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PLAN.TO ▼iir Passage of This Bill Will Save the Government Thousands .of Dol- irs Annually. BILL IS NOW PENDING Under Proposed Bill Each Member Will Be Ac- ed Fixed Credit. By Charles M, Thomson. A bill U now pending In the house which seeks to revise the laws and regulations now In force In regard to the printing of bulletins and public documents by the government. A vast amount of this material Is printed by the government and distributed throughout *bo country overy year, these documents are distributed by the different bureaus and departments, but for the most part by senators and members of the house, scarcely a mail ever passes without bringing a number of requests tor government publications of various kinds. The preparation and distribution of these documents 4s important The matter contained In them is both interesting and instructive. It is proper that the people should have these publications and that they should be available for distribution in sufficient Quantities, foo Much Waste. Howeven the plan which has been in use for many years governing the distribution of this material through members of. congress has resulted in an enormous waste. This plan has been what might be called an allot- Cent plan. That is, whenever .1 num- :r of. copies of a given publication was provided, the copies available for distribution through the members of congress were allotted to them In equal quantities, without any regard whatever to the question of whether the publication would be of any inter- est or any use to the people of the dis- tricts represented by the members. Whenever a member of congress dies, session la hold on some-Sunday within the following month or so at which his friends deliver addresses in eulogy of ?ie deceased member. These are al- ays printed and bound and each member of congress is allotted nine of those volumes. The fact that the con- stituents of a member from Florida would have no interest at all in any- thing that might be said about a for- mer member from the state of Wash- ington, or vice versa, did not Interfere with the plan of distribution. That is an example of "the allotment plan of distributing these publications. To further, illustrate, senators and repre- sentatives from Kansas now receive as many Nautical Almanacs, Reports of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and ftppOTtS frf Ml* fnmml«atnnpr Of-KaVf gallon as the senators and representa- tives from New Jersey. The members from Massachusetts get as many Irri- gation bulletins as those from Idaho. Members from New York City each re- ceive as many Agricultural Year Books, Cattle Sooks and Horse Books as members from Nebraska. A Valuation Plan. The. pending bill to which I have re- ferred'seeks to put an end to this dis- tribution of public documents through members of congress by the allotment plan and to substitute for it a valua- tion plan which is much more sensible and much more economical. In brief, the proposed plan accords each senator and representative an an- nual fixed credit with the superintend- ent of documents at the government printing office, which Is made avail- able for supplying documents that are of special interest to his constituents. Documents will be supplied, under this plan, to each member, to the ex- tent of his credit, which will not be available for any other purpose and the documents will tfe supplied on a valuation basis determined by the cost of printing them. Under this plan a senator or a rep- resentative .from an agricultural state could use bis entire credit, if he so desired, to obtain Agricultural Year Books for his constituents, or if ho Is from a mining state he could use his document credit entirely, or for the most part, for geological publications, or a member from a state the people of which are interested in maritime af- fairs could use his document credit for publications relating to navigation. Will Save Thousands. The passage of this bill changing the antiquated and wasteful allotment Plan or the distribution of public docu- ments through members of congress and establishing the valuation plan, which I have endeavored to describe la a few words, will save the