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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL NOTES
SIDE llehts On Next Sundays
Lesson for Teachers and Puplls
Edited by Charles K. Meyers.

March 2-The Report of the Spies.
Numbers 10, 1920, %, 80, 81.
In the career of every person. COM
munity and nation there come times
Of testing, and on the outcome hinges
many change in history. We con.
slider today one of the great events in
the history of the Children of Israel,
whom Moses was leading from Egyp-
tian captivity to land to be their
own, in due time.
Those who have been following the
lesson from week to week know that
Moses had led the Hebrews out, that
they had been mira culously preserved
from their former captors at the pass
age OF the Red Sea; that these wan
derers had been fed with bread and
meat in a desert place, water provid-
ed when the natural springs were not
to be found. In perhaps the third
year of their wanderings the company
came to place known to bible stu
dents as Kadesh-Barnea. The camp
then was not many miles from the
Promised Land which is now known
as Palestine, at the east end of the
Is Sol 4uOu1lSAi uACdu SCd. lACSS llc-
brews had been away from this coun-
try for some four hundred years and
knew little as to it's present condition,
the presence of walled cities, and peo-
pies generally. They knew the land
had been promised them by the God
who had freed them from Egypt and
preserved their lives in the wilder
ness. That ought to have been suffi-
cient for them at this time. .. :;
TO obtain some information as to
the land of promise the command
came to send one man from each Of
the twelve tribes to go forward as
reports. This was done. THE names
Of the twelve men appear in the 18th
of Numbers. The men went on their
mission and were gone forty days &C.
cording to the bible account. What
they reported and what the Hebrews
did makes up the main point of the
lesson.
When the time came there was a
unanimous report that the land was
good, overlooking with fruits of which
a sample was brought. Ten of the
spies, however, said that strong ma
tions lived there, some men being ver-
liable giants, and the cities were wall
ed and therefore it was useless and
impossible for the Hebrews to enter.
Two of the spies, Caleb and Joshua,
took another view as, to entering the
land at once. In language which has
been ever an inspiration to all who
believed in truth the promise of God,
they spoke forth: ~&. g.
IF the Lord delight in us, then
He will bring us into the land.
Rebel not We against the Lord,
neither fear We the people. their
defense is departed from them,
and the Lord is with d. us, fear
them not"
Brave words coming from the hearts
of men who TRUSTED in the promises
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26

all classes to the unusual conditions
that have prevailed during the first
semester because Of the FLU" epidem-
ic. The attendance records show for
that period an average of only SO per
cent. The attendance for the three six
weeks periods being, first SO per cent,
second, 81 per cent, and third, So per
cent
However, it is the aim of the schools
to bring all of these records up to
standard during the present semester,
and the results of the tests given in
the spring will be published showing
how they compare with those of the
first semester.
A discussion of the tests used in the
grades, showing their purpose and the
method used in giving them, will be a
part of the program for the parent
teachers meeting at the North Brick
this week.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26

