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possible according to ability ane
learning level.
/ Gen. Lanes demotion plar
would not work, even if it were
desirable, the committee said. be.
cause there is no single criterion
to use" to produce homogeneou;
classes. The report pointed ou
that a child may be at one leve
in arithmetic, another in socia
studies and still a third in read
ing. 1t asked how a child cal
fairly be denoted on such {
basis.
Despite recent low achievement
averages, the report asserted tina
District schools are maintaining
high standards. 1t denied ,ther'
are wholesale promotions, point
ing out that Is per cent of thu
clty's first graders were failee
last June and stable percentage.
failed in other grades.
1T is the duty of the public
schools to accept children with
out blaming them or Furnishing
them for their lack of intelli'
igence or limited cultural back
ground" the report declared.
THE personnel of the schoo
system is extremely aware O.
how much more needs to be done
and that constant effort must b.
employed to insure better anc
better ways of teaching all 0.
our children. To this end WI
are dedicated. Mass demotior
would not help us to attain oul
goal"
! Changes Considered
i Besides calling for more teach
ers, the committee also noted
that consideration is being giver
to revamping the high schoo
course of study and to raising
the school entrance age.
| The special committee wa
headed by Miss Katherine Scriv'
ener, assistant to Edith A. Lyons
assistant superintendent il
charge of elementary schools
Other members were: Norman
Anthony, principal, Stevens
School; Mrs. Agnes Arnold. as
sistant principal, MacFarlant
Junior High School; Mrs. Angela
Bishop, principal. Simmons
School; Miss Sue Brett, super
vising director of English; Dr.
Hannah L. Cayton, associate pro.
lfessor, District Teachers College
1 Also, Edward J. Edwards
principal, Garfield Turne,
School: Mrs. Ethel Grubbs, su
pervising director of mathema
tics; Mrs. Frances Haas. prin
eipal, Thomson School; Mis-
Elizabeth Jameson, assistan
principal, Jefferson Junior High
John Koontz, principal, Ana
costa High: Miss Dorothy Lewis
principal, Kimball School.
/ Also, Charles Lotion, prin
cipal, Dunbar High; Miss Eliza
beth Morrow, counselor, McKin
ley High; Miss Celia Open,
helmer, counselor. Woodrow
Wilson High; Miss Veryl Schult
supervising director of mathe'
MATES, and Miss Mary Louise
Strong. supervising director O
English.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-24
Arlington Palmer
Takes New Position

Joseph L. Intermaggio, Airing
tons chief planner, is resigning
to head the Highway Research
Boards urbanization research
project.
The board, with Offices in
Washington, is a private organi-
cation affiliated with the Ma
tional Academy of Science.
Mr.. Intermaggio. 40, of l400
South Barton street, has been
county employee for more than
three years. His resignation is
effective April 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-24

| on lack OF liabilities dllu pei
ers. smaller classes and more
special classes for slow and NAL
adjusted children.
School Supt. Hobart M. Cor
ming released a 10-page report
which he said was prepared by
the group of educators to guide
him and the Board of Education
in the current controversy with
Gen. Lane, District Engineer
Commissioner, over school OPP
IerationS.
! Would Test All
! Gen. Lane, at an educators
meeting two weeks ago. proposed
testing the city's 100000 pupils
and shutting them next fall on
the basis of the results-demot-
ing some and skipping others
ahead.
The District official, who with
the other two Commissioners
controls school finances, has con-
tended achievement lags now
troubling the school system can
be COPIED with by regrouping pu-
pills to make classes homogeneous
with children more nearly at
the same stage educationally.
/ The committee of educators
challenged this, however.
The committee said demotion
would not create homogeneous
groups but would create
an incredibly wide span OF in
telligence, age and experience"
Adverse Factors Listed
1t also predicted large-scale
demotions would hurt pupil
morale, cause serious discipline
problems, "penalize" slow chill
dren for failing to achieve the
impossible" and drive children
out of school and into delin-
quency.
Teen-agers might suddenly
find themselves required to play
games with small youngsters and
sit at understood desks, the
group warned. On the other
hand, the report also predicted
that children who skipped grades
might be overwhelmed and dis
couraged" by inability to keep
up with older children.
Objections repeatedly gathered
from a group of high school STU
dent leaders we're included in
the educators report.
The teen-agers' predicted de-
motions would cause unbearable
embarrassment, and cause sex
problems"
Boys and girls on the high
school level normally date. If
these mature students were de-
noted to lower levels, serious
problems would be created due
to age and experience differ
ences. The stories told to
younger children would excite
and confuse them" asserted the
report on the .teen-agers' COM
ments.
| DrOpoutS Threatened
More than one pupil stated
that he would leave home or
drop out of school," the group
added, predicting that children
OF all ages would bitterly resent
being grouped with others
younger than they"
THE normal child is unhappy
when he fails" the report said.
Imagine the effect upon his
morale. and consequently upon
his incentive to learn. The
feeling of defeat and shame
which would follow could
only encourage truancy, the first
step toward juvenile delin-
quency."
The committee strongly de-
Tended established policy of Dis
trict schools to keep children as
much as possible in their own
age groups. Within those age
groups, it said, the schools al
ready prolIn children as much as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-24
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Rifle Asso-
citation concludes its meet
ing in the Sheraton-Park
SIotel.
The American Congress
on Surveying and Mapping
and American Society of
Photogrammetry conclude
their meeting in the Shore
ham Hotel.
The Animal Health InSti-
tute winds up its three day
meeting in the Shoreham
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-24

