Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1928 — Page 12

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CIVIC PLAYLET MAIN FEATURE OF CITYP. T. A, 15 Groups to Hold Business Meetings, Entertainments Next Wednesday. Fifteen Parent-Teacher groups will hold va’-'ed entertainment and business meetings Wednesday of next week. The city federation will meet Monday at 10 a. m. in the directors room of the FletcherAmerican Bank to complete plans for the January institute. Sergt. Frank Owens will address the association of School 30 at 8 p. m. He will talk on traffic problems. “The Americanization of Tony Deprato,” a civic playlet, will be given at the meeting at School 49 by the department pupils under direction of Mrs. Edith Summers. Miss Bernice Boynton, local Camp Fire Girls secretary, will talk. Dean of Girls to Talk The association of School 62 will meet at 2:30 p. m. The president, Mrs. Edward Kealing, will preside. Miss Gertrude Theumler, dean of girls at Arsenal Technical High School, will talk, and Miss Hazel Lee Madinger will provide the music. The association is planning a rummage sale to be held this month. Announcement of time and place will be made at the meeting. Association of School 45 will meet at 2:30 p. m. in a business meeting, followed by music and a round table discussion. Milo H. Stewart, principal of Arsenal Technical High School, will speak at Sloan School 41 at 2:30 p. m. The mothers will present a play and there will be a violin and saxophone duet by Marjorie Goldsboro and Byron Bratton. Health Secretary Speaker Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board of health, will address the association of School 47 at 3:15 p. m. There will be a piano solo by Charles Holmer. The association of School 20 will meet at 3:15 p. m. George Buck, principal of Shortridge High School, will address the meeting. There will be musical numbers by Mrs. Fred Schwartz and a reading by Mary Grace Franklin. E. H. Kemper McComb, principal of Manual Training High School, will speak before the members of the association of School 31 at 2:30 p. m. The Girls’ Gle# Club of Manual will sing. “The Civic Problems of the School’* is the subject of a talk to be given before the association of Emerson School 58 at 3:15 p. m., by DeWitt S. Morgan. The women’s chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Maude Moudy, principal, will sing. Rheta Gordon will play violin selections and Wilma Leonard will sing. The association of School 34 will meet at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Claude J. Stephenson will tell of her experiences in Cuba during a recent visit there. Miss Martha Lee Strun will play a piano solo and Mildred Robinson will give a reading. City President on Program An operetta, arranged by Miss Evelyn Christopher, will be presented by the pupils meeting of Oliver P. Morton School 29, Wednesday at 3:15 p. m. The Department Chorus, under the direction of Miss Irene Healy, will sing and 8A pupils will give readings. Walter G. Gingery, principal of Washington High School, will address the association of School 67 at 2:15 p. m. His subject will be “What the School Does to Train Children for Citizenship.” Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president of the city P. T. A. federation, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the association of School 44 at 3:15 p. m. Mrs. Robert Sells will sing and Mrs. Ernest Swift will give a reading. The association of. School 68 will meet at 3:15 p. m. A Boy Scout representation will talk. Charles F. Miller, superintendent of schools, will address the association of Irvington School 57, at 3:15 p. m. The school orchestra, under the direction of Miss Ruby Winders, will play, MANUAL TRAINING HIGH TQ PRESENT OPERETTA “The Fire Prince” Selected for Production by Pupils. “The Fire Prince,” a two-act opereta, will be presented by students of Manual Training High School, Jan. 19-20, in the school auditorium. Miss Selma Zahl of the music department is directing. Riley Fledderjohn will have the leading role of the “Fire Prince,” eldest son of the “King of Pantouflia.” Miss Mary Elizabeth Colter will plaji* opposite as Rosa. Other members of the cast are Raymond De Julio. Wilbert Eggert, Frederic Sering, ‘Elmer Wallman, Ronald Bridges, Alden Wilking, David Blum, Albert Urwitz, Robert Hauf, Grace Hoffman, Frances Dearborn, Ruth Wagener, Helena Johnson, Molly Sapphire, Louis Davis. Faye Scull, Ruth Hargraves and Lillian Lang. PICK EDITORS OF ECHO Shortridge Journalism Classes to to Prepare Issue. Mary Murphy and Tom Long, Shortridge High School students, were elected associate editors of the "Journalism issue” of the Daily Echo which will appear next week. The issue is published annually by the Journalism classes under William N. otto, head of the English department. , i

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She Studies Architecture, Likes Math, Would Be Boy

