Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 25

" AFGHANS PLANNIN Persons in Theater of Opera- - tions Await Rescue—Stores Becoming Depleted. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 28.—The Daily Mail today printed -dispatches from Lahore, India, saying that full evacu- ation of Kabul, Afghanistan, would be made as soon as possible. In the mean- time advices reaching Moscow told of further victory of government troops in their drive against the rebels. The Lahore dispatches said that stores in Kabul were fast becoming de- ‘pr}ev,ed. Many persons were still await- g rescue and no airplanes were able to leave because it was snowing. A German woman was killed when she got in the way of a troop-carrying plane which landed from Bagdad and ‘was struck by the propeller. The pro- peller was broken and the plane laid up. making a second one damaged and unfit for use at the British legation. Legation Building Bombarded. The dispatches said that the build- ing (presumably the legation building) had been subjected to heavy fire and its rooms were barricaded. Lack of heavy casualties was attributed mainly to the failure of rebel shells to explode. Advices reaching Moscow stated that Joyal Afghan troops had occupied Pag- man, having driven the rebels 18 miles from the capital toward the Charikar road. The military hospital on Biripala Heights and a number of villages around Kabul were destroyed by the insurgents. A dispatch from Peshawar, India, to the Daily today said that evacu- ation of Kabul was proving a greater task than had been expected at first. ‘There were still more than 100 persons €0 leave. British Refugees Under Fire. Deseribing the experiences of British refugees, the correspondent said all houses in the legation compound were evacuated when it was found that they" were in the zone of fire between the rebels and the Afghan army. Women and children were placed. in one room behind the strongest wall, and all openings ‘were barricaded. Here they crouched for hours as shells hit the building. Bullets whistled through the legation and one shattered a mirror be- fore which a man was shaving. Howe, Eye Specialist, Dies. BELMONT, Mass., Décember 28 (#). | opportunities hthalmogist ~Dr. Luclen Howe, noted the way for of uring the preceed! year, the national committee for the preven- tion of blindness. wworkmgwlthnm-n HARVARD PLANS UNIT SYSTEM URGED BY WOODROW WILSON KABUI- EVA[:UA"(]N Preceptorial and Decentralization Pro- gram Conceived at Princeton Taken Up in New England. NEW YORK, December 28.—With the announcement that Harvard University would begin reorganization under the unit plan, a dream of Woodrow Wilson flowers into reality—in somewhat dif- ferent form, to be sure, but springing from the same inspiration. Woodrow Wilson’s plan involved primarily the preceptorial system, with a general suggestion of decentraliza- tion of college organization. It led him into disagreement with the Princeton trustees and has been assigned as one of the causes of his departure from the university to follow the path that led to the White House. While tentative experiments, trending in this direction, have been made in several American universities, the gift of $3,000,000 to Harvard by Edward S. Harkness for new unit buildings marks the first definite, large-scale acceptance of this form of college organization in America. It has been maintained in Europe for many centuries at Oxford and Cambridge, and to a lesser degree at the University of London and in sev- eral German universities. Sees Culture Stunted. Educators here defined the plan in general, without specific reference to Harvard, as a possible solution of prob- lems growing out of the overwhelming growth of modern universities. The fear has arisen that the universities will become great sprawling enterprises in which important cultural values will be smothered and opportunity will be lacking for cultural specialization. It is noted that cultural growth cannot be attained solely by academic routine, and that if a student body becomes too large it is impossible for an undergraduate to identify himself with it in any helpful way. During his last years at Princeton Woodrow Wilson showed increasing con- cern over this problem, and once re- ferred to the modern university as a “club for rich men’s sons.” His various statements on this subject indicated that he was groping toward the unit lan. ¥ Dr. Oscar McMurtrie Voorhees, secre- tary of the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation, and a student of university organization for many years, said today that any movements toward the unit plan un- doubtedly would be made by the great endowed universities, as State univer- sities are not sufficiently independent. “The unit plan is fundamentally in the interest of the cultural life and of the university,” said Dr. Voorhees. “There is a pressing problem of