South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-29
SCHOOLS WILL BE
OPEN TO VISITORS
Workings of Institutions to be
Explained During Gen.
tenniaI Work.
BY meIena CIendenen.

don't suppose there's citizen Of
South Bend that doesn't frequently
have occasion 10 point with pride 20
the imposing edihces that beauufy
the entire block hemmed i'm by Col
Tax and Washington avs. William
ST. and the thoroughfare that could
have been dubbed and treated as an
alley II il hadn't been lifted by
higher ideals TO mt cOmpanionship
for the high school surroundings.
But / wonder how many times the
high school and grammar school
buildings are pointed out with a de-
sire 20 indicate they are other than
tombs or monuments TO show what
South Bend can accomplish in the
Nay of noteworthy architectural de-
sign and landscape gardening.
I wonder If 10 ever dawns upon a
boastful citizen-guide 10 intimate
that ne isn't pointing out a tomb or
3 monument. but a swarming hive
.of industry. where every one of its
human bees is busy hve days of the
week in putting theory 10 practical
test with results that figure not only
~ the home and the city, but in the
county the state and the country.
Designs Are Practical
wonder how many of South
Bends citizens know that from the
department OF commercial art. for
instance. designs are going out for
use in the manufacture Of textile
decorations. i'm costumers' shops, in
millinery establishments; that very
Recently the agent for a big Chicago
firm took back with him designs
that met the exact requirements Of
the big establishment
South Bend is proving that the
day is past for complaints against
the inehiciency of school work to
dt the student for his place in the
wOrkaday world. And il should be
one of the foremost desires of every
citizen that visitors during centen-
NAL week should be advised 10 take
advantage of the invitation by Supt.
J r. Nuner and his corps of super
VisOrs 90 come every morning be-
tween the hours OF . and l., TO view,
not SO much a display of the finished
products of labor. but the actual
working of the students themselves.
What is being done from day to
DAY. viii be a revelation To many
not alone tc those who were started
out i'm life with the three RS
"readin'. 'ritin and rithmetic"-in
the little old log schoolhouse in the
clearing or. later. in its very finished
successor-the smooth-timbered red
painted building at the crossroads.
VIII BE Revelation.
To viii be a revelation TO those
who with lunch pail i'm hand,
trudged miles to the little school. to
be conducted through halls crossing
and iuter-Cr0sslng the space Of a
city block. to connect the various
departments where cOoking, laundry
work housekeeping. meal serving.
and manual training are going on IN
departments that would comfortably
hold the little log or red-painted
sChoolhouse
Reception committees of high
school and grammar school students
viii be ON hand 20 welcome visitors
and introduce them to- the different
supervisors and the work under
their direction. and it is TO be hoped
that citizens. as well as visitors. will
devote some one of the 1--WE mornings
of the coming week to receive the
liberal and interesting education that
Is awaiting them.