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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1913.
Somewhere I read these lines: “It
Iseemeth to me that the true idea of
(education is contained in the word it
self, which signifies the act of drawing
out or deducing; and being applied in a
general sense to man, must signify the
■drawing forth or bringing out those
■powers which are implanted in him by
■the hand of his Maker. This, therefore,
■we must adopt as the rudimental idea of
■education: that it aims to do for man
■that which agriculturist does for the
■fruits of the earth, and the gardener for
the more choice and beautiful produc
tions thereof, what the forester does for
■the trees of the forest and the tamer
(and breaker in of animals does for the
(several kinds of wild creatures."
I have had so, much to say in the past
(about compulsory education that I am
(at my wits’ end. Yet it is a subject so
■near my heart and one that means so
(much to Georgia that I feel as if I
(must not let an opportunity pass with-
(out once more reminding the readers of
■this page that it behooves every one
lof them to do their part. Each one
■should not only send their own children
■to school, rain or shine, but try to en-
■thuse others. This is a matter that af
fects the standing of Georgia among
(other states, and in the years to come,
(when the educational qualification will
(mean more than it does now it will be
(the white man who will suffer, for our
“brother in black” doesn’t need a law
|for compulsory education. Whether
(there is meal in the sack or not the chil
dren go to school. How would you like
(to have your son be compelled to ask a
(negro boy to read something for him? I
(saw that not a year ago. The negro
|was well dressed and the white .man
called him “Mister.”
I heard a man predict all sorts of
|things for this country, all because of
(the lack of interest in compulsory edu
cation. Some of the legislators would
(vote for it, and work for it, but they
(know that if they should do so this
(would be their last chance at the “gov-
(ernment crib,” and so they merge their
(opinions into any old thing that will
(make them popular, just as one lost his
(place because he voted for a woman’s
(bill.
Just about as valuable to Georgia is
(the uneducated citizen as a block of
(stone to the sculptor. There may be all
sorts of possibilities in both, but who
(can tell what until education has
(brought one to light and the sculptor’s
(chisel the other. In these days of
(specialization a man or woman has lit-
Jtle chance to be more than a part of
(some great machinery with some other
(person doing the headwork that prob-
(ably could be eyen better done were the
lone toiling as a beast of burden the
(educated one. This seems plain lan-
lguage, but look at the toiling masses
(and see if I am not right.
Yes, I know there are men and women
| who have reached certain pinnacles of
■ success notwithstanding their lack of ed-
lucation. But don’t you know that they
I reaelize every day the handicap that lack
I is to them. Some few have become so
(well satisfied over their success that they
(are not aware of their colossal ignor-
jance. They catch at big words and make
j laughing stocks of themselves. They
(are very much in the minority, however,
land we do not want the next generation
I to have any of that sort. True, manly'
(hearts beat in their bodies and it seems
| a shame for the head to lack cultivation.
Georgia teachers are among the worst
I paid in this country, but how could one
(expect any better when education fs v at
I such a low ebb? Many letters come to
I me from patrons and teachers so I hear
(both sides of some very pitiful stories.
(The price in other states is drawing
(many of the best teachers from this
I state, and the fact that a school must
I make such an average to enable the
(teachers to collect the salary puts the
I responsibility of keeping it up on a few*,
(the ones who do not make their children
| go.
One young teacher came to this city
| and applied for work in a store. I asked
1 her why she did not teach and she told
I me of a debt she made thinking her
I school was sure for enough months to
I pay it. One thing and another kept the
I children at home and the consequence
| was she appeared in the eyes of some as
(a fraud because she could not meet her
| obligations.
Two years ago President Barrett said:
J “If we are not going to prepare the cit-
| izens who must rule tomorrow for a bet-
| ter reckoning with their tasks than
(their fathers and grandfathers, then we
] might as well abandon the battle cry of
(progress in Georgia.”
