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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Many Educational Authorities Beginning To Aqree That Homework Is Waste of Time By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspdonet "Washington 0? When junior complains that homework is a waste of time, he has a good many authorities on his side. But there also are ex perts you can quote when you tell him that home work teaches him independ ent study hab its, stimulates initiative and responsibility, Louis Cassels and gives him necessary prac tice in basic skills. A survey by the National Edu cation Association shows a wid er range of professional opinions on the value of homework than Quotes From the Hews By UNITED PRESS San Jose, Calif. Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates, in saying U.S. military forces must be able to win any limited war decisive ly enough to make any aggressor back away from a nuclear war: ". . . To win decisively in hot but limited war ... to make it unthinkable to any aggressor to resort to thermonuclear war. This we need no more, no less." Lawrence, N.Y Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-Tenn.) in calling for a cabinet-rank civilian agency lo coordinate government scientific and technical research: "In the long run it may be beneficial to us that the Soviet hurled its satellite into space before we did. Nothing that I know of could have so shaken us out of our doldrums." Memphis. Tenn. Mrs. Grace Lorch, the white housewife who protected a Negro girl from white mobs in Little Rock, after being told to get a lawyer and return for Senate Internal Security sub committee questioning: "When I get on the witness stand I am not going to recognize the committee as one which has any right to look into any anti segregation organization in the South." New York Assistant District Attorney Alexander Herman, in asking that Anthony Coppola be held as a material witness in the slaying of underworld kingpin Albert Anastasia: "If this man walks out of the courtroom, it very well may be the beginning of open warfare by the hoodlums in this city." Hoquiam, Wash. J. A. Greenwalt, the 24-year-old man who apparently crashed his stolen light plane into tjie ocean after send-. Ing this radio message: "Tell Marilyn I never did love her. I've been depressed and I'm going in the water now." Washington State department press officer Lincoln White, in announcing the temporary reassignment of protocol officer Victor Purse, whose wife accepted a 53,000 auto from King Saud of Saudi Arabia: "Mr. Purse's transfer from the protocol office was not related directly to the acceptance by his wife of an automobile as a gift. The department feels, however, that his failure to consult and in form his superiors ... regarding the gift was an exercise of bad judgment." CX3CW 17 QQ0QO WORLD'S FIRST 8 TRANSISTOR POCKET RADIO AT THIS LOW PRICE M PLAYS WHERE OTHERS FAIL! Costs LESS Than 5-Transisfor Radios! Instant "Warm Up" No Waiting! TiV it out to rht ball gamtf . . . 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The NEA survey revealed that homework is a matter of almost universal concern to parents who i HI-FI TONE... i -I - Phone SP 3-5348 Open Mondays 'til 9 p.m. 4 Co) 00 (2) Tuesday, October 29, 1957 have the responsibility for ing that it gets done (and who are often faced with demands for help which they should not or cannot give). But parents, like educators, are sharply di vided in their attitudes. The Complaints Some complain that excessive homework assignments disrupt family activities, create tension in the home, and prevent chil dren from getting the sleep and recreation necessary to health. Others insist on homework for their children, to keep them in the evenings, or to get an idea of what kind of progress a child is making in school. While there is apparently no single statement about home work that would command a unanimous vote, NEA research ers found that the preponder ance of expert opinion now holds that: Conventional homework as signments have "little value" for younger children, and could well be eliminated in the lower elementary and junior high grades. But it should be limited to an hour a day; in senior high school, a maximum of an hour and a half a night is recommend ed. Home assignments should be held to four nights a week, with week ends and one even ing in the middle of the week left free for family activities, social life, development of out side interests such as art and music, and other non-school pur suits. Homework should never be assinged as punishment for in dividual or group misbehavior in class. Most students will accomp lish more in 15 minutes of sup ervised study at school than in an hour of study at home. Too many homework as signments, even in senior high schools, consist of routine of routine drudgery. Long written assignments particularly encour age copying and other forms of cheating. More imagination by teachers in- thinking up stimu- 'Little Fellows' Get Praise, Criticism y Market By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) The little fellows who often make the big stock markets are the pets of the financial district when the matket is rising and the butts of criti cism when go down. Jacques Coe of the stock exchange firm that bears his Elmer Waizer name notes there is a big mass of public par ticipation in the market which buys and sells on what it reads in the papers, hears on radio or sees on television. "Is it any wonder," he asks, "that after one has analyzed the buying and selling of odd lots over a period of years, and es pecially the short selling of pdd lots, one is obliged to reach the inescapable conclusion that the mass mind (when it comes to Truman Would . Support Symington Omaha, Neb. (TP) Former President Harry S. Truman, holding that any good Democrat is better than any Republican, said he would support Senator Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), if he runs for president in 1980. Truman,, a guest of the Stra tegic Air Command, kept to domestic politics Monday and declined to answer questions dealing with foreign policy or Russian claims of superiority. , Truman said he has not yet received word from Democratic National headquarters on wheth er his campaigning services will be wanted in the 1958 congres sional elections, but said he's av ailable. He foresaw a good year for the Democrats in the 1958 elec tions and said he did not believe a third party would hurt the Democrats "or hurt anybody." As for the