Show 4 OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 9 1961 Mil EDITORIALS 5V-- i' V "'-:'- ' '"''-ii '' ' 'rv"-"- -- "" A Associations Dictate School Policy There has been an alarming increase in the power of educational associations to dictate policy to local boards of education about the operation of our public schools The Utah High School Activities Association recentlv ordered one of our local high schools to withdraw from the local athletic league and join a league of Cache and Box Elder county schools This action is contrary to the wishes of the Davis Ogden and Weber school boards But if the school does not comply with the association ruling it will be ousted from the association ancT face an association prompted boycott by member schools Boards of education are being forced to obey the dictates of the athletic association which has no legally constituted authority The association is governed by secondary school principals who are employes of the school boards The Northwest Accrediting Association operates in much the same manner This association governed by educational administrators meets annually to set academic standards for high schools These standards may or may not be related to quality education but almost always are related to protecting working conditions of school district employes A school that fails to comply with directives from this association is expelled declared and held in public so-call- ed non-accredite- d Church Chiselers It's a sad commentary on the human race when a ehurchmust lock its doors to prevent thievery St Thomas the Apostle Church in Chicago recently did so because of the frequency of thefts from offering boxes Chicago police advised the lock up because they could not give day and night protection to the church A House of God denied to the many because of the actions of the few or possibly just one individual The phrase "meanest thief" has been beaten into the ground in recent years mostly because there appears to be a competetive spirit among sneak thieves to outdo each other in stooping low The problem of theft from a church is not new either A new generation of petty thief seems to be born with regularity and all eager to replace the former thief who has risen to the heights of purse ' snatching It's possible the thief if known might be persuaded to attend services His latent talents to steal pennies from the poor might be downed More likely however is that he would spend his time inside sizing up the building for another theft Beating Babe's Record Weber High School which was warned last year that it did not meet the standards of the accrediting association because of new educational procedures that shame had increased the achievement of students 17 per cent in one year The power of these educational associations is so interwoven that one association fortifies the other For example questions asked by the accrediting association include "Is this school a member of the Utah High School Activities" Association?" It is difficult to see the connection between quality education and membership in an athletic league All this raises the question of who is running our schools — the school board members elected by the people or the district employes hired by the school boards? Should the local board of education determine how much should be spent on liratio and which braries league its high schools should join? These decisions are now being made by the "educational associations" Our constitution and the laws of the state place responsibility for public schools in the hands of local boards of education But a large degree of the actual control of our schools is shifting to an accrediting association that meets annually in Spokane Wash and the state athletic association that meets once a year in Salt Lake City pupil-teach- As all baseball followers know Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 home runs is in danger The New York Yankee outfielders Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are pressing it hard They may or may not beat it in 154 games the length of the season in Ruth's day Maris has 55 and Mantle 51 including games of Jast Thursday They have e a good chance to do it in the new 162-gam- schedule Though no one has mentioned it this situation is not new Before 1900 the National League the only major organization e had 12 clubs instead of eight and a schedule Some records set then would certainly have been higher had 22 more games a season been played Charles Nichols the Boston pitcher of the 1890s won 360 games Christy Mathew-so- n and Grover Alexander both of the days had only a dozen more In several years of 154 games each Nichols would probably have passed them both Suppose they break the record not in Should a new 154 games but in 162 mark attained under easier conditions count? 