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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Sea Tragedies Recalled as Autumn Storms Uncover Rotting Wreckage of Ships on North Carolina Coast Fundamentals Needed Postwar Education In Courses Must Be Centered Around Core of Subjects Stressing Human Relations; Also Important. Physical Build-u- p By BAUKIIAGE Neus Analyst and Commentator Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. (This is the second of two articles on the new reconversion, this one in education.) In a previous column I laid before you the vital need of reconverting our educational system if America is going to meet the challenge of other ideologies to the faith in our democratic institutions. I pointed out how poorly many of our occupation forces are testifying to their democratic convictions in the face of the geniality of our former enemies. I took you into the office of Commissioner of Education John Stude-bakwho pointed out to me how reconverting educationally is as important as reconverting industrially if we are going to meet the problems of the day. Dr. Studebaker said that this could be achieved by making a solid core of education available to alL Such a core would be composed of certain basic studies which educators believe are essential to a solidarity of democratic thought. The commissioner of education sees this core as a reinforcement of mental iron in the moral structure of the nation. When you talk about making this core available to all, that is not the complete picture. Men like Doctor Studebaker would have this group of basic studies required of all students, not just made available to them. And thereby, say the traditionalists, hangs a threat to the elective system under which many institutions of learning have been comfortably educating students. Under the system of free choice, College Joe and College Jane could pick the courses their hearts desired. If their hearts desired a little extra sleep in the morning, they could pick classes that would not require early rising. activities were If particularly heavy one semester, they did not have to take economics which was hard when Turkish architecture was a snap. Too many students have been coming out of our institutions of learning without a basic concept of what our democracy is all about, say the educators who are crying for reconversion. If they dont select the courses that will give them that concept, they must be required to take them, these same men say the future of our way of life is at stake. WNU Service, 1G16 er extra-curricul- Education Vital Force in State fact that before It is a the Nazis ever dreamed of world conquest they first restrained by well-know- n force, those who were too old or too wise to accept Nazi indoctrination. The more malleable minds of the young were filled with the false doctrines of subordination to the state, race hatred and exaltation of might. and Their other were anti - Christian principles poured into the youth until there was produced a state in which the controlling element of the population was fanatically loyal to Naziism. Democracy and Christian principles once instilled can produce just as strong a loyalty, just as enduring a faith, but there is a minimum of instruction in their true meaning that must be made available to everyone more than that, that should be required study of everyone who would be a good citizen. This is the first way in which the destructive forces which are working against democracy can be arrested. And so Doctor Studebaker presents the idea of a core around which can be built an understanding of the whole democratic system; how its parts can be fitted into one another and into a world which must either be closely integrated or explosively antagonistic. There is not space here to consider the details of the composition of this core. Two examples of the type of studies which Doctor Studebaker feels are essential, and which must be taught much more comprehensively and for a longer period than they are now, was given in the first article. They are economics and geography. There must be basic understandings and skills in the field of language. By that the commissioner means the channels by which we communicate and are communicated with reading, writ- - BARBS ing, listening, speaking. Since radio broadcasts are heard daily by multiplied millions, critical listening should be a vital part of the basic educational program. Since freedom of expression is an essential attribute of a democracy, citizens need to develop critical thinking in order to evaluate the powerful influence of communication and propaganda constantly brought to bear on them. 