The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-27
Dr. Slawson on High $ c h OOl D ay- Wasting Money and Lives-Way of Rich Man in Courts Not Always Easy-Hold- ing for Ransom The Smile That Comes Off.

merce, investigating High school prob lem, asks MT. SIawson for opinion He replied:
 ''The chief weakness of the short single session is that it turns four ffths of the adolescent youth upon the streets half of the day, and further tends to establish early in life that four or five hours constitutes a days work. We believe that every High school in the country should do busi- ness from 8 a. m. to p. m., and that all work, study an recreation should be directed by the faculty of the school. We also believe that the half time. short day proposition, is just about as bad for the teachers as for the pupils.'
 Supt. W. F. Maddock. Butte, Mon tana, goes further, and believes High schools should be open for business from eight in the morning to five in the afternoon.
 Charles H. Lake, assistant superin- tendent in charge of High schools in Cleveland, Ohio. says, "Our High schools are in continuous operation from a. m. to p. m.''
 
 Charles L. Spain, deputy superin- tendent of High schools of Detroit, Mich, cut off an hour and favors continuous sessions from a. m to 3 p. m.
 It is worth the time of the citizen to think about the public schools They are the costliest single branch of the city. upon which almost S2,0oO,Oo0 a year is expended.
 If there is slackness in time or | teaching. something more important than money is wasted; the lives of thousands of girls and boys.
 When an old car bangs it's way through the street, it's not hard to say, | There goes a rattle box" Nobody 1 supposes that every car is the best l and few suppose that their own cars are the best. But of public institution it is quite easy to suppose that the one is best which Is the only one we know The pemedy for this sort of error is to find out what the leaders are doing
 Great Britain favors the admission of Germany to the League of Ma tions. Lloyd George makes the an- nouncement to The Commons. A wise decision! That cannot be a real league which leaves outside powerful and important nations. Sooner Ger many is admitted, soon the League will move a step nearer to real use -fulness. Interesting to inquire, how long United States can stay out. It would be strange to a League of Nations with Germany, Austria and Russia in and Uncle Sam not in.
 W. F. D. Stokes, rich hotel owner aged and trying to divorce his wife, testified through his attorneys, yes terday. in New York court that his experiment has cost him s226.0OO, and he still has the wife. The law is not always easy for the rich man. Some- ~times it is hard. Stokes might get an easier divorce if he had less money.
 A Russian editor in New York is fined S1,OOo for blasphemy. He wrote in a way most insulting to Christian believers, and the court inflicted q penalty for an offense rarely occur
 
 clumsy with the pen.- In all ages abe thinkers have been able to disagree. without being offensive and without committing blasphemy. One who has -an opinion to express ought to do it in proper language. In parliamentary language, as they say in the legisla- ture. Mexican bandits, Kidnapping A. Bruce Bielaski. former chief of the Bureau of Investigation of United States, ask 10000 pesos for his ran . som. In the olden days this was a ' popular industry. The soldier cap tured his man on the field of battle. and held him for ransom. The more important the man. the larger the 1 ransom. The industry is not as popu- r lar as it used to be. But the ransom { will be paid.
 II President Lucius S. Storrs. tells | New Britain citizens. that they ! needn't look for an immediate reduc- l. tion of fares. Mir. Storrs was having neriod devoted to benevoIence | I Usually he suggests that the time is now ripe for an increase in fares Said he snilingly. 'I trust you will a be able to report that a good time IF was had by an." In Bridgeport that 2