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This is our view: Supervision Lacking Is Report Many Indiana elementary school * teachers are employed in schools in which even the most capable and welltrained teacher would be wunable to overcome the obstacles to effective teaching and learning, a report of the Indiana School Study Commission points out. Burley V. Bechdolt, Study Director, stated that the information gathered by the Commission reveals that in many situations the buildings and equipment provide a depressing atmosphere which tends to stifle the interest and initiative of the children. Needed instructional materials, adequate library facilities and effective téaching aids are not provided. Those which are found had in nearly every case been purchased by the teacher. The survey discloses that these teach= ers are deprived of the assistance to be derived from effective ~administrative and supervisory leadership. Even when principals are employed, the report states, they are-unable to function effectively in a supervisory capacity because' the major portion of their time is consumed by teaching. Only five per cent of the township schoois have a supervising principal who teaches half time or less, contrasted with 52 per cent of the cities which have supervising. principals.

Supervision has proved to be a very necessary service. Studies have revealed that children profit most when they are with teachers who have all the advantages of good supervisory assistance, the report states. Persons who can exert constructive leadership, help teachers plan activities for children and help faculties utilize the best -classroom practices pay dividends for boys and girls. Teachers have the right to expect constructive help on their instructional problems. . This supervisory aid should come from principals, supervisors, coordinators, and other personnel who are able to give teachers the assistance they need. If the principal is to give leadership to his teachers, he must be freed from teaching assignments. The boys and girls in the teaching principal’s room certainly deserve the undivided attention of a fuil-time teacher. The Commission report points out that the fulltime teaching principalship should be abolished in buildings with eight or more teachers and that a full time principal be employed.

A committee headed by Rev. John Rollings and including Fred Hendrickson, John Ulrey and Mrs. Q. F. Stultz are now working to bring before all of Ligonier’s various organizations the full impact of.the commission’s study. This paper, for one, wishes to compliit .h. incerest of this group. By such .ous to, we enlighten the public of vic yuporvant matters of government effecting their lives and the lives of their children. : There is no fear in a nation of enlightened citizens. et (et The Chinese Puzzle What is the United States to do about " the Chinese puzzle? o Can it be solved with dollars? Probably not. And our own national budget is aleeady reaching for the skies. Here is a problem which ealls for expert advice—if there are any experts. - Those who have pushed themselves forward in that capacity do not seem to be in agreement. ' It is going to take some hard, clear thinking by men in high places in America to see that we do not get caught in a trap so far as the Orient is concerned. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

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Thursday, December 9, 1948

- Did you ever wonder at various occasions if the reactions you were experiencing were peculiarly your reactions alone? I have and it always bothers me. I sit and listen to a speech, and I think the man illy fit to be present before the audience, but others seem intent, and I nearly decide something in. my make-up is awry ,or I too would be intent and interested. I see a movie that to me is poor theatre, poorly written and miserably acted, but I see others sitting enrapt, and I take stock of my reactions. I read a book that to me is filled with inaccuracies, stodgy and untrue, and I find others reading the book with interest and pleasure.. : I listen to the propounding of personal philosophy that seems immeasurably inconsistant, and spoken without benefit of facts,- but others seem to listen, and notice not these errors. ; It is a strange feeling to think your reactions apart from others, and the taking stock process is laborious and difficult. No one wishes to be the fifth wheel, but being true to yourself is more important, and the differences experienced cause alarm. , I say cause alarm were we standing alone, but after searching the facts I find that we stand not alone., That others feel much the same way, but we make not our reactions known to each other, and many an anxious moment is spent by our silence. I don’t propose any solution to our various quandries, but 1 bring up this subject that you, who find yourselves riding the same boat, may take solacc in the fact that you are not alone. It is wrong, but true, that most of us fear expregsing our displeasures and distastes, We think we are alone, and that of itself keeps us silent. What satisfaction we could give each other by overcoming that fear, and speaking out the ideas we hide in the recesses of our minds. ‘ -

