FOUR
THE NEBRASKAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934,
THEATRE DIRECTORY
STUATtT (Mat. 25c Nit 40c)
Now showing:: Joan Crawford In
"SADIE McKEE" with Franchot
Tone, Gene Raymond and Esther
Ralston.
Thursday Max Baer - Camera
FIGHT RETURNS direct from
ringside, 8 p. m.
LINCOLN (Mat. 15c Nite 25c)
Now showing "BOTTOMS UP"
with Spencer Tracy, Pat Pater
son, John Boles and Thelma
Todd.
ORPHEUM (Mat. 15c Nite -25c)
Now showing: Frank Buck's
"WILD CARGO."
COLONIAL (Mat. 10c Nite 15c)
Now showing: Bob Steele In
"SOUTH OF SANTA FE."
SUN (Mat. 10c Nite 15c)
Now showing: W. C. Fields.
Charles Ruggles. Maiy Boland
and Burns and Allen in "SIX OB
A KIND." Also "BIG SHAKEDOWN."
HEAVIER BURDEN PUT ON
EDUCATION BY GREATER
RAPIDITY OF SOCIAL
CHANGES
(Continued from Page 3).
speaking, and other similar activi
ties.
The school must do what it can
for the adult who is finding more
leisure time on his hands. The
nnhnol must open its doors for a
wisely-directed program of adult
education. This may taice tne iorm
of an all-year program of recrea
tional and community activities in
cluding study clubs, community
athletic competition, reading, sew
ing, art and handicraft clubs and
classes, bobby clubs and exhibits,
lectures and educational motion
pictures. The project may also in
clude direct education and super
vised extension courses. To estab
lish and maintain such a program
the school will need graduall to
expand its facilities in order to
care for the ever increasing num
bers and to provide adequately for
their varied needs and interests.
There are well-night countless
possibilities for enjoyable and prof
itable use of leisure, and every in
dividual should be enabled to find
an activity to his liking in his own
home or community. As a matter
of self protection against the dire
effects of misuse of leisure every
community today must stress its
training for leisure.
To meet the challenge of the in
creased leisure of the average fam
ily, every school must match each
decrease in working hours and re
eultant gain in leisure time by a
corresponding advance in the edu
cation for wise use of leisure.
Having noted how changing con
ditions in the home have made the
training offered by the school of
dad's time entirely inadequate for
his son, let us see what cfcnnges
have taken place in the community
end what effect these develop
ments have had and should have
on education.
Today the individual no longer
confined to the limits of his small
locality, can see how the rest of
the world lives, improved racui
ties for transportation and com
munication have broken down com
rv boundaries. The rapid in
crease of automobiles and surfaced
roads particularly is resulting in
the widening of the community
horizon and thus doing away with
the physical, cultural and social
Isolation which has characterized
the small community.
The automobile has had its de
velopment since the turn of the
century. In our own state or Ne
braska its development has been
strikine-. In 1913 there were 25,-
617 autos in Nebraska. Since that
time the number of autos has in
creased fourteen fold.
The numberof miles of surfaced
highways has likewise increased
from 496 in lazi to t,3o in xvju
--a thirteen fold increase. With an
auto at hand and with a highway
network on which lae macnine can
be run at all seasons, a multiplica
tion of social contacts over wider
and wider ranges of territory is al
hut n-virahle. Because of the au
tomobile, the many rather than
the few are now enaDiea to travel,
and as a result localism has been
lessened very much by the first
hand knowledge of people at dis-
The increase in the number of
automobiles and miles of surfaced
roads has had the further effect of
bringing the small town business
man into competition with the city
business man. lie has been forced
to learn the value of advertising
and to learn to cater to the ever
changing wants of his mobiles cus
tomers. His place in the economic
sun is not nearly an secure as it
Was a geuci atiuii Of twu &kO, & f&Ct
Which m"t rpvrn(fj hv the
local school in its vocational train
ing relative to local industry.
While automobiles and surfaced
roads have made less secure the
vocational opportunities in some
industries and trades, these same
factors have increased the number
of vocational opportunities in some
few other fields. Within the com
munity young people of today can
find occupations relatively un
known in dad's day for example,
occupations having to do with au
tomobiles and their servicing or in
the selling and movement of goods
by truck. This range of oppor
tunities for work differs radically
from that of two decades ago.
These improved facilities for trans
portation and communication with
the resultant shift in vocational
opportunities have had still a fur
ther effect the decreased proba
bility that the son will take up the
father's occupation. Dad is there
by unable to give his son the nec
essary vocational training the ap
prenticeship system is less and less
used and hence, more and more,
the burden of vocational guidance
and training falls on the school.
