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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-12-01
Hubin On Sewerage.

Editors PleaSantville Press
Personalities name has been plac-
ed on record the past week, ever since
City Council turned down the long
wanted Sanitary improvement. The
hopes of our citizens in general, lead
ing taxpayers, business men, large
property owners and others, and the
leading physicians throughout Allan
tic County, were shattered, as it means
years more of typhoid and other dis
eases and deaths as well, due to the
lack of sewerage for Pleasantville.
It's a shame to allow these conditions
to exist. The Atlantic City papers
were full of it, even the Philadelphia
papers spoke about having men in
Council who should be back on the
farms. And by the way they treated
the sewerage question gave the reader
to believe that they wanted to use
this on their farms. Isn't that fine
advertising for Pl"easantville? AS one
Councilman said, to use buckets in
this civilized age. Citizens of Pleas
antville you will have to wake up and
realize that this is an age of progress.
Just look around at some smaller
towns and cities. They are growing in
leaps and bounds, all due to their up
to-date progressive City Councils.
~Pleasantville in turning down sewer
age is taking a step backward and
very much backward, when city ofic-
ials elected by the people fail to do
their duty and fail to safeguard the
health of the community.
City Council still has a chance to
redeem itself by resembling their for
mer action and awarding the sewerage
contract to the lowest bidder. Then
again, if the sewerage work is started
it would give work to a great many
of our people who, as it is now, have
to go out of town to find work. Then
| again, suppose a typhoid epidemic
! should start in August, Atlantic City
would become isolated all through the
slowness of our City Council.
We have some good men in City
| Council and we have some who have
a touch of the hook worm, who believe
in what was good for our grandfathers
is good enough for the people of the
present time. But they will wake up
some fine day and find out that ty-
phoid has got a hold on our progress
sive city and the work of years build
ing up will be knocked in the head.
l, like a great many others, have work
ed and labored to advance Pleasant
yille's interests and name broadcast
throughout the land, and will not let
up, but will keep on boosting for
~Pleasantville and will use every effort
possible to see that we have men in
City Council who will work for the ad-
vancement of our city and citizens and
aot for a favored few, who have theirs
and don't want to see our city i'm
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Concerning Women.

Policewomen in Kansas work
only eight hours a day.
Rhode Island was the first
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rage.
New York has o working
women than any other state in
the Union.
Barnard college girls are knit
ting sweaters for the soldiers in
France.
Wellesley college girls have
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cream and other delicacies.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-20
Wavs and Means of Culture
The Drama and Miscellany

Ssuveur. threw up her hands and ex-
claimed: But. ma fol, that requires
teacher who is an actor" Yet to-day
the conversational method is being
taught most successfully in that dra-
matte way. Thus the demonstrations
and suggestions in "The Play Way.
condemned by tho majority OF the
teaching profession to-day, may in n
not distant future be found not only
practicable but extremely beneficial.
The suthor apologies in the preface
for the "discursive and disordered
state in which the argument Of this
book is presented" He hopes to fol-
low IL with 20 fuller and more res-
soned discourse, which will be possible
IN more quiet time" But granted
that a certain looseness of arrange
ment at times diverts the readers at
tontion from the point discussed. IL Is
doubtful whether the author could pre-
sent his subject more wildly and more
convineingly than he has done. A
teacher of English in the Perse School.
st Cambridge, be has primarily in view
the teaching Of language and litera-
ture. But there is no doubt that the
play" system, when thoughtfully elab-
cess 10 the teaching OF mathematics
and other subjects The idea is not
new, for already Milton said that "little
boys could be taught the rules of arith-
metic and soon after geometry. even
playing. as the old manner was"
One of the authors statements like
IL 10 be most violently challenged is his
arraignment of what he calls "sit-stlil-
cry" although modern educators have
long known that preserving any one po-
sition for a certain length Of time is
strain upon the nerves and the muscles
and is bound TO distract rather than CON
centrate, the pupils attention. He says:
THAT sit-stillery is useful accomplish
ment is not denied. Bot IL is not near
Is OF such general utility as teachers
imagine. Learning now 10 move IS OF
immeasurably greater importance than
learning how to sit still. In all natural
life. for one moment of apparent still
ness, there are millions of active move
ments. a child who is left TO profit by
experience will soon learn when 20 be
still. when 10 move. and even now to
move in due accordance with the need
of the occupation he IS engaged upon
He charaoterizes discipline as under
stood by the majority Of teachers is in
hibition of active movement, and as
serts that fright behavior is a relative
condition, to be determined by its ap-
preparedness 20 the occasion In the
school where Mr.. Cook had occasion to
apply his ideas the boys were allowed
in many lessons TO attend IN any COM
Portable attitude, only ungainly posi-
lions and those injurious 70 health
being barred lie found that they ap-
preached their task with a greater read
mess and freshness of spirit than when
they were expected to sit still in their
seats. II is an application of the peri
patetic method Of the Greek philoso-
pliers. which. whenever tried by a
thoughtful teacher, has proved very sue
cessful The main problem before the
teacher is 10 acquire the art of getting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-20
The Mentor
An Easy Way to Learn One
Thing Every Day

