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The Washington times., 1914-10-24

which the foreign manufacturers
have laid down.
Germany formerly sent automo-
biles, dyestuffs, and ether chemicals,
cotton goods and iron and steel ct
various stages Of manufacture, as
well as ether articles in smaller
amounts. Great Britain sent cotton.
flour, iron, machinery, tools. and so
folth. Belgium sent considerable
quantities Of bar and plate iron, steel
rails and tclts. For tf,ase items snd
others less widely produced here
Norway would be glad to turn to us.
In return she would increase her
sales to US cf cheese, fish, hides, and
cod liver oil. The food products in
which she excels and her raw ma
terials needed for our subsequent
manufacture are we'll worth our
seeking.
Three obstacles handicap the new
trade. The first is lack of credit.
the second lack Of transportation. and
the third lack of commercial sales-
men.
Credit is now in 4 fair way to be
extended through a better under
standing between American and for
eign bankers ard through foreign
branches Of American banks estab-
lished where need requires. Ships
may be transferred to American
registry in sufficient numbers SO that
sailing can be scheduled between
Norway and America 70 help solve
the transportation problem. Mer-
chants themselves must replace their
catalogues and correspondence with
well trained travelling statesmen.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

intensive cultivation, and all the pil-
grimages "tack to the land" the
United States last year imported
5000, 600 of vegetables more than it
exported! We produced $4,000, 900,
but we ate SbOO.o,0.0OO of vcge-
tables. Feed Europe? No, with our
vegetables!
Even of fruits and nuts. with all
our famous orchards, we imported
100000 mere tfan we sold
abroad.
Grain, it is true, we have been allie
to sell to Europe in considerable
quantities. Last year we had about
$l50,000,00C to spare. This year we
may have twice as much rs that, but
those figures, large as they look on
paper, are only trifies when it comes
tc the feeding cf nations.
The S tatjstics compiled By the
Federal Bureau of Crop Estimates
tell story which must be heard.
Outside of grain and dairy products
car spare supplies are fractionaily
too small for much consideration. Of
the two staples named we can afford
to send away, in norraal years. about
one fifth what we produce. And this
is a normal year for us, so far as
consumption gees, even if it be net
normal in Europe. America is not
going hungry for the sake of let
ting Europe test its cannons in
stomach comfort.
Europe is welcome to the surplus
of bumper grain crop and what
there is to spare of our dairy prod
uets. But it can expect little more
than that.
"Get the worlds trade quickly!"
cannot lie applied to farming, stock
raising, and orchareling. They are
the develc pments of long, slow years
and their development in the United
States should be in the direction. of
mere, better, and cheaper food for
Americans while building up tenn
porary trade with the warning ma
tions.
The increase Of our foreign trade
for the next few years must come
from man fractures.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
IN THE TIMES NAIL BAG

members of the police force by the fail
ure Of Congress to pass a law permit
ing the men to ride free on street cars
while in uniform? 1t Is true that Con-
gress has appropriated a sum of money
for members Of the force to use in pay
ing car fare on certain occasions. ..ut
the sum is not sufficient to give each
member all the money he actually ex-
pends in this way. and in these high
cost-of-living' days every peeny counts.
Most of the members of the police
force are of the opinion that the rail-
way companies are willing to give the
men free transportation. but under the
ruling of the Public Utilities Commis-
sion they are not permitted to do SD.
All that is needed is for Congress to
enact legislation making it legal for the
police and firemen to ride free when in
uniform. ~"BLUECOAT.'
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
THE COCKPIT AGAIN.

