3 THE SPRINGFIELD UNION: SUNDAY. JANUARY 25, 1925 SCHOOL CHILDREN BRING IN BIRD PATIENTS Birds Now Travel by Rail and Have Fireproof Home Twelve Patients Will Be Moved When Specially Designed Six-Room Bungalow Is Ready for Occupation by Bird Hospital at Sixteen Acres School. A- renowned traveler recently arived in Springtield. lie had come rom l'ittsfield, and, althourh he is ure that that is by no means the longat trip that lic has ever taken, vet it ost him more than all his other joureying put together. The actual fare charged him was 56 ents.
This, he admits, is not exorbiant. especially since it included his ncals and since he had a private comvartment all to himself. of course the compartment was mly a large pasteboard box with air soles in it and the quantity of the food rovided was not large, although, on he adequate. P'refers Aviation. But Mr.
Robin, who is at present ccupying a cage in the Sixteen Acres hat when he has recovered from his Ichool hospital for birds, declares present illness he will return to the dore antiquated methods of travel to which he is accustomed. Railroads are ill right for poor- earth-bound creaarcs all for invalids, but for onC vliosc family has long since contucred the air nothing but flying is eally considered respectable. No real, 100 per cent, red-blooded obin would ever travel on a train by choice. But Mr. Robin's former scorn man-made distance eaters has urned into a wholesome respect.
For he was in a bad way when he vas found by Mrs. Hawley of the Pittsfield Science Museum. Not only vere his toes frozen and his body ter16ly emaciated but he, the tramp that le was, hadn't a cent the world. The Pittsfield Agassiz Society voluneered 10 pay his railroad fare to Springfield so that he might have the hospital care that his condition required. He was promptly packed off and here he 18, doing nicely on 1 diet of beefsteak and PEgS heaten 110 in Milk.
calculated to build un is weight and restore his vitality. Children Bring Birds. Agassiz Society lias sent a dumber of patients 10 Miss Mary E. Coburn and bliss Inez Ingraham manage the hospital. Every year.
18 the fame of the establishment has grown. more and more people, have become interested in the and ew agencies sent in patients. The school children, howerer. both at the Sixteen Acres School and in very section of Springfield have taken greatest share in bringing disabied or sick birds to the hospital for care. 'Since the fire that burned down the hospital building Inst.
winter the birds have been hon- wherever Miss Coourn could find a home for them. DurIng tlic summer Dins. Henry Granger. Parker Street. loaned tho birds the use of a larze front room in her house.
The school building. since the opening of the fall term, has served as an emergency and the 12 patients bave enjoyed the services of 17 crowd of eager nurses. For the children have taken over much of care of the birds. feeding them and watering them and cleaning the cages. Observe Bittern's Eyes.
Many things, too, the children have learned from their charges. They have discovered that the bittern. alone among the birds they hare observed, can move his exes about independently of his head, and thus catch frogs and snakes unawares. Among the birds cared for at the hospital during the summer and fall have been woodco*ck. 111 olive.
backed thrush, a veery. oven birds and snipe. Most of ailments of the birds can be taken care of by Miss Coburn and Miss Ingraham. For vero cases, however, Dr. C.
J. Spaid, Belleview Avenue, is called in. There will probably be considerable fuss among the birds when it is discovered that, within a week or so. they will be moved again. This will be the last move that the hospital will make for a long time, Miss Coburn believes.
The net home will ho a six- -room bungalo: located on Sixteen Acres l'ond. The building will serve home for Miss Coburn and Miss InGrabom and has been constructed 05- recially with the noodle of the hospital in mind. There the birds will have plenty of rount. Conservative. Olay Grumble.
But what the gossip will be when it is discovered that the building will be fireproof no one can guess. l'or who ever heard of a fireproof nest? What with alt these new, highfaluting notions in travel and home building that they were picking up, no 011C would ever guess that their ancestors had been famous aviators and builders when man's progenitors were stil! walking on all fours and living in trees. Hut this grumbling. if it does take place, will not grow into active niltiny and it is expected that the reanoval will be made quietly and in order as soon as the new home is ready. The bungalow will house, besides the sanatorium, a museum of ornithology.
