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THE WASHINGTON TIMES. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 24: 1914.
Vocational English
For Schools Here
Jourse, Devised by Washington
Woman, Aims to Train Ana
lytical Powers Adoption by
Board Predicted.
A remarkable innovation in voca
lonal training is being considered
for the public schools of Wash
ngton. Mention "vocational training"
md the last thing the average
luditor would think of would be
znglish. But "Vocational Eng
ish" is the course now under con
tidcration by the Board of Educa
zon. This course was outlined and
irranged by Miss Ina C. Emery, a
Vashington woman widely known
for her educational work, as well
7S for her output of magazine fic
tion. Adaptation of her methods to
oublic school work was undertaken
it the suggestion of Dr. W. M.
Davidson, former superintendent
if schools here. Miss Emery has
ust returned from Pittsburgh,
where she was a guest of Dr. and
Mrs. Davidson, and she tells some
'Jiing of the work Dr. Davidson is
doing in Pittsburgh.
By J. R. HILDEBRAND.
Vocational education in Washing
ton schools Is to receive its first big
Impetus If a plan now being con
sidered by the Board of Education
is adopted. It generally Is believed
that the board will act favorably on
the project.
The surprising feature of this plan
Is that it does not embody manual
training, or business training, as the
term "vocational" suggests. This
Idea does not aim to teach pupils to
work with their hands, but to do
etter and more efficient work with
their minds.
More surprising' still, to those who
have regarded language and litera
ture as more ornamental than prac
tical, the new course is a course In
English In "vocational English."
That is the term for the course
sanctioned by Miss Ina C. Emery. Its
originator. But, she hastens to ex
plain, "vocational English" does not
tend to make authors out of every
public school child. It simply alms
to teach them to think, on the one
hand, and to furnish an Inspirational
basis on the other, which will fit
them better for the assimilation of
all other branches of study.
Twenty Years a Teacher.
Miss Emery Is no newcomer in the
field of English teaching and litera
ture study. For nearly twenty years
she has carried on correspondence
courses In short story writing, and
other branches of work in English.
Phe has written nearly 1.000 short
stories and eeveral novels.
Nor Is Miss Emery's experience
onfined to the technical side of
writing. Her extensive travel, and
observations of nearly every phase
of contemporary life and conditions
have endowed her with an interest
ing and magnetic personality. She
has jumped from a summer at New
port to a study of conditions In the
slums of industrial centers. She has
gone from the i;ay life of New York
'Dtothe mines and squalid homes of
W ilkesbarre and Scranton She has
toured foreign lands, alwajs on the
hurt for out-of-the-way and pictur
esque places and scenes. Many of
these experiences have been em
bodied in her own stories and those
which she wrote in collaboration
with pupils.
Miss Emery's formulation of a
course in vocational English was the
result of a request by Dr. W. M.
Davidson, former Superintendent of
Schools, that she work out such a
plan of study Since then members
of the Board of Education here have
taken a deep Interest in her project,
and the course, now nearly com-
ACID STOMACHS
ARE DANGEROUS
Nine-tenths of All Stomach Trouble
Said to Be Due to Acidity.
A I'hjslclan'a Advice on Came and
Cure.
K famous physician whose success
f A researches into the cause and cure
of stomach and intestinal diseases
havo earned for him an International
reputation, said in the course of a re
rent lecture that nearly all Intestinal
troubles, as well as many diseases of
the vital organs, wero directly trace
able to a deranged condition or the
stomach which in turn was due nine
times out of ten to excessive acidity,
commonly termed sour stomach or
heartburn, which not onlv i r .tc-d
and Inflamed the delicate
of
the stomach, but also set u
and stomach ulcers. It is
to note that he condemn
patent medicines as well a
cal treatment for the stoma
that he and his colleagues ha
remarkable results by tTiT
ordinary bisurated magnesia
of 1
h. ,
t neutralizing the aciditv
ihei
food, removes the source of th.- trou-i
ble He contends that It is as foolish 11
to treat the stomacn Hseir as it would
I e for a man who stepped on a tack
o rub liniment on the foot without
ft st removing the tack Remove the
'atk and the foot will heal Itself -neutralize
the acid and the stomach
roubles will disappear Irritating
medicines and medical treatments are
jseless. so long ah the contents of the
stomach remain acid, remove the ari.i- 1
n. and there will b.- no need for
medicine the Inflamed lining of the
stomach will then heal itself huffer- ,
fT& from apMitv cftt- a f si m s t-i . '
heartburn should get a small bottle
of bisurated magnesia from their
druggist, and take a teaspoonful in a
quarter of a glass of hot or cold water
after meals, repeating in fifteen min
utes. II necessarj, this being the dose
which the doctor has found most ef
ficacious in all cases. AdvL
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MISS INA C. EMERY.
pleted. has been mapped out after
frequent conferences with them.
