Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 20

-~ SCHOOL EXAMS - O BE DIFFERENT fl'en Years Will Be Devoted |.to Perfection of System { of Measuring Knowledge. " The “old - fashioned” examination Week—bugaboo of high school and eol- fege boys for generations—is going to be ifferent. ‘The American Council on Education, With headquarters here, received this past week & grant of $500,000 from the General Education Board of the Rocke- feller Foundation to produce a com zm series of achievement tests in high hool and college subjects to be applied universally. The project is to continue for 10 years. ‘This is one of the newer ideas in edu- eation. The old-fashioned examina: tions, which kept students “plugging’ for weeks over their Latin and math textbooks, 'borrowing notes from each other, and scribbling notes on their cuffs, probably have not meant so much after all, according to Dr. David A. rtson, newly elected president of Goucher Gollege and assistant director of the American Council on Education. Each teacher made up his examin: tions according to his own ideas. Some were fair and some cailed for luck. The marks meant practically nothing for comparative purposes. A student’s grade depended a good deal not on what he knew about the subject, but on the subjective attitude of the particular teacher who made and marked the questions. Similarity of Grades. Under the new system, when It is universally adopted, & 'grade of A in a country high school in Oklahoma will mean almost precisely the same thing as the same grade in a Washington high school, and in one teacher’s class as in another’s. Schools will give the same examinations in the same subjects and both will grade by a standard sys- tem which will depe;\d very little on the titude of the marker. .‘The object of these tests will be to measure accurately what the student actually knows about the subject. Al- yeady a serles of such tests has been constructed in the general run of sub- jects taught in high schools and the first two years of college. About 50 colleges and 150 secondary schools in Pennsylvania are using them with satis- factory results, but, Dr. Robertson ex- lained, much remains to be done be- fm-o they are satisfactory for universal lication. lD_l;he thing that stands in the way is the great bugaboo of present-day edu- cators, standardization. They don't want the schools and colleges turning out pupils as alike as peas in a pod, with no original ways of looking at things, end they don't want to encourage studying to pass an examination rather than studying to learn a subject. This, Mr. Robertson points out, has feen a serious objection to the standard ¢ college entrance examination. It has stood in the way of teachers presenting subjects in fresh and original ways. The tencher, Mr, Robertson explained, knows that his work will be judged in large part on the success of his students in taking his examination. Conse- quently his objective is not to teach students history, but to teach them to ass a standardized examination in istory, and there is little relationship between the two. Time Credit Advancements. Advancement in school and college, said Mr. Robertson, has been by time credits, and not by degrees of mastery of the subject matter. A bare passing mark, so far as promotion is concerned, has meant as much as the highest pos- sible mark. Under the new system there will be an effort to do away with this condition. The tests will measure the actual accomplishment of the puplils. It is planned to avoid standardization by working out the tests in co-opera- tion with the leading specialists in the different flelds and with questions which will reveal the actual extent of the pupil's progress rather.than his astery of a specific set of facts. Some dividual college freshman, for ex- ample, may know more about mathe- matics than a senior who has taken all the courses offered. Under the nt system this does him no gaum he has to undergo the formality of taking and the courses. The tests will try to show the pupil’s ability to use facts rather than yemember specific details by means of *plugging.” and which are certain to uor:mun as soon as the examina- are over. The American Council on Education also has received funds from the Jullus Rosenwald Foundation to finance the work of a committee made up of rep- resentatives of various divisions of American educational system to formu- late a comprehensive program of edu- cational investigations. This, it was pc\nu;_“ out, may prove the nucleus of & cen tions in the sclence of education which will parallel the work of the National Research Council in the fleld of the physical sciences. LINERS ON SCHEDULE AFTER HAZARDOUS FOG| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14.