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The Washington times., 1926-02-22
TOday's Program For
Educational Farley

2:l5 b. m. Conference Of Bust
ness Managers In School SyS-
TENS, ballroom, Burlington Hotel.
2:16 D. m. - Department OF
Rural Education, Auditorium,
Department Of the Interior.
Els 3. nl.-City Teacher Train
ing School Section. auditorium,
New National Museum.
e:l6 p. -EducationaI Re.
search Association, Masonic
Temple.
Els D. m.Natfonal Associa.
ton for the study Of the Platoon
or Flx-Study-Play School Or.
ganfxatiOn, Rose Room, Wash
ingtOn Hotel.
$50 3. m. National AssoCia-
ton Of Secondary School Princi-
pals, auditorium, Central High
School.
p. IN. Committee ON COgm-
nlunftY ReIatiOns 81 the National
Educational Association, board
room, American Red Cross Build.
Ing.
8 b. m. Committee on Visual
Education Of the National EdICa-
ton Association, committee room,
American Red Cross Building.
b. m. Committee on Res0iu-
lions Of the Department Of Super
intendence, committee room "A
Washington Auditorium.
b. m.<-BOard 81 TeIIers Of
the Department Of Superintend-
ence, committee room "R, Wash
ingtOn Auditorium.
$50 p. m. ~ Department Of
can University.
b. m.-EducatiOna Research
Association, dinner, Gold Room,
Hotel Lafayette.
6 b. na.--Kappa Phi Kappa,
dinner, New Willard Hotel.
6 D.. m.-Phi Sigma Sigma,
dinner, Raleigh Hotel.
$50 p. m.-Dinner for Kata-
crime D. Blake. New Willard
Hotel.
7:45 p. m. - Department Of
Superintendent, general session,
Washington Auditorium.
p. manual Benefit Con.
cert, George Washington Uni.
veEsity Hospital, gymnasium,
George Washington University.
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6 Vet = Leaders Call
Cohorts to Battle

Congress has not the power to
remedy the situation"
Kindred, q doctor by profession,
asserted that 2.76 per cent beer Is
not intoxicating. He said he had
proved It by experiment. Give the
nation beer and wine, he declared,
and conditions as regards increas-
ing drug additions and increasing
contempt for law would be rapidly
relieved"
Mrs. Rufus NJ. Gibbs, Of Balti-
more, recommend repeal Of the
VoIstead act and the right Of inter-
probation OF the Eighteenth Amend
ment to the various States.
DemOraIizes Youth
Adventurous youth. said Mrs.
Gibbs, has made the procuring
Of liquor the great indoor sport,
and Il supposedly higher standard
Of hospitality has been enacted by
demanding that the host take risks
In order to supply his guests. The
Volstead act has made crime Of
something most people do not be-
lieve IL sin. :
There ii a rational middle
course, said Capt. William Bell
Wait. OF New York, ''between those
who insist upon enforcing the
statute on an unwilling people and
those who oppose any regulation.
That middle course lies in modifi-
cation. and with this win come
real temperance"
Admiral w. w. Kimball, u. S. N,
retired, characterized the VOIstead
law as '.indefensible and stupid.
A score OF speeches were made
during the day. Another score
viii be made tonight at great
banquet to be given by the associa-
ton, which viii be attended BY the
entire wet bloc" in Congress, and
the several hundred delegates to
the conference.
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1850 q. m. 49, Luncheon Tor
Iowans, by Iowa Congressman.
dining room, House Of Repre-
sentatives.
NOOn-DeIegates to the World
Federation Of Education AssO-
Citations, luncheon, POWhatan
Hotel.
1880 b. m.-Education AssO.
ciatiOn 81 the District Of Column
bia, luncheon, ballroom, May
flower Hotel.
1850 o. m.-Depart1nent Of EIe.
mentary School Principals, wash
ingt0n Auditorium.
p. m.-DepartEnent Of Deans
Of Women. WariHinan Park Hotel.
2 p. Tn.-NatiOnal Association
Of High School inspectors and
Supervisors, committee room,
National Hotel.
2 D. m.--NatiOnal Society Of
College Teachers Of EducatiOn,
C0rcOran Hall, George Washing
ton University.
2 b. m.-SupervisOrs Of Student
Teaching, National Hotel.
2:16 b. m. - Department. 81
Superintendence. Topic Group Al,
Methods and Technique 81
Supervision" ballroom, New VII
lard Hotel.
2:16 b. m4-DcpaFtFueKt Of
observation-disclosures, Topic Group b,
.sThe Relation Of Public Schools
60 RelfgiOuS Instruction" Audi.
torlum. First Congregational
Church
2:l5 b. m. - Department Of
Superintendence, Topic Group @,
Oral Hygiene I'm the Public
Schools" Stockton Hall, George
washington University.
2:15 D. m: - Department. Of
Euperintendence, Topic Group ID,
ssTho Single Salary Schedule"
Hall Of Nations, Washington
Hotel.
2:15 D. m. - Department of
observation-disclosures, Topic Group r,
International School Core
spOndence Plan Of the Junior
Red Cross" Assembly Hall,
American Red Cross.
els p. m. - Department Of
Superintendence, Topic Group F,
''The Expert Janitor," Sunday
School Hall, First Congrega.
tiOnal Church.
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Teaching Groups Split !
On Religious or Moral
Training Of Children

