Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1929 — Page 18

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PUPILS TO GET INSTRUCTION IN GOQDPOSTURE Captain Godfrey Rodriguez Will Lecture in City Schools Next Week. Capt. Godfrey Rodrigues, apostle of health, will speak every school day next week before gymnasium classes and at auditorium exercies of Indianapolis high schools under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. The schedule of talks was arranged through the courtesy of Charles F. Miller, city superintendent of schools, and Byron B. Williams, head of the department of publicity and research of the schools. Captain Rodrigues has talked before leading physicians, physical instructors, statesmen, army officers and many others throughout the United States. Bad Posture Blamed He holds the theory that most ills are directly tracable to incorrect posture, and his system of simple body exercises tends to correct the evil. For a person who uses the system there will come an increase in weight, if underweight, a decrease in weight, if overweight; greater strength of body, greater vitality, gradual enlargement of chest, and increase in chest expansion, apparent improvement in digestion, and a great improvement in appearance, the captain asserts. In other words, the captain’s system will result in a return to a normal and healthful condition, he declares. The schedule follows: All day Monday at Washington; 10:30 a. m. Tuesday at Crispus Attacks; all day Wednesday at Technical; all day Thursday at Manual Training, and all day Friday at Shortridge. Captain Rodigues will speak before both boys’ and girls’ classes in gymnasium, and before mixed classes at auditorium exercises. R. O. T. C. to Hear Captain. R. O. T. C. units of the high schools will come in for their share of the lectures, and the captain will lecture further if called upon. Kis experience with army men has been wide. He was a captain in the army of Holland during the war, ai.d he has talked before physical culturists of the United States army r ana navy. A further shedule of his public appearances will appear in The Times Saturday.

Crispus Attucks

BY CLARENCE MAXWELL Paul Carter was elected president of the mixed glee club this week. Other officers are: Ruth Hamilton, vice-president, and John White, business manager. Under direction of J. Harold Brown, the band will play at Allen chapel Sunday night. A special glee club of the school will sing. The athetic award committee has plans completed, it is announced by Edward Johnson, president of the student council. It will present the award to the outstanding player on the team the week of March 22, a trophy which will be displayed about a week before. Gertrude Jackson was elected president of the 1929 senior class. Other officers are Irvina Harvey vice-p-esdent; Florence Hughes, secrets r.y and Kathryn Williams, assist ait secretary. * The Rev. B. R. Johnson, pastor of the Downey Avenue Christian church, spoke Thursday on “George Washington and Christianity.” This was “religious emphasis week” at the school. The glee club sang two selections, and student organists gave several numbers. OBSERVE lOWA NIGHT Hoosier Alumni Flan Dinner on Saturday. Hoosier alumni of the University of lowa will observe lowa night with a dinner at 7:30 p. m. Saturday at the Spink-Arms. Dr. Walter A. Jessup, university president, will speak to all alumni gatherings over the university's radio station, WSUI. Similar meetings are being held throughout the United States. Mrs. Lloyd L. Ely is in charge of the local dinner. *

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Six pairs of twins in one school is the record of Shadeland school, Fourteenth street 'and Shadeland avenue. Five pairs of the twins are in the primary room of Miss Mary Louise Neier, 20 Johnson avenue. Miss Gertrude Patterson of Greenfield, Ind., is principal of the school. One pair now is in quarantine for illness. The five pairs of twins in school are Louise and Lucille Harding of Shirley Lake Park addition; Elizabeth and Francis Roberts, 2311 Lesley avenue; Harold and Gerald Howard, rural route H, Box 219 D; Robert and Richard Thompson, rural route H, Box 36 W, and Bessie and Martha Shank, Priscilla avenue and Seventeenth street.

TEACHERS GET ART COURSES Self-Expression of Pupils Stressed by Director. A complete course of instructions for art departments of the eight grades of the Indianapolis schools for this semester have been forwarded to teachers by Miss Belle C. Scofield, art director, it was announced today. * “Self-expression should be the chief aim in primary work,” said Miss Scofield. “Self-expression does not mean there should be no instruction and suggestion in seeing and m methods of representation. Children need instruction in technique. “Such expression may be improved by intelligent study, copy work, and tracing of good examples. But this work is a means to an end and not an end itself,” she said to teachers. Each semesters’ work was given in outline, with specific instructions tJ the teachers.

Manual

EY MAX EINSTANDIG Henry Shearer won the Manual poetry contest this week by selecting two of the three best poems from the bulletin board. “The Realms of Gold” has been selected as the name of the Manual Poetry Club. The next meeting will be held Tuesday under the direction of Robert Landy, president; Thelma Roth, vice-prseident; Clarence Bunge, secretary, and John Horner, chairman of the constitution committee. Alta Adamson was elected president of the Junior Red Cross. Other officers are Helen Brandon, vicepresident; Jean Alexander, secretary, and Norma Amt, treasurer.

