Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1932 — Page 11

JAN. 6, 1932.

SPECIAL PUPILS ARE PUT UNDER SINGLE CONTROL W. A. Hacker Will Direct New Department of City Schools. Organization of a department of special education in Indianapolis public schools was announced today by Superintendent Paul C. Stetson. The department, under the direction of W. A. Hacker, assistant superintendent in charge of social service, will bring together the schools’ work in sight conservation, fresh air schools, individual and special instruction, adjustment rooms, hospital classes and classes for crippled children. “The availability of the social workers who are in Hacker’s department makes this new organization a logical step,” Stetson said, in announcing the new department. Work Is Not New None of the work of the department is new to the public schools. However, until now, the different branches of special education were not organized under a single head. Supervising teachers and courses of study of all special classes will hr Mrs. Ruth Heavenririge of the social service department. The reorganization places fiftytwo teachers and approximately 1.200 pupils under Hacker's direction. Largest group included in the new department will be those pupils requiring adjustment room classes, or individual or special instruction. Pupils in this group number 747, under thirty-five teachers. Pupils in fllospilals Included Also under direction of the new department will be forty children in hospitals, eleven in sight conservation. seventy-four in the school for crippled children, and 319 in fresh air classes. Seventeen teachers are in charge of these groups. Mrs. Jeanette Williams will remain as principal of the school for crippled children at school No. 5, at 612 West Washington street, and of Theodore Potter Fresh Air School No. 74, at 1601 East Tenth street. Besides the fresh air classes at school No. 74, there are similar classes at School No. 3, at 23 North Rural street; school No. 12, at 733 South West street; school No. 22, Illinois and Kansas streets, and school No. 26, College avenue and Sixteenth street. NEIGHBORHOOD OLDEST WOMAN RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Eliza White Lived on Congress Avenue Sixty-Seven Years. When there were only three houses in the northwest part of Indianapolis i n the -icinity of 1121 Congress avenue, Mrs. Eliza White. 79. moved to the neighborhood at (he age of 12. and lived there sixty- j seven years, the remainder of her life. Mrs. White, who was recognized i ns the oldest woman resident of! the neighborhood, died Monday at j the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Pollard, at the Congress avenue address. Mrs. White, a widow for thirtyfive years, was born twelve miles north of Indianapolis on the Michigan road. She later moved tc North Carolina, where she lived until she was 12. Mrs. Pollard, with whom her mother lived since the death of Mr. White, is the only survivor. Mrs. White was a member of the Seventh Christian church. Services will be held today I at 3 at the Flanner & Buchanan j mortuary with burial in Crown Hill ! cemetery. FORTY-SIX SHORTRIDGE PUPILS ON HONOR ROLL Senior Class President Among Those on High List. ■Portv-six Shortrldge high school pip>ils are included in the high hclior roll, issued Tuesday by the school office. Among those who received the school’s highest scholastic recognition for the last grading period is Charles Feibleman, senior class president. Students who made the high honor roll are: Hilton Brown Atherton. Lucv Ann Bakh. Jean BoUne. Alovse Rerttenwiser. Dorothy Braden. Marearet Bundren. Genevieve Campbell Vtrsinia Carson. Elsie Connpn. Marcaretio Cook. Charlotte Cox. Eettv Davenoort, Rena Dean. Robert Ellsworth. Charles Feibleman. Ruth Flovd. Max Healev. Catherine Heard. Marv klise Heckathorn. Jane Helt. Marv Alice Hicks. Fredrick Kershner. Julian Kiser. Bettv I,utz. Dorothy Martenet. Bettv Arlene McIntyre. Jeane McWorkman. Julianna Mennel. Marv Louise Morrell. Gordon Messirs. Elizabeth Mvers. Kit-tv Mvers. Dorothy Reasoner. Carl Schneidker. Charles Schreiber. Marv Jeanette Seller. Warren Shearer. Marv Jane Shecrin. Marv Jane Steeg. Dvrothv Torence. Marv Vance Trent. Marv Ellen Vovles. Wills WamDler. Stuart C. Williams. Arleen Wilson. Helen C. ZitzlaiT. OBSERVE PENNY WEEK AT SHORTRIDGE HIGH rupils Hoard Coins for Needy’s Car Fares, Lunches. Shortridge high school pupils are saving their pennies this week. It’s Penny week. This morning, they were given miniature tin cans, and asked to drop all their pennies into the receptacles for a week. The pennies will be turned over to the school’s Parent-Teacher Association to provide street ear fares and lunch money to needy pupils. Three thousand cans were distributed to the student body. They are to be returned next Wednesday. PETITION USE OF BUSSES Street Car Company Would Save fIO.OOO by Substitution. Substitution of busses for street cars between midnight and 4 a. m. on fourteen city lines is sought in a petition filed today with the public service commission by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. * Under the petition, six busses vould run on the fourteen lines on schedules ranging from one hour to one hour and twenty minutes. The shift would save more than fIO.OOO annually, according to the petition. Fare of 10 cents was proposed.

