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THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND. January 24, 1920-Page 3 LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from Page 2.) GRANITE. Mr. Howard Groome, son of Mr. T. J. Groome, of this place, was operated upon at a Baltimore hospital last week, He is doing well, unless unlooked for complications set in. Mrs. Christina Dowd, of Washington, who has been visiting her sisters, the Misses Mollie and Sophia Peach, returned to her home last Wednesday. Misses Mollie and Sophia Peach, have been visiting relatives in Baltimore. On account of the shutting.-down of the quarries, most of our stone-cutters have gone forth where there is plenty of work, for those who wish to take the trip. Frank Parlett, formerly of Woodstock. Howard county, now living in Baltimore county with hisi son-in-law, Simon J. Kemp, suffered a severe attack of paralysis on Sunday morning. Mr. Parlett was the Democratic leader In Howard county for a number of years. He was also treasurer of Howard county for two terms. Failing ¦ health forced him to retire from active work and last month he sold his farm and house at Woodstock. Mr. Parlett i^ one of the leading members of St. Alphonsus' Church, Woodstock. -----------o----------- EVNA. Preaching Services at the U. B. Church on Sunday aftenoon at 2.30 o'clock. The presiding elder is expected to be present at that time. Mr. and Mrs. William Mays, of Yeo-ho, were gueaits on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Mays. Mr. Clarence Mays, Misises Gertrude and Nellie Mays visited Mr. and Mrs. G. Mays, of Hereford, on Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Spencer, Miss Genivieve Bailey and Master Carl Bailey, who are spending the winter in Baltimore, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bailey. ---------------O--------------- mt; carmel. Mrs. Rachel J. Benson, widow of the late Melchoir F. Benaon, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. H. Amos, of Harford county, in her 81st year. Funeral services were held at Friendship M. E. Church on Saturday. Mrs. Benson was for a number of years a resident of this neighborhood. She is survived by one daughter and one son Mr. Benjamin M. Benson has • sold his farm to Mr. Devilbliss, of Carroll county. Mr. and Mrs. George R. Gorsuch, Jr., are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son. Sunday school at the M. E. Church. Sunday at 2 o'clock, followed by preaching service. -----------o----------- MT. ETNA. BALTIMORE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD GRANTS TEACHERS 23 PER CENT. INCREASE IN SALARIES. (Continued from Page 1, Col. 2.) ule and shall not advance beyond a salary of $1,100 a year. The superintendent will rate summer school allowance by considering the actual cost to the teacher, but in no case shall the allowance be less than $40 nor more than $100. The allowance shall be paid in 10 monthly installments. Allowances for winter courses shall be made in a similar manner. An increase also has been given the assistant superintendents, supervisors and clerical force. The increase is made within the 40 cents of the tax 'rate for schools. A committee, consisting of Commissioners Shoemaker. Stringer and Blakeney and Superintendent Cook, was appointed to make a survey of building needs and to make it public. It is expected that from $500,000 to $750,000 will be needed for School buildings. ' Whenever a citizen of the United States ig asked what he considers to be the chief factors in the perpetuation of the American form of government, he is pretty ^ure to include in his reply a reference to the public school system. Public schools in this country are the traditional basis for practical citizenship. They are looked upon as the means of making education universal in order that universal suffrage shall be intelligent. They are likewise ingredients! of Americanism. Mrs. G. H. Zouek attended the.funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Rachel Benson, at Fallston, last Saturday. Se was the widow of Melchoir F. Benson and daughter of John L. Price. Until the last nine years she lived near Mt. Carmel. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Dora Amos, or Falston, and one son, Ernest Benson, of Westminster. Miss Charlotte Kelbaugh has been spending some time with relatives in Baltimore and Jarrettsville. Mrs. Levi Rosier, of Baltimore, is visiting her sister, Mrs. .G. H. Zouck. -----------o----------- OWNIfciS MILLS. Most every one about here are suffering witn bad colds and the grippe. C. H. Kelley is confined to his room with the grippe, as is Alice Conrey.. Miss Warmuth, ol Washington, was buried at M. E. Cemetery on January 20. at 3 P. M. Mrs. Hemley, aged 80 years, died of the infirmities of age on January 20. She was buried at Holy Family Cemetery on January 22. Mr. M. K. Lucas and son spent Sunday at Rose Hollow. Miss1 Laura Oursler is very ill at the home of her nepheWi Jean Sellman. Miss Alice Jean, of this place, and a school teacher at Bampstead, is still in the hospital, but is slowly improving. -----------o~.---------. BUTLER. There will be preaching at Dover M. E. Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Misa Josephine Brown has returned home after visiting her sister, Mrs. F. Collett, of Ellicott City. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Talbert, of Cockeysville, were the guests of the latter's parents, Mr., and Mrs. John T. Brown, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cole and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ensor. Misses Celia Cole and Eva Jordan of Warren, spent the week-end with the former's! parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Cole. Miss Emma Martin, of Yeoho. is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Cole. Mrs. Harry Cole gave a tea Tuesday evening in honor of her birthday. Mrs. Joseph Crowther, sister-in-law of Mr. Howard Crowther, was buried at Black Rock Baptist Cemetery on. Tuesday last. ----------—0------------- ROCK CHAPEL. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith, of York, Pa.; Mr. Emanual Keeney and daughters, of Tolna, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ebaugh, of Baltimore, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bowman, last week. Mr. Samuel Miller, a farmer near Rock Chapel, was struck on the head by a barn door and died a few hours later. ------------?