New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1929, Page 8

FRANNLINSCHOOL OPEN T0 PUBIKC Dr. Meredith Addresses Gather- ing of 500 at Dedication Congratulations to the city of New Britain on its school buildings which make possible a flexible sys- tom adapted to progressive ecduca- tional needs were voiced by State Education Commissioner Albert B. Meredith, last evening at the dedi- cation of the Benjamin Franklin school on Clinton street. With its Lind B elementary, junior senior high schools and its affil- iation with the state trade school the vely able to meet the needs of its youth, the speaker said. he modern school is S0 con- structed as to conform with the ed- veational practices to be carried on vather than forcing adaptation of the curriculum to the plant,” Mr, Mere- dith continued. “And a curriculum made possible by such a modern plant grows out of the interest and iwctivity of the children. The school sceks to give children experience and through experience they learn. Chil- Gren should know the multiplication table, to be sure, but they should be enabled 1o apply it to affairs of im mediate interest. Likewise children should be taught reading for the meaningfulness of what they read, thereby broadening experience. The social life of. the school and the playground with its games are ilarly & part of an effective curri- culum, “It is not primarily what the teacher teaches but what the pupil learns that counts. The teacher should above all seck to give the motive for learning, And the mod- vrn clementary school leads with childhood as a stage in human zrowth and seeks to develop poten- ities for learning new he question of individual differ- ences and fastes among pupils must be considered, especially in the up- per grades. and the child must be treated as a seeker for knowledge her than as a member of a group to whom a stipulated supply of cold storage information is to he given. Through activity there is de- veloped a basis for real child inter- cst and it is the duty of the modern teacher to guide into proper chan- nels those things which children want to do an President P, King of the New Lritain school hoard, was chairman of the assembly of 500 which occu- pied all the available room in the school's auditorium, He introduced Dr. Myers, supervisor of the state training schools, Supt, Stanley H. Holmes of the hool department, and Chairman Joseph M. Halloran of the school accommodations com- mittee. Supt. Holmes suggested that the school ovganize u parents and teache: cociction and when he concluded, Mrs, Aitkin, one of the rarents, made a4 motion that a com- itive be appointed to prepare a list of officers and present them at a canz 19 he Wdd on March 5, “The Scnior High school orchestra 1er the direction of George B tthe d during the even- 2. The schobl bourd was present it the official opening and at an in- ormal dinner held in the Walnut Hill school earhicr in the evening. BRAZILMAN COFFEE CROP WASHED 0UT Floods Knock Berries From Tregs and Isolate Seaport Suo Paulo. Brozil, Vb, 20 (P The heaviest rainfall districis here- abouts have known in ten years has reduced the coffce crop of this area—one of the greatest producing regions of the world—by as much as 25 per cent, or more. Berries have heen knocked from | Resinol the trees by the rain, which totalled 11 Inches in one day and 43 inches during the last fortnight. % Floods have isolated the Port of Santos, except by sea, for the past fours days, The city has been un- able to obtain its usual supplics of milk and provisions from the inter- ior although an effort was planned today to get through a quantity suf- ficient for children and invalids. Raflroad communication and overland road systems have suffered heavily, stretches of roadway mor than 100 yards in length were wash- ©d out on the railroads, and on som: lines passengers were obliged to walk or be rowed around the breaks. new dam under construction by Goodyé Corn! Lifts Right Off—No Pain Docsnt a litth “Freczone™ on an achi i in antly that corn sto irting, thes shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny v t* ‘F'reezone’ for a few cent sifficient to remove ever hard ecorn, soft corn. « corn hetween the toes the foot callons & without <n or truths. | the 8ao Pawo Light Company the @ity is credited with saving 8ao Paulo trom considerable flood dam- age. The water reached within a vard of the present dam top but lonly a quarter of the actual inflow escaped. Many villages, however, were covered with back water. The water is now peceding. HARVARD MAN 1 " CABINET PROSPECT Adams, Yachting Expert, May| Be New England Member | | (U1 ~Charles! Francis Adams. Boston business man. is to be a member of President- | elect Herbert Hoover's cabinet, the Boston Post suld today in a copy- | righted cle, | “The Post is informed.” the . “upon excellent authori- neis Adams, | { two presidents of the | United States, treasurer of Harvard and America’s greatest | 'y authority. is to be the New | England member of the Hoover | cabinet. | “While the matter is not yet defi- nitely settled, it Is understood that Mr. Adams is on the tentative Hoov- er list as secretary of the navy.” | The Post said it had learned that | Mr. Hoover had been investigating | Adams’ qualifications for a cabinet | position and “became convinced that | Mr. Adams was distinctly the type of New England man he sought for the | | cabinet. Boston. 