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A School That Trains
for Civic Usefulness

A SCHOOL unlike any other to be
"A found In the country. or perhaps
In the world, opened In Eagles
Mere Park. Pa, on July IL. 1t 10
school for training in community lead
ership. Upward of two hundred men
who have passed the period OF youth
are here in attendance. They have come
from every part of the continent. Thirty
American States and Canadian Provinces
and the Isthmian Canal Zone are repre-
scented. Students have come from points
as far away as British Columbia, Sas-
Aatcbewan. California and Texas. the
school itself, which Is being conducted
by the American City Bureau of New
York City, has a faculty of sixty. IL
will continue in session until July 70.
In this school are discussed such ques-
lions as Modern Municipal equipment
and Methods" "The New Spirit In IN
Austrial Relations" ''The Open Forum"
s'Factory Forums as Means OF Meet
ing Industrial Unrest,'~ THE Assess
ment of Real Estate for Taxation
proportional Representation In EieS
lions" Essential Steps in City Plan
ming" Finding More Money to Run the
CITY" Social and Labor Legislation
Housing" Utility Problems, inous-
trial Democracy" Ideals OF the Mooern
chamber OF Commerce." Securing MAX
,nu1n Cooperation from City and County
OfficIsls," Foreign Trade Promotion
characterization In Times OF Peace
earn, Bureaus" Industrial Expansion
and Highways In City and Country.
The speakers include Lawson Purdy,
nresident of the National Municlpai
f.eague ]. Horace Mcfarland, president
Of the American Civic Association; Deios
n. wilcox. Prof. Samuel McCune Lind
saw OF Columbia University and presi-
ARanriaIiOn IOT
labor Association; Dean s. 8. Marquis
Of the department of education. Foro
Motor Company George w. Coleman:
president OF the Open Forum National
Council; Edward Ewing Pratt, former
chief of the Federal Bureau OF Foreign
and Domestic Commerce; Fred c. But
Ter. Federal Director OF Americaniza-
tion: j. Byron Deacon, acting director
OF the general department OF clViian
relief. American Red Cross, and George
q. Cumnnin, former city engineer or
payton. Ohio, and former City Manager
of Jackson and Grand Rapids, Mich.
ssWhat 10 the connecting link In such
a miscellaneous collection of. subtectsr
one might be tempted TO ask. What
connection have they with community
leadership? Who are these community
leaders? Are they ministers or poll
ticians. or reformers or whatf What Is
Il that brings 200 men together Tor the
purpose of studying community leader
ship7'
The men are not ministers or poll
4ieians or reformers. Chiefly they are
secretarles of chambers Of commerce.
Perhaps some one who is Unfamiliar
with what the modern American cham
Der OF commerce is will ask: "Why
should secretaries Of chambers OF COM
merce think OF themselves as community
leaders? Is not a chamber OF commerce
a commercial organizationT
In the search for something that
would give the thousands Of moribund
commercial organizations In this coun-
Try a nav lease Of life q few fATsighted
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Oxford After the War

