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Show leadership and parental authority is not always what they should be. STUDENTS STAGE DEATH BATTLE The status of education in Newark, New-ark, N. J., seems to be reflected by the fact that a fifteen-year-old schoolboy is dead from a gunshot wound, a seventeen-year-old student stu-dent is in a serious condition with abdominal stab wounds, another has a fractured skull resulting from a blow from a lead-pipe and several others are in hospitals under un-der treatment for head and body injuries, also inflicted by lead-pipes. lead-pipes. The fights, according to newspaper news-paper reports, resulted in at least ten riot calls. They broke out in front of a high school, following disturbances which grew out of a minor altercation at an inter-scholastic track meet. Subsequently, it ' seems, two boys were thrown into a lake and general warfare resulted, marked by gunfare, lead-pipe sluggings, knife-play and general fisticuffs. Police expressed the opinion that better supervision at the track meet would have avoided the disturbances. dis-turbances. This is obvious. While the disturbances occurred in Newark, N. J., they might well have taken place at any high place in the country. The unrestrained unre-strained rivalry of students sometimes some-times results in fighting and, in the heat of conflict, boys, like men, resort to drastic measures. It is easy to condemn the students. stu-dents. They should bo censured, but it is apparent that school |
