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.
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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.
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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.
Police said a truck driven by
Edward Brown, East St. Louis,
111., was proceeding slowly along
tne JUncom Highway near State
Street in the suburb of East Chi
cago eHights.
The second truck, driven by
Richard Bowers, 27, Orville, Ohio,
rammed into Brown's vehicle
Wade's semi-trailer struck the
pileup of Brown and Bower's
vehicles.
The fourth truck was driven by
Tull. It hit Wade then veered into
the smashup.
The last truck in the pileup was
driven by James Cropp, 64, Louisville.
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