Reports agree that there has Eeen
no more terrific fighting and very
possibly there have been no such
heavy proportions cf losses, from
the beginning of the war, as are
taking place now along the coastline
of Belgium.
The allies are determined to pro-
tect the coast cities ut all hazards
from further incursion of the Ger
mans; and the reason is so manifest
that it needs little more than most
casual consideration.
If the Germans can take and hold
all of the Belgian coast, and if then
they can press along down the chan
mel and occupy and hold one after
another of the French towns. there
is simply nc limit to the possibilities
of their flanking movement. Its des-
tiny. in that development, would be
to cut OF the British re-enforce-
ments from their landing places, to
cut the two big allies nations apart,
and to isolate the British force al
ready in France.
1t is not to be presumed that the
English people very gravely fear, as
yet, the possibility of = naval raid in
force or a military invasion Of their
country. The British feet is the
safeguard against such an event.
But the possession of the western
channel coast by the Germans would
be a wedge driven between the two
allies. 1t would, indeed, stretch out
the German lines to a dangerously
attenuated condition. But the Ger
man staff cannot have failed to con-
slider, and within its power to calcl1-.
late upon safeguarding against such
eventualities. They would not be
seeking to dominate the whole coast
unless they had a pretty accurate
notion of what they expected to do
after they had it.
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LOSSES IN THE WAR.

The best Informed writers on the
war estimate the total losses to date
at approx imately one and three
Quarters million of -ner. This IT.
cludes the killed, wounded, prisoners,
The missing end the inval;ds.
The cost in money is being figured
crt fairly closely. England knows
what the wsr is costing her and by
comparison the statisticians arrive
at estimates for all the nations cn-
gagged.
The amount generally agreed upon
is from $5O,00O,0oO to s5S,000,0o0 a
cay. In a yesr the total would reach
the enormous amount of eighteen
tc twenty billion dollars.
England IS preparing for strug-
gle which will run through 1915.
Kitchener talks Of three years as The
limit. When we discuss the inpossi-
bility of the warning nations holding
out so long when they are suffering
tremendous losses in men and money,
a thing to be borne in mind is that
those engaged view the war as a
life-and-death struggle. A man will
grcsn under an expenditure of a
tenth of what he has and will yield
much to avoid making it. But if he
is faced by a situation in which he
must give more or meet a fate which
is little worse than death there is
no limit to the sacrifices he will
undergo.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

graded schools. That is to say, where
In the regular classes mental work
comprises 20 per cent of the course,
In the atypical and ungraded schools,
nand work makes up two-thirds of
the studies. With this hand work,
each child has some form of instruc-
tion designed to correct the especial
fering.
The so-called "ungraded schools
which go hand in hand with the
atyplcaP classes ARE designed for
the instruction Of semi-incorrigibles
VINO In former times provided victims
from the now almost obsolete ..sus-
pension ticket" and children who
are in need Of coaching to put them
back with the classes to which they
normally belong.
Five Atypical Centers.
Through these special schools,
backward. and retarded pupils are
helped. and at the same time, a pro-
vision is made against these pupils
holding back the regular classes.
There now exist in Washington five
atypical centers Of two classes each,
known as the Low and the Middle
classes. Principal Patterson hopes
within the next year or so to add a
third class to be known as the
High" There are also six of the
"UnSraded' schools. These schools
are under the charge of a corps of
twenty-four teachers, sixteen of
whom teach in the white classes.
All Of these instructors are gradu-
ates of Vineland, Elwin, or. some
similar institution.
I'm the atypical schools" Mr.. Pat
terson continued. 1--WE try as far as
possible to correct the defects which
place the pupils in these classes
these schools in the District. Four
fifths of them are boys.
I'm the atypical schools" Mr.
Patterson continued explaining the
work, I'VE try as far as possible to
correct the defects which place the
pupils in these classes; but when
we find pupil who is quite likely
to resist our remedial efforts. al
though not of a mentality weak
enough to constitute an institution
al case, we increase his hand work
and also instruct him in household
duties. The handwork in these
classes consist mainly of basketry-
a course quickly taken to by those
having mental defects-venetian iron
work. and bench work. In the
household duties course, We teach
cook. as we'll as how to dress and
undress sick people and get them
into bed. Lay figures are used for
this purpose.
"At every atypical center a hot
lunch is served at noon for those
children who live at some distance
from the school. and at the Morse
School. where there are two atypical
classes and two ungraded schools
under one roof, hot lunch is served
every day for all pupils. no matter
where they live.
This lunch has come to be real
institution among the children for
they are allowed to have as guests
any favorite music or drawing
teacher. or any school official they
may desire. Judge Latimer of the
Juvenile Court has frequently been
a guest of the children at the Morse
School, and there Is a great rivalry
among the classes to determine at
which of the four class tables he
shall sit"
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

