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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1949)
'I I J The Slcrfoaman, Salem, Oregon, frlday, September 13, 1943 t C The Safety Valve GRIN AND BEAR IT By L chty CRT "No Favor Sways Vt, No Fear Shalt Aim" rrMBFlni8UtesaM.Marcktt.ltSl THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COBIPANY CHARf .Eft a RPRAGUE. Editor ind Publisher Eatered at the pottofflce at Salem. Oregon, aa second clasa matter eade? act of eeagrees March X, 117H .roMlahed every morning. Business of flea ZU 8. Commercial. Slem. Cretan. Telephone 2-2441. The "AIMmportant" IQ is Not What he calls a "revolt'- against "intelligence measurement" in U. S. pupil schools represents one of the most significant developments in education, Pultizer prize-winner Benjamin Fine, education editor of the New York Times, writes In the Times magazine. "School teachers by the thousand continue to measure the attention they accord a pupil by his 'score' on a 45-minute paper and pencil examination," he says. They consider the child with a low IQ as "simply beyond help" and the pupil with a high rating as the only one "worth worrying about." Since the "group examination Alpha" was taken by 2,000,000 recruits of the U. S. army In 1817, intelligence tests, so-called, have be come increasingly popular ... So much so, that to the layman they became a sort of magic key to an individual's worth. Some educators went overboard on IQ tests, too. The result was that in some schools children were segre gated according to their IQ ratings a practice that was unfair,, at best. Intelligence Quotient tests intend to deter mine a child's native intelligence the "brains he was born with." Actually, they can do little more than find what information the child has picked up from his environment. University of Chicago professors under Dr. Allison Davis found that existing tests favor city children and those from well-to-do and cultured homes. Davis discovered that when "cultural bias" was removed from the tests, children from under privileged homes could improve their rating though. Educators do not agree on whether IQs remain static or can be changed by educa tion. The answer, it- seems, would depend con siderably on the tests. Benjamin Fine believes that the proper func tion of the IQ test is that it can be used "to supplement other discoverable facts about our children." That is how IQ tests are used in Salem. Pu blic school pupils in this city are tested in the ftfShh, seventh and tenth grades. Many teachers and the special education staff give Individual mental tests when required. But school officials here are well aware of the limitations of IQ tests and regard them as Just one of many devices used to determine the kind of work a pupil can handle and from which he can profit. Teachers try to take into con sideration the whole child: his health, his family and school background, his personal interests. And achievement tests are used to find out how well he's doing as he goes along. Parents and the public should realize what most educators already know that the IQ rating of a child is not all-important. And 11 educators must come to realize what parents have always known that no child, no matter what his IQ, is "simply beyond help" and "not worth worrying about.". Fair for the Farmers They're having a real "old-fashioned, country-style" county fair in Woodburn today and Saturday and many from North Marion county (whose annual exhibition it is) as well as people from the. surrounding countryside will want to see just what that is. 'he Woodburn Independent editorially ex plains that an old-fashioned country -style fair fair means "giving the event back to the farmers of this area, their wives and children, and keep ing commercialism at a minimum." The re vival of this old-time idea is attracting, state wide attention, the paper claims. As well it should. For one thing, the general public will be glad to know that no admission Is being charged to the exhibits, contests or entertainments. Some of the events that smack of early-day frolics are a corn-on-the-cob eat ing contest, pie-eating contest, a needle-in-the-haystack search and an amateur show. But the main emphasis is for the farmers: displays of produce and exhibits of the latest in farm machinery.. So the Woodburn fair should be a great Success a success that Salem has a hand in: Gene Malecki of this city is the fair manager and a number of local residents are serving as Judges. Henry A: Wallace breaks the news to a wait ing world that he will not be a candidate for office this year. He says nothing about 1930, and hope seems to spring eternal in a one-time candidate's "breast. "Lots of money for a campaign fund" Is a pretty sure blight on any candidate running against Senator Wayne L. Morse. China Reds Present Problem to U.N. Br J. M. Robert. Jr. AP rorvlxn Alfslrs Analyst WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 -41)-Dr. Tsiang of nationalist China his called on the United Nations to do something about commun ist subjugation of his country, but he doesn't say what. His opening address sums op the situation and paves the way. for a request for specific action. But whether it will be placed be fore the security council or the general assembly, and what form It will take, remains to be seen. If he asks condemnation of Russia and the Chinese commu nists It's Just a propaganda fight. The communists hold a big proportion of China and bid fair to take over the rest?" The UH. can't do any more about It than It could about Czechoslo vakia. It doesn't even have real evidence that the communist re gime Is not