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CONCLAVEHEAR 0F . SEADOLS N. E. A. Groun Told of Assets of Junior High Schools by Supt. Ballou. "TEST HERE IS PRAISED Capital Will Be Given Mere of This| Type of Schools, Speak- | er Says. | Other junior high schools are to be | opened here soon, Dr. Krank W. Bal- lou. superintendent public schools ©f the National Capital, told the Na- tional Council of Education today at | a meeting held at the Washinglon Hotel Dr. Ballou pointed out that six ju- nior high schools are in operation here, and that their operation has Leen so successful that the local sit- uation is most favorable for the or- | ganization and development of a com- plete system of junior high schools. Supt. Ballou said: “The congestion which now exists in both elementary and high schools can be relicved most effectively by the opening of junior high schools, Which receive pupils from both of the former types of school esides be- ing a means of financial economy, the Junior hich schools aim to provide a 1¥pe of instruction better fitted to the pupils concerned than either of the traditional types of school.” D. C. Program Outlined. Supt. Ballou pointed out that the establishment of junior high schools in Washinzton his been based on a clearly defined platform, some of th planks being as follows: - I. That the fundamental of the junior high sc better instruction than the traditional Erades seventh and eighth and the irst year of high school have hereto- fore provided horsto That the prosram and F pro- dure of the junior high school must be adapted to the pupils rather than the pupils being fittea into the school 3. That the junior high school must be neither "a glorified elemen- tary school nor a young high school, but a distinctive institution to meet its peculiar educational problems. Do bpThat the courses of study must e especrally prepared for the junio high school! they cannet be apnign priated from the grades n Priated tron &rades nor from the 5. That teachers must be specifi- cally prepared for tne junior. high 8chools as they tradstionally are for the kindergarten, for the elementary sehool or for the high school. 6. That junior high schools should e established no faster than quali- ed teachers and other prerequis can be provided.’ et MODERN LANGUAGE PROBLEM IN SCHOOL Survey Proposed to Determine Fitness of Students and Other Questions. purpose hool is to provide A serious problem in modern lan- Ruage instruction has been created by the enormous increase in second- ary school and college registration during the last five years, together with a growing emphasis on oral in- struction, it was asserted by Dr. C. R. Mann, director of the American Council of Education, in a speech today before the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers at the George Washington University Law School Dr. Mann declared a committee had been formed to make a thorough study of the teaching of foreign mod- :rn langus the United States d Can “The committee,” he red, “hopes to determine by sci- © tests which groups of students are best fitted to pursue the study of modern languages, the best methods and materials of instruction for each ®roup and the best means of secur- ing a close correlation between the study of modern languages and other subjects in the curriculum.” Furin Says Survey Needed. In speaking on the proposed survey by the Charles M. Furin of Hunter New York City, declared "1t stands (o reason that a report of such masnitnde and scope shi have weight with the administrative officers in the organization of classes for modern language students. The report will likewise be a dependable #uide to the modern language teach- ers themselves in planning their work so as to attain the chief objec tive in hing with the smalles; possible expenditure of time, energy and public funds. That this survey has possible of execcution is efforts of the American Council on Jidueation and to the munificence of the Carnegic Corporation. The vast body of students engaged in the study of modern languages and the teach- ing profession owe to both agencies a debt of sincere gratitude.” It the United States expeets to deal Wwith foreizn buyers on their own ground, it must send representatives who can meet them culturally, Charles 1. Chandler of the C “xchange National Bank of Philadelphta de- clared “The man who rushes into a American business house and out at the top of his lungs, ‘Say, Bot the finest ice cream freezer that ever came out of Detroit, and I want some of you guys to know It is dc iNg his country a serious injury, sinc * we are judged by pes of peophe whom we send abroad,” said Charles Lyon Chandler, manager of the for- cign department of the Corn Ex- change National Bank before the Na- tional Federation of Modern Lan- guage Teachers this afternoon. “We must only export the best there is in human material as well as in our manufactures. This applies to every phase of our foreign con- tacts—to missionaries, to traveling salesmen, to our