ACADEMY OF MUSIC RALLY TO CLOSE CAMPAIGN; THOMAS BARES SUPPRESSED SURVEY OF SCHOOLS
Academy of Music Rally To Close Campaign; Thomas Bares Suppressed Survey Of Schools Shelved Survey Found System Chaotic; Many Teachers Incompetent Data, For Which City Paid Big Sum, Given...
...Once more class justice, or ntfaar class injustice, has tri¦snbsd in America...
...Brokers f& fheir poker faces...
...His addresses have been brilliant talks, at times matchless oratory, at other times brilliant satire, and still again penetrating short talks, informal in the manner of their delivery, yet irresistably persuasive...
...To the roll of dishonor whig contains the names of Shearer eif the ship building magnates sjf the name of Eyanson and Senate...
...8:30 p.m.—P.S...
...We must have more than enough to picket every polling place as a reserve is necessary to fill vacancies that may occur for one reason or another...
...I have prel9Myty pointed out in my comgjhe suppressed school reT - present system of 111 ct, Board of Superinborder Must Train Children Like Soldier*, Only Way To Get On Is To Follow Orders, Says Teacher In the course of his report on teachers' training schools in New York City, A N. Farmer said: "The beginning teacher, fresh from the training school, eagerly anticipating the opportunity to work eat with her own class the principles of education that have been stressed ia bar training, is very often bitterly snsappointed because assigned to a building where the principal happens to be violently opposed to the ideals that the young teacher bad hoped to be able .to realise, "One teacher whs had been beaching tat tferse years, when asked what part of her training she had found moat betpfoL, replied: 'Of what possible use can it be when we are no', permitted to teach the way we were trained?' When asked to illustrate, she replied: 'Well, take for example, matters of discipline...
...If every polling place is manned during the day by a watcher It may mean the difference between 20,000 and 50,000 votes that may be otherwise lost...
...Hillquit, keenest and most forceful of Socialist orators...
...Be found teachers of good sjaattBomOoas discouraged faato safaonlsatveneas under a system ma by red tape...
...It may arise from pttri...
...8:30 p.m.—Madison House...
...This army can perform a service which the candidates cannot...
...and that, nevertheless, the average costs of high school construction in New York city is 25 per cent higher than in Philadelphia, 34 per cent higher than in Cleveland and 38 per cent higher than in Columbus, Ohio...
...Charles Solomon, Algernon . Lee, Walter Dearing...
...As matters stand...
...Enright has not even risen to the dignity | of a scene shifter in this remarkable political drama...
...Our system is responsible in that the highest standards H personnel are ignored, the best Administrative procedure is flout•4, and the most helpful educational Ideas are often neglected VQdar a bureaucracy far more inaaenced by the politics of parties, nationalities, ecclesiastical groups and even geographical sections of hbs city than by a lofty underspending of, and devotion to, the Baals of education...
...The Board of Education perpetuates the system by basing its appropriation on average attendance of the year before, which in turn is an expression of the previous year's failure to appropriate enough money for enough compej tent teachers to hold the pupils I who register...
...Later in the evening at 10:30 p. m., he will be heard over Station WEAF...
...9:00 p.m.—Bronx Free Fellowship, Axure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston road...
...How the Socialists came in possession of the report, cannot be told...
...Speakers...
...It's a crime to confine children and hamper their natural activity, and at fimt I was resentful, but I soon learned .that there is just one way to get along, and that is to do exactly as required without question, and I'm doing it.' This is only one case of disharmony between training school theory and practice.'' tendent and District Superintendent in their relation to one another and to their Job is cumbersome and unwieldy and furnishes the ideal soil in which to sow seeds of school politics and bureaucracy...
...It is the duty of a candidate to state his own general ideas and the type and point of view of men and women he would appoint to the Board of Education unless and until a better method of choosing the board can be established...
...Esther Friedman, Mrs...
...Changes in administrative system might well include two features...
...All to no avail...
...Watching Is Next Step The Socialist candidates have done their utmost and they can do no more...
...The Yipsels who have folded campaign literature In the evening after attending school or going to work all day include the Misses Frances Marmarash, Sylvia Weingart, Sadie Leavin...
...Socialist Women Open Headquarters Thomas Banners Flaunted on Lower Fifth Avenue — Miss Newman Hurt in Accident By Marjorie Dorman F:FTH Avenue, New York, scene of the recent triumphant reception of Ramsay MacDonald, Socialist Prime Minister tit Great Britain, stares from bus and sidewalk this week at a large red and white sign, "Women's Section Socialist Party...
...thaw were the agents of the emskyers or of an owning class...
...Thomas Sitates School Views J ?n*e text of Thomas' address on schools foUows: N • -"My treatment of the school sitUttOB must necessarily be critical...
...Emil Altman is still supreme in the Medical Board despite the fact that the Board of Education itself reluctantly admitted the truth of the charges of unscientific and inhuman treatment of teachers which were made in ; sworn affidavits...
...I further believe that desirable i improvements in the system in| eludes such matters as a limitation of the size of schools so that I they shall not become educational ; factories, more flexibility in school f courses of study and general adapj tation to the needs of the pupils, the re-organization of health work, j the establishment of a child guidi ance bureau, the re-organization 1 of training schools for teachers, a I thorough-going reform of contin| uation schools and night schools, | and a scientific attempt to substitute intelligent democracy for bureaucracy and red tape...
...tic motives...
...Speaker, ' Norman Thomas...
...The Academy of Music is located on Lafayette avenue, just off Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn...
...In this connection I may recall the fact that Dr...
...Hilda Claessens, running for register, would get $12,000 therefore, from the viewpoint of Tammany, the position is worth less in its "perquisites...
...Socialists from all parts of the city will help make this the forerunner of a winter season that will solidify and consolidate the gains that were registered during the campaign, when thor—.nds of new contacts were made...
...Elinor Byrne...
