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IT WON’T GET LOST
The problem of world communism, President
Eisenhower told his press conference, may last for 40
years. And, considering the fact that we have already
been confronted with it for 39 years—during which
time our position has continually deteriorated—this
would seem, barring a world conflagration, a very
modest prognostication.
As for outlawing all trade between the free world
and iron curtain countries, the President indicated this
would never happen if he had his way. He stressed
the need for more liberal American foreign trade
policies as an aid in building up allies who can make
a living. But he did not mention that there might
be room for some cooperation in this direction by
the allies also.
Perhaps we should begin to wonder whether
America, 40 years from now—after 40 more years of
foreign aid, of giving all and asking nothing, of re
stricting our own trade with the Reds while our allies
expand theirs—will also be able to make a living. It
seems unlikely that the problem of world communism
would then be any less acute.
INTELLIGENCE VITAL TO LIFE
Let’s not make the mistake of under-estimating
intelligence. Too many people take very opportunity
to say smart things about the man of book-intelli
gence, suggesting that they believe that this is a big
joke.
No problem of this world will be solved by emo
tion. No great benefit comes to the world except thru
change. Thousands of experiments would have been
valueless without a trained mind to read their mes
sages and apply them truthfully.
It is all right for a man to take pride in his
experience, garnered through the years. He has some
thing that is distinctly an asset to him. However, let
him not under-estimate the value of so-called book
intelligence, if he has little of it.
Experience and intelligence together will solve
many problems that neither, alone, can handle. The
man without either is badly handicapped. He who
pokes fun at intelligence is as foolish as the book
worm, who imagines he can understand all of life by
reading between the covers of the printed word.
LOOKING
AHEAD
by Dr. Gaorge 1 Benson
OR ECTOR - NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Storey, Arkansas
THREE GREAT CANNOTS
What our children of today are
taught will determine the way of
life this nation will have in the
years ahead. Nothing, therefore,
could be more important to the
future welfare of the people of
America than the substance of the
education that will be given to
the 35,000,000 youngsters who
will enroll in our schools next
September. A sound observation
regarding one phase of this edu
cation has been made by Mark
C. Schinnerer, superintendent of
the Cleveland, Ohio, schools.
John W. Studebaker, chairman
of the Scholastic Magazines’ edi
torial board and former U. S.
Commissioner of Education, com
mends Dr. Schinnerer’s statement
and I hope it will be read by all
parents and teachers, by every
body. “This is about the teaching
of economics,” Dr. Schinnerer
wrote. “It is not directed just to
teachers of economics, but to all
teachers. It is directed to all
teachers because the job that
needs to be done cannot be done
by just the teachers of economics.
"We Have Failed"
“There is a colossal oversupply
of people in my country who
either never discovered some of
the basic principles of economics
or think that the economic laws
have been repealed. We hear
much wailing that the schools
have failed in this regard and the
cry i^ for required courses in
economics.We have failed — in
school and out—but the answer is
not in required courses.
“The answer, in my opinion,
lies in a continuous effort to
inculcate in children, from the
kindergarten through high school,
some basic and very simple facts.
There are three things which al
most anyone can be brought to
understand and if these three are
ingrained, we can leave the more
complicated principles to the ex
perts.
Nothing for Nothing
“No. 1. You can't get some
thing for nothing." Too many
think they can. That is the basis
of gambling and most speculation.
Giving a higher mark in school
■than is earned is proving that the
student can get something for
nothing. That is bad business.
When parents urge no homework,
they somehow expect something
for nothing. One gets out of
school work about what he puts
into it. Only parasites get some
thing for nothing.
“No. 2. You can't spend more
than you have and remain sol
vent. The longer such a system is
followed, the more impossible it
becomes to keep afloat. Know
anyone who trades in a mort
gaged car on a new one and has
both a newer car and bigger
mortgage? The woods are full of
such people. It is bad economics.
It’s somewhat like drug addic
tion. This applies equally to a
person, a business, or a govern
ment.
Can't Equilize Ability
“No. 3. You cannot equalize
ability by a handicap system. It is
wrong to expect as much from a
youngster with a low I.Q. as .is
expected from a youngster with
sL high I.Q. It is also wrong to
set up handicaps so that they
come out even. Leave that for
the exclusive use of the racing
stewards. Competition still has a
place in America, thank goodness,
Prospective Operators
Look Over Limestone
Deposits In S.E. Alaska
KETCHIKAN, —A possibility
that big limestone deposits owned
by Aluminum Company of Am
erica at Edna Bay on Koscuisko
Island may be taken over by
others was indicated Friday with
arrival of a six-man party which
flew there to make surveys.
J. W. Handly, one of the party
members from Dallas, Tex., said
he expects to. take out between
40 and 50 sacks of limestone for
tests. Another member of the
party, Matthew Ryan, assistant to
the president of the States and
Quaker Steamship Lines, said he
was along to locate a site for
ocean-going freighters to dock.
The limestone workings have
been idle four years and never
have been fully developed by
Alcoa.
BATHERS' CLOTHES STOLEN
TOKYO, iff) — Down a main
street of suburban Asakusa yes
terday paraded a line of men
draped only in towels. They were
walking home from the public
bath house where someone had
stolen their clothes.
and I don’t want it any other way.
“In every school day, there are
numerous incidents in each stu
dent’s school experience when
these three fundamentals are
present. Just repeatedly bringing
them to the pupil’s consciousness
will work wonders. If all our
people accepted these three econ
omic axioms and lived by them,
we would live in an economic
paradise.”
As I have written them down
here, it seems to me that Dr.
Schinnerer’s three fundamentals
are lessons on which we all need
to be refreshed — specially in a
world in which glittering pro
mises of something for nothing
are being made by the Socialists
and Communists and their dupes.
It is good to see these funda
mentals propounded by one of
America’s top public school edu
cators.
Freak Tidal Wave
Sweeps Chicago’s
L. Michigan Shore
CHICAGO, UPi—A huge, freak
tidal wave swept Chicago’s Lake
Michigan shore for a distance of
several miles Saturday, washing
at least a score of fishermen into *
the water.
Police said at least three bodies
had been recovered and that more
were feared drowned. Coast
Guard boats, police and fire
equipment were called to aid in
the rescue efforts.
Most of the victims were swept
into the water from two rock
jetties at Montrose Harbor and off
a pier at North Avenue, both on
Chicago’s North Side.
Estimates of the height of the
wave varied. It covered the rock
jetties with at least four feet of
water. It surged over an eight
foot sea wall at Loyola University,
about six or seven miles north of
North Avenue.
At the Rogers Park Beach, the
water swept about 100 feet up
onto the shore. Sam Leone, direc
tor of the City life guard service,
said there was at least a five-foot
rise in the water at this beach
several miles north of Montrose
Harbor. An hour after the big
wave struck, the lake waters
along the north shore were still
turbulent, Leone said.
Recent tests indicate that chil
dren with impaired hearing are
more apt to become juvenile de
linquents than normal children.
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