The Week in Review (1919) A Unionized Police Struggle at Macon, Gorgia.

The Journal of Education, volumen 90, nmero

11. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos. Trustees of Boston University. Pginas 300 y 3001.

Trustees of Boston University

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Source: The Journal of Education, Vol. 90, No. 11 (2247) (SEPTEMBER 25, 1919), pp. 300-301
Published by: Trustees of Boston University
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 300 September 25, 1919

THE WEEK IN
there was a quick overturn in the situation ; the
THE BOSTON POLICE STRIKE.
new chief
Except for the subsidence of violence was forced to resign ; and both the
of riot-
ing, the situation produced in Boston by the firemen declared that they would
police and the
not give
police strike shows no marked change. up their
Men in unions. This will be the chief
"khaki, on horseback and on foot, have re-en- issue at the pending city election, one of the
candidates for Mayor standing on a platform of
forced the volunteer police and the 300 or more
loyal police, and there has been some relaxingdeunionization. The whole incident is a strik-
of the tense apprehension on the part of theing illustration of what may happen in any com-
public which marked the first days of the strike.munity wfliiic'h has a unionized police force, when
Since Governor Coolidge took full command on a labor conflict is in progress.
the third day, working in full co-operation with THE SENATE AND THE TREATY.
Police Commissioner Curtis, the public at large
The Senate has opened its debate on the Peac
feels considerably reassured. But the original
Treaty and Covenant, and is to discuss it in op
contestants are as resolute as ever, the police
session continuously until it is ratified or^ r
looking to the various labor unions for support
jected, except for the interruption occasioned b
in their position, while the Police Commissioner the ceremonies attending the welcome to Ge
has discharged the police leaders whom he at eral Pershing. Treaty discussions are ordi-
first suspended, and refuses to consider any ap-
narily carried on in executive sessions ; but there
peals for the reinstatement of policemen who are obvious reasons for departing from prece-
wrent out on strike, regarding their places as dents in this case. There are before the Sen-
vacated by their violation of their oaths, and ate the majority report, prepared by Senator
themselves as mutineers, rather than as ordinary
strikers.
Lodge, the minority report, presented by Sena-
tor Hitchcock, and an individual minority report,
THE FIREMEN STICK TO THEIR JOBS.
presented by Senator McCumber, who wishes
ratification,
The firemen of Boston definitely refused to go and presents six reservations of his
own,
out on strike - thereby greatly relieving theas substitutes
pub- for the committee reserva-
lic anxiety. In a statement signed bytions. the There
offi-will be intense interest in watch-
cers of their union, they declared themselves ing the lineup
al- of the Senate, when votes are
ways opposed to lawlessness, disordertaken and on
vio-
specific reservations.
lence in any form ; and quoted a provision of
D'ANNUNZIO'S RAID ON FIUME.
their constitution, which says : "It shall be
deemed inadvisable to strike, or take active part An unexpected situation has been created by
the raid of Gabriele d'Annunzio, the Italian poet
in strikes, as our position is different from most
organized workers, as we are formed to protect and patriot, upon Fiume, at the head of an ariy
the lives and properties of the communities in reputed to number 26,000 men. This act, while
reflecting
case of fire or other serious hazards." This posi- Italian aspirations for the control of
tion they declared that they would keep. If the the city, was without the sanction of the Italian
police had had an equally keen sense of their Government, which was placed in an extremely
responsibilities, Boston would have been spared embarrassing position because of it. The im-
the most disgraceful incidents in its history. mediate result was to plunge the city into an-
archy - the local authorities being ejected by
A UNIONIZED POLICE STRUGGLE AT MACON,
d'Annunzio's troops, and the Italian General
GEORGIA.
Pittaluga arrested. The street crowds tore
The question of a unionized police force down is the
be-Allied flags, and the British and French
ing fought out at Macon, Georgia, under condi-
troops, who were garrisoning the city under or-
tions which suggest comparison with the derssitua-
from the Peace Council, barricaded them-
tion that exists at Boston. At Macon, a strike selves within their quarters, expecting immedi-
of textile workers has been in progress for four
ate attack. Later, they evacuated the city. The
or five weeks, attended with rioting and violence.
incident creates a dangerous and highly explo-
Early in the strike the police formed themselves
sive situation.
into a union, in affiliation with the Central Labor
AN "INTERNAL AFFAIR/'
Union, and, from that time on, their sympathies
and activities were on the side of the strikers. The Italian authorities wish to have this dar-
ing attack treated as "an internal affair," and not
'They refused to do anything for the protection
as aon
of the non-union workers, who tried to carry violation of* the conditions of the Peace
the mills. After a while the people wearied Treaty;
of and Premier Nitti has addressed the
this situation, and the Governor was about to be Italian Parliament in a vigorous speech de-
called upon for troops, when the civil service nouncing d'Annunzio, and promising to take
commission demanded the resignation of the energetic measures to end the extraordinary sit-
chief of police within three hours. The demand uation. The Premier has behind him a majority
was complied with, and a new chief was ap- in Parliament, but a sincere attempt to put down
pointed, who promised to stand by the commis- the d'Annunzio forces would pretty surely in-
sion in its effort to deunionize the police, and the volve a pretty close approach to revolution. As
strikers in the mills went back to work. But for the Peace Council, it is in n hurry to take

