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PREPARE YOUR CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL

Vacation days are over--the school bells are ringing again, but are your children prepared to enter? Pre-school training is important for all children.

We best prepare the child to enter school as we cultivate in him at home in his earlier years good habits of eating and sleeping; as we teach him to show regard for the authority of any person who may be responsible for him; as we help him have lots of fun with other children of his age; as we guide him in self-reliance and responsibility; as we, moreover, read aloud to him and encourage him to create with pencil, crayons, blocks and words.

As a rule, the school is about the safest and healthiest place for the child to be. But if at home he does not enjoy eating the proper foods; if he is not a good sleeper and does not go to bed regularly and early enough and eat enough of right foods, he may easily show the strain after entering school. If he has been sick a great deal, he is likely to be pampered and not only may miss many days at school from real illness, but he also may "play sick."

If, in spite of such good habits, routines and generally favorable family atmosphere, he still seems to be more excitable or more irritable after entering school, have your doctor check on him. Even his vision and hearing may need testing.

If he has no learned reasonable obedience at home, he soon may become a discipline problem at school.

Fortunate is he if he has learned at home to obey ad to share in the duties and responsibilities there--valuable experience for his success at school.

Build up in your child an appreciation of his teacher and enthusiasm for her. These things apply if your child is to enter nursery school or grade school.

BRIDGE CLUB

The Lockbourne Army Air Base Bridge Club celebrated its first anniversary in the Officers' Club on Thursday evening, August 28. Plans were made for a Bridge Tournament to be held in November which is to become an annual event.

The following officers were elected for the year:

Lt. Collier, President
Lt. Lehman, Vice President
Pauline Punch, Sec'y-Treasurer

A mid-night snack was served and enjoyed by all.

THE FOUNTAIN HEAD
--Ayn Rand

"The Fountain Head", by Ayn Rand is primarily a novel concerning man's ego and the clash that is inevitable when strong characters meet.

Howard Roark, the principal character, is an architect who knows his goal as a creator and lets nothing stand in his way to attain it. To him imitation of past architects and architecture is a sham and means the destruction of self. Neither success nor the opinion of others can compromise Roark. He advocates and believes in the egotist for to him man cannot survive except through his own mind. No creator was ever prompted by desire to serve others. He wants only to express his own truth. He could not use his brain to think for others. He, as a creator, serves only himself. For this Roark was hated and feared.

There were two people who loved Roark. One once tried to destroy him and the other was, in the end, forced to turn against him. 

There were many who hated and feared Howard Roark because of his individualism and creative ability. There was one who tried to take Roark's achievement, his reward and his glory.