Ifflnare amafammft - Sputnik Launchings Convince Youths In U.S. They 'Ought to Study Harder' By EUGENE GILBERT President, Gilbert Youth Research Co. Russia's Sputniks have launched the biggest debate in United States eaucauon since John Dewey de- ciaea to spare the child: Are we falling behind Russia in the all Important resource of brain power? Do Russian children study harder, longer and at a more ad vanced level? Has the accent on life adjustment courses kept our schools from turning out the need ed number of scientists? Concern for these questions has stretched all the way from the local P.T.A. meeting to the White House. Secretary of Health, Educa tion and Welfare Marion B. Folsom has noted that in this coustry: "Only one out of every three high school graduates has had a year of chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics, and only one out of three has had more than one year of algebra." Comparison Made By comparison, according to a report on Russian education issued earlier by Folsom's office, the average Soviet high school grad uate has taken five years of biology, five of physics, four of chemistry, one of astronomy and a full 10 years of mathematics. Are our high school students aware that their Russian counter parts study harder and take more science courses? Do they care? The answer to both these ques tions, we found in a nationwide survey of teen-aged opinion, is a resounding YES. Let George Do It An overwhelming 81 per cent of the boys asd 84 per cent of the girls said they knew Russian students studied harder and al- ti-iniiiui. """ ""--I ..'... "T"f ' " I Tf ' H T iff r fu fr IN RUSSIA A tenth grade physics student observes a reaction. were willing to work most as many (80 and 82 per cent) were convinced that American youngsters should be made to study harder. "We've been getting away with murder. Many of the kids even borrow home-work," confessed 16- year-old Kenneth Brand of Colum bia, Mo. In the same vein, 17-year- old Warren Fuller of San Antonio, Tex., remarked "there's nothing wrong with our education that a lot of homework wouldn't cure." For Other Fellow The only trouble with such over all endorsements of more work was that many teen-agers seemed to be talking about more work for the other fellow. Despite the near unanimity in favor of Americans being made to study harder, only 62 per cent of the boys and 51 per cent of the girls said that they Inside TV Adult Westerns All Alike, Says Viewer By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD - STARR RE PORT: "I will tell you," said my engineering friend, the one who doesn't know a thing about tele vision but knows what he likes, "You people are going to lose me nexi season, rve been reading the Wf NC papers and I (understand there are going to be .something . like r 30 count 'em kvb stabb 30 Westerns in my living room, and I just don't think I'm going to be there (6 watch them. "Why, they've even reached the point now where they've got two new shows whose heroes pull a switch and don't carry a gun at all. That can only mean I've got to watch a fist fight, and I don't like those movie fist Tights. "Those fist fights," he said em phatically, "are as phoney as a sis dollar bill. They get these two big gays la there, both weighing In at around 220 pounds, and they Start slogging with bare fists. "Yon remember Joe Louis? He wore an 8-onnce boxing glove and eonld still drop a man with a single punch. But these Western boys, they take a dozen or more solid smashes right on the Jaw, any one of which yon figure should stop them cold, but they Just sort ! stagger back and shake their heads and then come roaring la for more. "Ifa ridiculous. When they get all through and the hero is stand ing over the villain after having taken a dozen of those punches, he haS a tiny trickle of blood in one corner of his mouth and that's all. "You hit a man that often with your bare fist and his face is going to be a nice pulp. "And I am getting tired of that same old story. The one where the bad man comes to town with a chip on his shoulder and the marshal or the editor or the town hero has to take him down a peg. "He always does it very quietly, too. He speaks quietly. He moves quietly. "Ho makes quiet little speeches about law and order and morality and cowards who have to carry gans. Then he gets trapped out la the middle f the mala drag, Just standing there, noble as all get eat, surrounded by three bad men. They an have toe dree on 'And he wins. He wins every time. "Frankly, I'm sick and tired f Hi They tell me all of this year's Westerns are coming back and that about tea aew ones win be Joining them. I wish somebody would please tell me why. It used to be that the Gene Autry and Rey Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy show were an the same. "But