He also said, “Education, universal ed-
I ucation is here to stay. If it be not tak-
I en voluntarily we must make it compul-
| sory, as we make it compulsory for peo-‘
(ple to wear clothes on the street, as we,
I refuse to let a man or woman commit
I suicide or murder if we can help it. For
I the parent not requiring his child v to
I take advantage of educational facilities
I when they are offered is allowing the
| child to commit moral and material sui
cide for himself, direct murder of the
collective chances of civilization to re
cord advancement.”
There are men and women who hold
a grudge against their parents because
they valued the “almighty dollar” more
than the minds of their children. One
man told me that he had received more
than one thrashing because he would
take a book to the field. One young
woman told me that her brothers left
home as soon as they could and worked
their way through college, but she had
to stay and keep her mother from work
ing herself to death’. But on the other
hand, there a^e hundreds who do not
want to attend school and their parents
will not make them, and others who put
them to work.
It takes a lot of determination and
moral strength to keep on year after
year and see that a child, who does not
want to go to school, learns his or her
lessons. I must confess there have
been cases where I didn’t see how the
mother, for the burden usually falls on
her, could keep it up. But there is one
blessing, one does not have to borrow
trouble—it’s just today’s lessons and
attendance that must be looked after;
tomorrow will come, but today well-
grounded, helps tomorrow.
“Hope springs eternal in the human
breast.”
And maybe things will brighten. Just
now a great hue and cry is made by the
vice commission. Far be it from me
to cast aven a pabble in their way, but
they cannot make figs grow on thistles
and the secret of the downfall of girls
and men is the lack of a Christian edu
cation. Have the mind so trained that
when they see the right they will stick
to it. That character is made minute
by minute, and that immature minds
should not be trusted out of the home
circle.
A judge in Atlanta, and one in New
York, last week annulled marriages in
which the girls were uiujer sixteen and
the boys under twenty-one. I think that
the man who marries such couples
should serve a term in jail, not pay a
fine but go to jail. They are always
runaways and may get a friend to buy
the license, thus not letting the clerk
see their youthfulness; but 'the man
who marries them has to come face to
face with them and has’ a chance to
judge for himself. What do such cou
ples know about life’s responsibilities?
But I must not begin on that subject;
this Chat is growing too long.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
TWO HONEST CONFESSIONS
Dear Mis? Thomas: I am going to confess
to you that I have been writing a spring poem.
Don't hold up your hands in horror: I am as
sorry for it as I can be, and I promise not
to do so anv more—unless, oh, unless I just
can’t help myself. But I’m going to play Adam.
Why can’t we inherit some of Adam’s charac
teristics? I am, anyway, and say that Miss
Thomas is responsible because you told us about
your garden and chickens. Then, a poor, de
luded robin came and chirped in the maple
under inv window. Other signs of spring multi
plied themselves, my folks painted the house and
I ruined my best dress as usual.
Then came the punishment. Such a storm,
and hail and all sorts of wintry weather, ihe
winds howled and their shrieks took me quite
# off my spirted Pegasus and now I plod .aiong
and try to be humble. . . , -
Who in this crowd believes in ghosts? Don t
all sneak at once, nor all draw close together
and look wise. Have you ever seen a ghost !
Of course, we have seen Iota of uncanny things,
but upon investigation what did they Prove to
be? Let's hear from some of you, not long
letters, but plain statements of acts I don t
believe in them—oh, no: but I dearly love to
hear the creepy sort-chairs clanking, tfjjan
and all sorts of scary things. After an or ?y
prayers oTU SftM? S& SW
enoug a h d !n t Geo t r*ir r to Ct make
bed at such a time. Of course rieen '
POPULAR NOVELS
‘•St Elmo" and "Miss Billy were engaged
t, he married. Yes. Keally cengaged . to be
married. And the engagement was
beautiful country home, The 1 ort o »» b
Men” situated In the foothills of y i f» ln “‘. th
The Sherrods had long been acquainted with
r JSS. * "=«
pa lfwls to «.« a ho.se party
rarely failed to go back upon Invitation.
The Sherrods had also known St. Elmo
a long time, but as he had also bene Raveling
Asia and Africa, be had not attended a single
house party at their Virginia place tHev lSd
he attended one, the last one, that they had
given at their White Mountain home, five years
before.