...We were taught that children, particularly in the primary grades, should be permitted a great deal of freedom, aad I believe in it, bat here we hare the moat formal discipline...
...1 believe that, the achievements of labor, sad cC science have bean too ranch nea> lectad ia our teaching aad' the vietortes of peace too much ignored in favor of the victories of war...
...I call attention to three glaring weaknesses in the system...
...nomas wound up his* discussion : air the schools with an address in ."^¦fclch he reviewed the school system of today and stated the Social-kjt...
...As candidate for the $15,000 job of sheriff of New York County, Miss Newman's place Is the most important of that of any woman on the ticket as far as salaries go...
...As Thecals issued the fifth sectfcnv the Board of Education cashed to announce that it will unirtetrr;- publish the report, after ¦ Shutting it up for five years...
...Hilda G. C3lessens, Mrs...
...Because of their inability to present any logical reasons against the measure the opposition became weaker each year till it ended in surrender last week...
...Harmon street and St...
...Apparently they ate chosen with some regard for the .religious divisions of the community but otherwise they represent one general economic and cultural group and one political partyv There are some differences of opfiloo among them but it is safe to...
...But the overwhelming appeal of his intelligence and sincerity swept the city before it...
...2™cly and privately we have f* voiced our Socialist oppoaiE~ ***** discrimination...
...Citizens of New York isd elsewhere Who realise that feet wul be less tolerant of waste, srisrole sad graft So out of the attestant of Wan street some I rood may come...
...R. P allay Panken, the diminutive and attractive wife of Judge Jacob Panken, as the State chairman, her assistants being practically every member of the section as well as its officers, Mrs...
...Mrs...
...Miss Nina Prey, candidate for the Assembly from the 17th A. D. Manhattan, is in charge of the oflioe aad is-kept busy wel* onming viaUorn...
...Consider the reeve...
...Thomas, Wise, Dewey and Miss LaFollette To Make Final Pleas Demonstration at Brooklyn Academy To B< Rallying Point for Entire City This Sunder Afternoon—Solomon and Lee To Speak— Heywood Broun, Dr...
...Both the Interborough and B. M. TV subway svstems have stations at the Academy of Mnate...
...None of us is really while the events of recent ¦anths in Gastonia and Marion ** possible...
...Of course there is no democracy in such a system, no co-operation of all the elements in it to make our schools object lessons In the art of living and working together...
...chrysanthemums from the Wpmen's Section and many other floral tokens of sympathy from the Leather Goods Workers Union, the Suit Case Workers Union, and other organizations have arrived at 428 W. 11th St., Manhattan, to cheer up Pauline...
...I stf that this is dangerous because If R should by chance become part tt the tariff law we shall fasten nv other burden grievous to be bora on consumers while divertisf farmers from fundamental progress in better economic relatiosships to the attempt to grab man subsidies...
...Lee, scholarly translator of the Socialist idea into the issues of the day...
...Solomon, passionate yet always logical exponent of the Socialist cause...
...1 It was largely due to the effort^ of Miss Newman that the Womt en's Section, instead of turning over its funds to the general committee, determined to maintain its own identity in the present campaign and make its contribution to it as women as well as Socialists...
...Last Sunday the Socialist Party's Deputies in Parliament voted 36 to 12 to participate, and before the council meeting began Monday the administrative committee of the party passed a motion reproving the Parliamentary group for its action, thus giving an indication of the adverse action that followed...
...Melish, leading Brooklyn clergyman,—all these will speak...
...French Socialists Refuse Participation In Proposed Cabinet PARIS.—The National Council of the Socialist Party has voted against participation in the government of Edouard Daladier, Socialistic Radical leader...
...W. H. Holmes on "Building Service," ^aepistsil a "revolting" hK* of sanijSa ftwtetone in the schools...
...dition that the Beard of Education adopt a better system, especially in the construction of new school buildings...
...Jacob Panken, Algernon Lee, William Karlm, Edward F. Cassidy, Bernard Schub...
...Mention must also be made of the girls from the Ypsels...
...create a child guidance bureau recognize the teachets training schools...
...Joseph Paul-Boncour and Hippolyte *tenaudel led the group favoring participation...
...In any event, we must have watchers of both classes...
...It came after the state prosecutor...
...It is believed that Miss Newman is the first woman to run for sheriff in the East, and in her boyish hat it would be fun to cartoon her as a "two gun" sheriff, with the big shield on her chest...
...reorganize school (tilth work...
...His latest expose, publication of a school survey, shelved and suppressed by the Board of Education for five years, is hailed as the single great* est accomplishment of the campaign...
...Five were built before the Civil War...
...Superintendent William A. Boylan's chief qualification seems to have been that he was once Mayor Walker's teacher, just as Superintendent Margaret McCooey's qualification is that she is sister to the boss of Brooklyn who has done so amazingly well by his family...
...Arrangements have been concluded to make the returns available as soon as they become known...
...Only this year will the first' specially constructed continuation school be opened...
...Time and place of meetings are listed in this issue...
...42nd street and 14th avenue...
...Speaker: Samuel Orr...
...It will in all probability be the oration that will make the Mayoralty campaign of 1929 memorable...
...The big sign, nine by four feet, bearing the name of the Women's Section, hangs ten feet above a door which swings an day long on its hinges...
...The report was prophetic," said Thomas, in discussing the Weeks' survey...
...The scandalous situation finally forced the resignation of the school architect, but the chaos of irresponsibility, lack of planning, lack of educational information, lack of proper standards still remains...
...One class consists of men and women who can be present outside of the polling places...
...Jaj maica...
...Wbes eZ" college refuses to play agaisst »> other college unless a 9egr« a taken off the team It is a caddja act, but there are other ooQeaa with mors sense...
...Miss Newman was in a taxi cab accident which caused a severe laceration of her upper lip...
...8:30 p.m.—Wycoff Heights Presby; terian Church...