There will be cases filled with mounted birds, nests and other Already the school possesses quite an exhibit of this kind. The three and one half acres surrounding the bungalow will be made into a bird reserve and sanctuary. Pupils Regret The removal of the birds will be sinecrely regretted by all the pupils in the school have enjoyed caring for the help.ss ones, watching them recover discovering their tastes in food and their habits. The following description by one of the pupils of the bittern who has been their guest of lute will give an idea of the interest the children have taken in their patients: "For some. time We have had the gool fortune to hare a bittern to study in our school.
"In accident had deprived this bird of his large wing feathers so he could not fly much. At first he did not seem to like any of us but tried hard to pick us with his sharp beak. We were all told to keep our faces away from him as his neck would shoot out a catapult very rapidly for at least two feet and he always aimed at one's eyes, a trick which he had probably learned in bittern self who -defense, had nest in a nearby swamp last summer, being troubled by a dog. aimed at the aniinal's eyes and nearly blinded one of them. Strange Cry Startles.
"We were greatly interested to hear this bittern give his deep, hollow cry--a cry which people seldom forget. Out in tie swamp this cry sounds wierd, especially at nightfall. the bird must biow reed The English poet, Goldsmithin thought to have such eerie tones. "Bushy, as we call the bittern, 3 large, dark green feet to bear him up when walking in the mud. He walks with his head down as if he were parting the bushes.
This is due to habit. "He eats beefsteak. shiners, bread and milk and small frogs. "Bushy quickly adapted himself to school life and. finding that he was not hurt.
he gradually became very friendly and showed that he liked to petted. Now he stands in the aisle. his head tilted straight up in the air reaching above the desks. He is able and lower his eyes at will. Most birds have to move their heads to da this.
Snakes and frogs, can thus be caught unawares. "The bittern's nock feathers are straw brown like the swamp grasses while the other parts are dark brown mottle 1 with black. His cont has 110 iridescence which might betray the bind to Ye enjoyed this odd. solit.iry bird. generally so little known." Forest Park Honor Roll Mentions 74 Three Students Get A Grades in Everything; 3B Class Leads.
3 semester honor. role of WAS announced last week at the Forest Pork Junior High School. The with 24 honor students lead the classCS. Three students, Audrey Van Pelt. SA: Ruth Kenworthy.
31, and Helen Nelson, 2A made A. grades in every subject for the entire semester. The list. announced at the final assembly of the school Thursday morning. is as follows: 1B-Eunice Reich.
Kathlyn Holloway, Barbara Chapman, Rena Aron8011. Priscilla Boeshaar, Sherwood Adams. 1.1-- Ethel Raymond. Vera Arnold, Marjorie Hayden. Nancy Russell, 1'hallis Beauregard.
Genevieve Eidy, Florence FourPu. Bernice Calderwood. Louise Krauss, Florence l'ease, Roger Sylvester, Norman Moore, Mary Kunhie. (Gretchen Sawyer. Schaffer.
Alrane Perry, Dorothy Doran. Beulah Gray. Bentrice Smart, Helen Nelson, Paul Aker11, Beatrice Campbell. luth l'erkins. Georgia Starr.
Edith Jolinson, Ruth Mehlman, Lois left. Dorothy Woodworth. 38-Dorothy Chisholm, Marie Dow. Gladys Elmer. Vera Wuller, Tarriet Gibbs.
Ruth Kenworthy. Sylvia Leavitt, Betty Reid. Gertrude Skinner. Mae Spaner, Louise Wakeman. Harri80! Clapp, Harlow Gage, Robert Key Rose Aaron.
Barbara Belcher. Men. Hannigan. Eunice Katz. Frauk Ford.
Mary Chillis, Hazel Sinith. Agues Christy. Shirley Cohen, Mildur Olson. 3.1-Doris Hall. Doris Bryson.
Madefine Lambert, Miner, Hack Elizabeth Smith. Audrey Von Henry Hewitt, Robert Levin. Era Belkin. Wilma Fellows, Alice Johnston. Helen Maher.
