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Show STUDY GOVERNMENT AND THREE R'S SIDE BY SIDE . ' . .4 V Disorder Unknown In Solf-Govcrned School, snys Principal. NEW YORK They study the principles prin-ciples of self-government at first hand the pupils of Public School No. 30, in the heart of the Bronx. They abrorb the principli-s of American citizenship hourly and daily. This school -Is more than a school, a school state. It 13 in the midst or a crowded district of uneducated foreign fore-ign families, nine out of ten of whom first saw the land of liberty from Ellis Island. It is on land given to New York by Gouverneur Morris, and for that reason the school and tho school sta'te are named In honor of Gouverneur Gouver-neur Morris' wife, Mary Walton. At tho head of it Is Mary A. Conlon. principal characterized as big-hearted, motherly, mother-ly, human. Objects of Stale. The objects of the state aro given In Its constitution as "the securing for the pupils of the Walton school the privileges and advantages of selc-gov-ernment and training them In the duties of American citizenship.' All pupll3 In tho fifth, sixth, seventh, elgth and ninth years are full citizens and have the right of suffrage unless I they are legally deprived of it by the Teachers' Council. Truancy, stealing and insubordination are practically : the only grounds tforloas , of sutrage, and all .property of theacnool is un-Lder un-Lder the. jurisdiction of the" state with 'the exception:" of classrooms. Tho state itself Is admlnlsiex-etl by a Federal. Fed-eral. Council, made up of tho presidents of the various classes. And officers of the Federal Council are: President, vice-president, sccretnry of state, commissioner com-missioner of hygiene and sanitation. Children Responsible. The duties of tho commissioner of public safety are to have Jurisdiction ov'or all school property, books, stationery sta-tionery and buildings, to protect the property and personnel of the scnool and check all unseemly conduct. Tho commissioner of hygiene has the Jurisdiction Juris-diction over all the appearances of pupils, classrooms, hall.?, yards and street. "It would bo hard 'to -imagine anything any-thing more successful than the children chil-dren have made thoir state." says Miss Conlon. "Disorder la unknown in the school simply because th chlicren realjxe that the $tponi!Uity Is their own. And aa for clranhn-j.. they aro arwnyn soektns new hi keep overythlnff rle.i. it mi ..! of v . to. got out of kcepu-g i:iiiig clc.. f 'Hi jt I I Youngstcr'aiid oldest class president?. |