Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1934 — Page 3

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15,000 STATE ■ TEACHERS IN PARLEY HERE Sessions Are Opened With Sectional Meetings of 36 Groups: (Continued From Page One)

Teacher, at a sectional conference >n Cadle tabernacle. Daisy Lord, president of National Association of Classroom Teachers, was another speaker at the Cadle meeting. Dr. George 8. Counts, of Teachers college, Columbia university, was to be one of the principal speakers this afternoon at the Murat at a meeting of junior high school teachers Dr. Counts is one of the “left-wing-ers" of the educational world. Phillips to Preside General sessions of the association proper will open at 8 tonight in Cadle tabernacle. Robert B. Hougham, retiring president, will call the meeting to order. L. V. Phillips, new president, will take over the gavel. Miss Hale and Wlilard E. Givans, Oakland, Cal., school superintendents, will be tonight’s speakers. Committees will be named. The nominating committee will meet and selection of anew president to be presented to the convention floor tomorrow morning will be determined. The resolutions committee is completing its work in readiness for the presentation of convention resolutions. Efforts to hold the convention in four or five Indiana cities and rotate speakers instead of holding the single convention in Indianapolis may feature one resolution. A faction in the association is attempting to obtain approval of a resolution indorsing Governor Paul V. McNutt’s efforts on behalf of the state schools.

Favor Gross Income Tax Other moot points to be brought to the convention floor tomorrow are reinstatement of sixteen section meetings or departments, the question of tax support of the schools and whether the gross income tax is favored over other forms of taxation. The teachers, it is believed, favor the gross income tax over other forms of taxation. Tomorrow will be the feature business session of the convention as well as the day when the prominent speakers are brought upon the platform. Women in Business Need for the teaching of mathematics in the schools to train women for the commercial world was the theme today of D. W. Horton, Muncie school superintendent, before the deans of women section of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association in the Columbia Club. Agnes E. Wells, dean of women, Indiana university, presided. Homestead Plan Told “Each two of us who are employed carry approximately one person who is unemployed." This declaration was made this afternoon bv Clarence E. Pickett, consultant of the Washington division of subsistence homesteads, as he explained the operation of his

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SHANTY TO BE REMODELED INTO NEAT, MODEL HOME

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The dilapidated shanty now on exhibition at the south lawn of the Federal building block will be remodeled and repaired into a neat rhodel home in order to boost the Indianapolis Chamber of Corn-

subsistence homesteads before the economics and sociology division of j the Indiana State Teachers’ Asso- | ciation in the Lincoln. In speaking of the homestead plan j he said, “How many people it will accommodate eventually no one can prophesy. It depends upon the soundness of the idea as demonstrated in certain experiments which the government is carrying out.” Good Writing Urged Handwriting is just as important with the typewriter as king in the business office as it was in the days of the quill and pen. This was pointed out today by Don E. Warrick, Indiana Bakers’ Association secretary, in an address before the handwriting group of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association in the Columbia Club. A chorus from School 54, under the direction of Georgia Heckman, sang. Mrs. Madie Mitchell. Indianapolis, was chairman of the meeting. Talks on Russia “Russia has passed f r om the circus sideshow era to a laboratory for scientists in economic. Socialism in the flesh has much to teach social scientists.” This assertion was made today by Joel Dean, Indiana university, in an address before the economics and sociology division of the teachers’ association. Mr. Dean said comparatively little graft prevails in Russia. He told of the mechanization of industry and the use of efficiency charts similar to those in practice in America. He said many operations of the American business world had been borrowed by Russia. Home-Making Urged Both boys and girls should be trained for home-making, under present social conditions, since in future years both man and wife probably will be employed outside the home, Mrs. Cecil La Follette, New College, Columbia university, told 500 delegates to the home eco-

merce and Construction League drive for home modernization. The local drive is directly associated with-the federal housing administration. Work on the repair will commence next Thursday with George Adrian, Indian-

nomics sessions of the state teachers’ convention at Technical high school today. Dr. Paul H. Nysttom, professor of marketing at Columbia university, was to speak this afternoon on “Recent Changes in Consumer Demand.” Readjustments Needed The readjustments needed in a changing society were discussed by four speakers at the student advisors group in the Claypool. The speakers were Charles S. Pendleton of George Peabody college; E, C. Cline, Richmond; Velorus Martz, Indiana university, and Mary D. Reed of Indiana State Teachers’ college. “The time must come when we will discover that individualization means service to the social group. In such a complex society we can not remain unaware of each other,” Professor Martz said. False Theories Flayed The theories that the laborer should not be entitled to an education and that a college degree is a sufficient sign of learning w'ere attacked by Willard E. Givens, Oakland (Cal.) schools superintendent, as antiquated. Mr. Givens declared that education is a constant, life long process. At this same meeting on vocational education in the Claypool,

