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when she had paid out the last of II for
lodging and food she tried to find an ltal-
ian aunt whose address she had II was
"narlem" To her distress the child found
that was big place and after seeking
yainly among the Italians who lived up
thare for news of her relative. exhausted
and frightened, she sat down on the steps
NJ tenement and wept Then appeared
help in the person OF young woman OF her
own class who is member OF the service
club AT 1873 East Nineteenth street she
took the stranger there as she had been
taught 10 do and the troubles that had
seemed so impossible TO overcome disap-
peared in that kindly helpful atmosphere.
Perhaps il isn't too much TO say that here
was a child saved.
I'VE are here TO help" said Miss Miner, as
she finished the anecdote. and every one
OF our members gets the idea OF service.
The other recent incident was brought 70
the attention OF the association by young
Spanish girl Camilla. She had noticed in
poor Spanish boarding house young girl
TO whom a man of their own nationality was
making up" This man found that she
didn't come TO the table nor go out to her
meals and he befriended her. Camilla sought
out one of our workers and told the story
with the result that the child was brought
to us and we were able 70 help her 10 work
and independence. No. indeed our work
does not evaporate in talk and you cannot
overemphasze how real II Is.
This is where we come in to help IN the
crusade THE NEW YoRK HERALD has been
CARRYING on SO valianty against a degen-
eracy of moral standards among girls and
young men degeneracy displayed IN man
ners in dress and undue freedom between
The sexes. What appears IN the world ot
girls generally Is reflected IN our girls to
degree They wouldn't bo human II they
didn't copy what they see. But i y surpris-
ing how critical they are Of current fash-
ions and habits and how they cut * the
roots OF these evil things almost without
advice from anybody.
"rhe reason for this Is found IN the fact that
our clubs do not belong 10 the don't variety
In other words we don't make hard and fast
rules but ask the girls to rule themselves
They do IL. too. RI girl tries TO join who
t. an advanced dresser the other girls take
her application under consideration and de-
eide whether she shall be one of them or
rot. They have meetings for discussion of
all sorts OF things, and one of these subjects
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tion of men than OF women" Dean Post
says.
1T seems to the writer that 1t would re-
quire the space OF monograph Of book
to answer this question. and then the writer
could not hope to do more than to satisfy a
class or group.
AS women or. perhaps, ought 70 be.
to satisfy the ideals of certain persons, whom
many would regard wholly behind the
times. ! do not think that the usual college
course is wholly adapted to the best interests
Of many women Certain IL Is that many
women appear to be well satisfied with the
present course OF the coeducational college.
That raises at once the further question,
What Is course Of study? Many institutions
not professional-have no fixed course Of
study that all that any group must take
~ a prerequisite 10 a baccalaureate degree. a
few SUBJECTS. like English composition. may
bc required ~ all along with other flexible
requirements. Of college major. certain
number Of subjects from certain groups SC
But the average college of liberal arts has no
course required of anybody"
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able to judge Of fashions and manners, and
| am delighted to say that their judgment
Is generally in favor Of the sensible thing.
This is worthy Of congratulation when
you think how large an attendance We have
al our clubs These provide good recrea-
tion and activities for leisure time clubs
and classes and entertainments for Sunday
afternoons and evenings. The attendance
at the Girls Service Club and the Yorkville
Service Club during the year was 28,445
and when we watch a group Of scventy-hve
or one hundred young people gathered IN
the Girls Service club. where Mrs Helen
r. Bradley is director, on Sunday evenings,
Joining IN songs and simple games. we
can't help but rejoice over the spirit Of good
fellowship that prevails. The boy friends
are invited TO these affairs ~ course,
That is one Of the best features in the
girls development a fine and natural re-
lationship between girls and young men Is
encouraged.
we did encourage II from the beginning
md had the hardest work 10 show the girls
just what II was meant to be-. our mem
bers have not been accustomed 10 be com
rades with boys; instead they have had 2
silly attitude toward them which had in Il
chiefly the desire to be admired and 70
Grt and dance with them a fine spirit Is
now the rule"
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Boys Taste Helps TO Eliminate
Paint and Fantastic Dress