Grace Sherrod was known as a successful
matchmaker and in fact, she was successful
beyond a doubt for no less than two couples
whom she introduced last year at her house
party were married during the fall.
From the moment that she introduced “Miss
Billy” to ‘‘St. Elmo,” none of the others of
the party had a look-in on either one. They
were perfectly devoted to one another. Shy
played tp him and he was content. He took
her rowing and she was content.
The two weeks’ duration of the house party
was over before they knew it had hardly
begun and when ‘‘Miss Billy” boarded the
Pullman of the tralu with the rest of the
party that were headed north, she still heard
his last words ringing through her hend.
“In two weeks, Billy, • I’ll be in Massachu
setts and when I come back to Tennessee, I’ll
bring you back with me.”
And Miss Billy had answered, “Yes, dear-
Don’t, Elmo. Someone might be looking.”
Two weeks later St. Elmo presented him
self at “Castle Craneycrow,” Billy’s home,
near Boston, and the result was that a date
for the marriage was agreed upon.
The wedding would occur Just ns soon ns
Billy’s only rliving relative, an aunt, “Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” came homo from
her American sight-seeing trip.
Mrs. Wiggs was accompanied on her trip
by four of her friends, “Miss Innocenco,”
“Lorna Doone.” “Torn Sawyer” and “Truxton
King.”
"The Five Friends” had had n great trip
so far and had enjoyed very much tho many
scenes that they had passed through.
In a letter to Billy, Mrs. Wiggs wrote that
she fairly loved "The Garden of Allah.” Hbo
said that it was u fairy place on earth. She
also added that she liked what was left of
San Francisco. One whole page of her letter
was devoted to eploiting “Where tho Trail
Divides.”, Another page was devoted to
Happy Hawkins,” whom she described us u
happy-go-lucky kind of a chap. She wrote that
the boys called Happy “The Ne’er-Do-Well.”
. lo J!? s from her letter, “And Billy, I met
The Virginian,’ too. You know who I meun
■ the one that travels for “Aladdin & Co.,”
bf Baltimore. Ho certainly is a nice fellow,
too. He s engaged to be married to “Tho
Girl of the Golden West” and he showed me
her picture at “The Steering Wheel” of her
tJ 1 ! 88 /J em P le ’” or us he styles her,
Chain Driven ’ touring car.
"Miss Billy" and her friend, “Beverly of
«sr st j, rk ', w< l re rea(,ln e this letter after
st. Elmo had returned to Boston.
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For April 13—Gen. 28:10-22,
DOS,'
Golden Text: “I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou
ffoeBt.'’ Gen. 28:15. ,
A GARDEN ZOO.
1 planted Pennyroyal close beside the garden
fence;
It bltomed with nickels, dimes and even fifty
cents.
As many people think its odor rather strong
and rank, , a
I gathered each one as it came and placed It
in the bank.
I planted Dogwood after that, and on each
Dogwood tree
There blossomed little puppies just as cunuiug
ns could be.
Their bark would sound for miles around, but
♦logs must have their day,
Although I grieve to state that many people
ran away.
But when the Pussy Willows bloomed and
kitties mowed end* purred.
The garden grew so noisy that it really seemed
absurd.
So I decided quickly on the one thing that I
could do—
My plant I’d lay for beasts of prey and turn
it into a zoo#
I planted Daude Lions, but, believe me, when
they came
They never growled a little bit, but acted
rather tame.
The striped Tiger Lilies that I thought would
growl and roar
Grew meekly near Horse Chestnut trees behind
the kitchen door.
’Twas a very funny garden and a funny zoo, I
grant
For the only thing tbat paid me was the Penny
royal plant
IRENE ELLIOT BENSON.
(Republished by request. A clever thing to
learn for an encore.)
Beverly was wpitng the names of Billy’s
friends to whom invitations to the wedding were
to be sent and Billy was drafting a copy of
the imitation. A question from Beverly in
regard to the names of some more of her
friends caused Billy to look up so suddenly that
she knocked over the ink bottle, irrevocably
ruining the tablecloth and the latest edition of
the invitation.
