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Evening star., 1933-07-21
BREAKS RUDDER CHAIN
City Of Washington Towed In by
the Firehghter.

Her rudder chain broken by a fioat-
ing log just as she was about to steam
down the Potomac on moonlight ex-
cursion, the Wilson Line steamer City
of Washington wastowed in from mid
channel last night by the Fire Fighter
as 1000 excursionists continued dane
ing
The damage was repaired within 40
minutes at the Norfolk and Washing
ton dock and the steamer continued
on down the river.
Evening star., 1933-07-21
Camp Site Selected.

WINCHESTER, Va, July 81 (Spe-
eiaD Failing Waters, w. Va. on the
historic Potomac River, has been Sc
lected by Troops 3, and of Winches-
ter Boy Scouts for their annual camp
this year. The Scouts plan to leave
Winchester July "a and spend two
weeks ct camp. ~
Evening star., 1933-07-21
On Familiar Ground.

HALF MOON BAY, Calf. G.-For
the first time in so years SOME one be-
cides Peter A. Giamocca dug grave
here 1t was for Giamocca himself.
who died at the age Of II. He had been
oficial grave digger since his youth.
Evening star., 1933-07-21
CHILD DRINKS OIL
1S-Month-Old Boy Seriously II
From Kerosene.

Thomas Washington, colored, IL
months old, 1900 block of Union court
southwest, was in a serious condition
today in Children's Hospital from the
effects of kerosene oil which he Is said
to have drunk in his home last night.
He was given first aid by doctor from
Emergency Hospital and later removed
to Children's.
Evening star., 1933-07-21
Badges Of Cooperation.

8. Consumers badge OF cooperation:
Every consumer in the United States
vino wishes to cooperate in the Presi-
dents Unemployment drive and be con-
sidered as q member in N. r. A.. may
at any time after August /, 1888, go
to the authorized establishment in his
Evening star., 1933-07-21

(6 Not to pay any employe Of the
classes mentioned in paragraph ,3) less
than 40 cents per>hour anless the hour
ly rate for the same class Of work on
July Is, 1929. was less than 40 cents per
hour, in which latter case not to pay
less than the hourly rate on July Is,
Evening star., 1933-07-21


z. Employers agreements 1cith the
President:
During the three days beginning
July 81, letter carriers will deliver at
each place of business a message from
the President, accompanied by a copy
of the form for the Presidents re-
employment agreement: A certificate
of compliance form, and a return en-
velope addressed to the district Office
of the Department of Commerce. Any
employer who has not received this
material by July 20 can obtain it from
his local postmaster.
Each employer who wants to do his
part will sign the agreement and mail
it In the return envelope
On on after August each employer
who has signed his agreement and put
1T into effect may sign the certificate
Of compliance, take it to his post Office,
and receive the posters, etc., which
evidence his membership In the N r. A.
The district Offices of the Department
Of Commerce will prepare each week a
list of agreements received from each
town, and will send one copy to Wash
ington and one copy to the post Office,
where it will be posted for public In
spection. Postmasters will send certifi-
Gates of compliance to the district
Offices. where they will be checked OF
against the list.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21

Sturm, Worthington, w. Va.
John Jennings Tucker, 80, farmer,
and Leila Sarah Tucker, %, Grafton,
w. Va.
Raymond Arbogast, 81, farmer, and
Leota Henline, 20, both of Horseshoe
Run, w. Va.
Howard Earl Halbert, 25, glass wor-
ker, and Mary Ruth Toothman, 81,
Fairmont, W. Va.
Harry Warren Burch, "a, miner,
and Florence Virginia Tuock, q, both
of Hooversville, Pa.
Robert Lewis Monroe, %, clerk, and
Pauline Elizabeth Clutter, IS, both of
Buckhannon, W. Va.
Dale Ward MullenneX, %, farmer,
Hendricks, W. Va, and Ruth Hart
man, 10, Onego, W. Va.
Albert Lee Myers, "a, steel worker,
and Nettie Dent, "a, mill worker, both
of Clarksburg, W. Va.
Lloyd S. Austin, SO, engineer, and
Margaret Mary Martin, 43, Morgan
town, w. Va.
James Edward Mauzy, 80, road
foreman, Franklin, W. Va, and Nellie
Lee Good, 10, student, Jenningston,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21

