Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1928 — Page 6

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PUPIL FAILURES IN THE SCHOOLS Editor’s note: The following article was prepared and Issued by the Better Schools League, Inc., 53 West Jack son Boulevard. Chicago, 111. Year after year veiled tragedies go on in our schools. These are the failures of children to make their grade. When we once realise the moral effect on the child of failure to pass to a higher grade, we can understand its seriousness. We know failure in the business world can cripple the fighting spirit cf a business man and blight his future. The plight of the discouraged student is less obvious. That it is just as real and just as potent educators are well aware, though parents may not be. The Federal Bureau of Education figures indicate that out of 1000 children who enter the Ist grade 311 enter the eighth. Fifty-one (51) or approximately one-sixth of those dron out before entering high school. Out of the 260 entering high school only--107 graduate. Approximately half of these enter college and only a third finish. It will be seen that educational mortality is strikingly high. Eliminating the economic factor, it is unquestionably true that one of the chief causes is inability to make the grade. Parents and laymen are prone to lay the blame for this on the teacher or on the educational system. They do not perhaps realize that education is two-fold-in the home as well as in the school. The facts here-to-fore mentioned are familiar to educators and the schools go to great lengths to supply the remedy. But without the cooperation of the parent the school is handicapped. We are now approaching the season of greatest fatality in schol life. Parents who are concerned over their children's failure are apt to think of it in terms of an extra period of schooling. The monotony of the repetition of work, or as injurious to family pride. They rarely reckon the effect on the morale of the child or the expense of "repeaters" to the community. Regardless of the cause of failure, the fact remains that it is one of the greatest calamaties that can enter a child’s life. The pupil is dubbed a failure at an impressionable age. The result may be an infeiiority complexhard to throw off. If failure is harden an adult, it is correspondingly hard on the child, if failure in business results in loss to other members of a community, likewise failure of pupils means loss to the taxpayers. Several factors operate to prevent school failures or to reduce them to a

minimum. One is the cooperation Os parents ami schooi authorities. Report cards, whether expressed in grades, letters, progress charts or any other form that these reports may take, are indicative of the child's tendencies. When these reports show close proximity to the danger line, frequent conferences between parent and teacher may save the day for the child as well as the taxpayer. The schools have always pleaded for this cooperation. It may not be generally appreciated by the public but school systems have adopted various devices to remedy this condition. These involve such agencies as opportunity rooms, educational guidance, individual instruction, motivated teaching, special provision for the undernourished, and health supervision. Then, too. the provision for special subjects, such as Art, Music, Man ual and Household Arts, has saved many a child. These subjects afford an opportunity for self-expression and frequently form the inteiest-contact. Parents must be alert to their responsibility with regard to the child and the taxpayer so that they may. on the one hand, safeguard the self-res-pect and self-confidence of the child, and, on the other hand, that they may reduce to a minimum financial loss to taxpayers due to pupil failures. Issued by Better Schools League, Inc., 53 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois. o — Instructor In Muncie Normal Commits Suicide Muncie, Ind., Oct. 4 —(U.R)— Prof. Richard A. Gantz, 49, instructor of physiology and biology at Ball Teachers College, and well known in educational circles throughout Indiana and Illinois, committed suicide here uesday by taking poison. Grantz had been connected with several of the leading colleges of the state. He has been a member of the Ball faculty since 1919. Despondent over ill health was believed the motive, o Fort Wayne Man Heads Indiana Chiropractors Gary, Ind., Cct. 4—lU.RI—Lr. J. O. Groves, Fort Wayne, was elected president of the Indiana chiropactor’s association at the concluding session of the convention here. Marion was selected as the convention site for next year. Other officers elected included: Dr. James S. Thorne. South Bend, vicepresident; Dr. E. L. Rice, South Bend and Dr. W. A. Thompson, Marion, were elected to the board of directors. Dr. Maude Jones, Indianapolis, secretary and Dr. Jeanette Van Tilburg, Indianapolis, treasurer. —o Cet the Habit—Trade at Home, It Paje

A Dor for a Smith Derby yl, ■■- . l MhOf Wf ‘ J ' I Governor Al Smith trading one of his famous brown headpieces for a pup belonging to Thomas O’Malley (left) of the Milwaukee, Wis., Brown Derby Club. The pup’s ancestry is a matter of conjecture.

