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CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Oct. 27.—They called us at 3:30 this morning in Barranqiilla.. In South America the say “tresmedia” instead of “three-thirty.’ 2 means the same, and 3:30 is a lousy hour 2 : a ‘up, no ‘matter what language you i We: had: breakfast; and lett the ote! at 4:30. Pour of He, Bane crew went in a taxi. The other two,

- plus eight sleepy passengers, went in a rickety Skadta bus. Barranquilla feels very funny “just ' before dawn. Workmen in white clothes stand under street lights, waiting for busses. An amazing number of people are up, doing chores. + -:-The stores have great {folding Bales in front of them. They are closed and locked, but you can see through. Now and then you pass % . 4 policeman. © The ‘airport is 16 miles from HE town. The road is not very good. “The ‘bus ‘is not very good. One of the’ Satin’ OW Ae that, when we make the air: port, we're half way. te: Panama. Outside of town, . .béyond the street lights, we begin to meet burros. | Most of them have five-gallon milk cans slung aver their sides. Others carry vegetables and sundry packs. Dark-skinned men and voys either walk with the ‘burros, or climb on and vide. It was, just. getting dawn when we got to the air-

port. A ‘couple of German Skadta planes were stand- | ing idle on: the-field, and our own ship was making |

a terrific ‘warming-up : roar in the semidaylight of Colombia: .

station building is modern and nice. They weigh our bags again. - A Colombian officer at a desk once more looks at our passports. Everything is ready at 5: 30, which is 15 minutes before take-off -time. So the pilot decides to start, as there -can’t possibly be any more passengers. We climb. in without saying goodby to anybody, because we don’t know anybody. There are mountains to our left, and the ocean is to our right. The sun comes up behind us on_the quarter, and it was a stirring sight with all the strata of pink clouds and the mountain tops sticking up among’ them. This time we are in a land plane. But this 21passenger ‘Douglas is quieter than the Clippers, and there is almost no vibration, and the seats are softer. We climb again to 10,000 feet, follow the coast as far as Cartagena, and then cut right across water toward Panama. The steward gives us hot coffee, which feels good as the great altitude brings the temperature down. After his routine work is done, our friend Adolfo Fernandez, the purser, brings all his papers and shows us how much book work it takes to run an airplane.

Mass Temperature-Taking We: :are two hours and a half in the air, but it flies - away, and before we know it the. jungles of Panama are below us. And believe me, they're jungles. Just a thick, green, steamy mass of vegetation. If- a man were dropped down there in a parachute,

1 don’t suppose he would last 24 hours.

When we landed at the U. S. Army's busy France

- Field, we had to go through a little ceremony at the

inspection office. A large doctor in a white suit put “thermometers in everybody's mouths. It was a very funny sight to see eight of us standing helplessly around there with thermometers sticking out. of our mouths. We are here only a “brief interval—two hours to be exaét.” Pan American sends us down town (only about 10 minutes) in a special car, and will pick us up 15 minutes before plane time. Our- time ‘12 spirit of looking. So we just walk a few blocks, cross the railroad tracks from Panama over to American soil, ‘buy some stamps, and wait for the driver to pick us up. Army planes are landing and taking off by the dozen. It is a dark, murky day, and the perspiration pours out on you even when you sit still. A’ big silver Douglas takes off for the north, It

will be in: the United States tomorrow evening. As |

it goes; our plane pulls up behind. Before dinner time, we will be south of the Equator. .

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Still Prefers Closets With Doors: on Housing Projects.