Are you, like me, a nocturnal being? Does the quiet of the night give clarity to your thoughts and stimuius to the creativeness, within you? It’s discomforting isn’t it? When others are sleeping, following the accepted routine of living, we nocturnal souls are awake and alert. Let the fibers of our body be racked with tiredness during the longness of the day, but come the setting of the sun, they seem to recover and make all well again. I miss little of the city, but I do miss the pleasure of the late evening stroll to the nearest coffee stand when the ity is asleep and the night is deafening with its silence. During my days in the Navy, I would get up at midnight and walk the lonely street to a restaurant nearby, caring not so much for the coffee or sandwich as for the walk each way. It’s a feeling inexpressable. You that have had it kncw what I mean. _—-—-—-_o_——-“ Can you look back twenty years to a a meeting with some friend whom- you have not seen since that very day? Did the future look bright? Were your plans filled with that hope? Did the days ahead look tranquil and peaceful? What a reunion it would make to meet that friend today. Since that day, America had its greatest depression; the world experienced its mcst devastating war. What will the next twenty-years record? Today it looks less tranquil than did the picture twenty years ago. Let us hope the future acts in the same direct proportions, . -——--————‘)_.___~ WAYSIDE PULPIT: “If two percent, of the population of the world strongly wanted peace, war would be impossible.” e:5; » : ; POEM OF THE WEEK: One broken dream is not the end of dreaming. One shattered hope is not the end of all, Beyond the storm and tempest stars are gewmne, ¢ : Still build your castles, though your castles fall. o ' Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or hero-

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& ) /2 7, { b Whiy dervaee Radio Writer's Strike . 4. Cheevers Winch, radio writer, walked up and down in front of his cabinet radio. : ‘“Why all the pacing?’”’ asked the wife. : : “lI am a’ pacer by instinct; all writers are,” said Mr. Winch. *“But why up and down in front of the radio set?” ‘I am picketing,’”” replied the author. : : “Oh, yes, 1 forgot about the strike,” said the wife, ‘but it's so futile. You can’t picket radio as a whole. You don’t write all the pro‘ram..’l 5 ‘ s & = “ ““There you go belittling me!’’ exclaimed Winch. e S He now grabbed a banner reading: ‘“Radio Is Unfair to Winch,” and resumed his walking. : “Why are you striking, any-, how?” asked the wife. % “I don’t get enough money.” *“Think what you got before radio!” “Don’t talk like a union baiter!” —l Mrs. Winch made a move to twist a dial. ‘“‘Stop!”’ commanded Winch, booing fiercely and adding ‘‘Scab!” *All I want to get is the weather,” said the wife. ‘““Would you cross a picket line to get the weather, foul or fair?” asked Winch sternly. 3 “Certainly. Do you write the weather forecasts, too?” “I am dickering with a conipany to make them louder and funnier,” insisted Winch. —— Mrs. Winch crossed the one-man picket line and tuned in. “Good morning, this Is the Weather Bureau,’” a voice said. “Seel No originality,” scoffed Winch. “This is a bright, sunny morning, and conditions favor continued fair weather along the Atlantic seaboard, with light winds,"” the voice continued. “Scabs must be doing it,” said Winch. ‘“Not a laugh anywhere in the forecast.” 5 A, Mrs. Winch turned the dial and got into a commercial for & soap powder. ‘ “I was afraid of that,” she said, » “What?” asked Winch. *“The jingle writers have not - gone out in sympathy.” i e Mr. Winch resumed his pacing. Mrs. Winch, ever a good counsel, argued with him. *“You know this is making you miserable,” she said. ‘“No radio writer is truly happy unless he is listening to his material on the air. You can’t hold out.” “This is a finish fight,” said Winch, ““We can’t lose. Those radio people will try new writers and get fresh material. The public will not stand for it. They are too accustomed to the old gags, the true and tried situations, the old-time plots.” “You can’t tell,” said the wife. “If the public heard any really new and original material on the air, they might go for it. They might even demand it.” ‘ Z. Cheevers Winch reached for his hat and coat. He started for the office at once. There was no use taking foolish chances. .- ss » » President Truman grew chin whiskers at Key West, but denied they constituted a Van Dyke. The growth was officially ruled a five o’'clock shadow with a broader Democratic base. : ' % ® @ The White House is closing & great portion o‘l #t for repairs. The celebrations took the roof off is. j *@= : , A Russian editorial writer says that those who voted for Henry Wallace (remember?) were the very flower of the American nation. The other millions, we assume, constituted a sort of national weed show. : s e& o o A Washington inquiry has found that the public has been " taken to the cleaners through a widespread racket in which car dealers made them come across ‘with 450 millions for extras and quate allowances on old cars. To whom is that news? ®& ® 3 There was a big drop in attendance and receipts at the recent New York horse show. It seems that people are afraid to consider ordering a new horse for fear they may have to wait two years. o T % Governor Dewey : vacationed in Tucson, Aris. Gallup, New - ~ Mexico, was of course speed- ; At e 88 : Pt T T » nence that he is eligible to inu;flw Comet Discovered.”—headTheiwitiels et ST - |

