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METHODS AND STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL SURVEYS. By Don C. Bliss, superintendent, Montclair, New Jersey. With Introduction by George D. Strayer, Teachers' College, Columbia University. Boston, New York, Chicago: D. C. Heath & Co. Cloth. xxiv+264 pp. Price, $1.28.

The only hope of having surveys publicly and professionally respected is to continually present assumed facts to the public. Of course this is the most unsatisfactory time to put apparent facts in book form since changes are coming thick and fast.

For instance, this book gives the salaries of teachers in thirty-three cities. Today these figures are not correct in many cases and within a year will not be correct in any of them. Many pages are devoted to cost of maintenance of schools and of cost of school buildings in many cities, which figures are already wholly unreliable. Forty studies are financial and none of these is valuable.

Nevertheless there are phases of the study that are interesting and will be valuable to those who have interest in such studies.

Superintendent Bliss has had unusual success in estimating the work of teachers in the classroom. With the assistance of Miss Mabel W. Doten, who has no inconsiderable part in the production of this book, who has been his assistant in Brockton, Elmira and Montclair, he has been able to estimate with much accuracy the relative value of the classroom work of each teacher in the corps. We have not chanced to know any administration that has made as reliable estimates along as many lines as have Mr. Bliss and Miss Doten.

The real value of this book is the fact that they have used the same skill and exercised much of the same common sense in interpreting facts and figures in this study of surveys.

They have made good use of graphs so that they present the facts which they think they obtain most vividly.

No one has done this line of work better than they have done it and we think no one has rendered quite as good service along this line as have they.

It is certainly a book that must be consulted by all sur

veyors.

KEEPING OUR FIGHTERS FIT. By Edward Frank Allen. Written under the supervision of Raymond B. Fosdick, chairman of the War and Navy Departments Commissions on Training Camp Activities. With a special statement written for the book by President Wilson. New York: The Century Company. Cloth. Illustrated from photographs. 207 pp. Price, $1.25.

Not only was there never any fighting like this, never any army like this, but there was never any such care of soldiers and sailors in service or in preparation for service.

This is true as to food, as to clothing, as to equipment, as to hospital service, and as to recreation and entertainment. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being expended by the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish societies and by the War and Navy Departments' Commissioners on Training Camp Activities for the physical, mental and social morale of our 2,500,000 soldiers and sailors on land and sea, at home and abroad. Raymond B. Fosdick is the inspiring genius of the Government activities, and he and President Wilson stand sponsors for Mr. Allen's book.

Briefly, this is a book of information and re-assurance about the American men who have been called to train for service in the Army and Navy. It should be of the utmost interest to all those back home who have fighting men in the various camps. It should be of a decided value also in aiding those back home to co-operate intelligently with the government in a most important work.

The book outlines what is being done, apart from the regulation drills and other service instruction, to add to the comfort, the happiness and the efficiency of the men in camp and community. And the men at the head of this branch of the United States Government Service are already taking thought, and acting upon their foresight, about the return of the soldiers and sailors to civil life.

The following, which are a few of the chapter-headings, indicate the nature of the book: Club Life; Athletics, Recreation and Development; Singing; Library System; Entertainment (which includes lectures, moving pictures, amateur dramatics, etc.); Hostess Houses; Educational Work: Playground Work; The Old Problem (and what is being done to solve it in a suppressive way).

PREPARING FOR WOMANHOOD. Lowry. Chicago: Forbes & Company. $1.00, net.

By Dr. E. B. Cloth. Price,

Dr. Lowry again demonstrates that he can write of an indelicate subject delicately, that he can make it impossible to think evil when scientific truth is written inspirationally. Dr. Lowry forestalls passion by neutralizing curiosity, by sterilizing physical emotions.

Any young woman from fourteen to twenty will be healthier physically, nobler mentally, cleaner morally because of this wholesome phrasing of vital truth which is vicious unless presented sanely, sacredly and sweetly. In such a treatment stupidity makes virtue vulgar, but Dr. Lowry gives a literary radiance to scientific truth.

