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may be due to the general attitude
of doing just enough to "get by"
Painstaking accuracy seems to be q
lost art today, and so does any rea-
sonably quick facility in doing an
ordinary little task that requires
concentration. These conditions are
a challenge to our school.
Constant study is being carried on
in the District of Columbia public
schools to find ways to improve the
course of study. 1 think that with
this constant study we will be able
to eliminate ineffective methods and
reach our goal of providing a useful
education for every child.
All of our teachers continually
develop good character in their class
room teaching. They emphasize the
value of uprightness and helpfulness
to ones fellow man as an absolutely
necessary attribute for the man who
respects himself and whom his fell
low citizens will respect. I fell that
IN our District schools our teaching
force is doing splendid job in train
ing our boys and girls in character
To train our children to lead happy
lives Is, think, one of the most i'm
portant goals of our public school
system. The emphasis naturally
should not be on happy life in the
sense OF always having q good time.
The children are being taught that
ability to turn out good days work
is the greatest source of happiness
that can come to any one. The DAYS
work may be going to school, it may
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School System
CONTINUED From First Page. J

to the question: Are the bright chill
dren getting the attention they de-
serve? is that they are 50 capable
that they can get along anyway. There
are in the District of Columbia schools,
as in every other public school sys-
tenn, many splendid men and women
who as teachers give of their time
and effort to these intelligent chill
dren as well as to those who are
very slow. But hope that the en-
ployment of more teachers and the
cutting down of classes, particularly
in the high schools, will permit more
opportunities to be offered to chill
.dren of this last type. Among them
are probably many of the leaders of
our country of tomorrow. 1t is no
kindness to them to let them go
through school receiving high marks
with very little expenditure of effort
on their part. In fact, it is unfair
10 them to permit them to do SO, be-
cause when they go to college and
have to meet keener competition, with
higher standards, they will then at the
age of Is or so have to learn how to
make themselves expend the extra
effort of which they have been capa-
bic since they entered school at the
age of 6. There are also many in
dividuals among the so-called nor
NAL group who, faced with harder
tasks, could rise to meet the chal-
lenge and thereby become potential
leaders.
Long for Good Old Days"
This matter of seeming lowering
of standards is a matter of concern
to all of us who are parents or fu-
ture employers of young people. Those
who like to look back on what is
commonly called "the good old days"
deplore the trend away from the old
fashioned drill" Those of us who
were brought up on grammar, long
drill in spelling, and painstaking copy
ing and recopying Of penmanship les
sons, shake our heads ominously and
long for the good old days" Pro-
fessional educators tell us that such
drill was a waste of time and that
modern educational methods are
much better. They tell us too that
crowded classes do not give the same
opportunity for individual attention.
All of this may be true, but it seems
to me that our public schools, not
only here in the District but in other
cities, are producing many boys and
girls who cannot write legibly, spell
correctly, express themselves clearly,
or do a job with the accuracy that
employers require. Some of this
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COURSE IN DESIGN
Livingstone Art Academy to Offer
Costume instruction.

A complete specialized course in cos
tune design and garment construction
under personal supervision of Jessica
Livingstone Dickinson is being offered
at the Livingstone Academy of Arts
and Sciences, which opened its thirty
seventh year September /.
Founded in New York in 1867 by
Prof. James w. Livingstone, the Wash
ington school was established in 1900
and has been in continuous operation
since then. The school numbers among
It's graduates many well-known artists
and designers.
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ACADEMY OF STAGE,
OPENS OCTOBER q
Training Institution Will Begin
Fifth Year-Varied Courses
Offered.

The National Academy of Stage
Training, a Washington institution
that is the only professional school
of the drama south of New York, will
begin its fifth year October 4.
With faculty of prominent pro-
fessionals. the academy affords prepa-
ration for a career on the stage or for
motion picture work and offers train
ing in radio technique, voice culture,
public speaking and all types of
dancing, as well as fencing and stage
dueling.
Through Affiliations In New York.
the academy has made it possible for
a large number of its graduates to
pursue their chosen profession with
success.
The director of the academy is Ira
Hards, who for number of years has
been general stage director with a
number of leading producers of Broad
way and has had prominent direct
ing assignments in Hollywood. In re-
cent years he has produced many
Broadway successes and has directed
large number of present-day stage
stars.
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BERLITz SCHOOL
PREPARES FOR 500
Day Glasses Open Wednesday.
Foreign Language Aid to
Exports Cited.

