The Week in Review TEACHERS' AGENCIES NOT SPEED but accuracy counts most in the placing of teachers, as is proven in agency work over and over again. Of the four vacancies reported A MENACING STRIKE. in this morning's mail, for instance, as filled by our candidates, one came to us on May 29, two on June 17, and one on June to each vacancy to apply in person at The strike in British munition 21. Instead of advising half a dozen teachers BUT once we recommended for the first two candidates whom we had previously asked whether they wished to apply, and a single works-the most serious recent candidate for each of the other three places. These candidates all received due considmenace to British war activities-eration and the appointments were made without difficulty, because the ACCURACY originated in the deficiency of skilled agency knew how to select and fit its teachers into the positions with labor, and the measures which the THE SCHOOL BULLETIN TEACHERS AGENCY; C. W. BARDEEN, Manager 313-321 East Washington Street, Syracuse, New York Government took to ensure an even distribution of labor. Several firms in Coventry attempted to circumvent these measures by offering high wages, by means of which they se cured an unfair proportion of skilled The Albert Teachers' Agency 25 E. Jackson Boulevard labor. Thereupon, the Government CHICAGO NEW YORK-437 FIFTH AVENUE "Teaching as a Business," with chapters representing 200,000 The Pratt Teachers' Agency ENTER HONDURAS. The formal declaration of war by the republic of 70 Fifth Avenue New York WM.O. PRATT, Mgr. Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. Honduras against AMERICAN Germany brings the total number of 1 nations aligned against the Kaiser to MERICAN TEACHERS' AGENCY introduces to Colleges, 23. Honduras has no specific grie-Governesses, for every department of instruction; recommends good Schools vance against Germany, but its action is inspired, as the official decree states, by "that continental solidarity which imposes upon the states of America the duty to contribute according to their abilities toward the triumph of the cause of civilization and of right which, with the Allied nations, the United States of Amer to parents. Call on or address Mrs. M. J. YOUNG-FULTON, 23 Union Square, New York. Kellogg's Agency recommends teachers and has filled burdreds of high grade positions (up to $5,000) with excellent teachers. Established 1889. No charge to employers, none for registration. If you need teacher for any desirable place or know ica defends." The little republic has where a teacher may be wanted, address H. 8. Kellogg, 31 Union Square, New York. a little more than half a million in habitants, mainly of mixed Spanish and aboriginal races, and it has an army numbering 55,000 men. It has THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' AGENCY no navy. Institute of Musical Art of the city of New York 120 Claremont Avenue FRANK DAMROSCH, Director Special Course for Supervisors of Music in Public Schools THOMAS TAPPER, Principal Special Examinations October 5th and 9th Enrollment September 30th to October 10th Prospectus of Supervisors' Course mailed on application CORLEW TEACHERS' AGENCY RUFUS E. CORLEW, Proprietor WALKER BUILDING, ROOM 906 Telephone Beach 6606 ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY, Inc. Supplies Schools and Colleges with Competent Teachers. Assists Teachers "I Can Work Without WorryingIf Sickness Comes, My Income Will Not Stop" What a wonderful thing it is to be able to say-"I can work without worrying." Worry kills more people than any physical malady. It dogs their steps through life, reduces their efficiency, deprives them of the joy of working, and finally cuts them off ten or fifteen years before their respective allotments. How remarkable it is, then, to find a simple plan, as this Teacher did, by which one may work without worrying. What the T. C. U. Has Done A Few of the Hundreds of Benefits That A Maine Teacher slipped on a peach stone and injured her side. The T. C. U. paid her $46.66. A New York Teacher fractured his wrist cranking his auto. The T. C. U. paid him $80.00. was A Washington Teacher killed in a railway accident. The T. C. U. paid his widow $2,000. A Michigan Teacher broke her arm. The T. C. U. paid her $80.00. A Michigan Teacher stepped on a nail, resulting in infection. The T. C. U. paid him $30.00. An Indiana Teacher suffered an attack of malaria. The T. C. U. paid her $59.16. A New York Teacher fell down stairs, injuring spine and ribs. The T. C. U. paid her $143.33. A Pennsylvania Teacher was quarantined on account of scarlet fever. The T. C. U. paid him $31.66. FREE INFORMATION COUPON To the T. C. U., 534 T. C. U. Bldg., Lincoln, Neb. I am interested