10 Cities Continue
Visiting Teachers
Demonstration Aids in Wip
ing Out Delinquency.
New York.—Ten cities In which
three-year demonstrations of visiting
teacher work have been completed un
der the auspices of the commonwealth
fund program for the prevention of de
linquency have determined to continue
the use of visiting teachers as a regular
feature of their public school ayateina.
According to Howard W. Nudd, di
rector of the Public Educational asso
ciation of New York city and chairman
of the national committee on visiting
teachers which has administered these
demonstrations, th» communities thus
convinced of the value of the visiting
teacher and planning to continue her
Services Include Burlington, Vt., Lin
coin, Neb.; Itichmond, Va.; ¡ted Bank,
N. J.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; Rioux City,
Iowa; Bluetield, W. Va.; Sioux Fulls,
8. D.; Warren, Ohio, and Hutchinson,
Kan.
Meanwhile, demonstrations are being
continued by the national committee on
visiting teachers In the following com
munities: Berkeley, Cal.; Birming
ham, Ala.; Boone county, Missouri;
Butte, Mont.; charlotte, N. C.; Chis
holm, Minn.; Coatesville, Pa.; Colum
bus, Ha.; Detroit, Mich.; Durham, N.
O.; Eugene. Ore.; Huron county, Ohio;
Omaha. Neb.; Pocatello, Idaho; Ha-
cine, Wla.; Hocbester, Pn : lb« k
Springs, Wyo.; ban Diego, CaL; Tuc
son, Aris.; Tulsa, Okla.
Appointed by Committee.
When the work Is finished In these
cities the thirty visiting teacher dem
»nitrations under the commonwealth ।
fund program will have been com 1
pletvd. Under the arrangements made
for these demonstrations the visiting
teachers were appointed by the na
tional committee on visiting teachers
subject to the approval of the local
authorities; In each case the national
Committee pays two thirds of the sal
ary for a three-year period and pro
vides funds for certain additional ex
penses, while the remainder of the sal
ary Is paid by the lo<fl school board.
Several hundred cities have made ap |
plication for demonstrations under this 5
plan, but the thirty communities pro
vlded for In the original grafit from |
the commonwealth fund having been
chosen, no further applications are now
being considered.
Including tho visiting teachers ap
pointed by the national committee for
these demonstrations there are now al
together 1*1 visiting teachers In the
United States working In (M cities and
6 counties scattered through 31 statist.
These figures are given by Mr Nudd
In a chapter on the history, purpose
and scope of the visiting teacher move
ment, which he contributes to “The
Problem Child In School,” a volume of
visiting teacher case narratives by
Mary B. Sayles, just published by the
Joint Committee on Methods of Pre
venting Delinquency, Ine., of 50 East
Forty second street. New York city.
Describing the visiting teacher as a
specialist In the schools who devotes
herself to the problems of unadjusted
children, Mr. Nudd, In the article above
referred to, points that "every teacher,
every social worker, mid many a
parent Is familiar with the problem
child the boy or girl whose school
progress or whose reactions to normal
requirements point toward Inter Ineffi
ciency, delinquency, or some other fail
ure In personal or social adjustment.
What Is the trouble with such children,
an<I what enn be done for them? How
can the school obtain und utilize a
knowledge of the forces that are affect
ing their success, and give them In
fullest measure the benefits of their
educational experience? Puzzles or
pests at home, In school, or elsewhere,
their personal welfare anil the welfare
of society require painstaking effort 1«
their behalf They present nt once
the most baffling. the most urgent and
th« most Interesting problems In the
field of education."
Finds Needs of Children.
Describing the methods of the visit
ing teacher In ny-etlng the«« problems,
which are both educational and social
In nature, Mr. Nudd points out that
this relatively new specialist, trained
both us 11 teacher and social worker,
"la specifically equipped not only to
find out why things nre not going right
In the Ilves of these children bnt also
to take buck to the class teacher, the
parent or the social agency which may
help, the essential Information needed
to meet their individual limitations. As
u result of the new facts sho discovers
the school Is enabled to see what the
actual situation la and to become aware
of the real need of the child. It can
often modify requirements to meet the
newly seen limitations by changing the
class, transferring the child to a apo
dal school, shifting emphasis from one
phase of school work to another, adopt
ing a new approach to the child or con
necting bls school work more closely
with hla outside Interests.’
