The Washington herald., 1911-02-09
VIEWS AND
INTERVIEWS
Slot Machine Marketing.

ed tenement sections of great cities will
be forced out of business by automatic
grocery stores, if the formation of a great
corporation to install slot-machine stores
in congested districts proves a success.
Rev. H. E. Robbins. Of New York, who
was in this city recently, has been ap-
pointed chairman of the committee of
fifty business men and philanthropists
who will direct the enterprise. Auto
matte lunchrooms. though not new. form
another side Of the project. The COM
pany has already contracted with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works and the
Cramps shipbuilding yards to supply
food at noon to their 10000 men. said
Rev. Mr.. Robbins. The name Of tho
organization is the Underwriters Com
pany of Philadelphia. It claims to con-
troll all the patents on automatic lunc"
service. It's investment is expected to
run into the millions.
"Our automatic grocery store and lunch
is not entirely for profit said Mr.. Rob-
bins. 1T will really be a great philan-
thropy. The poor in the tenement parts
cf the big cities buy in small quantities
and have to pay the highest prices. A
woman who purchases 10 cents worth
Of coal gets 1t at the rate Of so ton.
So with the other necessarfes Of life.
The cheap groceries are also insanitary,
and much time is lost waiting to be
served, especially if child is sent to
rake a purchase.
''Our grocery stores will consist Of a
small room with a lot of slots in the
wall. If a man wants dimes worth
ho has IN &c tn
dime in the slot and he gets a whole 10
cents worth So with beans, sugar, cof-
fee. and all the rest of the groceries,
done up in clean packages. prepared at
central point. and bought in large
quantities. which explains the big saving.
You cannot haggle over price with the
slot machine. nor do you lose time in
being waited on
Health . Factor In Education.
''The good health of the teacher pro-
foundly affects the good health Of the
pupil. because the feelings Of the teacher
are controlling factor in regulating the
temperature Of the classroom" said Dr..
Luther Halsey GuIick. director Of the
department of child hygiene Of the Rus
sell Sage Foundation, who was seen at
the New Willard.
Teachers in poor health. with low Vi
tality. feel cold in those temperatures
which are best for learning and best for
the comfort Of healthy children. Upon
the health and efficiency of the teacher
rests the entire educational programme.
The feelings OF the teacher largely gov
ern the vigor and time of the gymnastics,
the enthusiasm and intelligence with
| which the exercises are administered.
| the prevailing atmosphere of the school.
| as to whether it is primarily one of
searching for faults or the discovery of
success, the one making for discourag-
ment and deceit, the other for joyous.
enthusiastic corporations: the one the
habit Of success, the other the habit Of
| failure.
1.-The dominant basis of the primary
qualities upon which successful teaching
depends-the common. human qualities of
| enthusiasm. interest. sympathy. good ma
| ture. patienceis good health. The pri-
mary qualities which enable pupils to
achieve the desired results in education
are interest. attention. enthusiasm, and
concentration. A dominant factor in
each Of these is good health
| General Old-aEe Pension.
Col. N. NJ. Porter. Of Pittsburg. Pa.
who is at the Raleigh. in discussing the
question Of pensioning government clerks.
said: AT present the country is paying
approximately $50. oOO. .oCo yearly in military
PENSIONS. the bulk of which goes to the
/ old soldiers. But it is evident. if this
republic is fortunate enough to remain
| at peace, that the question as to what
| shall be done with the greater part of
| that sum viii begin to arouse attention
before very long, as its recipients pass
away
There are already signs continued
| the veteran, that the champions OF
civil pensions are awake to this. Agita-
| tion in behalf of annuities to government
employees who become too aged and in
firm to work Is plainly growing. An even
more sweeping policy is urged by those
who believe that the United States should
initiate Great Britain in granting old
age pensions to all citizens who reach
threescore and ten or thereabouts with
out adequate means for their own sup
port.
NO comprehensive civil pension scheme
is likely to be sanctioned in this coun-
try without a prolonged struggle Such
a plan may never command the approval
Of the majority of American voters. But
is seems practically certain, always bar
ring the contingency of war, that the
gradual elimination OF the pensions now
paid to the veterans will bring about aS-
gressive attempts to inaugurate a system
under which lifetime spent in labor will
be regarded as sufficient reason for the
bestowal of small pecuniary allowances
at public expense. This is'an issue which
the nation may have to face sooner than
it Thinks
Not in the Cabinet.