hool under the management of
school principal and superintendent? So complicated and many-sided is
the problem of working together with one's neighbor for mutual benefit
that it is a safe rule for the schools to adopt: _We shall do nothing
that is unnecessary or extravagant. We shall have done our part if we
do well what no one else can do. Whatever any agency can do better than
we, we shall leave to that agency. Work that another agency ought to
have done and has left undone, we shall try to have done by that
agency._

[Illustration: IMMEDIATELY OPPOSITE THE MODEL TENEMENTS, BUT
UNINFLUENCED
"Getting things done" by the Tenement House Department their
special need]

I know a hospital where a welfare nurse was recently employed. Within a
few blocks were three different relief agencies and two
visiting-nurse's associations, having among them over one hundred
visitors and nurses going to all sections of Manhattan. This nurse had
the choice of telephoning to one of these agencies and asking it to
call at the needy home of one of her hospital patients, or of going to
the home herself. Had she chosen to use another agency, she could have
been the means of furnishing the kind of help needed in every needy
home discovered in her hospital rounds, but she chose to do the running
about herself and thus of helping ten families where she ought to have
helped five hundred. Much the same condition confronts the school that
tries to do all extra work for its child instead of seeing that the
work is done. Illustration is afforded by the New York tenement
department. Whereas European cities have built a few model tenements,
New York City secured a law declaring that everybody who built a
tenement and everybody who owned a tenement should provide sanitary
surroundings. At the present time a philanthropist, by spending two
million dollars, could give sanitary surroundings to thirty-five
families; by spending each year the interest on one tenth that sum he
could insure the enforcement of the tenement laws affecting every
tenement resident in New York City.

If schools are to perform surgical operations, they are in danger of
being sued for malpractice; discipline will be interfered with.
Finally, let us not forget that we are dealing with buildings,
teachers, and school institutions as they exist. Where education is
made compulsory, the unpleasant and the controversial should be kept
out of school. Because a democratic