Still further, the widened com
munity horizon has made it easier
for young people to learn, in a gen
eral way, about and seek employ
ment in vocations outside their
home community. Consequently,
the local school needs to offer its
guidance courses about vocations
outside as well an within the com
munity. The widening of the community
horizon and resulting changes can
not be ignored. Education of to
day and of the future increasingly
so must recognize these changes
and make provision for them.
Before the coming of the auto
mobile the local churches were the
center of both religious and social
life of the community. Now the
attractions of the cities and larger
towns compete with those of the
local community tending to draw
especially the younger people away
from the close supervision or tne
home, church and school. Educa
tion must increasingly prepare the
young people to develop a sense of
values which will enable them to
choose wisely and intelligently in
terpret the attractions and influ
ences of the outer world, shunning
that which is evil and clinging to
that which is good.
Thus the widening of the com
munity horizon and the resulting
increase in social contacts, increase
in competition experienced by local
industry, and shift in vocational
opportunities make it even more
necessary that the schools offer a
better vocational guidance and de
velop in young people a greater
adaptibility and sturdier standards
of fair dealing that will enable
them to be as just in dealing with
their fellowmen of far away places
as they are with their next door
neighbors.
Previous articles have shown
that, due to rapid social changes
in the home and community, such
as the widening of the home circle,
the increasing dependence of the
family upon services performed
outside the home, the increase or
leisure time for the average fam
ily, and the widening of the com
munity horizon, the education that
was common in dad's time has had
to be adjusted and materially rede
signed in order that it may meet,
passably well, the needs of the son.
The last principal phase of this
general problem is concerned with
the much increased need of train
ing for community teamwork. This
need has grown out of the trend
toward greater collective commu
nity activity. The individual to
day finds himself increasingly de
penden upon his fellowmen. The
old individualistic attitude has, to
a large extent, broken down. The
rapidly changing times have dem
onstrated to the people of the com
munities that the use of teamwork
is more productive of results.
This trend is shown by the rapid
rise and growth of organizations
for co-operative community action
during the last two decades or
ganizations which, unknown to
dad, have become a part of his
son's daily living. In the field of
business there have developed such
co-operative community organiza
tions as chambers of commerce,
business and professional women's
clubs, and still others of a semi-social
nature, as Kiwanis clubs, Ro
tary clubs, Lions clubs. All have
been established because of a felt
need for collective action toward a
common objective.
Another favorite project which
calls for community teamwork is
that of the community or county
fair. It is significant that in Ne
braska during the recent depres
sion years our people have held to
their fairs and their exhibits have
continued to be of good quality as
well as quantity. Citizens are de
veloping a pride and confidence in
community teamwork that refuses
to be downed. In many communi
ties we find that rural lire districts
surrounding the village have been
organized and uD-to-date. effeec-
tive equipment baa been purchased.
In the soclo-religious neia dur
ing the last two decades, we find
great growth in the number and
membership oi sucn organizations
as the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W.
C. A. The development of youth
serving community organizations
such as the 4-H clubs has also been
marked. The necessity for team'
work in communities has brought
about an Increased interest in vot
ing as a means of expressing indi
vidual and community desires, be
Lie issue national, state or local,
It is probable, too, that social is
sues which face us will eventually,
according to our democratic form
of government, come up for settle'
ment thru the ballot.
To understand properly and to
solve vital social and civic issues
reques an intelligent and informed
citizenship. The school is certain
ly the chief means of fostering an
intelligent public opinion. Civics
as taught in the school must be of
the functional sort that can be
used in daily living. Boys and girls
should be given an opportunity to
exercise the responsibilities of citi
zenship in their own schools and
receive training in working togeth
er with others by belonging to such
organizations as the Hi-Y, the Girl
Reserves, the various hobby clubs
for mutual enjoyment and some
form of student government. Here
they can vote for their own offi
cers, help to determine policies,
and select candidates on the basis
of fitness and integrity. Children
need to know how to vote and to
develop an appreciation of what
this privilege and obligation really
means. The school must also teach
the habit of weighing and consid
ering both sides of a question so as
to enable the citizens-to-be to deal
intelligently with the increasing
amount of self-seeking propaganda
which is contrary to the common
welfare.
The spirit of democracy demands
that whatever collective action is
undertaken for the common wel
fare, that action must be volun
tary. Free and intelligent co-op
eration can never be attained by
an ignorant people. We must have
a genuine education that will lead
to an understandidng of the social
issues which face us and that will
consciously and effectively foster
in ail citizens a willingness to work
together to solve their common
problems.
