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Show UTAH PA ROWAN TIMES. TA ROWAN, the Common Man' Is to Ryle? Fit 1 V Population May IJackslido To I.ow lnlllienei Euvt1 it v it.M'Kii tu I im!)! S'iJ ( .V c;i: wtJt'tf rm fi i,t ronx of .it,-- . Imp ; , . ,i i ti it, I i M' tima it ui.nii .1 w , puhln i.t jr.i ' li v d th it lx r r v .illv k tin in about it, iiittmiiii jiv ju I i" on I u .1 . :n ( i'!i , i a fi u nd of inmi1 n do v (Whi tv d i.' Uni p .i'" , u i ,v iiti'iid "Whv .1 'It. ltd I.utv Is Imp" 'mIiIc m th full 'I t ddv Ifim-- i m It .itm1 nut v ifh his n tKf Wl i I v W,.! i f- I' t I . -- i i e i 1 1 t S , it..- !. if I in t ), it if ( u t ,c Th s suppolt 1c 1 I I 1 ilv t I t I I! f.n t, let J lie thinks Henry Wallace is cor- rei t in las description of the ( nr- rent enturv hut he says- "It does not follim because the common man 1,1 f(T rt ! - tt e hjiNeverthe- 1 e i an. n n t snobb. not li nk'Mg doa n his cani n .1! As a mend i r if at ainhuiv iclv he takes his share of t1 e blame by s.iv.ng that society has plated the loii'iimn man a low tru k which tii iso who control education are chielh chargeable." Bell quotes the late Dr. William Rainey Harper's definition of an educated man. A man who by the i - ! si-- 1 of hfe "ant haS 3 b,v lh(- aSe 'f a,ndho Phll"0Phy consonant - 30 with racial experience Bell thinks tii.it wL it we do not do and what we oul t to do to educate is, first, to give children a knowledge of the race's wisdom, imparting to them what thev ought to know rather than teach them what they would like to stu iy ; second, to teach childt en how to lead write, listen to and speak the English language: third, thev must be taught decent manners, the rights of others, fouith, thev must learn that honest and i iaftsmanlike achievement is the onlv door to social fifth teaeheis approval, must "inspire reverence for the unseen and impart some objective knowledge of what the various faiths about us are to do and teach. I wish that some smart statistician would try to figure out if the kind of education which would give a man a high income likewise makes him fit to run a country as complicated as ours m a world as complicated as ours. Nation of Dullards Seen in Future sta- tistics for the United States fiom of the standpoint psychological tests, educational attainment, economic status and t pe of occupation. He says: "We may reach the general conclusion that the lowest third of our people in each one of these four categories has families about twice as large as those of the highest third. in helping to solve the many intricate problems of our complex civilization a dull and backward individual is almost as helpless as an idiot. In fact, he may be more dangerous to democratic institutions because he is bv demaeasily commanded gogues and dictators." This gives us quite a d fierent picture of the century of the "common FA It M FItS HFA man. Dr. Francis Brown, staff aoci-atof the American Ciuoeil on Education and the cxeciffve seci e j te i V H fi ' L ... LINCOLNS SECRET PAPERS UNVEILED Dr, Percy C. PowtD, research expert in the manuscripts division of the library of congress, is shown opening one of the safes containing private and state papers of Abraham Lincoln. Documents were presented terdhe natiw by Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the martyred president, with the proviso that they would not be made public until 21 years after his (Robert's) death. Looking on is Luther If. Evans, librarian of congress uNV v .'f hn ''Xi 3 (V- - one-fourt- - : , t EFIT v v -- , O v 1 1 sod-sa- , 1 -- . v i . - ,v cn-1 c p .a a-- d : m mg water u deta r ('lit f r ; r'orvTi'" Is of ' si g an res Loci the pi gi am ate wh WONDERLAND . . . Its all a matter of you want to do. At Sun Valley, Idahos wonderland resort, the faT0 ite winter sport of skiing can be enjoyed in the summer, an( vacationist also can take off his skis and go for a canoe rid or P haps a cool swim. SUMMER-WINTE- R ' ! has been found measure the ultimate capabilities of the human mind. - al n 1 pie. No way accurately to C; - c , ( ? i e te ERLMDENT MOEItNS MOTHER'S DEATH . . . Mrs. Mirthj Truman, 91. ailing since last February when she fradured her h,? passed away quietly in her home at Grandview, Mo., while hern llarry, 1resident of the Ended States, was flying to her from ington. Her last rites, simple as she would have wished, rre ked in the parlor of her home. AAA To Resume Soil Program & . . M Within a mat'i r i f h uirs came a sue! icn spate of developments, starting .a England and cr nng up on virtually every f urn in America. Having no os'usible idimiit un on the surface, each fro-d- turn of t verts was linked n.txorably with pond.ng occurrences. To philnM phi rs, as well as econo mists, it was a pt rfett chain of causes and effects ' This is how it beganViscount Mont- - DEATH HOAD: I Field Marshal gomery, chief of the British im- penal general staff, suddenly was Safety Report called home from a tour of the