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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Diplomas Awarded
B. T. S. Graduates

Seventeen diplomas, signed by
Governor Lake and Secretary Warner,
were presented this week to State
Trade school stud ents who graduated
during the month of March. Diplomas
are awarded the men upon compile
ton of $500 hours of actual work in
the shop and classroom, and indicate
that the possessor has finished his
apprenticeship.
The graduates are then ready to
enter local factories as Skilled work.
ers, the majority obtaining employ
ment at their newly acquired trades
as automobile mcha MICS, machinists.
carpenters. etc Immediately upor. re-
recommendation OF the Trade School fac
ulty which co-operates with the
Manufacturers association in placing
the men.
+ Service Men
Several of the students completing
their courses are ex-service men,
working under the direction of the
Federal Board of Vocational Train
ing. They have readily obtained en-
ployment in spite of the poor business
conditions One of the Federal
trainees recently graduated from the
Roberts entered the school two years
ago fresh from the army, with no ex-
perience beyond a little knowledge
Of cabinet work. But he was gifted
with an eye for form, and decided to
specialize in automobile body design.
He received special instruction from
members of the faculty and COM
pleted his course in record time. He
now has a placement training position
in the body-drafting department of
the Locomobile company.
Leo Norcross is another product of
the State Trade school, a Federal
trainee with no previous experience
in any trade, who became a finished
mechanical craftsmen in Is months.
He is employed at the LocomobiIe
company.
Another illustration OF the efficiency
of the local Trade School lies In the
story Of Dominick Toscano, who was
born in Italy and had no education
in the English tongue and very little
in his own. Toscano's liability in
CURED while in the service gained him
a Federal Bureau placement at the
Trade School. There he feared to
read and write English under the spe-
cial attention of his instructors. He
mastered the trade of lathe hand in
an incredibly. short time, and is Civ
ing satisfac tion to his employers.
Others receiving diplomas were
William Novey. Lewis Deer, Irving
Deer. Raymond Gottchalk. Steven
vescey, Alexander Simon, Harold
OIah, George Madar. Michael Farkas,
John Tfmko, Frank Caruso, Joseph
Cerruti, Albert Petrasci. Nicholas VII
lano, Ralph Streeter,
In the dressmaking department.
Misses Maria Fassenella and Helen
CaStelnfck.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

The School in a Cow Pasture" is
what the little portable school build
ing in the Sylvan avenue or Boards
ley Park Terrace district of this city
has been aptly named. Erected on a
piece of bare ground, this building
houses many of the children Of the
Sylvan district. Here they are taught
their A B. c.. IS. amidst conditions
that would undermine the health of
a microbe.
water Impure
If the children want a drink of
water they are obliged to go outsid e
the building in all kinds tof weather to
a pump of the plain or barnyard var
iety. Bad enough.
But DIR. Carr of the Health depart
ment states that without doubt the
water the children are daily drinking
by the nearness of the well to the out
problems which demands immediate
solution, that solution being the
prompt erection of new and perma-
nent school buildings.
Health department officials claim
that the floor Of these portables is
laid too close to the ground; that the
dampness comes through and is con-
slant menace to childrens physical
well-being. The Sylvan school has
none of the modern ventilating sys-
TENS, and steam heat is unh card of.
The rooms are ventilated by = means
of the open window, and in nidwin-
ter the draughts blow across the
desks that are calculated to make an
Eskimo shtver. In place of the reli-
able heating system in vogue in any
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
ChiLds Career Determined
Blu Experts In Ulster PLnnl
Parents Allowed No Voice in Choice of Avocation
for Observation-Disclosures Training Compul-
sory but Outside School.

