Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1928 — Page 22

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CLUBS FORMED BY STUDENTS AT SHORTRI9GE Officers Are Selected' and v Drives Started for New t Members. Following traditions of years’ standing, Shortridge High School students formed their clubs this week and elected officers under faculty supervision. Margaret Wheeler was named president of the True Blue Club, an organization to stimulate inilterest in athletics, assist freshfnen, tand to help out-of-town girls get "acquainted. Julia Brown was elected big sister; Helen Ehrich and Betty Jean Blaz, boosters; Katherine Frost and Betty Munson, in charge of out-of-town girls; Eloise Byrkit and I Martha Banister, publicity managers, and Lorraine Meyers, secretary. Thomas Keller was elected president of the Story Tellers Club; Lucille Morrison, v ice president; Mary Anne Russe, secretary, and Bulah Skinner .treasurer. Edith Lois Howell was appointed chairman of the program committee, and Robert Warren chairman of the social committee. if I Drive for Members A drive for new members was opened this week by the Math Club, under direction of the following officers: Helen Johnson, president;. I avid Ardern, vice president; Theresa Bagnoli, secretary; Gordon Ward, treasurer; Martha Metcalf, social chairman, and Warman Wel,Oliver, program chairman. ; The Girls’ Debating League will be headed this year by Helen Johnson, president; Celeste Jordan, vice president, and Katherine Tinsley, • secretary-treasurer. First meeting of the Shortridge Fine Arts Association was held this week, and it was reported that $250 is in the treasury. Five cents is each member, and the fund is used to buy panitings for the new school. Richard Oberreich unanimously Selected president of the Boys’ Debating 'League, and John Kitchen was elected vice president over ■ Warman Welliver and Lewis Hall. Charles Fell was named secretary. Censor Is Selected Russell V. Sigler of the history faculty, was appointed censor of the historic Shortridge Senate By George Buck, principal, to replace the late Miss Laura Donnon, who founded the Senate in 1887. Robert Hamill is president. Elections in, other clubs will be held next week, it was announced. The following assistants in departments wereannounced this week: David Burns, physics laboratory Jean Chenoweth, music department: Eleanor Roedger and Georgia Jean Gididngs, chemistry laboratory, and Richard Schey, Virginia Waller and Helen Mettice, art department. The biography department assistant will be announced next week.

ORGANIZE PRINCIPALS INTO FOUR CITY GROUPS Each Will Meet Once a Month to Improve Contacts. Principals of Indianapolis elementary schools have been divided into four groups, according to C. C. Underwood, director of elementary education, for purposes of better con--t of the supervisory organization with the problems which confront it. These • four groups met at the Benjamin Harrison grade school at 3 p. m. Thursday. Underwood detailed a plan for meeting each of the four groups once a month. After a brief talk on the importance of selecting definite items of observation upon which to base judgments of the work of teachers under the principals’ direction, Underwood appointed a program committee to organize the work for the next meeting of group No. 1— Miss Mary McGee, Benjamin Harrison principal, was hostess to the eighty-three principals who gathered at the Thursday meeting. SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE FOR CANNON OPENS Two Agents Are Appointed From Each of 120 Rollrooms. The official drive for subscriptions for the Technical High School Cannon business representative, who spoke before 240 rollroom Cannon agents. *. “You have a responsible duty,” Bauman told the agents. “And you have been chosen because of your Interest ia Technical, your salesmanship anility and your ability to sell others rs you hava. sold yourself." Miss Ella Sengenberger, faculty supervisor, and Wilma Fischer, advertising class, also spoke. Sample copies of the magazine were giVen to agents at the close of the meeting. Two agents were appointed from each of the 129 rollrooms. IDENTIFIES' 169 BIRDS James Huffman Heads Honor Roft in Zoology at Shortridge. Honor roll of students in the zoology department of Shortridge 'High chool is headed this year by James Huffman who idtenifled 169 birds in the held. Standing of others: Roderic Rae, 163; Robert Russell, 154; Clauds Kelly, 151; William McEwen, 130; Walter Cohn. 120; Thurston Harrison, 114; Robert Prettyman, 112; David Bon, 111: David McKinstray, 110; Fred Johns 109; Dwight Billings, 104; Nicholson Wade, 103; idney Muehl, 101; Mark Pangborn, 100.

