Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1929, Page 7

STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929. o . THE EVENING STAR WASAINGTOX. D C. SATURDAY. JANUARY @ 10 = T RAISED AS “SISSY," BOY HATES GIRLS Pupil Sent to Gales Special )| School Had Been Trained as Miss. Note—This is the concluding article ©f a series describing the remarkable ezperiment in the redemption of bovs oho have proved unmanagable in other Schools mow being carried on by th District public school system. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Queer behavior of all sorts causes problem children to be sent to the Gales Special School, a unit of the District school system. One 15-year-old boy was sent to the gchool because he hated girls. He couldn't endure a girl around him. When one came near him he punched her in the face. Neither could he en- dure woman teachers. Now at one stage in their lives all vs hate girls and are ashamed to &osmn in gnmpalx)‘ with them. That is the stage when malicious playmates write with chalk on the sidewalk: William Smith. Mary Jones. A They know that it is going to make william furious when he sees it. The effcct on Mary may be just as dev- astating. But by the time they are 15 most boys have recovered from their dislike and William begins to feel an absorb- ing attraction for the gawky, adoles- cent Mary. When this normal de- velopment doesn't take place something wrong. ls'rnu gb()y's trouble lay in his home life. His mother had tried to bring him up as a girl. She had not let him play with rough little boys. She had taught him such gentle arts as sewing and discouraged base ball and oot ball. Now it happened that this particular boy was a real boy with all the boy's drives to activity. Otherwise he might have developed into a sissy. Just a Tortured Boy. There wasn't the stuff of a sissy in him. He was just a pitiable, tortured boy. When he went to school he couldn't play with the boys, because he never had learned how. His muscles had been trained for embroidering, not Yoot ball. He had to hide his dis- ability in books and daydreams. Sub- consciously he sensed his own difficuity. If there had been no girls in the world he would have been allowed to live like & boy. So he never had recovered from the stage where boys hate girls. And school teachers were just grown- up girls. He wanted to make them feel his hate with his fists. There was o soil for the growth of gentlemanly mstlncts.d Girls were things to be liminated. i The way out of this trouble, H. D. Fife, the principal, believes, is to train the child in the games of boys until ‘e is able to hold his own among them. When the bad effects of his early training are overcome it is likely that his hatred of girls will disappear of jtself. But the shy, day-dreaming boy is not easy to deal with. He dreads playing with boys_because he is sure 15 INJURED IN CRASH. Two Street Cars Collide at Junction in Chicago. CHICAGO, January 12 (P).—Two street cars collided at a triple junction of Clark and Center streets and Lincoln Park West late last night, 15 passen- gers being injured. The rear wheels of a northbound Clark street car left the tracks, the rear of the car swinging around into the path of a southbound car. Both cars were crowded. Many of the in- Jjured suffered fractured arms and legs and severe bruises, but none was criti- cally hurt. DOLLAR LINE STEAMER STILL AGROUND ON REEF Crew to Lighten Vessel by Remov- ing Cargo—Hull Apparently Unhurt by Seas. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, January 12.—Efforts to pull the Dollar liner President Adams off a reef at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal having failed, the possibility of lightening the vessel by removing the cargo was under discus- sion today. The 90 passengers were removed without injury when the ship grounded. All mail was also removed. There ap- peared to be no immediate danger of the liner being damaged by the seas. Immediately after the Capt. Morris of the vessel fell overboard while taking soundings. He swam ashore and returned later to his ship. PHILIP F. BIGGINS WEDS MISS GERTRUDE McLAIN Private Secretary to U. S. Attorney Rover Takes Bride Away on Honeymoon Sea Voyage. Philip F. Biggins, 30 years old, private | secretary to United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, was married at Baltimore yesterday to Miss Gertrude McLain, 24 years old, of 1209 Clifton street, a teacher at the Fairbrother-Bowen Pub- lic School in southwest Washington. ‘The couple left for a sea voyage to Jacksonville, Fla., on their honeymoon. Japan Honors Former U. S. Envoy. CHICAGO, January 12 (#).