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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1919)
FAKE MESSAGES Make Schools Fit Child and Not Child Fit "RECEIVED" FROM School, Aim . of Omaha School Instructors , : DEAD SOLDI ERS pubiic Scho1 ExPerfence f Has Discovered System To Classify Child Aft er Making Intelli gence Test. Sir David Ferrier Tells ; of s Tricks , by Spiritualists ' Practiced on Distracted . ' Relatives of Men. reason or another,- do not fit into making. All of this work seems to the classes which their ages ordinar- be very satisfactory, with the possi- ily would require. ble exception of brush making, and , These special classes have been it is hoped that the industrial work , started at Bancroft, Comenius, Cass, can be widened in Its scope next year. London "I thought spiritualism and the supernatural claims of medi ums were quite exploded by this time", said Sir David Ferrier, the eminent neuro-pathologist, in an in terview., i "The revival of the occult synchro nizes with the termination of the war, when there are thousands of people in the country suffering the heart-breaking anguish of being un able to gain tidings of those dear to them who are classified as 'missing.' "It is only natural that these dis tracted relatives should resort to every means likely and unlikely to obtain information, but I am quite unable to understand how anybody with any pretense to medical quali fication can lend countenance to the preposterous impositions with which spiritualism is steeped, and, as such, have been exposed again and again. . ' " j t, ... ;," "The alleged phenomena which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appears to re gard as a new discovery are not only an old story, but one which has nev er been capable ot support when subjected to honest and impartial in vestigation. Helped Unveil Trick. "More than 30 years ago I saw the tricks which Sir A. Conan Doyle now seriously asks his readers to Re lieve. I was present at a seance in Quebec street one Sunday afternoon about that-time-, and-myold friend, Balfour Browne, the great parlia mentary lawyer, was there also. "It was a- cold day, but before the seance began the embers in the fireplace-1 were carefully removed. Thick curtains were then ' drawn across -the windows -and every pre caution .was taken to exclude the smallest spark Of light, real or' arti ficial. We remained some time in total darkness, and then, as now, the gathering was entertained by the mystic touch of invisible fingers, and the rest of the mummery, which Sir A. Conan Doyle lays such stress on. ' "Then from - a curtained alcove ghostly hands made their appear ance. Presently the dim outline of a face became visible, and I remark ed to Balfour Browne in a voice just loud enough for the medium to hear. 'How very like Mr. Taylor's face.' It did not in the least surprise me when I was told presently that the face I had just seen was that of Mr. Taylor, who, as it happened, was a purely imaginary person. "The climax to this miserable non- 1 , Making the school fit the child, rather than the child fit the school, is one of the big problems being worked out by the public school in structors of Omaha and other cities. The idea of trying to apply a certain curriculum to all children ot Work Shows Results. A visit to Comenius school last week served to show the results be- Druid, Franklin, Kellom, Miller Park and Train schools. A second class is maintained at Comenius school. The assignment of children through a research department. The mg obtained in this Special class of first observation of a child who is work. Most of these children are of a mentioned for one of these classes, class that find the regular classroom i by the regular teacher. The re- studies irksome when they try to search director then applies the tests apply themselves during the entire nrA;n n annmvoa standard, to school dav. Thev are now allowed ildren ot any AT- JZ.u:-l -c tu. - j- ; industrial - SrZifc, hn,Uafoffil Oe chUd examined during the last tivitie, an! the other hours to regu- be a fallacy. Featuring Beautiful .WILL bets f .MUSES . . THE SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, Out of Ions' public school experi ence has grown a system of mental or intelligence tests by which any child may be classified. Under this system a 15-year-old child may be found to be 8 years old mentally. Un der the old system a teacher would have to make the best of he situa-i, tion if she happened to have in her I s .W-X ' 2 v. v0 Little American Flag, Made By Belgian; Girl, Aids Loan When Yanks Entered Beaucourt a Little, Nine-Year-Old Girl Stepped Up to Colonel Tinley of Council Bluffs and Presented Him With a Flag, Which She Made From Clothing. room a subnormal child or a super normal child. She would have to devote her special attention to either child. Frequently a disturbing ele ment in her room would be a super normal child whose mind outdis tanced the others and then he would upset the discipline during his spare time by performing pranks. Special Classes Developed. school semester was sent tq the state school for the deaf. - , "Children in special classes are able to do only a limited amount of regular academic work, .and this means that all kinds of suitable ac tion w6rk and industrial occupation must be supplied," explained Re search Director Leon O. Smith. "The carried industrial work now being Omaha's public school system is on in Omaha special classes consists rlevelonincr medal classes in the nf vvcavinc basketrv. ruar making, schools for children who, for one plain sewing, chair caning'and brush are served, the schoolmasters say, lar book.work. Under this plan they apply themselves with enthusiasm