thought would do most good to the
nation, rather than to allow the man
to select his own branch or the ser
vice. 1t worked rather well during
We intend to say to the children
after they have gone through the
secondary schools:
The government IS paying for
poets you to render full value to your
self and your community. So we
shall direct your future studies or
else pay your own way in some pri-
vate school,
This is likely to cause some trou-
BILE, but it is to be our big policy.
James may think he would make a
good doctor. and the selection board
may come to the conclusion that he
would serve the country best in Par
in the matter if the state IS going
to pay for his education. Mary may
think she could teach music when
she would make a better nurse. John
might plan on being a lawyer when
his bent was as a factory manager.
The state is to be responsible for its
subjects, and the state is going to
try to keep round pegs in round
holes.
"Only the working out Of the ex-
pertinent will prove the wisdom of
the decision. but i ID going to be
tried out, and we think we are going
TO make a success Oh St- Ii study OF
human nature and experience viii
enable a solution OF the problem of
insists in business and public life
you may depend on it that the state
will do it's part under the new edu-
cational system"
49, Study Is Main Demand.
Major Stanley, who has worked
wonders in the College of Technology,
who Is closer to the common people
than most instructors because prac-
tically all his pupils come from the
homes of workingmen. in comment
ing on the proposed system, said:
The primary schools. in almost
every instance, have been built by the
various churches. and 1t is not likely
that they will want to give up these
schools to democratic control. The
really big factor in our college is that
there is no religious instruction and
no religious test put on the pupil.
All we ask of the pupil is that he at
tend the classes and study. When he
has done that he has become prof.
cient, and the employers ask no
further reference than our degree or
crtffcate for a part time student
Most of our students when they
come to us are from the mills and
factories to>which they have gone to
necessary to make them capable of
real use in a mill. But once they
come here their progress is sure and
certainly productive to the COM
munity, the employer and to the stu
dent. We can trace the careers of
many of our boys and girls to posi-
tions of commanding influence in the
never has been a student, who has not
been able to earn more wages after
we got through with him or her in our
school
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Injury To Schools
Weakens Moral Fibre,
Says N. Y. Educator

1.-THE schools do not belong to the
city," says Frank P. Graves. State
Commissioner of Education in New
York, land should not be considered
among its municipal expenditures. If
schools are to be classified in the gen.
eral city budget they will invariably
get the short end Of it.
"It is an educationa1ly sound prin-
ctple that school authorities should
have the specific right to determine,
within reasonable limits, the amount
of funds they need, and to certify the
same for levy without interference, if
we are TO be true to the principles
for which America stands. The peo-
pie of the state as a whole are SUI
lpreme, since the whole state is inter
ested in the education Of its children,
and 1t cannot leave so important a
matter to the whims of any COM
munity.
Wealzens Moral Fibre.
Schools are in a different category
from all other community interests,
for they alone deal with the future,
rather than merely with the present,
and they constitute the agency par ex-
cellence that seeks for an uplift of ex-
listing conditions. Damage or neglect
Of other city departments may be
atoned for later. but Injury inflicted
upon education irreparably weakens
moral fibre and debases intellectual
life throughout a generation"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

81. Penelope. wife of Ulysses. in
Greek mythology and in Homer,s
odyssey"
3s. Pandora, wife of Epimetheus.
in Greek mythology.
80. Pamela. in Richardson's
Pamela"
40. Paristna. IN Byron's "Parisina."
Al. Peacham, Polly, in Gays 1.-THE
Beggar's Opera
AZ. Roxana. wife of Alexander the
Great.
43. Sedley. Amelia. wife of George
Osborne in Vanity Fair"
A. Shandy. Mrs, mother of Iris
tram in Sterne's '"Tristram Shandy"
IS Sharp. Becky. wife of Rawdon
CrawIey, in Vanity Fair. sss
As. Theodore. wife of Emperor JUS
tinian. -.
At. Titania. wife of oberon, in
Ehakespeare's Midsummer Nights
Dream" -.
4s. Yseult. or Isolde. wife of King
Mark of Cornwall. and lover of Trfsz
tram. in medieval romances. and in
'Idylls.''
40. Zobeide. wife of the caliplls
Haroun Ell Raschfd.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
SERVICES AT SAINT MARKS
MISSION

