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TRENTON. Reports of the various phases of school work in Mercer County, as compiled by Superintendent Joseph M. Arnold, showed that $1,254,773.87 was expended during the past term for educational purposes and that of this amount the Trenton schools cost $945,326.84. On this basis the cost of education per pupil, based on enrollment, was $33.85 in the county and $34.74 in Trenton, while the average cost per capita, based on the average attendance, was $46.42 for the rural districts and $47.13 for the city.

The response of the boys and girls of New Jersey to the call for increased food production and conservation is most gratifying. The enrollment in the agricultural, home gardens and girls' service divisions of the Junior Industrial Army of New Jersey has been increasing from the beginning of the campaign. The following is a summary of the enrollment to July 13, 1917: Enrolled in home gardens, 72,186; enrolled agricultural division, 7,429; number placed on farms, 3,950; enrolled Girls' Service Division, 1,258.

Increased food production, important as it is, is only a part of the solution of the food problem. It is equally important that the food produced be preserved and conserved in order that waste may be reduced to a minimum and the food made avail

Farmers, with the aid of the county superintendents of farm demonstration, have organized themselves in community groups for the purpose of furnishing a camp site and suitable lodging and boarding quarters. The boys have been organized in camp groups under the personal supervision of a Y. M. C. A. leader. This leader is expected to look after the moral and social welfare of the boys, as well as to superintend their working activities. The work, for. the most part, is paid by the piece, at the prevailing rate of wage for that type of work in the community.

Careful investigations of this use
of boy labor, made in this and many
other states, indicate that the farmers
are well pleased with the plan and
that the boys are entirely satisfied
with the living and working condi-
tions.

Under the provision of the Smith-
Hughes Act, A. K. Getman has been
appointed assistant for agricultural
education for New Jersey. He will
have general supervision of the
teaching of agriculture as a part of
the public school system of the state,
as a vocational department of the
high school, and in separate
tional schools. He will be glad to
arrange for personal conferences
with county superintendents,
vising principals, principals, or boards
of education at any time, to discuss
the introduction of courses in agri-
culture.

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PENNSYLVANIA.

JOHNSTOWN. That a fee of not more than ten cents be charged each pupil in the school dispensary and a fee of five cents in the dental clinic, in order to obviate the feeling on the part of the parents and their children that they are objects of charity, is the recommendation of Dr. J. W. Bancroft, school physician of Johnstown, to the board of directors.

CONNELLSVILLE. George H. Taylor, the third successive athletic coach-elect of the season for the high school, has resigned to go into recreation work at one of the soldiers' training camps. The army claimed the others also.

ALTOONA. H. H. Baish, former superintendent of the Altoona public schools and head of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association in 1915, has been appointed to a position in the Federal Bureau of Education at Washington.

KUTZTOWN. David S. Keck, for more than thirty years treasurer of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association, and instructor in English in the Keystone Normal School, Kutztown, is dead following a long illness.

PITTSBURGH. Acting on the recommendation of Superintendent William M. Davidson, the board of education of Pittsburgh is estadlishing a school for dull of hearing and deaf children. It will be cen

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troops and transports from
side should not be made public is
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DAYTON. An increase of $100 a year was voted all principals, assistant principals, supervisors, normal, high school, grade, speIcial, critic, home economics and manual training teachers and directors of manual training by the board of education.

Nobody was slighted in the sweeping resolution passed by a unanimous vote of the board. Substitute grade teachers were given a raise of from $2 to $2.50 a day for every day taught. Substitute high school, manual training and home economics teachers were advanced from $3 to $3.50 a day.

Money to defray the increased expenditure is expected to be obtained by a system of economy to be introduced in the educational system of the city. The co-operation of every principal, supervisor and department is asked by the board in its effort to cut expenditures to a minimum.

A substantial increase in the school attendance over 1916 is shown by the monthly report of Superintendent Miller, which shows an enrollment of 19,428 in all departments, as against 19,089 for

1916.

Despite the increased attendance,

MINNESOTA.

