Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1929 — Page 26

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GRADE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IS 1,50 OGRE ATER Further Increase in Total of 43,577 Expected; No. 41 Is Leader Enrollment in Indianapolis grade schools is approximately 15,000 higher this year than last, according to reports from elementary schools. Total enrollment is approximately 43,577, and will be increased somewhat during the next few weeks by students coming in late. With two new schools added this year, there are now eighty-seven elementary schools in Indianapolis. New schools are No. 1 and 91, where about 400 are enrolled in each. The school population of Indianapolis is increasing rapidly, a survey over the period 1920 to 1920 indicates. The number of children belonging in elementary schools has increased about thirty-five per cen*\ it is shown. Corresponding increases are evident in the high school group. From 1925 to 1X56, little increase resulted, due to various conditions aroused by the war. 1,220 Teachers Employed At present, 1,220 teachers are employed in the city’s elementary schools. There are eighty-seven principals and two assistant principals. In the Initial attendance reports School 41, located at Thirtieth and Rader street, has the largest enrollment, totaling 1,136 students. E. J. Black is principal, and is assisted by thirty-seven teachers. Other schools ranking high in attendance are School 23, with 387 reported; School 26, Negro, with 1.200; School 39, with 722; School 15. with 619; School 62, with 743; School 67, with 734; School 76, with 647 enrolled. Many Crowded Although no official investigation has been made, reports from the teachers indicate that crowded conditions exist in many' schools. In some, more children are enrolled than there are seats to accommodate. According to school officials, fewer transfers have been granted this year than usual. Transfers are given on requests of parents, and are granted for various reasons, including health of students, change of residence, disadvantages of unimproved streets, dangerous traffic corners and other reasons. Many children prefer to be transferred from the portable school buildings to larger schools. Schools 68 and 71 report the smallest attendances. Approximately seventy students attend each of these two-room schools. FRESHMAN WEEK IS~ OPENED AT FRANKLIN Dr. Rainey Makes Opening Address at Baptist Institution. Bu Times SDedal FRANKLIN, Ind., Sept. 20. Freshman convocation week opened at Franklin college today with an address by Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president. Professor Currier conducted the program, and will supervise freshmen tests. Results of these tests are to be used in classifying students in various departments. Freshmen registration is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. One of the. features of opening week will be a musical recital by Professor Harold Cooke, new head of the music department, and Glenn Seitz, instructor in voice. One hundred fifty freshmen are expected, and total enrollment is expected to reach 350.

800 PUPILS EXHIBIT FLOWERS AT SHOW Shortridgu High Instructor Is Speaker at School 42. School 42, Negro, held its annual flower show Thursday and today; 800 school children brought flowers for exhibition. Parents attended the show, which is a community beautification project. Miss Rosseau McClellan, Shortridge high school botany teacher, spoke Thursday afternoon on "Flower Culture.” Special music for the show included a solo by Ruth McArthur and a duet by Bernice Williams and Maxine Young. Talks on flowers were given by Catherine Fisher, Louise Winston and Vesta Carter. VIVIAN JENKINS WINS Triumphs In Annual Parasol Parade at Washington High School. With parasols gaily decorated in school colors of purole and white, the Washingtonian Club, girls' organization of Washington high school, appeared before a large group of students and parents Thursday in their annual parasol parade. The affair was staged to stimulate interest in the football season. Vivian Jenkins won first prize for the best decorated parasol, and honorable mention was given Maryland Bay, Annice Shirley and Pauline Klingensmith. Delores Harden, club president, pinned the first arm band sold on Principal Walter Ginger.-. The drill ended with formation of a large W.

Yea, Frosh! Christmas day will be a happy one for “freshies” at Sacred Heart high school, for then they will have consent of the seniors to remove "freshie badges'* pinned on them at special initiation ceremonies last Monday. Faculty and students attended a mock wedding and grand parade, which marked the initiation of the freshmen.

Technical High’s New Gymnasium

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This photo shows the new gymnasium and auditorium building at Arsenal Technical high school, which is to be opened officially early in October. A large basketball floor, classrooms and ample locker space for teams are features of the building.

