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Show CLOCKS USED AS EDUCATORS Armour Institute Professor Pleads for Idea Used by Germans. "While traveling In XJurope last summer," said Prof. LouIb C. Monln of Armour Institute, Chicago, tho other oth-er day, "I camo across n queer llttlo clock. It wns complete In all its parts, but was not put together. It is Intended that children shnll examine tho different parts of tho affair and then nrrango them bo that tho clock will run. "I should llko to sco such a contrivance contriv-ance as this introduced Into America. It Interests children, Instructs them nnd gives them a natural pildo in enr-iig enr-iig for something that they havo created. cre-ated. "Over In Germany thpy call these llttlo contrivances 'tick-tacks,' nnd primary educators sot great store by them. In Chicago the small boy Is given a locomotive a miniature railroad. rail-road. Ho then proceeds to smash It to pieces, nnd his proud parents pro-sent pro-sent him with a oy electric lnunch. Ho also smnRhcs thnt. As that boy grows up hfl becomes moro reckless. Instead of cherishing ..Is possessions, ho has no regard for them." |