...Algernon Lee, Louis Waldman...
...In the meantime consult the accompanying list of assembly aad district headquarters...
...8:30 p.m.—Meyer London Soccer i Team...
...In that stateneat is the end of religious liberty...
...He found cynicism among principals and school department heads about teaching...
...Fortunately we are not without valuable suggestions in the Hannus survey of 1913 the suppressed school report of 192425 and more recent statements and reports by committees of the Teachers' Union, the Public Education Association and civic bodies...
...It is no secret that he entered the campaign with no hope of doing more than Just keep up the Socialist vote...
...Melish, Dr...
...B. C. Vladeck, incisive brilliant orator * Henry W. Neumann, Dr...
...8:30 p.m.—Thomas Jefferson High School Pennsylvania and Dumont avenues...
...Saturday, November t 7:00 p.m.—Sheet Metal Workers ! Club...
...Many Teachers Incompetent Data, For Which City Paid Big Sum, Given Out by Socialist Candidate——One-third of Schools Without Ventilating Systems—Lack of Sanitary Provisions Called Revolting—Socialist Program Stated TNTO a campaign lowered on the Republican side by wild charges involving Rochstein, "whoopee joints," the mayor's cloches and personal morals, and further degraded on the Tammany side by Mayor Walker's absolute refusal to discuss a single leading issue of the campaign, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor, this week, threw a sensation of the first order, revealing the school system of the city as incompetent, inefficient and dominated by political influences...
...All through the campaign Thomas has provided the "news" of the campaign...
...Charles Solomon...
...It has summoned its big guns into action...
...Sheehan and Miss McCooey quite appropriately either ignores altogether or refuses for a long time to consider the claims of such outstanding teachers as Dr...
...Tet for what they ht*i done neither Eyanson himself mi Senator Bingham, nor the poetjs ful and respectable manufactured of Connecticut have had the grsa to feel ashamed...
...I 7:30 p.m—Church of All Nations, ] 9 Second avenue, Manhattan...
...Henry Neumann Rev...
...The watchers, who will first report the results to their district campaign headquarters, will continue to gather in increasing numbers at the affair, to help celebrate the results of the election...
...Do not delay...
...Shearer tried to sunn' in the role of disinterested expwi sad patriot when secretly an ft* payroll of men who stood to gm from a large navy...
...S. 89, Britton avenue i and Hampton street...
...Miss LaFollette, brilliant daughter of the great Wisconsin progressive leader...
...Go there and register for service...
...J*** Cosswaith, Socialist candi2**°r Congress, and I publicly Privately appealed to the un•k for reconsideration...
...Thomas' second release gave the second half of Mr...
...9:00 p.m...
...Thoughts are mightier than armies...
...Certainly Superintendent O'Shea is a man utterly without educational distinction who was put into his high office when his predecessor, W. L Ettinger, was forced out for refusing to do the political bidding of Mayor Hylan...
...say that a Mayor profoundly concerned for the educational syst» mof New York would not have fbmvd Messrs Ryan, Mollenhauer, McKee, Somers, Weber and Mrs...
...Speakers...
...I say that this extraordiaer# provision is educational bee sum i can be justified by the same bat of reasoning which is used to je> tify tariffs on imports for tat benefit of manufacturers...
...Thomas will be on the radio twice on the eve of election, Monday night, 7:15 p. m. over ajfcV-ion WJZ...
...They can watch the count of the ballots after the polls have closed...
...Brilliant Array of Speaker $ The demonstration will be run by the Socialist Party and the Norman Thomas Non-Partisan Committee...
...Tkta is the story of an honest *?*¦» worker named Jones...
...All praised him...
...There say be "easy money" apart from nrk but not true wealth...
...Hughan spoke in her usual able way at a noon meeting in the office and is now arranging a meeting for Socialist students from Barnard College...
...Thomas will speak twice Monday night, November 4th, on the eve of Election Day...
...I believe that the military psychology imparted in R. O. T. C. units in high schools is wholly incompatible not only with a desire for peace in the world, but with proper educational method...
...Her accident which narrowly escaped being more serious, has forced her to cancel all her speaking engagements and is a serious loss to the closing week of the campaign...
...And that good vffl not come from the enhanced Bftaooa of investment advisers was were wise only after the fftat It will come from new attrition to the truths Socialism an been trying to emphasize...
...when in their seats at position they must be erect with hands behind their backs...
...Principles have won more victories than horsemen or chariots...
...Shiplacoff to Speak for Thomas To Metal Workers Abraham Shiplacoff, manager ot the Pocketbook Makers' Union, will speak in behalf of the Socialist candidates before the Sheet Metal Workers' Benevolent Association Saturday, November 2, at 7 p. m. The meeting will be held in the Rand School of Social Science, 7 East 15th street, ManhattanV Thomas On ; Radio Twice Election Eve Mayoralty Candidate to Speak* Over WEAF and WJZ On Monday Night 'J'WO radio addresses over two of the largest stations in the city and country will close Norman Thomas' memorable campaign for Mayor of New York City on the Socialist ticket...
...What with the Eyanson revelations and the Democratic-progressive coalition the Republican tartt is having hard sledding...
...Jacob Axelrod...
...That means ttnl every time a farmer or the agnl of a fanner or the export Iavttt ment ships grain or cotton abrott we shall have to pay him 27c i bushel or 2c a pound, or whftm tariff rate, high or low, -ass e>r flxed on that product...
...and—Norman Thomas—these three will bring up the list...
...Even a judge •nam we had thought meant to h fair declares in effect that only ¦Seven in hell, like himself, can *J bettered on oath...
...make educational nppotntments only after consultaIfce with recognised authorities ymi organisations...
...Publicly *j Privately we pointed out bow yesjiuu it was for us to urge the r*tt> to stand with organized J** for their own sakes and for 2*»a of white workers if a 2» anion would thus, throw a ZtJ*5 worker out on the streets...