John William Renshaw, 25, clerk,
Newburg, W. Va, and Priscilla R.
Arbogast, q, Albright, w. Va.
James Farrell Knight, "a, golf man.
ager, Fairmont, W. Va, and Rose
Morgan, 10, Mountain Lake Park.
John Orendorf Gump, 81, laborer,
and Opal Ceyola Oliver, %, both of
Rivesville, w. Va.
John Calvin Bell, 81, woodsman,
and Flora Hazel George, q, both Of
Bush Valley, Pa.
Bernard Merrill Longstreth, %,
clerk, Warrington, W. Va, and Mil
bred Craddock, 81, Cameron, w. Va.
Charles Francis Hess, 10 (parents'
consent), trackman, and Margaret
Elizabeth Oliver, 18, student, both of
Rivesville, w. Va.
Paul Richard Harper, 81, laborer,
Lemont Furnace, Pa, and Cecilia
Yanger, 10, Cool Spring, Pa.
Floyd Ellis Larue, 21, merchant
Carmichaels, and Zelma Mae Cole, 10.
Nemacolin, Pa.
Walter August Hisson, %, sailor
Shinnston, W. Va, and Edith P
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21

Mrs. William OFT and daughter, of
Terra Alta, recently visited the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. R.
Savedge
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Clatterbuck,
Mrs. T. H. Mosser, Mrs. D. R. Hine-
baugh and Miss Wilma Dewitt were
Keyser and Cumberland visitors on
Tuesday.
Sister NJ John Anthony, Arlington,
N. j., Mrs Ivan Purdy and daughter,
Greene, N. Y, Mrs. B. U. Rafferty, and
Mrs. Philip Vanne, Pekin, Md, visited!
the formers sister, Mrs. E. C. Clat-
terbuck, recently.
Miss Mary Campbell has entered
West Virginia University as a stu
dent.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. U. Thrasher are
visiting in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Earl Cooper and Miss Ada
Thrasher have returned to Washing
ton after visiting their mother, Mrs.
Margaret Thrasher.
Walter Hershman, who has been
seriously i'll, is slightly improved.
S. S. Savedge continues i'll at his
home here.
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= The Founder of Our Graded Schools q

lively through progressive grades to
a day of graduation, by beginning at
a proper age with a fixed goal in view,
had not been thought of.
1t is tradition that on retiring one
night after a day of visiting in rural
schools he observed a diploma hang
ing on the wall of his bedroom, and
to his mind it brought the thought
that it was evidence of order; indi-
Gated definate work and a defnate
time in which to do it, with memoir
ial of excellence attained. Here his
vision of the need of system crysta-
lized into the "graded-schoor' plan.
Tradition records that he lay awake
all night envisioning a graded-school
system.
When one considers the simplicity
and progressiveness of McGuffey's
Readers and Rays Arithmetics it ap-
pears strange indeed that practically
half a century should elapse after
their use became general before a
system of course of study should have
been prescribed. Logically, it would
seem that the textbooks should have
been adopted to the requirements
rather than that the organization of
schools should be made to fit the texts.
In the autumn of 1874 Alexander
L. Wade organized pupils into grades
and grading classes in the rural
schools of Monongalia county. The
first examinations testing the fruits
of this labor were held March II, 1876,
and the first free-school diplomas
granted to 1876 pupils. In 1878, George
Wesley Atkinson, who was then edi-
tor of the Wheeling Standard, and
who later became Governor of West
Virginia, spent week in Monongalia
county attending the annual eXamnia-
tons in the primary schools. In an
editorial published in his newspaper
on March 4, 1878, he said: "Such
crowds of people we have never seen
assembled in the rural districts, even
at barbacues during political cam
paigns." In the third annual cata
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logue of the free schools of Monon-
gala county, published in 1878, Wade
records that at is a matter of aston
ishment to many persons that, with
single eXcpetion, the largest churches
in the several districts were INSULT
cient to accommodate, even during the
day, the vast numbers who came to
witness the examinations"
The Wheeling Intelligencer, in its
issue of December 25, 1876, contained
an editorial entitled "a Great Step
Forward in Education" reviewing the
graded-school system and recommend
ing it's adoption throughout the State.
In answer to the question, What has
produced this educational revival?"
Mr.. Wade, in his annual catalogue,
answered. at is what a student of
human nature would expect when the
advanced pupils in the free schools
publicly undertake to accomplish a
course of study in given length of
time. Let a pupil of 10 or IL years
of age take up and resolve to COM
plete, by the time he is Is years of
age, course of study which very few
pupils complete by the time they are
81; let this resolution be made pub
lie and it will become a matter of in
terest to his parents and brothers
and sisters and friends; let two pupils
undertake the work, and the relatives
and friends of each will take sides
and each pupil will be greatly stimu-
lated. Apply this to the several dis
tricts of county, and the natural re-
suit is revival"
When the West Virginia State
Teachers Association met at Martins
burg in August, 1877, it adopted a
resolution recommending:
The system introduced by Alex
ander l.. Wade into the free schools
of Monongalia county, providing for
G) grading schools, (2) holding an
nual district examinations, and (3)
granting diplomas to pupils who
complete the free-school branches,
be recommended to the county
superintendent throughout West
Virginia for their adoption.
The idea spread throughout the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21

