Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1930, Page 10

URGES RETENTION OF KIDERCARTEN Congress of Parents and Teachers Favors Naming Assistant Teacher. Retention of the kindergarten classes [} in the Webster School and appointment of an assistant teacher to aid in teach- inr the classes were urged in a resolu- tion adopted at the first Fall meeting of the District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers, in the Wilson ‘Teachers’ College, yesterday afternoon. ‘Thegresolution declared that the work of the Americanization School here will be greatly hampered if the kindergarten classes are done away with in the Web- ster School. The introductory part of the resolution asserted there is no pro- vision in the appropriation act for eliminating kindergarten classes. The resolution was introduced by Mrs. E. C. Rittue. An offer of the District of Columbia | Society of the Sons of the American| Revolution to furnish speakers on anti-| Communism to address the Pai nt- Teacher Association was accepted in aj recolution adopted at the meeting. An offer that the District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers es- tablish its headquarters in the Raymond School and hold its m-2tings there was| declined with thanks after it was de-| cided the school is too far away from the conter of the city for a meeting place for the group. The CcONGrcss maintains its headquarters in the Bur- lington Hotel. The congress declined to indorse the “passicn Play,” to. be presented here soon, when it was decided it would be improper for the congress to take -uch action as a group. A pageant in the interest of the Child Welfare Magazine, the official publica- . tion of parent-teacher associations. was resented under auspices of Blair-Hayes nt-Teacher Association, under the direction of Mrs. F. D. Morris, second vice president of the congress and in charge of the program at yesterday's meeting. Elwood Baker, secretary of the Na- tional Congress of Parents and Teach- ers, addressed the meeting, stressing the importance of parent-teacher activi- ties. He faid the local P.-T. A. group stands seventh in membership among the various P.-T. A. congresses in the United States. There are in the neigh- borhood of 12,000 in the District of Columbia, according to estimates. Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders, president of the local congress, p:esided at the meeting, and made a report of a recent meeting of the board of managers of the National Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations. Musical numbers were rendered at the meeting by “The Sing- ing Mothers.” Rugby P;yer Proves Dependable. PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, October 22 (/). —Almost drowned in a Rugby game, Percy Lalonde will be careful hereafter when it is raining. Playing for Port Fort Williams, he was pile of players in a scrimmage, down in a pool of water. Respiration methods such as used on bathers were employed and he finished the game. PASTOR URGES UNION Would Affiliate With A. F. of L. to Maintain High Standards. NEW YORK, October 22 (#).—For- mation of & union of ministers, with possible affiliation with the American Federation of Labor was advocated yesterday by Prof. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary at a con- ference on the relation of labor and the church. “The union I am for should not be formed to defend preachers who are de- moted or whose salaries are cut,” Prof. Ward said. “It would be a union to romote the highest standards of re- lon. ‘I‘-le added that the union would be somewhat similar to the Teachers’ Union, designed to maintain the stand- ards of education. NEW AIRMAIL ROUTE Brown to Ride First Plane From Newark Airport Saturday. Postmaster General Brown will take a personal part in the inauguration of the new transcontinental airmail route, which will cross the middle part of the country, by flying in the first plane leaving the Newark, N. J., airport next Saturday morning. He will go as far as_Columbus, Ohio. Two other airmail officials also will fly in the first plane, W. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster General in Charge of Air Mail, flying as far as St. Louis and Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail service, fiying to Kansas City, where an overnight stop is made in the new service. THE EVE SAYS ADVERTISING Meat Packing Executive De- clares Better Use of Pub- lic Money Effected. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 22.—How “adver- tising helps the consumer to make better use of his dollar” was explained yesterday in a report by G. F. Swift of Chicago, vice president of Swift & Co. and chairman of the -Committee on Public Relations of the Institute of American Meat Packers. “By continually advisirig the house- wife through their advertising and news columns of the increased purchasing power of her money the newspapers have performed a real service during the last year, when eeconomical buying has been essential in many cases,” said Mr. Swift, addressing the twenty-fifth annual convention of the institute. “By bringing bargains and opportunities for of the consumers advertising has made it possible for the consumer to spend his money where he can get the best returns for it.” William Whitfield Woods of C! ‘hicago was re-elected president of the institute and F. S. Snyder of Boston, Mass, chairman of the board. 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