Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1928 — Page 15

DEO. 28, 1928.

ASSOCIATION IS GNEN $50,000 FOR RESEARCH Carnegie Foundation Grant Will Advance School History Study. Announcement of a $50,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation to the American Historical Association for research into history and social study in the schools was made at the opening session of the fortythird annual meeting of the association at the Claypool today. Dr. August C. Krey of the University of Minnesota reported the financial gift, in addressing the division on history and social studies in the schools this morning. He is chairman of the committee which has formulated the plan for such study. The survey will cover at least a five-year period, Dr. Krey told his colleagues, and the Carnegie corporation is financing the first year’s work. Three Factors Cited “Three main factors in the present school situation make reorganization of the social studies necessary,” Dr. Krey declared. “First: Nearly all young people of school age are continuing their studies through high school, so that secondary schools must deal with pupils representing every mental level. “Second: This approximately universal education makes training for effective citizenship the objective of primary importance in the schools. “Third: Some way must be found *to provide specialized training for those of the highest mental capacity, the pre-college students, without detracting from the efficiency of instruction for the great mass of students.” This study is to be sponsored by the American Historical Association aid representatives of other social studies will be asked to co-operate, he said. Several Subjects Listed Among them will be economics, political science, sociology, psychology, educational research, and educational administration. Dr. Krey paid his respects to the work done by “the committee of seven” appointed by the association thirty years ago to make a similar study. "Today, however, public education has advanced four grades beyond its natural terminus of thirty years ago,” the speaker asserted. “This means that the high school must deal with the whole spread of mental ability. Urges Intensive Training “As much training for effective membership in society must be given as it is possible to give within the time allotted and at the same time schools must increase the effectiveness of their work in college preparation.” Tentative objectives of the investigation and reorganization include the development of a perspective on current affairs; historical mindedness, locational mindedness, concern for the common good, tolerance, social orientation, and learning by actual participation. Those associated with Dr. Krey in drawing up the plan are John S. Bassett, Smith college; Guy Stanton Ford, University of Minnesota; Ernest Horn, University of Iowa; Henry Johnson, Columbia university; William E. Lingelbah, University of Pennsylvania; L. C. Marshall, Johns Hopkins university; C. E. Merriam, University of Chicago, and Jesse H. Newlon, Columbia university. HOGSTON DISCHARGES FIVE FIRE INSPECTORS Vincennes Man Named to Post of Investigator. Discharge of five inspectors of the state fire marshal’s office and appointment of one investigator has been announced by Alfred M. Hogston, state fire marshal. Harry C. Adams of Vincennes, former sheriff of Knox county is the .appointee. His selection became effective at once. Adams served as sheriff from 1919 to 1922, and from 1914 to 1917 as chief of police of Vincennes. He served in other capacities in the department for sixteen years. Those discharged are: Raymond Ih. Donohue, of Indianapolis; K. S. ■Norris of Marion; John B. Wood, of ■lndianapolis; A. R. McClure and A. |C .Wright. I A two anad one-half months leave ■of absence has been granted Henry |P. Batterman of Crown Point, who Rs a member of legislature. BETS BABE’S GOWN AFIRE I A lighted match thrown on DanHel Murray, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. ■ohn Murray, 2802 North Dearborn Street, by his brother, William, 3, Sired the nightgown of the younger Ihild today and burned him on the legs. ■ The baby was taken to city hosHital, but his condition was not regarded as serious.

Indiana Saved ‘Abe’

LTT7TTHOUT the aid of InIVV diana Abraham Lincoln light never have bcome the Great Inane* lator,” was the conclusion Ia paper read before the joint Beting of the American HistorBl Association and the MissisBpi Valley Historical AssociaBi at the Claypool this morning ■ Professor Charles Roll of the Bite Normal school at Terre Bite. ■idiana, the speaker said, was ■iotal state; her strength was ■ same as that of MassachuB. She ranked second among <B states of the old northwest B fifth among the states of the ■bn in 1860. ■he state has been carried by in the past four elections, and was ■Bfied as doubtful in 1860. To

Notables Speak at History Sessions

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Dr. Richard H. Shyrock, Duke university, who speaks Saturday night at the general session of the American Historical Association convention at the Claypool on “Origins and Significance of the Public Health Movement in the United States.”

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Professor F. G. Marcham oi Cornell university, who spoke today at the American Historical Asssociation convention at the Claypool on the “Value of Private Correspondence in the Study of Elizabethan and Early Stuart Social History.”

