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EIGHT
Mothers of Academy Boys
and Tubman Girls Are Asked
to Meet Miss Collins at Tub
man Tomorrow.
TUBMAN TO INITIATE THIS YEAR
A NEW KIND OF COMMENCEMENT
This Year There is to Be No
Salutatory Nor Valedictory
Addresses; Only Short Pro
gram
THREE IMPORTANT DATES
IN JUNE ARE ANNOUNCED
Class Day Exercises and Usual
Junior Banquet to Precede
Graduation. No Medals This
Year.
Commpneement dnten, of no little
Importance to Tubman girls, were
announced Saturday. They are dates
of an date* during the school year
wUch the young ladles look forward
to with moro Interest than any others.
Here they are:
June 10th, Claes Day.
June 11th, Junior banquet for grad
uates.
June 12th, Commencement day.
These are the three days of all
school days to Tubman girls.
The students of the uppor classes,
senior and Junior, of Tubmnn high
school, are losing no time In making
plans for the 1913 graduation. There
are twenty-three graduates at Tub
man thla year.
No Long Program.
Mr. T. H. Garrett, principal, made
tho significant statement Saturday
that this year for the first time In
the history of the Tubmnn there
would be no salutatory, no valedic
tory. nor any long-drawn-out pro
gram.
This, however, Is not a new feature
of high school commencements. It Is
learned that In several of the most
prominent modern high schools 'n
this country tho old, long, uninterest
ing program of several set speeches
has been eliminated.
The cxcrclsca will be shorter this
year.
The graduation exercises of Tub
man this year will he different In an
other way: In that no prices nor med
als will he awarded. It has been
found to he the choice of the students
os well as the faculty to eliminate
this feuture also.
On* Clast Repr*»entntlve.
Tho rxorclson will bo hold at tho
Grand opera house and will sljnply
consist of the deliverance of diplomas
by Superintendent Lawton 11. Evans,
tho reading of an appropriate paper
by Mlso Margaret Addison, the read-
Jtift of the names of those who will
graduate with distinction (those hav
ing made ft general average of over
PC per cent In their studies for tho
entire four years!, and music.
The program will bo very attrac
tive.
Class Day and Banquet,
At the Class Day exorcises, which
will bo held at tho school at 11 n. in.,
there will be bat two representatives
of tho doss to ttUie part In the pro
gram. They have been appointed by
tho faculty and are the president,
Miss Julia Osborne, and Altos Mattie
Lee Rowland. A feature of the Class
Day exercises this year will be tho
presentation of a little sketch entitled
'•The Hall of Fame.'
The banquet to be given by tho
Juniors to the graduates ts always a
very elaborate affair In which great
Interest Is ew.tsred every year. The
feast la always a sumptuous one and
the congeniality, charncterlstlo of any
Tubmen girl, prevails.
The banquet will bo held In the
evening, at the school.
DAVIDSON SCHOOL
Pupils Getting Ready For Field Day, April 19th, and Annual
•'Spelling Bee,” April 25th—Other School Doings.
Wp were glad to return to our
school duties last Monday, after a
forced holiday of a week on account
of the flood. It put us hack some
somewhat In our studies but we are
striving hard to make up the loss.
Our principal has appointed officers
S'lurag the purlls to look over the
class lines as they are marching In
and out of the building so that good
order can be enforced throughout the
school. The officers have proved
quite efficient and are a great aid to
the teachers and principal,
Mr Sanford has placed Helton
Boy la ton at the head of our athletics.
Belton Is the back- stop of the "Tour
ist Juniors,” who are making quite a
record for themselves on the dia
mond. Belton says "We are going to
bring that Sliver Trophy new held by
the Houghton to the Davidson on the
li*th of April. Tbe 19th of April Is
Public School Field Day. The follow
ing is a program fqr that daj.
Program.
Public School Field Dav, *
April 19tb, 1913, Fair Grounds,
Augusta. Georgia,
Events for Grammar Schools.
BO yard dash, bo>s under 75 lbs.
