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to serve people of one group whl 1CB DAILY PRESS, Newport News, SuiwSoy, November 20, 1949 Competition for the Travel Dollar" will be discussed at a banquet Monday night by Abel P. San- 300 miles away, this same group program. But It takes time," she concluded. That India was aware of this need Virginia Travel might be killing their own famines, the other items are Improvement to room accommodations for tourists State advertising of Virginia's tourist attractions, Commander Raymond B. Bottom, of Newport News, is president of the she said One Muslim girl finally was borne out by the wide backing that the new school received from Council Meets board of directors of the council.

all groups In India. The government provided students with scholarships. The YWCA of India. Amid Unrest, Rioting India Opens New School, Visitor Tells YW Here itos, manager of the World Travel I Service of the Carolina Motor Club. Prior, to this talk, delegates will ihear how Switzerland captures travelers' dollars from ten representa-jtives of Swiss tourism, the travel council of the European country.

I "Your Highways And Mine" is expected to provide one of the more explosive sessions of the convention Monday at 3 P. at which repre-j sentatives of the State Highway De-: partment and State Police will anS- Surma and Ceylon dipped into its capital funds to start the school. Christian groups cooperated. Indian leaders and social workers lent REMINDED HIM OF SCHOOL DAYS Atlanta, Nov. 19.

Patrolman W. T. Dodd was getting ready to tag a car when a school teacher whose name he would not tell showed up. She pleaded her low salary Just couldn't stand a jerking fine. He agreed to tear.

up the ticket, on one condition. The teacher turned in her home work today. Two pages of it. "I will not park illegally," she had written 100 times. had toleave, but only after her own life was endangerec'.

Several students as a matter of course, worked a nigtt shift in a large Muslim camp. One night four of them successfully delivered nine babies although ony one had any midwifery experience and some had never before seen a child being born. Some kept up a survey of the camps, locating and keeping lost children until they could be returned to their families or plac. with others. Another helped develop a Freedom Of Press Washington, Nov.

19. (JP) The State Department called today for "renewed efforts" by the United States to convince other nations "through example and discussion' of the advantages of complete freedom of the press. The men and women who were to make up the faculty represented people with sound theoretical and Richmond, Nov. 19 JPj Advance registration begins here tomorrow for the two-day first annual meeting of the Virginia Travel Council, scheduled to begin Monday at the Hotel Jefferson. Approximately 200 persons are expected to be present for a checkup on the State's third largest industry that is expected to bring $200,000,000 to the State this year.

One of the major concerns of the meeting will be a study of how to lure more tourist dollars to the Old Dominion in future years. practical background in social work. One left the presidency of a woman's college to go out and work in the Jute mills. Another had worked In the coal mines. Many have studied camp program to interest and occupy 10.000 children.

Her co-workers assist the Indian leaders In setting up the school. "The money was used to encour wer questions of the conferees. Many small businessmen are expected to air views on sagging investments in roadside enterprises caused by rerouting of highways. Another subject to be discussed is "Better Food In Virginia." Some of By NANCY KING Friends told Miss Elmina Lucke when she first arrived in Bombay in 1946 that she had come on an impossible mission. There would never were adult members of the camp.

Another with previous training in in the United States where many of the problems workers faced here government gave classes in citizen You were all so tongue-tied while you were there you couldn't say I passed out pieces of paper and pencils and they wrote down be time or money or teachers enough to start a second school of social work in India. But Miss Lucke went right ahead talking and meeting and working with her Indian friends and contacts When she left India two years latter, the second class of students what has later become an "Oath for Social Workers." The oath concludes "Let me serve my fellow-men. That is all I ask." age lndiginous leadership in India. Instead of a new American imperialism that many expected, came American friendship and cooperation," Miss Lucke explained. These Indian leaders and the American advisers were determined not to turn out classes of administrators, or leaders.

"What would they have administered, who would they have led?" Miss Lucke questioned. "What we needed," she continued, "were students with the spirit and realism to work with people and not for them, students with the willingness to do anything that was needed, with the capacity to fit in That group of 28 students has done in 1900 must be faced again in India in 1950. This calls for a very special kind, a very demanding kind of pioneering. Miss Lucke charged. For these workers must do the jobs that others were doing 50 years ago while, at the same time, they are trying to make up for a 50-year lag.

The school finally moved into a barracks on the edge of the Delhi campus In September of 1947 Just when the riots broke out. The student body was composed of almost every class and caste, every race and every religion in India. Men and women were enrolled. ship. Students were so absorbed in the lectures that only one peeked at the cameraman when their pictures were taken.

Still others worked in the kitchen, seeing that the food was allotted according to orders, and fairly well cooked. These were the more regular Jobs. But one day when the street cleaners failed to show up. girls grabbed brooms and themselves helped sweep away the accumulated filth. NEVER FLINCHED The students never flinched.

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to use the homely wisdom of the people for the betterment of every later assassinated. After their visit, the students one." the refugee camps. CLASSES CONTINUED But the academic instruction did gathered around to discuss what These students would have to go ISM present they should sent Ghandhi in return for his kindness. DR. R.

B. GOLDBERG OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined-Glasses Fitted not fall behind. Instructors held classes at night in many cases or "They were suggesting the most ridiculous things," Miss Lucke re III 1 I -v they gave individual Instruction. The talks or 'field work' students carried out in the camps were varied, out alone In many cases to come to grips with the social problems on India. They had to be able to develop co-helpers in their work from those with whom they came in contact.

They would have to make their work a cooperative venture in which they would be but one in a group. Miss Lucke said. Hours Daily 9 to 5 290412 Washington Ave. Dial 2-6593 I OH Ssaltesl3406 WASHINGTON AVcllRQlF called. "So I finally broke in and asked, But what would Ghandhi do with these things.

Why don't you send him your thoughts instead. she recalls. ii run Aiuu7a 11 i Groups of students would go out! TRADITION OF POVERTY There was never any doubt. Miss Lucke continued, that India needed more social workers. They were needed to help in a continent where School of Social Work affiliated with the University of Delhi.

The first master's degrees will be awarded In 1950. It may not seem a very exciting mission. But, as Miss Lucke told a group of YWCA friends and members at a luncheon in Newport News Friday, "I seem to have a talent for falling into dramatic situations." She arrived in Bombay along with the riots. From the ship she took a taxicab to a friend's house. The curfew hour was approaching, ominous rumors flew through the city.

Miss Lucke peered out of the cab at the dimly familiar streets which she had last seen 15 years be-j fore. The cab stopped and the driver got out. Someone ran up and reported a 6tabbing had taken place only a few streets away. It was the last she saw of the driver. There was Miss Lucke alone in a Bombay street in the center of the rioting area.

Night was falling and she did not know her way. But, a few hours later, she turned tip safe and sound at her friend's home and together, behind shuttered windows, they planned whom she should see first and where she should get advice and help. STAYED TO HELP "I came as a YWCA adviser to the Indian group who were working to get a school of social work. I stayed to help," she told the group. The one school that was in operation in Madras was turning out about 40 students a year to care for all of India.

These social workers were trained only for work in cities. There was no one to go out in the villages and work with the villagers. The YWCA of America adopted this project as the first one to be aided by the reconstruction fund. They contributed books, personnel, money and American experience to poverty, carelessness and ignorance in hygiene, in the handling of di sease were almost a tradition. These bad social conditions, these ssamssamm sasss ssssss asai asssssas i .1.

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