MINNEAPOLIS. Boys of the manual training department of Minneapolis public schools will be taught how to build their own homes as soon as the board of education gets the necessary funds. They will be instructed in the entire construction plan, including plumbing, heating, finishing, interior decorating,

and friends that they should be de-
nied all knowledge of the fact. The
difficulty, it would seem, might be
helped to a solution by more
prompt official announcement of
facts, the knowledge of which
could not be of any benefit to the

enemy.

ANOTHER AMERICAN RESPON-
SIBILITY.

Amid the pressure of more stir-
a noticeable falling off in the study ring events, the fact that the gov-
of German in the schools is re-ernment of the Republic of Haiti
ported in the official figures. Last has been practically assumed by the
year, 3,673 students were engaged United States has attracted little
in the study, while this year the attention. Haiti has had an inde-
number has dropped to 3,023.
pendent, though stormy existence
for more than 100 years; but now,
both houses of the Haitian Con-
gress have been adjourned without
day by order of Brigadier Gen-
eral Eli Kelley Cole, commanding
the forces in occupation. Phillipe
Sudre Dartiguenave is still nomi-
nally President, and his Cabinet
has not been disbanded, but the
Congress, to which Ministers are
responsible and in which is vested
the election of Presidents, has
ceased to exist.
which led to this result were due to
The troubles
conflicting interpretations of the
convention of September, 1915, un-
der which a gendarmerie, organized
and commanded by Americans, was
provided for, and a certain measure
of authority, capable of diverse in-
terpretations, was assumed by the
United States. The conditions
Inot unlike those which,
year ago, resulted in the dissolution
of the Dominican Congress by or-
ders of Rear Admiral Knapp.

etc.

The plan is to set off a space back
of Central High School large enough
to build a full-size house, and let the
boys put it up themselves as part of
a course in carpentry.

The Week in Review

Continued from page 409.

were

CHINA AND JAPAN.

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THE 2ND OF NOVEMBER.
November 2 is a day which all
Americans will do well to bear in
mind, because on that day the
new postal rates take effect. On
a single letter, the difference of A new cloud has arisen on the
one cent in the postal rates does international horizon, which may
not seem very impressive, but, on later become menacing. Leading
business correspondence, and with Chinese newspapers are insisting
people greatly addicted to letter- that Japan should restore to China
writing, it will make considerable Tsing-tau, the former German con-
difference in the course of a year. cession, and that she withdraw
Beginning with the date mentioned, from Shangtung province, now that
letters must carry
a three cent China has definitely allied herself
stamp, and post cards two cents. with the Entente Allies in the war.
No device could be invented which In May, 1915, after Japan had taken
would distribute more widely the over Tsing-tau, the Japanese Gov-
burden of war costs; and, inconven- ernment gave China definite as-
ient as it may be, there will be lit-surances that, after the termination
tle complaint as to the justice of of the war, Japan would restore to
the regulation. A striking anomaly China the leased territory of Kiao-
of the new system-an anomaly chow bav, on condition that the
which cannot be helped, because it whole of the bay be opened as a
is an incident of treaty regula- commercial port, and that a conces-
tions--is that a two-cent stamp sion under the exclusive jurisdic-
will carry a letter from Boston to tion of Japan be established at a
London, while a three-cent stamp place to be designated by the
will be required for a letter from Japanese Government. Recent
Boston to Worcester.
statements, however, by Japanese
statesmen and newspapers indicate
that they consider Tsing-tau Japa-
nese territory, and are urging that
it

A QUESTION OF CENSORSHIP.

The announcement from Washington that the Colonel of a Connecticut regiment and the Lieutenant Colonel of a western regiment are likely to be court-martialed because they cabled to the United

be immediately taken over. These statements have aroused apprehensions in China that Japan does not mean to abide by her declaration of 1915.

America, France, Britain, Belgium, Italy, and Russia united in a common cause; the divine right of kings perishing before the guns of Democracy-this is the supreme hour of our history. We, the children of the exile, have returned to conquer where our fathers battled tyranny and bore the Cross.

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