govern- ment hundreds of thousands of dollars ™BiHfliY SH thm Pr--*"»* plan r«mlii THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9,1914. Kenilworth News Notes The Bridge club met Tuesday after- noon with Mrs. B. D. Parmelee. Mr. Frederick Little has gone to northern Michigan on a two weeks' hunting and Ashing trip. Miss Hazel McDonald is attending the Cumnock School of Oratory of Northwestern university. The Kenilworth Union church will give a dinner in this church parlors on Saturday evening,.Oct. 31. Mr. and Mrs. William Eaglar and family returned Thursday from their summer home in Tomahawk, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crooks will en- tertain their card club tomorrow eve- ning at their home on Cumnor road. Mrs. George Bundy of Grand Rapids, Mich., is the guest at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Martin, on War- wick road. As yet no date has been set for the trustee's dinner of . the Kenilworth Union church. The committee in charge consists of Mrs. Eckhart. chair- man, Mrs. C. Armstrong, Mrs. F. Hicks, Mrs. Hlghbee, Mrs. L. M. Willis, Mrs. Keehn, Miss Marie Hasten, Miss Frances Serrell and Mr. P. Eckhart. At the first meeting' of the Neigh- bors yesterday afternoon at the Kenil- worth Assembly hall Mrs. Oliver R. Barrett read a most interesting paper on "Life In the Tyrol." Mrs. Barrett Is a native of Vienna, and wore the costume of the Tyrolese. Among the affairs which have been given for Miss Gladys Mars were a luncheon last Saturday at the home of Miss Ethel Westman In Birchwood, a dinner on Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Minnie L. Becker, mother of the bridegroom, and an In- formal tea on Sunday evening at the residence of Mrs.' Charles Teth-la EdgeWater. Four couples of Kenilworth, young people, members of a former card club here, will be the guests at a week-end liarty at the home of Miss Charlotte Friez of Milwaukee, Wis., a former resident of both Kenilworth and Wil- mette. The young people will motor there tomorrow afternoon and return Sunday evening. The guests of honor on this occasion will be Miss Gladys Mars and Mr. Elro.er D. Becker. Next Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock, the educational committee of the Neighbors will meet at the home of Mrs. Grant Rldgway on Cumber- land road. Mrs. Charles Ware will give a discussion of (he subject, "Woman's Civic Responsibilities In General." The president of the club, Mrs. Calvin B. Cam will atea lead a discussion on "The Impersonal At- titude of Mind Essential in Club Work." Covers were laid for ninety-six guests at the annual opening luncheon of the Woman's Guild of the Union church on Monday, which was an un- qualified success. The hostesses in charge were Mesdames Charles Arm- strong, Frank Chaffee, J. S. CUne, F. E.M. Cole, Fred Bulley, J. K. Far- ley, F. M. Hicks, 'Herman Kasten, Charles Horswell, H. Hi Everett, E. D. Parmelee, Arthur F. Poole, James H. Prentiss, Grant Ridgway, O. M. Ruth, W. L. Serrell, Merritt Star, Chester Stevens, Rufus Stolp, William E. Hlgh- h«>ft, Jnhn R ynnnwmp Harold Rown- E. E. MOORE SCHOOL INSPECTION (Continued from Pago l.) tree and George W. Maher. The marriage of Miss Gladys Anne Mars, .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Henry Mars of Kenilworth, to Mr. Elmer David Becker, .son of Mrs. Min- nie L. Becker, U$r Winona avenue, Chicago, will, take place on Wtednes- day evening at the church of the Holy Comforter, the Rev* George Craig Stewart of St, Luke's church, Evans- ton, officiating. Mrs. A. W. Johnson of Minneapolis, Minn., "will attend the bride as matron of "Honor, and"the Misses Ethel Westman, Gertrude Mc- Klnley, Edna ML Becker and Florence Schofield will be the bridesmaids. Mr. Carl R. Lill of Minneapolis, Minn., will serve Mr. Becker as best man, and the ushers will be Messrs. Frank- lin EMis, Hsrold TE Neeves, Joseph E. Fitch and John J. Gunderson, all of Chicago. Over three hundred people attended the re-opening ot the Kenilworth club house Tuesday evening. The club was formally opened on June C, 1007, but it was found that it was too small for all conveniences, and so this sum- mer improvements of various oorts have been made. The kitchen has been