—A sur- gical suite in the proposed $5,000,000 International Medical Center at Tokio, Japan, is to be a memorial to the latc Edgar A. Bancroft, Chicago, one time Ambassador to Japan. A Chicago com- mittee will raise a $25,000 fund for the memorial. likely originate in just this type of boy. ‘The Gales Special School always has a waiting list. It has become a sort of “bad boy” clinic where parents consult about their children. They are encouraged to come to the school, since a great deal of the treatment must be applied in the home. It is more often the home than the school which is responsible for the trouble. Usually, after vacations much of the work must be done over again, Fife says. The boys, associating for a week or two with their old gangs, have re- learned some of their bad habits and to reveal to them his inferiority. Only when he is a real boy will he be able to endure a world with girls in it. Bully Quite Different. Quite a different problem is that of the bully. He usually is overgrown for his age. He becomes the master of his world by reason of his size and he will not study because he is self-satisfied. He doesn’t want to lose his sense of superiority by pitting his brain against the brains of ‘brighter boys when he can_ demolish them with his fists. So the bully is gen- erally dull; he becomes unmanageable and is transférred from tchool to school ‘without any improvement. Perhaps the best remedy for him is # have him beaten by a younger and smaller boy. js is not so difficult as 1t might seem. / The overgrown bully be- comes overconfident. He smokes too many cigarettes and loses his wind. There is always a smaller boy who is ® faster, cleverer fighter and who will overthrow him in the end. Fife en- courages these smaller boys—some of them in his -school are pretty tough eggs—to challenge- the bully. He has a pair of regulation boxing gloves which are always at the service of any boy who has taken all the bullying he can stand and is determined to whip the bigger fellow, no matter how many fail- ures he meets with or how bad the beat- return to school surly and ill-man- nered. Gang life among Washington boys is a vital factor which never has been thoroughly investigated. It is full of secret societies, crap-shooting clubs, etc., which nobody knows anything about ex- cept the boys themselves. The prob- lem of turning the activities of these secret societies into healthy channels is a difficult one, the solution of which never has been attempted. Fife himself is a member of one secret society which meets in an abandoned house, but he never has been able to obtain the permission of the boys to in- troduce any other adult. Up to this year the principal activity was crap- shooting, but he has been partially suc- cessful in interesting the boys in boxing and other athletic diversions. But it is first essential to gain the confidence of the boys. They have all the traditional pacts signed with blood not to reveal any of the secrets. Many of these boys are not touched by the Boy Scouts, the Boys’ Club or any of the religious or- ganizations devoted to boy welfare. They exert a tremendous influence on the formation of character. ings. Once the bully is whipped he gen- erally loses his _ self-confidence and recognizes the need of other accomplish- ments to put himself on an equality with his fellows. Moreover, the little fellow is encouraged to still greater ef- forts to conquer. Boys Hate Writing. ‘Many.of the day-dreams of adolescent boys dre concerned with fighting. They are always whipping gangs, single- handed, in imagination. Fife has shown this several times by a simple experi- ment. Ordinarily boys of the type sent to the Gales Special School hate Eng- lish composition. They are given a subject to write on, but ordinarily do a very poor job. But masterpieces result when they are asked to write on the subject of “The worst fight I ever had.” The subject seems to tap a well of the imagination which has infinite possibilities. All the bloodythirsty nature of boyhood comes to_the surface. When this test was tried the other day one little Italian boy, who ordi- narily cannot be encouraged to go more than four or five lines in a composition, wrote furiously until he had covered six large sheets, He told how he had encountered the neighborhood gang and knocked them cold, one“by one. Then, with a straight face, he read the com- position to the class. The other boys, of course, laughed. So did the teacher. ‘The little fellow was furious. The trouble with this dream-world fighting is that it provides a superiority outlet by the boy’s personality which is not tested in the real world. The great- est fighters on paper are likely to be a bit yellow when put to the test. Very likely it is because of this very yellow streak, which the boy recognizes