The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

BOOK REVIEWS
Our readers are interested in books of merit,
but especially in books of interest and value to
commercial teachers including books of special
educational value and books on business subjects.
All such books will be briefiy reviewed
in these columns, the object being to give suffi-
cient description of each to enable our readers
to determine its value.
You Wrote it Yourself. A Key to
Handwriting Analysis by M. N,
Bunker of Linn Creek, Missouri. Published
by the World Syndicate Publishing-
Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
Cloth cover, 240 pages.
In this book. Mr. Bunker has endeavored
to explain step by step the method he uses
in making his handwriting analysis. His objective
is to assist others in learning to
analyze handwriting.
The contents of the book are as follows:
How Grapho-Analysis Got Its Start
You Too Can Analvze Handwriting Successfully
Emotional Expression and Depth
Your Self-Reliance and Determination
Some Important Consonants and Three Vowels
Sixteen T's Tell Their Story
An Experience You Can Duplicate
Occultists Have Their Say on Grapho-Analysis
Grapho-Analysis Solves the Valentino Myster>'
Testimony on a Famous Ransom Note
Writing Is Not Always Handwriting
Juvenile Writing Points the Way
Famous Handwritings and What They Tell
Criminals Reveal Their True Natures
Questions and Answers
In the analysis the handwriting of fifty-one
celebrities has been used such as Joe E. Brown,
Houdini. Lowell Thomas, etc.
The author has been connected with penmanship
and commercial education for many
years. He was at one time a contributor to
the Educator and other penmanship maga-
Consumer Economic Problems, by
H. G. Shields, Associate Professor of
Business Education, The School of
Business, The University of Chicago,
and W. Harmon Wilson, Lecturer,
University of Cincinnati and Editor
of The Balance Sheet. Published
by the South-Western Publishing
Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cloth
cover, 767 pages.
Problems is designed
for either (a) a comprehensive course in consumer
education, or i b » a course that is a
part of a school-wide program. It contain?
plenty of material for a full year of work,
but when selections are made for a part of
a school-wide program, it may be used for
a one-semester course.
INTEGRATION. The subject matter
CONSUMER ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
in
is
highly integrated ; therefore, each topic has
the greatest maximum value. For example,
applied economics, business principles, finance,
personal business management, personal legal
principles, budgeting, and many other topics
are woven together. The course has much
more practical value than if these topics were
presented in an isolated manner without relation
to one another.
APPLIED ECONOMICS. No attempt is
made to present abstract rules and theories
of economics. However, each principle of
economics is presented as it has a direct
meaning to the individual. The student is
shown how he. particularly as a consumer, is
affected by economics.
GENERAL CONSUMER PROBLEMS. The
consumer problems are based upon the spend-
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ing or using of income. Therefore, the problems
of the individual consist largely of (a)
obtaining food ; (bl obtaining clothing ; (c)
obtaining shelter; and idl obtaining services.
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES OF CON-
SUMER PROTECTION
PRIVATE AGENCIES OF CONSUMER
PROTECTION
CREDIT RELATIONS
SOCIAL SECURITY
CAUTIONS AGAINST FRAUDS
CONSUMER CO-OPERATIVES
PROPAGANDA
FHA LOANS
FEDERAL FOOD. DRUG, AND COSMETIC
ACT INSTALLMENT CREDIT
The Days W'e Celebrate, Celebrations
for Christmas and Other High
Days, Christmas, St. Valentine*s Day,
St. Patrick's Day and Easter. Compiled
and edited by Robert Haven
Schauffler. Published by Dodd, Mead
& Company, New York, N. Y. Cloth
cover, 445 pages.
Wheneve- you begin to plan for the holiday
celebration, quite automatically you always do
3ne thing first. You turn to the twenty-one
volumes of OUR AMERICAN HOLIDAYS and
PLAYS FOR OUR AMERICAN HOLIDAYS.
For a good many years now, these books have
given you first and last aid in times of need.
Robert Haven Schauffier's new four-volume
series. THE DAYS WE CELEBRATE, completes
and brings down to date those twentyone
volumes. Except for holidays not covered
by the first series, most of the plays, poems,
stories, essays, projects, exercises, activities,
etc., provided for each celebration are of more
recent date than the coresponding volume of
the standard tet.
There is a rich wealth of easily staged-andacted
plays, pageants,, masques, and tableaux
— many of them written specially for these
volumes. There is also a generous amount
of material adapted for the use of children
of all ages.
THE DAYS WE CELEBRATE is far and
away the best compilation of a famous maker
of anthologies. Every owner of his standard
series must have these new volumes.