now if i these so-called "adult" Westerns that are all the sime. You know the difference between a Roy Rogers and an adult ' Western. Rogers wears a good-dye conns bior qalek nltf pcadily Minor whin I terra with tata. eaahtl b( Or. Seholl'a Zhw pufc. Cart bat iWftfc fancy dude get-up and rides a magnificent horse, the kind you never laid eyes on in the old west. "In the adult bit, the hero wears jeans and a dirty shirt and rides a'nag. That's the only difference. They're still protecting the water rights and saving the widow's property and being shamed by the new school teacher from Bos ton. "And you television people still call this entertainment. You know what I call it? Never mind. What's playing at the Bijou tonight?" (Copyright 18S8. General Feature Corp.) themselves harder. Among those taking the work cure was Amelia Coburn, a 17-year-old Coral Gables miss. "I take my work a little more seriously now," she said. "I always used to just get by." Asked for comment on what they thought was wrong with pub lic education in the united Mates as compared with Russia, many teen-agers decried the dilution of standards, the watering down of subject matter to fit the lowest intellect, lack of discipline, lower ing in community respect for the status of the teacher, casual atti tudes toward work, a too liberal system of electives. In all, 90 per cent of both boys and girls felt that something should be done to encourage more science and math preparation in American high schools. Too Many Electives? Of these, only 18 per cent thought the first step should be paying more attention to bright students, particularly those inter ested in a science future. 'There should be more special classes," insisted 17-year-old Elliot Houser of Fort Worth. In chemis try, my teacher has to drone on and repeat and repeat, just to make sure the slower kids get it. It's pretty dull for' the- students who get 4t the first time.' Sidney Newman, 17, of Miami said science had such little attrac tion in his school that "we couldn't fill a class in elementary physics.' Lucy Keller, a 17-year-old New York City high school senior, said she "heard that in Russia more than half the students in college are on scholarship. Too many of the bright kids here who can't af ford it Just 'drop But." Quits School Her observation was borne out in the Folsom White House memo, which noted that ."in high school. one out of five in the upper fourth of their class drops out of school before graduation. Further, among 56TH ANNIVERSARY SALE! WIHIfl MILLER'S 56th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL PURCHASE! ' 2-CYCLE AUTOMATIC WASHER WASH AND WEAR DRYER iuu AT LEAST Trade-In For Your Old Washer Save up to 36 Extra! With Miller's Low Carry ing Charge on Contracts iHT PER WEEK Model EASO, ED60 "ALL FABRICS" WASHER AND DRYER SEPARATE CYCLE FOR DELICATE FABRICS FREE HOME TRIAL those who graduate in the upper fourth of their class, more than one out of three does not go on to college. About- 11 per cent of the teen agers, or better than one out of every 10, considered the curricu lum at the heart of the problem "Students have too much leeway in electives," complained George Feaney, a 17-year-old Bronx boy, "Even the bright ones take what they think IS going to be easier Certain advanced science and math courses should be compul sory for those who are smart enough." Spread Too Thin Everett Blackmer, an 18-year-old New York City college fresh man, spoke from personal experi ence. "When I got to college," the told our interviewer, "I first had to take a make-up course in chem istry. To be honest, the entire science program in high school should be tightened up." nam old fashioned hard work was the solution to the science lag for 10 per cent of the teen-agers. 'We'll Catch Up Despite these attitudes, only 7 per cent of the teen-agers felt that increased salaries would result in better science teaching. Some, like 16-year-old Seth Goldstein of New York, thought there would be lit tle percentage in raising the pay of teachers who are not qualified to advance science instruction. Elks Will Stage Parade at State Meet Saturday ROSEBURG (AP) Three days of business sessions and enter tainment, climaxed by a parade Saturday, will mark the annual convention of the Oregon State Elks Assn. opening here Thurs day. Golf, bowling and trapshooting tournaments are on the entertain ment program. Officers will be elected and next year's convention city chosen Saturday. Controversial Summer Training Program for Negro Teachers Starts "My science teacher last year," he complained, "was really sup posed to be teaching English There just weren't enough science teachers to go around and he was tapped. Although 81 per cent of the young people interviewed thought that Russia was ahead of the Unit ed States in Scientific