...Speaker, Louis Waldman...
...Speakers, Norman Thomas, Charles Solomon...
...The extension of the merit system so that appointments to higher positions should be made I from an eligible list occupied by the Board of Examiner^ on the basis of a comprehensive test which will stress not merely ability to pass examinations, but school record, executive ability, capacity of leadership, etc...
...no check up was made on the completed buildings...
...i Solomon...
...Our watchers should supply this information, not the watchers of any other party...
...A woman us murdered in cold blood...
...Miss Prey has secured a playground model from the Children's Bureau at Washington, t...
...j 8.30 p.m.—Auxiliary of the Brooki lyn Home and Hospital for the Aged, i Howard and Dumont avenues, Brook! lyn...
...It is scarcely the function of a Mayoralty candidate to outline a detailed educational program...
...The conviction came after a Jury had baa told that it could disregard the very intelligent and impresses testimony of Mrs...
...Charles Solomon, A. I. Shiplacoff...
...Other civil liberties have keg since died in Gastonia and ¦arion...
...Hove To Reach the Academy . The Academy of Musk is easily accessible to an parts of the city...
...It is entirely natural that such a Board of Superintendents should have made their own promotions to high educational posts in the exempt class on the basis of religious, social and political pull of the sort which has been described by the Teachers' Union and the Public Education Association in illuminating detail...
...I should make public i the credentials and endorsements of those whom I might appoint...
...O) the "shocking condition of the xassttauatlan schools...
...Leon Blum, leader of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party, led the assault against participation in Daladier's Cabinet...
...Is it poaint that their distorted point of Ties is a natural consequence of tat whole system of seeking tptettS favors through tariffs...
...1926 Prospect place...
...Joseph M. Sheehan was elected Associate Superintendent by Mayor Walk* er's board at a time when he was under charges of gross irregularities and unprofessional conduct by his colleagues on the Board of Examiners, which charges were sustained by President Ryan of the Board of Education who was appointed to investigate...
...There will be meetings of watchers in every boro on Monday night...
...No ~eeap sad paper towel* ire provided 'at the tofhrti for Um ptrplis who ^lll to spend the major part of 'tk* day in the schools...
...Indeed, a few years after it was made the new buildings began to leak and crumble...
...give the supsfiateodent of Schools responsibility for executive leadership...
...With Mrs...
...Miss Gertrude Weil Klein distributed leaflets for three consecutive hours In the doorway one night and is another very faithful aiCe to Miss Prey...
...Teachers find themselves obliged to use methods they do not approve and in some suojects teach what they, do not believe under pressure of the system...
...The whole problem of the correlation of the schools with industry has been neglected and a careful report by a committee of investigation of the Teachers' Union utterly ignored...
...liyP Negroes were discourager] troajM tending two Brooklyn tfnuxhtjf was a travesty on Christian stoke But after all the Negro could feu plenty of church homes...
...James Oneal...
...It is obvious therefore, that the Academy of Music will be jammed...
...Speaker, Norman Thomas...
...Complete instructions will be given every watcher...
...I J Be found the machinery of the "system a "bureaucracy influenced •tar pgH+Vrf of parties and ecclesijfctlCal (roups...
...Issues Five Section* Five sections of the report were Issued by Thomas...
...When the shop of ^•wr a Marcus was being orJnised he was glad and willingly y*dhai application for membertap in Local 70 of the UpholsterUnion in New York City, the shop was organised he :•*» denied his card simply and because he was a colored Of course he lost his Job *J* he has a family to support...
...8:30 p.m.—P...
...Moreover, it is sometimes characterized by merciless "speeding up" to fulfill artificially established forms and it fails almost entirely to help pupils to live creatively and richly their normal lives.' "What should be done in this situation...
...7:45 p.m.—Union Methodist Church, I 233 West 48th street...
...Ethel Miller because she did not believe in God...
...Why...
...A brilliant array of speaker*, representative of all that is best in New York life, will present to the city the candidacy of Norman Thomas...
...All readers of the New Leader in New York City er vicinity must be there...
...Thomas •said, are political appointees "of sjsiHrir n ability and limited vljtnn," No member of the Board of ^npnrtntendenU, he declared, is an •aatstandmg educator...
...Nevertheless, by and hugs, our system may be rainy dsjsjulbml as a huge educational very nicely painted but ftsjggsd with red tape into which Mys and girls are shovelled and •at of which come Babbitts and fiebots, some of them scarcely fltjare than half literate...
...Isn't he a delightful humorist...
...bomas asserted, were: (1) the tn¦ftaenca of reactionary organisa3bbs posing as "patriotic" groups...
...And thai is good...
...Cites "Glaring Weaknesses" "A school system itself cursed with politics and favoritism, an artificial system of discipline, the overloading of teachers with work, cannot begin to do for the morale of our boys and girls what it ought...
...Sunday, November 3 I 2:30 p.m.—Boro Park Labor Lyi ceum...
...Miss Hughan is suffering with a sprained ankle...
...Before ' Thomas began to make It public, rise*board had stated that the re;psft aroald not be out until "some-Qme lata in November...
...Take he I. R. T. trains from either the East Side er West Side of Manhattan or the Bronx fe Atlantic art* nue...
...When in1 Carned of the Board's intaotion to ; paint the report, Thomas said: - ~J wish the other questions I ¦bm been raising about the Walk- , 'er...
...Children are more like soldiers...
...Lst es consider first the Board St Education which has it in its power to change the system...
...7 East 15th street...
...This report was signed by the entire surveying staff...
...If the principal conies in and there is the noise that is inevitable when children are busy at work, my room is disorderly...
...Liberty be bom again but only out of ¦**Hkjent struggle of the work*» to be free...
...Speaker: , A. I. Shiplacoff...
...and her sister...
...And j trntbyis bora out ofdtoMsaton savi ent potato a* view...
...To harvest the vote Is another...