SCHOOLS GET PRINTINGSHOPS Addition of Three Places City in Front Rank. Expansion in the City school industrial education department this fall includes three new' printing shops located at Schools 34. 37 and 43. according to Harry E. Wood, vocational education and manual training director. Addition of these shops places Indianapolis in the front rank as a school printing center, Wood said. Twenty-three grade schools now offer courses in printing. The first effort at such instruction here was made twenty years ago at school No. 9, Vermont and Fulton streets. The demand has grown until approximately half of the boys in seventh and eighth grade of city schools are enrolled in printing classes. According to Wood, the subject is not taught with the vocational object as the chief aim, but primarily is given as a general educational subject. WINNERS ARE NAMED Prize Flower Exhibits Are Arranged by Pupils. Winners in the annual flower fair held at School 46, Miller and Reisner streets, this week, were announced today by the Mrs. Grace A. Granger, principal. Prize exhibits were arranged by Robert Castine, Bernice Stansbury, and Louise Schneider. Mrs. Elsie Mae Borskt won the mothers’ exhibit. Honorable mention was given Marjorie and Norman Stansbury, Mary Jane Sanford, Russell Loveley, Wilma Stepro, Rosetta Waller, Raymond Kruse and Mary Jane Badger.

Shortridge

BY JAMES STEWART Miss Carolyn Ashbrook, after an absence of one year, has returned to Shortridge high school as a teacher in the art department. Miss Ashbrook spent a year in Chicago studying art. An all-school football party was held Thursday under auspices of the school’s True Blue Club. George Buck, principal, spoke. Figures show a total enrollment of 2,728. Sixty-seven students transferred from other high schools, and 178 came from out of town high schools. SUIT FOLLOWS BLAST Damage Case Recalls Tragedy In Kokomo Laundry. Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 20.—Damages of $5,000 are asked in a suit filed in Howard county circuit court by Charles Courtney of Greentown against Charles C. Fridlin, laundryman, based upon death of his daughter, Miss Rosella Courtney, 16, in an explosion at Fridlin’s laundry May 12, 1928. The complaint alleges the daughter earned $9 a week, and due to her death the family has lost her financial aid. Three others were killed in the laundry when a mangle ex- | p’.cdcd. SALE OF LAND OPPOSED Delaware County Groups Desire Retention of Fairground. Bii Times special MUNCIE. Ind., Sept, 20.—Action on a proposal to sell the Delaware county fairground, now owned by the county, was postponed by the county council when members of the farm bureau and the board of the Muncie fair, remonstrated against the action. Under the proposal, it is understood. the ground, an area of more than forty acres near costly homes of the Ball brothers, would be bought by members of the Ball families and given to the city of Muncie for park purposes. Final action will be taken by the council Oct. 10. Ernest Boiler Bu Times Special MARION, Ind.. Sept. 20.—Ernest Boiler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boiler, Marion, who recently completed a three-year course at Oxford university, in England, has accepted a position as research chemist with Dupont Chemical Company. Boiler a graduate of Purdue university, is the only chemical engineering student to receive a Rhodes scholarship. L Ml.

MUSEUM TO HOLD LECTURES ON ART

Collection of Tapa Cloth Is Feature Exhibit This Month. Plans for a lecture course on art, to be given at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, 1150 North Meridian street were prepared by the museum’s educational committee today at a luncheon meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. Miss Faye Henley of the Indianapolis Teachers’ college, headed the committee, composed of Miss Elizabeth Chitwood of Tudor Hall; Mrs. Anna Loyd, of School 51; Roderic Rae, city school visual education director; Luther Dickerson, city librarian; A. B. Carr, curator, and Mrs. B. H. Golden, museum executive secretary. Mrs. Golden announced that a Tapa cloth collection, loaned by Mrs. Dorothy Jordan Davis of Indianapolis, is the feature exhibit this month. The collection was made by Samoan island natives, and imported by Mrs. Davis. Attendance of school children at the museum is increasing according to directors. Twelve hundred more children have viewed the exhibits since January than during the same period in 1928. Two hundred groups, including approximately 17,000 boys and girls, visited the museum last year. Other Samoan island articles on display are baskets, shelled beads, and carved household utensils.

