Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1927, Page 4

4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JURIST IMPOUNDS UNNEY FIGHT FILM General Conspiracy to Dis- tribute Movies of Battle Over Country Seen. By the Associated Prees CHICAGO, September 24.—A\ g eral conspira out the coun Dempsey by authorities seizure of six reels of ship match as they were abe taken out of the State by airplane United declared they would loc to handie the ing, Assistant il at- of in to dist Tunney rkey Dempsey and following mpion toda the heve a number One Film Impounded scized were re James A one film impounded e. T f New York 1d v on a nominal bond, ation of Federal transporta ed the law was meant to keep fi rted £ ther when rom one v were thig long the way in bed off on ne. 1 uncer- ting by ugh States rtment of Uncertain About The judge said he tain regarding the trs alrplane over and not thr While agents of the Dep Justice were making every effort to prevent interstate shipment of the fiims, the full 10-round screen version of the battle between Tunney and Dempsey was being shown in New York City, it was reported. Oliver Pagen, chief of the indictment givision, and Mr. Luhring, chief of the criminal division in the Attorney General's office at Washington, ar directing the film cases in the eral courts here. RED CROSS OPENS ed: NUTRITION COURSE| TFoster Mothers Schooled in Food Selection—Men and Women Can Attend Class. A course in nutrition and food selec- tion for foster mothers, under the supervision of the Child Welfare Bourd, has been started by the Dis- trict of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross, it was an- mounced last night. This course is intended to better fit the foster mothers for their responsibilities to- ward the cildren intrusted to their care. The group of foster mothers, as well as other women in the District of Columbia, including moéthers and housewives, pay particular attention during their course of study to care and_feeding of infants and young children. Of_the j Crodg course Miss E, M. Rugg, “supervigor of the foster home depattment ‘gf the Board of Children’s Guardians, sai > = “When we go°out.to find:Homes for the children in our care, ih tonsider- ing prospective foster patents, we stress the matter of nutrition, among the other ‘responsibilities involved. We believe ‘In giving these foster parents all the help possible with their new charges, hence we believe in the instructions offered by the Red Cross through its local chapter because the foster mother's knowledge of nutrition is an indication of her ability."” A course for both men and women 1s now in progress, and arrangements can be made through the chapter, 831 Sixteenth street, Main 1910. BOOTLEGGER PENSIONED. Was Blind and Said County Owed Him a Living, Anyway. Correspondence of The Star. PORTERVILLE, Calif.—J. R. “Blind Jack” Williams, noted Porterville bootlegger, who declared the *'county owed him a living” when arrested re- cently on a liquor-possession, charge, attributed his illegal practice to in- ability to do real work as a result of of his vision 20 years ago in an dent while employed by the coun- has accepied an offer of $50 per from Tulare County super- Justice of the Peace A. M. Lumley, Chief of Police Ray Williams, City At- torney Guy Knupp apd members of the Jocal Lions Club recently ap- pealed to the supervisors In ‘“‘Blind Jack’s"” behalf. NEW TELEPHONIC DEVICE. TLONDON.-~T. L. Baird, inventor of i n, has found a method of king phon.iaph records of faces. When the image of a person or ob- ject 18 transmitted by Mr. Balrd's method of television, certain sounds can be heard in a wireless receiver. Thus, according to the inventor, “'some faces sound like a gargle; others like te ans of a device which he phonovisor” he takes a wax of these sounds, and then con- s them into a visible image of the object by which they were made bute through- | fight fllms was seen | t to be| charged with | g trane- | Dr. F. A. Moss of George Washington University Conducts Tests. Variety of Posers Asked in | Effort to Weed Out Unsuitable. bright little girl or boy class with a question can't answer it is an for teacher. What W hen some pops up in | which teacher embarragsing moment Her prestige is threatened. can she do about it? Four ways out of the difficulty are open to her. She can frankly admit that she doesn’t know. She can prom- ‘i::r‘ to answer the question at another time, and then go home and look up She can say 1 am surprised the ‘correct answer | “Why, Mary Jones te very idea of a ig girl like you not knowing a thing like that; don't you come back here without knowing the answer.” The fourth alternative {0 answer the question somehow-— or wrong—the way smart col- etudents do when confronted a quiz upon lessons they have | neglected. | Which way should she take’ Allf | four ways a At least two of them are honest. st for Teaching. | This is one of 30 such puzzlers on | the science of dealing with human [nature as it s exemplified in chil- | dren. which the school teachers ol Montgomery County, Md., have re cently been s ating mentally to answer. It is a part of a new kind | of psychological tests devised by Dr. | or of psychology i on University, to ine a_person’s aptitude for the ssion of teaching. | Skill in teaching, of course, demands | not only knowledge of the