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New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
What Part Time Means

There are some $4,000 children
on part time or in makeshift double
sessions in New York City's public
schools. Every one knows that this
is an undesirable condition. But
just how bad is it? After all, NAV
not the children of the city be get
ting enough sound groundwork In
the fundamentals of the three RS
to enable them to carry on theic
education later and make up for
what they have missed?
1t is in an effort to answer these
questions that The Tribune has con-
Quoted an investigation by men,
Der Of its staff, Mr.. Racusin, the re-
suits of which are now appearing
daily in its news columns. The ar
ticles do not pretend to offer an
exhaustive educational study. They
are simply outstanding incidents
seen at first hand and carefully re-
ported, which point In an unmis
taxable direction.
They suggest what most educas-
ors would probably agree was to be
feared, that part time is far worse
condition than any mere fraction,
half-education or three-quarter ed
ucation would suggest. A child's
education is not pile of so many
bricks, from which a third or a half
may be subtracted without interfer-
ing with Its stability. 1t is rather
an elaborate engineering structure,
each part contributing to the sue
cess of every other, and the whole
standing up because each element,
early and late, simple and complex,
supports every other.
The child who does not quite
learn to add or who learns oriy
three-quarters of his spelling in a
given grade or who skins the history
of his country not merely has ga1s
in his learning. Every skimpea
course creates weakness which
hampers him with every later study
in the same subject. Part time
means not only q partial education
but poor education throughout.
The teachers and principals Of
New York are doing their utmost
in face of the situation that con.
fronts them. But they are COM
PEELED to promote their children 20
make room for the newcomers.
Time lost through part time is thus
lost for good, and the child goes on
through school and life with snat-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
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travel twice as far on simpI,
declarative sentence.
The other Ave tales in the volume arr
just better stories than the ayerags
magazine publishes. "GigoIo," from
which the book takes It's name, doesn't
seem to us to be the best Of them
either.
Our admiration FOR Miss Ferber Is
increased by cur bslief that she has
handicapped herself from the begin
ming by her choice Of working material
Because she has been successful In
writing short stories Of commonplace
happenings to commonplace every day
people, we think she has scored dou-
Bile triumph.
We say she has handicapped herself
because In dealing with ordinary folk
who in anything but the Perfect
Democracy would be considered just
middle class, she hiss assumed the
burden Of an innumerable host of
critics who could say, with authority:
People aren't like that" No one, we
think, has ever said that Justly to Edna
Ferber.
Richard Harding Davis wrote as g.
rule of millionaire clubmen and Ameri-
can consuls and princesses and schem-
ing grand dukes and war corre-
spondents. With these as his subjects
he wasn't troubled, necessarily, with a
load of insoluble facts that every one
knew existed o. Henry wrote.
theoretically, Of less glamorous people,
but nearly nil of them were merely
puppets strung on the cleverly man,pu-
lated silver wires Of his plots.
Miss Ferber's plots aren't complex.
tricky things. The people she writes
about sre~-wslI, maybe not you and me.
but anyhow iot OF our acquaintances.
We think she is doing harder lob an
q better Job than even Davis or O.
Henry attempted.
Because we have ventured to moan
in our british fashion that most of the
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Books and So Forth BY F'sdsa t. F : "; y; de wa'a

EDNA FERBER comes to bat eight
- times in her new volume Of short
stories, "Gigolo." In our entirely un.
scientific opinion she makes in the
course of her performance five singles
two three baggers and one home run
Miss Ferber hits hardest when she for.
gets entirely the way o. Henry used Ia
| line them out.
"The Afternoon Of g Faun" IA &hs
first story in the volume--and Miss
Ferber's home run.
Some six or eight times a year we
| read something so deft, so perfect, 80
completely masterly, that when we have
finished it we sit and open and shut
our mouth like stranded carp. Even
tually we summon up our powers of
vocal appreciation and remark, "Geel"
or something that has no place on an
editorial page, even under the cartoon.
There are innumerable writers whose
ability we envy passionately Once in q
while we run across some one who does
something that wakes no baser emotion
than humble admiration. They are the
persons who make us grunt, or cuss.
Miss Ferber in her "The Afternoon of
Faun" has made us do both. TO our
way of thinking it is quite as perfect
story as any one ever wrote.
"Old Man Mlnick" and "The Sudden
Sixties" are far enough below the
height of "The Afternoon of a Faun"
to permit us to be envious. They are
the sort Of stories we have been plan
ming to write for the last fifteen years
just as soon as we got around to II.
They are In the style which, we think.
Miss Ferber originated and Miss
Fannie Hurst has followed-humdrum
tales Of humdrum little people
that move US because they are truth
and most of us are humdrum and
little.
Miss Ferber apparently knows fewer
words than Miss Hurst, but she has
more ability in using them. She can
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
Too Early