76 yard dash, boys under 90 lbs
76 yard dash, boys under 110 lbs.
NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
Augusta will see the
organization of nine
Houghton
School News
Just as we are all thinking what
beautiful weather we were having,
again comes a breath of winter; but
weather makes no difference to us,
our work goes on Just the same.
Our cooking lesson Monday was
very much enjoyed; the class marie
peanut cookies, which were delic
ious.
As spring Is here, Miss Baker Is
teaching us to draw flowers; Tuesday
we drew daffodils on green paper, af
ter they were painted yellow and
outlined In black they made some of
tiie prettiest studies we have drawn
this year.
Tho last time that T gave the pa
pers anything from our school, I neg
lected to mention our "Roll of Honor"
for February:
First Honor, Adelaide Fund.
Second Honor, Thelma Johnson.
Third Honor, Leona Kilpatrick.
Fourth Honor, Sarah Marshall.
Sarah Marshall is away from
school sick, we hope to have her
back again soon.
RITA BRILL.
Education Notes
FROM FAR AND NEAR
You've Got to Bathe.
Compulsory school bathing Is en
forced In the German cities of Gotha
and llellbronn. In Gotha children who
ran not afford bathln'g suits ore sup
plied with them by the school.
Study Carving.
Fourteen hundred hoys and girls en
rolled In the Public, Industrial Art School
of Philadelphia rtudy drawing, deslgn
lng i modeling, und carving for two
hours every day.
In Any Library.
Students of the New York State Li
brary school are compelled to spend
one month In practice work In any li
brary they select in the United States.
Many Libraries.
Over 00 per cent, of the high schools
In the United States have libraries, lie
wording to figures complied by E. I>.
Greenmnn of tlio United States bureau
of Education.
New Introduction In Alaska.
The "school republic” or "school
city’ has been Introduced Into the Alas
kan native schools by order of the Uni
ted Blales commissioner of education,
for the purpose of preparing the natives
for cltlxemhtp.
Woodlawn
School Notes
The spelling bee between the third
grades at Woodlawn school was held
Friday, March 28, The contest was
won by the pupils of AUss Schmidt’s
grade. The names of the pupils that
did not miss are Bernice Hutchin
son, Ethel Walters, Alary Cook and
Edna Taliaferro of Allsgi Sdhmidt’s
class and Clyde Hargrove, Bordy
Uinckston. Carlton l.lpps and Virginia
Atunday of AUss von d r Leith’s class.
The eighth grade class of the
\\ oodlawn school had a spelling bee
Friday, Alareh 28. Those who did not
miss were Alary Kelly, Ada Foster,
and Agnes Holliman.
MINNIE STOUGHTON,
MARY KELLY,
HAZEL MURRAY.
100 yard dash, boys any weight.
Run, high Jump, boys under 90 lbs.
Run, high Jump, boys any weight.
Run, broad Jump, boys under 90 lbs.
Hun, broad Jump, boys any weight.
Potato race, boys under 90 lbs.
Putting S-lb shot, boys any weight.
44(Vyd. relay race, 4 bojs under 90
lbs. each,
440-yd, relay race, 4 boys anv
weight.
Notes for Grammar Schools.
Two boys from each school ma.
enter each event except potato race
(one boy); one team in each relay
race; no boy may enter more titan
one event, relay race excepted.
School Colors.
Central, blue and orange; Davidson,
blue (jtnd white; Houghton, blue and
red; John Milledge, red and white;
Monte Sfcno, orange and black; Wood
lawn, red and go|p; Summerville
Academy, green and gold.
Spelling Bee.
Our eighth grade girls are working
with a grim determination for anoth
er silver cup, and 1 believe we are
going to win In the spelling contest
on the 25th of April.
We have won the contest twice in
succession.
MARIE WATSON.
Parent-Teacher Clubs l h oL7bM h them
Conducted By HARRY SHEARER
NIGHT SCHOOLS
IHECUSED
Year’s Work at Fifth Ward
and Augusta Free School
Ended Friday. Prof. Osborne
Entertained.
