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Show January 22, 1965 SIGNPOST Page 8 SEVENTEEN MINUTES TO DEATH While addressing Mr. Benjamin Noid's advanced public speaking class, Jack Sorenson made some astounding observations Friday. Mr. Sorenson, National Director of Aerospace Education, gave an excellent orientation on the meaning and impact of aerospace education on todays world. He defined aerospace education as: "A nation's capacity to operate in the area above the earth's surface." He exculded from that definition only projectiles fired from small amis, cannons, etc. Aerospace education touches nearly every phase of our exis-tance with considerable effect. Economically speaking, eighty percent of everything we eat, wear, or use has been transported or is in some way effected by the use of aerospace capacity. He further pointed out that fifty-six percent of every tax dollar went for some phase of aerospace research. No one would deny that this would effect us economically. Geographically it has shrunk our world to a point which enlarges our capacity to inter-communicate, but increases our problems politically.Militarily we live seventeen minutes from death. That, according to Mr. Sorenson is the time it would take to deliver a Russian missle on American soil, or visa-versa. He pointed out that a fighter pilot, (average age, twenty-three) has a three phase weapon system which commands; by Camille Ramnarce Celia Khodorlovskaya is the only child of working parents. At an early age, she was separated from her parents, who live near the government-owned laboratory at which they work, about 15 miles from Celia. But Celia was never alone. From the kindergarten-like nurseries where she stayed as a child, she has always been encouraged to engage in group play. "But", asks she, "who wants to be alone." At 7, she joined her first organization, the Octobrists, where flisanage chaperones supervised groups of 25 in play, study, hikes, and lectures. At 10, she graduated into the Young Pioneers, a scout like troop with 40 members equally divided between both sexes. Now at 15, Celia attends the Soviet- equivalent of secondary school, (there is no primary school). Her school year is divided into four quarters, each of which is followed by a vacation of 6 days, 12 days, 10 days, and then three months during the summer. Vacation is spent with the group at summer camp, and Celia admits she is never homesick. "The whole day is taken up with hikes, swimming, current affairs, discussions, history, lecture, about socialism, conceits, movies, and study." During the school year, Celia lives with her grandmother in a three-room block house. Her parents visit her one or two evenings a week. School and Communist Party organizations are her whole life. She is now a member of the All Union Lenin Communist Youth Organization. of Life, Man's Most by Steve Larsen As the shades came down on 1964 and I sat down to take stock of a year of prodigality and pro gress, I was struck by the similarity of a man's life and his business. No man is an island, and each of us starts out as a corporate entity. There are those who are heavily invested in our future. A good name, teachings, and endless hours of effort are the capital we begin our business with. There is overhead to pay in the form of life's necessities. He has incurred several liabilities. The profit he seeks must be earned in excess of all these factors. What I'm trying to say is that success in life, as in business, is the sum total and balance of all a man's activities. A bum, who lives only for himself and enjoys 1. Three vulcan cannons equal to the fire power of 2400 infantry men. 2. 2-5" rockets totalling more explosive firepower than the biggest battleship afloat. 3. Two nuclear bombs totaling more than ten times the explosive power of all the bombs dropped on German targets by allied air i - - Life With A Soviet Teenager also called Komsomol. As a reward for being a good Young Pioneer, Celia was admitted into tins group, the last step before the Communist Party. A typical school-day begins at 8, with a quick breakfast of bread and cheese, before hurrying the mile or so to school. "Of course I walk. How else do you go , to school?" From 9 to 1:30 p.m. she attends sessions in English, Uzbek, calculus, physics, chemistry, history, and literature. Most of the 45 students in her class speak at least three languages. The students sit two to a desk, in a room lined with Communist posters. At 1:30 p.m. they are allowed a 45-minute lunch for 28c in the school lunch room. The day's session is over, but the students do not leave school until 6 p.m. "This is the period when their parents are working," said the blue-uniformed school superintendent. "We not only provide an education for the children, but also provide a place for them to be left under supervision." At 2:15, Celia is ready for the day's extra-curricular activities. With members of her Komsomol group she heads for a discussion hall, where they discuss music and composers. "Beatles?" asks Celia "what do bugs have to do with music?" Celia and her friend's discuss Tschaikovsky. They read Gorkey, Tolstoy, Chekhov, or Dos-toyev. Celia's current favorite is The Young Guardsmen, a story by A. Fadeyev, of Russian teenagers, who formed a guerrilla brigade during World War II and ended before German firing squads. the OTHER SIDE the COI Important Business the happiness of being free of the burdons of life, is no more