Show I SUNDAY MORNING: OCTOBER 27 1929 SCHOOLS DROP IDA FITZSIMMONS explains today the modem trend in education CAR GOES OVER NAVY GATHERS MISS Witness Indicted vs HONORS TODAY AFTER SMASIlHP OLD SCHEME TO Citizens Urged To Send Three In Large 'Roadster Letters To Those In o Returning From Game Escape Injury Service INTO CHILDREN Today is Navy day This day was of the chosen by patriotic citizens country as the day to - bring the navy before the public in a greater way than at any other time because it is also the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt who realizing the importance of the first line of defense by his constructive policy brought the standard navy to an extremely ' ' high of efficiency The nation may be justly proud of the navy The fact that Old Glory has never been defeated is a source of pride to all Americans No institution is nearer the heart of the nation In the personnel of the navy may be found representatives of all the classes and practically all conditions of the people Thus when It is said the nation is proud of the navy it is being said that the fathers and mothers are proud of their sons and of their devotion to ’ 1 Intelligence 1 ar n i r -- f --- M By ALYSON E SMITH Probably one of inthe greatest any of Amplace changes taking institutions established old erica’s can be found in the school system 1 ' J ’L - ' 'L row" k n X iv x ” J H Holden 2726 Madison avenue was the driver of the machine which turned over He was riding with a brother Bud Holden and Fred Ruward 3037 Lincoln avenue The three had been attending the football game and were proceeding southward on Madison avenue Just after the end of the gridiron feature er Fred Winslow 2051 Monroe sesmall of the driver the dan was proceeding eastward on Twentieth street His car was ndt “ badly damaged M their country! : The navy has had a glorious hishing up has free access to the litimes and it is the duty of the presall at tory brary "In the auditorium we teach citi- ent navy to be ready for any emergency so that the security of the zenship and current events holding i3 nation is assured at all times Presion It urograms special days lere that the literature read in the dent Roosevelt said that “The shots ibrary and ‘home room' of the that hit are the shots that county” school Is dramatized and given to To this end 80000 loyal patriotic Americans’ pledge the students as a finished product and their undivided allegiance to their DAY’S SCHEDULE t “School starts at 9 o’clock in the country and yours or a relative friend have If you are in morning and the students in the navy' write to their ‘home room’ from that time acquaintance until 10:30 o’clock Then they go him on this day and assure him of to their special teachers until 12 your support and esteem If you o’clock During this period they are proud of him tell him so in orthat his zeal and devotion may will study physical education science der and art At 1 o’clock they return b- - simulated and his morale to their “home room’ staying until strengthened in the realization that 2:15 o’clock Then they go to the ms eiorts are being appreciated by other special teachers and take the people back home music library and auditorium work This gtves the children a chance to VALLEY MUTUALS move around and change teachers WILL HOLD PARTY It stimulates their interest “One innovation is the teaching oi DANCING SCHOOL TO HOLD RECEPTION ' Le Crist school of dancing Twen-tyv-six- street and Washington Wednes- th av- enue will give a reception day evening October 30 at 7:30 o’clock at which a short program of dancing will be given introducing the beautiful work of Elsa Cansino Friends and patrons interested 'in dancing are cordially invited ed Three youths took the examination given Saturday at the" Ogden federal building for entrance into the U 8 naval academy at Annapolis In 1930 Three vacancies for Utah' were announced recently by Senator Reed Smoot The examination extended over a period of six and a half hours It Included questions and problems in algebra geometry English grammar and ancient medieval and American history The names of the youths were not disclosed — Highest! for the at 6:30 o’clock inday was 62 and the evening it was 42 The barometer registered 3004 A year ago today the highest was 50 and the lowest 33 The day was if Old Sol remembers 'The first patent of theJ telephone partly cloudy was granted In 1876 correctly their suit coats I ave-enu- r After all is said and done this is a cruel cruel world It doesn’t seem like unything leads to anything else The world goes around Its axis the sun goes around with the lady stirs and the moon goes around alor e People go around in a circle They leave home in the morning and no matter where they go or how long it takes them to do it they always come around home again You comfe into the world without go any teeth hair and broke You out the same way except that sometimes you have the added distinction of not only being broke but of town Atsociated Pres Photo Biffle defenie wltneai the trial ©f Alexander Pantages wealthy Los Angeles theater owner was indicted for perjury - Garland In 1 i ’ LODGE RECEIVES HIGHER OFFICERS When yoii’re young you go around A little older with your parents you go around with the kids Then you acquire a bass voice hair that will lay down long pants! and fifty