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Show THE SPANISH Ft ill K PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH "Qliio School ofAir" News Notes It a Privilege to Lie In Brings World to Little Red School House UTAH res tr MOAS Itad load lr found la Grand, Baa Juan, Emery and Wayne counties of Utah. DUCHESNE la Ike Uloleh Jhln It Is estimated that there are 92,159,0(10,000 (one of oil producing tittle. The ITO.- FLEA8ANT GROVE 900 bushels of commercial apples produced in Utah la 1921 brought r'x7Lt tV'V i 1VM'v 5 i . v ' i v 7, ; J V - -- .yV-- , is '.. f- i - r T J - a- - " . By JAMES M. CHALFANT IIIKTY jear ago R II. Dnrmw. then attending a little red scb lolhuuse In (.Tinmpnln county. Ohio actually a lit Its red sclioollmuse began hla Aral nfllcliil connection lth aehmil administration. Ills position then Si the see of ten. whs rather hiiuihle During the full sinl winter months he hull! the Are, required on especially cold days to he at the Bcho'ilhouxe at seven o'clock In the morning In order to have the place warm by the time the other youngsters arrived. As compensation or caring for tlm Are he rcjjyc j flVg cents a tl.ijt. f"r ?"'v-- n2 our the room (when the roads "rPrt tniddy It nos usually necessary to use first the hoe, then the broom, and then the mop) his received another nickel dully. With these hard earned nlckela young Darrow made the Aral pay ment on a Webslera unabridged dictionary, he recalls. . , Today, after a varied exerlnce Including teaching In the country schools, the centrnllzed school, and the high achool, Darrow, known to thouaanda of achool children In more thun a score of states as Uncle Ben, the Radio Schoolmaster," heads the most Interesting and most successful effort In educutlon hy radio, the Ohio School of the Air," a division of the state department of education of Ohio at Columbus. Ills official title now Is director of educational broadcasting, state of Ohio. Two years ago he was Just a visionary," a limn with a big Idea: that the radio might he enlisted to vital lze public school education. There were still lii the United States well over IW.iXH) of those too schools such as he had at lated little one-motended In his youth. So long as that the case, he felt, the slo gan "Equality of Opportunity In Education must remain rather empty and meaningless. Surely there must he some way to tap the great streams of knowledge, of culture, of current events, and carry new life and vigor to the country achool house as well os to the city school system. The radio might well lift the little red sola ml house out of its long Isolation aud place II on a par with the mllllon-dolla- r city school, for a part of the school day, at least. Muster teachers, through the magic of radio, could become visiting teachers and expert assistants for the teachers In rhnrgt schools still In opera of those 150.000 free-lunc- e s one-roo- Mon. "Well, the story of the origin ot the Ohio Schoo cf the Air Is a hit complicated." Ourrow snh when the question was pul to him. And my con section with It Is, I supimse. the result of my In terests over a good many years. In the flrsl place. Ive been something of pioneer right along, always preferring the um-etain with great possibilities to the rather tame eer talnty. With the exception of my high schoo teaching, since I left college I have tilled no nthei mans shoes Ive always made a Job for inyselt and then filled It. . "After varied and Interesting experiences li country life Institute work, ami with the agrl cultural extension of Maryland State college, found myself in HEM In charge of childrens pro grams at station WLS, Chicago. I became Intense ly Interested in educational broadcasting then but left WLS to promote a pntent that I though' was going to prove profitable. It did. fairly so but not for me! After a year or two. I abandoned my manufacturing project. The first thins I thought of then was to get hack into the field ot .radio education. More and more there grew upon me the Idea Of S National School of the Air. I was convinced that the radio might become a tremendous age.y for public school education. The Idea presup posed three big ifs. IK educators could be In duced officially to sponsor the project. IF a radio station might be persuaded to broadcast educa tlonal programs free of eharge, and IK financial support could be secured to pay the cost of ad ministration, a school of the air could be estah llshed. "From one end of the country to the other I traveled, seeking to enlist the aid of ersrnnlza r 1 an average rertttue to farmers of 75 cents per bushel. ERIGHAM CITY R, V. Call and A. D. Cooley of Brigham City paked and loaded 2300 dressed turkeys, rceeaty for shipment to makM In rhlllAdelpbla. Tbs birds are of excellent eixe and In apleO' t did condition for the Thanksgiving I Fv- market. VERNAL After many deko ; V 4. Y ,f construction work on Improvement ' ' of tho road leading north from tho , , , .'C, f, .... . . . ' . ...., Bxughboy monument baa been lifted on the Initial half mils (retch. Vernal city baa approprl ted 1750 fo this work, Uintah county an equal sum, and the state road