1SS LdIty
I've very often wondered,
But still remain in doubt,
Why streams cannot be plundered
Ut 1.-the and lusty trout,
Unless chap arises
At half past three A. NJ,
70 tempt the finny prizes
And make prey of them.
"Twould set my soul a-tingle
AT this time of the year
To stalk through dell and dinple
Inc dun and dappled deer.
But in the forest lonely
Where these gaunt creatures
They can be hunted only
Before the rise of sun,
understand that rabbits
BY no one can be shot
Whose early rising habits
Were long ago forgot.
And he who fingers idly
Until the suns bright glare
Upon the world shines widely
Can never harm hare.
The Nimrod complex in me
Is strong and keen and deep,
But it can never win me
From necessary sleep.
It's lots of fun, / gather.
To kill these creatures dead
But just the same I'd rather
Put in the time in bed.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
City Planning

The recent talks by Comnissi auer
Enright and Deupty Commissioner Har-
riss OF the congestion of our streets
by motor vehicles and their demand
for more highways and better town
planning in all New York bring vivid
ly before US the great need of town
planning body in the city government.
We forget sometimes that town
planning is an active day by day affair
in New York; that it is constantly 60
ing on under the pressure of neces ssity,
and II the days work be not we'll done
we shall suffer in the future.
The Department Of Plant and Struc-
lures Is always doing town planning.
The Dock Department in its work on
tn" waterfront is doing town planning.
The Borough Presidents through their
Commissioners of Public Works and
their Typographical bureaus are doing
town planning day by day of the most
important nature and are also provid.
ing for the future street plan Of un-
developed areas. @
The Police Department in It's con-
troi Of traffic determines the use Of
streets and influences the city nIan
vitality.
All of this work is in measure
controlled by the Board of Estimate,
But not sufficiently, because it comes
to the boards engineer piecemeal .
desirable Improvement in itself, but not
sui'eieh'iy related to other improve
ments soon to be undertaken.
u order to provide an efficient town
planning body for New York It ID ov,,.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
By Charles Dopnins Lay

necessary 10 form a committee oe all
shs agencies now doing town planning
and to give them power to control as
body the work Of all departments.
The town plan committee should have
an appropriation for its staff in order
to study, to coordinate and TO origi-
mate different schemes which NAV affect
one or more boroughs. Each separate
town planning agency, knowing that its
own schemes must be passed on by the
central body. would seek advice and be
more careful In preparing plans Co CON.
suit the other members in advance and
TO plan with regard 20 future improve
ments In different department.
Good work in town planning In New
YORK must be for immediate benefits
az much as for future ones. It rnay
even happen that before an inspired,
comprehensive plan can be adopted it
is time to change it.
An inelastic city plan should not be
adopted for all time in New York. and
II Is for this reason that the Board of
Borough Presidents and heads Of de-
Rartments would be so effective in get
ting the most actual and prospective
Eenehs out Of the daily improvements.
The board might we'll be constituted
as follows:
The Mayor ex officio.
The Comptroller.
President of the Board of Alder
men.
Commissioner of Docks.
commissioner of Plant and strue-
lures.
Commissioner of Health.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