“Now! See what I’ve done,” she exclaimed.
“Well, no use to cry over spilled milk. Are
you going to give me those names?”
“Let me see,” said Billy, jabbing her pen
behind her ear, clerkwise, and making a face
at Beverly; “we must invite Tollyooly” from
London and ‘Jhne Cable’ and ‘Mary Midthrone’
and ‘Susan,’ and, uh—oh. yes, ’Queed’ and,
and—”
“Don’t forget “The Little Shepherd of King
dom Come,’ ” broke in Beverly.
“And ‘Freckles.’ And we want ‘The Bishop
of Cotton town’ to perform the ceremony,” con
tinued Billy.
There was Pence for a space zroken only by
tbe scratcnmg of Beverly’s pen as she wrote
the mimes down as Billy called them out.
“The Servant in The House” having cleaned
up the table where Billy had spilled the ink,
she sat down there again and commenced draft
ing another invitation.
Looking up suddenly Billy said, “Beverly, be
sure and put down ‘The Prodigal Judge’ for an
invitation and ‘The Music Master,’ too.”
Beverly, who was gazing out of the window
dpwn “Ppmander JVValk” quietly obeyed the
order. ’Suddenly she smiled. “Billy, have you
forgotten ‘The Girl of the Limberlost’ and ‘The
Harvester,’ where ‘Mrs. Wiggs’ spent summer
before last?”
Quietly ignoring the question, Billy made a
face at Beverly.
“And The Daughter of. Anderson Crow’ and
•Polly of the Circus,’ and j-our old fellow’, ‘Ben
Blair,’ w retorted Beverly.
At this juncture the servant brought in a
telegram from Mrs. Wiggs, which read as fol
lows
“GOLCONDA, Nev., Sept. 4, 1908.
“Miss Billy Dona, near Concord, Mass: Train
wrecked. Nobody killed except ‘The Man in
Lower Ten’ of my car. Very few hurt. Will
be delayed several days. Impossible to visit
‘Rosalind at Red Gate’ or to see ‘The House
of a Thousand Candles.’ Be sure and send
Rosalind my regrets. My address and the rest
of the party will be Dogue Hotel, Winnemucca,
Nev. Will be home soofl. REBECCA.”
For the uext week Bevely and Billy were
busy ns they could be, sending invitations and
visiting milliners and dressmakers.
During this time St. Elmo, accompanied by
his uncle, “Silas Strong” made several trips
over to see Billy.
On one of the occasions Billy and St. Elmo
wandered down into the garden and Beverly
and Mr. Strong were left to amuse themselves.
Passing Into “The Red Room,” they sat down
and began talking of the approaching wedding.
“It seems to me,” remarked Mr. Strong,
“that Elmo and Billy are not as loving as
they were at the first of last week.”
“Why, what make you think so, Mr. Strong?”
asked Beverly m a surprised voice.
“Well, that is not exactly what I mean. I
mean that St. Elmo is worried. You kuow that
he is not half as rich as Billy, though he Das
plenty. I believe that on the road to Provi
dence me met Mary Rose and the ‘Goose Girl,’
and—”
“Don’t dare to insinuate that he is not ‘Tried
and True,’ ” interrupted Beverly.
Just then a boy brought in a telegram for
Miss Billy, and—
(To be continued.)
JESSE.
One can never tell whereto sin will
lead him. Rebekah and Jacob didn’t
appreciate that their sin of lying would
make it necessary for Jacob to leave
home, and that she would never see him
again. This, however, was the price she
paid, in part. I am not sure but that
the remorse she suffered and the grief
at being separated from the one she
loved more than all the world beside
had something to do with shortening her
life.
Jacob paid dearly for his part in the
transaction. It wasn’t pleasant, to say
the least of it, to have to leave home,
and know that if he came back he might
be murdered by his brother whom he
had outraged. It is bad enough to have
to leave home ^for a long period for
study or travel, but the circumstances
here must have made the journey almost
intolerable. And, I’ve no doubt but that
such it was for the first three days.
