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SIT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, July 7, 1957 Cousins, Conant Address Educators; See Atomic Threat, Future Educational Needs BT OLIVE STARCHER Mail Tribune Staif Writer Philadelphia. July 4 "Vio lence and force are taken for granted in this age the casual approach to violence is a mark of our time, a basic disorder" ac cording to Norman Cousins, ed itor of the Saturday Review and a keader in this country in the enevement to stop the testing of eaclear bombs and weapons. Se was final speaker in the .Htcial convocation of National JoYication association's centen enl convention being held in ailadelphia this week. Several Oregoniais heard Cousins and the two speakers Who preceded him. Miss Maurine Talker, former NEA president arid director of the Division of "Toucher Relations and Certifica tion, Texas Education agency, Austin, and Dr- James B. Conant, former president of Harvard uni versity and former ambassador to West Germany. The three , talked on different phases of "Moving Freedom Forward," o the convention theme. Group Discussions More than a thousand teach ers, educators and laymen from all parts of the country, includ ing several Oregonians. partici pated in the group discussion which followed. Cousins further declared it is imperative that the people of the world learn to respect non-violence, and said "We are calling upon the world to settle its prob lems without force, and we are not trained for it and do not respect it. Everyone says vio lence in the age of nuclear weap ons is unthinkable, but who is doing the thinking?" The speaker pointed out that Americans enjoy violent games, and get most excited at boxing matches when some one is being battered to the floor. Television, radio and literature of recent times are based too much on vi olence, and glorify war, he added. Even religion pays re spect to the violent approach, Cousins emphasized, saying "My recollection of Sunday school is that it was like going to a foot ball game to root for our side. We were taught about a violent deity, an all-powerful deity but one not powerful enough to bring out the good in man. Thousands of persons have been killed be cause of the 'Prince of Peace'-" Figures Giren The speaker gave figures to emphasize the vastness of the damage which is possible from the use of nuclear bombs, and of the danger to this and suc ceeding generations from release of radioactive strontium into " the air. He said, "Man is tamper ing with the sacred being of man," and added that since sci entists agree that man's germ plasm may be changed by radio active Influences, it was unthink able that the testing should con tinue. He then said the news from the disarmament meetings in London "is good," adding, "The American proposal at London appears to be a reasonable one and should serve as the immed iate basis for putting an end to the nightmare of H-bomb and A bomb experimentation. We can only pray that the proposal will be quickly accepted by the So viet Union . . . and we can pray that the nations of the world will proceed as swiftly as possible to the main business of our age, which is not solely the control of nuclear weapons but the control of war itself." AEC Said Secretive Cousinj spoke of the Atomic Energy commission, saying "The American people today are vir tually excluded from the big de cisions on atomic policy that af fect their future. They have not been given the information es sential for making informed judg-Tients- They have had to rely on sources outside the AEC for news of many aspects of the atomic energy situation. On the subject of nuclear testing, for example, it was only when other nations protested that we began to hear about the contaminating effects of radioactive fallout. No statements were made directly to the American public by the AEC that detectable amounts of radioactive strontium now exist in every quart of the nation's milk. "The AEC has not reported to the American people or the Con gress about the fact that various parts of the United States, be cause of an unhappy confluence of winds, have received hun dreds of times the national fall out average. The AEC was not the first to report publicly on the fact that various other radio active elements, in addition to radioactive strontium, are re leased by nuclear explosions and represent a potential health hazard." Facte Needed He added that the role of the laymen in moving freedom for ward cannot be important if he does not have pertinent facts, and quoted Dr. Albert Schweit zer as saying "In the act of knowing there is strength. Only the people can bring peace." Cousins closed with the state ment that "Peace is too import ant to be left up to government," and that through the right kind of education, "The next century can be the century of the noble man" Dr. Conant, asked to speak about the role of higher educa tion in moving freedom forward, said that education did not al ways accomplish this purpose and pointed to the universities of Germany during the Nazi period, and universities in the totalitar- Burk's Summer Specials Chaise Covers Reduced 75 GREEN PLASTIC CHAISE RAINCOAT Reg. $4.95 A Buy At TERRY CLOTH CHAISE COVERS 050 Modere print Reg. $4.25 SALE ,1J'V' Harlequin Pattern Reg. $5.95 SPECIAL $3.88 CANVAS RUBBER BACK CHAISE $099 COVER. Solid color. 