Dorothy Sheldon, Dorrice Strong, Harriet William- son. FOREST RANGER INVENTS MACHINE. Disgust with routine work is a fertile mother of inventions. A part of the job of C. K.
McFarland, forest ranger in the Cascade National Forest, was to keep track of the number of automobiles that traversed the Government roads. It. was tiresome work, and mechanical. So Alr. Mcfarland invented machine to do it.
The traffic counter. as lie calls his device, is a small platform resting upon springs, buried flush with the track in a narrow place in the road. It is connected by levers to a counting machine on a post. Each car depresses the platform about one ball inch, enough to work the counting machine but not enough to Jolt the car. Science Service.
the Student Council. Town Forests Increase from First farm. Conway has 140 acres with 12,500 trees, also located on the town farm. Goshen has 100 acres with 5000 trees on land which was presented to the town as a gift. Great Barrington has 70 acres planted with 6000 trees in its watershed.
The trees were planted by Boy and Girl Scouts under the direction of the Chamber of Commerce, the trees besupplied- free by the State. Monson has 125 acres with 20,000 trees la 11a watershed. North Vocational Woodworkers Fill Many. Orders Albert Rizzoli, Left, and Michael Keough, Right, Turning Out a Part of a Job Together. The Wocdworking Department Is Filled to Capacity This Year and Is the Second Largest Shop in the Building.
Scme of the Furniture Completed in the Department Shows Excellent Workmanship and Good Design; Loys Have Been Working on an Order of 12 Office Desks Like That Pictured. Education Points Skyward at Pittsburg University A Gothic tower 32 stories. or feet, high, resting on a base 360 by 260 feet square, will be the first skyscraper to house a university. The entire University of l'ittsburg, excont the schools of medicine and dentistry, will find space in this singic structure for its libraries. classrooms, shops, laboratories and offices.
The lower floors of the building will, according to the plans suggested in the last insuc of the Journal of the National Education Association. be devoted to undergraduate schools: the upper floors 10 professional schools, graduate research. libraries, laboratories and social centers. An entire university under one root brings 3 new concept to the average mind. accustomed to thinking in terms of the campus and of the clustor of halls and schools gathered there011.
Perhaps in the new school the "laws" can nang over the railing and hurl epithets at the engincers on floor below, but somehow there won't be the same flavor as there was in the jibes and taunts that hurtled across the space that intervened between the separate halls, where each school sat in complete and acknowledged possession. Churches. however. have taken 10 mounting heavenward in this manner 111 several of the larger cities. and now Pittsburg would start education on its way to scale the skies.
A reproduction of the drawing of the building from the architects' plans appears in the Journal. Cultivated Potatoes Are Mostly Female. That our cultivated potatoes are pretty close to being exclusively fomale 111 their nature is the conclusion Dra, A. B. Stout and (.
F. Clark. investigators for the United States Department of Agriculture. Potatoes have long been known 10 form flowers, as tomatoes and peas do, appearing to be of the same double male and female constitution of the latter; Jet potato Nowers rarely set 1 rue fruit inclosing seed as tomatoes and peas do. A long current explanation attributed this failure to the growth of underground tubers which drew food from the aerial parts.
That this is not the correct reason appears from the fact that potato shoots grafted' onto the roots of noniuberous relatives develop flowers that are no more fruitful. Moreover, in those few varieties that do form secd-containing fruit it has been observed that tuber and seed formation go hand in band, Intensive studies revealed the true cause of the sterility. They found that the pollen is almost completely shrivelcd up and devoid of life in the great majority of potato varieties. Good pollen, capable of fertilizing flowers, is very rare. The female elements of the potato flower, however, do not share this degeneration.
When good pollen is used on 1. pistil almost all potatoes can be induced to form "balls" containing true seed. Potato varieties have retained their femaleness and nearly lost their maleness and it it were not for the lucky expedient of tuber production most of our varicties would quickly become Science Service. To measure the temperature in lava at various depths, a party of United States volcanologists is drill! ing a series of holes in the huge crater of Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii.