most wonderfully equipped with steam tables and a coffee urn. The program was well planned and bal- anced. Mr. Warren Pease gave tho opening address, fotiowed by a group of songs by Miss Gertrude Kastholn. a violin-piano duet by the Misses Frances and Eleanor Serrell. piano solos by Beatrice and Florence Pease, a group of dances by Evelyn Isom. eoftgs by Miss Isabel Cllne, a duet by tb£ Misses Cline and Kastholn. and Now since we have shown the atti- tude of the school toward the health of the child, we will explain the sys- tem in many of the states. There are two standard types of administration: that under the board ot health and that under the board of education. In our village of Wllmette (and you may thank the ladles for their move) al- most the last community on the north shore to take up the great work, you nave awakened from the Rip Van Winkle sleep and grabbed them both. I am your school inspector and your health commissioner. You see iff really three in one. the ladles, the commissioner and the inspector. There are three kinds of medical inspection work. First, medical in spection tor the detection of cases of contagious diseases; second, examina- tions conducted by teachers for defec- tive vision and hearing, and the third, comprises complete physical examina- tion of the pupils to detect physical defects and organic diseases. My po- sition as school inspector in our schools covers the first two with s slight encroachment upon the third. The object of your school board was primarily that of detection and pre- vention of contagious diseases, but it was Impossible to stop here. Munici- pal and educational authorities have realized that the theory oh which physical examinations are conducted rests on a different foundation from that of inspector of contagious dis- eases. The latter Is a protective meas- ure safeguarding the community; the former aims at securing the physical soundness and strength of the child, examining tor physical defects which are common among children and have an Important bearing on their present and future development which may be easily remedied and modified it dis- covered early enough. Having gone this far, you are ready to ask, Why the necessity?. Isn't it a fad? You have no doubt become aware of the tact that children were arbitrarily divided into dull, normal and bright groups. Have you thought ot the real rela- tionship between physical defective- ness and school progress? Let us use a few statistics. In America to day there are o*er twenty million chil- dren attending our public schools. Dr. Thomas B. Wood, professor of phys- ical education in Columbia university, says thst "15 million or 76 per cent need attention tot physical defects, carrying with them these defects. They are badly handicapped for the great game of life. The great--I might say only, object ot education Is to give us better citizenship. The most Important asset of a na tion, is its children. The most vital concern ot a family la its immature members and Immaturity, some, one haa said, is a long span. There is scarcely any parent (not you or I) who will deny any benefit or care which, he knows will Improve the chances of his offspring In the world to make that child more efficient, healthier and happier with his lot In life and more susceptible to training In the right direction. The child has a right, to demand that his life be developed to the high est possible point of which his powers are susceptible. To know here, means to do. It is necessary only to make known to parents, to you, whai noes, headaches, inattention to study --failure to pass into now grades--re- tardation and truancy--scolding and punishment at home--extra expense, severe discipline end Injustice at school--Incorrigible boys and girls! So the great machine of the public •ekocis has run on, seising every child under the compulsory education law, turning out the great mass of them at 14 or 15 years old in a more or less damaged condition. People are just beginning to realise the great part which curable physical defects play In the manufacture of juvenile truants and petty criminals. It would be a venr simple matter to compute how many dollars are wasted each year in the futile attempt