Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great was the applause when Mrs. Eva Hunt Dockery, of Boise, Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years the organization would have "one woman Cabinet member ... 25 members of Congress . . . Governors of five states . . . five ordained ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business...
...theatre. But E. J. Baker, brother-in-law of the late Mr. Gates, who inherited several other millions of the Gates estate, owns another community house, another theatre and a skyscraper hotel on the West bank. Last week the East-West controversy was intense, had split the entire town. Wash ington had to be consulted...
...MERRIX Spokane, Wash...
...believer in presidential dignity, rarely does President Hoover lend himself to advertising publicity. Last week however he did, when Washington's Senator Dill brought to the White House for a presidential greeting Miss Helen Brenton of Tacoma, Wash., Smart Set's choice of a "Typical American Girl...