Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1927 — Page 21

NOV. 4, 1927.

SQUARE DEAL, LEW WALLACE SCHOOL’S AIM Normal Misfits Often Prove Brightest When Troubles Get Attention. “ ‘Why did I come to this school? Because a felow can do something and get a square deal!’” This was what Earl Somebody told Mrs. Angela Moler, principal of the Lew Wallace School No. 11 when he came to her unexpectedly one day—a truant from another school. In an address before the Education Committee of the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, Mrs. Moler told about the work of the newly established special school at No. 11 and about the Earls that come to her attention every day. Truant From Own School Earl was a truant, Mrs. Moler told the committee. He had deliberately run away from his own grade school and come to No. 11. Upon investigation, she found that he had not t dvanced with the other pupils. He was restless and disinterested and always in trouble. He wanted to “do something and get a square deal.” “His conduct in his own school may have branded him as abnormal,” she explained. “But whatever I learn about his intelligence quotient, I think he is one of the brighest little felows in the world. He had the intelligence to know what he needed.” The aim of the school, according to Mrs. Moler, is to supply the normal misfits of the elementary schools with what they need but are not getting in that environment. It differs from other schools in that it attempts to care for childrens’ individual differences and to make the instruction fit those differences. Blame Working Mothers The roster of the school is built up of pupils transfered from other schools because they did not fit into their classes there, Mrs. Moler said further. Some are above and below average representing the most persistent cases of truancy and disturbance. “Working mothers” was named by Mrs. Moler as one of the causes of poor home conditions which make the children unable to fit in the ordinary school enviroment. She said that one-fifth of the student body at No. 11 were children from homes where there were no fathers’ wages and one-fourth from families where the mother helps earn the living. Many Homes Broken “Seven per cent are foreign bom,” she said. “Many are from large families with small incomes. Os the hemes represented, one out of every three is broken and one-half of the children has been at some time in juvenile court. “Happily, the board of school commissioners has provided in the Lew Wallace School a building fitted to the needs of this type of school,” she said. “Plans are being made to provide extensive vocational training for boys and girls. “The shop work of the boys will include training in woodworking, sheet metal, printing, concrete work, upholstering, electrical connection, physical training, mechanical drawing, music and art. The girls will study household art, costume designing, foods, home nursing and personal hygiene.”

SENIOR CLASS NAMESCHIEFS Tom Woodard President at Shortridge. Tom Woodard was elected president of the senior class of 1928 of Shortridge High School Tuesday after a hotly contested race with Tom Kelly in Caleb Mills Hall. He was elected on the first ballot, 93-77. Audrey Pugh was elected vice president on the second ballot; Clementine Casmire, secretary, on the second ballot, and Tom Long, treasurer, on the first ballot. Hie Annual editor will be elected at the third meeting. The new president is at home ill of typhoid fever. Miss Pugh won for vice president over six candidates. The other nominees for secretary were Caroline Hofft and Mary Alice Scheffel. Miss Casmire led on the first ballot with sixty-one votes. Long won the office of treasurer, 80-78, over Enos Troyer, the only other candidate for office. Woodard is serving his second year as Friday editor of the Echo. Pie is captain of the yell leaders, a member of the Press Club and the editorial board. Miss Pugh is secretary of the Press Club and a member of Fridays’ Echo staff. Miss Casmire is secretary of the Girls’ Debating League, member of the Mathematics Club, the Drama .League, the Senate, and Fridays’ 4 Echo staff: Long is treasurer of the Press Club and a member of Mondays’ Echo staff. FIX BODY DEFECTS Special corrective exercises are being given by physical training instructors at Arsenal Technical High School and Shortridge High School. At Technical the work is given as individual exercises for students to correct broken arches, weak ankles, round shoulders and sway back. Miss Hazel E. Abbot directs the work. General gymnasium exercises are given to classes twice a week. Corrective classes for boys are held two times each week at Shortridge, under direction of Lieut. George A. Naylor and Russel S. Julius. The most common defect is one shoulder lower than the other.

