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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
P.T.A. BODIES
READY TO OPEN
YEARS WORK
Nine Organizations Will
Meet Wednesday and
Thursday at Schools.

Nine parent-teacher organizations
of grade schools will hold their first
meetings of the year Wednesday and
Thursday.
The first meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association of School No.
IA will be held Wednesday at $40
p. m. The speaker of the afternoon
will be Mrs. George G. Finfrock. A
brief musical program will be given
by department pupils followed by
business discussion and the ap-
pointment of several committees.
Mrs. w. E. Armstrong will preside.
Surprise Program Planned
The association of School NO. 20
will meet at 3:15 p. m. The new
president, Mrs. Walter Hardy, will
preside, and a talk will be given by
Mrs. Samuel Ashby. Instructive and
interesting motion pictures will be
shown, after which the members
will hold a get-acquainted hour.
An illustrated talk will be given
by a speaker from the Family We'll
fare Society at the meeting Of the
association Of School No. SO at 315
Wednesday. A business meeting,
presided over by the president, Mrs.
Charles Gooden, will precede the
program.
A surprise program will be in
store for association members of
School No. 46. The meeting will
be held in the auditorium Wednes-
day at 2:30 p. m. An address by
Charles Miller, superintendent of
public schools, will follow the pro-
gram.
Discuss Traffic Regulations
Thursday the parent-teachers of
School No. 80 will hold a reception
at p. m. Musical Director Fisher
will give violin selections.
Traffic Regulations will be dis
cussed by the traffic captain of
School No. IS at the P. T. A. meet
ing Wednesday at 3:15. Miss Mar
garet Johnson will sing and Miss
Elizabeth Weiland will give piano
solo. The program will be followed
by a social hour.
Mrs. B. Vasbinder, president Of
the association of School No. 10,
will preside at their first meeting
Wednesday at 3:15 p. m. A musical
program will be provided by the
children of School No. 30 at their
meeting at 3:15 p. m. at the school.
The association Of School No. 80 will
meet Wednesday at 3:15 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
NAME PAPERS STAFF
Lora Meyer Editor of Man
uaI High Booster.

New staff members of the Manual
Training High School Booster
have been announced by Miss Rose
Singleton, faculty sponsor. The
first issue of the paper will appear
Sept. 80.
Members of the editorial staff
are.
Miss Lora Meyer, editor-in- chief;
Francis Dearborn, editorial writer
Richard Fogarty, sports writer; Miss
Virginia Harris, organizations; Miss
Dorothy Anderson, exchange editor
and John Kosoveach, makeup. Re-
Torters, Arthur Braun, r. o. T. G
7 ews; Harold Mass, Alfred Hol-
lender, Alden viking, Henry
Schoenborn, Harold lotion, Free
Haskell, and James Skinner. Proof
reader is Miss Emma Moehlman.
Members Of the business staff
are:
Miss Ruth Dawson, business man
ager; Miss Louise Carter, assistant
business manager; Miss Estells
Hummer, circulation manager; Mis-
Sos Edith Gorenstein, Mazda Jupin
Irene Lucas, and Marie Truitt, post
ing clerks; and Miss Carolyn Ian
ham, Charles O'Brien, Raymond
Owen, and Harold Mass, assistant
circulation managers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
ANNOUNCE new
EVENING HIGH
SCHOOL STAFF
Supt. Charles F. Miller Gives
Out List of Teachers for
Coming Year.