IRMINGHAM, Ala., Wednesday.—As we left the station yesterday morning in Cincinnati, my eye féll on ‘one of the housing projects which I had seen partly finished on a former visit. I was leaning out to look at it when the taxi driver said: “That's one of the Government housing projects and I live there.” I promptly asked how he liked. it and’ he. responded that it was very satisfactory. ~ One of the first things I was taken to see this morning in Birmingham was another housing project which I had seen just beginning when I was here before. In many of the Southern cities the worst hous--ing is usually occupied by the Negro population and so I was glad to find that this project was for colored people and already practically filled. We asked a woman who came out into her yard if we might see her house. ' She let us in and it seemed to me well planned and well kept. I still disagree with the housing authorities on the question’ of closets without doors. I know one can build more cheaply that way, but one of the reasons for having a closet is to put things in it which you do not want out in the room and which. you want to keep away from dust

and dirt, "We paid a brief visit to the ‘Birmingham Southern

College, took a drive up. a hill from which we had a |

most comprehensive view of the city, and visited a WPA project where work of various kinds was heing done. ‘They have been fortunate:in finding an old.factory which is easy to keep clean and has plenty of

"light and air. The sewing rooms and the mattress

making were in one building. On this project, I saw what ingenuity can accomplish. Lately ‘no - mattress ticking “has n forthcoming from their sponsors, so since they havé received a great number ‘of old Army coats, these have been ripped, washed and sewed together to make really very serviceable mattresses.

Greets Democrats at Luncheon

The weaving is exceptionally good. I saw a woven linen dress: with some block printing as decoration, and varieus couch throws and pieces of material which made me feel that these women. would be able to earn their own livings before long. . Under the sponsorship of the public schools a.book-

binding project has been going on which has put a |

great many. beoks ‘into use. Men and women were

working together on a project for renovating furniture, .

which seemed to me most interesting. They were making over old ice boxes to serve as cabinets. Rooms which they set up with kitchen, bédroom and sitting

room furniture, would have done credit to a Qepart.

nt. tore. - There - is a big gathering. of Democratic women

here today and it has drawn a. number of important Democrats to Birmingham. I was happy to be able to gles hen a at luncheon.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Oct. 21 .—Maybe one reason why the H palice force is beginnin’ to shut down on crime so much is because the: public is beginnin’ to take

an active interest in the police force. The taxpayers |

to realize that they have a right to some service from the people they pay to enforce the law. ‘The ; other day a .big headline appeared in the ‘paper that said, “Man found murdered! Police at sez.” My aunt pointéd "at the headline and said,

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By. Paul Boxell

Times Bloomington Correspondent LOOMINGTON, Oct. 27. —1If it’s ‘something new in the way of schools you'd like to see, drop down to Bloomington one of these days. The Indiana Universiiy Education and Laboratory “School is modern, but Principal C. O. Dahle would "be considerably ‘distressed if it should ‘be labeled “modernistic.”

: %This is a down-to-earth

school,” Mr. Dahle said. “The building is the new-

est and the most imposing"

on the campus. It was com-

| pleted last August at a cost

of $702,000 including furniture, equipment, and books.

I On 600 school There 48 no hangar at the field, but the airport | One month later,

children, ranging from kin-

~ dergartéen to high school

age, moved in and classes

' began. -

For university students who aspire. to teach, the

_school ’is'a mammoth labo-

ratory. Thus many are teachers and students at the same time. And likewise, some 50 regular staff teachers and supervisors have not only their immediate pupils to train but

university students as well. This semester, there are 75 student instructors teaching both elementary and : high sehool classes. Each student has one onehour class a day. In addition, there are 50 “participation” students who do no actual teaching but assist teachers in many ways so -that they have early contact with the work. The «participants” may be sophomores or juniors in the university. “Most student teachers are seniors or postgraduates, though a few are juniors. Next year it will be required that all student teachers be seniors, because of the State four-year license law, One ‘small group is studying supervision and administration and next year will be given supervisory- duties.

- 2 = COUSTICAL tile on all corridor and room ceilings reduces sound and gives the building an unusual calm—as schools go. : . When first you step inside, you may suspect that you have wandered into an- office building. .

Then, when you see huge windows all around, you are: apt to envision yourself in a streamlined department store. The total glass area is equal to 27 per cent of the floor space. « ~ In the basement, you will find a gymnasium, shower room, general shop for manual training, a primary play room: and a Se room which next year will become a nursery school. The ground floor has the principal’s office, the teacher placement byreau, the = kindergarten and its play court and ‘almost a dozen elementary classrooms. One whole &ide of the kindergarten room is in the form of great glass window. The big room contains, in addition to 30 tiny chairs and tables, and as many tots, all kinds of play apparatus— blocks, crayon = sets, painting easels, etc.

