Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1927 — Page 3

OCT. 21, 1927

EDUCATION ‘CA UGHT, ’ NOT TA UGHT, SA YS GLENN FRANK

SET SCHEDULE FOR LEARNING IS DENOUNCED Views Over-Organizing as One of Biggest Perils in Schools. CONFLICT IS NECESSARY Beware of Smoothly Running Institution, Is Warning of Educator. “The great American adventure of education everybody-on scheduled time,” was scored Thursday night by Glenn Frank, Wisconsin University president, noted writer and lecturer, before a general session of the seventy-fourth annual State Teachers’ Association convention in Cadle Tabernacle. “Education religion is caught not taught and genuine education will always flee from the touch of the overorganized,” Frank said in discussing the “Disease of Institutionalism.’ Community Powerful School "The schools of a nation are the smallest part of its educational system. The community is the most powerful school and the practice of pouring millions of dollars into our schools with the idea that if we only make the mgood enough they will redeem our unlovely features, is doomed to fail,” Frank said. “The school and the school of life cannot be torn apart unless life is to become barren and education beokish. Great universities are not built in a vacuum to walk out like traveling salesmen with neatly wrapped parcels of salvation under their arms—they are part and parcel of the common life. The schools and the social order are interlaced and interlocked,” he said. Thinks Disorder Necessary Turning to the general evils of institutionalism, Frank said:^ “There is eternal conflict between the spirit of man and the institutions he creates. Most of us are chattels to our institutions. We are in bondage to our bank balances chained to our machines, committed to mass production. “Institutions that set out to discover truth end by defending doctrines,” he said. “Institutions that rise by rebels in turn crucify rebels.” Frank urged suspicion of an organization which was running smoothly in place of evidencing “the living disorder of growth.” Introduced by Aley He criticised the practice of having "entrance examinations” to educational institutions. “Men enter at the price of likemindedness,” he said. “In my opinion,” he said, “there is no cure for the disease of institutionalism.” He urged a “critical loyalty” on the part of teachers, however, which would result in betterment of their institution. Frank was introduced by Dr. Robert J. Aley, Butler University president. Miss Martha Whitacre of Richmond, retiring association president was the first speaker and urged retention of the State-wide organization. Guest of Alumni Here “The association puts on a common footing the president of our largest university and the teacher of the one-room rural school,” Miss Whitacre Said. "Character education” was advocated by C. W. Boucher of Valparaiso, incoming president. Frank was a guest of the Wisconsin University alumni at the Columbia Club following the talk.

TWO ARE HURT WHEN THREE AUTOS COLLIDE Purse Containing SIOO, Belonging to Injured Person, Stolen. Two persons were seriously injured Thursday when three automobiles collided at Gray and Michigan Sts. A purse containing SIOO, belonging to one of the injured, was stolen by someone in the crowd that gathered. Cars driven by F. W. Steinburger 42, of 310 N. Denny St., and Arthur Grau, 20, of 506 N. Sherman Dr., both were going west on Michigan St. Another was driven across Michigan St. by Miss Mary schad, 8, of 331 N. Arsenal Ave., when the trio collided. Mrs. Steinburger was hurled hrough the windshield and was 1 ent to Methodist Hospital with injuries. Police said Carl Schad, owner of the auto driven by Mary Schad, was cut on the head. Police charged Miss Schad with failure to. stop at a preferential street and assault and battery. ORDERS BREAK TESTS Week Starting Oct. 30 Designated by Schortemefer. Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier today decreed the week commencing Oct. 30 for Statewide automobile brake tests. Cooperation of all local police and sheriffs and motorists associations has been pledged State Police Chief Robert T. Hume announced. All cars will be stopped for testing by city, county or State officers. Sections will be marked on the pavement, where tests will be made, and those failing to pass will be required to have their brakes remedied at once. Cars whose brakes are found correct will be given a ■ticker bearing the date of test and name of officer who made it.

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School Child ’s A hsence Costs 45 Cents Daily

TEACHERS’ INTELLECTS ARE ATTACKED AS LAZY Columbia Professor Says School Workers Need Curiosity. Attacking the intellectual laziness and lack of curiosity of teachers, Dr. Thomas H. Briggs, professor of secondary education of Teachers’ College of Columbia University, spoke this morning before 1,500 teachers at the I. O. O. F. Hall, Pennsylvania and Washington Sts. “The number, variety and depth of one’s interests is the test of one’s education rather than the number of degrees obtained or the extent of a teacher’s experience,” he said. “The most terrible indictment of education is the fact that outside interests of graduate students in less than three per cent of cases comes from other sources than formal education.” Dr. Briggs spoke at 2 p. m. at Cadle tabernacle on “Feeling Attitudes.” THREE HURT AS AUTO CRASHES INTO TRAIN Two In Hospital at Ft. Wayne Have Serious Injuries. By United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Oct. 21. Dr. C. C. Kreigh, Ossian, itinerant eeye specialist, and Florence Huss, IS), Kendallville, are in a Ft. Wayne hospital in a critical condition, and Miss Emma Menzsl, 18, Kendallville. is seriously injured as the result of a crossing accident today. An automobile driven by Dr. Kreigh, in which the two women were passengers, crashed into a standing Vandalia freight train at the La Otto crossing. Dr. Kreigh’s legs were crushed and he is suffering from scalp wounds; Miss Huss suffered fractures of both upper and lower jaws and was bruised ,and Miss Menzel was bruised and lacerated. The party was en route here from Ft. Wayne when the accident occcurred. Dr. Kreigh had made his temporary headquarters here for a number of years.