ORGANIZATION TO GIVE FAIR AT NQBLESVILLE First Body of Kind in Forty Years for Hamilton County. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 20. Farmers of Hamilton county and business men of Noblesville have perfected an organization to sponsor a county fair here. The following officers were elected: President, George Bardonner; vice-president, Henry Gaeth; secretary, E. C. Parker, and treasurer, Frank S. Campbell. The board of directors is composed of one representative from each of the nine townships in the county as follows: C. O. House, Harvey Moredock, Layton Sumner, Charles Geiger, J. E. Huff, Basil Williams. Arthur Ottinger, Bardonner, Gaeth and Campbell. The county council has appropriated $2,000 to assist in financing the project. This is the first county fair organization in the county in thirty years. ‘Y’ NIGHT SCHOOLS OPEN Electricity Course Is Enlarged; Start Thirtieth Year. Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. night schools officially opened for the thirtieth year at the Y. M. C. A. headquarters Thursday night. Professional and technical training is offered for people unable to attend public schools and colleges, because of day employment. The course in electricity has been enlarged and will be conducted by Edward M. Chellew. Albert M. Reager will have charge of a radio class. 376 ENROLL AT WABASH Freshmen Lead With 124; Frats Finish Rush Season. Bu Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Sept. 20.—Three hundred seventy-six students are enrolled at Wabash college this fall, accordiflg to figures announced today by Registrar Fred C. Domroese. The freshman class has 124; the sophomore class, 101: the junior, 76, and senior. 75. Fraternities completed rush season this week. NOMINEE DIES IN CRASH Candidate for Mayor of Elwood Killed in Auto. Bii Vnited Press ELWOOD* Ind.. Sept. 20.—Fred D. Seeley. 67. Republican nominee for mayor, was killed instantly here I Thursday night when an automobile in which he was 1 riding crashed into another machine and overturned at a highway intersection. Seeley was dead when removed from the overturned machine. Samuel Kopelov. Kokomo, driver of the automobile, and Edna Voor, Elkhart, a companion, sustained only cuts and bruises. Tarkington Story Is Selected Booth Tarkington’s "Monsieur Beucaire" will be given by the senior class of Techniacl high school in November as part of the dedicatory services of the new auditorium. Miss Clara M. Ryan, teacher of speech, is play director.

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TECH LAUNCHES CANNON DRIVE Campaign for Subscriptions Is Under Way. Campaign for subscriptions to the Arsenal Cannon, Technical high school publication was launched this week, Miss Ella Sengenberger, journalism teacher and Cannon sponsor, announced today. Two hundred sixty Cannon agents, representing 130 roll rooms, are at work under the direction of James Baker, chairman. At a meeting Monday Joe Tomes, Cannon business manager; Emmett Lowery, president A of the spnior class, and Etta Brantauer, school yell leader, talked in the interest of the campaign. The fourth hour advertising class under D. C. Parks is handling subscriptions. The first issue will be published Sept. 26, and is being edited by Stella Williamson and Jean Goulling. Forty-five compose the Cannon staff.

Home-Made Children at School 2 Make and Play Their Own Instruments.

NEW use for old horseshoes, fishing poles and other discarded articles has been found by students of Rollroom 8, School 2, 710 North Delaware street, who are participating in entertainment, known as creative music, under direction of Miss Verna Craig, teacher. The children make their own instruments by tuning the horseshoes, glasses, pieces of fishing poles and nails to the proper pitches. Tom-tom drums are being made. An instrument called the merimba, made of wood, is a main part of the orchestration. Real music is in the air when the forty-seven children hit their glass tumblers and blow on their fishing pole pipes. Children who take part in the creative music and have made instruments include Dorothy Howard, Mary Johnson, Clara Haynes, Martin Kirby, Ivan Crumes, Norwood Gentry and Billie Reed. CENTRAL NORMAL GAINS Starts Year Under New President With Enrollment Boost. Bn 77m u* Snr rial DANVILLE, Ind., Sept. 20.—Central Normal college has started its new year under leadership of Professor Waldo Wood, newly-elected president, with an increase in enrollment. The Lions Club of this city is aiding to find jobs for students, because of request from many boys and girls who desire to earn their expenses through school, Professor Wood announced. Campbell Heads ‘Grads’ Officers of Technical high school's post graduate class this year are: Howard Campbell, president; Louis Troy, vice-president; Geraldine Carver. secretary; Ainsworth Arnold, treasurer, and Albert Anderson, sergeant-at-arms.