Algonquin 0lympians give US q ua,,
Philip Curtiss, Of Norfolk, Conn. Il,
jumped at the conclusion that we a.
q man Of courage and energy and s,s
planning to head revolt or somethlrg
That's what we get for speaking o.. 81
turn. Mr.. Curtiss insists that hsba
ready organizing literary Fassbs
az will nominate Julian ssss f,r
chief Of STAFF he proclslms asna
George McCutcheon for governor of tts
capital province-militay gurenor
under martial law oyr ths ceFee
House Club, let US say. have never
been in the Coffee House Club, but |
make this nomination because, In those
precincts, young Mr.. Weaver, Of 'Tha
Brooklyn Eagle told George Barr ths.
he was Victorian It was not sui.
fcient revenge that when George told
the story up here not person in the
room had ever heard Of Mr.. Weaver.
"As you do yourself, probably, !
welcome the new generation of writers
and critics for getting rid Of lot Of
the hokum of the last twenty years
but do get mortally sick of thst sp
rarently increasing bunch who eongrs
gate somewhere between the VanitT
Fair Office and the Algonquin splash.
ing water at each other in the evident
belief that the splash is heard round
the world"
Mr.. Curtiss offers us q commission
IN his Fascist. which we refuse. There
is nothing we like better than good
fight, Just as long as we are safe eis'
tance from the spot where it Is seias
held. We don't want commission
when the black shirts Of Aoriok
march into New York. But ved hA'
grand to have a ringsids seat-
American writer's in the last rev
months have given the public "Bas0iI',
Whore the Blue Begins" and 4Gigois
The public undoubtedly viii eonslnas'
no doubt, to envy the superior sOis'''
OF British authors.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
The Lantern
copr., New Yors Tribune Inc. lo2a

What the world needs: more opti.
n1ists to encourage 1t.
What the optimists need: more
encouraging world.
When professional politician
takes up an Idees the world is safe
from that Idea thereafter.
1t has passed definitely out of
the realm of action, the country Of
reality.
The so-calIed Prohibition Mann
proves that there's many ship
'ta111t the cup and the lip.
Said the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Nineteenth Hole:
Extremes will meet, upon my
souli"
To the Eighteenth Amendment said
the Nineteenth Hole:
"Out Of my way, or I'll knock you
for goal!"
Wben you prove thing against
q man gom don't necessarily make
him like himself any the less.
Government is the art Of passing
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Ineligible for Presidents

40 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune of Novambor %
former Secretary of Agriculture Edwin
/. Mereoith was quoted as follows
"of course things are likely to deyelop
IN the next two years, but believe Me-.
Adoe is most likely to be the Demo-
cratic candidate, with Secretary of
Labor Davis and Senator Ralston.
OF Indiana, the next" 1t would ha
of interest to learn how Secretary
Davis comes in on the list of cand;.
dates for President. Mr.. Davis wa.
porn IN Wales on October 27, 1873. He
does net seem to be on the eligible list
Tor nomination for President Of the
United States. JIm
Paterson, N. j., Nov. IS, 1924.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Ciesrsenceass