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Letters in the Bible Lesson for Decembét 12, 1948

A LETTER in the mail! Those are exciting words. It was so when the Babylonians chipped open their dried clay envelopes, it

is so when we rip the end off our paper envelopes, it was so when the marooned and homesick Timothy broke the seal on the papyrus notes that his old friend and teacher Paul sent him. Most letters reach the wastebasket, and

we know that some of Paul’'s did. But fortunately his friends thought enough of about a dozen of his letters to save them and copy them and file them with some others and pass them around. And so we got more than a third of our New Testament, and perhaps a good deal . more than a third of our theology. » * * » : Yesterday in Television ; THESE letters that have come down to us from so long ago are not only keenly interesting, “they are immensely valuable. An honest informal letter is like an open window. We see into the writer’s mind and life, we see the life of his times. Any historian feels lucky when he lights on a packet of old letters. Here is yesterday in television. The letters of the New Testa- _ mgnt, especially Paul’s, are not propaganda literature. Paul was not writing for publication or for posterity. He would be bothered by a problem; he would think and pray about if, and then he would sit down and . write about it. However trivial the problem might seem, such as a local church quarrel, Paul never wrote trivially about it. He would pour out his mind on papyrus, usually dictating his letters to a secretary and sometimes so fast that the secretary obviously had a hard time keeping up. | SR B oy o " qp e B iy

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tle’s mind worked, here it is. »If you want to know how an inspired religious genius, one of the great of all time, planned and grieved and hoped and rejoiced, read these letters. Further, these letters televise for us the early Christian church. This is not a view of the church on parade, this is a glimpse - of the church as it was ‘on the hoof,”’' struggling, quarreling, ignorant, scarce one step removed from raw heathenism, and yet with the root of Christian faith in its heart, the seed of the great church that has grown up through the centuries. . : £ * L Friend to Friend THE letters in the New Testament are of various kinds. The letter to the Philippians from Paul was written, from prison, to some of his best friends. Recently they had sent him not only money but a man named Epaphroditus to stay with Paul and help him, Paul being in constant bad health, But Epaphroditus himself had fallen ill, and when he grew better he was still homesick. Paul, generous as al"avays,' decided to send his sick friend home to - convalesce, and by his hand sent the letter which the Philippian church loyed, saved and copied, so that it eventually : made -its way into the New Testament collection. There is some high theology in the letter; but there is also - some warm human friendship, and some of the best advice Paul ever gave. It is in this letter we discover Paul’s secret . of happiness. I have learned (he wrote) in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. (See chapter 4.) When you read those paragraphs, simply - glowing with happiness, remember they were writtén by a sick man, in jail, facing a serious charge on his forthcoming trial. Paul had actually discovered a joy which is trouble-proof. =~ = Father toe Sons -~ v o 0 P_AUL knew he would not live for-' _* ever on this planet and could not live everywhere. So he spent much . effort training helpers and succes- : .sors. Some of these disappointed - him sorely; but he was m : . appointed in Timothy. @~ =+ His letters to Timothy are per- - sonal, but.they are more thap:that, They aré*’advice"fi'omgmm' ister to a younger one, from a vet- . “eran missionary to a fresh recruit. ' I? I John we havle&’ another- kind of letter, from an old, perhaps re- ~ tired minister to a congregation he . knows znd loves. Again in I John the reader gets the impression of _ reading a family hfiegmwm father to 80!13 and;daughu“'f, ¥4if“x ;* LWD Peareay S loun Rolanet ey,

