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Evening star., 1934-07-18
10 MEN RELEASED
IN GAMBLING RAID
Patrons Kept in Jail Over.
night When They Fail to
Raise $1,000 Bail.

Sixteen men, who spent last night
in jail because they couldn't raise
$4,000 bond each, were released today
in a turn around of events which
followed gambling raid late yester-
day.
Charges against the 16, booked on
charges of setting up gaming table,
were dropped by Lieut.. George Little,
head of the police vice squad, when
three others arrested in the raid, all
of whom had made bond, were
identified as the operators of the
raided establishment at Sixth street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
Three others, who were able to raise
the high bail, had been released
earlier.
A quantity of alleged gambling
equipment was seized in the raid and
the % men were taken to head
quarters Because the operators could
not be identified, all were charged
with the offense. Little said that
probably only two or three were
operators" as distinguished from
patrons" but in his opinion they
were equally guilty.
When United States Attorney Leslie
c. Garnett was advised of the action
this morning he said the raid was
made without his knowledge, and if
the patrons were held on the high
bond it was mistake" He said his
Office would not prosecute the patrons
on the charge.
The three men charged are Furman
z. Peake, Al, of the 400 block of
Pennsylvania avenue; Anthony Pas
sero, 80, of the 900 block of Penn
sylVania avenue, and Frank Spasaro,
Al. of the 600 block of Pennsylvania
avenue.
They we're arraigned before Judge
Isaac r. Hit this morning and a 10
days continuance was granted at the
Governments request.
Evening star., 1934-07-18
D. A. R. Historian Appointed.

LEONARDTOwN, Md, July Is
CSpeciaD Mrs. Lucy Shaw of Wash
ington. D. c.. and Charlotte Hail. Nd.
has been appointed State historian for
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton. it was announced here today.
Mrs. Shaw Is q member Of the Mai.
william Thomas Chapter of st. Marys
County. One OF the detectives Mrs.
Shaw is working on Is to find the
names of the 20 st. Marys County
men who fought In the American
RevolutioA
Evening star., 1934-07-18
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
Can honesty be taught like arith-
metic?
Can kindliness be taught like
geography
The current trend in educational
psychology Is 10 regard such quail
ties as honesty and kindliness as
habit systems which may be estab-
liShed in the behavior OF the indi-
vidual by various disciplines-either
consciously or unconsciously admin
istered. This pragmatie position is
the starting point of various tech
niques of character education now
being considered by the teachers
institute which is laying the founda-
tions for the radical experiment in
the District schools next year
The contention is that nobody is
born honest or dishonest or with any
particular trends in either direction.
Stealing may run In families because
children living in home environment
of dishonesty tend to be conditioned
into habit patterns of dishonesty. In
their particular setting thieving Is not
subject TO the social disapproval by
which a strong inhibition against
1t Is set up elsewhere If this is true
and there seems to be little doubt
that 1t is in so far as overt be-
havor is concerned--honesty can be
learned like any other discipline and
its acquisition should follow. in gen.
eral, the ordinary curve of learning
Actually it Is not so simple as all
that for the basic emotional pattern
OF the individual must be considered
in the conditioning process.
Various Techniques Tried.
Various techniques Of character
education have been standardized"
by past generations, both in school
and home. Such a technique, In
the days of our grandfathers, was
thrashing-epplied with considerable
regularity to a boys departures from
the current ethical standard for boys
The intent was to establish a strong
association between wrongness of
conduct and physical pain SO that the
very thought of truancy, stealing,
cursing or any of the other derelic-
tions of boyhood would arouse stimuli
taneously the memory of woodshed
and swishing stick. In adult So
ciety imprisonment was, and theo-
retically still is. standardized pro-
cedure for character education.
Thrashing long since has been dis
carded by the school, and largely by
the home. Superf1cially, it was based
on good behavioristic psychology, but
actually it never worked very well.
1t has no experimental background.
An unforeseen complication In many
cases destroyed its efficiency. The
association was not formed between
the pain of whipping and the conduct
delinquency. Instead, it was formed
between the pain Of whipping and
the person administering the lash.
The victim came to hate the inf1ictor
of the punishment. and not the crime.
The same criticism has been raised
against the Imprisonment of adults.
The conditioning association is not
built up between the unpelasantness
of confinement and the crime for
which it was inflicted. Instead, 1t is
built up against the law and its in
strumentS who decreed the punish
ment The man may leave Jail not
resolved to steal no more. but re-
solved to shoot a policeman.
Evening star., 1934-07-18
NAVY TO RESUME HOP.
Eleven Huge Planes Poised In
California.