Opposite the “window wall” is a

spacious fireplace in which a log fire actually burns. However, it plays ho role in the heating. ® ” ”2 re school has the most up-to-date air conditioned and heating systems available. : Flanking the kindergarten are

staff and student -

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I. U. Is Proud of Its $700, 000 ‘Doton-to-Earth’ Te eacher Clinic

Bacreston’ and ‘sports receive full attention at thé new Indiana ‘University Education and Laboratery School. Here two high school pupils, Jo Ann Thomas (left) and Marilyn Seward (right) ‘are receiving

instruction ‘in archery from Miss Grace Follick. ‘The’ new school was completed last August at a cost of $702,000 and mow is attended by 600 schoolchfldfen ranging from kindergarten to: ‘high school age.

Through the windows at ithe upper right these kindergarten pupils

may be observed at their work without their knowledge.

Parents

as well as practice teachers may use these observation booths, accord-

ing to ‘Miss ‘Angela Mensing, kindergarten director. “Parents in this

way: ate able to see how their children react in a group and in the

presence of other adults when they themselves apparently are not

presént, » she says.

Principal C. O. Dahle "observation ‘booths * from which students maysIook on’ with-

out being seen by the tiny pupils.

Fine copper screen over the booth windows makes this possible. “We are anxious for parents as well as students to use these booths,” says Miss * Angela” Mensing, kindergarten director. “Parents in this way are able to see how their children react in a group and in the presence of other adults when they themselves are apparently not present.” Walls of the kindergarten are in soft shades of green and blue, as are all other classrooms on the sunny side of the building. North rooms have warm buff and tan walls to offset lack of direct sunshine. The kindergarten children do not use a ‘stairway. They enter and leave by a ramp and so are spared ‘the chance ‘of ‘stumbling and falling -on. stairsteps. Movable desks in all classrooms are arranged in informal patterns.” "Most patterns “are Ushaped with double rews of pupils facing each other, but they ere changed frequently for variety.

The Indiana , University Education aha. Laboratory School.

N some 2ooNis. there are flat desks, in others chairs and tables, and in others desk~chairs.

. Youll find. all. classrooms large,

20 to 50 per cent larger than the average brand. Chairs along the walls take up part of the extra space and, as ‘you may have guessed these are for student observers. The rest of the free space is used for class activities which would ‘be impossible in the ordinary classroom. “In other words,” Mr. “Dahle tells you, “the classrooms are not chaotic, but they certainly can't ‘be destribed as formal.”

Adjacent to each classroom ‘is

the staff ' teacher's office. Here the teacher holds conferences with student teachers and pupils and, watch the student teacher ‘con-

-ducting the class. .

On the first floor, you’ find

an auditorium seating 360,. science ° - laboratories’ and high school class-

rooms. In the foods unit, high school girls learn to cook on .Kerdsene, gas and electric stoves. “So, they are prepared to face anything but a wood stove,” the instructor, Anna M, Noble. .

Side Glances—By Clark:

through a window, may . . struction forthe children.

| supervisors and ‘administrators.

says, :

These pupils in: the. foods unit are. renaiul. to face anything They are taught to cook on. kerosene, gas and electric stoves in the medern kitchen of the. laboratory school: Shown here left to right are Misses Natalie Henley, .Linked -with the kitchen : unit is a Aiving-aiting. room in which the ‘students entertain.

but a wood : stove.

Helen Henderson,

Children’ enrolled in’ Kindergarten at the 1. U. school ‘do not use a stairway but enter and leave by a ramp shown here. 2 spared ‘the chance of stumbling and falling on stairsteps. school has up-to-date heating’ and air-conditioning systems, and the classrooms. are .20 to 50 .per. cent larger than average classrooms. Movable desks in all the rooms are arranged in informal pattern and . are changed about for variety.