Far Compared with 1046, death is tak- East. ing a back seat on the nations high-- 1 returned to Great ways this year, the semi-annure- Montgomery Britain to advise the government port of the National Safety council concerning drastic curtailment of has shown. the nation's military establishment, For the first six months of 1947 cost of which (3.6 billion dollars a the y death toll stood year) could no longer be borne by at 14.480. That figure is 9 per cent the thieadbare British economy. below the 15,890 fatalities recorded In London, Labor government for the same period last year. At 2 officials, no longer able to stave the same time, travel was 11 per oif a frank admission, told the cent heavier this year. world that Englands plight was According to the safety councils desperate, that the tight little isle report, 2.400 lives were iost during was on the sharp brink of ruin. June, which represents a 5 per cent Prime Minister Clement Attlee, as- increase over the June, 1946, recsailed with enarges of "bungling ord In view of the increased traffic, and "failure to act, nevertheless however, it was a marked improve- was given a vote of confidence when ment he sketched out a plan whieh would Even the cities in the na- have British miners work an extra tion were larger their traffic decreasing hour each day to increase England's fatalities New York whittled its' coal production, key pillar in its deaths by 15 per cent and Los An- economic structure. geles by 16 per cent Jacksonville, out The Bntish crisis was born Fla , was tops on the record bonk of foui I. u tors. Shortage of Amer-1- 1 w th a 60 per cent decrease from an dollars (the U. S loan will 1046 Indication was that cities were have hun used up by Christmas); more traffic conscious. becoming siicutaue of coal (not enough to permit lndiMries to operate and re- INDONESIA: build toi kpiles) , shortage of manU.X. Looks power, and inflation. It was a matter of regret, the ? Morally weakened under the Dutch of government said, that the and ' threat domestic political economic crises, the London stock matter of the Dutch - Indonesian market broke swiftly, as sharp sell- fracas was being brought before the United Nations security council. ing hit all sections. To a few million other observers, And. although U. S state department observers scoffed at the idea it was not so much a matter of! that developments in England had regret as it was a surnrise. U. N , prodm ed a reaction over here, it it seemed, was even then overdue appeal t ! to be something more in its action. than coincidence that: Australia and India laid the prob- after London stocks lem before the council, where it Shortly 4 broke, wheat prices on the Chi- - immediately began to vie with the cago hoard of trade showed losses Balkan issue for priority of debate. 0f nine to nine and h cents Although the Australian and In- a bushel, while corn and oats dian delegations told the council dropped off from three to four cents. that the strife between Dutch and Industr1.1l stocks also receded someIndonesian forces threatened world what on the New York stock ex- peace, a Dutch spokesman in Washchange. ington said U. N had no juris- At the same time, it became ap- diction Netherlands authorities insist on parent that the U. S government, faced with high prices of grain and terming the struggle a Dutch po- food and continued shortages lice action, designed to control re-abroad would issue a call for an- belhous Indonesians who hate to other big wheat crop this year in- wait until 1949 to attain their inde- stead of reducing wheat production pendence as a sovereign state The goals as was planned previously Indonesians, however, say that the As the picture began to take Dutch are a colonial war st ape, tne dominating motif ap-p- i and that it waging looks like imperialism art's! to be economic 11.sec1.r1ty to them oper-utuvr- - , .A I British Economy Menaced; Traffic Ealaliiics Slashed the Presidents cnm'r'-.sion- , doesnt quarrel with Burch s ; jures s WASHINGTON Extensive 0 it Lv more than 100 000 farmer but he says: "This population .ntol the A so on m.ttct rren (f onservjtinn does nee nit ice report c", enough program v ere oicirel n s..mod bv The pr' gram was haltej m M .y t1 e to tv mce if .m. the dopnitent of posMb.l import whin after the house voted to appropr.-a'igru'iture mil-lj'oviiig intelligence by e- u u congress finallv ujm'wei j or hi5 milhon dofiars f r toe In other words, if we n dollar adrr nis,r find for set ,r t s vear and to ird it alt- n of our we re base n t 0 st teaching d n'. s u ..I, expenses tup h id it - i ext year The . t . a, n lot of polei fa1 t o to nd ' a ate o it a 300 r .rk, n ion P ter il at Burch has u " h f r (V id i" Pres ler t 3 ri r an What the Burch report overm ..t r.g iv rt s 0 K" s a r.de i ant in K "i looks is this, savs Dr. I.r,)v, n, ' m t tv co: in t s mg t r a gre-- s I "human intelligence never his u. gur.it. d e .V s the 2 n - I, on finalv been developed to its fullest Nr l e Ye ' I v c rs er th in t1 e ngres m a among the gieat masses of peo- aril n 0 i ulv .1 the ?