Traditional Parasol Parade Stirs Up Washington High's Football Pep

Senior Girls Launch Drive to Increase Interest in Grid Games. “More football rooting pep" campaign was opened Tuesday afternoon at' Washington High School by the Washingtonians in the annual parasol parade. The organization is composed of senior girls, and the president, Thelma Flack, sold the first purple and white arm band “W” to the principal, Walter G. Gingery. Twenty-eight girls with parasols gaily decorated, in purple and white streamers and Washington pennants paraded down the front steps of the school building while the student body stood and sang the Washington song. % Leading the parasol parade was Miss Flack, Francis vice president; Clara Belle Woolery, secretary, and Twighla Keller, treasurer of the Washington Club. Giant Muscalunge Is Caught ’'a United Brest FRENCH RIVER, Ont., Sept. 21 —A 26-pound 8-ounce muscalunge, 47 inches long, 17% inches in girth, was caught Here by Edmund Strechbart, purchasing agent for a Chicago hotel.

Pupil Checks Own Errors in New Study System

Studies Just What He Needs Without Further Burdening Teacher. By Science Service WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21. The “grammar game” is being introduced in schools with the perfection of anew text. Instruction is individualized so that the student studies just what he needs without further burdening the teacher. The system, introduced in several large cities, was devised ly Dr. L. J. O’Rourke, director of research for the United States Civil Service Commission. He started the work while in Cornell University. The book is divided into three parts, drills, reference, and seif-cor-rections sections. Pupils Correct Errors It works this way. -First section contains lists of sentences with two alternatives indicated for one of the words, as “The sudden attack defeated (us—we) men.” The student writes what he thinks is the right word in a note book opposite the number of the sentence. The correct answers are in the last section of the book. Suppose the child gives “we” as the answer for the first sentence. He looks in the last section where he finds “us’ ; is correct. Opposite “us” is the symbol, “3c.” which refers to the rule in the reference section governing the problem. He corrects the error and writes “3c” opposite it. He corrects all mistakes in the same manner with the reference number beside the correction. Checks Own Weakness When he studies his lesson the next day he looks up the rules he has indicated and spends all his time on thepi, covering- only the rules on which he is weak and omitting the rules which he knows. In the teachers’ manual are speccial progress tests covering the same principals as the drill tests in the text book. These are corrected by the teacher, serving to check the

School Safety Campaign Conducted By Railroad

Posters Are Distributed for Education of Pupils. A safety campaign for school children is being staged through posters by the . New York Central Railroad in Indianapolis public schools this week. Officials have introduced “The Three Wise Children,” Master Stop, Look and Listen. Master’Stop is posed with his hand signaling for stop. Master Look has hife eyes shaded with his hand in an effort to see approaching trains. Master Listen has his hands cupped over his ears to hear the train at the crossing. “An empty box car on a siding is a dandy hiding place, but it is dangerous,” the posters state. “Hopping trains' is a thrilling pastime, for it gives a child an opportunity to

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Left to Right-Thelma Flack, Francis High, Clara Belle Woolery and Twighla Keller. Below —Walter G. Gingery, principal.

accuracy of the student correction j and to measure the progress and j diagnose difficulties. ATTENDANCE CONTEST CONDUCTED IN SCHOOLS W. A. Hacker Is in General Charge of Competition. The annual attendance contest under the general direction of W. A. Hacker, director of social service, assisted by Mrs. Maude Moudy, chairman of the contest, and Miss Mabel Keller, secretary, began Monday in the Indianapolis public schools. A banner will be awarded to the Indianapolis school maintaining the best attendance during the present school year. The award will be from monthly attendance reports sent from all schools to the office of Charles L. Miller, superintendent. School No. 83, Negro, Kappes and Miller Sts., won the 1927-28 attendance contest. ANNUAL TUG OF WAR AT CENTRAL TODAY / Sophs and Freshmen to Stage Traditional Battle. Someone will be “all wet” this afternoon when the annual fresh-man-sophomore class tug of war is staged by Indiana Central College students over Lick Creek at 5 p. m. The event is a tradition of the school, having been staged annually for twenty years. Fifteen men are oh each team, and they will pull until one side or the other is jerked through the creek. The sophomores have been ducked for the last two years. An outdoor dinner will be served to the student body after the tug of war. Presidents of the two classes will speak and bury the hatchet. The event-will close with a pep session.

