EIGHT MEDFCRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUfci
TuMday. January 21. 1958
Records Broken
In Circulation
For Library Here
The Medford Public Li
brary's record of 1012 vol
umes as the largest single
day's circulation in its history
was broken Saturday, Jan.
18, when 1105 books were
checked out to library pa
trons.
Mrs. Wilma Eubanks re
ported 640 books were bor
rowed from the adult circula
tion department, and Mrs.
Nora McKay had a tally of
465 books checked out from
the junior department.
In each department the
number of volumes of fiction
checked out exceeded the
number of non-fiction books
by about one hundred. Books
of fact totalling 178 were bor
rowed by children as com
pared with 287 story books.
Adult readers selected 276
volumes of non-fiction and 363
novels.
The most popular classes of
non-fiction appeared to be
those of science and tech
nology. Sixty books in these
subjects went to junior read
ers and 71 to adults. Travel
and biography ranked next.
Considerable interest was
shown in books on social sub
jects as well. A great deal of
activity in the fine arts de
partment of the adult divi
sion. Adult readers checked
out 16 books on religious subjects.
Increased, registration of
new borrowers in all library
agencies indicates that library
circulation figures will con
tinue to mount.
Revival Spirit About Education Seen To JBe developing in America
r.auor t note: Nearly evervon
seems to cree that strengthening
America's educational svstem is one
of the most urgent problems facing
the nation in the current technolog
ical race with Russia. But what role
should the federal government
plav?
The administration plans are out
lined in the following special dis
patch written for the United Press
by Marion B. Folsom, the cabinet
member who is the government's
authority in this field.
The executive secretary of the
National Education Association
which thinks the administration
program is inadequate, will present
another point of view Wednesday.
By MARION FCLSOM
Secretary ef Health. Educa
tion and Welfare
Written for United Press
Washington W There are
increasing signs that America
is developing a revival spirit
about education.
I can't recall a time when
there has been as much pub
lic discussion of the needs of
our schools and colleges and
what they are teaching and
how.
Almost every day I read or
hear about another city or
state or civic group which has
taken some specific forward
step or has launched a study
to plan a course of action.
At any time, education
should be everybody's busi
ness. In this age of ever-increasing
complexity and per
il, education increasingly re
quires more and more public
interest and support if free
dom is to survive.
I believe more people are
coming to realize, too, that
the federal government has
some responsibilities in edu
cation today that it did not
have, or that at any rate were
not so pressing, in less peril
ous periods of the past.
Reaction, Pro and Con
For example, some of those
who opposed the school con
struction proposals of the last
three years members of
Congress, newspapers, busi
nessmen and others have in
dicated a favorable reaction
to the administration's new
education proposals.
There are some, of course,
who say the program is not
"big enough and bold
enough." They would spend
5 or 10 or even 20 times more
in federal funds. And there
are still some who say that
the proposed billion dollars
for new or expanded educa
tion programs over the next
four years is just exactly a
billion dollars too much
they don't want the federal
government to lift a finger.
What is the basic premise
for our proposals?
We believe education is pri
marily the responsibility of
local, state, or independent
sources of support. This has
been America's sound policy
for 150 years.
At the same time, we be
lieve the federal government
should encourage these local,
state, and independent agen
cies to meet more fully some
of the educational problems
which are especially impor
tant to national security. We
don't see how, in today's cir
cumstances, the federal gov
ernment can afford to take a
know-nothing, do-nothing ap
proach to the national securi
ty aspects of education.
One problem that needs in
creased attention is this:
Probably more than 200,000
young people of high poten
tial ability stop their educa
tion each year somewhere be
low the college level.
Tragic Waste of Talent
They drop out of high
school, or don't go to college,
because of lack of incentive
or lack of money. The urgen
cy of our times requires a
greater effort to reduce this
tragic waste of critically
needed talent.
