Show 9- & r V" - F a t— r 13 it Friday Morning July 6 David Lawrence iliune Commonwealth Chiefs Err In Attitude on Red China 1B56 Teacher Aide Plan Results Inconclusive ‘ WASHINGTON— If America swings back to financial ’ The a report recently saying the experiment “is Bay City Mich experiment of employing "teacher aides" to help compensate proving highly successful" Acknowledgfor a shortage of both teachers and classing that all results have not been evaluated rooms Is receiving wide attention throughthe Utah Foundation report says “It apout the country The plan likely will be pears that the experimental classes numwatched closely In Utah where an estibering 45 to 52 pupils with a teacher plus mated 1000 new teachers will be needed an aide mad considerably greater annually during the next decade apd where progress than did the regular glasses one county has launched a similar experof 30 pupils under an equally qualified iment teacher with no aide According to median The five-yedirected experiment by scores on national achievement tests the the Central Michigan College with the progress of the experimental classes was per cent greater than that of the regular counsel of a advisory comclasses’’ one no final mittee has year to go and Yet in his article describing the project evaluation has been made Actually Director Park declares that "second year Charles B’ Park director of the project h$s warned that evaluations lag behind and results from standardized achievement tests to pupils In all experimental rooms in apply only to the first two years of exschool systems compared with results 10 hot be perimentation “and they should from selected control rooms showed no considered as being In any way conclusive" Nevertheless many and frequently consignificant difference between th experi' flicting report on the success of the plan mental and control rooms" ‘ to The circulated plan generally appeals parents j' art being '' An editorial In the Journal of Teacher and has captured considerable public Since the experiment began In 1953 Education published by the National Association acknowledges tb?L"if it has spread to 25 Michigan public schools “'and' ft was' used" this’ lasf yeaf iri'fhe WebCr properly used and safeguarded" the teacher County School District of Utah aide idea "could be made most fruitful" By stopwatch observations experiment As an effective answer to the teacher era at Bay City have concluded that from or or as the classroom shortage shortage 21 69 per cent of a teacher’s day is spent to means of reducing the number of qualiefforts" or work such as in "housekeeping fied teachers the schools ought to have on the board pupil control taking writing the editorial concludes it is of "dubious on do not require professo roll and that Value” sional teacher training or competency ' On the other aide the Utah Foundation Aides picked because they have a special a private tax research organization Issued considerable-traininIn children and “isolationism" I'" i r ’ na-tio- — Why Not More Flags? The Public Foruiii Headed for Rocks Editor Tribune: In the absence of some presently unforeseen miracle President non-teachi- The Fourth was generally pretty well -- nd safely — observed In Utah Around the state many cities and towns staged parades and other types of patriotic celebrations But while there may have been considerable emphasis on the patriotic nature of the holiday elsewhere in Salt Lake City such observance was discouragingly j low" " - ' - Despite pleas of Mayor Stewart and Governor Lee relatively few flags were on display On many public buildings fire stations the University of Utah and a few other places with flagpoles the flag was flying School flagpoles however were bare Flags were In evidence at quite a few residences but far from as many as could be expected One had to look hard to find a few score of flags displayed from homes In a tour of better than 10 miles ‘Salt Lake City ought to be able to do better than that In demonstrating the love of country which Is appropriate to the of Independence Day - Surely schools must have janitors or Other maintenance personnel on duty during the summer months who could be Instructed to fly the flag on the Fourth And why can’t apartment house which have regular maintenance personnel Install a flagpole or hang the flag from a balcony? A few service stations displayed flags But why could not all (most of them open on the holiday) do so? Some patriotic or veterans' organization can perform a valuable public service by making It a project between now and next July to encourage much greater display of the flag In Salt Lake City next Independence Day After all It is America’s own and America’s most Important holiday We ought to be proud of it