commission has matched the total, making (5000 available. BRIGHAM CITY Farmer living In the vicinity of Brigham City and the eastern part of tho county havo of been bringing In truckload dresied turkeys to bo shipped to tho markets for Thanksgiving by the Utah Fes Poultry Producers asioclation. headquarters having been established In the Dunn building on North Main street In this city. PROVO Tbs first carls d id carp from Utah lake to go ta New York City markets, was shipped from this city Thursday by George Madsen of Provo. The fish average from three to 15 pounds and bring about 12 cent a pound. The entire carload, seined from tha local lake, will weigh about 13 tons. They are packed In Iced boxes and re shipped In a refrigerator car of the American Express company. LEHI Surar beets anil earn sro Utahs bumper crops for 1929, the production of both excocding that The Ohio project Is not tlie first, but It Is the of last year y substantial margins, pioneer In the field of constant, regular public according to the monthly crop reschool radio education. And Harrow Is the first port released by Frank Andrews, director of educational broadcasting ever npjmlnt-eUnited Slates agricultural statistiby a state. The Ohio effort differs from a numcian at Salt Lake. The sugar beet ber of earlier experiments hy being more varied, crop is now estimated et C32.0C0 nd In having legislative support. tons, compared with 6.77,000 tons Each school day over WLW and WEAO from in 192X, and a average two to three oclock the School of the Air" brings of 75X.000 tens. to thousands of schoolrooms and thousands of HEBER CITY Mr. Andrews rehomes a carefully correlated and graded course estimates the corn crop for port of instruction for all twelve grades of public 1329 at 6C0.000 bushels, compared school. Current events, story games and rhythwith 622,000 a year ago and a mics, health talks, history dnmmlogs, oature r average ot 490.000. The study, appreciation of art, geographical world crop is slightly below that potato tours, French lessons, chemistry and physics lecmates, and will total 3,145,000 in tures, music lessons, drama these suggest the r 1928, and a average of breadth of the curriculum. Mr. Anderson pointed 2,588,000. Small wonder that schools are hastening to out that although the total production is slightly smaller this year, equip to receive broadcasts. In some cities, note ably Cincinnati, school boards require that all new the yield Is higher. colschool buildings shall be completely wired for SALT LAKE Gasoline I radio. lections for the month of September totaled 1120,026.04, an Increase The School of the Air," as the state departover the corresponding month of ment of education very emphatically says Is In last year of 223,533.96, It is shown no way Intended to supplant chissrootn teaching. In the monthly report Issued by the It Is meant to augment and supplement the secretary of states ofllce. Collecteaching of the classroom teacher. Its tions from January 1 to September programs are carefully planned with the close co20 this year hare amounted to operation of school people all over the state. It while t! ose for the cor- - . attempts to do only those things which may be done better hy radio than hy any other Instruresponding months in 1928 were 11,288,819.26, or an increase this mentality. For example, the school children may rend of some great current event such as the Inyear of 2199.270.61. PRICE Eleven cars of potatoes auguration of a president or the ratifying of a been shipped from Price to have or tell them about the teacher may pact, ,ience It. How much more compelling, vivid, memorable, marketing centers in Pueblo, Denver, SL Louis and Des Moines, acit Is, however, for them to hear history In the feel the vis the They may cording to J. B. Hawkes, crop Inloudspeaker. making nation the the vital, throbbing prespnt spector for Carbon county. Three pulse of of the cars contained potatoes and so get a new conception of the stuff that his grown In Emery county. The enlory Is made of. tire shipment carried a rating of The attitude of the Ohio department of educa United States No. 1, and were rlon toward the School of the Air" experiment is graded under the supervision of Mr. le.'irly reflected In a recent communication from Jewkes and H. V. Swenson, district I I teachers: Clifton, director, to agricultural agent at Provo. It may he said that at no time has the world SAN FRANCISCO Oregon repre-goof science been so able and willing to serve edurepresented by Frank Brown cation as at the present. The radio, having A Sons, Carlton, Ore., took the passed through a joyous, carefree childhood, and the storm and stress of the adolescent period. Is grand championship with an exhibit of fifty Southdown lambs in 'tow approaching mature, creative manhood. As fat lamb carload competition the schoolroom it the at door, t comes knocking says. here today at the second annual Can you, will you use me 7 Great broadcasting California livestock and baby beef stations are at our service. A wealth of talent show. Second place went to the Is unless there but dose s available, Wood Lives.ack