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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
SCHOOL POPULATION MOVES
 TOWARD SUBURBS AND TOWNS

Central increases from 1,456 to 1,57o. East Side Central increases from 2,512 to 2,72S. East Side South Central de- creases from 2,210 to 2,204. EastFSide Extreme increases from 3,S14 to S.9S0.
 In the Central West section, Wash ington school has shrunk so that even with two grades in a room, there are hardly enough pupils enough to pay to maintain the rooms. There are 290 pupils in the school and there are more than 100 vacant seats. Wash ington and Wheeler schools togeth CT under a single roof would maKe ono fair size school about the size of the Elias Howe school
 The school authorities are of the opinion that this decentralization of the school population will continue and that the demand on suburban schools will increase from year 70 year while the necessity for more room in the centers will diminish. This is a healtry condition which in the end will cheapen school operation.
 The population of Stratford, Fair field and Trumbull will be enriched. Already these communities are heav- lily drained for school accommoda- tions. In Stratford about 65 per cent. of all children are on the platoon plan. Stratford is compelled to use its schools intenseiyely. Fairfield is less overcrowded but needs moro room. Trumbull needs more room.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
WESLEYAN SEES
 92ND OPENING

Middletown, Sept. 23.-Wesleyan University opened it's 92nd year Thursday, with a student enrolment of more than $50. The freshmen class numbers about 150. The matri- culation address was delivered by Dr. Stephen H. Olin, acting president of Wesleyan, who is serving in the ab- sence of President William Arnold Shanklin.
 Dr. Olin advocated a more unified curriculum for college training. Plac- ing the department of the elective system of studies in college, he de- clared that individualism ran riot until the members of the same col lege class were no more fitted to act together than were the builders of Babel after the confusion oftongues.
 Our American democracy" he said,s "is a system whereby amateurs govern through experts. Every edu- cated man should be both expert and amateur expert in the business by which he lives and amateur in the things by which the public lives. The university with its professional schools can provide the experts. Only the college can train the amateurs
 Sidney Challenger. B. H. S. 20, former football and baseball bright light in high school circles, will not return to complete his course at Wes- leyan University, where he was expect ed to aid materially the Middletown College football team this season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
WORK CALLS; HIGH GRADE
 PUPILS FEW
But Registrations of First and Kindergar- ten Pupils Shows In crease.

From September, 1921, to Septem- Der, 1922, there was an actual shrink age in the number of seventh and
 The total dropped from 332S to 3090, "a decrease of 23S.
 Acting Superintendent Cortright doesn't know the cause of this short age. He believes, however, that the explanation is industrial, that boys and girls who can obtain jobs, where men and women cannot. have gone to this reason he suggests that a form tained which will enable these dis appearing upper grade pupils to re- turn when times improve.
 By the adoption of the platoon sys- tenn and shift in boundary lines tho time problem will be considera-
 bly, dininished, One problem Tn pemains to solved. The West End
 Is sending 21S freshmen, the East Side 235, the North End 101. The North End will be cared for at Shel- accommo odated at Kossuth high, but there is no building in the South or West End, where six rooms can be had for the February 1 freshmen in
 that section.
 MT. Cortright suggests that bound ary lines may be shifted into Maple
 wood district, so that 100 children can go to Washington school and 100
 VI
 he believes that six rooms could pc
 raised in the Map1ewood school. IT the normal school should be d1Scon- tinued February 1, more room could be utilized for freshmen students, but the faculty has been engaged for the school year and this remedy is i'm practicable.
 From the whole situation MT. Cort- right deduces that the board should make all possible haste with its plans for an East Side high school in order
 that the Congress building. may be abandoned in it's present intensive use and be available for East Side fresh- men. The construction of the new high school will immediately reheVe the tension in all parts of the city. Some relief for the part time con dition in Reed, Shelton and Madison schools is expected when the new | parochial school in St. Patr1cks par | ish is opened. This building will be ready some time after November :! There are 28 half-time rooms in this section.
 | The rCIeveland-Beardsley section has | 20 rooms on half time.
 There is a sudden enlargement III | the number of beginners. The Kim d derearten children increased from i 118O in 1921 to 1892 in 1922. Adding 1 the increase in beginners in the hrsl l grade after 1921, there is totals o1 | 362 This increase in beginners 1s | thought to be due to the smallpox scare of last year which without | doubt kept parents from senulns children to school last spring at East CT va ation time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23