and of our country — and proud to show our feeling publicly - What of Reading? ’i - The Saturday Review devoted a good part of a recent issue discussing “The Battle for the Book” concluding that reading of adult literature by American adults is unimpressive The magazine found that only 17 per th country were la ecatoL the adults-Tthe process of reading a book— any book — compared with 29 per cent of adults found in a similar poll to be reading books in a 1937 The survival of Jean Margett after a ordeal trapped under a wrecked car In Parley Canyon is little less than miraculous It seems certain Jean would not have lived through that ex- perience except for great natural vitality plus the protection from the sun afforded by the overturned ear and the very brush which made detection of the vehicle so dif- ' ficult Jean’ long waft for rescue after the car In which she and her fiance who was killed was wrecked as they returned from a fishing trip Is bound to' lead to criticism on the search effort Yet In fairness it should be noted that the search never was abandoned and that as the hunt continued Into the ninth day it was a Utah Fish and Game Commission plane -which finally spotted the car" Although it ' 'was only a few hundred feet down an em- - ' bankment frorq busy US 40 the green car lying In thick oak brush was not at all easy to see The girl’s own parents who never gave up and were convinced the couple had met with some mishap noted that ' they had’ passed fhe' place ‘where the ’’car ' lay a dozen times at least Still this case and the case of the two Utah girls lost In Yellowstone National Park is a warning to police and public not to jump to what seem the obvious conclusions of elopement or runaway in cases of mysterious disappeary ance Anyway we arc happy search for the missing couple was not abandoned and that the eleventh hour Jean Margetts was found alive And w hope she recovers completely from a harrowing and distressing expedience Our deepest sympathy goes out ' to the bereaved family of her fiance James B Hixon Jr -- -- con-struct- tional debt to 26 billion dollars the stock market cow jumped over the moon the and ribbon clerks janitor made "paper" millions over--nigplaying the market and nine-da- y —well let’ complete have Shakespeare description of the 9 ' " way that Is being forced upon you is in sort need of morr planning ‘After it is paid for wher will it take you? No closer than a mile out of town Then it dumps you on an already " what ' assurance la there that it won’t stop at 13th South? - Skeptical And iJust Moroni Utah Needed Editor Tribune: Taxpayers —— wake up! The beautiful 7th East free- - By Ask Editor- - Tribune:-- ! wish to call attention to Mr Christensen of Moroni who said in a Forum letter that he has advocated all the good laws of - Fla-nnin- g the past 50 years: Are you In doubt about how — to vote? Ask him Are you in doubt where and how to send your children to achool? Ask him Want to know how to run Ask your farm or business? him Are you In doubt about your immortal soul? Ask him " This is from an old yang hand in Dixie ’ Bill Franklin Washington Utah Source of Counsel Editor Tribune: This Is in answer to Douglas E Cutler's letter (Forum July 1) in which- - he tried to discredit the good that Sunday schools do in improving character He cites several studies which he says show that children attending Sunday eehool are not better behaved ethically or morally than those who do not attend Social scientists have a tendency to make statements in the field of religion without first fulfilling the basic requirements which would qualify them to make such statements Among these requirements are faith in God prayer and repentance" Thus not’ being prepared to discuss religion they forget that western civilization is the greatest civilization on earth because it accepted at least in part the teachings of Moses Isaiah Christ and othors wh were qualified to speak on religion The fact that any survey shows children attending Sunday school to be as susceptible to temptation as nonchildren - means attending nothing unless we prayerfully consider the myriad other factors which influence these children’s lives Aside from personal experience our counsel in life comes not from huge statistical studies but from good proven men and women Here are a few people who support the Sunday school as an important factor in influencing people young and old for good: President Elsenhower -' Emotion whether of ridicule anger or sorrow whether raised at a puppet show a funeral or a battle is your greatest of levelers The man who would be always superior should -- be always apathetic— Bulwer Ilavo Tears Etc! Having become fed up with phony film biographies the life stories of