Evening star. [volume], July 14, 1935, Page A-7, Image 7

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Atlanta Convict Conditions
“Deplorable” at Places
Covered by Probe.
Bv the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, July 13—Wardens of
two convict camps where a legisla
tive committee said conditions were
“deplorable" resigned today.
Chairman W. E. Wilburn of the
Etate Highway Board said the resig
nations were received from Warden
H. B. Smith of the camp in Heard
County and J. C. Price, warden of
a prison camp in White County.
The highway chairman said a book
keeper of a convict camp in Gilmer
County, whose dismissal was recom
mended on a charge of inefficiency,
will be replaced probably within a
few days. The bookkeeper was listed
In the committee report as H. N.
HalL
TRIAL NEARS END.
By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 13 —Trial
of five former prison camp officials
charged with mistreating two colored
prisoners recessed for the week end
here today with a promise that State's
evidence would be completed Monday.
The testimony was along lines pre
viously given and at the end of the
day Solicitor John G. Carpenter said
he hoped to complete on Monday
evidence tending to show that the
feet of Woodrow Wilson Shropshire
and Robert Barnes, the two convicts,
had to be amputated because of in
fection that set in allegedly while
they were incarcerated in a cold cell
last Winter as a disciplinary measure.
The prosecution smiled when Clyde
Richardson, colored cook at the camp,
took the stand and—answering a
question by G. T. Carswell of the de
fense as to whether Little had mis
treated prisoners—said:
"Yassuh. I’ve seen him kick ’em 1
and slap ’em and I seen him take one
down dead from his chains in the dark
cells."
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Teachers
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will be 20 more vacancies this year,
according to Assistant Superintendent
of Schools Robert D. Haycock, with
only four successful candidates wait
ing to fill them. Announcement al
ready has been made that another
examination will be held this Fall to
get enough teachers to fill these posi
tions. School officials, much aroused
by the situation, yesterday were trying
to get at the source of the trouble.
Figures Not Public.
Superintendent of Schools Frank W.
Ballou, however, seemed entirely un
concerned. Asked for figures as to
the number who took the examina
tion in past years and the percentage
who passed, he replied that these fig
ures were ‘‘not public records.'' and
he never would give out such informa- i
tion unless specifically ordered by a
public vote of the Board of Education.
Dr. Clyde M. Mortimer, registrar
and acting president of Wilson, said:
‘‘The failure of a large percentage
of the kindergarten-primary group of
this year’s graduates of the college
naturally has been of great concern
to the administration and staff of the
college. The Executive Council will
make a very thorough study of the
situation through its committee on
elementary education. The result of
this study will form the basis for such
recommendations or curricular im
provements as are deemed necessary.”
Another official of the school said
he thought it ‘‘a shame that students
should spend four years in the belief
they were fitting themselves for teach
ing positions only to find they can't j
qualify.”
Given Higher Examination.
Most of the Wilson College grad
uates who took the examination com
tplalned that questions were asked
which called for knowledge entirely
outside what they had been taught
or what they would be required to
teach.
Candidates in this group were given
the identical examination offered the
Intermediate group. The kinder
garten-primary level includes the kin
dergarten and the first, second and
third grades. The intermediate group
covers from the third through the
6ixth grades.
Subject matter which is taught in
the two divisions differs considerably,
but no allowance was made for this
difference in the examination. Teach
ing methods, of course, vary widely,
and in recognition of this candi
dates were told to answer questions
In the section of the examination de
voted to professional methods ac
cording to their own grade level.
Even in the method examination.
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however, questions were asked which
went beyond the scope of instruction
received, it was learned.
An example of this occurred in the
arithmetic questions. Candidates
were asked how to correct children
who had made errors in long and
short division end multiplication,
subjects which are not taken up until
the intermediate grades are reached.
Difficulty in Literature.
Considerable difficulty also resulted
from the questions concerning chil
dren's literature. The candidates
were asked concerning a long list of
books which are used in the inter
mediate levels, rather than in the pri
mary grades or "kindergarten. They
were unfamiliar with the specific vol
umes since their curriculum had not
covered them. *
Geography and history were two
other subjects in which matter taught
in the primary and intermediate
grades differs, but questions asked in
the examination on these subjects
were the same for both groups.
Only the highest fourth of every
high school graduate class is eligible
for entrance to Wilson, assuring a
high-level of scholarship among stu
dents at the school. It was pointed
out that when the top fourth of high
school graduates, spending four years
in a college course for which they are
awarded degrees and which is intend
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Arkansan Calls by Inference for
Resistance to “Dictator/'
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 13 (A*).
—Pointing toward Louisiana, but
avoiding mention of any name, C. P.
Newton, member of the Arkansas
Corporation Commission, told the
State Central Democratic Committee
today it should “rebuke any invasion
of Arkansas by a dictator from the
State to the south of Arka'isas.’’
The measure, injected into a talk
before the committee, provoked no dis
cusslon, and the committee adjourned
shortly afterwards without reverting
to the topic.
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