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apolis contractor, as general superintendent. Clarence Myers is the architect for “exhibition house.” The shanty was moved from the southwest part of the city and will be open for public inspection tomorrow.

Paul C. Stetson, Indianapolis superintendent, discussed “Some Problems of Vocational Education.” He expressed the fear that a vocational overemphasis might absorb the cultural purpose of education. Guy Stantz. Terre Haute high school principal, presided. ARRANGE RITES FOR WILLIAM A. PIERSON Funeral Services to Be Held Tomorrow in New Albany. Funeral services for William A. PiersGn, 75, of 1220 Park avenue, will be held tomorrow afternoon in New Albany, his former home. Mr. Pierson died Wednesday in a Louisville hospital, where he had gone for treatment. He was well known in Indianapolis, where he had been representative of the American Seating Company until his retirement because of ill health. He was active in politics, having been former councilman of New Albany and candidate for secretary of state on the Progressive ticket in 1912. He was a member of Central avenue M. E. church, where he was a teacher of adult Bible classes. Surviving him are the widow and three sons. Albert E. Pierson, Greenfield; Dr. p. R. Pierson, New Albany, and Gordon G. Pierson, Lansdale, Pa.

FINAL SESSIONS HELD TODAY BY PARENT GROUP N. E. A. President Speaks: New Officers Are Chosen. Final sessions of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers were held today in the Severin with Dr. Henry Lester Smith, National Education association president, as the principal speaker. Officers elected today for the state were Mrs. L. G. Hughes, Indianapolis/ president; Mrs. Clayton Ridge. Indianapolis, secretary; Mrs. Thomas Ross, Evansville, treasurer; Mrs. Dale Cline, North Manchester, first vice-president; Mrs. James L. Murray, Indianapolis, second vicepresident; Mrs. N. N.McCrory, Whitling, third vice-president; Mrs. L. A. Winslow, Bloomington, fourth vicepresident; Mrs. J. H. Wheeler, Danville, fifth vice-president; Mrs. A. T. Shrader, New Albany, sixth vicepresident, and Mrs. William Richardson, Jeffersoriville, seventh vicepresident. With the formal closing of the congress sessions at noon the members of the organization were to be taken on a visit to the James Whitcomb Riley hospital. Dr. E. C. Elliott, Purdue university president, last night told the parents and teachers at the annual banquet in the Claypool that “we need today in every community an accurate inventory of those grim facts of life that are determining the opportunities and careers of young people.” Dr. A. F. Harman, Montgomery, Ala., vice-president of the National Congress of Parents and teachers, told the congress that it should have faith in the ability of childhood and youth of the nation to transmit civilization to the generations to come. SLEEP TABLETS FATAL Overdose Killed Maywood Boy, 12, Coroner Finds. * An overdose of sleeping tablets caused the death of William Cray. 12, Maywood. Tuesday night, Dr. William E. Arbuckle, coroner, said today after an investigation. The boy had been ill some time and the tablets were given so that he might be able to sleep, Dr. Arbuckle announced.

Firemen Join Revelry as Butler Tower Burns Blaze of ‘Unknown’ Origin Successful This Time in Razing Ancient Campus Structure.