BOY SCOUTS AT SEA. By Arthur A. Carey. Bosten: Little, Brown & Company. Cloth. Price, $1.35, net. This is in the fulest, noblest sense a "boy's own book," especially at this time. Three lively Sea Scouts join the "Bright Wing," the Boy Scout ship. They have boat races and swimming matches. They sailed along the New England coast from Portsmouth to Provincetown. They arrived in Marblehead just in time to render helpful service in the Salem fire, where one helped to save a woman's life by his knowledge of first aid. They rescued some shipwrecked sailors and otherwise had plenty of opportunities to display those qualities of helpfulness and courage, of resource and reliability which have come to be considered characteristic of Boy Scouts everywhere.

A TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA. By Ventura Fuentes and Victor E. François (College of the City of New York). New York: Henry Holt & Co. Cloth. Illustrated. 196 pp.

This ideal reading text for first-year students in Spanish consists of twenty-eight chapters on South American topics, written in very easy Spanish and treating such subjects as Columbus, the various individual countries of Spanish America, Havana, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc., traveling, products, and so on, the whole interestingly and well written, printed and illustrated. Each chapter is followed by excellent conversation and composition exercises (based on the text), which in method and material are worthy of note. Prothe vision is made for word-study, tending toward gradual acquirement of a permanent Spanish vocabulary. An appendix of verb-forms is included.

A BOY OF BRUGES. By Emile and Tita Cammaerts. New Illustrated by Albert Delstanche. York E. P. Dutton & Co. Price, $1.50. This idyl of child life, by a Belgian poet and his wife, tells of the friendship between a little Flemish bourgeois and a little Walloon peasant, in those vanished years preceding the great war. In the last chapters the two boys are caught in the German invasion, but find safe harbor in England.

The poetic quality of the book is interpreted by the delicate sketches of Belgian country and buildings, and makes beautiful the old sweet days in Belgium which can never come again;-the life of a country whose heroic sacrifice for honor and civilization will enshrine her forever in the hearts of brave humanity.

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EDUCATIONAL NEWS

This department is open to contributions from anyone connected with schools or school events in any part of the country. Items of more than local interest relating to any phase of school work or school administration are acceptable as news. Contributions must be signed to secure Insertion.

Meetings to be Held

81-Nov. 1:

OCTOBER.

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25-27: South Dakota Educational As-
sociation. Mitchell. A. H. Sey-
mour, Aberdeen, secretary.
28-29-30: Oklahoma Educational As-
sociation, Oklahoma City. Presi-
dent, B. F. Nihart, Oklahoma City;
secretary, Mrs. Mary D. Couch,
Oklahoma City.

NEW ENGLAND STATES.

been
Michigan State Teachers'
Association. Detroit. President,
Harvey H. Lowry, Ionia; secretary,
John P. Everett, Kalamazoo.
81-Nov. 1-2: Iowa State Teachers'
Association. Des Moines, Iowa.
Superintendent M. G. Clark, Sioux
City, Iowa, president; Charles F.
Pye, Des Moines, Iowa, secretary.
NOVEMBER.

5-9: Colorado Education Association.
J. A. Sexson, president, Sterling; H.
B. Smith, secretary, 232 Century
building, Denver.
Grand
at Pueblo.

5-8: Western Division

Junction.

7-9: Southern

Division

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Eastern Division at Denver. 6-9: Minnesota Educational Association. St. Paul. E. A. Freeman, Grand Rapids, Minn., president. 7, 8, 95 Kansas State Teachers' Association meetings to be held simulTopeka, Salina, taneously at Wichita and Pittsburg. President. J. O. Hall, Hutchinson. Secretary, F. L. Pinet, Topeka. 14-16: Joint Convention, American Institute of Instruction, New EngAssociation, land Superintendents' Massachusetts Superintendents' Association, and Massachusetts TeachBoston. ers' Association.

