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JURIST IMPOUNDS
TUNNEY FIGHT FILM
General Conspiracy to Dis
tribute Movies of Battle
Over Country Seen.
By the Associated Pres*.
CHICAGO, September 24.—A gen
eral conspiracy to distrioute through
out the country Tunney-Denipsey and
Dempsey-Sharkey light films was aeon
bv authorities here today following
seizure of six reels of tho champion
snip match as they were altout to l>e
tak«n out of the State by airplane.
United States attorneys declared
they would look to the grand jury to
handle the affair. Oscar R. I.uhrlng,
Assistant Attorney General, intimat
ing he expected a number of indict
ments.
One Film Impounded.
Five of the six reels seized were re
leased by Federal Judge James A.
tVilkerson. who ordered one film,
allowing the entire light, impounded
Henry Sonenshine. president of the
Good art Co. of New York, which took
the pieiures, was held to the grand
jury on a nominal bond, charged with
violation of the Federal transporta
tion act.
His attorneys argued tiie law was
meant to keep films from being trans
ported from one State to another when
they would have a degrading effect
on people. Sonenshine when arrested
said he was about to take the pic
tures to Canada, and Judge \\ ilker
son declared that, as far as ho was
concerned, it was all right to send
the films there as long as they were
not dropped off on tlie way in tliij?
country.
Uncertain About Plane.
The judge said he was still uncer
tain regarding the transporting by
airplane over and not through States.
•While agents of the Department of
Justice were making every effort to
prevent interstate shipment of the
films, the full in-round screen version
of the battle between Tunney and
Dempsey was being shown in New
York Citv. it was reported.
Oliver Pagen, chief of the indictment
division, and Mr. Luhrlng, chief of
the criminal division in the Attorney
General’s office at Washington, are
directing the film cases in the Fed
eral courts here.
RED CROSS OPENS
NUTRITION COURSE
Foster Mothers Schooled in Food
Selection —Men and Women
Can Attend Class.
A course in nutrition and food selec
tion for foster mothers, under the
supervision of the Child Welfare
Board, has been started by the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter of the
American Red Cross, it was an
nounced last night. This course is
intended to better fit the foster
mothers for their responsibilities to
ward the cildren intrusted to their
care.
The group of foster mothers, as well
as other women in the District of
Columbia, including mothers and
housewives, ,pay particular attention
during their course of study to care
and feeding of infants and young
children.
Os the KeaiCro** course Miss E, I
M. Rugg. supervisor of the foster
home department «f the Board of
Children’s Guardians, sak# '
“When we go'out to findf homes for
the children in our care, in Consider
ing prospective foster parents, we
stress the matter of nutrition, among
the other responsibilities involved.
We believe tn giving these foster
parents all the help possible with
their new charges, hence we believe
in the instructions offered by the
Red Cross through its local chapter
because the foster mother’s knowledge
of nutrition is an indication of her
ability.’*
A course for both men and women
is now in progress, and arrangements
can be made through the chapter,
831 Sixteenth street. Main 1910.
BOOTLEGGER PENSIONED.
Was Blind and Said County Owed
Him a Living, Anyway.
Correspondence of The Star.
PORTERVILLE, Calif.—J. R. “Blind
Jack" Williams, noted Porterville
bootlegger, who declared the “county
owed him a living” when arrested re
cently on a liquor-possession charge,
attributed his illegal practice to in
ability to do real work as a result of
loss of his vision 20 years ago in an
accident while employed by the coun
ty, has accepted an offer of |SO per
month from Tulare County super
visors.
Justice of tit* Peace A. M. Lumley,
Chief of Police Ray Williams, City At
torney Guy Knupp and members of
the local Lions Club recently ap
pealed to the supervisors In “Blind
Jack's” behalf.
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NEW TELEPHONIC DEVICE.
LONDON.— T. L. Baird, inventor of
television, has found a, method or j
i.v.king plion- graph records of faces.
When the image of a person or ob
ject is transmitted by Mr. Baird’s
method of television, certain sounds
•an he heard in a wireless receiver.
Thus, according to the inventor, “some
faces Sound like a gargle; others like
a shout.”