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Girl Puts Air Castles on Paper Instead of in Hazy Dreams. Perched on a high desk seat familiar to mechanical drawing and architectural drafting students, her feet hooked in the rungs, her boyish “bob” sleek and straight, and a perplexed, hard-working wrinkle on her forehead, is a girl who would like to be a boy. She intends to be an architect. There are boys perched all about on similar desks. There are no other girls. Few girls, like Mary Oberlies, 16, of 1115 N. Olney St., a Technical High School junior, think they would like the job of house planning. Few know enough or care enough about mathematics. Miss Oberlies is the only girl enrolled this year in the mechanical drawing or architectural classes of the school. She is one of the three girls who have taken the course in the last three years. When she was taking civics earlier in her school career the class was instructed to cut out wall paper patterns appropriate for certain rooms. Mary did more. She drew

Papa Did It Children Learn to Wink at Wrongs by Examples of Parents, Teachers.

“T>E a good example to chil- " dren,” Is the message of Miss Flora Drake, assistant school superintendent, sends teachers and parents especially and adults everywhere. ‘Every adult is an example for some younger person,” she said. And it’s the things he sees older people at home and school do that give him one of his first and always most serious bad example. This is diregard of property rights. ‘The teacher tells the student to borrow a book in the owner’s absence and the parent borrows the neighbor’s Jawn mower the same way. He gets the idea that might is right.” The same -child later will borrow the neighbor’s automobile. “We criticise our youth for the same things we ourselves do and call it right. Providing the right example for impressive children seems to me to be one of the best solutions the so-called ‘modern youth problems.’ “Our schools are making strides in this thing. Through the new plan of extra-curricular activities children are given opportunity to work with their teachers and leading students on work outside the academic course. This provides interest and good contact.” ELEVEN IN HONOR FRAT Phi Kappa Phi Pledges Butler University Co-eds. Eleven co-eds and one man have been elected to the Butler University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholastic fraternity. Election was based on the averages of three years outstanding academic work. The new pledges follow in order of their standing: Jane Ogborn, Adelai C. Moore, Elizabeth Ann Miller, Margaret Woessner, Mary E. Boyd, Virginia Small, Mrs. Grace E. Meyer, Margaet Elrod, Mary L. McCormick, Irene Bowers, Virginia Barnes and Elsie Underwood. , Plans Extension Course for Teachers Miss Ruth Patterson, head of the kindergarten method department of Indianapolis Teachers’ College, will start an extension course at Terre Haute for kindergarten and primary teachers.

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a plan for the entire house just because she “liked to do it and wanted to make a good grade.” The teacher gave her A-plus and a great deal of encouragement. "Yes, I like mathematics,” she admitted. “I made A. I want to go on to college and take more work in math and physics. I’m learning to type so I can do most of my own office work when I’m just beginning.” Mary said frankly that she would like to be a boy. The fact that “boys can do more,” howevei, doesn’t keep her from attempting to do what boys ordinarily do. She wears a boyish haircut and a boy’s heavy sweater, likes boy’s games, and has a boy’s ambition. Her father is a carpenter. Mary helps him do light jobs in the summer. She likes basketball and baseball and this summer had nineteen “home runs” to her credit.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

STATE ADOPTS NEW TEXT BOOK OF CLARK ERA Bloomington Man Is Author of History Praised by School Officials. Movement to couple a more extensive study of the American Revolution in the West with tiie present American history course in State and city grade schools ended Wednesday with the adoption of “George Rogers Clark, Pioneer Hero of the Old Northwest,” by Ross F. Lockridge, Bloomington, to be used as a supplementary history text. Action by the state education board was based originally upon a resolution of the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution. Lockridge’s book gives in detail the romance of the Clark achievement. It will be used in the 7A and 118 grades of State and city public schools with the beginning of the second semester, Jan. 30. Test Is Praised “Adoption of this book is very opportune at this time,” said Charles F. Miller, superintendent of schools. “He had a definite need for some book to supplement the present American liistory course and especially in the Northwest. I think Clark has been very much neglected. Lockridge has done a fine piece of work.” “This action will place before our children the work of George Rogers Clark at the same time we are planning a memorial in his honor at Vincennes in 1929,” said Roy P. Wisehart, public instruction superintendent, recommending the book to teachers. “All county, city and town superintendents and their principals are authorized to take such immediate steps to use the suggested material as they find will fit into the regular course of study.” Memorial Drive Gains Lockridge used personal letters, memoirs and diary of Clark as the source of much of his information. He has visited the historic sites of old Northwest territory and made many trips to the home of Rogers Clark Ballard Thurston of Louisville, an aged marriage-relative of the explorer, who possessed many of his letters and accounts. The author has been active In the State and nation-wide 'drive to erect a Clark memorial at Vincennes, for which Indiana already has appropriated $500,000.

