THE CAPITAL JOURNAL &!a, Orezes
Tuesday, April 14,-1953
Capital AJournal
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COLLEGE OVER-SPECIALIZATION
Industrialists, corporation executives and businessmen
have recently been comnlainintr against the stress placed
by universities and colleges against the excessive "special
ization" oi modern education. The need is stressed of
more men who have the range of interests and mental
. disciplines that education in the liberal arts or humanities
upply.
i Business executives are freely quoted as saying that
they can create their own "specialists" after they hire
them and what they need and cannot create are men with
a good general education, which has taught them to tninx
which of course, is the main objective of education, and
adly neglected.
A company president recently said at a management
gathering: "The specialization is shocking. We are all
obsessed with expertism." Others in business clinics
make the same point. Over-specialization, they complain,
Is robbing business of potential top-management material.
These statements have led the magazine Fortune to
make a survey and documentation of 50 colleges and uni
versities. The results are printed in its April issue.
They show that students are taking and colleges giving,
less fundamental education than ever before and business
is rightfully alarmed. But it finds that business itself
is largely to blame. Fortune says:
"Business posts its demands on higher education through
its personnel recruiters. This month recruiters from some
600 companies are on the nation's college and university
campuses competing lor the class of 1953's top talents. The
specifications that the recruiter is bringing to this task show
that the going market for men with a broad general education,
particularly the liberal-arts majors, is not nearly so reassuring
as are tne words oi top mangement. zaie is a case in poini.
In 1950, of the 68 manufacturing companies that reserved in
, terviewing space, only 18 mentioned possibilities for liberal-arts
graduates, in lHSl, only is oi Hi companies gave mem a
mention. In 1852, only 16 of 117 manufacturing companies
even alluded to B.A. graduates in their presentations. It was
much the same story in other colleges."
The recruiters' home offices also persistently pass up
the liberal arts student and put a premium on specializa
tion. Small wonder the student specializes when the
campus realizes that "impractical" education does not
pay off, and that business considers "a student who is
trained to think in words, who can write, who has interest
in and some understanding of our complicated world" is
about useless to industry.
Fortune finds in its long range answers to the problem
the following: . . r
SEE YOU LATER, BOYS
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Never Give Up Your Dreams,
Singer Peggy Lee Advises
By HAL BOYLE
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
White House Repudiation of
Secy, of State New Angle
BY DREW PEARSON
' "FoA one thing, business should reduce its demands on the
colleges for specialists, even if this involves paying for greater
on-the-job training opportunities. Second, corporations ought
to give more generous financial support to the private liberal
arts college, now the principal buttress against overspeciallza
tion. Third, top businessmen sitting on college and univer
sity boards will have to give at least moral impetus to general
education program! in undergraduate schools.",
OREGON STILL GAINING
Oregon's population has gained 6.3 per cent between
April 1, 1950, when the census was taken, and July 1,
1952, according to the Oregon State Board of Health,
based on births and public school enrollments, which
must be a reasonably accurate method of computation.
The three biggest gainers among the counties are Curry
with a 15.6 increase, Coos with 15.4 and Douglas with
14.7, according to the board's study. These are wood in
dustry counties. Closely following them is Umatilla, home
or the McNary dam, with 13.9, and Tillamook with 13.7.
Here in the Willamette valley Lane leads with 10.6,
presumably due mainly to continued expansion of her wood
industries. Marion is credited with only 8.9, less than
the state average. Linn is credited with a 7.5 gain, Yam
hill with 8.2, and Polk is charged with a loss of 4.7, which
eems surprising. Portland is credited with a gain of 8.6
and Multnomah county outside Portland has a 7.3 in
crease. Eleven of the 86 counties are listed with losses, Baker
1.4, Clatsop 0.5, Columbia 6.1, Deschutes 7.3, Harney 2.8,
Hood River 7.9, Klamath 0.4, Malheur 1.8, Polk 4.7, Sher
man 11, biggest of all; and Wallowa 6. It will be noted
that eight of the 11 are in the second congressional dis
trict east of the mountains.
