The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1922, Page 6

BUILDS MINDS A friend of The Star, who is now in Los 4 _ Angeles, writes us about an interesting public 1} school he visited there. In it Dr. A. H. Suth- erland, director of research for the Los An- geles system, is carrying on an “individual education” experiment. “The business of the public school,” he de- clares, “is to train minds.” The Sixty-first Street school, the one in question, apparently is doing just that. Our friend writes that he saw more than 100 youngsters working like engineers on so many projects, all eager to —— the job in hand and get on to the next. Here are just a few of the things he says he observed at the _ school: No tests until the pupil asks for them. The boy or girl decides whether he or she has mastered a particular phase of a subject and - wants to be examined on it. The pupil invariably works on his “lower levels” —on the subjects in which he is behind. This is shown by “progress cards” covering the recent 20 weeks’ experiment. _ Joy in mastery. “TI like to take the tests,” was the comment of every pupil interviewed. No fear of the tests. They cover a small area of a subject. If there is a failure, the pupil simply goes back over the ground until he nes proficient and ready for another be tem uncovers “weak spots” for pupils to | Watbiy “Here’s what’s holding me back,” said a fifth-grade youngster, “multiplying numbers with fractions on the end of them.” He looked like a judge. “But it won’t be long, _ will it?” asked Miss Adele Mosseman, Dr. Sutherland’s chief assistant. “No,” he re- ‘plied soberly. Concentration. Trying to beat the little hour glass on his desk and finish, in four min- utes, fis particular problem in arithmetic, the pupil “digs,” oblivious to what’s going on around him. Visitors get scant attention. No leaning on neighbors. Pupils soon learn _ if they are to pass tests they must solve their _ own problems. Discipline? There isn’t any. The young- sters are too much interested in making prog- ress to “waste time” as they put it. “We _ Want to get ahead,” they say. Dr. Sutherland’s “adjustment materials,” used as a necessary part of the system, cost 148 cents per pupil for 20 weeks’ experiment above the cost of supplying the materials that would have been needed in the regulation class room. Doubling the average rate of progress of the pupils. Ninety-one pupils in 20 weeks’ time did an average of 39 weeks’ work. The system allows the “forward” pupils to ad- vanee without holding back the “backward.” _ _ “You'd swear it wasn’t true unless you had it with your own eyes,” concludes our ‘ friend enthusiastically. This sounds like progress, like good sense applied to pedagogy. Also like true economy im a school system. The Star recommends a study of the Los Angeles experiment by Scat- tle school authorities, e ‘In Germany, women can’t be judges. In Amer- tea they can’t be otherwise. sg Elinor Glyn says boys obey flappers like dogs. 8 puppy love. Nothing tickles a mosquito more than a pai stockings. ay: A picnic is no picnic when it rains. What the Queen bearded “scientists” thought tt . was lat, Probably Said When they asked her what Spain now claims that Colombo of America and in- ; called Columbus—was | born on Spanish soil instead of made her disagree, she probably answered “Because. The Lord will take pleasure in His people: He wit beautify the Ordonez y Garcia (Spanish min- meek with salvation.—Psalm 119 :4. fster of justice, not a cigar) is phn Anyestigating documents to this Ps hd bs beontifier of com- 4 : exton or form or behavior like velfeet, recently found in Galicia. the wish to weatter Joy and un 4 Doesn't make much difference pain around us.— Ralph Waldo “where Colombo was born. What Emerson, counts is that a Spanish queen had intuitive sense enough to fi- “mance Colombo’s trip westward F that ‘over the Atlantic to prove tha The interior decorator who went the earth is round, when long. pgankcrupt was not a dentiat Love laughs at locksmitha; dut only grins at the dill collector, ANaw: ER * EPH + ANT-ELUPHANT + BRIDGE = CAMBRIDGE Ph GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLES Lend Your Shoulder Commitioos representing the Pacific Northwest Products or ganization and the Seattle mer chants are hard at work on plans for @ great buyers’ convention and Industrial exhibit in duly, This will be staged at the Bell st. terminal on the same week an the “Wayfarer” is appearing at the stadiam, The two events will result, it seems certain, in at tracting thousands of visitors to Seattle, The out-of-town merchants are expected from as far east as the Dakotas, from many Alaska points and from as far south as Central California and Denver. The commitices, as mentioned above, are busy, They are over looking no detail to make this event a success. It is a gigantic and they are deter it far surpass pre vious efforts of the sort. But of course no committera, however energetic and intelligent, can make @ success of a great enterprise like this unaided. The committees need the backing of all Seattle, They need your friendly cooperation. Be pro pared to give it when requested; better yet, hant out the commit- tees and volunteer your services. That is the real Seattle spirit, A Pennsylvania congressman, having scen a drove of Tennessee mules in the street, said to (Davy) Crockett, “I saw a dig lot of Ten- nessecans downtown awhile ago-— Constituents of yours. You'd bet- ter go and look them up.” Crockett hurried in search of his constitu. ents and found