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Evening star., 1926-02-21
SUPERVISORS OF NATURE
STUDY HOLD Meeting
Speakers Discuss Question From
Standpoint Of Individual
Experience.

The National Council Of Supervisors
of Nature Study and Gardening held
its annual meeting yesterday in as
sembly hall of the Red Cross Building
At the morning session, J. A. Hol-
linger, director of nature study, Pitts
burgh. considered the advantages and
disadvantages OF limiting the course of
nature study to one large unit for
each grade in the elementary schools
He was followed by Charles w. Fin
ley. Lincoln School, New York City;
Emile Yunker. Louisville. KY; Supt
Jesse L, Smith, Highland Park, ILL.,;
Clarence NJ. Weed, State Normal
School, Lowell, Mass, and Sarah E.
Griswold, director of nature study.
Colorado Springs, Colo. Each consid-
cred the question of nature study from
the standpoint of individual experience
and study.
The afternoon session opened with
an election of officers and was fol
lowed by speakers. among whom was
+. Lawrence Palmer, American Ma
ture Association, of this city, who
considered what proportion of the
time should be given to the teaching
method.
Mrs. T. w. Adams of Kansas City,
director of the National Wild Flower
Preservation Society, made a short ad-
dress In which she stressed the ad-
vantage OF teaching preservation of
native nora in nature study work. Her
talk was illustrated by posters, cards
and outlines to be used to arouse the
interest of pupils.
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C0RC0RAN TO BE OPEN
FOR EDUCATORS Benefit
Douglas Volk Portrait of Lincoln
Placed on View Especially for
Occasion of Convention.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art will be
open not only this afternoon, but to-
morrow forenoon and evening as well,
for the benefit of the superintendent
OF schools and others attending the
educational convention.
Especially for this occasion Douglas
Nolk's great portrait of Lincoln, en-
titled with Malice Toward None, :"
has been placed on view. This por
trait. which has been approved both
by artists and historians, is to be
circulated throughout the United
States by the American Federation OF
Arts primarily for the benefit of
school children
AS a boy Douglas Volk sat on Lin.
coins knee when his father. Leonard
Volk. was making his portrait bust.
1t was Mr.. Volk's father who made
the well known life mask of Lincoln.
The portrait is the result of years
of study and work. 1t represents Lin
coin in a contemplative mood. Both
as likeness and as a spiritual inter
pretation of character and personal
!ty it has been pronounced admirable
1t has the approval of Robert Lincoln,
son of the martyred President.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art will be
open this afternoon from 100 to 4:3O:
tomorrow from 10 am. to pm. and
from s to 1870 pm. The evening
opening is especially for delegates to
the \. +. A. convention.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
PLAN TO ENTERTAIN
HOOSIER DELEGATES
Indiana Society and Alumni As
sociation to Give Get-To-
gether Dinner.

The Indiana State Society and
Washington Alumni Association of
Indiana University will give a get
together dinner at the New Willard
Tuesday evening in honor Of Hoosier
delegates and visitors attending the
National Education Association meet
Ing.
At the Natona Education Asso-
citation meeting each year the Indiana
dinner has become a regular feature.
and is one of the two college dinners.
the other being attended by Columbia
University alumni. Indiana Univer-
sity has contributed many leading edu-
Gators and counts 35 college and uni
versity executives and presidents as
drawn from It's graduates.
Invitations have been accepted by
Postmaster General New. Everett
Sanders, secretary to the President:
John H. Edwards. Assistant Secre-
tary of Interior: the entire Indiana
congressional delegation and other
Indianians in public life. Among the
visitors will be David Starr Jordan,
president emeritus of Leland Stan
ford; Chancellor Ernest J. Lindley
of Kansas University, President
Frank Aydellotte of Swarthmore Col
lege. Jesses II. Newton of Denver,
past president Of the National Edu-
Evening star., 1926-02-21
PRIMARY TEACHERS
TO MEET TUESDAY
Special Session Arranged for Kin
dergarten and Early Grade
Instructors.