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Above (left to right)—Louise and Lucille Harding' and E’izabeth and Francis Roberts, Bessie and Martha Shank. Below Harold and Gerald Howard and Robert and Richard Thompson. Oval (left) —Miss Mary Louise Neier and Mrs. Gertrude Patterson.

Washington

BY ROSS DORSETT Washington’s birthday was celebrated Thursday with patriotic program. The Rev. Landy Kendal, pastor of the West Washington Street Methodist Episcopal church, gave the invocation, and Dr. C. Bromley Oxham, president of De Pauw university, was the principal speaker. Miss Wilma Leonard, soloist, accompanied by Mrs. C. Russell Paxton, gave two numbers, and the school girl’s glee club sang. Professor L. O. Happy spoke before the entire student body Tuesday. He traced the history of the bath from ancient time to today. The Science Club held a party for new members this week.

COMPOSES SONG HIT FOR SHOW Butler Student Writes Music for Follies. Mayburn Landgraf, Butler university student, is the youthful composer of the song hit of the “Fairview Follies,” the annual musical production. The song, “Wonderful You” in all probability will be used as the theme song of the review. According to Kelton Whetstine f the Metropolitan School of Music, the melody is on a par with best songs used in college productions this year. The song is being arranged by Paul Brown, a professional music director, v.'ho is now connected with the Metropolitan School of Music. Members of the orchestra which will be in the pit the evening of March 15 and 16, will be chosen from the Metropolitan School of Music and the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, both affiliated with Butler. Landgraf is a junior. He expressed the desire to write more songs for the review during his remaining time at college. At present, he stated, he is working on an allschool song of the “alma mater” type.

PICK BOOSTER STAFF Dorothy Anderson Is Editor of Manual Paper. The staff of the Manual high school “Booster,” school publication, was announced today. Dorothy Anderson'is editor. Other members are June Kempf, associate editor; Martin Oslos, sports editor; John Kosaveach, make-up editor; Robert Schulz, sports reorter; Cedric White, sports reporter; Wanda Stevensden, editorials; Gertrude Zorm, news editor; Joan Boswell, organizations; Alta Keeler, reporter; Mary Stierwalt, reporter; Marie Miller, exchange editor; Adelaide Woemer, art editor; Max Einstandig, humor editor; Vesta Clark, typist; and Miss Rose Singleton, faculty sponsor. Business staff: Eva burger, business manager; Juanita O’Mar a, assistant; Charles Brittenback, circulation manager; Thelma Harmon, assistant; Clara Carson, Ruth Messmer, Mary Volz, and Mary Woemer, posting clerks and Miss Helen A. Hayes, faculty sponsor.

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STUDENTS WILL HONORCLARK Manual Plans Program for Revolutionary Hero. The memory of George Rogers Clark will be commemorated Monday and Tuesday by Students of Manual Training high school. The senior speech class will present two scenes from “Straight Through the Western Gate,” by Edith Lombard Squires of Richmond, Ind. On the bulletin boards will be displayed charts, maps and other materials prepared by the history department. Several papers will be read by students at auditorium exercises. The committee in charge of the celebration is composed of Miss Lola Perkins, chairman; Mrs. Ruth H. Allee, Mrs. Ada M. Bing, J. R. H. Moore and Mrs. Coral Taflinger Black. The program for the George Rogers Clark play: “Liberty Bell” March, orchestra: Chairman, Helen Stringer; “Clark’s Boyhood and Youth,” Donald Moore: “Red, White and Blue,” orchestra; ‘‘Conquest of the Northwest,” Virginia Harris. “Capture of Cahokia,” senior speech class; Introduction, Ethel Blum; “Yankee Doodle,” orchestra. “Capture of Ft. Sackville,” senior speech class; Introduction, Myria Breitfield; tableau, senior speech class.

Poem to Clark

The following poem was written by Eva Burger under direction of Mrs. Ada Bing, head of the English department of Manual Training high school, as part of the George Rogers Clark celebration to be held next week by the school, dedicated to George Rogers Clark: We see, George Rogers Clark, Though time has gone. Your valiant struggle As your brave men march on. We see, George Rogers Clark, That heroic, ragged band Wade through the icy water At your challenging command. We hear, George Rogers Clark, Your cry of victory, “Sacville surrenders! The Northwest Jand is freel” The years wUI pass, But stil the debt we owe To you, George Rogers Clark, • Will grow.

