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BROOKiiyM EAOiE Section 2 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1949 21 Brooklyn's Man of the Week: Dr. Bayne's Credo-Must Not Teach in -Reds Schools By JOHN A. DE MILIA L. PIZZ. (f If -r' "I believe that school is not an exclusive, selective institution of instruction but rather that it is a service institution in which children are to be respected as children and not regarded as mechanical robots goose-stepping through childhood." The speaker, a man of benign countenance, Dr.

Stephen Fielding Bayne, who retired Sept. 1 as deputy superintendent of schools after 51 years in the New York City public school system, continued: "I believe teachers must look upon children with friendly eyes. The school is to be a happy place where children grow naturally. The child is entitled to this as his democratic American birthright and the school is to be a place where children grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man." Reflecting a mo- is senior warden of Trinity Church and a trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

He was Sunday School Superintendent of the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan for 30 years. His son, the Rev. Stephen F. Bayne is Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Wash. It has been said by their friends that Dr.

Bayne and Edna Ashley "sang their way into each other's heart." She was a soprano in the church choir, and his singing has been described as that of a lyric tenor. The Baynes will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in December. In addition to the Bishop, they have two other children, Mrs. Charlotte Montgomery of Chicago and Edward A. Bayne, who is associated with the World Bank in Washington.

Dr. Bayne and his wife live at the Towers Hotel. Explaining some aspects of his edu Eagle 9 aft photoa SKY PATROL TAKES OFF In the latest addition to the Police Aviation Bureau equipment, Acting Captain Gustav Crawford, 21 Markham Place, Port Richmond, and Patrolman John F. Bollinger, 1669 E. 46th start on a mission.

Only three of the squadron's seven pilots have mastered the helicopter but Crawford is training others. The new craft is valuable for hovering over victims in inaccessible waters and swamp areas. At right, Patrolman Walter H. Smith, 1 91 4 E. 23d and Anthony M.

Fiore, 402 4th St. work on a Grumman Widgeon in the Floyd Bennett-Field hangar used for sky-cop equipment. Flying Cops Get Their Man' When Surface Rescue Efforts Fail By TOM SCHROTH It's harder to rescue. a drowning man in the Winter than it is in the Summer in the waters around New York City. That's because the rivers and bays are ice-clogged and, in very cold water, a man doesn't last long.

And that's the main reason the New York City Police Aviation Bureau turned tfrom Its three conventional planes to the helicopter. "Since we got the 'copter just a year ago," says Acting Captain Gustav Crawford, who heads the "Flying Cop" squadron of 20 men, "we have saved at least three lives, and last Winter ment, the eminent educator said: "There are those to whom the individual is not a sacred, responsible personality, but who would make children creatures of the state. Some of these promoters of a Godless world are in our midst. They would destroy the very ideals and the government that gave them opportunity to be free men. The Communist has no place in the American public school.

Reds Must Go "It is unthinkable, It is almost sacrilegious that the school the child of the American Government and the American way of life should be the destroyer of its mother. Such mat cational philosophy, Dr. Bayne said: "We are not so much concerned with what children do to a curriculum as what the curriculum does to the child because we can change curricula but we cannot change children who have grown into adulthood with warped and misshapen characters. "Supervision is co-operative a creative. It must guide, and inspire.

It respects the individuality of child and teacher. It cannot insist on uniformity. Its duties are not easily defined or routin-ized, for it must be personal and one of the measures of its efficiency must be growth in teacher Was comparatively mild. This year will be a good test." lit rMM- fZ--m JFM The need for going out over i the chilly waters that lap Brook Goose, which is equipped with lyn's shores arises when playful kids "adult kids, too," Air many comfort devices, tables, reclining chairs and the latest man Crawford sighed are radio equipment. The most important function tossed out of a capsized boat or come floating down the East of the Aviation Bureau, accord River on a cake of ice.