show that he is grown up. Many a boy has been crippled for life because he jumped on and off moving train. A boy’s legs and arms are worth more to him than a few moments fun that he may get out of such a dangerous sport. "If you live where you have to cross a railroad track ru going to the store or school, be sure you do as Masters Stop, Look and Listen. “If you see a train coming, don’t try to run across the track in front of it; you may tumble and get hurt. If you are stopped at the crossing by a train, wait’until the train is past, then look to see if another is coming from either direction. If the tracks are clear, then cross. Better be safe than sorry. “Another dangerous pastime is stopping in the middle of the railroad track to talk to a pal. Get off tne crossing and then you can talk and laugh to your heart’s content. “Bea good loyal soldier of safety, and do your part to keep your body whole.”

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TEACHEBS HELP GATHER NEWS Items for Cannon Are Covby 'Bulletins.’ Arsenal Cannon staff members are using a 'unique method of gathering news of Technical High School under the 'direction of Miss Ella Sbngenbarger, faculty supervisor. A bulletin has been prepared with divisions for various bits of. routine news that might happen. The bulletins are distributed to teachers who mark the division in which their news falls, and return it to the Cannon office. , The first division is “outside speakers who are to address class, subject of speech, time, place and special ponits.” The information is outlined by the teacher. The second division is for “field trips or other visits.” The third is “records made by classes or individuals.” Fourth, “new features or propects of class and interesting work during the we6k.” Fifth, “personals news of alumni, humorous incidents,” and the last is “club notes.” “The entire school news is covered without the use of too many reporters,” sdid Miss Sengenberger, “and we can save reporters to send them on larger and more important stories.”

DRAFT ADULT CLASSES Vocational City School Schedule to Open Oct. 1. Vocational classes for adults in public schools will be started Oct. 1, Harry E. Wood, vocational education director, announced today. Wood said nearly 850 persons have indicated they will enter adult part time classes in sewing and millinery. Classes ini infant wear, child care and cooking will be organized if there are sufficient requests. Classes will be held between 8:30 and 11:30 a. m. and between 1:30 and 4:30 p. m. one day a week. Persons interested, over 16 years of age and not attending regular school, may enroll at any grade building Monday or Tuesday. MEN TO HOLD OUTING ✓ Manual Teacher Has Charge of Clay Pigeon Shoot Plans. School Men’s Club will hold an outing Thursday at the Boy Scout Reservation. W. S. Hiser, Manual Training High School teacher, has charge of arrangements for the clay pigeon shoot in the afternoon immediately after the close of school. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. The committee in charge includes Don R. Knight, Shortridge; O. W. Trickey, Manual; Herbert Traub, Technical; T. J. Weigel, Broad Ripple; Harry Wood of the school office, and W. H. Book, Washington. All-Canada Phone System Open By United t’ress FT. WILLIAM, Ont., Sept. 21. An all-Canadian telephone service, Winnipeg to Montreal, has been established via Port Arthur and this city, a distance of 1,600 miles. Heretofore, a connectiort between these points has been made through the United States.

New Arts Head

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Theodore P. VanVorhee^ 'Shortridge High School will have Theodore P. VanVprhees as head of the arts and crafts department'this year . He came to Indianapolis from Detroit, where he was in charge of arts and crafts in one of the junior high schools. VjanVorhees is a graduate of Bradley Institute, Peoria, 111.

