Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1928 — Page 22

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VARIETY WILL : BE KEYNOTE OF iP. T. A. SESSIONS 4 Many School Groups to i Present Programs Next $ Wednesday. i . 'Programs of varied activity are ’being planned by the groups of associations for the •Novemoer meetings to be held afternoon and evening •/in indianapolis grade schools, ao-„ to Mrs. H. L. Stenger, city /•publicity chairman. P. T. A- of School 48 will meet at 43 :-lo p. m., when a kindergarten ,idemonstration and talk on health .will be given. Mrs. Fred G. GeisenC,dorff will preside. . Miss Mary Pratt of Shortritlge high school will speak at the meeting at School 66, at 3:15 p. m. Mrs. Mary Traub Busch will sing accompanied by Mrs. C. L. Vaile. A "social hour will close the program. $ A meeting of the study club under -Mrs. W. S. Mellender will precede ’the session of the P. T. A., at 3:10 ip. m. at School 78. Miss Elizabeth ■Ohr will talk on “The Home ’Library” Books and book lists will •be shown for parents to examine. Pupils to Give Program 1 Pupils will provide the program 4* the School 16 meeting at the building. a Richard Cadbury will speak and fe, Community Fund picture will be shown at the School 2 meeting at *2:50 p. m. A business meeting will the talk. School children ftvill provide' music. j- Singing and a health program by ’’the pupils will entertain parents at %he meeting at 3:15 p. m. of School A Thanksgiving play will be given by pupils at the meeting of the <P.-T. A. at School 77 Nov. 21. A food sale will follow the session. * The girl’s glee club will sing .a <feroup of Schubert’s songs at Traffic Squad to Entertain t The traffic squad of School 67 has the program of the meeting to be held at 7:30 p. m. Miss Gertrude Free will give a piano S solo and the traffic officers will be Introduced. Miss Josephine O’Brien sSvill sing. Lieutenant Frank Owen of the accident prevention bureau 'of the police department, and Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club will speak. / Oliver P. Morton School 29 will meet at 3p. m. The pupils of Miss ?Marie Poter will sing “America the Beautiful,” and give a scene in a 'haturaliztaion court. A tea will be given in honor of the new principal, Miss Louise Sonar. A paper sale will be held Nov. 16, according to Mrs. C. H. Oover, president. The Rev. Joseph B. Rosmurgy •will be the principal speaker at the meeting at 2 p. m. of the P. T. A. -of School 62. The boys’ glee club and the second primary chorus will ■sing. Fred Noble will give several on the violin. ■?_ / Plan Novel Program •( A novel program is promised by * the program committee of School 54 i£or the meeting at 2:30 p. m. Refreshments Will be served. i The Rev. John L. Prentice will be Speaker at School 69, at 2:30 p. m. ‘There will be special music. 4 Dr. E J. Rogers of Indiana university will speak on “Food We Eat” at 'the School 34 meeting at 2:30 P m. A report will be given by the .domestic science department pupils, and a play will be staged. Mrs. W. *B. Girdts will preside. , Charity Dye School 27 will meet, at 2:30 p. m., and Mrs. T. C. Perine Vill speak on “The Holy Land.” /THREE CITY THEATERS * CHANGE OWNERSHIP 4 - . ‘■’Warner Bros. Buy Control of Circle, Indiana and Ohio. , < Control of the Circle, Indiana and Ohio theaters passed into the Jhands of the Warner Bros. Picture nouncement at New York today. 4 Purchase the controlling interest .pi the Skouras Bros. Enterprises, Inc., of St. Louis was authorized ‘Thursday by the Warner Bros: Aboard of directors. The St. Louis in association with the Publix Theater Corporation, purchased the; operating leases cn the *three local theaters last spring., Spyros Skouras of the St. Louis organization is to become head of .the theater department of the Warbler firm and no change in manage'ment or policies of the local theaters •*will be made, it is understood. 'PICK SCOUT OFFICERS *■ Ruddell Selects Two Members for i- Body’s Council. * George W. Losey of Losey-Nash and Charles E. Scheuring of Emerson-Scheuring Tank Com'pany today became members of the . Indianapolis Boy Scout council. Almus G. Ruddell, council president, announced these appointments: Executive Committee—Earl R. Conder, chairman; Wallace O. Lee, ’George Vonnegut, Edward W. Harris and Eli Schloss.

