Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-05

and advertise his subJugation to the
world. Edna Baye of Venice, Cal.
originated the idea. The picture
shows Edna and the miniature of
the man she's brought to boot.
a moderately well-kept home for the
girls, and a shop or shops of sufi-
cient diversification to enable boys
to make an intelligent choice of fu-
ture occupation.
ours in surprising numbers, was
an aggregation of boys and girls,
disgruntled, disinterested, unkempt,
profane, puG.lacious and inclined to
rebel at anything suggestive of au-
thority. Their year of patient and
sympathetic guidance worked a
marvellous Transformation favorably
commented on by employers, parent
and the public.
"Over eight per cent of the total
enrolment voluntarily chose to re-
turn to the day schools, and more
could have been returned had there
been room for them.
The. majority of these pupils
were given either to reading moth
ing at all or were engrossed in a
type of literature that serves only
to debase and distort. One of the
most valuable results of the year
was to be found in the almost COM
plete abandonment of literary poison
by pupils.
with rare exceptions we have
fine cooperation from the employers
of the city. They have interested
themselves to the extent of visiting
the classes, of making frequent in
quiries from their pupil employees as
to what they were learning from
day to day, and of telling others hat
a pronounced change for the better
in appearance, behavior and atti-
tude towards their jobs are quite
pronounced with the boys and girls.
Evening schools everywhere seem
to have had a somewhat checkered
career. Ours have been no excep-
ton in this respect, but the organ
iZation of the past yea save in mat
ter of largest enrolment. worked
out more satisfactorily than any in
the past. The enrolment of 1852
| pupils was nearly double that of the
preceding year. The type of pupil
and lack of permanent employment
caused a constant change in the per-
| sonnet of the classes. The per cent.
of attendance was 1914 or 10 per
cent. above that of last year, a per-
centage that equals that of many
day schools.
Twenty nationalities were rep
| resented in the night school enroll
ment, Spain furnishing one-fifth of
the number while our own country
was represented by but five pupils.
The course Of study was shaped to
emphasize American ideals and the
duties. privileges and responsibilities
of citizenship, since practically all
those of foreign birth, both men and
women, were preparing to apply Tor
naturalization papers.
Manual training continues to be
a subject of growing interest and
usefulness in u system. Our ia
| cilities for this form of public work
are now much too limited for u
enrolment, and it is earnestly hoped
that future building operations will
take into consideration our needs in
this direction.
LAS stated elsewhere, 313 pupils
will be barred from entering the
grammar school because Of lack of
room. Our manual training building
adjoins that school, a. is not of suf-
ficient capacity to care for more pu-
pills than can be enrolled in the pres
ent grammar school. That over 800
of our pupils must be deprived of
a part Of what is everywhere as IN
essential in modern educational re-
Quirements is argumentative of a To-
cal detection that should be speedily
remedied.
In former reports references were
made relative to industrial courses,
or rather the lack of them in our
high school. Since then, some pro-
visions were made for the addition
of a domestic science course o girls
in that department, but by reason
of lack of room nothing has been
done that would give boys entering
in the high school any opportunity
to indulge their natural propensities
or to meet their needs.
THE salary schedule, including
provision for a bonus, which was
adopted last September was voted to
be continued for the ensuing year..
We are finding it increasingly diff
cult to procure and retain capable
male teachers under the prevailing
schedule, though present salaries
represent a material increase over
those of five years ago.
Despite the industrial depression
of the present. male teachers who
left the educational field for more
lucrative positions when the high
tide in the business world was on,
are not returning to teaching in ap-
pIcCldDle IiQlilbCl .. IL 40 OuE per-
sonal belief that the educational in
terests of this country would be ma
terially subserved by a largely in
creased number of teachers of the
male sex. Since present salary
schedules do not appeal to any con-
siderable number of men qualified
for teaching, it would seem, if their
services in educational work is
thought to be an essential to mod
ern needs, that salary adjustment
can not yet be catalogued among the
lost arts.
"A movement which seems to be
making rapid Roadway in this u
try is that of the subdivision of high
schools into junior and senior de-
| partments, the junior being consti-
| tuted of the 7th, Sth and 9th years
of work, and the senior. of the 10th,
18th and 18th years. 1t scarcely
seems consistent to discuss these
| subdivisions at this time, since some
of the advantages of a Junior high
school, about all we can avail our-
selves of without a separate organi-
cation. A separate organization, to
be made effective, presupposes a
| building of special design, and until
we have buildings sufficient to prop
erly care for all pupils in the sys-
tenn as at present organized, I do
| not deem it a duty to advocate either
the organization of a junior high
school in an ordinary school build
| ing or the erection of a special build
ing for such an organization, regard
less of the value claimed for a
school of this type"
Announce Engagement
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Feitelbaum, of
Railway, have announced the en-