In the capture of tank steamers
You might include the couple picked up
in the Potomac a few Sundays ago by
the police.
Villa desires warless Mexico, but
You never hear anybody wishing that
about football.
William Watson having burst forth
with a war poem fifty-six verses in
length. it looks to US like glorious
victory for the folks who never learned
to read.
The project to build n dam below
Great Falls is still hanging fire. Seems
that somebody should start a "give-a-
dam" movement.
Young man in Chicago has succeeded
in holding fifteen billiard balls in both
hands, showing the world does move.
but in the wrong direction.
Can't hear any applause here over de-
cision to play Army-Navy game In
Philadelphia. Everybody seems to be
handcuffed.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
War Revenue Tax Put
Into Effect on Wines

Notice that certain provisions Of the
war revenue tax are In effect has been
sent to all internal revenue collectors
in the following telegram from the
Treasury Department.:
beginning with today. tax accrues
on all wines sold: . cents a quart on
still wines: 20 cents a quart on cham
pagne, other sparkling and artificially
carbonated wines: 6 cents a quart on
Nqueurs. cordials and similar compounds,
and proportionate rates for other guam
titles. Until stamps are furnished, re-
quire dealers who sell to consumers to
keep account Of sales on and after to-
day."
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

the facilities they have is a question
which is puzzling all regular patrons of
the road.
Recently it has become the practice
when a car comes in to let passengers
off both ends, then close the front end
and compel the crowd that is waiting
to enter by the rear door only. This
takes twice as long to get the passen-
gers aboard, and results in crowding
in the rear. Certain cars remain at the
terminal for some time before the doors
are opened, and then, when crowd has
gathered. they are opened and every
body is obliged to join in the scramble.
instead of being allowed to get on at
a time when there would have been no
crowding
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explained. in discussing these spe-
cial schools.
LAS a matter of fact, We never
keep a hopeless defective in our
classes. Any institutional case Is
reported to the Board Of Children's
Guardians. and by them sent to the
schools for detectives at Vineland,
N. j.. or Elwin. Pa, as soon as
places can be found for them.- as
institutions for the treatment OF
feeble-minded children in the Dis
trict.
Aim of Special Schools.
Constituting the word "atypicar' to
mean exceptional rather than de
fective.'' the Board Of Education es-
tablished special schools to receive
all children in the city who were for
any reason whatever untitled for
entry into the regular grades.
These schools are known as the
atypical and the ungraded schools
of the District. There are one or
more of each Of these schools in
every quarter of the city and in
Georgetown.
The aim of these schools is to
gradually readjust the exceptional
pupil to a normal standard" said
Principal Patterson. Some Of the
children who come to the atypical
schools cannot distinguish color.
Others seems to be deficient in the
sense of touch. while still others
seem lacking in the ability to learn
at all. The especial weaknesses Of
these children are determined as far
as possible in the elemental psyche
logical laboratory which Is attached
to the Curtis ungraded school in
Georgetown.
This laboratory, where many
Juvenile Court children are also ex-
amined, is under the direction of
Miss Mabel Robey, herself a grad
uate of the Vineland, N. j., school,
and has studied under such authori-
ties as Or. Whipple. of Cornell, and
DR.. Davenport, of stone Harbor, L.
l., the eugenist She has supple
mented this work with courses at
the universities of New York and
Pennsylvania.
The Binet Tests.
'Through the use of several tests
usually some one Of the Binet tests
the weakness of pupil may be pref
ty we'll determined These tests con-
sist generally In simple tasks Of
counting, repeating short sentences.
making change. drawing designs
from memory. reconstructing dis
sected sentences. and undergoing the
form test among others, according
to the child's age and ability.
THE form test is one Of the most
common in use in the schools. This
consists of a plinth of wood, into
which are cut star. a square,
circle, an oblong. a half circle, and
an ellipse. Corresponding figures,
which fit into the plinth. are given
to the child. and he is told to fit
all the forms into the correspond
ing sockets. This should be done by
a normal child in eighteen seconds,
and yet some of them require, two or
three minutes to fit a single shape
into its socket"
Any child who fails in these tests
and who Is not hopeless deficient,
is sent to the atypical schools. where
the method of instruction is exactly
the reverse of that in force in the
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
The Silver
Lining
Edited By ARTHUR BAER

