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Evening journal., 1919-07-19
ANsELL OUTS WAR DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON. July 10 IUnlted Press
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel T. Ansen,
storm center Of the recent fight TO
change the army court martial system.
today sent his resignation to the War
Department. Ansesl wil continue his
campaign against slleged court marital
lnjustices as a mepber Of a law nrm
with Offices in Washington and New
York.
Evening journal., 1919-07-19
nFATHs

BTGGS~Mrs Fannie BiEgs. on July IS,
1910. widow ~ the late ". Y Biggs
Relatives and friends are Invited 10 at
tend the funeral services, NJ hfr late resi-
denra Afiddiefown. Del On Tuesday
morning. July % lnterment AZ Bethel
cemetery
Evening journal., 1919-07-19
mr. .LpERsoN A VISITOR.

The Rev. C. T. Anderson, former pas
tor of Harrison Street NJ. z. Church.
now stationed at Chestertown, Md, is
visiting Wilmington friends.
Evening journal., 1919-07-19
BOSTON Walks THIRD DAY.

BOSTON, July 10 lUnited Press)-The
third day Of street d pr strike mere began
withcua any indications OF an early SET
Element.
Evening journal., 1919-07-19

Mechanics. metal workers and stem
ographers may find positions through
the Want Ads in the coming two
weeks.
Evening journal., 1919-07-19
nIfTING Az AIGIsIINE-

B'nai Birth Lodge Will have an out
ing for its members and guests at Au-
gustne Park on Monday.
Evening journal., 1919-07-19
Friends School
Fourth and West Streets,
Wilmington, Del.

The Oldest and Largest Preparatory
school In the State.
A corps of q trained teachers. TX
cenent equipment Thorough instruc-
ton. A schodl that takes boys and
girls al six years OF age and In a con-
genial atmosphere, under The charge
Of specially trained men and women
without loss OF time through change
of schools. fts them for college or bus
mess.
French taush1 throughout the In.
termediate and Hsh School Depart
men's.
HerscheI A. Norris, A. M.
Principal
~. and 4. Phone, 3iiT
Catalog on request.
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Phone MARI. "a F IA
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-09-12
POLITICIANS MUM ON WOMAN
SUFFRAGE

To be or not to be-" That
is the question which both
''suffs" and "antis" are asking
regarding the ratification Of the
national suffrage amendment by
the Maryland Legislature when
it eonvenes next January. 1t is
a question which both Richie and
Nice and most of the Legislative
candidates are gracefully side
stepping, for with factional
fights on their hands in the
primaries and q general election
to follow, few of the Legislative
candidates wish to inject an
other issue into an already COM
plicated situation.
After all, the question is thought
relatively unimportant. Woman
suffrage is in political circles re-
regarded as inevitable.
At the present time, about 49,
900, 900 women enjoy the privi-
lege of full suffrage in 2S States;
Is States have already ratified
the national amendment, and in
10 others women enjoy partial
suffrage. And the suffrage
ratification fiivver seems to be
acquiring the same momentum
that the dear old water wagon
attained last winter.
Just what the Maryland
Legislature will do depends on
many things-the political COM
plexion of House and Senate, the
progress made in ratification by
other States when the Legisla-
ture meets, the amount of pres
sure brought to bear from vari-
ious quarters, and numerous
other considerations. Mean
while, with a few striking ex-
ceptions, the majority of the 300
or more candidates at the pres
ent time are keeping absolutely
mum.
Two things seem certain, first
the great body of Maryland
women are not weeping, wailing
and gnashing their teeth for the
ballot, views of the SUITS" to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
Secondly the Democrats in gen.
eral, from the party standpoint,
are none too kindly disposed to-
ward it, because they figure that |
thousands of white women would |
not exercise the privilege, while
the negro women of the southern
counties would vote. By the
same token a Republican
Legislature might probably lose
no time in taking the national
amendment to its breast. -Balti-
more News.
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THE TABLES ARE TURNED

