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EDUO ION PLAN IS BJSON TOPIC By Roger W. Babson BABSON PARK, Mass., May 11. We shall be passing up vast oppor tunities for national advancement If we now fail to capitalize our re cent lessons on how to educate. I mean the lessons which have been taught to us by the new techniques of training men and women for war. It is true that civilian education is aimed at peaceful objectives. As commonly practiced, the most popular courses are the so-called "outside activities”, although most of them are non-educational. I re fer to jitter-bugging, juke-boxing and those graver pastimes which may not be immoral, but surely are a facsimile thereof.I n mili tary training, the purpose is "How to win and come back alive . Nevertheless, the two educations (civilian and military) can be alike in attitude, even if unlike in sub ject matter. The famed super-speed and ultra cffciency of military training are not to be explained by mere me chanical methods alone. Strobosco pic or slow-motion pictures, mod els in miniature, high-pressure coaching, pocket-size texts,—these modern boosters are worthy of at tention by every school committee. The inner difference, however,— which puts Army and Navy train ing long miles ahead of our horse drawn public schools—is the su perior build-up of educational at titude. In the schooling of the armed forces, both trainers and trainees are consciously dealing in life or death. However immature in years, the servicemen are quick to feel the adult attitude of those who learn their lessons “under live am munition”. This “adult attitude”, this precocity of maturity, is what makes military instruction click and tick. Our public schools should duplicate, in peacetime, this war time attitude to raise the mental age. when we extend the range oi ed ucation to cover maturity, we auto matically increase the power of education and tap its unexplored and undreamed possibilities. The surest way to raise the standard of living and true security is to raise the average “mental age” of the population. Hence, another way to raise this average mental age is to encourage adult educa tion. This requires supplementing our present public school system with new adult educational sys tems. Our school system in its juve nile branches offers alluring pos sibilities of reformation. Speaking brutally, but realistically, most of today’s schools — under the joint influence of hardheaded politicians, softheaded sentimentalist and em pty headed parents—are a mess. That the school certificates of grad uates are traditionally engrossed on the skin of the sheep seems grimly fitting when we look up the I. O. of this self-regimented ani mal! Yet, unfortunate is the fate of those of us who seek to reform the schools. The prospective controver sy, resistance, obstruction and re action are shocking to behold. The possibilities of reform are alluring but the path of reform is appalling. It may be better to leave the schoolmen to stew in their own juice for awhile longer and turn attention to development of adult education. But I will say more about Adult Education next week. In countless camps all over the world, it has been demonstrated that boys and girls become men and women most promptly and most surely when the mark of an educated man or woman is not a diploma but a dog-tag. I forsee that my realism will , shock the sentimentalists, but the statement stands. Yes, the double failure of the antiquated public school system is that it results in delayed maturity of the virtues, while prompting pre cicity in the vices. If it is hopeless to re-organze the schools, there is high hope to organize Adult Ed ucation. It could, it might, it may become America’s outstand ing contribution to world security. Surely, we can educate for life as efficiently as we educate for death. -V BUT WAR BONDS AND STAMPS On Vital Errand ^ j Documents of final surrender of all Nazi forces in Europe were reported delivered to Allied le gations in Stockholm by Dr. Hans Thomsen, above, German ambassador to Sweden. Georgia Navigation System Would Cost About $317,000,000 ATLANTA, GA„ May 10. —(U.R)— Blanton Fortson, chairman of the Georgia Agriculture and Develop ment Board, said today that de velopment of proposed inland waterways in Georgia would re sult in a Navigation system equal to the Tennessee Valley project. Hanver J. Friedman, reporting to the board for the rivers and har bors commission, said that pro posed expenditure on the dams, channel ways and navigation aids for the post-war period would cost S317,000.000 if all projects are im proved. -V SLIDING DOORS COME BACK CHICAGO, May 10 —(U.R)— The sliding doors that used to be in grandma’s parlor will return in postwar homes, according to the publication, Practical Builder. The new doors are streamlined to slide silently with a minimum of effort —but with the same purpose of saving space. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS NURSES FREQUENTLY USE MOROLINE Petroleum Jelly to soothe and relieve ^ BABIES'DIAPER RASH St Tubes Times As Much For 10€ Pulsate i^Xn M.. jJu/s Hot.Bread x_. I T"~ Hot bread makes any meal a sue- j cess. And for perfect baking results • just add milk and shortening to en- j I riched OCCO-NEE-CHEE—a superior, j many-purpose flour. 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