Cold Water Hampers Rescue ing to its chief, is the detection, prevention and prosecution of low-flying violations. Many "It is usually impossible to Brooklynites have been an rescue them in a boat or in one noyed by the frightening racket cf our amphibian planes be cf a "buzzing" plane. However, STAND BY FOR TAKE-OFF Acting Captain Crawford and Patrolman Bollinger get ready to start a mission in the Police Aviation Bureau's helicopter at Floyd Bennett Field while Patrolman Fiore stands by as fire-watch. Captain Crawford insists there would be many more such of occupants were thrown out fenses if it weren't for the cause of the ice hazard. Even Jrlt a boat did get to the victims, the cold water would probably get them first So the helicopter, which can hover over them or drop right down next to them, Dr.

Stephen F. Bayne For a half hour, it raced vigilance of his sky cops. Eight Readers Asked: crazily around other boats and "For a city, of this size, with initiative. swimmers, threatening lives and is the ideal answer, he said, property, Other boatmen failed to catch up with it. Finally, 12 airports and 18 seaplane bases in the vicinity there is relatively little low flying," he said, "and what there is we are trying to eliminate.

We have Like Captain Crawford, the ether members of the staff, How Do You Feel About Having A Woman President or Veep? along came the police helicop whicli operates from a U. S. worked out new flight patterns Navy hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, are enthusiastic about: ter. It hovered over the speeding boat, running along with it at the same 35-mile-an-hour speed until Detective Harold W. Behrens could drop into the for the airliners going into La- vote for a woman if I thought she were able, even if she their new "baby," the hell Guardia and, so far, have caught only one serious violator." wasn't a candidate of my fa-.

Senator Margaret Chase Smith stated recently in Washington that "the party that nominates a woman for Vice President or President will win the 1952 election." boat and bring it to a halt. That case is now in court vorite party. Mr. Roosevelt i copter. It's a Bell, two-seater model, with a plastic ball enclos- Mng the pilots, ideally designed In Buck Rogers fashion for Sgt.

Gerald J. Crosson, the where Captain Crawford says, worthv of the Presidency or the airlines are fighting the Vice Presidency, it seems to second in command, was the skillful pilot of the helicopter idea that city police have juris Eight people were asked ij me. that time. diction in the air. they agreed with Mrs.

bnntn, C. A. A. Acts on Reports I.KXA RIGMAX Lawyer Hotel Ho.sM-rt JAY J. LEHRMAX However, elaborate arrange Attorney ments already are in effect be 1164 Lenox Road I have serious doubts about Mrs.

Smith's statement. Would women vote for a woman for tween the police and the Civil It could easily be! More Aeronauntical Authority, a Fed women are needed in the politi eral agency, whereby Captain cal field. Shortly now, women Sky Orders Direct Drivers Watching the city's traffic pattern on weekends and holidays is another important function of the flying squadron. The plane radios are in constant two-way contact with police headquarters at 240 Centre Manhattan. When a particularly heavy jam appears at a bridge or on a parkway, a re Crawford's outfit maintains pa or trolling jurisdiction over the country city and sends Its violation re are going ports to the C.

A. which such ahigh posit No. Women of this try would vote for a woman in a minor office, to demand takes appropriate action. Jfeearch operations. The flying police outfit also has three other planes a single-engine, five-place Stlnson; an eight-place, two-engine Grumman Goose amphibian and a five-place, twin-engine Grumman Widgeon amphibian.

Cap- tain Crawford points proudly to the two amphibians, both 'bought from the War Assets Administration. "We got the Widgeon for $10,000 and its worth about $31,000 now," he said. "The Goose cost us $14,000 from W.A.A. and the Grumman people say it couldn't be made for less than $75,000 now." Mayor Usee the "Goose" The two larger planes, especially the Goose, are used mainly for transporting high city nd police officials to out-of-' town meetings. Mayor O'Dwyer Is a frequent passenger in the a woman Another item which gets a ricide is a perversion of nature.

The Communist has no place in the professional force of the public school of the American democracy." One was reminded at this point of an observation made recently by a colleague of Dr. Bayne, i. "He hasn't much red hair left on his head, but there are times when, sufficiently aroused, he manifests the disposition of a person with a full crop of the red stuff." This was one of those times. Dr. Bayne was born in New York City on June If), 1879.