The possibility of utilizing the steam from the crater for power purposes will be studied at the same For this a small laboratory with small engines and condensers has been built over the hottest of the crater holes. In drilling, much difficulty has been encountered, due to the great hardness of the basalt. rock that forms the solid lava foundation. says P'opular Science Monthly. It is possible to bore only two or three feet a day.
The Work is expected to reveal new facts concerning the increase in temperature toward the center of the earth, as well as a new- knowledge of mineral and gas changes underground. Substantial price reductions huve been applied on practically all farm machinery. In recent months. Bank Accounts Back Advice Pupils Give "Thrift a Habit Easy to Form," Says West Springfield Junior High. With deposits of approximately $1100 credited to them for the Arst semester of this year, the pupils in the West Springfield Junior High School were in a position' to talk' about Thrift last week.
And they did talk, for most of the students have been firmly convinced of the desirability of. owning a little bankbook and of making deposits regularly on the weckly, Bank Day. 'The savings system was introduced in the Junior High School last year. During the few months it was in operation last spring over $1100 was acI cumulated in savings by the pupils," Mr. Spinney, principal of the school, explained.
ex "The system has been continued the present year with increasing results. A considerable majority of the pupils now hare accounts. The aim is not so much to show large deposits, as to have pupils save small suns regularly and thus acquire the habit, the value of which is constantly kept before the children. "Deposits for the last half year total approximately $1100, also, and new depositors are being added cach banking day," Last week pupils in the English classes of the school were asked to tell the experiences and ideas to them by Thrift Week, and a group of typical themes are reprinted below: A Habit Worth Forming. "Thrift." does it mean to By Beatrice, Connors.
you? It means a great deal in one little word and word is "Save." You think to yourself, "Well, that isn't for me. I can't save my If you would think that you might be ill or unemployed in later years, you would not pass up thrift, but take it up. Many years ago people lost from ships on desert islands did not have large amount of food. A wild aniwas sometimes found. When these people killed and ate some of it, they laid the rest away.
Didn't they save? That was thrift. If we could only form thrifty habits, we would do the same. Read more, talk more, write more, and do inore about the saving of the citizens' money. "Save and be glad rather thanspend and be sad." What Thrift Will Do. By Carolina Dermani.
Thrift is, indeed, al habit worth forming. You never know what will happen in the future. One may always be ready to face any difficulty by following the rule of thrift. Two close chums, Frank and Jack, were very intelligent pupils. They were always near the head of the class.
But Jack had one great fault. He would not save money for any retson. "What is the use of saving anyway?" he repeated over and over. "You will find out in the coming days and then you will have regret when it: is too late." was the answer of the thoughtful Frank. One day Jack passed by his chum's house and heard the soft tones of violin beautifully played.
Jack hurried into the house and to his surprise, he found that Frank was the wonderful player. "Prank! Frank! how did you ever learn 10 play SO well?" asked the astonished Jack. Proudly Frank lifted his head and said, "I took lessons with the money 1 had saved." Jack looked longingly at the violin and turned away, ashamed. This shows that habits of thrift are not at all useless. Strive to Thrive.
By Doris Campbell. peace. The Rainy Day. Thrift is one of the things which lead to success in later life. A thrifty person can always meet obstacles which are placed in his path.
Thrift helped to build our country. We appreciate the banks and trust companies which help to keep our money safe. l'eople should try to place in the bank at least A small sum each Week. By this they would learn to be thrifty. The great expense of the World War: was met successfully hy the saving of the people of the, United States.
Some years ago. in a small country village, a hoy waS working very hard, for he had to support his mother. But while the hoy was working he was saving. When the bugles sounded war, he was one of the first to enlist. He was not afraid that his mother would not have money while a he was gone.
She was thankful that her son had been so thrifty during By Miriam Whitlock. Many years ago, a great man made the habit of thrift very popular. It was he who started in a postoffice basem*nt to think of new devices to help mankind. That was Thrift in a new light. The habit of thrift, when properly formed, is hard to The practise of a weekly or a monthly journey to some reliable bank should be stopped.