desired, or at least passively excepted,, by a major ity of the Chinese people. . like those through which the reds In such circumstances a gen eral assembly condemnation would, aside from establishing a position of some moral but little practical Importance, widen the east-west split in the UJ. So would a security council airing of charges of Russian Intervention it the veto didn't keep the lid Za the whole thing. Appointment of a commission such as the one which has been keeping an eye on the Greek bor der is a possibility. It might be Dr. Tsiang's objective. It Would serve to keep the issues alive. And it ' would be an "out"! for the U.N. The Chinese delegation, of course, has not confirmed that it will request any U.N. action. Dr. Tsiang may be merely preparing against the possibility; of a Mos cow or Peiping demand for his replacement by a representative of "all" China, meaning commu nist China- Although Mao Tse-Tung does not appear to have the material for a real coalition government established their hegemony in eastern Europe, he Is making a point of broad representation in the consultative conference at Peiping. His "coalition" wOl be through the use of Xuomintang defectionlsts and nationalist mil itary deserters. Many splinter political parties will have a Sun Yat Sen, great revolutionary voice. And he has the widow of leader of 1912 whose memory la revered throughout China. ; 'I I There is no question that. In China, Mao is going to put up a good front I 1 He has waited to put bit' gov eminent into operation only un til it now represents a majority of the land area In China. There will be a period when there will be two Chinas. As the National ists are more and more com pressed they might even find themselves able to hold some territory on a permanent , or semi-permanent basis. This developing situation, ra ther than any sort of post-mortem or moral stand, is the real problem at Lake Success. Better English. By D. C Williams Better English Ed page 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Such statements are nothing else but absurb." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "soiree"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Fusilage, fusible, fusillade., 4. What does the word "ac couterments" mean? 3. What is a word beginning with U that means "expressing grief"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "Such statements are nothing else than absurb." 2. Pronounce swa-ra, first a as in ah. second a as in ray, accent second syllable. 3. Fuselage. 4. Articles of apparel; equipment How gay with all the accout erments of war." Philips. 3. Lamentable. KOODOOS RJCDCDDCg: First Night in San Francisco Tuesday was First Night of the 1949 opera season in San Francisco and the Chronicle of that city gave the story due play. The story the newspaper used was not Puccini's Tosca" but the f lustrous satins and diaphanous nets ... perky taffetas and jewel-tone velvets" stich ed and tucked around the bodies of audience members. One whole page was devoted to an alph abetical listing of socially-prominent women from a Mrs. Adams in Russian sable to a Mrs. Mahoney in a "deep sun tan" to a Mrs. Zeller back in something sans straps. There were 152 names selected for their oustanding cou ture from among the many hundreds of opera goers. ' Nowhere in the 30-page paper were there the names of the singers or any comment on the quality of their performance. All the newi the opera itself rated was a few lines under a picture noting that "the stage provided a spectacle to equal that of the audience." .But there's something more important about this opening night than either the society page or the music critic would indicate. There al most wasn't any first night this year. The Chronicle points out editorially that last summer the whole institution of San Francisco opera was threatened by bigotry in the Flag stad affair.". Some "100-per-cent American" groups had protested Flagstad's apperance on grounds that she was a Nazi Sympathizer. The pro-Flagstad faction won. San Fran ciscans of all kind's, the wealthy who display their expensive tastes on First Night and the poor who stand in the balconies any night, "responded to that threat by giving an over whelming indication of their demand for the preservation of artistic integrity and freedom" in the city by the Golden Gate. So Flagstad will sing this season and, after the 'audience's one-night stand at the debut, music lovers will settle down in their plush seats to enjoy opera undisturbed by photo graphers' flash bulbs or "patriots." - f Editorial Comment From Onr Contemporaries ... No Competition Oregon is supposed to be a great dairy state, at least that's what our indoctrination as an Oregonian led us to believe. Our cheese is of high quality; our butter is something extra special. Yet, when we in quired bow Coos county butter exhibits rated in competitionrit the Oregon state fair, we were told that "there was no butter or cheese competition at the fair." This oversight if it were an oversight is some thing that should be explained, and explained promptly, by the state department of agriculture or the state fair management. One Coos butter exhibit got a gold medal or "tops" rating in California, and the resulting publicity should be of great value to Oregon, and to Cooa county. An Oregon contest with entries from the various sections, would be Of benefit both in pro claiming to the world the high score of Oregon prod ucts and would, through competition, help boost quality even more. There was plenty of "improving the breed" of horses at the fair through professional racing, and there were plenty of