His ancestors came to this country 300 years ago from Glasgow, Scotland, and settled in what is now Baynes-ville in Westmoreland County, Virginia. One branch of the family joined the pioneers in their trek to Kentucky, through Illinois and then to Missouri. Dr. Bayne is descended from this family. Sense of Humor His sense of humor, like his ancestry, is typically American.

One of his favorite jokes is the one about the Pittsburgh engineer who was so strong that when he was late in catching a train he just reached out, caught the steam, and used it as a string to pull back the train. Dr. Bayne's schooling began at Public School 46, St. Nicholas Ave. and 156th in 1887.

He holds a B.S. degree from City College, an M.A. degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. degree from Ford-ham University. He began his teaching career in Public School 49, 237 E.

37th Manhattan, in the Fall of 1898. In 1909 he was appointed principal of Public School 89, Lenox Ave. and 133th and in 1921 was named a district superintendent. Hi3 elevation to associate superintendent was made on Jan. 10, 1934, and the appointment as deputy superintendent came in 1942.

As deputy superintendent he was "second in command" to the Superintendent of Schools. Church Activities A religious man, Dr. Bayne is one of the top Episcopal laymen in the country. He in one of the two top lot of attention from the fly "Human conservation differs from industrial conservation in that it does not aim to produce a standardized product. We don't want everyone to sing tenor or to wear the same Spring hat.

We aim at developing to the fullest human personality developing what is already in the child. Once we guide children we set loose something in them. I think guidance should be continuous, pervading everything we do, rather than spasmodic or occasional." National Stature During his 51 years in the teaching profession, Dr. Bayne gained national stature for his work in curriculum construction and related testing and experimentation. He has two hobbies battlefields and his 10 grandchildren.

His interest in battlefields is scholarly, not partisan. He has visited every battlefield of the Revolution and Civil War and is considered quite an authority on Gettysburg. Of principals, Dr. Bayne had this to say: "The principal who concentrates on the 3R's and fails to meet environmental conditions surrounding his school is as much an anachronism as would be a stagecoach on Broadway today." A citation for educational leadership, awarded to Dr. ayne last May at the Waldorf-Astoria by the New York Academy of Public Education, reads in part: "A teacher of teachers, who has guided and inspired two generations of school men and women; "A progressive curriculum maker, whose vision has brought about changes in content and method that have made our elementary schools the equal of any in the world; "A devoted American and a man of God, who has consistently upheld the spiritual values on which our civilization is based, knowing that the brotherhood of man is derived solely from the fatherhood of God." ing flatfoot is the emergency offices.

Mrs. rescue mission. When a boat but not for Una Bitman port is flashed from overhead and orders go out to the ground patrolmen to redirect motorists 1 a sevelt overturns or a child gets lost such a job as that of being in a marshy area or some would be hrmn along less congested routes. would-be Huckleberry P'inns President. Women still believe in the dominance of the male.

And, anyway, it would good as either President or The Brooklynites in the come floating down toe river Squadron are Patrolmen John on an ice cake, a call often damage the male's sense of im Vice President, I think. Yes, I'm in favor of the woman In the White House. And there wouldn't be any battle of the sends- a police plane to the portance to have a woman Presi F. Bollinger, 1669 E. 46th Anthony M.

Fiore, 402 4th rescue. dent. It's true that women are James Donnelly, 267 Ovington Recently a speed boat got often more practical than men Mcholas W. Jones, 82 Ave away on Jamaica Bay after its but my sex is better in an ad sexes if a woman ran for the top position either; both men and women would vote for nue Joseph Ragusa, 2119 75th and Walter H. Smith, 1914 E.

23d St. her. Charm and personality would be Important rather than Captain Crawford lives at 21 visory capacity only. Maybe a woman Vice President would be all right as long as laws were made so that she could never be President. Assemblyman L.

