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Show Search for Most Vital Idea Turns Up Large Variety PROVIDENCE, R. I. Phillips Stevens, headmaster of Williston academy at Easthampton, Mass., wanted to find out if students could be taught only one idea, what idea should that be? In his search for an answer he telegraphed the question to a group of persons ranging from Andrei Vishinski, Russia's foreign minister, to Gypsy Rose Lee. Neither Vishinski or the strip tease dancer replied, but from others he got a variety of answers: Bernard Baruch: "The principal thing to teach is physical and mental men-tal discipline and self-reliance." William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor: "The value of freedom, liberty and democracy and the obligation of every individual to serve in every possible way in the preservation of these vital principals." Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop arch-bishop of New York: "I exhort and encourage you to live truth in charity. Your love of truth will make you peacemakers in a world that dreads war and fears enslavement." enslave-ment." Frank Lloyd Wright, noted architect: archi-tect: "Our democracy fails unless our architects free themselves to build with style for men themselves free of a style." Warren Austin, chief American delegate to the United Nations: "Gain a thorough understanding of the principles which are absolutely necessary to keep government free and to maintain the blessings of liberty." Groucho Marx: "The Kinsey report re-port should be required reading unless un-less the school is co-educational. In that case nature will provide the npcMSflrv answprs " |