Arsenal Pupils Learn to Take Care of Bees; Study Farming in Garden

A. C. Hoffman Plays Big Part in Agricultural Growth of School. Instructor A. O. Hoffman once climbed a tree to capture a precious swarm of bees for his hives at Arsenal Technical High School. While celebrating an annual gala day at the school someone yelled: “The bees are swarming!” Hoffman left the “fun” and ran to take them from the lirtib of a tree before an interested throng of patrons. Bees on the campus had long been a dream of Hoffman as a part of his plans for the agricultural growth of the technical. He tells the incident of the surprise swarm as an example of the excitement and interest caused by their early appearance. Three years ago he installed two hives. Now he has eight and has trained a great number of students successfully to care for them. Clip Wings of Queens Under his direction his pupils learned to “hive the swarms,” handle the frames, assemble the hives and frames and even successfully clip the wings of the queen bee. The school can produce as much as 700 yearly pounds of natural preserve for marketing. He now has over 300 pounds stacked in cases in his office. He plans to give them the “Tech” label and market the supply. Honey bees are only one of the hobbies and interests Hoffman has in the agricultural growth of the school. As head of the botany, chemistry, agriculture and biology departments he has directed and improved work in the three-acre school g uden, introduced chemistry and landscape gardening classes. Cultivate School Garden Hoffman came to Technical in 1915. At that time the school garden was cultivated in plots by the pupils. Now eighteen students of the agriculture classes cultivate it as a whole and sell the produce at the school market house. During the summer the students grow onions, beats, carrots, tomatoes, cabbages, corn, cucumbers, peas, beans and rhubarb. They are taught to do everything connected with cultivation except breaking the soil. “Only the students who are genuinely interested in farming take the course,” he said.. “It amounts to about twelve months’ work. All in-

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A. C. Hoffman tend to some day go on farms of their own.” Memoirs of war days at Technical readily are rehearsed by Hoffman as an encouraging example of how student-farmers can work effectively with a minimum of time and training. Farm Work Is Taught Indianapolis people will recall Hoffmans’ work in preparing boys to do farm work. Horses, tractors, and other farm implements were turned over to the instructor for his work. He conducted classes for fifty special groups of students, and secured lectures and materials for the training. Hoffman’s interest in agriculture is almost native. He is of German

GIVE STUDENTS ROLES Play to Be Presented Jan. 11-14 and 20-21 at Little Theater. Five Butler University students will have roles in the “Androcles and the Lion,” a play dealing with early Christian martyrs and Roman persecutors, at the Little Theatre Jan. 11-14 and 20-21. The students are Robert Hutchinson, Robert Dunlavy, Neil Firestone, David Clark and Hamilton Clark.

Houses —Apartments

Are you seeking new living quarters? Apartments, flats and houses in every part of the city, every design and size and at most every price can be found by reading the “For Rent” Ads in The Times. Arranged in alphabetic street order you can easily make a list of the places that appeal to you.