The Fifth Ward Night school and
tho night school of the Augusta Free
school ended their year's work Fri
day night, the last Friday in March.
There will he no more sessions now
until tho first Monday In next Oc
tober.
Prof. E. M. Osborne, principal of
the Fifth Ward Night school, and
Prof. W. F. Parks, principal of the
night school at the Augusta Free
school, both declare the session just
ended to have been a very successful
one. .
Tho four classes of the Fifth Ward
Night school were entertained at the
home of Mr. Osborne, 609 Crawford
avenue, on Thursday and Friday
nights, two classes being present
each night. A most enjoyable time
was had both evenings.
Not only the mill people are pupils
of the Fifth Ward Night school, in
dividuals following most every walk
In life attended the school this yea - .
Mr. Osborne stated he had four pu
pils who were employed In the post
office coming to school to him at
night. Their ages range from 12 to
35 years.
The school Is one of "readin', 'rltln'
and 'rlthmetlc” and as astonishing as
It may seem the former subject Is
being taught some of the pupils 30
years old and more. TJjey want to
learn and are generally very atten
tive students.
Mr. Osborne during th past ses-
slon was assisted by his son, Mr.
Ernest 1.. Osborne.
The enrollment at the close of
school was 70, although during the
session it ran as high as 100.
The sessions at each school were
held at to 9.30 p. m.
Mr. Parks was assisted this year
by Prof. Sturman.
Denver. —An appeal to organized
labor to come to the aid of Clarence
S. Barrow, whose third trial on
charges arising out of tile AleNamara
case in which he was chief counsel
for the defense, comes up on March
31, Is contained In a Joint statement
Issued today by the Western Federa
tion of Miners and the Vnlted Mine
Workers of America. The statement
which bears the signature of the of
ficials of the miners’ organizations,
follows.
Go ■ Medal For The Country School Boy
- ~old medal to the school boy or
girl between the ages of 10 and 15
wbo writes the best composition - , not
to exceed 800 words, on the repair and
maintenance of earth roads, is to be
awarded by Hogan Waller Page, di
rector, office of public roads. United
States department of agriculture,
A\ ashlngton, I). C. All compositions
must bo submitted to Mr. Page be
fore May 15, 1913, and the medal wit!
be awarded as soon thereafter as the
compositions can be graded The com
position may be based on knowledge
gained from books or other sources,
but no quotations should be made.
After many years' experience in
dealing with the public road situation
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA-
CONTESTANTS
FROMJOIN
Names Young Ladies Who’ll
Represent School at High
School Meet Here in May
Are Given.
The names of the young ladies of
the Tubman high school, who will
represent their school In literary and
music contests at the coming meet
ing of the high schools of this con
gressional district, which will be held
In Augusta,, were announced by Mr.
T. H. Garrett, principal, Saturday.
They are:
Miss Myrtis Tinsley, senior, spell
ing contest.
Miss Etta Doncn, junior, recitation
contest.
Miss Alma Kendrick, sophomore,
music contest.
Miss Mattie Lee Rowland, senior,
essay contest.
These young ladles can’t be beat.
They are the pick of the school and
the prediction Is that they will do
themselves and their school honor on
the occasion.
These contests will come off at the
Tubman high school on the morning
of Friday, May 2d. No doubt there
will be a large audience to hear the
representatives from the various high
schools In these contests.
Mr. Garrett, as president of tht
district association of high schools,
announced Saturday that by the fif
teenth Instant he would be In pos
session of the names of the pupils
who will enter tho first Inter-scholas
tic debate ever held at a meeting of
the high schools of this district.