SAN FRANCISCO, July Is CP.-
Eleven huge Navy seaplanes, attempt
ing mass formation fight to Alaska,
we're poised for resumption Of their
flight today after being forced down
at Santa Barbara and San Luis
Obispo by adverse weather.
Rear Admiral A. w. johnson, COM
mander Of the aircraft base force
aboard the U. S. S. Wright. advised
headquarters here the ships would
take of for Paradise Cove, on San
Pablo Bay north OF San Francisco.
The IL planes. comprising squadrons
Vp-7 and VP-9. left San Diego yester-
day, only to be forced down after
proceeding less than 500 miles.
Evening star., 1934-07-18

And the same objection holds
through the whole list Of character
conditioning processes TO which man
has turned through the ages. They
could be objective enough. although
in actual practice they often we're
not. But they we're of very doubtful
validity. The laws Of conditioning
were not understood. Physical pun
ishment was discarded by the schools
partly because 1t was realized that
it did not effect its purpose and
partly, II is probable. because the
world had come into less sadistic
age. Educators began to realize that
character has a deep. underlying me-
chanism with which 1t was dangerous
TO tinker" without the guidance OF
understanding This is the reason
for all the laboratory work which has
gone on during the past few years
in character analysis and control.
The significant fact is no longer the
mere fact that a boy lies. 1t is !es-
sential to find the underlying cause
of his lying and cure the dereliction
by removing the reason.
The educators now realize that
there is no single reason for any
particular sort of delinquency. A boy
may cheat in school because he is
intellectually too feeble TO keep up
with his classmates otherwise. He
may cheat because some unfortunate
conditioning in the past has led to
the condition where the thrill of
successfully outwitting authority is
greater than the thrill of doing well
honestly He may cheat in algebra
and be scrupulouSly honest in Latin.
Without getting at the reason. the
person who tries to reform the boy
is likely to be jousting at windmill.
The objective is character education,
as 1t is explained by leaders in the
new science, is to provide first
method of analysis and then stand
ardized procedures based upon the
findings.
Schools Recognize Duty.
The public schools recognize a duty
and an extraordinarily difficult one to
fulfill. They have passed through a
period when many educators have
been inclined to drop the idea of
character education entirely and con-
centrate on intellectual training-on
the theory that ethics was a matter
for the home and church. The schools
would attend to the mind. Let the
others have free scope with the rest.
But home and church themselves
have been more or less adrift in a
changing civilization. Many children
have no church guidance and very
little home guidance. The home, by
and large, has evolved no satisfactory
substitute for the woodshed and the
switch, poor as we're these instruments
of character education. The school
remains and various techniques have
been placed in its hands which it is
called upon to use.
In the experimental set-up the
teacher win rate, as effectively as
possible, the whole child A--physically,
mentally and morally-instead of the
progress Of the child A in reading and
arithmetic. The child will be con-
sidered as a dynamic system with one
side of the personality interacting
with all the other sides.
None realize the difficulties more
than DR.. Ballou and the experts he
has brought in the aid in establishing
the system. They are moving for
ward slowly and cautiously as pioneers
not exactly sailing uncharter seas
Of thought" but the first to be called
upon to inaugurate regular service
across them.
Evening star., 1934-07-18
POWER BOARD MEETS
TO ORGANIZE WORK
Major Task of New Policy Com
mittee to Be Study of Rates
Throughout q. S.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's new Power
Policy Committee was called into ses-
sion today TO organize its work.
The committee. which Secretary
Iekes heads. viii survey the power
field with q view to carrying out
President Roosevelt's announced poll
cy of wider use Of power at the low
est practicable rates.
A study of rates throughout the
country will be q principal task Of
the board.
Evening star., 1934-07-18
TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN
TO BEGIN MONDAY
100 Civilian Observers to
Scour Washington for
Violations.

