NEW YORK SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1909, Page 12

NEW YORK SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Some people seem to have become unduly excited over tho fact that from sixty to one hundred thousand children of school age cannot be accommodated in the sctiools of New "YbTk. Why should we worry over the mere matter of the education of these few children, when not only they, but many thousands more in New York aud elsewhere are neither well fed, warmly clad, wholesomely housed nor decently en- j vironed? It is straining al gnats. Furthermore, children do not need education to tend machines in the factories or pick} coal in the mines. Let us be calm. There are no rich children among this lot. — Ellis O Jones, in Life (N.Y.)

Mr. T. Wiles, M.P., has addressed the following letter to Mi. Gulland, ! Scotch Liberal Whip : — "House of Commons, 9th September. — Dear Gulland, — i Hearing/ of tho withdrawal by the Duke of Buccleuch of his small annual subscription to the Sanquhar Football Club owing to the preseut Budget proposals, twenty-one of your EngHsh colleagues at once subscribed Is each, and have asked me to forward a guinea through you to the treasurer of the club, so that Radical Sanquhar may not be punished through the petty political spite of one of the wealthiest landlords in the coimtry." In 85 special trains running* between midnight on 18th September and 11 o'clock on the evening of the 19th, there were conveyed 97,000 men, 2800 horses, 179 wagons, and about 632 tons of baggage in connection, with the return of the German army from the scene of manoeuvres to theic quarters. The timetable was somewhat upset (states the Berlin correspondent of The Times) by the failure of some of the c6lumns to arrive punctually at the stations. It is said, however, that the ordinary traffic was maintained without interference. This opinion is not shared by some .it least of the ordinary passengers travelling in the neighbourhood on that occasion. A correspondent of The Times says of the Finance Bill that it is "merely used as a stalking hovse to hide a revolution which, in the opinion of most men of business, will be disastrous to all classes."