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The Amateur Colleges THERE are” now probably eight or 10 strictly amateur colleges or universities in the United States. The others are either semipre or strictly pro in many details. There is at least a taint of professionalism connected with any

college that proselytes, solicits or gives out a scholarship or a dime to any athlete, Only ‘those colleges that treat an athlete as they would a leading math or English scholar come under this heading. Which are these few colleges? We first contacted Jim

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Gregg, an alumnus of Sewanee, the university that started the pure amateur plan. Sewanee has had its day of glory from 1892 to 1936. It has had its great teams, its leading stars— Simkins, Lanier, Lex Stone, Faulkenberry, Harris Cope, Rex Kilpatrick (brother of the general, and much bigger) Kirby-Smith, ete. - ‘“But,” as Jim Gregg put it, ‘““‘Sewanee decided in the winter of 1945-1946 that ‘big-time football’ didn’t belong in Sewanee’s scheme of scholastic . life. The athlete was to be treateu as any other student. : ‘“‘Sewanee had no fault to find with other universities. We simply believed that subsidized football was not for us. Then the problem of a schedule came up. We finally lined up Centre, Mississippi college, Presbyterian, Hendrix, Maryville, Hampden Sydney and Kenyon. Only one of these failed to keep its agreement. Hendrix dropped out because the cost of traveling to Sewanee and Millsaps was added. “We tried to get others to join us—such as Washington and Lee, Davidson and the Citadel, but they declined to leave the Southern conference because they claimed they needed the money they received from big: guarantees, and also they were afraid of their own alumni groups. We’ll get more followers eventually. “Gate receipts are unimportant. (As we understand it, there are no gate receipts. Possibly nominal ones against the $4 and $5 collected today.) Football at Sewanee cost the " university $19,000 in place of the $500,000 or $1,000,000 that Michigan, Notre Dame and others earn from the sport. Football is simply treated as Latin, English and math are treated—a necessary part of a university's curriculum.”’ ?

In other words, Sewanee’s educational course wasn’t arranged to strengthen the Bears, Packers, Giants, Eagles, and Forty-Niners, where four years of college is a waste of time. Not a bad thought, “Sewanee has about the right idea,”” Johnny Kieran says. “Only if they will do the right and smart - thing and abolish gate receipts you won’t have to bother with football pay rolls or proselyting. Let . the public in free. This settles all arguments.”’ It is the only way that all arguments will ever be settled. I still don’t believe college football was started to bring in $500,000 or a $1,000,000 a year to university funds, through its winning teams, frequently built up at any price. % * % » Big Ten Again? . There is a chance that the Big Nine will become the Big Ten again. : If this happens, the new member will be Michigan state. Why not? Michigan state today has 15,000 students. It also has one of the best football layouts in the game, a'new stadium that can handle 55,000 ' spectators, the most modern one yet built. In Dr. John A. Hannah, it might also be noted that Michigan state has one of the leading college presidents of the country, whose slant on football is sound. '~ The Big Nine was also the Big Nine in 1908. That is the - year when Michigan revolted. ~ The Wolverines stayed out until 1917 when they finally returned to the fold. The Big Ten - stuck until Chicagoe university ~ abolished football, and ever . -since then there have been at~tempts by several outsiders to take Chicago’s place. . The Big Nine has been in no ‘hurry to make it the Big Ten again. But, if there is any change, ~Michigan state is almost certain to be fie’v' oue selected. - - - something like California and U. C. L. A. The first two are state uni_versities in Michigan, just as the RaR L T TS TLR W eSy *}"%%r%%%*fi}%@»%\& %’«m: M Gt o Y I