...Make it a combination radio-Thomas party...
...Stomas declared a Socialist adssJiilsliilliiii would have its schools *tl*tTinr* to develop personalities yf ttmr than breed "automatons and Babbitts...
...Criticizes Superintendents "I now turn to the personnel of the Board of Superintendents...
...The main argument advanced by opponents has bean that old age pensions are socialistic, the opposition apparently assuming that if a measure is given a name that is sufficient to condemn it...
...Jessie Wallace Hughan, candidate for the Assembly from the 10th A.D...
...Health Inspection lacking "Finally the system can be criticized for lack of proper health inspection and especially for lack of such a child hygiene bureau as in Newark helps to discover and deal with cases of maladjustment which uncorrected may lead to delinquincy or insanity...
...Repairs '«» mtlf*^ because of ia:k of —itrilirrii responsibility...
...Forty per cent of the teachers were substitutes, and substitutes are especially likely beneficiaries or victims of political puiL Most of the principals, the assistant director and the superintendent in charge have at best no special competence for the job...
...But despite these and the latest novel to divert her, Pauline is disconsolate at being deprived of the work of the last week of the campaign— the best campaign that the Socialist Party has ever made in \hls city...
...Facts like these and others that j might be cited give force to the I criticism by the Committee on Education of the New York State ! Federation of Labor which in 1925 i under the chairmanship of that j conservative Tammany man, Pe: ter J. Brady, adopted the followI ing statement: | " 'Our present educational sysi tern needs wholesome revision I where it is characterized by traditional and outworn curricula and methods, is artificially motivated, secures discipline essentially through coercion, imposes adult j conceptions of life on changing life or is deadening in its influence be| cause of its regimentalized school procedure and lifeless and useless subject matter, largely unrelated to problems of child life...
...4...
...School Beard Panicky The fourth section, written by A. N. Farmer, proved perhaps most amaatag of aO...
...strive to adapt courses of study to the puneeds...
...At MMob...
...I believe that a Board of Education appointed along these lines would find it desirable to adopt certain changes in administrative system and certain improvements in the service the schools render...
...204 East Broadway...
...The doors to the Academy of Music will be thrown open at 1 o'clock promptly...
...that fortysix of the remaining have obsolete ventilating systems...
...Edward Mandel is a man of some ability but he has sponsored educational ripper bills, acted as Red hunter and at all times played politics to the advantage of himself and his personal followers whom he has placed in high positions...
...Speakers, Norman Thomas, ! Louis Waldman, William Felgen: baum, Harry Laldler, Carl Cummlngs, | Marie McDonald...
...Tell your friends to tune in...
...Be feoad the training schools peorfjr naaaaed oa the teaching side...
...3) and the "asSI inc'illim and incompetence 34 sisiilin schools...
...A fifth report, written by Dr...
...Speaker, ! Charles Solomon...
...It is necessary for the psyches* ogy of the Thomas Campaign that its wind-up be a tremendous outpouring of men and women- There^»*aa j be a vast overflow audience, as well a* a packed 1 Tsn*| Every partv member and every reader of U Leader must do his duty...
...Their assrfhsrt* were acquitted...
...A Five years ago the Tammanyappointed Board of Education, under pressure of public criticism, Instituted a "Cooperative and Constructive School Survey...
...Attempts to lease the Madison Square Garden were unsuccessful...
...The Academy of Music, seating about 4.000 men and women, was the largest hall available...
...The result of this favoritism ,the red tape of the system, improper methoia of rating teachers, etc., Is an appalling weakening of teacher morale...
...reform the jfejssflinistliiii sad night schools...
...The time has now arrived for the reserve army to march to the front...
...Members of the ^ssrd of Education, Mr...
...But lobbying that I concealed under some other galas is vicious...
...Readers of the New Leader and all other Socialist supporters must ^nake every effort to see to it that these radio addresses are heard by millions of New Yorkers...
...The mere presence of such a watcher at each polling place will give confidence to each of our voters who appears...
...the Sheriff and his deputes guilty of one of the most aeekmg massacres tu American satory have not even been held h sail, and bail for the remaining aoatJat has been set at 53,000...
...Abraham Lefkowitz, Katherine Devereux Blake and others whom I might name...
...86th -tree: and Lexington avenue...
...Frankly I should appoint to the Board of Education only men and women in sympathy with this general educational idea...
...Eleanore Levenaon Goldberg, Brooklyn chairman...
...But what « union refuses a Negro a cart k his own trade it compels him «*W to scab or to starve...
...The Thomas campaign committee, had therefore to forego attempts to get the garden, despite the fact that from all indications only an arena as large as the Garden could hold all the men and women who would like to hear Thomas'' final appeal to the voters...
...The«declsion against Socialist participation was made by a vote of 1,590 to 1,450...
...aad "make a scientific attempt to substitute intelligent democracy f<Sr bureaucratic red tape...
...She keeps the volunteer folders of the leaflets busy, always , insisting that the leaflet of the Norman Thomas Non-Partisan Committee be used on the outside of any material distributed because of the splendid picture of Mr...
...S' - carried an enthusiastic meeting sustaining her in this position, and an emergency committee was chosen to put the campaign office of the Women's Section across...
...Most of the returns will come early in the evening, shortly after the polls close at 6 o'clock, when the machines are opened and the vote announced...
...14, Broad street, Stapleton, S. I. Speakers: Norman Thomas...
...Every member of a union, of a Workmen's Circle, of a civic or independent organization, who understands the importance of reaping every vote our ticket is entitled to should volunteer for service in this reserve army...
...Vigorously supported by such members of his group as Paul Faure and L. C. Froissart, Blum, early in the session, contrived to swing the permanent Executive Commission of the party into a vote against participation...
...Cornell Memorial Church, 231 last 78th street Speaker, Norman Thomas...
...One achievement of the coalitka has certain educational value sad yet great danger...
...Here is an opportunity for thousands to serve the good cause...