STORE WINDOW BROKEN No Loot Reported Lost; Police Seek Two Youths. Two burglars believed to be youths broke a glass out of the front door at the Yates Hardware Store,, 974 W. Twenty-Seventh St., at midnight Thursday. Theodore Ellis and Williams Givens, both of 977 W. TwentySeventh St., called police after they heard falling glass and saw the two enter the store. C. M. Yates, the proprietor, said the cash register and contents were not touched and if merchandise was taken an invoice will reveal it.

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State Pays Out Money and Gets No Return, Nurses Are Told. “It costs the State of Indiana 45 cents a day to keep a child out of school,” said Miss Blanche Merry, State attendance officer, before the Indiana State Nurses’ Association, now in session at the Hotel Lincoln. ‘That is, for every day that a child is out of school the State pays out 45 cents and gets no return for its money. “Last year 625,000 days of school were lost in Indiana because of illness. Multiply this by 45 cents and you will have the sum total of what it costs the State to have its children ill.” Check Effect of Nurses iliss Merry said that careful statistics were being gathered to see whether or not the attendance average was higher in the schools that had the services of a public nurse. In one school that Miss Merry visited the large number of absentees could be directly traced to the fact that the school had no nurse. The schoolroom was unventilated and all the children vvere huddled up in sweaters. “They always are so cold,” the teacher said. Investigation discovered that nearly all of the asbences were caused by colds, influenza, whooping cough, and other illnesses which are largely preventable by proper health conditions. Public Nurses Are Teachers “Public Health Nurses are teachers and social workers as well as nurses,” declared Miss Eva F. MacDougall, director of public health nursing in Indiana. “Os the 347 public health nurses in Indiana, 163 are working with school children.” Other speakers this morning were L. H. Millikan of the board of State charities, and Miss Grace Ferguson, director of social service department, Indiana University.

Welcome Teachers to INDIANA’S LEADING BOOK STORE BOOKS NEW AND OLD a We are pleased to announce that Mr. Will Durant f , author of “The Story of Philosophy” and “Transition” will autograph his books and greet teachers Friday , October the twentyfi{st, at three o'clock. * The W. K. Stewart Cos. •M East Washington Street

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SCOUT WORKER TABLET BEADY FORUNVEILING Memory of C. C. Perry Will Be Honored by City Boys and Leaders. The unveiling of a bronge tablet to the memory of C. C. Perry, former president of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, will take place Saturday at 2:30 at the parade grounds of the Boy Scout reserva-, tion. Mr. Perry headed campaigns to raise funds for the Scout movement about ten years ago and was chiefly responsible for a surplus which enabled the scouts to purchase the reservation in May, 1918. Made Contributions The goal for the first city-wide drive for funds was $30,000. Through the efforts of Perry, his business associates and other groups over the city the amount raised by a scries of following campaigns amounted to about $62,000. Mr. Perry himself made large contributions. The tablet is mounted on a large boulder from the scout reservation. At the dedicatory services at 4:30 the parade grounds on which it is located will be renamed Perry field. A detail of Scout buglers will participate in the ceremonies. Norman J. Perry, Pr., grandson of C. C. Perry, will remove the flag from the tablet. Public Invited Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler University, will speak. Howe was president of the Boy Scout Council during the time that Mr. Perry headed the campaigns. Following the dedication, the Scout council will hold its annual dinner in the camp mess hall. The annual meeting, open to the public, will follow. F. O. Belzer, executive, urges the public to attend.

ARCHITECT FOR CLARK MEMORIAL UP TODAY Trip to Explorer’s Birthplace Is Planned for Nov. 19. An architectural adviser for the George Rogers Clark Memorial commission is expected to be chosen at a commission meeting late today at the University Club, Secretary William 11. Book announced. The adviser will prepare plans for the national competition for memorial drawings. Recommendations for the adviser will be presented by Lee Burns, chairman of the committee on selection. Plans for a pilgrimage Nov. 19 to the birthplace of Clear, near Charlottesville, Va., will be outlined. The trip will on the 175th birthday anniversary of Clark. WOOLLEN HEADS PARLEY City Man to Take Prominent Part at Dallas Insurance Meeting. Two Indianapolis men and a former city man will take important parts of the American Life Convention annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 24-28. Herman M. Woollen of Indianapolis. American Life Insurance Company president, is president of the American Life Convention. Claris Adams, former Indianapolis attorney, is secretary and general counsel of the convention. Charles B. Welliver, American Central Life Insurance Company general counsel, also will speak before the legal section.