Religion in relation to education
occupied the group meeting In the
auditorium Of the First Congrega-
tional Church.
Learning alone win not build .
technique adequate for the problems
Of any generation. We must have
an intelligence established on faith.
built in prayer and nourtshed by
good will" Henry Noble Sherwood,
State superintendent Of public in
struction OF Indiana, told the con-
vention.
'sThe demand made by the State
for an intelligent citizenship does
not go far enough. More knowl-
edge does not insure q citizenship
that respect law and order, that
knits together the threads OF NAL
adjustment and leech-bitten units
of our body polite. We must have
an intelligent citizenship that Is
sThe Bible written by Jews and
for Jews, is the richest treasure
In the field Of religions in the
world. 1t has brought spiritual
peace and comfort to untold mil
lions. The road over which the
few Travelled to find God has be-
come a great world highway whose
service"
Momentum has been added to
the secularization of our schools by
the peculiar character OF our MOD
ern industrial system. For almost
200 years the machine has displaced
the hand; the material has crowd
ed out the immaterial; matter has
choked the spirit. Into the stream
of life we have failed to pour the
ways of fraternity and love.
THE church must rededicate it.
self to its most important and fun
damentaI task handing down from
generation to generation the spirit
uaI torch OF the ages. To give
instruction in religious education,
our churches are poorly equipped
both in building and teachers. Their
supreme challenge today is to pro.
vide the means and measures for
putting America in touch with our
religious heritage.
Church and State should CO.
operate in this matter Of religious
education"
A somewhat divergent view was
taken by some speakers.
ANY plan for sectarian instruc.
ti0n on school time is but a new
form OF the old experiment OF
State enforced religion" Ernest w.
Butterfield, commissioner OF educa-
ton OF New Hampshire, told the
delegates, at the group meeting.
las a nation we are attempting,
not too successfully. to make our
people dry by law. The plan of
weekday religious instruction on
school time would try to make our
children righteous by formula.
Formal instruction in religion
does not produce character. No
amount Of theology given in
sacerdotal environment will pro
duce anything but sectarian ideals
and intellectual concepts. II we
want theology, We must teach
theology. IL we want character
we must train for character"
Internationalism' was given 9
new meaning by William E. Wing
principal Of Deering High School
Portland, Me-, who spoke in the
afternoon before the National AS
socfation Of Secondary Schoo
Principals, meeting at Contra
High School.
1nternationalism does not imply
a super-government, doessnot imply
pacifism in its individual sense
mr. the addition of anther sub
jet 70 an already crowded curricu
lum. but 1t does imply q larger
conception Of citizenship; it doe.
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hMAANSiPHHiESR;