mlSSlVe. HIS earnest prayers Tor
life were answered and God gave
him Is extra years, and for a sign
performed one of the greatest
miracles causing the shadow on
the sundial to turn back 10 degrees.
Astronomers in Babylon were
perplexed. Being told that Israels
God had performed the miracle
for Hezekiah, the King of Babylon
sent ambassadors to Israel's King
to learn of the God who could
perform such wonders.
Here was Hezekiah's oppor-
tunity The history of the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-24
A Thn11glrt fnr Unhay
Lenten Reflections on Fovorite Stories
From the Bible by People You Know
BY WALTER L. FOWLER
District Budget Officer

The 10th Chapter of II Kings contains the story of
the dismal failure of good let his light shine in
a moment of great opportunity.
Hezekiah was the man. God told him to set his house
in order, for death approaching. He not sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-24
Report Advises CORNING
Against Demotion Plan
School Officials Fear Threat to Learning;
Call for More Special Aid to Loegords
By JAMES G. DEANE

Brig Gen. Thomas A. Lanes plan to denote District public
school aggards been rejected by of II principals
who yesterday declared that the plan
adopted, learning would suffer-
educators blamed present District schooling difficulties
facilities and personnel calling for teach
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-13
Leaps Save Four
AS Jets Collide

VALDOSTA. Ga, July l3. up.
-Four Air Force flyers narrowly
escaped death yesterday when
two jet planes collided near
Fargo, about so miles from VAL
doSta.
Two pilots and two radar OBJ
servers parachuted to safety
near the Okefenokee swamp.
1t. Benny o. Hawley, United
States exchange student at
Moody Air Force Base from Ma
coma Park. Okla. and 1t.
Charles E. Holly of Lincolnton,
N c., student. were plotting the
planes. Their radar observers
were I'd 1t. G.. w. Bishop of
KlnglSher, Okla. and LIST 1t.
Richard j. Welsh of Miami. Fla.
both students.
1t. Welsh was hospitalized
with cuts and abrasions. The
others were unhurt. The men
were picked up by nelicopter and
brought to Moody.
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linquency. One of these is the
Boys Club of Washington,
founded in 1921 to help solve
youth gang problems.
Our program is more pre-
ventive than correctional" ex-
planned Paul Casassa. executive
director of the club. I'VE feel our
program keeps many boys from
getting into trouble"
Mr.. Casassa said the Boys
Club was very successful in
C h an ging tough Georgetown
gang members into law-abiding
youths. The club now is attempt
ing the same mission in the
Northeast with members of the
Saints gang. Within the last two
months, about dozen teen
ayers have Joined the club and
the gang has remained on the
peaceful side of the law.
Still in the study stage is a
plan being developed bv the ad-
visory committee of the Youth
Council for testing all first-grad-
ers in the District to learn which
children are most likely to be-
come juvenile delinquents.
Early Activity Guide
DR.. Duval pointed out that
early detection would provide a
better opportunity for redirect
ing the activities of he delin-
quent child. He said the plan
would provide for social workers
to work with both the delinquent
child and family to establish
that kind of relationship neces-
sary for well-behaved children
But before we can do any,
thing effective about changing
the nature of juvenile gangs and
CURLING juvenile delinquency" he
added, I'VE have to have the sup
port of the community"
Shorty, the rowing leader.
would like some of that support
