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KDITORS XOIK: Bringing ihc world to even the more remote communities of onr country is fast becoming a reality. For many years, community forums, service clubs, and women's clubs depended upon the medium of the radio, the printed and spoken word as their means of becoming aware of events in far-off places. Today, to this already very effective list can be added the sound motion picture fdm. Hundreds of well-planned and beautifully photo graphed pictures of living conditions and social problems as they exist in the lands of our allies are now being produced on 16mm. sound film. Here and there throughout the country, we are f)eginning to get reports on how these excellent, current-event teaching devices are being successfully utilized among interested groups of adults. What follows here is an account of how Dr. Rrown, former Director of Adult Education, Springfield, Illinois, planned and conducted a film forum before a women's club gathering in one rural community, before a mixed urban group, and before a group of professional women; and how he literally brought the world to the groups by means of the superb ability of the sound film to record and convey its impressions realistically, vividly, and interestingly.
general reading in the field. The chairman of the group presided at eacli meeting. After the leaders for the evening had presented facts and points of view, general discussion followed, during which the leaders were challenged concerning the facts they presented and particularly on their interjjretation of them. Each successive week, two or more other members became the leaders on another aspect of Chinese life, and the same (jucstioning and challenging couuncnt from the group followed.
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I attended the next to the last meeting of the series in response to a request for "someone who can help us with discussion method." Six members participated that evening as a panel. Each came armed with pamphlets, periodicals, books, maps and charts, and their own compilations ol notes gleaned from arduous studs of materials of their own, periodi cals from the public library, pam phlets from their imiversity exten sion di\ision, and books from th< state library commission. For near ly two hours, the discussion alter nately waxed furiously and lullcc to frequent pauses for contempla tion and new approaches. At it conclusion, we planned togethei the final meeting two weeks away
Nearly one hundred townspeo pie came to the final meeting. / six-member panel talked on threi major points— the economic stress cs and strains in China, the di vided opinion as to the conduc of war by Generalissimo Chianj Kai-shek, and the future of China For an hour and a quarter ij li\cly, informed, reasoned manne there j^ourcd forth a flow of fac and interpretation which rousetL the audience to immediate qticiH lion and comment. And finally, a\ a climax we showed the filit, HERE IS CHINA. There, befor^ our very eyes, with our minds full attuned to many of the needs, th problems, and the riches of Ch nese life, were unrolled for twenf; fi\e minutes the beauty, the mi; ery, the waste, the poverty, an, the hopeful steps forward bein
December — SEE and HE/