—The merry sunshine, which in the kindergarten song chases the stars away, went to work today on a fog that had ham- pered shipping and caused several minor accidents during the past 36 hours and completely routed it. Once more great liners steamed proudly up and down the bay, back on schedules that had been shattered by the blinding mist, and harbor traffic ran at full speed across the crowded ‘waters instead of creeping stealthily through the murk or swinging help- lessly at anchor, as had been the case for the past two nights and a day. During the f°f, a banana boat grounded, s freighter and a tanker collided with small damage and an aviator got lost and crashed without injury in a Staten Island street. London J(-;l;rnalist Calls Yuma Gilmore, . But It’s Wrong One| Seeks News of Ruth Mix’s Marriage, but Effort Is Wasted. By the Associated Press. YUMA, Ariz. June 14—A London reporter telephoned all the way to Yuma yesterday and got the wrong Dumber. Frank J. Gilmore, Yuma business man, was awakened at his home and answered the call. ’ this is a London journalist,” it volce. “"Hello, “Are you Gil- said = distant more?” “Yeah,” the Yums man answered|N. C. They both owned slaves and Frew | Tomb in the Are de Triomphe. , are you really married.” “Sure, what of it?" snapped Gilmore, Wwho has been Many years. “But say, where is Miss Ruth Mix, , bride?” y, you've the wrong number,” Gilmore exph erash of his receiver ende mile call Douglas Gilmore, actor, who married Tom Mix's daughter here last Monday, turned to Hollywood with his mje fifl' days ago.” got the 6,000~ different | g, ciearing house for investigs- | | | SON OF SIAMESE KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 14 (N.A. N.A).—In the Barber County Home, Medicine Lodge, Kans, are only two inmates. One is Bill Horn, who drove the stage from Wichita down through that country in the old Wild West days. ‘The other is 80-year-old Patrick Henry original For nearly half a century the Siamese twins were the eighth wonder of the world. They traveled everywhere in America and Europe, and millions of people saw them. They died in 1874, 1 found Partick Henry Bunker fishing, and by degrees the swart little man told me his story. ‘How did the son of & man of Siam get the name of Patrick Henry Bunk- er?” I asked. “Well, those twin boys, my father and uncle, were born in 1811 in Ucklong, about 60 miles from Bangkok,” he be- gan.. ‘When they were 18 years old they were playing in the water, and the cap- tain of an American ship saw them and realized what a wonderful curiosity they would be in America. He made a deal with their Siamese mother, my grand- mother, by which he was to take them to America. Took Bystander’s Name. “They were put on exhibition, and in New York City they were naturalized. They were known as Ing and Chang | In the naturalization office they were told they must have a surname. A man named Fred Bunker, 14 Ann street, New York, was standing there, and he suggested that they take his name, and they did. So my father was named Ing Bunker and my uncle was Chang unker. “After they had made a lot of money they married sisters, Sallie and Adelaide Yates, of Dutch and Irish descent. Sallie | wlas my mother, and she was a hand- | some woman and a fine Christian, and had a wonderfully good disposition. “The twins were married the same day to the sisters. Father and his brother had a farm apiece, not over a half mile apart, and each had a house on his land, and it was agreed that the twins would spend three days with one of the wives and three days with the other, and 8o on, and that plan they re- ligiously followed whenever they were at ome. “Father and his twin brother would stay at our house three days and nights and then would go to my uncle’s house for three days and nights. Pather had 11 children and my uncle had 10, seven | girls and three boys. Swung Same Ax Together. “My father and my uncle were sep arate individuals in every way, except | that, as it was found after they were | dead, their lives were united and they had the same bloodstream. A mem- | braneous band that united them came out of the bottom of the breastbone and was a trifle over 3 inches thick and about 2'; inches long, but it was very elastic and would stretch to 5'; inches. It was a cartilage so0 strong that one could lift the other and let| him hang by it. “They were born face to face, and in infancy they were that way, but after they learned to walk they found it easler to get around side by side, | 80 they were almost always that way, close together and facing In toward each other. “They became very dexterous. They could chop wood as well as any man. Father was on the right side and Un- cle Chang on the left, so father would grasp the ax handle with his right hand and Uncle Chang would take hold with his left, and, as he was left-handed, anyway, that gave them a strong grip of it, and as they chopped the chips would fly. They would handle a hoe| or any other tool in the same way." | I told Bunker that it was said the twins used to have violent quarrels, “That isn't 50,” he said. “They would | have their differences, of course. Father loved poker and he would often sit up all night and play. Uncle Chang never played and it took & good deal of per- suasion to get him to stay up so long. I remember that