congestion in h.lxe universities today, enfe an undesirable degree of tion. The unit plan opens clalization, with the em- hasis on cultural specialization. The eory is that a student living and up intent on the same objectives will find a genuine cultural background which he cannot find under the present system. “I am not informed about the experiment which President Glenn Frank is now conducting at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, but I und that it is patterned along these lines. I was rather surprised that he was able to install it in a State university, as I know something of the difficulties which the State universities meet in getting funds. I am informed that results, so far, as hopeful, but doubtless several years will be necessary to determine the value of the experiment. “Woodrow Wilson's &l:n was _two- fold, involving, first, preceptorial system, and, second, the formation of smaller social groups, with & view to| S creating & more healthful social life. I do not know just how closely this ac- cords with the plan of today, but it had as its und the unit system of Oxford and Cambridge. Ruth E, Anderson of the Asso- ciation of American Colleges explained that the University of Wisconsin ex- periment had hitherto been the most decided movement toward this form of organization, and she, like Dr. Voor- hees, interpreted ‘the plan as primarily & cultural enterprise. “The University of Michigan has been studying some such plan,” sald Miss Anderson. “Wells College of Aurora, N. Y., has been experimenting'| with it for the last year, as has Clare- mont College of California, formerly Pomona. So far as I am informed, the approach generally has been groping and experimental. Since Woodrow Wil- son attempted to establish the precep- torial system at Princeton that univer- sity has, I believe, reorganized its post- graduate depariment somewhat along these lines in an effort to create ideal conditions for graduate students. The plan, in general, is derived from a Euro- pean background.” (Copyright, 1928, by the Consolidated Press.) —_— AMOAH 111 TO SPEAK. Gold Coast Chief to Address Ameri- can Negro Academy Tonight. Chief Amoah III of the Gold Coast, Africa, will be the principal speaker at the thirty-second annual session of the American Negrt the Musolit Club, 1327 R street, at 8 o'clock. He will discuss the possibilities of | rie West Africa and the economic %x‘:mons involved in its development. Rev. Charles Martin will the meetin; on the subject of Palestine and w! present stereopticon views. With proper care & rug or carpet of good quality should last at least 15 years, experts say. 0 Academy tonight at|time CHINA IS GIVEN TARIFF AUTONOMY England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal Sign Treaties With Nationalists. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 28.—Recognition of China’s new National government by several European nations, which at the same time concur in full Chinese tariff autonomy, was revealed in publi= cation of treaties with England, Hol- land, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal yesterday. In addition, the treaties with Den- mark and Portugal give ug extraterri- torial rights beginning with 1930. An- other treaty was signed yesterday be- tween Chinese Nationalists and the jpanish government. Of the treaties published today that with England is likely to have the most far-reaching effect. By virtue of it Chi- nese goods are given & &r;lemd-nauon rating at all ports in British Isles and ughout the colonies as long ven the preferred- . But beyond this bargaining the infant Chinese gov- ernment is left to have its own way at its customs houses, so far as England and the other smaller nations involved today are concerned. The English treaty cancels all pro- visions of former treaties which in any way limited China’s right to fix her national customs tariffs or impose ton- nage dues in such manner as she sees fit. The tariff autonomy thus realized has been sought by the Nationalist gov- emment since its very inception. $129 THEFT ADMITTED BY CASHIER, POLICE SAY Arrested yesterday by headquarters detectives, James Sylvester Murray, 31 years old, cashier of the Call Carl Serv- ice, Inc., is said by officers to have con- fessed last night to the theft of $129 from his employers. ‘The money was found by detectives hidden at the base of a fence behind a anmge near the office. When ques- oned last night, Murray is quoted as saying he did not know why he took the money, which was paid on a bill due the company. The loss was dis- covered when the man who paid the bill objected to being charged a second are e. Murray has been in the firm's em- plog for about two years and is mar- e, Sailor on Vacation Voyage. NEW YORK, December 28 (P).— Like the watchggan on his night off is Karl Bornson, master mariner. 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