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Show DESERf How New Orleans Upgraded Police Force By EVELYN STAMFLEY Copley News Service and attend the university do so at a hardship to themselves and their families, says Dr. Witte. Because of the low pay, policemen he points out But usually moonlight, A man who wants a barber in Louisiana must first complete 2,000 hours at an authorized barber school, pass two examinations by th" state board of barber examiners and work 18 months as a registered barber before he can operate as he NEW ORLEANS to become those who go to school dont have the time to work at an extra job. Not only that, but overtime, which is usually available because of the shortage of police officers, is out, too. Despite this and despite the fact that because of civil service regulations not everyone who graduates from the foundations program will realize an immediate promotion, the men continue to take pleases. That same man could go to almost any police force outside of the larger cities and become a policeman practical- ly on the spot. 1 ? advantage of the program. Dr. Witte sees the civil service problem as one which must eventually be solved by giving special consideration to the graduates training, such as that which is now given veterans. As a matter of fact, he could go to 420,000 law any of approximately enforcement agencies throighoi.t the United States. The majority require little or no training whatsoever. t He would simply be hired, given a f badge and gun and told to do his job. f There is no question of the graduates caliber. This year the student who maintained the highest academic average of all the universitys evening division graduates was a policeman who received his degree cum laude. Another fellow officer wasnt far behind and he so impressed officials of an insurance company that they offered to reimburse the foundation for his scholarship, thus leaving him free to join their firm. He refused the offer and is instead now head of the community relations division of the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs t One of the consequences is a nation-- i wide tendency to look down on dumb cops. New Orleans, because concerned cit- Izens decided that they do indeed want to become involved, is doing something about it , ! The city already had one of the long- est training periods in the nation 13 w'eeks and required psychiatric examinations of all police applicants. That is something most major police depart- ments dont demand, but was started here when in 1963 the Police Foundation of Greater New Orleans, Inc., was founded. i i ; The founder of the nonprofit organiza-- i tion comprised of citizens was J. Fant Taylor, a former Coast Guard intelligence officer, who discovered that the New Orleans Police Department, like most police departments, was just unable to recruit enough men to maintain its authorized strength. ' Part of the problem was the traditionally low pay; another was the lack of respect for police officers in general. Taylor was especially dismayed to discover that out of 970 officers, only nine had college degrees. This was far short of the national average of 12 percent of the aveiage police force. J j , One of the keys to making the police officer's job prestigious, he decided, was to make it more professional. With this in mind he approached the local universities with the request to establish a program offering a bachelor of arts degree with a major in criminology. Loy-- I ola University of the South agreed to create such a department in its evening division. Now, five years later, the New Orleans Police Department and the neighboring Jefferson Parish (county) Sheriffs Office have one of the highest percentages of professional criminologists of any law enforcement agency in the country. The man who assumed the responsi Office. Also included in the 1968 graduating class was the first Negro police officer to Schiro, foreground, and Dr. Raymond P. Witte, left, director of Loyola Evening Division, brief policemen working toward degrees in criminology. New Orleans Mayor Victor University's H. bility for establishing Loyola's department of criminology, Dr. Raymond P. Witte, director of the university's evening division, dubs the increase fantastic. In New York, which has always been rated first in the country in terms of policemen seeking college degrees, six percent of the force is always enrolled in some kind of course for any of a variety But in the New of degrees," he says. Orleans area 15 percent are now enrolled in a professional criminology program. In 1967 Loyola graduated the first four men to complete the new program and in 1968 the number increased to 28. There are currently 155 men enrolled and incoming fall freshmen will hopefully swell their ranks by 40 more. When the university gave Dr. Witte permission to establish the program, he admittedly knew nothing about it. So he interviewed the nations leading visited the outstanding criminologists, criminology schools and spent considerable time at Scotland Yard, Interpol and Denmarks Start Police Headquarters. Comparing U.S. standards with those of the nations he visited, Dr. Witte points out that both Scotland Yard and the Denmark Police require three years of education and training and then insist on courses throughout a regular follow-umans career. And both have waiting lists of candidates anxious to join. In return for the scholarship the recipient promises to work for any metropolitan police force for four years following his graduation. Because the final organization of the police foundation came too late