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J r i 'V j. ,n -,V ... ..ifiti,.. , THE BEE ; OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1920. ' 1 , Extension of State Control in Learning Urged by School Head - Columbus, O., Aug. 22. A larger measure of state control and closer articulation of the department of education vin state universities with the state department of public in struction is advocated by Edwin C. Broome, superintendent of schools at East . Orange, N- J- He is pro fessor of school administration at the summer session at Ohio State university here. ' ' Discussing "Freedom of Supervi sion," Superintendent Broome de clared that the schools will not func tion adequately in the education of the children of this nation until: "The people are free and disposed to select the ablest and most high minded citizens for their boards of education. "Boards are free to serve the schools without being accountable to anybody but the citizens. "They are free and disposed to seek the ablest talent available for ..i L - e -i inc management 01 ineir scnoois. ) Superintendents are as tree to manage schools as are the managers of big business interpriscfc and can devote 100 per cent of their time to educational leadership. " "Superintendents are free to select their associates and their teachers on the basis of merit alone, regardless of local consideration and outside pressure. ' "Superintendents, principals nd teachers are free to live their lives as 1 independently as a tanner or a man of business. All teacheryreceive compensation insure a life ot comfort. refinement. rs have more voice-in de- Nebraska Girl Made Dramatic Instructor Sufficient to dignity and "Teachers Mis.. Elizabeth Eleanor Erazirn will be instructor in dramatic art at the Misner school of the spoken word the coming season. Miss Erazim is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, the Alvienc school of dramatics of New York, and has taken ' special work at the American academy of dramatic art in -New York. She will be remembered in the leading role in "Fair and Warmer" in Omaha last winter. Fiction HARVEST. My Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Dodd, Mead Co. This is a story it. fused widi the mellow sunlight of a beautiful Octo ber afternoon. The scenes arc those of the English countryside where Mrs. Ward is at hct best. The heroine, La striking woman of iO, is one of England's woman farmers during the war. At the tjme of the first harvest on hrr farm and at the period of the full ripening of her own life, there comes to her a won derful love 'affair that sweeps her off her feet. But in her girlhood she had married and the marriage turned out tragically. That is the dark cloud that hangs always on her horizon. Mrs. Ward has woven the warp and woof of this story in a way that shows to full advantage 'er ripened, mature art. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. By John Philip SoUKa. -Small. Maynard & Co. John Philip Sousa, in addition to his success as a composer of music, has written a number of novels, dis tinguished for real wit and shrewd observation. In "Tltf Transit of Venus" he has given us a charming love story of unusual flavor, com bined with brilliant, penetrating criticism of life, in a strange set ting. A THOUSAND TEARS OP YESTER DAYS. By H. Spencer Lewis. The Col lege Press. This is a mystical story of revela tion in which William Rollins, a business man. in trying to seek out the name of the unknown painter of a landscape, falls, into a state of consciousness wherein the past is disclosed to him. He sees himself as he was in former incarnations and probes into the mystery of birth, death and life. A story for those in terested in the occult. I clubs I Blokes By TWTC ENCHANTED GOLF Robert Marshall. Frederick A, Maj. Jacky Gore, sportsman and self-confessed expert in every known sport except golf of which he knows nothing being madly in love with a millionaire American widow who is a coif enthusiast, is driven into $ jealous frenzy by the golfing; exploits of his fellow clubman and' rival in lnvp ' On trip snur of the I moment he challenges this cham pion to a match on the links on even terms, allowing himself one week to learn the game. A fair field to win the lady is the stake. The out come develops in the most humorous golf story ever told. 1 HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS. By Calvin Cooltdge. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. This volume contains a selection from the speeches and addresses made by Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts. They pre pithy and convincing and permeated with true Americanism and practical idealism as applied to government, society and citizenship. SKINNER MAKES IT FASHIONABLE. By Henry Irving Dodge. Harper & Eros. . Skinner has olaved tunes on the nation's funny-bone before, but never a merrier one than this. Here is the tale of-how, with all the charm of a Pied Piper. Skinner lured ex travagance and the H. C. of L. and, incidentally, gloom out of his na tive Meadville. THE LINE'S BUSY. By Albert Edward Ullmnn. Frederick A. Stokes Co. Goldie, the telephone operator in a laree hotel, writes her friend. Myrtle, all about the multitude of. things that happen around her busy switchboard. Her spicy talcs are full of spontaneous humor and of vivid slang that provokes a chuckle in every line. Goldie herself is a warm-hearted trump of a girl, with a kindly wisdom borrk of snaring other people's burdens. She straight ens out the love affairs of several of her friends and, unexpectedly, finds her own happinVss close at hand. TIPPLER'S LUCK: THE GAY ADVEN TURES OF A MUSICAL AMATKUR. By R. It. Schauffler. Delightful little sketches held tor gether by a very slight thread of romance. The scenes for these sketches are laid in America and Europe during the time of the great war, but the book may not be classed with war literature. The boy,' who we see grow to manhood in these pages, finds a 'cello in the attic 'of the old home and learns to play by stealth because he knows his father will object, the family having al ways played the horn. The efforts of the boy to get the 'cello out of the house unknown to anyone ex cept the girl, to whose house it is to be taken, show that he has the spirit of a real boy. From this de velops his one and only love affair, whioh lasts all through the book and forever afterwards. termining the administrational pol icies""vhich are to control their pro fessional conduct. PREPARE YOURSELF for a High Class Office Position Be a Private Secretary Our courses, di and evening classes, individual instruction in Slenographq. Dictaphone Comptometrt). Bookkeeping. Higher Accounting and Auditina unll prepare uou for such oork in less time and in a more up-to-date mannner than could be obtained elsewhere in the Qtest.- A POSITION SECURED FOR EVERY GRADUATE FALL TERM BEGINSEPTEMBER "Jth ARRANGE FOR YOUR COURSE NOW DWORAK SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING, 18th and Farnam Sts. Saint Mary's, Knoxville, Illinois j -, . ' 53d Year " An Episcopal school for girls 12 to 20 years of age.. Standard preparatory work and two years of advanced work offered. Secre tarial and Cultural Courses. Advantages in Music, Expression and Domestic Science, For Catalogue Apply to the Dean. Mount St. Mary's Seminary 15th and Castelar Sts. Omaha. Neb. , Boarding and Day School for Girls and Young Ladies Conducted by the Sistersf Mercy. Presents complete Academic Course, Commercial Department, Special Normal Training Advantages and Splendid Facilities in Art and Music. Saint Katharine's School (EPISCOPAL) Under the care of the Sister of St. Mary. A thorough preparatory school for a limited number of girls, recommended by Eastern colleges, beautifully situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi Address the Sister Superior, Saint Katharine's School, Davenport Iowa. ' ' Young Man, What Is to Be Your Future? 1 Tha entrance requirement of all accredited Veterinary College -have been advanced to four year of Hi(h School training or it equivalent. Thia will raise the standard of Veterinary Science to the level of other learned pro fessions and with it great financial opportunities makes it a desirable profesatoa. Write Investigate It Before You Decide Your Future The St Joseph Veterinary Collge Accredited by the Department of Agriculture of the Federal Government .. ST. JOSEPH, MO. ' . ' R. C. Moore, Pres. - E. A. Logan, Deaa Stanley College :: Northwestern MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. add Stan ley Hall 1690 Two years JUNIOR COLLEGE work fully accredited at University of Minnesota. STANLEY HALL opens 31st year Septem ber 21, 1920. Prepares successfully tor entrance to all women's colleges. Normal course in Home Economics. Secretarial and Vocational courses. New building and enlarged grounds in best residential dis trict of the city. NORTHWESTERN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC begins 36th year September S, 1S20. Splendid artist faculty and improved curriculum. Courses for teachers in Pub lic School Music and Public School Art. For illustratad catalog of either school, address OLIVE A. EVfcRS, Pres. , 2108-2122 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Conserv atory of Music Art and 1920 As the