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SONGS WILL BE ON RADIO BILL School Music Director on Broadcast. Songs by supervisors in the music department of Indianapolis public schools will feature the thirteenth weekly broadcast of the schools at 9:30 tonight over WKBF. Speaker of the program will be Ralph W. Wright, director of music, who will talk on "The Teaching of Music in the Schools.” Included in the numbers, which will be sung by the supervisors’ ensemble, are “A* Hope Carol,” by David Stanley Smith; “All in the April Evening,” by Robertson; “Page’s Road Song.” by Harold Osborn Smith; “Night Song,” by Clokev; “Farwell to the Forest,” by Mendelssohn; “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,” by Johns, and "Vermeland,” a Swedish folk song. Members of the ensemble besides Wright are Mrs. Lenora Coffin, Miss Maude Delbridge. Miss Helen Hollingsworth, Miss Lulu Kanagy, Miss Lorle Krull, Miss Isabelle Mossman and Mrs. Adelaide Riley. Accompanist is Miss Geraldine Trotter. Also on the program will be a group of three violin solos by Edwin Jones, a teacher in the Arthur Jordan conservatory. He will play "Souvenir,” by Drdla; “Nocturne,” by Johans, and “Old Refrain,” by Kreisler. He will be accompanied on the piano by Miss Frances Wishard.

P.-T, SESSIONS ARE SCHEDULED Five Meetings for This Week Announced. Five meetings of Parent-Teacher Associations in Indianapolis public schools were scheduled for the week following a holiday lull in activities. Meetings to be held: Association of School 12 will meet at 3:15 today. Dr. Ada Schweitzer will speak on The Childrens Charter Projects.” There will be music by the children. School 35 will hold its meeting at 2:30 today and Miss Edith C. Hall. o"inctnal of School 80. will speak on ‘Report Cards, and What They Slioulc mean io Parents.” Piano numbers will be rendered by Catherine Downie and Dorothy Calahan. There also will be a short play, "The Magic Star of Bethlehem.” by the 6A and 7B grades, and a Dutch dance by Clarissa LaSary and Charles Bush. Safety meeting in charge of Lieutenant Frank Owen will comprise the program at a meeting at School 46 today at 7:30. School 73 will hold its meeting today at 2:30. The program will he composed of a puppet show and music bv the eiris’ chorus. A musical program bv the Mothers’ club will compose the program for the meeting of School 83. today at 3. OFFICE IS STORMED Center Township Trustee Seeks Protection. Protection at the Center township trustee's office from delegations of unemployed who force themselves into the office was asked Tuesday at a safety board meeting, by Walter Clarke, attorney for Hannah Noone. township trustee. Clarke said that crowds rushed the trustee's office four times recently. On the last occasion, he asserted, a delegation of fourteen demanded loudly and boisterously that more food be placed in the baskets distributed by the trustee. Cigarets and tobacco for the baskets also were demanded and the delegation further insisted that men working for baskets be paid money, Clarke stated. The safety board was informed by Police Chief Mike Morrissey that an officer is stationed continually at the trustee's office, but on the visit of the last delegation, an officer who was removed when shifts changed had not been replaced because of an oversight. The safety board and Morrissey promised co-operation to keep order at Miss Noone's office. INSTALLATION PLANNED Auxiliary to Railroad Union to Meet Wednesday Night. Indianapolis lodge. No. 297, ladies' auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, will meet tonight at Trainmen’s hall. East Washington street, for installation of the follow r ing officers: Mvrtle Ombanhowar. president: Laura Gray, vice-president: Elizabeth BelL sfcretarv: Marv L. Thtxton. treasurer: Forest Smith, conductress: Vivian Umbanhowar. chaplain: Eloha Gault, warder: Aloha McGuire. inner guard: Marv Dodd, ou’er guard, and Daisv Mathews, pianist. Lorens Sprav Roberta wuj tfe installing oßicer. Josephine Saylor is hast president

