Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1928 — Page 24

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HOLIDAY JOY TO BE FEATURE OF P. T. A. LESSONS Christmas Spirit Will Be Keynote of Programs Next Week. Christmas programs are being given by most of the Parent-Teach-er associations meeting next week, according to Mrs. H. L. Stenger, city publicity chairman. School 76 will meet at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. After a short business session, the 8A class will present a Christmas play, “Why the Chimes Rang.” with music by the 8B class. Christmas carols will be sung by children of the other grades. A social hour will follow. Meeting of school No. 54 will be Wednesday, when a bazar and food sale will be held. Open house will be observed all day. In the evening a Christmas program will be given by the Mothers Dramatic club, assisted by the Mothers’ Glee club. William Bell School 60 will hold its meeting at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. C. J. Buchanan will give a Christmas talk. Mrs. Louise Shellschmitt Koehne will give selections on the harp. Mrs. J. M. Ogden’s Christmas Chorale will sing Program at School 80 A Christmas program will be given by the children of School 80 at their meeting Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Graham, pastor of Broad Ripple Christian church, will speak. P. T. A. of School 85 will meet at 3:15 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. Howard Staley will tell a Christmas story. There will be Christmas carols by the boys’ chorus and a playlet by the pupils. School 81 will hold its meeting Wednesday. The following program has been arranged: Bible reading, Virginia Fillinger; song, “Silent Night”; piano solo, John Vogel; mother goose play; reading, Joe Pat Arvin; piano solo, Vivian King; reading, Betty June Mathey; the other wise man, Mrs. D. E. Chapman. P. T. A. of School 13 will meet Wednesday. A Christmas cantata by pupils of the entire school will be given. < Tree to Be Feature Lew Wallace school will meet at 2 p. m. Friday. A Christmas party with a tree and gifts for all childen will be provided by the P. T. A. The program, consisting of Christmas recitations, songs and playlets will be given by pupils of rooms 6. 7, and 10. The Rev. L. A. Tripp, social service director of the Church Federation, will speak at the meeting of School 75 at 3:15 p. m. Wednesday Carols will be sung by a group of P. T. A. mothers, and pupils of the school will sing. The meeting of School 38 will be held at 3:15 p. m. Wednesday. The Rev. Homer Dale will speak on “Essentials of a Good Santa Claus.” Refreshments will be served and gifts exchanged. P. T. A. of School 18 will meet at 2p. m. Wednesday. Miss Klaib • er will read “The Other Wise Men.”

i Christmas Program Planned The meeting of School 78 will be at 1:45 p. m., Thursday. A short business session will be followed by a Christmas program by the children of the school. Mrs. Raymond Keiser will tell a Christmas story, “The Other Boy.” P. T. A. of School 9 will meet at 9:30 a. m. Friday, in the Assembly hall. The processional, “Oh, Come All Ye Faithful,” will be sung by the entire school. A series of Christmas scenes with appropriate music will be followed by the recessional, “Joy to the World.” Christmas carols will be sung by various groups of children during the nrogram. School 36 will hold its meeting at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday. The program will consist of plays, shadow pictures, Christmas carols, and tableaux showing Christmas in foreign lands. McKinley School 39 will hold its meeting Wednesday. A group of mothers will sing Christmas carols. A play will be given by department grades.

Shortridge

BY WILLIAM HOFFMAN Seven juniors have announced candidacies for class offices. John Englelke and Fredrick Vedders are running for president-; Dorothy Campbell and Jane Howe, vicepresident; Charles Cring, treasurer; William Forshaw and War man Weliver, vaudeville chairman. Lieutenant George Naylor, faculty member, has announced plans for a student yell section at all athletic events. This is expected to bring more enthusiastic yelling at the games and consequently give the team more encouragement. William N. Otto, head of the English department and debating coach, recently announced the girls’ team that will debate in February with Wiley high school of Terre Haute. It is composed of Dorothy Dauner, Celeste Jordan, Mary Frances Litten, captain, and Mabel Espy, alternate. Amy Crise, Katherine Tinsley, Helen Johnston, captain, and Lois Jordon, alternate, compose the team that will debate Bedford high school, in the new Caleb Mills hall In February. Frank Oliphant was re-elected president of the senate. War man Welliver was chosen vice-president; J. Don Miller, reading clerk; Harriet Bergen, secretary; Elbert Gilliom, assistant secretary; Jane Saxon, page, and Mary Alice Glick, page. School 51 Plans Party School 51 will give a Christmas party at 1:30 p. m. Friday, Dec. 21, at the school. Included in the program is “The Old, Old Story,” a Bible narrative, and carols and shadow pictures.

