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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1949)
t2 The SWnnm!'Sdtt!)rs '1 on.' Monday, fun 20. 1949 breeding" are the prim ball marks of social standing. The lower-upper may live in the same kind of neighborhood but its homes have been pur chased recently and furnished with "boughten" antiques. Mem bers of l this group have large cars, heavy with chromium, and tend to discount the value of birth and breeding. They are very rigid in imitating behavior of tne up per-upper. Teachers From Middle Class The two middle classes and largely the upper strata supply most of the office holders of poli tics, particularly on school boards, as welT as three-fourths of the teachers. They live in smaller houses in neat neighborhoods, are active in community work and participate xuuy in cnurcn aixairs. The upper-lower and lower middle generally are factory hands, clerks and operators of small businesses. Their; houses are small. The upper group 'usually, speak of them as good, substant ial people" who are eager to get ahead. At the bottom of the social scale are the casual workers and tran sients. .Their homes are apt to be tarpaper shacks. They are "generally thought of as im moraL The studies found that educa tion; in the 20th century, has become the principal bridge be tween classes. By it, children born into one of the .lower echelons find means to climb. It offers a Board of Control Meet Postponed This week's meeting of the state board of control, slated for Tues- day, has been postponed due to the absence of Gov. Douglas, Mc Kay, who is in Colorado Springs, Colo., attending the annual gov ernor's conference State Treasurer ; Walter Pear son, also a member of the board oi contiol, leaves early Tuesday for Washington, D.C. Heads Play Studies Gaim ILS. Develops Social Classes ladder ' of association with the right people and provision of soc ially acceptable skills. ; i v, -V t ' - 7 1 I . f ILVERTON Drold Sattrn, for- , atr Silverton hlf h athlete, who J bum been named director 01 re creation at Silverton. jSatcrn Starts Recreation Job At Silverton ILVERTON, June 19 f?aro1d i I Eatern, 22-yegr-oId former Silver ton high school athlete, will start work recreational director at Silverton Monday. Satern, a navy , veteranhas been attending school , at Pacific Lutheran college at : Parkland, Wash., where he is ma joring in education with minors in physical education and speech. Plans are underway to develop an extensive recreational program for the Srlvertpn community. Swimming classes! will be held in the morning at the pool with Sat rn as instructor. The time schedule for these classes will be posted on the bulletin board early next week. ; Softball leagues will be organ ized to Include all aces, with, the smaller boys playing in the after noon and. the older boys' and men's teams -in the evening. Church teams of Silverton are being invited tortake part in the league games. The new terjis courts will be used not only for tennis but vol leyball and badmfntonr Archery equipment is being purchased by the recreation board and lessons wilLbe "provided in this for those Interested. A horseshoe tourna ment will also be organized at the courts in the city park. A variety of activities for the youngsters each day at the play ifea at the park and at the swim ming poor are now being provid ed In the Washington Irving building and in the Eugene Field play shed. Wade Scott is chairman of the Eilverton Recreational association, which is" sponsoring the summer's program. Seven Zionists Convicted by Hun Court gary BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 19 WVSeven Zionist, leaders were convicted Saturday on charges- of helping Zionists leave the country and were sentenced to terms rang ing from six-, months to thiipe years. - Two other Zionists were ac quitted' by the courtof Justice. The case of a tenth defendant; an orthodox Jew, was separated be cause he did not want to appear in the dock on Saturday, the Jew ish aabbath. his lawyer said. In their statements to the court. the defendants protested strongly the prosecutor s charge they were "tools in the hands of the imperi alists." The convictions were obtained .under a 1948 law which forbids any attempts to cross the border illegally. The prosecutor claimed -It was passed to protect people, misled by Anglo-Saxon propa ganda, from becoming cannon fodder serving imperialist inter est." The first locomotive built in America for actual common-carrier service was "The Best Triend ef Charlestown", which made its first trip in 1831. On the first run, the engine fell into a ditch but held the rails on later at Bunker Hill monument. in -- i i ' ri - B Loysl Brady CHICAGO. June 19-jvHavfe you ever - said, J "He's from the wrong side of the tracks?" Or, "She's one of the ? 400?" If you have, a group of univer sity sociologists ' say, you've re cognized that our democratic so ciety has developed social class. This group, headed by W. Lloyd Warner, professor of anthropology and sociology at the University of Chicago, has published studies locating arid defining American class strucfures. jThe studies were made in a 1Jew England com munity and a city near Chicago. Similar material; was available in another study ot class in the deep south. More than 20 years of research was done. The New England city, of 17,000 population, was given the fictitious name "Yankee City." The mid western; community, of about 10,000, was dubbed "Jones ville". I This is ', the picture presented: Six Classes Listed "We have a six-class system "which we don't-; like to admit" and it 1s growing more rigid as our society gets older. Hence the great American,: sport of social climbing is showing signs of "be ing slowed considerably"; by this structure. ?' There are other consequences outlined. The authors feel class is "at least major reason" for, the growth; of labor unions, that it lies behind "many appar ency senseless strikes," and that much of our "social unrest" can be traced to it.i f The study found that the sy stem, "necessary to get the work of society doney grew I into its present form af a result of the disappearance pt free (western lands, and the change from a handicraft pr.odiictiori system to factory-machine j methods! Each Has Characteristic The net resuli was the forma tion of the six more or Jess ex clusive social c(asses.These are the commonly recogniied upper, middle, and lower classes divided into their respective upper and lower segments. ; - ; Each segment,? the study found, has its own special characteristics. The upper-upper group I consists largely of first families, "They live in neighborhoods of large houses surrounded by well-kept grounds. Their , furnishings are antiques handed, down from gen eration to generation, and they "tend to think; that birth and 279 m cotmciL Aim - SAVINGS EARN f MORE at Salem Federal January 1st yand July 1st, lavtn are paid liberal dhri- dendi . . . Increasing youf funds. Our current 217b re- . - j - 5 560 Stale Strict facing Court House salem, Oregon! 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