Arizona republican., 1915-11-26
Who is to Blame?

Who IS to Blame!
 There is something diseouraging the answers that many American pupils make to examination questions They disclose instead of natural dense ness of interest looseness teaching in of public schools that would perhaps, not find in any civilized country-a general lack of thoroughness resulting in impartng to pupils smattering rather than solid foundation which education may be built Pupils, many of them, out of our public schools only wool gatherers and they remain wool -gatherers through life.
 The following is collection of the re- examinations held in different of the country. they should merely be ignorance it would not bad they show something worse
 The Chamois is valuable for it's feathers, the whale for it's kerosene oil
 Hardships suffered by the southerners after the the wives of the aristocrats and of gentle patiently made their husbands trousers out of their
 The feminine gender of friar is toastres
 The feminine gender of bull is Mrs. Bull.
 There Christians among the early Gauls- They mostly, lawyers.
 Climate is caused by the emotion of the earth around the sun
 Four animals belonging to family the father cat, the mother cat and the two little kittens.
 Geometry teaches us how to bisect angels
 The purpose of the skeleton something to hitch
 have been taken out and the outsides have been A blizzard is the inside of a hen
 A vacuum is large empty space where the Pope lives
 A circle is a round straight line with a hole the middle
 When Cicero delivered his oration he was prefix.
 George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the father of his country. Sixty gallons make hedgehog.
 The stomach is just south of the ribs
 The alimentary canal is located in the northern part Indiana.
 The rosetta was missionary to Turkey The government of England is limited Georgia was founded by people who had been executed.
 A mountain pass is a pass given by the railroad to it's employees that they their tion in the mountains.
 mountain is a large cook stove
 The qualifications a at school meet ing are that he must be the father of a child for Achilles was dipped in the river styx to him immoral.
 Gender shows whether feminine, mascu- line neuter.
 Gravitation is there were none we should fly away.
 The function of the stomach is to hold up the petticoats.
 The stomach forms part of the Adams Apple witchcraft. Plea written by a teacher to get low Latin
 MT. Ellington is young of striking per- sonality He is over six feet tall, well developed classmates"
 When the British got up in the morning and the Americans opposite they threw up their breakfasts (breastworks)
 Pompeiii destroyed by eruption of saliva from the Vatican.
 permanent of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspds two molars and eight cuspi- 
 Weapons of the Indian: bow arrow tomahawk and hoops.
 Typhoid fever is prevented by fascination
 The first meaningless and denotes ignorance and foolish effort "get by" with it. The scond answer betrays shadowy hopeless notion of the countrys history. In the third that the pupil has learned enough of to recognize a feminine termination. The ssionary to Turkey have been a reader of the newspapers to little purpose years ago, when they stories adventures of Mrs. Ellen M. Stone the missionary with Macedonian brgands
 In four-fifths of the evidences of undgested information which, since the ages grades of the pupils given either too solid food for them, else they victims of vicious carelessness part of teachers.
 In any the subjects which the answers in regular course and the teachers must have presumed that the pupils had learned least something of the tasks which had been for them.
 Any teacher school whose examinations elicit should be ashamed them public