...They can watch on election day...
...I Brooklyn...
...John Dewey, vice-chairman of the Non-Partisan committee, outstanding educator...
...8:30 p.m.—P.S...
...10:30 over I Station WEAF Need Watchers To Guard Vote Election Day Volunteers Should Report to Socialist Headquarters — Instructions Will Be Given THE most notable Socialist campaign that has ever been waged in New York City in peace time is drawing to a close...
...We refer to Us tacking of the farm debenture fin on the tariff bill...
...Speaker, Norman Thomas...
...Speak - i er...
...I should seek to make the board as a whole fairly representative of the various elements that make up this great city, though requiring of each appointee personal competence and of all appointees educational vision...
...Now Miss Newman, confined to her bed from shock and with two stitches in her upper lip, is now busy receiving the congratulations of women members of the party and men also for the publicity caused by the appearance of the Women's Section of the Socialist Party on New York s best known traffic highway...
...Norman Thomas answered this question on Friday of last week by breaking through the whole net of secrecy and suppression and publishing the report...
...Broun, wielder of one of the most trenchant pens in American journalism, defender of Saeco and Vanzetti...
...Speaker, Nor! man Thomas...
...To my mind the mad a sail°f tk* bulls which was Sas-'auUehed by a mad stampede *g Ihs bears was essentially gambljy sad the stampede was made tats* sad spread Its destruction ejrtfcvr oy the ease of marginal i^sattt be observed that all this basest and decrease of paper ¦ass bad amazingly little reflec5js a real wealth in permanent tjBjssssnt or goods produced for saaaa needs Just so the Florida Isoa bad little relation to real ill—¦ Real values are made by hear of hand and brain...
...This temporary office on the street level in the great thoroughfare famous throughout the world is made possible by ths hard work done last winter by the Women's section, which raised over $400 through a theatre party...
...An entertainment program, a jazz band, and a number of novel features have been included in the evening's festivities...
...Daily he hammered home issues from the Socialist viewpoint, buttressed by start* ling facts and figures...
...8:30 p.m.—Joe's Restaurant Hall, I 161st street and Jamaica avenue...
...For years the Socialists and trade unions have carried on a fight for this measure of relief for aged workers and the battle is finally won...
...In making appointments to the Board of Education I should consult such groups as the Teachers' Union, the Parent-Teacher Assoelation and the Public Education Association...
...At Gas tenia labor men were Udsappsd and flogged...
...Once more m stand disgraced in the eyes of dfflhad men the world over...
...TMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas TtHOTHER Poe should writs *A soother 'Pit and the Panduff the sufferings of the me** S women in the customers' |^L-» "Women turn from *TjJ,rtrt"to bridge...
...Each year at the beginning of the season the classes are so overcrowded that the pupils drop out...
...Speak. er, Norman Thomas...
...Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon...
...Sunday afternoon the doors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music will be thrown open for the final central rally of the campaign...
...Waldman...
...Come yourself, brir friends and neighbors...
...Belle Bear...
...Not one of the 22 buildings surveyed last year was built for continuation school purposes...
...Today the kindest thing one can say of its members is that nothing about them or their records suggests that they were other than political appointees of mediocre ability and limited vision...
...I Norman Thomas, whose whirl- ' wind campaign rallied to him the ¦ best elements of the entire city, 1 and whose progress caused consternation'to the old party leaders ; and campaign managers, is ex-, pected to spend the evening in the company of his comrades and party workers, sharing with them ; the joy that everyone feels will be ; created when the returns begin to come in...
...But an this |gg trtn understand, according to mm friend...
...Nicholas avenue, Brooklyn...
...101, lllth street and Lexington avenue Speakers, Nor| man Thomas...
...Governor Sweet, and MfcA wasnt wicked gambling hatting on baseball games but the exercise of business BgBMBt...
...Adele Zametkin, Queens chairman...
...Leading educators, men and women in public office, demanded the report which the Tammany board of education refused to make public...
...Work«s who realise that fact will fight hvder for their true interests as workers...
...At 7:15 p. m., Thomas will be heard over Station WJZ...
...Or come to or telephone the headquarters of the Campaign Committee, G. August Gerber, Manager, 7 East 15th street, sixth floor, Manhattan, telephone Algonquin 4620...
...And what's more, girls —her doctor won't let her smoke a single cigarette...
...Call them up...
...About two years ago a joint committee on education representing a variety of civic agencies made one of the most damning indictments of the continuation that could be imagined...
...8:00 p.m — First Presbyterian Church, 12 West 12th street...
...Old Age Pensions Won In Milwaukee County Milwaukee, Wis.—By an overwhelming majority of 17 to 3 in the county board old age pensions became a reality in Milwaukee County last week...
...Gives Socialist Program "My own belief is that it is the high duty of our schools to do all that in them lies to develop free personalities accustomed to living together in fellowship...
...In addition to these day watchers we "need watchers at the count of the vote...
...The qoard consists of seven men and wesaen appointed, controlled and rtnmtTnted by Mayor Walker...
...Closing Rallies of the Socialist Campaign In New York City Frlday...
...Lobbying itself if camel on frankly and openly is sot % clous unless improper methods an used...
...The evening schools are the stepchildren of the Board of Education...
...North CaroSsa, home of one of the most prorrssjive universities in the South, proclaims to the world that she nTars neither civil nor religious Issrees to workers...
...The Gastonia Gazette rektees that what has happened will fraeh labor agitators to keep their ana oat of the South...
...The danger that the socalled patriotic societies will force over R. O. T. C. units in high schools, thus l^rnesslng the educational machine to the chariot of war when the world is crying for peace...
...Some of our voters will want instructions...
...Once more the Board of Education turned down the proposal to establish a summer evening high school although no reasonable objection was raised to the plea of students...
...There might be •anathing to be said for the debeatun plan as a temporary subsidy sat no tariff favor ever is temporary...