subject taught, but patience, sympathetic per- sonality, and keen judgment of typical | situations whieh arisa among chil- |dren. A great many pereons never would make competent teachers, re. | gardless of educational qualifications, ‘I Weeding Out Unfit. ; | The alm of Prof. Mose and his as sociat . C. Wallace and T. Hunt, | n drawing up the test, is to provide {at least a tentative v of weeding | out the unfit before they get behind | @ teacher's desk—even before they | enter normal school. A bad teacher, | it is considered, can do an inestimable |amount of damage. A teacher who T perfectly es or bluffs, for instance, is sure to be caught in the act sooner or later—and then her use- fulness as a builder of character in the voung diminishes sadly to th> vanishing point. A liar or a bluffer has been get up as a model; the chil- dren experience the deteriorating effects of premature disillusion con cerning moral standards. A nagging teacher, or one of such confirmed maturity of mind that she never can look back into the sunrise days of life and understand the child mind, may produce even more lamentable results than the liar and bluffer. Cover Fine Points. Yet all these misfits may be adopt- ing the course which in their blind- ness they consider right. ven the liar may be fundamentally honest. She fears the deterioration of morale which might follow confession of ig- norance and considers that she is do- MONTGOMERY TEACHERS GET 30 PUZZLES IN PSYCHOLOGY Hnorpwern A. MOSS, part of whose s skill in detecting reactions. The teaching aptit Moss sayvs, has been tr than 1,000 normal school students, high school senfors and public school teachers. In the laiter case It found that the ratings coincided fairly well with the actual ratings made by the suy ., 80 that the apti- i 1 reliable as a v & he Mont gomery County ratings have not yet been tabulated There are too medical schools, n other specialized institution Moss believes, who may work along to their senfor year and then be told that they have failed to show prom- ise of developing into the desived pro- fessional type. Such students might have done well in some other profes. | sion, he points out, and it is a wreat economic waste for them to lose so much time and spend on a highly specialized which they cannot use. WHISTLE WORTH $10,000. g for Inju-| test, Dr. many students in nal scl education 80 Says Ex-Actor, S ries to Lips in Accident. espondence of The Sta FALL RIVER, Mass.—After having waited since last Summer, when he was the victim of an accident while riding in an automobile owned by Hubert Walsh of this city, James 12. Wall- bank of No. 1073 Plymouth averue, recently brought suit against Walsh in the sum of $10,000 for the reason that he “lost his whistle."” For a number of ye: evious to the accident Wallbank was quite a star on the vaudeville stage through | his singing and whistling act. riding i automobile near Island Pa st Summer both men were victims of an accident, and since that time Wallbank claims that he has been unable to whistle as he did | before for the reason that he was left || with scars on the upper and lower lips, preventing him from using his mouth. One Way to Feed Family. Correspondence of The Star. HIAWATHA, Kans—A Hiawatha woman was _extremely embarrassed over an incident the other day. She had just moved here. The first morn- ing there was nothing in the house for breakfast. Her small daughter wan ing her duty by taking this way out. She simply is an example of the type of personality which, in the great ma- Jority of cases at least, is' not fitted for teaching. The 30 questions asked. the Mont- gomery County teachérs In this part of the test covered & good many of the fine points of judgment in deal« ing with human nature which con- tinually are arising in the classroom. For instance: On April folls’ day a group of chil- dren bring teacher what looks like a box of candy. She opens it and finds sand. Naturally she it a little bit mad. Should she tell the class in no uncertain terms her opinion of such embarrassing practical jokes, should she say nothing but indicate her dis- approval by her manner, should she take the whole affalr as a joke or should she try to work a joke equally good on her would-be tormentors? Or teacher finds some pretty little curly head in the fourth grade cheat- ing for the first time. Should she deny him promotion, reprimand him before the class, send him to the principal or have a quiet, heart-to- heart talk with him after school? A very important element of the child’'s character may be molded at this mo- ment accordidng to the skill or whim of the teacher. Groups of Questions. After answering these 30 questions, | the Montgomery County teachers were | asked a group of questions to deter- mine their fundamental understand- dered over to the neighbors and con flded: ““We are just about starved to | death. There isn't a thing in the, house to eat.” The good neighbor- hood thought the child was actually in need and took a fine meal over to '] its mother. ing of the sclence of education. Most | of these quesctions required reason- | ing and exercise of judgment. For example, they were asked: 1s it unwise for a young lady teach- | ing in a small town elementary school | to have ‘‘dates” with high school | boys? | Should a teacher hold herself aloof | from the religious and soclal