Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-06
SCHOOL BELL SUMMONS
UNWILLING ARMY OF
100000 CHILDREN
Only Two More Days of Liberty
for Boys and Girls, After
Three Months of Vaca-
tion Joy
ALL vIsIBLY RELUCTANT
Even Teachers Find It Hard to
Return to Severe
Routine

And then the whining schoolboy, with bis
/ satchel and shining morning, race creep"s
like snail unwilling TO school
Two more days OF liberty remain for
the children OF Philadelphia. The doors
OF 1886 schoolhouses will be opened on
| Wednesday to receive 100000 boys and
girls. whose sole consolation will be that
only 10 more months remain until the
next vacation.
Baseballs will be hidden in the inner
most recesses of the family closets, ten
mis- rackets will be returned to the gar
ret whence they came and junk dealers
will enjoy an unusually heavy business
In roller skates.
Hands that held nothing heavier than
marbles for the last three months VIII
be burdened soon with great formidable
geography textbooks. The CHEEKY GOOD
morning, scholars" that Will echo
through 5000 classrooms simultaneously
will be anything but music to the ears
on Wednesday morning.
When Governor Brumbaugh was Super
intendent Of Schools he expressed the
belief that the average boy and girl did
not object to school, and he even con-
tended that there were some children
who would rather study than play. A
canvass Of the different neighborhoods
failed to bear out his theories.
BOYS AMAZED BY QUESTION.
Sonny, are you glad to go back to
school?" was the question addressed TO
a Kensington youth. The boys counte-
nance was a mixture Of surprise and
disgust.
Go to school?" he repeated. Mister.
would you like to go to Jail If you never
did nothing?"
rra.- a.. ANe
Another member of his profession. who
practices at Broad and Chestnut streets,
apparently attributing the question to
mental alteration, pointed his finger to-
ward his forehead and whispered, Hes
a mutt" to his companion.
The daughter OF a prominent German
town real estate man informed the re-
porter that in her opinion school was
necessary evil" Her sister, two years
younger, insisted that 1t was an entirely
unnecessary one.
TEACHERS RELUCTANT, TOO.
Teachers who congregated about the
headquarters of the Board of Education
admitted today that they were as unwill-
ing to return to duty as were their pupils.
If school is annoying to the older pupil,
to the youngster just beginning his or her
career Il Is terrifying. Tomorrow is en-
rolment day, and a line of children be-
tween the ages of and will be seen
near the principals office in every ele-
mentary school i'm the city.
The little folk will be accompanied by
their parents. Children who have never
been successfully vaccinated will be
obliged to submit TO the physicians needle
before they receive even as much as a
lead pencil. And after the painful oper-
alton is over they will be obliged to leave
their parents and content themselves as
best they can In an entirely strange at
mosphere. Fresh from the nursery, where
there is little restriction, they will be
obliged to sit in hard, straight-backed
benches.
For 1900 boys and girls, according 10
the estimate of DR.. John p. CARRIER, Act
ing Superintendent of Schools, education
will be a medicine of small doses. That
number of pupils will fail to find full
accommodations in the classrooms be-
cause of the congestion in the school sys-
TEN due to the growth of the child pop
ulation in certain neighborhoods. Doctor
CARRIER expects the overcrowding to be
particularly acute in South Philadelphia.