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P.-T. CHAIRMEN OUTLINE WINTER WORKMANI Hold President’s Luncheon Wednesday at Central Christian Church. Committe chairmen of the Indianapolis Parent-Teachers’ Association, appointed this week, have begun to outline the winter's program, according to Mrs. Clayton Ridge, president. The annual president’s luncheon will be held at Central Christian church at 10 a. m. Wednesday. Following the luncheon, the class in parliamentary law will convene. Chairmen Named Chairmen of committees appointed are: Mrs. J. S. Milligan, art; Mrs. James H. Butler, civics; Mrs. Royal McClain, health conservation; Mrs. E. W. Springer, historian; Mrs. S. M. Myers, recreational co-opera-tion; Mrs. Mark Holeman, literature; Mrs. E. A. Hicks, program; Mrs. Henry L. Stenger, publicity; Mrs. Clyde E. Titus, school music education; Mrs. Lucien King, student aid fund; Mrs. Walter Holt, speakers’ bureau; Mrs. Wayne Hill, study circle, and Mrs. Charles D. Perrine, telephone. The association tries to aid students to attend school, by co-oper-ating with the social school department of the school board. Board meetings of the organization are held on the first Wednesday of each month. Meetings Next Month First meetings of the seventyeight branch Parent-Teacer Assotiations will be held in October, it was announced. Delegates to the Indianapolis Council of Women for this year are Mrs. S. M. Myers and Mrs. James H. Butler. Advisory board members for the year include Mrs. Maude Moudy of School 58; Miss Dorothy Pennington of School 4, and Mrs. Logan G. Hughes. Mrs. Hughes also was chosen delegate to the Seventh district Federation of Clubs.

NIGHT SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 30 Classes to Be Held Three Times Each Week. Indianapolis night schools will open for registration Sept. 30, W. A. Hacker, city night school supervisor, announced today. Classes will be held at Technical, Manual Training and Crispus Attacks high schools and at grade Schools 23, 24, 42, 52 and 63. Classes will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. Persons over 16 may attend. High school, commercial, grade, industrial, and vocational courses are offered. Vocational instruction includes automobile, electrical, metal, woodworking and printing trades. Teachers from the regular teaching staff of city schools will conduct the classes. Edward Greene, assistant principal at Tech, will conduct the night school there, and Bertrand Sanders, assistant principal at Manual, will be night principal at Manual. WORK OUTLINES GIVEN Principals Are Urged to Stress Supervised Study. Outlines and suggestions for work in city elementary schools were given school principals at the public library Tuesday. C. C. Underwood, director of elementary education, presided. In discussing the year’s proposed program Underwood advised teachers not to be bound to text books in their teaching, but to stress supervised study. Organization of curriculum and subject matter was discussed by Charles F. Miller, city schools superintendent. GLEE CLUBS FORMED Both Boys’ and Girls’ Groups Feature School 21 Work. Boys’ and girls’ glee clubs are being organized at School 21, according to Miss Anna Reed, principal. The clubs are the features of music work at 21, and are directed by Miss Katharine Leonard, musical supervisor. About forty boys and girls will sing in the two groups this year. The vested choir at this school, a prominent feature last yeai, will be reorganized.

Bank at School No. 22 Teaching Pupils Thrift

‘Mr. Cashier, this deposit makes $260 for me,” says Anna Belle Cohen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Cohen, 1309 Union street, as she checks up her account with Leo Cohn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Cohn, 1504 South Meridian street, in the school bank at public school No. 22.

Accounts of Children Run as High as $300: Many Earn Own Money. Candy, ice cream, chewing gum and other “goodies” have no place in the curriculum of school No. 22, South Illinois and Kansas streets, for children there have been saving their pennies, nickels and dimes until many have bank accounts and are regular patrons at the South Side bank. Miss Garnett Foreman supervises the thrift movement, giving opportunity for children to start an account with a penny at the school bank and afterward transfer it 10 the South Side bank, which cooperates in the movement. Miss Ella, Pedlow, principal, who started the system two years ago, says it has put many children on the road to thrift. Thrift education now is a nationwide movement in schools. Last year 3,215,785 children deposited $26,000,000 in banks in the United States. Some states make such instruction mandatory, but at No. 22 children are doing it because they like to save. Members of the 8A grade, under direction of Miss Foreman, act as cashiers and furnish regular bankbooks made in art classes. First hand information on banking is gained by visiting the South Side bank each semester. Accounts of some children range as high as S2OO to S3OO. They earn money by working in the market and doing chores, and save from their expense allowances. Nationally, the movement is gaining momentum rapidly. It is esti-