washington's first traffic con-
scious" campaign, designed to reduce
accidents, will be formally opened
Monday, it was announced today by
Mai. Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
of police.
At that time, 100 secret civilian
traffic observers will scour the city for
traffic violations and report the re-
suits of their activities to the Police
Departments Traffic Bureau.
With the assistance of G. G. Clark
and Waldrop Robinson of the Wash
ington Board of Trade, Maj. Brown
selected the Secret Committee of 100
teers. Each of the 100 was given
number to hide their identity.
Women on Committee.
Mai. Brown said the committee OF
100 is representative of every phase
of Washington's life. Some are min
isters some lawyers, some>doctors and
some business men. There also are
a number of women on the commit
tee. All of them, however. are identi-
fed with various business, social or
civic organizations.
Fifteen form letters are being
printed by the Police Department.
These will be sent to those reported
by the secret 100 for violating various
traffic regulations.
In addition, instructions are being
printed for the secret committee.
They will read:
your only duty will be that of
submitting a painstakingly accurate
report of fragrant violations, free from
opinion and possible errors of judg-
ment."
Sergt Walter H. Thomas, head of
the Traffic Bureaus record Office, will
have supervision over the operations
of the secret committee. He will have
as assistants two civilian clerks whose
salaries are to be paid by the Board
of Trade.
"yoice" to Go on Streets.
Maj. Brown said the next move in
the traffic conscious" drive would be
to place THE Voice of Conscience" ON
the streets. The Voice" will be a
police scout car, painted white and
equipped with a loud-speaker. Two
officers will man the car and cruise
the streets, shouting words of warn
ing to motorists who violate the traffic
rules and to pedestrians who jaywalk
or walk from behind parked cars.
Maj. Brown said The Voice" would
be delivered next week and placed in
operation about July 80, or a week
after the beginning of the safety
campaign.
Tests have been conducted on a
regular police car to determine the
location of the microphone and loud
speaker to be placed on THE Voice."
Evening star., 1934-07-18
BAD FOOD SEIZED
1876 Shipments Confscated Un'
der Federal Laws.

The Federal Food and Drug Ad-
ministration reported yesterday it had
seized l36 shipments of adulterated
and misbranded goods during June.
OF the total 38 were drugs and
medicines. IS of which resulted in
recommendations for criminal prose-
cution against the makers; % were
adulterated or deficient butter; "a
were deficient canned foods: 8 salad
oils; Q alcoholic beverages; slimen-
tary pastes; tomato productions
and 10 miscellaneous food products.
Evening star., 1934-07-18
Ne,c School Plan to attempt
instruction in Code of Ethics
Honesty and Kindliness VIII Be Taught
Along With Intellectual Subjects
in District Experiment.

This fs the fourth and last Of a
series Of articles on the 'chardcter
education" experiment for the
Washington public schools.
Evening star., 1934-07-18
COL. CHANEY NAMED
AIR CHIEF ASSISTANT
Maryland Man Expected to Com
mand Randolph Field, Tex,
or Wright Field, Ohio.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department announced
today the appointment Of Lieut.. Col.
James E. CLANCY of CLANCY, Md. as
assistant to the chief of Air Corps,
with the rank of brigadier general
for a four-year term.
Chaney is now on duty in the office
of the chief of Air Corps, but is ex-
pected to assume command of either
Randolph Field. San Antonio. Tex, or
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15
FPjUlAl
PARAGRAPH

Miss Nancy Noble left today
for Independence, Mo-, to spend
few days with her aunt and
uncle. Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Noble,
en- route to Clayton, Idaho, 70
spend the summer with her sister,
Mrs. John Ogden Lightfoot.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Sans, Of
KinSton, and their sister, Mrs.
WhitehurSt, of Newbern, left this
morning for their homes after Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. f. R. Black
here and relatives in Mars Hill
for few days. They were &C
companied on the motor trip by
Miss Nancy Rose McManaway.
who will visit Mr.. and Mrs. Car
roll Waldrop in Greenville.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Wheeler
spent the weekend IN Tennessee,
having accompanied the latter's
sisters, Mrs. F. X. Bray, of Dal-
las, Texas, and Mrs. J. H. Thomas
of Memphis, who had been their
guests.
Mrs. R. E. Noble left today by
motor for New York to visit her
sister, Miss Mary Kaval. She was
accompanied by Miss Carolyn Nc
Dowell, who will visit her sister,
Miss Elise Mcdowell.
Mrs. E. Hosmer and daughter,
Miss Ruth Hosmer, who have been
guests of the formers daughter,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15
BROOKS STUDIO RECITAL
LAST EVENING

