Show LEARNING BY CONTRAST T lIE HE schools of American cities may properly be regarded as a n public utility and aud they are arc under municipal ownership By imagining the condition to which they would descend were politics again to obtrude obtrude obtrude ob ob- ob- ob trude its bungling hand into the administration of school affa affairs rB one may form a fairly accurate conception conception conception con con- of a owned municipally owned street car linein a ac atypical atypical t typical American city Happily the public schools c are generally permitted by common consent to wend their theire e efficient way without political interference In Iii the one particular of lack of sufficient accommodations accommodations the public schools of most American communities communities com corn are lC a dish disgrace ace and a n reproach to our citizen citizen- ship From Flom practically every mery city at the thc opening of tho tim present school year arose a chorus of protest because there were not enough school buildings to accommodate ac ac- ac- ac all ull the children that presented themselves That condition obtains each year is as ns often discussed discussed dis dis- dis- dis cussed yet ct goes A new building is not erected until the existing excess of pupils is more than thun enough to fill it it The wants ants of the growing population a are re never anticipated Does anybody de desire iro to have street car transportation tion managed in the tho same Wa way |