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MANUAL PLANS YULETIDE FEU Several Groups Will Hold Celebration. Christmas at Manual Training high school will be celebrated in many ways by groups and classes next week. Music and speech departments are combining to give a program Thursday in the auditorium. “Manual Carolers” will sing a number of French, English and German carols, assisted by a bass choir. The Girls’ Glee Club will sing several numbers, assisted by Mrs. Charles A. Searcy, contralto; Fred Hohlt, violinist, and Virginia Leyenberger, cellist. Other numbers will be sung by a double quartet composed of Frances Dearborn, Mary Elizabeth Colter, Bernice Terry, Dorothy Anderson, Wilbur Eggert, Riley Fledderjohn, Robert Davis and Richard Bauer. Teachers of the home economics department will entertain the faculty with a Christmas tea in the dining room Thursday afternoon. The clothing department is displaying gifts made by students for members of their families. Forty-five pounds of fruit cake have been made by the cooking classes to fill orders. Candy also is being made for friends of the girls of the class. Several displays of work of the cooking classes will be shown next week. The Junior Red Cross and the H. Y. S. club of Manual have filled 150 gay Christmas stockings for guests of the Indianapolis Orphans’ home.

ART COURSE CLOSES Pupils to Turn in Notebooks Saturday. The final session of the first section of the Saturday morning art appreciation course for school children at the John Herron Art Institute will be held at 9:30 a. m. Saturday. Pupils will turn in their note books on the course to be graded by Miss Anna Haaselman, curator, and Miss Mary Margaret Miller, museum assistant. The second section will be held from Jan. 12 to March 9 for children from Schools 42 to 85. The third group will be composed of children from those schools which have the best attendance record. TEACHERS APPOINTED Seven Get Jobs; Leaves for Two Recommended. Seven teachers were appointed and two were recommended for leaves of absence at a meeting of the board of school commissioners this week. Dorothy Peterson and Eugene Miller were appointed study hall assistants at Shortridge high school for the school year, starting Dec. 12. The other appointments were made to the evening schools. They were: Myrtle Ware, academic, School 26; C. E. Hicks, shop, School 26; Susan Bradford, millinery, School 26; Laura Wolfolk, cooking, School 26, and Adelaide Crdnin, English for foreigners, School 52.

Organ Lessons Crispus Attucks Only High School in Indiana Giving This Service.

THE only public school class in Indiana taking pipe organ lessons has been organized at Crispus Attucks high school under direction of J. Harold Brown. The $16,500 organ was installed in the school last spru: b , and classes were started this fall. There are five students at present selected from the Junior and Senior classes f or their proficiency in piano. Practice hours are scheduled daily. Although the course has just started, it has proven popular. A full course lasting two years is being made. It is thought that Technical high school will inaugurate organ lessons in September, 1929, with the installation of the new 5,000 pipe organ in the spring of next

The Shortridge editorial board is an organization of Echo editors which meets each week to discuss the policy of the daily paper, William N. Otto, managing editor, sponsors the organization. Richard Oberreich is president, and Jean Underwood secretary. Editors are Dorothy Dauner for Monday; Edwa.d Wright, Tuesday; Richard Oberreich and Jean Underwood, Wednesday; John Kitchen, Thursday, and Marjorie Holcomb, Friday. John Forney, pictured with the group, recently resigned from Monday’s editorship when he was elected senior president. BALL COLLEGE TO OIVEPLAYS Important Dramatic Events to Be Staged. Si/ Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 14.—Two important dramatic events will be staged next semester at Ball teachers college here. Members of the Spotlight Club will give a three-act play each term starting next semester, it was decided at a recent meeting. Professor Irvin Shoemaker, fac-< ulty sponsor, told the club of several plays he has seen in New York. Further plans for plays will be discussed at the annual Christmas party Wednesday. The junior class will produce the “Junior Follies,” in February. The follies consists of ten acts. The class will be divided into ten sections, each section to give an act. In all English history no woman applied for divorce before 1801 and only three before 1841.