By means of a. device which he j
styles a “phonovisor” he takes a wax j
record of these sounds, and then con- j
verts them into a visible image of the >
object by which they were made.
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MONTGOMERY TEACHERS GET
30 PUZZLES IN PSYCHOLOGY
Dr. F. A. Moss of George
Washington University
Conducts Tests.
Variety of Posers Asked in
Effort to Weed Out
Unsuitable.
i
! At hen some bright little girl or boy
I pops up in class with a question
: which teacher can't answer it is an
- ' embarrassing moment for teacher.
, ' Her prestige is threatened. AA'hnt
] can she do about it?
Four ways out of the difficulty are
1 j Open to her. She can frankly admit
’ I that she doesn't know. .She can prom
- j ise to answer the question at another
' j time, and then go home and look tip
; the correct answer. She can say:
j "Why, Mary Jones, I uni surprised
;t' e very idea of a ig girl like you
• not knowing a thing like that; don't
you come back here without knowing
the answer.” The fourth alternative
is to answer the question somehow —
, right or wrong—the way smart col
lege students do when confronted
i ; with a quiz upon lessons they have
i neglected.
| AVhich way should she take? All
j four ways are feasible. At least two
, of them are perfectly honest.
Tost for Teaching.
I Tills is one of 30 such puzzlers on
| the science of dealing with human
j nature as it is exemplified in chil
| dren. which the school teachers of
j Montgomery County, Md., have re-
I cently been sweating mentally to
I answer. It is a part of a new kind
' of psychological tests devised by Dr.
j F. A. Moss, professor of psychology
at George Washington University, to
| determine a person's aptitude for the
profession of teaching.
Skill in teaching, of course, demands
not only knowledge of the subject
taught, but patience, sympathetic per
ronnlity, and keen Judgment of typical
situations which arise among chil
dren. A great many persons never
would make competent teachers, re
gardless of educational qualifications.
Weeding Out Unfit.
The aim of Prof. Moss and his as
sociates, F. C. Wallace and T. Hunt,
in drawing up the test, is to provide
at least a tentative way of weeding
out the unfit before they get behind
a teacher's desk—even before they
enter normal school. A had teacher,
it is considered, can do an inestimable
amount of damage.
A teacher who lies or bluffs, for
Instance. Is sure to be caught in the
act sooner or later —and then her use
fulness as a builder of character in
the young diminishes sadly to th?
vanishing point. A liar or a bluffer
has been set up as a model; the chil
dren experience the deteriorating
effects of premature disillusion con
eerning moral standards. A nagging
teacher, or one of such confirmed
maturity of mind that she never can
look back Into the sunrise days of
life and understand the child mind,
may produce even more lamentable
results than the liar and bluffer.
Cover Fine Points.
Yet all these misfits may he adopt
ing the course which in their blind
ness they consider right. Even the
liar may be fundamentally honest.
She fears the deterioration of morale
which might follow confession of Ig
norance and considers that she is do
ing her duty by taking this way out.
She simply is an example of the type
of personality which, in the great ma
jority of cases at least, is not fitted
for teaching.
The 30 questions asksd the Mont
gomery County teachers Ift this part
of the test covered ft good many of
the fine points of judgment In deal*,
ing with human nature which con
tinually are arising in the classroom.
For instance:
On April foils* day a group of chil
dren bring teacher what looks like a
box of candy. She opens it and finds
sand. Naturally she it a little bit
mad. Should she tell the class in no
uncertain terms her opinion of such
embarrassing practical jokes, should
she say nothing but indicate her dis
approval by her manner, should she
take the whole affair as n joke or
should she try to work a Joke equally
good on her would-be tormentors?
Or teacher finds some pretty little
curly head In the fourth grade cheat
ing for the first time. Should she
deny him promotion, reprimand him
before the class, send him to the
principal or have a quiet, heart-to
heart talk with him after school? A
very important element of the child’s
character may be molded at this mo
ment according to the skill or whim
of the teacher.
Groups of Questions.
After answering these 30 questions,
the Montgomery (bounty teachers were
asked a group of questions to deter
mine their fundamental understand
ing of the science of education. Most
of these quesetions required reason- ;
ing and exercise of Judgment.
