The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 21, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO CAS TUR RNN Npemn ES ROR AT V2: Rg TE ae She Key West Citizen | RE CITIREN hak preted €0,, INC. greet Dally, Except Sunday, PP. ARTMA: “owner and Publisher ness Manager From The citiaen on Huilding Corner Greene and Ann Streets ‘Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County : tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter WATSON SETS AN EXAMPLE and partner of tt uers wholesale ¢ erday afternoon fr Ss trip in Mia KEY WEST IN: DAYS GONE BY. st. ccc yesterday and is : nald Pritchard Frank Jackson left j for a visit to several cities along Mayor William: H: Malone said} the east coast. He expects to be _ today he is discouraged over the back in a week. , attitude of many merchants to- ‘wards the using of scrip in trad-} ing at their stores. Some won't ac-) |cept it vat all and others takeit! only in small amounts. ————_— dasa mee = .Tommie’s SKATING RINK } Attorney General J. Tom Watson has set anexample, in insisting that public funds be conserved, that may be emulated, with distinct advantage, by every lawyer ir, | Florida who holds a city, a county, or a state | Aob. Has Progressive Education Earned a Permanent Place in Our Schools? fs ‘J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1308 CATHERINE STREET Moderated ©) FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN FRED G. CLARK OF APRIL 21, 1933 General Choirman American Economie Watsonhas_started a suit to. restrain.; _Fevdetion for republication of all news dispatches seals -eabinetmembers from hiring: outside at“ focal news published here. th Daner ana aise te forneys to do,work for the state that he wax ui \CRIPTION RATES win ee to: do, He.styles that procedure:‘‘an yesterday As debated by Dr:William Heard Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus, Teachers Col- lege, Columbia University. ‘ilegal:and unnecessary increase in ‘th : BS e cost a DR. KILPATRICK OPENS: The MR. ART OPENS: Lik: of performaiices,”and points to the pay- | answer is a clear yes! philosophi rogressive. Education ment Com: troller J. M. Lee of fees, “Progressive education” is the con-|has a kernel of truth—namely, that amounting to: 5 870, to a private law firm | sistent effort to apply in education |it is important for the student to be The Primary Boy’s Club will! SUMMER SESSIONS three deepest rooted characteristics | interested in his work and to enjoy to collect delinquent taxes on intangibles | that total $285,598. of modern democratic civilization: | it. But this is no new discovery, And | Cet at Wesley House at 4 o'cloc Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. Dade ecounty’s tax assessor Mr. Merwin K. Han President, New York State Economie Council. Today The Citizen says 1 editor: jal paragraph: “Now }Hitler wants to ba une Yeiir . ex Monthe Pore > LOPEZ Funeral Service { Established 1885 ; Licensed Funeral Directors ¢ and Embelmers | 24-Hour Ambulance Service ¢@ ADVERTISING RATES aGiae known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Feaging notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss resi cH ituary notices, etc., will be charged for ae the Tate af 10 cents a line. : ; Sat., 2:30 - 4:30 (1) @ humane regard for personality | Progressive Education, as a system, | Wednesday afternoon. PelGitemics as (the essence of modern democracy); | has not earned a permanent pisce fe | = évery Evening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m (2) a belief in honest open-minded | our schools. bret crue atniwae peeeeait Ladies Invited said that | inquiry as against an imposed indoc- Noticeg for entertainment by churches from which enue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. ¢ Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general intefest but it will not publish anonymous communi- igh. : slo) catl, ‘gan ot the mouthpiece of any person, clique, ‘faction or class; always do its utmost for the ‘Bybli¢ welfare; never tolerate corruption or ‘Wjustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, fémmend good done by individual or organ- jeation; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. . Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airporte—Land and Sea. © See Ae 6 y Hospit apr ZR aie UNITED NATIONS READY FOR WAR oe ie ©. The United States has every reason tose froud of whatthas transpired in the PagtificsOcean since Japan’s treacherous at- taek on Pearl Harbor. - It is quite true that the Japanese had superiority on land, in the air and on the sea, but, nevertheless, our fighting men ha¥e made steady progress toward thwart- ing'the‘ambitions of the Orientals. © Iteis a frequent pastime of columnists to speculate upon what might be accom- plished if our complete strength could be thrown, against Japan. Obviously, this is im- possible and we should patiently await the reinforcement of our positions in the Far East. ° .. COnstantine Brown, a writer on mili- tary affairs, says that “competent observ- ers from the Far East “believe that more progress could ibe‘made” if Admirat, alsey and Gens MacArthur “had at their @sposal alf theyinéed; particularly ‘in hviagfon.” < It_might be stated that Géneral Eisen- hower"and the other Allied leaders in Eu- rope could make more progress also if they “mea at their disposal all they need.” What many Americans overlook is the stiiBenflous advantages enjoyed by the Axis pawers. They started the war when they | wefe ready for warfare. The democracies | hag to defend themselves as best they could, meanwhile building up their strength to de- feat their enemies. Naturally, in the building-up process, it i8 impossible for any commander any whére ‘to have all that he needs to defeat thesenemy. It takes time to prepare for war- fare on a large scale:and to overcome theo}, superiority of our eneries. might have happened..The Briti§h}2fo\ ample, would not have been driven: Dunkirk or from Singapore if their com- manders had had all that they needed. It was the lack of men and equipment, not a lack of courage or leadership, that brought about the disasters to the United | Nations in the early period of the war. We are living in a Time When a fraternity pin gives way to a military dec- | oration. collections at “trifling costs.” ed him to perform the duties of his office and he insists that he be permitted to per- form them. But all over the state there are the legal business of cities and counties, but just as soon asa case of any magnitude comes up, the. lawyers, pamed .to filL, the chities of their‘ postsy@etainotherslawyers and countigs coneprned. **” debt salves Now, if tgetappointees feel ‘theyi are fer them to do would be to resign. In all other callings in life, in business as well as in the professions, a man is ex- pected to do what he was hired to do, with the single exception of the legal profes- sion. We have a case in point now, regarding the validation of city revenue bonds of 5-.- 500,000 to acquire the properties of the Key West Electric Company, wherein the city has a salaried attorney and a Miami lawyer is hired to attend to the validation proceedings. The same things Monroe county, and in some instances the county commissioners have paid extra fees to their own attorneys. If a man is hired to be a city attorney or a county attorney, the city’s or the county’ Ss work for his specified salary. “Why extra feesy why legal employ other pointees are paid a salary to do themselves? That is an incongruity that the lay mind can not comprehend. Watson’s action against the state cab- inet may wake up at least county officials in various parts of the state to insist, when lawyers are appointed, that | to perform. Don’t forget it takes more than enthus- iasm to grow a Victory Garden. Human Nature and Dame Nature have two things in common, both being unpre- dictable and changeable. ee Sees, John S- Knig ght, ng pyblisher of the Mi ‘Her ald, nha Brointed by Presi Roosevelt as censors ip liaison officer on, MexKmi¢ht was@ sefere. but-just of the Administration, and it looks on the pater Tike a case of making impotent a powerful adversary. MUSSOLINI AND HITLER PARLEY Here is a news item of the take-or- | leave-it class: eenferred, with Mussolini pleading for more | guns and planes to defend Italy and Hitler cffering to send more German Elite Guards, which Mussolini declined. Obviously, Italy is fearful of an Allied invasion. The Italians know that they are up | | afeaihst Dice stabbed France in ‘the ba > eal Ch we Vai iarallystthey want hel from Der Fu In-the meantime, there is nothinigdgbed rg saiest er inelin iio Bivekt gained through idle speculation as talwhee ahd planes’ to “Mussolini; probably | ofa 2 hethas-no. halludination, about the i mina of the Italian army. He prefers td} | take over Italy and defend it with his own | forces. Just what will happen if the United | Nations make a determined attack upon { | Italy is speculative but there is more than a | suspicion that something will crack and that it will not be the Alllied offensive. Certainly, events in Tunisia indicate | that the world will soon know what tle Al- | lied high command has planned as its next Lee’s regular agents could have made the | Watson asserts that the people elect- | lawyers who were appointed to attend to | to help them at addédiexpersees s tothe tities, incapable of attenditig'to™ “watever Wezel ‘ business arises tHat. uneeds the attention. of | their office, then the apparently right thing | have happened in | |. presumption is that he was hired to do the | lawyers to help do the work that the ap- | some city and | they must perform the work they were hired | more than they expected. when 0} ;jof the St trination; (3) an acceptance of man’s | inherent