THE YOUNG SAVAGE
Last week we had an apology for the bad boy, and
declared our faith in his final outcome. We should not for
get ever that a boy in his own life repeats the history of
his race. He passes through the primitive age of man,
and goes through the savage age before he becomes civil
ized. A boy at twelve years has all the savage instincts
of the early races of mankind. This age has its natural
expression, and a boy is likely to be a savage for awhile,
just as he is likely to have measles, mumps, chicken-pox
and a few other things that belong to children.- However,
he will get over these things. We all have. They did
not hurt us. It was the boiling over of young life. We
were mischievous, rather than malicious. The average boy,
like the young savage, has a dread of too much water,
unless it be in a wash-hole; he has a scorn of fine
clothes; a high disregard of convention of all kinds. He
always does the undesired and the unexpected, and gen
erally speaking nobody loves him but his mother. The
neighbors consider him a terror, the dogs and cats that do
not belong to him live in dread of his torture, and as for
his teacher, the less said the better. However, from such
material the great men of the world have come. Such
pestilent characters have eliminated their meanness in
early life and become the sterling men of the nation.
Keep your eye on the bad boy. He Is not necessarily
wicked.
Joplin, Mo.—The miners employed
in the lead mines in this district are
again forming organizations. This
has 4>een one of the difficult fields
in which to maintain organizations of
miners, but the miners now seem de
termined to form organizations In ev
ery camp 1n the district, and the or
ganizer who has the work in charge
is scarcely able to meet the demands
made upon him. The outlook for a
thorough organization of the field Is
better than ever before.
Ampere, N. J. —After a three-day
strike the machinists returned victo
rious to the shops of the Crocker-
Wheeler Company at Ampere, N. J.,
yesterday when Superintendent E. R.
Warder came to a verbal agreement
with the men. Preliminary steps to in
roduee the Taylor speeding-up sys
tem will be abandoned at least for
the time being.
of the country, it Is Mr. Page's belief
that lgnorar.ee on the subject of re
pair and maintenance of roads is as
much the cause of thetr bad condition
ns any other one factor. It Is ex
pected that the competition will bring
about a better understanding of the
subject of repair and maintenance In
the rural districts.
Many children living in the rural
districts have experienced the disad
vantages of roads made Impassable
through a lack of proper maintenance
and It Is expected that their Interest
In the competition will stimulate
greater Interest among he parens. Bad
roads have prevented many children
from obtaining a proper educatton and
have even prevented doctors from
MONEY IS NEEDED TO
CARRY ON EDUCATION
A Word About the Campaign
For Million Dollar Fund For
National Education Associa
tion in United States.
The public schools of Augusta are
In receipt of the following letter which
may be of Interest to any concerned in
the advancement of education in this
country:
Directors Office, Providence, R. 1.,
The plan of the campaign Is to
reach:
First —All school officers in the
United States.
Second—All teachers of all grades
and departments.
Third—All educational Institutions
and associations.
Fourth—All friends of education of
considerable property.
Fifth—Other persons of wealth and
benevolence.
Organization.
The director of the campaign will
choose and commission an associate
director for each state, who will be
the advisor and executive officer of
the chief director with reference to
the most efficient ways and means
for carrying on the campaign in each
state. This work is now going on,
and commissions to the state direc
tors are issuing.
Tho County, the Unit.
Where county school organizations
exist, that sub-division of the state
will be made the unit for co-operative
action, and solicitation of contribu
tions. In other Instances, the state
director will advise and decide. Each
sub-dlvlslon of a state will have an
efficient organizer and solicitor.
Purposes of the Campaign.
The state directors and county or
ganizers will solicit contributions for
the following reasons among many
others:
First—The National Education As
sociation of the United States holds
a vital relation to every educational
Interest and Institution in the country
and vitalizes all.
Second—lt belongs to the teachers,
school officers, and other educators of
the country as the leader in progress,
and the organ for the expression of
their studies and ideals.
Third—lts usefulness will be multi
plied many fold by Its ability financial
and other, to make original expert re
search along important educational
lines, and the publication and dlstri-
reachlng the side of rural patients in
time to save their lives.
Any child betw - een the ages men
tioned, attending a country school,
may compete. Only ona side of the
paper must be written on; each page
should be numbered; the name, age
and address or the writer, and tne
name and location of the school whicn
he or she is attending must be plain
ly written at the top of the first page.