Small beginnings often bring the greatest success. Many people who- now spend lavishly will in later years be cramped for necessities. It is always well to remember that the only way to insure yourself and others against poverty is to "save up for a rainy day," Candy or College. Ly Anna Martin. Thrift is one of the best habits any boy or girl can learn.
It is a very simple thing. Some boys and girls say that they have no money to put in the bank. Yet you' see the same ones with candy every day. Mary was nine years old and did not like to save her money. One day she heard some girls talking about their bankbooks of which they were to all go very near proud.
tre girls Mary for was fear ashamed they would ask her. if she had any money in the bank. The next Tuesday, which was Bank Day, Mary was one of the pupils to. denosit Now Mary is one of the happiest of girls, for it is graduation time and. she bas saved enough to go to Rempp Rates Highest in Typesetting Tests With a rating of 427, F.
Rempp, 2b practical arts student at the Buckingham Junior High School, made the highest score in the speed and accuracy tests held during the semester just finished in the printing department. Each pupil was given the same copy to set and at the end of 30 minutes the letters, spaces And punctuation marks were counted and. the total amount recorded. Ratings were computed by counting cach character set as 1 point and making. deductions of 2 points wrong font letters and of 5 points for poorly justified lines.
The following hoys received the highest ratings in the five classes, according to a chart which appeared in the January issue of the Beacon, the school paper printed in the department: la Practical Arts, C. Spear, 289, and Rempp, Leslie, 427, 263; A. 2h Young, Practical 276; Arts, 3b, R. F. Wilsie.
330, and L. Ross, 287; 2a. General Course, G. Hatchadourian, and K. Gray, 229; Practical Arts, C.
Belden, 276. The fewest errors were made' by R. Wilsie, whose score of 330 gave him second place among the contestants. He had only 2 characters wrong out of 331. Sun, Moon, Mars Make This Astronomers' Year Popular Excitement Helps Schools to Make Use of Spectacular.
brief colipse of all school activity took place in Central High last week when every. student was given a chance to learn all about the cclipse of the sun. Totality was experienced by each of the successive audiences to whom Clarence M. Hall, head of the science department, explained the phenomenon when an artificial eclipse was. produced by the use of a large lamp representing sun and two balls.
representing the earth and the moon. A. lunar eclipse was also arranged, to illustrate what will happen Feb. since a lunar eclipse always follows solar one. But lunar eclipses, Mr.
Hall explained, are not very exciting to astronomers. Year of Wonders. Every student in the school, Curing the course of the day set aside for that purpose, heard Mr. Hall's talk and saw the lantern slides which rive mans of the path of the eclipse and pictures of what the eclipse will look like in totality. Hall has given out practically' the same material in talks the teachers in the school Thursday morning, before the Chicopee High School assembly Tuesday morning and before the Evening High School at the High School of Commerce Thursday night.
This has been the astronomer's year. Two spectacular and rare. events have set the world to staring skyward and have aroused an amazing amount of popular interest. Last summer Mars nodded and bowed at us familiarly as it swam a little nearer to is than usual. And people organized observation parties to wave back the greeting.
Yesterday trains were overcrowded, parties were arranged and thousands of smoked glasses were purchased by people who. a few short weeks ago were blithely innocent of any intention of tilting their heads backwards until their necks ached in order to observe a cosmic phenomenon. Vitalize Courses. And the schools profit accordingly, for all this popular excitement serves to stimulate interest in the school subject involved. Current events; in science, in history, in civics, are always furnishing vital material for school The eclipse is easily the higgest event of the kind this although a more formal use was made of the election by the Central High School history department.
Every move. from conventions to the casting of the electoral college votes, was duplicated by the students in the school. King Tut in his day brought much ancient history to life in the classroom and lust year geological studies were enlivened by the Japanese earthquake. The 23 students in Mr. Hall's astronomy class at Central have profited most by the events of this year.
