Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1915, Page 10

o e 10 Omaha Teaching Facilities Binoce Days of Long Ago. MACHINERY NOW IN MOTION| An. Omaba man who attended | school here thirty years ago, but who does not regard himself in the “older sot’” as yet, commented the other day upon the difference between school days as he knew them and school days he hears his kids talk about to- | day. “I remember attending the Leavenworth #chool for several years,” remarked this mah. “We had double seats, the boys And girls being divided. Teachers those days bad varled ldeas regarding punish- méht. One afternoon 1 brought into the Mohool a live crawfish 1 caught at the ol Cut-Otf lake. As punishment the teacher made me sit in a seat with a girl for an hour. The girl assumed the attl- | tude of helping the teacher punish a BAUghty boyd The embarrassment I ‘wotld w"e:g. to be my punishment.” Intensive ation as it Is known to- day was not In vogue thirty years ago. There was a general supervisor of draw- ing, who made the rounds of the nchools, | And another supervisor who taught musie, | but that was about the extent of the Specialized Instruction in the grade schools. Kindergartens and manual | training were but dreams of pedagogy | Present System Big® Machine. ‘The public school system of Greater | Omaha today is a blg machine, with im- | provements appearing every now and | then. The last year has been marked by | varjous innovations. Aside from the regular teaching staff, | there 1s a corps of supervisors and epo- @Al instructors. At fentral High and Bouth High schools thére are deans who look after the particular interests of girls who need specia) help or advice. An as- eistant superintendent is visiting all of the schools, unifying the new course of study and holding teachers' meetings. A commercial high school Is of com- paratively recent beginning and an eve- nirig high school has just boen started. Kvening grade schools were atarted within récent years. A special school for boys s known as the Foit school, where printing, woodwork and metalwork are tatght. German and Bohemian are be- Ing taught in varlous schools and any modern language must be taught In any school when a petition of required algna- tures is filed with the Board of Educa- tion, In a few of the grade schools the de- partmental system of education is being followed, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth prades being taught by teachers whe speclalize in various branches, in- stead of the old system of one teacher instructing all branches in one particular room. Muany Facllities Aval 4 Branch public libraries have been e tablished in some of the grade schools and a eomprehensive library is avallable to_pupils of the Central High school. ls at this institution have such ad- Antages as domestic sclence in its var- fous branches, een to laundering, Other features at the Central High are: athletic | eoach, band, cadets, glee clubs, dramatic ' elub, school publieation, students' coun- | ol ‘and auditorium. _ Planos and victrolas are common sights | in the mchools teday and some have pre- tentious collections of plotures and stat- uary. The school board made a liberal oppropristion for athletic apparatus for the grade schools and an expert director | vislts the schools and instructs the boys | And girls how to play the games to best | adyantage. e Children llving at places remote from | three public schopls are hauled to school every morning, returned for lunch and | taken home after the close of the school dny. TDoors . of schools have been equipped | with antl-panic devices and fire drilly are called at irregular times, Numerous Schoor Crapanizations, In recent years the teachers have uz-on than an academic Interest in SCHOOLDAYS NOW | , | AND THEN IN OMAHA| MUST TAKE BATH Many Changes and Improvements in | Those Assigned to New Workhouse deportment. The penalty for refusal to | work will be molitary confinement, ex- ceptions being made for {liness or other drama, dolph; CITY PRISONERS Must Wash Their Faces and Brush Their Hair, T0 FUMIGATE CLOTHES City prisoners, soon to he gsen- tenced to the eity workhouse, will be required to wash their faces and brush their hair before appearing at the dining tables. When firet re- ceived at the workhouse they will be given a bath, their clothes removed and fumigated and sots of working clothes provided for their use while working out sentences, These are features of the.set of rules being prepared by City Commissioner Jardine for guldance of Superintendent Haze, who will have charge house the work “These prisoners will be given to un- derstand that an attempt (o escape will be at the risk of their life and limb," stated the commissioner. To Fix Up Old Jeil, Next Monday the o1s wounty jall at Eleventh and Dodge streets will be thor- oughly cleansed and furnished for the proper care of the prisoners. The city will install at once fifty bunks, new blankets and will have a supply of overalls, Jumpers, mittens and socks for the workers A merit system will be established, which will