JACOB’S DREAM.
After he had been traveling that time,
according to the Jewish account, of
course, he came to Bethel. No doubt ,he
had been there before. Certainly he
knew all of the holy associations of the
spot. Its name means “the house of
God,” and wjiile it was very bare and
rock-ribbed, it served to turn his
thoughts to the God of his father Isaac,
and his grandfather Abraham. He must
have wondered how the promises to
them were going to be fulfilled. He
wondered how God could bring the
blessings of the inheritance through him
who was now an exile from home. He
had the birthright, he had the blessing
on his head; but he had realized neither
in his life, and banished from home, he
wondered if he ever would come into
possession of the promises.
Then there must have whirled through
his mind again, as it had been doing
many times those days, the enormity of
his own sin—against his father, his
brother, his mother, himself, his God.
He was worn out, too, mentally and
physically. He had to leave before
daylight each morning to keep secret
the direction he was traveling, and to
travel after dark for the same reason.
*He got a smooth stone for a pillow,
and, under the stars, fell asleep, and
dreamed.
What we dreeam about is what has
been on our thoughts during the waking
-hours. It is not hard to see therefore,
why Jacob dreamed as he did—the lad
der, heaven, angels, God. His dream dif-
fere in one respect from ours. Ours are
usually distortions of our waking
thoughts. The mind sees things, but il-
logically. Thoughts run riot over the
pastures of the mind, and wholly with
out order. Jacobs’s was logical and or
derly. God answered his questions in his
dreams. Unless God had been at the top
of the lader, the dream would have been
like ours. But from the top God spoke;
He answered all qf Jacobs’s questions,
and more. He added the promise of His
continued presence until—until He had
done all that He had promised to do.
That was the most gracious promise He
had givfen at all. The promise of land,
of posterity, of wealth, of blessing oth
ers, was not to be compared with the
promise of His presence. For without
God’s presence none of the others could
be accomplished, and if accomplished
without it would be only a curse.
JACOB’S VOW.
When Jacob awaked (I think it must
have been in the night yet), he came to
a realization of the greatest fact in the
experience of a man, the fact of the om
nipresence of God. He said, “Surely Je
hovah is in this place, and I knew it
not.” Notice the tenses. God had been
there all the time, but Jacob was only
beginning to know it.
TO
MEET HERE SPOIL 28-29
God is in your life, all the time.e It
makes no difference where you go or
what you do, God is there. If it be in
the way of holiness, He is there to bless
and make fruitful your efforts which
without Him would be a total failure.
If you are walking in a way of pain, He
is there to comfort and sustain you. If
you are in the way of sin. He is there to
{ warn and restrain you, and to bring you
Association Was Organized
Here Ten Years Ago-In
teresting Program
The tenth annual meeting of the Geor
gia Library association will be held at
the Carnegie library, in Atlanta, Mon
day and Tuesday, April 28 and 29.
There will be a morning and evening
session on the first day and a morning
and afternoon session on the second
day.
Address of Welcome—W. M. Everett,
president board of trustees, Carnegie li
brary of Atlanta.
President’s Address—Dr. J. H. T. Mc
Pherson.
Report of Secretary-Treasurer—Miss
Katherine H. Wootten, librarian, Carne-
gie library of Atlanta. ,
Some special phases of library work;
(a) "Traveling Libraries”—Mrs. Eu
gene B. Heard.
(b) “The Work of the State Library”
—Mrs. Maud Barker Cobb, librarian,
Georgia State library.
(c) “Libraries in Federal Prisons”—•
William H. Moyer, Warden, Federal
Prison. Atlanta.
(d) “Library of the Retail Credit Com
pany”—Miss Orpha Zoe Massey, libra
rian, Retail Credit company, Atlanta.
The feature of the Monday evening
session will be the lecture by Dr. Ar
thur E. Bostwick, librarian of the St.
Louis Public library. He will speak on
the subject, “Activities of a Large City
Library System,” and will illustrate his
lecture with stereopticon views of the
St. Louis public library.
