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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. .*:*.*. ••*••••••• Irtrt fl 1 n nnn nnn n Any Small Community Can Institute A Balanced Adult-Education Program “An education program for a small community is incom plete without a well-balanced program of adult education." The authority for that statement is one of the nation 9 S leading professional educators 9 Dr. Roben J. Maaske, president of the Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, Oregon. The implication in that assertion is that no community, however small, can rest on the status of its first-grade-through* high-school formal public education program and say that it is doing the best it can for itself and its inhabitants in the pro foundly vital area of knowledge and learning. In other words, you 9 re never too old to learn. Sac City, fowa, population 3,164, has operated a success ful community adult-education program for approximately 20 years. It represents a fine prac tical example of cooperation among a town 9 s citizens. The program is under the direc tion of a council composed of 40 per sons—1 0 men and 10 women from farms in the area, arut the same num ber from Sac City and other near by small communities involved. The yearly schedule involves a variety of classes chosen to meet the expressed needs of the adult “student body." There are also various recreational activities and occasional community forums on every year 9 s agenda. Everyone enroll ing for classes pays a fee of $1.50, a price certainly within reach of virtually anyone who might be interested. While the Sac City adult-education program is,, in fact, the lotal citizens 9 own project, the superintendent of schools, the board of education, and the community adult-education coun cil guide and direct the activities through advice and stimula tion in planning. Writing in the April issue of the NEA Journal, Dr. Maaske cites another illuminating instance of heartening community action along the same lines: Olivet, Michigan. Population about 604. Situated in the lake area near Battle Creek. Home of Olivet College. At first glance you wouldn 9 t suspect that a little town with only about 600 persons in it might be a place where adult-education ac tivities could flourish with any success. But if you look again you will note that Olivet is the site of Olivet College. The fact that Olivet College is an old school (as schools go in the relatively young Middle West) which was organized in 1844, probably means that the town itself has grown up imbued with the ideals of education. Be that as it may, the Olivet adult-education program does not function as part of the college. It operates, rather, in the Walton township unit school at Olivet, where it was launched in 1946. The annual schedule customarily features a variety of classes, many of them agricultural in nature because the com munity is dependent to a large extent upon its agriculture potential and farm commodities. Basically, the program is designed to appeal to the interests of a large segment of the population, and at the same time provide education and added skills where they will be most useful. The over-all emphasis of the Olivet adult-education pro gram is placed upon total community improvement. Operation of the Olivet program is similar to that of Sac City, Iowa. There is one difference, however, in that a part- time paid director, who serves also as vocational director in the school, acts as administrator of the program and also has the important function of\ training volunteer leaders. ’ Stic City and Olivet are outstand ing examples of this kind of com munity work, but, as Dr. Maaske points out, many other small towns in the country have done the same thing. While setting up an adult- education program is not exactly easy, it can be done by virtually any community, regardless of its size. / The key word here, as in other fields of local endeavor, is “cooperation." Begin with a nucleus of local persons who really believe in the value and efficacy of adult-education. Get cooperation from school officials, the librarian, city of ficials, businessmen, and other community leaders. Once such a program is established on a sound basis, it is very likely to be successful in its own right. There are six basic phases to establishing an adult-educa tion set-up, according to Dr. Maaske, and they will be outlined in this space next week. MIRROR ■ Of Your ■ MIND Learn How 9 To Relax By Lawrence Gould Can yon teach yourself to relax? Answer: Probably, unless you suf fer from more than your share of “nervous tension.” Try to forget your emotional problems and con centrate on your body. I have found it useful to “go down one side and up the other,” relaxing one set of