154-gam- e I What Will Go Next? The New York Central railroad which has been busily getting rid of its passenger business apparently is now trying to do the same for freight The company announced a plan to drop service to 33 of the principal points on its less-than-carlo- ad lines though continuing it for its 12 largest cities' This plan which was to go into effect as soon as Labor Day has very properly been blocked by the Interstate Commerce Commission This body objected first to the railroad's making such a drastic change notice called for by without the law Also it pointed out that the Central would continue serving its larger customers and the bigger cities but would take away rail service from the smaller businesses and localities The Central argues that business is unprofitable Not impossibly it will soon make the same discovery about freight service in general The public has good reason to ask what if any service seems to the Central profitable enough to justify continuance NOT A TRADE SCHOOL The humanists say that college is not a trade school that if the young person wants to master a trade he should go to a technical school that makes a specialty of his subject The practical person wants to know why the student after four years of high school and four years of college is unfit for anything in particular Girls can find jobs as stock-broker- START No person can possibly be regarded as educated or cultured who docs not know the language and literature and history at least of his own people That of course is just a start but it is an essential No one can constructively contribute to the welfare of his country who does not understand its form and method of government One meets men who have degrees and even Phi Beta Kappa keys who know nothing about their government who have no understanding of the techniques of government who talk about democracy but they have no concept of what the law has to say about that Such a per FORM OF IGNORANCE This form of ignorance is not expected of an educated person just a person shall not have read the literature of his language Students go through high school and college whose knowledge of the literature of their native language is as alien as that of a foreign tongue They therefore are unfamiliar with the roots of their culture They may have a smattering of Hemingway as they have a Sartre but they are not grounded in Shakespeare or Milton as for Chaucer they heard about him and they have read a poem of Longfellow and maybe Poe The value of literature is not only amusement Its main purpose is to bring the reader close to the nature the character the ideals of a people No one can understand the America of today particularly our form of government our insistence upon individualism with a deep communal responsibility who has not steeped himself in British history upon which our institutions are based Our problem then is to review our entire system of education from the elementary school to the graduate courses in our universities to find a technique for handling both cultural and vocational subjects without taking so many years of a person's life President Kirk of Columbia University has recommended the three semester year which would help to solve the problem of inadequate education provided we do not make the third semester a summer school makeshift All this requires much thinking out and much discussion 6 therefore that "if the United States ana tne boviet union stand together no other country in the world can ever make war" his reaction was dimmed by the very real worry as he expressed it that history might record "Khrushchev and Kennedy as having brought the world to nu- clear w?ar" After leaving President Kennedy I picked up my second eldest grand- son aged 11 I was one hour late in meeting him I could not ex-plain why I was late however be- cause I did not want him to know what he might face and all the other little boys and girls in the world will face if nuclear testing is continued lil vU ::: r: nSswC- - vv-V- J fse MeNaught Syndicate KHRUSHCHEV'S GRANDSONS men I visited you at Your Black Sea home I had the pleasure of two of your grandsons But among the voices meeting by fall-oI and Nikita II They were Nikita of world opinion Nehru hardly like my grandsons lively audibly mumbled his regrets Ga-m- cheerful completely innocent of Abdel Nasser said this was a what the world may have in store BITTER COFFEE jOl ut JOSEPH JW al ALSOP bad thing and the rest were ostentatiously silent GAINED BY BRUTALITY judging by tne otner actions of the Belgrade meeting moreover Khrushchev has actuaUy gained by his brutality The main result will De