Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1928 — Page 18

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VIOLIN CLASSES f ARE OPENED IN GRADE SCHOOLS All Pupils to Get Chance to • Develop Talent for ' Music. Classes violin instruction were Inaugurated this week in grade schools by Ernest G. Hesser, director of music of Indianapolis public schools. More than 600 children were enrolled in fifty classes last year, Hesser said, and a greater number is expected to take instructions in 1928-29. W. E. Tallentire and Henry Marshall are teachers directly in charge of the work and go from school to school during the period of classes. “We wish to discover talent among ferade school pupils,” said Hesser. "In many cases the parents do net believe their children capable of playing the violin and do not feel a financail outlay necessary to determine that fact. Taught In Many Schools “Perhaps a child enrolls in one of our classes and shows talent. The parent immediately is more than willing to pay for future and more advanced instruction under a private teacher.” The course of instruction is for two years, and at the end of that time Hesser recommends further teaching to the parents. Classes were held last year in the following schools: Nos. 3,5, 6, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18. 21, 22, 26 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50, 51 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 66, 67, 69, 75, 76, 78, 80, 83. The department plans enlargement, and probably will have a greater number of classes in more schools than last year. Any grade school with ten or more students wishing to take violin lessons will be formed into a class with a teacher from the music department. Only equipment necessary for the child is a violin and the regular book of instruction. In a bulletin' issued this week, Hesser explains to parents that extra strings are part of the equipment. Parents are asked to cooperate with the department in the practice hours of the pupil. TELL SCHOOL PUPILS OF COMMUNITY FUND Edcational Booklets Are Distributed v in Classrooms Anew booklet concerning the Indianapolis Community Fund is being distributed this week by the school board to every child in the public shcools from the third to the eighth grades. According to Walter C. Marmon, general campaign chairman, this booklet is one of the first steps in the educational program arranged for the fund campaign, scheduled for next November. Charles F. Miller, superintendent of schools, is cooperating. The booklet in use this year was revised by a committee consisting of Mrs. Royal McClain, Mrs. L. B. Hughes, Mrs. S. M. Meyers, and Miss Olive Funk. It contains practical studies adaptable to course in arithmetic, civics, English composition, art work, and manual training. TERRE HAUTE NORMAL | BUILDING NEW DORM Second of Four New Structures Is Started. 9 By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 14 The second of four dormitories to be built at Indiana colleges was started this week at the State Normal College. The building is being built under provisions of the special act passed in 1927 providing that the four State schools may build dormitories and pay off the bonds out of profits from operation of the structure. The Purdue University dormitory Is now in use. About 100 women will be accommodated at the Normal Bldg. It is being constructed as part of the dormitory and now in use. SIOO FOR OLD BOOKS Profitable Sale Is Held at School No. 80. More than SIOO was realized from the sale of used school books at School No. 80 this week, according to the principal, Edith B. Hall. Children of the mathematics department are in charge of the sale and collect and distribute books for the entire building. When all used books are sold the sale of new books start. All money from a sale goes from the buyer to the seller. No profit is made by the school. I3IBLE CLASS FORMED Shortridge Groups Will Hold Weekly Services. A high school Bible class being formed at Shortridge and will hold Its first weekly session Sept. 30 at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Under the direction of Dr. and Mrs. C. S. George. The course consists of eighteen lessons with examinations in February and June. A full credit unit toward graduation is given.

More Girls England hasn’t much on Shortridge High School when it comes to scarcity of men. There are one and a half girl to every fellow at Shortridge. Not actually a half girl, of course, but there are just 1,236 girls an donly 890 boys. At Washington High School there are a few more boys than girls. The total enrollment is about 1,100 with boys predominating.

New School 84 Opened for Work

Front Row (left to right)—Grace Hobson, Charlotte Reisner, Mrs. Pauline Banks, Ruth Epperson, Ruth Reedy and Rebecca Nicoson. Back Row—Mrs. Grace E. Morgan, Eleanor Munro, Lilile Ilazzard, Mrs. Sue S. Sims, Mrs. Huldah Kern and Besise Brown. Insert—Elizabeth H. Scott, president. They are faculty members of School 84.

With about 450 children enrolled the first week, classroom work progressed at the school, opened this year at Fifty-Seventh St. and Central Ave. Interior of the building will be finished in a few weeks.