A large attendance Of Kindergarten
primary supervisors and training
teachers is expected for the Depart
ment of Superintendence convention.
and a special session for this group
has been arranged by the Council of
Supervisors and Training Teachers
of the International kindergarten
Union and the National Council of
Primary Education at the MayfIower
Hotel Tuesday afternoon.
The general topic will be Admin
istration in Relation to Kindergarten
Primary Problems" and the speakers
are Prof. w. ". Charters, University
of Chicago, on curriculum Making
SUpt. Zenos Scott. Springfield, Mass
on SPECIFIC i'roplems or the super
intendent"; Miss Julia Hahn. super
visor of kinderCart en- primary grades.
San Francisco, on The Supervisor
and the Teacher; Dean +. II. Kelly
University of Minnesota. on .'Founda-
tional Values of Pri-
mary Education"
kindergarten-prima supervisors
and others engaged in administrative
work in connection with the early
grades are invited to a breakfast at
the Hotel La Fayette Tuesday and a
luncheon at the Mayflower Wednes-
day for both of which reservations
should be made before hand at the
Washington Auditorium, it was an
nounced.
Evening star., 1926-02-21

Nentlon. This yearbook is the result
OF the cooperation of over 300 school,
systems scattered throughout the
United States. all Of which are al
work revising their courses of study.
The forewcrd Of the Fourth Year
Book states: Every superintendent
of schools is faced with the problem
of securing Il suitable curriculum for
his local school system. Curriculum
making is the central sproblem of the
teaching profession. All that is done
IN q school system rddiateS from this
difficult and complex problem or con
tributes 10 its solution"
This report recognizes that the eX-
isting courses Of study IN the publ"
schools must be largely remade If the
school * 10 do its part in the de
velopment of good citizens. Hun
dreds of school systems frankly have
admitted that substantial reviSionS OF
present courses of study must be
made, and have launched programs
OF curriculum revision.
Problem Of Curriculum.
Discussing this work now III prog
ress Throughout the United States the
fourth yearbook states: The wealth
of curriculum material developing ia
many local school system made it pos
~lble for the committees. made up for
of schools. to select outstanding
material and 10 submit reports that
are rich in suggestions and informa
ton"
The commission on the curriculum.
under whose direction the fourth wear
book was prepared, goes on 10 state
the adoption of ready-made curri
culum By a school system is not the
policy advocated. The school systems
or this country must realize that n
curriculum must At the local environ
ment, and TO this must be cOnstruC-
lively adapted to the materials avail
able for teaching in each school sys
tenn. Furthermore. a ready made cur
rlculum would have to be made Owe,
soon after adoption in order to bring
II up to date. The commission on the
curriculum Of the department OF
Superintendence believes il would be
fundamental mistake TO offer to it,
members ready-made curriculum
What the department of superin-
tendence has undertaken TO do
through its commission on the cur
riculum is to stimulate cooperative
effect in a vigorous attack on the
problems of curriculum construction
in every school system of the United
States"
Evening star., 1926-02-21

establish practices of making real
contacts between the school and the
fields of public and private need
Mr.. Wright leveled n lengthy at
tack at the threat of intellectual i'm
perialism by certain colleges" en-
phasizing the 'selective admission"
feature. IF I catch the drift of what
the term 'selective admission means"
he declared, at means this: Since
there are more students who want to
enter certain colleges than these col
leges can admit, the colleges will ar
range to give an intelligence test to
all applicants and then admit the
brightest ones"
''If the college," he continued,
owned no duty save to the intellec-
tual. and If education were merely a
matter of training the intellect, and
If the purpose Of college were mere
ly to turn out hiEhbrowed intellec-
tuals, and If a sufficient correlation
existed between intelligence test
scores and college work, then there
might be some argument for Sc
lective admission on the basis of in
telligence test scores.
IF the colleges are going to accept
only the most intellectual why not
follow the same procedure in the high
school. and then why not follow 1t on
down to the grammar school and the
primary grades?"
Evening star., 1926-02-21
SURPLUS DECLARED
AMONG TEACHERS
Excess of ''Competent Tim
Der" Reported Growing
Throughout U. S.