Tuesday morning’s session will be
given over to round table discussion and
reports from Georgia librarians. Dr.
Bostwick will deliver an address, his
subject being, “On the Reading of
Many Books.”
The Tuesday afternoon session will be
devoted to the work and discussions of
the college and reference section, and
will be held in the library of the Geor
gia School of Technology.
Officers of the Georgia Library asso
ciation are: President, J. H. T. McPher
son, Athens; first vice president, H. H.
Stone, Oxford; second vice president,
Mrs. Eugene B. Heard, Middleton; third
vice president, Mrs. E. G. McCabe, At
lanta; secretary-treasurer, Miss Kather
ine H. Wootten, Atlanta-
back if you will see Him and follow.
Oh! for eyes to see Him, for ears to
hear Him speak, for hearts sensitive to
His suggestions! My brother, that will
be the greatest day in your life when you
first realize the presence of God. One
of the old saints used to express it thus,
Practice the presence of God. You may
dwell continually in the conscious pres
ence of God if you will submit yourself
to Him. He reveals His secrets only to
those who fear Him. When you give
your life to Him, and obediently follow
Him as your Leader, He will show Him
self to you in every circumstance of life.
The flowers, the calm, the storm, the
stress and strain, the triumphant mo
ments of your life, the daily routine of
business, or of household duties will be
effulgent with His presence. You will
change Jacob’s words and say of every
circumstance, “Surely God is in this
place, and I know it, Hallelujah.” The
most unexpected places will become the
gate of heaven.
The remainder of that night Jacob
slept a peaceful sleep. Why not, when
God was there to protect him? Why
not, when he knew God would go with
him and bring to pass all the promises
He had made concerning him? Why not,
when his questions had been answered,
and his mind and heart were at ease?
In the morning, when he awoke, he
took that stone which had been such a
hard pillow that he had dreamed, but
which had thereby been the key to
heaven to him—he took that stone and
pointed it upward toward heaven, and
poured oil upon it to consecrate it to
sacred uses, and called, that Bethel, the
house of God. Then he made a vow. If
God will be with me, and feed and
clothe me, and bring me back again
to my father’s house, then Jehovah
shall be my God, and of all that He
gives me, I will surely give back a
tenth.
Jacob has been in such bad odor
that we have been inclined to criticise
this oath of his as that of driving a
hard bargain with God. This is an
entire misconception of the passage. Ex
pressed in our more modern terms what
he meant was this. Expressed in oiir
more modern terms, what he meant was
this: Since God has shown His will
ingness to have me, a sinner though I
am, and to give me these evidences of
His grace, then I accept Him the best
I know how as my Lord and Lead.er,
and I will acknowledge His ownership
of me and mine by paying Him the
interest on His investment that He re
quires.
Before criticising Jacob’s oath of al
legiance you had better examine your
own heart and see if you'are acknowl
edging His ownership of you and all
your possessions in as scriptural a way
as he did.
Jacob was not all that God wanted
him to be at that time, but this vision
and vow marked the beginning of his
upward life, of his ohange from the
heel catcher to a “man whom God
rules.” (This is what Israel means.)
Every man must have his Bethel before
his Jabbok. The Laban life in between
is unGodlike, but it is on the way.
Where are you in your Christian experi
ence ?
FALLS ASLEEP IN THEATER;
MOTHER VAINLY SEARCHES
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MANCHESTER, Ga., April 10.—Last
night when the manager of a local the
ater was ready to close the doors of the
playhouse-for the night, he overlooked
a young slumberer who had fallen asleep
one one of the front seats. The boy’s
mother became very anxious about her
son when the night began to grow old,
and enlisted the aid of friends and po
lice to search for the boy.
Of course all efforts to locate him
were in vain, for he slept on through
the night, and no one in town enjoyed a
more refreshing night’s rest, perhaps,
than he, for he allowed himself to sleep
way over time, which might not have
been the case had he been at home.
GIRL SUFFERED
TERRIBLY
At Regular Intervals—Says
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound com
pletely cured her.