neutralist pressure on resident US Disappointed Over Apathy Against Russia's Nuclear Tests uas r"1 XrJ"! :'i i- i- -- — - — — — -j t- — — in — I self-righteo- Barometer of Times: Aid For Belgrade Conferees aiun two-doze- so-call- (tart m -xa the Kremlin's heart is as black as i The comparison does not mean that the aid has been given m error If it serves America's interests to strengthen India — as it does — we should not worry about the degree ot But gratitude implied by Nehru s Dre-Drima- rv u-a LETTERS Needed the punches one-tourt- w ten-gallo- um - gen!' 1 1 The Communists apparently hoped this will bring them support from the meeting at Belgrade st de-noce- nt - 1 'Jjr! his consternation the moment he opened his mouth the platform started to collapse Me had ust enough time to get off one wis-th- e crack: "This he quipped as he was going down "reminds me of some of the platforms I've run on f e conflict m the city was prol d st b the notorious Boss Tweed who ran xW Vnrt ritv likp his nun 'nrivnt country He described politics as tne art ot obtaining money irom the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of taking each from the other" Former Mayor William O'Dwyer took a licking long enough on vicious hearsay and accepted an invitation (mind you not a subpena) to confront Sen Kefauver's committee He was so anxious to face his accusers he paid his own expenses to New York from Mexico and back Incidentally he's remembered jn Mexico as the greatest ambassador ever to represent Uncle Sam in a Latin American country The recent headline-makin- g apof to welfare the handling proach funds by Newburgh NY recalls how a village in Nebraska kept peace With only six public offices mm le Democrats thrpe ± 'thCSmTal ened when the state legislature passed an edict requiring the town P- t to aopofct a supsnnscv one was Since there only pauper in the community it was unanimously decided to appoint him Supervisor of the Poor and thus make him self- supporting In one act two vexing nrnhlomc wprA spttlpd rplipf and city posted signs speed limits etc former mayor waged a relentless patronage' Submit your findings to local au- - War on bookies (he called them "tin — thorities and the editor of this hnm eamWws") he had fun visit- newspaper Perhaps other safety- - ing the track and betting his $2 on a horse "This isn't gambling'? he your new campaign for safe and once fumed "I don't bet on the United Press International sane driving horses just the jockeys and only The World War I debt includSincerely then if they're Italian jockeys" ing principal and interest still owed Mrs Shirley Peterson The late Jimmy Walker once got to the United States amounts to 12741 Cumpston St No Hollywood Calif banquet and t approximately $19 billion up to speak at I to all colonial peoples with you that no nation was to be HY GARDNER CALLING One-eight- eral Assembly their resolution for granting immediate independence cerely want peace If you under-place- d mine moderates such as Kennedy if you weaken his position then the danger of war becomes grave in deed This is what I tried to explain during our talks I told you that Kennedy was a man with a "dobro czertzi" (eood heart) a man who suffered greatly during the last war who has a deep understanding 0f human problems and who does not want another war You will find this is true if you cooperate with him rather than go to extremes in pressuring him I think I know the American people And I can tell you that the great majority would not want to go to war over Berlin but they would go to war to defend their President if they felt he was being kicked around i wa's' impressed with the story you told me about the father who forgot his son had grown up and who still tried to take him by the ear and b°ss him around I agree ut :"L Two countries have received about 'equal US and USSR aid —Burma at over $90 million Nepal at over $40 million The rebel government of Algeria has received no open aid from sin-caus- nt nUeda?Sp& United Arab Republic Next to In-- head and glorify oratorically dia UAR has received the most their own roles v This is why the Russians are Russian aid $788 million compared to $439 million from the United again making a big pitch to bring et gov-ups- er ThSphHo3 nuhS!? Sfe SLS'IS our government and then make war 0n the Soviet Union I don't believe that will happen But if it doe? happen it will be because you have pushed the moderate forces of e ernment too far forces which 11-- u-- uxv testing) M eASSWIS --v (Editor's note: Drew Pearson's column today takes the form of a cable to Khrushchev Nikita regarding nuclear 30-DA- false r A-Te- sts bossed around And 1 suspect that you and Presi-judent Kennedy are much nearer to agreement regarding' Berlin