Population has a. disconcerting way of appearing without previous notice in certain sections of our city,
 In this language Acting Superin- tendent B. B. Cortright begins his re- port to the Board of Education pro senting his study of the new registra- ton figures.
 These figures indicate a movement of population to the suburbs and from thes uburbs into the surburban towns,
 Said MT. Cortright: Additional proof of the vigorous shifts of popu- lation are at hand in the number of transfers granted by principles of ele- nentary schools. We have never had anything like this number hereto fore" There were transferred to other schoo!n within the city 1062, transferred outside of the city 331. " Il. this movement of people the North End has reason to be emi- nently satisfied. In September, 1913, there were 3.409 registrations. In September, 1922, there are S.SS2, which is the lead in growth.
 For convenience the city Is divided into seven registration districts, North End. West End beyond the viaduct. South Central, East Side Central, East Side South Central and Extreme East Side.
 West End drops from s,97S to 3,70s. West End beyond the viaduct in- creases from 1,31O 10 1850. South
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
FORMER B. H. s. STARS DEPART
 FOR COLLEGES

With the advent of Indian summer B. H. s. bids au revoir and bon voy- age to the last of it's graduates Wno are attending colleges throughout the country. Many of the students who received their secondary education within the fair portals of the Lyon Terrace school, incidentally leaving a lasting record in either athletics or scholastic standing.
 Members of last years class who are entering college this fall and are expected by their numerous rooters at home to carve a niche for them selves on the Hall of Fame, include many names whose mention will long serve to send a thrill up and down the loyal high school vertabrae
 Marty Ryan, former H. $. half back and baceball star, will resume his studies at Conn. Aggies.
 Johnny Lancaster, football 1umin- ary, will enter Syracuse with Charles Ryder, whose favorite pasttime while a student at the High school was fracturing track records.
 Ottor Saur, last years captain or football. and Marty Skane, track star, are entering Georgetown.
 Elliot Berkwitt, as great tackle as ever wore a red and black jedsey, will make the varsity football team at N. Y. U. for his second season.
 Joe Murphy, who will long Dc re- nernibered for his prowess as captain of the New England state champion his work for three years as center on the basketball team, is slated Tor a regular berth on Knute Rockne's No- tre Dame wonder team.
 These and many others whose ath- letic ability brought fame to the local High school are about to seek new worlds to conquer in the higher in stitutionS of learning.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS
 A NOVEL INSTITUTION

The general run of educational in- stltutlons are operated for the in struct1on of youth, who gIeans knoWI- edge through the efforts of those older and wiser folks, his teachers. Seldom does one hear of a, school which not only lnstructs the young, but develops WNh1n the same school the very in structorS who do the teaching
 Such an institution is an establish ed fact right here in Bridgeport,
 The State Trade School, whose in structors have taught hundreds of ooys their trades, and have success iully embarked these same boys upon useful and beneficial careers, are in many cases products of the school wherein they teach. That is to say. these instructors were members of special classes in the art of being a teacher. The Trade School system in Connecticut requires a teacher to be a man who has a practical know1- edge of the trade he intends to teach own trade. ---S
 However in many cases, although the prospective teacher may he a highly skilled practitian, it is possible mat he may know little or nothing of teaching what he knows to others Gt IS with the end in view of developing these master mechanics, draughts- men, or electricians. etc, into as TTanahy Tda all .., skilled lille teachers that the ieachers Training Course was estab- fisher at the Trade School
 Many Called; Few Chosen
 when the Teachers Training eSourse opens on October 16, Trade school officials expect half a. f,nn- ored applicants. representatives of many different trades. to enter their names names as poss1bl participants in the course: Of the 40 or 50 who will be subjected to a highly competitive ex- animation but 15 or 16 of the ami. cants rating highest will be chosen Inv the Trade School officials. Ihe 10 teachers are then mi l uhrough long and intensive co,Irst Tn teacher training. At the close nj | the course the successful students arl
 pldceo III one Of the numerous Trade | Schools throughout ConnecticI+ where they take up duties as insfr1c- | tors. As'i ue- Thus the Trade School instructs +be instructors who in turn instruct the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
B. H. 5. ATHLETIC STOCK
 TAKES SLUMP AS WHELAN
 SHIESANENT RETURNING
Crack Red and Black Star Still Undecided About Re-Entering High School In Face
 Of Other Offers

