Our Children By Mrs. W. B. Davis
Helping Your Child
Find His Vocation
As a parent, you feed and
clothe your child, worry over
their illnesses, laugh at their
jokes, save for their education,
and hope for their future success.
How much of this success or fail
ure, will be due to your skillful
planning, or lack of it? How much
of it is your responsiblity? How
much is the childs? In or to an
swer these questions, we must
consider the place of vocational
guidance in the home as one of
the main influences contributing
to our children’s success or lack of
success. Never before has the help
of the home in vocational guid
ance been so important. Young
• men and young women coming
out of school in a few years will
meet stiff competition in the per
iod of postwar readjustments.
They need specific direction now
if they are to .acquire skills that
will fit them for work. Whether
your child is in elementary school
or in college, there are a number
of things that you can do to help
him choose a vocation. Most par
ents react to the responsibility of
vocational guidance in one or two
ways. They either tight-lace their
children’s vocational futures with
“my boy or girl is going to be”—
type of arbitrary thinking or they
completely ignore their duty, hop
ing that in some vague way their
sons and daughters will make up
their own minds. This latter
group, when confronted with the
problem, generally turns to the
school and declares it should
shoulder the task while school
should be responsible for the giv
ing of definite information and
professional guidance, it needs
the cooperation of parents if it is
to succeed in helping young
people choose their work wisely.
Wise vocational guidance pro
ceeds on the assumption that
there are differences in people;
that there is no such thing as a
perfect niche for any one person;
that one is not cut out for a single
job but is amenable to the oppor
tunities and requirements of
many related jobs. We then have
a twofold task: to help our chil
dren look into themselves and to
help them look out at the world
of work. We should introduce
them in a variety of ways of earn
ing a living to assist them in tak
ing stock of themeselves, to help
them select a field of interest, to
show them how to examine a vo
cation, and to arrange for train
ing in that field.
Congress Gels Bill Designed
To Outlaw Filibustering
WASHINGTON— (ANP) — A
resolution to outlaw filibustering
tactics formerly used by various
members of congress to kill un
wanted legislation was introduced
in the senate here last week by
Sens. Knowland and Ferguson,
(R., Cal. and Mich.).
The resolution, which has been
referred to the committee on rules
and administration, provides that
paragraphs two, three, and four
of the rule XXII of the standing
rules of the senate be amended
to curtail filibustering. In essense,
the proposed bill provides that
should be a motion be brought to
close a debate on any pending
measure or motion and is signed
by 16 senators, any of the signers
may request recognition by the
chair for presenting such motion;
that when the motion is present
ed, the presiding officer of the
senate will state the motion to the*
senate; that one hour after the
senate meets two days later, the
presiding officer will, if a quorum
is present, take an “aye” and
“nay” vote on the motion. If the
majority vote is in the affirmative,
the measurer under debate will
be “the unifinished business to
the exclusion of all other business
until disposed of.”
Three companion bills were in
troduced also with the Ferguson
Knowland resolution, by Republi
can Sens. Saldonstall of Massa
chusetts and Morse of Oregon, and
Democratic Sen. Taylor of Idaho.
Concensus of opinion among
people well placed to judge is
that the Morse bill does not have
a chance of consideration, but
that Sen. Saltonstall’s might be
the one to get through.
This is My Community
By Robert Graham
We had a wonderful time on
our trip to Omaha last week and
we wish there could be more trips
to different places. After the bas
ket ball season is over we could
take a baseball team, and teen
agers and play other cities. Not
just the Urban league teams but
other coinmunity centers. We
could also invite other teams here.
Of course this takes money and
the teams and their friends have
to be entertained.
Most everything we want to do
takes money and we can not ask
our parents for all of this money,
so we have to make plans to earn
money to defray our expenses.
There is quite a variety of talent
in Lincoln among our teen age
groups as well as among our par
ents and other adult friends. We
can put on a show of short skits
or acts, and charge a nominal fee.
Various clubs in the city could
sponsor practices. We could have
a hobby show also charge a very
small admission. If we could get
our parents and friends in the
community to meet with a group
of teen-agers and make plans and
carry them through we feel that
they would not feel that we are
going to the dogs and wasting our
time. We are at the age where
we must help ourselves with your
guidance.
Good News! Mr. George Randol
has kindly consented to sponsor
a camera club for teen-agers—to
comply with your request. Con
tact Mrs. Alberta J. Cooke im
mediately teen-agers.
(Interviewed by
Mrs. Alberta J. Cooke)
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“The most important thing you
and I can do is to keep faith—
faith in ourselves; in our ability
to build a better world;—and faith
in progress.”—Andre Maurois
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The most completely lost of all
days is that on which one has not
laughed.—Chamfort
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