consular and diplo- matic representatives and others who g0 abroad representing our govern- ment in any capacity. The standard of many of our official representa- tives abroad will be greatly helped by the passage of the Rogers bill, which was signed by President Cool- idge on May 27 last, and which is a great step forward 'in the improve- ment of our foreign service. The Department of Commerce uses the utmost care in the selection of their appointees, and deserves great credit for what it has done in this con- nection. “We are now in an age of intense specialization, but no amount of spe- cialization should ever blind us to neglect the general cultural fields, which are sometimes, it seems to me, in danger of being crowded out of our modern scheme uf things.” —— QUEEN VISITS LONDON, Spanish Royal' Party Greeted by Mary of England. LONDON, July 3—The Queen of Spain, with the Infantas Beatrice and Christine, arrived last night. They were greeted by Queen Mary, the other royal princesses and the Span- ish ambassador, ~Signor _ Alfonso, Mer: Spanl St College, been made due to the Latin vells embassy. The Spanish queen and the Princess Beatrice,. uld § | SOUTHERN BUSINESS TEACHERS TO MEET Conference to Be Held at Bowling Green, Ky.. July 11 and 12—Dr. Swiggett to Preside. Southern teachers of business sub- jects wiil meet in a conference July 11and 12 at Bowling Green, Ky., to be held in co-operation with the summer school of Bowling Green Business University. Dr. Glen Levin Swiggett is chairman of the conference, which has been called to discuss problems relating. to teaching of secondary business subjects and ‘student prepa- ration in relation to placement in commercial positions, Among the speakers will be Arthur H. Carver of Swift & Co, W. H Minton of the American Mills Comps H. H. Smith of the Publishing Company, J. O. Mc- Kinsey of the University of Chicago and lidward Wiest of the University of Kentucky. PURTYOFENGLSH 5 A OF EDTORS G. A. Lyon of The Star Urges Teachers to Aid in War on Slang. Editors of the American press con- stantly are endeavoring to preserve the purity of the language, Gideon A. Liyon, associate editor of Tne Evening Star, told the National Council of English today, at a meeting at the Church of the Reformation. Asking the aid of all teachers of IZnglish in the constant fight against slang and bad English in general, Mr. Lyon said “The urgent need thorough training of young Amer- icans in English, by the schools, is especially felt by those who are daily engaged in the publication of the chief medium of expression, the newspaper. Latest statistics show that every morning 11,000,000 copies of newspapers are circulated in this country, every afternoon 19,000,000 and every Sunday 21,000,000 copies, or in the course of ch week 201,000,000 copies. This enormous product of the printing press is the major, and in the case of many mil- lions of the people, the sole reading matter of America Effect of Newspapers. of careful and “To the extent that the newspaper | is well written, the language taste of the people is affected for good. To the extent that it shabbily and slovenly written, it affects taste for ill. It itors of the serve the is American press to pre- purity of the language. They are handicapped by two factors, | the tendency toward slang which is demanded and unfortunately catered to in many instances, and the inade- quate training of th. ération of newspaper’ writers in the essentials of style and vocabulary, In the hurry that is unnappily the condition in which newspapers are written, much depends upon _the habitual usage of the writers. Edit- ing, so-called, consists chiefly in_cur- tailment, avoidance of libel and ad- justment, not the painstaking correc- tion of style or language that was | once possible in more favorable cir- cumstances. Hence the importance of ecuring as contributors to the daily press young men and women who are thoroughly trained, in school, in the entials of good writing. Will not .the teachers of English in_the schools of this country ‘con- sider themselves as enlisied in_this campaign for the preservation of the language? They can serve effectively, by themsclves fighting against slang and faulty syntax, against poverty of vocabulary, against, in general, bad English. "The newspapers will call them blessed for their contribution of careful, onscientious preservers of the language to the ranks of the writers for the daily press.” _Clarence Stratton, director of Eng- lish in the Cleveland high schools, spoke on “Drama, and the Teacher of English,” and Florence A. Marsh of Detroit spoke on “English in the Auditorium.” Defends School Plays. Prof. Stratton said that depravity does not follow the appearance of boys and girls together on the stage. He said, in part: “The ‘old Puritan prejudice of the drama has waned. Today, there is an intelligent and intellectual public for great drama. Classic and modern plays, long and one-act plays are read in the schools. Schools produce plays. In spite