in the summer of 1963 to recruit a class of cadets, the foundation opened the scholarship program to all police officers. p In New Orleans 91 out of every 100 N.O.P.D. applicants are rejected on the basis of health or physical requirements, police records, and in many instances, for psychological reasons. Certain positions attract psychotic males and police work is one of them, explains Dr. Witte, adding that those who fail the psychological exams sometimes apply for a similar position with a police force Which doesnt require the test. The New Orleans Police Foundation worked with the city administration, the Police Department and the City Civil Service to establish a cadet program for which high school graduates between the ages of 18 to 19 years would be hired as police trainees. Each cadet works 35 hours a week and attend- - classes three nights a week on a full scholarship covering tuition, books and fees from the police foundation, according to Dr. Witte. On a basis this amounts to approximately $600 a year per student. Over 130 men applied for scholarships and of that number 83 were able to . meet Loyolas entrance requirements, says Dr. Witte. Those applying for the cadet program must first take a city civil service examination and be interviewed by the police department before they are eligible to attend the university program. Those accepted work at police headquarters but, until they reach the required age of 20 years, four months, they wear no badge, carry no gun. At first some of the police administrators resisted the idea of having cadets in their departments, recalls Dr. Witte. Now they cant get enough of them. For one thing, they do a lot of the office work. Men who are already police officers Education Isn't Keeping Up, Experts Say By LAVOR CHAFFIN - Deseret News Education Editor In light of todays needs, the schools are doing a poor job. Thats the conviction of many critics, both in and out of the schools. The position is emphasized by the following comments, excerpted from a recent publication which came to my desk: . . . the hour is late for educators to establish the educational forces needed to renew a faltering society. The thriving American society of the 1980s and the citizens of that society await the new school, and true school the school wh'ch if created may well rank as mans greatest achievement. The major conceptual structure of education in America was established when the culture was very simple and THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS the contribution of education was of minor significance to the main values of the culture. Since then the culture has evolved to a level of extreme complexity. Since 1940 it has become literally impossible for a citizen to take responsible roles in the culture without a major contribution from education. . . . The educative system has not achieved a parallel evolution with the culture and still retains outdated and obsolete qualities in the areas of subject matter, curriculum, application of objectives to instructional programs, materials and methods of instruction, and the deployment of both students and teachers. As a consequence it is not affecting the critical behaviors of its people as it should and could. Marks in school subjects have too little validity as predictors of creativity, inventiveness, leadership, good citizenship, personal and social maturity, family happiness and honest workmanship. YOUR HtALTH Fatty Tumors Are Harmless By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: My daughter has what the doctor calls a fatty tumor just Just below the knee. The doctor says, forget it. Does this kind of tumor ever cause serious trouble? Does it ever run into cancer? Mrs. M.M. Answer: Your doctor gave you good advice: Just forget it. These lipomas, or are quite common and fatty tumors, harmless. If such a tumor is so located as to be unsightly, it can be removed by simple surgery. Or if a fatty tumor becomes so large as to be a nuisance or to interfere with normal activity because of size, again the answer is that it can be readily removed. But so long as a fatty tumor is not bothering you, just let it alone. Dear Dr. Molner: What is meant by "demineralization? Mrs. J.M. Answer: It refers to loss of calcium in the bones, hence a loss of solidity and strength in the bones. Headaches! Molner In care Sell Lake City, lt, "How To can oeat them. Write to Dr. of the Deseret News, P O. Box 1257, Utah 84110, for a copy of the book Tame Headaches. Please enclose long, stamped envelope end 25 cnt In coin to cover cost of printing and handling. b You I , detailed planning Comprehensive, for public school programs has been neglected at all three levels of government federal, state and local. Much of the school's curriculum is justified mostly by habit or tradition, other important criteria have had little use or effect in determining the curriculum of the school. We have never adequately planned education as a whole enterprise, only in segments and without adequate interrelationships . . . Superficiality and false assumptions have been the outcomes of many of our educational endeavors in these matters. A descriptive paragraph declares, essentially, that teachers still longer The technological revolution has scarcely ruffled most classrooms . . . The supply of interesting, varied, individualized instructional materials is surprisingly below what one would expect to find in an affluent society. Content has been dull and hard to learn and it has had little effect on the behavior of students outside the school. "Teacher education is lacking not only