For example, they were asked:
Is it unwise for a young lady teach
ing in a small town elementary school
to have “dates” with high school
boys?
Should a teacher hold herself aloof
from the religious and social life of
the community?
Is it a waste of time to encourage
pupils to study those things in which
they are interested because they will
learn about them of their own accord?
One of the most Interesting of the
five tests to which the teachers sub
mitted was designed o determine their j
ability to read mental states from
| faces—to tell what a child is think
ing.
Pirtures Gauge Aptness.
Ten child pictures are shown—each
portraying a different mental state,
running from anger through bashful
appeal, coquetry, delight, despair, dis
appointment, disgust, fear, interest,
| physical suffering, reverence, scorn,
j surprise, suspicion. The person tak
! ing the examination was asked to put
| the correct label on each picture.
| This was considered a very essential
qualification for a successful teacher.
THE BTTNPAY STAR, WASHINGTON, P. d, SEPTEMBER 25, 1927-PART 1.
PltOF. F. A. >IOBB,
part of whose success depends on her
skill in detecting reactions.
The teaching aptitude test, Dr.
Moss says, has been tried out on mot e
than 1,000 normal school students,
high school seniors find public school
teachers. In tlie loiter case It was
found that the ratings coincided fairly
well with the actual ratings made by
the superintendents, so that the apti
tude test is considered fairly reliable
as a vocational guide. Tho Mont
gomery County ratings have not yet
been tabulated.
There are too many students in
medical schools, normal schools and
other specialized institutions, Dr.
Moss believes, who may work along
to their senior year and then be told
that they have failed to show prom
ise of developing into the desired pro
fessional type. Such students might
have done well in some other profes
sion, he points out. and it is a great
economic waste for them to lose so
much time and spend so milch money
on a highly specialized education
Which they cannot use.
WHISTLE WORTH SIO,OOO.
So Says Ex-Actor. Suing for Inju
ries to Lips In Accident.
Correspondence of The Star.
FALL RIVER, Mass.—After having
waited since Inst Summer, when he was
the victim of an accident while riding
in an automobile owned by Hubert
Walsh of this city, James E. Wall
bank of No. 1073 Plymouth avenue,
recently brought suit against AValsh in
the sum of SIO,OOO for the reason that
he “lost his whistle.”
For a number of years yrevious to
the accident Wallbank was quite a
star on the vaudeville stage through
his sinking and whistling act. While
riding in Walsh’s automobile near
Island Park last Summer both men
were victims of an accident, and since
that time Wallbank claims that he
has been unable to whistle as he did
before for the reason that he was left
with scars on the upper and lower
lips, preventing him from using his
mouth.
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One Way to Feed Family.
Correspondence of The Star.
HIAAVATHA, Kans—A Hiawatha
woman was extremely embarrassed
over an incident the other day. She
had just moved here. The first morn
ing there was nothing in the house for
breakfast. Her small daughter wan
dered over to the neighbors and con
fided: “We are just about starved to ;
death. There isn’t a thing in the
house to eat.’* The good neighbor
hood thought the child wee actually
in need and took a fine meal over to
. its mother.
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A White Mountain Peak”
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for the spot upon which to build the greatest
memorial ever erected to man—an obelisk of
555 feet and 5 inches. It is not the size that counts,
but the impressiveness of it—the nobility of it, its
standing alone and rising from the grassy ground with
austerity and bareness—not even the trees lessen the
grandeur of it—for the great stone shaft dominates
the landscape of the Capitol City.
“The sun makes it a shaft of glory—the evening
light makes it a white mountain peak."
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KOENNECKE FACES
ALEUTIAN BARRIER
If German Follows U. S. Army
Flyers’ Route Reversed
Difficulties Abound.
Uy the Associated Press.
Backtracking the history-making
Pacific flight journey of the Army
round-the-world flyers. Lieut otto
Koennecke. German aviator, and his
jompanions. Count Solms-Laubaeh and
Johannes Herman, will face one of the
greatest natural impediments to hu
man progress if they attempt crossing
front Tokio to Alaska byway of tho
Aleutian Islands.