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Some of the derelicts now on view all the way from Nags Head to Ocracoke Inlet are familiar, and recall many an anecdote. But some are beyond the ken of the oldest coastguardsmen or their records. The Carroll Deering. One of the most interesting is the ghost ship, Carroll Deering, out of Bath, Maine. She was found on Diamond- Shoals in 1921, undamaged, with sails set, with uneaten food on the table and on the stove, but with only a cat to greet the coast guard crew which boarded her. The Deering passed Diamond lightship the day before, but that was the last seen of any of her crew, and the cat kept her own counseL Later she drifted onto Ocracoke Island, sanded up and was lost to sight and almost to memory until the hurricane scoured out her hull. The George W. Wells, first schooner ever built, and then the largest wood vessel afloat, is also exposed. She came ashore in a 1913 gale at Ocracoke. Up at Nags Head were unoovered again the tired ribs of the quaint warship believed by many to be a Crumpster of Elizabethan days. She was first revealed by a storm in 1939 and her primitive construction and fittings aroused much speculation. There is some justification for the romantic identification, for shipwrecks antedated colonization of these shores. The chroniclers of Sir Walter Raleighs Roanoke Island colony (1587) found the aborigines using crude iron tools which were believed fashioned from spikes taken from a shipwreck. There is record of a Spanish shipwreck at Hat-terin 1558 and some of its crew were rescued by the Indians. Also on exhibition again is the remnant of the Ariosto, British tramp a victim of an 1899 storm. Pattern No., Name Address .... By ER the ils eLo: son oi i Try Making Cot thr at Saves Big Dollars. No matterwhat you gb 10W :t No outl usually) coughs due to colds, youll b d st; The t set a 13 G. do pit solved. No cooking is at all. 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During the war, certain major The tmrned out hull of an old schooner, the Kohler of Baltimore, weaknesses in our educational sysstands bleakly on a sand bar near Hatteras, N. C. It was uncovered by reTotal tem were bluntly exposed. the fury of a hurricane. Drifting sands are piling over it again, and it will jections in the war for physical, soon disappear from sight. reasons educational and psychiatric have been almost as numerous as he started for home. While changteras, 12 miles into the Atlantic, an the number of men who served in ing trains in New York he was run area of constantly shifting quick or We the army overseas. may down by a taxicab and killed. sands. It is a maxim of sailors that may not need our young men to fight once on the Diamond Shoals, no vesWorst Wreck. Navy another war, but regardless of this, sel ever comes off. Off visthe at beach is Head Nags school prowe need to improve The Maurice R. Thurlow proved in a ible sea the calm bell, tank, grams of health and physical educaan exception, however, when she ran and boiler USS warof a the of Huron, the early discovery tion, including ship wrecked November 24, 1877, aground in a 1927 storm. The coast remediable defects to be corrected with a loss of 108 lives the worst guard removed her crew, but when by family physicians and public in U. S. naval history up to a cutter came down to try to pull disaster would A nation that health agencies. that time. The crew members were her off, no trace of the vessel could be strong, must be strong physion the beach and relatives be found. Thirteen days later the buried cally. came, for many years after to schooner was sighted by the Dutch Military authorities have also search in the shiftihg sands for tanker, Sleidrect, in the North Atfound a major weakness in the work A general order was released them. Capn Jeff Hayman of Ro- lantic. of the schools in the failure to reto run down the modem Flying anoke Island is be believed to the quire older students to carry matheonly person still alive who saw the Dutchman, but though she was rematics to the point of practical masghastly affair and ghastly it was, ported from time to time, the sea tery. for subsequent investigation dis- wanderer was never overtaken and The natural sciences gained a closed that some of those aboard no one knows what became of her. larger place in the field of educaIn the shoals lies another famous were drunk that fateful night when tion during the war, and they should the pioneering Federal Ironhave saved both ship sobriety might ship continue to do so, according to Comand crew. Capn Jeff today has the clad, Monitor. Following her enmissioner Studebaker. No adequate silver sugar bowl from the Huron gagement with the Confederate Mer-rimunderstanding of our civilization is in Hampton Roads, March 9, captains table. possible without considerable knowl1862, the damaged Monitor was sent Such maritime violence has proof them. Moreover, many edge south in tow of the sidewheeler duced a lot of maritime heroism. careers in trade, technical, profesInRhode Island. A gale sprang up, From to Inlet Ocracoke Oregon sional and scientific pursuus, .. and the little cheesebox sank on 27 holders of Congressome are let er of industry, business or agriculsional Medals of Honor, possibly the the shoals with a loss of 16; 49 othture, are handicapped without a thorlargest group of heroes per capita ers were rescued by the Rhode Isin laid scientific groundwork, ough in these United States. Six of them land. and secondary the elementary came as a sequel to the events of Hatteras is a control point in setschools and for many, continued in courses for coastwise and West 16, 1918, when the SS Mirlo, ting August universities. the colleges and a British tanker, was torpedoed, and Indian shipping, because the shortBut one of the most basic segCapt. John Allen Midgett and five est route lies near the Cape. Northments of the core, in the opinion of bound shipping finds a favorable members of the Chicamicomoco