Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1934 — Page 19

APRIL 13,1934

Happy Life Favored as School Goal Ability to Get Along With Others Most Important. BY GRF.TTA PALMER Time* Special Writer NEW YORK, April 13.—How many of the miseries of adult life have to do with the hours a person spends alone? Very few. A scientist here and a painter there may suffer great unhappiness over failure to make an experiment or a canvas behave, but for most of us

the pr o b iems and difficulties w’e e n counter concern our relations with people. That being the case, it would seem the veriest platitude that our education should concentrate on the social rather than the solitary activities. And yet we know that it does not. Most of the subjects on which we

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furrow our young brows In school are cultural. They are designed to provide us with delightful hobbies, to be sure, and to turn us into so many charming old dabblers In Latin poetry and chemical reactions. One educator has estimated that 85 per cent of grown-up life is social and that 15 per cent of our education is designed to fit us for it. It seems obvious that the emphasis Is sadly out of line. And why? Well, our ideas of education have been largely founded on tradition. Because a young man at Oxford in 1770 was given a certain pabulum of the classics, we feel constrained “to hand them out to our young men and women of today. Because economics and sociology and psychology did not figure in the old grammar school curriculum we tend to look at them askance. Trained for Monastic Life Some of our educational theories were framed to prepare bright, and devout young men for the monastic life. Others tended to teach them \h°w to pass agreeable evenings in ■de loneliness of an English manor house, with an illiterate but worthy wife and a pack of quite uneducated servants. They have little relation to the essentially busy and gregarious life of people today. i The success of any person, man t or woman, is almost impossible if ' he is a dud at human affairs. No matter how efficient a worker may be, if he is the kind who rubs every one the wrong way, he will not have 1 a chance to show’ his efficiency for long. Friendliness and the ability to get along with people and to look upon them without distrust are the best preparation for life that we can have. And it is the business of the schools to give it to us.

Neighborliness Not Stressed There were few children in the families of the past; the rough and tumble of life at home gave them some understanding of the rights of others and of the necessity for cooperation to escape perpetual war. But today the family has shrunk to midget size. There are many children who receive no training in the home, in the lessons of neighborline.ss with those of their own age yhd strength. * Perhaps our ideas of education need a revamping from the ground up. For if it is not the purpose of schools to teach us how to live happy lives, then what are they for? And if they are to perform that job with any show of efficiency, it seems obvious that *hey must give us some help in those thorniest of all adult problems—the difficulty of getting along happily and understandingly with our own kind. NATIONAL OFFICER DIRECTS INITIATION Initiation services were held Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. John E. White. 5254 Park avenue. by Epsilon chapter, Alpha Omicron Alpha sorority. p Mrs. J. R. Sentenv .national pres- ' ident. was assisted by Mesdames r Walter E. Stevens, Lee O. Nicholson. Harry E. Green and F. Donald EWing. The following committees were appointed by Mrs. Stevens, president: ' Mrs. Elmer A. Crews and Mrs. ■ EV'in. social service; Mrs. Green, Mrs. Charles M. Hoffman and Mrs. Kinder. Needlework guild; Mrs. > Nicholson and Mrs. White, social; . Mrs. Ewin and Mrs. Green, telephone, and Mrs. Kinder and Mrs. , Nicholson, year book.

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CATHOLIC ALUMNAE WILL BE HOSTESSES Approximately 400 will attend the benefit bridge party to be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon in Ayres’ auditorium under the auspices of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae. Mrs. Robert E. Kirby is general chairman and Miss Mary Frances Boyle, ticket chairman. Assisting on the ticket committee are Mrs. Edward Curry, Mrs. Clara O'Brien and Mrs. Thomas Broden; Misses Katherine Krause Mary Ryan, Mary Catherine Slattery, Jane O'Brien, Jeanne O’Connell and Anne Keogh. Gymnasts to Perform A tumbling act by students of the Normal College of t-he American Gymnastic Union will be a feature at the “family nite” party to be held tonight at the Young Womens Christian Association.

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Miss Dimberger Becomes Bride in Church Rite Miss Marcy Dimberger became the bride of Joseph W. Quinlan in a ceremony this morning at Our Lady of Lourdes church. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Dimberger. The Rev. James Moore heard the marriage vows before an altar banked with spring flowers and palms. R. L. McDonald, organist, played a group of bridal airs with Hiliard Francis soloist. The bride, given in marriage by her father, was gowned in pink mousseline fashioned with a short veil, which fell from a cap of pale pink rosebuds. She carried a colonial bouquet of sweetheart roses. The bride was attended by Miss Marguerite Fox who wore light blue net with a picture hat. and carried an arm bouquet of delphinium. Claude Sifferlen was best man. A wedding breakfast at the Dirnberger home followed the ceremony. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Quinlan will be at home at 771 North Bancroft street.

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A Woman’s Viewpoint

DO you read the letters from subscribers in your newspaper? If so, you know’ there persists in the public mind the notion that the United States could be a modem Utopia if only women stayed at home and tended to the children and allowed men to manage the public business unmolested. Yet remiss as we are, it seems to me that women are looking after the children better than men are conducting outside affairs. For never before has there been so much conscientious study and effort put into the attempt to understand the child as now goes on. To be sure, certain men, duecators and doctors, are helping, but in the main this is a feminine movement. All of us. I think, likely are to imagine everything would be perfect if progress had stopped short at our generation. Without any analysis of the whole situation w r e simply assume that when it came to raising children our parents were the only ones who did a decent job.

Then, God help us, we are forced to take a good square look at ourselves—handiwork of those loving progenitors. That look should deflate us, but so egotistical is the nature of mortals that it seldom does. The flattering unction we give to our parents is only another way of proclaiming our superiority over the rest of the world. Endlessly we repeat—all would be well if modem parent* w’ere like ours. We forget one thing: It was out of the old-fashioned home which we so love to praise there came that long procession of men and women who afterward sold

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out some singularly sorry specimens. Violinist to Appear Fred Mushrush, violinist, acornpanied by his sister Kathryn, will appear on the musical program at a McGuffy Club meeting tomorrow afternoon in the Cropsey auditorium of the main library.