Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1931, Page 12

A-12 % THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON SORAL WORKERS TOMEETOC1. 8 ’Fhree-Day Conference of All City Agencies Ar- ranged. A city-wide conference on soctal work | will be held at the United States Chamber of Commerce October 28, 29 | and 30 under the auspices of the Coun- cil of Socle! Agencies, it was anncanced last night. Among those who will address the | conference are Rev. C. H. Le Blond, director of Catholic Charities, Cleve- land; William Hodson, director of the | New York Welfare Council, and Miss Laura Merrill of the Philadelphia Fam- | ily Welfare Society. | Miss Grace Abbott, president of the Council of Social Agencies, will serve as chairman of the conference. The | conference came about through the fact no funds were available to send executives to the national meeting at Minneapolis last Spring. Because of | the depression and the great need for relief funds, the Budget Committee eliminated all conference funds Imm the budget. All sessions will be open to the nub- lic and the program is designed to out- line in detail the actual practices as well as theories of Washington's social work plan, WOMEN’S EARNINGS FOUND INADEQUATE Labor Bureau Survey Analysis Reveals U. S. Average of Pay Less Than Living Costs, Earnings too low for adequate living rial at Grozesti, in Rumania, recently. encounter with the Russians in the World War. after the ceremony while King Garol (rixht» chats with mFmbers of the mlll'.al) King Carol of Rumania, Queen Marie and the Prince Michael were present at the unveiling of the cavalry memo- The monument was dedicated to the heroes who lost their lives The photograph shows Queen Marie patting-the head of Frin ing their Michael WA P Photo. WOMAN SWIMMER STABBED BY TRAINER Mrs. Benoit's Attacker Swallows WOMEN'S ART SHOW SUBJECTS RANGE FROM PIE TO POLITICS D. C, OCTOBER 4 HRDLICKA SCORES LACK IN EDUCATION | Children Learn Everything: but Facts About Selves and Race, He Says. ‘Today's school child learns a muu about _everything but itself. Such 1is the criticism of the present- day educational system made by Dr. | Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical an-| glropoloiy of the Smithsonian Insmu-' on. The lack of basic knowledge eon-l cerning man himself, Dr. Hrdlicka says in a communication to the Progressive ! Education Association, extends f{rom the primary grades through the univer- | sities. Thus a child’s education is com- | pleted “with at least smatterings of | knowledge concerning nearly everything except the human race, where nothing' {is cone to counteract base'ess preju- dices and superstitions, he says. i Teachers Under Handicap. In urging a change in the content | of education, Dr, Hrdlicka stresses, he , does not propose any violation of con- | ventions to which parents might ob- ject. Thus, he points out, kindergar- ten and first-grade teachers already are telling “fairy stories” to the children with the aim of stimulating the imag- ination and interest. and this in itselt is a first step in the teaching of an- thropology, since the tales themselves are adapted from primitive folklore But. he says. here the teachers are handicapped " by their own lack of knowledee and are restricted to a nar- v range of standardized fairy stories which soon grow wearisome to the child, without rea!izing the great wealth of such material which could be gleaned from the works of anthropologists. Facts Hard to Obtain. “More attention is devoted to botanv and zoology than to man's own kind.” Dr. Hrdlicka says. “The teachers talk with ease about the domestic and wild animals. birds and plants, but the mo- they approach man there is a world of uncertainty, confusion and 1931—PART ON ,h most familiar—buttons, poncile handkerchiefs and paper. “Were 1 to be ahmvw u: her of & wd hanps yount!ge e, an n pr-ference to all others.” Be(lnl'flngl with the third year, he says, the children could be taughi the slmplest elnmenu o! humln phy: ature and growth of (hexr hlh teeth evu ‘nd noses The subject could be introduced even to| young children, he believes, without oi- fending even the most finicky parents. Knowledge of its own body, he says, is the most valuable information that any child can carry away from school, Would Teach Physical Facts. “The body,” Dr. Hrdlicka says, “is 1 greatly complex machine which wili have to serve us for a great many years, and we are its engineers. Does it not ! stand to reason that the more we know about this machine, its workings and its needs, the better care we shall be.able to give it and the more returns ob- tained in the way of health, energy and happiness? There can never be too much of this line of gentle, gradual in- | struetion.” Dr. Hrdlicka stresses that he does not mean the teaching of “hygiene” and “eugenics,” as the terms are generally understood and taught in the sc hoq& i with “a lot of ‘musts’ and ‘mustn’ts.’ He would replace the tabocs with clear understanding of physical problems. In the closing years of high school and the first _years of college he would supple- ment this instruction with teaching of the origin and spread of races, lan- { guages and cultures. ' Praises Indian Method. ‘The public school, Dr. Hrdlicka said in an interview, is an institution neces- sary to take over the work which, in simpler cultures, was carried on in the family, But, he says, the parents and relatives who in the past attended the child’s education about the fireside were mature persons with a great deal of hard-learned experience with - which they could transmit. The school teacher often does not have the same experience or knowledge. Thus, he points out, while the Ameri- can Indians had nolhinfl ltke a school THE PROHIBITION - EXPERIMENT IN FINLAND st their children in many waye siter i than ¥re BACHELOR GETS 3 YEARS FOR ATT:MPTED ASSAULT of Prom nent Northern Neck Family Found Guilty for Attack on Woman. Special Dispateh to The Star. \1OA\< TROES, Va.,, October 3.—Henry rly bachelor and member of a prominent Northern Neck family, was found guilty of attempted assault by a Westmoreland County jury late today. mainly on testimony that blood- hounds follov ed a trail to his door from their grandmot r' m.a humen na nber diicka's anpeal for the st man in the schools was & contriy to A svinnosium of the Progressive Edu- oclation on the teaching of selence In the schools to which s-me of the foremost Amerizan s jenti: contributed, AIR BOMBS MAR AUTOS FLORENCE Ttaly () Automchi's owners in Noithern Italien towns still are trying to r ceused by svn the towns were * of four children was attacked on E us"d when " in recent air force sham fights. The “gas.” falling as a fine rain. ate small biis in the surface of unprotected m-ta!. Clothing of meny spectators, 190, was damaged. 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If you ask-them about the United States Government departments, as well as hundreds of individuals and large corporations, were reported yesterday by the Labor | Department’s Woman's Bureau for the | majority of women, whose year's earn- ings were ascertained in a wage analy- sis collected from 1472 industrial and | past of man they will recall hazily just 4wo stages—the Neanderthal brutes and the Cro-Magnon angels. | ““With many the subject of man s | a sort of semi-conscious taboo. Others Mink Raxsmg Added to Llst of Vocatwns Spmac}l Rinser Among Exhibits of Poison After Plunging Knife By John H. Wuorinen in Her Side. Fair and just. . . Have opening for a few good salesmen and salesladies mercantile establishments in 13 States. A total of 11,000 steady woman work- ers were included in the low-earnings group, the bureau reported. In 7 of the 13 States surveyed at | various times, more than one-fifth of | the women were reported as receiving less than $500 & year. Of the approxi- mately 8,400 women in manufacturing | whose year's earnings were reported | only 13.2 per cent earned as much at | $1,000. A true test of the adequacy of a| woman’s earnings must be based on her year's income from a job rather man on weekly wages, said Miss Mary Pidgeon, who conducted the surveys ror the bureau. In comparing wages in manufacturing. general mercantile es- | tablishments, 5 and 10 cent stores and | laundries, Miss Pidgeon said the high- | est year's earnings were found in the general mercantile group. Stressing the need for new and bet- ter wage standards for women, Miss Pidgeon asserted the minimum costs for a girl living at home from an en- tirely unsuitable gauge of proper sub- | sistence for the working woman. In 8 of the 13 States surveyed more than one-tenth of the women reported were living independently of family or rela- tives, she said The Rev. John Stewart Cameron was recently fined in Rothesay, Scotland, court for being a hit-and-run driver, his car having damaged that of a gov- erness. By the Associated Press. | TORONTO, October 3.