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SCHOOLS AS SOCIAL CENTERS.
Three hundred t and thirty-eight
schools in 101 cities of the United States
were used as social centers during the
past season, according to a report compiled
by Clarence Arthur Perry for the
Russell Sage Foundation. Mr. Perry
finds that in 44 of the 101 cities social
centers were directed by paid workers.
New York had 48 such centers, Chicago
1C, and Philadelphia. Boston, Columbus,
Detroit, Jersey City, Louisville, Rochester,
and Trenton are also among the
cities Included In this list There Is
wide variation in the length of the season,
from five or six weeks in some
localities to the full school term in
others. In fact, little uniformity prevails
as to what constitutes a social
center. The report also presents data
on the growing use of school buildlngR
for political meetings. In Cleveland,
O., meetings were held in the schools to
discuss the new constitutional provisions
that wore before the people for
adoption. In Jersey City the public
schools were opened to partlzan political
meetings with gratifying results;
eight public school auditoriums In Now
York city were also opened for the same
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balls were employed for political rallies,
and proved a distinctly popular innovation.
The use of schools as polling
p'aces Is another recent development
Thirty schools in Los Angeles were
used for this purpose In 1911. In the
past year Milwaukee began using the
bssements of school buildings as polling
places, dn New York the commissioner
of accounts recommended that the
school buildings be used for registration
booths throughout the city, declaring
that the plan would mean the saving
of a considerable part of the $100,000
expended for rental every year.
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The privilege of mailing their own
speeches and a variety of campaign
documents, which our congressmen
have granted themselves. Is receiving
unusual attention at present. As stated
in Leslie's Weekly, Postmaster-General
Hitchcock is devoting a large part of his
remaining months in office to a final
fight on this shameful abuse of the
congressional mailing frank. Mr. Hitchoock
is not so much distressed over the
$20,000,000 loss, which is what the free
m~il privilege is said to cost the people
or t>ne united states, as he is on account
of the Injustice of it all. It might be
explained that in addition to the mass
of stuff which congressmen usually send
out there was an alarming misuse of
the congressional frank during the last
election primaries, tit was something
the like of which the country has never
seen before. Tons of nomination literature
were dumped into the mails and
for the time being the postal service
was fairly swamped. It cost the government
close to four million dollars to
handle the additional 'business. The In
flux was unexpected and extraordinary.
TELEPHONE INVESTIGATION.
Attorney-General Wickersham has
made public a letter to the Inter-State
Commerce Commission In which he suggests
the advisability of Investigating
the Bell Telephone system to ascertain
whether within the meaning of the law
that corporation is a monopoly. It is
announced that the Commission 'will
proceed promptly to order such an investigation.
According to published
statements, out of this InvoetlirnMnn will
be formed the outline of a government
policy with reference to the telephone
and telegraph. It rauet he determined,
according to official a whether, in the
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a telephone or telegraph monopoly
under rigid regulations should he tolerated
by the federal government; or
whether the government should take
over utilities; or, finally, whether competition
should be enforced under the
Sherman anti-trust law, and monopoly
prohibited. Air. Wickergham's letter to
the commission sets forth at length the
nature of the alleged combination maintained
by the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, either directly or
through subsidiary companies, and asserts
that "it practically controls the
operations of the telegraph and cable
lines of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. A comprehensive statement
of the oxtent of the service of the Bell
system and the independent companies,
facts and data gathered after more than
a year's investigation by agents of the
Department of Justice, are given in the
letter. Discrimination against patrons
of the independent lines, the purchase
of competing lines, excessive rates in
fields -where there is no competition,
favoritism toward the Western Union
and other methods?all based on complaints
and information gathered by the
Department of Justice?are charged
against the Bell system by Mr. Wicker
8 nam.
MONEY TRUST INQUIRY.