Evening school teacher appoint
nnerts, effective Monday with OPEN
A:s of the evening schools, approved
By the sc.yocl board on recommen-
dalton of Superintendent Charles F.
Miller, were:
Emmerich Manual Training High
School, Office, j. r. H. Moore; teach
ing foreigners, Daisy Wedding, AIDE
laide Thale, Bertha Thormeyer,
Florence Shaw; Shorthand and
Typewriting, Inez Lowry, Caroline
Bradley, Cleo Frazier, Hazel Dor
man, Marie Rapp, Mona Vanden
Brook; Bookkeeping, w. S. Barn.
hart, L. B. Maxwell, r. E. Mat
thews; Business English, Nell
Thomas; Business arithmetic, A. l..
Skinner; Shop Work. Paul Covert,
Marion Peeles; Sewing, Alma
Wischmeyer; Mechanical Drawing,
G. w. Trickey.
Arsenal Tech Staff
Arsenal Technical Schools-Clerk,
Fred d. Wood; Auto Shop, A. G..
9oren, j. S. Madden, r. K. Offutt,
E. P. Madinger, M. w. Slattefy;
Carpentry Shop, j. L. Jones; Elec-
trical Shop, H. F. Markus, w. A.
Rush, A. G. VanArendonk, R. R.
Stewart, j. G. Zinter; Machine
Shop, E. G. Baker, F. l.. Wilson;
Print Shop, j. w. Auble, G.. r. Bar
rett; Sheet Metal, M. P. Sehaefer;
Commercial, S. B. Essig, F. H. Gill
lespie, w. F. Reagan, D. B. Shaw,
e. l.. Zimmerman, j. r. Davis,
Nettie G. Gilmore, D. Burgess;
Home Economics, Florence Drury,
Hazel Barrows; Mechanical Draw
ing, N. l.. Schneider, F. A. Resell,
E. w. Bryan, H. e.. Denzler, H. E.
Doggy, H. D. Traub; French, G. G.
Martin; Craftsmanship, d. P. Porter
field; Custodian, Roy Harmon;
Night Engineer, Z. A. Tobery;
Night Waterman, John Heinlein,
Andrew Wicker; Machine Shop
Assistant, George O'Day; Electric
shop Assistant, Earl D. Terry.
Crispus Attacks High
Crispus Attacks High School,
Registration, Russell Lane, Iva r.
Marshal, Lillian M. Briscoe, Nettie
Walker.
School No. academic, Charles
Parks.
School No. 23-Academic, Maude
Merriweather, Christina Rice; sew
ing, Anna Pritchett.
School No. 24-Academic, H. K.
Riley, A. H. Maloney, Bertha ID.
Brown, Edith B. Roache.
School No. 26-Academic, Julian
Coleman, Ollie Moss; Shop, Clar-
ence Hicks.
School No. 42-Academic, Made
line Chambers, Ethel Cheatham
Shop, Harmon Hansberry; Sewing,
Lenora Iilliken.
School No. 52-Rssistration and
Office, Bertha Lening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
SOME GOOD IN
ALL BAD BOYS,
SAYS TEACHER
Girls Harder to Understand,
Because They Tend to
Be Less Frank.

Are there bad boys? Yes, bu
none that are so bad they haven
some good in them"
This was what Miss jeanette Will.
liamS, head of the city department
for exceptional children, says about
the present day bad boy" and how
he is handled.
II always shall maintain that 1
child is mentally competent he
can be reached. If he isn't the
method Of approach is wrong"
Why Boys Are Bad
Miss Williams gave three MAR
reasons for so-called bad boy be-
ing misflt. Parents often innocently
deceive their children. For example
after telling friend how delighted
they are to go out to dinner with
him, they turn away from the tele-
phone and say 'bores.'"
Mrs. Williams gave three main
reasons for so-called bad boys be-
coming bad. They were: No COM
penSation made for his physical
handicaps, lack of sympathetic
understanding of his peculiar tenn
peramental traits, and wrong en-
vironment. Children often follow
the wrong leaders at an early age
she said.
THE adolescent period is critical
one in the life of the child" she
explained. when a parent loses
the child's confidence at this time
it is difficult to regain it.
This is period of physical in
stability, and a period when one
little incident or adverse criticism
may set up a barrier between chile
and parent that never may be
broken down."
Right Start Is Needed
II believe that If you give a boz
or girl the right start. gain theil
confidence. and be sincere, you car
accomplish anything. If you tel
boy that he must be in at a Ger
tain hour and must not go certain
places, he is likely to go and abou
it.
Then no amount of physical pun
ishment or moralizing will help tn
matter. It's time to become a part
ner, go fifty-fifty with him, accep
his excuses, and let him know YOU
trust him to do better next time
There is certainly nothing in lonI
lectures and moralizing"
One of the screts of Miss William
success in gaining the confidence o
her misf1ts is her way of talking il
boys own language. If it is neces
sary to say Come on now, be 4;
sport and tell me-" she says it.
Mrs. Williams admitted that girl
are harder for her to understand
than boys. She said that with her
at least. girls did no become so con
fidential.
"They feel adverse criticism yer,
keenly and avoid them when the,
can. I do not think, either, tina
girls have a finer sense of right anC
wrong than boys"
The department for exceptiona
children, directed by Mrs. Williams
has charge Of the physically handi
capped, retarded and gifted children
who are not getting the opportunit,
they should have with the averag
group.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
NIGHT SCHOOL
OPEN MONDAY
Free Evening Courses An
nuaIly Attract Several
Thousand Pupils.