The recital given at the high
school auditorium last evening by
pupils from the Brooks Studio of
Music. conducted By Mrs. J. F.
Brooks and Miss Mary Brooks
consisted of a well varied pro-
gram of solos and duets. The at
Effectiveness of the stage setting
was furthered by the use Of
spring flowers in the lavender and
pink tones.
The awards went to Mary
Ruth Hardy and Molly Young
Sudduth for the highest memory
list, the theory prize to Charles
Morrow and the one for the best
musical scrap book to Jimmy
Stewart. A committee from the
Wednesday Music Club examined
these and made tie decision.
The prizes were plaques of IA
nous musicians. Claire Belle Rea-
ben's name was accidentally left
off of the printed programs used
last evening. A rather large and
appreciative audience attended
and SOME said it was one of the
best and most delightful recitals
the students had given.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15

Education is believed to have a
majority in favor of permitting
Alfred Williams to continue to
operate its school book deposi-
tory, since several of its members
opposed the bill in the 1888 legis-
lature to change the method of
distribution, it has been compelled
by the law passen then to call for
bids on various methods of distri-
button. The opinion here is, how
ever, that the Alfred Williams de-
pository will again be given the
Job of handling the books unless
the saving from other methods is
too great to disregard.
1t will probably never be
known whether the companies
that obtained the contracts for
the school books Just adopted
were the lowest bidders or not,
since the State Board of Educa-
ton is neither required to let the
contracts to the lowest bidders
nor to publish the bids of any ex,
cept those which were awarded
the contracts. The law with re-
gard to the awarding of all other
state contracts, either in the hign-
way and public works commission
or the division Of purchase an"
contract, requires that contracts
be awarded only to the lowest
bidders and also that all bids SUB
mitted shall be made public. But
in awarding the contracts Tor
textbooks, the board of education
is left free to award the con-
tracts to any bidders. Nor is it
required to publish the other bids
submitted. Thus the textbook
publisher or his representative
who can make the best impress
sion on the board, regardless OF
the price submitted in the bid, has
a chance of getting the contract.
Announcement has been made
already by DR.. A. T. Allen, state
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, that the prices on the books
which have been adopted have
averaged about 10 per cent less
than the prices on the old books
now in use. Those who favor di-
rect distribution of the books to
the schools, through the elimina-
ton of the school book depository
here and of local dealers, point
out that the saving in cost can be
reduced almost 80 per cent in
stead of 10 per cent. 1t is under
stood, however, that both the AL
fred Williams depository here,
most of the publishers and many
of the school superintendent are
vigorously opposing any change
in the present system of distribu-
ton,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15
SCHOOL BOOK
PRICE NOT SET
AS Much as 20 Pct. Could
Be Saved People by
Direct Handling
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, May Is. - The
prices which the children and par
ents in the state will have to pay
for the new textbooks just adopt
ed bv the State Board of Educa-
ton are not known yet, since the
board has not yet decided on the
method of distribution. The board
is expected to meet Thursday 10
decide on whether the books viii
be distributed through the pres
ent State Schoolbook Depository,
owned by Alfred Williams e. Co.,
of Raleigh, whether the books
shall be sent on a consignment
basis to the various county and
city superintendent or whether
the state will operate its own de-
pository and give the parents and
children the benefit of the saving.
Under the plan that has been in
effect for more thar 20 years, the
textbook publishers that have
won state contracts have shipped
their books to the Alfred Williams
depository here in Raleigh, which
in turn has sent them to the local
dealers. For warehousing the
books and shipping them to the
local dealers, the Williams depos-
tory has collected 10 per cent of
the selling price Of the books,
while the local dealers have also
collected profit of 10 per cent.
The 1888 general assembly, af-
ter one of the most bitter fights
on record, revised the school book
adoption law and instructed the
board of education to study diff.
ferent methods of distribution
with a view to effecting a saving
in the cost of textbooks to par
ents and children. The bill was
vigorously opposed by both the
powerful textbook lobby and by
many of the school people. But
it passed anyway. The assembly
held that the 20 per cent which
the school book depository here
and the local dealers were collect
ing for handling textbooks was
excessive and that this 20 per
cent could be eliminated by hav-
ing the publishers send the books
direct to the county superintend-
ents, who in turn could arrange
to sell the books at cost in the
various schools. This was evident
ly opposed by the superintendent
because it would make extra work
for them without any extra pay.
Although the State. Board of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15
HEN LAYS EGG HERE
SIZE OF BIRDS EGG