company of Spen-erIon between the radio teacher and the classIdaho, with a load of Hamproom teacher, the pupils will profit but little. shire lambs and third place was at the tremendous of marvels One possibilities won by Metzger & Caughn of Dixon, lie radio. But In the clnssrooin use of the radio Calif., with load of Southdowns. mny problems remain to be solved. Extensive In the of psychology henring xperimentntion . Imnld be nmde. New principles of teaching must Red Cross, Americas aid in e evolved. New methods must he developed, for every time oi need. Your memducnttonal broadcasting Is still in the experibership makes Red Cross Sermental stage. But s hig idea Is on foot, and we vice possible. Join the Red eaehers. as a body who have alwnvs performed Cross roll call, November 11 to ur duty towards public education, must November 28th. he made to work In order that the radio -,' . . .. I"' . '. . d five-year- s 1. B. H. Darrow, Uncle Ben, the Radio School maeter," director of educational broadcasting In the Ohio School of the Air. 2. Claes listening In on the Smile Lady's broadcast of story plays and rhythmics In a Cin cinnatl school. 3. Gov. Myers Y Cooper of Ohio (right) and John L. Clifton, director of education, listening to the Ohio School of the Air." 4. A school principal listening In on the School of tho Air program. 5. Edwin Markham, distinguished poet and au thor of tho famous The Man With the Hoe," who is a member of the committee on poetry of the Ohio School of tho Air." lions and Individuals to help me put my Idea the Payne Study and across. Finally, late In Ifi-Experiment Fund of New Yoik became sufficiently Interested to put me on Its staff to Investigate and develop the possibilities of broadcasting for schools on a national scale, under the guidance of organized educational authorities. "The results of that preliminary survey were laid before the National Educational association In Boston. February. UKS. They were greatly In terested. hut beyond the passing of a strong reso lutlon suggesting a committee to look Into the matter, did nothing. Then I Interested the lead ers of the Roosevelt Memorial association .lames R Oarfield, Theodore Roosevelt. Jr Clifford Pinchot, Arthur W Page, and others. It looked ns though the association were going to simnsoi the project, but It was discovered that some tech nlcnllty us to the terms of gift made that utterly Impossible. In June. HES, thought I had the Radio 5!anu facturers" association In e nvention In Chicago ready to put the Idea across Rut once more red tape gummed the works. In July I came t Columbus and broached my plan to Dr. J. L. (Tlf ton. state director of education. He was Inter psted, hut frankly dubious of his department'-abilitto undertake the work. I kept hammering nwuy at Clifton fot gom rime. In October the Payne fund came to my res cue, with an offer to pay my salary for the rest of the year and loan me to Ohio. And then sta ti came through with at tinn WI.W of tin-in- n ffer of free bro: dca'.tiii:.. I went hack to Clif Pull tip votif ion and told him the situation .hair. he said. You are Ohio's first director 01 ducatiomil broadcasting Its too long a story ell how a program was evolved how educators were awakened to the gre t piwsib'Hties of edu rational broadcasting, how cent teachers nno other national figuics were secured to donut their time and services to O'P School of the Air From tliify to sixty people each week were co ppruting with the school with ut compensation The Ohio School of the A:r was established Ir the state iegisla lanuary, IftlHL In April. lure appropriated funds to carry It on for tw years." The Ohio School ot the Air has attracted s much favorable Interest on the pari of educator generally that It Is to he. during the fall months of the present year, the subject of h special tr vestigatlon hy a federal eojnmission. This com mission, composed of prominent educators, was appointed by Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, with instruct! ns to report to him not later than January 1. 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Certainly not the lenst of the splendid achievements In ra-dio lies been the development of radio education the enriching and vitalizing of classroom Instruction. Very gratifying results have already been ,tpd. However, with the conception that this newest aid to education seeks to complement but not to substitute for the living presence of the classroom teacher, who shnll set the hounds to what we may confidently expect to accomplish In advancing the ends and aims of true education in the davs which lie Immediate! hV' nt" n 1 -- VERNAL Movement of alfalfa seed crop :. slow in Utah this year, due largely to the fact that Utah growers are unwilling to dispose of their produce at prevailing prices, it was announced recently by the United States bureau of agriculture ecconomics. Tb9 bureau also declares that the crop is moving rather slowiy in all parts of the country. About 60 per cent of the total crop had moved by Octobei 15, against 60 pet cent on the same date in 1928. 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