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CENTRAL PICKS DEBATETEAMS Three Triangular Contests Are Arranged. Following final tryouts for the varsity debating teams at Indiana Central College, members of the men’s and girls’ teams have been announced, with arrangements for three triangular debates. The men’s affirmative and negative teams have chosen the subject: “Resolved: That the direct primary system of nomination with regard to State and National elections should be abolished.” Two triangular meets have been scheduled. One with Manchester College and Taylor University and another with Hanover and Evansville colleges. Professor D. L. Eaton is faculty advisor. The men’s teams are: Affirmative—Sheldon Key, Chester Ellis, Clarence Blumel and Craig Brandenburg, alternate. Negative—Harold Achor, Carl Parsons, Jim Weber and i Carl Alford, alternate. The girls” teams will meet Earlham and Manchester colleges and discuss “Resolved: That the Philip-

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SET PLANS FOR WEEK CLAIMED FOR EDUCATION Schools Are Asked to Join in National Programs Starting Monday. Indianapolis public schools are asked to observe National Education week starting Monday by D. T. Weir, assistant superintendent of schools, in a letter to school heads. Weir suggested that the schools give programs similar to those last year. They included the hanging of posters and slogans about the buildings, two minute talks by departmental pupils, invitations to parents to visit schools and exhibits of academic work, art, sewing, cooking and manual training. Further suggestions are included in the program projected by the National Education Association, the Americana Legion and other organizations. This is observing Health day, Monday; Home and School day, Tuesday: Know Your School day, Wednesday; School Oportunity day, Thursday; Armistice and Citizenship day, Friday; Community day, Saturday, and For God and Country day, Sunday. “The office will not dictate what the exercises should be,” Weir said. “It suggests that some observance of the week should be made.”

More Poetry The poetry contest has not ended. Any Marion County High Scholo or grade school boy or girl is eligible to enter. Besides, a special contest has been arranged for students who write lighter poetry. This contest will close Nov. 18, and any verse, comic or dialect, submitted to the school editor, will be entered in that contest. All work must be written on plain paper and signed by the English instructor or teacher of the school. Poems of medium length are preferred. Any verse received later than Thursday noon of each week can not be considered. Address in care of School Editor, The Indianapolis Times.

Small, Abandoned Press Led to School Printing

A little Pilot press, some type cases and planers and a brayer, discovered seventeen years ago In an attic under the rafters of School No. 45—now the William Watson Woolen School—was the beginning of printing in Indianapolis grade schools. The press was a wobbly affair, covered with a thick coat of dust and grime, and of such peculiar design that ordinary type could not be used with it. But it held possibilities for Harry E. Wood, then a teacher at School No. 9 and now director of the vocational education and manual training departments of Indianapolis schools. Wood, with two boys, found the press when there was not a single

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piece of printing equipment in an Indianapolis grade school. Type Was Too Large “The boys wanted to explore the attic,” he explained. “They opened a door and found the press in an air-tight closet. We dragged it out, but found that all the type we had was too large. Later I found a boy in school, who owned a toy printing outfit and his type fit our press. I didn’t have the money then to buy the type so the principal of my school, Miss Marian Lee Webster, advanced $25 and we bought it.” There were many missing letters in the type and more money was needed to replace them. Finally, by scraping together another $25 Wood set up a shop with SSO worth cf equipment. The first return of the little press

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was only $2 which Wood and his pupils made printing grade school programs. Soon they were printing stationary for the teachers and netted $25 to pay on the original expense. x Not Vocational Plan Later, the school board paid Wood his $25 and added SSO more making the whole equipment worth SIOO at the end of two years. At present, the total value of grade school print shop equipment is approximately $49,500. Wood never lost interest in his school printing scheme. His aim was to establish print shops in the other city schools for general education purposes. “It was not my plan to make the work vocational or to make printers out of the boy,” he said. “I didn’t want it to be a money-making scheme, either. I was Interested in establishing shops as a part of school work and general education.” Today seventeen elementary schools have well equipped print shops. The cost of the standard equipment of each one is $2,500.

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NEW CLUB FORMED Minute Men of Washington Are Seniors. The “Minute Men” are here! They are subject to call any time from the office of Washington High School. Unluckily, there are only thirteen of them. They form one of the new clubs of W. H. S., which is made up of boys of the senior class. The “Minute Men” correspond, to the “Washingtonian Club,” composed of senior girls. It was organized under the direction of William H. Bock, language department. Purpose is to “create and maintain proper school spirit and higher standards of character in all school activities.” The officers are: George Harlan, president; Clarke McGee, vice president; Arthur Peterson, secretary: Orlan Ross, treasurer, and Roscoe Layton, sergeant-at-arms.

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