The pupils arranged, with the Scientific American to make observations of the exact location of the edge of totality, all accurate outline of which the maguzino is trying to map. Thrift Week Census Finds School Thrifty More than 30 per cent of the students in the Continuation School have Christmas savings books, 40 cent have life insurance, 60 per cent have their own hank books, its was shown in a recent census taken in connection with the Thrift Week held in the school. A thrift campaign lasting over several weeks and which, in fact, never lets up is being conducted at the school. The annual Thrift Week was held Jan. 12 to 16, just.
preceding the city's observance last week. "The boys and girls were thus to follow the articles in the newspapers last week and to take an interest in the subjects discussed," Carroll Robinson, principal of the school, explained. "This ycar we made special effort to get the students to carry life insurance, or in case their parents carried it for. them, to assume this responsibility themselves. "Leading insurance men in the city spoke before the assemblies which were held all week.
Nine such assemblies were called, five of them conducted by teachers in the school and four by outside speakers. R. Jennings of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, L. C. of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, Dr.
Luther Anderson of the Kinney Life Insurance Company and Carlos B. Ellis, principal of the High School of Commerce, all gave extremely interesting talks." During the preceding week- the school had held nine ussemblies on the subject Christmas Savings. "All of the boys and girls in the Continuation School work and earn money and handling, saving and kceping track of their money must be an importunt part of their education," Mr. said 1800 Children Enter First Grade Tomorrow Kindergarten Ranks Depleted; National Committee Is Making Study of "Baby Class" Program. Woodworking Department Has Large Annual Output Jobs are finished on a production basis in the Vocational School shop, where one of the oldest trades in the world--woodworking, is being taught to 50 youthful carpenters and cabinet makers.
An order of 12 cffice desks represents one of the largest jobs that the boys have been called upon to do this year. Eight or ten boys worked on the desks at once. some making purts and others assembling them. while few of the most advanced pupils put on the finishing touches. The desks are made of oak with a natural finish and are of regulation office size.
Although they were made on an order from the school office as a purely educational project, half of the desks have already been spoken for and the others will easily be sold. according to George A. Burridge, director of the school. Pays Half of Cost. The value of the work produced in this department amounts annually 1.0 about half of the gross cost of maintaining the department.
Last sear work valued at $6000 was turned out, while the financial report showed A gross cost for the same period amounting to somewhat more than $13,000. Actual sale cl the products, however. docs not always take place. The woodworking department is constantly called upon to supply some the multitudinous needs of the city schools. Desks.
cabinets. tables. chairs and lunchroom equipinent have all kept the shop filled with orders. The lunchroom at the Vocational School itself was completely furnished by the boys in this department. "Outside" orders are accepted chiefly on the basis of educational value.
Ship to Distant Point. Nor are the products limited to purely local consumption. 11 is an enviable commercial triumph to hare shipped goods as far as Florida, and to Florida last semester went al "High-light" Will Appear on Chicopee School Map The first issue of the Tunior Highlight, the newspaper which the Center Junior High School. Chicopee, will publish from now on will make its appearance next week with the opening of the new semester. Hitherto the school has had no paper of its own but has simply had share in the magazine published in common by all the junior high schools.
A campalgn for a 100 per cent circulation of the paper is being conducted in every home room by the business staff of the paper. On Monday each room which can show a "perfect loyalty record" will be allowed to fly a blue and white banner. 'The staff under whose- direction the paper will appear is as follows: Editor-in-chief, Eileen Murphy: assistant, Fred Bishop; literary editor, Lucille Rock: news editor, James Walsh; athletic editor, Eudor Trudeau; exchange editor, Elsie Chez; humor. editor, Joseph Moriarity. Advertising manager, Emelda Thatreault; circulation manager, Francis Atkinson; treasurer, William Clark; secretary, Peter Suprena.
Reporters, Esther Smith, Powers, Rose Tetlock, Stephen Kapinos, Stanly Pazik and Katherine Baker. Above Fog Bank on Flier. Monday morning, Oct. 20, 1924- Heavy white fog rolled in like a tidal wave from seaward yesterday afternoon at sunset. A ship which passed under the Shenandoah at the mouth of the Columbia River, standing out to sea, entered the fog.