Indianapolis adults anxious to
further their education along GER
tain lines will have their opportun-
ity with the opening of Indiananp-
oils free evening schools next Mon
day.
Glasses will be held at Arsenal
Technical. Emmerich Manual Train
ing and the new Crispus Attacks
hgih schools, and elementary schools
8, %, "a, &c, So and So.
Annually these night schools at
tract several thousand pupils. Any
one over 16 and not attending day
school is eligible to attend.
Glasses are opened at any school
where there is sufficient demand.
Last year I,279 attended classes
in elementary schools. An inter
esting feature is the fact that of the
1878 pupils attending night ele-
mentary schools last year, 149 were
white and 1,130 negro pupils.
Attendance at Arsenal Technical
High School alst year was 1922, and
at Manual Training, 831.
Special classes for young men
seeking to pass civil service tests
especially for postofIice positions
are quite popular at the high
schools.
American citizenship classes vii,
reopen at Manual Training High
School Monday. The first class
which started more than a month
ago, was graduated this week. This
work prepares pupils to pass natu-
radiation examinations. Fifty-foul
pupils were enrolled the first period
Commercial courses are always
the most popular, including book
keeping, typewriting and short hand
Auto, electrical and machine shop
classes are also popular.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
I Fight for Uncle Sam;;'
Promise of Nez0 Citizens

apolis night schools are all in real
earnest about being 100 per cent
Americans" Sanders said. School
comes to mean evenings of rec
reation to them as well as study"
The foreign department of night
school is only one department of
the Manual night school course. The
school has offered work for i'm
migrants for the last fifteen years.
1t has an approximate yearly en-
rollment of 800 men and women
The courses offered are civics
American History, and the Con-
Stitution as well as general English
and mathematics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
Talk Little of Life in Old
Countries: Strive for
EdUCationS.

II fight for Uncle Sam and no
one else"
This is the usual terse comment
of foreigners attending night school
at Manual Training High School,
when questioned about their new
American citizenship, according to
Bertram Sanders, principal of Man
ual night schools.
Apparently they don't want to
talk about their life in the old
country" Principal Sanders said.
They dismiss any inquiry about the
World War or phases of their home
and business life with I fight for
Uncle Sam now, of I'm doing bet
ter here"
Many Highly Educated
"The foreigner isn't even inter-
ested in telling you what he used to
eat for breakfast or what kind of
work he used to do"
Many foreigners enter night
school at Manual within ten days
after landing in New York. They
come with the itea that Manual is
a foreign school. Many are highly
educated in their own country.
The night school head stated that
it was mo fairy tale" that the
school has had foreign university
professors in it's classes.
1.-The foreigners attending Indian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
Open SPECIAL
SCHOOL FOR !
'MISFIT' BOYS
Individual Instruction to Be
Given Youths Not
Progressing.'

The theory that boys may be nor
NAL insists as we'll as abnormal mis-
fits in school has influenced local
school authorities in the establish
ment of special opportunity school
for boys at Vonnegut School No.
8, Vermont and Fulton SITS, under
the supervision of Miss Kate Mason,
Principal.
The school will stress "recogni-
ton of the individual and attempt
to give boys some main interest in
constructive work as well as regu-
late his moral standards. 1t will
admit sixty boys between the ages
of twelve and sixteen, who are over
age and diversified in their present
grade and school.
Manual Training Given
1t is at present equipped with a
large print shop in which manual
training, printing and other trades
will be taught. The machinery of
the shop is valued at thousands Of
dollars. There are three instructors
in charge
The school is not one for incorw
rigible boys or boys who are physiN
cally or mentally subnormal of
supernormal, or truants. The pupils
will be normal but those who are
not, for various reasons, progress
ing under their present school en-.
vironment.
Employment Bureau
One of Miss Masons' chief quail
fications for the boys will be that
he mean business" Boys whose
parents want them to receive per-
sonal attention may enter. Others
who may enter are boys over school
age who have spare time from their
work.
They will be given courses in.
arithmetic, grammar, geography,
or a shop subject The school will
maintain an employment bureau to
place boys in part-time jobs.
The school will open Monday for
the regular grade pupils at a. m.
1t will be dismissed at 2 p. m. Harry
R. Jackson will be in charge of two
rooms. Lester Reed will have charge
of the general shop, and M. F. Con-
ner, of the print shop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
DEBATES TO BEGIN
Shortridge High School
Teams Plan Program.

