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From Kindergarten Through College
Next week we are driving
our twin daughters to college.
It's a meaningful time for
them—and for their mother
and me.
How education has changed
within my memory—the curri
culum, the plant, the manner
of teaching.
The small, wooden school
houses have been replaced by
imposing modern structures of
many rooms — and frequently
many buildings, so that the
students have to run from one
class to the next if they expect
to be on time.
The boys used to be respon
sible for chopping the wood
and bringing it in during the
winter to stoke the one stove
that kept the rooms vaguely
warm. The new plants are not
only adequately heated, but
air conditioned too.
There was only one teacher
for all grades, but how dedi
cated and interested they were.
Many were school ma'ams,
single, and the butt of many
jokes. Their passing from the
scene has left a gap in teach
ing. The incentive to be a good
teacher is lacking today. As is
true in business, some girls go
into teaching only until they
can get married, which is hard
ly the basis for good work.
They’re not inspired to educate
the young ones under their
care. Others are only biding
their time until the right op
portunity presents itself in in
dustry where they can earn
more money. With the pay
raises going through, one of
these problems may correct it
self. The other will only be
solved when the young teach
ers know what most older
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। teachers realize — the impor
tant role they play in the mold
ing of young minds to good
and great things, or to a life
time of mediocrity.
Some years ago, only the
> basic subjects were taught.
They were so deeply engrain
ed in the young brains, it was
impossible to forget them
through the years. There were
no frills, no extras, to distract.
Today too many students are
permitted to take ‘easy courses’
just so they will have the cred
its to graduate. I don't think
the emphasis on extra curri
cular subjects and activities is
justified. A child has only so
many hours and so many in
terests —either he is going to
be interested in learning fun
damental truths, or football.
It’s the exceptional child who
has the capacity to be interest
ed in both to any degree. With
more leisure available to work
ing people every year, the
school boards may think it’s
sensible to look ahead and
teach youngsters how to con
structively use that extra time.
But I’m afraid most of them
will forget half of what they
learned, or find they can’t keep
up the physical activity as they
grow older. Personally, I think
the workingman’s increased
leisure time is a problem that
should be solved by industry,
not in the schoolroom.
When I was young, if a child
missed school for any reason,
his parents or older sisters and
brothers took over—his educa
tion wasn’t neglected. They
helped with homework too.
Some parents today aren’t
interested enough to help their
young students so they use the
LET'S CREATE THE RIGHT
“PERSONALITY" IN OUR ROOMS
When visiting friends in their
new homes, we’re often quick
to observe that an attractive
room has “personality.”
However spontaneous and
genuine this reaction may be,
it isn’t so easy to interpret.
While the effect is evident,
the source is elusive. What
escapes casual observation is
the subtlety of expert designers
in blending lines, texture and
colors to create an impression.
Mastery of this art is essen
tial to developing the right
“personality” for our rooms.
It’s part and parcel of efficiency
in remodeling.
According to the Southern
Pine Association, the decor
should conform with the shape
and function of the room.
Many things can be done to
make a small room look larger,
to provide a more relaxing at
mosphere in resting or read
ing areas, to make the setting
more stimulating in areas
where we dine or entertain.
For the sake of illustration,
let’s suppose the room is small
and low ceilinged, as is the
case in many contemporary
homes, that it belongs in the
“quiet” category.
Simple alterations will alle
viate the sense of confinement.
old excuse that they’re too
busy—that obnoxious box that
lights up, called TV, bowling,
bridge, take up too much of the
parent’s time! The older broth
ers and sisters are too occupied
with their own problems and
activities to spend time with
younger brothers and sisters.
If a parent does try to help
a child, he soon learns that
teaching methods have changed
drastically since he was in
school. For this reason, teach
ers prefer a ‘hands off’ policy
from the parents. If they dis
regard the teacher’s advice, it
means studying the whole book
to find how the subject is ap
proached today.
In recent years there has
been too much mollycoddling
of students. Thank goodness,
the switch away from the al
phabet is being reversed. The
alphabet is a basic fundament
al that one cannot be without
(as important as the spankings
child psychologists are again
urging). Either the alphabet is
learned in school or it has to
be learned in later life—how
can anyone look up a telephone
number unless he knows what
order the letters are in? It’s
the responsibility of the school
।to teach the alphabet, early in
i school.
I’m in favor of learning math
and the other two R's more
deeply, rather than the com
parative smattering of these
important subjects, and a
smattering of extra curricular
subjects so that nothing is
learned well. Os course, in our
expanding civilization, the
three R’s have to be augment
ed to include world history,
logic, higher math, all the sci
ences, foreign languages.