now.
These kids are crazy about
boxing and football" he laid
They don't care much for touch
football. What they want is some
equipment so they can play
tackle football, and that means
sponsors.
And it isn't only money" said
David Brown. regional recreation
director. I'VE need volunteer
adult leaders. They wouldn't
have to be experts on sports
There are lot of ways people
can help-teaching sewing, weav-
ing or other arts and crafts.
These kids just want some
one to show an interest in them"
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Lost Of q Series
the near future" said a Recrea-
ton Department official. Even
tually, we would like to have IL
to 20-enough to cover every
section of the CITY,"
Shorty was carefully selected
for the job His small stature
cool composure, boxing ability
and even the color of his skin
were factors in the selection. He
had to be someone teen-age gang
members would accept.
And once on the job, there
was no rule-book. A rowing leader
works with his wits-and some
times his fists.
Gangs Suspicious.
The kids are suspicious of
strangers said Shorty recall
ing his first days with the gangs
They want to know all about
you, and they have to be sure
you're not a police informer be-
fore they will take you into their
confidence"
Teen-age gang members also
are quick to test adults.
Il began by showing some OF
the boys how to box recalled
Shorty. Right off, the leader OF
one of the gangS-a 6-foot boy
challenged me to a fight in the
ring. I gave him a whipping and
now we get along fine"
The rowing leader has no Of
flee or car. He goes to the
gangs on school yards, street
corners and alleys. And very
early in the game. he lets the
teen-agers know he's not out
to break up their gangs.
This is an important point,
and DR.. Addison M. Duval,
chairman of the Youth Councils
Professional Advisory Commit
tee. explains why.
Membership in a group is a
natural, normal maturing proc
ess," said DR.. Duval, a psychia-
triSt.
Akin to Fraternity
Group or gang membership
is a healthy need" he added,
THE teen-ager wants to get to-
gether with others his own age
to talk about their feelings and
problems.
Joining q gang is no different
from joining fraternity or any
socially acceptable club-it's all
part of the desire for prestige.
The difference between the de-
sirable and undesirable group is
in the goals of the group.
IF the members of a club or
gang seek to gain prestige
through constructive activities,
there is no problem. But when
anxieties arising from poor home
relationships are expressed in
aggressive, hostile action, the
gang is in trouble. So the prob
lem is not in having gangs, but
in directing the activities of
members"
This is Shorty's job-directing
the activities of $50 gang men,
bers along peaceful lines. Police
and recreation leaders agree
that the work of the rowing
leader already is beginning to
show results.
Three gangs in the area have
formed what they call the L (for
area l. Key Council. The coun-
Gil is made up of leaders of tile
various gangs. The idea of the
council is to police the gangs
Membership laws provide for ex-
pulsion of members who commit
crimes.
The first big project Of the
Key Council is a banquet SEIZED
uled for early August. The coun-
Gil now is attempting to get en-
tertainment and some sports fig.
ures "the boys can look up to.
In addition to the rowing lead
er program. several boys club
throughout the city wage a con
tinual battle against Juvenile de
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-13
D.C.'s TEEN-AGE GANGS
Rowing Leader Begins
Experimental Contacts
By AL ALIBRANnO.

