Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1953 — Page 9

SECTION TWO

Little Red School Is - Disappearing In State

INDIANAPOLIS. UP—The little red school house is , disappearing from Indiana. The state has been a symbolic home for the one-robm 'country school since- Edward < Eggleston wrote "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" back in thg 1870’s. , r But schoolmaster Ha r t-s oo k would be hard-pressed to- find a duplicate of tis classroom if he returned today. The one-room buildings have dwindled from a peak of more than 1.500' in. 1935 to about 200. In one year ..recently, 163 shut down.

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"They're going by leaps attid bounds," said Paul statistician for the state department of public instruction. ‘ 4 Thiß year we know of two townships alone that will close six of them.” Gleisei Said there-wette three reasons for shuttering Ja< one-room school: The condition of the building. inability to objtain a teacher or a consolidation program in the neighborhood. >. 1 s He said the first reason was the most common. « “Pareri-ts won't send their children to rundown any

more,” he explained. “They want nothing but the best. It's the sanie with young teachers fresh out of college. They won’t lower -their standards to go into an isolated, shabby building?’ * \", Griesel said the automobile also is playing a part in speeding the country school's • Rural families drive into town for their amusements instead of gathering at the , school as they once did. he pointed out. "It has lost its place as a community center," he -said. “Blit soine single unit schools will never be abolished because they exist ii| areas which are geographically Communities of thelri own. In the southern part of the state, neat the Ohio river, for example." The abandoned schools are disposed of by public auction..

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 30, 1953.

Griesel said hi 9 department Isn’t sentimental about the. fading' out of\one room schools. \ ./‘We’re happy and encouraged that the school is dying out," he said. are learning” that better education is found in the larger school unit, and they’re acting on their own, without prodding from us.” • pj\ . . i L Overdoing It *| AMHERST, Mass., UP—On successive days, three Griswold children; were hospitalized—Mary, 9, ■with a broken and James, 10, and Diane, 5, with concussions from playground falls. '>*\ ' \ Only.ldaho white pine and aspeh trees yield wood suitable for making matchsticks.

Pipe Dream HARTFORD, Conn., UP—State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Charles F. Kelley wa3 interested but skeptical about practicability of an invention designed to keep drivers aiwake at his wheel. It consisted of a special smoking pipe with bell attachment. The bell sounded when teeth of a dozing driver relaxed their grip the pipestem. "With a little time, I think we could devise an even more complicated gadget which would plerve the same purpdse,” Kelley commented dryly. r Twenty-nine ' out pf evefy TOO workers in New York state are factory workers. The national average* is 25 out of every 100. •

Urges Red Tape Be Eased For Orphans Many Children In Europe Homeless OMAHA, UP — Jhe United States can save *‘a lot of money" by relaxing "cruel" regulations and “red. tape” involved in adoption of homeless European children by childlesi- Americans, a former senator said today. Ex-Nebraska Sen. Fred Seaton) who has adopted two himself, says the U. N. spends millions rehabilitating European orphans who should "be in American homes where they’re w’anted.” Seaton, a newspaper publisher, isn’t primarily concerned with the economies. But he said it is a factor that might appeal to congress. y ■ A “The kids don’t have a lobby,” he said. "And the people who Want them are just individuals, so everything helps.” Neither is Seaton primarily concerned at \ the moment with the controversial McCarran-Walter immigration act, except as it affects children. “I just think children should be from many regulations and not charged up to the limited quotas for nationality,” he said.. He said there "is no reason” why adoption of children- frpm poverty-stricken European nations should be made difficult. Until August. 1952 children not tied to quotas. But even under I that Igw, which expired in the reshuffling for | the McCarran act, tape” resulted in less than 5,000 youngsters being brought in. The program had been set up to handle about 40,000. Now, orphans are immigrants

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'Mb " 4C J t ~ j | . ’r-*< STOOPING, Edward R. Fredericks points to the spot where he buried hia murdered wife’s hands as he re-enactq the slaying before policemanned film cameras in Van Nuys, Calif. She was killed Jan. 6. Thia was the first time the Los Angeles police department ever recorded a crime re-enactment on movie film. At camera is Officer D. N. Phillips. Watching are Sgts. Charles Stewart (middle), Al Ortiz. (International/, •

and sbmetimeS “get lost” in the rush,, k - ’ Seaton arid his wife adopted two older American children, how 10 and 12, some years ago. Long before he was appointed a senator for an interim term, Seaton started the process of adopting |wo more. It ’ was a “long- pull,” even after, he went to Washington to succeed the late Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry (R-Nel).) But last summer he and his wife went to Europe on a double mission, for a visit by Seaton to en. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and to pick up their youngsters at a Bavarian orphanage.

I He and his (wife returned with a black-haired six-year-old. Monica, and a “tow-headed Dutchman” named Alfred, then 4. ♦ Seaton, recalling the crowded, bare orphanage, said “U, w-as too much for me.” He rushed into am* army PX and bought some oranges. “Not one ck those “kids knew ?what to do with them,” he said.“They were rolling them on floor until I finally peeled one.”- x. Because the adoptions by the | senator were well publicized, the Seatons have received a "flood of mail” asking “how did you do ft?” “What can I tell them?” he ask.ed. “I just say ‘write your congressman!” ’ ■ V j - Right And Wrong MEMPIHS, Tenn.. UP — Lewis - Jackson, Visiting in court here, heard his name called and went up before Judge Beverly Boushe. But the officer testifying said Jackson wasn’t the mon he arrested. Turned out another Leads Jackson, scheduled to answer a charge, hadn’t appeared for his trial, the whmmt todfiPja had answered to the right name. ? > Although clay tile is now widely used for public buildings, it was not until the late 12th and early 13ith centuries that the material first had widespread use for floors, .principally.ip churches. I BB K |||| Lasts longer and looks better on floors and ■ steps I F/ I I k PITTSBURGH FLORHIDE 1 FLOOR ENAMEL I Paint wood, concrete or metal, inside or outside with this smooth-flow- B ’ ing, tough, durable K j Floor Enamel. It coven ■ \ old paint with a single K coat. More economical 9 to use because it soreada K farther and* ■ ' lasts longer. \_ M . LEE HARDWARE