for Shortened courses (lasting on an
average of one and two-thirds years),
and already the colleges are overfull."
The general tone and character OF
these men is described by Ballots mas
ter as remarkably high. There is quite
as much life and cheerful activity as be-
fore the war. and a great deal more Sc
riousness OF purpose. The master notes
not only a marked Improvement In the
strength OF character shown by the re-
turning students, but that they even
gained Intellectually what they had lost
in book knowledge, and have more than
made up for this loss by the power OF
coming to the point and by a sense OF
reality about their work.
This, he concludes. shows that their
previous university education was far
too bookish and abstract In type and
mes lected too much the intellectual ef-
feet OF beginning things al the practical
and concrete end. These returned men
are not only keener to work but they
work with more swiftness and directness
than before they went out; for, as one
of them said. You had to do lot OF
thinking In the trenches or else your
number was soon up"
Oxford has made many concessions to
these men which the master regards as
justified by the showing they now are
making in their studies Formerly nine
terms residence was required to obtain
an oxford degree; now the men who
served in the army are excused from
half this requirement and from some OF
the examination requirements. These
concessions will enable the majority OF
them to take their degree and 10 into
the profession only a year or two later
than would have been the case but for
the war.
"In character and in general intel
lectuai development they will be better
men than they would have been under
normal conditions. and In intellectual
equipment Of knowledge hardly II at all
Inferior" writes the Balliol mast(A
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persons have lighted upon the truth that
selfshness always leads to death. II the
! commercial organizations would thrive
they must substitute the welfare of the
community as q whole for the selfish OBJ
5ectives Of factory grabbing. and working
for their own pockets without regard to
any one else. These farsighted ones be-
gan to preach cooperation of every in
terest in the community. They said mer-
chants, lawyers, manufacturers, teach
ers, ministers, labor unionists, women,
everybody, ought to be in the organiza-
ton and willing to give unselfish service
to the community. II should be non
partisan and non-seotarian. II should
be interested In civic matters Just as
much as in commercial. It should he
truly American In its management, the
membership being In actual control, and
provided with the machinery for ex-
pressing itself.
Since the war this idea OF cooperation
and unselfish service for the general well
fare of the community has taken a ire
mendous grip upon tho country. There
is hardly a community In the United
States which has not looked about for
some means of utilizing the spirit Of CO.
operation and unselfish service developed
through service at the front. or at home
in connection with the various war
dawes. Usually the Chamber OF Com
merce has been recognized Is the best
| type of organization TO undertake the
| leadership and the organization of the
community for the capitalization of these
| lessons of the war. In many cities and
towns ranging In size from Birmingham,
Ala. to East Palestine. Ohio. boards of
trade and chambers OF commerce have
been organized. or expanded and reor-
ganized, in order to fit these places to
take up the new tasks.
In Birmingham. Ala, for instance.
! the Chamber Of Commerce was expanded
| in six weeks time from a membership
| OF 400 TO $500. The people OF Knox
willie, Tenn, increased their membership
| from approximately 400 to one of more
than 400 in the course OF four weeks.
East Palestine, which has population
| OF 5000, largely of industrial workers.
! set UP a community organization of
1900, including 500 women. in less than
four weeks.
This immense Increase In interest In
| the formation OF civic commercial
Fbodies, amply supplied with an adequate
| income for the accomplishment of any
task which the community may ask OF
them, Is developing a new profession.
1t is that OF managers OF Chamber OF
| Commerce. The school which has
opened here Is for the purpose of aiding
men who nave entered uhs Helu 10
recognize and utilize their opportunities
as community leaders IT Is intended
TO give them opportunities to discuss
the big questions which every centre OF
population in the United States faces,
! and in the answering OF which they will
be called upon to take important parts,
That this picturesque little summer
resort among the mountains of northern
pennsylvania has become the mecca OF
hundreds OF men from every part OF
the continent is due to the widespread
recognition that the time has come to
organize communities for the capitallza-
ton Of the spirit which the war has de-
veioped throughout the country.
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI.