Young people need the pro
per motivation from their par
ents. They are too young to
realize the importance of stu
dying the proper subjects un
til it’s too late for them to re
verse their course. With disci
pline and motivation from their
parents, they’ll take the deep
er, more purposeful subjects.
They must learn good study
habits, including the necessity
of many hours devoted to
homework, both from their
parents, and with the school’s
insistence. If they don’t learn
to study in grade school and
early high school, when are
they going to learn?
Education, in my opinion, is
the most essential principle in
the world, next to religion and
home life. The keystone to the
happy future of our children,
and the peaceful future of our
civilization, is that our stu
dents are properly and ade
quately instructed, from kin
dergarten through college.
Editorial by George S.
Bradshaw. Pres ide n t of
American Fire and Casu
alty Company, Orlando,
Florida, in Company’s
house organ, The Ameri
canizer.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Vertical lines will make the
room seem taller — an impres
sion readily achieved by apply
ing wood paneling to existing
walls. Strong verticals are pro
vided by a new pattern of
Southern Pine — reverse
boards-and-battens. The full
thickness of the panels projects
from the walls with deep re
cesses between. The three-di
mensional impact is helpful to
a small room while cool colors
will make the walls seem more
remote, and the room larger.
Cool colors, such as pale
blues, also have the relaxing
effect desirable for resting or
reading areas.
Warm, stimulating hues are
appropriate for dining or en
tertaining areas. Such colors
make the walls seem closer and
the surroundings more inti
mate.
Either warm or cool colors
can be applied to wood panel
ing simply by tinting the fin
ish with oils. The applied
coloration is transparent and
does not obscure the wood
grain.
DCT Program
Aids Students
In Their Work
The Diversified Cooperative
Training (DCT) Program is de
signed especially to provide vo
cational training opportunities
for high school juniors and
seniors.
The students spend one-half
day in organized employment
in a chosen trade or occupation
and one half day in high
school. One period of the half
day in high-school is devoted to
the supervised and directed
study of technical subject per
tinent to the trade or occupa
tion in which the student is
engaged. The half day spent in
employment is for the purpose
of securing organized work ex
perience in accordance with a
definite schedule of work
agreed upon by the employers,
the student, and the school.
During the time the student is
employed in these work ex
periences, he is under the su
pervision of the school as well
as the employer.
The program is designed in
such away as to permit the
students to graduate from high
school with a regular diploma.
They can say, then, that they
have a regular high-school dip
loma plus two years of actual
work experience in a definite
Heart Attacks
Sometimes Come
Very Suddenly
“It takes 45 years to develop
this disease.” the doctor said,
“and what you’ve done in the
past 15 minutes doesn’t mat
ter.”
The doctor was Richard C. :
Bates, M.D.. of Michigan, and
he was holding forth on a sub
ject close to everybody's heart.
Byway of clinching his point,
he added: “Your chances of
heart attack are just as good
in bed as out mowing the,
lawn.”
Dr. Bates sees little point to
the old newspaper custom of
checking hospitals after a
heavy snowfall to find out I
how many persons have died:
while shoveling snow. It real
ly doesn't matter, he insists,
because on an ordinary, un- i
snowy day you could probab
ly find twice as many “who |
dropped dead while not!
shoveling snow.”
To rising young businessmen
he offers his own modest “re
cipe” for working up a coro
nary:
“Get a good job and make
a lot of money behind a desk.
Eat plenty of meat and dairy
products. Smoke two packs of
cigarettes a day and never ex
ercise.”
On the subject of weight
control, too. Dr. Bates’ advice
shuns the orthodox: He sug
gests ignoring the standard
weight tables and watching the
waistline instead. For every
inch that shouldn't be there, i
he says, you can figure five
undesirable pounds.
What are the chief enemies .
of a healthy heart? “Gluttony
and indolence,” according to!
Dr. Bates. In short, more ex
ercise coupled with less appe
tite indulgence is what this
doctor orders. He doesn’t pre
tend that it’s easy—just thinks
it’s necessary if you're really i
interested in surviving beyond
middle age. j
Plant Mixture cf
Wheat-Rye Grass
For Summer Silage
Georgia dairymen who are
interested in insuring them
selves adequate supplies of top
quality forage for feeding next
summer might well make fall
plantings of wheat or a mix
ture of wheat and rye grass for
spring-cut silage. Results of
research in agronomy and
dairy departments at the Geor
gia Experiment Station, Ex
periment, Ga. show that ex
cellent silage for summer feed
ing can be made from wheat
or a wheat-rye grass mixture.