boy grows, to manhood he determines to become a wandering musician and goe from place to place, always finding a ready and hearty welcome. When he is called to the war his music allows him to furnish entertainment for the men, and it is in the capacity of enter tainer that he again meets the girl who had played with him in his boy hood concerts. The whole is very delightful, light and lovely. MISS I.tlLU BKTT. By Zona Gale. D. Appleton & Co. , In a small western town with her brother-in-law and her married sis ter lives Miss Lulu Bett, never "strong enough" to take a job, yet able to do all the housework and serye -as the family drudge". Then cornea marriage, which, instead of being the promised' escape from a, cheerless existence, develops into tragedy. In the end, however. Miss Lulu Bett; through patient; enduring heroism, finds the way to happiness. Free from all sentimentality, . Miss Gale gives us the emotional and spiritual history of Miss Lulu Bett with the true artist's skill and power. For the purpose of aiding indus tries in distress, notably those in the textile branches, a German econo mic corporation has been formed with a capital of 100,000 marks. I Marauetfe JU larquene. t-f - MA niversitv. Non-Denominational In All Its Pro fessional Department". Co-operative Oo-eduratlonal Begin Your Course Law, Ropt. 13; Dentistry and Med icine, Oct. 1; Journalism and Kco nomlm, Sept. M: Engineering;, Sept. 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Fall Term Opens in September For particulars write MISS LORETTA DE LONE 3119 Lincoln Bird. Omaha, Neb. VJ m ait w LEARN tire repairing and retreading; also tube repairing and all rubber vul canizing IN lHfi ONLY EXCLUSIVE TIRE REPAIRING SCHOOL I N OMAHA. Time Mks liarals. tIS. Writs er sell National Tire Shop, 17th and Capitol Ave. The Best Schools and Colleges Advertise In The Omaha Bee OUR LADY Op VICTORY ACADEMY COUNCIL' BLUFFS, IOWA ' ' Conducted by the Sisters of Mercy in i i SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY DES'MOINES, IOWA Conducted by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary AN EXCELLENT school for girls and young women. Affiliated with the Catholic University of America and accredited to th State University of Iowa. Course of study embraces Primary, Prepara tory and Academic Departments. Three general courses of study offered by the Academic Department English and Classical English and Scientific, and English and Commercial Department of Home Eco nomics. Special Commercial Courses of one or two years. A Conservatory of Music which affords every facility for attaining the highest proficiency in music. A Conservatory of Art which embraces a complete , course of instruction in oil, water colors, pastel, deco rative art and china painting. Write for catalogue and further information to Sister Superior, Si Joseph Academy. ' .. V ,. ... . Dak nl nina Tvurn - - '1 till lite tn .i.., - " II M lit iirr1 A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS that offers exceptional advantages Mus!cArt and Expression. Also Classical and Commercial Courses. Forty minutes by trolley from Omaha. For catalogue address: SISTER SUPERIOR, OUR LADY OF VICTORY ACADEMY . Mt. Loretto, Council Bluffs, Iowa. TRINITY" COLLEGE SIOUX CITY, IOWA ' : . -. - .'. j. FOR BOARDERS AND DAY STUDENTS Healthfully Located Two Miles Beyond the City Proper 1 Col legiate-Academic-Cdmmercial Courses Buildings Modern and Thoroughly Equipped School Opens September 6 Address Reverend President j j WHERE CAN . I FIND THE RIGHT SCHOOL? This 1s an oft-repeated question puzzling to parents as well as children. This question is one of vital importance Jt'o the welfare of your child. The selection of the Right School is a problem worthy of your highest consideration. THE BEE maintains an information bureau in conjunction' with the Ask Mr. Foster Service on the balcony of Burgess-Nash Store. This service department will serve you at any time. Our abundant information is always at your command. Write or call any time about any school. Address all corre spondence to The Bee's Educational Department JUST ANOTHER WAY THE BEE SERVES ITS READERS BEST . . . : : i Nebraska Wesleyan University, University Place, Lincoln, Nebraska WWPxM $$2r 38X - v'vtK'.x -'IkVcV JVcxm . ,. mmmmk ezJ k , Best Kind of Environment for Study and Character Building. High Grade Faculty., Everything in the Way of Standard f ' Education in College of Liberal Arts and Sciences " ' 'v Teachers9 College AcademySchool of Expression School of Art Conservatory of Music -.Fall Quarter Commences September 13 . Address, Registrar, Division B, for Literature i s 1 ? j 6 i. I Hi ' ' ....