soft-spoken youthful ex-boxer called Shorty" by I'd
precinct eenagers has found approaching Washing
toms gang problem.
On Recreation Department rolls. Shorty listed rowing
leader The compactly built former college Army
hired little more than month after the Commits
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SionerS Youth Council decided
a bold, new approach was needed
to solve teen-age crime here.
If he is successful. we will
ask for nine rowing leaders in
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Worlds Largest Cigar Center

of Utopian socialism. The day of
Wendell Phillips and William
Lloyd Garrison and Susan An
thony. No less a person than the
last herself admits to having come
under the spell of Ernestine Rose.
Reformers had to go through a
powerful lot of heckling in those
days, by those who wanted no
change in thee status quo and
Ernestine Roe had the knack of
subduing the heckler.
The last selection for the hall
of fame is a woman who combines
several of the qualities of the pre-
ceding. Ada Menken combined in
telligence with glamor. Imagine
a female Theodore Herzl joined
to a Gypsy Rose Lee. Merely to
think of such a combination is
ludicrous, yet Ada Menken was
something like that. Back, in the
days before the Civil War, this
young woman who had barely
reached the age of twenty was
writing poems calling on. Jews to
restore. the Jewish State, the same
Ada Menken who was shocking
American audiences by giving the
first performances seen in this
country Of an actress in tights.
She died at the age of 81 and yet
in so short life, she fascinated
everybody from young Mark
Twain to Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow, who visited her as she lay
dying in Paris.
It is an interesting gallery of
portraits that Simonhoff has pre-
sented. He is now at work on a
second volum that will bring the
Jewish Notables up to date =
from the Civil War to the present
time. Woman has branched out
in the succeeding generations, but
it may be that Mr.. Simonhoff will
find it difficult to get together
a more interesting selection on the
distaff side.
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TAMPA, FLORIDA
jeWeSSeS in Hall of Fame

resident of that state and at one
time served in the South Carolina
legislature. Yet is was more than
state pride that caused Simonhoff
to include Penina Noise. Charles
ton, as he points out, in early
American history was one of the
important cultural centers Of
America.
Penina Noise was the Spirit
ual" type. She owes her claim to
fame chiefly to the hymns which
she wrote which for time were
included in the Reform Jewish
prayer book. She was blind for a
great part of her life.
Ernestine L. Rose, the fifth Sc
lection is the crusader. The daugh-
ter of a Polish Jew, she travelled
about Europe, settled for a time
in England and later came to
America at the time when Ameri-
ca was experiencing a great re-
form agitation. It was the time
of abolitionism of the beginnings
of the woman's rights movement,
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CONTINUED from Page 40

he fiancee of the famous Arneri-
an author, Washington Irving.
Hiss Gratz nursed her as she lay
ying of tuberculosis. Irving later
old about it to Sir Walter Scott
Who used her as the model Of
he Rebecca Of Ivanhoe.
The GRATIS were very friendly
With the Henry Clay family with
Which it married. Rebecca Gratz
herself was never married. She
vas the founder of several charit-
Able organizations.
Penina Noise, the fourth selec-
lion, comes from South Carolina,
The state of which Mr.. Simonhoff
may properly speak with some au-
thority. Harry Simonhoff was long
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u u ~
THOs. j. OWEN & SON. Auctioneers,
iii E 81. NV.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
TWO STORY BRICK APARTMENT
BUILDING BEING KNOWN AS
PREMISES NUMBER IA s STREET
BY virtue Of a certain deed of trust
duly recorded. in Liber No. 964ti,
Folio 239 ct sea-. of the land rec
ords Of the District of Columbia,
and at the request of the party
secured thereby. the UNDERSIGNED
trustees will sell, at public auction
NINTH f'DAY DAY OF "A AUGUST NThNlf' A.p
1855. AT TEN O'CLOCK
PM. the following described land
and premises. situate in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. and DESIGNATED
as and being Lots and 9 in
Block IA. "Bloomingdale." as per
plate recorded in the ONCE Of the
surveyor for the District of Colum-
bia,. in Liber County z, at Folio 40
said property now known for pur.
poses Of assessment and taxation
as Lot S03 in Square 3511: subject
70 covenants and restrictions oi
Terms: Sold subject to a prior
deed Of trust for approximately
$40, ,400.45: further particulars Of
which will be announced at time
OF sale: the purchase price above
said trust TO be paid in cash. A
deposit Of $500 required. Convey.
ancing. recording. ETC.. at pur.
chaser's cost. Adjustments made
as Of date of sale. Terms to bt
complied with within thirty DAYS
otherwise deposit forfeited and thu
property may be advertised anc
resold at the discretion Of the
trustees.
NATHAN MORRIS.
JACK COOPERSMITH,
au1S,20,22. 24.2S Trustees.