BY GEORGE H. DENNY Times Stsff Writer FIRE of “unknown” origin destroyed the old water tower on the Butler university campus last night. “Unknown” as far as the records go. perhaps, but actually no one has much doubt as to the identity of the firebugs. Students have touched it off several times in the past and firemen dutifully have clanged over and put it out. Weary of this one-sided sport, the fire department recently threatened to let ’er bum the next time the alarm was turned in. So. mis-

taking th threat for a promise and quick to take the hint, students last night made a final effort to give the neighbors a treat. The wooden covering on the main pipe leading up to the tank was ignited. The crowd of students quickly was swelled Jjy hundreds of north side residents. Hopes for a brilliant spectacle were ashed when a siren wailed and a pumper truck roared up, but the boos and hisses changed to cheers when firemen anannounced that they merely had dropped in to see that no one got hurt and the fire did not spread. They inicated that it was quite a pleasure to be able to relax into the role of spectators. a a a AS the flames twisted upward the students gathered at one side and an impromptu pep meeting was held. The cheers and songs attracted more neighbors. Someone suggested that a few kegs be opened but no one volunteered to set ’em up for the crowd. But it was too good to last. Just as the fire began to lick against the bottom of the big tank, fifty feet above the ground, the firemen received word that the university authorities had complained at their inactivity. “Sorry folks, we’ve got orders to put it out,” they said, and rumbled off to the nearest hydrant. The students, sensing that a few more minutes would enable the flames to gain a firm foothold in the tar-covered timbers, rushed the hose line as it was laid out and uncoupled sections faster than the none too eager firemen could fasten them up again. This merry little game went on for some time. The firemen, outnumbered, still might be trying to connect their line if two police officers had not scattered the laughing mob. a a a BUT the students had accomplished their purpose. A great cheer went up as the flames pierced the flooring and roared

out through the roof The local water pressure was not sufficient to throw a stream to the necessary height and by the time the pumper on the truck was started the show was about over. “I’m glad to see it go.” said one of ithe policemen as he gazed at the smoking timbers on the steel framework. “It has been condemned and they were going to tear it down soon. Every time there’s a class scrap or somebody paints the class numerals on the rickety old thing there’s danger of broken bones or worse. Several students have been hurt in falls from it already.” So the tower burned and the students had a fine pep session and the neighbors were entertained and the firemen didn’t work too hard and everybody's happy. NEW MANAGER NAMED AT SCHIFF STORE HERE Harold Walden Takes Over Branch on East Washington. The appointment of Harold G. Walden as manager of the new Schjff store at 140 East Washington street was announced today byIrving Silvers, director of Schiff stores’ operations.

Mr. Walden started with the company as a salesman in the Schiff store at 259 East Washington street and rose as manager of Schiff stores at South Bend and then Elkhart. Because of his splendid record in Elkhart Mr. Walden received the post here, Mr. Silvers

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said. The new manager served for several years in a Schiff store at Marion before his transfer to South Bend. The organization claims that the new store is one of the most modern of its type in the city.

L. A. PITTINGER ELECTED LEADER OF SCHOOL CLOD Ball State Teachers’ Head Takes Presidency of Men’s Group. L. A Pittenger. Muncie, president of Ball State Teachers college, to-! day took office as head of the In-’ diana School Men’s Club. Mr. Pittenger was elected last night at a meeting in the Lincoln. Other officers installed today are E. E Dodson, Connersville, vice--president; O. H. Greist. Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer, and C. E. Easch of Warren, and Dale Walker, executive committee members. The school men’s cluf heard Wil- ' lard E. Givens, Oakland <Cal.): school superintendent, declare that; the future form of our government ■ depended upon the teachings of pedagogues of secondary schools, from the seventh to twelfth grades. C. B. Haworth, Kokomo, retiring president, also spoke.

REFINERY PRODUCTS WILL BE EXHIBITED Petroleum Association Convention to Be Staged Here Next Week. A public exhibit of refinery products and equipment will be held in the Severin next Wednesday and j Thursday in connection with the convention of the Indiana Inde- ; pendent Petroleum Association, Inc. The convention will consider leg- ! is la t ion designed to reduce the oil i inspection fee and the application :of gasoline tax receipts for the I building and maintenance of state i highways. Speakers at the sessions will be jo. J. McClure. Chicago, an economist; Dr. E. M. Skinner. Duncan, Okla., refining engineer; Warren C. j Platt, National Petroleum News ed- | itor, and A. B. Harris, Chicago. FILM ROMANCE ENDED I | Barbara Weeks and Guinn Williams Agree to Disagree. By United Pres* HOLLYWOOD, Oct, 18.—Barbara Weeks, Boston actress, and Guinn (Big Boy) Williams, screenland's best polo player, aren't going to use the marriage license they obtained last month, Mr. Williams admitted today. He and his fiancee have agreed to disagree and will not be married, he said.

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