INSIDE AMERICA

New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 893, 14 September 1956, Page 26

INSIDE AMERICA

m AMERICANS advertise their country better than themselves," says L. M. H. Cave, senior tutor-organiser of the Victoria University College Council of Adult Education, who has just returned from a year’s study leave at the University of Michigan. His American friends were shocked to hear that many

people believe Hollywood films give a true idea of what Americans are like. "You will tell people we are not like that, won’t you!" they insisted. In a series of talks to be heard over 2XA Wanganui and 2XP New Plymouth, starting this month, Mr. Cave will give listeners some impressions of the Americans he met during his nine months in the States. He will also tell about his studies, including radio and TV, and about his ttavels. Mr. Cave gained an American driver’s licence, and drove with friends to New York and New Jersey at Christmas. He

lived in Manhattan for nine days. At Easter with two friends he’ drove about 3500 miles on a trip taking them down to New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast into Florida. On the way back he had a conversation with Dr. Irwin T, Sanders, of the University of Kentucky. Dr. Sanders uses the book on the Hawera social survey (which Mr. Cave initiated) as a text book with his graduate students in

sociology. Mrs. Cave joined her husband for his last few weeks in the States, and they travelled together to the West Coast, seeing something of Wyoming, Colorado and California. They flew from San Francisco, and stayed several days in Fiji before returning home. "American educators can really mix rollicking good fun with solid work,"

says Mr. Cave. "And we can also learn a lot from them in their imaginative approach to problems." Kiwi on the Campus, as the series will be called, will be broadcast weekly over 2XA Wanganui at 8.45 p.m., from Monday, September 17, and over 2XP New Ply"mouth at 8.1 p.m., from Monday, September 24.