than air was not filled y°u realize if the counter-notes with notes and infor them Especially they were of the fact that the world of mands and counter-demand- s COOL-OF- F tne tuture if nuclear tests continue w wmi ouvuuuui r ciuugeu To tnat end wouM like t which warps the bones and bnngs at to a 30d gest Q0 gree cancer to young children ingoff during which neither side makes any more statementsA KIND OF POISON You have I think you told me 11 neither side makes anv militarv moves and during wmcn you recon grandchildren and one great-granSlder ttte question Of nuclear test not want am I rhild You do SUrR — — ' — 1 r wuru wai penooi ti aiso sug-bthem to grow up in a world charged tnat h countries emphasize gest with that kind of poison e constructive cooperation tney when the U2 flew over Russia in enjoyed m tne past May 1960 you protested that it was nave Vfli Trip that" von Wfiulr hp t rr- told r"r lue&ai aiiu ou were rigni jdul T T7 uims io nave mjowii on soviet i y the U2 w as only an observation nlanp Tt warrior snrparlinp nnison me nun oi American sauors sunsHow much more illegal it is to oy iNazrsuos as tney orougnt supto Murmansk and of the jeeps poison the atmosphere of neighbor-ide- plies and artillery and planes brought 2 countries— of Japan Norway Sweden much of Asia and Europe— through Iran to aid the Soviet in countries which cannot erect bar- - World War II Why not show this during the 30- the winds which carry "ers againstfall-oday period? And simultaneously radioactive If it is true as reported that the let the United States show the films Red army induced you to resume of Russia's struggle at Stalinggrad nuclear testing then I recall vari- - Leningrad and Kursk Those were days in which our two ous cases when you have overruled countries fought side by side against the Red army Or if it is true as common a enemy It was the nureported that the resumption of clear testing is for the purpose of American army and the Red army which took Berlin During this 30 pressuring Kennedy on Berlin then let the for please remember our conversation day period therefore two of eisn countries ministers the regarding some of the political — the for Berlin responsible taking forces in the United States tomeet and the USRR— I explained to you some of Presi- USA some at neutral spot dent Kennedy's political prob- gether quietly lems— the opposition of the extreme and get the problem of Berlin set they decide the other: right the growth of the John Birch tled What must powers necessarily agree to more and the the fact that Society This is just the suggestion of a you in the Soviet pressure him the citizen who reAmerican more difficult it becomes for him private to settle the Berlin question Be- cently spent some time with you cause it then looks as if he was and who was convinced that de spite your apparent misunderstnd-in- g surrendering under fire of the American President and DON'T UNDERMINE US American psychology you meant it Some Soviet writers have py- - when you told me over and over nressed concern that a risht wins asain that vou do not want war or Fascist leader might take over Sincerely yours Drew Pearson ONLY THE NAMES ARE WASHINGTON (NEA)— From the either America or Russia DIFFERENT 1American point of view B — — — 41 The battle — mavoraltv e i- i ia:- uuwi urcu amugBi-- u j tu tuC vut voiw anuj behind such phrases as "the battle suggests "that the ancent proverb n neutral or US aid to France went to the for the uncommitted nations" is a qi natii no fury like a woman "nonaliened" countries in the Bel- - colonial government of Algeria for ludicrously transparently should hp ampnded in snrnpfi grade Yugoslavia conference can its defense substitute the word politician for The truth is aias tnat naked : uu be viewed as reflections on the The United States has consistentamounts of aid each new nation has Ind rname calling ne reckless Ind maintained it is in no race with received from the United States and ly Soviet Union to see which side allegations is the fact that most of the from Soviet Russia But most aid can the give away A tabulation of all US foreign Russian aid has been given on a for eight years the voices of world fnen1f fffu the? became ene" aid given to 23 of these underde- hishlv selective basis where it And the chances are once mies veloped nations from 1946 through wouia ao me communist cause uiCU Uc wedouble standard unfavorable to the "e 1961 reveals a total of $82 billion Of this $73 billion has been ecofor office come through a campaign most harm h of the total nomic aid without showing scars whether run- NEHRU AND REDS or nearly $900 million has been ning for dog catcher or residence There has never been any Amermilitary aid given to seven of