—1In a fealous | rage, police sald, Herman Hunt, 40,' | plunged a hunting knife today into Mrs, | |Anna Priller Benoit, Holyoke, Mass. | marathon swimmer, and then drank | potson. Hunt, who has been the swim- | mer’s trainer, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. | Mrs. Benoit receivéd a deep gash in | | her side, but doctors said her condition | was not serious. Hunt also is expected | | to recover. According to & Mrs. Davis, in whose home the swimmer was staying and who summoned police after the stab- | bing, Hunt has been away for a month | or more, presumably in Florida. | He returned unexpectedly, she said, | and walked into the kitchen where Mrs. Benoit was eating breakfast. Without a word, Mrs. Davis told authorities, Hunt drew a long hunting knife and | plunged it into the frightened woman's side. Hunt then walked out of the room land swallowed poison. Police found | him lying ufconscious on the floor. | Mrs. Benoit competed in the women's swims at the Canadian National Ex- hibition since their inception in 1927 She won fifth prize in 1928, and was fourth in 1930. | Westchester County, N. Y. |launch mew business Oliver Harriman, chairman of the ex- New Inventions. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 3. —Everything from ple baking to international politics is featured at the tenth annual ex- position of women’s arts and industries Despite the depression, women are continuing to go into new fields and to ventures, Mrs. | position, sald today. Mrs. Frederick Fex, wife of a physi- clan, adds to the lengthening list of vocations for women—that of mink raising. She started her mink farm last season at her country place in to encourzge | mink raising among farm women desir- ing to add to their homes. Mrs. Francis D. Gilbert of Westfield N. J, has a rabbit farm and already is doing a large business raising these ani- ‘mals, whose skins are so Wwidely used for jackets and - trimming on women's | apparel. | exhibition of Sixty-five women inventors dre show- ing models of their designs at a special inventors patented, but not yet marketed. ‘These inventions include a hygienic dish mop, a spinach rinser, a cover to In 1929 she had to be | protect motor cars, an electrical con- taken from the water and had a similar | trol for motor cars, designs for a sleep- experience this year. 'ing car, a device to turn mattre LANSBURGH'S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 TU-WAIST the new Nemo-flex Combination Selected by. 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October 3 (®).—A man identified as Hugh Badgett, 25, of Knoxville, Tenn., was fatally injured in the Norfolk & Western Railway yards here early this afternoon. He died two hours after reaching a hospital. He was believed to have been attempt- ing to board a moving freight train, going West. Railway employes found him His right leg was mangled below the in addition to other injuries. LLANSBURGH’S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 lying beneath the moving train.. would gladly learn first themselves, but they do not find what they need and| often stray into mazes of misunderstood | psychology and even Into those of the. oceult.” The main reason for this. Dr.| Hrdlicka insists. s “the surviving hold of mistakenly called religious notions. | This has been so strong over most minds that true knowledge of man is | the product only of one of the most | recent of the sciences.” Folklore Store Dwindles. Proper selections from folklore, he says. are suitable for a child’s instruc- | tion from the beginning. This actually was given in the past by the grand- mothers and grandfathers in the home These had a wealth of material re- membered from their own childhood. | But now the school teacher has taken | their place with only a very scanty knowledge of material, of which they had a rich supply. Directly from the folklore story, Dr.!| Hrdlicka says, it should be possible to pass to the history of simple culturai| developments and teach the child the story of simple objects with which he | Nb Connection With Any Other Washington Store. Only 75—and Values Truly Outstanding Sheer Wool ersey Dresses $5.95 Only 75, and we're lucky to get that many to sell at this low price! At a glance you will know they were made to sell for a great deal more! Choice of 8 styles—one and two piece models, and a model with a sleeveless, jacket! 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