Missouri Valley on Friday. On the
following Wednesday and Friday, two
of the hardest games of the season
will be played on the Denison floor,
when Council Bluffs and Ames are
played. Single admissions will be So
cents, or tickets for both games can
be secured for so cents, that is Csc
each.
The West Brick children are having
holiday. Two of the new steam
boilers burst on Tuesday evening.
Interesting Semester Grade Tests.
Miss PAUL reports that one of the
features of the grade work this year
consists Of a series Of supervisory
tests in spelling reading and english.
The purpose of these tests is not that
of deciding who shall be promoted but
| to act as supplement to the usual
methods and at the same time to meas
ure the efficiency of the work done by
the pupil and teacher. ...
The tests in the spelling have been
taken from the Ayers Spelling Scale
and show a variety Of results. Many
Of the grades are above the standard
a few are below, but in almost all in
stances, where the tests are being
given from time to time, the median
for the class has been raised from 10
to rs per cent. aAIa} oil. IL s.a
A few class results will explain
what is meant. One section of the B
VIII class in September had a median
grade of 75.@ The same class in Janu-
airy had a median grade of IS. The
standard for this grade is only 81. This
shows that when the pupils entered
in September they were not eighth
grade spoilers, but by January they
are above the average eighth in spell
ing ability. q WE ss... ST.
| Another instance is a second grade
class. In September this grade had
a median of 3d., which should have
been 49, and in January the median
lis SO. While this is below standard
it still shows decided increase in the
spelling abilities of the pupils.
One fourth grade class that in Sep
TENDER had a median Of 75 stood IS
in January. The standard in this case
also being "a.
In the case of the reading, the stan
'dard tests used were the Courts and
the Kansas Silent Reading Tests. The
Courts Tests measure both speed and
ability to understand what is read and
were the ones used throughout the
grades. It is impossible to give the
tests here in such way that they
can be understood, but it is the desire
Of the supervisors that the, parents
make themselves acquainted with the
Tests and results as soon as possible.
Further information will be given at
meetings of the parent-teachers asso-
citation. . .- 49,. ,
The English test given in the early
part of the year was one involving
punctuation, spelling and capitaliza-
tion. A comparison Of results with
those given in the School Survey Re.
port showed that our grades were all
above the standard. .s
Tn addition to the three tests named
above, the Curtis tests in arithmetic
were given. These have been used
for a number Of terms and the re-
suits show practically the same con-
ditions as the others. There is no
doubt that the lower grades are due in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26
REDUCING FOOD COSTS

The American farmer is too much
Of an individualiist. In an age when
marvellous results are being secured
by cooperation and combination, he
plays lone hand For instance, the
average small farmer will not buy a
farm machine unless he can see
enough work for it to pay on his own
farm. So he loses the economies that
can be produced by labor saving de-
vices.
1t should be possible. where a farm
is too small to afford to buy tractor
or other needed machine. for a group
of farmers to unite in purchasing it
and take turns in using it. To this
the objection would be raised that they
would all want it at the same time. But
in these days when most farmers have
telephones, a man should have sense
and cooperative spirit enough so that
he and other members of a group
a machine.
Several railroads, feeling that farm
production could be greatly increased
| If the farmers had more labor saving
machinery, have bought large numbers
Of tractors and have let them out to
the farms. They did this merely for
the added freight rates they expected
to get on an increased food produc-
ton. If this would pay railroad, it
would surely pay a community organ
ization to buy enough farm machinery
so that it's members should have the
benefit of modern labor saving meth
DDS.
1t has always cost much money to
get produce from the farms to the
railroad stations. One reason why is
that the majority of farmers haul their
own goods to the delivery points.
Therein the food handling machine
cry is less efficient than the system
by which goods are produced in fac.
tories. The small manufacturer does
not usually maintain teams and trucks
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26
STOPPING THE SMALL LEAKS

The department of agriculture esti-
mates that more than 100000 900 bush
els of wheat were saved last year in
II states by economies the farmers
made at request of the threshing d.
vision, through overhauling machinery,
use of tight bottom wagons, etc.
In all production and distribution
there are leaks of this nature. Rail-
road tracks are scattered with coal
that dropped out of defective cars.
The forests are full of good fuel wood
thrown away by careless lumbermen
Many farmers waste considerable
quantities of hay and other crops by
careless harvesting. Factories save
material fairly we'll, but not all do so
efficiently. -.-, g.. ..-....
1t may be objected that labor costs
so high now that it does not pay to
fuss with small savings. Yet if labor
has risen, products are equally more
costly and worth saving. w..
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26