to Im- part Instruction to pupils whose mental faculties ale dulled through physical defects that are easily re- moved. The loss to the world through physical inefficiency Is absolutely In- computable. Co-operation Needed. What we need la co-operation be tween parents, the medical profes- sion and the educator, so that we may put ourselves in line with the great forces ot nature that make for health, happiness and efficiency, that our children and our children's chil- dren msy be a better race of men and women than are we or were our fathers. We are beginning to realize that the public schools are a public trust. When the parents deliver a child to their care they have a right to expect that the child under the supervision of the school authorities will be sate from harm, and will be handed back to them In at least as good condition as he was at first. Individual effi- ciency rests not atone on education or intelligence, but la equally dependent on physical health and vigor. Hence if the state may enforce training in intellect, It may. also demand training Mrs. B. Frank Taker. Mrs. L. K. Glllspn will read a paper on "Organi- zation and Methods of the Mormon Church." Mrs. Frank R. Eager will sing. Prayer meeting Wednesday ev«. cing, Oct, 14, will be held at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. P.. R Flnlay, 419 Ninth sireci. Congregational Church. Sunday morning at 9:45 the Sunday school will welcome Its. new superin- tendent, Mr. J. O. Wray; Mr. Coburn will continue in service aa superin- tendent of class instruction. At eleven o'clock the sermon will be on the theme "The True Church.** Vesper theme at five o'clock, "Joy in Sorrow." The Y. P.rSTCTBrgt *;15win have? a temperance meeting. Anti-Saloon Rally. The Anti-Saloon league will hold a Prohibition rally in the Wllmette Congregational church Monday even- ing, Oct. 12, at eight o'clock. All citi- zens of Wllmette are Invited to come and hear of the great progress and still greater plans of the Anti-Saloon forces.' Wllmette Methodist Church. Lake and Wllmette avenues. T. K. Gale, minister, 1024 Lake avenue. Tel' ephone 654. "A church with a message and a welcome." Conference Sunday. »:30 a. in., Bible school Orchestra. Classes for all. __________ ' -- rSBSMssW Wilmitts Thtatre The &C2&3 cf high class Fuuiu-plsy* H20C«ntriil Av«:, WifoMtte All So#ta |Oe EVERY SATURDAY--Matinee and Evening "TREY O' HEARTS" The Master Problem Play of the Age , WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 Ruth Stonehouse in -THE REAL AGATHA" Two-Part Story THURSDAY, OCT. 15--Matinee and Evening Famous Players Co. Present Mary Pickford to secure physical soundness and | peopie welcome, capacity. This great movement Is so Intimately related to the future wel- fare of_our_ country and Is being pushed forward wltSTso great energy and earnestness that It is destined to be successful and permanent 10:45 a. m.. sermon by the_Kex A. Trew. Come and hear this brilliant Englishman. 3:30 p. m., Junior church. ~ 6 p. ra., sermon by the Rev. G. H. Welch, who came to the Rock River conference ftom the Catholic church. 6:15, Kpworth league. All young W ADRIFT" Wilmette Churches | Baptist. Sunday services held In the Wom- an's club building, Corner of Green- leaf avenue and Tenth street. Rev. B. Frank Taber, pastor. Residence, 1018 Eleventh street. . JlbJbL-iichfloii st 9:45 a. m. PuhMe worship It 11 a. m. Subject, "The Victorious Power of Faith.? B. Vv p. U. meeting at 0:15- p. m. Miss Pauline iSenn, a native Chinese* will speakf of her work among tho Chinese of Chicago. Ev- ening service at 7:30 pi m., when the pastor will give the first of two Il- lustrated sermons oj. "The Divine Dreamer and His Dream." Sunday evening the subject wW be "Mle and Times ot John .Bunyan--the Divine Dreamer." Beautiful stereoptlcon views will Illustrate the theme. Monday afternoon, Oct. 12, at 2 o'clock, the regular meeting of Jh> Woman's Mission society will be held with Mrs. T. A. Copeland, S07 Ash- land avenue. Progritm In charge of 7:45 p. m., Swedish service. 8 p. m.. Rev. Mech will preach at Kenilworth mission Strangers especially invited. 