of the attacks upon the level f plays chosen by the schools, there a marked rise in all parts of the country. iven moving pictures have not displaced drama as a living form. “Teachers had to be trained to un- derstand real drama, then they had to develop enough courage to attempt the better plays; most difficult, the audience had to be educated, and las! the school boards had to be cajoled into providing adequate auditoriums and stages, and architects had to be shown how to design these. “The gratifying results are due to the quiet perseverance of teachers of English. They have inaugurated play production where none had been al- lowed. They have satisfled desires of starved communities. They have made the plays of Aristophanes, Mo- lier, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Sheri- dan, Barrie, Galsworthy, host of others absorbing r Tells of Speaking. Telling of the good which comes from speaking in an auditorium, Miss Marsh said What is the function of the Eng- lish class in the auditorium? Cer- tainly not to rehearse a play in a tiny class-room and then bring the Eroup into i large room with untried acoustics, where the average child's Vvoice cannot ‘get it over’ without re- hearsal. The stage should be in con- stant use by thc child with panto- mimes and short, direct plays, often of his own devising, to encourage ac- tion and a resonant use of the voice. If the proper atmosphere is created in the auditorium, from its stimulus little plays and poems should con- stantly be carried by the pupils to the English teacher for correction and suggestions. Never have I seen such surprising results in the way of or- ganization; of ingenuity in handling of the story; of the writing of good dialogue; of the use of careful re- search in the library; of the actual ability to punctuate correctly and to spell passably, as I have in the stories and plays springing from the desire to do things of this kind. The liter- ary flavor, with often a surprising dash of humor, is to be found in the mine of rich 'imagination which is dormant ;in many children and which will ofted be untouched unless we as- sist them to dig deep emough to find it. The spontaneous outpouring of a young soul struggling for expression and choosing its own means to en- compass it, is precious as a feather from the wing of Pegasus or a fleck of star dust. Humor and imagination, the two things that make life endur- able, are within the grasp of every man, provided English and the ideal auditorium walk hand in hand.” ST BROKER GETS RETRIAL. " il - NEW_YORK, July ¥—George Gra- ham Rice, stockbroker, who was sentenced to three years in Sing Sing in 1922 for grand larceny in stock transactions, has been granted a new trial by the appellate division of the supreme court. He has been at lib- de Val and members of thelerty on_a certificats of reasonable doubt. He has had a spectacular visit to the Queen uolherlureer as a stock promoter and race- track tipster, X . Rolling | is the constant endeavor of ed- | younger gen- | Augusta, Me., Minn, national organisation of st CHARACTER BUILDING CALLED MOST VITAL Pennsylvania Educator Says Ab; ity to “Get On” With People of First Importance. “It is more important to have a boy learn to get on with people than to learn to calculate interest or to know the geography of South Africa.” This statement was made by Dr. Francis N. Maxfield, director of the bureau of special education, state department of public instruction, Har- risburg, Pa. in an address before the | department of child hygiene of the National Education Association today at the District building. “Mental hygiene in the early years of childhood,” faid Dr. Maxfield, is comidg to be recognized. Many men- tal attitudes ana characteristics of personality which make for success- ful social adaptation and happy living lin later life have their origin in the mental atmosphere of the home dur- ing the pre-school age. But, in spite of the importance of the pre-school period, the school has a responsibility in this matter of mental hygiene which must be recognized. To learm self-control, to develop qualities of leadership, to mingle happily with others in work or in play is a part of any well rounded s¢heme of edu- | cation. i “The school can supplement the work of a good home and can cor- rect many of the mistakes of an in- ferior home. The program of phys- ical education, with its variety of ac- tivities, also develops mental qual- ities of fair play, self-control and leadership which are no less valua- ble.” Dr. Maxfield predicted there were in nearly every school problem chil- dren, who were punished rather than studied and cured. “These children, he said, “require the best of scien- tific study and sympathetic treat- ment if more serious results in later life are to be avoided. The only child is a difficult problem for the best of homes. The contacts with other boys and girls in school life are necessary for this child if he is to learn co-operation and unselfishness. In addition to