life of | the community? | Is it a waste of time to encourage pupils to study those things in which they are interested because they will learn about them of their own accord? One of the most interesting of the | five tests to which the teachers sub- mitted was designed o determine their | |ability to read mental states from | | taces—to tell what a child Is think-| ing. | Pictures Gauge Aptness. Ten child pictures are shown—each pnru‘nylng a different mental state, | running from anger through bashful appeal, coquetry, delight, despair, dis- appointment, disgust, fear, Interes | physical suffering, reverence, scorn, | surprige, suspiclon. The person tak- | ing the examination was asked to put the correct label on each picture, | This was considered a very essential qualification for a successful teacher, | The Bank that Makes You . “A Shaft of Glory-- A White Mountain Peak” T IS FITTING that the heart of the Mall was chosen for the spot upon which to build the greatest memorial ever erected to man—an obelisk of It is not the size that counts, but the impressiveness of it—the nobility of it, its standing alone and rising from the grassy ground with austerity and bareness—not even the trees lessen the grandeur of it—for the great stone shaft dominates 555 feet and the landscape | By the | Bac pén uccess depends on her | (hignik | shivu Island of the Ja » much money | While || KOENNECKE FAGES ALEUTIAN BARRIER If German Follows U. S. Army Flyers’ Route Reversed Difficulties Abound. socinted Press ing the Pacific flight journey round-the-world flyers, Lieut. Otto Koennecke, (erman aviator, and his *ompanions. Count Solms-Laubach and Johunnes Herman, will face one of the areatest natural impediments to hu- man progress if they attempt crossing from Tokio to Alaska by way of the Aleutian 1slands, Even if the voleano-strewn and lit- tle-inhabited Aleutians, giant stepping stones hetween Asia and the North American continent, are negotlated successfully by the Germans, they still ist_encounter the foggy and high- ked Alaskan Peninsula between and Port Moller where M < L. Martin crashed t 0, en route to Dutch Har history-ma of the Army »d out on more | Unalaska Peaks and Marshes, The Aleutian range hetween (heke points conslsts large of conleal peaks rlsing suddenly out of dveary marshes. It is a region noted for the “willi-waws" or small whirlwinds that whistle down the valleys from mountain tops, Maj | mander of the Army flig |into one of those moun | was missing for 11 days i {\\Hl\-. of the peninsula | 16 Koennecke from Tokio he Avmy flyers' route, reversed Il veer northeastward to Parama- anese Kuriles, an jce-fringed land sticks ity nose almost into the x From there he mu ce his long est over-water flight, 878 miles to Attu nd, westernmost territory of the United States, where the Army globe- encirclers, in the lapse of a fow min- utes, gained a whole day's time in their westward journey. Will Lose Day Attu, 00 miles from Seattle, by virtue of a bulge in the international date line, where Iastern and West ern Hemisphere times are divided, technically s in Eastern Hemisphere time, so when Koennecke crosses it soink east he will lose instead of guin {a day. Dense growth of grass and moss makes it difficult for a plane wheels to land in the Aleuti: follows | | the [on this leg that Ma). | | with | the The tance from here, for seven years. ceived here. fog. however, while dense, 18 sald to be not as dangerous as that in the more southern lands. Lieuts. Smith, Wade and Nelson, the Army alrmen, in hopping from Attu to the Kuriles, fought several Arctic winds and snowstorms aad their faces were whipped with hail. Atka Island Next. After Attu comes Atka Island, 530 miles away, which the Army naviga- tors flew in comparatively fair weather, but bucked headwinds most of the way. Thence, the course renches 350 miles to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska. The Americans made this in 4 hours and 15 minutes despite low fogs which covered the entire leg. From Dutch Harbor to Chignik, the leg on which Maj. Martin erashed, the dangers will increase for the mans, The 400-mile stretch, the Americans flew fn six hours and | 10 minutes, literally is flecked with penks of the Aleutian range 6,000 feet upward, Between the peaks near Port Moller, to which place Maj. Martin and his machanic, Sergt. Alva L. Har vey, tramped from their wrel plane, is one of the foggiest regions of the peninsula. A mirage, showing headlands and islands in the air and painting snowy ridges that do not exist, is another obstacle the Germans must conquer. i Dozen Peri nent Settlements. The entire peninst the Na tional Geographic Soclety, is a moun- tain range of several hundred miles, with “spurs and sides sharply de seending to the sea.”” Only about a dvzen permanent Eskimo settlements vemain along the 2,000 miles of in- dented coast. The hop to Seward, Alaska. 4530 miles east, presents more trouble. The Army flyers fought high winds and snow squalls all the way, and it was | tin_ expe -cident, being forced ¢ near Kanatka. | puch of the journey is con pennecke may find it com casy going to Seattle. enced his first down in Portag INDIAN TO HEAD SCHOOL. Superintendent in Idaho Is Made| Director of Chemawa. Correspondence of The Star MOSCOW, ldaho—Oscar H. 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