Population shifts seemingly will continue, with farming
areas declining slightly, the lareer cities and their en-
virons gaining, and any points where new industries may
be established gaining. Oregon as a whole seems destined
for a continued steady growth.
O'MALLEY'S CHARGES
Former Prison Warden O'Malley charged at Eugene
Saturday that "certain officials" have benefited from
prison labor.
This sounds like an allegation of criminal acts against
some of his former colleagues at the penitentiary. He
refused to "name names" saying that he didn't want to
stay around here to testify before a grand jury."
If O'Malley really doesn't want to testify he should
have held his peace, because if he has such information
as he claims to have the grand jury is right where he
should go with his story. Charges of criminal acts can
not properly be ignored, especially when voiced by one in
such a good position to know.
O'Malley's reluctance should not deter those charged
with the enforcement of the law from going further into
this matter. A grand jury sounds like the proper place
to air it.
Washington It has some
times happened that the State
Department has had to squirm
out of statements made by the
President of the United States,
but not for years until last
week has the White House
had to deny a statement in
spired by a Secretary of State.
In 1922, Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes had to
deny a press conference state
ment of President Harding's
that the 4-power pact banning
the fortifications of Pacific Is
lands applied to the mainland
of Japan. And several times
Dean Acheson had . to make
adroit denials of Harry Tru
man's off-the-cuff remarks.
. But last week the situation
was reversed when the White
House issued a blunt denial of
news stories which everyone in
Washington, including the Rus
sian embassy, knew came di
rectly from John Foster Dulles
himself.
Dulles had held a press con
ference for about twenty news
men at which he delineated
Important new U. S. policy as
follows:
1. That the United States
would accept peace in Korea
at a line drawn along the nar
row waist about 80 miles north
ot the present battle front;
Z. That the United States
would probably confine Chi
ang Kai-shek to Formosa and
put it under a U. N. trustee
ship.
Stories based upon the
Dulles press conference were
Immediately published by the
New York Times and other
papers, attributed not directly
to him but "to high official
sources."
Experienced observers knew
who this was and those who
didn't know found out very
quickly.
A few hours after publica
tion, the White House issued
its flat denial indirectly re
buking the Secretary of State.
Kindergarten Diplomacy
There were two big reasons
for this extraordinary action:
a. The conservative wing of
A SENATOR'S AMBITION
Albany Democrat-Herald
Political observers see Sen
ator McCarthy grooming him'
self for a presidential nomin
ation one of these days as he
sets himself up in judgment of
the Elsenhower administra
tion. McCarthy's continued
smear tactics are beginning to
create tome concern, and
there is hope, and some confi
dence, that the Elsenhower
wing ot the party will be able
to pin back the brash Wiscon
sin senator's ears.
The senator's recent adven
ture in foreign affairs, in
which he made, on behalf of a
ubcommlttee f the senate, an
agreement with Greek ship
owners to cease carrying goods
to the enemies of the United
Nations in the Far East, by
passing the state department,
is regarded as another step
in the senator a effort to build
himself up at the expense ot
the administration.
McCarthy obviously has no
desire to play on the Elsen-
hower team. The president is
expected to be able to strug
gle along without him. Mean
while, there has been consid
erable wonder at to how u
happens that the report of a
senate subcommittee invest!
gating McCarthy's fitness to
be a member of the senate hat
never been made public.
the Republican party will blow
its top at any abandonment of
Chiang Kai-shek.
- b. Dulles' press conference
gave Moscow a beautiful ad
vance tip as to how far we
would go in any Korean peace
talks.
As one friendly diplomat
put it:
When you're playing poker
for the peace of the world you
don t tell the man opposite you
what cards are in your hand.
Mr. Dulles must be living in
a naive world indeed. He must
think he's playing with match-
sticks in the kitty. Doesn't he
know that by midnight the
Kremlin will have these news
stories thoroughly dissected
and will know just what's be
hind them?
Beginning tomorrow," con
tinued the ambassador, "the
Russians will raise the ante
both in Asia and in Europe
thanks to your new brand of
kindergarten diplomacy."