The secretary smiled when she Was asked
ii 4 good many Of the girls did not marry
from the opportunities the club afforded
them 70 meet their young men trends She
said that marriages had happened. but not
III 81 great number as to he worthy Of sta
tistics.
An important aid in holding ~ the stand
ard Is the effect or the boys opinion on
the way the girls dress silly dress and
painted faces get nowhere here, for the
girls soon realize that the boys don't like IL
That has it's effect and is a genuine influence
~ one Of the girls expressed i. We want
the boys TO think we dress well and look
pretty because we're really comrades.
Besides the indoor recreatons and the
hikes we have $50 girls assembling in tho
various classes educational cooking and
home making Most Of them come from
tenement homes. where they have had no
chance 70 learn anything valuable and whore
they have learned many things that have TO
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Men AT Illinois Fall Below
Women Except in Some Studies

VMu University or illinois. situated al
t'rb4na. attracts every year nearly oooc
students The dean of that institution has
this TO say
IN most * the subjects II our uni
versity elected rs both women and men.
the women secure III the whole higher
average grades This is not true as 70 the
physical and chemical sciences and mathc.
matics IN the agricultural and engineer
ing groups there are practically no women
students
without question women arc better
average students than men. and they give
dauy more time to their school work
I'm nv Judgment there Il not hiclog,-
pal reason for women to excel men al
study
"In Tie large universities there l.
suFiciont amount of election to make 4
possible for any Individual woman ~
man to select course ~ study espe-
cnlly adapted to the individual
.'Thc records show. n I remember cor
rectly that without exception the average
grades II women IN the University of
Illinois during the past hve years have
b.en higher than mcu. ! AZ not think
that this carries with Il any real evidence
a. 70 tho intellectual superiority of women
believe that the better daily marks aud
the better grades received ir eNamns-
tlons largely result from more conscien-
tlous study and on the whole less at-
tentlon 70 outside activities"
Here the question may ~ allowed 70 rest.
III anything absolute has been elucidatcd II
s hat women arc better students than mon
and that they succeed hest In studies that
can rather more To the ornamental than
hc useful-in other words, that women are
women stnl. no matter what the colleges
say. And, In fact they say Just thAA
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Women Rank Higher Than Men
As Students at OberIin College

From oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio come
his letter;
$50 far a. / have observed, differences
IN the scholarship Of men and of women
do not go BY fields Of study The trend
seems to me 10 be the same in All DE-
partments
women are distinctly better average
students than men
Women give a larger proportion of
their time 10 the studies than men do.
This Il. in my judgment the princips
reason for their superiority In scholar
ship.
u doubt whether there f anything IN
the biological theory to account for the
greater excellence Of women IN study.
Their superiority is due. n my judgment.
principally to their greater conscientious
ness in meeting the demands of their
studies.
1T does not seem 70 me that the col
lege course Is better adapted to the edu-
cational needs of men than OF women
III It has been 50 70 4 certain extent IN
the past. il is certainly becoming less 50
All the time as the held OF women's &C
tivlty Is enlarsing.
THE records or this Institution cor
talnly show that the women have. on the
whole. earned better daily marks and
passed better examinations than the men.
That does not mean 70 me that they arc
more gifted Intellectually, but rather that
they use their ability more steadily and
wisely than the men DO. do not believe
that men can be brought 20 devote them
selves 10 their work IN the way the
women 10 until public appreciation ~ high
scholarship in the college course Increases
to something like equality With that q
European countries.
&C n CoLg"
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a very few, and those the nest are ad
mtted:
Women students excel men students
particularly in those subjects which
quire the use of the memory more than
the reasoning faculties.
Women are better average students
than men.
Women give daily more time to school
work than men do
There is no biological reason for women
to excel men in study.
The usual college course is not better
adapted to the education of men than OF
women.
Our records do not show that women
are superior intellectually TO men, but they
do show that the women receive better
daily marks and better examination marks
on the average than the men.
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Finds Women Excel Except in
Abstract Reasoning and Logi

