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Show Page SATURDAY, AUGUST THE JOURNAL 2 18, m THE READER'S DATE BOOK SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Modern Schools Are Indication Korean Peace Talks Develop Slowly; Of Home Town Progressiveness Control Bill Viewed With Cynicism School bells soon will toll in the home towns, and while many of too many pupils, THE PEACE FRON- T- As expected the Korean peace talks have developed slowly. The shooting war in that bloody country may not end for weeks, if then. And it will be years before a feeling of security develops among the South Korean people. As things stand now, the Allies and Reds are at loggerheads over several questions. The main one, however, is the establishment of a cease-fir- e buffer zone. The Reds want it established along the 38th parallel. The Allies want it along present battle lines. The Allies contend: (1) The present positions, based on ridges, are more defensible militarily than the 38th parallel; (2) The parallel is where the Red invasion began June 25, 1950. It is viewed in many quarters as a symbol of U. N. defeat, and a settlement along that line is bitterly opposed by the South Korean government. It may be that some sort of compromise can be worked out on the question, but not without long and exhausting talks. Meanwhile, the Reds have resorted to their old tricks of injecting political issues into the discussions. The Reds have complained of Allied air and naval power and to the bombing of a peaceful Korean villages U. N. Delegate Red propaganda twist for air strikes. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy is chief U. N. delegate to the KaeAnd THE FIGHTING FRONlong-famili- ar sections this year face the perennial handicaps outmoded buildings and too few teachers, rural educators are hope. ful about the future. comlocal the in educating is being made, they say, Progress children so munity to the need for providing better facilities for schools in the they may compete in later life with graduates ofthe home town most progressive communities. With the public difficult to not be taxpayers aroused, schoolmen believe it should " solve manj of the knotty problems that have retarded rural has been made in the approach to the problems, there actually have been greater advancement in the improvement of the buildings themselves, a n-wide study shows. Twenty-fiv- e years ago the United Ltates had about While progress natio- 200,000 one-teach- er red school-houseToday the has to 71,000. dropped These schools, despite the sentiment to attached them, are disappearing at the rate of about 7,500 a year. little s. number To them, replace progressive architects are designing low and structures that sprawling one-stor- y combine the outdoors with the into provide intimate, friendly, while the high brass talks of peace, doors colorful classrooms bathed in United Nations troops continue to These schools, of Artillery natural light. fight and die in Korea. the far east. are being constructed in rumbles, U. N. troops probe at Red course, areas where citizens have put comlines, and the Reds made counter thrusts. above selfish desires The U.S. army reported the Communists have staged a tremendous munity spiritto and consolidate tax disvoted talks began and pointedly build-u- p of armed forces since the cease-fir- e in order to finance adequate tricts expressed hope this was not a sign of bad faith. facilities. Here again is evidence of Communist thinking and policy. Hanging These schools are monuments on the ropes when the peace talks started, the Reds took full advantage to to build let-uthe communitys progresthe p faith up talks, in attack, to show good of U.N. during siveness which is often paced their own military forces and supplies. The Communists have moved more supplies near the front lines by the local newspaper and adIn A progressive, modare the talks merchants. while to maintain underway. needed than troops of individual ern a great attraction school is thousands and units replacenew dition, they have moved town. for ments south into the battle lines. any If this trend continues, what will THE EUROPEAN FRONT While there were talks of peace in the the typical school of the future look far east, the free nations prepared to meet aggression in Europe. like? New plans for defense were announced by George C. Marshall, It will be more like the modern secretary of defense, when he told congress the administration now plans to have 400,000 U. S. troops in Europe in 1952 nearly double the number home and less like an institution, previously estimated. say prominent authorities on classHe also disclosed that U.S. allies have promised to have 2,500,000 room design. men under arms next year and to be able to put five million men into Educators are beginning to the field within 90 days after the outbreak of any new war. the importance of making realize n in American defensive spirit Marshall argued against any schools as homelike as possible so resulting from the Korean armistice talks and against any congressional there is not too sudden a transicuts in U. S. military aid to western Europe. He said he was deeply tion from what children have been shocked at what he termed the tragic reaction of the American people to at home, explained Lawused now that peace appears in prospect in Korea. rence R. Perkins, architect who has PRICE CONTROLS Confusion and cynicism seems the only way to designed some of the outstanding describe the average home towners reaction to the price control bill schools in the midwest. which congress has enacted. The confusion stems from the fact that Classrooms will feature vision few congressmen, if any, can give a complete and adequate description walls of clear glass to bring the of how the law will work. The cynicism stems, in great part, from the outdoors' inside and, at the same belief that the debate on the issue was put on the record more for future time, allow young children on the outside political effect than for the purpose of clarifying the issues. particularly those just The bill permits some rollbacks on nonfarm goods and opens the starting to see what awaits them way for some increases. It extends wage, price, credit, rent, and other in school. Window walls, like those emergency controls through next June. But controls are eased in a which have become a characternumber of