celebrities past If -- You v and present I swore I-- would waste no more time in viewing them And I haven’t — un- til the other day when two friends in the film try Indus-- ' "Speck" Speck art Me" and Dick" Frisbey Ham Park stalked me into attending 'a special preview of "The Eddie Duchin Story” And the time wasn't wasted I enjoyed every tear jei king moment of It Whitmore The direction is superb and there are several short sequences that show the mark of genius And If you are not a hopeless “rock n’ roll" addict you’ll enjoy the incidental music And also unless you are one of those apathetically superior Individuals be prepared to shed your tears when you see ‘The Eddie Duchin Story" Notes on the Cuff Department " When Moscoiv"' entertained the NATO representatives party guests heard a new dance tune said to have been composed by the propaganda rommissar ft probably was a variation on the plaintive old theme ‘They Didn’t Believe "Isiael - - - I presume the story of Eddie Duchin’s career as a pianist and dance band leader is based upon fact Hut even if it weren't it still would remain in my opinion a great and tiagic love story As great pet haps as some of the classics In making the above statement I expect to be in direct contradiction of the more sophisticated members of my profession I usually am in matters pertaining to human" emotions Being sophisticates they probably - will sayrh story is cotny maudlin and mawkishly sentimental The bu k 6’ me hand to them! client rast ik headed by Tjrone rower Kim Novak Victoiia Shaw and James Is prepared to from re-frai- n unconditionally any hostile art against Egypt provided Egypt does the — New York paper same Nothing could be fairer than that Jtl addition to Selling us a lot of anhent films for TV pi esentation It seems that England has sold our publisher her entire output of mur der mjsteries The only mystery in any one that I’ve lead is how it got published — Sanctuary (A chapel for prayer and meditation opened in the Capitol wiU have an attendant "to call meditating legislators to the telephotw“Time: A haven to salve and restore r u t a d 'incoi poreal fibres refuge unnod — My-- b A Sae by me and my God million Bell System a subscribers And sources the con- mistake to assume that the proposed admission of Red China Into the UN is a partisan Jssue In this coun' try Both parties by overwhelming vote in Congress have indicated that they are Punch opposed J Edgar Hoover Rep Aldous President David O McKay and Norman Vincent Peale These I mention at Dixon random others there are many - Hal Hancock Nephi Utah ‘ ’ England sends a curvaceous over her as its "answer” to Marilyn Monroe What was the question? lovely — At- - Bel keiey- - Calif - snen--tisi- s pioduie heat approaih-ih2001000 degiees Fahrenheit Tiy this m jouiown baekjard by leaving' a metal lawn chair out In the sun all day - to the action — - sentiment will be same after the Nothe just vember elections m it is toThe over-crowde- street " Senator From Sandpit Ham Park An exi - Our Readers the rabble that spree: " ment hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps and uttered such a deal of stinking breath that 1 durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air" The tragic collapse need not be reviewed here but that same situation except for some barriers to total disaster erected by the New Deal exists today' Corporate "income ‘art the greatest they have ever been the stock market cow Is again headed for the moon- the taxes have been cut so as to give 90 per cent of the savings to the largest incomes and we are again being drowned in the ballyhoo of “prosperity" But the keystone third of our population— that portion which depends on farming and small business— is headed for the rocks with income going down and expenses skyrocketing It Is a naive economist that thinks this situation can continue without disaster The remedy I suggest herein i drastic but it seems to bo the only one by which w are willing to learn J O Christensen ht ’ x I disaster" To review economic the highlights of the most spectacular of their failures: taking over the richest and most powerful nation on earth with a national debt of 42 billion dollars and a maximum tax rata of 68 per cent the Smoot Hawley Mellon combination q u le k 1 y a tariff wall to insure great corporate Incomes and then dropped the income tax to 40 per cent then 20 per sent to make sura they kept those profits They reduced tha na- Miraculous Survival it a’ preponderant majority of Republicans in both houses of Congress This would give them full power of government --4tnd full responsibility! This would be no novel ex' 'perlttiertt we liSVi been doing just that intermittently from the days of Hamilton and the results