From Depauw University OF Greencastle,
Ind, come these answers contributed by the
Dean of the college, Edwin Post He finds
that women excel men in most subjects ex-
cept those requiring abstract reasoning and
logic; also that women are better average
students and give more time daily 10 their
lessons and that in the records of the last
Ave years women have excelled men i'm win
ming marks and honors.
In answer to the question: is the usual
college course better adapted to the educa-
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is apt 70 be about just such applicant.
Cne Of the girls may say. We don't want
anybody in here who dresses like she does
Or who paints her face. SC, Then another
i apt to say, The poor thing doesn't know
better yet; suppose we give her a chance
What they like best ~ all in the line of
service is their chance 20 befriend lonely
girls and girls who living away from
home. our members are happy when they
can reach girls living TN furnished rooms
and bring them TO the Service club whore
they can meet other girls"
The girls arc human. and naturally
initiate things and people almost uncon-
sciously. But the mass of the girls are
thoughtful and discriminating; they are
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Comes to New York With s57
and Dream of Movie Fame

One concerns a girl only Is years old who
came 10 New York from a Pennsylvania
mining town with s37 that her mother had
given her This sum seemed more than
enough to support her in comfort until the
movie managers rushed her onto the screen
and paid her a good salary for the work she
should do there. The chance remark of a
New Yorker had brought this ambition into
life and he may have meant It kindly
Seeing the child employed at a small wage
near the mines he said
why. all a pretty girl like you has TO do
to earn AT least $50 a week is to go to New
York and show herself"
or course the 15-yearo girl believed this
and so did her mother, who ought to know
better Between them they saved up s37
and along came the child TO the city. Per-
haps one may imagine her walking about
looking for work. AT first in the movie offices
whore nobody noticed her, and then any
where Nobody needed her services, II ap-
peared and the money that had seemed in
exhaustible in Pennsylvania didn't last
week in New York.
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~ TATISTICS seem to be always on the
side of the women. Long before Eve
~ got her rights" everything that
could be said about her Intellect, her judg-
ment and her general capability as com
pared to that of the average man pointed
to the righteousness of the suffragist cause
In these things no argument that would hold
water could be found for Withholding the
vote from her
But there is still held in some quarters
the doubt that woman, even with the vote,
is just as good as man. 1t is easy for
polite man, and one who isn't seeking for
trouble to beg the question by saying that
a woman-the average woman-is better
than the average man. But Is she? She
will always be different; the barriers of sex
will never be broken down, and in certain
intellectual pursuits experience seems to
show that woman is not mans equal That
she exces him in certain other intellectual
lines experience is not needed to show, for
instinct and imagination proclaim it. Prob
ably perfectly just comparison of the fem
mime and the masculine brain, taking into
ture has given 20 either sex. and counting
up all the weaknesses of both, will never
be made prejudice one side or the
other is apt to intervene and prevent cold
justice.
Illuminating Comparisons
From CoeducationaI Institutions
However, that need not stop investigation
of this exciting subject, and good time TO
begin is when young men and women ma
triculate at the various colleges and uni
versities of the country that are coeduca-
tional in scope. Then neither has hard
ened to the procrustean bed of circumstance.
while the neuter period has been passed.
The college girls have stepped across the
line of womanhood and their brothers and
cousins have only to glance at their upper
lips to be assured that they are men.
THE New York HERALD started this in
uuiry at this interesting point in the lives
Of young people 1t has asked the various
seats of learning scattered over the coun-
try for light on the subject. The results of
this inquiry shown in the answers received
will undoubtedly surprise a good many per-
sons who have not thought on the subject.
One answer which is general among the
replies should occasion surprise; 1t is to
the effect that the average girl is better
student than the average boy.
Prof Rudolph NJ. Binder of the Wash
ington Square College of New York Uni
versity offers his belief that women
students exhibit mental superiority men
students.
"Rook education is a static affair" says
the professor. And for women to apply
themselves to books more seriously than
men is natural. There is a biological reason
for this.
Moreover women are more conscientious
than men in keeping fixed hours of study.
The latter have more distractions at
least they yield to these more readily. Men
20 out evenings. a rule. while women re-
mair in their rooms and engage in study"
Professor of Psychology J. +. Lough at
New York University is not so sweepngly
commendatory of the woman student X
depends on what the study is whether the
man or the woman is the better student,
lie says
Young men excel in mathematics. gov
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
St. Lawrence Girls Excel in
Languages and Fine Arts

