PAGE TWO " " ' ' THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, AUGUST S, 1913.
RURAL SCHOOLS
TO BE HONORED
To Have First Place at Next
' International Congress,
PROBLEMS ARE COMPLEX.
Educators Will Meet In Buffalo Aug 25
to 30 to Discuss School Hygiene.
"Little Red Schoolhouse" and How to
Improve It Will Be Chief Theme of
Discussion at Session.
Tho "little red schoolhouse" Is to oc
cupy a place of honor on tbe pro
gram of the Fourth International con
gress on school hygiene, which will
meet ill Buffulo from Aug. 23 to Aug.
30, necordlng to a statement Issued by
tho program committee, which Is com
posed of Drs. Robert W. Lovett and
David L. Edsall of Harvard, Dr. Lu
ther H. Gullck of Now York and Dr.
Thomas A. Storey of the College of
the City of New York, secretary gen
eral of tho congress.
"The problems of tho city schools
have received a great deal of much
deserved attention," say tho members
of tho committee In their announce
ment of the program. "The very se
rious problems of the village school
and of tho rural school have received
but Httlo attention. The study and tbe
solution of these problems are of ob
vious complexity and importance. Tbe
committee is therefore anxious to se
cure papers relating to rural school
hygiene and village school hygiene as
well as to the city school hygiene."
Dr. Claxton's Report.
In a report issued at Washington
United States Commissioner of Edu
cation rhllander I1. Claxton calls at
tention to tho subject of the little red
school in tho following terms:
"Until very recently few careful
studies of tho rural schools have been
made, and wo yet have little accurate
Information about them and little
knowledge of tho factors entering into
the problem of their improvement. Wo
do know in a general way that, their
terms are short, their support inade
quate, their teachers poorly prepared,
their, attendance Irregular, their man
agement unscientific and wasteful of
money, time and energy; their courses
of study ill ndapted to their needs and
tho houses In which the children are
taught cheap and poorly equipped and
furnished. That this is not truo of all
rural schools goes without saying, but
it Is unfortunately true in a largo
measure of most of them."
In all there aro some 212,000 one
teacher little red schoolhouses in the
United States alone, according to tho
"Washington report, prepared by A. C.
Monahan. In tills report there is a
picture of a one teacher rural school
house which is characterized as "a
fair typo of about one-half of the 212,
000 one teocher rural schoolB." Most
of tho original red paint seems to have
been washed off those schools.
An Erroneous Impression.
"A general Impression lias been cre
ated," says Mr. Monaban, "that there
exists an American school system
which is sufficient and nation wide,
with equal educational opportunities
in all parts of tho couutry. Tho im
pression Is erroneous. It is probably
truo that the public schools, both urban
and rural, have mado considerable
progress, but tho marked progress has
been confined nlmost wholly to tho
city and town. The majority of rural
schools aro housed In uncomfortable
buildings, unsuitable from every stand
point, without proper furniture or fa
cilities for heating, ventilating and
lighting; without ndequute provisions
for guarding the lieolth and morals of
tho children and with comparatively
little equipment for teaching."
Dr. Fletcher B. Dresslar, school hy
giene specialist in tho bureau of educa
tion, who is chairman of tho commit
tee on scientific exhibit at tho fourth
International congress, has recently
been making a special study of tho
rural school building and grounds. The
result of his Investigation, which Is to
be published in n special bulletin, will
bo called to tho attention of tho dele
gates at Buffalo. Dr. Dresslar found
that, although there is .great need for
reform, nevertheless tho indications at
tho present time point toward a mark
ed improvement In tho rural school
building, ground anil equipment.
MENDICANTS USE AUTO.
Blind Man and Wife Are Almc Seekers
do Luxe,
A blind man and hla wife sitting
helpless in a broken do-wn motorcar
near Wnmcgo, Kan., attracted the at
tention and aroused tho sympathy of
Ij. A. Phillips and Guy Ilolmes.