HUNDREDS SIGN FOR GLASSES IN I. U. EXTENSION New Record May Be Set; Courses Get Under Way Next Week. With enrollments of 100 a day and classes starting each evening next week, Indiana University extend sion division reports prospects of a new enrollment record. -The increase today over last year is 17 per cent. Classes starting toddy under new instructors are modern poetry under Prof. S. J. Sembower, dean of men at Indiana University, and Indiana History, under Prof. Logan Esarey. Class in Advertising Other classes starting this evening are 'Beginning and advanced French, advanced English for graduate students, under Dr. H. H. Carter; music appreciation, under J. L. Geiger, and character education, under Associate Professor Velorus Martz. Business men and women of all ages will enter classes tonight in traffic management, feature writing and advertising. Psychology, under Edgar L. Yeager, is one of the most popular courses on Thursday.' Mental hygiene, Tuesday nights, takes up prevention of abnormalities of character and conduct. It deals with such matter as the in-feriority-complex and both major and minor disorders such as psychoneuroses. isanities, repression, and the application of pycho-analysis. Short Story Course Prof. George S. Snoddy, the instructor, treats with crime and the insanity plea. • While his course is intended partly for those dealing with criminals, it also is valuable to those who wish to recognize the first signs of abnormality in children. Embryo short story writers will meet Monday night. Others interested in literature more from the standpoint of enJoymMit will enter classes Tuesday under Prof. W. E. Jenkins in modern drama and novel, and under Prof. Henry T. Stephenson in Shakespeare.

AUTO MAKERS CLAIM RECORD New High Mark Is Set'for Production. Bn Tint ex Special' WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The production of passenger automobiles for August, 1928, have established a new high record. Passenger cars manufactured in August totaled 400,689, the largest number of this type ever turned out in one month. The nearest previous total was 397,332, in October, 1925. The industry ran up the second highest total yet achieved in the production of trucks. Last month it manufactured 57,740, less than 1,000 behind the record of 58,651, made in September, 1925. The report was compiled by the Department of Commerce from figures received from 155 manufacturers. INVITE ‘COPS’ TO GAME Safety Bureau to Fete Boy Traffic Officers at Baseball Tilt. Traffic officers of the Indianapolis schools will be entertained by the accident prevention bureau of the police departmnt Saturday afternoon at the baseball ganfe between the Indians and the Toledo Mud Hens. ( “The children will be admitted to the park on their badges, just like a regdlar policeman,” says Lieut. Frank Owens who is assisting Police Chief Claude Worley with the party. -- An entire section of the bleachers will be reserved for the kids.

135 FROSH AT WABASH First Year Class 22 Per Cent Larger Than Last Year. By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Sept. 21.—The freshman class at Wabash College shows an enrollment of 135. an increase of 22 per cent over last year, according to K. P. Wood, director of the college news bureau. About 9 per cent who applied for entrance were turned away because of deficient high school work, it is said. Registration of upper-class-men shows' a larger percentage of returning students than last year. Hoosier Clusen Vice Consul Bn Times Special FOWLER, Ind., Sepij. 21.—Burton Y. Berry, son of Judge and Mrs. B. B. Berry, Fowler, has been appointed American vice consul at Constantinople, Turkey. He was graduated from the local high school and Indiana University, was a student of international law in Paris, France, two years. He will leave for the Turkish city Oct. 15. Rooster Takes Long Trip B,y Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 21.—A Plymouth Rock rooster sealed in a box car at Pateau, Okla., was liberated by Charles Fisher when he opened the car in a freight train here. The trip required seven days and nights. The rooster was thirsty and hungry, but water and food restored it to normal and it now crows lustily., Trainmen to Meet Saturday By Times Sveoial TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 21. Railroad trainmen of Indiana will meet here Saturday irt annual State convention with an attendance of 1,000 expected. Wives of members of the Brotherhood of Railway T ainmen will also be here and a program for their entertainment has been arranged.