To surface craft, navigating in fog scems bad enough. Viewed from above, a ship entering the blind fog seems in worse plight than she actually is. The fog looks like a sea or blanket of white lather. Yesterday 'a wall of it apparently 200 feet high rolled shoreward. In places it seemed to cascade down as to the surface of a lake: in other places it broke and rose in feathery shipment of small portable kindergarten desks manufactured in the shop.
They were sent to Miss McConkey, formerly assistant supcrintendent of schools here, for 11SC in the Bay of Biscay School, Miami. Fla. The prile of the shop at present centers about a round diningroom table in solid walnut which is part of A diningroom suite being constructed for one of the instructors in the school. For all ordinates orders, not requiring material too expensive to be covered by school budget. the school supplies the material.
charging it into the sale price of the article. But, when solid walnut is desired the person supplying the nurchases his own material and only orders for the labor. Expert Recently the department has cmployed an expert finisher to work upon some of the better picces. It has been found very difficult for boys to finish properly some of the finer which they have made. Then, 100, the manufacture of the articles has tended to get ahead of the finishing.
which only a few of the boys were table to do. "So fur we have not had a large cough number of boys interested in woodfinishing to warrant our putting in a special department. There is plenty of opportunity for those who are interested to learn something of the work." Alr. Burridge said. "The arrangement we have made gives us part tinie tHe of a professional woodfinisher.
We pay only for the time which he gives us. He does no instructing. but the boys often help him in his work." The woodworking department is second in size only to the machine shop. It showed this year a 20 per cent increase over last, year, and a proportional increase next year will demand that the shop. now working to capacity, be enlarged.
H. T. Terry is head of the department and Carl Johnson is his assistant. surf. as though dashing upon invisible headlands in the air.
Before durk the sea of fog extended over the ocean as far as the eye could reach and hid the coast line and the lowlands between the foothills, and the beach. There was no moon, but the sky was almost clear and the white fog seemed to reNect the starlight or the sunset's afterglow. The hilltops and tree line raising above the fog were much more clearly visible than. on the ordinary night when it is clear and dark at sea. Long after night haul fallen 2.
strange thing happened. The Shenandoah was nearing a dark headland, at 45 miles an hour, when.a faint spot of light gleamed upward through the fog. It grew brighter and brighter, then faded. and disappeared. In about one minute more it flashed again, fuintly but clearly, and was seen no more.
A glance at the chart showed that the ship had passed Hecta lead. on which there is an intermittent flashing white light, showing white for 15 seconds and cclipsed for 45 seconds. The faintly glowing areas of light showing upward through the fog were probably the lights of Empire and North Bend, two towns on Coos Oregon. The Marshfeld Navy radio compass station is on Coos Bay. The Shenandoah called and a Marshfield radio answered and said that they could hear the engines of the Shenandoah drumming above the fog.
This morning there wa's a beautiful sunrise and at 8 a. fog broke. beneath us and showed the coast line and a low rocky point of land ahead. A white lighthouse on cape. It was Point Arena, about 95 miles north of San the log of the U.
S. S. Shenandoah, by Capt. Stanford H. Moses, U.
S. in the urday Evening Post. While gathering oysters in Teocomico River, Virginia, A. T. Muir caught with tongs an oyster dish.
Engraved on the inside of the dish was a flag of the old Weems line of steamships, blue with a red dot in the center. A natural oyster. five inches long and three inches wide had formed on the side of the dish. There were no flaws or cracks In the dish More than 800 children will pax from the kindergartens of the city into the first grades at the opening of the new semester tomorrow. morning, A Proud they are, of course, of entering a regular grade; proud, too, that they are leaving behind them "childish things." '( But as they pass the door of their former home they may look longingly in at the large Fill blocks with which they used to build real houses that they could crawl into or at the dolls and buggies and dishes and houses and diminutive furniture with which they used to keep house.