Apartments BROADWAY & 21ST—3 or 4 warm rms., kitchenette, bath, heat, water. He. 1221. Five rooms, bath, hot water heating; $45. Completely furnished; small family; SSO. One flat. $37.50, one at S4O. Choice 5-room apartment, city heat, water furnished, side porch: SSO. Main 5156. 9 E. Market St. CENTRAL PARK—Northeast corner 20th and Central; 5 rooms, including sunroom, large beiroom, ln-a-door bed in livingroom; newly papered, enameled, etc. Splendid heat and hot water. Heated garage in connection. Rents reduced. Call MR. BERRY. Main 0518. Illinois, n., 3009 —Apt. 3; 5-room modern; heat, water, garage, Ha. 3222. __ N. JERSEY. N., 1438—5 rms.; utility heat; gar.; SSO winter. S4O summer. Wa. 2664. PAY MOVINO EXPENSES 3716 Graceland; 4 r.; insd. tit.: gar. 522.50 1306 Bradbury: 5 r.; inside toilet... 19.00 1815 W. New York; 6-r, bung.; gar. 20.00 1230 Standard; 4 r.; insd. toilet; gar 21.75 1438 Everritt; 4-r. bungalow 12.00 COLORED 930 W. Vermont; 5 r.; Inside toilet.s2s.oo 854 Camp; 3 r.; inside toilet 17.50 426 Toledo; 4 r.; Inside toilet 15.00 935 Vi W. Vermont; 4 r.; Ins. toilet 15.00 2032 W. Tenth; bung.; new. pa. & pt. 13.50 N. L. SEARCY. 224 N, Cel. LI. 4971 MERIDIAN, N„ 3536—Attractive modern, heated 4-rm. apt.; shower, light, heat, Frlgldalre; near transportation, Ta, 2296. ORANGE. 1730—Near blvd., 4-rm. apt.; heat, light, gas, water; $35. Dr. 4571. RUCKLE. 1964—Upper apt.. 4 rooms and beth; heat and water. He. 3527. Choice 4 and 5-room duplex apts. Splendid city heat, modern throughout. Heat and water furnished. Wash, 0544, WEST. S.. 708—6 rooms, strictly modern; steam heat turn.; $25. Dr. 7224, 3715 N. Meridian $125.00 1603 Central $37.50 710 Union Title Bldg. Ma. 4818 or Rl. 1371, nights or Sunday. STUDIO COURT. 1924 N. Talbott; 6 rms., modern; 3 bedrooms; city heat. 132 N. Delaware St. LI. 6334. Lovely apartments Just being finished. Ready to occupy. Hardwood floors, McDougal cabinets, Frigidalre, combination in-a-door bed and dressing-room, bath, large living-room, breakfast-room, kitchen; walking distance; on car line, facing Noble Park: next to branch library No. 4. Only six apartments in building. Rent lower than any other apartment of this size. Reference required. Dr. 5375. 1025 Madison Ave. FREE RENT—2 weeks; desirable tenant; 5rm. apt., good condition, ex. steam heat, hot. cold water; *47.50. 2322 N. Illinois. Key at Flat 3. Irv. 1650, 5 rooms; extra good heat and water furnished. 3763 Broadway. $62.50. 122 E. Market. Main 6020. Downtown location; three and fourroom. with private bath; range and refrigerator: newly decorated: low rent. Baker Apt- 341 Mass. Ave. Main 5840. Water furnished; nice location at 926 E. Washington St.; all newly decorated; heat with stoves; second floor. CITY TRUST CO. Main 4423. Mr. Hurt. He. 4775.

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descent and comes from a long line of farmers and farm owners. _He now has definite plans for a school poultry house. “I hope some time to have 500 baby chicks and a number of laying hens to market eggs during the winter,” he said. Hoffman received his A. B. degree from Lombard College, Galesburg, 111., in 1907, and completed his agricultural work in the University of Illinois in 1915. He formerly was an instructor in summer school at the Bowling Green State Normal, Bowling Green, Ohio. He lives at 5760 Lowell Ave. OPEN NIGHT SCHOOL Eighth Grade Diploma Made Available at No. 8. Anew night school term was opened Monday at the Calvin Fletcher School No. 8 which will give advanced-standing students opportunity to receive an eighth grade diploma at the April graduation, if they enroll immediately. The school will give work of all grades including dressmaking, English for the foreign-born, and reading, writing and simple arithmetic for those who have had little or no schooling. The night school is financed by the Indianapolis public school system and the tuition is free. An enrollment fee of 50 cents is the only expense. Any person from sixteen to sixty may enroll. New students are asked to report at 7:30 p. m. at the school, Virginia and Lexington Aves.

BUTLER TO BROADCAST University Club to Be Heard Each Friday Night Over WFBM. The Butler University Club has arranged to broadcast programs by school groups each Friday night over station WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company. The first program probably will be broadcast next month, according to Miss Blanche Mcßride, club president.

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GRADE SCHOOLS PRINTING CRAFT DEMONSTRATED Students Publish Colorful Magazines and Papers During Year. Young Indianapolis grade school “journalists” are given opportunity to demonstrate their printers, scribblers and artistic abilities in the publication of colorful magazines or news sheets at irregular periods of the school year. November, December and January holiday seasons were met with dozens of publications issued by grade schools equipped with print shops and many others which do not have shops. Publish Ingenious Books Such “ingenious” books published as “The Seventy Times,” “The Riley Record,” “The Spirit of SeventyFive” and “Thirty-Nine Pressmen” contain stories and poetry of Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year by the pupils. The children are organized into editorial staffs. They plan the news material assisted by their teachers. The pupils of the art classes make the cover designs. The schools that are equipped with their own print shops instruct the children in making their design “cuts” from linoleum mounted on wood. When these are printed on the covers they are hand-colored by the children in bright contrasting shades. Inexpensive Cut Method The inexpensive method of making the cuts for the magazines and newspapers was installed by Harry Wood, city manual training and vocational guidance head. Each school with print shop facilities make their cuts similarly. Fifteen schools have print shops. Many others who do not publish little news sheets irregularly. Magazines are published at George Washington School, William Penn School, School 76, the Henry P. Coburn School, William A. Bell School, Brookside School, Irvington School James Whitcomb Riley School, School 70, William McKinley School, School 52 and Woodrow Wilson School.

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