P. MURPHY 32 Court St. Yes, I agree with Mrs. Smith Markham Place in Port Richmond on Staten Island. He goes to and from his aerial duties every day on the 69th St.

ferry. her looks. FRED HUSTOX Law Librarian 577 E. 26th 8t. But no woman would get the as long as it's the Democratic backing to obtain the nomina party that nominates a woman! tion.

Mrs. Roosevelt is tne Masonic Charities Serio I y. though, I'd vote -for a woman if I believed in the policies Receive $250,000 Three Brooklyn Masons representing as many Masonic (ff: wno migtu possibly. As for me per-quail i vote for anyone who ii qua II fieri i to do of her plat L. P.

Mnrphr form. Men and women are equally charities received checks total President? Definitely, yes! Men would greatly resent having a woman as President of our Country. They like us to be more feminine than that position would allow. A. L.

Post Opens Club to Youths woman In a high office. The men would vote for her at any rate; men are getting tired of seeing members of their own sex play poor politics. I don't think you'd find women voting for a woman nominee, Fred Hmton ing $230,000 at the annual meeting of the Metropolitian gOOO 11, f.r3 apr thev'rp crnincr in vnta for the platform they believe in, whether the individual run District Deputies Association though, tneyd probably IDA NT ROM of the State Masonic organ ning is a woman or a man whether a woman or man. And I'd vote for a good person even if In another party. It's what the individual is able to do and what he stands for that counts, man or woman.

jealous. Izatlon last night in Masonic mey areni going to cross up In the 88th Precinct, which has no Youth Center, J. Person Post, American Legion, has formed a "teen-agers" club and is making it3 clubhouse at 206 Salesgirl 170 Columbia Heights tneir party to vote for a woman Temple, 71 W. 23d LEOXA PRELI Student on an opposing party just be cause she's a woman. A question like that takes time to think about.

It seams 3170 37th Astoria George A. Barnewall, vice president of the Brooklyn Trust to me that women In high posts have not LEOXARD. muxowitz Student 5030 Kings Highway SANDRA A BRA MS Student 840 Montgomery St. If people will be broadminded and vote on the basis of capabilities rather than on the sex If the woman nominated were Mrs. Roosevelt, I'd vote Company, accepted a check for $90,000 which will be used for her.

I'm-afrald that I don't Vanderbllt Ave. available for its activities. "It's our contribution toward combating juvenile delinquency in this precinct, which takes in the Clinton-Hill and parts of the Navy Yard and Bedford-Stuy-vesant sections," said Martin L. Kellman, post commander. Commander Kellman.

who 13 una ining you can be sure about I wouldn't vote for a woman. I believe that woman's for moderlzatlon of the home at Utica. Arthur E. Delmhorst of 9229 Shore Road received been tried enough yet to warrant nominating them for either the Presidency or Vice Presidency. a check for Masonic benevolence.

The third Brooklvnite was Raymond C. know too much about the other women In politics. In my opinion it's the individual who counts and of the nominee, then a woman might very well be d. You'll have trouble with the male voter place is In the home. As far as I'm concerned women in 1 1 ics a n't Ellis of 176 Westminster road, jalso secretary of the 88th Precinct Co-ordinating Council, is being supported in the effort.

who received a check for Mm. Ida Strom Mrs. Roosevelt? Well, ye I might vote hy Police Capt. John J. Sullivan.

$95,000 which will be used to support research Into the cause of rheumatic fever. what he or Ltoa AERIAL PHOTOS Patrolman Walter G. Reichman of 73-11 Woodside Elmhurst, receives aerial camera rom Patrolman Walter Kolm, 158-38 92d Ozone Park, before start of a recording mission, one of the many duties of the flying cops. for her, but that an excep-in command of the SSth Pre-tion. The American A former city detective, would never vote for a Commander Charles E.

men would. I guess they're Bvrnes, heads a staff of vonth Presenting the checks was helped anyone. Most people, I she stands for and not the person's sex. Do I think men Leonard ManowlH though. Sandra Abrama He's going to balk at the Idea of a woman In a top office.

I'd Clarence Glass of 166 Columbia Heights, State treasurer. guess, wouldn't mind seeing a would mind having a woman more generous. (counselors the post has set up..