Teaching is a profession of grow
ing popularity with surplus of com
petent timber which has gradually
grown in proportions over the last
five years
This situation obtains generally all
over the United States. according to
leaders in the National Association of
Teachers Agencies, who last night
concluded two days sessions at the
Hotel Harrington.
1t was pointed out to the repre-
senatives Of the "a agencies belong
ing to the association. which annually
places 10000 teachers at an average
salary of 1900. that the Board of
Education of this city has found this
to he Il fact. and only a few weeks
ago they asked the United States
Bureau of Education to aid them in
tightening the qualifications for teach
ers in the local school system.
The reason for the growing surplus
Of teachers. 1t was stated, not only
is due to the fact that men and
women are being lured by more at.
tractive salaries than prevailed sew
erals years ago, but that many ex-
teachers are forsaking the business
field ''for their old love-"
Preceding the annual banquet last
night the agencies group elected the
following officers: c. W. Cary, Hart
ford, Conn. president: B. F. Clark,
Chicago. vice president: w. II. Jones,
Columbia, S. c.. secretary and
treasurer. Executive committee: II.
A. Mitchell, Des Moines, Iowa, and
Myrton Bryant, Philadelphia
The principal speakers at yester-
days sessions were John II. Bev-
eridge, superintendent of schools,
Omaha, Nebr.; G. j. Albert of Chi
cago. and c. w. Mulford of New
York.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
WILL INVESTIGATE RAIDS.
Prohibition oMcial Ordered to Go
to Key West.

KEY WEST, Fla, February 20 Cp).
H. NJ. Tuckett, deputy prohibition
administrator at Miami, has been or
dered to proceed to Key West to in
vestigate the recent raids in Key West
by prohibition officers.
A number Of places alleged TO have
been selling liquor We're raided and
the proprietors placed under arrest.
Those arrested were turned loose
from the Jail the same night by the
sheriff on the ground that he had not
received any commitment papers.
The deputy marshal here has re-
ce1ved instructions from Benjamin f.
Dyson, United States marshal at Jack
sonville, to rearrest the men in ques-
tion.. These orders were carried out,
the men being arraigned before the
United States commissioner for a pre-
liminary hearing. All of those arrest
ed were released on bond for their ap-
pearance before the United States
Court
Evening star., 1926-02-21
"CULTURE" EXCURSION
TRIED OUT IN GERMANY
Railroads to Take Country People
to Great Cities at Re
duced Rates.
By the Associated Press.

by tHr Associated frese
B r r i y. February 20.-The
German federal railways will make a
novel experiment tomorrow, when the
first kultur express" will start from
Marburg for Cassel. On THE train
excursion rates will be charged which
will enable the peasants and citizens
Of small towns not only to see the
sights of the big city but also to
utilize its cultural facilities.
The railway administration has
hired the Cassel state theater for a
special performance for those making
the excursion. at which half the usual
admission will be charged. Guides will
be provided for the museums and
historic places.
If this experiment is a success.
"kultur" expresses will be run on
Sundays TO Berlin. Cologne. Dresden
and Munich at regular intervals.
Evening star., 1926-02-21

Continued from First Page
supported this measure for number
OF years Election of a president of
the Department of Superintendent
to succeed DIR. Bailou Is scheduled for
Thursday.
DIR. Ballou as president of the De
partment of Superintendent will
place the wreath at the foot Of the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier this
afternoon on behalf of his fellow edu-
Gators. The Columbian Male Quartet
will sing Rest, Peacefully Rest" and
Brave Heart. Sleep On
Rev. DR.. w. S. Abernethy. pastor
of Calvary Baptist Church. will pro
nounce the invocation at the vesper
service this afternoon. which will be
broadcast by radio. The Washington
Quartet will sing and Rev. Dr. Wal
lace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian II
Church will give Scripture reading.
This will be followed by Bishop Free
mans address.
District Commissioner Frederick A.
Fenning will welcome the educators
when they gather for their first gen
eral session at the Washington Audi
torium tomorrow morning.
Tigert First Speaker.
John J. Tigert. l.. S. Commissioner
OF Education, will be the first speaker.
and his talk on What Is Elementary
Education For?" is expected TO sound
the keynote of the conclave. Two
other prominent Monday morning
speakers will be Mary McSkimmon.
president Of the National Education
Association, and Frank O. Lowden,
former Governor of Illinois. The ses-
sions will be punctuated with singing
under the leadership Of E. y. c.
Barnes, director of music in the local
school system.
All Phases Covered.
Every phase of education Is covered
by the IA allied organizations CO.
operating with the department of
superintendent. They include the re-
search specialist. kindergarten and
primary supervisors. high school and
elementary school principals. college
teachers of education. specialists in
rural education, deans Of women and
vocational directors.
The Nation at Work on the Public
School Curriculum" is the title of the
Fourth Yearbook of the department
which is being distributed at the con-
Evening star., 1926-02-21