the mules, He came back smiling, “Well, Crock- ett, did you find out where your constituents were going?” asked the Pennsylvanian, “Yea” said Crockett, “they are alt going to Pennsylvania to teach scool.” — Representative Lowrey (D.), Miss, Truth in Advertising Several years ago the federal trade commission, at the direction of the president and congress, in- vestigated the five big Chicago packers. The Investigation was thoro, The commission published the facts it found, showing the five big meat packers to be in a conspiracy te restrain trade. Thomas E. Wilson, one of “the five,” some time ago told » com The “other four” spent other millions in ads fo say that the trade commission was all wrong. The other day In deciding & case against the packers, Chief Justice Taft, of the United States supreme court, “cited with ap- proval” this same federal trade commission report as a basis for the court’s reasoned opinion against the same five big packers. It will be interesting to me whether the “Big Five” now turn their advertising guns on the United States supreme court and Mr. Chief Justice Taft, AN good men are not dead. From the auits filed, motorists ere run- ning across some good ones. Comfort ta the modern watch- word. New Jersey hen laid a flat cog. She expected to set. Doughboys returning from the Rhine are fat. Travel broadens one, Women may be slaves to fashion, Dut thetr burdens are light. Every day 4s Decoration Day for the flapper. bring May dandelions June headaches. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY ‘Today's word is FLAIR. It's pronounced—like flare, | It means—smell, or sense of! smell; or, as much more commonly used, a discriminating sense, or; instinctive discernment. | trom—Latin | It comes, probably, “fragrace,” to emit a fragrant smell, whence it was modified in| Low Latin in “flagrare,” and in| Middle English to "flaire,” meaning odor | It's used Ike this—“The tate) John H. Patterson of the National} Cash Register company had a flair] | |for publicity. REV. M. A. MATTHEWS | will preach a sermon Sun | day morning entitled, COMING BACK TO THE TRUE GOD | In the evening he will dis. cuss the subject, ‘ A, THE 1 BE? PUBLIC 18 INVITED FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring sedis | Dear Avridge Mann Dear Mra, Bur seems I'm just a dub, and ought and #0 it seema, beyond a doubt out; for we should always try to can, ation’s greatest wealth, are kide—an even par matter how or where they live, give, Lot's be unselfish, true an wtart! LET. THE SEATTLE STAR APetter from AIVRIDGE MANN. Election's over now, it's true, but pretty soon another's due; and when we go again to vote a lot of things will get our goat; po kindly help ua, if you can, to solve the 30-10 sohool plan I must admit T'm not so wise as quite a lot of other guys; Decause, so far an T can see, the 30-10 is Greek to me; and #o It I understand it’s just a rule that has to do with kids and school; We use our brains and spend our dough, as other problems come and go, but seldom show a bit of speed concerning things the chil- need—-when children’s schooling, care and health comprise ‘or In our children we oan see America-thatis-to-be; and kids no matter what their parents are, so when we plan for kids and schools, let's not be narrow-minded where; and try, with free and open heart, to give them all an equal MIS. B., Big Lake, Wash. to join a dumb bell elub. , It's something we should figure plan to give the kids the best we no they need the best the land can } | 4 fair with all our children, every SA LWITOR | a: Would Change Editor The Star: If we are to have muste tn the parks this summer will you kindly kuggent to the powers that be to arrange the hours for the concerts to muit the convenience of the gen eral public? Two o'clock ls most families’ din A Pair of Mismated Eyes Editor The Star: There is a new girl in our grade: I call it our grade becaune the daughter goes there to display her ignorance, and after the nightly tussle with her leasons the entire family considers this grade its own. So a new girl came to the grade and she was cromseyed; and all the boys practiced looking at the tips of their mean little noses until they could look crosseyed, too; and they afl did look crosmeyed all day, and the teacher told ‘em they could all stay in after school Bo the boys stayed, and the girte went home; because little girle do not act naughty at school. And the teacher talked to the boys and told them how wrong it was to mock the litte crosseyed girt So next day af the boys came and they all were cromseyed as ever, and the teacher called in the principal and she came and sternly mid to the class: “If I catch an- other child looking erosseyed In this room I'll send that child homa* On Garbage Collection Editor The Star: I want to know fust what are the duties of the garbage collectors and Just what may one consider he has & right to expect the garbage cob lector to remove. For Instance, since the request of Mayor Caldwell that all yards be cleaned up and all trash and old leaves gotten rid of, people have en |deavored to « ly with the request Jand have t 1 all that they were able to burn, a the olf cana, bits of wire, glass and odd things have been placed in the garbage re- ceptacion with the idea in mind that as taxpayers we are paying for the removal of such general refuse, But not #0, It would seem, For the garbage man comes along and pro. ceeds to throw out any of the refuse he chooses, leaving It scattered about in an unsightly heap. If you speak }to him in regard to it you are mere. | base col mted at and the ga f, pretending not to u: When Your Hand f Concert Hours ner hour; henee the poor attendance in former years. 