------------ PEACE TREATY NOT A QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP BUT A QUESTION OF ADVANCEMENT FOR HUMANITY. (Continued from Page 1, Col. 6.) thirds majority there. And without such a majority tne disposal of the Treaty alter tne next election, as at the present time, would have to be by compromise. Aa a matter of fact, both the letter of President Wilson and the speech of Mr. Bryan point to one thing. That is, the necessity lor ratification of the Treaty now. The President, assuredly, is looking rather to tne main fact than to ietails of arriving at it. Yet he leaves open the expectation that he will not be the means of obstructing ratification so long as the Treaty remains intact, ana is not in effect rewritten, or so changed as tO' alter its meaning. Mr. Bryan is more specific as to tiie details ot the action that he deems necessary, but is conclusive on the point that all reasonable concesv sion should be made lor the sake of immediate ratification of the Treaty in some form. The President, and not Mr. Bryan, is tne leader of the Democratic Party at this moment. This be-iiiK so, the President cannot, in reason, disregard the practical points urged by the Nebrasjkan in support of his immediate ratification argument. And it is significant that this diverse setting forth of the situation, at first hailed as a Democratic "split" that would finish the chances of a compromise on the Treaty, has apparently had the exactly' contrary effect. The force of Mr. Bryan's position is not lost on Democratic senators, and should not be, even though they are constrained to acknowledge party leadership in the Chief Executive. Even Senator Lodge's reported-adjuration to the Democrats to choose whom they would follow, whether President Wilson or Mr. Bryan, should not blind the senators to the fact tha.t the major interest in this matter is more than a party matter, and that party advantage can come only through such handling of it as shall denote honorable acceptance of the present opportunity. It is the plain duty of Democrats to deal with the Treaty on its merits. If, to secure ratification, they must come to a fair agreement with the Republicans, no less must the Republicans, if they are not to keep the nation out of its proper participation in the fruits of peace, contribute on their part to that agreement. The question for the senators is not a question of leadership. It is a question of wise advancement of the cause of humanity. (Continued on Page 5.) The public schools take in all and sundry, by compulsion if need be, and in theory at least they teach the embryo citizens how to live together in mutual toleration of one another, at the same time that they provide the foundational knowledge whereby each individual shall be equipped to observe, and to know, and to act independently of others as a factor eventually in those common decisions and judgments which are the waymarks of progress for popular government. Like other features of the American system, public schools have been accepted as a fixed quantity, as established and not subject to elimination or essent'ai change. At least, such has been the typical American attitude toward them. But conditions of the war, and afterward, have been shaking up the American system. The dust is coming out of it. And the process has revealed the fact, surprising enough to many, that the American public schools are not a fixed quantity. If they ever were like Captain Bob's star in "Ike Parkington" they have become "unfixed." Their relationship to American citizenship may be the same in theory as it has been always, but assuredly it is far less stable and definite than of old in its practical effects1* Instead of being everywhere accepted by the rank and file of American people as a matter of course, the public schools are now too often challenged as being of doubtful value. The solid procession of coming citizens into and through the public schools has been split up by clasp divergencies. Considerations of religion, of relative wealth, of social opportunity, of personal safety, of special interests, divert thousands of American children of school age every year into special schools, privately owned and privately managed, which inevitably 'cater to ^pecial requirement and hold before their pupils ideals that are inevitably colored by special interests. Church and parochial schools are dear to the hearts of great masses oi people whose regard for America is not to be doubted, and who, though perhaps only one generation away from the immigrants, unquestionably believe themselves to be just as truly and whole-heartedly Americans as the people who came over in the Mayflower or the followers of the redoubtable Captain John Smith. Yet, so far as these people represent a movement to-word church and parochial schools, it is, of courses, a movement away from the public schools. Not the most labored patriotic effort of church and parochial schools can put these quite in the position of the public schools, so far as concerns the general public interest. Like all special schools, they may aim to subserve the public interest, but it is always with a special reservation. So it is, inevitably, with any sectarian school, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant. So it ig with private schools of all sorts, with or without , a sectarian consideration. Every private school detracts from the full efficacy of the public schools. Parents who support them may have the best of reasons. In ,fact, in countless instances and localities in the United States today, parents of democratic leanings, with the best of American intentions, are sending their children to private schools simply because they do not dare to trust them to the public schools. Yet this practice, of course, evades the issue. However it may be condoned as the only alternative to offering up individual children as a fruitless sacrifice, it is a makeshift. Against such temporizing should be weighed the possibilities of united action by such parents in the facing of the situation, and in some attempt to meet it jointly. For it is to be remembered that public schools afford«the | sharpest and most unfavorable contrasts to private schools in the districts where private schools most abound. In many districts of this sort public schools are unsatisfactory to refined families largely for the reason that the thoughtless or reckless acceptation of the private schools has drained the others of the very ingredients that should keep the public school average high. But conditions of this sort are not all that tend to undermine the old-time integrity of the public school system. A more acute menace is; provided by an economic situation in which the inadequacy of teachers' pay is forcing teachers out of the public school system by tens of thousands. By the declaration of the Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, more than 143,000 public school teach- ers resigned their places in the United States last year. Mr. Lane does not hesitate to say that this "greatest bulwark against the spread of Bolshevism" through the United States is crumbling, and the immediate reason is that teachers-' salaries have not kept pace with the cost of living. It is not that teachers are to blame for leaving their posts. They are not. Almost any American man or woman knows of particular teachers whose ability to obtain the living necessaries at prices now prevailing has, become dependent upon the finding of a job paying considerably more than they could hope to get by sticking to school teaching. In the nature of things, it has been the ablest and most versatile teachers who have gone out of the schools. This statement may be made without disparagement of those who remain as teachers; and it is to be remembered that, after all, there has been a considerable, if inadequate, increase of teachers' salaries. Nevertheless, what is now under way is perilously near a movement of the beSft types and best mentalities of the teaching profession into other fields. BIBB'S ONE-PIPE, THE PERFECT SYSTEM OF HEATING The salary matter has brought this movement into the limelight. 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