The announcement of the competition
of schools In the rural districts. No
further information can be obtained
from the office of public roads. This
announcement should be plain to
everyone, and all children will thus
start on a basis of equality.
MISS MARY COLLINS IS HERE TO
ORGANIZE PARENT-lEAChER CLUBS
SCHOOL NEWS
FROM ELSEWHERE
GIVEN IN BRIEF
“The Adrla Exposition.”
An exposition known as “The Adria
Exposition” will be held at Vienna
during the present year under the aus
pices of the Austrian government and
the city ’of Vienna. It will be devoted
to exhibits showing the civilization, his
tory, and scenic beauty of Adriatic
countries.
The “Southern List.”
A list of accredited high schools of
the South is to be made out by the As
sociation of Colleges arid Secondary
Schools of the Southern states in order
4 o stimulate the high irchools to main
tain " high standards. It is intended
that the "Southern List” shall be an
honor list of schools for the entire sec
tion.
In Dayton, Ohio.
Seventeen hundred children in Day
ton, Ohio, tilled backyard gardens, each
10 by 25 feet, last year, under the su
pervision of the Dayton Parks and
Playgrounds Association, and not only
provided fresh vegetable for home use,
but in many cases sold the produce for
enough to buy textbooks and other
school supplies.
Open-window School Room
In a recent comparison between pu
pils in a closed-window school room and
those in an opefl- window room in Phil
adelphia, it was found that the open
window class surpassed the others in al
most every way. The temperature of
the closed school room averaged GS de
grees, while for th open-window room
it was 47 degrees.
bution of results of such studies.
Larger funds, larges benefits.
Educational associations and insti
tutions will be made associate mem
bers of the U. E. A. by contributions
of from SSO to SSOO, according to the
size and financial atanding of the
body.
A vigorous campaign will be carried
on in every state. Earnest, active,
sympathetic men and women only are
desired as directors and solicitors.
Faith and enthusiasm win.
The director invites the hearty co
operation of all school officers.
He Invites the assistance of all of
ficers of state and county teacher’s
associations and institutes.
He invites the aid of officers anti
professors of all grades of learning,
Including colleges, normal schools,
technical schools, etc.
He invites the support of the educa
tional papers and magazines.
He invites the publicity of the dally
press, the religious press, the maga
zine press.
He invites benevolent wealth.
,He invites all educational writers and
correspondents to use their influence
and pens in advocacy of the enlarged
influence of the U. E. A.
He invites the cordial co-operation
and assistance of all friends of edu
cation with the efforts of state and
and other directors in placing the Na
tional Education Association of the
United States in a position of strength
and financial independence that will
make it of greatest value to American
youth.
THOMAS W. BICKNELL,
Director of Campaign.
P. S. —As promptness In correspond
ence is the first law of success in busi
ness, the director courteously requests
each of his associates and correspond
ents to reply- to all letters on the day
of their receipt. This is the life long
rule of the director and works well.
DID YOU KNOW THAT-
(BY BEN LICHTENSTEIN. A. R. C.)
The word ‘loafer,” an idler, had a cu
rious origin?
An old Dutchman settled at New York
and acquired a large fortune. He had
an only daughter, and a young Ameri
can fell In love with her. The father
forbade him the house, but the dtugh
ter encouraged him. Whenever the old
merchant saw the lover about the prem
ises. he used to say to his daughter,
"there is that ‘lofer’ of yours, the idle
good for nothing, etc.” ar.U co the idle
man hanging about, came to be called
a "loser;" how the letter “a" got into
the word' is not known.
The custom of "April Fools” has a
very old origin? It dates ack to the
time of the "Great Flood." There Is
a tradition among the Jews, that the
custom of making fools on the "first of
April arore from the fact that Noah
sent out the dove on the first of the
month corresponding to our April, be
fore the water had abated. T° Per
petuate the memory of the great deliv
erance of Noah and his family, it was
customary on this anniversary to pun
ish persons who had forgotten the re
markable circumstances connected with
the date, by sending them on some boot
! less errand, similar to that on which
SUNDAY. MARCH 30.