Oh , Shoot! An amusing incident happened at one of the grade schools the other day, when a IB was singing the old nursery rhyme. “Knock at the door, Peep In, Pull the latch And walk in.” In a lusty voice the 1928 first-grader sang: “Knock at the door, Peep In, Pull the trigger And walk in.”

There Are Twins and Twins at Manual

Above, Robert (left) and William Schultz. Right c.on-er: lima (left) and Irma Tacoma: Center, Conrad (left) and Ernest Russell; Lower right, Alice (left) and Allen Kritsch; Lower right, Telma (left) and Thelma Rogers.

CITY SCHOOLS TAUGHT ART Lectures on Sculpture Set for Herron Institute. School children will hear a lecture on sculpture, with methods and demonstrations, at the John Herron Art institute, Sixteenth and Pennsylvania streets, at 9:30 a. m. Saturday. It is the third of a series of eight lectures on art given to interest grade children and to acquaint’them with museum exhibits. The methods, as explained by Miss Ann Hasselman, curator, are ni the round, relief, sunken outline, bas-relief, high relief, and intaglio. The materials used are wood, clay, terracotta, stone, ivory, metal, and plaster ot paris. > On Nov. 17 the lecture will be continued by talks on the exhibits of sculpturing in the museum. Many flne examples of sculpturing from Greece, Rome, Germany, Italy and other countries will be on display. Representatives from grade schools, 2 to .41, inclusive, will attend the lectures until Dec. 15. From Jan. 12 to March 9, representatives from Schools 42 to 85 will attend. The series of lectures will be repeated a third time after March 9 for representatives from schools having the best attendance records. TEACHERS ARE TESTED Efficiency of Living Taught by Quiz Planned. “What were you doing at 9 o’clock Tuesday?” “How long did you do it?” These and other questions will be asked of students at the Teachers college of Indianapolis in a questionnaire being circulated b3 T the psychology department under Henry T. Tyler. : The *purpose is to determine what students are doing and how long they are doing it, in order to arrange their living conditions more efficiently. The test is to last a week. CHRISTMAS BOXES SENT Sohool 4 Ships Seventy-Three to / Children Overseas. The overseas children may start Wishing for their Christmas boxes. Under the auspices of the Junior Red Cross, seventy-three boxes have been sent from School 54. Each gift was wrapped in tissue paper and held with ribbon and stickers, and on top of each box was a Christmas greeting. Junior Red Cross work began at School 54 twelve years ago, when one third grade room sent twenty bbxes overseas.

Daniel Webster School Wins Attendance Race

Average for October Is 99.88 Per Cent; No. 68 Is Second. Daniel Webster School 46, Miller and Reisner streets, is the winner of the October attendance contest in the elementary schools, it was announced today by Maude Moudt, chairman, and Mabel Keller, secretary, of the contest. The average of the school was 99.88 per cent. Total days present were 9,951, with 505 legal absentees, 73.5 illegal absences and 12 tardy cases. School 68, Linwood avenue and

The leaders of Manual high school twins are Robert and William Schulz, who also. lead the school yells at football and basketball games. “We work together" is their motto. Two sets of girl twins are Telma and Thelma Rogers and lima and Irma Tacoma. Telma looks almost exactly like Thelma, but lima is thought to be Irma’s big sister more ofUn than her twin; me other set of boy .'twins aL the south side school is Conrad and Ernest Russell. The only set of “boy and girl” twins is Alice and Allen Kritsch. “And we don’t even look like twins,” says Alice.