1 suggest the hours be arranged trom 4 to 6, or & to 7. | ‘These hours should be conventent jalike to thowe wanting to enjoy the music and to the musicians. A READER Then the little croaseyed girl bowed her head on her desk and wept mightily and would not be | comforted. |. “Why, what on earth ts the mat ter, child?” asked the principal, and the kid sobbed: “I can't help it, I was made that way, I don't want to go home,” and it took 10 minutes for the teacher and the principal to convince the child that real cross eyes were not barred, only make be- lieve ones, It's tough to etart through life! with a pair of mismated optics,| | with a shriveled arm, @ too short leg, @ crooked back or @ stunted |Dody; at the outset the ehtid tn set apart, la made «@ butt, is forced in upon iteelf, and frequently it learn to hate heartily. Ornery little boys will continue to make snoots ut thelr unfortunate fellows; nice litte girls will continue to be polite, bu distant, and folka will do a golden deed when jever they exert themetives to bring cheer to the heart of the child that is not quite normal DAD. | drives on. Or eine he flatly tells you, | we don't have to take anything we |don"t want to take.” Please, for the sake of the people who find it hard enough to pay taxes Thoroughness Tharacterizes our methods Pala on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE BST, Grows Old taxes, Erman | All thin grief tx brought onte our | Joh Nickerson t kind-hearted = older | _. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922. an it ia, tell us what we are to ex- pect of these independent autoerate of the garbage wagon and also how we can reach the “big bons,” @ call up the city hall and ask for the gurbage department and either the exchange operator or «| ff mtenographer axks you what you| want and when you inaint on speak | ing to the head of the department, | ahe tells you she will take your com: piaint, If you ntill insixt she tells you she cannot bother the manager Just now there are a number of | aa)il'bt ant people in the district between Madi “. tH non and Yosler way along 20th and! - ‘ i on to 28rd ave., who have been for i months enduring the insulting and ef R 1 in th thoroly unsatisfactory attitude of 3 eve e these garbage collectors. Im't there some way of employing the ex: | vervice men for thiv work? Some I have mpoken to have told me the men would gladiy undertake the work if they could get the contracts and the equipme: 0 will never for, A mT OUSEWIFE. te Want This Dog? can ever There unfolding corres bite Editor The Star: cane aes trads leading to tha “Lakes w the Do you know @ boy or girt who Clouds’ —to the glacsers would like a dog? I have two, and/| ‘There te Boating, Trou Fishing, therefore would like to give one to Pain end 2 parlety of sports, someone who wants one and will give him @ good home, Just come out to! 4602 EB. 47th st (Laurelhuret bus). If} children come alone, they should ring an O. K, from their parents, BERT N, GRAHAM. From $7 to $196 Editor The Star: May I add just a word to the dis cussion on our tax reduction? 1am a modest property holder tn Seatle and pay taxes under protest, because I consider I am being robbed by the qity. I acquired a five-acre tract far out- tide of the city 22 years ago, My tax then wag $7 | into the city, and without improved ing up a surplus of miliionst We commend your readers to a study of Mra. George A. Smith's arti ole in The Star of May 15, on our eq oof Lake Louise ‘Let this summer's vacation be one of com bined amusement, education recreation and mspiration Let « be “a vacation you The Canadian Prfic Rockne offer ertimaed, prose bilnies At Lake Louise, for instance, wath Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes high above, shere are wone erful days hand of youdays that no mare words elrmern Wires be mytow Canadian Pacific Railway 008 Second Ave. SEATTLE MA te 5567 & FL STURDEL, General Agee Rene Meet nme « heme tos nos oa ogo Chaser Heme opare sare 9 knews whereof she speaka, A TAX RIDDEN VICTIA. ‘The woodpecker, says @ contrib. is The district was taken | schools, As @ former teacher, she|the most superstitious of all birds Wonders streets, or city water, or elty lights, my taxes began to increase. | 2 blocks away, a city boulevard three! mre end Thees NEES blocks away. The boulevard cont me comngocing vs $700. A trunk sewer was amvexned to me at $1,202, which in @ half-mile dis. | tit p tant - play, without @ peer, The five acres adjoining me on one | side changed hands at $2,000, and the! jaugh five acres on the other wide sold re-| 86 Uy , contly at $3,000, In the meantime, | my taxes have increased from $7 te $196. ‘This ts one reason why the elty (rer the First Fimo t Genttic) hag taken from its loyal citizens up-| Kath. Veo Boren wards of 5,000 parcels of proj an nag par property for Valentine Sidney Evelyn Atkineon Keynelde James Biatne Emmett Voran Howard Kessel fravey T. Dentet Prices: Mats. B00, the war tax) se Citizens because of inordinate extray- agance at the county-elty building, unnecessary bonded indebtednens, ab- | Nights 83e, Be, 250 solute robbery and graft in our ha oorg hool management and our port! docks Just think of our $8,236,000 on Reasons For This Investment Seven Per Cent Cumulative Prior Preference StocK of the Puget Sound Power & Light Company. 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