Adrian, Texas.—“I take pleasure in
adding my testimonial to the great list
and hope that it will
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in the school library.
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THE WOMEN COUNCILLORS IN THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
BY YIDA SUTTON.
While the struggle over the parlia
mentary franchise is being so hotly
waxed, those opposed declaring that
women voting for parliament and being
members of. that body will ruin Eng
land and be the downfall of the greatest
legislative body in the world, the Lon
don county council, the next most im
portant legislature, is plodding along
calmly^enough with women electors and
with two women among its 138 members.
These women are Miss Henrietta Ad
ler (daughter of the late chief rabbi),
chosen with J. C. Shephard to represent
one of the largest electorates in Lon
don as one of the 117 councillors, and
Lady Jeune (Lady St. Hellier), elected
by the councillors as one of the nineteen
aldermen.
The county of London is one of the
counties of England established by act
of parliament in 1888 as units of local
government. It has an area of 117
square miles, and takes in.all of London
except the historic square mile, the an
cient city. •
In this area the council has great
powers. And the most interesting are
those which by recent acts of parliament
give it such large control of matters
before left to private enterprise or char
ity, such as the care of children, mu
nicipal housing of the working classes,
trade schools, etc.
Lady Jeune, who is widely known for
her philanthropies, and was in her youth
a great social leader, is particularly
interested in all that has to do with the
care of children, and is a member of
the committee having this work in
charge. The last report shows that
there are 900 county council schools
where needy children are fed, and the
unquestioned success of the one school
clinic established by the council is the
ground of her demand for the extension
6f this service to all county schools.
Miss Adler, having been for eleven
years in educational work, has done
most effective service on the school
committees. Just now, however, as a.
member of the housing committee she
is devoting her time to that work.
“The council,” said Miss Adler, “has
built hundreds of houses for the work
ing men in the last few years in such
districts as Poplar, Shoreditch, and
White Hart Lane, where frightful slums
are replaced by comfortable dwellings,
at very low rents, one room with scul
lery and lavatory renting for three and
six (81 cents). But now we have an un
dertaking bigger than any of these*
We are cleaning a large area in South
wark, the neighborhood, where the fa
mous Tabard Inn of Chaucer stood; its
foundations may indeed still be seen
not far from the site of the old Glo^e,
London’s first theater. A park of five
acres and homes for 500 families ad
joining will replace the centuries old
houses. I have made a fight, too. to
secure baths in every house, which is
something of a departure.
“The work of various reform meas
ures does not go ahead as rapidly as
the progressive party, now in a minori
ty in the council, would like to have it.
The leader of the moderates, Cyril Jack-
son, seems chiefly concerned with re
ducing the rates. The moderates even
discontinued the twenty council steam
ers plying the Thames from Greenwich
to the Tower, when they were just in a
way to pay on the investment.
“The leader of our party,” continued
Miss Adler, “has a comprehensive
scheme of reform, which aims at the
unification of London and including in
the county the ancient city, with the
venerable office of lord mayor as a
county office; and* moreover, establish
ing a uniform tax rate, to replace the
present cumbersome system, which re
sults often in the largest rating in the
poorest districts.
“We wish to see the workers have a
chance and to make the land pay its
proper share of the cost of govern
ment, so that there may be plenty of
money to place London where it should
be, in the front rank as to its municipal
system, and that it cannot be said, as
it frequently is today, that London is
behind many of our progressive pro
vincial cities.”
Miss Adler was the first woman
elected to the council when three years
ago women were made eligible. She
comes up f?r re-election in March and
from the evidence of her constituents,
who have wstched her work with ap
preciation, hei* return is assured.
Lady Jeune as an alderman is'en
titled to three years further office.
Norma! School Opens
WAYCROSS, Ga., April 10—The spring
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day at Bunn-Bell with a large attend
ance. Not only are a number of teach
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many who want to‘ be teachers are here
for the course, which will extend over
a period of several weeks. A series
of lectures^ by school authorities of
the stfete is a feature of the course.
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