The American Bed Crus*, which plays Santa Claus to American oobUera, sailor» and marines wherever they may
be stationed In odd corners of the world each Christmas, has to get on the job early In order to reach every man on
Christmas day. Some of the Christmas “stocking»" have to be sent thousands of miles Photograph showj, from
left to right. Misses Edna May Howell, Violet Jacarine an 1 Elsie Drury, making up gift stocking« In RedCr^B
headquarters In Washington under the direction of Mrs. William 8. Spencer, chief of the hostesses and recreatjon
Mrs. Joyce Bushel, thirty-two years
.
old, of New York city, has been elected | division.
Tammruny woman leader of the Twen
ty-first Assembly district. She Is the
"Code of Honor” Again
youngest person, mnn or woman,, ever
Rules in Italian Town
chosen for a Tammany leadership.
Via Reggio, Italy.—The shades of
Mrs. Bushel is the wife of Hylnn
D'Artagnan and his duel-loving mus
Bushel, a lawyer. She Is a graduate of
keteer companions seemingly are
Hunter college and the New York uni
beckoning to the field of honor per
versity law school, and also studied
sons of this ordinarily peaceful town.
chemistry at Columbia university.
So strong has been the revlyat.here of
the tradition of the duel that recently,
within a single day. one combat waw
brick are the only other types of successfully carried out and three
Federal-Aid Highway* Be paved roads completed.
other challenges exchanged.
Count Visconti dl Modrone and
ing Completed Rapidly.
Graded Earth in West.
Baron dl Collalto crossed sabers to
Graded earth stood third in the settle a personal difference, the na
Washington.—Predicting that the
entire 177,000-mlle system of federal- classification of types with 2,064 miles. ture of which is shrouded in mystery.
aid highway» would be completed In Forty-seven miles of bridges were con Titled personages seconded both men.
Aldo Nadi, fencing master of Italy,
five umrs. the United States
bureau structed.
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Most of the graded and drained was master of ceremonies. In the first
of public roads here has announced
the compliment of snylng ‘the re the completion of a record-breaking earth roads were built in the West, assault Visconti’s blade slashed Col-
production was perfect.’
fiscal year In which 11,329 miles of where funds are low and good-roads lato's right forearm. The surgeons
"I made no public announcement j federal-aid roads were built. The progress Is just starting to make Itself agreed the wound was not serious and
of the test, because I don’t claim j total of completed federal-aid roads felt. The construction of graded earth the duel proceeded. In another assault
much credit for It." the Inventor con built since 1917 now amounts to «5.485 roads as a foundation for a future Collalto again felt the saber of his
tinued. "Doctor Stille was apparently j miles, representing a cost of $845,000,- highway system that can be Improved opponent, which opened his right el
as money becomes available and bow. This demon-trated to the judges
behind me by three or four weeks, i 000.
but both of us were 25 years behind
This year’s record-breaking progress traffic Increases, Is a fundamental Coilalto’s Inferiority and the bout was
Poulsen, the Swedish Inventor."
marks the completion of more than principle Initiated by Thomas G. Mc stopped. Sabers were put away; the
Poulsen, according to Westman, half of the great system of Interstate Donald, chief of the bureau of public duellists embraced; animated conver
perfected the electro-magnetic metfi- roads that reach every town of 5,000 roads, when he was chief engineer of sation broke the previous dignified
od of voice reproduction a quarter of I people or more and put 90 per cent highway forces In Iowa.
silence. Honor had been satisfied.
The stage construction principle, as
a century ago, and devices using his of the population of the United States
The three other challenges which
prlncl;4e were used In dictaphone ; within ten miles of an Improved high Mr. McDonald’s plan is called, con followed upon the Vlscontl-Collalto af
sists
first
in
making
initial
Improve
work in Europe. The sounds were way.
fair did not get beyond the stage of
clear but faint.
Much of the federal-aid system had ments such as grading and draining argument by the various seconds, who
Aided by Radio.
been built when the huge program of and Installing permanent culverts and amicably arranged the disputes.
adequate bridges. The road Is thus
“The trouble was." be said, “that highway development was laid out.
the amplifier or 'loud speaker,' had
A billion dollars’ worth of highways Improved at low cost to serve the im
Dog Cemetery
not been developed then as It has a year Is the rate at which road build mediate necessities of light traffic.