There is wide and lively interest in
the speech which Georges Clemenceau
is to make tonight at the Metropoli.
tan Opera House. He has left his com.
mentators in suspense as to what he
intends TO say. The moment he has
finished there viii be a great sharp
cnirg OF pens on both sides Of the
Atlantic. There viii be agreement
and disagreement, elucidation, inter
pretation, especially Interpretation.
Meanwhile the average man, for
whom lot of these reflections will
be written, is not in the least pug
zled az to why he watches the Tiger
With an affectionate sympathy. The
Tiger is not, for him, Tiger at all;
he is just human being.
That is the secret of Clemenceau's
profound appeal to America to-day.
1t is the appeal not merely of a
statesman but of man; not of a
policy but of a personality. There
arc various perfectly legitimate ex-
plantations of the fate which has
oVertaken certain outstanding fig
tires in the settlement of the war.
binding their brows with thorn in
stead OF with laurel. They made
such and such errors. Their poll
cies had this or that flaw. ANY
trained journalist, asked why Lloyd
George is in his present plight,
could give you full bill of particu-
lars, telling just what the Prime
Minister did or left undone. Every
thing is brought back to "the Ver~
sailles pact" But in the last
analysis it is not what Lloyd George
did that interests mankind; it is
what Lloyd George was.
Character, character, it is always
character that moves the world,
stirring its heart, firing it's pas
slon-character richly expressive of
itself. That is where Clemenceau
scores. He, too, has made his mis-
takes. He, too, has q point of view
CT which he is tigerishly tenacious.
Fut it is the warm human creature
In him, over and above the glorious
passages in his war record, that
takes us ali captive. Bills of par
t'cuiars! Read the memoirs of
Rochefort and sense the gift for
political wire pulling in the Clemen-
ceau he knew. Delve into the his
tory Of the Third Republic and re-
trace the path Of this unmaker of
ministries. You may admire. You
may condemn. Never will Won call
him heroic. 1t took the great war to
lift Ciemenceau to that plane. But
throughout his career you are un-
falilngly drawn to him, he Is so
natural, so human.
Never was he more so. never was
ne truer in his touch upon the
springs of emotion, than In this last
emprise. He is old and
weary, too old and too insecure in
health to be making long journeys
save at great self-sacrifice. He is
a Frenchman, which Is to saw that
he has In his blood the stay-at-home
instinct OF race. But he has some
thing to say to us, and at cost Of
physical effort which we cannot an
preciate too strongly he comes
among us to speak face to face
lie comes to give us his ideas. That
is much. He comes to give us him
self. That is more. It was Lincoln's
way. 1t was T. RS. People lis
tened because there was that in
voice, in demeanor, in physiognomy,
IN the close human contact these
leaders had the power to achieve.
which created complete understand
ing. Men listened and Said: "Here
is one of ourselves. Here is a man F."
SO they listen as Clemenceau speaks
tonight.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

tering where he should have shor-
ough grounding. Such is the pic
ture which Mr.. Racusin's investiga-
tions suggest and which Ia offered to
the school authorities and to the
parents of the city for study and
rehection.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

for d moment submit to be so dehed
is the home truth that Governor
Parker'a journey to Washington has
brought into official utterance and
plain print for whole nation to
read.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Never Satisfied

Having put half dozen Republi-
cans into the White House, Ohio is
now experimenting with an attemut
to land Democrat there next time.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Mrzmra or rHp AsaocqATrp rnrss

Tss Associated Press IS exclusively entitled TO the
uss for republication q all disps 'chcs credited
t9 tt or aos psherSi&e credited n this paper anel
also toe local ness oe spontaneous origin puolisted
herein
AL rights CT rspstliestion Of all ether rs,tsr
fasein slss are ses<ryel.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

The only reason why M. Clemen-
ceau was not presented with the
keys to the city is that Mr.. Murphy,
who keeps 'em in his pocket, is now
resting in Indiana.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
OUR OWN WALL NOTICES

d.
TEXTS
THAT THUNDER
'DO 1T NOWi"
ALWAYS PANIED
MY NOBLE BROW.
DOWN
WITH THAT ANTIQUE
TRADITIONl
DOWN WITH TOLL
AND SUPERSTITION
JOY
DWELLS WITH
REORGANIZATION.
WHEN THAT FAILS,
TAKE A VACATIONi
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

Curious that Shakespeare hit
upon the phrase ''the insolence Of
office" when he never had even
heard of Commissioner Hirshfield.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Private Property

Hiram johnson Carries Califor-
ia."-Headline. In his vest pocket,
apparently.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
TWO TYPES

Theirs is type of woman who
Is deemed ''a vixen and q mink"
Bccause--(a pretty how de-dol)--
She says the things she truly thinksl
Another type of woman then
Is called "a darling and dear"
(Perhaps by nine N ev'ry teni)-
She says the things folks like tc
hear! HAROLD SETON.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
But Il Won't

With SO many doctors among its
members, the Senate ought here
after to be able to feel the public
pulse.
Copyright by James J. Montague,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
Commissioner Of Police.
Commissioner of Fire.
President of Manhattan.
President of Brooklyn.
President Of Bronx.
President Of Queens.