successful than the businessman who spends all his income without ever paying his liabilities of his overhead. Such a business must end in bankrupcy, and so must such a life. If a successful year in business shows some assets increased, some liabilities decreased, some thing invested in a brighter future, and a little profit; then a successful year of life might be one in which we increased in some trait of character, made our families proud, brought a new soul into the world, invested in a better future through a better redu-cation, and perhaps reaped the rewards of a few hours spent with a loved one or on a fishing trip. No business is a success until the ledger balances, and no life is complete until it is balanced. craft during all of World War n. "No American citizen can afford to be ignorant of the impact importance, and needs of American Aerospace Education." His speech was interesting and exemplary of many of the most important techniques of good public speaking. Later, she hurries to her ballet lesson. Celia loves to dance, but was 13 before she attended her first dance. About once or twice a month, she attends a party at school, going with her group, rather than on a date. The party is heavily chaperoned, and breaks up at about 9. Celia is shocked at the idea of teenagers going steady. When she goes on a date, it is usually to a movie, and always with a erouo. There is no necking, and Celia pays the 11 cents for her own tickets. Savs she. "Bovs don't have any money. Why should I expect them to buy my ticket?" Mot until a boy is working at 18 or 19 is it the custom for him to spend any money on a female he escorts. Celia herself receives money from her parents, for school lunches and for the movies. She attends a movie about once a week and confesses to one weakness reading Soviet screen magazines. A pretty, slim blonde, Celia wears no make-up, and has never had a permanent. She ties her straight hair back with a white ribbon. She makes for herself cotton frocks in her simple wardrobe. "I don't need more clothes," she explained. "I wear my school uniform most of the time." She is 5 feet, 7 inches, and might be considered "leggy" except that her wine-red uniform and black pinafore apron hide most of her legs. But Celia has no need to keep up with the Joneses in a society where differences in income are slight. To crave material things is to risk, being termed "bourgeois" by classmates, and disciplinary action from her Komsomol group. Intellectual and Idiot by Steve Larsen Idiot: " plus six is twenty-three, carry your two . . . Intellectual: "What are you up to today?" Idiot: "I'm trying to make these books balance. Let's see, where was I? Oh yes, carry your two. Two plus two is four Intellectual: "How do you know two and two is four?" Idiot: "Are you going to start that again? Two and two is four because two and two has always been four. It always will be." Intellectual: "That's the trouble with you. You live in a smug little world all your own. never thinking, never questioning, just accepting everything at face value." Idiot: "What should I do?" Intellectual: "Well you should not take everything for granted the way you do." Idiot: "What do you mean?" Intellectual: "For example the use of the word all. , All is an absolute. The first thing you must learn if you are to be an intellectual is that nothing is that cut and dried. No intellectual ever commits himself to an absolute statement, because all truth is relative. There is no truth anywhere that is not subject to circumstance. That's why I ask you these questions, which you think are so silly, because I want you to think. NOTICE: That all boldfaced words are absolutes. Idiot: "I thought you said all was an absolute." You Can't Please 'Em All The student newspaper is a strange creature an illegitimate by-product of an academic-and athletic-minded University. It has no concrete place in the hierarchy of administrative affairs, but it does its best to carve out a niche for itself in any area possible. Try as it may to please its reader class, it's never able to succeed. A student newspaper is skimmed, abused, argued and discussed, but never meets a fate much better than a rumpled sheet of newsprint in the nearest waste-basket.Though it seeks objectivity in its news columns and interpretation in its editorial columns, its objective and interpretative readers clamor, "It's not so!" Some would like to see the student newspaper in a more cosmopolitan vein. To these we suggest a yearly subscription to a worthwhile daily. Keep your college paper collegiate. Others would like to see a views paper rather than a newspaper. From this segment, we welcome signed letters and expressed opinions.And there are those who just don't care. They enjoy reading about controversy and contention, but don't favor crawling into the bonfire of any disputes ignited by a student press. For these, there's not much hope. Let the worldy words of Benjamin Franklin echo in the minds of our critics and our supporters. For, "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody there would be very little printed." From the University of Wyoming Branding Iron f PACIFIC & CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS NATIONWIDE THRU-BUS SERVICE Charter & Tours Se or Call AL COVIEO 2481 Grant Avenue 393-6868 FREE SKI Equipment with each BARRACUDA Sold During Remainder of January at BOULEVARD MOTORS 3130 Wash. 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