Spokane, Wash.—Dogs, whose deeds
since radio. The loud speaker Is ers are now working, according to the When traffic becomes heavier and It Is
the one thing Doctor Stille and I have , bureau's estimate. This rate is ex deemed advisable to Improve with ami loyalty have been immortalized in
song and story, have been given a
that Poulsen didn’t."
pected to remain nearly constant at gravel or a more durable surface, such
Westman said he wanted to give i least for several years, representing as concrete, the original Improvement fitting tribute in the establishment of
full credit to Poulsen nnd some credit 1 as It does the capacity of road-butld- has provided a subgrade on which the a dog cemetery In a shady nook near
to himself for being ahead of Doctor | Ing forces tn the country. That a high type surface can be laid at less here. It Is said to be the second in
Stille with the application of the am greater volume of work could be un additional expense and with far better the United States. A score of ani
results thnn If the original work had mals already have been placed In
plifier to the old process.
dertaken Is regarded as Improbable,
graves in fenced plots with markers.
To substantiate the claim he ex due to the fact that expansion of the been left undone until necessity de
There Is provision for many others.
hibited n number of photographs made program would have to be made at the manded final Improvement.
by the International Newsreel com expense of other activities.
pany of New York during the test with
$243,000.000 Expended.
Mme. Patterson. These photographs,
Cost
of
the federal-aid system com
taken July 0, show the device in op
pleted during the fiscal year ending
eration.
The principle of the "wire method” June 30 Is $243,000,000, of which the
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of sound regulation as explained by federal government's share amounts
to
$111,000.000.
Under
construction
at
the young Inventor Is this:
Returns After 16 Year* of
The wire Is unreeled from the spool the present time are 12,462 mll^s of
U. S. Produce* Paper
5
Globe Trotting.
ns the sonnd enters the microphone. federal-aid roads, most of which will
—
The sound waves, magnified by the be finished during 1926.
From African Grass
Gravel road led In the type of high
Huntington, Ind.—Hayden Webber,
microphone, cause the wire tor vibrate.
Washington. — Paper
made
While vibrating the wire Is magnet way completed this year with 4.203 a modern Enoch Arden, who dlsap- .
from esparto, an African wild
ized. the degree of magnetization de mllea Concrete was next, with 2,806 penred from his home at Fairfield, Ill., |
grass, has been produced by the
pending upon the length of vibration. miles, constituting the largest paved sixteen years ago, has succeeded after
bureau of standards on a com
When the magnetized wire runs mileage. It Is significant that only 129 many months In locating three of his '
mercial basis and samples have
sons,
Harley
Webber,
Huntington
;
J
miles
of
water
bound
macadam,
through the reproducing end of the
been made available to Amerf-
formerly the standard type, was con Earl Webber, Fort Wayne, and Hay- ।
apparatus, bits of steel attract the
can Industry ^as a government
magnetized wire, causing It to vi structed, and that 912 miles of bitu ward Webber, Trinity Springs.
test.
None of Webber’s relatives had seen
brate exactly ns In the first process. minous macadam, with 341 miles of
It has been only recently that
bituminous
concrete
and
107
miles
of
him
since
he
walked
from
his
home
This vibration reproduces the sound
esparto could be Imported into
at Fairfield. Ill., in 1009, after dis
waves that first entered the micro
this country at a cost permitting
agreeing with his wife. Webber lost
phone, nnd they are Increased to
its commercial use.
PRIZE CORNSTALKS
track of his family during his adven
audibility In the loud speaker.
The bureau', report shows
tures
and
only
through
a
chance
con-
I
The advantages of this process are
that the Imported grass pulp,
versatlon did he learn of the where- 1
several, according to Westman.
after cleaning, gave a 60 per
abouts of his sons. That brought him S
cent yield of paper-making fiber
to the home of his sister, Mrs. E. B. |
which produced paper stronger
Stresetnan,
Huntington.
Webber’s j
than the soda pulp product of
; father and mother reside near An- j
this country.
drews, Ind.
The wanderer’s wife divorced him
and remarried several years after his
unceremonious departure.
Inflamed with anger Webber left
While conversing with a Jackson
his Fairfield home, bound for the far (Tenn.) barber Webber was told that
West. A tramp steamer set him down the man knew a man of the same
on a small Island of the Hawaiian name at Huntington. This man turned
group. Once every six months a trans out to be Harley Webber, son of Hey-
pacific liner stopped at Webber’s is den Webber. The father went to
land. This was the only connection Huntington and the sons Joined him.
