The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1932, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 20, 1932. BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG % LS - RIGHT AT THE ‘?ING— WAITING FOR THE LETO R T W HERE 1S TERRIFIC - -- LoOK ! THERE'S HERE WE ARE, BOYS A GGEST BATTLE OF THE YELLING — EXCITEMENT LLY CLIMBING THROUGH Emstem, Headm{_r for Post at Princeton, Has His Olm Idms on Effective Teachmfl sumNG D[]WN By TOM WILHELM BERLIN, Dec. 20.—Children who blame the teacher when schoo!| grades bring reproaches at home, | have @& stout defender in Herr | Professor Doctor Alber: Einstein, | German physicist and mathema- tician, The rénowned author of the theories of relativity and the uni- fied field, as he was preparing to cail for America December 10, was | revealed &s one having his own | ideas about teaching. 0. K. To Blame Teacher | He may put them into effect in classes at Princeton where he s{ to become head of the school of mathematics in a new institute for advanced learning after he has| completed some work at Mt. Wil- | son obsérvatory in Californi For example, the children that teacher i5 to blame; thinks %00 | many of the present day school | curricula: are clogged with drift- | wood; he favors vocational train- | ing as ‘8 fundamental basis for building future instruction. Decries History Study And what's more, he thinks four hours a day is long e h to keep pupils in scl ided they spend two hours m doing home- work. In a book by Alexander Mosz- kowski explaining these Einstein ideas, the scientist is pictured as maintaining a halfway position between the old form of schooling, and that of the ultra-modernist | ideas and as holding that too much | Observatory in California. vanced learning at Princeton. Prof. Albert Einstein, of relativi up his duties as head of mathcmaties in He saziled fro | 10 and, traveling via the Panama Canal, goes first to Mount Wilson ity fame, i expected soon to take a new institute of ad- Germany December time is wasted on non-essentials. g He feels for example, that his- | tory instruction is, in the main, time thrown away; hence, to ac- commodate his planned 4-hour scheol day, he would jettison--er ers, or officials. cut down the time allotted to his-/ Men, he believes, chould be toe tory. (school’s goal, not skull “I dom't think it’s so unfortu- | e nate,” he said, “if the pupils know nothing - of Alexander the Great, RITES TOMORROW or a dozen other plunderers. ‘World history,’ it is called, but the larg- est part of the teacher's work is| little else than a minute, detailedq| R'tes for Rachael Miler, four- recitation compressed into a weari- | Y2ar-old Indian girl, daughter of some table.” {Mr. and Mrs, James Miller, who “As soon as the pupil learns a‘d.ied Sunday evening at the fam- little of the gray past, he is spared i1y home in the Indian village, will Cyrus and Artaxerxes and given | |be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 @ smattering of Archimedes, of in-|©0¢lock in the Presbyterian Native ventions and discoveries in order|Church. Rev. Samuel G. Johnson to. avold winding up the course as| Will Tead the service. a sequence of bloody adventures”| Interment, in Evergreen Ceme- the professor sums up history in- |tery, will be under direction of the structions. | Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Prof. Einstein recommends obli- P T gatory vocational instruction in|{ ATTENTION, ODD FELLOWS! some practical vocation, the pupil| Aurora Encampment A-1, I. O to be free to choose which trade|O. F. will confer the Royal Purple he wishes to follow. degree in I. O. O. F. Hall, Juneau, “This. hand work would bring | Tuesday evening, Dec. 20. Members to the pupil a preparation for the}urged to attend. The “Camp” cook highe rtraining and it is not meant | will be there. to be a golden goal. Rather it L. W. KILBURN, would broaden and solidify the| Scribe. fundamentals upon which he must | —————— stand as a mortal personality,” th»[SEE the Dollar Table at the Nug-| savant ‘believes. jget Shop. You'll be surprised. ad\' The Einstein theory of school procedure, Moszkowski says, would | not be directed at turning out fu- ture lawyers, teachers, book writ- | —adv. existences. | FOR INDIAN GIRL l DOUGLAS NEWS NDAY SCHOOL TO HAVE CHRISTMAS TREE FRIDAY Friday evening, December 23, at 7:45 o'clock is the date announced for the Christmas Tree exercises to be held by the Congregational Sunday Schocl. An appropriate and interesting program, to be an- nounced later, is being prepared for the occasion. - COMMUNITY TREE SET UP IN DOUGLAS / The city’s Christmas tree was set |up yasterday under ¢he direction .