and fears, that the individual has withdrawn into a world of phantasy, where he can fight and conquer to his heart’s content. ‘The problem then is to find the source of the yellow streak and eliminate it. When this has been accomplished the boy’s experience in his phantasy battles | helps him in real battles and he is able to conguer his actual environment. Suc- ul_pugilists and battle heroes very s — ) CunnANTECD 100 PURE he World Autocrat Motor Oil is “Pure Pennsylvania” oil—and more! It is 100% Super-Pennsyl- vania motor oil because it is skillfully refined from the cream of Pennsylvania crude —the highest grade petroleum found on this Continent. Nothing is more important than thorough lubrication. AUTOCRAT—THE OIL THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS Beware of Substitutes. Bayerson Oil Works Columbia 5228 grounding | OVER 20 GOVERNORS T0BEHERE MARCH4 Inauguration Invitation Ac- ceptances Are Received by Parade Chairman. Governors of fully half the States of the Union are to gather in Wash- ington March 4 to honor Herbert Hoo- ver on the occasion of his inaugural as President of the United States. Re- plies to inquiries sent out by Gen. An- ton Stephan, chairman of the parade committee for the inaugural, indicate that more than 20 State executives will come to Washington to take part in the procession which the new President will lead down Pennsylvania avenue to the ‘White House. Gen. Stephan anticidates little dif- ficulty in settling the matter of State precedence in the parade, which has sometimes caused trouble in getting the units into the procession in proper order. He said today that the parade committee will insist that all march- ing units must be ready to take their places in the line of march, and will be arranged according to the date of admission of the State they represent into the Federal Union. The vexing matter of precedent will thus be settled in a manner which the chairman feels must be satisfactory to all. Dr. Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, reiterated today his previous declaration that the Klan does not intend to ask for a place in the parade, and under no circumstance will take an official part in the inaug- ural ceremonies. Dr. Evans feels that it is not the place for a sectarian body to appear, and made it plain the Klan does not intend to stage any kind of demonstration during the inaugural period. An indication that the inaugural grandstand committee may meet with considerable competition in its sale of seats in the stands to stretch along Pennsylvania avenue came in an un- supported report that a group of New York men plan to rent window space in the unused St. James Hotel, at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue on March 4, with a view to renting seat- ing space in the windows from which spectators may watch the passage of the parade. Meanwhile, however, plans of the grandstand committee are going ahead with no change, in an effort to raise a considerable amount of money toward defraying the expenses of the com- mittee from the sale of grandstand seats. The committee has not yet offi- cially set a price for the sale of seats. Intimations that there may be an op- . position “official program” arranged by private parties brought no response from the committee. The inaugural committee, however, will have exclusive jurisdic- tion over the stands constructed under its direction and will have authority over the route of the parade. RESCUE SQUAD DELAY COSTS DRIVER FIVE Colored Motorist, Who Failed to Give Wagon Rigth of Way, Is Held Guilty. Pleading guilty to failing to give the right of way to Fire Department ap- paratus, Walter Downing, colored, was fined $5 by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court yesterday. Members of rescue squad No. 2 said that while hurrying to the asssitance of a man who had attempted suicide in the first precinct police station, Downing drove his car in front of the rescue wagon at Eleventh street and Florida avenue. In swerving to avoid a collision the rear wheel of the fire ap- paratus struck a hole in the street, throwing the life line and oter pieces of apparatus off the truck and necessi- tating its stopping. Downing said he did not hear the rescue squad siren, although other vehi- cles on the cross streets had stopped. In spite of their delay, the squad s.cceeded in reviving the man who had attempted to strangle himself. ALASKAN VOLCANO AREA DESCRIBED Dr. Jaggar Tells of Home of World’s Largest Carniv- orous Animals. The home of the world’s largest car~ nivorous animals, the Alaskan brown bears, was described last night for mem- bers of the National Geographic Society by Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar in an ad- dress at the Washington Auditorium. Dr. Jaggar, who is director of the Ha- wailan Volcano Observatory and an authority on volcanology, led an expe- dition of the society last Summer to the Alaskan Peninsula primarily to study volcanic phenomena in the neigh- borhood of Pavlof Volcano. Botanic, geologic and biologic speci- mens were also collected, however; and one of the most stirring chapters in Dr. Jaggar's address last night was the story of the bagging of a tremendous brown bear, illustrated with pictures of the episode taken by the expedition’s staff photographer. The creature meas- ured nearly 10 feet from nose to tail. 1 Map Errors Corrected. ‘The expedition made a close study of the area around Pavlof Volcano and corrected numerous map errors that have existed since the charts made by early Russian explorers. Under the plane-table work of the expedition’s to- pographer, a supposed range of moun- tains, two large bays, an extensive glacier disappeared, and a valley sup- posed to contain six lakes was found to have no less than 500. One of the most important activilies of the to- pographer was the extension of map work entirely across the peninsula to Bering Sea. For this work horses were taken along by the expedition. They penetrated into regions where such ani- mals probably had never been before. An area 2500 square miles in extent was mapped. Not a tree was found in the area traversed. Coarse grass grows near the beaches and in the marshes, and on this fodder the horses throve. The wood needed by the party was obtained from drift along the shore. Much of it came from the wreckage of salmon traps, broken up by Winter storms. Many Photographs Obtained. Many photographs were obtained of Pavlof Volcano and its crater, and much material was colected for future scien- tific study. The volcano was active in 1906, 1911, 1914, 1917 and 1923, and, in Dr. Jagger's opinion, is about ready for another outbreak. In its Summer’s work the expedition encountered numerous wild animals, in- cluding considerable herds of caribou, numerous hair seals, bears and foxes. Fish and clams were abundant, and these and gulls’ eggs supplemented the food supply. An unusual piece of equipment taken by the expedition was a combined auto- mobile and boat. Its gasoline engine drove its wheels along the beaches and operated a propeller in the water. This strange craft proved useful on many occasions, Dr. Jaggar said. Drawn up on land at night it provided sleeping quarters for the leader of the expedi- tion, DINNER PART.Y ROBBED BY LONE-HAND BANDIT Uninvited Guest Gets $2,300 in Jewelry, $112 in Cash at Birth- day Celebration. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 12.—An un- | invited guest appeared at a fashionable birthday dinner party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Allen here last night, unaided held up the 16 socially prominent guests and the Allen’s 21- year-old son, Russell, and escaped with | $2,300 in jewelry and $112 in cash. He left wearing Mr. Allen’s hat and an overcoat belonging to one of the guests. ‘While the men at the table were or- dered to stand and “shell out” the wom- en were allowed to remain seated while they passed over their gems. The rob- ber allowed Mr. Allén to attend his wife, who became hysterical during the hold- up. // | XX LXZXZXEXEXES EXEXEXE ETE TSI ETETE PRI RTETE A SR ST TR TR Heavy Door Blown Against Man’s Head; Skull Is Injured Patrick J. Kelly, 28 years old, of 1505 West Virginia avenue north- east, employed at the railroad roundhouse at Ivy City, was severely injured shortly after 5 o'clock this morning at his place of employment, when one of the heavy doors of the building was blown against him by the high wind, striking his head. The injured man was treated at Emergency Hospital for a possible fracture of the skull. His condi- tion was reported undetermined. YOUTH HELD HERE INROBBERY CHARGE Accused of Taking Money From Two Safes and Killing Six Horses With Auto. Alleged to have confessed having taken money from two safes in Mary- land recently, to have been the driver of a car which erashed into a lot of horses near Frederick, Md., Tuesday night, killing six of them, and to have just recently been released after serv- ing a term of one year in a New Jersey prison for the theft of $200, Charles W. Millerd, 19, a former ward of the Board of Public Welfare, was being held by the local police today fcr Frederick authorities. Millerd was arrested yesterday after- noon by Detectives Fihelly and Kuehl- ing. He told police he has been living at the Gospel Mission for the past few days. Millerd still bears marks of the injuries he is alleged to have received when the car he was driving struck the horses near Frederick. Millerd, police say. has admitted that he took $200 from a safe in the home of a dairyman near Ellicott City, recent- ly, and that he took money from the safe of a gasoline station in Frederick. The detectives declared today that Millerd denies committing any robberies or other law violations in Washington. A check-up of his story is being made at police headquarters. A charge of rveckless driving is contained in a war- rant for Millerd's arrest in Frederick. . Riverdale Woman Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., January 12.