Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1925, Page 20

20 hd STAR, WASHINGTON, eliminated from the grades and con- fined to high schools. ¥rills which distract pupils’ atten- tions from their studies—various lec- tures, money drives, movements for interesting children, in outside affairs —would be largely done away with. The plan as explained by the educa- tors would be to base the curriculum on the idea that the children should learn how to keep well, how to read, write, spell and figure; how to make a §00d home and rear children; how to work happily and efficfently; how to spend leisure time wisely and how to live correctly. The fundamentals of the three * would underlie the courses. But En; lish, sciences, languages, art, music, conduct, social instruction, patriotism and citizenship would be taught, with D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1925. lead in the revision of its curriculum. The feeling that schools are starting to wander away from their principal purpose of giving instruction in fun- damentals is behind the scheme for simplification and classification of studies. ELoR T s Hyattesville Home Burns. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 13 —The home of Mrs. Bessie Self, 203 Edmonston road, was destroyed by fire yesterday during absence of the fam- ily. The fire was discovered about 2 pm. by C. H. Crun, an inspector of E-| fire hydrants. The furniture was saved. The loss was estimated at $500. SEe City, members nittee declared al aid would the construction he r d that interested propert sider the matter as a 1l Dbenefit rather than -, was volced by Col. f Washington that ity of development o T THE EVENING 1 Another route from Falls Church, the Arlington Cemetery at a point Bodies Proposed to Con- the various development ALIGNMENT BY L Government_offick re to be given months on the several routes which vard, which is to he connected With | Though the voter often is bewilder- ing of the executive committee of 1 Munsey e e stands, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania untold benef ire State A%, re here in interest of the passage (f ner of Mrs. James I%. Curtis, vico New York and Miss Grace Abbott, di- 2 up options . - “Tube King” Dead. Electric Railways Co. of London, is wise prove the neck of the bottle in the communication to the Capital. The Falls Church-Ballston-Claren- don-Fort Myer route, he said, would cost about $300,000 less than the other Pproposed routes. “There is more than right of way to be considered,” he said. “We must consider who is to pay for this boulevard.” about a half-mile longer than that _ proposed by Col. Williams, which 3 Hearing for Development|xeud run in aimost airect’ line to| Educational Leaders Want to nearest the Lee Mansion, was Sug- “RICY gested by C. A. swann Smelair of| Get Back to Three “R’s Braddock Heights, Arlington County, : . who sal . i l sider Boulevard Route. who sald he represented no organiza in Instruction. e _—— A public hearing in which all repre-| REED URGES PARTY ue of Virginia, residents of ashington and an opportunity to present their views | Voter Can Best Serve Nation by will be held by the Lee Highway Com mission within the next two or three Joining Organization, Sen- have been proposed for the Lee Boule ator Declares. the Arl on Memorial B h:v’-( l\‘\":‘\ ed by the volume of oratory which o i : M"n meet. | Politicians pour forth, much of ft inoun; “cant and gush,” every citizen should the assoclation with proponents of lalign himself with some party, making three propc of the boule- |, election on the basis of fundamen- vard, at the . "ftal principles for which a party Regarded of pn:-h: &l(!e':;f:( {he | declared Wednesday night in address- e o YOI prove of | INg out-of-town members of the Wom- proposed b X an’s National Republican Club, who well as to the ( the World Court measure now pend- ing before the Senate. The women were the guests at din- chairman of the club. Other speakers were Senator Wadsworth of New York, Representative Ogden Mills of rector of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Lab — LONDON, December 18 (#).—Sir George Stegmann Gibb, former man- aging director of the Underground ~.|dead, aged 75. He was known as the “tube king"' because of his work in developing London’s subway system. t residents in cer: orting certain pro- aiding the project available for n that rest join in planning and in obtaining rights of way and that all these high be developed. regardless of ne is selected as the boulc 1 be needed to tale care us traflic, which will rease as sections of © the Distric: become t get the boulevard, get anyhow,” he we did at Bi that comparatively small city now has @ adequate high Roberts urged that the boule- vard be feet wide, with 60-foot easement on either s n mended that it be selected through a sectlon not now of congested develop- ment. John E. Lovell of Chatt Tenn., a member of the committee, voiced the opin there should be no difficulty in ge! property owners to dedicate more than sufficient prope: the high- { way. | a dele- | . \merce | S 1 R L ammtl| uit Cases By Consolidated Press. CHICAGO, December 18.—A swing back to the three “R's” as the funda- mental basis of public school instruc- tion, with many of the present-day ed- ucational frills removed, is contem- plated by the school leaders of the country. Trial of a revised schedule of studies, to be carried out in Chicago and 300 other districts simultaneously, only awalts approval by the Chicago Board of Education of a $25,000 appropria- tion for use in the experiment here. Instruction would be based on read ing, writing, arithmetic and spelling, but would be supplemented by strong courses in citizenship. Vocational studies, which lately have been creep- ing into curricu sure from c A Very Desirable Apartment for Rent The Dresden 2226 Conn. Ave. John W. Thompson & Co., Inc. 829 17th St. N.W. 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