in knowing about your Protective Benefits. Send me the whole story and booklet of testimonials. Name Address Lincoln, Nebr. | (This coupon places the sender under no obligation) 13 Every Teacher of Science Wants His Work To develop the pupil's power to observe natural phenomena. To arouse his permanent interest in science. To train him to observe with accuracy. To furnish him with useful information. To prepare the way for the study of special sciences. Clark's Introduction to Science Accomplishes these Results THE book covers a broad field, embracing not merely chemistry and foods, but physiology, hygiene, physics, botany, biology and geology. It humanizes science, making clear to the pupil the relation between certain Among the subjects treated are Food Substitutes and Adulterants; Bacteria and Food; Household Chemicals; Although written in an easy, interesting style, this book can be depended on for accuracy of statement. AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY 1 yearly subscription to Public Service, with one Teacher Benefits High spots from 216 cities. Second edition printing; 25c in lots of 10 or Universal Training for Citizenship and Public Service, 281 pp. Teacher's Personality Cards (5 for 10c; 10 for 15c; 50 for 50c; per 100, 75c; per 1000, $5.-Postpaid) (All books, 10 or more reduction.) These Undergraduate High School Boys Reached an In the recent Metropolitan Open Shorthand School Contest, New York City, the first fourteen places were won by boys from the High School of Commerce. The point that is of particular interest to school men is that these boys were undergraduates-had not completed their shorthand course. The first team of five made an average net speed of 138 words a minute; accuracy, 98.5%. fourteen wrote at a speed of 120 words a minute or higher. Several had been in school less than a year and a half. The progress in both speed and accuracy is very clearly shown in the following comparison with the best previous record made by a Pitman team. High School of Commerce, 1918 (Gregg Shorthand) Albert Schneider Commercial High School, 1916 Gross Net P. C. 160 156.6 97.8 Emil Ellis All Gross Net P. C. Reuben Speiser 160 156.4 97.7 Samuel J. Abelow 98.5 97.2 In the contest for the Amateur Championship of New York City held at the same time, first and second places were won by boys recently from the High School of Commerce. William Rosenberg, the winner, made an average net speed of 178.4 words a minute; accuracy, 99.11%: Nor man McKnight, winner of second place, 172.2 words a min. ute; accuracy, 95.66%. The Evening School Contest was won by a Gregg Writer from the New York Evening High School for Men.. The significant features of the contest are: The high speed and accuracy achieved by the writers of Gregg Shorthand in an open contest; the fact that the contestants were still students in school. The universally superior results obtained with Gregg Shorthand have resulted in the exclusive adoption of Gregg Shorthand in more than 75% of the cities and towns of the United States whose high schools teach shorthand. If you are not teaching Gregg Shorthand, you are not obtaining the maximum results. Speed up your shorthand department by the adoption of Gregg Shorthand. Gregg Shorthand has been authorized for use in the High Schools of New York City, Supply List No. 3661. The Gregg Publishing Company This Is a Very Book Which Is Now Required by Thousands Nearly one fourth of the young men of America, DOCTOR KEENE'S MANUAL is now used in schools in every State in the Union and several foreign countries. There is no other book which gives information about all three subjects of mass competitions, games, and physical training in such compact and usable form and at such a reasonable price. Cloth, 75 cents; Kraft, 60 cents. Everything is planned for the teacher who must carry on physical exercise or elementary military training work without the help of a supervisor or the advantage of special training. This factthat it is so simple-has caused it to be adopted by many large cities where a competent director of physical training is employed. 100 WORLD BOOK COMPANY Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York 2126 Prairie Avenue, Chicago Also Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, and Manila Ready in August The New American Citizen By Charles F. Dole The essentials of civics and economics for the upper grades and for junior high schools. The treatment is fresh and interesting and filled with the spirit of Americanization. No better book can be put into the hands of pupils in the present critical times. The lessons taught prepare for citizenship of the sort that the nation needs. NEW ENGLAND AND NATIONAL Vol. LXXXVIII.