FAMOUS GLEE CLUB NOW ON VITAPHONE Notre Dame Singers Will Have Prominent Part on New Program Starting Saturday at the Apollo. “ TOIN the Navy and See the World” was the forerunner of the motto J of the Notre Dame Glee Club, “Go to Notre Dame and See the World.” The fame of the football team that plays under the colors of the Blue and Gold is international and Coach Knute Rockne has received letters from admirers in China, Honolulu and Budapest. The Glee Club of Notre Dame is the only organization that could ever worry the great Dane for its popularity is assuming international

proportions. There is not one large city in the United States that has not heard the forty members of the Glee Club intone the sacred hymns, carol and classical music and sing college songs. From New York to San Francisco they have been lauded. Now there is a report that the club will tour Europe next year and give a recital before the Pope. The Glee Club is under the direction of a most remarkable young man. Although only 26 years old, Joseph Casananta has been the director of its destinies for the past two years. He graduated from the music collegt of the university four years ago and began to teach there after his graduation. He succeeded Dr. Lewis Browne of Chicago as director of the club. During the visit of the Glee Club to Los Angeles a short time ago Warner Brothers obtained the organization for a Vitaphone vaudeville presentation. It embraces two numbers by Anthony J. Kopecky, tenor, “Loch Lomond” and “Hike Notre Dame,” the latter composed by Director Casasanta, and two numbers by the ensemble, “There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea” and “Notre Dame’s Victory March.” In these the club will be seen and heard as a part of the Vitaphone program at the Apollo starting Saturday. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Excess Baggage” at the Palace; "Street Angel” at the Apollo; Joe Boganny’s Comedians at the Lyric; Charlie Davis at the Indiana; Dick Powell at the Circle, and burlesque at the Mutual.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to the police aas stolen: B. F. Chambers, Lyons, Ind., Hupmobile roadster, 119-109, from Washington St. and Senate Ave. Roy F. Pierce, 1809 Jones St., Oldsmobile sedan, 49-934, from rear of Transportation building. Lee Feasel, 1346 S. Belmont Ave., Studebaker touring, 49-408, from Georgia and Liberty Sts. O. F. Scot, Noblesville, Ind., Ford roadster, 441-382, from Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. F. P. Sta ibrought, 2524 Bellefontaine St., Chevrolet coach, 661-831, from Market and Delaware Sts. Leroy Baughn, 380 S. Sherman Dr., Ford roadster, from Georgia and Illinois Sts.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: Osborn Baughn, 1249 W. TwentyFifth St., Ford roadster, found at Market and Delaware Sts. FLIER SUES AUTOIST “Drove Carelessly In Front of Plane” Airman Charges. Bu United Press LIBERTY, Mo., Sept. 14.—For “driving carelessly in front of a plane,” L. T. Pennington, Kansas City, was made defendant in a $1,028 damage suit, filed by George L. Bennett, owner of an airplane which collided with Pennington’s automobile on an airpjane runway of a Kansas City airport. Organize Tailors’ Group W. A. Metzler was elected president of the Better Cleaners and Tailors’ Association, organized Thursday night at the Lincoln. Other officers: J. Mart Haye, vice president; John Robinson, secretary and treasurer; Eli Gold and Louis Mendel, directors. Representatives of about forty firms attended the meeting. „

The yard Is being surfaced with crushed stone for the playground, and apparatus will be ready when the children hold recess in the yard in the spring. The front yard will be landscaped in the spring.

Gentle Golf Bedridden Since July 21 With Broken Leg Received in Links Game.

“Many a football player never had his leg broken.” So reasons F. M. Dickerman, 5702 Lowell Ave., who has been bedridden since July 21 with a broken leg received during a round of golf at the Pleasant Run Country Club. Dickerman offers himself as a living, breathing example of the man who thought golf was a harmless game. “I wasn’t actually playing when I broke my leg,” explains Dickerman. “I was walking over a dirt road close to one of the tees when I caught my foot in a rut and fell.” But this fan’s exchange of golf clubs for crutches hasn’t diminished his ardor for the game. “I’ll be out on the course again before long,” admits Dickerman. BRIDE’S FATHER DIES DURING WIFE’S BURIAL ♦ Girl, 18, Held Two Days, Learns of Death After FuneraL Notified of the death of her father an hour after she attended the funeral of her mother, an 18-year-old bride of two days bravely arranged last rites for the father, attended his funeral, and today began the task of “carrying on.” The unexpected death of both parents, who were stricken within two days of each other, leaves two young brothers for the youthful bride and her husband, a soldier stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, to care for. "The bride, is Mrs. Oscar Curry, formerly Miss Bernice Eckert, 2215 E. New York St. The mother, Mrs. Emma Eckert, died Sunday and was buried Tuesday, soon after the daughter’s wedding. The father, foreman of the Nu-Grape Bottling Company, died Tuesday and was buried Thursday. AUTO DEATH TOLL 16 650 Cars Figure in Accidents During August in IndianaSix hundred and fifty automobile accidents in Indiana during August took a death toll of sixteen, and 311 sustained injuries, according to the State police report to Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of State. Damage was sustaine dby 233 automobiles.

