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NO SCHOOL —TV TUBE BUSTED
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Back in Washington County in western Maryland
they are going to give TV a test in all classrooms. By
1958 it is expected that 20,000 kids will be acting as
guinea pigs for the experiment. The equipment for the
trial is being loaned by—surprise!—The Radio-Elec
tronics-Television Manufacturers Association.
We’re not against TV in the classroom, but we can
be patient about it and are willing for Maryland to
do the pioneering.
The reason is mainly because we never get too
enthusiastic about a substitute for the warm, living,
breathing teacher. TV is being touted as perhaps “the
answer” to the teacher shortage, but we beg leave to
doubt this. If you will think back a little way you
will remember that once it was believed that school
movies would do the same, and that a whole new era
of education had dawned.
It had not. The classroom movie was an aid, but
it was not teacher.
Which for some reason or other reminds us of a
little-noted fact about that Congress of Housewives
who visited Washington, D.C., not long ago. They were
invited, you remember, to voice their wishes about
the ideal home and community and so on.
Among other things they wanted smaller schools,
closer to home.
Now that’s an interesting idea, and about as far
away from TV teaching, in its implications, as one
could get. Who knows but what it might be more
economical, too, in the long run, than the contem
porary notion that the bigger and fancier a school, the
better?
As things go now, the teachers are more and more
dwarfed by buildings, by administrators and by in
creasing administrative duties of their own. We
wouldn’t like to see them minimized further by
electronics.
Our lack of enthusiasm saddens us, because by
and large we like new things. But we keep recalling
the simple and awful fact that it takes 20 years before
the basic errors of education innovators are discov
ered. And then another 10 years to correct them!
Violent Storm
Lashes Britain,
Killing 13 Persons
LONDON, liP—A violent sum
mer storm tore through Britain
for 24 hours, causing at least 13
deaths and leaving a dozen or
more yachts still missing today
in the frothy English channel.
Six persons were known to be
drowned after their boats cap
sized in the churning seas. On
land, six others were killed by
falling trees alone, as winds, ac
companied by heavy rains, went
up to 90 miles an hour.
The storm caused millions of
dollars’ damage to British crops.
It brought landslides and floods
to some areas. Heavy holiday traf
fic between Britain and France
was halted completely. Hundreds
of persons received minor in
juries.
Winds of 55 hniles per hour
continued in the Liverpool area
today, hampering shipping and i
preventing two passenger ships
from docking.
Twenty-two yachts which had
entered the annual cross-channel
race from Southsea to Le Havre
were scattered. One—her mast
gone, sail broken and engines
useless—was towed into port to
day by a lifeboat.
Fred Cavota returned Saturday
from a buying trip to the States
which took him as far east as |
New York City. He was gone for ]
about two weeks and arranged
for his winter lines of merchan
dise.
Andrea Doria . . .
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ed for are believed safe, the line
said. It had listed 73 in this group
Saturday, but has gradually been
locating many of them.
Some failed to register with the
line in the confusion that sur
rounded the return of survivors
aboard rescue bessels.
Red Cross Seeks Survivors
The Red Cross appealed Satur
day for calls from survivors who
failed to register with the organi
zation when they left rescue ships
at piers here afterward.
The Red Cross said it had re
ceived calls from throughout the
country by relatives and friends
seeking information about persons
it had not yet been able to ac
count for.
The organization noted that
many of those aboard the Italian
liner may not read or speak Eng
lish. '
$10,000 Safely Study
In Washington, the House Fri
day night voted $10,000 for a
study of “sea safety” regulations.
This will be carried out by a sub
committee of the Merchant Ma
rine Committee. It will seek to
gather facts obtained thru the
various investigations.
In addition, the Coast Guard
was asked to make an inquiry to
determine whether safety regula
tions for U.S. vessels might be in
adequate in the light of the An
drea Dorea sinking.
In Paris, Clarence G. Morse,
head of the U.S. Maritime Admin
istration, officially thanked the
French government for the help
given by the French liner lie de
France, which picked up nearly
800 survivors of the crash.
Stassen Mum on Whether He Talked
With Eisenhower on Ousting Nixon
GETTYSBURG, Pa. UP—Harold
E. Stassen met with President
Eisenhower today for the first
time since launching a move to
drop Vice President Nixon from
the GOP' ticket. He came away
reluctant to talk about the matter.
To reporters here, Stassen
wouldn’t even say whether he
and Eisenhower had discussed
Stassen's contention that Gov.
Chrisian Herter of Massachusetts
would be a much stronger run
ning mate for Eisenhower than
Nixon would.
And he didn’t reply directly
when asked whether he was still
the President’s aide on disarma
ment. To that question, he said:
“I don’t want you to continue
to try to cover all kinds of situa
tions.”
But on his arrival back in the
capital, Stassen brushed aside ru
mors that he might be on his way
out of the President’s official
Many Administration
Bills Ignored, Defeated
By Democratic Congress
WASHINGTON, l/P—'The Dem
ocratic-controlled 84th Congress,
which adjourned Friday mid
night, defeated or ignored many
bills asked by President Eisen
hower.
These included statehood for
Hawaii. Democrats would not go
along because Alaska'was not in
cluded.
Democrats pointed out today
that many of these also failed to
pass in the previous Congress
managed by the Republicans.
Important parts of the Eisen
hower program either beaten or
not acted upon included school
construction, civil rights legisla
tion, a postal rate increase, and
revision of the Taft-Hartley labor
law.
Other features of his program—
like social security, foreign aid,
and highway construction—were
altered substantially in form.
j family.
“I’ve been on the ‘team’ for a
I long time and I intend to stay on
j the team,'' he told reporters who
met him at National Airport.
Asked by the Washington news
j men if his meeting with the Pres
ident was pleasant and friendly,
| Stassen said all his contacts with
Eisenhower always have been
both.
He declined to say what he and
Eisenhower talked about, and
said he would not comment on the
progress of his Herter for vice
president boom until he had some
formal statement to make.
Stassen said hb asked fbr the
meeting with the President.
He flew here for it this morn
ing. It was a surprise session in
that there had been no word to
newsmen in advance that Stassen
was coming.
It was just a week ago Stassen
tossed a bombshell into Republi
can ranks by publicly proposing
the nomination of Herter, rather
than Nixon, to the No. 2 spot on
the GOP ticket. He said a private
poll indicated an Jiisenhower
Herter ticket would garner 6 per
cent more votes than would an
Eisephower-Nixon ticket.
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