Technical

BY WILLIAM FROSCH Cast of the Technical high school senior class play has been chosen. It will be staged at the Murat theater Dec. 14. Mary Frances Cray and John Holtman will play the leading roles and will be supported by Margaret Ethelyn Shaul, Anna Moore, Aurzella Magel, John Aitken, Charles Rogers, Harry Krentler and Max Klemer. “Pitch In and Help” Is the new slogan chosen to be placed on the new waste paper baskets on the campus. Alice Corey coined the saying, and it was selected by a facullty committee from among 925 submitted. . Typing fifty-one words a minute for fifteen minutes, Jewell Martin was awarded a silver typewriting medal. Mary Frances Kneer, Lois Hunter, Dorothea Allen and Audron Duncan were given bronze medals, and Nellie Passons and Rosemary Towles were awarded certificates. Bernice Brown was elected president of the Girls Physical Training Club at the. last meeting. Ardith Whitmore was named vice-presi-dent; Marjorie Green, secretarytreasurer, and Justine Rufner, ser-geant-at-arms. The new social committee is composed of Margaret Edwards, Chairman; Ardith Whitmore, Thelma Berry and Louise Eppen. Mary Ellen Bryant has been elected president ' of the Spanish Club. - Af the last meeting one of the stunts was the repeating of the oath of allegiance in Spanish, and singing several American songs in Spanish. STUDY BOOK ON BELLS Volume Will Be Used In City Schools, Miller Announces. “Bells,” a book by Satis N. Coleman, discussing the history, making and uses, of bells, will be used by children in the Indianapolis public schools, according to Charles F. Miller, superintendent. The book is the outcorac of studies with a group 'of children in the Lincoln school at Columbia university.

Twenty-first street, was second with an average of 99.17 per cent. These two schools are the only ones with averages of 99 or better. The rest are from 98 down to 92. In the first ten are: School 82, with 98.987; School 53, with 98.701; School 81, with 98.646; School 54, with 98.572; School 85, with 98.567; School 33, with 98.529; School 39, with 98.511, and School 76, with 98.501. Total number of days present of students in the entire elementary school system is 695,846. Total of legal absences is almost seventy years, or 25,069 days. Illegal absences amounted to 5,606, and tardy cases number 2,763,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

CONSOLS ARE NAMED Two Appointed to Roman Senate at Shortridge. John Elam and Robert Hamii! were elected consuls of the Roman senate at Shortridge high school this wefck. The senate is one of the oldest institutions of the school and was sponsored for many years by Miss Laura Donnan. Students of the Latin department are eligible for the organization. Other officers names are: Harry Cooper. Jane Howe. Donald Miller, Robert Russell. Dorothea Saiock, William Thompson, Harvrv Trimble, and Warman Welliver, praetors: Dorothy Campbell. Jan Crabb, Charles Crtnc. Dorothy Dauner. John Encleke. William Forshawn. Margaret Lewis. Helen Riggins. quaetores; Dorothy Lecdv and Mary Louise Wheeisr, censores: Gustavus Jackson. Marcia Morrison, patrician aediles: John Anderson, William Burlch, Frances Carlin. Julia Craig. William Dunne. Dwight Eastridge. Adel Fletcher. Virginia Harrs, Robert Hiatt. Duane McKinney, Frances McNaught, Robert Marshall. John Morgan. John Pearson, Mary Jane Steeg. James Wegner. Charles Fetbleman and Betty Kalleen. plebian aediles; Walter Cohn. Josephine Cole, Walter Hines, Katherine Kiser, and Lyman Hunter tribunal.

Shortridge

BY WILLIAM HOFFMAN The Honor society held its first celebration at the home of Dorthy Leedy. The scholars lost their dignity long enough to enter a pingpong tournament and then they regained it to play bridge. Warman Welliver n. eived honorable mention in the Indiana Navy day essay contest. Helen Louise Langston has resigned as editor-in-chief of Friday's Echo staff because of illness. Marjorie Holcomb, who has oeen acting editor, succeeds her. William N. Otto, head of the English department, has chosen John Kitchen to write an article for the Scholastic Editor, a magazine for student journalists. His article, will explain the general system used in putting out the Echo. Major C. H. Faught recently was elected president of . the Reserve Officers Club. The other officers are First Lieutenant Kauffman, vice-president; Second Lieutenant Thompson, treasurer, and Second Lieutenant Arden, secretary. This club has been organized to promote military training and to study subjects that cannofe-be covered in regular classes. • William N. Otto, managing editor of the Echo, has appointed Alice Kahow to the exchange editorship of the school paper. It will be her duty to correspond with other schools and rewrite articles of interest for the daily paper. Gordon Ward recently was elected president of the Science Club. Other officers are David Burns, vice-president; Frank Oliphant, treasurer, and Bronis Lisby, secretary. Barbara Anderson and Robert Hockett gave a program for the state nurses’ convention at the Lincoln hotel. extend” fund drive Valparaiso U. Campaign May Run Into December, By Timet Specidl VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 9.—The Valparaiso university $500,000 endowment fun appeal, scheduled to close Oct. 1, has been extended to November, and may even run into December, due'to inability of Lutheran church congregations to organize for the campaign because of congested church calendars, it was announced today. H. C. Thomas, university manager, and President Dau are in California perfecting the organization of the campaign,