Interclass debates of the Short
ridge boys and girls debating
leagues will begin next week follow
ing the class election of new off,
GERS.
The boys league has elected Abra Is
ham Lettis, president; James Otto'>
vice president, and William HoSs-
man, secretary. The new officers of
the girls league are Miss Thelma
Porter, president; Miss Helen john
ston, vice president; Miss Clemen-
tine Casmire, secretary, and Miss
Ruth Marie Price, treasurer. All
are members Of the class of 1928.
The out-of-town debating teams
have not yet been chosen. The out-
of-town debates of both the boys
and girls teams will take place in
the spring. The girls are planning
to debate Wiley High School, Tex ,
Haute, and Bedford High Schoo4.
Both contests will be held here. The
boys team will debate the Walnut
Hill High School of Cincinnati,
Ohio, at Cincinnati, and the Male
High School of Louisville, KY. The
Louisville team will come to In
dianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
DEDICATE new FIELD
Open New High School Ath-
Ietic Ground Today.

Dedication services for the new
Shortridge athletic field at Forty
Second st. and Haughey Ave, were
set for this afternoon. Glasses were
to be dismissed at lao, and the
game witt Sheridan was called for
3 o'clock.
The program was to open with
music by the Shortridge band. Fol-
lowing will be short addresses by
George Buck. principal of Short
ridge High School; Charles Miller,
superintendent of public schools;
Theodore F. Vonnegut, president of
the school board; A. L. Trester,
permanent secretary of the Indi-
ana High School Athletic Associa-
ton, and Phil Lewis. president of
the Shortridge alumni. Band music
will complete the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30


Miss Platter always was interest
ed deeply in public movements. In
January, 1891, she, assisted by Mrs.
May Wright Sewell, and with the
backing of the local Association of
Collegiate Alumniae, set up a uni
versity extension center here. Miss
Platter became the manager of the
courses offered at the center.
She brought to the city such we'll
known authorities as DR.. Richard
Moulton of England, Mrs. jeremiah
Whipple Jencks, DR.. James Albert
WOODBURY. and Dr. Edward A. Ross.
In this instance, the particular
part" of her fortunes brought her
an invitation to address a confer
ence on extension courses at the
University of Chicago.
Later, with organization of the
indianapolis Teachers Federation,
Miss Platter was appointed chair
man of its press committee. She did
much to obtain backing of the pub
lie for the better things done by the
schools.
Miss Platter became a charter
member Of the Collegiate Alumnae
(now the Association of University
Women. AS a member of the fell
lowship committee of the organiza-
ton, she helped select the women
who were awarded fellowships in
European and American universities
by the association on the basis of
competitive theses.
Help Blind Women
One of her most outstanding
achievements was made in the be-
half Of blind women. Miss Platter
first called the attention of the COL
legiate alumnae to the fact that
women we're not admitted to the
National Deaf Mute Institute at
Washington, D. G.
Miss Platter determined to right
this wrong if possible. She was ap-
pointed a committee of one to send
petitions to the president of the in
stitute, to President Cleveland, to
both houses of Congress, and pri-
vate letters to many members OF
that body.
Within year she was notified
that her petition was granted and
a number of young women entered
the National Deaf Mute Institute
that fall, six of whom were from
Indiana.
Miss Platter recalls with amuse-
ment the day when an old building
formerly joined to Shortridge al
most fell in. The papers announced
from the school Offices that pupils
were forbidden to enter, but that
the teachers would go in and get
the students books. The teachers
did, Miss Platter said.
Miss Platter was graduated from
Connecticut Wesleyan College in
1882. She also attended Vassar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
5000 Are ENROLLED
Twenty-Five Catholic Par
iSh Schools Opened.

An approximate enrolment of
5000 was reached in the Indianap-
ellis Catholic schools with the open
ing Monday of the Holy Cross
School. Twenty-Five parish schools
have been opened in the last two
weeks and an increase in other
schools has been reported.
Only a few schools have been
over crowded because of extensive
summer improvements.
Cathedral High School has the
largest enrolment of any local in
stitution. It's "last minute" num-
Der has reached 628. st. Philip Neri
shows the largest enrolment of any
local parochial school. It's present
attendance is ITO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
WINS WRITING CONTEST
Two High School Students Get Gold
Pin Award.