Following the marked success OF Her
man Schneider. dean OF the Engineering
College. in establishing the cooperative
course OF engineering. the University of
Cincinnati. Cincinnati. O.. has made him
dean of the College Of Commerce and has
established a course along commercial
lines such as he inaugurated in engi-
neering.
The College of Commerce has been a
straight academic course in the univer-
sity for several years. Next fall the STU
dents will begin the cooperative course
in commerce. The students will attend
class two weeks and then take practical
work In some of the large business con-
Germs in the vicinity of Cincinnati.
This course is planned to meet a de-
mand on the part Of the larger business
organizations for men thoroughly trained
not only in the commercial side OF busi-
ness enterprise but in tho production side
as well. The relationships between pro-
duction, marketing, accounting and
finance are so close that a knowledge OF
all of them is essential TO work I'm the
higher commercial positions related to
large business undertakings. The coop
e-ativc. course 10 be inaugurated next
fell will include theory and practice in
all of these phases of business.
The general plan Is the same In de-
tail and operation as in the cooperative
course in engineering; that is to say,
students will work alternating biweekly
periods at practical work In business
concerns and theoretical work in the
university. The practical work during
the first years will be in certain care
fully selected departments of production.
In tho shipping departments of fac
tories. This work will cover a period
which the student VIII be transferred to
the commercial side OF business for the
next two and half years. In the
university the courses will follow the
same general trend. The earlier years
will be given 10 mathematics. funda-
mental sciences and to engineering and
the latter years TO commercial subjects,
such as accounting, finance. marketing,
business law, management and so on.
As in the cooperative engineering
course. students will be paid for their
practical work in business concerns just
as the engineering students are paid.
The course Is intended TO prepare
students for careers In the commercial
world as thoroughly and as broadly as
they are trained for work in the various
fields OF engineering and to At them upon
graduation TO take positions OF RESPONSE
bllity In commercial and Industrial con-
Germs. Upon successful completion OF the
course students will be given a degree
of bachelor OF science in commerce.
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THE great universities OF England
whose student bodies and teach
ing STATS were greatly depleted
by service In the army or in Government
offices during the war. are again filling
with students and resuming normal life
This is shown by letter received at
Washington not long ago by Aeut.-Col
]. c. Faunthorpe OF the British Embassy
from A. L. Smith. mastSs OF Balliol Col
lego, Oxford. New schools are being
opened at Oxford and plans for greater
efficiency are being put into effect, he
writes.
According to the master OF Balliol,
Oxford sent approximately $4,000 of its
men to the war or into the Government
service. or these 1894 were killed and
100 are missing. More than 400 won
honors in the war, including sixteen Vic
toria Crosses. The figures of Cambridge
University would be about the same, the
writer estimates.
Outllningthe services rendered by men
OF the forty colleges of Oxford and Cam
bridge, the master writes that owing to
the response for war service the student
life "dwindled to- thread" He adds
that "the Importance of the response of
these two older universities was that II
filled up the gap between the destruction
Of the old Regular Army In the fighting
of August and September OF 1914 and
the coming forward OF the newly
trained Territorials in the spring of
1913. This immediate response to the
call OF the country and the present couf-
age and devotion of these young men
were a complete and decisive answer to
any class Jealousy or feeling that the
workers were being made to bear the
brunt.
I'VE doubted how many OF the men
would want TO como back" continues
the master. I'VE are finding that prac-
tioally every man who possibly can is
applying TO be taken back. at any rate
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Ew appointments to the facul-
ties OF the University OF Chi


~ ties OF the University OF Chi
cago are announced as follows /:
DR.. Edison Sunderland Basin OF the
United States Geological Survey, WASH
ington. d. c.. has been appointed by
the board of trustees to a profess
sorship Of economic geology, from jan
uary 1, 1920. DR.. Basin received his
doctors degree from The University OF
Chicago In 1909. Ellsworth Faris. now
professor Of psychology in the State
University of Iowa and acting director
Of the Iowa Child Welfare Research sta
ton, has been appointed to a professor
ship In the department of sociology. DR..
Albert Eustace Hayden, who received his
doctors degree from the University OF
Chicago In 1918. has been appointed 20
an instructorship In the department OF
comparative religion. 1t was in this do
partment that the late Prof George Bur-
man Foster lectured on the philosophy
Of religion. Robert s. Plat has been
made an instructor in the department OF
geography, from October /. 1919.
Announcement Is made of the APP
pointment by the Governor of Illinois OF
Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury. head Of the
department OF geography and dean OF
the Ogden Graduate School Of Science
at the University of Chicago. as a men,
Der of the Illinois State Board of Nat
ural Resources and Conservation. Dean
Salisbury succeeds To the position made
vacant by the resignation OF Prof. T. G.
Chamberlin. head Of the department o!
geology at the University of Chicago.
The retirement this year of three OF
the best known professors at the Unit
versity OF Chicago Is announced
All are heads OF departments. Prot
Thomas c. Chamberlin is head OF the de-
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and resident engineer. on construction
of the $1o.000,000 United States de-
stroyer plant at Squantum, Mass. Prof.
Fogg is a graduate of Tufts College.
Prof Larkin, who is a graduate of
the University Of Wisconsin, was a for
mer instructor and assistant professor
in the mechanical engineering depart
ment at Lehigh. He had an extensive
experience in the practice of his profess
sion before taking up teaching. For the
past four years he has been assistant
superintendent OF the Harrisburg Pipe
and Pipe Bending Company at Harris
burg, Pa, where he was in charge OF
large war contracts.
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FORTUNES IN SCHOOL BOOKS