Ilolmes and Phillips aro In tho serv
ice department of a Kansas City auto
mobile company, and they travel about
tho country repairing cars. They
spent two hours working on tho blind
man's car and sent It awaj in good
sluipe, tho wife driving. In Wamego
tho "good Samaritan1" explained their
delny in arriving.
"Yes," said a resident, "that couple
travels In a motorcar. They aro beg
gars do luxe. Tho man fiddles, and the
woman sings. It's n business with
them, and they aro working tho towns
Df western Kansas. When they ap
proach a town they hide tho car in tho
woods until they clean up, and then
thev speed away to the next town."
PENNSYLVANIA SUNDAY IAW.
Worldly Employment or Business on
Sunday Prolilbltod.
If any person shall do or perform
any worldly employment or business
whatsoever on the Lord's Day, com
monly called Sunday (works of ne
cessity and charity only excepted)
shall uso or practice any unlawful
game, hunting, shooting, sport or
diversion on tho same day, and be
convicted thereof, every such per
son so offending shall, for every
such offense, be fined or imprisoned,
forfeit and pay four dollars. Pro
vided always, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to pro
hibit tho dressing of victuals In pri
vate families, bako houses, lodging
houses, inns or other houses of en
tertainment for the use of sojourn
ers, travellers or strangers, nor to
the delivery of milk or the neces
saries of life before nine of tho
clock in the forenoon, nor after flvo
of the clock in the afternoon of tho
same day.
The following explanations are de
cisions as rendered by the courts of
Pennsylvania:
1. Persons who profess the Jew
ish religion and others who keep the
seventh day as their Sabbath, aro
within the meaning of the act. The
acts in 'favor of liberty of conscience
are not In conflict with the Sunday
laws, or with those for the suppres
sion of vlco and immorality, these
aro intended to protect the social
customs of the people, and have no
intention to enforce their religious
opinions.
2. Shaving and hair dressing for
hire, In a shop kept for the purpose,
is a worldly employment forbidden
by the act. The fact that persons
were shaved without compensation
makes no difference.
3. A sale of cigars by a licensed
inn keeper, whether to his guests or
strangers, is a violation of the act.
4. Tho sale of Sunday newspapers
is a work of charity and necessity.
fi. Repairing a railroad track is a
work of necessity and charity.
C. Baseball playing on Sunday at
an unfrequented place is not such a
breach of the peace as to make the
parties indictable, in tho absence of
evidence that any one was disturbed.
Tho court may grant a preliminary
injunction at the instance of tho at
torney general to restrain tho play
ing of 'base ball on Sunday.
7. Tho sale of ice cream on Sun
day, by a baker who conducts a re
freshment room in connection with
the bakery, but who does not furnish
tho ordinary public entertainment,
is protected by the act. The clause
authorizing the dressing of victuals
does not include the right to sell.
8. Carrying on tho business of
selling milk in an open store, to all
who may call for it, is a worldly
employment and not within tho pro
vision permitting the " delivery of
milk," delivery and sale are not
synonymous.
Foster's Weather Bulletin
Copyrighted 1913 By W, T. FOSTER
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 2.
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis
turbance to cross continent Aug. 3
to 7, warm wave 2 to C, cool wave
5 to 9. This storm will be of great
er than usual force, very cool about
three days preceding its arrival and
very warm about three days after
it has gone by. Not much rain. Bad
weather for corn, good weather for
spring wheat where rainfall was suf
ficient in July.
Next disturbance will reach Pa
cific coast about Aug. 7, cross Pa
cific slope by close of 8th, great cen
tral valleys 9 to 11, eastern sections
12. Warm wave will cross Pacific
slope about Aug. 7, great central val
leys 9, eastern sections 11. Cool
wave will cross Pacific slope about
August 10, great central valleys 12,
eastern sections 14.