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PRICE SET ON MENi CITY PAYS Earning Power Basis of Flood Suits in California. Bu Times Special LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.—How much is a human being worth? This question is being fought over as an aftermath of the disastrous break of the St. Francis dam of last March which swept 350 people to death. Los Angelus, city and Ventura County are working together on claim payments based upon l|.e earning power of the dead. Settlements on this basis are being made amicably and run from SII,OOO to $20,000 per victim. A firm of Stockton lawyers has arrived on the scene and is signing up the bereaved on another basis, the sentimental value of a human life. Asking contingent fees of thirty-three and one-third per cent, their claim agent is filing suits totaling $3,000,000. On these suits’ basis an adult human is worth SIOO,OOO and a child $35,000. One of the firm’s clients is asking $240,000 for the death of his wife and four children. Los Angeles is prepared to spend $10,000,000 in claims damages. In addition the city is rehadilitating the devastated valley in Ventura County. It has rebuilt 230 houses and will rebuild 200 more. Trees are being replanted and all houses repainted. In this way the city has escaped the bitter war that usually follows a disaster. HEADS CIVIC LEAGUE W. P. Holmes Is President of Wayne Township Group. William P. Holmes was elected president of the Wayne Township Civic League Thursday night. Other officers named are; William D. Owens, vice president; William E. Harding, secretary-treas-urer; Lawrence G. Kelso and Earl D. Hughes, directors. Delay Barber's Murder Trial Trial of Harry Pilz, barber, charged in Criminal Court with the murder of Samuel Fassman, in the latter’s barber shop at 807 S. Meridian St., last December, was postponed until next Thursday by Judge James A. Collins. Pilz is held in the Marion County jail.

Y.W.C.A. DAY AND EVENING CLASSES Fall Term Opens October 1 Spanish, French, English, Self - Expression Sewing, China Painting, Handcraft and Singing Lessons. Riley 5471 329 N. Penn.

CATHEDRAL HIGH GRID SCHEDULE STARTS TODAY Plays Logansport; Washington Is on , Season’s Slate of Squad. Cathedral High School will play Washington High School in football Oct. 5 at Washington Park, the first parochial-public school athletics contest in the history of high school sports. Shortridge High School is scheduled to play Cathedral, Nov. 9. Washington also will compete with Cathedral in baseball, basketball, and track on a regular schedule. With the ice broken it is expected other public schools will add Cathedral to their schedules. The first Washington football game was today at Logansport Other games are Sept. 21 at Kirkland; Sept. 29 at Knightstown; Oct. 12 at Westfield; Oct. 19 at Crawfordsville; Oct. 26 with Lebanon here, Nov. 2 at Greenfield, and Nov. 9 with Sheridan here. Four Teams in Uniform Four full teams in uniform practice daily as the varsity squad, and more than thirty freshmen were put in harness. Washington has a local policy of playing freshmen on their own schedule and using upper classmen for varsity. “This policy interests more new men in the game, and many good men are developed from boys who otherwise would be afraid to compote with upper classmen,” said Bruce Morrison, athletic director. Henry Bogue, from the University of Illinois, and James Shockley, from Butler University, have charge of football coaching under Morrison. Use Temporary Field The school is handicaped by not having its own playing field. All varsity games are played at Washington Ball Park, but practice is held just any place. Men are working on the temporary playing field at the school this week-in an effort to clear part of it of rocks and brush for a scrimage field. Several months work will be required to place the field in condition for a regular game, it is said. NIG HT SCHOOL OPE N S Y. M. C. A. Classes Start Tonight at 6:30. The Y. M. C. A. night school opens at 6:30 p. m. today, according to A. F. Williams, educational director. This is the fourth consecutive year for the high school which graduated a class of ten last June, the first to complete the work. Members of the teaching staff are: E. J. Black, principal; Irene McLean, Latin and English; O. S. Flick, history and social service; L. M. Bolander, chemistry; William Schuh, bookkeeping and business arithmetic, and J. P. Donnelley, typing and shorthand.