County P. T. A. Groups Arrange Yule Parties

Festivities Planned for All Meetings During Next Week. Christmas parties have been arranged for all of the Marion county Parent-Teacher association meetings to be held next week, .according to the county chairman of publicity. The P. T. A. of West Newton school will meet in the high school auditorium Tuesday evening. A Christmas cantata, “In Santa Land,” will be given by the first four grades. A short business session will be held after the entertainment for members and friends. The University Heights P. T. A. will meet Friday afternoon, Dec. 21. A Christmas party will follow the business meeting.

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SCHOOLMANS STAGEJROLIC Make Big Success of Old Village Fair. ’ A town crier, village fiddler, carolers and an old-fashioned school offered entertainment this afternoon at the annual village fair of the Teachers college of Indianapolis. The fun was directed by Miss Ruth O. Benedict, chairman of the entertainment committee. One of the features of the afternoon was the character hand reading at the village postoffice by Mrs Fannie K. Baker. Marmalade, linens, dolls, toys, fruits and cake were sold through the windows of the snow covered paper shops along the village street. A community Christmas tree took the place of the usual grab bag as the center of decorations. Shops were decorated with garlands and wreaths under the direction of Miss Fay Marshall, chairman of the decoration committee. The fair is an annual event staged by the class organizations Miss Emma Colbert, dean of women, was the general chairman, and Mrs. Mazie B. luppwnlatz was chairman of the committee on arrangements. A program of stunts is scheduled for this evening. School 51 to Give Party School 51 will give a Christmas party Dec. 21, according to Charlotte Carter, principal. Children will sing carols and give a narrative portrayal of the nativity.

Mrs. Blanche Chenoweth of L. S. Ayres and Company will speak before P. T. A. No. 9 of Perry township at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday. A Christmas party is to follow. The Warren Central P.-T. A. will meet at 7 p. m. Wednesday. Teachers will sponsor a Christmas party and entertainment given by the pupils of all grades. There will be no business meeting. Cumberland P.-T. A. will meet at 2 p. m. Tuesday. A Christmas program will be given by the children, and refreshments will be served. A Christmas tree and entertainmen by the children will feature the meeting of the Glenns Valley P.-T. A. at 1 p. m. Friday, Dec. 21. Patrons and friends are invited to attend the Christmas party of Crooked Creek school P.-T. A. at 1 p. m. Friday, Dec. 21.

EDUCATION FOR ALL IS URGED BY UNDERWOOL Uplift of Masses to Make Most of Modern Age / Held Purpose. “The aims and purposes of educa tion never have been agreed upon by the leaders n educational thought,” says C. C. Underwood director of elementary education oi the Indianapolis public schools, in an article to appear Wednesday in “Our City Schools,” house organ of the school system. Aristotle said: “The true aim of education is the attainment of happiness through perfect virtue.” Comenius said: “Education is a development of the whole man.” James said: “Education is the organization of acquired habits of action such as will fit the individual to his physical and social environment.” Training for All “And according to Dewey: Education is the process of remaking experience, giving it a more social value through increased individual experience by giving the individual better control over his own powers. “Each of the authors felt his conception would insure success to those who complied with the requirements,” said Underwood. “No one has attained the goal of education. It recedes constantly before him in his climb upward. “The fundamental object of a Democratic education today is to lift the entire population to a higher level of intelligence, conduct and happiness. But it is only during the last few years that we have caught the true spirit of the meaning in a democracy. “Democratic education in action is relatively anew thing in the world. Education Must Change “The schooling that trains the imagination and inculcates in the minds of the pupils a taste and love for good reading will contribute more for the happiness and uplift of the masses than any other one thing that the school may attempt to do. “Every one should be taught to think and to get the facts out of any situation. In the present day we are thinking faster and doing things faster than ever before. Greater wonders are being accomplished. “Education must change to meet the needs of a changing world.” MUSIC PROGRAM SET Songs to Be Dramatized at School No. 26. The second annual dramatization of public school music will be given Wednesday evening by pupils of School 26, in the auditorium, according to G. L. Hayes, principal. Each grade will present a different nation in costume with music it represents. A special feature will be the dramatization of the folk songs, “Water Boy,” “Steal Away” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” The different musical organizations of the department will give the second annual Christmas carol service at 3:30 p. m. Sunday for parents and friends in the school auditorium. The boys’ and girls’ chorus will give a musical program Monday in Cropsey hall, Central public library, for the Grade Teachers’ Association. BILL ‘THE BLUEBIRD’ School 17 to Offer Stage Production at Walker Saturday. “The Bluebird” will be given at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the Walker theater by School 17, and the Cosmopolitan Music School. Members of a special party invited to attend are Mrs. Byron Williams, Mrs. Lula Mae Miller, Mrs. Fred T. Gladden and Mrs. M. S. Reed.

