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SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 26,
1927.
EXIT "MA" FERGUSON. to discover, her enemies were
abundantly justifed.
money,
news copy,
She won the Governorship of. Texas in 1991 after a rollicking battle with the Ku Klux Klan, which was then in the flush of a power in the Sonth and South- West.
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FASCISTS BAN ON WOMEN.
NOT VIRILE ENOUGH FOR HIGHER TEACHING.
projected exclusion of women teachers from instructing classes in literature, philosophy and hia- tory in the higher schools and in- stitutions,
In auch higher achools
Pies and Plums." A FARCE OF POLITICS.
No sooner was the Governor in- | "Ma" Ferguson, Geverner of balled than it was seen that.i Texas, goes out of office on Tues- "Farmer Jim" was again in thu
Rome. It is part of the Minis Is the employer satisfied with day, recently wrote an American saddle. Of course he was, said. the product of the public element-correspondent of the London Ob Mn. She was the best pie-maker ter of Instruction's new education. ́d grand- | al scheme to ensure that the ris- server, after a riotous term. She in her country; and was the first woman to be elected mother; but that did not make bering goneration of Fascists in the This problem was the subject of Governor of an American State, a statesman, and she had always final years of their schooling pre a debate at University College, and no one would say that she depended upon Jim. The couple "animated by a strong and live organised by the Association for has not given Texas
And the had been in charge of the Govern- virile sentiment" towards the Education in Industry and Com-American Press value for their ment of Texas only a few months rent figures of human thought meres, Mr. George Cadbury, Pre-
For two years she was when the rumours of malprentices and action. It is calculated that sident of thy Association, was in an unfailing fount of diverting took shape in definiic accusations, such a virile outlook can best be raised to developed under men teachers at and she retaris to A public fund Mr. Cadbury said that an in-private life in the glory of having finance an investigation Into the that period of the scholar's life quiry had just been conducted by scattered pardons, by the thou Ferguson regime. Ma, who pos- which immediately precedes his the Association. As a result of sand among the ranks of convictel sesses at least one valuable gift-entry on his career at the univer- that inquiry he could say that as criminals. The story of "Ma" that of souppy phrasing-sai sity or in the outside world, a whole, employers had very little Ferguson is the wildest farce of that, they were attacking under The result of his idea is the to criticise 01 to find fault recent American politics,
cover of an inquiry into foot-and- | with in the system of elementary
mouth disease, but it is my foot, education. Indeed, they would
The spearhead of the attack was ke to congratulate the teaching
my mouth, my eradication!" profession on the way in which it
one Dan Moody, Attorney-General of the State, whom Ma had looked carried out its arduous duties.
The real trouble
upon as one of Jim's special pro- (lyseums) women may continue to tha Was
teges. His researches brought to teach languages, mathematics, elementary schools were trying to
Mrs. Ferguson was not a, politi-light a series of astounding scan-physics, science, and economy, full the twofold purposа
of cul woman.
She had been, as she dals, particularly in the depart while in the lower grades, of preparatory school and a finishing said, a housewife for thirty years ment of road-building. A most schools they may continue to school. His Association com-and nothing more. and she lavish programme was started, teach all such subjects, including plained that the curriculum was "hadn't thing but common the contracts being handed out Ilterature, history, and philo- But she had a husband, by Farmer Jim in the name of sophy. They may also teach all little in the way of holding up to known throughout the State as the State Executive on a fantastic these in the girls' higher lyceum young people the romance of in- "Farmer Jim." and he knew what
scale.' Thus it was shown that schools. dustry, too little attention given he wanted. Elected Governor tea one company secured a contract to to the fact that the factory, and years ago, he had been impeached make 1,050 miles of highway for not the office, was the main place for the maladministration of pab Four million dollars. It built 427 They should be taught that the ad-lic funds and Bethroned. He was ailes, made a profit of a million, ministrative jobs could not be
and when the facts had been ex done properly by people without
posed was made to return 600,000 factory, experience..
for some could not be put in nomination. dollars to the State Exchequer. It months past, has been holding That being so, he called his wife was farther shown that road can conferences of teachers and focul to the rescue, and she was will-nets to the tune of 20 million dollars had been, given out on employers in many paris 'of Lon-jing enough.