Metropolitan School of Music 106 East North Street \ Indidna College of Music and Fine Arts 1550 North Meridian Street — FORMING — Arthur Jordan Conservatory of MUSIC Affiliated With Butler University CERTIFICATES—DIPLOMA—DEGREES OFFICERS OFFICERS METROPOLITAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC INDIANA COLLEGE OF MUSIC and FINE ARTS Edward Nell, President Mrs. Henry Schurmann, President Leslie Eugene Peck, Secretary and Treasurer Blanche Harrington, Secretary and Treasurer Hugh McGibeny, Director Arthur W. Mason, Musical Director • Arthur Jordan, Director Arthur Jordan, Director

PIANO Eleanora Beauchamp Gladys Loucks Brown Flora E ' L >’ on * TuU E. Brown Arthur W. Mason Edna Croan Willard MacGregor Iva E. Duckwall Martha McFadden Allle Frances Eggleton Arthur G. Mor.ninger Grace Dorothy Flagg Mrs. Arthur G. MonJeanette Gardiner ninger May Gorsuch Harry Otis Pruitt Lillian Carr Green Helen %uise Quig Andrew Halgh FraneesWtobblns Frieda Heider Georgianna Rockwell Fairy Hendricks William Schwenger Fanetta Hitz W. T. Shannon Grace Hutchings Helen Sommers Leoline Jaqutth Lucile Wagner Earle Howe Jones Gertrude Whelan Florence Martha James Kelton WhetKeepers stine Leone Kinder Mary E. Wilhite Mav Aufderheide Frances Anne Wishard Kolmer Lucile Yow Hazel Lamkln Marie Manthay Zorn VOICE Lulu Brown Fred Jefry Lillian Adam Flick- Mildred Johns inger Edward Nell Glenn Friermood Benjamin F. Swarthoui Ila Friermood Ida Belle Sweenle Frieda Heider Franklin N. Taylor VIOLIN Georgia Henrietta Henry Marshall Bauman Hugh McGibeny Edna Burroughs Thomas Poggiani Carl Alexander Christine Roush Grouleff Donn Watson Edwin Jones

Evening Classes in Theoretical Subjects FALL TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 10TH CLASS WORE BEGINS SEPTEMBER 17TH Branch 5ch001—3369 North Pennsylvania Street 1928-29 Year Book Address Communications on Request • to Either of the Schools

Shortridge Names New Censor of Friday Echo

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PUPILS TO PLAY IN ORCHESTRAS Bands and Glee Clubs Also Planned in Schools. Preparations are being made to open the musical season of Indianapolis high schools and grade schools under the direction of Ernest G. Hesser, musical director. Shortridge will have a junior and a senior orchestra, a band, boys’ an<4 girls’ glee club, choir and classes in music appreciation, harmony, voice and instrument, it is said. Technical will have a junior and a senior band and a beginners’ band, junior and senior orchestras, boys’ and girls’ glee clubs, choral society and various music classes. The greatest number of students makes possible enlarged bands and orchestras, Hesser says. Manual will organize a band and an orchestra ,a girls’ glee club and music classes. Broad Ripple is planning a band and orchestra and a mixed glee club. Washington will have a band and an orchestra and two glee clubs for boys and girls. It also will conduct classes in music. Crispus Attucks will organize a band and an orchestra, a girls’ and boys’ glee club and a chorus. The vocal organizations from the Negro high school are famed for their spirituals and other southern selections. A concert program is arranged at the stait of the year. More than forty grade school orchestras will be formed, Hesser says, and most of the graded schools will have three choruses for the different grades.

-FACULTYORGAN Myra Goodnow Cllpplnger Mary E. Wilhite Tull Brown VIOLA Don Watson VIOLONCELLO Adolph H. Sehellschmldt CORNET AND TRUMPET Leslie Eugene Peek Wesley Lewis Eleanor M. Saunders HARP Pasquale Montanl Huth Ranler Neasler THEORETICAL DEPARTMENT Harmony Folk Dancing and Arthur G. Monnlnger Staying Games Theory Norma Justice Eleanora Beauchamp Antibus Musie Appreciation Composition Lenora Coffin Andrew Halgh Grace Hutchings „ . ,History of Mnsie Instrumentation Donn Watson Frederic A. Barker and Harmonic Analysis Counterpoint Willard MacGregor Adolph H. SchellSlght Singing. schmldt Dictation Observation and L° rle Jfrull Practice Teaching Flora E. Lyons Frederlc A Barlc „ Fend Analysts Elizabeth G. Kaltz TuU E. Brown Lorle Krull

After eighteen years’ service as faculty censor of Friday’s Echo at Shortridge High School, Edgar T. Forsyth, head of the history department, resigned this year. He will be replaced by Miss Hope Bedford, also of the history department. Many prominent newspaper men started under Forsyth at Shortridge, and several were editors of Friday’s Echo. In addition to his censorship Forsyth also for two years was manager of the daily newspaper. Miss Bedford is a graduate of Shortridge, and at one time was editor of the Friday Echo.