The special feature which wlie
mark the services at ST. Marks Mis-
sion which meets each Sunday after
noon in the Chapel OF Trinity church,
Broad and Fairfield Ave, will be the
first appearance of the boy choir. Fog
several weeks A1onzo Hunter. choir-
master of St Luke's church, New Has
ven, has been training a number OF
boys of the mission. -
Curtis Salisbury, tenor Of New Ha-
ven will sing the solo. Mrs. Charles
Ross who is the organist OF the mis-
sion will preside at the organ Sun.
day afternoon and play the Prelude
and Postlude as weN a. accompany the
choir.
The musical progam will be as fo1-
lows: l. Professional Hymn, ITO; 2s
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Buns
nett: 8. Vesper hymn, 364; 4. Easter
Solo, Mr.. Curtis Salisbury; 8. Sermon
Hymn, 1T; 6. Offertory Anthem.
"Al1 Hail Dear Conqueror," BY Thorn
as Adams; Z. occasional Hymn, 467e
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

portables throughout the city, and
these are the conditions which the
Board of Education is striving to era
dictate. Handicapped for eight years
by lack of funds and the disinterest-
edness of the city fathers, in the
threatened over-crowding of schools,
the Board Of Education can almost
see its way clear to go ahead. With
the support of every citizen and city
official in Bridgeport, they will re-
place the school in a COW PASTURE
with a modern, well heated and venti-
lated school house, surrounded by
acres of Fairgrounds. Let's give the
kids a square deal.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
IN The SCHOOLS OF BRIDGEPORT
Serbian Soldiers
Attack u. S. School

Montenegro, April 20. Attacking
the American Industrial School at
Danielograd at midnight Serb and
teachers and $50 children into a pam
ic and carried off ~, 900 francs. The
leader of the band held up the teach
ers and watchmen with carbine
while his accomplices ransacked the
school. The bandits then fled to the
mountain with their booty.
The whole country side was comb
ed by searching parties composed of
detachments of the Montenegrin
army. The bandit leader was thought
to he discharged instructor of the
school who had been ousted for
SPREADING revolutionary doctrines.
The jugl3-SlaVian government reim-
buraed the American Red Cross for
the robbery and expressed regret at
the occurrence.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Miss Lillis Succeeds
Miss Mabel Goldman

Miss Josephine Lillis has been ap-
pointed by the Board OF Charities to
succeed Mrs. Mabel c. Goldman, who
resigned yesterday as supervisor of
the social service work of the Chart
ties department. Mrs. Godman,s
resignation will take effect June Is.
Miss Lillis is trained nurse and has
been employed by the department for
the past seven years
charge of the medical social service
work.
Mrs. Goldman was the first woman
employe of the department and has
been employed in the capacity of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

There will be no round pegs in
square holes when the Ulster MINIS
try of Education has had time to func-
ton along certain new and drastic
lines, according to William Edward
Cope. who has recently returned from
Ireland. These plans, which include
several startling Innovations in mod
ern educational methods, were dis
closed to Mr.. Cope by Lord London
derry, Ulster Minister of Education,
and are sponsored by some of the
most experienced educators and
Iaymen in Ireland.
Career Alone Counts.
In the new system the parents are
to have no voice in the choice Of an
avocation for the child, after he has
completed the primary and secon-
dairy grades. which are compulsory.
Experts will determine what work the
child is best fitted for. Fond mothers
and doting fathers will not be pri-
vi1edged to start little Joey out in life
as a floorwalker, when his talents
painting. A special inspection board
appointed by the State will take little
Mary in early youth, and devSlOpe her
into a wonderful cook, in spite of her
parents desire that she adopt the
study of political economy.
Local authorities will have no pow
or to alter study courses without
government sanction. Nor will there
schools. Such training is, however,
compulsory, but must take place en-
tfreiy in the churches and Sunday
schools.
Another feature of the Ulster pro-
RraInme and one hitherto unheard
OF In European and American schools,
VIII be the compulsory education by
tho State of all children until the COM
pIetion of the secondary grade, which
corresponds to our High school
colrse.
Although the new system has the
support of many of Ireland's leaders
in educational movements. no one ex-
poets the programme to be adopted
by the people with a wild cheer 1t is
expected that the new plans will work
wonders. and in the course of time
there will develope a race of super
intelligents.' Although opinions differ
in Ireland, the thought is unanimous
ly needed.
The Minister of Education says of
the programme
Under our plan, the state will
maintain a greater right to the con-
troll of education than ever before.
We do not want and shall not have
religious training in the schools, but
religious training and enforce their
attendance, just as we shall compel
them to attend the regular school
- courses, for we believe that religious
training is essential to good citizen
ship. But that training must be done
in and by the churches.
Must Train Producers.
"Ulster-and the world. for that
matter-needS men trained pro-
ducers and distributors England's
army officers selection boards taught
us great lesson when they fitted
the officer into the billet they
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

twelv
be published representing
ever day.
O eoft nine
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WORDS and must be written
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The contest be judged all
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Lauralton Hall
Alu1nnaeHOlds
Big Reunion