Athletic stock at B. H. s. for 1922 took a bound upward early this week when it was announced by members of the students body that Ray Whe- Ian, without doubt one of the greatest alEaround athletes who ever helped fill the trophy cases to overflowing, would re- enter the Hilltop school after deciding to cast his lot with a prominent prep school in the South.
 But, treading immediately upon the tail of this good news comes the report, contrarily, that Whelan still remains un- decided concerning his desire to return.
 Rays ability as a crack sprfnter is sufficient to gain him a sch olarship in many a great prep school. These ln- stftutions ever on the lookout TOT fit like a glove on one of those crack prep teams
 Whelan knows this fact and in face of such a situation he would be hop ping off the wrong side of the fence to re-enter the Lyon Terrace school.
 If Ray does not hear from some first class school soon he will prob ably join forces with his old school again, and jump into the breech, where, indeed, he will be welcome as coal in the cellar. Ray Whelan's advent into high school athletics will be just the flame that will send foot ball and basketball fireworks up where Mature intends them to soar.
 Whelan'S Record
 Whalen entered the school on the hill as a Freshman in mid-year of 1919 and immediately grabbed a berth on the basketball team, play ing a top notch brand of ball at for ward. He did not go out for baseball the following spring but in the fall he easily negotiated the football out fit after the first week of practice
 First Game Rca1Ied
 Ray crashed into the Hmelight in the very first game that year. In the memorable struggle with the New York University Freshmen he turned back the mighty New York aggrega- ton 19 to 8 single-handed, scoring all three touchdowns, tearing off a 50 yard run in the first period and an 80 yard run in the final quarter.
 Ee was a prime factor in all the battles But his playing in the final game of the season stood out more A conspicuously. Followers of the sRed and Black gridiron 1tonized the lad on this occasion, because B H. s. was playing against the toughest opposi-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
EVENING CLASSES AT
 BIS, RESUME OCT. 6

Night classes at the State Trade School, which attracts an increasing number of boys and young men who are engaged in the daytime in em- will resume operation on October 9th. Three nights a week from now un- til the opening will be devoted by the Trade School faculty to the enroll ment of the evening students.
 Owing to the apparent steadiness of the manufacturing situation and it's gradual improvement Director Her bert Hanson, of the Trade School, ex poets this years enrolment to ex- ceed that of past years by an appre ciable margin.
 The young man employed through out the daytime who is unable to e.ain course of his daily work, is quick to appreciate this opportunity which the evening classes offers him. He gives few hours each evening to practical teachers. Night instruction has proven popular with factory work CTS who are ambitious to get ahead in their trades.
 A Specific Example
 MT. Hanson in speaking of the value of the evening courses at the Trade School to the ambitious student, illustrated his point by reference to a case which came to his attention dur ing the night school classes of last winter. This case is indicative of the opportunities which await any man who enrolls in the Trade Schools.
 The specific case which MT. Han son had in mind dealt with a young man whose knowledge of carpentry gained him position with a prom inent contractor. Never having had much practical instruction in his trade beyond the experience picked up do- ing odd jobs around town. At that he was a pretty fair carpenter. He did whatever was required of him well enough to meet with the appro- val of his boss, and probably could have continued in a like capacity for many years.
 But one day the young carpenter ran afoul of a snag entirely unexpect- ". His boss detailed him on a stair building job. Right here on his first real problem, the young fellow found his Knowledge of his trade severely taxed. He turned to his more exper- concerning the proper way to proceed with the work. His partners were either too busy or too disinterested to need his questions. Non-plussed, the man who didn't know how to build a stairway, was forced to request a transfer to some other job while his stock in trade in his boss eyes slump ed to a low level.
 Now set back like this would dis courage many a man, but the carpen- ter made an analysis of his short com1ngs, resolving on improving his knowledge of his trade, particularly stair building. He entered the State Trade Schools evening classes which were at the time giving instruction to hundreds of boys, took special course in carpentry, and in an incred- 1bly short time was master of his trade, confident that he could erect spiral staircase to the moon, and able to command a materially in creased salary in his field of endeavor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
HOW PULLMAN CARS ARE NAMED