VOLUME I. CELEBRATIONS FOR
CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HIGH DAYS
Christmas, St. Valentine's Day. St. Patrick's
Day. Easter.
VOLUME 11. CELEBRATIONS FOR FES-
TIVALS: New Year's Day. All Fools' Day.
Mav Day. Arbor Day. Harvest Festival.
Thanksgiving
VOLUME III. CELEBRATIONS FOR
PATRIOTIC DAYS: Lincoln's Birthday. Washington's
Birthday. Memorial Day. Flag Day.
Independence Day, Armistice Day.
VOLUME IV. CELEBRATIONS FOR SPE-
CIAL OCCASIONS: Mothers' Day. Music
Week. Graduation Day, Fathers' Day. Columbus
Day, Hallowe'en. Book Week.
Economic and Business Opportunities,
by Clyde Beighey, Head of the
Department of Commercial Education,
Western Illinois State Teachers' College,
Macomb, Illinois, and Elmer E.
Spanabel, Principal of the Holmes
School, Foi'merly Counselor of the
Fifth Avenue High School, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Published by
The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Cloth binding,
602 pages.
ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS OPPORTUN-
ITIES has been written to help students to
gain an intelligent understanding of the economic
conditions which affect their daily livey.
and to encourage them to develop a socially
desirable point of view. The book does not
deal with abstract theories ; it presents actual
cases and conditions. In place of teaching
that there is a royal road to success, this book
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suggests certain principles upon which sue*
cessful achievement depends. Errors which
have been made in the past are cited in a
realistic manner. Ever>' effort has been made
to present all a3i>ects of a controversy. No
attempt has been made to sidetrack or evade
and social nature which are so evident today,
and which must necessarily be included in a
well-rounded treatment of the subjects under
discussion. On the contrary, each issue has
been considered individually and treated in an
The student should use this booTt not as a
mere collection of facts to be memorized, but
rather as the starting point from which his
thinking will be stimulated, organized, and
developed. The true worth of this book will
depend largely upon the extent to which it
will help the student meet and deal effectivelv
with business situations and factors encountered
in his own life.
The text is divided into eight units of major
economic importance : social and economic
problems : the financial aspects of business
the economic and social aspects of production ;
the distribution of economic goods ; the consumption
of goods and the consumer ; the
economic and social phases of risk bearing
control in industry : and what everyone should
know about occupations. These units are subdivided
into chapters which treat the various,
units from their different economic aspects.
The topics that are presented are intended to
meet the needs of all consumers. Socialeconomic
problems of the family, the community,
and the nation are presented in the
first three chapters and furnish a logical
approach to the study of business.
Ample opportunities for directed class discussions
and for meeting the students' individual
interests are provided by questions that
require detailed answers and by problems and
topics for investigation and report. Some of
the questions, problems, and topics depend
for their solutions and answers upon the
initiative of the student and upon a broader
knowledge gained by further study from a
list of interesting and helpful books at the
end of each chapter. Further opportunity for
the application of business and economic principles
to actual life situations is provided in
the Pupil's Project Book which is closely
correlated with the textbook.
Supervised Correspondence Study
for Individual Pupil Needs, by Sidney
Mitchell. Superintendent of Schools,
Benton Harbor, Michigan. Published
by the International Textbook Company,
Scranton, Pennsylvania. Cloth
cover, 303 pages.
The enrollment of our secondary schools in
the United States has increased over sixty
per cent in the last nine years. The basic
problem created by this dramatic growth has
been to provide the wide variety of individual
pupil needs which this influx of additional
students has required.
There is today a positive need, in our
secondary schools, for \\) a much more comprehensive
program of studies ; (2 1 a variety
of curricula made possible by this broader
program of studies, that will be adapted to
differences in those individual abilities, capacities,
needs, and interests; and (3) for these
innovations to be provided in such a way
that they may be utilized in small high schools
as well as large. To attain these objectives
by using the traditional methods of teaching
has. so far. been impossible.
Supervised Correspondence Study provides
one of the most promising solutions to the
problem. It provides a means by which several
hundred new courses are made potentially
available to the pupil from which he can
choose those most effectively meeting his particular
interests and needs. With the increasing
use of this method of instruction in
recent years, it is highly appropriate that
the method should present a volume setting
forth the values of the program and thf*
practical ways in which it may be used.
This study presents a sound and readable
treatment of the subject for administrators
and teachers who are seeking new methods
of effectively meeting pupil needs and need
a practical guide on how to do the job.
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