While the Democrats were in
power, Republicans dinned the
country's ears with criticism and
denunciation. Every act and ev-
cry omission was wrong. Moth
ing was right. The war mud
died; peace was delayed; recon-
struction was impossible. The
cure was a Republican Congress,
with brilliant statesmen and eco
nomists like Senators Lodge and
Penrose and Representatives Gil
lett and kondell as its leaders.
Three months Of Republican
responsibility and control has not
convinced the people that the
change was for the better. In
deed, there is not a problem which
has not become more acute; not a
popular demand that has not re-
NAMED unfulfilled in this fourth
of year Of Republican account
ability for legislation
At the worst, the Democratic
Congress preceding the one now
in session was charged with doing
it's work poorly. But it acted.
The present Republican Congress
has done next to nothing-and it
very badly. If the Democrats
made mistakes it was because
they made efforts. Against the
Republican is fairly chargeable
the greatest and costliest Of all
mistakes-failure to try.
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No. 5093 Equity
ORDERED this 10th day of Septem
Ober 1919, by the Circuit Court for
Princes Georges County in Equity,
that the sale of part of the real es-
tate in this proceeding mentioned,
made and reported by Margaret M.
Kerr, and Annie E. Hancock, Commi,
tee, be ratified and confirmed unless
cause to the contrary be shown on OF
before the 9th day of October 1919; pro
vided copy of this order be spublished
in some newspaper printed in Prince
Georges County, Maryland, once in
each Of three successive weeks before
the 9th day of October 1919
The Report states the amount of sale
to be Sc, 10000
5. D. HALL, Clerk. Circuit
Court for Prince Georges County.
True. Copy-Test:
Sept IL. s. d. HALL, Clerk.
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NOTICE
Office of the County Commissioners,
Of Prince Georges County,

vi frlnce georges county,
Upper Marlboro, Md. Sept. 5th, 1919
OWNERS OF DOGS are herewith
~ notified. That the Act of the Gen.
eral Assembly of Maryland. 1918, Chap
ter 497, requires .sll owners of dogs in
the State of Maryland, to pay a tax of
ONE DOLLAR for each male DOG
and TWO DOLLARS for each female
DOG to take effect from July LIST, 1918.
The Commissioners have placed in
the hands Of the Magistrates or the
County, sufficient number of dog tags
to supply the demand, and have this
day extended the time to September Is,
1919
After September Is, 1919, the officers
of the Law are hereby directed to pros
ecute all dog owners who fail to pro-
cure tags and attach same to dog before
September 18th, 1919.
By order Of the County Commission.
ers of Prince Georges County, Md.
Test:
HENRY ST. j. L. BBISCOE,
Clerk.
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FOR SALE

A N unusual opportunity. Heavy
n type PIANO, original price $3.50
for immediate sale $225.0O also, com
plete line household furniture of un.
usual values, Victrola, sewing ma.
chine, rugs, etc.
G. nj. KNAPP,
Largo, Md.
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FOR SALE

DEARDLESS Wheat, threshed be-
ID fore rain, $2.75 per blu. Rye 81. rs
per blu. Apply to
CHAS. BINGER,
Upper Marlboro, Md.
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SEED WHEAT

HNrsshed before rain. Bea rdless
i variety 81. rs per bushel. Rye $3.50
per bushel.
w. BEALL BOWIE,
Landover Nd.
Phone Mari ID ID
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ORDER OF RAr1F1cAr1oN
Ex Parte:-
MARGARET NJ. FORsYTHE,
NON CONPOS MENTIS,
No. 5O93 EQUITY

In the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County, Maryland
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-09-12
Friday, September 18th, 1919

Democratic Ticket.
STATE TICKET
For Governor.
GEN. ALBERT C.. RICHIE,
Baltimore City.
For Comptroller.
MAJOR BROOKE LEE,
Montgomery County.
For Attorney General.
THOMAS J. HEATING,
Queen Anne's County.
For Clerk Court Appeals.
CALEB c.. MAGRUDER,
Prince Georges County.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
The Longest Sentence