There is a legend which it is hard to down that Pullman cars are named by a member of the Pullman family for $5 piece This may have been the case in the early days, but not in our time. The Pullman Company has just made public some of the details of their system in the Pullman Bulle- tin. Sequence is the system. One name suggests another. Thus: Ruth and Naomi, Venus and Adonis. Dewey and Manila The first picker was biblical. Next came someone with classical thought. Helen and Paris ' Also Trojan, Ilion, Achilles. Hector, Ajax, Nestor. Ulysses and Penelope" Then come selections from Dickens's characters: KipEng and his works; Walter Scott's characters; Indian names; Ireland and it's counties; King Arthur and the Round Table Knights. To excite the palates of those who regret the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment there are the cars 'fBour- bon, Ryegate. Gordon, Manhattan, Mose1le Bergundy, Tokay, Yvette, Cohasset, Scotland and Bacchaite." Hope IS seen in the ''Wetmore," but ance."--Scientific American
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23

Grand Rapids, Nich., Sept. 2s-Ton, Modjeski, a puzzle to science. hasn't a movable joint in his body, hasn't moved a fraction of an inch on his cot for nine long years, has been an in- valid for two decades, and although facing a slow and horrible death, says he hasn't enough time to live to be unhappy.
 For Tony, who is forty-two. and one of the really few ossified men known to the medical world, is the perso nifcation of optimism. say at tendants at the hospital here, where he is a patient.
 When Tony was thirteen he told his father ,chiNs in his spinal region an- noyed him.
 At seventeen he was crippled and at tfirty-three he was placed upon a cot where he remains in the sslne position. year after year. Of 1ate his Jaws became joined, and a few days ago a dentist wa,s called to extract one of the patients teeth that he might bas fed by use of a tubs.
 Big league baseball and radio are
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
TIMES SCHOOL PAGE. TO BE REGULAR
 FEATURE

Starting with today's itsue of The Times and continuing every Saturday the School Page will be a regular feature. News concern ing activities in the public and pri- vate schools of Bridgeport, Strat- ford and Fairfield will be well comed. The columns of The Times School Page are open to teachers, students, and laymen alike. Ad- dress communications to the School Page Editor, Times, Bridge port.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
PLAN k BETTER
 MOVIE CAMPAIGN

Cleveland, Sept. 23-The frtt an nua1 International convention of the National Committee for Better Films wiM be held here October 6 and '. The meeting will be the first of it's kind to be held, it is said, and is part of a plan to form definite organiza- tions throughout the country to study motion picture problems in relation to censorship.
 The general sessions Of the conyen- tion will be devoted to a discussion of how to get exhibitors to show educa- tionaI films in their houses at popular prices.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23

TEACHER MAY0RESS;
 ELECTED BY PUPILS:

To Miss Hattie Pickles of Clark. S. D., belongs the honor of being the first lady school-teacher-ma may press in the United States. MISS Pickles has been district super1n- tendent of schools in her town TOT four terms, and claims to enjoy her superintendancy more than her chief executives chair.
 ssIt was the school children who caznpaigned for my election as mayoress. I am not politician and never will be, but I am pleased to serve my patrons, particularly the school children the teacher Inayoress announced.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
JAPANESE PEARLS NFERrop

