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Professor Hits School System Children 'Throttled' . By Books, Tests INDIANAPOLIS (JP) A unt- ; versity professor declared Tuesday night that America's schools are turning out principally students ', "with crippled minds, trained only . In memorization or blind, unrea ' sonable rote-learning." ! Dr. W. Allison Davis, professor t of education at the University of . Chicago, made the statement in . an address at the 56th annual con- vention of the National Congress 't of Parents and Teachers. ' PUTILS, teachers and adminis- , trators are "caught in the toils of i unrealistic, unhfelike and boring curriculums and tests over which ! they have no control," said Davis, i The educator asserted that the f mental abilities of the majorities , of pupils are wasted. This is be- cause, he, went on, the curriculum ' and "intelligence" and "achieve merit" tests emphasize only a nar - row range of the real mental "ability which the pupils possess. , Davis added that the present system "fails to develop or meas- ure the pupil's ability to think, to use his reason so. as to learn to solve life problems, to gain in ' sight of to see the meaning of his ! '.own observations." J ." DAVIS DECLARED that Amer- lean education "is being throttled ' by the powerful grip of publishers ! and authors of textbooks and tests which prevent pupils from devcl 1 oping most of their mental abilities." Children learn well, Davis as serted. only when they are in- terested. So the textbook writers must find "stories, problems and situations which seem lifelike, real and therefore important to the child," he said. Bond Stresses Lighting Need tin Schools ,' The importance of good lighting " in schools was stressed to mem " bers of the Cascade Lions Club at their Tuesday meeting by Dr. B. W. Bond, optometrist and member of the club. Bond and Dr. Harold S. Rock stein. Snrinefield optometrist, presented a lecture illustrated by slides nrepared by Dr. Darrell Boyd Harmon for the state of Texas. The lecture was based on , itudy made by Harmon on class room environments and tneir ei- feet on vision, health and mental . development of school children. ' Bond reported the study show- ' cd that correct lighting played a ; tremendous role in reducing thronic fatigue, visual problems, I fhronic infections, nutritional problems and faulty posture. : " The study covered some 160,000 students and Included schools where lighting was redesigned to ; scientific visual principles. Following Bond's lecture, teach- ' ers and contractors among the ' .club's membership , cited local ex amples where schools have been - designed to take advantage of cor rect lighting. f R ; Ai ' Wiltshire engraving) FANTASY, a five-gaited mare, is one of the fine horses which will he shown in the annual Spring Horse Show of Eugene Hunt Club, starting Friday night and lasting through Sunday afternoon. She is owned by Collis John son of the Green Valley Stables of Salem, and has been exhibited in many competitions. Shown up on fantasy is her trainer, Tuck Higgins. Girls Cry 'Enough' To Panties Raids By United Presi Scornful coeds indicated Wed nesday they were just about fed up with panty-raiding men stu dents as a new wave of lingerie looting swept college campuses and a group of raiders held a "forgive us" meeting. Overnight, the attitude of the coeds seemed to have changed from one of squealing encourage ment tor aroused resistance or cloistered indifference. The rampaging males stormed women's quarters . from Seattle, Wash., to Athens, Ga., Tuesday night. At Iowa State College the girls chanted "act your age" as about 500 men students slashed screens and broke windows to gain en trance to dormitories and sorority houses. Other coeds simply locked themselves In their rooms. AT KANSAS University In Lawrence, Kans., members of uo.w,wse Join Paniy Fad By The Associated Press Youths at the University of Washington and Washington State College joined the latest college fad Tuesday night. At the University, an estimated 1,000 students smashed windows and did minor damage in panty raids in a women's residence hall and six sororities. At Washington State, about 250 men invaded five women's living quarters. Pullman Police Chief Archie Campbell said little damage was done, but two State Patrolmen were called In to help Pullman and campus police disperse the crowd. Policemen in at least 20 squad cars in the vicinity of the raids at the University did not enter the fray. One policeman said the of ficers were reluctant to leave then cars because they feared the gang would damage the vehicles. A member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority aimed a lusty swing with a baseball bat at one youth. He ducked and the coed de molished a window on the follow through. FloatingObject Reveals$2,180 ' " PORTLAND (IP) Three . toys saw a strange object floating on a shallow pool here Tuesday. , They fished it out and found it contained $2,180 in currency. rThe money had been wrapped In paper, sealed in a glass jar and .then wrapped in a water-tight " container made of an old inner tube. The boys, Lynn Hill, 7: Myron . Whicomb, 9; and Melvin Weaver, " 11, divided the money and went , home. The mother of one of the boys reported the find to the shor Iff's office. The money was thought to have belonged to James Stevens, 71, who died three months ago in a . nearby shack. Stevens, a recluse, had told neighbors before he died , that he had saved enough money . to return to his native Russia. A " search of his house shortly after , his death turned up $327 hidden in envelopes and a tobacco can. The money was taken by the :, sheriff's office to be turned over to Stevens' estate. Poor Eyesight Leads to Arrest PORTLAND (fl) Two men walked down a street near mid night Tuesday and maybe their eyesight wasn't good because they carried a cloth-wrapped ax right past police