cents in cash every Saturday night and you gb around with the girls Then you get married and go round and round with your wife Sometimes you go a couple of rounds with the judge You go jaround shopping to buy various things and then you go around thi first of the month to tbi payments 'Sometimes the furniture van comes around to nouse and takes the stuff back Which Just leads us around to the fact that this is a cruel cruel I lodges —V t 1 i r The state (president of Rebekah Miss Irene Sudhelmer of Salt Lake and the grand toaster of Utah Odd Fellows J W Randall of Ogden were visitors at a meetlodge ing of Queen City Rebekah No 4in the Odd Fellows hall (Satf4 urday evening Other grand officers world were also in attendance After the TO FRENCH COURSE regular meeting of thd lodge luncheon was served and the members Saturday turned out an ideal day THURSDAY ON OPEN entered into social recreation The and the (1000 people including tree tops tne was those The well in attended grave yard meeting course An elementary French rewho witnessed the foot fences and talks visitors gave Interesting of sponsored by the University Rebekah and I O O F ball game between Weber and Mc‘Utah extension division and to be specting affairs Kinley were very comfortable in by W W Taggart Ogden taughtschool j French professor will high -start at 7 o’clock Thursday in room school This 205 of the Ogden high which five' credits will be HUNTSVILLE Oct 26— Hallo- class for be held weekly and is to is given ween night in the amusement hall students and oth to teachers the Young Ladies’ and Young Men’s open French to learn ers desiring Mutual will give a dancing party There will be carnival features in the way of confetti' caps fortune PAY YOUR Figure but for yourself and you’ll telling ice cream and fish ponds Those attending are invited to dress find tliat a btreetcar pass furnishes the to represent some character red-blood- -- - police report N- mobiles - h Three men escaped injury Saturroadday afternoon when the large ster they were riding in was turned with a upside down after colliding small sedan at Twentieth street and Madison avenue - according to the l :: t ! System WORK SPECIALIZED MI Entering First Grade Are Tested For 1 i ? Instead Effort Is Made To Develop Each Brain declares Ida Fitzsimmons assistant Ogden city superintendent of the of the first six 'schools in charge ' grades “No longer do we place the children in the classroom and pump ‘canned knowledge ’them full ofsomewhere or some that hoping will learn what of they place part 'stand them in good stead “Now we aim at the development of their minds to develop the creathrough tive ability of each child Children constructive thinking learned may forget what they have do conin school But if they can structive thinking they will master their problems” Miss Fitzsimmons who has one ox the longest records of any teacher irt the Ogden system has either been in schools or connected with schools ' since she was five years of age Bom in Fayette county Iowa she the received her early education in was public schools of that state and graduated from the Lawler High school at Lawler Iowa at the age of 16 Due to her yputh she enbeIowa university tered the Upper fore entering the Iowa State Teach-a ers’ college where she completed course four-yeiHIGHEK TRAINING She then took additional work at Columbia University of Utah and specializUniversity of California the excepWith education in ing to eduction of some time devoted work for the ational demonstiation Co & Chicago Newson of firm where she contacted schools in Iowa Minnesota and Illinois she has been teaching Miss Fitzsimmons has taught only Iowa in Lawler and Marsh-alltowSalt Lake and Ogden claiming a record as there is not another teacher in the system who has been connected with school work so long and taught in so few placesbeen put “Ogden” she said “has on the platoon system— the first city in Utah to adopt this method and lone of the first in the west We have it in all of our primary grades with the exception of the Lewis Mound Fort and Washington schools’ where the buildings 'are un suited to such methods "We have special teachers for music art physical education social science auditorium and library Each instructor has majored in her particular subject “Take the library work for instance Each pupil has a library Each week) there period each day for are two periods literary work v ‘ two for light ordinary reading and However the one for reference and reference day Is not restrictedsome look wants to who any pupil ' : ' s ? ' "IIIMI PUMP LEARNING J H Gebhart 1144 Twenty-fift- h street reported to police Saturday that his automobile was stolen from a parking place on Washington avenue between Twenty-fourt- h and streets At the time of Twenty-fift- h the theft the business district was crowded with pedestrians and auto “V J j Ij J mm THREE YOUTHS IN CAR TAKEN FROlll BUSINESS DISTRICT ANNAPOLIS TESTS - d j social science and how to live to- gether through geography and hisChildren are taught the tory geography of a I country showing-whpeople do various things accord ing to location and climatic conditions This gives them a far better nfierstanding of a country than if e just said they do such and such things and do not tell why “In connection with this work the children write lots of letters to