problems like these, which may be considered ‘normal,’ the school program of mental hygiene must take into account tendencies which may be considered abnormal or psychopathic.” WOULD EMPHASIZE DEMOCRACY IN STUDY' Texas Educator Declares Children Should Be Trained as Plebeians. Children of America must be train- cd to be plebeian rather than aristo- cratic, and democratic rather than autocratic, according to S. M. N. Marrs, superintendent of public in- struction of Austin, Tex., speaking today before the National Council of State Superintendents and Commis- sioners of Education at the New Wil- lard Hotel. He said: “A democracy must emphasize such nation-wide ideals with reference to the meaning of education as will lead all of the people, in every nook and corner of this great country, to re- alize that all the children of the re- public must be trained to look for- ward rather than backward, to place emphasis on life rather than on intel- lect, to be plebeian rather than aris- tocratic, to be democratic rather than autocratic, to be bent on kindness and service rather than securing pleasure or power through the ac- cumulation of wealth, and finally to thoroughly believe in the brother- hood of men rather than to have the narrow provincialism which feeds the fires of racial hatred and religious intolerance. Ignorance is the mother of prejudice, and if all the people are to contribute to the strength and power of the nation there must be an association of the leaders of public thought in order that our citizenship may be assimilated and that we may gain the confidence and respect of the other nations of the world by demonstrating in our commercial, diplomatic and soclal relations that we are a Christian nation and that our people have fully accepted the doctrine of the Great Master—What- soever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.’ “In"a 'larger sense the national problems are pressing for solution. Conferences on interracial relation- ship- disclose the fact that all the children of the republic are not hav- ing equal opportunity. The oriental in the west, the flood of immigrants from southern Europe in the east, the African and the Mexican in the south and southwest look to this great government for just treatment, ‘and the entire nation must realize that (heblfi children are children of the re- ublic.” . EUROPEAN STUDENTS CUT CLASSES AT WlLI_. Good Matinee May Leave Lecturer Almost Without Audience, But He Never Stops. There being no roll call at class, science students in European institu- tions attend or not, as they please, according to the picture painted by E. R. Downing of the University of Chicago, speaking today before the department of science instruction, at Central High School. He continued: If there is a counter-attraction in the city, like an exceilent matinee at the opera, the class rooms may be nearly deserted, but the lecture pro- ceeds just the same. g But in the labo- ratory work there As the same aid and supervision of students that we are accustomed to. The laboratory instructors seem very skillful and conscientious in their attention to students. The final examinations are very thorough and many students cram under tutors, who, in every uni- versity town, for their ability to coach students successfully for the finals, each in his special line.” | AMERICAN MANNERS ‘;Prnvoke International Trouble, | J. Russell Smith Tells Social Study Group. American manners are so “hateful” that they are a cause for international trouble, according to J. Russell Smith of Columbia University, speaking to- day before the National Council for the Social Studies at the Pan-Ameri- can building. Prof. Smith said, in par “American manners, especially our manners abroad, are a world wonder. Get a Latin American or a pean into a_frank frame of mind, then ask him what he thinks American manners. He will tell you that our manners are hateful. It is difficult not to hate a man whose manners are hateful. “Here is a perfectly useless, per- fectly needless, non-profit-making cause of international trouble. It interferes with trade, and everyother good thing that we need to develop among the nations. Broader Americanism Favored. “Our bad manners are a child of igorance, a child of this coekiness expressed in this editorial remark made last year in one of our widely read monthly journals: ““There is only one civilization in the world today. right here in the United States. Tt may be a cocky thing to say, but relatively it (our civilization, is first- class, while Europe’s is = hardly second-class and Asia’s is about fourth to sixth-class.) Surély the author of that must have been one of those who marched about France and England in 1919 saying ‘“we (Americans) won the war.’ g “The broader Americanism is polite and humble, not proud and arrogant, and the geography teacher has a great chance to give this viewpoint. Duty of Teachers. “Every people has its problems, its virtues, its skills, and its achieve- ment, ~ The geography teacher, teaching about foreign peoples can do much to create sympathy for their problems; to create respect for their achievement; to explain why they differ from us. “If once a child begins to desire to understand other peoples rather than to judge them. he has entered another spiritual realm, the realm where he will instinctively be polite. Giving students this attitude toward foreign peoples is the great oppor- tunity of the geography teacher, one of the greatest things that can be done for the promotion of world peace and American trade. ? 