muscles at a time—and don’t forget that the muscles of your face may be the last to stay tense. It is also a good idea to “lie (or sit) heavy,” emphasizing the idea that your whole weight is being supported and that you do not have to hold any part of yourself up. Like anything else, relaxation requires practice. ance but repeat his acts at the first opportunity, while &e latter shows no regret because he feels he de serves what’s ^coming to him. You may recognize neurotic delinquents (or criminals) by their poorly ex ecuted plans which always leave a trail leading to the discovery oi their behavior. May a guilty conscience make delinquents? Answer: Yes, says Alice R. Mc Cabe of the Community Service Society of New York. Social workers should learn to distinguish between the child who commits acts of delin quency from lack of moral training and the one who does so in order to be caught and punished. The former may make a great show of repent- Is thumb-sucking a neurotic symptom? Answer: That depends on whether the child does it in order to satisfy a natural desire .or Wieoiisoie him self for something else that is mak* ing him unhappy. A baby who sucks his thumb is generally gratifying an entirely normal impulse, but when thumb-sucking persists or is reverted to after babyhood is over, it is likely to reflect an emotional disturbance. Don’t try to break a child of the habit by scolding or ridicule—find out what is making him unhappy and correct it so that he no longer will need consolation. MODERN SCHOLARS AGREE THAT MT. HER MOM WAS THE 'PLACE OP THE TRANSFIGURATION SINCE CHRIST WAS THEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. ‘UVD S/AT DAYS JESUS TAKETH PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN WS BROTHER AND BRINGETH THEM UP INTO AN HIGH MOUNTAIN APART, AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM? MattlTd KEEPING HEALTHY Allergy, Infected Tonsils, Adenoids By Dr. James W. Barton •qARENTS ARE sometimes great- * ly disappointed when removal of their child’s enlarged tonsils has not brought about the disappear ance of the symptoms for which the operation was performed. That allergy (sensitiveness to various substances such as foods, feathers, fur, pollen) may be causing the symptoms and not the enlarged ton sils is stated in California Medi cine by Dr. Ben F. Feingold (Chil dren’s Hospital, Los Angeles). “Swelling is the chief factor in enlargement of tonsils in allergic children. A large, pale, boogy and juicy-looking tonsil results, which, when coupled with symptoms of al lergy (itching of nose, sneezing, running nose, drip from back of nose into throat and cough) give a picture of symptoms often mistak en for infection of nose and throat.” Because this syndrome or group of symptom? is really caused by the effects of allergy on lymphoid tis sue (tonsils and adenoids), surgi cal removal of these tonsils and adenoids, with no infection present, will not relieve the symptoms. On the contrary it may aggravate the symptoms. “The general rule should be that if no infection (or obstruction) is present, the removal of the tonsils and adenoids should not take place. When tonsils or adenoids produce symptoms of obstruction, removal is justified only when the allergic condition is adequately managed before and after the operation.” It is known that with infection the allergic disease is aggravated. As the infection gradually sub sides, the allergic disease improves. Thus where either infected tonsils or adenoids, or both, are present in allergic individuals, attacks of these infections occur more frequently. In conditions like this it is impor tant that infected tonsils and ade noids should be removed surgical ly. “An allergic child who, after com plete management of aUergic dis ease for a reasonable time, still has the infections of nose and throat, which infections involve ton sils and adenoids, should have ton sils or adenoids or both removed,” Dr. Feingold writes. If we draw on it all the time and make no deposits, our “bank ac count” of health will finally disap pear. • • • A yearly examination by physi cian and dentist is a good-sized de posit in our bank account of health. • • • Wrong posture affects health and appearance. When a football player loses 10 pounds of weight in a game, he may not be losing fatty tissue—but only water. * * * Calcium is essential to the proc ess of blood clotting and prevention of death from bleeding. • • • Rapid heartbeat may be due to goiter. Wx.: apanaaaanoaqiiippHRk, SCRIPTURE: n Kings 18—90; n Chron icles 99-30; Isaiah 3L DEVOTIONAL. READING: Psalm 46. .w v>.