nuy kind nro always dull
reading and often misunderstood.
"Perhaps thero is no special part of the
work In any public department whero moro
time aud Inbor nre expended with a view to
acturacy thnn in the preparation of volumi
nous statistical reports for general distri
bution, nnd so little understood ami appre
ciated. Often the statistician is frowned
upon ns a general nuisance nnd trouble
maker, but when information is demanded
upon any particular Hue or the inquisitive
and ever-occurring questionnaire arrlvos,
for which school board members and school
offlclalo throughout our country nre particu
larly notorious, and recourso is made to his
flguros, tho value of his work Is more ap
parent. "To get the average taxpayer to compre
hend wlint is being done with his money,
statistical reports must be 'picturlzed,' so
to speuk, and so we find the up-to-date
method of presenting this Information in
tho forms of diagrams, graphs, etc., and
even tills is not sufficient. To 'put it over'
tho figure and dlngram work must be fol
lowed by unalysls and short, pungent son
tencos bringing out tbo salient facts shown
by the statistics the cost of this, that or
the othor function or activity and its rota
tion to tho total expenditures.
Much Money Is Needed
"All of this requires nn outlay or expen
dlture of public money, which is often not
obtainable -becnuse the appropriating body
is not always easily persuaded In advonce
as to tho efficacy of such expenditures,
"In school ndmlnlHtrntion, like all other
business operations, 'it pays to advertise.'
"Ah nn Illustration, the Detroit School
Board, which hns approved on 18,000,000
building program now under way to meet
Ifa eoriiilrmnnnte In n.l.ll.lAn ... ,.- .
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1921 -
NlfcH RIPE, BY HECK!"
pays Its teachors (excepting a few positions)
higher salaries than any other city except
New York has adopted the policy of pre
senting periodically to the public through a
deportment of research ond publicity a read
able presentation of facts bearing upon the
school needs of thnt city. That department
has a corps of experienced workers under
the supervision of 11 certified accountant
nt nn annual cost of about $70,000.
"Does it pay? Well, look at what Do
troit Is doing!"
What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. What Is a tabard?
2. Whnt was the great siege In tho Crimean
War?
3. Who wero tho first aviators to make a
non-stop flight across tho Atlantic?
4. What is nn encyclical?
6. Who was Phlllls Wheatley?
6. In what country Is tho fnmous Alpine
pealc Mont Diane?
7. What Is the origin of the music of "For
Ho'a a Jolly dood Fellow"?
8. What Is meant by the Land of Cockaigne?
9. Who 1r tho present Premier of Canada?
10. What Is purroo?
.
Answers to Yesterday'o Quiz.
1. Harry Hawker, who recently lost his life
Iu on ahfilnno nccldent, is famed for
his nttompt to make a non-stop flight
across tho Atlantlo In 1910. His ma
. cnino fell Into tho ocean, but ho was
rescued and carried safely to tho Brit
ish Isles.
2. Tho Spnnlarda call their own langungo
Castellano.
8. The Russo-Japanese War ended with the
u"e7.nf1910rSmOUth' N' "' ntB0
4. The Decameron, a collection of 100
stories Is tho chief work of Boccaccio,
tho Italian writer. It first appeared In
ths fourteenth century.
6. The letter L stands for fifty in Roman
notation,
6" aeMlssrissippl! Sharp w""ams s rora
7 "n?" '? .tno J11081 famous of the
Fhrtow German composer Von
8' ""L'I't."' of th0 Graminaceous or
Brassy family, a natlvo of India, bear-
eeda CrP f SmaU '"'"oUs
9. Theodore Roosevelt
wry of tho Navy
Is Assistant Seore-
10. Tho chief sources of natural rnhhni- nP.
Brazil, Bolivia, Java, RoYnoo East
West laajiKrma and Coylo"?
Today's Anniversaries
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...... ... ..w.vu . vt'uaiuilliuopic.
,1P8rMurai.WUB P,nccd upon the
of Naples by Bonupnrte, under tho
throne
tho title of
iving juuemm jxnpoicon.
1840 Louis BonnnartB T.-r, ti.n. .
died. Born September 3, mg. "0,lnna'
.i.18i!n Ill;cftnb,,ialm,et f tho Pope's au
thority proclnlmcd at Rome.
1851! Eleanor Parke Cnstiu t .
ndoiitod daughter of George wLhin1'''
died at Audloy, Vn. dZ t u S "'
Va., in 1770. ot AoinBUm,
.JTi1rPr,?,C0 ,Teromo Napoleon was
polled from Frnuco. s
ex-
1883 Charles II. Stratton (Tom Thnmt,
by'fLnoraS 'nDub" '-
ST. SWITHIN
rnllOUGH not too .r,,i..t .