TWO PRINTS TO SCHOOL Salvation Army to Present Rare Antiques to Shortridge. Two rare old “oil prints” will be given to Shortridge high school by Adjutant Malcolm Salmond of the Salvation Army, it was announced today. The prints are of George and Martha Washington and were made some time after the Civil war, it is believed. The pictures and frames have been cleaned. On the back of each is the legend; “This frame was made at John Keen’s, 90 South Illinois street, Indianapolis, and is gold leaf and warranted. No metal used whatever.”

Sculpture An exhibit of soap sculpture wall open Saturday morning on the ground floor of the John Herron Art Institute, it was announced today. The exhibit will be in cases, and demonstrations will be given for school children, it is said. Many Indianapolis public schools have taken up sculpture in clay and soap as part of their regular art courses. Several of the schools have private exhibits this week.

COUNTY SCHOOL HEAD INDORSES HOME CONTEST Scope of Miniature House Contest Expected to Be Widened. Scope of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board's miniature model house contest is expected to be widened considerably as a result of the indorsement of the contest this week by Lee E. Swails. superintendent of Marion county schools, according to Robert Allison, chairman of the board’s contest committee. Swails sent a letter to principals of all township schools in the county, asking that they call the contest to the attention of their pupils. Co-Operation Is Asked His letter, asking their co-opera-tion* and expressing his indorsement follows: * Your attention is called to a contest being conducted by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board in connection with its annual Realtors’ Home Show at the state fairground April 4 to 13. This contest is open to all grade and high school pupils in Marion county and prizes totaling SIBO are offered ty the board to the winners. In this competition, each pupil may obtain from the real estate board a sheet of cardboard on which is printed a pattern of a model house. The pupil is instructed to cut out and assemble the model, decorate it and place it on a baseboard representing a lot and to landscape this lot. The prizes will be awarded for the most attractive completed models. The cardboard patterns may be obtained at the realty board office for 10 cents each. This charge partially covers the cost and is made to insure return of the completed model. On the return of the model, each will receive a ticket of admission to the home show, free of charge. We believe there is sufficient merit in the contest to ask you to call it to the attention of your pupils. In working out his entry, the pupil will gain some practical experience in architecture, art and landscaping. In this connection, we are told that In some art and drawing classes in the city schools, where curriculum permits, a part of the class period is being devoted to working out these house designs, the teachers aiding those pupils*who have entered in developing correct details. “Any additional information will be provided by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, 820 Lemcke building, phone, Ri. 9575. Approximately 250 pupils in Marion county grade and high schools have entered the contest to date. Tech Students in Contest Members of the Technical high school design class who have entered the contest are: John Baker, 2126 Brookside parkway; John C. Bernloehr, 2237 North Alabama street; Howard Bissell, 5536 University avenue;' Russell -Burkle, 5204 Pleasant Run boulevard; Rolland Cole, 24 Hendricks place; Richard Drier, 11 North Keystone avenue: Sidney Tenstermaker, 3102 Washington boulevard; Otto Prey, 856 Eastern avenue; Otto Games, 4926 East New York street; C. Gibson, H. Ging, 139 South Emerson' avenue; Charles Hagedon, 4156 Broadway; Donald . W. Honnier, 1141 Dacoson street; Bernard Jasper, 1036 Churchman avenue; Clarence Kerberg, 1202 Churchman avenue; Prank Latz, 5613 East Washington street; Howard McDonald. 306 North Forrest street; Henry McKinley, 549 North Beville avenue; George A. Mossman, 6176 Ashland avenue; Theodore Papet, 956 West Thirty-third street; Carroll Riley. 54 Hamilton avenue; Jack Rubish, 5014 Orion avenue; William Stolte, 23 South Chester avene.

Shortridge

BY WILLIAM HOFFMAN David Ardern has been selected business manager of the 1929 Annual. The appointment was made by William N. Otto, class censor, and George Crossland of the commercial department. Charles Fell and Sidney Kauffman won the final debate of the tournament held in the Boys’ Debating league. Harry Koss and William Rasmussen were runnersup. The question debated was: “Resolved, That the jury) system be abolished.” Robert Hamill, chairman of the senior play committee, announces that “Seventeen” had been chosen for the senior class production. The senior play will be given in the new Caleb Mills hall the first week of May. The Mazur Seed Company has given 2,000 bulbs to the botany department. Henry Dowling, a prominent attorney, and Miss Mary Pratt, of the Shortridge English department, spoke at the meeting of the ParentTeacher Association Wednesday night. The music was furnished by Earle Christoph of the Shortridge department and Richard Holberg. The January freshmen were entertained by the True Blue club at a festival h?ld in the gym. The affair was a big air circus and was worked about the theme of aviation.