\vX Dangers of Wartime Lesson for May 20, 1951 le. all the dangers of wartime are to life and limb. More se rious dangers threaten the minds, the attitudes, the characters, the souls of those who make war. Some of our readers will find no war a good war; others will draw a line be-. tween wars that are justifiedand wars that are not. But no "mlltter Bow well-justified a war may- be, its dan- Dr. Peremaa gers to mind and heart are just as real as if it were not justified at all. • • • u —To Decide Who Is Left" a tfE danger which war-making brings is that it gets every one thinking that might makes right. Now might does not really make right and never did; other wise the champion heavy-weight would always be the best man, morally, in all the world, and the most helpless invalid would be the most wicked. Along with this “might-b right” idea to another one dose to it: that the best way to per suade others to oar way of thinking or to ear way of living b to beat "them ever the head. That has never succeeded yet. You knew yourself that yea were never persuaded that way. Fists and gnus and armies can make people change their tune, but never change their minds. The way to change people is through their minds and consciences and hearts. One act of International, goodwill, justice or generosity is more potent than tons of high ex plosives. The sending of food, serv ices, skilled help such as doctors and teachers, does more to win friends than any number of armed alliances. The Christian way is al ways the way of love. • • • Topsy-Turvy Land T HE waging of war creates il lusions. Besides the one just mentioned, of confusing might with right, there is this one too: a na tion at war lives in a kind of topsy turvy land. What is of greatest value is rated low, and things of little value are made much of. The longer s war goes on, the mbre of s habit this crooked scale of values becomes. For instance: normally we value life above all things. Violent death is something to make the headlines, and causing death to others is something from which we all shrink. But in wartime we are all tuned, so to speak, to the business of killing. Whatever genius such a na tion may have, whatever pro ductive power, gees mainly to building up the military “po tential,” devising more and bet ter ways of inflicting sndden death. , Dr. Charles Leber tells of re membering. when s boy, how his father and mother read in the pa per about the sinking of the steam ship Titanic, which went down with the loss of over 1,500 lives. It was breakfast time when they read the paper; but neither father nor mother could finish the meat That was before World War I. But now, forty years later, how many people would lose their ap petite at reading of the death of a mere 1,500 persons? We are so used to slaughter that as Dr. Leber puts it, we have become brutalized, we have “lost our sense of com passionate shame.” • • • The Illusion of Violence T WO last illusions pursue the war ring nation. One is that war is normal. In reality, however nec essary war may ever be,v it is never normal; but let it run too long or come too often, and people take it for granted. The ether illusion b that ftt to possible by war to end wars, that by one more war, one mere victory, peace will be se cured once and for all. It never works. “The one thing you cannot do with bayonets is to sit upon them.” Arnold J. Toynbee has warned us (see his “War and Civilization”) that “the ultimate failure of all attempts to win salvation by the sword ... is demonstrated in his tory.” He might have taken his text from Isaiah 31, or the history of Israel and Judah, for Isaiah was saying much the same thing to both Hezekiah and Sennacherib. But neither one understood him; and so their nations died. For when ever any nation puts its supreme faith in force, and neglects the character of its citizens, or the jus tice of its institutions, then it has forgotten God. Ur Foods Now for Later Dae Recipes Beta*) remtmeem.) ONE or THE MOST satisfactory ways of preserving foods that has come into the limelight recently for home use to that of quick-freezing it Compared with canning and de hydrating methods, freezing is easy. There are, however, many mis conceptions regarding the process of freezing and storing them in home freezer or locker, and one of the main ones to that you sim ply have to wash th e food and store it Five essentials are necessary to the successful freezing of fruits, vegetables, poultry and meat The variety uSed must be good for freezing; fruits and vegetables must have reached a certain degree of maturity, for like any other pre serving process, freezing only keeps food until* it's used and does not improve it Preparation for packaging must be done carefully, and proper pack aging should be used to prevent a common ailment of frozen foods, namely, that of freezer burn. Stor age must be at the recommended temperature 0*1, or below. Equipment for freezing naturally