This he-ribboned young lady, Helen Hancock, a pupil in the, seventh grade at School No. 47, has been swimming only a year and a half. In that time, she has collected eleven prizes for her speed in the water. Most of them have been won in the city playground pools. Two came from the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

A SCHOOL with a pair of champions is School No. 47, at 1240 West Ray street. Helen Hancock. 925 Coffey street,, is one of the city's most promising feminine swimmers. She is 13, has been swimming for less than tw’o years, and already has won so many prizes that she can’t remember where she won any but the most recent. Eddie Argo. 525 Warren avenue, is the marble champion of his

district, as well as the best pencil artist in school. His real name is Edwin, but he doesn't like that because, “Gosh, whoever heard of a marble champion by the name of Edwin?” he complains. Eddie doesn’t know' w'hich he

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likes better, his agate taws or his drawing pencils. “I’ve been playing marbles and drawing pictures ever since I could hold a ffiivie or a pencil. I don't know wh®h I could hold first. “I like to draw' horses best. We used to owm a horse. But w'e sold her. Anyway, I’ve been drawing horses ever since I was 8 years old. That’s more than four years. I don’t know whether I’ll do that for a living or not. It’d be fun.”

MUSEUM IS VISITED BY 33,000 IN YEAR

First District Wins Cup for Attendance in 1931. Almost 33,000 visitors attended the Children’s museum during 1931, according to a statement of Arthur B Carr, curator. The 1931 total a 34 per cent increase in attendance over 1930. and almost a 50 per cent increase over 1929. Gallery talks were given during the year to 531 visiting school groups. Most of these groups came under the direction of their teacher, and during school hours. Largest number of groups coming in one day was ten. Largest single day attendance was 506. The Sousa cup, awarded last June to the district having the largest attendance in proportion to enrollment, for the school year, now is traveling from building to building in District 1. Schools of that district are Nos. 2,4, 5,6, 9, 12, 16, 24, 25. 40, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 83. Honorable mention for December registration of pupils was given the following schools: District 1, Nos. 2. 4, 49; District 2, Nos. 19, 31, 18, 72? District 3, Nos. 82. 3. 15; District 4, Nos. 1. 38, 51, 69: District 5, Nos. 32. 80. 27, 91; District 6, Nos. 23, 50, 63; District 7 (private and parochial schools), Blaker Demonstration school, Cathedral grade school, St. Joan of Arc school. PLAY IS PREPARED Third Grade at School 46 Plans Entertainment. Third grade pupils of Daniel Webster school No. 46, Miller and Reisner streets, will present a play, “Safety First,” before the school’s Parent-Teacher Association tonight. Twenty-eight pupils will take part. The play is in charge of Mrs. Thelma Mueller, third grade teacher. P.-T. A. officers will be guests at a luncheon, cooked and served by the girls of the eighth grade cooking class Monday. Direciing the preparation will be Mrs. Ermal Hedden, domestic science teacher. WOMEN SPEAK Library Staff Will Hear Talk on School. Mrs. Robert Failey and Mrs. Donald Jameson will address the staff of the Indianapolis public library on “The Objects and Accomplishments of the Orchard School” Monday morning in Cropsey auditorium at Central library. Miss Kate Dinsmoor of the teachers’ special library, will introduce speakers.