( il is his of . v ' Britain. t- v 1 cross-countr- information on the issues they have to consider and are, therefore, better informed than any congress has ever been. Nevertheless, we hear from educators, fiom economists and statisticians, all sorts of dire warnings One that has recently stmed up the press considerably was bv Guy Irving Burch, head of the population reference bureau. It seems Burch read a survey made in England by Sir Cyril Burt at the request of the royal commission on population. As a result of his survey, Sir Cyril suggests that in 50 years the number of students of scholarship ability in Britain will be approxi mately halved and the number of feeble-minde- d almost doubled This conclusion was based on psycho- logical tests and size of families in And he concludes: As a voting participant yV s I - 1 ternational hysteria of monies, credits, loans, spending, inflation at home and crises abroad began to take on some meaning. Need Education For Common Man old-time- Burch has studied population ''4 - y 1 1 the greatly expanded sources n V- 4 m:vs in: view i i'p-pii- the Upper classes Even in tie t,ise if Gre.it Britain's xeiv rnilil n volution, which was tt.e re .tilt f popular vnte ami a free choice, the tradition.il po- t ic. and irt.llMtu.il li aders were swept out of o'l ( Americans are committed to the idea that the majority should rule and the theory always has hern that the people would he wise enough to select a person of sulhc'icnt intelligence, experience and integrity to represent them at the job of ruling. Of late, however, a number of persons approaching the problem from quite dillerent angles, have expressed concern about tin. education and training of the men available for the responsibility of carrying on the business of government. I have been assured by here who have been familiar with the personnel of congress over a ruinber of years that we perhaps have as high type of men, mentally and morally, in congress today as we have ever had. In fact, I am told they are making excellent use of ' has suddenly been lifted into control Itlut he is then by automata ally made competent propel ly to exert He thinks control " Wallace's definition ought to be exj anded. He says' "Ours is the century of the Like a kaleidoscope in w hu h several apparently unrelated chips uneducated common man, of the of plass shift suddenly from a meaningless jumble of color into an adolescent common understandable pattern, so at least some of the whirling segments perpetually man, of the common man un- of the world's intricate economy have begun dropping into place Un- skilled in tl c art of living to form a cohort nt unit. taught in the wis lom of tl e ku e. e For masses of Americans, to whom economics could be boiled is inc on pi tent cither to rub' i: to down into a matter of you either have it or don't have it, the inbe ruli I " were less, tl e not revolutions of . 1 ru.s total bishop of Chicago e tamlv un ter MusFl.ineii. solini. I I t It r and St. ilii) it ;l V'.SJ J' , ARE . , , Anything can happen at a baby IIOU lll.n: mi It show, as witness this scene taken during judging at a I.os Angeles I eland Dextrr, contestant for the bluest competition. eves, went to sleep in midst of excitement and had to be judged in his carriage. '( s m view nf the situation v C.nii'M rternanl I I hr gs s- 11 V In t it is t.iki n I Iell( ilui .itnr, pastor, author and innMiltant on education to tl.e Ep - Jiltll.ll t .1! er y A inlet (VdM.dl etc nr po ul.ir In .ite 111! ".! ' l1' tn free . Ma u $; b Nc 't I 1 A - . ' yy zJl v V A A tarried an , g r ' iia5 of the reduction sornel and other expenses will" be absorbed in Washington and state offices, allowing local AAA offices to retain most of tl.eir present staff. A farn er mav sign up for any niimbir rf appii.ed projects, but te is promised (nlv a certain rmri.jnt of monev w th t1 e provision t at fie w 'll mi d ; iv mints get f anv funds rerrm.n . fti r all farm-( rs have been pail t. t.r minimum jilt g'i .1 arter Tl.e ; s gram, w.ll be 1 ,t drast.c-a.- v ex year. At :nerce of the plnnred The appropr senate, however, the hi agreed admm'strat ve extenses is to go along with an priati"on of appi 18 cent t: less an 15u last per million dollars for 1548. i'ly fr ut tl on the pogiam s year Bulk ? : -i p M 4" ti 7- ' , t f ' sn - Ms A 70 ,.--8 i A s" f ? 1 ( ' , j. '.'J,1' 5 :1V j ; - a; i Ii - 1 A ' t i 1''"LUtfS' Nsj ' r ?; hi " , tA XJ. IS - shy. v Y4 M i i I t 4 (''t. !y- A :,NS fE . . . The 80th congress of the United Statfj ended its history first session after the senate, for e ( time m memory making of Capitol Hill oldsters, worked on mto itrs of a Sundav ,(f morning to dispose of necessary busns''- a ?r,,up of senators descends capdol stf ril appr:nl1' u,r of the session. on is scheduled to reconvene when more hot fightsCongress are expectcc . |