Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02

celluIose film in any way without
! a license, nor may any persons or
| concerns deal with another without
| ascertaining that the latter is licensed.
Could Trace Film Origin.
| '1nasmuch as the real sources are
and must be comparatively limited in
extent" said the report, lit will be
seen how supervision of the traffic
and detection and prevention of vio-
| lation are facilitated by these regula-
! tons From the books of very
| few concerns one could readily run
| down the location of practically all
| the inf1ammable film i'll the country
| at given time.
'Opposition may be expected from
small group of fire fighters who in
sist that the only remedy is the COM
plete abandonment of nitro cellulose
and the substitution of acetate as a
film base. Some theatrical exhibitors
have a hostile or a suspicious at
titude toward anything that may
promote the non-theatrical use of
film. There is no little opposition
from unionized motion picture opera
tors, doubtless because Of fear of
some loss of employment"
Simpler Arithmetic Urged.
Omission from the arithmetic work
of the grade schools of twenty-one
processes, which it regards as use
| less, was recommended in prelimi-
nary report of the committee on reor-
ganiZation of arithmetic and pre-
scented by DR.. Guy M. Wilson of the
Boston University School of Eudca-
ton. They are: Apothecaries' weight,
partial payments, proportion, Troy
weight, greatest common divisor and
least common multiple beyond the
power of inspection; long, confusing
problems in common fractions, COM
pick and compound fractions, reduc
lions in denominate numbers, table
of folding paper, surveyors tables,
tables of foreign money, compound
number, addition, subtraction, multi
plication and division, longitude and
time, cases two and three in per,
centage, compound interest, annual
interest, exchange, both domestic and
foreign; true discount, partnership
with time, ratio beyond the ability
of fractions to satisfy, most OIL
mensuration (thetrapezoid, trapezlum,
polygons, frustum, sphere), cuoe root
and the metric system.
"There is considerable evidence that
arithmetic, notwithstandlns many
scientific studies and recommends
tions to the contrary. is Sun givr ,h
jects," said the report, and by tax
ing excessive time in the schools Is
preventing the accomplishment or the
larger and more vitaf citizenship aims
of education which are now pelns
urged. The committee, in it's preliml-
nary report, however, does not at
tempt to reach conclusions. 1t re-
jects the old formal discipline doc-
trine. which has been used so often
to support the teaching of useless
nrocesses in the schools, and definite
" accepts the standard or social utll-
ity. On this basis it raises ten cru
ciaI problems and asks the co-opera-
ton of the teaching profession In
their solution"
English Report Submitted.
]. w. Searson, professor of Eng
lish at the University OF Nebraska,
chairman of the committee on prob
lens of English teaching, submitted
tentative report to the general as
sembly outlining activities OF the
committee during the past year. The
| said, was to collect vast amount of
material from every field of English
teaching, which has been CLASSIFIED in
the form which will be of especial
help to all teachers.
The committee on the classification
of educational material in a report
| submitted by Thomas H. Briggs Of
the Teachers, College Of Columbia
that the N. E. A undertake on it's
own initiative the monthly publica-
| ton of index cards of current educa-
tional materials in books. magazines
| the Library of Congress has for gem
| eral literature.
Dictionary of Terms.
The committee on educational
nomenclature. through it's chairman,
John w. Withers, dean of the School
of Education of New York University
reported that 1t has spent the past
year in defining its policy and plan
Of work. The responsibility of MAX
ing a complete dictionary of educa-
tional terms. the report pointed out
would not be assumed by the COM
mittee because of the lack Of time
and means
Other reports were submitted to the
general assembly for the committee
on thrift problems by Arthur H.
Chamberlain, secretary of the Cali
fornia State Teachers Association,
and for the committee on social
studies by Ida Lee Pail, principal of
the MARYLAND State Normal School OF
Tovson, Md.
Delegates to tn eonxentiaA Apent