CHASE ‘DUNKING’ ’N ‘ZOUP’ NOISE IN 72’S BOOK School Pupils Give Fine Points of Courtesy in Tome. Children at School 72, Troy and Carson avenues, knows it’s improper to eat with their fingers, or to make a no.se with soup, or to “dunk” their bread. But they also know the finer points of courtesy and manners which would put Emily Post to shame. A booklet on the subject has been compiled by the pupils in the English and civics classes. It was written and printed by students in the school print shop. Bound Ln Tan The booklet is bound in a tan cover sheet and measures eight by five inches. On the cover page appears the quotation from Emerson, “Life Is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.” The standards of courtesy set forth in the book give the rules of etiquette practiced by adults, expressed in children’s language. Seven phases of good manners arc considered separately under the heading; ‘courtesy in the home, ‘courtesy when invited out,’ ‘courtesy at the table,’ ‘courtesy on the telephone,’ ‘courtesy in public assemblies,’ ‘courtesy on the street,' ‘playground courtesy,’ and ‘introductions.’ “Don’t Grumble” Extracts from the little book read: “Boys and girls who are truly courteous will perform their share of the home duties without grrmbling. “A courteous child nr-- • biases or bullies his younger broth. • or sister. “A written invitation demands a written reply. “Do not find fault with the food at the table. “Be not angry at the table no matter what happens; and if you should have reason to be, show it not. “Ladies and gentlemen do not make themselves noticeable in public places. “It is better to lose, and lose fairly than ever to win by cheating. "Introductions should be cordial, sincere and simple. “ ‘How do you do?’ is one phrase accepted by most authorities in acknowledgement of an introduction.”

Manual

BY GEORGE HICKS THE German club sponsored by Miss Bertha Thormeyer entertained with a Halloween party this week. Each guest recited a mother Goose rhyme ln German among the many stunts. Three hundred Christmas boxes have been sent to New York by the Junior Red Cross club of Manuel for distribution in foreign countries Several portfolios were received recently from foregn Junior Red Cross chapters. At the Roines club entertainment at rhe home of Everitt Harming the following new members were identified: Everett Light, Laurel Clayton, Howard Bettge and Cedric White. Stella Menke has been elected president of the Girls’ Glee club. Other officers are Gertrude Zorn, vice president; Katherine Stewart, secretary; Florence Cheadle, treasurer; Ethel Blase, sergeant-at-arms, and Leah Wahley and Margaret Rosenberg, librarians. Models of airplanes, made by Manual boys, will be on display in the public library next week and are being exhibited with a collection of books on aviation as a special feature of national book week. L. L. Dickerson, Indianapolis librarian, will visit Manual Thursday. In his honor a tea will be given in the library. Faculty and staff members from the central library will be guests.

If you have lost a love letter, safety pin, finger nail file, chewing gum, hair pin or cough drop box go ask the librarian for it. She reports that all these things are found in books returned by students.

The Aviation Club has field meets every Sunday afternoon, about two miles out on Carson avenue. Fifteen boys are enrolled in the club, G. L. Brown is sponsor. These boys will display airplane models in the public library next week: Harold Stofer, Philip Wit, Carl Hafemaier, Eugene Fulk, Frederick Eggert, Wayne Van Osdol, Arthur Voltt, Francis F ihtman, Carl Hancock and Cl v ;e Walter. Hancock and Walton are not members of the club. The boys have gone back to the old pastime of playing checkers. Charles Creaser made a checker board from a blue - print and the boys cut checkers from cardboard and wrote ‘Sayings’ on them. The checker boards are kept on a table near the lunchroom entrance. EDITOR FILESUBE L SUIT AGAINST HEARST Charges Herald-Examiner Slandered Him in Mexican Stories. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—Ei-nest Cruening, editor of the Portland News, Portland, Me., filed suit in circuit court here today asking $250,000 libel and naming the Chicago Herald-Examiner and William Randolph Hearst, owners, as defendants. Gruening charged in his suit that the Herald-Examiner, in articles printed on Mexico, falsely accused him of accepting SIO,OOO from President Calles of Mexico in return for services he was to render in Great Britain. The articles said, the suit recites, that Gruening was sent to Great gxitaia to stir up labor trouble,