। with the outside world. In two years
he had developed an attractive sugar
, plantation, literally hacking It out of Will Shoot Prehistoric
the Island wilderness. A syndicate
Monster as His Proof
! bought It for more than Webber
Victoria, B. C.—British Columbia Is
I dreamed of receiving.
The far places called and Webber Interested in a discussion whether
i next appeared tn Africa, where he sold creatures which lived In prehistoric
i supplies, worked for mining com times still exist In the southern Inte
panies and speculated In various en rior of the province.
II. Lackle Ewing. an angler of the
terprises. His efforts Increased his
finances. Two years later he went to Okanagan lake region, has reported
Brazil. Growing rubber proved profit to John P. Babcock, deputy commis
sioner of fisheries, that loqg necked,
able to him.
Finally his native land beckoned and rough-skinned creatures, which he be
he returned to the United States as lieves waddled across the surface of
the country went to war with Ger- the earth long before mnn was heard
' many.
For some time he worked of, are living In the depths of rise lake.
aboard transports plying between Ho Mr. Leckie Ewing says he is preparing
boken, N. J., and France. After the to go forth and give battle to the
war he settled in Jackson, Tenn., be- monsters. Armed with a rifle, it Is
his intention to shoot one of the crea
1
coming a building contractor.
Here nre some of the articles found
He made several trips to Fairfield. tures and tow It ashore as proof of his
In the apartment of Col. W. G. Beach,
assertion.
former chief narcotic ngent In Chi
3.' 11. Hodges, u I urrulUou (ill.) Ill., In search of the members of his
Mr. Babcock's theory Is that large
family,
but
his
wife
and
sons
were
cago, who Is under arrest for alleged
banker, offered a prize for the tallest
sturgeon
and not sea serpents are
graft. The Jeweled opium pipe one cornstalks of the new 1925 crop, and gone artd there was no one there who
causing nl) the discussion. His Idea,
girl Is holding Is valued nt $7,500, nnd
D. A. Bushnell of Green county, Illi knew where they were located. The however, Is treated with contempt by
the Jnde vase In the hnnds of the other
nois, won. He is shown above with the boys were put in an orphanage after other men than Mr. Ewing, who sny
girl Is worth $5,000.
prize-winning stalks, which measured Webber departed and a few years they have seen the terrifying monsters.
later his wife remarried.
18 feet 9 Inches.
177,OOOMilesofU.S.
Road in Five Years
Preserve Voice for
Future Generations
Youthful Inventor Claims
Remarkable Discovery.
New York.—A small spool of steel
wire will preserve for future genera
tions the epochal events of history.
This Is the way Harold Westman,
twenty-three year-old student and In
ventor of Mamaroneck, N. Y„ views
a device he has perfected to reproduce
voice afid other sounds by means of
a vibrating wire.
“If this Idea had been worked out
soones." he said, "we could now hear
the Sermon on the Mount, Patrick
Henry's speech for liberty or death,
I.Incoin's address nt Gettysburg—every
ballot In the 1921 Democratic national
convention.
With those opportunities gone, how
ever, every Important event of the fu
ture can be preserved. Westman de
clares.
Better Than Phonograph.
The steel wire method reproduces
sound more clearly than the phono
graph. he claims, and can be pre
served indefinitely, whereas phono
graph records are comparatively short
lived.
"If a great speech is made It can
be recorded on n siaxd of this wire
and l>e reproduced perfectly a thou
sand years from now," the young In
ventor said.
Westman was shown the claim of
Dr. Curt Stille, German Inventor, that
he had perfected a similar device.
The Stille announcement was carried
In an exclusive International News
Service dispatch of August 8.
“I perfected my Invention several
months ago. and gave It a final trial
July 9," Westman said. “Idelle Pat
terson. well known New York singer,
will verify this.
"In the finni test I nsked her to
sing n number of arias that nre most
difficult to reproduce clearly by nny
method. She snug for forty minutes
mid then listened to the results—the
reproduction of her own voice.
“She paid me and my Invention
Deposed Dope Agent’s Collection of Curios
MODERN ENOCH ARDEN
LOCATES HIS THREE SONS
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