1vh. |ty descendant | ms, who is 64 years old | large number of business conn in New England. holding director- ships in more than 40 institutions and corporations. He is one of the leading yvachts. men in the world. beginning his rac- ing career in 1593 when he defended | America’s cup with the sioop Pil- grim. Tn 1920 he piloted the resolute to three victorics over sir Thomas | Lipton's Shamrock. retaining the in- ternational racing cup for the United States. : Hoover’s Cousin Hurt | By Auto at Capital | Washington, Feb, 20 ®—George | 1C. Hoover, 61, ma not nis cousin, Herbert Hoover. inaugurs ed president of the nited State: Just a few hours after the next [ehief executive arrived back in !Washington from Piorida. George | Hoover, an attorney for the inter- state commerce commission, was riun down by an automobile and fed to the hospital with a fractured 1oz, {and bruises about his body. The | president-elect was notitied i Miss Fannic P. Dial, daughter of | former Senator Nathaniel B. Dial of South Carolina, and one of the leaders in the youger sociely set of l\‘.’u»hinmnn. was driving the cac | which struck Mr. Hoover. She stop- iped and with the aid of passersoy {lifted the injured man into her m. 1.-hmr~ and took lim to the hospit see Fish Can See Radium | Hooks Deep in Ocean | New York. Feb. 20 (P—Radiuni- |covered hooks that fish. will be able |10 see in the darkness of the ocean "depths will be used for the first tin by William Becbe in an occanogra phic cxpedition to Bermuda on | [ which he will sait March 13, | Another innovation planned is the attaching of sounding wires to fish | niets to enable these ahove lo know | hen a catch Is made. He said ha iplanned a more thorough combing {of the ocean bottom than ever had | {been made hefore. The colonial | {government has placed at his dis- {posal Nonsuch Island at the en-| |trance of Castle herbor tor use as a | | | (LEAR YOUR SKIN | of diskguting blotches and i imitations. Use | lderman Wa(s Cousl 0 Ay |in this group are: Board of public| | this year. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929, son says, and he predicts an over- wheiming vote for his resolution to substitute a lower rate, Cut in Railroad Wages Is Denied by Arbiters Doston, Febh. 20 (M—A labor STUDY OF BUDGET, JOHNSON'S INTENT |between the Boston and Main rail- . : . road and the, Brotherhood of Rail- point Special Commitiee | ey’ ana stcsmnin ionks, Frergns Handlers, Express and Station em- {ployes was declded yesterduy by a Alderman J. Gustave Johnson an- | pourd of arbitration which denied nounced foday that he will presentan increase in wages to the 4.000 a resolution at tonigh meeting ol‘"‘ gy Mo o o il to have a spe. the raliroad the rig the common ceuncil to P jthetr wages. cial committee appointed to con- i . sider moans by which one or more; The arbitration board included H. 4 D. Ulrich, representing the emi- mill may be cut from the 28 mill 3 budget recommended by the board [Ploves. W. S. Trowbridge. for the of finance and taxation. railroad, and Judge Fred L. Wil He will ask to have the budget|llams of St. Louis, Me., neutral tabled until the committee has pre- {member. The decision was unani- pared its report. Under the city mous. , charter, the common council is re-| The dispute was precipitated in auired fo meet every evening until | March., 1925, by action of the rail- final action has been (aken on ap-|road in announcing a plan to cut propriutions, but it is expected that|Wages from three to ten cents per Lut one extra session will be needed. | hour at the expiration of a then Alderman Johnson has been con- | existing agreement. vineed by I tudy of the estimates| The cmployes, through their that a 26 mi rate can be restored, union, retaliated with a demund for but that this - nnot be done without |an increase of two cents au hour. paring down bare maintenance Taft Approves Plans of costs and bai.ing all suggested im- Washington Memorial provements. A taxrate of 27 mills or half a mill less than that amount Washington, Feb, 20 (#—Indorse- ment of, plans for a George Wash- strikes him as being more feasible, | ington ‘memorial auditorium has he has s | The alderman would have the! committee (-om‘enllruh' on increased [peen given by Chief Justice Taft. allowances over last year's grants, o i i ., " In a letter to Mrs, Harry . Dim- with a view to “pruning.” Included ock, president of the George Wash- ington Memorial association, Justice |Taft declared that to honor ‘hfi fire department, $18,000. ‘?Rmc of the man whom he (ormw Payments on city obligations, such | - one of the few in history °{ “"“"_“ bonds and notes, do not contrib- |t can be said that without him. his ute 1o the increase, the alderman ;country could not have been™ the claims, as to prove his argument he | memorial should be built. y points to the fact that $40,000 less *“What we need.,” he said, “is a is appropriated for those purposes|great., beautiful building that shall not only be a triumph of architec- ture worthy of him. but a structure which shall be a model auditorium.” Leaders in the movement hope to complete the proposed building in to decrease works, $100,000; park department, £40,000; police department, $38,000; A poll of the council membership shows but few members contented with the budget proposed by the hoard of finance and taxation, John- Look out for weakness after having influenza Anybody who's had “flu’’ knows how weak and pepless it leaves you. 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