J. We lovo a folry ;ior ' 7 ' n0Pe'
So cherish thus St. Swlthln'n h
Nor try to dim his glory!1 S dpe
Now If today It rains, he snys.
And sets the world ronlnlnV
Twill rain each da, for" fo ?' days-
Unless tho sun Is shining. r
But If the day is fnr, wlly
Away with all complaining,
I-olr. forty dnjs will gladden men
Except when It Is raining.
Here all good men and true mnv sCe
M,nU mny iL tbi? bacon :
ffPJPre ptM.and wise la iw
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Tills Is the dnv nn n-lifo), Q a!iLiJ
gets wny with his annual bluff.
St. Swithin and the Groundhog split the
mcicoroiugicni yenr Deiwcen tuera.
It is understood thnt Councilman Hill
considers tbo British thermal unit a ial.'
Innt 000.
I
The man who wants Congress to put
A L AllAKII I Khln ! I.AM11 It lH kfu.l. A.t-f
U I'lUCilU UIUO 1UW BIljQ il JH U OlUlUie IQ.UX.
Silly, wo call it.
When n cow fell Into a Scrnnton cm!
mine it wos butchered where it fell. Anotlt
drop in meat, but no effect ou coal. J
There were women, children nnd bran
men nt tho baby show nt Belmont Mansion
yesterday. Tho last named were the jud.
Perhaps he Is King Vare becauw Ml
enemies "crowned" him; meaning (as llttli
Benny would say) that thoy dotted him on,
tho bean.
. . 1
Thn Inhnr ennrtnrrA to ffnln what1
propaganda a short time ago was unable t'
uo it is uriving unemployed men oaci u
me inrms.
"110 tact Uint a corset company outer'
tlscs n diaphragm flattcner." rcmarW
'Tho fact thnt a corset com
miterj
Pericarp, "ought to be good for a wheat,
And we'll let it go at that.
Perhaps tho proponents of tho latest
Prohibition Bill nre of the opinion that til
patient who needs more than a pint' of
whisky in ten days Is bettor dead.
Prince Hnshim of Afghanistan says thil
although polygamy exists in his countrt,
educated men feel ono wifo is quite chomj.
"And sometimes moro than enough," 'laoj
the Chronic Grouch.
There Is unconscious irony In the'fW
that un association of nations, which Sent'
tor Borah has consistently attacked, Is llkerf
to be brought about by a movement In Tvhick.
ho wns primarily active.
Whilo a Now York iceman was hf
fined $10 for driving a lame horw, W
worth of ice melted in his wagon outoWt
In this cose Justice should have W
skates Instead of lcadon heols.
News from Bcnvcrdalo, Pa, csujts tit
reflection that it is a queer kink In hum"
nature that causes otherwise roputsble cltl
zens to break tho law In order to awake
rospect for tho low in tho breasts of aliens.
The sighting of a pirate ship i
becomo a nightly occurrence. And it W
bo nothing but a coustor traveling witawj
lights in order to save oil. It is neaiast ttl
law, but there aro captains who Ilk
graft.
Hnll has his own idea as to what tkl
playground In Hell's Half Acre should M
called, but Negro citizens will hardly W
foolish enough to permit Counc 1 wlthom
protest to rob a member of their race i
civic honor.
The American dollor Is a good fcJJ '
abroad nnd a grouch ot home. He j
higher by tho boys ho loafs with than wj
folks he lives with. And he won ' J
worth moro ut homo until no is ruitu
what lower abroad.
By having the courage to flout It, TtjK
Ident Harding grows In popular favor I
ho gains political strength by brtl-?5,1S
old crowd that professes to own It. wsiys
summed up. means it cnlled for nerve w wi
tho truth nbout tho soldiers' bomn.
Ventnor, N. J., City Council . tj
months ago pnssed a resolution totmm
smoking during sessions out of rcspoci n
women members. Now tho women i"
selves wnnt the smoking resumed, .uJ
toes have their good points, It seems.
Mombors of the crews of Pa,"hlnr
and tenders stationed In the nelihwrW"
of tho target lit order to give ""'J'S
should it be necessary, to bomWni ;
plnnes, might well bo pardoned if toy
porlonccd some slight nervous trepidation-
ittuii. .1.. i. -nr. ,,ic-i.hnn continue
line 1 lie in tin- v Li i. mwli
to nffright the perusers of the shlpp ng n 1
tne rem scat 01 war reiumns . -- y,
high wa vs. Drivers nnd guards of '".,(
tlonal Motor Freight Corpora on. u ' v
service men, are equipped ".,-,
and blackjacks, nnd, further ttu'r":ia
I, road banditry, now carry "aDV(m;vii
i"Woade it the.ioad band-oon'M-i
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