these at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Here is countries ican contention that foreign aid how some of these politicos reacted TO THE EDITOR Total USSR aid given to 17 of has been given with expectations to the assaults oh their characters these countries from 1955 through of unquestioning support for US and capabilities 1960 latest figures available is esti- - foreign policies But it does sit hard Plan mated by the US State Department with American congressmen and Safety The late Mayor at 36 billion LaGuardia genertaxpayers to have a leader like Dear Editor: There is no precise breakdown Nehru— whose country is receiving I wish I wish to congratulate Mr ally rolled with on kinds of aid But ior all their most substantial aid for lus five W O Pell on his recent letter pub- foreien aid -urograms the average nians frnm a— rnnsnrtinm: of — vpar ' i 3 though once in a " J i n j luiiuuh m rcgarusao nas been aoout while he'd bark military free world nations—support Com- three-fourth- s economic munist causes and oppose the in- - traffic safety in Ogden back with a biting The two countries that have re- - terests of the Western powers over "Almost So often those in authority are remark ceived the most US aid are India questions like the Berlin crisis tn anything anybody th flnf thv fftrpf r? j j ii and Yugoslavia India has received moscj une ot me iacis says about me se® tne over $3 billion compared with $946 about the Belgradesignuicanc conference of Butch candidly commented "is I am still of the opinion the pub million from USSR Yugoslavia these countries is that there was no partly true" has received $228 billion US aid item on its agenda for debate of lic needs a program of LaGuardia because he was such Yugo- a question like "The Problem of $111 million from USSR a cantankerous character was usuwhenever a new plan has been slavia also got the most US mili- World Communism" It is swept n hat in con ally up to his set in motion tary aid— $694 million A World War I comoat under the table although four of troversies have searched the pages of the fl Other countries that have re the conference leaders— Presidents Flower incited the Standard-Examiner ceived more American aid than Tito of Yugoslavia Sukarno of In- in daily hopes wrath of the Washington brass by — uuue&ui — ' auu oi nnauig layout SKeicnes ana tailing ien euiy jvuicneuj oiu m : ZZTr: ia&ici vl had structions l0 the vehicle athe light for air poWer One en- W Mincer Nehru-h- ave pIenty of trouble from both the in But to date I find nothine Is it r?g?a at all are the Congo Leoanon ternational and domestic varieties — vumw i " and Morocco Saudi Arabia Somali sucn a iremenaous tasK Mr nai uiviuuivi 0f communism to know if he was correctly quoted Sudan The Belgrade conference did have tor or isn't safety worth theef "Sir" he ranted "is it true you RECEIVED MORE called me nothing but a decorated on its agenda questions like "The fort? Countries that have received Struggle Against Imperialism and Mr Pell may I suggest you dog?" "NoitT sir Butch counter- n ap jl was nui aware you more Russian aid than American Colonialism" That gave the new point your own "(Jitizen's batety punncneo are Afghanistan 'Cuba Ghana leaders plenty of opportunity to Committee' to investigate prob- - had any decorations! Guinea Iraq Mali Yemen and beat the Western powers over the lem intersections throughout the An interesting aside Though the uuii ay d- V "V urn inn nnnur rnp KPrnn "T1"1 whor WAHIVfJTOM w vwvuuu w ricVc hov Wn srai nmn vii TVip ntmnsnlipr - an fwscmn c ' somin this city which was quite more astutely weighed and Soviet lem" ° enough already has now been behavior has been more correctly trWari tho noMtraiict vy darkened a bit further by the pangs anticipated The risks it must be leaders with open contemDt Al- of disappointment The source - of understood were very real indeed rnost 11 i ii- - n cvcijr prpat man at Rpiwndp ir it me iusli i-10- nflfi caifl me uisappoinimem is uie reacuoa if ii ii-uie- tt udn nau ueen nain and aain that it of what is usually called "world resume nuclear testing the whole tvniH up a rirpadfnl rrimp to in world would Anininn" inv the Snvipt nnHpar rruIIP I i :j — havp hpen dpafpnod — — — tpst r II IP Ui H MI' HV Ij:j t '— With cool calculation in order to by the screams shrieks wails and nf nii tprn yaH hppn prn-slflf avoid offending world opinion Pres- - moans of indignation fronted But the fear which Khrush- Kennedy had put off his coun- - from the professed voices of world chev's brutality inspired far out- try's resumption of nuclear testing opinion assembled at the neutralist weighed the hurt nride it caused long after he had lost all hope of conference in Belgrade These