Dean f. L. Hulett Of the st. Lawrence
I University Of Canton, =. T., writes as fol-
lows.
AS 4 class women excel men students
at St Lawrence University In Latin, mod
ern languages, English and fine arts.
They have better average grades than
men Women give more time 70 daily
school work than men. Men are busy with
outside things athletics. &C.
Il do not believe there Is any biological
reason why women should excel men It
study. and do not think the usual college
course Is better adapted to one sex than
10 another
Women do not show themselves 70 D.
intellectually superior. but they do show
themselves able or willing to concentrate
on their daily tasks better than men,
Dean Hulett enclosed scholarship aver
age grades for 1920-1921. herewith given:
FALL TERN. 1s2o-1s2l.
r c. Of
No Of No. Of Aver. Hours
Students Hours Grades. Passed
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-LEGE GIRLS GAIN HIGHER MARKS THAN BOYS

many cases the boy or IS IS not nearly =
fully developed as the girl Of IS at that stage
OF life he Is often two or three years behins
That however is not responsible for much n
the difference in scholarship OF men and
women. The primary difference Is due 70 the
fact that the boys are from childhood taught
10 get out on the street and 70 develop physi-
cally, while the girls are kept In the house with
indoor occupations The result Is that the
girls as whole take kindly 70 their
books than the boys do.
1T is also fact well known In business
circles, and possibly due TO many centuries c'
subsection and training, that the women are
more conscientious about attending to details
"One day. being somewhat curious on thls
subject I asked one of our teachers Of mathe-
matics. herself woman which OF her stu
dents, the men or women, she considered tne
ADLER in mathematics. She said II wish a
good recitation ! generally look to the girls
for IT. II ! expect hard problems worked,
showing originality and thought always
look TO the boys for it, CARL O. ENGBERG."
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Deans Report Greater Devotion Studies
and Less Paid Outside Answers
Given to Inquiry Sent Broadcast by The New York Herald

sylvania State College gives the following
data obtained from the registrar of the
college, whose observations extend over
long space of time and are authoritative.
He informed the dean that as a rule girls
admitted to the Pennsylvania State College
are a selected lot since the number admitted
has to be restricted, and Of those who apply
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..T HERE is always a bed In
vice club for the girl stranger in
New York who needs immediate

New York who needs immediate
help"
Miss Maude +. Miner, secretary of the
New York Probation and Protective Associ-
alton, which includes the work of the Girls
Protective Leagle, said this earnestly, and
she repeated II emphatically when doubt
was expressed because of known instances
where refugees" doors of hope" and kin
dren institutions had proved inadequate in
emergency for lack of room or another
equally good reason.
we make ROOM" asserted the secretary.
we exist to help girls develop and broaden
their lives. II we failed at the very outset
when one such immediate need is brought
to us then we should fail all along the line.
But we don't fail"
Then Miss Miner told of two recent In
stances where it was possible for the associ-
alton TO prove itself. Although there Is no
novelty I'm the circumstances of either they
are worth repeating for the sake of illustra-
tion.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Girls Rate Higher Than Men
In Middle Western College