have varied only between economic distress and The Bay City plan seems to have merit as a means of coping with an emergency It would be a mistake to draw hasty conclusions about it The final evaluations dua after June 30 1957 will be awaited with t- - - — — t— interest"' nt e d gram? Americans haven’t been doing very well by magazines either and some familiar journals have been shrinking tn recent years or dropping out of sight A look round the newsstands indicates they are being replaced with little "peek” and “pic" or confidential-typpublications The latest magazine casualty is the American which began 80 year go Frank Leslie’ Popular Monthly and ha published under its present name since 1911 The American Magazine will suspend publication after Its August issue even though It has a circulation of 2500000 The Republicans have their convention " The move was characterized by the pubset up and if all goes accordlisher as another step in "our unfolding machinery to plan the average delegate can get ing program for reorganization and growth" the whole business on one clean Some of the American’s features will go to through shirt and a change of socks other magazines published by the firm The income of the average family is now Meantime advertising rates Will be raised next January In the other magazines "to $5520 And many a father will agree that’s cover the cost of an expanded editorial just about average all right— a liitle more budget and increased costs in production than he makes a little less than he spends and distribution” The company also anAbout all we know about aeronautical nounced It was going into the rpdlo teleis that the less- an airpltne engineering vision and record business looks like an airplane the faster it will go The "battle for the magazine" seems no less critical than the one for the took Why United States diplomats are otdered to in view" of the trend are parents so conlearn at least one foreign language All too1 cerned over the question whether their often the way Jt is- now we don't even understand our misunderstandings Johnny can read? - Will be overElsenhower With whelmingly this conclusion as a basis if I might direct the further results I would have him carry Good classes with 45 or more pupils teachers good aides and constant super-- vision are featured in Bay City There is no indication that the plan was Initiated to save money It Is rather a means of coping with crowded classrooms land teacher shortage Several’ aides are training to become teachers Professional educator -- raise several questions such as should not the teacher see and keep in contact with the whole child? Should not the pupils themselves do much of the" “housekeeping” and other chores which the aides assume? Is It good for 50 pupils to be In one room even If thet! aide program “stretches" the teaching pro- “The ference Ceylon and Pakistan NO GREATER could be made than ’ g by the Asian members recognized the Intenof sity feeling in the United States against Red China’s admission to the United Nation and agreed to leive this issue open until after the US presidential election In November" t are paid a uniform wage of $35 to' $50 a week less than professionally trained teachers Though lines are often finely drawn they handle inost of the work in the classroom including some correction of papers They 'are used in vanced —India said IT IS OBVIOUS that Red China has been trying to blackmail the UK and thi country by withholding thq rf lease of civilian prisoner until admission of Red China to the UK is assured Only the other day the record of flagrant violations of the Korean armistice waa announced There is no peace treaty as yet with the aggressor Yet the prime iqjnisters of the British Commonwealth are represented as believing Red China should be admitted anyhow to the Security Council of the UK Relations between people and the peoples of the British Commonwealth have been improving in recent years But nothing is more calculated to break them"" down and to produce bitter-nes- s than a desertion of the ’ Mr ported their deliberations: ministers of the "Prim British Commonwealth agreed today there should be ‘no undue delay In general recogni‘ China tion of Communist Conference sources said premiers from the Western accepted the view ad- on given 1 Lawrence teu of the British Commonwealth meeting in London Here is the wa the United Press re- oq interest s minis prime ’ Imagi-Lnatl- ted-nes- as has just been exhibited by the ' Edu-rsti- It will shortsigh 2-- e from be largely because of sUdi ar high-prestig- Ameri- withdrawal of troops Europe aca-dcm- lc 1 the and can people begin demanding ognized Red China a few weeks ago it was the first case of that kind by any UN member since the