be on the basis of six days oft of a thirty-day sentence for good reasonable causes Three substantia] meals will be fur- nished every day and the men will not be required to work under conditions which warrant cessation of labor. Police Judge (o Co.Operate, The police Judge wit ce-operate by sen- tencing prisoners to the city workhou: in cases where such sentences seem wi The superintendent of the workhouse will require proper language among the pris- oners. Persons applying for lodgings will be glven the “work test,” as is being done at Chicago at this time. The chief pur- pose is to discourage visits of profes- slonal tramps, who seem to have the idea that Omahn is an easy town, some of this class welcoming a county jail sen- tence here in the winter time. The first work for these prisoners will be filling a deep ravine in the southeast part of the city. Temporary noon rest and feeding quarters will be erected at the “camp.” Walthall Billed as King of All in Emotional Drama Henry B, Walthall, who plays Ben Cameron in *“The Birth of a Nation," now being presented at the Brandels theater, was born on a cotton plantation In Bhelby county, Alabama, « He was ¢ducated at home by private - tutor with his brothers amd sisters. Beyond aw!mning in the river, riding and good, hard” work he did not Indwige in any particular sports’ and did not see many people, as the nearest nelghbor way three miles away, Wkei: he later went to rew York he fppeared to advantage In the civil war “Winchester,” in which he played the part of Captain Clay Ran- nder Southern Skies" ae Steve Danbury, and in “Old Point Comfort.” Jamés Kirdwood, who has been a Stago assoclate of Walthall's, persuaded him to “try out" In a ain part in photoplay. Te result was the commence- ment of the assoclation of the greatest director with the greater actor, which was broken on several occaslons only to be rerewed, He finally joined the Blograph and when Griffith left to take charge of the Peolfance: Majestic he went with him and apreared in all the big features made by the great director. Walthall's work |as Strongheart in the photoplay of that ehilldren. There are many organ- isations in the schools. At Central Park and Park. schools, for instance, the toachers' have organized bovs' clubs whose members agree not to smoke until , they aré 21 years of age. South High has & Help-a-Child lub. Orchestras have formed at Comenius, Kellom and | achools by the supervisor of soclal | & new position. .The soclal centers In schools Is a feature, the school board recog- tBe recreation board to the extent ting use of certaln schools for | evening activities, such as music, ath- leties, fmprovement clubs, mothers' clubs | Ppurposes. | ; “There is not much excuse for the boy South Side Girl Drives Burglar Out With a Clook Pretty. Miss Mary Englin, daughter of M. and Mrs. F. Englin, 722 North Nine- téenth street, South Side, is a heroine to- &8 & result of an experience with a Tueaday evening at her home. o'glock the young lady was awak- from slumbers by a rustling move- lone bedroom on the second home. In the dim light she astonished to wee a bulky man carry- flashlight and & revolver In his &t her with the force of the face. f z & L i i o Miss Englin en- i1 us flash of his revolver the “Shut up or I'll blow your i ; it wwering in paralytic fear of 30 years sprang from her taking hold of & mantle clock on &t her elbow let fly at the i name, us the Indian in “Ramona,” Hol>- fernes 12 “Judith of Bethulia,” in “Lord Chumley,” In tue “Avenging Con- sclence,” a remarkable performa “Home, Sweet Home,” as the little colonel In “The Birth of a Nation,” in Tbsen's “‘Gho and “Plllars of So- clety,” have all been creations which stand out prominently and which have led to his recognition as ‘“‘the greatest actor of them all” MUSICAL PROGRAM AT THE ROSEWATER SCHOOL A gathermg of 600 enjoyed a musieal program at the Edward Rosewater school Thursday evening, Sigmund Landsberg and Johannes Brill furnished the muslo, | The event was the first of a series to be . supervisor | of soclal extension work In the public schools. Superintendent Graff of the schools made a short address, The next program will be given on the evening of December 2 by five local sololsts, who will offer a program from “Rigoletto." BENSON MiSSiONARY WOMEN HOLD MEETING The Benson Baptist Missionary circle entertained the Baptist Missionary qu terly of Omaha and vicinity at an all day sesslon in the Baptist church. The deve- tional service cpened at 11 o'clock and the local members served lunch at noon. The program opened at 1 o'clock. Rey. A J. McClung of the church rendered vocal musie, and th speech of the day was made by a home missionary, Miss Christiansen, of South Side. Reports were made from all the Omaha circles during the session, LOITER IN DOORWAY OF BANK AND ARE PINCHED Clyde Taylor, 256 Miaml street, and ‘Walter King, 1218 Davenport street, were arrested by Detectives Rich and Paza- nowski, who found the palr loitering in & door way of the Merchants National mateuder. The commotion awoke the u ‘.