POLLOCK HAILED AS SAVIOR OF WEST

The vital importance of Oliver Pollock's assistance to George Rogers Clark in the west and his financing of Virginia troops engaged in the west was emphasized by Professor James A. James of Northwestern university this morning, speaking before the joint meeting of the American Historical Association and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at the Claypool. TURNING POINT FOR LANE TOLD Association Hears Story of Militant Hoosier. James H. Lane's change of political party and his transition from a conservative to a radical was discussed by Prof. W. H. Stephenson of Louisiana State university at the joint meeting of the American Historical Association and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at the Claypool this morning. He outlined the period in Lane’s history after he left Indiana, when he joined the Free State party and led the movement for popular sovereignty. " ‘The Wakarusa war’ in the struggle for Kansas was a turning point in Lane’s career,” Prof. Stephenson said. “He was essentially a conservative until the crisis presented an opportunity for military leadership, for in drilling and leading men Lane was in his element.” In January, 1856, Lane accepted the Republican doctrine of opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories. He then went to Washington to labor for the admission of Kansas into the Union, but his efforts were defeated by Douglas and other administration leaders. Lane now broke entirely with the past, repudiated his former political associates, and became a crusader for freedom. BOND ISSUE PRESSED Albert Walsman, business director of the city schools, today appeared again with representatives of the Indianapolis Taxpayers’ Association before the state tax board to press the school board’s request for a bond issue of $185,000 with which to pur • chase additional real estate for several schools. The rate of interest on the proposed bonds was the main topic for discussion and the rate was set tentatively at 4?i per cent.

win the Republicans must carry several Buchanan states of 1856, of which Indiana was one. This made her position a strategic one in 1860. The twenty-six delegates went to the Chicago convention uninstructed. Statements differ as to when they went over to Lincoln, but the total vote of the Indiana delegates was given to him on all three ballots, and they did much to aid in winning other votes to him. Oily one other state, Illinois, cast its solid vote for Lincoln on the first ballot. “Indiana not only nurtured Lincoln during those formative years in which he grew from youth to manhood,” added Professor Roll, “but she played a very important part in making him the sixteenth President of the United States.”

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Professor Evarts B. Greene of Columbia university, who will preside at the joint dinner of the Ancient History Section and American Oriental society—middle west branch, at the Claypool tonight.

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Professor J. M. Powis Smith of the University of Chicago, speaker on “The Unique Element in Hebrew Thought” at the joint session of the American Oriental Society—middle west branch —and the American Historical Association at the Claypool this afternoon.

The speaker characterized Pollock as the financier of the Revolution in the west. Pollock secured the powder necessary for the advance on Kaslaskia, dispatched the supplies from New Orleans to the Illinois country under circumstances most adverse, and

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Professor Dixon Ryan Fox of Columbia university, who discusses “The Disposal of Refuse Ideas” at the dinner of the American Historical Association at the Claypool Saturday night.

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Professor James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago, America’s most noted Egyptologist and one of the three greatest authorities on the subject in the world, who is in Indianapolis as president of the American Historical Association.

sustained Clark’s credit during those critical days of 1778 and 1779,” said James. “The personal sacrifices of Pollock in meting these demands, as well as similar ones on behalf of Virginia and the United States, never has been given adequate recognition. “Finally,” the speaker concluded, “after many disappointments and embarrassments, including imprisonment, he was awarded, in December, 1785, the sum of $90,000 by congress, but the treasury was empty and he was not paid for another six years.”

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BREASTED WINS WORLD FAME IN HISTORY FIELD Outgoing Association Head Has Written Notable Works on Orient. BY HELEN O. MARIN Dr. James H. Breasted, outgoing president of the American Historical Association, in session at the Claypool, and professor of Egyptology and oriental history in the University of Chicago, is the foremost American historian of the Orient. His work in depth and appeal somewhat approaches that of Adolph Erman, his teacl er at the University of Berlin; but Erman, like the English teachers in this field, is interested chiefly in languages. Dr. Breasted is interested in people; more than any other writer, past or present, he is able to make ancient peoples live even to such an age as this. His work is almost unique among oriental studies in being based altogether on his own research and in being entirely scientific. It appeals strongly to the sympathies and the imagination, but truth is never sacrificed nor neglected for the sake of the picture. Dr. Breasted is the head of the j Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, established in 1919, in his own words, “for the investigation of the human career.” Its first achievement, which was j his work was in hi swords again, “to excavate further and make record of a remarkable series of wall paintings first disclosed by British military digging in a vast and little known fortress on the ir.V.dle Euphrates.” The paintings, which w r ere on the walls of a chapel, since have been destroyed by Arabs and live only in the records of the Oriental Institute. They furnish the basis of one of Dr. Breasted s best known books, “Oriental Forerunners of, Byzantine Paintings.” Professor Breasted’s books are final authority as to ancient times as well as a colorful picture of them. Among them are “The Conquest of Civilization,” “A History of Egypt” and a high school textbook entitled “Ancient Times.” which has been translated into all civilized languages and is known all over the world. . It has brought to youth of all nations the realization of beauty in the past which gives its final color to the present. ’ * Dr. Breasted will depart on New Year’s day for the Orient. He will spend the most of the winter at Chicago House, the headquarters of the Oriental Institute in Egypt, which stands at the foot of cliffs not far from the Valley of Kings, the place of Tutankhamon’s tomb.