ways and he President got none of the additional authority istic feature of modern home dehe asked. sign, help allay the fear many The United Labor Policy Committee, made up of most big youngsters have of what lies beorganized labor groups, immediately denounced the bill. The committee hind the walls of the institutional termed the bill a callous betrayal of the consumers of the nation by type building. the reactionary coalition which rules congress. In the matter of daylighting for Administration leaders contend it is short of what is needed to classrooms, the architect gets an combat inflation. Republicans say it is a good bill, if administered approving nod from R. L. Biesele, properly. Jr., research professor of engineerat Southern Methodist univering horolELGIN science its milestones. has In 50 MILLIONTH Every in Dallas. For several years sity ogy, the science of watchmaking, the first milestone occurred almost Biesele has been conductProfessor 450 years ago at Nuremburg; Germany. A clockmaker there found means a research study for of compressing the parts of a timepiece into a sturdy and compact ing Glass Company on daymechanism. The Nuremburg "egg, crude and clumsy by modern standfor schools. He so engineering light was watch was called because it first the worlds carried by ards, determined that has large areas night watchmen. of with flexible clear controls glass Next month the city of Elgin, 111., which boasts it is the town made from the abundant daylight famous by time, will help its oldest industry celebrate another horo-logic- provide of conditions sun, sky and Scheduled for completion then is the 50 millionth varying milestone. clouds. to at more made watches be than Elgin jeweled timepiece any other manufacturer in the world has yet produced. Bring the daylight indoors," Significantly, the 50 millionth watch is claimed to incorporate every he advises, and sometimes major technical achievement since horology was a pup. In stark conmaybe sunlight, too. I would trast with the first bulky pocket watch made in the same city 84 years make the classrooms a space h as large, yet will be a better timekeeper. ago, it will be only for living, growing and learning, where children are in conTHE VICIOUS RACKET Federal agents last week broke up the stant touch with the outdoors, biggest narcotics ring in the nations history. Narcotic agents reported with its continual interplay of g the arrest of 10 salesmen for the $30,000,000 ring. light and shade and color." The agents also got $100,000 in counterfeit money. School architects, city planners The ring is believed to have smuggled as much as 50 pounds of educators also feel that many and into the each United States heroin month. It has been operating since features of the future class other 1949. T- song peace talks, lie receives his instructions from Gen. Matthew Ridgivay, U. N. commander in let-dow- Libby-Owens-Fo- rd al one-tent- heroin-smugglin- room will create a friendl atmosphere. One good example is a school recently built at New Canaan, Conn. RED WRITERS . . . Two British correspondents for Communist Kindergartens and lounges have newspapers are attending the Kaefireplaces. Every classroom has a song peace talks. Wilfred Burchett door opening onto walks, gardens and playfields and each door is painted a different vivid color to make identification easy. While building costs causo many headaches among educators and home towners today, theres a feeling that the costs of maintenance and operation have been cut in the modern type of schools. Heating bills may be lowered through use of double pane insulating window walls which reduce heat loss in winter months and, at the same time, make use of solar heat. Maintenance costs also are reduced through the use of the vision wall of clear glass which never requires painting and is easier to keep clean than any other type of surface. Glass with patterned surfaces not only gets dirty, but also adds so much obscurity that transmission of light is impaired before cleaning, tests reveal. Modern schools are considerably safer, architects believe, because y the structure eliminates the need and dangers of stairways. Better daylighting also improves the safety factor. Classrooms are designed so that younger pupils may occupy one wing or section, with their adjacent play areas, while older pupils are in another section, instead of be-- i ng interspersed haphazardly through a multi-storie- d building. Separate sections are tied together in the gymnasium-auditoriuor community section of the school. (left) works for the Red Ce Soir, Paris, and Alan Winnington corresponds for the London Daily Worker. one-stor- NEW CHIEF . . . Vice-Chiof Naval Operations, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, who automatically succeeds Admiral Forrest P. Sherman as chief of that agency, talks over the telephone. Admiral Sherman succumbed to a heart attack. ef m Educators point out that far- sighted action by local citizens is necessary to obtain such improvements. Considerable progress has been made in consolidating the small, poor tax districts into larger, more prosperous ones as a result of work of the National Education Association in pointing out advantages of cooperative financing. In Illinois, for example, the number of school districts has been reduced since 1945 from 12,000 to 4,580. For the most part the new areas have been organized according to community units, a typical county having from three to ' six such community units. Marked progress also has been made in Arkansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado and South Carolina. The surveys were conducted by three committees composed of farmers, business men and professional men, and women, housewives, parents of school children representing various influential and responsible elements of the community, and high school students. Their final recommendations, which gave a priority rating to the construction of two rural elementary schools, an attendance center and two city schools, were passed on to the townspeople. Cooperative effort of that kind has become more common since schools have become community centers in many places, educators report. Today the school building is not merely a place for children to learn the three Rs; it is a gathering place for residents of all ages. 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