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CHICAGO SURVEY MAY AIO LOCAL SCHOOjJFFICER Stuart Says Studies Will Be Applied to New System Here. Results of a survey of the Chicago junior and senior high schools by Milo H. Stuart, assistant superintendent of schools, and Professor E. H. Eikenberry of Ohio State university, may be utilized in found- j ing the junior high school system in Indianapolis next September, Stuart indicated today. The survey by Stuart and Eikenberry was conducted under direction of the Teachers’ college of Columbia university, to detect merits and shortcomings of the system used in Chicago. Stuart outlined the list of points he and professor Eikenberry studied, as follows: Utilization of buildings, pupil accounting, records and reports, guidance, (vocational, etc.), teachers’ load, t. ticulation differences in the various grades, administration, school individuality, rules and regulations, and contributions to objectives. Stuart stressed the fact that the survey was merely a preliminary study, and that after developing charts and forms, he would return to complete the analytical task. In the preliminary survey, study of attendance was stressed. The Chicago schools have a daily checkup system which was of interest to the investigators, j Guidance of pupils, both before 'and after entering high school, also ! was stressed by Stuart and Eiken- | berry. Other points scanned were the | success and failures of teachers’ inI dividual efforts with pupils: the sort of administrative positions which have been created, and how ! they function, and ways in which pupils are allowed to express their j individualities in school. SOAP CARVING CLASSPLANNED Pupils to Learn Sculpture at Children’s Museum. Instruction in soap carving will be begun at the Children’s Museum Saturday morning when Miss Marie Stewart, public schools art super- : visor, will hold a class during the j regular story-te?" r:v a t 10:30. Notice has to the 1 schools, telling interested to bring u and a ! cake of white sc Small booklets, A L . .le Book About Small Sculpture,” will be distributed among the children. The lesson is planned to interest ; children in a nation-wide soap ; sculpture contest, which will close i May 1.

Praises Page From the report of the department of publications, Indianapolis public schools: “The Indianapolis Times soon after Sept. 1 assigned a staff man to spend all his time on school news for The Times’ weekly school page. We have assisted this reporter faithfully in getting news and pictures for this page, which appears every Wednesday in The Times. “Attempts have been made to educate elementary school principals in sending in notes for news stories, and two bulletins have been sent to all principals to give them information on how to assemble data for publication.” That is part of the official recognition given The Times’ school page, and in answer. The Times pledges that 1932 will find improvement and brightness in its school pages.

GIVE PUPPET PLAY Pupils Make Stage Scenes for Show at Museum, "The Frog Prince,” a puppet show, will be staged by the 8A class of Audubon school, No. 38, of 2060 Winter avenue, Jan. 16 at the Children's museum. Pupils of the class have taken the theme of a fairy tale for their production. They have added two scenes of their own. Boys’ shop class is making the stage, with footlights, curtains and pulleys. Settings and properties are being made by the classes in art. Miss Marian Carpenter, art teacher, is supervising the construction of scenery. In charge of dramatization and costuming is Miss Gertrude Insley, English teacher. EVANS MMES AIDS Twenty-Four op Committee on Publications. Announcement of members of the central publications committee of the public schools was made Tuesday by William A. Evans, director of publications. The committee is made up of twenty-two teachers. Miss Edna Levey of Central public library, and Miss Maude McVicker. chief clerk of the superintendent’s office. According to Evans, the committee will “consider policies, ways and means of carrying on publication work and of enlisting the co-opera-tion of the entire personnel of the i school system.’*

‘Ship of the Air Takes Flight With City's Shut-ins Aboard *

The “Ship of tire Air,” successfully launched last HPHIS morning’s trip over Indianapolis, with MilMonday morning, took its first spin this morn- A ton Gregory and Martha Anderson, pupils at ing. Lucretia Mott School No. 3, 23 North Rural street. The ship is the imaginary craft in which hun- visited all the public buildings of the city, as well as dreds of Indianapolis children will tour the cap- Pogue s Run, named after the first settler, and the