-No. 6. AUGUST 8, 1918 A. E. WINSHIP, Editor JOHN R. MOTT MEN OF TODAY BY GEORGE PERRY MORRIS While western Europe and the Americas stand reverent before the deeds of the Y. M. C. A. during the war, and while money by the billions pours into the treasury of that organization, it will be timely to consider for a while the career of the man predominant as the statesman and orator of the organization-John R. Mott. Had he been a lawyer he would have had a national reputation and practice; first, because of his penetrating, logical, critical, and also synthetic type of mind, enabling him to deal with large disputable issues and find the clue leading to a sensible conclusion; and second, because of his forensic power, which makes him a compelling advocate of any cause which he champions. Had he been a clergyman he would have been a maker and unmaker of polities, a master of all the arts of the ecclesiastical molder of assemblies and church courts, and the inspirer of forward movements calculated to further the interests of a sect or of the church universal. Had he been a business man he would have looked beyond local, sectional and national markets and conceived of the whole world as his field of operations, just as the American chieftains of the oil and tobacco trades have done. But Mr. Mott does not practice before the Supreme Court at Washington, nor does he advise the American Steel Company as to its legal rights. Nor is he a Methodist bishop or a Presbyterian moderator. To be sure, the "goods" he markets go all over the world, and he is personally known in Petrograd and Pekin, Paris and Panama, as a man of large dimensions, with large reserves of men and capital back of him, which he places strategically to promote the interests of his cause. But even so, he is seen to be quite a different sort of American "promoter" from those conventionally known as market-winners. How, then, does he work, and why, and how comes it to pass that whether it is the embroglio with Mexico to be straightened out or the policy of the United States toward disorganized and chaotic Russia to be defined, that President Wilson sends for him to aid the government, and, indeed, would most gladly have made him chief diplomatic representative of the American republic in the far East had Mr. Mott been willing to take it. Mr. Mott's case, like that of Robert E. Speer of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, is one of those fine illustrations of what the necessity of dealing with a problem in a world-way will do for a well-educated, able, consecrated youth who is summoned early in life to serve a cause with universal implications. Mott came out of Cornell University in 1888, and Speer out of Princeton in 1889, and both of them enlisted in the "Student Volunteer" movement, which had for its object recruiting of youth for world-wide Christian missionary labor. Mott's power as a speaker, organizer and apostle of the cause soon gave him high rank, and it was not surprising, as he traveled and came in touch with the leading educators and statesmen of foreign lands, that he began to acquire knowledge of social and political, as well as religious conditions abroad. Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Russian, French and German publicists came to see that the young American, while a Christian propagandist, was more than that, namely, a man of the world in the best sense of that word. At home it became clear that he was the man of all men to organize and administer the World's Student Christian Federation and act as its secretary for many years. Here, again, he proved his large dimensions and built up a large clientele in all parts of the world. of men, then youth, but now in the prime of life, who recognized in him the finest sort of American and Christian. When the call to him to be general secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A. came, it was a tribute to his record, for that organization has not done its phenomenal administrative work for a generation without having set a high standard for its chief official to meet. Mr. Mott came to the new post with a wider knowledge of actual religious conditions in foreign lands than any of his countrymen had and with more sources of up-to-date information at his beck and call. It is doubtful whether the commercial, military or educational worlds could have produced a man from their ranks as well informed as he as to the actual state of society in as many foreign lands. He not only brought knowledge, but also a driving will power and genius for leadership that are rare. Consequently, it is not at all surprising that since he became general secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s central council the work of the organization has flour |