CANNON STAFF TO BE NAMED Announce Appointments in Next Two Weeks. Appointments to the Technical High School Cannon staff will be announced in about two weeks, it was stated today by Miss Ella Sengenberger, faculty sponsor. Two complete editorial staffs, one business staff and a magazine editor will be appointed. The editorial bodies publish the magazine on alternate weeks. The magazine editor has complete charge of the semiannual class publication. At the present time the entire group of children are divided into two sections, one on editorial and one on circulation. The circulation campaign opened today with the appointment of a boy and a girl agent in each of the 122 roll rooms. Total circulaion is about 3,000 each year, Miss Sengenberger said. Plans re being made to appoint an Indianapolis Times Technical correspondent to cover the entire school for the Times Weekly school page. Name of the appointee will be announced later. GRADE HEADS TO MEET Principals to Hold Discussion on Thursday. The first meeting of grade schoc! principals will be held at 3 p. m Thursday at Benjamin Harrison School under direction of C. C. Un - derwood, director of elementary education. Organization and grading of teachers and methods of supervision will be the major topics of discussion. Eighty-six principals will attend.

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IRISH HARP Ruth Railer Nessler CLARINET Frederic A. Barker Adolph H. Sehellschmldt Cedi Earl BARITONE, ALTO and MELAPHONE Eleanor M. Saunders FLUTE, XYLOPHONE and DRUMS Pasquale Montanl TROMBONE Frederic A. Barker SAXOPHONE Frederic A. Barker Pasquale Montanl Adolph H. Sehellschmldt Cecil Earl PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC COURSE Frederic A. Barker Elizabeth G. Kaltz Lenora Coffin Flora E. Lyons Ernest G. Hesser DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES French and German Italian and Spanish Martha G. Martin (By special arrangement) DRAMATIC ART DEPARTMENT "-a-'-es Belk Norman Green F. Elmer Marshall Gladys Smead Grace Clarke Pierce Justine Stotsenberff Wilma Davis Hlne Norma Justice Antibus DANCING DEPARTMENT Mm#. Leontlne Oano Louise Pursell Powell Mary Caroline Means

.SEPT. 14, 1928

BROAD RIPPLE HIGH CROWDED; 400JNR0LLED Classes Are Being Held in Gymnasium and in Kitchen. Crowded conditions prevail at Broad Ripple High School, according to K. V. Ammerman, principal. The school opened with an enrollment of more than 400 students this week. A larger percentage of that plumber registered on the opening day than the previous year. Classes are being held in the gymnasium and in the cooking school kitchen. Relief is promised with the opening of a house as an annex on the high school grounds, Ammerman says. Seventeen teachers and the principal handle the school. Three were added this year. They are: Miss Clara Woody in the Latin department, Le Roy Gheygey in the science and mathematic department, ans Miss Flora E. Drake in the Englisf and mathematic department. Miss Drake was assistant superintendent of schools last school year. The high school football field will be in shape for games next year, it is said. Workmen are building a gridiron now encircled with a quarter mile cinder track having a 220-yard straightaway. A baseball field also is being prepared. 1,900 AT MANUAL HIGH Expect Figure to Be Reached Soon; New Field For Football Enrollment at Manual Training high school is expected to reach 1,900 within a few weeks, according to E. H. Kemper McComb, principal. Enrollment this week was 1,788, eighty-three more than last year. The athletic activities will move to the new field on Madison Ae„ §cuth of Raymond St. in the spring when an enlarged program will be inaugurated. Regular football games, however, are being played there now. DIVIDE SCHOOL SURPLUS Three Funds Benefit by Distribution at Shortridge. The $275 surplus in the treasury of the class of ’2B at Shortridge High School has been distributed to three funds. Os the total, SIOO goes to the organ fund, $75 to the debate fund and SIOO to the fund for a class gift to the new building.