Linked’ with the kitchen unit is a living-dining room in which the students entertain . their mothers

and other guests at tea.

There are many other ‘special

units, common to those of other large schools except that. here, perhaps, they are more p= -to-the-

- minute.

The second floor has a library, |

_ with 4000 volumes; a music room,

and more high school classrooms. Children : attending the school are unselected and do not pay tuition. They are made eligible by

living ‘in a _certain section. of the. “city.

» 2 » HE school ‘has a’ four-point - program, according to Principal Dahle, to: 1. Provide a superior type of in-

* 2. Train prospective teachers,

3. Promote sound educational theory and practice ‘through ‘experimentation. © 4; Provide-a ‘progressive public school whose practices. may. be: critically’ observed by -educators throughout the. state. and. thus premote educational growth. : And it is in‘regard’ to the fourth

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aim that Principal Dahle. extends to state teachers, or to any others interested, an invitation to frigpeet the school. He says:. ' ° J “We ‘feel that we. can stand, the

scrutiny .of State educators. And if for any reason we can't, we want to mow WHY. SA :

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SO THEY SAY—

When our : communities want something done and done ‘well, they are going to ask the Grandmothers’ .|Club to do it: —Mrs. Marie K. Brown,

president of the iNational Grandmothers’ ‘Club, addressing _ ‘the organization's convention.

The high command of ‘the Republican party ‘believes: the only good Progressives are dead Progressives.—Secretary of Agriculture

Salesmanship is selling goods that won’t come back to people that. will come back.—Dr. Neal Bowman of Temple University, Philadelphia.

All of us need more “do’s” and less “dont’s”’—Dr. Arlie V. Block, head ofthe hygiene department of Harvard University. :

TEST YOUR" KNOWLEDGE -

1—What is solder? : 2—In "which . country is the -Juear River? : 3—Haow. did Maj." Jokn ‘Andre meet his death? 4—1In astronomy, what word defines the relative brillfancy L of stars? , 5—Name the U. S. Housing Ad- . ministrator ‘6—What is. myopia? * TY an 7—What does the Latin phrase Dei. ratia mean? * 8—What is the name of the instrument - that :js" ‘ised to: measure wind’ velocity? x

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1—Any fusible alloy used for Liming metals. :

3—He" 3s hanged as a spy ‘during the American Revolutionary War. Lo » 4 Magnitude. a ‘5—Nathan Straus, * 6—Nearsightedness. ' | | T—By. the ‘Grace of God. 8—Anemometer.’

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By Aiton Scherrer : he 5

Imagine a Hosa: Without Walk! . Such a Home, Says Our Columnist, Would Wreck the American Family.

disposition to. believe no -evil:got quite a jolt by a remark, dropped by Frank

hg Wright over the week-end, that the future home will be one big room partitioned

off by screens instead of walls.. ‘Goodness knows I don’t want to put anys thing in the way of Mr. ‘Wright's ‘crusade, but it strikes me that the time has’ come ‘to. speak out

boldly and point out that if we make our. Living ‘rooms ?

any bigger, it will be the end of us. Certainly, the end of family life in Indianapolis. I happen to know something . -about, the subject because I remem_ber 'when living Tooms came to In- °° “dianapolis, which is’ by way of say-.

{-ing that my memory goes back to

the time ‘we didn’t have: any living - rooms. ‘Instead, we had two smaller rooms, ons Sesignai to receive com- . pany and called a parlor; the 1 errer other, a sitting room equipped with Me: Sen a baseburner around which we did our living. As a rule, the two rooms were separated by a set of slid ing .doors which I distinctly recall had a whimsical determination of their own. Even so, you have no

idea how that set of sliding. doors contributed to the

good, temper of the Indianapolis home when 1 was a» kid. Anyway, our troubles began when we Xnovred down the wall ‘with the sliding doors and turned the two rooms into one..: Right away, there was the deuce to pay. For one thing, it left the daughter of the house ‘without a place private enough to receive her' company.” As a result, our girls were thrown into the. street to pursue their courtships, or what was even worse, into automobiles and movies. Mind you, I have no quarrel with automobiles and movies. They're grand, but until they make some improve-