10 MORE PATROL BOATS FOR SOUTHERN WATERS Will Be Used in Effort to Stop Liguor Smuggling From ‘West Indies." By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 3.— Contracts for the comstruction of ten United States coast guard patrol boats, totaling approximately $350,000, have been awarded to the Gibbs Gas Engine Company at Jacksonville, it is an- nounced here. The boats will augment the equipment of federa] officlals in South Atlantic waters. ~Five picket boats, to be used in an attempt to stop smuggling of liquor, narcotics and aliens, will be completed within the next few days, it was ammounced, and will be assigned to duty following trial trips. rs and crews for the Ppickét boats have arrived here, first-class 1t is Upper, left to right: Dr. John H. MacCracken, president of Lafayette College, E: atate agent for rural education; Philip E. Carlson, principal of Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis, .ower, left to right: Charles M. Purin, Hunter College of New York City; Everett M. e necretarien; John M. Foote, preside become quite famous | "CALLED “HATEFUL”| ston, Pa.; Florence M. Hale of Horsman, president E. t department of rural education, UNIVERSITY IS URGED IN BUSINESS CLASSES Too Much Diversity Believed Bar to Interest, Speaker Here Believe. “There course is little uniformity in the offered in bookkeeping in the present day high schools,” declared Lloyd L. Jones of the West High School of Commeree, Cleveland, who, in an address at the City Club today before the department of business education of the National Education Association, declared that “it often happens that two high schools in the same county or even town do not parallel their courses in bakkeep- ing.” He urged uniformity in book- keeping courses. Students prepaning for Masiness should be required by their tawcers to talk well, write well and think MERRILL STRESSES SAVING OF TIMBER Director of Forestry Publica- tions Tells Teachers of Fire Menace. Need for preservation of the na- tion's timber was emphasized by M. C. Merrill, director of forestry pub- lications, Department of Agriculture, at a meeting of the department of vocational education of the N. E. A. today, at Red Cross headquarters. “The United States is consuming 25,000,000,000 cubic feet of timber a year—two-fifths of the entire con- sumption of the world—and growing only 6,000,000,000 cubic feet in .the same period. That unbalanced ratio is sending us straight and fast into a timber famine,” he declared. Fires Caused by Carelessaness. Eighty per cent of the forest fires in America, Mr. Merrill sald, were “caused by human carelessness.” Twa means of helping the situ: tion were laid before the teachers— inauguration of “forest planting proj- ects for school or community wood- lots, groves or forests, and their proper care and management for both landscape beauty and commercial profits, and second, study and appli- cation’by manual training classes of proper use of woods.” Before the same meeting, D. G. Saw- yer, secretary of ne Associated Gen- erai Contractors, made a plea for more men in the building trades, say- ing the serious shortage of building mechanics offered “special opportu- nity for young men.’ Success Lies ‘With Man. here was a time,” said Mr. Saw- yer,” when a man who worked with his hands received immoderately low wages, but through increasing rec- ognition of the important part which he plays in life, as well as through his “associating himself with those who have his particular interests in view, his wages today are lucrativ and not only in accord with the ad- vance in the cost of living, but a con- siderable amount above this. 'We feel that success and advance- ment lie within the man and not in the vocation ghich he chooses to fol- low. The aVerage skilled mechanic in the building trades of twenty-five years of age makes a yearly income | as large, if not larger, than that of | any young man of similar age in any other trade or profession. There have been countless men in the construc- tion industry who have risen from carpenters, bricklayers, iron workers and laborers to foremen, superinten- dents, general managers and finally to the head of a business of their own. well, is the opinion advanced by Miss Augusta Tainter of the Theodore osevelt High School, New York Jity, in an address on “Business Eng- lish as Part of the Stenographic Training. The introduction oF a little *some- thing new” as a means of relieving the monotony of class recitations