in a vitality, but in a reality for confronting and coping with the learningteaching needs of the nation. These are only a few samples of a long listing of school shortcomings. Do they come from an publication? No. They are taken from the anti-scho- introductory remarks of the tentative report of the Study Committee on Curriculum and Instruction of the eight-stat- e designing Education for the Future project. The report is written by a committee of eight Utah educators. It should make us think. Two. Words To Change Your Life By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Certain combinations of words pack tremendous power. For example, two little everyday words . . . Put them together and you have a vital thought that can change your life. And these two dynamic words? DO IT! A man said, Im not getting anyHe was 45 years old. Several where. times his employers had shifted him from one job to another with no increases in responisbility or pay. Evidently they considered him capable enough to keep on but not good enough to merit promotion. What kind of work would you really like (o do? I asked. I dont exactly know, he replied uncertainly. You mean to tell me you have lived 45 vears and dont know what you like to do?" It seems funny, doesnt it? he admitted, but I really dont. I just want to be getting somewhere. Where? Spell it out. Where do you want to get? Come to think of it, I don't really know just where. I figured here was a typical case of ambitions blurred desires increasingly confused by years of aimless wondering and vacillating and too little DOING. Look, I said, I can tell you this. First thing you've got to do is to get a clear n CONFIDENT LIVING picture in your mind of what you would like to do, exactly what you want to achieve. That is the first step. Then once specific goal, apply you have a clear-cu- t. the great dynamic principle that you can get what you want. And that, simply DO IT! stated, is: GET GOING Every human being has vital ambitions and aspirations. When you have got out of touch with your creative abilities, the way to draw them back to consciousness is to make contact with the vitality and creativity within you. I persuaded this man to devote half an hour twice a day to deep, searching As we talked further it came out that he was from an uneducated family background. Nobody in our family ever amounted to anything," he said. I was the first one to go to college. And I only and havent through just squeaked amounted to much since. His lack cf confidence was overwhelming. That he has always had a low opinion of himself, a attitude, was obvious. Instinctively he had avoided pursuing any definite aim for fear of failure and disappointment, and possibly ridicule it would bring. FTom time to time he had had some good ideas for improving his job performance, but instead of acting, he had hesitated and ended up deciding - h he probably would not carry cessfully so better skip it. It off suc- I quoted the theme song from Man of La Mancha, the hi musical, about dreaming the impossible dream. And suggested that he practice deliberately dreaming the seemingly impossible with the firm idea that it would prove to be possible after all. Try that as a way to I reverse your old defeat psychology, advised him. He took the advice and by dreaming impossibles the man actually developed new hope and r.ew vision. He got clear on what he wanted. His goals fused. I then started hammering at the theme of DO IT! Now that you know your objectives, I said, the big thing is to get going. See what you need to do DO next and then dont fool arourJ IT! If you feel hesitant, DO IT! And go into action. Whatever you know you DO IT! By folought to do, get at it lowing that simple technique, he is already beginning to get the satisfactions and rewards of creative accomplishment. Is there something you have wanted to accomplish but never had the courage to try, really try? Do you want some constructive change in your life? Well then, try a new appioach to a frustrating situation. Follow your great impulse. Start trying. DO IT! Dont get bogged down in endless deliberations on how best to go about it. DO IT! DO IT NOW! You will open to yourself a door to a wonderful life. DO IT is the secret. Just DO IT. 0 Dr. Witte, however, is optimistic, ing that "when we go out and solicit funds, people are very concerned and its rare that were turned down. The main problem, he says, is lack of sufficient manpower for active solicitation. not- In Utah, all police officers must take 200 hours of training under a state law which became effective July 1. Earlier, training was strictly voluntary except in some of tne major cities. Utah Highway patrolmen take 240 hours of training before assuming their duties, plus at least 24 hours of inservice training a year. Salt Lake City has possibly the highest standards, requiring nine weeks or 360 hours of training, mostly in the class- at least room. Since 1957 the Utah Highway Patrol has operated a police academy for training of police officers from throughout the state. STAFF By the year 46 B.C., it was obvious that the Roman calendar was badly in need of revision. Julius Caesar and the astronomer Sosigenes provided the necessary reform, and the Julian calendar came into existence in 45 B.C. However, the average year in the Julian calendar was more than 11 minutes longer than the seasonal year. This perhaps does not seem to be much of an error, but with respect to the seasons, the Julian calendar gained one day every 128 years. By 1582, the Julian calendar was 10 days out of step with the seasons, and the first