President of Richmond. ,..
The most important features q - .
scheme are its close connection VIZ =.
day by day work, its continuous sss''
and the ease with which 1t can ~ -
ated by means of resolution aaa $
preparation of the Board OF Essii'4's
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

Ysa esn esTehsss wsehaadlse advertised In THE
sIsa sssssts IL asy eass THE TRiBJae gasrsr.
.ess 10 pay year rseaas tsfk asen reauess No red
NFs- Nc eusbbiIss. We hefaad psemHtis u ths
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

Women in this country are
getting better and better, in
every way, every day. Their
skirts are growing longer; they
are smoking less, drinking less
and otherwise becoming such ex-
enplary characters tat even
the most sensational 7 eachers
find little to preach against any
more.
We do not know whether it is
cause and effect, or whether it
is coincidence, but we point to
the fact that this change for the
better has come about during
the period since women have
been openly attending prize
fights.
Let the social analysts explain
it as they will; we merely cheer
for the fact itself.
1T rs feeling superior to or
friends that keeps US f,iendlu t.
hem.
We get so gloomy when the autum,
rains
Come down and fill the city lik,
a cup
Yet think how frightened we'd be
come to see
The rain start suddenly to fall
ing UP!
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

A COMMUNICATION FROM ARCHy
boss the other day
! heard an
ant conversing
with a flea
small talk said
disgustedly
and went away
from there
archy
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

W. s. wants to know why we are
using SO few contributions now
adays. We can't afford to let too
many contributors in thew
seem to want to turn this depart
ment into humorous column.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

Government is the art Of passing
the buck.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

ment into humorous column
Going to Heaven is a long, hard
struggle, no doubt. But maybe it
~ worm IL there won't be
any one with pianola living above
you.
And as for He'll wei, M
one underneath can kick To the land
iord II you want to dance little.
i wonder why it is" complained
fothergil Finch, the Boy Bard, "that
Just one drink will go to my head"
And Captain Fitzurse was cruel
enough to tell him that it is because
Nature abhors vacuum.
Suppose the gloves wear wera
shoes,
And the shoes were someth;ng
else
'Twould hinder me in hosting booze
Or diving after smelts.
II all the land were rigmarole
And all the seas were lead,
Where would the ostrich find bo,o
In which to hide his head?
Anere is always the fellow who
says after the fifth shot of bootleg.
hootch, What this country needs is
less whisky drinking, and legalizad
light wines and beers"
What has become of the o,d-fosh-
ac1aed poet ioho used to aoear q ao,,
ing tie and aorite rhymed uersesg
There is always something to he
cheerful about, if you look for Il
the price Of money as noaas
ured in food and clothes is pett;na
lower and lower.
DON Marquis.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21
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New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

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New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

What has become of the o,d-fash-
icned poet who used to wenr . A..
ing tie and aorite rhymed ueraesa
New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

And as for He'll wel, ~
one underneath can kick to the land
iord II you want to dance a little
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New Britain herald., 1922-01-20
SUSPECTED MURDERER IS HELD INCOMPETENT Hampton Youth, Accused of Killing Farmer, Taken to
 Insane Asylum

Willimantic, Jan. 20.-Ernest Skin- ner, aged IT, arrested for homicide in November, after Clarence T. Miller aged GA, had been burned to death in his house at Towards Valley. Hamp- ton, was declared today to be a men, tai incompetent, due to birth and en- vironment by a commission which was appointed by the court earlier this week.
 Skinner was taken to the Norwich insane hospital for observation by or der of the court. The lad told story to the effect that while he stood guard man went into Miller's house and killed him and then set the house on fire. It was proven. however, that this man was not near the house or in that vicinity that night.
 Skinners family lived in a shack near the Miller place. His mother had served sentences for misdemean- ors. The evidence secured by state police was that Skinner went into Miller's house the night before the latter was to leave for New York state to visit a sister, Skinner knew that Miller had considerable none, in the house which was to meet hi. expenses Of the trip, He first used g hatchet and hacked Miller and then set the fire.