country to such an extent that General
Eaton, chief of the National Bureau
of Education, noted the plan in his
annual report for 1878, which is ac-
copied as historic basis for the Origi-
nation of the system in the schools of
Monongalia county. He said: "Of all
the plans developed none has excited
more attention than that known as
the graduating system for country
schools, devised by A. L. Wade, county
superintendent of Monongalia."
The following year the National
Education Association gave the plan
public recognition by a resolution
that the attention of State superin-
tendents of public instruction through
out the United States be called to the
propriety of adopting a graduating
system for country schools"
Yet, while the idea was taking root
elsewhere, the prophetic zeal of its
author did not slacken. Mr.. Wade re-
tired from teaching for the purpose of
writing a book entitled "a Gradual
ing systsem for County Schools" But
still his long-eXperienced mind re-
quired further proof of his theory, and
so, while writing his book, he asked
for the principalship of the Morgan
town colored school. Here, in 1880
1881, in the midst of pupils less adap-
ted as the instruments for proof of
his theory, he tested his methods in
a new and untried field, under circum-
stances presumably less favorable to
his success.
So, after experimentation in the
rura! school houses of Monongalia
county, it came to pass that the first
well-rounded and complete grade
school in the United States was con-
Quoted on the left bank of Monongalia
river, in Morgantown-and that a
colored school, The old brick building.
until recently used by the Morgan
town Colored High school, still stands.
Wade wrote and lectured and taught
until his death at Richmond, Va, on
May 2, 1904.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21
DEER PARK

Mrs. Arthur Frantz entertained the
members of the Ladies Aid Society
of the NJ. E. church on Thursday ev-
ening. The president, Mrs. D. R.
limbaugh, had charge in the absence
of the president. Refreshments were
served. Those present included Mrs.
P. ]. Lohr, Mrs. E. E. Sollars, Mrs.
D. R. limbaugh, Mrs. J. R. Thrasher,
Mrs C. L. Brown, Mrs. H. L. Thrasher,
Misses Minnie Hennen, Mary Sollars
and Dorothy Lashorn. The meeting
next month will be with Mrs. Robert
Thrasher.
The Woodmen Circle met Thursday
evening. Business meeting was fol-
lowed by refreshments served by Mrs.
Clatterbuck and Mrs. T. H. Mosser.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21

HAL CURTIS, In The Sunday Sun
By

tending rural schools as opportunity
afforded, at almost any age from 6
to 81. They usually pursued only
such studies as interested them, with
out purpose of graduation from re-
quired course of study. Even after
the law of 1868 prescribed the courses,
it was a long time before all the
branches were taught in all the
schools, or all the pupils required to
pursue them.
1t is now just little more than a
century since Alexander L. Wade,
author of the grade-school system was
born. 1t was just century after the
signing of the Declaration of indie
pendence that he first began to CLASH
fly pupils by grades. This simple
country school-master, who made such
unique contribution to American
education, was born near Rushville,
Ind, on February 1, 1882. Seven
years later his father, George Wade,
who had migrated from Monongalia
county, Virginia, now West Virginia,
to Indiana, returned with his wife and
five children to his native county Of
Monongalia.
Alexander, eldest of the children,
began teaching school in 1848, at the
age of 16, and with the exception of 10
years which he spent as Recorder of
Monongalia county, he devoted his
long life to the schoolroom. After
years of teaching in the rural schools
he became principal of the Morgan
town public schools. Here he con-
trasted the more orderly system of
study and advancement i'll higher
schools and academies with the hap
hazard and aimless procedure of the
rural schools. Here he observed that
students employed their minds in an
arranged task, while in the rural
schools the idea of passing consecu-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21
THIRTY-TWO LICENSES ARE
ISSUED DURING THE WEEK
Half The Number Were Secured
On Saturday