to both lines of instruction. Some of these children are defectives, others merely' slow of comprehension, and others have been retarded on account of illness or other causes. New Jersey has a state law which .requires that children who are three years or more below the normal mentality for their age, must be placed in special classes. The the ory of this legislation is that it is not fair to the teacher and children to be handicapped by a child who is subnormal or supernormal; and it is also contended that the exceptional child should have exceptional in struction. By grouping the excep tional cases, the best interests of all Mrs. Matt Tinley of Council Bluffs has received from her hus band, Major Tinley, just returned to the United States, the 168th di vision, American army of occupa tion, a flag and letter which con tains an unusually tender bit of sen timent. " ' ' The flag is now being carried by the Council Bluffs Elks' quartet on. its Victory loan trips, and after it has served its present use, it will be preserved in a glass case by the Iowa State Historical society in the capitol building at Des Moines. When the armistice had been signed, the One Hundred Sixty eighth was ordered to march through Belgium on its way to Ger many. The men arrived early one morning at the village of Beaucourt, Belgium, where the people greeted the Yanks with wild cheers. On the day before, Georgette Feltz, 9-year-old, heard that the "Yanks were coming," so she spent the entire night scouring the village for pieces of red, white and blue clothing with which she fashioned a crude Amer ican, flag after impressions obtained through pictures. There arc only nine stars on a blue field, but it Is believed that she was short of cloth and did the best she could. When Major Tinley and his men had listened to the words of wel come from the mayor of Beaucourt, little Miss Georgette stepped up and handed the Council Bluffs of ficer the flag.- In a letter to Mrs. Tiniey, en closing the flag, the major wrote: "A large lump came into my throat when the little girl handed me that flag. I jus didn't know whetherA i was aioot or norseoack. Ldian t know what to say at first. It pressed me more than I ca 'scribe to you in words." J. R. Gerke, Alex Behgst Charles S. Haverstock and J. F. McCarger, members of the Coun cil Bluffs quartet, carried the flag with them all week on their Victory loan singing tour through western Iowa. , "WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS. What Does Woman wish for? A, To retain her youthful figure- , ) ' v, ' And hair as color of youth f -- To assume the duties" of motherhood : . . Without the everlasting care . She craves the sort of a man With a heart as big as the earth ' ' v For attention in every detail" He always is oh the alert d -Of herself she wants to give ' "- The best she can conceive Although there's little in her v Of the old time Eve She wants to be considered ' ' ' At least as an equal to man k ' - Although the whole world' over : V She has been placed under, a ban ' , IV If this does not fill the'bill, sir, . . j Of what a woman craves ". '" Will some one kindly tell, sir ? ; What in her heart she craves? ' ; . The above letter, written by Mrs. Charles Bone, Kearnsyi Neb., has been adjudged the prize winning answer to the contest, "What Every Woman Wants." ' . . c I Pi 'Ns. State Legislature Helps to? near umana-JLmcoin' r ton 'Jrd ;!.. sed , l ja-, fol SU! .rot inj ibal Slal .prq tin Ml sense came when one of the audi ence squirted some red liquid at a ghostly figure which took the place of Mr. Taylor. Lights were pro duced, and, behold, the 'spirit' before us was a very healthy subject who had certainly not quitted the world so far, and whose appearance sug gested that he was destined to live, like other mortals, for a considera ble time to come. "The meeting broke up hurriedly, and not the least crestfallen among the spiritualists was this very sub stantial 'spirit' whose face and shirt front were streaming with the well directed ,spray of cochineal. ."Hypnotism is quite distinct from spiritualism, and in the hypnotic .state the subject can be made to ex perience sensations which are the genuine result of his mental condi tion while under its strange influ ence. Here, however, is a mortal who is once more passing through scenes of the past. Thus a soldier might conceivably.believe himself to be in the trenches at close grips with the enemy. It is a phase of mind- thoroughly recognized by brain specialists." German Press Rails at Proposal to Alter Colors of the Flag London. The proposal to change the colors of the rational flag of Germany from black-white-red to black-red-gold is bitterly criticized by the Pan-German and Nationalist journals. Dr. Preuss, in introduc ing the proposal, defended it as fol lows: ."Whether or not the colors black-white-red were the correct .colors of the German empire is much debated by historians. Quite possibly they were simply those assumed by the .insurgents of Lutzow. The colors black-red-gold (adopted by the rev olutionaries in 1848) correspond with the conceptions of political freedom and union of all the Ger mans which have been the leading ideas of the nineteenth century. The Preu:;.'che Zeitung says' that to change your colors is to show that you are ashamed of them, and k'ives a long harangue on the his torical glory of the empire. It also suggests that if made it 'would be more in accord- manifested by the returning legisla tors to Douglas county. , : T. ...... t-r.. I !,, ,.m.nf t,;-,11v r1atinn uwiu. iu. .ursidiii.s. dS .iia. ja i.v ...v..u.j . v.... , . ..... . . ' , . - , ' (jiuuibc in nis praise or i,iiK:oirifciV;. 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