‘ments they can’t take the place of the home when it

comes to conducting courtships.: Or Elise Parents Were Ousted

1t worked the other way, too. If .by any chance our girls wanted to receive their beaux in the lfving room, it drove the parents into the .street. (Either that, or into their bedrooms. To be sure, it wasn’t

-oftén that Indianapolis girls picked the living room -to do their courting, because, say what you will, our

girls are pretty smart. They know enough without anybody - telling -them that a. big -room isn’t any place to stage a courtship. Knowing which, I can’t understand why Mr. Wright wants to fly into the face of faets and preach the need of a living room big enough to include also the dining. roem, kitchen, and for all

"I know, the bedrooms, too.

It ‘won’t work. -What’s more, it’s bound to disintegrate the family. One of the reasons family life

held up the way it did when I was a kid was be«"

cause we had rooms to escape to. Ours was a well tempered family-because Father had the sitting room to do. his reading’ and Mother her kitchen to fool with. As for us kids; ‘we had the dining room to do our lessons. Separated by walls and doors, we got along beautifully. Our family life would have been Wrecked in a room of Mr. Wright’s Sesign:

ne Jordan—

A Wife Seeks a Way in Help Her Husband Cure a Casanova Complex.

DEA JANE JORDAN—TI admire your senstble so

lutions to love problems and insight into what .can and cannot be done with human nature. In your

-reply to Adriene you said that much could be done

fo help a man conquer his desire for constant change in women if the man wanted help. Can you tell me how to go about helping a husband in his thirties conquer such a desire? His habit was not formed

| until his early twenties and I believe he might co-

| operate and be happier if he did. MARGARET M. » in J : Answeredthe first’ requisite " the cure of any ‘man with the Casanova complex is ‘the recognition that he is psychologically sick and needs help, Then comes the search for the inner necessity which makes the conquest of many women essential to his ego, In each case the inability to establish continuity

‘in the love life harks back to some situation in child«

hood. It is safe to say that multiple love affairs are almost always an overcompensation for an intolerable, though unrecognized, sense of inferiority. Just as a boy who was physically Tk. in childhood sometimes compensates by becoming ‘a tops flight athlete, so a man who has sustained unbearablé frustrations at the hands of women sometimes compensates by becoming a - top-flight amatory athlete, Not all: cases fall into one category. It may be that the man was dominated by. 8 doting mamm grandmother, aunt or sister, which made him resolv to evade the clytches of clinging women for the rest of his life. To him many women prevent one froma becoming too powerful. Some have become so spoiled by adulation at home that no one woman can satisfy

{ their desire for adulation. As soon as one affair cools

off they are hot on the trail of another. Many men who pass as great lovers love only themselves. ‘a Then again our Casanova may have been exploited and disappointed by some woman early in life. He avenges himself on the girl who turned him down - thousand times by arousing the expectations of a woman and turning her down in the end. Some search the world for the ideal image established by

a mother or sister, and turn aside from each woman

wheén reality fails to conform to ‘the dream. Others use their flagrant affairs as a red herring drawn across the trail to.conceal from themselves and others the fact that they have no real interest in wonien, Their only’ lasting friendships are formed with men but this fact escapes notice because attention is focused on the constant stream of women, In general, it is perhaps true that the philanderer has no self-confidence. He must conquer the fair sex again and again to prove that he is irresistible. Confident men do. not need more than one woman to keep them reassured.

A psychiatrist is better equipped’ than anyone else :

to reveal the significant ‘factor in. the life of the philanderer that compels him to. constant: conquests, "and to help him find socially acceptable means for

- | expressing his drives in 8 nore mature and less de-

structive manner. JANE JORDAN.

Put your weoblems ins. titer to Jane sdltsn, who wil answer your aa logs in’ this column a-n. :

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