The Tubman High School’s
Commencement this year will
be something new. Three im
portant dates announced.
Is State Oraanizer Georgia
Branch National Congress of
Mothers and Parent-Teacher
Associations
MEETING AT TUBMAN HIGH
SCHOOL MONDAY AT 4:30
Organization Meetings Be
Held in All Public Schools
This Week. Schools to Send
Out Invitations.
Miss Mary D. Collins, state organ
izer of the Georgia Branch of the
National Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations, will be
in Augusta this week for the purpose
of organizing parent-teacher clubs
here among the mothers of the pupils
of the city public schools.
A meeting has been called for 4-30
o’clock tomorrow (Monday) afternoon
at the Tubman high school to
which all mothers of the Tubman
girls and Richmond Academy boys
are respectfully asked to attend.
Macon Just Organized.
Miss Collins comes to Augusta
from Macon where she has been tor
a week organizing parent-teacher
clubs among the mothers of the pub
lic school children there. She writes
that she has been meeting with much
success, organizing two clubs eaca
day she has been in Macon, and
hopes to do a s well in Augusta. There
are now eleven parent-teacher clubs
in the Central City.
It is expected that Miss Collins will
be happily received in Augusta and
that her work will meet with a bril
liant success here.
At one of the free cooking demon
strations given by Miss Elizabeth G.
Holt, who is a member of the advis
ory council of the Georgia branch of
the National Congress of Mothers
and Parent-Teacher Associations, the
plan was suggested to the mothers
present. All of them signified their
approval of the movement heartily.
There is no reason to believe that
every mother who Is interested in the
welfare of her boy or girl in school
will not co-operate.
To Be Nine Clubs Here.
Superintendent Evans, the prtlci
pals, and all of the school teachers
the city have strongly endorsed
the organization of parent-teacher
clubs for this community.
The parent-teacher club or asso
ciation is a permanent organization
of the parents and teachers of the
school. It meets at regular intervals
at the school house.
Here there will be nine parent
teacher clubs, eight of which will be
composed of mothers and teachers of
the grammar school children. The
meetings of the clubs will be held at
the respective school houses. The
school houses are public buildings
and will be used as such for the ben
efit of the community and the child.
It is said that a better understand
ing can always exist between parent
and teacher through the parent
teacher club.
These clubs are doing a noticeable
good in many other cities throughout
the country.
Meetings for the Week.
In addition to the meeting tomor
row afternoon at the Tubman at
which the mothers of the pupils of
two high schools of the city will be
organized; the following proposed
schedule of meetings for Miss Col
lins is announced:
Tuesday, John Milledge and Wood
lawn.
Wednesday, Houghton and Central.
Thursday, Davidson and Augusta
Free School.
Friday, Monte Sano and Summer
ville.
Note: The hour of meeting at
each school will ha announced later.
Invitations will "be sent out by the
schools.
the patriarch sent the luckless bird from
the windows of the ark.
Two ingenious theories exist as to the
origin of the word "glass." One is that
it comes from the Altlc word “glas,"
green or bluish green, the color of
common window glass when seen edge
ways. The other theory Is that, as
"crystal” comes from a Greek word-glg
nifying ice, so glass may come from
the Batin "glacies." also ice. The al
leged accidental discovery of glass by
some Phoenician merchant* may be
true, but it is equally true that Egyp
tians understood the process of manu
facturing glass some centuries before.
It is mentioned by the name “Bashna"
as early as the sth and 6th dynasty, and
articles of glass are represented In the
tombs of that period. In the 12th dy
nasty. or about 1800 years before Christ,
that is about 100 years before Joseph
was sold Into Egypt, artists of the pe
riod painted cn the Interior walls of
one of the tombs pictorial representa
tions of the entire process of making
glass vessels Windows of glae* have
been found In the ruin of Pompeii,
showing that they must have been used
before A. D., 79k
Window glass was first brought te
England from Italy by Blscop, the Ab
[ bot of Marmouth, A. D., 676.