outstanding entertainment events. Now, how about a boost nextyear for the dairy Industry? (Coos Bay Times) The democrats held a revival meetingxin San Francisco over the weekend. They aremak ing their bows to the Pacific coast whichxwill have several more electoral votes after the next census. Besides, these states nave repuDncar governors who are doing good jobs but oughtN to be replaced by democrats! Oregon, quite. solidly republican, is a shining target for am titious democrats. But they will have to pro ducebetter material than most of those lately elected to win the confidence of Oregon voters. gniljwl 1 McLemor press, does not p r e v ent me from enjoying the comments '"""Vf"! of the culture wr"WI In.a-mnnth ffa- dabouts. Today, for a few thousand lira, I boarded an American Express bus for a three - hour trip about Ro me. I had made the trip sev eral times before, having found that trying to see Rome in three hours is a bit like trying to see Texas during a week's excursion. Seated in front of me were two women I Judged to be house wives on their first fling in It aly. They didn't look out of the windows very much because they were too absorbed in their guide books. The guide would point out a sight, they would duck into their guide books like hens picking up corn, and by the time they had prepared themselves to see the sight we were two monuments and four cathedrals away. It gradually dawned on them that they would either have to change this-procedure or see nothing at all, so they laid their guide books be side them and concentrated on what was outside of the bus. A few minutes later the bus drew alongside the Coliseum which, as everyone must know, is not quite what it used to be. The years have taken quite a toll of the Coliseum and what re. mains Is majestic but fairly worn out. Agnes," one of the women in nt of me said to the other, Asnes, that's the Coliseum. Dorr you think it's perfectly marvelous?" v Thenshe exclaimed in a voice loud enough to raise white caps on the Tiber river, "Martha, I never Tealized until now how badly we bombed Rome during the war" Later; we were escorted to the Vatican ' museum which, despite the fact that I have not seen all of the museums of s the world, must make all otherX museums look -JIke County Fair exhibits. Having enjoyed the remark a bout the Coliseum by Martha's f riendi I made it a point to stay close to Agnes to see how she re acted to the Vatican museum- After an hour or so of walking! XI 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 .At .1 1 inrougn rooms imea wun me most magnificent things In all the world, the guide pointed to a stone foot and explained that It was one. of the oldest objects in the ' museum, was priceless, and was a comparatively new addition, having been dug up only four or five hundred years ago. Incidentally, anything that isn't a thousand years old In Rome still has the price label on it like the bottom of a new shoe. I'd always considered my self old at 42 until I got to Rome, but after being surrounded on all sides by antiquity I felt al most like taking to the bottle a gain i the milk, of course. . . But to get back to Agnes and the foot She was a bit ahead of her friend when the guide ex plained about the foot; and her companion, who had missed the explanation, asked her what it was and what the guide had said. Agnes told her this: "Oh, as best as I remember, he said it was some old some thing dug up somewhere." I thought of all the tired, earn est hard-working little school teachers who would have liked to have been walking through the Vatican museum, and I wondered what sort of justice it was that sent Agnes and her friend (to Rome to see not to hear not and to provide me with material for a column. ( Distribute by McNaunt . i Svadicate. lac.) : 1 ' - (Continued from page one) (Continued from page 1) of all plastering .jobs in Oregon are using Dantore Plaster Ag gregate. It is used on the small est homes and the largest build ings, including State Buildings, and is specified by leading archi tects. "For five hundred years plas tering has proven the most sat isfactory method of creating in terior walls and ceilings. The Plastering Industry is the' least advertised of all the crafts and today still offers the best type of interior walls and ceilings. There are many dry wall sub stitutes on the market today and any prospective home buyer should insist that his real estate dealer tell him whether the house he ; is about to purchase has a substitute wall or genuine lath and plaster. "The beauty soon fades in a substitute! wall and the overall maintenance will be consider ably higher. A good way to Identify a substitute wall is to tap on the walL If it has a hollow ring it Is Jiot lath and plaster. Also substitute Vt inch walls do not have the fire rating qualities of lath and plaster. "Lathing and Plastering are many times better today than Coliseum in Bad Shape After Bombing By Henry McLemore ROME, Italy, Sept. 22 Tour ists do the same to me that the candle does to the moth. I cannot resist their attract! The fact that I am a tourist my self, and perhaps am just as daf fy in my behavior as any visi tor ever whirled from sight to sight by Thomas Cook or the American Ex- Are We Fatalists? To the Editor: While looking over the dis plays at the state fair I hap pened to stroll by the two booths, arranged for the purpose of ex-V tolling the virtues of our two major political parties. Stepping up to the first one. with a sign on it, "Vote Republican." I was given some literature, and after exchanging a few remarks with the lady in charge, I strolled on to the booth which implied by the use