fimply the development OF q more
tolerant attitude produced by q
slightly different presentation Of
subjects now being taught.
Wing said his voice was only one
Of many calling for new educa-
tional program to teach youth 70
think Of itself with an international
point of view.
Rural Teachers Needed
The place occupied by the rural
teachers in education and the need
for trained teachers for rural COM
munities were stressed by j. r.
Grant, State supervisor Of rural
schools OF Little Rock. Ark, speak
ing before the department OF rural
education OF the n. T.. A.
Virgil e. Dickson, Of the public
schools Of Berkeley, CAL, recon-
mended classroom instruction by
radio. He said:
Certain lessons taught before
the microphone produce class and
individual results that cannot be
distinguished from those gained
by the same instructor teaching In
person before the class"
Publicity and education was the
subject Of w. II. Allen, director OF
the Institute Of Public Service.
Of New York City, addressing the
elementary school principals at the
auditorium during the afternoon.
He said:
"Publics support what they enjoy.
Being harangued Tor schools re-
duces capacity "a - renerous
toward schools. Being agreeable IN
news Il better than begging or
stunting news as q publicity policy
for education"
'Special'' Child Discussed.
The international Council for
Education Of Exceptional Children,
meeting at George Washington Uni
-ersity, discussed the backward"
and the special" child.
Mrs. Elizabeth e. Farrell, Of the
board Of education Of New York
city. and president Of the council,
told the delegates Of the strides in
the last few years throughout the
country in indvidualizing education
OF children to tit them to the world
''in which they i've"
The old precept that children
learn by doing has been forgotten,
she said, under the modern scheme
and must be returned to.
Mrs. Farrell outlined the progress
made In training teachers for the
highly specialized individual instruc
ton, and declared one OF the great
est problems is to obtain teachers
trained to teach gifted children.
: She reviewed what Europe had
done in this regard.
With the formal opening Of the
National Education Associations
Of superintendent con-
vention yesterday with vesper serv-
ices in Continental Memorial Hall,
and a pilgrimage to the tomb Of
the Unknown Soldier, the stage
was set today for the largest gath
ering Of educators in the history
Of the country.
The actual sessions Of the con-
vention opened at the Washington
before o'clock this
with the auditorium filled
to capacity with delegates of the
N. e. A. and IA allied organizations.
Approximately $4,000 men and
women from all over the country
were expected to participate in the
proper and series of
group meetings during the week
the educators foregather here.
Coolidge to Speak
Despite the cold from which
President Coolidge has been suffer.
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CROWN PRINCE ABSOLVED
ON VERDUN ANNIVERSARY

BERLIN, Feb. 22.-The former
Crown Prince Wilhelm, on the 10th
anniversary Of the battle of Verdun.
finds himself absolved by German
newspapers of the responsibility
for the German failure in that his
toric battle.
The newspapers state that the
former Crown Prince wanted to
stop the battle as soon as 1t was
apparent that 1t could not prove a
victory for. Germany, but that
General Schmidt Won Knoblesdorf
insisted unon nursIine the struggle.
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YOUNG FRI! BUG
Ri MNES RUN
tcontInued nom FIrst Page.l

fCOntinued from First Page
Carr from the beginning Of the
Investigation ii IS said, and, while
| q sharp lookout was maintained in
/ all quarters, he was under partic-
ular scrutiny.
Councilman Oscar w. Pocre. one
OF the vigtlantes, and Mark Wood,
town baiIiff, hid In pool-rOOin near
the Carr home saturday might.
shortly before 2 O'Clock yesterday
morning, they saw light In the
/ Kitchen 81 fIaa home and saw young
| Carr leave the rear door and 90
fo the shed iii the rear Cf the
home Of Mrs. John Nolan, which
adjOfns the Carr house.
In few minutes the youth 70
turned 20 his own home, and, less
than quarter Of an hour after
that, fire broke ont IN the Nolan
shed.
The blaze was extinguished
quickly BY the towns volunteer tire
department. Carr then was ar
rested
at first he stoutly denied having
had anything to do with the fires
On the suggestion Of Justice Mo-
fatt he was taken to the county
Jail at Upper Marlboro and cues
toned further.
Finally, weeping bitterly, he con-
fessed setting fire 10 the Nolan
shed, 20 the home of #. wv. Jones,
and 10 the store Of Sam Lagana.
He denied any connection with
the fire. at the garage Of Robert
Jenkins, which, with the Jones and
Lagana fires, occurred last Wednes-
day morning
The boy also denied having sent
the threatening letters to Mayor
Finger. He viii Be questioned fur
ther along this line before q pre-
liminary hearing on three arson
charges, which is to be given before
Justice Moffat In Hyattsviile at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The boy came to Capitol Heights
about five years ago with his par
ents from South Carolina. He has
been known In the cOTnlnOunity IS
10 bright boy" His father and
mother maintained their sons in
nocence until the confession was
signed, and then the father ex
pressed doubt of it.
He said he would fight to clear
the lad.
The Washington times., 1926-02-22