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TECH CAMPUS GUARDS CARRY WOODEN GUNS Cadets Who Break Rules Are Placed on Patrol Duty. “You’re in the army now” is almost a reality at Technical hign , school in the R. O. T. C. depart. • ment. Several cadet soldiers daily are ! seen marching back and forth across 1 the campus with wooden guns on their shoulders. They are now allowed to speak to anyone except in the line of duty, and none of the students speak to the men on gu%rd. Only those cadets who have broken rules are placed on guard mo mat duty, it is explained. “Somebody has to break the rules,” moaned one <guardr. “If we didn’t break the rules, there would be no guards, and then what would become of the unguarded campus ”

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With just “oodles” of twins at Shortridge high school and a great many at Manuel, Floyd and Eva McCammon hold the “twins” honor at Washington high school this winter by themselves. “We seem to be the only twins at Washington now,” says Eva, “and we don’t even look like twins. More persons take us for for just brother and sister. “But we don’t care. Maybe another pair of twins will enroll ln Wr shington in the spring semester.” “You bet,” said Floyd, “and maybe we will have some triplets out here.”

DEBATE TEAMS CHOSEN 25 Candidates Compete for Places at J. C. Affirmative and negative debating teams were selected this week at Indiana Central College from a field of twenty-five candidates. Affirmative team: Chester Ellis, Bremen; Everet Bish, Marion; Ronald Wolfe, Dayton, 0., and Floyd Huffman, Hartford City; alternate. Negative team: Clarence Bluemel, James Schwartz, both Indianapolis; Carl Wolford, Freeport, 111., and Hadley Cobb, Muncie, alternate. Debates will be held with Oakland City, Earlham, Wabash and Manchester colleges, and with the University of Florida. • The fact that animals have no personality is proved by the fact that none will recognize itself in a mirror.

.NOV. 9, 1928

SOUSA TO WAVE GUIDING BATON FOB TECH BAND Famous Master to Honor School Organization Nov. 23. The concert band of Arsenal Technical high school will receive an unusunl honor Friday, Nov, 23, when John Philip Sousa will direct the organization during the matinee performance at Cadle tabernacle. Sousa’s band will play in the afternoon and evening. The matinee starts at 3 p. m. and the evening concert at 8 p. m. Special tickets are being offered to school children at reduced prices for both entertainments, elapses will be dismissed for those planning to attend, says Charles F. Miller, city superintendent of schools. Advance tickets are being sent out by Miss Florence H. Fitch and these will be exchanged for the regular tickets later. A percentage of the profits for the day will go to the Children’s Muesum on North Meridian street. The same arrangement was used for the showing of “Simba” at the Murat theater. The Technical band has made a study of Sousa’s marches and won first prize at the recent state high school band contest. F. A. Barker is the instructor and leader of the band. CHEMISTRY CLASSES AT SHORTRIDGE PRAISED Department Lauded as Among High School Leaders The chemistry department of Shortridge high school has been praised a second time this year by visitors who are authorities on the subject. Professor Neil Gordon, head of the new chemistry department of John Hopkins university of Baltimore, Md., recently visited Shortridge and spoke favorably of the inductive method of education used by Frank Wade, head of the department. The method is used by only a few American schools but it is quite general ln England. A visitor from that country recently mentioned Shortridge and Wade in a book written on education after a tour of America. 1 .ks Children’s Music “Music for Children” was discussed by Miss Juanette Nutter, of the music department of the Teachers College of Indianapolis, before a meeting of the mother’s study class at the Y. W. C. A. this week.