CHURCH POLITICAL PARTY THEORY HIT

No Place in Democracy of America for It, Says Fitzpatrick. “A Roman Catholic political party has no place in American democracy.” This statement was not from Senator Thomas Heflin or Wizard Hiram Evans, but was made here today by John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, D. C., president of the American Catholic Historical Association, in convention as one of the associated organizations with the American Historical Association. “Here in America our forefathers made anew start and the formula of both parties built along religious lines, as prevail in certain countries of Europe, are not needed nor wanted,” President Fitzpatrick asserted in an interview with The Indianapolis Times. “On the other hand, should a Catholic be proscribed from public office because of his religion, it would mean a change in American ideals which almost would force cohesion among his fellow religionists,” he pointed out. “Surely we want no such foreign political affiliations here in America. “Senator Norris worded the thing very well following the recent presidential election. He said that prohibition and religion were irrelevant factors, having a great and entirelly uncalled-for effect on the final result. “That simply means that voters still are guided by prejudice and emotional passion, rather than by intelligence. Such a condition makes democracy ridiculous.” Delegates to the Catholic convention were welcomed by Monsignor Francis H. Gavisk. The chief speaker at the sessions is the Rev. Peter Guilday of the Catholic univesrity at Washington, secretary of the organization. OPEN CAR TAG BUREAUS Indianapolis branch automobile license plate bureaus have been opened at the Belmont State bank, Belmont avenue and Washington street; Fountain Square State bank, and the Forty-Second Street State bank, Forty-second street and College avenue.

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SLAVERY RELATIONS OF U. S., BRITAIN REVIEWED Co-operation to Stamp Out Private Is Shown. Anglo-American anti-slavery relations were discussed by Thomas P. Martin of the Library of Congress, before the English history section of the American Historical Association at the Claypool this morning. Martin reviewed the various organizations in America and England, showing that there had been cooperation between groups in the two countries since 1820. He demonstrated the serious effect American slave labor and the doctrine of protection had on British trade, and consequent British objection to slavery until shortly before the Civil war. BILL OF RIGHTS IN LOCAL PERIL Speaker Says Community Often Ignores Text, “Freedom of speech and press is guaranteed by the Constitution, bu' whether it exists in practice is a matter that rests with the community. “Where prejudice is widespread, fair trials may be impossible, in spite of the bill of rights, for prevailing social sentiment may amount to a stacking of the cards for or against the accused. “The same may be said of the American principle of religious freedom and the absence of a religious test for office-holding. The effectiveness of these constitutional rights depends upon the social mind.” This doctrine of community responsibility for constitutional guarantees was expounded at noon today by Professor J. G. Randall of the University of Illinois at one of the group luncheons of the American Historical Association at the Claypool.

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HEBREW FAITH IS PICTURED AS TRIUMPHANT Religion Lives on Centuries After Fall of Rival Doctrines. “The Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians, as well as the Hebrews, believed they were the chosen people of God and their ruler was holy; but only the religion of the Hebrews has lived and continued an active force in modem life.” So said Professor J. Powis Smith of the University of Chicago, speaking on “The Unique Element in Hebrew Religion,” before the American Historical Association, in joint session with the middle west branch of the American Oriental Society at the Claypool this afternoon. “The world long since has ceased to take these claims for Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt and Moab at all seriously,” said Professor Smith, “while the claim of the Hebrews long has been respected and still is respected by many people. Why this difference of estimate?” Three reasons were given by the speaker in explanation. The first was the work of the prophets in moralizing the religion of Israel and converting its theory of divine choice into a sense of mission of service to the world at large. The second reason offered was the nature of the Old Testament, which is superior to the literature of Egypt and Babylon. The third explanation lies in the large amount of editing that went into it, when the Hebrew mind borrowed discriminatingly from other peoples and purified and enriched whatever it took. “Thus the inherent excellence of the Hebrew idea of choice as enriched by the prophets given an admirable background and an ideal setting, “Professor Smith concluded, “and presents itself in the most attractive and winning robes and attitude.” Mother and Son Die Bu Timeh Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 28. Mrs. Roland Harlow and son David 5, are dead, victims of influenzapneumonia.