Hals of the various states of the cc.jntry. It will travel every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at 9:35. “Ship of the Air” is the name of the radio program broadcast by the Indianapolis public schools over WKBF for shut-in children. Its trip today carried the children over Indianapolis for a view at the capital of Hoosierdom. The .ship was lanuched Monday when Ann Winger, 719 West Drive, Woodruff Place, a pupil at Theodore

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Potter Fresh Air School No. 74, broke a bottle of milk over the propellor and said, “I christen thee Ship of the Air, and I wish thee many safe voyages.” Also on Monday’s program were speeches by Superintendent of Schools Paul C. Stetson, “admiral” of the ship, and William Evans, “captain,” and director of publications for the schools.

OPEN LIGHT DISPLAY Reproductions at Museum Trace Lamp’s History. Exhibits showing the evolution of lighting devices have been put on display at the Children's Museum. 1150 North Meridian street. The development shows various stages of

This BANK STATEMENT tells an important story in a clear and easily understood manner... Simplified Form of the Sworn Statement We Made to the Comptroller of Currency, Washington, D. C., ar the dose of Business, December 31. 1931. •RESOURCES* The cash we have on hand and due from the Federal Reserve Bank amounts to $ 7,3 56,632.99 We have on deposit with Banks in New' York, Chicago, and other Reserve cities, payable on demand 4,947.900.29 TOTAL CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS .... $12,304,533.28 We own U. S. Government Bonds and Certificates of Indebtedness worth 0,881,075.33 We own stock in the Federal Reserve Bank worth . . . 120,000.00 We own other first class bonds and securities worth . . . 2.755,566.49 TOTAL WORTH OF SECURITIES $ 9,756,641.82 We have loaned to our customers r or use in their business and for other legitimate needs 19-940,994.87 Overdrafts 22.95 Customers are to pay us interest, which accrued to date, amounts to . . ; 6.964.57 TOTAL AMOUNT DUE US FROM CUSTOMERS . $ 19,947,982.39 Our Banking House, Safe Deposit Vaults, Furniture and Fixtures are carried on our books at 945,450.00 The value of other real estate we own is conservatively appraised at 61,800.00 TOTAL VALUE OF REAL ESTATE OWNED . . . % 1,007,250.00 5% Redemption Fund due from U. S. Treasurer .... 100,000.00 TOTAL OF OUR RESOURCES $43,116,407.49 •LIABILITIES* Individuals, Firms, Corporations, and Banks doing business in Indianapolis and elsewhere have on deposit with us . $36.207,245.5 2 TOTAL AMOUNT DUE DEPOSITORS $36,207,245.52 Circulating notes outstanding 2,000,000.00 We have reserved for dividend 50,000.00 W’e have reserved for interest and taxes 51,072.20 TOTAL OF OTHER LIABILITIES $ 101,072.20 TOTAL DEPOSITS AND OTHER LIABILITIES . . $38,308,317.72 The balance over and above our total liabilities represents the depositors’ margin of safety. It is the bank’s working capital supplied by its stockholders, and is carried on our books as follows: CAPITAL .....$ 2,000,000.00 SURPLUS 2,000,000.00 . UNDIVIDED PROFITS, Net 808,089.77 TOTAL AMOUNT OF WORKING CAPITAL . . . 4.808,089.77 TOTAL OF OUR LIABILITIES PLUS WORKING CAPITAL $43,116,407.49 THE OFFICERS Vice-Presidents , Assistant Cashiers HENRY El TEL President, FRANK D. STALNAKER HERBERT S. WOOD N ?; F k PT ™°- N Vice-President a,id Cashier iFKSfeiu EDWARD D. MOORE MAT OTT TTTTrWFT* ROBERT B. MALLOCH THOMAS H. KAYLOR R * 1 1 FLLILHfcK JAMES L. FISH WILLIAM P. FLYNN Auditor, C. MERLE BROCKWAY CLARENCE T. BRADY ROLLIN W. SPIEGEL THE DIRECTORS ROY E. ADAMS HENRY El TEL NORMAN A. PERRY . President J. D. Adams Manufacturing Vice-President Capitalist Company R. MALOTT FLETCHER SAMUEL E. RAUH CLARENCE S. ALIG \ ice-President and Cashier Chairman of Board, Belt Railroad Vice-President Home Stove Company Co-Trustee Malott Estate and Stockyards Company FRED G. APPEL J. S. HOLLIDAY PETER C REILLY President Gregory Sc Appel. Inc. President W. J. Holliday & Company President HENRY W, BENNETT W. G. IRWIN * Republic Creosoting Company President Indianapolis Stove Company President Irwin-Unioa Trust Company smith ARTHUK V BROWN dumb.* T.I e’u "L In- .„„c President Lmon Trust Connpeny JOHN J. MADDEN EUGENE H. DARRACH President John J. Madden WILLIAM L. TAYLOR President Inter-State Car Company Manufacturing Company Attorney-at-Law G. A. EFROYMSON GWYNN F. PATTERSON FRANK D. STALNAKER President Occidental Realty Company Vice-President President MEMBER OE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM * MEMBER OF INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION The Indiana National Bank OF INDIANAPOLIS Successor (in 1865) to the business of the Branch Bank of the State of Indiana, Established in 1834;