Horse Thief Detective Association Ends Meet Crawfordsville, Ind.. Oct. 4—(U.R) — The National horse thief detective association closed its sixty-eighth annual convention here today after being in session since Tuesday. H. L. Walker. Montpelier, is National president. Wells Countv Corn Buskers Plan Contest Bluffton. Oct. 4—County Agent M. S Smith announced /teday that plans* were going ahead toward holding a big corn husking contest about November 1. Fred Cords, of Lancaster township, last year’s champion will automatically be a contestant this year. These in charge of the contest this year announce that they want one contestant from each township in the county contest this year. Entries may be made at the county agent’s office

Jfi Safil 8 You Are Invited to Hear | * Hon. John M. Parker : S Bp I FORMER GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA Mi ijHear this famous orator and statesman discuss 15 national campaign issues. ’ Hon. Don C. Ward J Mi Mi Democratic candidate for Congress from the Eighth ■r Congressional district will also speak. | Friday Night, Oct. 5 | 17:30 o’dock-Circuit Court Room I S Band concert by the Decatur General Electric band. Acquaint yourself with the issues in the great Qe Mi campaign by hearing these two speakers. L g Eg POL. ADVT.

I up until Oct. 17. If more than one entry Is made from a township, a township elimination contest will be held prior to the county contest. Those in charge are also desirous of securing a good field of corn in which : to hold the contest. They want a field ■ with rows at least eighty rods long and located nut over one half mile from a pair of good scales. —j o— Bats Shun Daylight Bats s[>end the hours of daylight in ; eaves, ruins, hollow trees, garrets and * similar hilling places. They sometimes resort to caverns In vast numbers. At dusk they fly forth alone or In pairs, searching for food. o Two Classes ■, There are just two classes: Those who make more money than you think they do, and those who make less than you think they do. —Los Angeles > Times.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1928.

GIRL’S LETTER FINDS MOTHER AFTER 2 TEARS Des Moines, la., Oct. 4—(U.R>—Thir-teen-year-old Mildred Hewitt wanted to find her mother whom she hadn't heard from for two years. "Grandma don’t want me anymore" she wrote to Postmaster Edwin J. Frisk here explaining the situation at the home of her grandmother in Detroit and asked the postmaster to help her find her mother. "1 haven’t any money but a stamp,” Mildred wrote. "So I can’t hire a detective to firtd her. Will you help me?" Despite limited clues, the postmaster located the girl’s mother. When told that her daughter was looking for her, the mother was overjoyed. "For two years I have been writ ing to her and she never answered. 1 guess Mildred didn’t get the letters, she said. Mildred's father ami mother were divorced several years ago and the mother is married again to a Des Moines man. Mildred has three half-sisters she has never seen who are anxiously waiting for their sister in Detroit to come to Des Moines. o Get the Hahlt—l rade at Home. It Pay» Change them all at one time onee a year . • With average use a good radio set needs a complete new set of RC A Radiotrons at least once a year. This insures good reception. Old tubes used with new tubes lower the efficiency of the new ones. KCA Radiotron "Radiotrons are the Heart of your Radio Set”

Texas Boy Rides Bike 22 . Miles To School Daily Tyler, Tex., Oct. 3 —4U.RX - A boy whose ampltlon for an education was so great that lie rode a bicycle 22 miles every day to school for six years, has attained at least one of his ambitions —that of attending college. Jesse llaylor. started to school in Tyler in the seventh grade, riding a bicycle from his home 11 miles away. each morning, and back again in the afternoon. Jesse entered Tyler Junior College this year, after having graduated from the Tyler high school last term. During the time Jesse was in high school he made straight "A" grades in every subject. o— Greatest Railroad Center Chicago Is the largest railroad center in the United States and in the rorld. — -o — INTERN ATK IN Al. PAPER COMPANY New York, September 26, 1928. The Board of Directors have declared a quarterly dividend of sixty (60c) cents a share, on the common stock of this company, payable November 15th. 1928, to Common Stock holders of record, at the close of business November Ist, 1928. Checks to be mailed. Transfer books will not close. OWEN SHEPHERD. Vice-President and Treasurer. Oct. 4-25

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