The school" continued Mr.. Judd,
must prepare children to live in
an environment which is in an
important sense of the word an
unnatural environment. \ swiftly
movin. automobile is dangerous be-
cause the rate of human movement is
mparatively slow. One must pro-
tect oneself from an automobile In
ways wholly different from those by
which an individual would protect
himself from Il horse and carriage.
The plea for safety education
leads. therefore. to the acceptance of
a plan OF education which will in
ciude moi only adaptation TO the me-
ChanicSl environment, but also adap-
t;ttioa t. industry and society. In
this sense. safety education is mere
ly an introduction to a general course
III citizenship"
Other speakers last night were Dr.
Guy NJ. Whipple, secretary of the Soc
ielE on Introducing the Yearbook on
Safety Education": Zenos l.. Scott,
superintendent Of schools. Springfield
Mass. on How Springfield Handles
Safety Education" and DR.. A. s.
Meredith, commissioned Of education
for Connecticut, Hartford. on Sum
mary and Evaluation OF Safety Edu
cation
Discussed All Day.
The Washington Auditorium meet
ing last night brought to close a
full days disc ussion Of the safety
problem as 1t relates to the public
schools Of the country.
Speakers at Central High School
yesterday morning and afternoon on
the program of the education division
Of the National Safety Council were
Mrs. Suzanne NORM Swing Of New
York City, Miss Minnie Nelson, State
superintendent Of public instruction,
North Dakota. Miss Ruth Streitz,
Columbia University: Mrs. Frances
Miner. director of health and safety
for the Louisville schools: Or. E.
George Payne. New York University;
Miss Evelyn Holston Springfield
Mass; DR.. Harold Rugg, Columbia
University. and A. w. Whitney. After
the speaking the Dramatic Club Of the
Wilson Normal School under the
direction Of Miss Alberta Walker,
presented a morality play, How
knowledge Driveth Away Fear"
Evening star., 1926-02-21
10000 CHILD DEATHS EACH YEAR
HELD DUE TO LACK OF TRAINING
Educators Told Half of Those Now Killed by Ac-
cdent Could Be Saved by Proper Safety Educa-
ton in Schools-An Day Discussion Held.

'One-half of the 10000 children OF
wear can he saved by safety teaching
I'm public schools. teaching which
Furthermore has genuine educational
value"
This message was impressed on sew
eral thousand educators who gathered
In :he Washington Auditorium last
night by Albert W. Whitney. vice
president IN charge Of edu"ation, Ma
tional Safety Council. who spoke on
The Safety Movement in It's Reid
ton to E,ducatjou." The GATHERING IA
Joint one Of the National So.ietr FOR
the STUDY of Education. and the edu.
cational division of the Natio'al Safe.
tyx Council. was the first genera!
meeting of the thotIsa nds of nation" 'lr
prominent educators who yesterday
enrolled for the Department of Su-
perintendenre convention.
Emphasizing that the eiuc" -ors
should concern themselves on h"''' 10
teach children 10 take care q" them
selves in a world which is daily '':4-
coming increa sincly dangerous. Mr..
Whitney continued:
Our Inherited Education.
y
an inheritance from a time when edu-
cation in the fundamentals OF living.
such as safety. health. citizenship and
character-training was had IN the
home and hence was not part of
formal education. But today because
of the complex character of our civ
ilization and conditions Of living this
training cannot be had In the home
and therefore must be taken over by
the schools. The average home, If it
Is to come back. can do so only
with the aid of the school.
The outstanding task before the
schools today is to bring education
into closer relationship to life
Charles II. Judd of the University
OF Chicago. speaking in the place Of
Secretary of Commerce Hoover. told
his fellow educators that safety is
necessary as a school subject today
because the unframed intelligence OF
child is not adequate in an age
which Is supplied with the mechan
tcal contrivances that are utilized by
our modern civiliZa ton"
Evening star., 1926-02-21

alton Association. and many others
well known in the educational world.
From Indiana University will come
a large delegation headed by Presi-
dent William Lowe Bryan, w. A.
Alexander and DIR. Agnes Wells. dean
Of women.
Representative Purnell, president of
the Indiana Society and alumnus of
the university. will preside as toast
master at the dinner. The officers of
the alumni association are Ernest P.
Bicknell president: Mrs. Warren X.
Clardy. vice president: John ]. Rein.
hard, secretary; John Fesler Lance,
treasurer. and James L. Fieser, Miss
Mary X. Wells. ]. B. Gwin and Cam
den r. McAtee. executive committee.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
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Evening star., 1926-02-21
MATHEMATICS SESSION
ENDS WITH BANQUET
Harry English Is Chairman of Ma
tional Council Committee.
Many Join Discussions.