"I do not aim to chance the essen
tials of the course now followed in
the schools." she explained. "I
merely have taken the books, the
poems, and the stories now pre
scribed In the courses and applied
to them an analytical method At
present everything depends upon the
teacher. A few teachers may be
working toward the method I would
Introduce. Others simplv teach Eng
lish in a 'catch-as-catch-can' fash
ion." Six Cities Interested.
Not only the Washington school
board, but school officials of five,
other cities now have her method un
der consideration. This method
analyzes closely the work of each
author for Its content, then It takes
up the author's life and shows thcre
latlon between his dally life and his
writings, and finally it picks out the
spirit and the Inspiration to he com
municated by masterpieces of litera
ture, and drives these home upon the
pupil's consciousness
"Vocational English applies not
only to the literature, assigned for
general school work hut in its crea
tive work requires the pupil to make
use "f knowledge of things known.
A Pittsburgh student should not
only be called upon to describe men
and women as types. In relation to
home and office, and the business
world, but attention should be drawn
to Industrial conditions. There are
stories galore In tho coal fields, from
the coal breaker to the owner or
great mines
"Pupils In Washington are not fa
miliar with conditions, modes of em
ployment, and way of living, familiar
to pupils in other cities of the Unit
ed States. In tho East, the factory
has a special significance. In the
"West the prairie Is Intelligent ground
to the school child. Rural districts
furnish nature studies."
Vocational English greatly re
sembles the Montessorl methods In
Its emnhasls upon self-exprssion.
Not, If it must be repeated, tnat Miss
Emery would havo schools turn out
only writers. But this self-expression
and analytical habit of mind
developed by studying English, she
asserts, fits the mind to take better
hold on other school subjects, and
upon the bigger Droblem of life.
Though Miss Emerv hopei to ar
range a course to begin with fifth
grade pupils and extending through
the high school, the introduction of
her plan Is being considered for the
Every One
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Guest of Dr. Davidson.
Miss Emery returned to Washing
ton this week after spending two
weeks in Pittsburgh as the house
guest of Dr. Davidson and Mrs.
Davidson. Dr. Daid.-on. former su
perintendent of schools here, since
January 1, has been head of the
Pittsburgh school system.
"The most Impressive thing about
my visits to dozens of the Pittsburgh
schools was tho work Dr David
son is doing for the individual child
"Dr Davidson believes education
should tend toward greater atten
tion to children Individually, even
in a large and complex school sys
tem like that of Pittsburgh. I was
surprised when 1 went with him to
the new Claxton School, a training
school which Is one of the largest
and best equipped In the Smoky
City. I noticed Dr Davidson watch
ing closely an anaemic looking girl,
with a listless air and a sort of a
dull, blank stare. When she passed
he turned to a teacher and asked.
'How Is she getting along?" The
teacher replied that she did not be
lieve she would be able to continue
the work of the school Dr David-
"1 was interested again when the
examination made by the snhool phy
sician, and to have her tried at every
course the school offered before hav
ing her dropped.
"I was interested aguin when tho
superintendent returned one evening,
tired from a day's visits to schools,
and he was called upon the tele
phone by a mother He discussed
the work of her child with her as
readilv as he would have talked to a
member of the school board about
some big general problem.
Chance For Each Child.
'"I ns-Ked Dr. Davidson whether he
intended to try to reach all individual
cases of laxity In that manner. "Oh,
no.' he said. "That would be a
physical Impossibility. Hut we are
trying to make the schools better
adapted for Individuals. And before
dropping him, or putting him hack,
we wish to find out each child's spe
cial bent, and thus educate him In
the direction he will take In after
life '
Dr Davidson's popularity in Pitts
burgh. Miss Emery said, equals the
deep and widespread regard for him
In Washington, following his ad
ministration here.