°f Marshal Schramm and lights were being placed on it to- |day for the first display tonight. The tree is in a new location, hav- ing meen erected at the intersec- |tion of Sscond and D Streets. A beautiful sight are the Christ- mas trees in front of Deputy U. S. Marshal Feero's residence and Wahto's home, which light up the upper part of D Street. Make Y our Christmas Dream Come True By selecting your Frock from the new : arrivals in Street, Afternoon and Evening Wear Snappy Styles and New Color Combinations in Crepes and Sheer Woolens. Sizes 14 to 44 EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN Winter Coats Plain and Fur Trimmed Sizes 16 to 46 NEW SOFT TURBANS—Black, brown and blue Shop Early for the Best Selections Open Evenings JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the Big Values Opposite Harris Hardware Co. { unsettled Chicago 12— AND HERE COME THE. OTHER GLADIATORS — AaLL FIVE OF 'EM . AND, BOYV, oHBoY OH,BAY, ARE THEY. TOUGH- .+ + 2 uot 1 of Alaska Jungau mim < today is 13'%, American Can American Power and Light, naconda 6'2, Bethlehem Steel| Calumet and Heela 2%, €olo-| 1] Il‘ Fuel and Iron, no sale; Co-| Carbon ' 27'%, Chrysler| N n Y IG Centinental Oil 5%, Curtiss-| Wi 1%, Fox Films 1%, General| ‘ Motors 13%, International Harvest-| ler 21%, Kennecott 8%, Packard| Many Issues Lose from One Mutors 21, Safeway Stores 39%, to Three P o l nts—o | Standard Brands 147%, United States )s ecl 274 Some Recover 53. C. Lumber Exports Establish New Record STOCK PRICES 'Z u\ |13 NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The Stock Market broke out of the narrow| trading y,.on the down ————— side, issues losing more VANCCUVER, B. C., Dec. 20— | than tu points. Numerous re- Lu r shipments to Great Bri-| coveries from a fraction to a ppint tain for the first eight months of | from the lowest were made before this year, which total 69,000,000 the closing. Selling was moderate 1 constitute an all-time regord. and the closing heavy. 1©On this basis, shipments from Frofessional traders were evi- Brillsh Columbia will exceed 100,- dently discouraged at inability to 000000 feet this year, eclipsing | | enlist a public following for their the 19&0 record of 98057521 | |Ceylon; the total for a year being - LABOR CAMPS ARE PLANNED SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 20.— |State Déepartment of Finance plans for employment relief contemplate the establishment this winter of 5 labor camps to accommodate /17,000 non -resident unemployed. | This will nearly double the camp| accommodations of last year. Climbing Peril in Ceylon COLOMBO—Offlcial figures show that at least one man a day is kliled by falling from a tree in | 410. Most of the accidents oecured | to men picking cocoanuts. PR i ekl Let the advertisements help you! | make your shopping plnm recent efforts to get at the up- side. i Whoa! D A new low for Liverpool v hant grain. Tobaccos ran into selling as the Novomber cigarette consumption showed only a moderate decline.’ P | American Tobacco dropped more | than three points hbut recovered a fraction. American Telephon:2 graph lost more than and recovered one. Steels Drop | United States Steel, preferred | |was off nearly three points and common half that. Bethlehem Btel was off one and one- half points. Loews, Union Pacific, Liggett and Myers B were off two points. Issues off one point or more included American 'Can, American | Gas, National Biscult and New | { York Central. CLOSING PRICES TODAY " | NEW YORK, Dee. 20.—Closing| and Tele- two points Stands, tasaadd FRUIT CAKE SWEET ROLLS PUMPKIN PIES PEERLESS B. 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