of big letters that I should vote the Democratic ticket. At this boom I also ex changed a word of greetine and received some literature. Glanc ing at the papers in my hand. I noticed a copy of a check, drawn by our state treasurer for almost two million dollars, and the lady at the booth made some remark about it This led me to make the observation that If we could see some of our federal govern ment checks we would probably faint because of the enormous amount for which they are drawn. I was rather surprised when the lady remarked that govern ment expenses and the national debt were not something for n to worry about as we would not have to pay them in our life time anyway. Carrying the conversation a they were ten years ago. because the materials with which the plasterer works are superior. The use of wood lath as a plaster base is practically extinct. Fire proof gypsum lath is now the most widely used type of lath. Sand as a plaster aggregate is fast giving away to lightweight aggregates. Exterior stucco jobs are increasing rapidly because of economy and efficiency." Mr. Purvine writes that most of the plastering done in Salem now uses Dantore. This shows how fast a new material can come Into general use. for this product has been marketed now a relatively snort time. Its light- less commends it to workmen 'or it is eatv to handle. hpciriM having the dualities Mr. Piirvin claims for it. Pumice and perlite and shale, old, old mineral products, man has finally foftnd good use for them. ; The age of discovery is not past, and not all of the dis coveries have to come from fancy laboratories. little further. I asked her if she thought it' was fair for us to pile up a huge national debt and leave it for our children to pay as welli as the government ope rating expenses of their own time. Again I was surprised when I was told something like this: Oh, what's, the difference? It's been going on like that for years and years and there's no thing that we can do about it, so why worry about it? I am wondering how many people in this country are tak ing that attitude. Are we over awed by. the word "government" so much that we do not feel that we, as individuals or local organizations can have any in fluence upon how our tax money is used, or how much of our income goes for taxes? Do we think it is all right when our national treasury has struck a balance for the first ten weeks of the fiscal year and find that we are $3,304,000,000 more in the red than we were on July 1st of this year? Is it all right that it; has cost nearly $2,000, 000,000s more to run the govern ment ten weeks than it did for a corresponding ten weeks a year ago? Is it all right that our government spends more than two times as much in one week now as it spent for all expenses for the whole year 25 years ago? Prices have gone up in 25 years, but not that much. ' We should let the government officials know that we want them to operate in the black, arrange to be paying on the na tional debt, and finally ease up on taxes and let the individual Americans spend their own money, instead of having our government spend it for us like a drunken sailor for things which we do not appreciate. Let us not be fatalists and feel resigned to anything that might happen to our income, and let us play fair with future gene rations, and not mortgage their income to pay for our reckless spending. ; Dewey F. Davis 85 Lansing Ave. f'i4' T! W't tf:fy t "I gave htm year bid of $400f spot caah on the hoase . . shared his aaklnc price to $27,500 . . . " . slid now he's Outlined against the dazzling blue Oregon sky. Why not drop an atomic bomb on this sublime mountain and modernize it a little? Now we have the events of birth and death both are old fashioned! But we won't pro gress much without both! Let the old courthouse stand a monument to the noble men and women of Oregon! Mrs. E. A. Matthews, Salem, Oregon. To the editor: They condemn the beautiful old courthouse because it is old fashioned! How about Mt. Hood? Now there is a peak that is real old-fashioned! I see it this moment, white and majestic like a pyramid from ancient Egypt! Payrolls Increase in Oregon During August Covered Oregon payrolls for August. 1949, increased more than $4,000,000 over those for August, 1948, the state industrial accident commission reported here Thurs day. The August, 1949, payroll was $64,498,755 as compared with $60, 065.302 for August a year ago. Drive-in Laundry ) Coming to Salem ; First it was drive-in restaurants and then drive-In theatres and now a drive-in laundry is coming to Salem. A building permit to erect a new $4,500 drive-in laundry at 1160 Woodrow it., was Issued to Art Sprout Thursday by the city engineer's office. Other permits, for construction of new homes, were issued to O. I. Hill. 665 Catterlin St., $7,500, and R. L. Rinard, 495 S. 22nd It, $4,500. Silverton Mrs. Theodore Grace, who has been at the Silverton hospital for the past several days for treatment and observation, was able to be taken to her home Thursday. I WlVSVG&yV9SO'sWOSTMODBM CABS t r- 1 i Delivered Herb $1837 Statt W Ltcsl Txt if any, Extrd Yes for the big Nash Statesman : Airflyt above, the S-passengar Business Coupe. White si dew a 11 I tires. Weather Eye System are op tional extras. Prices may -vary lighUy In different communities due to transportation charges. All - 1950 Nash Airflytes are new auto- ' moDUe values. Compare! Now you can see the 1950 Nash Airfiytes! See the world's only cars of Airflyte Con struction a revolutionary development that brings -you new safety economy and rock -so lid roadabitity. 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