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it is shaped like an old frigate, with a high prow painted in bright colors and bedecked With ribbons. The idea of radio programs for shut-in children was presented by Superintendent Stetson to the school board last fall. Original plans called for lessons for all grades during broadcasts, but this was dropped.

yiumination from crude torches and to the incandescent lamp. There are authentic reproductions of torches made of splinters and knots of resinpus wood, of fat bodies of birds and fishes and of bundles of wood slivers and sheets of bark. Next in line are torches of more careful manufacture, devised of resin wrapped in a palm leaf which forms an external wick. Others are made of rope soaked in wax and resin, and of cord filled with wax.

homes of the city’s famous authors. The Ship of Air will tour over other cities of Indiana during its Friday morning trip. The ship, as described Monday morning by Miss Blanche Young of the Technical high school commercial department, “pilot,” presents an unusual picture. Sails of of the ship, instead of extending upward, spread out like the wings of a huge bird. The ship has a propeller, to be sure, but instead of the conventional airplane design.

Following this device are various developments of candles. The firefly lamp, the grease lamp of metal, and the shell and saucer lamps have been reproduced. The l more modern lantern and coal oil i lamps in various styles are repre- | sented. One lantern was used on the farm of Vice-President Hendricks, and another signaled canal boats in pioneer days. Several examples of the incandescent lamp are displayed, including a reproduction of the 'original ‘ Edison invention.

'FIFTY BOOKS ! OF THE YEAR' TOBEMOWN Central Library Schedules Graphic Arts Exhibit for Jan. 17-31. Fifty unusual editions will be shown in the exhibit ot the American Institute ol Graphic Arts. ; which will be on display at the Cenj rial library. Jan. 17 to 31. The display, known as “Fifty Books of the Year,” is a traveling exhibit, sent out by the institute every year. Books are chosen because of the excellence of their bindings, typography and general format. Highest priced book in the exhi- | bit is a compilation ot Walt Whit- ) man's “Leaves ot Grass,’’ illustrated with Valenti Angelo’s wood-cuts, and printed by Grabhorn Brothers, who formerly were Indianapolis printers. The fifty books were chosen from more than 700, submitted by 140 printing houses throughout the United States. The choice was based on the physical merits of the book, irrespective of the price. Among the familiar titles arc editions of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island.” Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales.” Melville’s “Mobv Dick.” Boccaccio's "Decameron'' Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer.” and Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Church Yard.” An exhibit of fifty English books ; will accompany the American riisI play. They will be shown in the i library for purposes of comparison.

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