oth er pupils over the United States and some to foreign countries Most of the letters going outside of the confines of this country are handled through the Red Cross which translates them into the language of the country for which they are destined and in turn translates the an swer back into English ENTRANCE TESTS Another new feature introduced into our schools is the intelligence test All students entering school in the first grade are given this test Then at the end of each year they are given an achievement test coupled with an intelligence test to see how much progress they have t made "These first examinations have proven several things to us In the first place they prove that many children are developed past their age and others are slow to develop Many times' we find children who although of a legal age to go to school have not developed sufficiently This does not mean that they are stupid or unfit for school but simply that they have developed slower than other children Within a few years they will improve and in lots of cases make our very best students “Through the installation of the Intelligence tests we now have records of every student who has entered within the past eight years “Students are divided into three classes X Y and Z The X children are the quick well developed rapid moving ones The Y students are slower and the Z children are the ones who require the most care and patience “It is here that the new teachers are worked in When they come to us for their first application and are accepted they are assigned to a Z group After they are with us a y i I - ©mi a ipacofJ amid sav0Bsmoniesr v- - it Monday evening Ttithe home of Mrs Emma Tracy the members of the women’s adult class of mutual who have attended during this month are to have a Halloween party Mrs Fawn Hislop Mrs Flora Tracy and Mrs Charles Felt are in charge of the party Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs Charles Mortensen a shower was given lor Miss Mildred Mortensen who is to marry Sidney Strom-ber- g in the near future Among those reported to have gotten their deer this season are M Johansen Abner Allen William Ferrell Henry Johansen John' M Grow Arthur Grow Green broth' ers and Dan Allen Special speakers will attend sacrament meeting Sunday night com' mencing at 7 30 o’clock -- COALBILL At lime of Delivery 1££ j - Fitzsimmons Is kept very busy supervising the classrooms He? work includes taking up problems with teachers teaching classes as a demonstration supervising work given and conferring with instructors on hotf to handle the students “After ail ” she said “children spend a fair portion of their life in school It is up to us to make it as pleasant and instructive for them as possible We try to shed not only light but warmth” TON MEDIUM LUMP STOVE “NUT -- PEA ' Ogden Ca s Phone ! $800 9775 9750 9650 9500 Coal Co 414 t ’ 1 For $1 a week you have the priyilege of an unjiiiiited number of rides and your pass unay be us?d by any member of your family If you ride the streetcars often you should ride on a pass — and if you ride on a pass you’ll " ride often BUY A PASS AHD SAVE - l' - UTAH RAPID TRANSIT CO OR AS SHORT MAY BE AS TALL AS THIS AND STOCKY bfAS THIS AD fr- AD i III j YOU -- entering” Miss i PER LUMP I RIDE THE STREET CARS J1 5 pos- 11 AND SAVE i year or so we try to give them one of the quicker groups NO KINDERGARTENS “We had to abolishJthe kindergar tens because of the crowded eondi tions of our schools When one knows that close to a thousand new students are admitted each year and only about 350 are graduated the problem1 can be realized Of course some are lost through the years of attending school but they added to the total graduated do not make room for the new ones most Economical transportation sible' Ilrp'ays'to - (Uu Castle H Murphy CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF OGDEN CITY istAndfor4 f cleans pure An water adequate i supply More frequent flushing of streets and sprinkling in season to makei a cleaner and more livable Ogden P i city recEstablishment' of additional ' reational grounds j City Bonds and Warrants at par One hundred eentq of value for dollar of city funds expended every ' Impartial enforcement of all laws the candidate of any in I am notfaction or interest My dividual of any candidacy is independent ' other person ' j 3 ’ f ' (Paid Political Advertisement) DanciGC'Dcnoc BROADWAY at SEVENTH in part Schaffner & clothes Marx in our L special department 1 DELIGHTFUL ROOMS SERVICE R E ASONABLE PRICES ATTRACTIVE I Utah people will find a special welcome at this hotel where a Utah register is maintained ' I At the Lankershim you are in’ the very heart of all Southern California the very center of Los Angeles Drive your ear to the cloojr attendant will take it to the garage promptly Wallace W Whitecotton Manager 0 l tl Special Vocal Help for Double Quartets Choruses or Community Singing EDNA CROWTHER RIRIE Teacher of Wide Experience Advanced Students Available for Programs 2670 Monroe Phone 3236-- TO PROSPER The alert merchant must take advantage of every aid In these days jof keen competition no source of assistance can be overlooked And that is why level- ' headed business men are looking to the YOU and WE bank for — between us we can attain prosperity on W Ave! 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