once father won two colored boys at a poker game. Father was a great checker player, too, and many a game I played with him. He would sit up all night to play with a good checker player and that irked Uncle Chang. “They did have their little differ- ences, that's true, but they never had & violent quarrel. “In the years before the Civil War father and Uncle Chang made fortunes MR. AND MRS. TSUNG YUH NYL TWIN SPENDS HIS LAST YEARS IN POOR HOUSE Patrick Henry Bunker Describes Life of Strange Pair Who Married Sisters and Divided Time on Two Farms. traveled with Barnum's Circus. ‘That is not true. They were never with any circus or ‘sideshow. They always gave & high-class exhibition in a hall or in Museum in New York when the Prince of Wales, afterward King Edward VII, visited it, and later Barfum sent them on a tour of Europe, but they never liked Bar- num; he was too much of a Yankee and wanted too much for his share of the money, and my father and uncle were close figurers themselves. “They had separate likes and dis- likes as to food, but they generally got sleepy at the same time. Once they both had chills and fever at the same time. But they always had pretty iood health. Uncle Chang was the st one to be taken seriously sick. On a steamship returning from England, while father was playing checkers with Frederick A. Douglass, Uncle Chang was nrl::en with peralysis and never well agal ‘They came home and one morning father woke up and found his brother dead beside him. Father was well at the time, but he died a half hour later. Then the doctors found that it would have killed them to have cut them apart, for & ll%lmfl extended through the band united them.” ‘How did it happen that as prosperous farmer as you were has come to end gll days in the poor house?” I asked olly, you don't want to do th 'Yes, I do,’ she said, and she insisted So I said to her: “‘Well, no man ever made anything lawing with his wife, 0, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with' so I deeded her the farm in Sumner County and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, every- thing. “During the war she could have sold that farm for $14,000. She did sell it afterward for $9,000, and she's married again, and I reckon she set my children against me, for they don’t have any- thing to do with me.” “Where are your children now?” I asked. “The oldest boy, James Henry Bunker, is & mechanic in Kiowa, just a few miles from here,” he said. ‘“Another of my sons, Frederick Marshal Bunker, is somewhere in Oklahoma; he was farmer, but couldn't get along. My third son, George Bunker, is & farmer near Atchison. My daughter, Delia Lee. lives in Blackwell, Okla. where my daughter, Myrtle Cooper, is. My other daughter, Mrs. Nancy Ann Davis, lives in Hutchinson, Kans. Her husband is a barber there. No More Twins in Family, “A queer thing is that none of my brothers or sisters and none of my children had twins.” Bunker told how he got into the country home: “I got & job in Kiowa as a mechanic in a garage. I had a little money in the bank, nearly $100, and it came over me all of a sudden that I was getting old. I was 76 then, and I realized that mighty soon I would be unable to work any more. 8o I put it up to the county commissioners. T ain't got long to live nohow,’ I told them. ‘My father died at 63, and I'm 76 and failing fast. You take my money in the bank and put me in the poor house for the rest of my days.’ “Well, sir, I saw one of them com- missioners wipe his eyes with his coat sleeve and another said: ‘Why, Pat, you've worked hard all your life and raised a family; you've done your share, and you come right up to the poor house any time you like and make yourself at home there, and the county doesn’t want your money—keep it to buy tobacco with.' ‘Wasn't that fine?” and Pat got up and began fooling with his bamboo fishing pole, pretending that he had a bite, thinking in that way to hide the tears in his own eyes. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- r Allfance.) TOMB FLAME RELIGHTED PARIS, June 14 (®).—Headed by Premier Tardieu and Prefect of Police exhibiting themselves, and they invested in farms in Wilkes County, N. C., but later sold them and t other farms near Mount Alry, lbnngnq County, tobacco and father had s - house. “The Civil War wiped out our for- tunes and the t ‘went to Europe on a tour arranged by P. T. Barnum, and father left me in charge of his farm. They were in Berlin in 1870, when the wiped out another fortune for them. Liked Different Food. “In all the. newspaper accounts I have seen in years about the twins it was al that they Jean Chiappe, a delegation of Parls police, veterans of the World War, to- day attended the ceremony of relight- ing the flame in the Unknown Soldier's The heavy rain did not prevent at- tendance of several hun uniformed police who, with the members of the municipal ecouncil, stood at attention as premler to the flower- covered tomb and touched the electric button with the ceremonial saber. The oded. The | pranco-Prussian