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 September 25, 1919 301

-action, and begun.

isRelieved of the tyranny and brutality
content, for t
to treat the raid as
of Turkish rule, there an
seems interna
no good reason why
course can Palestine might not prosper
hardly be in Jewish hands.
prolon
has been feltAt least,
from it is unthinkablethe
that, in framing the
beginn
settlement, Turkish
on peacewhich Preside
treaty, the Peace Conference
would inevitably
should allow Turkey tobreed trou
retain control of a re-
anticipated that
gion so sacred toit
Jews andwould
Christians alike. com
violent a form. A TEXAS HURRICANE.
A ZIONIST PALESTINE.
On Sunday, September 21, a terrific hurricane1
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, of the United swept over Corpus Christi, Texas, and the neigh-
States Supreme Court, who has recently re-
boring towns and islands, making at least 4,000
turned from a visit to Palestine, is at the head peopie homeless, destroying more than $10,000,-
of a movement which has as its aim the restora- 000 of property, and causing the loss of nearly
tion of Palestine to Jewish control, - a project500 lives. For days after the storm dead bodies
dear to the hearts of American Jews, and one drifted in to shore, most of them unrecogniz-
with which the Christian world may be expectedable. The stricken towns were nearly cut off
to sympathize. Judge Brandeis has unfolded a from communiction with the outside world, and
detailed plan of organization - the fruit of longthere was difficulty in reaching them with sup-
study and personal observation ; and reportsplies. The Red Cross and the Salvation Army
that the political situation concerning a Jewishwere prompt in organizing relief measures, and
Palestine is entirely satisfactory, and that thea government vessel was sent to the flooded dis-
period of practical, preparatory work has already tricts with sorely-needed food supplies.

S
BY W. FRANKLIN JON KS

Dean of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

[San Diego Union.]

If your chiiild is left-handed don't try to make of

iit right-handed. It was born wiitih a major arm aud
la/nd in transferring the use of the hands you may voc
disconnect the 44 wires" and stammering may that all four of these centres are normally
result. located in one (hence ' the superior) hemisphere
Ninety-six per cent, of the race are right- of the brain : namely, the left 'hemisphere in the
handed and the remaining four per cent, left- born right-handed individual, and the right
handed. (hemisphere An the born left-handed person; and
One-half of <t1ho people who stammer have
that though the muscles of the vocal organs are
transferred the use of their hands. 'anatomically connected with eadh hemisphere
One-third of all lef Mo-right transfers are
they are functionally connected writh only one ;
istaimmeirer.s. and, in so far as the hand is an organ of speech,
One-'sixth of all right -to-left transfers at
areleast, it shares tihe same symmetry.
stammerers. Wlhen we cotme to speculate on the fact that
Less than one per cent, of "pure*' banded stammering
indi-commonly begins before the age of
viduals are stammerers. eight years, we may assume that, since this is the
Tihe fundamental fact of handedness, so far as
period when the language centres are being de-
veloped, it is also the time when the functional
we can yet unravel it, is the fact of congenital
cerebral asvmmetrv. The pr esem, t -day knowl- unity of these centres is the least stable. The
edge of brain psychology is incomplete, but a
transfers are the probable stammerers, probably
fo-r
spculait i ve treatment of our problem in terms ofit'h e reasion that tihe unity of the language
the 'best theory that physiological psychologycentres
has is so likely to be disturbed.
to offer, will at least be better than no attempt Nagging,
at exasperating, threatening, hancl-ty-
a-H a t explanation. ing, mitten-wearing and other <%home-made
devices" to stop left-ha.ndedness in children su-
We may take as our starting point the prevail-
ing physiological theory that there are four perinduce moirbid sensitivity and nervous in-
highly specialized centres involved in the speech stability.

The school has paid relatively more attention to the backward pupils than the superior
ones, . . . and yt the latter will be the ones who will contribute the most to the advancement of
society as a whole. - Daniel Starch.

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