social nature that each must accept responsibility for the common good (the basis of social morality). To these three the modern study of human learning adds (4) that each ; learns best what means most to him. Careful studies by Wrightstone, by the “Eight Year Experiment,” by New York State Department—corroborat- ed by many others and denied by no equally careful study—show (1) rec- ommendation to New York City to adopt progressive education; (2) (Wrightstone) “progressive” elemen- tary school substantially equal to others in 20 measured respects, su- perior in 22, inferior in 1; similarly “progressive” secondary schools equal in 12 respects, superior in 22, inferior in 3; (3) the “Thirty schools” (eight year plan) graduates from college “have done a somewhat better job than the comparison group,” and “the more experimental the school, the | greater the degree of success in col- lege.” And our schools increasingly ac- cept this judgment! | MR. HART CHALLENGES: No- ; body opposes a humane regard for | personality, or the other vague gen- eralizations of Dr. Kilpatrick. But Progressive Education attempts too much, spreads out too far, has en- twined itself too readily with collec- | tivistic propaganda. In so doing it neg- lects fundamentals—like teaching the pupil to read. In New York City three'or four years ago it was found that many pupils were such poor readers they couldn't read textbooks in first year High School. WPA work- ers had to be brought in, taught to | teach reading, and then made to teach these pupils to read—this in the costliest school system in America! DR. KILPATRICK REPLIES: Mr. Hart's statements show his educa- tional ignorance. The New York City trial of progressive education began with the first grade in 1935. “Three or four years ago” these pupils were in the third or fourth grade. Mr. Hart's poor high school readers then. were taught according to his own plan. After six years’ trial of pro- gressive education in seventy city schools, 50,000 pupils, the State De- partment of Education evaluated found it better; recommended its pe: manent adoption throughout the tem. This the city has appro Trials elsewhere show like supc ority. The trend toward progressive education is both widespread and strong. Already some dormer friends have lost confidence in it. Thus, Dr. Nich- olas Murray Butler, President of Co lumbia University, whose Teaches College has long been the chief ex- ponent of Progressive Education, re- cently described Progressive Educa- tion as “the turning loose of youth in the world . . . to form such habits as they from time to time | " And he added that - nothing could be more reac- ore damaging to youth,” treme forms” of Progres sive Education Sound education shows youth how to live and how to make a living We have little to go by except the experience of the past. That experi- ence teaches that life is not easy: that to meet it one must develop ali one’s mental, moral, physical and spiritual powers; that such develop. ment comes only by self-discipline. Progressive Education, as a system runs counter to these inescapable facts. That is why it has failed. dr. KILPATRICK CHALLENGES: President Butler was never friendly to progressive education (Mr. Hart made that up). He knows little about it. For forty years his gaze has been on politics and international affairs. Mr. Hart properly wishes “sound education” and “self-discipline.” Pro- gressive education best provides both. Wrightstone found, scientifically, that the progressive school teaches the subjects better and “provides more and better opportunities for develop- ing desirable social qualities.” Fur- ther “the experimental school pupils were found to be significantly more honest,” “the conventional school pu- pils” “to be more deceitful.” Self- discipline progressive education stresses; that is its chief aim. MR. HART REPLIES: Laymen are not alone in thinking progressive educatién spreads out too far. In 1933 the Principal of Haaren” High School, New York, complained of having to offer 100 subjects under a highly complex elective system. As result, he said, “*** We have a | ewildered-student body and a con- fused and harassed teaching force. We have graduating groups * * * who are masters of nothing and not even jacks of all they have attempted to study. We have a letdown in studen: morale and stamina * * *.” Space prevents further comment As a system and a philosophy Pro gressive Education just doesn't work Today’s Anniversaries Today Tn History 1783—Samuel J. Mills, noted | Congregational missionary to the colored, born Torrington, Conn. Died June 16, 1818. 1809—Robert M. T. Hunter, Virginia statesman, Confederate j official, born Essex Co., Va. Died July 18, 1887. 1818—Henry W. Shaw (“Josh Bilings”), famed humorist his flay;born Lanesboro, Mass. Died! Ogtaf4, 1805. | 1838 — Charlotte... E. |Rockford, lil, organizer of wom- Jen's clubs, born Andover, Mass. Died Feb. 5, 1895. | 1838—John Muir, famed Cali- |fornia naturalist, born in Scot- tand. -Died Dec. 24, 1914. 