Evening star., 1923-06-02

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The institution recently offered an
other. prize of great Importance
prize of 100000 for the best method
of character education, and the con
test was open to states, not individ-
uals.r The award has gone to the
state of Iowa, although the actual
money prize goes to the personnel of
the state collaborators. There were
twenty-six states that competed. each
one appointing nine collaboratoPs.
The committee in Iowa was headed
by Prof. Ed D. Starbuck of the Iowa
College, and he receives $4,000. while
the eight other collaborators each get
$4,000.
Dr. Ballou, superintendent OF
rectors of the Character Educational
Institution, and through it there is TO
be contest for the best character
educa ton methods for Junior high
schools. DR.. Baliou will appoint a
committee TO have the contest In
charge. and the method which Wits
will be adopted in the Washington
schools. .~
What is the Character Educational
Institution, and how is it managed
and supported?
Dr. Milton Fairchild IS we'll known
in educational circles and stands IL
highest respect for his. scholarship
and character. He has devoted years
| to research work and study in con-
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through education. He has had the
financial interest of DIR. Kellogg, re-
Gently deceased, who endowed the IN
stitution, and his endowment has oeen
very literally supplemented by the
! fortune of the late Mrs. Fairchild,
/ wife of the head Of the work. The
endowment amounts to S1,0O0,OOO now,
with a provision that only certain
| part of the income is available for
current use, the rest TO be accumula-
! tive until the endowment grows. in
| the course OF century or more, TO
| total of s300,o00,000.
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| The board of directors consists of
| the forty-eight state superintendents
of education, together with an exec
utive committee of nine men, headed
| by DR.. Fairchild. The other eight OF
| the executive committee are DR.. I'll
CERT, United States commissioner Of
| education; DR.. Ballou, superintendent
| of Washington schools: DR.. Davis:
/ principal of Business High School OF
! Washington; Secretary Crabtree OF
| the National Education Association,
Dean Ruetiger of George washington
/ University, Mrs. watkins of the Ma
| tional Mothers Council and Dr. Dodse
/ of the National Research Council EN.
! cepting DR.. Fairchild. the founder, all
| hold once on the board by virtue OF
! their public offices. and they are
! succeeded automatically on the board
| by their successors in the same puo-
lie Offices.
/ Statistics indicate that the potato
crop this season will be short one
neck per person. There used to be
! saving that every person eats peck
of dirt in his lifetime" This might
| be a good time to finish the job, II
! short of the peck of potatoes. some
folks should choose sand.
It may not have been the actual
fish which swallowed Jonah that was
| caught recently off the coast Of
Florida. and which is en- route to the
Smithsonian Institution, but it must
be a relative of the Jonah fish. AND
/ now il is almost fried. 1t was
| scorched in fire as it lay in Norfolk,
| va, last Thursday. Fortunately it
did not get away, and the experts are
| endeavoring to restore the fried parts
| Scientists have been unable to lden-
(; tify it, It is, therefore. nameless, but
it gives ground for a fish story that
| is a whopper. 1t is forty seven feet
long, weighs fifteen tons and its
stomach contained a 4o0-pound oc-
4 topus, 1900 pounds of blackfish and
| 500 pounds of coral rock. Imaginez
Jonah, though he might have been
| a 2O0-pound man: Would such a.
| monster have any difficulty in swal-
lowing him?
Huge deep-sea monsters sometimes
| float to the surface, being unable to
sink again, if they ever rise beyond
a certain depth. Scientists only know
that there are in the great depths
| monsters which are, beyond the reach
of man. 1t may be that after this
great fish, is mounted in the Smith
sonian Institution, where it can be
studied, it will be identified. In the
meanwhile the skeptics may take this
FISH as the possible sequel to the
whole Jonah story go
Copyright, 1928. by P. Y. Collins,1