in shorthand was advocated by Mrs. Helen N. Campbell, director of the commercial training departments of the Elizabethtown College, Elizabeth, Pa “Discipline is often the teacher's bugbear. The mechanics of the reci- tatfon will control much of the dis- cipline of the class. But it is only by a thoughtful development of per- sonality in the work and a recogni- tion of the ‘joy of achievement' that the monotony of constant repetition will be relieved.” she declared. I N. E. A. PROGRAM | The official program of the closing session tomorrow of the sixty-second annual convention of the National Education Associa- tion follows : ks Morning—9:30 o'clock, Stadium, Central High School. Music by the United States Navy Band—Charles Benter, di- rector. Singing by 1,000 Wash- ington school children. “America, the Beautiful” “Sweet and Low,” “Old Folks at Eome,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” “On- ward, Christian Soldiers” and “The Star Spangled Banne: Presiding officer—President of the association. Address—Calvin Coolidge, Pres- ident of the United States. CARE IN TEACHING ARITHMETIC URGED Guard Against Inaceuracy, W. S. Maxson Tells Elementary Principals. The science of properly teaching arithmetic was discussed before the department of elementary school principals of N. E. A. today at the Raleigh Hotel, by William S. Maxson, elementary school principal of White Plains, N. Y. “Inaccuracy, slolwness and difficulty in executing the fundamental opera- | tions,” Mr. Maxson said, “bring to the child dislike and discouragement, to the teacher a sense of failure in arithmetic teaching and to the school system a censure from business for turning out such weak and inefficient products. “The remedy is to give to the fund- amental processes the thought and | time that their importance demands, to start the child right, keeping in mind the ultimate object to be ob- tained and never allowing a method of procedure, mental or physical, to be used that will need changing later when drill practice is forming habit. Urges Cloxe Supervision. “Supervise closely all formative drills to see that eye, mind and hand are co-ordinating, producing right | habits of thought and action. Train the children to harmonize their men- tal and physical reactions, as the physical and mental are closely in- terwoven. “Use individual examples to increase the children's power and ability to perform some particular number act independently. Have them stop when mistake is made and work a new example which has the possibility of accuracy in it. Never force or allow driil practice to go beyond the fatigue point nor do drill work for the sake of being busy. “Finally use a system of test that shows the steady improvement and Erowth of each individual child, one in which bright children may attain and get credit to the limit of their ability unhampered by the slower ones and the slow children may work up to their capacity, not becoming discouraged in the vain attempt to £0 bevond their present proficiency a condition which never drags bright | children down but brings slow ones up. “Remember one may excel but he never grows until he cel himself. 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And yet all of our people are not taking advan- tage of educational opportunity There are still nearly five millions in the United States above the age of ten years who can neither read nor The republic is.not safe so long as hundreds of those who have the ballot cannot read the names upon it. The aim of public education is the development of good citizens and eflicient recruits to business and industry. The good citizen is the one 0 hds the power of thinking fo himself.. e First Grades Vil “We will not develop the thinking power in America until establish the system of using our best teaching ability in the first grades of policy of from the lower they have experi- ated ability. Zood citizenship must include 4" economic train ing. The desi r luxury and soft living, the aversion to hard work if persisted in will put America on the down-grade as it has put other na- tions in the history of the world. “With the increased strain of mod- ern conditions there is more and more need for the development of a system of physical education The establishment of sound physical habits will never be brought about by over-specialized athletics in our schools, but by a system of corrective treatment and wholesome outdoor ex- ercise for all. “For the development of good eiti- zenship the American school, which is now open on an average of less than 150 d n the year, should be open every doy and every night in the year if the educati developmen of adults and the needs of the neighborhood demand it The development of hip rests primarily teacher whose inte velopment of the matter how is of prime best promoting rs grades as soon as enced and demonst “Education for tea ood, citizen- upon_the good st is in the de- erial at hand, no mediocre it may seem. 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