of God" Alas, alas the wanderers
did not have the faith of these men,
but called for some new leader to take
them back to Egypt. Moses and
Aaron, as we'll as Caleb and Joshua,
rent their clothes with grief and pro-
tested at the decision of the people.
Such was the feeling against these
good men, that the popular cry went
up to stone them. Moses went before
the Lord again in supplication for his
hayward people and by his pleading
saved their lives, but the punishment
was that none Of the men folks eX-
cept Caleb and Joshua should ever
settle in the land. They were turned
back in the wilde" css until all but
the children should lie. God still was
with them, leading by the cloud and
providing the mama and the quails,
but the punishment was carried out
to the letter.
The lesson brings up the great sub
ject of Faith. Looking back we all
think how foolish the Hebrews were
not to go ahead, having the promises
of God that they would have success.
They could not plead ignorance of the
true situation for Caleb and Joshua
exhorted them to trust in God and go
forward. In that remarkable chapter
on the triumphs of faith presented in
the eleventh of Hebrews this groupe
of Hebrews is only given credit for
faith when they went forward into
the Red Sea, and when they kept the
passover in Egypt In pronouncing
the decision as to the punishment of
these people, the Lord called attention
to the fact that the adults had seen
His wonderful works back in Egypt
and since, and therefore were all the
more guilty in refusing to have faith
in Him at the time. ...,
The question now arises as to our
faith in God and His promises at this
date. We have an immense amount
Of light above the Hebrews living
four thousand years before the birth
of Christ, and yet there is a drawing
back in faith and faint heartedness, in
stepping out on the promises of God,
and acting as if what God said was
true before it's actual accomplishment.
BY faith the liquor traffic has been
struck a knockout blow 1t was no
small showing of faith when the great
protestant churches of America, even
before the war began and later closed
resolved on the great world wide
spread of the gospel and took the need
ed steps to gain the sympathy and
support of their memberships. There
is but one way to do, and that to trust
in what God has said, and believe that
He will fulfill to the very letter. 3
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26

and hauls his. own goods to the sta
lions. He can get the work done
cheaper by some other method. These
are only a few of the ways in which
the food producing business suffers
from the lack Of cooperation.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26
Constellation Emancipation

No moro lazy bowels, yellow cc-l-
pleztion, sick headache, indigestion,
embarrassing breath, when you use az q
corrective DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They systematic the system and keep
he world looking cheerful,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26
STUFFED UP WITH
"A BAD C0LD?"
Get busy with a bottle Of
Dr.. Kings New Discovery
at once

Coughs, colds and bronchial ATTACKS
~ they are all likely to result in danger
GUS aftermaths unless checked in time.
And how effectively and quickly d.
Kings New Discovery helps to do the
checking work! Infamed, irritated
membranes are soothed, the mucous
phlegm loosened freely. and quiet.
Iestful sleep follows. r.
Alldruggists have it. Sold since 1869
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Teachers Union
Joins i'm Demand
For Elected Board
Will Ask Legislature for
I'll hange in Trial Laws
and Also a Revision in
Recent Salary Measure

The Teachers Union. which is the
organization including the radicals
among the teaching body of New York,
has adopted Legislative programme
that, like that Of the High School
Teachers Association. calls for AN
elected and paid Board of Education
The Legislative committee of the
Teachers Union is preparing a bill or
series of bills to be introduced in the
Legislature at Albany at it's next ses-
sion, among which is one providing for
an elected Board of Education COM
posed of either seven or nine members.
1t also wants the system of trying
teachers changed.
At the present time teacher can be
suspended "for cause by the superin-
tendent or assistant superintendent of
the school to which he is assigned or
by member of the Board of Educa-
ton, and is subsequently, brought to
trial before the board. He is without
pay during the period of suspension
and until the end of his trial. provided
the trial ends in acquittal The only
appeal from the decision of the board
is to the State Commissioner of Educa-
ton.
The proposal of the Teachers Union
is for a trial board of seven members,
three of whom are to be selected by
the Board of Education. Each teach
ers' organization in the city with a
paid membership of $50 or more would
elect three persons to be members Of
the trial board and any teacher
brought under charges would be en-
titled to select the trial board candi-
dates of any of the organizations to
sit at his trial. The six members so
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
n. Y. Seeks to Hold Lead
In Harvard Fund Drive
Crimson Squadron to Renew
Campaign To-day to Beat
Ont BOSTON