Guests from all over the state where
ever Chapters of the 1auralton Hall
Alumnae association have been bocats
ed. thronged to the dance given by
the Bridgeport chapter last evening
at the Farm. Splendid music by d
special orchestra added to the exhil-
Grafton of the event.
Tho committee in charge OF arr
engagements was composed of: Miss
Lucy MCGEE, president of the Alum-
nae Association, Miss Natalie Greens
wood, Miss Jeanette O'Brieu, Miss
Marion Rourke, Miss Rosemary Me-
Elroy, Miss Anna Mulligan. Miss
Resale Davis, Miss Minifred Maher
and Miss Mary Connors
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

More than so per cent. of the stu
dents at Yale earned either the whole
year. The average expense was 81 $50.
The other so percent. earned their
way by writing-home to dad.
Anti-high school agitators up Dan
bury way recently received a harsh
shock to their dignity and prestige.
1t would seem that these Inisinform-
ed folks figured that the opening of
the new Hawley school In Newtown
would relieve the congestion in Dan
bury. Strange to relate. but one
Newtown student is enrolled in the
Danbury schools.
Since the Board of Education pro-
posed purchasing the Star Shirt fac
tory for a High school, that body has
been besieged with suggestions con-
corning buildings about town which
might easily be "turned into a won
derful High school at small cost
Some of 'em:
The Liberty Building.
The Bridgeport Warehouse Build
ing.
The Ice House.
The Government Apartments on
Connecticut avenue.
The Government Apartments in
Black Rock.
The Casino.
The Government Apartments at
Old Mill Green.
Another child caught a bad cold
otu in Fairfield, SO the Washington
school has been closed pending in
veStigation and fumigation.
School calendars of three colors
have been adopted in some Western
public schools. Red denotes holi-
days; green denotes pay days, and
blue, ordinary days.
Problem: Which color is most pop
ular with students? With teachers?
Sixty subjects offered in the Bridge
port High school are enough to &C.
cupy a student IL years, If he took
four different subjects a year. Figure
it out for yourself.
Jesse r. Davis director of Second
airy Education in Connecticut en-
ightenS us. He says Connecticut
High schools rank 25th in number OF
pupils per thousand in population
with ia. California takes first place
with % and Kansas second with 26.5.
Numerous Prep. schools in the Nut
meg state.
Upon the advice of the Milford
health officer the Devon and Milford
schools will remain closed to all UNI
vaccinated teachers and pupils. This
practice. worked satisfactorily in
1 yea sep ike citv like suburb. -. ..
Alderman Gene Keny's wisdom
isn't all in his teeth. He gave i'm
petus to a Worthwhile movement in
seeking to know If there was any
truth in the rumor that Bridgeport
needs new High school. Now every
body's doing it.
While o. Wyman UT is boning
base hits for Harvard. L: c. Rich
ardson, a Bridgeport boy and B. H :
alumnus, is on the honor roll at
Connecticut Agricultural College.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
P WHITWEII
At Forum. Sunday Evening.

Mr.. P Whitwell Wilson. a British
Journalist of wide renown, will ad-
dress the Bridgeport Community For
nm at the United church ON Sunday
evening at 1880 o'clock. Mis- sub
ject is to be Lord Allenby and
Tevpt" While still a young man,
Mr. Wilson succeeded as parliament
tary correspondent. one of the ableSt
and most experienced writers then
serving He has written for a num-
Der of leading American magazines
and newspapers. among them, the
New York Times.
As Sunday is st. Georges Sunday.
the Sons and Daughters of st. George
will attend the Forum in a body. as
sembIing at their hall on Stafford
avenue and marching over to the
church. The British Great War Vet
Grams have been invited to attend in
uniform as SPECIAL marx OF nonor
70 the speaker Clan Campbell and
the Scottish Historical Society have
also been invited.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
SOUND BEACH WOMAN
SECURES DIVORCE DECREE