EXTENSION NEWS
NOTES ARE AGAIN '
ISSUED WEEKLY
(Continued from Page 1.)
tional studies; organization into
business companies for producing
and dulling handcraft articles; and
by the community use of school
buildings to sustain classes in
economics, English, dramatics,
public speaking, gymnastics and
music. Plans for the provision of
study centers for unemployed,
using correspondence courses as a
basis are being directed by per
sons in need of relief in some parts
of the country.
While no definite action was
taken at the conference, due to the
size of the membership, the short
ness of time available, and the tre
mendous weight of the problems
under consideration, nevertheless,
numerous reports were transmit
ted to the office of education for
such use as may seem best to the
United States commissioner of
education and recommendation for
the appointment of a smaller con
tinuing commission to serve in an
advisory capacity was made.
INCREASE IN DEMAND
FOR TEACHERS SEEN
(Continued from Page 1.)
Omaha, will have charge of physi
cal education at Nebraska City.
Penmanship and art will be
taught at Hastings by Helen Rai
tora of Table Rock; Evelyn Lee
and Wayne Alvord, both of Lin
coln, will go to Plattsmouth where
they will teach elementary grades,
social sciences, and debate, re
spectively. Ruth Burkholdcr, Bellwood, will
teach German, English, and music
at Holmesville, and Margaret
Stephens of Rising City will have
music, English, latin, and home
economics at Malcolm. Kathryn
Evans, Omaha, will be in charge of
the kindergarten in the Morrill
schools.
Three teachers go to Franklin:
Erraa Reeder, Fairfield, will teach
the third grade; Adele Nichols,
Madison, fourth-fifth grades, and
Elaine Woodrv'f, Tulsa, Okl., the
fourth grade. Jean Pasewalk of
Norfolk will teach French, English
and music at Carroll.
Prof. O. L. McCaskill, of the
University of Illinois college of
A "Your Drug Store"
Call your Drw Store for quick
wrvlce. Lunches, Ice Cream, or
anything in Drur Store needs.
The Owl Pharmacy
14S NO. 14th A P St. B1068
L
law, recently advocated the com
plete abolition of all grading sys
tems. Tec scholarships of $1,000 each
AGNES'
BEAUTE SHOPPE
Refrigerated Cooling System
AGNES F. SCHMITT
Hotel Cornhusker
Lincoln, Neb.
Telephone B3122 or B6971
are awarded annually by Middle
bury college to male students liv
ing in Vermont.
Increate Your Social Prestige
by Learning to Dance
Electric and Nature Cooled Studio
CLASSES EVERY MON. & WED.,
8 P. M.
New Students 25c
Luella Williams
PRIVATE STUDIO
B4258 1220 D St.
(DOLLED fi-CCaX
Mall Order Filled Lincoln! Buay Store W Give S. . H. Gf"!?!
4 P"
i.
T7 yX J-
(J
PAP
.... no matter what you CALL him
"Remember
Him next Sunday....
FATHER'S DAY
Timely! Exceptional. This--
Special Selling of Popular
STANWICK,WALLINGFORD
SHIRTS
Good ouality, collar-attached A 1
Shirts of finely woven ciotns i
and smart-looking broadcloth
prints. . .in this special selling at r
a low Drice. Well tailored, .pre-
shrunk and fast colors, .with
good-fitting collars. Shirts that Dad will appreciate . . .
and extra good values for only 94c. Sizes 14 to 17.
GOLD'S Men'a Store 11th St.
Hundreds of new TIES for Dad.....
White patterned ties.... darker patterned ties....
solid color tones. . .every one a four-in-hand of
real style and highly desirable in every detail....
wool lined. . . .well tailored. . . .and unusuaully good
values at onlv
GOLD'S Men'a Store 11th St.
50
HOSE-plain and fancy...for father
Good looking fancy Hose in rayon mixtures . . .
new crepe tones of smart designs . . . also white
with brown or black clocked effects . . . double
soles, high spliced heels. In all the wanted colors
"Goodknit" Rayon Shirts and Shorts
The Shorts are of fine quality rayon . . . three
button front . . . elastic sides . . . balloon seats
... cut full and true to size. The Shirts to
match have low cut arm holes . . . extra long.
All sizes in white only . . . each
"Goodknit" Rayon Union Suits
SO
MSiYvyvb-nf" nvm TTnlnna . . . famOUS for WC&T
... in white only . . . one button shoulder ... cut
full and roomy . . . non-run . . . tailored to give
the fit that Dad likes. Sizes 38 to 48 . . . each
GOLD 8 Mn riorn 111!. Street.
1 00