The Berlitz School will open its
fifty-ninth year Wednesday prepared
for an attendance of 500 students for
the Winter term, according to j. L.
Rehbock, director. Day and evening
classes will begin Wednesday and
October l, respectively, and the
scientific German courses given by
Herr Gabriel, young German chemist,
will start October 4.
For the last two months j. Strumpen-
Darrie, president of the Berlitz Schools
of America has been visiting European
schools gathering language data.
School officials point out that, al
though exports of the United States
are increasing at a rapid pace, and
many industrialists, because of their
large production, must turn their
eyes toward foreign markets, there are
so few of those wishing to deal with
other countries who know foreign
languages.
Aside from professional reasons,
languages are studied by many as a
hobby, school officials said, because
they wish TO broaden their under
standing of other peoples.
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be taking responsible and sportsman
like part in a school foot ball game,
1t may be participating in a school
play, it may be doing an outside job
we'll. But if the schools can make 1t
clear to students that there is no real
satisfaction in life except that which
comes from doing as we'll as possible
the job at hand, it will have made a
large contribution to the lives of our
children.
What contribution should the
schools make to the community at
large? Our school buildings are large
and expensive affairs. Their mainte-
nance costs all of us a good deal of
money. These buildings, therefore,
should be used as extensively as pos
sible. The Community Center activi-
ties which provide recreation should
be both supported and used by the
community at large. The night
schools, which make praiseworthy use
of many of our school buildings at
night, are very well attended, and, in
my opinion, should be extended just
as far as the public demand justifies.
Here in Washington there are possi-
bilities, as yet untouched, for q real
adult education program. Shorter
hours of labor and increased leisure
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FALL TERM BEGUN
AT DANCING SCHOOL
Classes Opened by Marian Chace
1nstitution-Classes Care
fully Graded.

The Marian Chace Dancing School
opened its Fall term of classes Friday
in new studios at 1880 Sixteenth
street. All classes are kept carefully
graded as to age and length Of train
ing and are limited in size.
Although only the junior and senior
concert groups appear with Miss
Chace in performance. special at
tention Is given beginning classes In
both the adult and children's schools.
Miss Qhace and concert group
spent two weeks during July at Mount
Kisco, N. Y. and at Westport, Conn.
Since their return from New England
the group has been in rehearsal for
its first concert of the season, Oc-
tober 20.
The school has retained the svs-
tenn of teaching established by Ruth
st. Denis and Ted Shawn.
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make it imperative to provide facili-
ties for recreation and instruction for
q larger group of people than ever
before. Our community has enthusi-
astically supported the efforts of the
Community Center Department of the
public schools to provide recreational
facilities, but think that these can
be extended further, especially along
the lines of adult education.
Lack Personnel.
Many of our school buildings have
splendid gymnasiums and fine school
yards. 1t is trying, indeed, to all
thoughtful citizens to see school yards
closed after school and on SATURDAYS.
Only the lack of available personnel
to keep them open under proper SUI
pervision prevents greater use of these
grounds. For those children who wish
to come back after school, and wher-
ever need is demonstrated, it should
be for the community good to have a
continuation of the regular physical
education work during the late after
moons and on Saturdays This has
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.EMPLOYM CALLS
TO SCHOOL GAIN
Washington School for Secre-
taries Notes Is Per Cent
Increase in Year.