Even if the volcano-strewn and lit
tle-inhabited Aleutians, giant stepping
stones between Asia and the North
American continent, are negotiated
successfully by the Germans, they still
must encounter the foggy and high
peaked Alaskan Peninsula between
Chignik anti Port Moller where Maj.
Frederick L. Martin crashed three
years ago, on route to Dutch Harbor,
Unalaska.
Peaks and .Marshes.
The Aleutian range between these
points consists largely of conical
peaks rising suddenly out of dreary
marshes. It is a region noted for the
“willi-waws” or small whirlwinds that
whistle down the valleys from the
mountain tops, Maj. Martin, com
mander of the Army flight, crashed
Into one of those mountain sides and
was missing for II days in the frigid
wilds of the peninsula.
If Koennecke from Tokio follows
(lie Army flyers’ route, reversed, he
will veer northeastward to Paranut
shiru Island of the Japanese Kuriles,
an Ice-fringed land that sticks its
nose almost into the Arctic.
From there he must make his long
est over-water flight. RTS miles to Attn
Island, westernmost territory of the
United States, where the Army globe
encirclers, in the lapse of a few min
utes. gained a whole day's time in
their westward journey.
Will Lose Ilay.
Attu, 2,700 miles from Seattle, by
virtue of a bulge in the international
date line, where Eastern and West
ern Hemisphere times are divided,
technically is in Eastern Hemisphere
time, so when Koennecke crosses it
going east he will lose instead of gain
a day.
Dense growth of grass and moss
makes it difficult for a plane with
wheels to land in tlie Aleutians. The
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fog. however, while dense, la aaid to
be not aa dangerous as that in the
more southern lands.
Lleuta. Smith, Wade and Nelson,
the Army airmen, in hopping from
Attu to the Kurliea, fought several
Arctic winds and snowstorms and
their facea were whipped with hail.
Atka Islam] Next.
After Attu comes Atka Island. 530
miles away, which tho Army naviga
tors flew in comparatively fair
weather, but bucked headwinds most
of the way. Thence, the course
reaches 350 miles to Dutch Harbor.
Unalaska. The Americans made this
in 4 hours and 15 minutes despite low
fogs which covered the entire leg.
From Dutch Harbor to Chignik,
the leg on which Maj. Martin crashed,
the (lungers will increase for the Ger
mans. The 400-mile stretch, which
the Americans flew In six hours and
10 minutes, literally is flecked with
peaks of the Aleutian range from
6,000 feet upward.
Between the peaks near Port
Moller, to which place Maj. Martin
and his mechanic, Sergt. Alva L. Har
vey, tramped from their wrecked
plane, is one of the foggiest regions
of the peninsula. A mirage, showing
headlands and islands in the air and
painting snowy ridges that do not
exist, is another obstacle the Germans
must conquer.
Dozen Permanent Settlements.
The entire peninsula, says the Na
tional Geographic Society, is a moun
tain range of several hundred miles,
with “spurs and sides sharply de
scending to the sea.” Only about a
dozen permanent Eskimo settlements
remain along the 2,000 miles of in
dented const..
The hop to Reward, Alaska, 450
miles east, presents more trouble. The
Army flyers fought high winds and
snow squalls all the way. and it was
on this leg that Maj. Martin experi
enced his first accident, being forced
down in Portage Bay near Kanatka.
If this much of the journey is con
quered, Koennecke may find it com
paratively easy going to Seattle.
INDIAN TO HEAD SCHOOL.
Superintendent in Idaho Is Mada
Director of Chemawa.
Correspondence of The Star.
MOSCOW, Idaho—Oscar H. Lipps
of the Lapwni Indian Reservation,
who is superintendent of Indian af
fairs for Idaho, Oregon and Washing
ton, has received promotion to the po
sition of administrative director of the
Chemawa Indinn School. located near
Salem, Oreg., according to word re
ceived here.
For the present Mr. Lipps will con
tinue Ids work here in the Northwest
district. He was superintendent of
the Lapwai Reservation, a short dis
tance from here, for seven years.
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