Of the total number of marriage IL
censes secured at the marriage license
desk at the Court House in Oakland
during the week ending Monday at
noon. half the Observation-Disclosures
obtained on Saturday.
John Frederick Wyant, %, clerk,
and Evelyn Isabel Mount, q, stenog-
rapher, both of Weston, West Va.
Benjamin Harrison Taylor, A, oil
pumper, and Reva Rec Woofter, 49,,
both of Cox's Mill, w. Va.
Fletcher Weldon Daugherty, %, la
borer, and Edith Florence Booth, %,
both of Pennington, W. Va.
Andrew Coling, 90, steel worker,
and Ethel Lea Rovance, q, both Of
Dunbar, Pa.
Elijah Gale Walters, %, glass work
er, and Mildred Mae Bane, Fl, both
Of Clarksburg, W. Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-21

w. Va.
George Vereb, Jr., 26, Jere, w. Va,
and Helen Smith, 81, Purseglove, W.
Va.
There were six licenses issued
marked don't pblish."
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he expects before congress adj
jOurns.
Working rapidly to settle on de-
tails of the plan, the President ex-
pected today to study bill drafted
by Senator Robert Wagner Dem.,
N. ". This measure would set up
a federal boaro empowered to waive
the antitrust laws and approve
agreements among industries for
limitation of production, reduction
of working hours, fair wages, and
improved trade practices.
Whether the President champions
this specific bill, he indicated in his
address that the administration
purpose lay in that direction.
During the past four years what
previously had been considered to
be an orderly industrial system has
degenerated into one of the highest
disorder" he said. You and l &C
knowledge the existence of unfair
methods of competition, of cut
throat prices and of general chaos.
you and agree that this condi-
ton must be rectified and that
order must be restored. The attain
ment of that objective depends upon
your willingness to cooperate with
one another to this end and also
Turn to Page Nineteen)
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BY PAUL Comfy FRENCH
United Press staff Correspondent

ALLENTOWN, Pa, May 5.-NIrs. Clifford Pinchot
wife of Pennsylvania's Governor joined the baby
strike" picket lines today protesting against out
rageous conditions in the shirt factory sweatshops
of the Lehigh valley.
Pennsylvanias first lady appeared Unexpectedly
in the lines of underfed and poorly dressed children
gathered at the D. & O. shirt factory at Northamp
ton neighboring borough.
AS Mrs Pinchot stepped from the state auto
mobile which had taken her to Northampton, thumb
of cheers from the baby strikers" greeted her.
Wearing flaming red corduroy coat and red hat
she walked to the head of the line outside the plant
which has been closed since the strike called
The picket lines have been orderly and no has
sought to go to work for the pttance which the boys
and girls once received
Mrs Pinchot's presence brought the first bolster
BUSINESS to the lines The boys and girls, tired and
underfed realized they had a real champion in the
nattily dressed first lady"
THE people of Pennsylvania gradually are becom-
ing aroused to the outrageous condition of under
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PinchOt's Wife Joins Baby Strike
PicketS in SWeGtshOD District

payment and the long hours that have been dis
covered in certain factories, shops mills and mines
in the state" said Mrs. Pinchot.
I want to help call attention to the actual
facts"
Mrs. Pinchot's personal investigation of the sweat
shop conditions brought her to Allentown Thursday
night to hear testimony of alleged immoral treatment
of 15-year-od girls.
Her appearance climaxed two weeks of nvesti-
CATION by Governors committee into alleged i'm
moral and illegal conditions in many of the Lehigh
valley needlework factories.
After the session. from which men barred,
and young girls told of weekend trips to New York
with their Bosses Mrs. Pinchot said What have
heard is outrageous, and want to show my SYM
pathy with the workers
She questioned some 15-year-old girls who said
they had worked six days week ten hours day
for salaries of 81 cents SO cents SIPS $3.50 They
told her of being forced to submit to advances Of
their bosses for fear of losing their jobs.
The Governors wife said she would urge state
officials to investigate apparent violations of the
Mann act
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-05
UNCLE JOINS HUNT
FOR KIDNAPPED GIRL
Suspect in Abduction Held
at Columbus, O.
BIZ United Press