The consensus of opinion In /both
parties in Congress Is to the effect that
the Pujo investigation has failed to
show the existence of a money- trust
But It Is also agreed that the investigation
was worth while and that legislation
will follow, providing for reforms
that have .been recommended by
leading bankers. From the suggestions
that have been made in the oourse of
the inquiry It seema certain that the
committee will make the following
among its recommendations: Compulsory
incorporation of stock exchanges
and adoptions of regulations against
manipulation of securities. This to be
accomplished by the Federal government
through the exercise of Its power
over the mails and the transmission of
quotations over the telegraph lines.?Incorporation
of the clearing houses of
the country with regulations which
make any solvent bank eligible to membership
and which will gdve the State
and Federal banking authorities power
to pass upon the action of the clearing
houses.?A prohibition of the practice
of the New York clearing house in
ma i ?,iu? tuuiuiiBsiund un uui-oi-iown
checks.?A law compelling a complete
disclosure by promoters of all profits
made by them on securities listed on
the New York Stock Exchange.?Full
publicity to assets of national banks,
with the exception of loans.?Full publicity
of the stock ownership of national
hanks.?Prohibition against the participation
by bank officers and directors in
underwriting syndicates.?Prohibition
against officers and directors of national
banks borrowing money from their
own institutions.?The nrohlbltion of the
present close connections between national
banks and aecnrlttes companies.
?A prohibition against national banks
buying securities from any banking
honse which has members upon its
boards of directors.
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE.
Agitation in Congress of Philippine
mnerpennence dm Prongnt otit interesting
facte as to the progress of the
natives in civilization and the vast progress
yet to be made before the people
are qualified for self-government The
annual report of the Philippine Commission
wtiVti was sent to Ooneprets by
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it Events
the Secretary of Wax, shows that the
government has accomplished much in
civilizing the islanders, and that the
prospects point to greater strides along
educational, industrial and commercial
lines, but there are thousands upon
thousands of "untamed men" ready to
interrupt progress the moment restraint
is relaxed. The incapacity of the Filipinos
to protect themselves from disease,
Including leprosy, tuberculosis
and malignant fevers, and the urgent'
demand for extensive sanitation measures
in nearly every section, are emphasized
by facts and flgureB. One illustration
is that since the leper colony
was established seven thousand lepers?
a deadly menace to the islands?have
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also fltated that thousands of insane
patients are still roaning at large. Notwithstanding
the armed force on the
islands, there is much outlawry, and
close guard has to be maintained over
all kinds of property in tmany districts
because of utter lack of appreciation of
the property rights of others. The need
of entertaining the great crowds of wild
men who meet the Secretary of the Interior
on hds trips has (been solved in
part by taking with him a portable
moving picture outfit and bowing
something of life in a world heretofore
beyond their ken. Speaking of the
mountain province, the report continues:
Its wild inhabitants number some 400,000
and belong to five sharply distinct
tribes. All of them, with the exception
of the Benguie-Lepante Igorots, have
recently been head hunters." There are, ,
of course, limited areas where more '
civilized conditions prevail. Even here
there in not the appreciation of the responsibilities
and opportunities of citizenship
which assures permanent and
efficient administration of government
SENATE IS DEMOCRATIC.
With the election of Willard Saulsbury
as United States Senator from
Delaware the Democratic strength in
the next Senate swung from the precarious
figure of 48 or exactly one-half the
Senate to the total of 49, a majority of
two. Mr. Sauldbury's election, added to
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the rictory recently secured in Tennessee,
assures the Democratic party
absolute control of She Senate after
March 4. The vote of Vice-President
Marshall would have been the deciding
factor In any event, but the addition of
another Democratic vote to the column
gives the party leaders what they believe
to he a safe margin (for tariff and
legislative action. Contests still exist in
the legislatures of New (Hampshire,
West Virginia and Illinois, with a total
of four Senators to be elected, about
whose political affiliations doubt now
exists. A victory in any one of these
States would so materially strengthen
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element of uncertainly. The attitude of
the Progressives and the Progressive
Republicans upon tariff matters Is as
yet unknown, tout the margin of
strength promised to the Democrats
makes it unnecessary, it is (believed,
to count upon any combinations with
the Progressives. Of the entire membership
of 96 Senators, 63 will hold over
beyond March 4. Of these 34 are Republicans
and 31 Democrats. The terms of
32 Senators expire in March and there
is in addition one vacancy in Illinois.
Thus far 17 Democratic Senators have
been elected and the election of Senator
Bacon in Georgia, is certain, making 18
Democrats to take oath of office March
4. The opposition forces, Including both
the Republicans and the Progressives,
have elected 11 new Senators. The Senate
after March 4 will stand as follows.
If the deadlocks are not broken In Illinois,
New Hampshire, and West Virginia:
Democrats, 49; Republicans and
Progressives, 43; vacancies, 4.
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