Technical

William Frosch, one of the sports editors of the Cannon, has been appointed chairman of the fourth district of the Indiana High School Press Association. Hal Winter of the sports staff of the Cannon is publishing a sports leaflet to be distributed by the athletic department to Tech purchasers of section basketball tickets. The leaflet includes a picture of the team, biographies of players, a picture df Coach Tim Campbell and a resume of the season's schedule. Miss Sarah Bard of the Tech art department recently was given the Lloyd C. Griscom Fund Purchase award by the American Water Color Society for her painting, “Sardine Beets.” Miss Bard also won the SIOO Clement Studebaker prize for her painting, “Coming Into the Harbor.” Mrs. Florence Bartley Smithbum, another member of the Tech art department, won the SIOO Tri Kappa sorority prize for her painting, “Zinnias.” Student Writings Published An English VIII class, under Miss Margaret Burnside at Technical high school, has published a pamphlet called the “Challenge,” containing a number of excellent pieces of student writing to be used as examples in lower English forms.

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Above—Leah Whaley (left) and Oneta Franklin. Below—Jean Evelyn Ludwig (left), and Mrs. Henry Minkner.

The Parent-Teacher Association of School 16, Bloomington and Market streets, will give an entertainment next Thursday and Friday nights at the school. Mrs. Henry Minkner, 238 Koehne street, is president of the association and has a leading part in the affair. Other officers are Mrs. Harry Stears, vice-president; Mrs. William Miller, secretary, and Mrs. Florence Smock, treasurer. Oneta Franklin and Leah Whaley will give a dance selection, and Jean

The Third and Last Day of the Half Price Sale (It Ends Tomorrow \ Night at 9 o ’Clock ) Still Plenty of Men’s and Young Men’s SUITS and OVERCOATS Still Plenty of Ties, Shirts, Oxfords and Gloves Also .(Thirty) Women’s Coats, Half Price A Lot of Hundreds of Pairs of Boys’Clothing Boys’ Shoes Suits & Overcoats and Children’s Shoes HALF PRICE HALF PRICE And —A Marvelous Selection of Women’s Pumps and Oxfords at Exactly HALF PRICE a L.§trmJss it Go, sr 33 to 39 West Washington St . x ' * - ‘ '•

Evelyn Ludwig will give a solo dance number. Others in the entertainment are lone Tullis, Noble Pearcy, Mrs. Cyrus Bowman, Mrs. Walter Schneider, Mrs. Harry Ludwig, Mrs. Irwin Kieth, Mrs. Frank Ehle, Mrs. Vernon Heath, Mrs. Mont Miller, Mrs. John Henderson, Mrs. Ray Downin, Mrs. William Kugehnan, Mrs. Harry Stearns, Mrs. William Miller, Mrs. Willis Milam, Mrs. Harry Franklin, Mrs. Orville Korn, Mrs. Ida Elsasser, Mrs. Clem Hubbell and Mrs. Leonora Peavey.

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MANUAL HIGfF TO GET RADIO; OTHERS FOLLOW Grade Schools to Install Sets Also: Program Arranged. Plans are being made to place radios in many Indianapolis public graded schools through The Indianapolis Times and local radio dealers. The Times and the H. T. Electric Company, 612 North Capitol avenue, already have placed the new Atwater Kent electro-dynamic radio sets in Washington, Shortridge and Broad Ripple high schools. Manual Training high school will receive a set as soon as arrangemtnts can be made with E. H. Kemper McComb principal. The sets were placed in the high schools for a period of ninety days so that students could receive the “School of the Air’’ being broadcas’ daily except Friday from Station WLW by the state department of education of Ohio. The sets will be placed in the graded schools probably for a thirtyday period or longer. Many Par-ent-Teacher organizations of schools are preparing to purchase sets before the close of the present term. No arrangements for purchase of sets, however, can be made through The Times. The “School of the Air" program for next,week follows: (Programs at 12:30 p.m., C. S. TANARUS.) Monday Health talk. Dr. C. A. Neal, director health department of Ohio. Current events. Harrison Havre, editor. Histonr dramalog, “The Hamilton-Burr Duel,” School of the Air Players. Tuesday Questions and answers. Art appreciation, for upper grades. Henry Turner Bailey, Cleveland School of Art. Civil government by those who govern; "The Work of the Commerce Department. Edward D. Schorr. Wednesday Stories of Longfellow and the children's hour, Cincinnati teachers. Music by Sarah Yancey Cline. Story, "Lance of Ranana,” for fourth, fifth and sixth grades. Julia Carter, supervisor of children's work. . Story for seventh and eighth grades. E, Gertrude Avcy, field worker of the Cincinnati public library. , Thursday Drama. “She Stoops to Conquer.” Schuster-Martln, Stuart Walker players. lt Geography travelog. The British Isles, Dr. W. R. McConnell. Miami university. Flrday 10 A. M.—Walter Damrosch and his orchestra, educational hour. New York.