MASSACHUSETTS.

carried on

BOSTON. The establishment of
the Prince School of Education for
Store Service provides enlarged
facilities and adequate financial
support for the work which has
the
through
medium of the School of Sales-
manship, founded thirteen years
ago by Mrs. Lucinda W. Prince.
The system of training for depart-
ment store workers which Mrs.
Prince originated has proved so
valuable an assistance in the busi-
ness world that graduates of the
Boston school are serving as edu-
cation directors, employment man-
agers and service superintendents
in scores of the leading department
stores of the country. Mrs.
Prince's idea has been adopted by
school
and
public
authorities,
are now
courses in salesmanship
offered in the schools of Boston
and many other cities. From its
establishment until the present
time the school has been conducted
with
the
the co-operation of
Women's Educational and Indus-
trial Union. The chief purpose of
the school is to train personnel ex-
ecutives such as education direc-
and
employment managers
tors,

New York
Chicago

Atlanta
Dallas

service superintendents, although the classes for salespeople are continued and form a part of the work. War conditions have accentuated the need for trained educational directors in the stores and recently many calls have been received from factories for the services of graduates of the school. The new quarters, in the heart of the business district, are admirably adapted to their purposes and the school will begin the year with a large enrollment of students.

MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES.

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TEACHERS WANTED $100 TO $150 MONTH All teachers should try the U. S. Government examinations constantly being held throughout the entire country. Thousands of positions are to be filled at from $1,100 to $1.800; have short hours and annual vacations, with full pay. Those interested should write immediately to Franklin - Institute, Dept. V 257, Rochester. N Y., for schedule showing all examination dates and places and large descriptive book, showing the positions open and giving many sample examination questions, which will be sent free of charge.

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ESTABLISHED 1869

TEXT BOOK OUTPUT
CUT IN HALF

To conserve paper the Government has ordered that
the production of text books be reduced to fifty per cent.
of the normal output, or less, for the period of the war.

School boards are therefore forced to make the books they now have last longer. The answer is

HOLDEN BOOK COVERS

which double the life of a text book, taking all the hard knocks instead
of the book, and leaving it clean and whole for the next class.

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schools. The Legislature put out of existence the German-American Alliance, several of whose members are accused of writing textbooks with praises of Germany and German culture.

measures

ALBANY. Three strongly supported by the New York State Federation of Labor have just become law-an act providing for an appropriation of $20,000 to train teachers for illiterates more than sixteen years old; a second requiring free night schools in cities; and a third making attendance at public or night schools compulsory for all persons between sixteen and twenty-one years of age who are unable to read and write.

Every teacher and other employee in the department of education in the city has had a salary raise of $200.

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MILES C. HOLDEN, President

mentary teachers. Twenty-one per
cent. receive the $150 increase;
seventy-four per cent. receive $100
more, and five per cent. have only
$50 increase.

HOBOKEN. Superintendent A.
O. Smith has every modern phase
of education in good working or-
der, the latest feature being the in-
stallation of a dental clinic.

retire

NEWARK. Dr. David B. Cor-
son, who has been acting su-
perintendent since the
ment of Dr. A. B. Poland, be-
gins the new year as the elected
superintendent. Dr. Corson was
the active superintendent long be-
fore the resignation of Dr. Poland,
whose long illness made his active
participation in affairs impossible.
The school people of the city,
county and state have insisted that
he be promoted and the delay in
election was due to the fact that
an element in the board of educa-
tion and in the city favored some-
one entirely outside the city. The
leaders of education in the state,
official and professional leaders.
always insisted that no one was so
well qualified for the successful ad-

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COLORADO

ministration of the schools as is he. State Teachers College

In this the school people of the na-
tion who were in touch with the
situation felt the same.

Among the new features intro-
duced by Superintendent Corson is
a full system of junior high schools.

PENNSYLVANIA.

