Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 28, 1957, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextJ Human Life, Immortality, Peace, Pondered By Norman Cousins for Teachers1 Meeting Friday, June 28. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Mr OLIVE STARCHER Mail Tribune Slaff Writer Washington. DC, Junp 25 "How much importance do e attach to human lifo'" Asking this question, Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, declared toniaht in the keynote address of the opening genera! session of the National Commission on Teacher Educa tion and Professional Standards, that the human rare is in dan ger of "devolution" of retro gression to lower forms of life. The distinguished humanitarian and editor said that hecause mankind has unleashed through the hydrogen and atom bombs a force which he may not be able to control, and whose ef fect on the human germ plasm is yet unknown, the "very na ture of human life is being threatened " Dialogue Used Abandoning the usual keynote address. Cousins' views were ex pressed by way of a "Socratic dialogue" with Miss Martha Shull, Portland, president of Na tional Education association, servin as the questioner. More than a thousand teachers, educa tor nd vi.ttors heard the dia logue and responded at the close ! with prolonged applause, i The two opened the dialogue ; by listing some of the major problems facing the world to day, and then Cousins declared : that all there are dwarfed by the real problem "What about human beings themselves?" Cousins, who had himself pre pared both the question and answer manuscripts which enunciated his ideas, said, "The one thing that appalls me is that almost no one seems to have time to think these days. We in America have everything we need, except the most important thing of all time to think and the habit of thought. We lack time for the one indispensable for safety of an individual or a nation. Thought is the basic energy in human history. Civili zation is put together not by ma chines, but by thought." Busy Doing Nothing "The paradox, of course, is that we are busy doing nothing. Never before has so much leisure time been available to so many, but we have a genius for clut tering. We have somehow man aged to persuade ourselves that we are too busv to think, too LOWEST-PRICED PICKUP Wit2) modern fwtt-width body! J f -K NEW FORD wfctfc StyleskJe body standard at no extra cost' Gaf us now CBATER LAKE MOTORS MAIN AND FIR STS. PHONE SP 3-4547 busv to read, too busy to look back, too busy to look ahead, too busy to understand that all our wealth and all our power are not enough to safeguard our fu ture unless there is also a real understanding of the danger that threatens .us and how to meet it." "We are so busy entertaining ourselves and increasing the size and ornamentations of our personal kingdoms that we have hardly considered that no age in history has had as many loose props under it as our own." The dialogue then branched into the idea that very few in the world today have an concep tion of the magnitude of the de structive force inherent in the atomic and hydrogen bombs, or that the testing may be releas ing into the air materials which mav be capable of "debasing, crippling or destroying life it self." Immortality There was a discussion of the meaning of immortality, and the statement that "the pathway to a realizable immortality is the idea of a true brotherhood of man. The fact of human brother hood exists. It is merely the gen eral recognition of such a brotherhood that does not exist." The moral man was defined as "One who regards the total well being of the world, or the lack of such well-being, as flowing out of his own integrity and con science, or the lack of it. He finds the world in his mirror." Deciding that man has a re sponsibility to "the age yet to be born" the dialogue continued into the idea that "the crisis of our time is a crisis in awareness and knowledge" and the ques tion of what role the teacher and education in general must play. Outlining his ideas in this field Cousins said "the most im portant thing a school can do to day whether secondary school or college or professional school is to convince its students of its own limitations. The main task of the school is to make its students aware that they will have to be on their own so far as the most essential part of their education is concerned. The con tours of knowledge, both gen eral and professional, are chang ing so fast in our time that a school can consider itself suc cessful in direct proportion to its ability to prepare its students for gaining the larger part of their education on their own, and for keeping their intellectual in ventory current." Basically, however, the big gest job of education is to pre pare the individual to anticipate the problems of later genera tions. Cousins closed by saying "You are a single cell in a body of two billion cells; the body is mankind. You glory in the in dividuality of self, but your in- dividuality does not separate you from your universal self the oneness of man. God and Man "The expansion of knowledge j makes for an expansion of faith, and the widening of the horizons ! of mind for a widening of belief. i our reason nourishes your: faith, and your faith your rea son. You are not diminished by j the growth of knowledge, but by the denial of it. You cannot af firm God if you fail to affirm : man, you deny the oneness 'of man, you deny the oneness o God. Therefore affirm both. Without a belief in human unity you are hungry and incomplete, j "You can believe in personal responsibility. When you enter ! your home you enter with the , awareness that your roof can be only half built, for half your ; brothers on this earth are home less. And your table can be only ; half set, for half the men on this earth know the emptiness of want. "When you think of peace you can know no peace until the peace is real." Hi Westinghouse Automatic 18 Increased Postal Fees Scheduled to Take Effect July 1 New fees for special services which call for increases in most categories go into effect July 1 at the Medford post office, according to Postmaster Moore Hamilton. ' Changes include fees for reg istered mail, insured mail, cer-, tified mail, money orders, re turp receipts, restricted delivery, special delivery, special han- j dling, business reply mail and notices to senders. For registered mail, old fees were 30 cents on a declared value of nothing, 40 cents on a : S5 value, and 55 cents on a $25 value. New fees are 50 cents on a declared value from nothing : to S10. 75 cents on a value from S10 to $100. Comparable changes will be made in rates for higher values. For insured mail, old fees were five cents for coverage from one cent to S5, 10 cents for coverage to S10; 15 cents for coverage to S25; 20 cents for coverage to S50, 30 cents for coverage to $100, and 35 1 cents for coverage to $200. New fees charge 10 cents for cover j age to $10, 20 cents up to $50.' 30 cents for up to $100, and 40 cents for up to S200. Money order fees used to be listed as one fee for both do-: mestic and international service. , Under the new fee schedule they are divided. Old fees were 10 cents for up to $5, 15 cents for up to $10, 25 cents for up to S50, and 35 cents for up to $100. 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