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Unique Institution However, Dr. Conant said he believed universities in this country had advanced the cause of freedom but only because of "That unique institution, the American college, where the un dergraduate influence is at work" He pointed out that only on the North American continent has there been an evolution of institutions carrying out "the third function of the universities of the Middle Ages the basic education of those subsequently to be trained in the learned pro fessions." He said that the number of youth in America "who are en deavoring through formal educa tion to widen their intellectual and aesthetic horizons is still so large as to constitute a modern miracle." Dr. Conant spoke of intellectual freedom saying "The freedom conveyed by wide ac quaintance with music, art, lit erature, history, science and philosophy is a freedom to pass through doors whose keys are academic skills and knowledge I am sure that all of us here today who have spent our lives in school or college work agree that this enlargement of an indi vidual's horizon is one of the two principal ways by which education promotes freedom." Responsibilities Merging Dr. Conant reviewed briefly the problem of educating all those who wish to continue be yond high school, said that "there is a gradual merging of school and college responsibil ities," and that because many are incapable of utilizing "long years of academic retaining . . . we would be well advised in facing the pressing problems of increased numbers to emphasize the potentialities of the two-year college as a local institution." He said the development of "two-year terminal" colleges on a local level would move free dom forward. He closed by say ing that the important years are those "after high school is over," and "To the degree that knowl edge about the complexities of Western political and economic life acquired in college is ex plained by reading and discus sion, the lawyer, banker, scien tist and doctor will be better able to be a leader in his com munity, as vell as his profesion." HORNBROOK Party Given For Mary Kurt By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook Mrs. Mary Kurt, a native of Siskiyou county, celebrated her 76th birthday July 2. A party in her honor was giv en that afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harry Chapman, who was assisted by Mrs. Kurts' daugh ter, Mrs. W. A. Rutledge. There were 24 guests present. Mrs. Kurt was born July 2, 1881, (the day President Gar field was assassinated) on Indian creek near Ft. Jones, the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Bailey, who were among the first set tlers in Scott valley. Elton Bailey, a native of Vir ginia, came across the plains from Illinois in 1853, at the age of 19, and his bride was a native of Wales, and came around the "horn" with her parents to Cali fornia. Seven children were born to them, o? whom six are still living. Besides Mrs. Kurt, they are the Misses Kate and Maggie Bailey, of Ft. Jones, Mrs. Bruce Goodman of Yuba City, Lee, who still makes his home on Indian creek, and James, of Folsom, Calif. Mrs. Kurt was educated In the Ft. Jones school, and received her teacher tr.iining from a spe cial teacher there and began her teaching career at an early age. She later taught in the Horn brook school, and retired about ten years ago. Mrs. Kurt was a "born teach er" who loved every child in her classes, and in return was be loved by them. For many years, she has operated a branch of the Siskiyou county library in a room adjoining the little neigh borhood store she runs, and where during school terms, the high school youngsters wait for the school bus. Her store is a favorite gathering place for all the young ones, and here, along with her candy and ice cream, she dispenses wisdom, under standing, and kindness and First National Bank Deposits Decline The Medford branch of the First National Bank of Port land, as well as other statewide branches, reported a drop in de posits and loans as compared with last year in the quarterly statement of condition