points-arbut In this event American freedom they badly need tounpalatable Soviet agreement to a workable test be underlined of action in the Berlin crisis would because of the wrong ban weight that With the most precise timing the have been gravely hampered by is given to world opinion President had even sent US test sympathetic movements of public by enormous numbers of persons in negotiator Arthur Dean to Geneva opinion in Britain France and this country including too many to plead once again for a test ban other Western European countries leading policy-maker- s If you listen and thus to underline America's What was avoided in fact was well to persons of this school of thought good-wi- ll in the eyes of world opin- worth avoiding might suppose that foreign Yet the pangs of disappointment you ion at the very moment when he could be conducted on the policy foresaw the Soviets would begin are still pretty sharp in Washing principle fo Sir Galahad — "My ton especially in the group that testing again strength is as the strength of 10 To do these things a serious price shares the viewpoint of Adlai E because my heart is pure" because what was had to be paid It was not easy to Stevenson GENEROUS HEART resist the strong domestic political gained by the shrewd management test has Consider of of nuclear the aid that this counthe for earlier problems resumption pressure American testing But the price was proved to be so downright trifling try has given to most of the BelWith the most arrogant brutality grade neutralists This ought to thought to be worth paying be- cause of the forecast that the So- - the Soviets not merely took the prove that America's heart if not viets would thus be driven to make lead in resuming nuclear testing pure is at least reasonably sen- the first tests— and would there- ( which Khrushchev had sworn he erous Then consider the response fore be judged guilty in the court would never do) They also re- - of the neutralist leaders not just sumed testing above ground using to the Soviet nuclear test series of world opinion that does real damage but also to the Hungarian massacre In short it is not easy to recall the method ' — — and several other comparable epi sodes in recent years These epi PETER EDSON sodes certainly ought to prove that ad some particular issue without any regard as to how it fits into the entire mosaic of his country's structure Sept world Whein I gave him your message j less-than-carlo- secretaries or elementary school teachers although they are trained for neither: boys become stockbrokers or clerks where if they can learn fast they can make some money s But how many or who know met bankers have you any economics at all? For them not to know the technical basis of their trade is as wrong as for a stenographer not to be able to spell or for a teacher of history to know no history The practical man asks about tools: the humanist asks about knowledge Surely after four years a student should have one or the other if not both The question that needs to be asked is why there are so many complaints about what should be the ordinary results of education ESSENTIAL Washington "fct"k-'- - 30-D- - so-call- ed GEORGE SOKOLSKY the students are hurling themselves into work designed to build their careers to form their characters to improve them culturally Our system of education has come in for very sharp criticism on several sides The humanists feel that our students get very little of the humanities the eternal values of learning during a four years course They feel that the youngsters are being robbed of their time their money and their opportunities by an inadequate probing into the nearly 10000 years of human culture which is available to them Some regard the system of majors as unproductive of the best values that a college can provide On the other hand many parents and employers complain that young people are graduated from our colleges and universities without any skills any tools any training in the acquirement of knowledge and the application of what they learned to their life work In a word they feel that they are wasting their time US Russia Should Try Period on Cooling-Of- f Dear Mr Khrushchev: Following our talks on the Black Sea I reported the details of our conversation to President Kennedy At about 20 minutes before I saw him he had received word that you were resuming the testing of nu-clear weapons Naturally he was JHe was upset not only be- of the increased obstacle this in the path of American- Soviet understanding but because of the health hazard to his own two children and to the children of the 132-gam- son might become all excited about With schools and colleges —- - AKl IA er 30-da- y - - x!:y PB ARSON 1 1 c - MOW YOU KNOVJ |