...exttmd and enforce the merit system...
...Hyman Nemser...
...Loui...
...8:30 p.m.—Institute of Arts and i Sciences...
...Eyanson tee)' part in tariff hearings at secreV ary to Senator Bingham whfc secretly he was a well paid lobbyist for Connecticut manufactures, working at all times for their aterest...
...His temper reveals that he is aware of this...
...Jacob Panken, August Claessens and others...
...Every member of a branch who can serve should volunteer...
...Bat st Charlotte, workers, anon men, are promptly found nUty of second degree murder stems* in a brawl outside their trot colony in Gastonia a belligeratt chief of police was shot...
...Miss Newman In Accident Unfortunately two of the warmest supporters of the work at the temporary office, Miss Evelyn Hughan and Miss Pauline Newman, have met with accidents which, while not serious, have forced them to remain at home while convalescent...
...bsdM smaller schools...
...Columbia University...
...8:00 n.m.—Nortoare...
...Elmhurst, L. I. 1 Speakers...
...Barnet Wolfe, I Charles Solomon, Harry La^dler...
...It can be done...
...administration could get as TStBjQi answers as my questions on *f» schools...
...LaGuardia loses votes by every speech he makes...
...So vast Ijr the task of popular education that It is unfair to hold any school system altogether responsible for Ola results...
...In years gone by some of the finest citizens of New York have been members of this educational body...
...These gj^y a few of the shorter and Efter descriptions of the extrafigpry days on Wall street i* shook out all the little mar2j speculators and brought gj-yaiv grief even to bis...
...And the great rally in the Academy of Music in Brooklyn, just across the bridge from Manhattan, will prove to be the greatest single event in the closing of the campaign...
...Thus all factors are combining to make Thomas' talk at the Academy of Music Sunday afternoon a stirring event...
...Her probable murderers were not even hatted by the Grand Jury...
...to a certain extsat, the residents of other lands...
...As The New Leader goes to press, the following speakers have been invited and have definitely accepted: John Dewey Fola La FoIJette Morris Hillquit Rabbi Stephen S. 'Wise Heywood Broun Dr...
...For the women in the movement, convinced that it was the women of England who carried the British Labor Party to victory, determined to bring renewed support to the party in their own country, and accordingly, led by Miss Pauline Newman, candidate for sheriff of New York County, they have opened campaign headquarters at 77 Fifth Avenue...
...Neumans Also On List 'THE great campaign of Norman Tfaomaa for Mayor ¦*• of New York on the Socialist ticket will come to a resounding climax Sunday...
...op|S5l 340 leading shares lost SSy*16 billion dollars In paper mSgi to a month...
...Algernon Lee...
...They are intended as so many respectable flags behind which may be concealed the marching vulgarians who want to be returned to their salaried easy chairs...
...The third section of the suppressed report revealed by Thomas analyzed the administrative machinery of the system and found it archaic, ineffective, irresponsible and inefficient...
...Better by far no tariff bU than either the Senate or Um House bill...
...John Howard Melish B. C. Vladeck In addition there will be the standard-bearers of the Socialist party in the most amazing and encouraging campaign in the history of the New York Socialists, 'lliese will be: Norman Thomas Charles Solomon Algernon Lee The speakers typify the character of the support that has come to the Socialist city ticket...
...M. Jaraslaw, Miss Pauline Newman, Mrs...
...Speaker, Norman Thomas...
...Then he found the press with him,—two daily papers* the Telegram and the World, urged people to vote lev him...
...Gerber will be glad to give you an assignment...
...Aad that s tragedy indeed...
...Sheehan had been removed by being promoted...
...Another faithful and indefatigable worker at the office is Mrs...
...have the Board of Buperlntendenta supplanted by nfc advisory counsel representative of the entire system...
...L*t me preface it with a recognitte of the fact that the public school system is a public blessing aad, that there are features both of fha physical equipment and the educational efficiency of the system which Justly deserve praise...
...On the other hand incompetents are protected by the red tape of the system and political pull...
...To wis the voters Is one thing...
...The substitution of an advisory counsel representing every element in the school system for the present Board of Superintendents and the definite assertion of the executive leadership of the Superintendent...
...No check-up was made by the Board of Education on architects plans...
...Tammany is worried, more worried than it has ever been in any election...
...Thomas Greatest Addrett It Expected Thomas' address will, from all indications, be a memorable one...
...Find the meeting nearest to von and go there...
...Some day watchers may be able to also serve at the count but some cannot...
...Farmers like manufacturers *iD always cry for more, and a cousin becoming increasingly industrialized cannot afford to pay mors fflf its own food in order to sutaidin farmers and...
...On the B. M. T. trains get off at either Pacific street or Atlantic avenue, whichever station the train stops at...
...They are unhealthy and they are fire traps...
...If you have a radio in your home, it is very important that you invite all your friends and neighbors who have no sets to come and hear Thomas in your home...
...Major La Guardia thinks that the major task of the Socialist Party is to give up its candidates and to give him our votes...
...Bingham...
...L. I. Speakers, Marion Severn, James Oneal, Barnet Wolfe, Paul Du Bois...
...Norman Thomas, our candidate for j Mayor, and his colleagues on the 1 ticket, have carried to the masses •¦ a wealth of infornjation which has made vivid the devious ways in which their welfare is sacrificed by the ruling clique in power...
...Ida Orr, Treasurer, and the executive committee, Mrs...
...266 Madison street...
...Broohl'-n...
...C, and has effectively combined it as a window exhibit with the pledge made by Norman Thomas to spend (10,000,000 for playgrounds in New ; York Orty if ha is elected There Is also in the headquarters an exhibit Of the British posters used | so successfully ia the Mac Donald ' campaign...
...Mason of th* labor movement which destroys its owe saej ta{ such acts of discrimination...
...This that the State of North Carolina ¦ the offender...
...That better system ought to include an attempt to forecast the needs of the city tor more than a year at a time...
