Show r Y Korea a House Divided JL A. A JL V Wt Between U U. S S. S and Russia Russi r By BAUKHAGE I I News Analyst and Commentator Service 1616 Eye Street N. N W. W Washington D. D C. C WASHINGTON A couple of months ago I wrote a piece about Korea for this column It was largely a factual report and when I wrote it I realized how little I and perhaps perhaps per per- haps some of you know about 4 Korea I have b been e e n realizing that for many years but not too y a many I think r that the first Mime time Korea r. r meant anything more to me than thana 4 s A At a smear on the f map was when I Iwas Iwas was quartered i with a young fellow fellow fel fel- low in a barrack in F France r a n c e in Baukhage world War I I. I He talked in in his hio sl ee P That t nc ii was C bad h n 1 enough but I couldn't understand what he said So I asked him He said My liMy father was a missionary in Korea I was born there When I have a nightmare I talk Korean Korea est s divisa in panes partes artes duo the Red army et el south of 0 a dividing line drawn by Stalin and Roosevelt by bythe bythe bythe the American army The agreement was that the two nations would set up a unified provisional provisional provisional pro pro- visional government and lure the Koreans back into democratic life lile Then things began to eventuate Roosevelt died and he couldn't tell teU Stalin that democracy meant one thing to Americans and something quite different to Marxian schooled Russians Oh quite different But regardless of academic definitions definitions definitions this has happened according according according accord accord- ing to General Hodges Hodge's own statements statements statements state state- ments The Russians have drafted Koreans in their zone into an army They have set up a Communist regime in their sector We haven't done so well with our brand of democracy in our sector Not because of lack of good intentions intentions intentions nor of the efforts of General Hodge so his enemies admit but due to a lot of things including the spectre of the past which has harassed harassed harassed har har- assed the Koreans They like Amer Amer- ica But all aU they have got from us in inthe inthe inthe the past is vague promises Other nations beginning with Japan took them and tore them They have faced a historical array of broken promises from the great nations Koreans thought they were promised promised promised prom prom- independence in lIin a few days after American occupation That misunderstanding was due to the fact that the Moscow agreement was translated by a Korean who was possessed of more native optimism optimism optimism than knowledge of the English English Eng Eng- lish language From then on the Americans attempting to abide by their understanding of the Moscow decisions have tried in vain to get getan getan getan an agreement out of the Russians which would be the basis of a unified unified unified uni uni- fied Korea behind a unified provisional provisional provisional provi provi- Korean government Today Korea Korel has become one of those explosive areas where two ideologies meet where the two great empires left in the world the U. U S S. S and the USSR face each other for better or for worse Neither Nei- Nei Neither Neither Nei Nei- ther thinks it should retire and allow Korea to erect a government which would take its pattern from the other What's going to happen now We Weare Weare Weare are going to get a little tougher with the Russians and if we can be released released released re re- re- re leased from that ambiguous agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment will let the Koreans in our zone set up their own provisional government They already have a parliament of their own but General General General Gen Gen- eral Hodge has a veto and he will keep it until we see some kind of a coalition free from Communist pressure pressure pressure-or or any other kind of pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure of which there are a lot It will cost money whatever else they didn't teach didn didn't t Later I studied abroad and change my mind Then I jo joined the army and discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered from my buddies I got five francs frants for writing letters for Cor them that parts of America I illiterate illiterate illiterate hadn't grown up in were as ate as parts of Europe which Id I'd held my nose going through and that some of Europe was more literate than the United States al although although although al- al though at our worst we had a better school for the poor man proportionately proportionately proportionately than Great Britain Years passed and finally I began hearing c com complaints o m p l 1 a i n t s about our schools schools including including the literacy high-literacy areas I realized what teachers j were being paid compared to dog dogcatchers dogcatchers dogcatchers catchers and garbage collectors and bartenders not as much I mentioned it on the radio Most people complimented my stand for higher remuneration for education Of course we couldn't expect to pay as much as we pay for liquor to redden our noses or the women pay for cosmetics to redden their lips But what shocked my New England England England Eng Eng- land soul was some of the letters on the other side From a teacher of long and varied experience The liThe most important teachers in inthe inthe inthe the world are the mothers and fathers who are now earning wages less than the teachers in a great many cases Lack of adequate pay for them is th the greatest cause of education failure failure and and failure it is because it does not aid properly those who need it worst From a California teacher who is almost in despair over the situation situation situation situa situa- tion The school cannot substitute for forthe forthe forthe the home it can only supplement I it You cant can't tea teach h children who have had no home training you cant can't even teach those who have if your whole time and strength are consumed by those who Most parents will pay whatever they have to pay for a parking station station station sta sta- tion for their children and will ask no further questions More and more of the parking attendants are unwilling to deal with such children at any price From a Pennsylvania mother If monetary remuneration were the only consideration for our services services services ices in this life would life would there be nurses doctors welfare workers and ministers Yet they abound in inlove inlove inlove love and kindness and tolerance From a Virginia man There is an adage to the effect you get just about what you pay for The point is when the school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher o oes his job as well as the street cleaner or garbage collector he will be paid be paid accordingly but as long as the educators are content to have the street cleaners do their job better the educators should not I complain that the street cleaner is better paid |