Foreign-Born Teacher

Poland and Turkey are not to be confused. Poland wants to be educationally reorganized by Americans. Turkey does not. Moreover Turkey has excluded American teachers from its own schools, whereas Poland has engaged Miss Martha Mazurowski, principal of public school No. 13 in Buffalo, N. Y., to aid in remodeling its entire educational structure. Poland's engagement of Miss Mazurowski may be a delicate compliment to the excellence of American education. Or it may be a generous recognition of the successful administration of an American school by a Pole. But in either case Poland is to be credited with the best of intentions. It is not the least significant feature of the American public school system that its operation in the great cities depends to a considerable extent upon the effective work of teachers who are themselves foreign-born or are the children of foreign-born citizens.