Few Enter Now. The kindergarten population will In fact be greatly depleted by the of the 800, for very few children enter school at this time of year, and not until spring makes a daily journey to and from school more practical for them will the little children begin to enrol. Meanwhile the 22 kindergartens in the City will continue to function for the smaller classes, although the teaching staff will be slightly reduced by the shifting of several kindergarten assistants to first grades and by not using some of the special substitute assistants required last semester. The 22 kindergarten directors Have 28 assistants. The largest kindergarten in the city is that at the Washington School, which last semester had 117 children.
Hooker School with more than 100 is second in Toys Differ. Equipment in every kindergarten is not exactly alike. that matter is the' room arrangementy At the new Indian Orchard for instance, long room, easily divided into three rooms by the use of sliding doors, is pleasantly lighted by a huge bay window on one side and given warmth and coziness by the great open. fireplace on the other. Sand boxes and blocks and tots of various kinds there are in each skindergarten, but these vary somewhat from room to room.
Last carpenters' benches were installed in each room and the children have just begun to experiment with making stools and tables and little things that they Some of the most delightful have been made. by the boys in Air. Lawrence's Chestnut Street Junior High School classes. Coaster wagons made by these boys have been presented to a number of the kindergartens, where they are used by the children for hauling materials fromone point to another as well as for giving cach other rides. At Te Toys Have Efficiency.
"The proper basis for the selection of toys is. their efficiency as 1oys," states iL manual of play cquipinent, "that is, the toys must be suggestive of play and made for play: 'they should be selected with relations to each other; they 'should be consistent with the environment of the is to use them: they should be constructed simply so that they spay serve us models for other toys to be constructed by the children; they should suggest something besides domestic play so that the child's interest may be led into activities outside home life: they should be durable because they are the realities of the child's world and deserve the dignity of good workmanship." Flying ropes, rings and other plysical apparatus has also been placed in number of the kindergartens. Since free play is one of the large items on a kindergarten program such equipment is extremely according to Miss Mary Pottenger; supervisor. The essential indoor cquipment. for a kindergarten is.
on the whole, quite simple. there must bc plenty of floor space, for the. natural -place for a small child to play is 011. the Noor. Next, if good habits arc to: he formed, there must be places to keep things.
In the. Springfield kindergartens there are large cabinets in which each child has his own space, where he can maintain his own housekeeping arrangements. 1 Chairs Supplement Floor. 3: Tables and 'chairs, to su ppicient the floor, are of course necessary, and these should he portable. lIlocks, toys, carpenter's bench with tools and' soft lumber, and a supply of'art and craft materials complete the desirable caulpment.
What the child does with all these things is largely a matter of his choice. A day in a kindergarten is the subject of a study which is at present being conducted by the National Educational Association A national.committec has been appointed and is at. present making an investigation of the type of, program being followed in various kindergartens in the country. Several citicx, among them Spring-, field, have been invited to furnish stenographic reports of a typical day, recording minutely the activities of each child. Gives $350,000 to Start: New Scientific Journal Brookfield has a tract of 25 acres with 10,000 trees, which was a gift.
Russell leads the list in the number of trees, Having 35,000 on 100 acres of its watershed. It is intended to nlace all the watershed, 1700 acres, under the Town Forest Act. South Hadley has 20 acres with 10,000 trees, a purchased tract. In addition to the towns listed, there are a few who have done extensive planting on their town farms and tax lands, but have not as vet put the lands under the Town Forest Act. The Rockefeller Foundation of New York has appropriated $350,000 to finance a new scientific periodical, it has been announced by the National Rescarch Council.
The new journal will be known as "International Riological Abstracts," and is to give 'in condensed form a monthly, summary publications zoology, bacteriology and kindred subjects. There are at present 'two similar but smaller journals covering parts of the field, "Botanical stracts," and "Bacteriological The new periodical will Absorb and replace these, and in addition cover scientific territory at present not taken care of. The expenditure of the $350,000 Initial endowment will take cure of 'editorial and office expenses for 10 60 that subscriptions will need to upport only the actual costs of printing and distributoin. Publication begin in January, Science' Service. Egyptians cut their granite 3 1 3.