: Employment calls received by the
Washington School for Secretaries
have increased approximately Is per
cent during the first eight months of
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WuV sSS.s s, n e sSs:

are Intensive. EASY.
Complete. Short repre-
senting the latest ideas in Business and
Secretarial procedure. Beginners and
Review Courses starting. Large Employ
ment Agency openings hourly. Est 20
Yrs. Register today. BOYD SCHOOL,
1893 r ST. tOpp- Capitol Theater),
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Russia reports it harvested 92000,-
900 acres of grain crops this year.
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not been possible hitherto because OF
the small staff Of physical education
teachers, except in the case of the
in the appropriation bill for 1936-37,
requested by the Women's Safety
Committee of the American Automo-
bile Association as safety device to
keep children off the streets. which
has succeeded very well and is being
continued during the next year. 1t
is of value to the community to make
use of all the existing facilities of
the school buildings and to provide
for our children constructive recrea-
ton with resultant safety from the
dangers of automobile-infested streets.
Fuller use, therefore, of our pub
lie school buildings and grounds
should be one of the detectives for
which a community such as Washing
ton should work Such use will re-
quire, of course, more money for the
employment of personnel, if the chill
dren are to be properly supervised
and protected.
MANY Fr0DlcmS ArlSe.
AS each school year opens many
problems affecting the wise and eff
cient administration of the school sys-
tenn face both the school officers and
the Board of Education. Schools
because they have in them the most
precious possessions of any commu-
nifty, its children, are very close to
the hearts of all thinking citizens.
The Board of Education has always
sought and has been fortunate in
having the intelligent cooperation
and support of the citizenry. 1t is
hoped that this year we shall continue
to have the same cooperation from
the residents of the District of Colum-
bia. The most effective education is
developed when home and school are
working together, with complete un-
derstanding on the part of each of
the work that the other Is trying to
do. BY working together, home and
school can make the most valuable
contribution possible to our country,
namely, the production of future citi-
zens who shall carry on the mani
fold activities Of our country as in
telligent, outstanding and patriotic in
dividuals.
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Argentina has nearly doubled its
wool shipments to America this year
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and founder of the school, which is
entering its seventeenth year of train
ing secretaries. He is the author of
Outlines of Economics" first pub
lished in 1889, which has been used in
American colleges during the last 80
years.
Last year the school opened branch
IN New York to extend the scope of its
placement service, afford a wider
training for research in planning cur
ricula and to bring the training within
reach Of a greater number of people.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
PIRATES And
CARDS in IND
STRAIGHT WIN
Chisox. Even the Count
With Browns; Rain
Hits Others

NEW YORK. April % tUP)-.
The St. Louis Cardinals and Pitts
bur-sh Pirates scored their second
straight victories of the season
yesterday in the only two Ma
tional league games not raned
out. In the American. the Ch.ca-
90 White Sox triumphed to even
their series with the St. Louis
Browns.
The Cards and Cincinnati Reds
staged a wild. free-hitting game
with S.. Louis coming from be-
hind t"icc to finally win out. Ia
II. Each team used four pitchers
and collected Ii hits. 81 Johnson
started for the Cards, but was
Shellcd from the mound with a
nine-run Red burst in the fourth.
Mike Ryba was knocked out in the
same frame. and his relief man
Bill MCGEE lasted only until the
sixth when jim Winford. who got
credit for the victory, entered the
game. Paul Derringcr was the
first pitcher for the Reds. but q
six-run barrage chased HIM TO the
showers i'm the third. He was sue
cceded bv Don Brennan. Al hoi-
lingsworth. and Gene SchOtt. with
the loss being assessed against the
latter.
Al Todds triple. driving in two
runs i'm the sixth. gave the Pirates
their win over the Chicago Cubs,
Up. Ed Brandt went the route
for the Bucs. distributing 10 hits.
Bill Lee started for Chicago, but
was removed for a pinch hitter
i'm the seventh, and got credit Tor
losing. q.
Monty Stratton held the st.
Louis Browns 20 five hits. a. the
White Sox battcd out 6-l vic
tory 20 avengc their defeat Wed
nesdav. Manager Rogers HornSoy
halted i'm the only st. Louis run,
getting single in three times at
bat. Zeke Bonura got two OF the
seven hits given up by Knott and
Benefit. one q homer the other a
double. His first inning two bag
GER drove in two runs. 4 Sacrlnc"
FIX accounted for another. and h
circuit blow brought his total to
four. ,
All o+be, Games we're postponed
because Of rain and wet grounds
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
CRACKERS GET
BACK ON TOP
Pebs' Defeat Of Barons
Lifts Them to Southern's
Second Rung
By UNITED PRESS