Agronomic studies over the
past three years at Experiment
to determine the best small
grains to plant for summer
silage show that a mixture of
Bledsoe wheat and common
rye grass is best. lsr. U. R.
Gore who conducted the tests
said that Bledsoe proved to be
the best wheat variety to plant
for silage and that adding rye
grass at seeding increased sil
age yields of Bledsoe wheat by
17 percent.
These tests showed that two
bushels of Bledsoe wheat seed
plus 30-40 pounds of rye grass
seed per acre is the best seed
ing rate. The mixture should
be planted on a well-prepared
seedbed in early October in the
Mountain and Limestone Val
ley areas and between Octo
ber 15th and 30th in the Pied
mont area.
The best silage yield from
the wheat and rye grass mix
ture at Experiment was ob
tained from fertilization with
400 pounds of 6-12-12 at seed
ing followed by a top dressing
of 60 to 100 pounds of nitrogen
in February.
Dr. M. E. McCullough who
conducted feeding trials with
wheat and wheat-rye grass
silages, reported that both
made excellent silage without
the additions of a feed-type
preservative.
“The rye grass apparently
added sufficient leafy material
to improve the mixture in its
ability to maintain milk pro
trade or occupation of their
own choosing.
The program is not organized
merely to provide the students
with an opportunity to earn
spending money. It’s purpose is
to provide the student with an
opportunity to prepare for a
career.
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Plentiful Grapes
Are Widely Grown
Grape growing is the world’s
largest fruit industry!
From the United States to
Europe, from Australia to
South Africa, the cultivation of
grapes is carried on wherever
soil and climate conditions per
mit.
Grapes are fruits so old that
history does not specifically re
cord their origin. Some his
torians believe that grapes of
the Old World grew in the
Caspian Sea region. But grapes
are known to have been planted
and grown long before any his
tory was put into writing.
Seeds of grapes found in Swiss
lake dwellings date back to the
Bronze Age, and remains of
grape leaves have been dis
covered in limestone unearthed
in France.
This month and during Oct
ober, grapes take the fruit spot
light in the United States.
USDA’s Agricultural Market
ing Service has grapes on its
September and October lists of
plentiful foods for the South
east. USDA crop reports fore
cast the 1963 U. S. grape crop
at a record 3.56 million tons --
11 percent larger than last
year’s crop and 20 percent
larger than average.
California produces more
than 90 percent of the U. S.
grape crop, mostly European
varieties. Limited quantities of
grapes are grown in other
states, including Georgia, South
duction,” he declared. “For
best silage, however, 100
pounds per ton of ground snap
corn, distiller’s grains, or citrus
pulp should be added,” Dr.
McCullough said.
The best silage from wheat
and the wheat-rye grass mix
ture was obtained when har
vest began when the first heads
appeared in the field.
Dr. McCullough said that
planting wheat or wheat and
rye grass for spring-cut silage
reduces the hazards of crop
failure and the possibility of
being forced to feed low quali
ty forage because it is usually
easier to harvest silage at the
proper stage than hay during
the normally wet spring sea
son. Another advantage is that
growing a spring-cut crop for
summer silage spreads the cost
of silage handling equipment
and silos by increasing their
use.
Carolina, and North Carolina in
the Southeast.
Although several thousand
varieties of grapes have been
named and described only 40
or 50 are commercially import
ant. Os these, only 12 varieties
are important as table grapes.
Principal table grapes of the
European varieties are the
Emperor, Thompson Seedless,
Tokay, Red Malaga, Ribier, Al
meria, Calmerra, and Cardinal.
American types marketed as
table grapes include the Con
cord, Niagara, Catawba, and
Delaware.
The Agricultural Marketing
Service says that Thompson
Seedless and Flame Tokay are
the two varieties that will be
marketed in heaviest volume
during September and October.
The Thompson Seedless is
known as the “three way
grape.” It is marketed from
late summer through Novem
ber, and is widely used for eat
ing fresh, for raisins, and for i
wine. As a table grape, it now I
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leads all other varieties with
shipments averaging around
6,000 cars a year. Thompson
Seedless is also a supreme
raisin grape, and well over half
the world’s raisins are made
from this variety.
The Tokay, or Flame Tokay,
is noted for its brilliant red
color and good shipping and
keeping qualities. The berries
are large to very large, bright
red to dark red, and have thick,
tough skins. They will be on
the market from now through
January.
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