Remington gold pins were
awarded Miss Mary Hummer and
Charles O'Brien. of Manual Train
ing High School, for speed tests
written during May and June. Miss
Hummer wrote fifty-six words a
minute and O'Brien SIS.
/ A large number of other awards
were made. Awards for this years
tests will be made next June.
Other students in the commercial
department organized a shorthand
post card club last June to keep
in practice during the sl-mmer. All
correspondence was in lorthand
The cards still are being circulated
at Manual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
Purdue Holds Swine Day

BIZ Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 3d.
Purdue University's annual swine
day is being held today at the ex-
perimental swine farm three miles
northeast of West Lafayette. Re-
suits of fedding work wefe shown.
Speakers included Dean j. H. Skin
ner of Purdue. H. J. Reed, C. M.
VeStal and j. r. Wiley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN
TEACHERS BY PARENTS
Faculty of Fleming Garden School
Will Be Guests.

Will BE Guests.
Teachers Of the Fleming Garden
School will be entertained tonight
with reception given by the Par
ent-Teachers Club of the school,.
The program will consist of ad-
dresses, music, dancinl and read
ings. Mrs. Werner Drago will give
the welcome address followed by a
violin solo by Leon Thompson, ac-
companied by Mrs. Thompson. Mrs.
Bruce Maxwell will also give short
address. Four reading numbers will
be given by Miss Elizabeth Virginia
Rowland and Miss Esther Graves.
Misses Agnes Weddle and Dolores
Spaulding will entertain with indi-
vidual dances, and Mrs. E. Sauers
and Mrs. Mary Brown will give
piano solos.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
MATRIMONIAL CALLING
Wives and Husbands to Contest at
Fair in Evansville.
BIZ Tfmca SnccinL


EVANSVILLE, Ind. Sept. 80
Wife calling and husband calling
contests will be features of the
Scott-Vanderburg Counties fair to
be held here Oct. 10 to 20. The
rules call for the use of first names
only, on this order: "O-o-oo-e,
Hiram" and "Ye-a-a-ah, Matilda"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
GIRL TO ATTEND FARLEY
Manual High Student Is Delegate
to Junior Red Cross.

AAASh oNhACAAV -
to Junior Red Cross.
Miss Edna Kirch, senior at Man
ual High School, has been chosen
by Principal E. H. Kemper McComb
to represent the Indianapolis Junior
Red Cross at the seventh annual
convention of the American Red
Gross in Washington, D. c., Oct. 2-6.
Miss Kirch is president of the
Manual Junior Red Cross. She will
leave Saturday, accompanied by
Principal McComb, who is president
of the Indianapolis junior organiza-
ton. She probably will be the only
junior representative from Indiana
at the convention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30

Each year there are 10000 appli-
cations for patents in Washington,
D. G. Many are not granted, but
about 10000 are issued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30

Fourth grade scientists" at the
James Whitcomb Riley School have
gone in for making seed charts as
part of their nature study work in
the last two weeks.
Every boy and girl in the fourth
B grade is bringing in specimens of
seed plants for the charts. This
week the class is studying flying
seeds; later they will make charts
of the sticking seed plants. Dozens
of different kinds of seeds are COL
lected by the children for the charts.
One day each week is devoted to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30

nature study. A committee of
young "naturalists" was appointed
to supervise the chart making.
They are in the picture above, Jean
Woods, 9; Elsie Boyer, 9. and Vir-
GINA Viking, 8.
After their seed study, the class
will study insects including butter
flies, locusts, flies, etc. They have
already started butterfly cages. Mrs.
Florence johnson, teacher, said that
they were planning to have an
aquarium when they begin study
! ing fishes.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-04
. COMMERCIAL CLUB CONTINUED

and is making the most rapid and substantial growth of any city in Alaska, except possibly Ketchikan.
 He also told the Club that notice had been sent out by thegovernment, to the various steamship companies and to the general public that dur ing the summer, while the dredge is placing powerful blasts for the re- moval of rock, that the Narrows would be closed to navigation. This may handicap the people of Peters burg temporarily, but it was un- avoidable. He said that the fact that in the future no sea-going ves- sels would have to avoid the Mar rows because of insufficient depth of tho channel should compensate for the temporary inconvenience.
 MT. and Mrs. Ole Hayne and fami- ly have been in Petersburg the past week for medical and dental atten- ton.
 A near tragedy occurred Wednes- day when playmate pushed little Billie Nagasumi off log upon which several boys were playing. Little Jackie Allen vainly tried to rescue his friend but when he saw the wa ter was too deep for him to be of any help, he cautioned Billy to keep his head up and ran for help. The Bailey brothers, who were working near by answered his call and in spite of heavy clothing and boots, Ben Bailey jumped in and swan to the aid of the drowning boy. AL though Billy was unconscious when he was dragged from the water, he soon revived and is now home none the worse for his experience.