achieve ment, most of them showed little signs of panic. You have to look at the whole picture," urged 17-year-old Wayne Cousins of Peekskill, N. Y. "We could say that we're superior be cause we got the Salk anti-polio vaccine first. DesDite their erumblines about our educational system and their concern for Russian scientific ad vance, 84 per cent of the boys and 89 per cent of the girls were confi dent that the United States would soon top Russia in the field of science. Most could agree with 18-year- old Lucille Gilmont of Jacksonville, Fla.: "We'll catch up. We always have. We have the most advanced technology in the world, .and our people are the healthiest and the brightest." HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) A con troversial summer training pro gram got under way Wednesday for 120 Negro teachers and prin cipals. 1 White supervisors from the Houston Independent School Dis trict's administrative staff will ob serve the Negro teachers as they instruct summer classes. School administrators contend Eastern Oregon. Town to Lose Its Only Big Payroll PONDOSA, Ore. (AP)-The only big payroll in this Eastern Oregon town of 400 will end in 90 days. The Collins-Pondosa Lumber Co. will close then because it no longer is profitable, said plant manager Earl Garrett, The pine mill employs 150 per sons. Garrett said the sawmill will operate through June on logs al ready under contract. The planer will keep going for another two months, but then the operation will be closed permanently, he said. The null was opened in the early 1930s in this town about 20 miles northeast of Baker. It is owned by Truman Collins of Portland. 10,000 copies of the Russian Bible were printed last year in Moscow from mats furnished by the Amer ican Bible Society. the program is necessary to close an academic gap between white and Negro students as a prelimi nary to integration. A federal court has ordered that Houston schools integrate "with all deliber ate speed." Mrs. Frank Dyer, school board president, has said the plan is an effort to protect Negro teachers in their jobs when .integration comes. Some school board members and several Negro groups, how ever, opposed the program on grounds it is an insult to Negro teachers. Mrs. Allene Cooper, a supervi sor, said mis is no more than a professional growth course. It is regretable that there was some misunderstanding about it. Most of , these teachers have master's degrees. I think it will be a profit able course both for them and for the school system, since we expect to find the answers to many prob lems of teaching." Tri-County 4-H Show to Begin BEND, Ore. (AP)-The eighth annual Tri-County 4-H Ckib fat stock show and sale will be held here Friday and Saturday for 4-H Club members in Jefferson, Crook and Deschutes counties. The affair is ponsored by the Bend Rotary Club. Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., June 5, '58 (Sec. III)-!? Dali's Worm, With Motors, About Ready NEW YORK (AP) They're putting the finishing touches on Salvador Dali's 60-foot worm. The worm, or maybe it's a pupa, will go on display at the Ameri can Medical Assn.'s convention in San Francisco June 23-27. Its purpose is to make the doc tors aware of the soothing effects of a certain tranquilizer drug. Sounds crazy? Dali, the surreal ist artist who cultivates his odd ball conceptions with the zeal of a Broadway press agent, planned it that way. This worm isn't going to just lie there. It has 24 motors that will make it breathe in and out rythmically. The conventioneers can go in side it, too. There they will see the artist's idea of human anx iety, symbolized by a large spine less figure with no skin and large holes in chest and stomach. Through the holes one can glimpse a landscape, showing what Dali calls the metamorphosis of the human chrysalis, and also showing the effects of the tran quilizer. The harmonious effect of the drug also will be portrayed as a lovely maiden with a bouquet of flowers where her head should be. After the trip through the worm, the assembled doctors may well feel the need of a tranquilizer themselves. The American Bible Society has distributed more than 40 million volumes of the Holy Scriptures to men in the U. S. Armed Services. 6,000 Berry Pickers Needed PORTLAND (AP) Six thousand persons are needed to harvest the strawberry crop in the Portland area, the state Department of La bor said Wednesday. Pickers are needed throughout the Willamette Valley, the depart ment said, but the situation is most critical -in the Hillsboro, Ore gon City, St. Helens and Gresham areas. An executive of the Northwest Canners'and Freezers Assn. said "We can't get enough school chil dren to help the growers. I'm ap pealing to the housewife for help." 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