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mated 4,C00 school children will become depositors in banks this year. The movement is indorsed by the National Education Association, the Parent-Teacher Association and the American Bankers’ Association. L. C. Engelking, South Side bank cashier, takes time to advise the juvenile depositors when they eagerly call at his desk and present their books. He says: “I think it is a fine thing for children to learn the habit of thrift. The pride they take in their accounts wih us betokens financially independent citizens of tomorrow.” FROSH JLEGT HEAD Rhode Island Student Gets Honor at De Pauw. E'j Times Special GREENCASTLE, Sept. 20.—Raymond E. Wiimarth, West Barrington, R. I„ was elected president of the freshman class at De Pauw university this week. Miss Jeanette Cornley, Fowler, Ind., is vice-president Other officers are Miss Helen Maranda, Huntington, Ind., treasurer; Roy Richard Williams, Chicago, secretary. Wiimarth is a pledge of the Delta Chi fraternity and Williams is a pledge of the Delta Tau Delta. Editor Speaks at Eariham P,a Times Special RICHMOND, Ind.. Sept. 20. Walter Woodward, editor of the American Friend, was one of the principal speakers at Eariham college freshmen week activities. President William Cullen Dennis of the college, made the opening address.

SEPT. 20,1929

UODTIAGATIUN BOOK DIPLOMAS' MAY BE ISSUED Preliminary Checkup Shows 15,000 Volumes Were Read This Summer. First results in vacation reading contests, in which 3,000 Indianapolis school children participated during the summer were announced today by Miss Carrie E. Scott, children's librarian. The vacation ramble among boons started in June and ended last Frldaj*. Its purpose was to interest children in reading and to determine their favorite books. Reading of ten books was necessary for a diploma in the contest. Ail children read 15,000 books and w?hen reports from the city’s seventeen branch libraries are received it is estimated more than 1,200 diplomas will be issued. Eighth-Year Victory West Indianapolis, with 212 children entered, took honors for the eighth consecutive year for having more participants than any other sections of the city. Contest results in the Central library district indicate that girls prefer adventure and mystery stories and that boys like sea stories and books of travel best. Contestants prepared book lists they judged best for children to read. Mary Alberta Gates of School 27 and Frank Colemon of School 2 won first honors in the central district; Tom Kafadimos of School 9 and Jessie Dorman of School 2 were second and James Kane of Valley Mills and Norma Jean Goldsberry of School 8 placed third. Winning Books Listed Winning book lists chosen by the children and declared appropriate reading by librarians follow: For Girls—Sugimoti’s ’Daughter of Samuri,” Whitney’s “Tod of the Fens,” Saten’s “Bambi,” Mukergi's “Ghend the Hunter,” Kelly’s “Trumpeter of Krakow,” Weston's “Plutarch’s Lives,” McGuchen’s “Little Cabbages,” Nordoff’s “Pearl Lagoon” and “Derelict,” Gane’s “Treasure Flower,” and Malkus’ “Dragon Fly of Zumi.” Boys’ List—Lamb’s “Tales of Shakespeare,” Pyle’s “King Arthur and His Knights,” Hawe’s “Dark Frigate,” Dicken’s “David Copperfield.” Kingsley’s “Westward Ho," Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” Wallace’s “Ben Hur,” Stevenson's “Black Arrow” and Scott’s “Quentin Durward” and “Kenilworth.” POLICE AND FIRE FUND SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN Myrtle Gardner and James Sanford Get Butler Terms. Police and firemen emergency fund scholarships to Butler university have been awarded Miss Myrtle Gardner, graduate of Shortridge high school, and James Sanford, graduate of Manual Training high school. Awards were made by Meredith Nicholson, author; Professor Gino Ratti of Butler university, and Lawrence McTurnan, representative of a publishing firm. Miss Gardner >s the daughter of H. R. Gardner, 2602 James street, captain of Engine Company 18, and Sanford is the son of Howard Sanford, Engine Company 13 chauffeur.