1842—Charles ‘Follen Boston dialect poet, born | Died March 8, 1918. Adams, there. Hitler and Mussolini, it is said, recently | Today’s S$ Birthdays | 1782—Presidio of Santa Barbara, Cal., founded. 1832—Abraham Lincoln, 23, en- lists for the Black Hawk War. 1836—15-minute battle of San Jacinto establishes the independ-_ ence of Texas from Mexico. 1892—Rustlers and cowboys in battle in Montana. | 1896—System of control patented by \Powers of Chicago, (maker. temperature William P. thermostat Brown, j 1898—United States declares war on Spain. | 1920—Defeated Germany re-| iquests permission maintain 200,- | |000 soldiers instead of prescribed | ; 100,000. | 1927—-Aaron Sapiro vs. Ford! million dollar libel suit ends in| mistrial. } ' 1930—Ohio State re—over 300 die. Penitentiary | 1936—Unemployed take over | Dr. Percy W. Bridgman, Har- 'vard physicist; born Cambridge,; | Mass., 61 years ago. Winfred Overholser, super Elizabeth Hospital, | Washington, D. C., born, Worces- | tr, Mass., 51 years ago. Dr. | } Arthur Stanwood Pier of Con-' \oeerd, N. Hi) teacher-author, born | Ritstburgh, 69 years ago. Dr. Georgia E. Harkness of the. |Garrett Biblical Inst., Chicago, woman theologian, born Harkness, | |N. Y., 52 years ago. Dr. Francis P. Gaines, president | Washington and Lee Univ.. | Due West, S. C., 51 years ago. Princess Elizabeth Alexander | York, elder daughter of British’ ¢ | King, born 17 years ago. t\ of planes to aid U-boats. horn | iNew Jersey Assembly Chamber. 1941—British fight way to/ Southern Greece and Mediterran- ean. st EEN ae ae oe Today’ s Horoscope}. 1 Today gives force and some} | diplomacy, enabling the native to) | combat the opposition afising from the disputative tendency. Compare carefully with yesterday's birth-| day horoscope. British find the Germans short | Subscribe to The Citizen. Sceccccecveceewocesesees 'STRONG ARM BRAND {Moon at her home on Whitehead hning at 330 o'clock Fe sa at- | ter’s home on Southard street on ; Thursday evening. Games | ta, will be | school students this evening in | the auditorium ' house. |turned yesterday to his home in | Upper Matecumbe. | been in Miami on a short visit, re- ed last night at the convent for the benefit of the Catholic African missions. Mrs. Raul Archer entertained the Jolly Merrymakers at their meeting on Wednesday afternoon. ; Members of the Jolly Merry-! makers Club were guests of Mrs. Otto Kirchheiner yesterday after- street. . James W, Courtney, * Fi members of , ites of the Free Vi i ternoon. be Fs Tom Warren and Malcolm Pin- der entertained friends at the lat- were played and a musical program was presented. “Polished Pebbles,” an operet- presented . by high of the school- Berlin Felton, who had been in Key West visiting relatives, re- Alfred Knowles and two broth- ers left yesterday for Tavernier to prepare their motorboat for a cruise through the Florida Keys. Mrs. Eva Warner, who had turned. yesterday afternoon. Bernie “Papy, head salesiman HE lovely enter- tainer goes to Panama to cheer our troops. Soldiers want to enjoy a Coca-Cola with pore wereevctrvercerctrccerscererruereetrectoc voc.’ cc crtrerericeay SKATE for HEALTH’S SAKE Lessons her and talk. A pretty girl and a Coke... just like home. In Iceland, the, news told how good-Hatured fight to get the first » PHONE 135 22£44444444444254 Phone $1- “Electrical DON’TS” ELECTRIC WASHER “THE WRINGER DON’T leave pressure on rolls when not in use. DON’T use same pressure tor ail types of clothes; adjust wringer for different types. DON’T use the center section of rolls, use full width. DON’T allow grease to accumulate on ends of rolls, as this will rot the rubber. THE WASHER DON’T overload, fill with clothes and water to water line. DON’T start washer with full load, put clothes in after washer is running. DON’T leave agitator on shaft, remove and clean after each washing. The Washer you have now will have to last for the duration. Take care of it. THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY 4 Such are the stories from our To mean so much, a drink must have some- thing—in taste, in goodness and in true refreshing qualities. Just to sip ice-cold Coca-Cola is to find all those things. Yes, all the difference between something really refreshing and just something to drink. NIGHT 696 IAI I UAE UR AA UA A AUR OE * venture toward the defeat of the Axis ag- | gressors. This is what worries Mussolini and | it is more than enough to explain the con- | ference of the two leaders. The population of the Channel! COFFEE Islands off England increased af-| | ter the first World War, but de-} | clined in the ’30’s and is now about | | 93,000. ” > War may be a great evil but it brings many men face to face with God; ask any | man who fas been under intensive fire.