Fire Broke Out Anew
In E. B. Adams Store
No. 11 engine company was called on
a local alarm about 10:.7) o'clock last
night to the store of E. B Adams Com
pany. !14-ei6 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, which was damaged by fire earlier
In the day, for a small blaze which
broke out again near the roof. The
flames were extinguished In a few min
utes. While clearing awav debris from the
ruins on the upper floor of the Adams
building late yesterday afternoon. Lloyd
E. Nelson, a member of the No. n en
gine companv, received several cut on
his left hand. He was taken to Emer
gency Hospital
Bryan Plans Treaties
With Russia and Japan
Following the action of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in order
ing favorable reports on the peace
treaties with Great Britain. ! ranee,
Spain, and China, Secretary of State
linan announced that he expected to
negotiate similar treaties soon with
Russia, Japan, an3 Sweden. Russia's
willingness to enter into such a treaty
Is taken as an Indication that negotia
tions may follow for a new treaty of
commerce and navigation between the
two countries to replace the one abro
gated during the Taft Administration
Knox Aids Penrose.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 2t Philander
C Knox, Secretary of State under
President Roosevelt will aid Senator
Penrose to offset the entrv of Roose
velt into the Snte campaign in behalf
of the candidacies of Glfford Pinchot
and Vance McCormick The dinner to
be given bv the Manufacturers' Club
on October 17 villi mirk the return of
Mr. Knox into Pennsylvania politics
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Provision for the attendance at the
public schools of childien whose parents
are employed in the District but who
reside in adjacent States will be made
b,- the Commissioners in the prepara
tion of their annual estimates.
The suggestion was made by the
Takonia fark Citizen'' Association in
answer to the Commissioners' letter
asking for recommendations to he con
sidered in connection with the compila
tion of the annual budget. The children
of non-residents employed in Govern
ment service are now admitted free to
the public schools. The association ex
presses the opinion that It would be
only fair to extend the same prunes
lo the children of non-residents cm
ployed in private business In the Dis
trict. The Ro.ird of Charities has practically
completed its estimates, which nrobibly
will be forwarded to the Commissioners
nevt week
The board, it is understood, will ask
for an appropriation of approximately
Tl.r.fO.0"0 Among the most important.
Items will be appropiiattons for be
ginning the consti action of the new
municipal hospital at Fourteenth and
1'pshur streets, and the new District
reformatory at Occoquan. The Com
missioner have named Commissioner
Newman to sue -e.-d former Unglncer
Commissioner hidon or the board to
prepare plans for the lefnriuator The
other members are lohn ,Iov iCdson nnJ
Justice Wendell P. Stafford. The Dis
trict appropriation b: 1 contains an item
of 15,f for the preparation of the
plans.
It Is Improbable that the Commis
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lime to the suggestion of W H Whit
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that the jail be abolished, and that a
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Miss Klsic Lancaster, a fair, yoiinc
vote-seeker from Now York, who is
shortly to Join the "war squad" of the
Congressional Union conducting a iKor
ous campaign In the West, for the de
feat of all Democrats In the November
elections, tripped lightly into the Con
Bresslonal Union headquarters early this
morning and announced that ahe was
icady to start for the front and to send
a feu shafts Into the ranks of thf
Democrats.
"I don't know. yet. where 1 am soins."
she said with a smile when questioned
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.Miss Lancaster a. on. of the two
ounc women who made the "tent trip"
throuuh northern New York during the
summer campaign of the Congressional
Union
Miss Alice Paul said this morninc
that the union intended to send Miss
Lancaster to WjomltiR to direct the
liKht there Sh will probably leave on
Saturda.
Miss Anna McQue and Miss Margaret
Whlttemore. two of Hie leading speak
ers of the "war squad' who have been
in Portland. Ore . co-operating with
Mrs. .lsl,. Hardj Stubbs. have been
ordered to S-attle to establish State
headquarters
A letter was received at thf union
headquarters her" this morning fiom
Mrs. O. H. I. Helmont. stating that
.he was planning to attend the Stale
conventions In tho South this fall lo
aiouse interest in the federal amend
ment. No Rear Door Delivery.
Instructions have been sent h Post
mastei General Burleson to all post
master ordering the discontinuance of
mail by carriers to rear and side doors
f business houses and residences
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The Xnv- Department was in
formed today of the repuls of an
attempted invasion of the arid pre
cincts of the lioston navy yard by
the forces of alcohol yesterday.
In oold defiance of Secretary of th
Xavy Daniels. hn Issued orders
banishing "boze" from th navy, a
burly German drove a beer wagon.
Iieavily loaded with kegs, to the
entrance of the Doston navy yirn.
He was h-iltcd by a shocked sentry.
The driver explained that his cargo
was Intended for the new Argentine
super-dreadnought, the Rlvldavta.
The sentry said "orders was orders"
and refused to admit him. The com
mandant of the navy yard sustained
lilm. Th- commandant reported the
Incident to Secretary Daniels today,
and the Secn'taj-y promptly approved
his action.
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the rgentlne crew was not suffering
from thirst. The beer was taken to
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