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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1922
Page
12
A survey by federal officials and authorities concludes education pays beyond virtue, boosting character health and vocations. Data from 1909 to 1919 show rising public spending linked to higher national income, with education enhancing wealth creation and influencing earnings across labor roles and professional ranks.
Chatterbox notes the high school gym fills only weakly as no out of town foe is scheduled. Alumni return for Christmas, and a New Year game is proposed with former stars from Notre Dame, Harvard, and local schools. Proceeds aid the Washington fund and a Brown Glee Club visit is planned.
Moscow reports changes in Soviet education with a rise to 23,000 schools and 48,000 teachers, serving 1,685,000 pupils, after early revolutionary expansion. By 1923 a decline is expected as upkeep costs shift to local funds amid funding shortages.
Washington reports Postmaster General receives a petition from Shepherdstown West Virginia based Shepherd College State Normal School urging the reissue of the thirteen cent stamp. The petition links U S history to the number thirteen with reasons citing discovery date colonies flag and other references.
Columbus school children staged a festive Christmas program in the school assembly hall. Decorated rooms and Christmas trees with gifts complemented a Dickensian dramatization featuring Scrooge and the Christmas fairy, plus songs and poems by students from Rooms 16, 17, and 18.
Charlestown Rhode Island December 23. Little locomotives bump over corduroy rails as a 27 ton walking dredge plows through muck and a steam hoister creates noise in a forest area. the Great Indian Swamp begins transformation into a market garden after 200 acres are drained. Rhode Island State College faculty will demonstrate cultivation next spring.
About 5,000 Japanese children in the territory will be barred from alien language schools starting January 1 under a new department regulation approved by Governor Wallace R. Farrington. After January no child may attend a foreign language school without one year of public school instruction. after September 1, 1923, two years. The rule aims to gradually end the first two grades of the alien schools, resolving a dispute over a previous abolition.
Washington school basketeers tab bed np . 27 to 24 win over the Ma plewoods. Lineup includes Maplewoods players Jacques Buswell Paluzai Harris Seaman and Washington lineup Whitehead Farrans Blake Pattas Ahrtrand Kozlorski.
Prospect School defeated Longfellows by a 10 to 7 score in a tight league game. Lineup shows Prospect with Barnard, Warland, Ye Congtellow, Wargo, Feekett among others. Longfellows featured Beleitch, Bal o zi, Zepplin and Fratiek.
Fairfield December 23 Christmas program held in schools and classrooms yesterday with song and brief entertainment by the children. Two services of a special nature were given. Schools will open January 2.
The George A. Smith post American Legion officer installation scheduled for next Tuesday evening is postponed to the second Tuesday in January. The post could not secure State Department members to perform the ceremony on the original date. Advertise In The Times.
On Friday the 2,500 students at Lyon Terrace High School turned Donation Day into a remarkable effort supplying food, coal, clothing, and more to Bridgeport’s poor. The Salyion Army organized distribution while Dean Margaret Riley led volunteers. A colorful 24 scene pageant, directed by Mrs. Sara Sherman Pryor, illustrated Christmas history from Old England to modern generosity, with gifts piling up to enormous proportions for the needy.
Yuletide spirit fills public schools across the city as students perform carols dances and Noël plays before parents and friends. Programs at Grand Street and Barnum feature choirs, solos, dramas, and circle dances with students from rooms and kindergarten staging scenes such as Santa Claus stories and Xmas songs. Gifts, candy canes, and popcorn add festive touches as pupils prepare for the holiday recess.
New Haven December 23 Dean Thomas Swan of Yale Law School urged stricter educational requirements for Connecticut bar admission at the New Haven County Bar Association dinner. He called for at least two years of college in addition to legal training. Gilson of the probate court spoke on the association’s history, noting two women members attended for the first time Miss Susan ONeil and Mrs Edwin Roth .
Public Library branches host high school tellers led by Mrs. Sara Sherman Pryor for a holiday story hour. Misses Margaret O Connor and Mary Kare visit central library on December 28, with decorations, themed figures, and a “Birds Christmas Carol” performance by Prospect school pupils. Agnes Ceresi, Louise Emmons, Flora Lister, and others will narrate at multiple branches through December 29, with new books and posters on display.
Washington reports a record enrollment of 475 523 pupils in 4 945 federally funded vocational schools under approved state plans for the year ending June 30 1922. This compares with 324 247 the previous year and 3 877 schools. Teachers numbered 12 250, up from 10 066. The 1921 22 year marked the fastest expansion in the program since the Board’s founding.
Cairo reports 33 Egyptian students selected by the Minister of Communications to study abroad. Ten will go to the United States under a Commerce Department agreement for two years each in locomotive work, internal combustion engines, shipyard apprenticeships, and telephone service, with all expenses covered by the Egyptian government to strengthen Egypt U.S. economic and industrial ties.
Dr J J Tigert urges expanded playgrounds in schools to counteract city life reducing outdoor activity. He cites rising urbanization, the need for physical education from primary grades, and preschool care to prevent defects, arguing that play, games, and sport forge Americanization and national vitality.
Bridgeport High hoopsters suffered a clear setback yesterday in Waterbury, trailing Wilby High 28 to 16. Lineup notes include Wilby players Navin Hadley Sperring Murthy O'Neil McCarthy and Bridgeport's B Cohen Mrazik Randolph Cohen Erickson Moffett.
Franklin school girls edged Beardsley 7 to 6 in a hard fought basketball game. Lineup includes M Kane J Gig M Larson L Anderson AE Lucas D Rane Robinson GLaurit AA Webb.
Fairfield High alumni basketball team defeated the varsity 13 to 3 yesterday. Lineups include Fairfield High players Sharkey Sherwood Bierne Kish Gallagher Woods and Fairfield Alumni Russell Millis Anderson Brotherton Leahy.
In the Parochial School League openers St Charles trounced St Augustine’s 30 to 6 while Sacred Hearts edged St Joseph’s 18 to 7. Lineups list players from Sacred Heart St Joseph’s St Charles and St Augustine’s with names such as McGee Iyare Leahy Doherty and McPadden Callaghan Gerrity Magner O’Connor Jagan Pond and Flannagan.
Stratford High’s hoopsters travel to Congress Street to face Stratford High on January 5. The team won their opener against the Alumni 6 to 4, led by Captain Bedell, while the Alumni handed Stratford a loss 6 to 4 in a later encounter.
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