The National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics concluded a day of
technical discussion by holding n
banquet at the Raleigh Hotel last
night. Harry English was chairman
of the local committee.
Those who spoke during the ses-
sions were Charles NJ. Austin. Prof.
David Eugene Smith Teachers Col
lege: William Betz of Rochester, \.
y; Prof. William u. Reeve. Tea
ers' College; Miss Marie GuGle, Co
lumbus, Ohio; Edwin W. Schroeder.
haywood, H.: Prof. Frank Clapp.
Madison, Wis: Prof. Raleigh Schor-
ling, University of Michigan; Gordon
r. Mirick and Vera Sanford, the
Lincoln School; Prof, FL. r SlauCht
University of Chicago; George w
Evans and DR.. Frank w. Ballou.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
CONSIDER FRANCO PLANS,
Spanish Cabinet Debates Whether
He Will Return by Air or Ship.

MADRID, February 20 @.-The
cabinet under the presidency of King
Alfonso this afternoon considered
Comdr. Francois return to Spain,
whether by ship or by air, but came to
no concrete decision.
Definite action awaits the receipt
here Of Comdr. Frances plans as to
continuation Of the fight to Chile and
from there northward to the United
States.
There exists, however, a decided
trend toward Frances return by ship
Newspapers as well as the public
argue that should Comdr. Franco con-
tinue his flight and come to grief it
would not only terminate his return
flight but also tend to impair the bril-
liancy Of his feat in flying from Spain
to Argentina.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
G. A. R. ELECTS OFFICERS.
Charles v. Petteys Heads Depart
ment of the Potomac

Charles V. Petteys was elected com
mander of the Department of the Po-
tomac. Grand Army of the Republic
at meeting in the G.. A. r. Hall last
night. Other officers elected were:
George H. kuehnsman, senior vice
commander: A. B. Bennett. junior vice
commander: r. f. Mcbride, depart
ment chaplain: Thomas Mckee, sur
geon, and Henry A. Johnson, national
council of administration member. J.
D. Booker, William NJ. Bobb. David
Beatty and Frederick Shortsleeves
were chosen as delegates to the Ma
tional encampment.
The newly elected officers Will be
installed at the final meeting of the
encampment, Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
SCENT GAS TAX O. KID.
Governor of Kentucky Signs Meas
ure to PAY Road Debt.

FRANKFORT. Ky. February 20
P).-Gov. Fields yesterday signed the
State tax on gasoline and all
the State tax on gasoline and all
other liquid fuels commercially usable
in internal combustion engines which
he advocated to pay off the State rode
debt. The bill provides that the new tax
shall remain In effect until July /,
1928, when it will revert to the former
8 cents. Kerosene, fuel and crude,
oil is exempt. Gasoline now selling
at % and "a cents throughout the
State is xpctd to b raised 2 cents.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
OFFERED AID TO APPEAL,
Civil Liberty Union Would Help
Manila Councilman.

MANILA, February 20 CP).-Council-
man Antonio D. Paguia, recently
twice convicted of sedition and in
sulting language toward Gov. Gen.
Wood, in a political campaign, re
ceived cablegram today from the
American Civil Liberty Union, New
York City. offering him financial as
sistance to appear to the highest
courts.
Paguia already has taken steps tn
appeal to the Insular Supreme Court.
He received two prison sentences, one
of four months, the other two months.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
Anti-Finnish Duties Suspended.

Discriminating duties upon Finnish
vessels have been suspended by Presi-
dent Coolidge, Finland having sup
piled satisfactory proof" that no
such duties are now imposed by it
upon American vessels.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
Seeks Son in Capital.

Mrs. T. Plunkett, 38 Bell street, On.
tario Ottawa, Canada, has written 20
the police here seeking word of her
son, Thomas Plunkett, who is known
to have been in Washington last July
Evening star., 1926-02-21

In Central Africa the natives believe
that trees possess spirits, and a weird
ceremony must take place before a
tree can be chopped down.
Evening star., 1926-02-21

Constantinople has 10000 wernan
industrial workers.
Evening star., 1926-02-21
$1,000 EDUCATORS THRONC CITY
Pilgrimage to Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Aring-
ton and Vesper Service With Address by Bishop
Freeman Feature of Meeting

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