Korean War broke out day For the issue which atrangriy enough the British prime ministers have ignored is not whether Communist China should have been recognized diplomatically early actually the extern sion of recognition by nearly 30 governments occurred before the - Korean War—but whether admission of Red China to the UN Security Council now should be voted when It meana appeasement of an unrepentant enemy When the Egyptian government which is playing close to the Communist camp rec an the-Americ- Ideals for which America sac-rifice- d ao much in the Korean War same deterioration It’s fhe of moral strength which developed among the western governments Tn the 1930’s when appeasement of the aggressor was tried as a formula of “peaceful coexistence” only to have such act of appease ment misconstrued as acts of cowardice"' THE -- QUESTION of admit- - ting Red China it filled with the possibility of dir consequences to the relations' America and tha countries which desert the “collective security" declaration of the UN and particularly its resolution of 1951 ronouncing Red China’s govern- ment an aggressor It Isn’t customary tor- ’ ward 'aggressors and "let ““ them shoot their way Into international organizations - It will be a sad day for the world and the British Com-- ' monwealth ‘of Nations too when Red China’s admission into the UK is preferred to -American good will and perhaps even to American membership in the UN Itself ’ Frederick C Otliman ' Don’t Worry About the Glow WASHINGTON— If I were a scientist I wouldn’t open my mouth about the lethal qualities if of radium watch dials eon-tai- n tric switcheslight and similar articles that shine In the dark' Trouble Is of too many eur citizens are such fraidy cats they make professors feel like fools That brings us to the dis- tinguished biologist Dr H Bentley Glass of Johns Hopkins University" Baltimore who was teHing the Govern-mef-tt Operations Subcommit- the House about how of much atom radiation Is safe -- lor humans ’ IIE about that roentgens— a meas- CALCULATED 10 urement of radioactivity — would be right for the average human lifetime He added in passing that if a fellow wore radium dial pocket watch for 30 years he’d absorb about dhe roentgen from that alone This would leave only nine more to be taken from machines ’ and the normal radiation that filters down from the sun 4 This hit print and the switchboard at the National Bureau of Standards began buzzing louder than a gelger counter In the Center of a uranium mine X-ra- The callers all were folks worrying about their luminous accessories Hardware ing luminous stores were Switches tak- out of CAIILR was Rep (D Calif) who got his leply direct from Dr Liunston S Tax lor the"T)u-jeau'top radiation expert He said there was radium in a Watch dial all right but ‘ "One would have to remain within three feet of a marker continuously for over 30 years to accumulate an exposure equal to that received from natural sources that' cannot be avoided" he said So the average eltizen has got to decide about such fancy light switches for himself If he’s going to lean I against one day and night" ' for tha rest of his life It won’t do him any good f " “One should not fill his home with such devices' unless there Is a real need for them" Dr Taylor explained “Prudence says that their use Bhould be kept to a minimum compatible with not breaking one’s leg In the dark" He said- flatly that machines once widely sold for the fitting of shoes were dangerous They spray the whole body with radiation These devices fortunately long have been abandoned by most shoe stores In many places they are against the -' - -ray s T x ’ law THAT BRINGS LT the genuine uranium - earrings purchased by my bride about ' three weeks ago from some fundraising church ladies In South Dakota These wers made ot earnotite - a uranium ore and made pretty yellow decorations for femi- nine ears They also caused gelger counters to do Having Invested $150 for a pair of these Mrs O wore them once and then began worrying about whether her ears would fall off I am pleased to report to Congress and the interested scientists that she hasn’t used them — nip-up- stock Jewelers were canceling orders for lit up watches Mothers were asking whether they should take down the luminous picture frames in their children’s bedrooms The bureau’s experts had no time to get their work done — ONE Hollfiold ‘ radio-thoriu- luminous elec- tee that a citizen would have to sat it to suffer any ill effects True said Dr Taylor about luminous electric light switches They usually a dollop of radium or s since Soaper Says The — summer is coming along mrely reports the man who goes around slapping people on the hack He’s hittirg about 47 per cent sunburn V 4 |