Democratic presi dential nomination in 1960, Tru man said he had no "favorite," adding, "of course, I'd have to be for my own senator from Mis souri if he is a candidate." Small Business Fair Indefinitely Postponed Portland The small business fair, set Nov. 5, 6 and 7 in Seattle, has been indefinitely postponed, according to Port land branch manager of the Small Business administration, John G. Barnett. The current economy move of the government coupled with the uncertainty of future pro curement activity make the fair not feasible, according to Barnett. see-ilating assignments, tailored to individual abilities and interests of students, would greatly re duce resitance to homework and lead to greater achievement. Doubtful Help Parents should provide a quiet, well-lighted place for a child to study, and should never interrupt homework with er rands. Beyond this, parental "help" with homework is of doubtful educational value un less the parents if qualified to teach a child how to help him self instead ' of doing his home work for him. Dr. Fannie R. Shaftel, assoc ate professor of education at Stanford University who visit ed schools in all parts of the country during the past year, found that "most schools have yet to do a really thoughful job" with homework. She sug gested that "much which goes under the guise of homework" is merely a "holdover from the days when to keep busy was an end in itself." Parents have observed in rec ent years a tendency in many schools to "load up" students with more routine homework than ever. Dr. Ronald P. Daly, super visor of elementary education in New York State, agreed that this is the trend. He said it is an unfortunate result of school conditions. "Because of crowded build ings, large classes and overwork ed teaching staffs, some teach ers feel that they cannot ad equately cover required subjects j in the allotted hours," he said. Dr. Rodney Tillman, execu tive secrtary of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, said reliance on "meaningless assign ments at home", is the hallmark of an "insecure teacher." "It gives the teacher a feeling of accomplishment to have stu dents bring in large quantities of written homework to be cor rected and grade," he said. "The secure and confident teacher rarely feels the need for a lot of routine homework."" People stock market technique) is in variably on the wrong side." Wrong Thing He adds that when the little fellows wander outside their sphere, "to enter an endeavor where they are out of their ele ment, they are liable to do the wrong thing at the wrong time." Mitchell of Canada is more critical of the uninformed trader who believes that "when a stock is good it automatically goes up, and when it is bad it goes down just like clockwork." Mitchel, who writes reams on the stock market in an easy flow of language spiced with tart re marks, holds that the public never "seems to get wise." "The easy marks," he says, "are the ones who approach the field with a basically wrong at titude. "Some of them even seem to think that speculative stocks are just like a bank, only better you just have to sit back and watch your money grow. "Then when they lose, they panic. Hysteria sets in, and they do the worst possible thing, namely, come right back for more. In trying to recoup their losses they take bigger and big ger risks with larger and larger sums of money when they have no chance to win." He offers this advice: "The time to buy stocks is not at the peak of the bull market when heavy public participation causes a scarcity of offerings. "Neither then, is it time to sell when the public is liquidating at the expense of heavy losses. In brief, this market is fast under going a change and is rapidly becoming more of a long term proposition than a short one." Well there it is the little fellows helped make the big market of today. Then they took a beating. And now they are being scolded. One thing seems sure, how ever. The little fellows still have a lot of money left and they are now busy getting information on new things to buy. Goblins . . . Ghosts . . . all sorts of spooks prowl on the new HALLOWEEN CARDS J, MANY COLORS AVAILABLE The 1958 Imperial models will feature 20 exterior col ors. The new model will be longer than the 1957s. A "landau top roof" section will be featured on the four-door hardtop (pictured Wednesday Marks Seventh Year of Medford SS Office Wednesday, Oct. 30 marks the seventh anniversary of the open ing of the Medford office of the Social Security administration, according to W. V. Nusbaum, district manager. The period since the Medford office was opened has seen a number of changes in the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system, which the Social Secu rity administration administers. On Jan. 1, 1951, self-employed persons were first covered by the program. Others covered for the first time included domestic workers, agricultural workers, employees of some non-profit organizations, and some employ ees of the federal, state and local Man's Error With Car Fatal To Wile Tacoma, Wash. (IP) A man driving to pick up his wife at a hospital struck and killed her with his car Monday as she walk ed toward him. Madigan Army hospital spokesman said Harlan J. Stone accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes as Mrs. Stone, 52, moved in front of the auto to enter on the other side. Mrs. Stone, who had accompanied her daughter to the hospital, died shortly aft erwards of head injuries. ' ' plus Detergent-Action fuel! QUICKER! 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More Persons Covered Beginning in 1955, an addi tional 10 million persons were covered by the program. The largest group consisted of self employed farmers. In addition, members of state and local gov ernment retirement systems, un der voluntary agreement, minis ters and members of religious orders on a voluntary basis, ad ditional farm and domestic workers, and accountants, archi tects, engineers, and funeral di rectors were included, and the amount of the payments was again increased. Further important changes made in 1956 included provi sions for payments to disabled persons at age 50, lowering of the retirement age for women to 62, coverage of the armed forces beginning in 1957, and coverage of further professional groups as of Jan. 1, 1956. As of December 31, 1956, 6,930 persons in Jackson and Josephine counties were receiv ing $354,237 in monthly bene fits, or an annual total of $4,' 250,844. 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