Inventor claims to be able to throw
the human voice across the Atlantic.
But why pick on the human voice that
way?
Reason the poets think the autumn
leaves are so beautiful is because they
don't have to sweep 'em off the front
walk
War has cut off the supply Of cuckoo
clocks Just when the old man was
getting able to initiate 'em at two in the
morning.
Why bother to dig up 5,ooP-year-old
skeletons In Europe? The ones they are
making over there now are just as dead,
il not deader.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
Mt. Vernon Close To Washingtonians

To the Editor of the Mail Bag:
Why is it that the attractions of Mt.
Vernon are shut off to all persons save
tourists and idlers? Why Is 1t. in other
words. that the hard-working WASH
ingtonian is never given opportunity to
see the historic homestead. while per-
sons from out Of town who are loafng
in our midst can visit it at their leisure?
have been living in Washington for
about eighteen months. yet have never
been able to go there. I am told that
the last car for Mt. Vernon on week
days leaves Twelfth street and the Ave-
nue. at 3 O'Clock. when most of us, pre-
sumo. are just in the midst of our days
work: and that on Sundays Mt. Vernon
Is not open TO visitors.
Appa rently, l must either forego the
pleasure Of seeing Washingtons home or
get fired. X. y. kEARN.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
Files Another Street Car Complaint.

am not one of those who believe a
public service corporation should be
lalnba sted in the public prints just be-
cause 1t is public service corporation,
but I would like TO take up a little of
your space discussing the Great Falls
and Old Dominion road. 1t is conceded
that the exceptionally poor terminal IA
cilities In Georgetown are something
over which the company has no control,
but why they do not make the best of
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
What's on the Program, in
Washington
Today.

Meetings. evening:
Odd Fellows, anton Washington. No l.
Patriarchs Militant
Sons OF Eeterans-Wiliam r. Cushing CaInp
No. 80 fiaR raising on Union Station Plaza
. y. IN.
Amusements.
Belasco-"Omar. the Tentmaker" 2:20 and
$40 m.
National-"The Misleading Lady," 2l5 and
S:l5 D. m.
Columbia-Che uncey Ocott. in The Heart
of Paddy Whack." 2:16 and S:l5 D. m
Poi's-''The Master Mind" 2:lJ and SIS D. m
B. F. Keith's-Vaudeville. 2:l5 and s:l5 D. m
Gayety-Burlesque. 2:l5 and S:15 D. m
COsmos-Eaudeville. continuous
Casino-Vaudevillc. afternoon and evening
Garden--PhotoDlays
dalTs-Photoplays
Moore's Strand-PhotoplaYs
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
Class for Cripples Planned
For District Public Schools
Board of Education Asked to Es-
tabIish Measure for Teach
ing of "ExceptionaP' Chill
dren.