By Hffed Press
HARWICH, Mass. May 5.-A
wealthy uncle and cousin of kid
naped Peggy McMath arrived here
from Detroit today, after a speedy
trip by plane and train, to aid in
the widening search for the 10-year-
old school girl who was kidnapped
last Tuesday.
Both denied emphatically that
they brought money for a ransom.
Peggy had been missing sixty
seven hours, with not word as to
her fate, when her second cousin,
Trent McMath, assistant United
States attorney, and her uncle, Rob-
ert R. McMath, arrived here from
Detroit.
Il have come here only to help in
any way. as has Mr. McMath's
brother Robert" Trent McMath
said.
Not too hopefully, investigators
awaited complete reports from Co.
lumbus co. police. who had in Gus
tody John A. Griffin, &c. arrested at
Columbus airport as he sought an
airplane ride to Cape Cod in ex-
change for information he said he
possessed about the whereabouts of
Peggy.
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Fl Killed, $50 Injured
bu TOrnddOes in South

Jerome Fuller, Bibb county Red
Cross chairman, reported to Red
Cross headquarters here that he
had recovered the bodies of six I'M
identified persons near Damopolois.
A storm struck at Helena, twenty
miles south of Birmingham, while
residents we're at breakfast. Less
than half dozen buildings we're
left standing in the town.
Eleven bodies and fifty-fve in
jured were brought here from
Helena.
Railroad officials reported the
storm stuck Centerville, Ala, fifty
miles southwest of Helena, but COM
munication lines failed before the
extent of the damage could be
learned.
Tornadoes earlier in the week e.
suited in approximately fifty deaths
and 200 injured in Louisiana and
Arkansas.
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own relief program.
With the 1000 farmers at the
Farmers National Holiday Associa-
ton convention as nucleus, Milo
Reno, their president, hoped to
spread the movement to every state
by May 10, week from Saturday,
when the strike is scheduled to
start.
Much of the organization work
has been done already in Reno's two
years of tours through agri-
cultural communities demanding a
belligerent farm movement. But
only twenty-four states were rep
resented at the convention which
voted for the strike late Thursday
and there is much to do in the brief
time left if the strike is to be even
partly effective.
New York delegates at the con-
vention said they would pledge ne
farmers of their state to a milk
strike starting May 10, and Wis
consin dairy farmers joined.
Buy nothing, sell nothing, do
nothing" will be the slogan of the
strike against depression prices,
mortgage foreclosures, and high in
terest.
The strike is scheduled to con-
tinue until Reno and committee
of fourteen decide that their relief
demands have been met.
The directorate drew up five
point program for submission to
congress.
l. Guaranteed cost of production
for ali farm products in domestic
markets.
2. Passage of the Frazier bill to
refinance farm mortgages at long
term, low interest rates.
3. Passage of the Wheeler silver
reconciliation bill
4. Payment of the soldiers bonus
by issuance of treasury certificates.
5. Upward revision of inheritance,
income and gift taxes to ease the
property tax burden.
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of the administration plan in this
direction. ~
Already the administration as
moved in these special directions:
l. Securities control legislation, to
regulate billions of dollars in stock
and bond transactions.
House democratic leaders won a
decisive victory today in the first
test vote on this measure. Adoption
was won for a special resolution for
consideration of the blue sky"
measure under procedure limiting
debate to five hours and barring all
amendments.
So negligible was the opposition
that the minority was unable to
muster sufficient votes to demand
a record roll call. The action was
considered indicative of certain
passage before adjournment to-
night.
Rail Control Sought
2. The emergency railroad control
bill, which would give the federal
government almost absolute powers
over railroad operations while a
permanent reconstruction plan was
being devised. Pending in congress.
3. Bituminous coal operators are
in conference with Secretary of
Interior Harold Ickes over a plan
for waving antitrust laws so that
operators may function with ruinous
cut-throating, with safeguards to
protect consumer prices and wages.
4. Congress nearly has completed
farm relief legislation which will
give the federal government almost
dictatorial power over agriculture.
Farm Legislation Advanced
5. The Black Connery ive-day
week bill, limiting hours and pro-
viding for minimum wage safe
guards, if possible, will extend fed
eral control to neew extent over
interstate manufacturers.
6. Farm mortgage legislation, in
cluded in the farm bill, and home
mortgage legislation, pending in
congress, would give the government
a further stake in this field of
finances.
7. In pending initiation legislation,
the President is offered powers over
the monetary affairs of the nation
which never have been matched in
peace or war.