War began, and that |notables then drove away in closed au- tomobiles, while the police marched down through the rain-swept Chamj lice veterans will hold a it at raud, 'h:h Maroel ll':i preside. uP IBAPTIST RITUAL UNITES CHINESE Tsung Yuh Nyi of Shanghai and Miss Feng DJen DJang Are Married Here. A romance that budded in the Orient culminated in Ooccidental setting here yesterday when Tsung Yuh Nyi, 24 years old, of Shanghal, China, who this month completed research studies at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and comely Miss Feng DJen DJai 28, also of Shanghal, who just r her doctor of philosophy degree at the same university, were married by Rev. Dr. Samuel Judson Porter, pastor of the Pirst Baptist Church, at his resi- dence in the Northumberland Apart- ments. The couple met some years ago while they were students at the Shanghai Baptist College. Mrs. Nyl preceded her flance to this country to become a student at Johns go&kh;. where she first obtained her 3 egree. Mr. Nyl took a degree in jurispru- dence at Leland Stanford University before going to Johns Hopkins. ‘The couple plan to spend a part of their honeymoon in this city. Eventu- ally tth will make their home in Shanghal. ‘The bride was dressed in native Chi- nese costume for the wedding, her gown being of silk and containing hand- embroidered figures. The bride’s brother, Y. Z. DJ: is an instructor in Chinese at John: Hopkins, and Mrs, Porter were wit- nesses at the wedding. g, J EXTRADITION GRANTED MEXICO CITY, June 14 (#).—The fourth district court held yesterday that J. P. Harper, American, sought in Oklahoma City, and several other com- munities in the United States on charges of embezzlement and counterfeiting, | linked | network as lh%\;lld be extradited. e court turned Harper over to the | department of foreign 'r'gfltlom, \'h:;‘:" formal charges against him will be | studied and submitted to the President | i for final decision on extradition. { Under Mexican laws, Harper's attor. neys still may seek a writ of habeas | corpus, which would delay the case 40 | days even if extradi 87 peven, 1 extradition. were " finally | Featuring 1. TIME CONTROL... ke it te 1 ingly—AUTOMATICAL. LY! \\ RADIO PROGRAM SYNCHRONIZED FROM TWO STATIONS IN IOWA | Enginecru Hope for Better Reception and Wider Distribution of Broadcasts and Elimination of Interference Noises. BY C. E. BUTTERFIELD, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14—The dawn of successful synchronized radio broad- :uung is here, engineers declared to- ay. ‘They based their statement on re- sults obtained in the broadcasting of identical ams on the same wave length without interference by two Iowa stations, 190 miles ‘The stat are O, Des Moines, and WOC, Davenport, both owned and operated by the Central Broadcasting Co. and occupying the broadeast channel of 29! meters, upon which they have been dividing time. Each is a unit of the National adeasting Co. Ch:&n and each has a power of 5,000 watts. As & result of the tests, which were made after midnight, the Federal Radlo Commission has granted the stations permission to go on the air at the same time with the same program during their regular day and night hours. The engineers explained that al- though only two stations had been ether, it would be possible to operate three simultaneously and that the number probably could be increased to at least five after further research. Immediate benefits to be derived, they said, included better reception, together with a wider distribution of programs from WHO and WOC. In fact, they added, the effective service area of the tations had been increased 95 per cent. Looking to the future, with numer- ous stations adopting syncronization, the engineers saw the possibility of a con- siderable decrease in interstation inter- ference and the attendant squeals and howls. They also declared that the de- velopment, which would result in the setting up of more national chains using only a few wave lengths in place of & separate channel for each unity of & present. ‘While the plan does not approach the hope expressed by Herbert Hoover in 1924 while he was head of the Depart- ment of Commerce, it indicates a trend in that direction. Mr. Hoover declared t that time he thought it would be possible some day to place all the sta- tions of a chain on a similar wave | length, making a nationwide program | vailable at only one place on the tuning The Towa tests were conducted with Four Points ., TEMPERATURE CONTROL . . . will keep your oven at just the right heat for those d e dishes. Cooks evenly, thoroughly and completely. $15.00 to $20.00 Allowance (With Y our Old Range) on Th 1 GEORGETOWN GAS LIGHT CONY WISCONSIN & DUMBARTON AVES! rorre WESY 0615 apparatus developed by Western Elec- ;I‘.l:r:nd Bell Telephone laboratory engi- At Marengo, Towa, midway between Des Moines and Davenport, was in- stalled a radio receiver tuned to both stations. The program was picked uj and sent over a telephone line to wo@, where it operated a loud speaker in the control