ITO THE EDITOR OF Books AND TIE
Il Book WoRLD-Sr: In reading a
French writer of the first rank in his
particular field, Fromentin, came across
sentence composed Of 465 words Now,
can Brander Matthews, or any other
authority, trot out an English author who
has done a greater long distance or moro
exhaustive literary stunt? The French are
a brave people. As Van Dyke says, Il
give you FranceW G. j. TAYLOR.
BoorHBAY HARBoR, Me-, August 49,
This far SURPRISES the opening sentence
of Christopher and Columbus, which is
only some 200 and something words long.
The opening sentence of Romance, or a
sentence in the first paragraph, some
where, of this novel, by Joseph Conrad
and Ford MADDOX Hueffer, was long, as We
recollect it; nothing like 465 words,
though.-EDIToR Books and the Book
World.
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school, the system Of teacher training, the
system of certifcation of pupils for en-
trance into high schools, the uniform
courses Of study within each province, &C.,
if not actually borrowed from the United
States bear more likeness to the systems
there found than they do to the systems
of Great Britain or continental Europe"
Thousands of Canadians come TO our
universities for their postgraduate de-
grees. The prescribed courses of study,
however, in the several provinces of the
Dominion are remarkably rigid and uni
form, being based on the theory that all
children, whatever their social status,
should be afforded the same and equal OPP
portunitieS in education, although, as
Prof. Sandiford says, it is difficult to see
why carpenters and mechanics should be
trained in the same way as preachers and
lawyers. Some day no doubt wiser
view will. prevail, equally consistent with
the spirit of democracy; and pupils will
receive such instruction as will be most
conducive to success in their subsequent
careers.
Many readers mGy wonder, at first
blush, why notice Of the educational
system of so small State as Denmark is
included in this volume. 1t is because of
the extraordinary influence of the Folk
High Schools, organized in 1S60-1S70 by
Kristen Kold, in developing Danish agri-
culture from poverty to the most success
full example of rural cooperation in the
world. Indeed, the subject is worthy Of
volume to itself. The paper on educa-
ton In the United States requires no eluc:-
dation to American readers except to say
that the conclusions of the author, Dean
Russell of Iowa University, point to
bright future for American education.
AS we intimated at the outset of this re-
view, the chief lesson taught by all the
papers in this volume taken together is to
shun the example Of Germany in making
education an instrument with which to
enslave 4 great nation.
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION: 4 SUR
VEY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYS-
TENS IN SIX REPRESENTATIVE
COUNTRIES. Edited by PETER SANDI-
FORD. E. p. Dutton & Co.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
II.