Ella Bell Binney. postmistress at
Sound Beach, appeared before Judge
John E. Kee1er yesterday and OBJ
tanned decree Of divorce from Fred
married March 8, 1903, at Pelham,
N. Y. She claims that she has not
seen her husband since May 20.
1918, when he entered the Y. NJ. C. A
work. After being associated with
the Y. NJ. c. A. for a short time he
wrote her a letter telling her he had
met other persons, and never wanted
to see his wife and children again
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
OBITUARY
Van Wyck Crosher.

From a shock received upon learn
ing of the death of his brother, Joseph
Crosher of this city, Van Wyck
Crosher, died Thursday at his home,
In Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was as
ISOLATED with his brother in the whole
sale meat business on Water street
for number of years and was well
known in this city.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
DANBURY MAN DIVORCED.

William W. Clark, Danbury, ap-
peared yesterday before Judge Isaac
Wolfe and was granted a divorce up
on the grounds of desertion. He gave
the date of the wedding as October
J, 1913.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

visitor for the past nine years She
will takeSa position with the Catholic
Charities Bureau as an assist ant to
Miss Victoria Larmour. She is a
member of the Council of Social
Agencies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Myrtle Abbott.

Rev. George Fort officiated at the
funeral of Mrs. Myrtle Abbott, widow
of DIR. L. w. Abbott, which was held
yesterday afternoon from her late
home, S57 Noble avenue. Interment
was made in Lakeview cemetery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Mrs. Elizabeth Freibott.

The many friends of Mrs Elizabeth
Freibott will be grieved TO learn of
her death which occurred at an early
hour this morning. She is survived
by two sons, George and William
E'reibott and one daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Freibott, also eight grand
children The funeral will be held
from her home, No. 81 Center street,
on Tuesday morning at $3.50 and from
St. Joseph's r. c. church at O'Clock.
Burial at the convenience OF the
family.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Private Frank Raven Snyder.

Full military honors were accorded
Private Frank Raven Snyder, whose
funeral was held this afternoon at 2
o'clock from the home of his brother,
Leonard Snyder, So Bassick avenue
where Rev. Donald B. MacQueen of
the First Baptist church oficiated.
The funeral procession to the grave
In Mt. Grove cemetery was led by the
Coast Artillery band. Delegations
were present from Harry w. Cong
don post, American Legion of this
city, George Alfred Smith post Amer
lean Legion and Raymond W. Harris
post, Veterans of Foreign Wars
Private Snyder was killed in action
overseas on June 2Sth, 1918, while
attached to the 103rd Infantry.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
John w. Combs.

Many friends and relatives attend
ed the funeral of John w. Combs
which was held yesterday afternoon
from the mortuary chapel of AuguA
G. Baker, 1883 Stratford avenue at
1850. The service was read by Rev.
T. F. Rutledge of the Park Street
congregational church. Interment
was made in Lakeview cemetery
The pallbearers were Harry Guckert,
Clayton Lathrop, Roger Morehouse,
and John Delger.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
Who Is This Foolish Wife?

It's not too late to join The Times
Foolish Wives contest that started
yesterday. get a copy of yesterdays
Times, and you can easily catch up
with the rest of the contestants. On
Monday two pictures will appear. Be
sure you get your paper early. II
you are not familiar with all the
rules and details of the contest, you
will find them below.
Thinking the time appropriate, with
the coming showing the week Of
April 80 at Poli's theatre OF the Carl
LaemmIe picture, "Foolish Wives"
the Times will conduct a contest.
SIS IN PRIZES.
First prize .....-....-.-... S2O
second prize 80 - 90
Ten prizes of a pair of tickets TO
the motion picture, Foolish
Wives" $40
IOudl w
Who were the twelve most ool-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22
HY-LIGHTS

More than so per cent. of the stu
dents at Yale earned either the whole
or part of their college expenses last
year. The average expense was 81 $50.
The other so percent. earned their
way by wrtting-hOme to dad.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-22

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