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DOGS KILL 132 SHEEP Farmers South of Lebanon Arm to Wipe Out Pack. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 21.—Farmers south of here today are armed with shotguns and rifles in the hope of bagging a pack of dogs which Thursday killed 132 sheep. The dogs, believed to number about twehty, are led by a large white bulldog. Kassil Schenck was the heaviest loser from the maraudmg animals. Ninety of his sheep were killed ar.d forty-two injured.

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SEEK LIGHT ON PAST LIFE- TO TRACESLAYEB U. S. Bureau Record Is Searched to Learn Career of Ax Deaths Suspect. Quest for facts on the career of Willard Ewing before his conviction for bigamy and flight as the suspected ax-slayer of his second wife and her step-father was carried into the criminal records of the national bureau of identification and investigation at Washington, D. C., today. From Ewing’s fingerprints, sent to the national bureau, Indianapolis detectives hoped to substantiate or disprove reports regarding Ewing’s early home, family connections and possible criminal record. These facts wodld assist them in pushing search for the man. One of Ewing’s acquaintances, ferreted out by detectives, told a story which caused authorities to doubt if Ewing was not an assumed name and to check up on a rumored Mann act conviction. Ewing’s first wife, Mrs. Mary Day Ewing, of McCordsville, Ind., had reiterated that in the five years of their married life she learned next to nothing of her husband’s past or family connections. Twice, she said, she mailed letters to an address he gave her as that of his parents, near South Bend, and the letters were not returned although no reply ever came to her from the parties. Authorities believe Ewing took one of two courses from the point ten miles south of Bedford, where he abandoned a car stolen from the home of Daniel Franks, Plainfield farmer, the night of the Mt. Comfort crime. They believe he may has appropriated another auto and fled across Illinois toward St. Louis, or went south through Paoli, Ind., and across the Ohio River into Kentucky. Strengthening the latter theorjf was the report fro ma Bedford policeman, John Peyton, that a bus driver identified Ewing’s photograph as that of a man who rode on his bus Sunday morning from Bedford to a point three miles out, where he transferred to another bound for Paoli. The man said he was going to New Albony. Police likewise were told a man answering Ewing’s description stole an automobile at Washington, Ind., Monday, was traced to Vincennes and lost in traffic by a motor policeman. The stolen car was found later in western Illinois Ewing was

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Speed! Bti Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Oct. 21. Elizabeth Edith Lord, 20, of this city, a vaudeville band leader, today is the bride of George E. Harding, 21, University of Illinois sophomore, after a courtship of only thirty-six hours. Harding saw Miss Lord on the stage Tuesday night. Wednesday they were introduced and Thursday they were married. He is the son of a Chicago real estate dealer.

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SETS SEBVICES FOR WOMAN IN DUALSLAYING Burial of Man Who Killed Her Awaits Opening of Letters. Sad-eyed relatitves today prepared to lay to rest in the earth the bullet-, riddled bodies of Claude E. Jenkins, 40, of 1047 E. Vermont St., and Mrs. Lisle Jenkins, 33, the wife h® killed because he couldn’t live without her. Their married life, one of quarrels and misunderstanding which Mrs. Jenkins sought to end in a divorc® suit filed in Superior Court Four Oct. 4, ended tragically Thursday, when Jenkins, with the Army revolver he carried in France, fired two bullets into his wife’s body and cne into his own at Ohio and Meridian Sts. Letters Are Found Hundreds were endangered as Jenkins fired five shots at his wife, who had left the Allied Coal and Material Company office, 14 W. Ohio St., where she worked, Just a minute before. Letters found on Jenkins showed the shooting was premeditated. “She is the only woman I ever loved. I don’t see any use in trying to live without her, for she won’t have anything to do with me. I might just as well end it all.” Other letters Jenkins had written . provided for the other woman ho loved—his 76-year-old, nearly deaf, mother, whom he had left an hour before the shooting. Quarreled Often Stoics jy the mother waited for the opening of her son’s letter to his attorney, Ferdinand J. Montani, giving instructions as to his burial, and tried to carry out her son’s last words to her: “Try and bear it and forget it.” Jenkins and his wife had quarI fled often since their marriage on . .arch 29, 1926, and separated four times, her relatives said. Her mother and her three children by a previous marriage, Francis, 13; Ralph, 11, and Betty, 6, came from Thorntown today, where they live. The first husband is dead. Funeral services will be held in the First Reformed church Monday. She will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery. Funeral arrangements for the husband await opening of his death letters. A sister, in a sanitarium at Richmond, and his mother are the only survivors.