Show £ t? ! 7 r : i if Vi : V It V 'i -T- HE HERALD JOURNAL - Thoughts and Things I O Cn ' “I INSIST THAT THE SPECTER of a federal bureaucracy eager and ready to pounce on the schools and colleges is a ' politically inspired horror story that does not deserve the i' credence of intelligent citizens DrMcMurrini begin his article in a thus does - Sterling recent Saturday Evening Post Dr McMurrtn former United ‘State Commissioner of Education and now staff member of the will lPak this evening andXown Ifnlvmity in the Skyroom of the Student Union Build ing Smorgasbord will be served at 7 pm t-Tow Pr McMurrin contihues:h I do not believe giving more federal funds to public schools will lead to federal control of public education for the simple reason that no one wants it The educators don’t want it the taxpayers don’t want it and quite certainly the people in govern merit don't want it ' Yet Washington has as I believe it should have a heavy financial involve ment in all levels of education in this coun try The Federal Government’s part in education now costs about three billion dollary a year and this figure is certain to rise whether or not President Kennedy gets what be has asked for in his vast new 12 billion education bill r I BELIEVE THAT WE MUST preserve our present general pattern of educational organization The states should continue to control the public schools Colleges and universities public and private should continue to have their present large thls-a- s measure of independence But it is ludicrous bad is Government some do on the ground that the Federal or incompetent 1 suspect that the federal education officials with whom 1 have worked have been on the whole more competent than most of their state and local counterparts and their Integrity is most admirable It is just not true as some critics find it useful to pretend that they are questionable characters bent on destroying our institutions My experience as United States Commissioner of Education 'showed me quite clearly that the people who administer the Government’s educational affairs in such agencies as the Office of Education and the National Science Foundation are thoroughly opposed to federal control ‘ WE ARE TOLD OFTEN enough that a nation’s success depends on the quality of its education What is perhaps more Important la the extent to which the character of a nation is bound up with the kind (not merely the quality) of education ' r-- fOKOJ : Iowa (ITT) — Members of the House today fey Dick West ahead of raising to be staging a cherry when the time came this week stretch runners and to me the may be glancing apprehensivedays to a fortnight ' " ' blossom festival when there tor the handicappers to deliv- track looked fast t'lM hna lalaraallaaal the other ly at their skin for a tell-tal- e This doesn't matter as far aren’t any cherry blossoms er their first public prognostiWASHINGTON — On the If you’re looking for a sure rash" staff of the Natidda! Park Scr as the blossoms are concern- the blooms having already de- cation of the Tom Osborn a page came year thing better put your money vice are several horticultural ed but it means a lot to the parted or not yet arrived Veteran handicappers will on the swallows at Capistrano down wlfh the measles There was then a certain tell you that it is impossible experts Who do seasonal 'work festival officials as cherry blossom handicap-peri- - They find it rather embar- - amount of tension in the air to make an accurate predicP M ' tion on the bloonting date of Cherry blossom handicap-per- i cherry trees earlier than 10 operate in much the same days before the blossoms aps way as race horse handicap-perpear isn’t as ' only thi betting Nevertheless George W Vspirited Robey a handicapper with 31 They study the form charts experience was willing yean other conditions and weather to' go out on a limb two weeks factors and from this make “O-bain advance of the festival open- ir which their predictkms-nsrl- oin g-will come in first the cherry I don’t mean that Robey acblossoms or the cherry blostually climbed one of the trees som festival What he did was cut off a few Ideally the blossoms and twigs at regular intervals and finish in a the festival would ' stick them in n pail of water dead ' beat but that doesn’t in his office happen too often One is likefew a to from be By observing how long it ly anywhere took them to bloom indoors L" ' and adjusting that time acSTOf an ikjaL b I Mlk Sm cording to the weather burark an arty la arvtl'a kh eau’s long range forecast taktax ratora akaa aw fcaaJIa yaar into account the moisture ing k qaickly at la mol Ika IAS content of the soil he was ' SAVINGS aw Si waa aflaa pay able to estimate the blooming ika h Sa SMAIT1 Ikb yaar period outdoors j ay a HOCK way Wa Along with a congressman taal yaar a festival princess and various other interested parties I was SVARANTIf: Our national character has always been one of enormous diversity of people languages sects and prejudices swirling about in disharmonious union The great and frequently exasperating variety of American ways of life (there is of 1 course no single “American way of life”) is squarely opposed to the block structure of totalitarianism Our educational system reflects and nourishes this variety— end to change from the variety of state and local control ' to a central monolithic structure would be to destroy the individual's best guarantee against the overwhelming power of the state ) Such would be the danger if education in the US were ' controlled by even the most enlightened federal officials But recognizing this does not mean that we should continue our sometime absurd educational provincialisms The plain fact is that education is now a national as well as a state and local concern 1 HIE PROBLEM IS NOT— and has not been for decades— behind the —- - your as Ten More ' Utah Measures SALT LAKE CITY ffirt -Gov George D Clyde signed 10 more bills into law Wednesday Including one which appropriates 17100000 for state aid to public school construction The bill provides $4100000 for distribution to school districts which qualify for state building aid and another 83000-00- 0 for distribution to school districts which have bonded indebtedness equal to 97 per cent of legal capacity The governor approved a measure to authorize construction and maintenance of an aerial tramway between Wasatch Mountain State Park and points in