Teacher Back at Post After 2 Years'Absence

Miss Mabel Harlan Has Studied and Traveled in Europe. After two years’ absence, Miss Mabel Harlan, associate professor of Spanish, returned to the Indiana University extension center this semester. Miss Harlan studied Spanish one year in Spain, and traveled through Spain and the continent. Her class in Spanish for beginners meets for the first time at 5:45 p. m. Wednesday at 122 E. Michigan St. A more advanced class meets at 8 p. m. Miss Harlan is a graduate of Colorado College and receives her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1927. _ „ Other language courses offered evenings in the local center are German on Monday and Wednesday nights under-Mrs. Clara Fischer, and both elementary and second year French under Profs. Lander McClintock and Ernest Leveque on Friday. Professor Leveque also will conduct a course in the French novel on Saturdays.

SCHOOL RALLY JAMSOUILDING Auditorium at Washington Too Small. . With increased enrollment this year at Washington High School, auditorium facilities have become inadequate, according to Walter G. Gingery, principal. There were 964 students enrolled in 1927-28, ,and about 1,100 this semester. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 800. The entire school turned, out for the victory celebration Monday, because of the 41 to 6 football defeat of Logansport. The main part of the auditorium was filled, and the remainder of the students were seated on the stage which also is the gymnasium. Speakers were H. B. Bogue, football coach, and R. B. Morrison, athletic director. School songs and yells were well managed in spitq, of the crowded conditions, Gingery said, but students heard speakers with dificulty. A system of holding exercises in the auditorium will be worked out by faculty members before the next sessions, it is said. FLOWER SHOW IS HELD Pageant Also Is Presented at School No. 42. A flower show was held at school No. 42 Wednesday and Thursday under the direction of E. W. Diggs, principal. Science classes of the school collected and labeled 'the flowers. A pageant, “Feast of the Flowers,” was shown Thursday. The music department played for this pageant.

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Toy Tour City Teacher Visits Land of Christmas in Trip to Europe.

MISS HELEN HAYNES, a teacher at Manual Training High School, visited the land of Christmas time this summer during a tour of Europe. “It was awfully hot, too,” said Miss Haynes. Four other Manual teachers toured the British Isles and the continent this summer. Miss Bertha .Thormeyer visited Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and the British Isles. She was accompanied _by Miss Augusta Mering. RJjss Carolyn Bradley studied in Portugal. Miss Margaret Waters was the fifth teacher to tour Europe. “I saw toy makers in NurenGermany, constructing toys that will be enjoyed by American children this winter. The futur istic designs so predominant in artistic circles in Germany today were evident to a certain extent in their toys,” said Miss Haynes “The trees were more modernistic than naturalists with square lines. The toy fair there is held the year around on a floor the size of a large department store. Each room held a certain kind of toy One room had toy trains with miles of track. Another room had dolls. The most beautiful room Was decorated with a Christmas tree splashed with toy snow. “But it was terribly hot for Christmas things. That’s not slang,” said Miss Haynes, “I mean it really was warm.” Bus lines throughout the country carreid 2,525,000,000 passengers last year. /

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STATE TEACHER CONVENTION TO HEAR BOWERS Native Hoosiers and Former Indiana Instructors Make Up Program. An “All Indiana Program” is being arranged for the seventy-fifth annual session of the Indiana State Teachers Association in IndianapoHs next month, and every speaker will be a native Hoosier or a former teacher in this State. After three-quarters of a century, It is said the organization probably is the oldest of its kind in the United States, and it is the oldest voluntary State-wida teachers organization in Indiana. The partial list of speakers is as follows: Dr. Lotus B. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, formerly superintendent of Salem, Ind. Claude Bowers to Talk Dr. Rufus B. Von Klein Smldj president of the University ol Southern California, formerly a member of De Pauw University faculty. Everett Saunders, secretary to Cal - vin Coolidge, a resident of Terre Haute. Claude Bowers, of the New York World, formerly of Ft. Wayne, Dr. Paul Monroe, Teachers College of Columbia University, a native of Jefferson County and a graduate of Franklin College. Ohioan an Program Dr. E. B. Bryan, president of Ohio University, formerly president of Franklin College and a member of the Indiana University faculty. Dr. Calvin O. Davis, professor of education of the University of Michigan, formerly a teacher in the South Bend High School. Dr. H. B. Wilson, national director of the American Red Cross, a former Hoosier teacher and city superintendent.

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