Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-25
Men or Women Teachers9
4 the RnfPnln Exnress.

From the Buffalo Express.
Rear Admiral T. E. Chadwick, re-
tired, has reopened the controversy
as to the effect of the preponderance
of women teachers in the public
schools In the Educational Review
he speaks of the evil effect of allow
ing women to teach boys. saying that
it is an indignity to boy to place
him under q woman teacher, and that
the manhood of the country Is there
by feminized and made emotional and
illogical.
William McAndrew, principal of the
Washington Irving High School for
Girls in New York. has undertaken to
answer Admiral Chadwick. He does
SO by saying: 1T is only part of the
truth to say that we should not have
women teachers for boys in the public
schools. What we need is an equal
number of men and women teachers
in public schools for boys and girls.
The average boy comes to our high
schools from a home where both the
mother and father are working
persons, employed in factories or
shops and who have not the time to
bring up their children properly.
This boy must get at school at this
most impressionable period of his life
the same kind OF influence he would
get in Droperly-co conducted home.
Obviously then, he must have a wom-
ans influence as well. as a mans, it
is absolutely Indispensable. I know
of no high school of good standing
where this condition does not prevail.
It is natural that 1t should be So"
The educators OF Germany and
Great Britain assert unequivocally
that America is making a mistake by
allowing boys to be taught by women,
but without offering much evidence
of the feminizins effects on the Amer
lean man, of which they speak.
Speak Gently OF the Boa CONSTRUCTOR.
From Golfers.
DR.. Frank Baldwin, of Illinois. who
recently returned from an exploring
trip in the Philippine Archipelago,
also sounds a new note regarding an
unsavory reputation in the reptile
kingdom,
"All of my reading life" says DR..
Baldwin. 81 have regarded the boa
constructor with horror and aversion.
I had severely criticised his habit Of
hanging in loops from the jungle
trees and of hauling up the unwary
passerby from beneath. When 1 got
into the Jungle my great desire was
to meet up with q large boa under
favorable conditions to show my de-
testation of him. When I did find
one, what was my surprise to find
my sent ments those Of pity for the
snake He was stretched across the
path, and when the natives saw him
they bounced on him with ye.ls of
delight. That snake had no more to
say about proceedings than the Re-
publican party in Mississippi. He
seemed dazed from the start. With
a native for every yard of him grab
bling him tightly he proceeded on legs
through the jungle and down to the
beach on the run, w'ggl'ng feebly
and kissing in a hopeless manner.
There his head was cut off with no
more ceremony than is observed with
a chicken, he was folded tightly into
a clamshell about three feet in diam |
eter and a fire was built. In an hour
he was cooked. and In another hour
this great snake, which had been
painfully accomplishing feet and
inches for years, had disappeared. l
felt little bit indignant. Here was
a triumph of triple growth-a snake
as long as a torchlight procession-a
Prohibition torchlight procession n
Milwaukee-eradicated to make a
light lunch for fifty hungry men. For
a minute I felt like turning conser-
vationist on the subject"
Now that the grizzly bear and the
boa constructor have been Wind Gated,
can we not find someone to say a |
good word for the house fly?