With nearly s6,O0O,OOO obtained and
$9000,000 more to raise, the third week
of the Harvard endowment fund drive
began yesterday. Members of the
Crimson Squadron, New York's can
vassng organization, rested yesterday
because of the holiday, but will renew
their efforts to-day to hold the lead in
the race with Boston, which is tagging
by about Sal 900. At the headquarters
of the fund, 165 Broadway, it is ex-
pected that the entire amount of $15,-
250000, with a considerable surplus,
will be collected before the first of the
new year.
Undergraduates at Harvard are Civ
ing to the fund, and one man who ex-
poets to enter in the class of 1924 has
sent subscription of $1,000 Among
the Harvard men just out of college is
Frederick NJ. Warburg, who was gradu-
ated last June. He has given $4,000
himself and he is one of the leaders of
the Crimson Squadron, his team hav-
ing collected more than $4,000 from
fifty men. Warburg served as lieu
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

chosen would choose the seventh men,
ber of the trial board. The teachers
salary would continue during the time
he was under suspension and until he
was found guilty by the trial board, if
that should be the outcome. Appeal
from the trial board would lie to the
courts and not to the State Commits
sioner Of Education.
Another change the Teachers Union
will ask is that a teacher can only be
suspended on a definite. charge, and
not on the all-covering "for cause" A
tentative list prepared of causes for
suspension includes gross insubordina-
tion, disloyalty and drunkenness. The
only admissible proof of disloyalty, in
the event of such a charge being
brought against teacher, would be
prior conviction in the courts on the
same charge.
1t is probable that the Teachers
Union will also ask for revision of
the salary law adopted by the last ses-
sion of the Legislature.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
9 More Gross
Continent in
Big Air Race
Continued from page 1

gives contestants ninety-six hours to
complete any necessary repairs.
vi the five eastbound contestants
who have completed the first half of
the fight, only Captain Lowell H. Smith
and Lieutenant R. S. Worthington have
expressed their willingness to race
back to San Frkncisco. The other
three, all flying De Haviland As. are ex-
tremely reluctant on the ground that
tnelr Liberty motors are not in fit con-
dltlon for the flight.
o an me CONTESTANTS finishing the first
;z''oO miles yesterday we're: East
pound Captain Lowell H. Smith, Lieu
tenant H. r. Queens, in DH-4's, and
Lieutenant Robert S. Worthington in
an SE5. Westbound-Captain n C.
Drayton, Lieutenant Alexander Pear
son in DH-4's, Captain J. o. Donaldson
IN an SE-5, Major Harry Smith and
Lieutenant L. S. Webst and Lieutenant
+. NJ Manzelman in DH-4.
Major J. c. 2. Bartholf, in an SEQ,
reached Binghamton. Both will com
plete the flight to-day. Five other
westbound fiers spent the night within
a days flight of San Francisco.
Two crashes occurred during the
day. Lieutenant D. H. Norris and his
! III !ilec"aHlc, II. D. Meyer, were slightly
injured when their DH-4 crashed into
a hillside while making a forced land
ing at Oconto, Nebraska. The machine
was flying westward from St. Paul,
Neb., to North Platte, when it ran into
a heavy fog.
Lieutenant Norris was able to
see only short distance ahead,
and IN an attempt to side
slip into a small cornfield the ma
chine plunged into the hill, narrowly
missing canyon. Both men suffered
injuries to their left arms, and the ma
chine was completely wrecked.
Lieutenant Thomas Haynes, flying a
DH-4. with Lieutenant Cleveland Nc
Dermott as observer, crashed his ma
chine into telegraph pole in landing
at Elmhurst, near Scranton, Penn The
machine was slightly damaged, but was
able to proceed to Binghamton later in
the day.
EastbOund Fliers Produce Thrills
AS on Saturday, the castbound fiers
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Sues Wife Because She Was
Ill When He Married Her

