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...help care for European refugee children, the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, Inc. has established ten children's colonies in France, housing1,-300. from the ages of 2 to 17. Many a U. S. citizen has become a "foster parent," sending money, writing letters. Wrote one U. S. schoolboy "parent": "Your luck has not been so good as mine, Pierre, but cheer up, your day will come. I am studying French in school and some day when the world is a better place, perhaps when you are a young man, we can meet and look back...
This huge body of Harvard men is tied to the parent institution by a complex of over-lapping organizations--the Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Board of Overseers, and the Harvard Fund Council...
...much thought to U. S. Education. Last week he published a book on the subject, in the form of letters of advice to his son (New Aims in Education-Whittlesey House-$2). Neither flashy nor profound, Mr. Hambidge's book said in good plain English what many another parent thinks is wrong with U. S. schools...
...Fully as important as child training is parent training. Parents need "a working philosophy of growth which will give perspective to the everyday problems of childhood...
Last December, an argument over utility equity financing was precipitated by SEC's mooted Consumers Power decision (TIME, Jan. 8), in which Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern (Consumers' parent) was told he could not raise $10,000,000 of new money by selling Consumer bonds, should sell stock instead. Willkie, who agrees that equity financing is desirable, argued that the public would not buy stocks at reasonable prices, while they are willing to take bonds at low rates. The issue over equity financing boiled down to a question: could common stocks be sold at reasonable prices...