w. B. Reed, mail carrier, has a
hen that has outdone all others
whose performance has been
called to The Times. News atten-
ton, in the matter Of egg laying.
Mr.. Reed brought to town this
morning a hen egg. carefully pro-
tected in an envelope to avoid its
being misplaced, which weighed a
total of 55 grains. The egg Is
white, lookssas if the shell on it
might be thinner than the aver
age egg shell and is the size, or
smaller, than the average birds
egg.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15

Mrs. f. w. Ham, have decided to
spend some time here and are now
at home in the Ambassador apart
mentS.
Mrs. C. w. Harry, of Spartan
burg, S. c., but at one time OF
Hendersonville, is the guest this
week of Miss Ada Bennett.
Miss Alice Lockwood has gone
to her former home in New York
to spend about a north. She has
spent the past winter in the Am
bassador so delightfully."- that she
expects to return soon and Spend
the summer and next winter.
Mrs. Michael J. Malanaphy
spent the weekend in Waynes-
vile attending a hoUseparty given
by Miss Virginia Carter.
DR.. and Mrs. Joseph K. Sewer
motored to Newport, Tenn, this
afternoon to be overnight guests
of friends and return tomorrow.
Mrs. r. A. Byrd has gone to
Greenville, S. c., to visit her sons,
Arthur and Paul.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-15
MANY CHARGES
BEFORE COURT
Recorder Acts in Numer'
GUS Cases to Clear up
Congested Docket % b"

I'll, county recorders cour.
was in session today IN al s,,it;no
~ clear a heavy docket res'' na,,e
60 u,e tho fact that there nave
iron, Wv un' court sessions for the
DeeI +, mo weeks due to the sitting
pc pf't the superior court; ..
The docket yesterday was {"
Town MI NJ. Robbins, driving a can
h M, drunk I prayer for judgment
continued to June IL: 80,
George O'Connor, driving cal
while drunk, prayer for judgment
continued to June IL. -.
Glazener Bagwell, assault, state
takes a mol pros. =,
n the case of Taylor Garland
charged with embezzlement, the
case was transferred to the SUI
nerior court and the defendant Is
under $500 bond.
Ernest Moore, Arthur Ward,
and Luther Ward, charged with
malicious injury to real property,
assault with deadly weapon, and
larceny, plead guilty to a charge
of forcible trespass and were each
given ~ months suspended sen
tence and charged with paying
one-third the costs each.
In cases against Rudolph Mel
son and Buford Nelson, charged
with larceny, the state amended
the charge to felonious breaking
and entering and the defendants
were bound to. the superior court
under $500 bond each.
Wilson Smith, charged with lar
ceny, was given 60-day SEN
tence.
Joe Brooks, charged with lar
ceny, was given a fouth-months
sentence. He appealed to the su-
perior court and bond was set at
$500.
Harold Sutherlin. charged with
driving a car while drunk, was
given three-months sentence
and his license to drive suspended
for IL months.
In the case of Roy Clontz,
charged with driving a car while
drunk, the state took a mol pros.
Durin Lanning was given 30
day sentence on a charge Of as
sault.
F. H. Sides, charged with driv-
ing a car while drunk, plead gull
ty to reckless driving and was
fined $25 and costs,
Burgess Germany, charged with
violating the prohibition law, was
given a 60-day sentence on the
payment of the costs and being
of good behavior for II months.
In the case of J. f. Talley, driv-
ing a car while drunk, prayer for
judgment was continued to the
first Monday in August.