NEW CITY. N. Y, Oct. 13.-Alleging
that his wife, Jules. concealed from
him before they wed the fact that
she was in poor health, Melvin Sam
mons of Bullville, Orange County, has
just applied to the Supreme Court to
annul their marriage on the ground
of fraud.
They were married in Walden on
last Thanksgiving Day. The husband
alleges that his wife was afflicted with
on ailment of the lungs at the time,
but represented to him that she was
in good health.
The wife denies her husbands
charge, asserting that he knew that
her health was impaired before he
married her. Justice A. H. Seeger, of
Orange County, has allowed Mrs. Sam
mons temporary alimony until the tes-
tlmony can be submitted. The wife
has brought u countersuit for separa-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Saw Maynard Land

81 saw him land at Rawlins just af-
ter [ took off there" he said. "The
field was small. and | felt sure he
would have trouble in setting his DH-4
town there, so ! turned around in my
seat and watched him. He circled the
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

tenant of infantry. Other 1919 men
Who have subscribed are Bulkeley
Wells, John L. Lincoln, William Platt,
Henry Munroe, Carlton Perry Fuller,
Francis Whiting Hatch and Robert
McA. Lloyd. All have been in the ser
vice.
A teacher in Paterson, N j., who
hopes to send his sons to college, has
sent subscription of S.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Funeral of J. N. Wallace

The funeral of the late James N.
Wallace, president of the Central Trrs st
Company, will be held this morning at
1890 o'clock at Palisades, N. Y. Tho
service will be private. Interment will
be in the Piermont Cemetery at 2
o'clock. Mr.. Wallace died suddenly of
heart disease Friday at his country
home, in Palisades.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
$1O,OOO,OOO American Loan
For Australia Rumored

BRISBANE, Australia, Oct. 13.-Ref
erences to reported negotiation of q
loan of s2,OO0OoO (s1o,00O, ,00O) in
America for the State of Queensland
were made in the Legislative Assembly
here on Friday, but the State Treasurer
subsequently refused to either confirm
or deny the rumor.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Six Skeletons Are Found
In Trunk on City Dump

CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct 13-The
finding Of trunk. of the type used by
emigrants from southern Europe, con-
tanning six skeletons on which little
flesh remained, on city dump to-day
has mystified the authorities. All
haulers disavow knowledge of taking
the trunk there.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

~
About TO days ago +
a big department !:
store i'm this city (:
announced a sale of S
b o y $ corduroy P.
suits at 50. rs. (:
We bought one of (:
the suits. <
1t was made of COR p:
duroy, but such (:
corduroy. There B
was one pair of un-
lined trousers and B.
the coat was lined \;
with cotton albert.
We sell regularly in
our Boys Section
corduroy suits with
two pairs of lined
trousers at SO. IA. I
The coat is khaki
lined.
Ours are
quality suits
too
and the corduroy in
our better suits is
OF a quality which
prompts the manu-
faciurer to put his
name OH it. The
coat is. lined with
fine quality alpaca,
trOu sers lined
throughout. Price
SO. "a.
One day recently
a department man.
ager of another big
department 6 a III e
into the Boys Sec
ton and asked for b
a suit and an over
coat for his son. /
Both father (
and son {
pleased /
A suit and an over
coat TO please both
father and son we're
quickly produced
and the price tags b
more than pleased 3
the father.
s'You get a dis B
count, | believe, in (:
the store where you K
are employed,'' re- 5
marked our sales !. :.
man. ),
's1hai's all right {
was the reply. Il (
understand til at.
But ! get my boys !
clothing here just 4
the samc.''
The os,s,cer
is ploir,
Now if a man who
knows as much about
the stock IN his own
store as one OF the
= stores department
m a II gers must
know prefers TO
spend his money at
Macy's rather than
in his own store,
what's the answer
for the general run
Of folks?
It's too easy to call
for further eXplana-
ton.
BY the way the store
which advertised the
corduroy suits at 1913
also advertised boys
raincoats at S3.To and
referred to them as a
rare bargain.
We sell the identical
coats and our price has
never gone above S3.49
Just regular merchan-
disc.
N.NrT-s-Second Floor.