...Monday, November 4th 2:30 p.m.—Brooklyn Womens Constitutional Committee, Central Y. W. C. A., 30 Third avenue, Brooklyn...
...A box of tea roses enclosing the card of Violet and Norman Thomas...
...Fanner declared there are tkooeaads of tatcompetent teachers hi the school system who eaaaot be dislodged beosase ef laliinifi of oa» Mad or aastber...
...For •*rt*en years he worked at his of carpet layer in an unor*"*u*d shop...
...Week's lengthy report...
...I should, of course, not see'k to dictate to them before or after their appointment toe details of then* workBut I should vote to grant money in the Board of Sstimate on con...
...Although a comj mittee of the Teachers' Union Aux> iliary has estimated the number of . illiterates as about 275.000, virtually nothing is done for them...
...No position in the city calls for more outstanding ability...
...Thai it...
...Yorkville Casino...
...He urged thsft Prof...
...Solicitor Carpenter, sal made an exhibition of himatt that would* not have been tolwsted in any civilised country, ffis writings, his cheap melofeuas, his distortion of the reflates appeal, his frank play to tat presumed prejudices and passes* of the Jury, ought of them¦hes to upset the verdict in the U|her courts...
...Election Returns Announced At Party In The Rand School ASSURED that the vote to be cast next Tuesday will set a new high-water mark for the local Socialist movement, Socialists from the entire city will meet to dance, rejoice and celebrate as the returns come in from the various districts at an election night dance to be held on Tuesday evening in the Debs Auditorium, 7 ' East 15th street...
...The drift of sentiment towards the Socialist ticket continues...
...Social Athletic Club...
...Beatrice Nemser and Miss Celia Rotter, the Civic Repertory Theatre was sold out And now with the municipal campaign in full swing and Norman Thomas slated to poll a tremendous vote next Tuesday, the Women's Section is distributing scores of Thomas buttons and over a thousand leaflets daily from its temporary headquarters...
...8:30 p.m.—Millers Assembly Hall, ! Grand and Havemeyer...
...We Inge to keep up the fight for JuaIR^ Especially do we intend to B**Jto the heart, the conscience...
...Thomas on its cover...
...It is expected that Charles Solomon, Socialist can- ; didate for Controller, and Algernon Lee, Socialist candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen, will wind up their day's and ' the campaign's activities at the dance, where they will receive the results of the election...
...Rabbi Wise, personal friend of Al Smith, who urges New York now to desert the Democratic banner in favor of Thomas...
...Prompt action Is important...
...Each will have a badge indicating that he or she represents the Socialist ticket...
...M. Paxton...
...I believe that we cannot realize democracy in the larger world unless we introduce democracy as distinct on the one hand from monocracy and on the other front Mnmnoracyy into «gr school system X believe OH* history, efttas aad oarrent enisTta Should at the Clunker of Osssnsseee but from the staadpoiql Of tru...
...Gwen Lurie, Ethel Lurie, Esther Eisenberg, Sophie Boris, Dora Horn, Fannie Weren, Jean Weidman...
...The contents of the report—really a series of surveys by the outstanding men in the school profession of the nation—revealed the reason for its suppression...
...Thomas has come through the stage* of the campaign with mounting enthusiasm...
...Miss Newman, however, was out to abolish the very position to which she sought office, believing, that the Department of Corrections can adequately handle such work as is done in this $15,000 a year job with some hundred or so assistants...
...V Meetings Held In Store Kiss Marlon Severn, the pretty Radcllffe College and New York University Law School graduate who is running for judge of the city court in New York County spoke at an evening meeting at the office and made, as usual, followers of all who heard her...
...A system which elevates Mr...
...ZJatm Dewey be appointed a mem3pW of the school board to fill the Trari ry caused by the death early -as the week of M. Samuel stern...
...shall pay the farmer indiroil) through debentures which may a used by importers in paying that custom duties does not alter tbe fact that we shall pay him...
...He also deT^arsd the lack of a child hygiene 1 ;Qs the side of suggestions, Mr...
...Only the enormous volume of public protest has so far prevented the Board of Superintendents from establishing an R. 0. T. C. corps in the Jamaica High School for which it has voted twice...
...Speaker, Norman Thomas, Chas...
...Above all spread the word...
...There is some devoted service of teachers often under discouraging sessMMons...
...This cited serious defects in four new high school buildings, as well as in a number of lower schools, and revealed that nearly one-third of New Tork's schools have no system of ventilation whatever...
...Sarah Volovick, who is the champion distributor of campaign literature...
...The first, a survey of construction by A. L. Weeks, noted school building expert, found the construction of the work incompetent, chaotic and irresponsible...
...The fact remains that a report paid for by the city, promised to the city was being held up...
...The board spent $33,000 on making the survey—and then refused to publish it...
...Bronx...
...The shocking condition of continuation schools, one of the most important parts of the school system designed to fill the needs of three groups: (1) those mentally incapable of regular school work, (2) those who find little intellectual nourishment in it and (3) those handicapped by the financial condition of their parents...
...President Ryan's decision was sustained by the State Commissioner of Education, Graves, on appeal, but in the meanwhile Mr...
...Bertha Orr, Bronx chairman...
...HeAleenen high on the list of ellsJMss snp»nsnn»nn» -^Actual educational leadership In the school system must rest wtth the experts chosen by the •enrol of Education...
...Unless this watching Is done part of the battle will be lost Two classes of watchers are needed...
...November 1 12-45 p.m.—Musical Mutual Protective t'nion...
...program...
...Miss Evelyn Hughan, candidate from the 5th A. D., are frequent visitors at the women's headquarters...
...Three great laVfla afflicting the system, Mr...
...It is a question whether anyone of them in direct charge of the greatest educational system in America is today an outstanding educator at the height of his mental and physical vigor...
...As a public duty Thorns s made it public...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 13
