New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-13
Gary Plan Not Receiving Fair Trial. Says Mrs Oahan Oh
The Bronx Parents Associaton-Old system Like
Machine-New Plan Well Tested

On f DAVIS later accounts began appear the press
meetings the plan and addressed oy
the Fsb Anary League by local pastor who has opened
his church 70 meetings against the PLAN In an attempt 70 mo out
what extent these meetings represented the attitude OF Bronx parents
we interviewed Yesterday Solomon Caha 1858 Topping avenue
The Ronx the organizer Association of P s. ~
Mrs Cahan has deep interest education and mas
made study of conditions particularly Of those prevailing
in AS president of the Mothers Oluo OF r. D. |
occasion TO learn of overcrowdng under the od part
plan, and its bad effects upon the education oil 'ne c rt,
congeed districts. The judgment OF woman OF MIS- Oaa
~ &C naront and as student educational and social conditions
should be of Mrs Cahan is emphatic in her assertion
that advocate Of the Gary pan but tha he does WISH
see given fair trial York. and particularly in The Bronx
GARY PLAN NOT RECEIVING FAIR PLAY
81 am convinced" she sad the plan is not receiving
in The Bronx In the first place. we must give % 20 Az
way other. The plan was only started IN r. D. 90 o. ~
etc. six weeks ago. Owing probably unavoidable delay IN
getting supplies schools had start without proper equipment g
tbev started beginning when there Is always
confusion and of it takes time to change anything
Now am conscientious parents do not want to look at
things in oned left to themselves would be far ana
como 70 see the rights and wrongs but the trouble is that
we have People from outside The BRONX from
BROOKLYN have tried persuade US that the GARY plan
not good thing they when the plan is barely started
and before chance to judge for ourselves about IT.
again at meeting of the parents member Of the local
school hoard and minister number Of the parents attend
rd to rouse parents against the pan when had actually oee
the few days And now this minister hoon meetings
church. and at these meetings the parents are eu UP
I NV n this is not the right way to welcome a expert
ent education anything is duty Of parents to be well
before taking the parents have not had chance
judge What they think is danger OF beng coOred
much interested in setting US against the pan. inns Is
unfortunate certainly parents have nothing gain by dismiss
ing the plan without trial. 1t not be the right thing On the
to be something that will be OF the greatest
benefit children
GARY PLAN WELL THOUGHT OUT AND TRIED OUT.
coo tho Gary pIan it is well houghtout and weltried-ou
an for helping 1t the black demon spectre which
the opponents believe 1t not crime to try to
give opportunities that the Gary schools offer them Or
rather if it think of making childhood
happier if give child chance and develop
child individual attention that my boy
bi~a1f nd ike
every child school, if it crime give children chance to
grow strong and healthy then the Writ plan criminal
many articles and the Gary pan and do
not see that has schools which has
York Certain members of socaled AntGary
Brooklyn mothers in The Bronx where IS
starting and told that the children the Gary school Brooklyn
doing good since the Gary started there But
report the Superintendent for Brooklyn and his figures show
that the children the Gary school stand higher than the children in
the other schools in that district
"Why by who would
oppose something before started Again they try
prejudice against the plan by telling that the Gary plan hurts
the health of the children and the school doctor their Brooklyn
school that the health Of the children under this plan has
improved under the old system. Why should
parents p SO choose against the plan with
these hstatemens? They object play period many
many mothers object But understand
that this child does not have play if his mother does
wish him to- The parents ought
plan flexible let profit by it, and not believe that it
flexible before have tried it.
THE OLD SYSTEM LIKE MACHINE.
give experiment only old
system bad for children know for have been studying
years know that the children The Bronx have been going
school under conditions that good for their minds their
health They only did not the full of time which
when school they crowded that
positively unheathfu Equally important the
dealt with and hardly with
The whole military It like machine
that good for children Let this PLAN which
freedom children, tries look after their individual
needs and gives them a chance TO grow
Another good thing about the Gary that the parents
od in regard to the education Of their children The
when parents should realize that the schools public
they support and that they have right judge of the
education their children receiving But if the
wisely they be welnomed and permit 70
be md by incomplete peuded We
Gary school The Bronx Let visit that school, and watch the
Of the plan schools before judgment"
GARY SCHOOLS SHOW ACCOMPLISHMENT IN HEALTH
PROBLEM
Dr. Lewnsk Corwn of the Academy Of Medicine said
school hygiene Municipal League on March TO-
that "he Writ Schools Of Gary show remarkable accomplishment
the health problem In New York the
Writ has much less degree of bakwardne