Photo by international

Photo BY InternatIonaI
In upper left is shown Presi.
dent COOIidge's contribution to
the save "Old IrOnsides" fund
that started the ball rolling in
drive for $4O0, 900 needed to re-
condition the u. s. s. COnstitu-
ton, now rOtting at her dock In
Charleston Navy Yard. Photo
shows the President and his wife
as they visited the famous old
frigate last summer I'm Charleston.
The copper rivets and plates of
the sea relic were made by Paul
Revere and her first flags were
made by Betsy Ross. In her forty
glorious battles she never once
was defeated.
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her exclusion from these shores, 1t
was learned here today.
Subordinate officials OF the De
rartment of Labor said Davis had
O. KID. the landing or the countess
by long-distance telephone from
Miami, Fla.
No reason for the Department.
about-face in policy was advanced,
however, other than that the de-
partment needs more time to pre-
rare for the court test.
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VERA PRAIE rs
MVSNE RED
BY JAMES =. KILGALLEN
InternationaI News Service

NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Vera,
Countess Of Cathcart, the famous
titled deportee, landed On Aneri-
can soil early today, having been
unexpectedly relesaed on orders
from Washington.
. She left Ellis Island, where she
had been for almost d fortnight,
on 3 ferryboat and landed st the
Battery at midnight.
The slender, vivacious countess,
is at liberty for ten days. Her
thin face was wreathed in smiles
as the boat drew up alongside the
drab barge office. She hastily
stepped ashore, exclaiming:
Thank God, I'm freel''
Into Arms Of Friend
Flashlights set of BY newspaper
photographers popped as the slim
countess stepped ashore The
countess rushed into the arms Of
her friend Mrs. Gordon-Carr. who
was waiting to greet her.
'Oh." Countess Vera exclaimed,
I'm so glad to be Off that island!'
Mrs. Gordon-C Carr replied:
II saw that scow coming III and,
knowing you were on it, II looked
to me Ike the Carmania. Lets 90
home, Vera. z
Answer to Her Prayers
I'm very happy Countess Vera
told Encouragement I'm sure my
release Is an answer to my prayer
to ask God to show me IL / had
done anything to be punished. and
i am sure that Is why ] am free.
'sAn want now is q chance to
tell the truth. I want TO defend
my own honor. / am sure that
when all about me. and my past.
is understood shall be allowed to
stay in this country as long as I
wish.
II have been terribly lonely at
Ellis Island, but have been well
treated while there.
THE whole thing il ridiculous,
and think most people believe so.
1 scarcely know how to thank the.
American people for the sympathy
they have shown me in my plight.
A do not disturbH sign was on
the door OF the Carr suite at the
Ambassador today. Hotel attaches
were warned to keep visitors away
from Lady Vera's room.
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Stray Dog Bits s Children

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-After
playing amicably with a group of
children, a stray dog turned vicious
and bit six Of the little ones.
three Of whom were treated for
serious wounds at the hospital.
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ADVERTISER EMIT

Prices realized on Swift & Company
sales of carcass beef In Washington, d. c..
for week ending Saturday, February 90
1925. on shipments sold out. ranged from
1880 cents to 1880 cents per pound
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Former N. Y. Judge Dead

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 32.-D.
Cady Herrick, former Supreme Court
Justice of New York, and once
Democratic candidate for governor,
died after q years illness.
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Davis Let Down Bars

Davis Let Down Bars
Vera, Countess of Cathcart. was
permitted to leave the detention
pen at Ellis Island and land in
New York under. bond upon the
authorization Of Secretary Of Labor
Davis, who earlier had approved
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Coolidge to Speak

Despite the cold from which
President Coolidge has been suffer
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DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DR.. FRANK CRANE
Repression