terms that represented a cost to don, said his experience was that? The election was, as they say, the people of Texas some four the lower classes produced some scream." Tésus belongs to the times greater than was necessary of the best brains they had. Solid South and is all Démocratie. The exposure was astonishingly Generally speaking, the education The fights therefore take place successful, and humiliating; and kiven in the elementary schools within the one party, and Mrs. those who know anything of was sound. The people of these Pertson's only serious oppone American politics will not aur islands must live mostly on their was the nominee of the Ku Klux hrains, which were largely under-Klan. "Ma" had no political rated.
weapons, but since in Texas they In the Landon School of Print-ght about Mother and Home, ing, of which he was chairman, Church and Drink, she was easily they had to spend 25 per cent. a match for the Klan champion. of their time in the teaching of "Me for Ma" was the badge word primary subjects. Very few were dy her adherents. "Not Me for able to spell properly, most of too much Pa" her enemies. them wrote badly, and it was difi-torted. And, as Texas was soon cult to find pupils who could read aloud properly. He was bound, however, to say there were some very bright people among them. As a recent examination of these pupils, some good ideas, of which the directors had never thought, were forthcoming from the pupils, a. the spelling and writing were far from satisfactory.
Lord Riddell, who,
Mr. T. G. Tibbey, the head teacher of a London Central
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side of such schools. They must try to get their brighest minds into the factory instead of into the office,
In the discussion which follow- ætl, 14 Ballersca continuation school teacher (Mr. Bell), sald that young Bolsheviks were made, not from Russia, or by Mr. Cook, but by that type of industry which employed a boy at 14 and turned him out at 17.
MOSCOW INTERVENES.
COMMUNISM COLLAPSING IN AUSTRIA,
Vienna, January 19-There can be but little doubt that the Com- munist Party in this country is approaching the end of its exist- ence. The Comrgurists were never very strong in Austria, and have greatly suffered from inter- nal dissensions.
Dr. Troy and other active mem- bera, who were excluded from the party because they held opinions of their own, are going to form a spacial group. This group wants to canvass the factories, with a view to securing 200,000 votes. and signatures to enforce a Re- ferendum on the proposal that "the property of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant Churches, and of the Hapsburgs" should be come public property and be used for extending the construction of water-power works, for the elec-. trification of the railways, and opening up now possibilities to labour. The soil, incidentally, is To be allotted: freeöf- charge to labourers, unemployed, and farmers.
But the chances of this "Opposi tion" are as insignificant as those of the loyal" remnant of the Com- munists, who have appealed to Moscow for help, whence a com2 mission is to arrive here in a few. days in order to deal with the in- corrigible elements.
determined to get back, but was stopped by a legal injunction which declared that his name
prised to learn that it made the plitical fortune of Mr. Dar Moody, Ma predicted that i would. It is he who takes over the Governorship from her this weak.
Pardons for Bootleggers. Ma Ferguson goes out in a blaze, of excitement entsed by the show
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Thus before long women will! be excluded from the competitive examinations for the higher school posts which cover the subjects mentioned, but as it is not pro- posed to exercise suck exclusion until the end of 1927 it is to be noted that for the present women teachers remain at their posts.
er of pardons in which she has indulged. This was not a late development. She began pardon- ing early in Wer first year, con- victed bootleggers being the spe cal object of her tenderness The point here is a little puzzling. for Ma is a Dry, and one of those Drys who contend that the offen- dern against Prohibition are all well-to-do. Indeed, she
caused Of these railway accidents in an uproar by offering a reward of 1926 in which passengers lost $500 to anyone who could bring their lives, two (points cut The in a violator of the Volstead Law Railway Gazette) occurred during worth less than $5,000! Anyhow, the general strike, and could not the wholesale pardons have been have occurred under normal con- Ma's speciality.
Two Jowish rabbis have been elected members of the Hungarian Upper House-Dr. Immanuel Loew, of Szegedin, for the Reform element, and Dr. Koppel Reich, of Budapest, for the Orthodox sec- tion.
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