The establishment of a public
school for cripples is being urged
before the Board of Education. ,
The school, if established, nil
be part of the general plan for the
education of "exceptiondp' chill.
dren, of which the "atypicaP' ana
"ungraded' schools already are q
part.
In these classes backward, re.
taTded, precocious, semi-incorrig.
ible ana "defectipe" children are
given instruction best calculated to
remedy their weaknesses.
BY KENDRIcK ScoF1ELD.
Plans are afoot for the addition Of
class for cripples in connection
with the work already being done
among "exceptional' pupils In
Washington's public schools.
This orthopedic class. should II be-
come reality. will take its place
beside the so-called atypical classes.
designed for the instruction of re-
tarded. backward or precocious chill
dren and will furnish a department
or instruction for youngsters who
either because Of a physical deform-
ity or their limbs. or time lost
through convalescence from injury
cannot properly keep UP with the
regular grades Of the school,
The question Of whether such q
class VIII be organized Is already
before the local school officials. and
supervising Principal Walter B.
Patterson has been furnished with
data which seems to show that there
are sufficient prospective pupils for
lishment
such orthopedic classes are al
ready operating in other large cities
and the one in Detroit, Mich. is
regarded as an unqualified success.
1t Is pointed out by those favoring
the addition of such a class that it
may very properly be included in
the work for the instruction of "ex-
ceptonal' pupils now being done in
Washington under Principal Patter-
son.
When the compulsory education
law was passed In 1906. to be closely
followed by the enactment of the
cnlid labor statute. many classes
OF children. who never before had
presented their individual problems
TO the teachers of the District, came
into the schools
Results of Investigation.
Shortly after the passage of these
laws. the official drag net of the
authorities entrusted with seeing
that all children attended school was
hauled and emptied.
There were found BOYS who had
never been to school at all. AL
though their ages indicated that
they should have been well on their
way to the high schools.
There were others, between the
ages of ten and fourteen. who,
through the Binet tests. were found
to possess the mentalities expected
OF children less than eight years old
Again there were youngsters who.
by irregular attendance, had been
retarded in their studies, although
possessed of normal minds.
Also there were few who would
properly be classed as detectives"
From the very first, unfortunate
ly, the work Of the atypical and
ungraded schools which we estab-
lished to take care of the excep-
tional pupils which came to us as
the result of compulsory education,
became identified with those few de-
fectives. and we have had a hard
battle to convince the parents Of
Washington that these special
classes are not made up Of children
nf minds - pripctna1 Do
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
Would Have Bluecoats Ride Free.

To the Editor Of the Mail Bag:
VIII you permit me to use little of
your valuable space in calling attention
4 . the hcpdship that Is being worked on
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
Food Needed More Than Toys.
If the Mail Bag:

To the Editor If the Mail Bag:
| have observed In American news
papers that there is movement on
American women, to send to Europe a
Christmas ship laden with toys for the
children of the poor
This is. unquestionably a worthy i'm
will make a move in a direction to al
leviate the actual and enormous bodily
suffering afflicted on Europe's poor as
a result Of the present war?
France has her hands full, but she iS
poor and wounded. Nevertheless, the
ONLY such food as will suffice to keep
soul and body together. This means
one meal a day. and that meal consists
of a portion of broth and a piece of
liver. 1t Is useless to say that many
suffer from hunger And 1t Is not hun
ger alone that gnaws at the hearts or
women and I:ttle children. it is the bit
inc cold as well. The cry for food and
raiment Is broadcast.
And this is not all: those brave SOL
diers of France, those splendid men
who have gone forth to offer their
lives il need be, for their country 8
welfare many of them sleep In the
omen these cold nights with not
blanket to keep them warm. The WIN
ter is close at hand. The soldiers In
the field and the poor at home heed
wSrm clothing.
JAMIE F. VASHON.
American Consulate. Nantes. France.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
Relieves Auto Searchlight Necessary.

To the Editor Of the Mail Bag:
The new regulation that the search
lights on automobiles have to be turned
down in all parts Of the District Is
foolish and dangerous.
There are many roads within the Dis
trict which are dark and poorly lighted,
where the searchlights are as necessary
as IN the country. On dark roads on
the outskirts of the city. and there are
MANY such roads, 1t is impossible to see
another machine or a team without the
searchlights, in fact. often it is almost
Impossible to keep on the road.
After many accidents occur, the
thoughtless makers of the law will re-
alize their misake and repeal II. why
nnt do On before the accidents occur?
NV w 'o AUTOISTS
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

Record atycal school showing pupil
cal development adult the
beyond
ten
The Washington times., 1914-10-24
DE olDfST INnAB

9TH only things
certain ar taxes
an death, in tn
order named"
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

Invitations are out for the first %
tho winter series Of hops which will -
held at Fort Myer on Friday evening.
October 80. Last evening an informal
non was arranged by some of the young
neopIe of the post which was attended
h., a number Of Washingtonians.
The Washington times., 1914-10-24

\ tea dansant will follow the races
this afternoon at the Jockey Club, at
Laurel. Tea will be served on the
balcony of the club house and promises
to be a brilliant affair.