day of Spring was occurring on March 11, instead of the 21st. It was again rather obvious that a more accurate calendar was needed. This time the reform was provided by Pope Gregory XIII. And so, in 1582, the Gregorian calendar came into existence; this is the calendar that we are using today. To return the first day of Spring to March 21, 101 days were eliminated. By proclamation, the day following October 4, 1582, became October 15. Then, in order to provide greater accuracy, the rule for the determination of leap year was changed. In the Julian calendar, every year divisible by four was a leap year. Since this calendar gained one day every 128 years, it was only necessary to eliminate one leap year every 128 years. However, this was apparently felt to be too crude & method of correcting things. In order to make it easier to remember which leap years were to be eliminated, and still ensure the added accuracy, it was decided to eliminate three leap years during every interval of 400 years. The leap years to be eliminated would be those century years not evenly divisible by 400. For instance, the year 1900 is divisible by four and normally would have been a leap year, but since 1900 is a century year and is not evenly divisible by 400, then according to the Gregorian rule, it is not a leap year. In this way the three extra days are dropped from the calendar every four centuries. To attain exact precision, three days should be dropped every 384 years. Therefore he Gregorian calendar also possesses a slight amount of error. However, the error is so small that this calendar will not have gained a day on the seasons until 4882 A.D. If you have a question pertaining to astronomy, nd It to The Skvwatcher, care of the Deseret News, PO. Box 1257, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. If your question Is used In this column, you will receive two free tickets to the Star Chamber Program at the Hansen Planetarium. M 5 OUR MAH JCNSS Shes Really A Cute LiT Number By HARRY JONES Were living in a world of numbers and sounds. Take Kathy, our youngest, as an exreShe ample. ceived a Social Security number in this the week. And until our paths cross, and I can check it out, I presume the number was unsolicited. Hath is just now getting the swing of beronvng a teenager. Employment is limited to an a neighoccasional chore of bor child. mail baby-sittin- g Lets hope that it isnt a governmental effort to make us all just numbers in the affairs of state. How would it sound if it did happen: announce the Mr. and Mrs. engagement of their daughter, a son of Mr. and Mrs. to Happy birthday, dear happy birthday to you!" And can you imagine the Shakespearian bit going on now in Cedar City? . . . where- my fore art thou, Weve got to fight it if for no other reason than genealogy. I just found How would it sound? came over to out that Uncle ... this country with It sure the famous would take the interest out of It. How are you going to vote? Who is your choice for president . . . . . . or has just been signed to Or to open the Salt Palace fight boxing season. But the telephone people who have been in the numbers game for quite a spell are helping out a little. The Deseret News has moved to new beautiful offices on the corner of First South and Regent St. And with the new offices, rugs, desks, came a new telephone system called Centrex. Instead of sticking your pointing finger in the numbered hole and twisting, machine. But each number has The Calendar: How It Works By HANSEN PLANETARIUM 1 Friday, July 19, 19o8 you just punch a button like an adding SKYWATCHER spend far too much time talking, which means that students have to spend far too much time listening. Planning in terms of behavioral outcomes and other specific educational objectives has often been lost in the ruts of tradition. Too often, principals and teachers do not know how to improve the instructional program. receive a degree under the program. According to Dr. Witte, who feels that eventually the New Orleans and Jefferson police departments will require a college degree just to join the force, the citys program is unique in that it was founded by private citizens and is similarly supported. However, it is presently far short of the $192,000 it will need to continue the program through the next year and may be forced to request a government subsidy. NEWS a musical sound. Its but a refreshing after years buzz. of nothing ' , You not only dial a number, but you get the first bars ot a tune. You might dial a friend for golf, and his seven digit number might play The More We Get Together. One of the mortuaries has a number that, when dialed on Centrex comes up with a tune Goodbye, my Lover, Goodbye. They are having it changed. Hope the new number doesnt come out Ill Be Glad When Youre Dead! Dont go tearing up your Social Security card, but be aware . . . help hold the line in government before your number comes up! By the way, the powers are planning a big open house for the NEWS in the near future. But why wait? Come on down and play with our telephones ! Wit's End: The way kids count these days, ator comes after nine. oper- llllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllill!!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllll!lllll BIG TALK "You wouldn't really call my wife 'politically aware.'" Yesterday said there might be a place for a fourth party, and she said she'd bring the potato salad! I From photos taken ty Lionel V. tocNeeiy for tht Deseret News' popular dally Baby Birthday feature. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I!IIIIIIIII!II1II0 i |