—Mrs. Martha Jane May Cressweli, 82 years old, died this morning of apoplexy. She lived with her two widowed daugh- ters, Mrs. Anna C. Turner and Mrs. Eleanor C. Wagner. Funeral services ;«g:’l bemheblg at t"tmk home and the y wi sent to Phillipsburg, Pa., her former home, for burllfi. Lt . Dr. Barrow Dies. ATHENS, Ga., Janua 12 (P)— Dr. David Crenshaw Burr‘;yw. 76, chan- cellor emeritus of the University of g%(:;;ln and prominent educator, died —_ Volapuk is a commercial lan; intended for universal use, formu‘l‘:'f:; by Johann M. Schleyer about 1879. NOTED NAVY PILOT 10 QUIT SERVIGE Famous “Three Sea Hawks” to Be Broken Up by Tom- linson Resignation. The famed Navy aerial stunt outfit, the “Three Sea Hawks,” which won lasting fame last Summer at the Cali- fornia national air meet, is to be broken up by the resignation of its leader, Lieut. D. W. (“Indian Joe") Tomlinson, who now is stationed at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia. Lieut. Tomlinson, although his resig- nation has not yet taken effect, is out of he is on leave from the local post. He has signed up as a pilot on the Mad- dox Air Line, one of the leading air transport companies on the West Coast. The Sea Hawks were organized last year by Lieut. Tomlinson, his flying mates being Lieut. W. V. Davis and Lieut. A. P. Storrs, both of whom are still on duty with the Navy air forces. They created one of the outstanding sensations of the great California meet last September by their daring acro- batics in close formation. Lieut. Tomlinson has had a pic- turesque career in the Navy flying serv- ice, dating back to the World War. He began his flying days as second pilot on a Navy flying boat patrolling the Virginia Capes in search of Ger- man submarines during the war. He has flown on every possible occasion since that time, barnstorming the country during his periods of leave from active service. He has survived several spectacular crashes. He was piloting the big Navy patrol plane PN-11 when it caught fire recently during its first test flight from the Naval Air Station here. He suc- ceeded in beaching the blazing plane and saving his entire crew, although the plane was burned to the last in- hull melting. Just a short time before he escaped when the tail surface on a new plane he was testing gave way in the air during a power dive. He stuck with the crippled plane and brought it down safely. He crashed on another occa- sion at Le Roy, N. Y., but walked away | from the wreck uninjured. Safe Prescription’ Requires No Gargling No longer is it necessary to gargle or to choke with nasty'tasting patent | medicines or gargles to relieve sore | throat. Now you can get almost in- | stant relief with one swallow of a famous doctor’s prescription called | Thoxine. It has a double action, re- | lieves the soreness and goes direct to | the internal cause not reached by | | gargles, salves, and patent medicines. Thoxine does not contain iron, chloroform or dope, is pleasant-tast- | ing, harmless and safe for the whole family. Also excellent for coughs: stops them almost instantly. 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BABY SHOP FIRM FILES BANKRUPTCY PETITION Mary I. and Edward J.-Cunning- ham List $3,196 in Debts, $4,977.44 in Assets, Mary I. Cunningham and Edward J. Cunningham, trading as the Washing- ton Baby Shop, 2628 Fourteenth street, yesterday filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. The indebtedness of the firm is placed at $3,196, and its assets are estimated at $4,977.44, including stock in trade. In a separate petition Mary 1. Cunningham says she has no perscnal debts, but has assets of $10. Edward J. Cunningham In his personal petition places his debts at $732 and claims assets of $3,432, much of which is in insurance. Attorneys Fischer & Fischer and Charles A. Bendheim appear for the pe- titioners. POLI'S THEATRE Tuesday, January 15, at 4:30 P.M. As A boy Jascha Heifetz was a musical prodigy. He began playing the violin at three. Today, as a young reatest of violinists. His technique is flawless, the intonation is perfect, and the quality of tone is superb. 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