middle Western college affords the fol
lowing data:
Women excel men in languages and
literature
Women are better average students
than men.
We have means of knowing whether
or not women give daily more time 70
school work than men probably they DO
AS a rule the records of this college for
the last Ave years have shown women TO
be intellectually superior to men--that is,
women have won better daily marks and
passed examinations more successfully
and with higher marks at these examina-
tions.
In Middlebury College the percentage foi
women during the semester l92o-l92l wa!
Ss.51 per cent. in comparison with 1921 PEI
cent average of the men.
Dean Charles w. Stoddart of the Penn
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ernment, economics and sciences generally,
said the professor, and in literature, Eng
lish composition and the languages the
women students are superior They do not
expect to use mathematics and science 90
any extent in after life, which may explain
their indifferent standing in these subjects.
Prof. Horne, also psychologist. finds the
reason for higher marks going to women in
the fact that examinations involve memory
He thinks the young men would excel If
the examinations were based on the show
of practical judgment.
Dean John r. Turner said that the women
students excelled because as college
course was originally laid down for edu-
eating young men, ii was not so well adapted
TO women and therefore they had to be more
dilgent in study. This statement con-
firmed by questioning 43 girls and 43 men
about the number of hours a day they de-
voted to study. An average of one hour
a day was admitted by the men to be their
work out of class, but the women on an
average studied two hours out of six
comparison of marks Of equal num-
Der Of men and women was made at the
college. The figures were SO women had
AS. t07 BIS. II C's, 81 D's Els. OF the
As had AS, 100 BIS, Is C's As D's. Els
and F's. The average Of the marks gave
the women S446 per cent and the men
The dean of the University Of Maine J. N
Hart, replies that women students there
excel men in all subjects except mathemat tics
physics and philosopty-that is in all sub
jects except those of a more analytical char
acter In general he thinks that the usual
college course is specially adapted for men
but he believes that the courses at Maine
are we'll adapted to the needs of the young
women who take them. He writes:
Young women have ranked higher than
men, but we believe that this superiority is
due not to intellectual superiority but to
more strict application to college work The
average ranking of the men in our fourteen
Greek letter frats is slightly lower than the
average for non-fraternity men, The aver
age ranking of the women in the four
rorities is slightly higher than that of the
women who are not sorority members. The
superiority of rank of the women over the
men in both classes Is somewhat marked"
j. j. Petty1ohn, assistant to the president
of the University of Minnesota, reports
the figures of the present academical year
as being typical. Failures and conditions
in the fall quarter were % 3 women II 2-3
men. These figures are not in direct ratio to
the student enrolment 80 1-5 being women
and SO 4-6 men. From these two sets of fig
ures he finds that the number of failures and
less than those of men.
He adds: TT Is accurate / believe, to say
that there is practically no difference in the
grade of scholarship attained by men and
women in the University of Minnesota"
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

No. Of No Of Aver. Hours
Students Hours. Grades. Passed.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1921-11-05
LOCAL firm IS
DISTRIBUTOR
Of CHEVROLET

The firm of Campbell & Kelly has
been appointed exclusive Nye county
distributors for the Chevrolet "490"
and Chevrolet Baby Grand" automo-
biles, as well as the models &C" and
"T" Chevrolet truck chassis and
truck The Chevrolet automobile,
with the 1922 improvements, stands
In class by itself as a low priced,
dependable car, and the factory out
put which has reached a total Of
1000 cars per day, Is inadequate to
supply the demands of motorists
throughout the country. The Chevro-
let is an ideal car for Nevada, COM
bining speed and fexibillty with hill
climing ability and freedom from an
moving breakage. A stock Chevrolet
took first money in the recent Labor
day hill-climbing contest at Virginia
City, defeating a number of specially
prepared racing cars of all makes,
ranging in price from 5000 to $4,000,
The time of the winning Chevrolet
from Silver City to Virginia City
was 5 minutes 25 seconds, up the
famous Gold Hill grade, on which
the usual driver feels satisfied If ne
climbs in low gear in from 20 to
30 minutes. Attention is called to
the advertisement # this popular
line of cars and trucks on another
page of this issue The new agents
have new model coming in tonight
from Reno for display purposes, and
will receive a carload consignment 10
the near future with which to sup
ply the demand which is certain to
follow the display of thu Chevrolet
car in Tonopah