Unusually hot and dry weather
will prevail while this disturbance
is passing and tho corn and cotton
crops will bo Injured thereby.
Storms will not bo of great force and
general weather will bo favorable to
those who wish to take their summer
outings. Good spring wheat weath
er will continue to prevail whero July
rains were sufficient.
It must bo noted that our July
TiHiE QlLMIBgf S CiRi
' ' cause there Is a knave in
What Willie Bat is afraid will happen If the flying every suit,
machine becomes a success.
t
Game of Soldiers, o's that soldier Is counted as killed,
A blackboard game not generally and ho cannot flro again. Tho game
known Is called "soldiers." Two boys ends when all the soldiers of ono side
each draw a row of ten o's about a bavo boon, shot that Is, crossed off by
quarter of an inch in slzo and half an tho chalk marks. Tho lines must bo
inch apart; tho two rowB must bo sop- drawn across very rapidly If tho game
orated by a distance of twclvo or flf- is Ijlnycd fairly.
teen inches. Each boy takes n pleco .
of chalk and then protends that ho Nonsense Verse,
is tho commander of ono row of -The cat Is a little User,
soldiers. Ho then flres a shot from i know very well," said Willlo,
ono of his soldiers at tho opposite "But how is tt that the cattail
row, drawing his chalk rapidly across Is never a tiger Illy?"
tho blackboard from ono row to tho otli- n ...
And every time a shot (chalk mark) becaule that fat old bather ,
drosses near the center of oneof tho Jatepped ifovSn its undertow. j
rainfall forecasts, In a general way,
were good, Those rains had the ef
fect to lower prices of grain. We
now expect tho August drouth to put
grain and cotton higher and wo still
advise not to sell the new crops of
cotton and grain.
Third storm wave of Aug. will
reach Pacific coast about tho 12th,
cross Pacific slope by close of 13,
great central valleys 14 to 1C, east
ern sections 17. Warm wave will
cross Pacific slope about August 12,
great central valleys 14, eastern sec
tions 1G. Cool wave will cross Pa
cific slope about August 15, great
central valleys 17, eastern sections
about tho 19 th.
Wo are of opinion that financial
affairs will be favorable to business
expansion during the next six
months and that all farm products
will sell at better ''prices. Mexico
and the Central American states
must soon return to business and
drop the occupation of war. To re
coup they will need much of our
farm products. The Balklns are In
much the same condition as Mexico.
The opening of the Panama canal
will bring new demands for our
products. Our own population Is
rapidly Increasing while our culti
vated lands are at a standstill or
decreasing. The unsettled condi
tions .in European governments will
Increase immigration to this coun
try and Canada. All these matters
will tend to make good prices for
farm products.
STAMPING OUT TUBERCULOSIS
DEMANDS MORE HOSPITALS
Hardly Ono Bed for Every Eight
or Ten Consumptives Provided
For states Havo None.
Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Mis
sissippi are the only states in the
United States which have made no
hospital or sanatorium provision for
consumptives, says Tho National As
sociation for the Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis in a bulletin
Issued today. At the same time tho
Association asserts that, whllo there
are 33,000 beds for tuberculosis pa
tients in other states, this number
is very inadequate, hardly more than
ono for every eight or ten needy pa
tients being provided. Some states
havo less than 30 beds, and In not a
single one is there a sufficient num
ber available.
The bulletin points that, although
the death rate from tuberculosis has
declined steadily for tho last twenty-five'
years, a marked Increase in
hospital and sanatorium beds must
be made before a rate of even 4 or
5 deaths per 1,000 population can
be reached. At the present time the
city death rates in this country range
from eight or nine per 1,000 living
to as high as 35 or 40, with the av
erage around 15 or 1G, according
to the latest reports of the Bureau of
tho Census.
Tho National Association estimates
that there are over a million con
sumptives in the United States, of
whom probably at least one-third
are unable to provide for themselves
tho necessary treatment at home.