Something approaching consterna. I1on swept the London market when it
 became known that the Japanese were producing what were declared one oyster a particle of mother-ofo pearl sewn up in she11-producing tis- sue taken from another oyster New ork Jewellers were not so readily driven into panic. and they now state that the unnatural stimulation induc- ed by the method results in a pearl of distinctly inferior quality; held to the light. the difference is readily
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
PARENTS FINED : WHEN CHILDREN
 ARE NOT EARLY
Which May Explain Why
 The Virgin Islands Have The Best Public School
 Attendance

Charlotte Amelie, St. Thomas " L. Sept 23-The Virgin Islands have the nearest to 100 per cent. attendance in the public schools of any state, terri tory or possession of the United States, according to comparative sta- tistics from Washington.
 The school year which has just opened probably will show as high a percentage of attendance as last year. which was fraction less than 99i per cent. It is not unusual for a school week after week.
 There is compulsory education for all children from six to 5 years of age. When a child is absent from school without proper excuse the par ents are fined 20 cents for each day of absence. Parents are fined 10 cents for every time a scholar is tardy. When sickness is reported the cause of absence, school nurses inves- tigate, and only on certificates from these nurses is the excuse of illness recognized. Simple treatment by the nurses frequently makes it possible for child to return to the class room.
 With this system of fine playing hockey" is practically unknown in Virgin Islands.
 When the United States by purchase acquired the Virgin Islands from Den mark in 1917, there was already a we'll established public school sys- tenn, and it is estimated there was less than five per cent illiteracy in ever, then extended only to the sixth grade. Since then the seventh and eighth grades have been established generally, and two junior high schools have been opened, with the junior year being offered this year for the first time. In another year it is plan ned to establish the fourth and the last year of high school study.
 Children in the Virgin islands are anxious to learn, according to School Director Nase, head of the insular system. and the collecting of fines for tardiness and absence does not yield more than $10 per month. This year there are 5 school teachers from the United States giving instructions in the island schools, while all of the other teachers are Virgin islanders.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
The Ossa District
 Is Still Starving

Ossa, Republic of Bashkir, Sept. g Grain is being eaten in this region by the hungry population even before it ripens, according to American Re- lief Administration inspectors.
 The Sarapool and Ossa districts were not officially declared within the famine areas until this spring, and since then the A. R. R. has establish ed many feeding stations in an eff fort to relieve the situation, Out of a population of 300, 900 in these dis trfcts. A. R. A. inspectors estimate that at the present time there is an average of a hundred deaths a day from starvation. Since last fall 1t is figured that 31,000 persons died from lack of food in these parts.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
NO SEAT IN SCHOOL
 FOR 216-POUND BOY

Little Rock, Ark, Sept. 23.-The regret of Walter Winkley at the open ing of school was turned to smiles to- day.
 Walter is 16 years old. He weighs 216 pounds. Superintendent of Schools Abbott tried to find the new pupil Q seat, but all were too small.
 Waiter was allowed to have a cou- pie more days of fishing and swim ming until special seat for him is cOInpleted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23

Caumartin."
 To conceive was to do. They ob- tained Alpine costumes, including the inevitable feather, bound themselves together with a thick rope, seized AL pine stocks, and proceeded to climb down into the "gorges."
 Amazed crowds gathered and, when they understood, hooted good natur- edly. Nothing daunted, the "Alpin- iSts'' continued to the very bottom, walked on the floor of the pit, and ascended triumphantly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-23
FRENCHMEN GO TO MUCH TROUBLE
 TO "KID" THE ROAD DEPARTMENT

Paris. Sept. 23-A Frenchman will do almost anything to dramatize a joke.
 Paris streets are being badly torn up this summer. Among other ex- cavations is one exceptionally deep on the Boulevard Haussnaan, at the corn CT of the Rue Caumartin.
 Two French Alpinists, who are 1n- cidentally newspaper writers con ceived the idea of going mountain climbing in this deep cleft, which they picturesuely dubbed ''the gorges of