HARRISBURG. The State Department of Education has issued in appropriate form the addresses

AT GREELEY

A College for training men and Women to teach. Varied choice of two-, three- and four-year courses, leading to A.B. and A.M. Degrees and life diplomas. Special War Courses, Student Army Training Corps, and athletics for young men. Equipment and buildings ample, surroundings and climate ideal. Expenses moderate. Fall Quarter opens September 30. Write for catalogue. JOHN G. CRABBE. President. Greeley, Colorado.

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"I Can Work Without WorryingIf Sickness Comes, My Income Will Not Stop"

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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.

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What the T. C. U. Has Done
for Others

A Few of the Hundreds of Benefits That
Recently Have Been Paid

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.

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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 nail, resulting in infection. The T. C. U. paid him $30.00.

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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.

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more uncongenial allies than these two Powers, which Germany persuaded or coerced into furthering her ambitions. They were in open war only a few years ago, and the territorial claims and jealousies which were in part the cause of that war, and which survived it,

THE EDMANDS EDUCATORS' EXCHANGE have been made more acute by the

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Continued from page 269. though with some delay, for a vigorous fight is being made against it, September 30th to October 10th, by the interests chiefly concerned.

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As it passed the Senate, the bill would stop the sale of all intoxicating beverages-except for export, medicinal, sacramental and other than beverage purposesJune 30, 1919; and would prohibit their manufacture after May 1 next. Attempts to extend until December of next year the manufacture of beer and wine, and the disposal of stocks of intoxicating beverages were defeated; and amendments looking to Government purchase of stocks of distilled spirits remaining unsold June 30, 1919, shared the same fate. As the bill covers not only the duration of the war but the time required for demobilization, it is believed that it will not pass out of effect before the anticipated ratification of the Prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution and its going into force in 1920.

TURKEY AND BULGARIA. There are renewed reports that an open rupture between Turkey

The Arlo Plan

ARLO-CLEMATIS

When teachers are moving, class work is broken, and pupils feel hazy on past study-then the Arlo plan becomes of the greatest importance. It ties up the loose ends and gives the pupil a new grip on reading fundamentals.

By Bertha B. and Ernest Cobb. BROOKLINE, MASS. THE RIVERDALE PRESS.

recent frontier

"readjustments" made by the iron hand of Germany. Bulgaria wants more territory, and is clamoring for all of Serbia and even a portion of Austria. She already has a strip off of northern Turkey, the return of which is now angrily demanded by Turkey. It is shrewdly conjectured that King Ferdinand's recent migration from his capital ostensibly for his health-may have been due to apprehensions of something about to happen, for Ferdinand had always a prudent soul, so far as his personal safety is concerned.

THE TREACHEROUS BOLSHEVIKI.

If there were any doubt before as to the complete surrender of the Russian Bolsheviki to Germany it must be removed by the publication of the new treaty of offensive and defensive alliance officially transmitted to Washington by Ambassador Francis. The treaty provides that if the Bolshevik Government orders an offensive and fights against the Entente Allied forces in northern Russia, Germany will attack guarantee Russia against either by or through Finland. Also that, after the expulsion of the Allied forces from Russia, Germany will guarantee the security of the coasting and fishing fleets in Russian waters. Russia, on her partor the Bolshevik traitors acting in her name-promises to pay to Germany six billion marks, or about one and a quarter billion dollars. This after Germany has already possessed herself of an immense area of Russian territory-carving out such slices as she and her allies coveted under the elastic phrase "a readjustment of frontiers." There will be another and quite different "readjustment" before any treaty of peace is signed.

THE MAINE ELECTION. The good old days when the Maine election, coming two months in advance of the elections throughout the Union, used to be regarded as a political barometer, are over; but the state retains its practice of the September election, and the results are still regarded as interesting, though not conclusive. This year, if any national interpretation is placed upon the results, it would seem to be that the war and the questions relating directly to it, did not figure at all. The Democrats, if they tried at all to make political capital out of President Wilson's war leadership, did not succeed; neither did the Republicans gain anything-nor is there evidence that they tried to-by

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