‘m&'nulm and with Wwould-be burglar broke through belroom window and jumplng from front porch made his escape in the were called, but no evidence in which the burglar had or who he w the We. Al drug- Bank bullding in the early morning. A hammer was found in the possession of Taylor. Not being able to give & good Account of thelr intentions they were locked up and are being held for invest- INSPECTOR IS INJURED BY A CONCRETE MIXER Inspector J. A, Davis of the publio tm- #ake Dr. King's New Dis- | provements department suffered severs It wili help .your Cough scalp wounds when he was struck by a Lungs. part of & concrete mixer used at paving work on Military avenue. T0O THE BE OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOV “LIEUTENANT'’ ROBERT FAY, leader of the alleged gang of German bomb plotters who planned to destroy ships carrying war cargoes from New York to the Allies, &) Commissioners Do Not Favor Sunday Grocery Closing It is probable that an ordinance offered last Tuesday at the city council meeting, proposing to close grocery stores ard meat markets on Sundays, will be placed on file by the committee of tha whole next Monday morning, Commissioner Jardine, who Introduced the measure by request, is against the propasition on the grounds that it would be class legislation to plck out certain classes of business places for Sunday closing. Unifold Be HOME FURNITURE CO. 24th and L Sts.--South Omaha Quality High - - Prices Low Davenports ‘We have just received a car- INTER NAT oW/ AL FTLI SERVICD STARTS WITH $90. ENDS UP WITH NINETY CENTS Simon Najare, a Mexican, en routs from Stafford, Ia, to Kansas City, stopped off in Omaha to see the sights. Simon had $0 and his rallroad ticket when he went into a downtown restan- rant about 10 o'clock in the evening. Five hours later he was found in an un~ conscious condition at Seventeenth and Davenport streets, minus everything but 90 cents. He remembers nothing since belng in the restaurant, but Prom the bruised condition of his face and body, armed and robbed. Bee Want Ads Produce Results d SR 20, 1915 DODGE STREET MAY BE GRADED DOWN Jarding Has Report that Ninety Per Cent of Property Owners Have Bigned Petition.. MAY CUT IT THIRTEEN FEET ! Dodge street from Seventeenth to | | Twenty-second is more likely now to be graded down than it ever was be- fore. Two of the principal obsta- cles to the proposition are now prac- ! {tically removed. One is that Senator G. M. Hitch- cock, whose property'is at Twentieth {nnd Dodge streets, has signed the | | petition. Senator Hitchcock is one | |of those few who have held out per- | sistently against the petition. ! The othsr obstacle has been the refusal of Frank B, Kennard to sign the petition for the property he owns on that street. Negotiations are now on for the sale of the Kennand property, and the deal, it is said, 1s likoly to be consummated within | a few days. | It has been reliably reported to (‘uyl Commissioner Walter Jardine that some 9 per cent of the property owners have | signed the retition, and that it s lkely | the petition will now be presented to the | city council next week It is proposed to cut down the steep hill on Dodge street from Beventeenth to sbout Twenty-second, making a cut of perhaps thirteen feet at Twentieth, where the brow of the hill is located. It 18 now thought likely that after the | petition is filed in the resular way the | matter may be referred to the new eity | planning board as one of the matters properly to be gome over by that body | before the grading is actually begun. ! Sentenced to Pen for Issuing Check Without Any Funds| One to five years in the penitentiary | and a fine of $100 and costs was the pen- | alty imposed upon Epward C. White, who pleaded gullty before Distriet Judge English to a charge of giving the Fon- ! tenelle hotel a check for $3% on the | United States National bank, when he had no funds on deposit there, The crime which he committed was de- fined by the legislature in its last ses- slon. The severity of the sentence, ac- cording to county officlals, resulted from the fact that White was known to have turned numerous other similar jobs. O. J. Heath pleaded guilty to a like charge and was fined §100. Majority Sign. the police deduce that he was strong- ) ailments; and Foley Cathartic Tablets, & Our Jitney Ofter—This Be. DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this sliipD. enclose with 6o and mail it to Foley & Co., Chicago, Ill, writing your name and address clearly. 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She is twenty-five inches high, has lght brown hair @4 brown eyes, and is beau. tifully dressed. Her picture will be in The Bee every day this week. Cut them all out and ask your friends to save the pictures in their paper for you, too. See how many pictures of Alice you na;1 get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office, before 4 p. m. Saturday, November 20, If you don't perhaps you week. win this Do It can get one nex Only one doll will be giv:n to any one person. USE For Results Bee Want ads,