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The final verses of The Indianapolis Times safety alphabet contributed by Police Chief Claude M. Worley, appears today on the school page. The verses were written to forward the safety campaign among school children by the accident prevention bureau of the police departDISCUSS CURRICULUM First Steps in Revision Survey Taken. First steps for a curricular survey and revision to be Undertaken in the public schools within the next two years were taken at a meeting of supervisory Group 1 this week at the office of the board of school commissioners. Each member placed the name of five principals they believed outstanding in educational work in a list given to C. C. Underwood, director of elementary education. Fifteen names having the highest frequency of choice were selected as members of the general curriculum committee. Another fifteen principals will be named at the Group 2 meeting in January. The thirty principals will organize the minor committees on subject matter in the schools. Jewish Feast Celebrated The Nathan Morris kindergarten of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society held a celebration of a Jewish Feast today at 27 West Morris street, aeording to Miss Bertha Wallace, secretary.

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SLIGHT CHANGE SHOWN IN CITY SCHOOLCOSTS Teachers’ Pay, Utilities and Janitor Supplies on Upward Range. Cost per pupil for running the Indianapolis public schools shows little variation for the last three years, according to a report just compiled by A. F. Walsman, business direcor of the schools, which will be published Wednesday in “Our City Schools,” house organ of the school system. There is a total increase of about $1.45 for each pupil shown last year over the two previous years, the report Indicates. Teachers’ salaries, janitor supplies, fuel, electricity and gas are the only items for all schools in which the variation has been upward. Variation Is Slight Actual variation has been slight in school administration, instruction, operation, maintenance and fixed charges. The statistics were compiled through dividing total costs of individual items by the average daily attendance in elementary schools, in high school and in all schools. A decrease is noted in administrative costs, salaries of janitors and engineers, water costs, and costs of building and repair during 1927-28 over the same period for the two previous years. Range is Wide A large range in actual costs in various items at individual schools is shown by the report. Janitor’s salaries in 1927-28 ranged from a low average of $3.04 at School 85 to a high average of $25.70 at School 11, an indication of the wide range in all items. “The high average costs cited are those which efficient administration of individual elementary schools should cut to the average or below, all other things being equal,” ssud Walsman. “All things, however, are not equal,” he added.

Manual

BY GEORGE HICKS Max Einstandig has been elected historian of the June senior class. Tht room of Miss Ada M. Coleman has been made more cheeriul by a large crayon drawing by George Figg on the blackboard, showing Santa Claus unloading his pack in front of a fireplace. Several new books of interest to both boys and girls have been added to the Manual library. They are: "Abraham Lincoln Grows Up.” Sandburg; “Building and Flying Model Aircraft,” Garber; “Jx>ngshanks,” Meader; “Old Hickory’s Prisoner,” Marshall; “Greenmantle,” Buchan; “Trade Wind,” Meigs; "Twenty Hours and Forty Minutes,” Amelia Earhart; “The Sea and the Jungle,” Tomlinson; “Bambi,” Salten; “May Alcott,” Ticknor; “Clothes on and Off the Stage,” Chalmers; “The Homemaker and Her Job,” Gilbreth; “The Ttrt of Make-up,” Chalmers.