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We make landscape plans, give estimates, furnish and plant all varieties of shrubbery, trees, etc. Our prices are very moderate and our plants are much larger than those generally furnished through catalogue. 1RENNIAL GARDENS J0UT FHEEMaH, Proprietor Telephone 1106 Evanston SIS Noyss Street, Evans to a ought to do. Dr. Wood says further, sfter saying that 75 per cent are defective, that 69 to 90 per cent of all children In our public schools have defective teeth which interfere with their health and therefore their thinking processes. 35 per cent have enlarged tonsils and adenoids alone. 25 per cent are suf- fering from malnutrition. 25 per cent have defective vision. 5 per cent have defective hearing. 5 per cent curva- ture of the splnn. CO per cent includ- ing enlarged tonr.lls and adenoids have large glands. 5 ror crnt have a ten- dency toward to'»erculosls and this, disease early davclops In them. After First Month's Work. I must confers that this report of Dr. Wood disturbed my quiescent state as it has yours no doubt. 1 had al- ready been at work in your schools a month and the reports that were on their way to tho contented parents or Wllmette began to t ouble me... I had found so muh rno. e than I had ex- pected and ny aim had been to fol- low the plans of a conservative gen- eral practltlrnor ard not that of a specialist. The following report of the examination o: your schools com- pared to the reports of Dr. Wood and others are as follows: I have Inspected In your schools 900 pupilB, my first Inspection. Of these 280 or 42 per cent are defective and reports of defects sent to parents. The Woods' report 75 per cent. Remember it's from view of the general practi- tioner. Of these 380 defective, 330 or 35 per cent have enlarged tonsils and adenoids. (Dr. Wood reports 50, which AVENUE THEATI WEIK OF OCTOBER 12-18, 1914 TELEPHONES. EDGE WATER 2998-2999 Mon., Tqes. and Wed. first Chicago Vaudeville Appearance of the NEW YORK StNSATIONAI. Utt. nilp* Miff *»s. ttwtf iarptfl Libonatti Werld'a Master Flyophewiat Anita Diaz's Monkeys . la a Serlea of Merry fjjjfeg Marie Stoddard The Girl Who Will Make Vow Swam Schrode & Mulvcy An Eccentric 0.mr<ly Sin«rin* and I>»nc- • A«t Thnrs., fjj., Sat. & San. HARRY K.GUERRO •NO MLLE. CARMEN Marvelous Maeteal Puo________ Metropolitan Minstrels Vaudeville's Classiest Juvenile . Offering- McCcrtnick & Wallace In a Vertrlloquial Novelty Billy and Edith Adams That Effervteeeot Pair Frawley & Hunt Omtsdr Stnsatianal Ovmnasts PATHE DAILY NEWS ^atRVteE^ In great waste and every^evTTWr large quantities of documents assigned for the use of people who do not want them have to be destroyed or sold as vasts paper to get them out of the way), and will also result in making trict in the country an adequate sup Ply of government publications on sub- jects of interest to them and which they can, therefore, use with profit. a lumber of piano selections by Msu- j probably Included all glands). Defec- ride Kattler. the thirteen-year-old t|]pe v,sion 64r flr 6 per cent. Many are boy wonder. wearing glasses. Defective hearing 36 -----------------=----i-- or 4 per cent. Defective teeth 260 or at6REOr»TICON SERMON. 2S per rent. Dr. Wood reports 50 to Rev. B. Frank Taber, pastor of the 90 ^ ceat. My report on teeth in- Baptiai_church^_annojMces_two^rt^ the v eoptlcon sermons, te-be^ g4vsa-at:-thft| Defective heart action *•" vr =S evening services of the church at tbeieeak The percentage of malnutrition, -TO "T^W^tih^CTlosisrtterrow^ndlUoWa, cBf¥= Dream.", ature or the spine, etc., while *e ^omai^s^Cwh hnHnJBaV Divine Dreamer and Next Sunday evening the subject will found a number were not accurately be- "The Life and Times of John | considered because ot the lack of Bunyan-the Divine Dreamer." An physical examination not yet per- interestlhg feature of the B. Y. P. P. mltted In our schoojs^Jthe^report which-precedes^e prwch-1 shows that It has ^eeh a cons«vaTivs service will be; ai address by Senn, a native Chinese woman engaged In work anmng *he Chinese women of Chicago. work while many may have thought that I found too much. Bad teeth and other physical defects are the cause of indigestion, nervous- GOOD FURNITURE Ufhll HAVE. 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