Auanta'S Crackers, champions
Of the Southern Association for
the last two years, laid down a
barragc of - hits Thursday to
defeat Knoxville 81 and 90 back
into FIRST place with percentage
of 800.
The Smokes took but seven
hits from Dutch Leonard TO score
two runs in the first inning to
take an early lead. They dropped
back when the Crackers. starting
a scoring spree in the 4th inning
with one run. accumulated two in
the 5th. four in the 9TH and two
i'm the 9th frames, capltaIlzIng on
the Smokes four errors.
Hutchinson, Cracker left fielder,
pounded out homers in the 9Th
and 9Th.
Little Rock. with 4 narrow 4-3
win over the Birmingham Barons,
climbed from a tie at third place
TO second.
The Barons hit Porter and Dick
the first inning and once in the
man nine times to score twice in
eighth. But this wasn't enough 20
take the Barons who hammered
barrow for - hits to score once
in the second. twice in the fifth
and once i'm the ninth innings.
New Orleans. with three wins
and three losses. outhit and out
scored the Memphis Chicks to win
I'd. The Pels made three errors,
but got 10 hits to the Chicks 3:
TIE Chicks. on the long end OF
q ID score in the sixth frame
shipped i'm the seventh as Besse
and Wothcrell allowed five runs.
New Orleans scored the other two
IN tho. second and third innings.
Nashville Smashed out seven
rms in the eighth staNza to dis
noso of the LookoutS 9-3. after
Getting ono run in the second and
rixtL inninrs. Chattanooga'& pitch
ing team % Pcticolas AID Sau"r-
hrur who gnvc IN II hits, kept
hem .cattrrrd until the disastrous
Sth. The LookoutS crrorcd Cwlc".
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
SEA FORCES READY
FOR FISHING TRIP
Continued from mage y

% NSNhNh'SN"'
bay. p ~, .-,,,
lie viii proceed by automobile
TO the Confederate Soldiers home
ut Bcauvoir, once used by Jeifer-
SON. Davis, and which is midway
between Biloxi and GulfpOrt.
After visiting the Veterans
hospital at 'Gulfport, Mr.. RooSe-
Welt will entrain ut 1880 a; m
for New Orleans. Meanwhile,
American Legion members on
Ship island, - ID miles offshore'
will firera 2l-gun salute hom q
72-year-o!d cannon atop OLD
Fort Massachusetts,.
The presidential party Will ar
rive in New Orleans at 1890 p.
m. Secretary Marvin IL. Mcintyre
will set up temporary offices IN
New Orleans while the preSidcn-
tial party visits briefly and boards
the. Potomac to start the fishing
trim toward Texas. The Potomac
is due to dock here this after
noon.
Conveying will be the wartime
destroyers Sehcnck and Decatur,
which will carry newSmen ana
photographers; and the new de-
stroyer Moffett. The seagoing tug
,Montcalm from Mobile probably
will act as tcnder':o naval planes
carving messages.
The SchGnck, with 10 radio OPP
orators aboard, will nut to sea
Wednesday, TO test equipment be-
fore the, Potomac energies from
Southwest Pass of the Mississippi
river.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
FATHER Divine
IS Held AFTER
}-DAY SEARCH
Harlem Negro God Found
in Connecticut Cellar,
After Stabbing