includes a locker or a freezer to which you have ready access. If you rent a locker, then freeze only enough foods to fit into the refrig erator before you can take them to the locker. This must be within 24 hoyrs of their packaging. • • • High Flavor, Color Gives Good Frozen Product Generally speaking, in the matter of fruits and vegetables, those with high color and excellent flavor should be used for freezing. Those who freeze foods have al ready run into the term “optimum maturity.” This means that fruits and vegetables suitable for freez ing should have reached their peak of ripeness to be ready for the freez er. Fruits and vegetables at this stage are sweetest, full of flavor and ripe. This is the flavor and ap pearance which you want to pre serve. Get fruits and vegetables into the freezer right after picking, if it's at all possible. If you wait for too long after picking or harvesting, the produce loses flavor and deterio rates in texture. • • • Check These Varieties' For Vegetables If you’re planning to freeze any of the following vegetables, check varieties to get the best results. In asparagus, for example, you’ll find that both Mary Washington and Martha Washington rate high. The Dwarf Improved and Long Island Improved varieties of Brussels Sprouts are considered good. Fordhook lima beans retain su perior color and flavor when frozen, and so' do the Kentucky Wonder green snap beans. Italian green sprouting broccoli to superior because of its fresh U3ULJ flavor and color / for freezing pur poses, while the Thomas Laxton and Dark Podded Thomas Laxton peas give a su perior frozen product. Savoy type spinach is recom mended for those freezing this vege table in the Eastern part of the » LYNN SAYS: Serve Summer Foods With a Flair Keep the flavor intact in those tender asparagus spears. Don’t scrape, just brush it Break, don’t cut and tie with a string. Cook with the heads up, then served with browned butter and bread crumbs. Lemon gelatin salads are cooling for hot days. Choose a canned fish for plain gelatin and lemon juice molds: shrimp, sardines, lobster or crabmeat. Serye with garden red tomatoes. r LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Deep Fat Fried Chicken Mashed Potatoes Cream Gravy Pineapple Cote Slaw Buttered Or Hot Biscuits Strawberry Shndae Butter Cookies country. For those living i broad teal spinach gives the results. ■PPM Always Blanch Vegetables or Freezing Prepare vegetables for by washing them thoroughly. If desire a uniform pack, them according to washed. Scalding or -blanc hies should ney preparing use. Scalding retai tion and stops det proves color and sai and also softens the vc ing packing easier. Scald a . or so at a time, using steam ferably, or plunging the veget into hot water. Five minutes steam is used for most vej except greens such as which require only 2% minutes green peas which need 2 minutes. Place the vegetable in water ice until thoroughly cooled, drain on a tray with paper or toweling. Package at once and refrigerate. Only moisture and vai packages' should be used for type of freezing. The liners be used only once although the ton may be re-used. Leave head space in all cartons as food always expands during freezing. • • • Use Syrup for Fndto To Be Used For Sauce If you’re putting apples into sauce for freezing, use Baldwin, Green ing, Nor th era Spy or - Yellow Transparent va rieties; tor pie. use any high acid variety. In blueberries, use any small seeded variety. Montmorency is a good variety in the sour red cherries, while in peaches of the yellow type. Hate Haven and J. H. Hale are lent For white peaches. Golden Jubilee or Georgia Belle. Any type pineapple is good. Wash fruit carefully, but do not allow it to soak. Drain thoroughly on absorbent cloth or paper, and stand In refrigerator, if permit fruit to become packaging. Stem and seed berries. Peel such as apricots, apples, and pears but place imm after peeling into a solution one gallon of cold water blespoons lemon juice, or spoons citric acid to a g water to prevent discolora remain only a minute, then d If using dry sugar, as for fruit, sift sugar with a flour right into the package. The mum amount to use for one part sugar to eight parts fruit. More may be added when is thawed. Seal, label and package at once. To make medium syrup for use 1 cup sugar to 2 cups wi Cook tor 5 minutes and let cool fore using. Those summer fruits and make wonderful fritters, tasty for dessert served with sauce. Make the sauce by together a cup of honey with 1 tablespoons of heavy cream, juice of a lemon and two spoons of butter. Fry plenty of chicken next f you're making it, and serve er half chilled well the day. Put on the {date with sliced tomatoes, black oli\ bread, butter and lettuce wiches.