rUT MENTOR $40 illustrated Issued semi
monthly by tho Mentor Association
1t is one thing to sit down to big
book on any subject and laboriousiy
master it's contents, large part OF
which will be forgotten before the end
is reached. II is another and very diff
ferent thing to have the same informa-
ton presented periodically, in small
instruments and in an attractive
graphic form, so that each instalment
Can sa fully assimilated before the
advent Of the next. We would not, of
course, discard or decry- the book, even
the most voluminous encyclopaedia. But
we must be gratified at finding how
large a place there is in the world OF
popular culture for such periodical
as The Mentor" with its fortnightly
offering OF knowledge through the
media of both literature and art.
The names of such advisers as Pres
ident Hibben, DR.. van Dyke, Professor
A. B. Hart. DR.. W. T. Honaday and
Mr. Elmendorf are an abundant guar
antee Of the authentic character of the
instructive essay which appears in each
issue, on some important and appeal
ing theme of literature, science, art,
history, biography, travels, or what
not, while the half dozen plates. in
sepia gravure CT co ors. which accom-
pany it, afford Informative illustration
at the same time that they delight the
artistic sense. Ii is, in brief, a pub
LEGATION at once of fortnightly timeli-
ness and OF permanent value, judicious-
ly designed TO promote in the pleasant
est and easiest OF ways true popular
culture in The best sense of that often
abused phrase.
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making Many Books
History. Biography, Philosophy
and What Not

70 recopitulate all the literary
oytD,,t Of the season vot,ld orerto1
.noce and bepilder minds. II must
suffice; in addition to those named
else1chere under specific heads, mere
to recall a te,o Of the more note
uorthv ard permanently Interesting
works in the vario,ls departments OF
authorship and publication Most OF
these hnve already received critical
attention In the columns Of The Ir'o-
une.
Abingdon Press
LANES MONROE BUCKLEY. biography BY
George r Mains.
d. Appleton & Co.
,,-nr-roy THE NATURALIST. By Francis
Hobart Herr.ct. vols
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and more suggestive of profitable

and more suggestive Of profitable
thought than the accomplished lady
whom yesterday-or was II last week
1t does not seem so long ago--we knew
as little Minnie Madden" and whom
to-day we know and gladly acclaim as
one of the greatest of English-speak-
ing actresses.
In a few instances her interlocutor
is perhaps unduly injected into the ar
gument, but in general Mrs. Fiske com
pletely dominates the pages, with con-
demnation Of the repertory system,
with eulogy Of Ibsen and with a null
tiplicity of other views and judgments,
with some OF which we heartily agree,
from some Of which We earnestly dis
sent, but every one of which we and
all men must respect and in every one
of which we must be interested
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-20

I into such close sympathy with the pu-
| pills and presenting the subject in such
an interesting manner that the ques-
ton OF discipline never arises. Order,
quietness and system are by no means
discarded in the play way but they
grow out of the good will Of the pupils
and their love of the work before them.
rather than out of the command of the
teacher.
As self-exprcssion and self-govern-
ment are demanded to-day by individ-
uals and nations, so they should be the
mainsprings Of our school system. Mr..
Cook finds school teaching in Ems, and
as probably everywhere too much q
matter of books, too literary. Social
life on the other hand, being too prac-
tical. the boy on leaving school falls
between two stools" He claims that
the specialist masters of our secondary
schools, who lecture on Latin, French,
mathematics, history and other sub
iects, are not practical men. and train
their pupils to see life ftfully and
piecemeal. "History shows that most
Of the educational reformers have been
men OF spirit imagination and energy
rather than men of learning. And even
when they were scholars they carried
their learning lightly. For teachers of
boys we do require men of learning,
but not specialists Of learning; We re-
qure rather those men who are spe
cialsts in boys" Thus he sounds the
psychological keynote which Is ever
present in discussions of educational
questions. Frcm these quotations the
general character OF the book can be
gathered. IL is based upon the results
Of modern psychological study. Much
sounds like rank heresy, but when the
world has returned TO a normal course
and the work OF reconstruction begins
the suggestions offered in this book
will prove very helpful. For the chap
ters in which Mr.. Cook gives glimpses
of his work with his pupils in English,
in the study Of Shakespeare, in diction
and style, the lectures" by twelve
year-olds and other data contained in
the richly illustrated volume are ample
proof that his is voice which deserves
10 be heard with Difference.
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Learning Made Easy
g. New Methods in Schoo
Teaching


V WAY Pr Codvsl Ccck. NJ A.
TTk AS ne Frde1ok A. steS- Oo'nr~ny'
-. ve,-, AGO, in remote part OF
SUI an educational experiment
bro'~.5 by an English couple, both
vs. As-s which found enthusiastic sup
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P..o, bevildering 70 the casual vas.
lNt' 7. wss q school for children OF
w. sexes, without the conventions
eo~;sbincs OF classroom, without den
LII u. ,..,,-r;culum. set hours or even set
~. ..bool books. The children in that
- were taught "self-eNpression
soAs ss.,.onations which they chose them
The school has long disap-
SNI Rus OF this experiment was
,.viewer reminded on reading
n. Play Way" From tho time when
v...o-;no da Feltte opened bis sehooi
'. W,rtua and called It "Bs Casa Clio
~ ,S-the House Joyful-to the pres
W, zben scores Of educators from the
go 49,. world have been going 20 Rome
:. koeoree acquainted with the prac-
80 rorkincs Of the method evolved
- waris Noutessori. there has been
isek OF voices demanding thor
.Ssh revision OF the conventions upon
80 our school systems rest. il
1919 BE wrong 20 condemn such meth
- az subvorsive OF everything that
80 been tried and found good IN the
rs.. FOR. when the first revolutionary
ir-pulse that creates such reforms has
, sntnt Itself. It will be found that tho
IA is still there, but, IN the words OF
NJ. Cock. stripped OF base accretions.'
Tor "your .lrs revolutionary is only
Conservative endowed with insight
The reviewer remembers how teach
- Of French, when asked to employ the
nayersational method Of DR.. Lambert
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