room. o piniamin MAJ. PARTRIDGE IS SENT TO WATERTOWN ARSENAL Ordnance Officer, Now at Boston, Is Detafled as Assistant Commandant. Maj. C. E. Partridge, Ordnance, at Boston, has been detailed as aasistant commandant of the aresnal at Water- town, Mass.; Maj. A. L. Sneed, Air| Corps, has been transferred from Rock- | well Field, Calif., to Wright Pield, Ohlo: | Maj. Wayne R. Beardsley, Medical | Corps, from Hawali to his home for re- | tirement; Ma). Lloyd H. Cook, Infantry, from the Philippines to Fort Benning, Ga.; Capt. H. C. Griswold, Infantry, from Fort George G. Meade, Md., to Hawall; Capt. C. F. Sutheriand, In- 1 rom the Oklahoma Agricuitural to Hawall; J. C. Short, Cavalry, from Pinerolo, Italy, to Fort Bliss, Tex.; Capt. R. 8. Ramey, Cayalry, | from” Saumur, France, to Fort Zlark, | Tex.; Capt. J. R. Dinsmore, Judge Ad- | vocate Gene: Department, from | | Fort McPherson, Ga,, to_the War De- | partment; First Lieut. E. M. Caffey, | Engineers, from Granada, Nicaragua, to the University of Virginia Law School; | Second Lieut. Maximiano S. Janairo, | Philippine Scouts, from the West Point Military Academy to Cavite, P. I, for | engineering duty. | "First Sergt. Michael Varley, Coast | Artillery at Fort Monroe, Va., and Mas | ter Sergt. Louis Kurtz, Finance Depart- | ment, at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., have been ' transferred to the Army retired list on their own applications. The President has accepted the resig. | nation of Second Lieut. Charles E. Mar- | tin, Engineers, at Fort Humphries, Va ! to take effect ntry, College | warrants charge, CAPONE ARRESTED N PERIRY QU Charges F(;How Against Padlocking Home as a Nuisance. By the Associated Press MIAMI, Fia, June 14.—8carface Al Capone was arrested on perjury charges here today & few minutes after he had won a fight against Dade County, which sought to dlock his besutiful home on Palm Island as & nuisance. County authorities, who have prom- ised to rid Miami of the Chiocago gang- ster, charged h:rrjund himself in the warrants he h issued against H. D. McReady, director of public safety, 'h:m Capone charged with false ar- rest. ‘The gan held on bonds totaling $7, on information furnished by George E. McCaskill, Dade County solicitor. X ‘The latest development in Miami's long suddenly. The court had ordered pad- Jock proceedings against him dismissed for lack of evidence. Visibly happy. the gangster was en route to his island home when the perjury warrants were issued. They were served as soon as & deputy reached Capone at home, and ter was the much-harassed gangster returned to jail about noon and posted bond. Charges Are Specified. The warrants charge Capone swore | falsely in accusing McReady of order- ing him to jail without food, water or blankets on May 8 when he was ar- rested. Capone’s statement that Mc- Ready told him he would arrest him r any member of his family on sight Miami's streets also was false, the as were statements MCcReady threw away the gang. o thy ster’ allow him to telephone his attorney. Circuit Judge Paul D. Barnes dis- missed padlock proceedings Capone “becduse, according to_law, it is the opinion of this court that the State has not proved its contention Smiles Over Vietory. Dressed in a tan suit, gray shirt and blue tie, the scar-faced gangster smiled, shook hands with a few friends and | had won another battle left. He against the county. His war with Dade County opened April 20 when he came here for a Victory| on two warrants issued | ht to drive Capone away came | personal property and refused to ainst Warra His arrival here was the beginning & determined effort of county autho: tles to drive him awdy, but thus far he has succ blocked their moves and countered with charges. His arrest on perjury charges s the most sensational move by the county, for perjury is a penitentiary offense, & SPANISH KING RECEIVES THIRD OF PARENT’S FUND $3,000,000 Estate of Queen Mother Divided Between Ruler and Two Sisters’ Helrs, By the Associated Press. MADRID, June 14-—Because the queen mother, Maria Ohristina, died without Jeaving a will, her estate will be divided so that the King will receive one-third and the heirs of his two dead sisters the remainder. The estate totals about $3,000,000. A settiement of the estate was made today with Premier Berenguer and Minister of Justice Estrada as witnesses. Prince Alfonso, son of " Princess Mercedes, receives a third and Prince Ferdinand, whose wife was the late Princess Maria Theresa, appeared be- fore the committee and claimed a third for his children. ‘The custom in the past has been not | to leave the eldest son a dead monarch's | monetary share because the inheritance | of the crown was considered sufficient. | Absence of the will caused King Alfonso | to receive In this case an equal share | with the other he Maria Christipa's estate had dwindled considerably in the last year of her life having been invested largely in the aid of Austria and Germany in the World | War. 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