School books. like cookery books, rank
among the most profitable Of all publ
cations. DR.. Creighton published many
weighty tones before his promotion TO
the See of London put a. stop to his
literary work. Yet none of these, he
once confessed. brought him in so much
money as a shilling history primer which
he wrote in a few weeks. This primer,
he explained. 'is handy size for boys
to throw at one another, and the life OF
most copies is therefore very short
London Chronicle
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the legitimate. In fact. we have the
full cooperation Of authorities in the
arrangement of different courses and
have already formed alliances along
these lines that will make authentic the
product we will have to offer.
with the reconstruction period at
hand and the renodelling Of the entire
world now In process. the motion pic
ture is as important as It was in the
conduct of the war. Competition IL
greater than ever before and exploita-
ton of a product not only 20 the world
at large but to the individual personnel
involved in the creation and distribution
of that product is most important. Here
the motion picture is perhaps the most
powerful agent. We have already start
ed activities in this field with large
sales organization and distributors OF
nationally known products"
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.

In response to the demand for train
ing in foreign trade New York Univer-
sity has arranged to give four evening
courses during the summer. The sub
5ects taught are: Foreign trade geogra-
ply: methods in foreign trade; export
technique. documents used. and foreign
exchange and foreign credit.
These courses are given by men en-
gagged in practical work connected with
foreign trade. The session extends to
August s; classes are at 8 :l5 o'clock.
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LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.

President II. S. Drinker Of Lehlgh Uni
versity. Bethlehem, Pa. has announced
the appointment Of Ralph ]. Fogg as
professor <of civil engineering, and of
Fred v. Larkin as professor of mechan-
ical engineering. to be heads of their
respective departments.
Prof. Fogg has been a member OF the
civil engineering department at Lehigh
Tor eleven years. His practical profess
sional experience has included service MS
division engineer in charge of the build
Ing department at Camp Deyens. Mass
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WOOSTER UNIVERSITY.

Trustees of the Wooster University,
Wooster, Ohio, announce that DR..
Charles Frederick Wishart OF Chicago
has been elected president of the uni
versity, to succeed DR.. J. Campbell
White, resigned. DR.. Wishart is pastor
of tho Second Presbyterian Church,
Chicago. and is president OF the general
education board OF the Presbyterian
Church.
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BROOKLYN COLLEGE.

Brooklyn College. conducted by the
Jesuits on Crown Heights, Brooklyn,
N. Y. is to reopen in September with
a full college course leading to the de-
gree A B. Official announcement to
this effect was made by the Rev. George
J. KriIn. s. J.. president Of the institu-
ton. following the receipt OF a cable
from the head of the Jesuit Order In
Rome indorsing Father Krim's plan to
The sun., 1919-07-27

Stanford University and T. A. Richard OF
San Francisco are vice-chairmen. The
secretary-treasurer Is Robert Mitchell,
$40 Sansome street, San Francisco.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-13
Law And Order A
NATIONAL issue SAYS
NOTED EDUCATOR
Especial to Tribune)

/ HAMPTON, Va, Dec. 10-That law
and order is a national issue was made
clear recently by DR. James E. Gregg,
principal of Hampton Institute, in his
address before the Negro Organiza-
ton Society of Virginia and the Vir-
ginia Negro Treachers' Association,
which held four-day joint meeting
in Lynchburg. Dr. Gregg said:
"The riots, lyncnings and kindred
outrages, which have followed one an.
other with sickening rapidity during
the past few months at Washington,
Chicago, Omaha. Elaine and elsewhere,
remind US and prove that this cpl
demic of ferocity is nationwide The
lynching of white man in Centralia,
Wash, recently, shows that no race
is safe.
In discussing preventive measures,
DR.. Gregg added:
This is time when the white man
of the south and of the north should
leave no one in doubt where they
stand, whether for law and order, for
decency and justice and humanity, or
against these fundamentals of sivili-
zation. The kind of people who make
up a mob are not such as should in
timidate any American who has red
blood in his veins and courage in his
eo,,1 VNo onD1ond +ba oooociopo1 cIo,
iff who defies the members of the
mob; are we sure that we should be
equally brave?
"On the other hand, let me say,
just as frankly and emphatically, that
the Colored people of this country
owe it to themselves and to their
friends to make it indisputably plain
as they usually do-that they are
not countenancing or excusing any
deeds of wanton violence or criminal
rcprisal by members of their own
race. Self-defense is one thing; MUIR
der is another. The lawless man.
whether white or black, is the enemy
of society. He must be restrained and
sternly punished for the sake of the
whole community.
"If the cure of such evils-lynching
in particular-can be accomplished
through local agencies, by all means
let it be done so. But if not. the time
seems ripe for the adoption Of the
course suggested by the Atlanta Con-
sttution and the Houston Post, name
lv. federal Intervention"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-13

