WAR TALK BANNED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 6

WAR TALK BANNED

. ;■ NEUTRAL SCHOOLS IN PfOLA- ,-...■; :.;';■;;■,.■ DELI'HJA;.. -The school authorities at Philadelphia ire evidently determined to protect the children in their care from the ill-effects of war excitement. An American newspaper publishes a statement that the acting-superintendent of schools at Philadelphia, "in older to insiiro the neutrality of. tho .school-rooms of this city.in ! the European war," has placed' a ban on all discussion of war topics by teachers or pupils dining school '. Lours.' History and geography of European nations involved in the conflict ; . is to bo passed over, and the hundreds <3 of teachers returning from vacations ■ abroad will Jiot bo permitted to relate their experiences to the children./ "It was ilecided," said the acting-superin-tendent, ''that if tho war.were discussed in, tho class-rooms,. thero would bo danger of extending the conflict to evory,corner of the school-yards between the partisans of tho Allies and those, of Gormany and Austria. It would also be useless to fill tho ■ children's minds with names and maps of countries which soon may not bo on tho maps." 'A working man complained to Mr. ■Paul Taylor at the Marylebone Police Court that his wifo had "a filthy teh.- < per," and had smashed up the homo. "Unfortunately," replied the magistrate, "you have- tlio privilege of being a man. That vpyilcgp is attended with certain responsibilities. Ono is that . you aro responsible for your wife's conduct very often,. evon if sho is not responsible for yours. She' has certain remedies against you which you have . not aeainst her, and, so far as I can ; see sho has not 'done anything winch will permit mo to nut tho law in operation for your benefit. You will havo to put iip with her." . .••