"Senator from Formosa"
President Eisenhower didn't
have to wait long before he
heard from the right-wing of
nis own party, sometimes call
ed the "Formosa wing." Sena-
tor Knowland of California,
wno has made so many speech
es on the question of Formosa
that he has been nicknamed
"The Senator from Formosa,"
came hurrying down to the
White House, went away feel
ing nappier.
"I telephoned John Foster
Dulles," Knowland said on
Capitol Hill, "and he assured
me no such statement had come
from him."
Some of the newsmen who
heard Knowland's statement
were present when Dulles made
the statement to which Know-
land referred, namely that For
mosa would become a republic
or a u. N. trusteeship.
What Dulles may not have
realized was that certain sen
ators used Formosa as a cardi
nal campaign slogan against
Truman and Acheson. Also cer
tain top republicans, such as
Vice President Nixon and
Salem 5 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
April 14, 1948
Political activity by class!
tied state civil service env
ployes has been banned by the
state civil service commission
State highway commission
has approved installation of
traffic signal lights at three
more Intersections on North
Capitol and Fairgrounds road.
Completion of the project will
place signal lights at five in
tersections on the main high
way artery into Salem from
the north.
Scientific study of restau
rants and eating places in Sa
lem and Marion county got un
der way this week with the
arrival of a mobile laboratory
from the Oregon department of
health. Samples of material
scraped from dishes and ce
lery are brought to the truck
each day from various restau
rants.
State board of control today
appointed Roy D. Remington,
Salem, to fill the vacancy cre
ated in the purchasing depart
ment by the death of Samuel
B. Gillette.
Salem organizations to the
number of 28 have expressed
approval for the school board's
program of a $1,500,000 bond
Issue.
Organization of a South
Commercial street community
club is expected to develop
out of a meeting called for
Thursday evening. An initial
objective of the club will be
improvement ol trauic condl-
tions on Commercial street.
several Willamette valley
hop men are telling out be
cause of high production costs
and the fear that the proposed
reciprocal trade agreement
with Czechoslovakia will flood
United States markets with
imported heps.
Bridges of New Hampshire,
have received very consider
able support from the China
lobby in the past, while Sena
tor McCarthy has been another
great friend of the China lobby.
On the non-political side,
however, it has now become
clear that the idea of using
Chiang as a menace to the Chi
nese mainland is a flop. The
Chinese communists know what
his strength is and aren't wor
ried about it. The unfreezing
of Chiang's forces, according to
U. S. intelligence, hasn't di
verted a single Chinese soldier
from Korea.
CHIANG WORRIES
Furthermore, Chiang has be
come so worried that he will
be attacked from the mainland
rather than attacking the main
land himself that he has asked
the state department not to dis
cuss these matters publicly.
That was why a speech writ
ten by General Omar Bradley
had to be rewritten last month.
Bradley had referred to the
idea of using Chiang's troops
in Formosa, but the state de
partment asked him to take it
out because of Chiang's nerv
ousness at being attacked.
Another factor behind the
Dulles press conference in the
British push regarding trade
with China. Not only are they
anxious to trade, but they be
lieve that now is the time to
drive a wedge between China
and the Kremlin, that it's the
Chinese who want peace in Ko
rea more than Moscow, and
that it was Mao Tse-tung who
forced this issue on the new
Kremlin shortly after Stalin's
death.
Word from General Mark
Clark in Tokyo supports this
view. He believes that Mao
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New York W) Anybody to
day who manages even to pay
his rent regularly has some
kind of a formula to explain
his success.
I like Peggy Lee's formula:
"Never let go of a dream.
Sometlmei you don't know
yourself when you start win
ning, Right when you tninn
vou're still losing, a jewel Is
falling into your lap."
Peggy, now one of the na
tion's top vocalists, bad to hug
her dream through some long
rugged seasons , before she
worked up to her present $230,'
000-a-year income.
But she never lost laltn in
herself or her dream.
"No matter how rough things
were they never bothered me.
she says now. "It just seemed
to me as if I were waiting for
the right thing to happen."