Most of these cases aro a menace
to the health of their families and as
sociates, and should bo in special hos
pitals. At the present time, how
ever, even if every case were known,
it would not be possible to provide
accommodations far more than one
In eight or ten. Tho removal of these
foci of infection demands more and
better hospital and sanatorium pro
vision. NOTED LANDMARK PASSING.
(From the Tarry town News.)
Washington Irvlng's great Treaty
Tree at Sleepy Hollow, in the
Philipse Manor section, lost its last
three leaves recently. Tourists and
visitors have noted with much con
cern for over a year that it was dy
ing. It is 20 feet In circumference
at its base. It had bravely withstood
tho disease that has destroyed most
of the chestnut trees throughout the
East, and it is probably the. last to
die In tho Sleepy Hollow and Tarry
town sections.
This monarch of the forest Is
known in history as tho treo under
which the last treaty was made be
tween the whites and Wequasqueek
Indians. Under Its romantic shade
also Irving wrote his famous "The
Headless Horseman," with scenes
laid at Philipse Manor. Although
the Treaty Treo is practically dead,
it will not bo felled and destroyed
like hundreds of Its fellows there. It
Is to be preserved, and long trailing
flowering vines havo been planted
about Its base to cover it completely
In tho future. It stands almost in
tho center of tho Philipse Manor
property, close to tho Hudson River,
In full view from Broadway or the
old Albany Post road.
CARBONDALE MI.M'J
BILL VETOED.
The mine flro measure allowing
tho city of Carbondale an appropria
tion of $150,000 to extinguish a
long-burning coal mine, has been
vetoed by Governor John K. Tener.
THE UNIDENTIFIED BURIED.
Only once before was the city so
moved as it was recently, when the
twentyj-one unidentified victims of
tho Binghamton Clothing Company
flro were burled in Spring Forest
cemetery. That was when Daniel S.
Dickinson, the great leader of the
"War Democrats" of the North, tho
man whose orations .made plain tho
duty of untold thousands during tho
" dark and bloody days," was burled
In the same cemetery years ago.
At Dickinson's funeral the great
ones of the nation camo to mourn
and, by their eulogies, delivered here
and elsewhere, testified to the great
ness of the mighty dead. Then, as
yesterday, the entire city was in deep
mourning and then, as yesterday,
the cemetery was so thronged with
people that it was almost Impossible
to lind a place to stand Inside its
boundaries. 'But yesterday's funeral
was more Impressive still than that
of Dickinson. If there were no ora
tions of tremendous power, there was
the more eloquent tribute of awed
silence as the vast assemblage of
people watched the long lino of coffin-bearers
form at tho gates and
bear the twenty-one bodies to the
plot set apart for them. The full
force of the calamity came to the
people at large as they saw that
grim procession and as they reflected
upon the awful price sometimes ex
acted under the conditions of modern
industrialism. The impressive ser
vices at the opera house and at the
graves had a most powerful effect
upon the public, bringing home to
each one present the needs of the
hour. Binghamton Republican.
Siol
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Tho dates for tho weekly water
tests at White Lake, Sullivan county,
which are to bo held throughout Au
gust, are announced. The first of the
series was last Thursday, while tho
others will come oif on Thursday of
each week. The sagamore Club, of
New York city, will bo In charge of
the regatta. The following events
were found on tho program: Men and
women's singles, men and women's
doubles, cask race, mixed doubles,
duck race, no-oar race, swimming
race and canoe tilting contest.
Prizes are offered for all of the
above events. Tho annual regatta
Is announced for Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, August 20, 21
and 22.
Fishing, which receded somowhat
into tho background during the pre
parations for tho regattas and the
card parties, received a strong stim
ulus Saturday, when Mr. William
Yeager, of Gray's Casino, landed a
five pound bass after a hard strug
gle. To be exact, tho fish weighed
about five and a half ounces over
the five pound mark. This is the
banner catch of the season.
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