A special feature of the work is a COM
parison between the educational systems
of England and Germany. THE two diff
fer in almost every respect" says
Prof Sandiford. German education is
systematized, Ineligible and admittedly
efficient. English education is apparently
chaotic, yet also effective in its own way.
BY what educational machinery has Ger
many insilled in her people the blind
faith in a cause that has aligned the
Sorld against herr By what system has
England trained her young men to leader
shipp Similar questions suggest them
selves in regard to the other belligerents
in the great war. Believing that the
theory of the State and society held by
people determines the character of its
educational institutions more than any
other one influence, the editor of this vol
ume has sought to elucidate in the several
papers which it contains, the political,
social and economic factors which have
made education what it is in each of the
countries considered. Thus Germany is
treated as an example of Capitalization
In education under autocratic control;
France as an instance of GENERALIZATION
under popular control; England as illus
trative of the principles of individualsm
and initiative in education; the United
States as embodying the educational as
pirations of a democracy; Canada as
building up an educational system unde-
pioneering conditions, and little Denmark
as a wonderful example of success in de-
wishing a system of schools peculiarly
adapted to the wants of an agricultural
community. Comparative education, says
Prof. Sandiford, is a term recently in
vented in the United States to cover such
studies as those contained in this book;
but he refers TO the writings of Horace
Mann and Henry Barnard and Matthew
Arnold to show that the field of investiga-
ton is an old one.
The supremacy Of the State-the alb
solute subjugation of the individual to
the will of the ruler Of the State-is the
fundamental principle of education in
Germany "Temperamentally docile, un.
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Treitschke's doctrine of silent obedience to
the State pervades all German univer-
sites, while at Oxford and Cambridge
John Stuart Mills's essay On Liberty
franks almost as sacred text" The
dominant racial characteristics of the
Englishman make him aggressive, fond
of competition, practical and impatient
of intellectual restraint. The fear of be-
ing deprived of liberty by State regula-
ton has restricted educational legislation
to the permissive type and the policy of
lGisses fare has largely prevailed in Eng
lish education as it has in English politics.
Since 1899, however, there has been a
progressive tendency to bring all forms
of education under a central control, that
of the Board of Education, nominally
consisting of light officers of the Govern
ment but really administered solely by the
President, who has recently been con-
stituted Cabinet Minister. Women pre-
dominate in the teaching profession in
England in the proportion of three wo-
men to one man; but the men occupy the
better position and, according to Prof.
Sandiford, are better fitted for their
work. In the secondary schools espe-
cially the personal influence of the teach
ers is very great; so that it is said that
their pupils are trained rather than
taught. The worship of good form" is
universal and is no less obligatory upon
the teachers than upon the pupils. at
is good form, for example, to play games,
to take a matutinal cold bath, to take
classics rather than science and to profess
Indifference to serious study. 1t is bad
form to tell tales; worse form to tell lies,
to lose ones temper, to play dirty game
on the football field or to show oneself
a bad loser" Good form dominates the
nine great public schools of England:
Elton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, West
minister, Charterhouse, Merchant Taylor's,
Shrewsbury and st. PauPs. OF these
famous institutions it has loosely been
said that they are called English becaus.
they teach so much Latin; Public because
they are in fact private, and Schools be-
cause two-thirds of their time is devoted
to playing gamesl
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Nv

The underlying idea Of the educational
system Of France is that the State is di-
rectly or indirectly responsible for the
education of all its citizens, without. how
ever, exercising anything like the German
control over the individual. All branches
of teaching are under the supervision of
a Minister of Public Instruction. The
most brilliant success is attained in the
teaching of the French language itself,
arousing "a. keen literary interest in edu-
Gated Frenehmen to produce an unrivallcd
national style in which correct taste and
deEcacy and precision of touch are in
stinctive." According to Mr.. Hope, the
author of the paper on French education,
a great majority Of French boys with
brains take either a course Of Latin and
Greek or a course of Latin and science.
Education in Canada is largely pat
termed on education in the United States.
"The sovereignty of the province in edu-
cational affairs, the eight years course OF
elementary schooling, the four year high
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II