HAS become popular these latter days to attribute
many of the evils and the deeds of humanity to desire
- for self-expression. X,
The recent vogue Freudian ideas has given impetus to
this point Of view.
It taken for granted that repression is bad and that it
wrong to bottle up IS desires, may cause them 70
break forth in unexpected and undesirable places.
There something be said for this opinion 1t is true
but the condemnation repression should not be carried
far.
In measure all strength is due to repression or rather
concentration Concentration is in sense another form OF
repression.
We get power the locomotive because steam is
fined in certain limits We get speed because the train is
confined to its road bed.
The scholar is familiar with the fact that to achieve
cess In his studies he must specialize -
It is dangerous everyone to let all energy escape IN
any direction it chooses.
In fact the power Of force, well man. due to
its confinement within limits 1t is useless for to
talk about mans being absolutely right or pure He VIII
have desires that against the OF his will and
threaten destruction It is his duty decent individual
to repres these desires and conne his efforts IN
direction
All power in matter and all force in due to re-
preston to In fact the business of eduea
ton is to train to concentrate his faculties
Selfexpresson therefore, not unquaedly to be COM
mended There things we must not express for
their repression direction gives US more power IN
other direction which have chosen.
1926. The Mcclure Newspaper syndicatel
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determines his longitude. A fourth
observer at 80 degrees west
would see the star at S, i. e., on
his horizon instead of on the
meridian of his zenith.
Thus. by choosing a common
starting line, or meridian, for
longitude, it Is possible with the
aid of astronomical observations
to determine the location of any
place on the earth with reference
to distance east or west. The
method described Is just to show
the principle. The longitude,
combined with the latitude, shows
just where the place is situated
on the globe.
You will perceive that 1t Is es-
sential for the different observ-
ers to know, simultaneously, the
instant when a chosen star is
on the Prime Meridian. Radio
communication offers the best
means to obtain this knowledge;
hence the present campaign, un-
der the auspices of the Interna-
tional Astronomical Union ana
the International Geodetic and
Geophysical Uniop.
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MAki@
HeQ ORG
or He
EaMIGn

1t was a great day-dia de
fiesta-for had not la madre
graduated from the American
school and was she not now to
become a part of that strange.
Pablo, Juan. Teresa. Trinidad and
Conception would shortly take
their places? And because of
this would not the whole Herman
.Ilez family move up many. many
steps in the esteem of the COM
munity?
That was what one day in July
1926 meant to a family of Next
can immigrants. 1t meant even
more to California, the State
which conferred that diploma.
For it meant that at last. America
was beginning to cope with the
foreign families within her rates.
''But there's nothing new about
that" you say. Three quarters
of the children in our schools
are from foreign homes"
That is true. But the homes
are not in the schools-and there's
the hitch. What avails it to in
Silva in the three RS of the
Anglo-Saxon If, on returning
home. Ramon and Tony and Lee
are plunged into a 100 per cent
Mexican or Portuguese atmos-
phere? What chance has YAM
kee schoolmarm against Saliva
dorean mother who can't speak a
word of English and whose GUS
toms and traditions have no point
of contact with the land OF her
residence? Do you make Ameri-
cans that way? You do not.
You make hybrids, who have lost
the virtue of the parent stock
and acquired no new skill or
vision to take its place. From
just such hybrids often come the
school billiards and the Bad Kids
who fill the Juvenile courts and
ultimately the jails.
But suppose while Tony and Lee
are getting the New Idea that the
mothers in the homes are getting 1t
too? Then you've started something.
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STAR MAPPING
By Garrett P. Serviss

DURING October and Noven.
~ Der many astronomical OBJ
servatories, official and private,
will be engaged in an effort to
improve our knowledge OF the
longitudes of places on the earth's
surface, !. e., of their relative sit
uation east or west of a common
standard meridian. The standard
meridian generally used for all
nations is that Lassing through
the observatory Of Greenwich in
England. Longitudes are, OF
course, already very well known,
but yet not with all the accuracy
that modern astronomy and the
needs of navigation and geodetic
surveying demand. The perfec-
ton and extension of radio sig.
Mailing offers an opportunity to
effect the desired Improvement
through the facility that it at
fords for indicating a particular
instant Of time simultaneously at
places thousands of miles apart.
The application Of this method
will be better understood If first
we recall what longitude is and
why it Is so important. Longi-
tude is angular distance on the
earth's surface in an east-and.
west direction, starting from a
fixed north.and-south line called
a meridian.
This line always passes through
the zenith of any place to which
it is referred. Every place has
it's own meridian, but some par
ticular one must be chosen to
form a starting point. That is
called the Prime Meridian. On
map. or globe, the position of
any place on the earth Is fixed
by it's distance in degrees Of longi-
tude, east or west, from the Prime
Meridian, and by it's distance in
degrees of latitude, north or
south, from the Equator.
"CO-Ordinatee"
These two things-latitude and
longitude-are the necessary SEQ
ordinates," without which no
maps OF the earth could exist.
Now, latitude is relatively easy
to find, since 1t Is shown directly
by observation of the elevation
of the sun, or of certain stars.
above the horizon, or their dis.
lance from the zenith, Of any
place; but longitude presents
more difficulty because It's meas.
urement depends upon the daily
rotation Of the earth on its axis.
The diagram will show how this
is so.
/, We are looking down upon the