headquarters. Police, curious, followed. They saw one man smash the glass in a door at the Washington Tavern and go inside. The other. hold a shopping bag, stood out side. The first thing he knew a patrolman snapped handcuffs on him. Then his partner was nabbed. The two, identified as Donald Weyburn, 45, and Benny Nor gaard, 42, were booked on a burg lary charge. Earlier a more successful win dow-breaking by someone not identified, yielded several thou sand dollars worth of diamond wedding ring sets from the jewel ry window of Stanley Lythgoe. Dsadly Toothache GUADALAJARA, Mexico (P) ' P o 1 1 c e reported Wednesday Raul Gonzalez, 25, shot himself because of a three-day toothache. His mother, Mercedes, said den tists had not been able to relieve the pain. Ike Will Leave Paris May 37 PARIS tU.Rl Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will turn over his command to Gen. Matthew B Ridgway May 30 and take off for Washington May 31. The Allied supreme comman der, who retires June 1 to become an active candidate for the Re publican presidential nomination, will relinquish his post to Ridg way at a special ceremony at headquarters. Ridgway, now in Washington on his way from Tokyo, is to ar rive here Tuesday. He will have Wednesday and Thursday to go over the supreme Allied command with Eisenhower and then formally take over Fri day, which is Memorial Day. Eisenhower is due in Washing ton June 1 where he will report to President Truman and become a semi-private citizen. As a five star general, however, he will re main technically on active duty. Delta Tau Delta fraternity stood guard both inside and out at North College, a residence for freshman women. A group of 300 raiders passed the building by. "Quite a few of our boys have girls in the dorm and we didn't want them bothered," a spokes man for the fraternity said. In Manhattan, Kans., Kansas State College raiders hit several sorority houses and the dormitory for freshmen women. About 20 men succeeded in entering the Pi Beta Phi sorority house through a, fire escape, hut lost their zest when they got a cool reception Some 150 men students at Ball State Teachers' College in Muncie, Ind., received a more favorable reception when they rambled through three girls' dormitories. The group grabbed stockings and underwear in their three hour tour. Faculty members insti gated Impromptu dances to keep the demonstration in check. THE INVADERS draped stock ings about their necks and hoisted underwear as banners. A woman's skirt was raised on the flag-pole at the men's Elliott Hall. A group of 800 University of Missouri men who took part in three raids in Columbia, Mo., Monday night met in Brewer Fieldhouse for a "forgive us" meeting. The penitent males drew up plans to make restitutions for their destructive raids. Fourteen students were seized by police at Philadelphia when 2,000 University of Pennsylvania students ripped down trolley wires and fought police. Police also broke up a would-be panty raid at University of Ten nessee at Knoxville. Squads of of ficers arrested every male, stu- dent or otherwise, they could lay their hands on. COEDS ALSO were locked In their rooms at the University of Georgia. At Seattle, Wash., 12 police cars rushed to the University of Wash- ington campus and broke up a raid by 800 boys on sorority houses in the university's "Greek Row." Raiders at the University of South Carolina dispersed when police arrived. At Troy, N. Y., Rensselaer Poly technic Institute students staged a pitifully unsuccessful raid on Rus sell Sage College. All they got was hoarse when coeds pulled down their shades and ignored the boys' shouted demands for "panties, panties." Atomic Expert Risks His Life To 'Kill1 Bomb LAS VEGAS, Nev. (JP) A vet eran atomic expert said Wednes day "the sweat was pouring off of me as pe disarmed an atomic device which failed to explode in a test Tuesday. Dr. Jack C. Clark, 49, is a deputy director of the Los Alamos. N.M., . laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission,' and deputy director of the series of tests being held at the Yucca Flats grounds on the desert near here. He also is the man charged with pushing the button that sets in action the complicated timing system which detohates an atomic device. For the second time in his career, he pushed the button Tues day and nothing happened. The first time was last October. Both times something went wrong with lithe electrical circuit. After the power had been shut off, Dr. Clark rode the elevator to the top of the 300-foot tower from which the blast was to have taken place. "My knees were shaking, he said, because he knew that it could be a mechanical failure and that simply by touching the key con tact in the device itself he might explode It. .but It didn t. VtfORK VJITH A SHIM- Sky Blazer Aviator' Dies as Jet Explodes MANSTON, England (U.RV A U.S. Air Force F-84 Thunderjot exploded in flight and crashed on the American fighter base field here Wednesday, the third such Thunder.iet crash in a month. The pilot was killed. The plane, one of five making up a special acrobatic team known as the Sky Blazers which had flown here from. Furstcnfeld brnck, Germany, exploded as it flew over the field control tower. "when, your I,,,. Five Big Trucks Pile Up in Fog, Two Men Killed CHICAGO (U.R) Two men were killed when five trailer trucks piled up in a series of rear-end collisions during a heavy fog Wednesday. One of the dead, Clarence Wade Louisville, Ky., was killed by one of tne trucks involved in the giant pileup when he climbed' from the cab of his truck and sought to warn away approaching vehicles with a flare. He was struck by a truck loaded with sheets of stainless steel and driven by Edward Tull, Mattoon, 111. The force of the collision when Tull's vehicle struck the. pileup ripped the steel loose and it bat tered through Tull's cab, crushing him instantly. 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