Wasatch and Uinta National forests The Mil provide revenue bonds may be Issued to fi- nance the project Clyde fixed his signature to House Bill 137 designed to strengthen the law against' production and distribution oi material The law provides new and more stringent enforcement provisions Other bills signed into law —SB 185 revising the county improvement district act —SB 218 continuing the authority bf the State Park Commission to make land purchase! for Wasatch Mountain Park on installment contracts —SB 142 providing salaries of the tax commissioners shall be set by the board of examiners at a minimum of $8000 and maximum of $12000 —SB 190 providing procedures for counties to acquire or construct civic auditoriums or convention centers —SB 164 permitting pupils of private schools to enroll in public school for driver education classes — IIB 143 revising national guard statutes to conform with federal laws and Dept of land-gra- vocational-education- al 1 "WHERE'S CHLOEr— Fellow be wading might have Is walking througn deep rich loam in order to plant those bushes at a flower and garden show In Chicago’s new McCormick Place exhibition halL MOSCOW (LTD — The Soviet Union today launched another unmanned earth satellite to gather space data for future manned flights The official Tass news agency said the sputnik “Cosmos 13“ was set off at 2:54 p m (6:54 a m EST) It was the first ' Soviet ' satellite sputnik launched this year Premier Kikita Khrushchev announced the Cosmos series of unmanned satellites during a Kremlin speech in March Colored Mines-Publi- r j Mm A whole new group of frames (formerly selling for as much as $2250) have been added to our sales frames to give you an even greater group to choose from However after-thesare gone the sale will positively end So Come In NOW! 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Ini Hailstone & Wiley MEATS FREE PARKING Rear ef the Store— gut NOW IN T1IE CITY GROCERY itnt 215 North Main Logan uu la Your Present Lenses Inserted FREE! san-ic- SwvwAmiaing vention — Vice President At C Skinner suwcnirnoH-iuTlof the Mine-Mi- ll Unloa took the SJJ j!p war vail sutatila Oarhs speaker’s stand earlier to tell On valley the 230 delegates a recent fed- On aar wall la (brka Vallavi Ona rar aanleamaa an mia eral report on siclicoMi tt siaoariaa AM Y ra n cITiI'm1 aM YOUR 2nd FAIR OF e Fitzgerald was the prim-ipa-l speaker at the third day of the metal worker union's 70th anniversary con- - SATIKDAVS ZT'ZT'ZT-Z- ti - p - mm ip 35-ho- V'- 27 The announced purpose of the series is to gather space Information for use in flights by man into orbit Cosmos 12 was hurled into space last Dec LB - 1? SK Xatiaa'p largrat Tax Hmkal'SM Offlrra Arraaa Ika Vatlaa to WKKKBAY 0 1962 Chickens phony” “One of the conclusions is : that silicosis is rapidly disap-- ! ’’ Skinner said “We pearing Corn Oct 15 The union represents some 80000 em ployes of the two firms Mm Street Logon Utah V Soviets Launch Earth Satellite Whale don’t buy this” Skinner's attack on the Buc reau of Health Service report on the lung disease among minim was coupled with a call for a federal safety law to regulate metal mining 140000 members “State mine Inspection alone Albert J Fitzgerald addressing the convention of the Inirr- belongs to the horse and buggy ational Union of Mine- Mill and days” he said Smelter Worketrs said ' his union’s leaders would meet in' e ii CraJ Journal New York March 29 to set bar- r jknskn publish ti PubiHlwd (vary gaining coals for contracts to vanins M Genthose at hr‘un ind an suwiay replace expiring eral Electric Co and Westing-hous- in $33 North 2-- De-fene- se impractical DENVER The president of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America said Wednesday the union would seek a work week and retirement at 60 in its next contracts for its 0 : i Week - u t H nance Dept The governor vetoed IIB 205 which would have changed methods of conducting inspections of dairies and plants processing dairy products Clyde wrote in : his veto message that he could see no useful purpose which the bill might serve and criticized its regulations as ineffective full-fled- 35-Ho- ur tatara Wa paataataa accarato praparatiaa af avary aw awka aay arran tkat aa yM My PMahy w Mara aw anN pa Ika parnby ar Mwail m : The only way to achieve the necessary order it sterns to me is to give full cabinet status to education At present the Office of Education is merely one of a conglomerate of agencies In the Department of Health Education and Welfare Considering the growing importance of education to our society this makes no sense Only a department for education— perhaps a Department of Education Science and the Arts—will enable the American people to deal with the large problems of education at the national level ! ' Ro-be- I THINK THE ARGUMENT for specific aid of the kind the President has proposed Is entirely persuasive Thert is just too much to be done to improve American education that cannot or will not be done by the states or the local school districts “one-side- d present at the Jefferson Memorial on the banks of the d v tidal basin when revealed his prediction Not to keep you 'in suspense any longer he predicted that the festival- scheduled for April 7 would come In first His calculations fixed the peak blossom period as April Before you make any bets however I must caution that cherry blossoms are great tree-ringe- whether we should have federal aid to education We have it and need more of It The problem Is what kind of aid to have Actually few people even those who are supposed to be enemies of federal aid oppose programs already in existence 22 Continuing aid to colleges for instance is one of The mangosteen a tree nathe most popular programs in the Congress and to the East Indies cannot tive regulations have been established so program long in somg —SB 54 a companion bill to be grown anywhere in the! pari of the country that the most thoroughgoing conserva- bills reorganizing the State Fi- - United States tives would be shocked at the thought of discontinuing them— at least in their districts Such programs are accepted as part of the normal pattern of school financing and the federal origin of the money Is usually forgotten Union To Seek DE$ MOINES Don’t get pb-sce- - I GSSQDud House Measles 01 10 1 Dr McMurrin's Views lthas 'ij NO METISSl J IS NORTH MAIN STRUT Leg an Utah — SK appli am Caau rt n iv An |