In the German elementary schools no
less than in the higher institutions of
learning submission to the authority of
superiors is the chief end of all instruc-
ton. Except for the teaching of read
ing few text books are employed. The
teacher supplies the pupils by word of
mouth with the information he desires
them to acquire; this they memorize and
reproduce with remarkable accuracy.
"The teacher is the oral text; the pupils
listen and repeat" The methods are
those of drill sergeant and the results
are equally uniform without a trace of
individuality or the development of any
independent power of judgment. Con-
sidering that passive receptivity and dis
ciplined obedience were the main pur-
poses in view, it must be admitted that
the educational system of Germany under
the empire was admirably designed to at
tain them.
In his paper on education in England
Prof. Sandiford points out that while in
Germany the State thinks for the citizen,
relieves him from the responsibility of
deciding great public questions for him
self and insists upon guiding him in the
way he should go, England allows each
of her citizens to choose whether and in
what way he shall serve his country"
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critical and self-complacent, the German
has shown himself willing to have his life
regulated In every phase from the day of
his birth up, because he feels that the
material benefits enjoyed by him are the
gift of the State" The organic Prussian
school law, which was promulgated in
1894 and is still in force, declares that
schools and universities are State institu-
tons at all times subject to the super
vision, examination and inspection of the
State. The control over the universities
has been so exercised as to make them
virtually organs Of the imperial German
pointments from the State; and one sure
way for professor to recommend himself
to public notice and to win promotion is
without neglecting his scholarly labors)
to make himself trumpet for the glor-
fcation of modern Germany and an ex-
ponent of its wider political aims. The
professor has an influence in Germany
which is quite without parallel in any
other country But in order to achieve
success under William II. he was bound
to regard himself as an instrument Of the
Kaiser, just as that monarch declared
himself to be an instrument Of the Lord,
indifferent to the views and opinions of
the day." No one has pictured more
wildly the degradation of the professional
Office in Germany under the House Of
Hohenzollern than DR.. David Jayne Hill,
our former Ambassador at Berlin. In his
Impressions of the Kaiser Harper and
Brothers, 1879 he relates several in
stances in which the most learned men in
Germany narrowly escaped ruin because
they were not sufficiently syeophantic
toward their sovereign. Nobody did more
to deserve the favor of the Prussian
dynasty than the famous philosopher
Treitschke, but all his laudation of alb
nothing when one day he so far forgot
his duty to the reigning house as to write
something concerning Frederick William
". which might be construed as reflect
uDOl buC 1OlDlSo VI w IL uC
old professor fell from the imperial grace
at once; the Government threatened to
deny him access to the archives, and "a
worse punishment would have followed
upon the least sign of resentment, but the
death of Treitschke ended the process of
humiliation" DIR. Hall mentions one
case, however, in which the professor
saved himself by his nimble wit. Quidde
of Munich wrote a magazine article on
Caligula, which was reproduced as a
pamphlet. The description of Caigula's
accession to the throne would suggest to
any reader the circumstances Of the
Kaiser's accession, especially as Caligula's
position was described as particularly try
ing in consequence of the naughty and
passionate temper of his mother. For
this publication Quidde was charged with
lese-majeste. "Whom have you in mind
in writing this articlef' demanded the
public prosecutor. "Caligula, of course"
was the prompt response of the Munich
professor. "Whom have you in mind, Mr..
Solicitor7" The would-be bitter was bit
and the prosecution collapsed; while the
public suddenly became SO much inter-
ested in the career of the Roman Emperor
Caligula that they absored more than
thirty editions Of the pamphlet.
III.
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EDUCATION has heretofore univer-
IL sally been regarded as an agency
for the betterment of mankind. 1t was
reserved for Germany TO show that it
might be so inadvertently misdirected as
to become a most potent instrument of
evil-a factor in the destruction Of a
mighty empire. The idolatry of the State
and of the Kaiser as its head-which
has been the all-pervading spirit of the
German educational system for many
years, developed an intellectual slavery
which proved destructive of morals; and
In the process of time a whole nation
grew up Indifferent to those moral sane
tons which command the respect and
obedience of the rest of the civilized
world.
1t is plainly worth while to study a
scheme of education which has produced
such startling results; and TO compare it
with the educational systems of other
countries which have been so often decried
by admirers of Germany. No better aid
can be found for this purpose than the
SIX papers which have been brought to-
gether and edited by Prof. Peter J. Sandi-
ford of the University of Toronto In a
volume entitled Comparative Education
(E. P. Dutton G. CO.., surveying severally
the educational systems of Germany, Eng
land, France, Denmark, Canada and the
United States. Each paper is written by
a competent expert in education. The
author of the paper on Germany is DR..
Isaac L. Handel, associate in the admins
tration of education at Teachers College,
in Columbia University, and specialist in
education in the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching. The edi-
tor, DR.. Sandiford, who is associate pro-
fessor Of education in the University of
Toronto, contributes the papers on educa-
ton in England and Canada. The other
contributors are DR.. Harold W. Foght,
specialist in rural education in the United
States Bureau of Education at Washing
ton, who writes on Denmark; Arthur H.
Hope, headmaster of the Roam School for
Boys at Greenwich, England, who writes
on France, and DR.. William F. Russell,
dean of the College of Education In the
State University of Iowa, who sketches
the main features of the somewhat COM
plieated system of education which has
been slowly evolved in this country over
a wide area and the utmost possible
diversity of conditions.