Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1924, Page 10

PEYSERTOATTACK PSYCHDLORY TESTS Wants Special School Board Meeting to Consider New Policy. ‘The psychological tests in the sec- ond division of the public schools, un- der the direction of Miss Jessie La Salle, loomed today as a new target for Capt. Julius I Peyser, progres- sive “bloc” leader on the Board of Education. Capt. Peyser is trying to have a special meeting of the Board of Edu- cation next month to consider a new policy for administering the intelli- Eence tests. With Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent of schools, a strong supporter of the scientific method of ascertaining the intelli- gence quotient of a child, vacation- ing in the Maine woods, it is not likely that the special session will be called. Not Opposed to Testx. Capt. Peyser explains that he is not opposed to the psychological tests, but believes there should be a better regulation of their administration. He says he possesses numerous let- ters which voice opposition to the tests, one from Brig. . Amos A, Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army. Gen. Fries' letter concerning the psychological tests, reads in part: “The whole trouble is this: The pub- lic schools of Washington as at pres- ent carried on desire the help of the parents when the salaries of the teachers are to be raised or when something is to be put over by the school board, but when it comes to what is best for the children the par- ents are not considered. Article in Papers. ““The daily press of vesterday car- ried an ar ‘cle, evidently inspired, the wording beinz identical in all’ the papers and lauding the efforts of one Miss La Salle, the psychologist em- ploved by the schools “Is there not some way in which pressure can be brought to bear to put an end to this utter foolishness and to stop the propaganda of laudation? self- “I think next year I shall take my | daughter out schools there she of the public for the reason that I cannot get the attention that I feel should have Capt. Peyser also joined with Gen. Fries in voicing his objection to the “artificial embellishment of our school " through the educational < which he said Miss La Salle “trying to thrust down the throat of Washington.” If the proposed special meeting of the board is held, it is likely that the cases of three teachers recently dropped from the rolis for alleged in- efficiency will be reopened. The in- eficiency charges were the result of ratings given in educational tests and measurements and are said to have taken a new aspect since the board ordered the dismissal of the teachers concerned. LOANS AID STUDENTS. ‘Woman Founder of System Visit- ing Here From Kentucky. Originator of a system of student loans, to permit school pupils to con- tinue their studies instead of leav- ng school because of financial dif- ficulties, Mrs. Lelia Leidinger, presi- dent of the Board of Education of Louisville, Ky., is in Washington for @ few days. Mrs. Leidinger deciares the system of student loans is the surest wa to insure that education of the American youth is carried out in full measure. She has also estab- lished a system of school luncheons, weighing and measuring systems and improved playgrounds. A report on the student loan sys- tem as used in the grade and high schools of Louisville has been re- quested by the Bureau of Education of the Interior Department. g The opium poppy has a pink or purpleish-pink flower of much larger size than the well known red poppy of Flanders fields. Nurse of Slain Boy, Back, Says She Was Doped By the Associated Press. ELIZABETH, N. J., July 30— Anna Sobin, 16, former nurse to Howard Rothenberg, 7-year-old Newark boy, who was murdered at his summer home in Windham, N. Y., a year ago, returned to the home' of he: foster parents during the night, after having been miss- ing since Saturday. Today she is in the Elizabeth Hospltal, having gone there to ask treatment for poison, which she declared she had been forced to swallow by two men who kid- naped her Saturday night. Hos- pital doctors used a stomach pump today, but reported they found no trace ‘of poison or drugs. The girl said that after she was kidnaped, in front of her home, she was forced to drink a liquid and then thrown out of the car in Roselle Park. She declared she remembers nothing between that time and the hour when she found herself in front of her home here. —_— MISS L. V. BUSSARD DIES. Funeral Services Here to Precede Interment in Baltimore. Miss Laura V. Bussard, 74 years old, and a resident of this city for the last 19 years, died at her resi- dence in the Alabama apartments, 1015 N street, yesterday. She came to_this city from Hagerstown., Md. Funeral services will be conducted at Hysong's funeral parlors, 1300 N street, tonight at 8 o'clock. Inter- ment will be in Baltimore, Md., to- morrow. Miss Bussard is survived by two step-sisters, Miss Margaret E. Mantz and Miss Minna Mantz, and a step- brother, George E. Mantz. ALL JUROR SAYS FALLON SLIPPED HiM §1,000 Rendigs Government Witness Court in Chicago. NEW YORK, July 30.—Charles W. Rendigs, the juror whom Willlam J. Fallon, criminal lawyer, was alleged to have bribed in the trial of the Durrell-Gregory stock-swindling case in 1922, was called as a Government witness today at the trial of Fallon in Federal Court on a charge of bribery. Rendigs is the Government's star witness. On examination by Assistant United States District Attorney Mil- lard, Rendigs said Fallon communi- cated with him on the day after the Durrell-Gregory trial began. “How did he communicate with you?' asked the prosecutor. “By a telephone message to my house,” answered the witness. “What did he say on that occasion?" continued Mr. Millard. “‘Is this a private wire? he asked. and I replied that it was. He then asked, ‘Do you want to meet some one tonight to your financial benefit, and will you meet me at the Wood- mansten Inn at $ o'clock?” " $1.000 Slipped Into Hand. Rendigs said he accepted the law~ yers invitation and went to the inp “Mr. Fallon walked up the stairw and beckoned for me to follo l By the Associated Press. 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I will get in touch with you from time to time.” Rendigs said he then went home and that he carried the thousand- dollar bill In his pocket until October 0, when he took it to his bank. He admitted he held the bill the two weeka because he “wanted to dis- guise it.” Rendigs testified that the vote for acquittal of the Gregorys stood first 7 to 5 and later 8 to 4. “How did you vote on the Gregorys?” Assistant Federal Attorney Millard asked. 3 “I voted for acquittal,” the wit- ness replied. Rendigs admitted he urged the jurors who favored the conviction of the Gregorys to vote for acquittal. Bridge Project Abandoned. Special Dispatch to The Star. WESTERNPORT, Md,, July 30.—The West Virginia State Road Commis- sion has given notice that it will be unable to finance the building of a bridge ower the Potomac between Piedmont, W. Va., and Westernport, Md., to ‘replace the structure carried away by the recent flood because it has comtracts let that will require all of its available funds * = X PLEAS MADE FOR DIVORCE. Three Cases in Which Husbands Seek Legal Separation. Grayson L. Kiser today asked the District Supreme Court for an abso- lute divorce from Edith A. Kiser, charging misconduct and naming two co-respondents. They were married December 19. 1919 and have one child. The husband tells the court that his wife deserted him last April, taking with her the child and about $1,000 of his money, goods and chattels. He is represented Ly Attorneys J. V. Con- nolly and J. H. Sullivan. Misconduct with two co-respondents is alleged against Mary McCathran in a suit for an absolute divorce brought by George D. McCathran. One of the “other fellows” is sojourning in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, the court .is_advised. The McCathrans were married at Alexandria, Va., Sep- tember 6, 1919, ard have one child. 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