sure you at the first opportunity the
Colored South will throw off your
misrule and create its own free. in
dependent government
eyes, we Germans will help them;
we viii help any one arrayed against
you, just as much as you have helped
others to strike down a nation at a
time it was bleeding out of ninety
nine wounds.
"Just as the heart of South Aemica
hates you, and as much as every soul
in Panama, Columbia, Mexico, Japan
and many other countries detests you,
just as much, and, if possible, to a
much greater degree. we Germans
hate you, until the day when we can
settle accounts with you
"Thcy will and must be settled
Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-13
EMPLOY BLACK MEN ONLY
(By Associated Negro Press

RALEIGH, N. c., Dec 10.-(Spe-
cial)-Ken. Julian S. Carr of Durham
and his sons and other members of
the corporation which owns the Dur.
ham hosiery mills, the largest manu-
facturers Of hosiery in the United
States, have purchased the plant Of
the Bowling-Emery company at Dur
ham and will add it to the great col
lection of "knitters." It is capitalized
at 100000 and is named by General
Carr the John o. Daniel mill, in mem
ory of a much valued Negro servant
for many years employed in his fam
lily. All the labor in this mill is to
be Negro. and it will be ready for
operations January 1st, being equipped
with additional machinery.
There are two silk mills in Fayette-
vile which have always been oper-
ated IL Negro labor. There is also in
the state a cotton mill owned and
operated by Negroes. The largest
Negro insurance company in the
world is at Durham One of the best
Negro high schools in North Carolina
is the Berry o. Kelly Training school,
in a village exclusively Negro, three
miles west of Raleigh, named in hon
or of a man who is worth perhaps
100000, and who has been a large
contributor to the school
Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-13
WILL TRY TO REVIVE
BUSINESS LEAGUE
(By Associated Negro Press)

TUSKEGEE Qnstitute), Ala, Dec.
1O.-Following a conference between
DR.. Robert R. Motion, principal OF
Tuskegee Institute, and president of
the National Negro Business League,
Mr.. ]. H. Phillips, chairman OF the,
executive committee of the Alabama
State Negro Business League, and
Mr.. w. B. Driver, of Birmingham, it
was decided to call meeting Of the
business and professional men of Ala-
bama to be held at Tuskegee Insti
tute the evening of January 20th,
1920, to advise ways and means for
reviving the Alabama State Negro
Business League.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-13

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Dec. TO-
DIR. Robert R. Motion received today
notice that the will Of the late Chas
Church Drew, of Providence, R. L.,
contained a bequest for Tuskegee In
stitute which would approximate S50-
600 This brings the total amount Of
bequests which have been received
by Tuskegee Institute within the past
twelve months to more than million
dollars.
It is also interesting to note. in this
connection, that the amount Of regu-
lar contributions to the Institute are
considerably in excess of contribu-
tions up to this time of any previous
year
With the largest enrolment in the
schools history, the outlook along all
lines is most promising, Dr. Motion
stated.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-13
First Duty

'It is as much the duty of the pa
triotic American citizen to economize
as it was when our boys were over
there" says A. Mitchell Palmer, at
torney general of the United States,
in charge of the governments inves-
tigation of profiteering. "All public
men, as we'll as the press and the pull
pit, should preach saving. They
should plead with the people to do
these things-produce more, consume
less; work and save"