Peggy, now a svelte silver-
blonde, was a plump little
schoolgirl in Jamestown, N.D.,
when she first began daydream
ing of becoming a famous sing
er.
Her name was Norma Eg-
strora, and one of her jobs was
to write way bills in the local
railroad station.
'The names on the freight
cars stood for the outside world
to me," she said. "I knew where
they came from, and where they
were going to, and I made up
my mind at an early age I was
going to go to all those places,
too."
She never had taken a pro
fessional singing lesson. But
along with her dream, she had
a giant faith in herself and a
stubborn Norwegian Swedish
belief that work will get you
what you want.
Peggy did all kinds of work
from baby sitting to .hash
slinging and cooking for har
vest hands. Once she doubled as
a waitress in a hotel where she
also sang as an entertainer.
Tve had a good basic educa
tion in living," she said.
"There isn't any type of per
son I can't understand, and that
is a big help in singing."
Peggy pawned her high
school graduation watch to
make her first trip to Holly
wood, For a time she got by on
25 cents a day lor food. She
had to borrow a dress from a
beauty shop operator for her
first night club engagement.
"But I was too young, too
shy to speak up for myself
then," she said. Rebuffed in
Hollywood she came back to
North Dakota broke but with
her dream still undented.
She did some more hash-
slinging, perfected her singing
style in radio work, finally
started her real climb to fame
as the songbird with Benny
Goodman s band.
Today Peggy is a Juke box
queen, has a movie contract,
and is one of the highest paid
singers on the supper club cir
cuit. She has written some 23
song lyrics, including a number
of hits.
She likes to relax by writing
poetry usually at dawn, after
finishing a night club singing
job and is also working on a
movie script.
"It may be turned down,"
she said matter-of-factly, "but
that won't hurt me. I think that
if ypu believe in something,
and don't limit yourself, you
can do it.
"Eventually I want to be
come a writer. I've met so many
wonderful p e o p 1 e in my life,
I'd like to put them down in a
inv to keep weir inennuj
alive. ,.
"You know, people don t re
alize they can say something
to you when you are 10 years
old. and maybe 15 years later
it will pop up in your mind and
pull you out of a tight spot.
"I was very young when
someone told me, 'You never
know when you start winning,
and that one remark has guid
ed my life ever 3inee."
Peggy lugged her own suit
case on her first trip to Holly
wood. The last time she went
out to make a film she had two
wardrobe trunks and 32 pieces
of hand baggage.
Says Mickey Rooney.
Sold Him Leaky House
Los Angeles W) A televi
sion producer says Mickey
Rooney sold him a $28,000
home so leaky he had to move
out during heavy rains.
Producer Richard Lewis and
his wife, Mildred, seek $14,000
damages in a suit filed Monday
against the actor and his for
mer wife, Martha Vickers.
VIVIEN RECOVERING
London, 0J.F9 Vivien Leigh
has recovered sufficiently from
her nervous breakdown on a
Hollywood set several weeks
ago to plan an appearance on
the London stage, it was an
nounced today.
OPEN FORUM
Objects to Arrest for
Innocent Mistake
To the Editor:
I am a rural letter carrier
at Scio. I come to Salem occa.
slonally but I do not know
the town well.
My wife and I came here Fri. '
day night. After playing bride
at a bridge club we went to
the bus depot about midnight
for coffee , and sandwiches.
Leaving I inadvertently got
onto one of your one-wav .
streets pointed in the wrong
direction.
Before I learned my predi.
cament and got off I was
stopped by two Salem police
officers, who inspected my
driver's license - and insisted
that I accompany them to th
police station where I was told
my bail would be five dollars.
I was a bit hot by then. And if
I didn't pay it? We'll keep you
in jau uii monaay morning. I
put up the ball, which I for.
felted.
The officers weren't discour.
teour, but it seems to me they
were a little over-zealous to
arrest me when they knew I
didn't live here and wouldn't
be likely to know these one
way streets, especially after
midnight.
Is this really the way Salem
wants people from the sur.
rounding communities who'
come here to spend their money
treated?
MAX MOORE,
Scio.
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