Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1950 — Page 11

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MOTORISTS URGED TO HELP IN STREET SAFETY

'With the greateat number .I motor vehicle* In the history of this community and the nation. now rolling over at ronin and highway*. and with more children going back to achool this Fall than ever before, traffic authorities have issued a special plea to drivers to be on the alert tor tbe safety of youngster*. Though aeheel patrol* have don* magaifccnt work In helping to protect children from traffic hazard* near school*.

Record School Enrollment Is Anticipated

Help Children For Return To Classes Parente Have Responsibility of Sending Them Back to Learning with Eagerness and Enthusiasm By JAMES BRANDON Competent authorities have estimated that between 33,000,000 and 35,000,00 American boys and girls will be going back to grade school, high school and college thia fall. .... The estimated totals include the beginners who will be embarking on careers of learning for the first time. They are expected to set something of a record in their own right, as the result of the consistent upturn in the nation’s birth rate of the past several years. These estimated totals—like so many things upon which we pause to reflect during this Mid-Point year of the fabulous 20th Century—are roughly twice what school enrollment* were when the Century began. Season Presents a Challenge And thus, as school bells sound in the distance to summon children back to classes for the 1050-51 term, their parents, the officials charged with the responsibility for their learning, and the children themeelves, are presented with an unprecedented challenge. While the problem of the officials, with the aid of civic-minded voters, is that of providing expansion of the physical paints of our educational systems and also the teaching staffs, to take care of the constantly increasing needs, the problem of parents is somewhat more personal. For, it is up to the parents and what they do during the few weeks remaining before the fail semesters begin, as to how well outfitted and equipped the children will be for enthusiastic resumption of their careers of learning.' One thing appears to be certain. Whereas the average child going back to school during the earlier years of thia century considered his return to classes as an unhappy interruption of a glorious vacation, today meat-children appear to consider it fun. Two Major Influences This more wholesome and encouraging mid-cen-tury attitude is said to be compounded out of two major influences. On the one hand, modern methods of instruction make schools much more interesting for the children. On the other, enlightened modern parents, better educated themselves in the psychology of children, help io stimulate the enthusiasm of the youngsters for school Just as teaching by example and participation has for the most part supplanted rote learning in school rootns. so has a closer understanding between modern parents and their children been developed. While schools now furnish excitement, and stimulation to learning for children by classroom projects, so wise parents do the same for their youngsters at home by taking them into their confidence on mutual problems and permitting them a voice in the choice of things they nieod. And finally happy children are encouraged by their parents to look forward to going back to school as a chance to renew old friendships and make many more new ones, in the spirit of traditional American democracy. -i- -■ Yet the child whose health is lagging, who has outgrown his clothes of alst year and who sees little prospect of new ones; whose shoes have become misfits, vyho fears he is not going to have fresh new tablets and nice new pencils, cannot be expected to look upon the impending return to learning except as a most dreary lT«n> To Page Threw)

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tills is not «aou<h. Neither 1* Hound practice os the part of the motorist to depend on a warning horn to keep children from darting thoughtle*»ly in front of hi* rar. No matter how well trained the child may be. or how carefully guarded near achool* and playgroand*. hi* preoccupation with play and hl* Immaturity or eiperlencc may caua* him to •tray without thinkins. Meat Be Alert It 1* In th* residential area*

Os the city, and on «t-.-«ry r<«d* where children •*m>-tirn*| walk home from mhool*. that the car or triek drier must be especially alert after achool* ' open tor the **a«>n Thoughstul motor vehicle operator* who are cotwHoda of I the irr*«por.»il>illty of younger M-hool children, and court ra*d about their welfare, will go far • tb*r than the eaerclae of almple caution in driving. They will make It a point to ae* to it that th«ir ear* and

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i don't hold >lien an emergency arl-e., or by tire* which tall to grip the road because tread* are worn down. Tragic author! tie* urge m«f-ort-t* to have their car* checketfnm make «ure break* are working properly, and that tire* have safe tread*. Time to check" windshield wiper* I* In good weather. With shorter day* a» the Fall school aeawon proceed*. light* ahowUi l>* checked also.