Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-20
Policemen Detailed Guard Schoolhouse at Request
 of Authorities.
MANY TEACHERS
 GIVE DOMINANCE
Reports Of Demonstrations on Large Scale Planned for Next Week Politicians Said to be In.
 ticing tile Children.

New York, Oct. 19.-Agitation against the Gary system in the public schools in this city by thousands of
 boys and girls who paraded the streets and stoned school buildings and the police grew to such propor tlons today that the authorities were compelled to use sterner measures | to end the disturbances. The strike has been spreading daily, and it was said tonight that demonstrations on a large scale ara planned for next week.
 By request of the board of educa. | ton, policemen were detailed today to guard the school houses, and sev- l eral women and children were ar rested.
 Manhattan has been the least af- fected by the disturbances, but in Brooklyn and the Bronx the juvenile rioters kept the police busy. The most serious rioting occurred in the Brownsville section of the Bronx, where two policemen were hurt.
 In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn mothers of pupils whose sympathies with the strikers were not as strong as the desire to have their youngsters educated today dispersel l crowd who had planned demon stration in that district.
 Officials of the Gary School league today made oren charges that many teachers are "conniving" to create op- position to the Gary plan, and that politicians are ''inciting" the chil- dren to join in the street demonstra- tiOns.
 The Gary System.
 The central principle of the Gary or Wirt system, devised by William Writ, school superintendent of Gary, Ind, is that two schools shall occupy the same building, each counterpart of the ether, using alternately the class rooms, shops, gymnasium, auditorium, library, etc. By making the total capacity of the shops, gymnasium, playground,etc., equal to that of the classrooms, and by, lengthening the school day, one school outfit is made to accommodate two duplicate schools. The school day is from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m., and the school buildings are in use on Saturday for children who wish to go, and on Sunday for private organizations engaged in social ser vice. The idea is to use all the school facilities of the community all the time, by nor having all the children doing the same things at the same time. The school auditoriums are not for assembling the entire school for perhaps 15 minutes day, but for various activities thre hours a day; children also use the public library of teachers, and they have the privi- lege of going one hour a day to their respective churches for religious in struction. Special emphasis is laid on work in shops, and nature study, bo- tany, physics, chemistry, electricity, etc.. are taught in the laboratories.
 The keynote of the system is to allow the child to study those things which he likes to learn in the manner in which he likes to learn them, and thru permitting the student to take all of his regular school subjects either in the morning or afternoon, he is enabled to go to school half of the day and work the other half either in school shops or outside the school.
 The Gary system was introduced in New York in 1915.