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Two Years Ago Russian Official
Said Reds Will Win in Classroom
Br LOUIS CASSELS
United Presi Correspondent
Washington (IP) Two
years ago, a high Soviet official
told an American educator who
was visiting Russia:
"We're not going to fight a
hot war with you. We're going
to lick you in the classroom."
Few Americans were prepared
Irr 1955 to take this Soviet
boast seriously. The U.S. school
system, despite its "temporary"
shortages of space and faculty,
was widely regarded then as the
best in the world. Russia was
credited with a few good techni
cal schools but Its overall educa
tional system was considered
rather primitive.
Complacency Rudely Shaken
Three recent developments
have shaken rudely such Ameri
can complacency:
1. Disclosure that Russia Is
training far more scientists and
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engineers than the United States.
Russian schools graduate 60,000
engineers a year to our 34,000;
8,000 Ph. D.'s in science to our
6,000.
2. Sputniks I and II blasted
any notion that Russia is sacrific
ing quality for quantity in
technical education.
3. A U.S. Office of Education
report showed that Russian stu
dents work much longer and
harder, and receive far more in
tensive training in science,
mathematics and languages, than
American students.
President Eisenhower had all
of these facts in mind when he
said in his Nov. 14 broadcast
that strengthening U.S. schools
is "the most critical problem"
confronting the nation in its
rade with Russia for scientific
and military supremacy.
Scientists Echo President
The President's warning since
has been echoed by leading sci
entists and educators and by
millions of parents who were
concerned about the state of our
schools long before Sputnik I
and II.
While everyone seems to
agree that America needs better
schools, a United Press survey
disclosed a wide range of views
on the kind of improvements
most urgently needed.
Some critics are calling for
drastic reforms in the content
and philosophy of American edu
cation. They say high school and
college curriculums must be
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overhauled from top to bottom
They would restore emphasis to
solid intellectual achievement
and the teaching of basic sub
jects not only math and
science, but also history, geo
graphy, foreign languages, Eng
lish grammar and literature.
Rear Adm. H. G. Rickover, a
noted atomic scientist, said
"scholastic standards" must be
raised sharply at every level of
U.S. education. He contends they
have become so lax that the
average American college gradu
ate has less read education than
a graduate of European high
schools. i
Teachers Turn Deaf Ear
Mortimer Smith, executive
secretary of the Council for
Basic Education, said U.S
schools are dominated by pro
fessional educators who turn a
deaf ear to all outside criticism
These professors he said, are so
bemused by their "life-adjust
ment" theories of education that
they have "lost sight of the real
functions of a school to pre
sent an organized body of
knowledge and teach children to
use their minds effectively.
Millions of American youths,
says Smith, are being taught to
"drive cars, weave baskets,
choose mates, and behave grace
fully at a 'party' when they
should be learning to solve
quadratic equations, conduct ex
periments in organic chemistry,
or parse a sentence."
Professional eduactors say
these criticims are intemperate
and unfair. Most acknowledge a
need for some curriculum "ad
justments" to increase emphasis
on science, mathematics, and
other basic studies. But they op
pose sweeping changes which
would upset the "balance" of
American education or deprive
students of freedom to choose
courses which meet their indivi
dual "life needs."
Greater Solidariiy
Asked By Adenauer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(IP) West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer called Satur
day for greater "solidarity" be
tween western Europe and the
United States to meet the threat
of Communist missile-age aggres
sion.
Adenauer told the first meet
ing of the "European cultural
foundation" that the "common
support of freedom' was bring
ing Europe together against
"those forces which deny the
rights of free self-determination
to individuals and peoples."
But he reminded his listeners
"with gratitude" that Europe did
not stand alone.
"If feelings of solidarity with
Europe had not been so lively
in American" he said, "free Eu
rope would also have become a
victim of eastern forces, and
would by now have been an his
torical idea.
"We should clearly recognize
that it will be our task to deep
en the profound relations . . .
existing between our conti
nents," he said.
The foundation opened its
two-day meeting under the pres
idency of Prince Bernhard of
The Netherlands. Adenauer
shared Saturday's speakers' plat
form with NATO secretary-general
Paul Henri Spaak.
Spaak stressed the progress
made by the European unity
movement in the past five years.
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Vegetarian Menu Set
For Thanksgiving Day
By DOC QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
New York Tasty tidbits
The Vegetarian Society of
New York will hold its 26th an
nual Thanksgiving day dinner
for more than 200 of the faith
ful with the following menu:
Vegetable soup, large green
salad, lentil nut roast with two
vegetables, baked potatoes, raw
apple pie with uncooked whole
wheat dough and ground al
mond butter, fresh fruits, cof
fee substitute or peppermint tea,
fruit candies.
Why do vegeterians make a
point of holding a Thanksgiving
day dinner. The answer is pro
vided by Mrs. Meta Ferreira,
secretary of the society.
"We vegetarians don't want
to go to our families and make
them feel uncomfortable our
selves, so we get together as
one big family, young and old,
and partake of nature's vegeta
ble gifts."
What is a lentil roast? Well,
says Mrs. Ferreira, you put the
lentils through a liquefier and
they come out in a consistency
similar to that of baby food and
then through some process
known to the chef they are
molded into a roast that can be
cut when cooked.
Word has oozed back east that
a peppermint-striped toothpaste
is being test-marketed in a mid
dle western area.
The report is the striping is
accomplished with tiny plastic
containers built into the neck of
the tube. They stripe the paste
with a red, mint-flavored dye as
you squeeze.
If this stuff tastes as good as
it sounds, there could be a ten
dency among small fry not only
to brush after every meal but to
make a meal out of every brush.
Paul Gilbert, the filthy capi
talist who used Communist sat
ellite radio waves to trigger the
apparatus that lighted up a big
hew elecric billboard advertis
ing liquor in Manhattan, hears
that a Societ publication has
called his action unfair.
What Gilbert did was hitch
the first Russian Sputnik to
some old - fashioned American
publicity ingenuity. He used the
short wave gadgets of the RCA
communications receiving sta
tion at Riverhead, N.Y., to pick
up the beep-beep signals of
Sputnik I and let them activate
the splash of light that was the
sign's debut.
A public relations man, Gil
bert was seeking to call atten
tion to a new brand of Scotch
whisky. Numerous newspaper
editorials later applauded his
ingenuity but now he hears that
Pravda, the organ of the Com
munist party, disapproves. He
says that if it'll make them any
happier, he'll be glad to use any
future Sputnik signals to light a
vodka sign.
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