NEW YORK, April 23.-(UP).
Father Divine, Harlem'S bald little
negro god who ScUttlcd out of
his downtown "heavcn' last Tues
day after man was stabbed i'm n
riot. was picked up by police last
night in Milford. Conn.
The negro messiah was found
hiding in the cellar Of small
house. which ore Of his faithful
angels" turned over to him aftcr
he fled into the night.
Police want him OH y charge o.
felonious assault He has been
sought in a half dozen states since
the riot, in which the little black
god" attacked a process server
who tried To serve him with q
summons from rGbclIiouS fol-
lower.
The process server. Paul Cam
ora was pummcllcd by the cult
leaders cnra%ed followers. and u
friend. Harry Green. was taken 10
ho%pIId! WIN NH ""u'." u"
his chest. He StiIl Is III crltica!
condition.
New York detectives irit imih'-
diatcly for Milford to take Father
Divine in tow.
Capt. c. +. Douglas o. MlIlofG'
who made the arrest SaId nc act
ed on TIP apparently rom :, one
of the negro CUT leader loIio l,-
erS in Milford where ne mas one
of his numerous heavens -,
The SQUAT o"a'y-1yeu S1I
was hudallnG III corner VI 1,J \,
cellar whcn Captain DouGi", "' Nv
two other ,noIic"m'N ""'Nco III
with guns dr"Wh. :,
I'VE weren't taxing c"'''''S'
Douglas SAID.
"God' DIDN'T bother ABOUT pa
inc any miracles however ~.
licked ms lips mel" ou' MS h"''"'
and said:
Here ! am J amt gong 10
hurt nobody
He was dressed IN = O.uy sI ,..
had no nat ana h"Ioeo " H'''. =
Otherwise he seemed 10 nave ~ -,
fercd no Ill effects IN M" ilIEh'
from the Harlem Heaven.
He told Douglas ne would waive
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
County's WCTU
Chooses Officers

The HenderSonville VIC. T. U.
met yesterday at the ladies' parlor
Of the First Methodist church. and
was opened with prayer by Ms.
w. C. Powell.
, Mrs. J. B. Lindsay, state .presi-
dent, spoke briefly, declaring that
the old enemy liquor, was back
again, and that it was necessary
for the organization to lift up the
standard as in 1908. She also
spoke Of the. value Of the world
conference. to be held in Wash
ington on June to 8.
Mrs. T. II. PlcmmonS also spoke
briefly and outlined the educa-
tional program Of the organiza-.
ton. ~', -r'
Election of officers was as fol-
lows: Mrs. L. p. Sims, president;
Miss Mary +. Harvey. secretary;
Mrs. L. B. Haynes, treasurer; Mrs.
McSwain, corresponding secretary,
and Mrs. w. c. Powell. chairman
of the executive committee. Sew
eral new members. were added
(Contributed). " ...s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
VENDORS. ATTORNEY
DEMANDS BOOK ON
81, HIM BE WITHDRAWN

LONDON, April 23.(UP). -
The Daily Mail said today that it
learned that the Duke of Wind
sor's solicitor has requested Will
liam Heinemann, Ltd, publishers
.of Geoffrey Dennis Coronation
Commentary" to withdraw the
hook and publish a suitable apol-
GOV on the grounds that it libcled
the former king.
In the event the publishers de-
cline the request, it was under
food that writ for libel may be
issued, according to the newspa-
pei. =, ~, :,
stood that exception was taken to
the matter contained in two chap
ters of the book. One was headed
edward VIII" and the other
"Abdication."
The book, a best seller, was
nublished April II. Dennis. a
prominent novelist, is a member
of the League of Nations staff.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
Loyalists Asking
Recall Of Chilean
Embassy Used as Spy Cen
ter; Securities Seized

VALENCIA, April %. up
The loyalist Spanish government
announced today that Chilean
Ambassador AweliO Nunez Nor
gado was persona non grata,"
automatically asking for his rc-
call.
The official press agency re-
vealed that Morgado did not leave
for Toulouse, France, by plane
two days ago rs he had planned
because government inspectors
found he was attempting to cX-
port securities from Spain illegal
ly.
The government also charged
him with permitting espionage
activities to be carried on in
buildings in which refugees were
living under the protection of
Chilean eXtra-territorialty rights.
The agency (Febus News said,
ut has been denied categorically
that the Chilean ambassador suf-
fered any mOleStatlon beyond eX-
animation of his private baggage
by officials of the finance minis
try when he was on the point Of
leaving Spain.
"An examination revealed that
the Chilean ambassador conceal
ed in his luggage securities whose
expectation from Spain is rigor-
Ously prohibited.
"Nunez Morgado, who allowed
the buildings in which political
refugees were housed to become
veritable centers for espionage,
remained in Valencia for two
days after the incident, having
been shown every kind of consid-
Grafton by the government"