The administration's pro
posals would help meet this
problem in three ways:
First, we would provide
support for state and local
testing programs to identify
the potential, abilities of stu
dents at an early stage. Such
testing programs are now
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
New York Mrs. Virginia Huston, 35, of Bellingham,
Wash., on her arrival in New York, in a wheelchair, to re
ceive an award as polio mother of the year:
"Life (after the polio attack) isn't much different it just
takes me longer."
New York Ma. Gen. Claire L. Chennault. 67, wartime
commander of the Flying Tigers, fighting lung cancer that
threatens his life, on his aspirations:
"I'd like to go to the moon, just to satisfy myself, but I'm
afraid I was born 50 years too soon."
Minneapolis Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, on
the long-range missile program under the Democratic Tru
man administration:
"It was as dead as the proverbial dodo."
New York Actress Paulette Goddard, on bussing in pub
lic after an airport embrace with her fiance, novelist Erich
Maria Remarque:
"I never kiss in public There's no reason to."
Chicago President Eisenhower, in a departure from his
prepared text at the GOP rally Monday night, on reorgani
zation of the Defense department:'
"In this, I intend to participate personally until the job
is done."
quite spotty and inadequate.
Second, we would support
state and local action to im
prove counseling programs so
that those identified as having
great potential ability could
be encouraged to stay in
school, work hard in basic
academic subjects, and pre
pare for college. Studies show
that students who have such
counseling services generally '
ao much better scholastically
than those who don't, and
are more likely to go to col
lege. Third, as a further incen
tive to potentially able stu
dents who lack financial
means, we would like to pro
vide federal scholarships tied
closely to the testing and
counseling programs. Al
though a large number of
scholarships are now offered,
most of these are relatively
small, and do not really make
the difference between an
able students going to college
or not going to college. We
are proposing about 40,000
federal scholarships over four
years. The amount would
vary according to financial
need and would range up to
$1,000. State agencies would
select the -recipients on the
basis of ability and need, and
the students themselves
would select their own course
of study and their college or
university.
A second major goal of our
proposal is to expand and im
prove the teaching of science
and mathematics in the pub
lic schools. While we must be
most careful to avoid too
mucn empnasis on any
one
Placement Plans
Tc Be Explained
Eugene The "Advanced
Placement" program of the
University of Oregon will be
explained to the members of
the Oregon Association of
Secondary School Principals
at their annual winter confer
ence on the campus Jan. 31
and Feb. 1.
The program as designed
enables "gifted" high school
students to speed up their
education process by taking
college level work while still
in high school Dean Robert
D. Clark of the liberal arts
college will discuss the pro
gram at the conference.
C. H. Simpson, principal of
Athena high school and presi
dent of the association, will
preside at the conference.
Rex Putman, state superin
tendent of public instruction,
and W. A. Burton, professor
emeritus of education, Har
vard university, will speak at
the conference.
field of education at the ex
pense of others, it is clear
that science and math are not
now receiving the attention
needed. We would be foolish
to ignore the fact that these
subjects are plainly critical to
our national security today.
. The proposal would allo
cate $110 million the first
year to state and local school
systems to help them meet
this urgent national need.
They could use these funds to
employ additional qualified
science or math teachers, buy
needed laboratory equipment
or other materials, establish
or improve special units in
state education agencies to
foster science and math in
structions and supplement
salaries of science and math
teachers. The state and local
officials would decide how
best to use these funds In
their own school systems.
A third goal is to increase
the supply of college teachers
and professors. This is a focal
need because these teachers
train most of the leaders
statesmen, teachers, scientists,
and many others on whom
our national security may
well depend. There are al
ready serious shortages of
college teachers and yet en
rollments in higher education
are expected to double in the
next 10 years.
Our proposal would pro
vide about 1,000 fellowships
the first year, and about 1,500
a year for the next three
years, to encourage more stu
dents to go Into graduate
school and prepare for college
teaching careers.
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