Dr. Studebaker, should be made up coast guard station braved a sea of current by staying in the Gulf of the social studies. It is upon this blazing oil to rescue 42 members of Stream, which brushes the tip of the group that we have leaned most the crew. Strangely enough, the SS Shoals, while southbound traffic heavily in training for responsible goes between the Stream and the City of Atlanta in 1942 was destroyed conmust and this citizenship in the same way and about the same coast, where there is a southerly tinue. History and the other social spot, but the Chicamicomoco boys current sweeping down from the studies are essential to the groundwere unable to get through the fire. arctic. Thus, ships pass as close to ing of our citizens in the American On the same day and within an the Cape as they can. tradition of political liberty, a hour helpless watchers on the Alexander Hamilton recommendof our structure of the knowledge ed a lighthouse at Hatteras in 1794, republican form of government, and and it was completed in 1798, but a firm attachment to the democratic was too low to provide an adequate faith, Doctor Studebaker says. signal. In 1870 a new light, 190 feet I said that it is the belief of imhigh, was built (highest. brick light portant educators that a core of in the world) and served until 1936 this type must become a must in when the encroaching sea led the the curricula of the nation, thereby government to erect still another casting overboard the traditional light further inland at Buxton. elective system whereby a student Diamond Lightship also was anis given pretty much free choice in chored at the tip of the Shoals, and what he will study. This new apa navy radio direction station was proach is emphasized in one of the set up at the Cape. Inasmuch as most widely quoted documents of rethe new steelgirder lighthouse is not cent publication, the Harvard study visible to ocean ships by day, the General Education in a entitled, cape now has four navigation aids This work has Free Society. for the mariner the old spiral-stripe- d startled a number of people coming brick tower as a day warnas it does from the institution that ing; Diamond Lightship; the new saw the elective system reach its Buxton Light; and the modem radio most extreme form, for it recomfinding station. mends the abandonment of that sysNo Shipwreckers. tem. In this document, the chief While it is probably true that for A mystery among the wrecks on the North Carolina coast is this porpriest of the elective system points many years shipwrecks were the out the weaknesses of that tion of some wooden vessel. Oldest records fail to name her, and it is of the principal importation method. possible she foundered many generations ago. Banks, there appears no evidence to Of course, it is one thing to set support the charge that long ago the to her plight came one Banks saw a German submarine up curricula that will insure the fact The first clue Bankers practiced shipwrecking and that those attending school will get cold, foggy December night when sink two other vessels and damage looting. However, some homes are the basic studies. It is another to coastguardsman Mathew Guthrie still another. The Atlantas bones partly fashioned from the timber of see that these required subjects are on beach patrol stumbled over the now rest by those of the Mirlo. old ships, and many a house conOne of the most dramatic events tains articles made available to all. Is it possible body of a dying sailor, who gasped salvaged from doomed a out news was the vessel that of sub warfare was on August 8, ships or to produce and democratically disat the "vendue. bought breaking up a few hundred yards 1918, when Diamond Lightship, tribute this basic core to all In this connection is recalled the offshore. A Lyle gun shot could not guarding the easternmost tip of Dia- most popular legend of the village of reach her, and surfboats could not mond Shoals, was sunk by submaStraits in Carteret county concernNot yet. That is another must be launched men lost rine gunfire. Capt. W. L. Barnett and Twenty-on- e ing a preacher for whom Starr in the new reconversion. The ex- their lives and lie buried lonea atop his crew roared over the boiling Methodist church there is named. penditures now made on this price- ly Ocracoke dune. Six more swam shoals 12 miles to the beach. Bar- During the severe winter of 1813 less commodity are inadequate. But and floated ashore alive now retired, lives at Buxton. so the story goes the citizens nett, fiI am not dealing here with the of Ironic was the sequel to the death The lightship added her skeleton to Straits were starving after a nances of education. That is a cropd Atof the schooner Anna R. that fabulous Graveyard of the killing drouth the previous summer. subject in itself. Suffice it to say that even with greater funds this Heindritter of New York, loaded lantic, Diamond Shoals, where lie so Frozen sounds prevented fishing, with dyewood, which came ashore many metal hulks that compasses of and the Napoleonic wars and a d by the exproduct, as in the March 2, 1942, and is visible off- passing ships are pulled off north by British blockade made commerce perts, cannot be produced shore. She ran into a gale and put as much as 8 degrees. Impossible. 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