issued June 29. Figures released by the Med ford branch show that on June 29, 1957, deposits were $25,476, 608 and loans were $12,153,349, according to C. E. Hedberg, vice president and manager. On June 30, 1956, deposits were $29,242, 117 and loans totaled $12,975, 947. Bank officials pointed out that historically, deposit totals are at their low point each June, but the present two per cent statewide decline reflects a com bination of heavy consumer buy ing, the slowdown in Oregon's forest products industries and large corporate tax payments to the government, the bank presi dent said. Peru is the oldest of South American- nations. Don't Say "Hello" Say - - - "FILTER-FLO" comfort, too, for the "bumps and bruises" of childhood. It has been lovingly said of her that she has helped "raise" most of the kids in Hornbrook. Mrs. Kurt's first husband was Charles Johnson, a native of Sweden, who came to Scott val ley with a dredger outfit. He was a deep-sea diver by profes sion, and had traveled the world over. Their daughter, Alice, now Mrs. W. A. Rutledge, was born at Hamburg, Calif., and later at Ft. Jones a son, Carl, was born. He lives with his mother and assists her in the store. Johnson died in San Francisco in 1919, and his widow remarried sever al years later. William E. (Bill) Day, 76, died June 24 in a rest home in Oak land, Calif. Day was born in Kansas, but went to school and grew up in Hornbrook, where his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. George Day, were managers of the old Miner's hotel. He was a retired Southern Pacific conductor. Day never married. He is survived by three sis ters, Mrs. Matie Kiernan and Mrs. Alpha Dugan, of Oakland, and Mrs. Maude Tovee of Chico, Calif. Funeral services were held in Oakland, with burial on June 27, in the family plot in the Henley-Hornbrook cemetery. Khruschey May Order Purge When He Visits Prague (Editor's Kin: United Press tuff correspondent Russell Jones cover ed the uprisings In Poland and Hungary last year. He was the only American reporter in Budapest at the height of the revolt. He is cur rently on assignment to Eastern Eur ope. In the following dispatch from Vienna, major Western listening post to Iron Curtain happenings, he reports the Soviet political up heaval may he followed by the ouster of Stalinists from Communist Czechoslovakia.) Br RUSSELL JONES United Press Correspondent Vienna Iff) Nikita S. Khrushchev may order a major purge of the Czechoslovak Com munist Party and government when the Soviet Communist par ty boss visits Prague this week. Observers here believe Khru shchev,' fresh from hii victory over "dogmatists" in the Krem lin, will insist Czechoslovakia follow suit in "cleaning house." Czechoslovakia is one of the last of the major satellite na tions run by old-line Stalinists. Its rulers have shown no signs Of changing their ways since the death of Josef Stalin and the repudiation of the "cult of the individual." Same Crowd In Power The only gesture made by the Prague regime toward follow ing the "Khrushchev line" was to demote Alexei Cepicka from the post of defense minister to head the patent office and to oust Ladislav Stoll as minister of culture. But both men remain as members of the party in good standing. From President Antonin Zap otocky and Prime Minister Vil em Siroky on down through the ranks of both party and gov ernment, however, the same old crowd is still in power. These are the men, who under the late President Klement Gott wald, overthrew the democrat ic government of Eduard Benes and in 1952 hanged Rudolf Slan- sky and 10 other "nationalist Communists. Throughout their careers, they have been unswerving fol lowers of the tough line laid down by Stalin. Reshuffle Appears Difficult However, observers said any reshuffle of the Czech Commun ist party would be difficult be cause the elimination of Slansky and his "independent" Commun ist faction left the party with no alternatives to the Stalinists. The observers believe the likely result of the Khrushchev Bulganin visit will be a wave of self-criticisms for "mistakes of the past" and "failure to learn the lessons of the Soviet 20th Party congress" followed by "voluntary resignations." But, because there is so little to choose between the present Czech leaders, the observers are unwilling to speculate on who will fall and who will remain. Orangeburg, S. C. (1ft A Trailways bus swerved to avoid hitting an oncoming car and overturned near here Thurs day, injuring 20 persons. wr gainer ssrritfais Point Up Heat Wave Paris IW Weather officials, pointing up the intensity of the current heat wave, said Saturday that the temperature in Paris Friday afternoon was 96 degrees. 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