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53rd year Price 10 Cents M EDFOED 2nd SEaiON MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Education Pioneer Holds To Support Of Progressive Plan (Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rick ever. In a recent interview with United Press International, strong ly aitacicea progressive or "tne Dewey school" of education and warned that it was weakening the nation. In the following dispatch, written at the suggestion of L'PI, one of the U.S. pioneers of pro gressive education, an ardent ad vocate of the principles of the late jor.n uewey, replies), By WILLIAM HEARD KILPATHICK Emeritus Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University (Written for United Press International) Admiral Rickover states as his fundamental conception that "the main function of schools" is not to "adjust" to life, but "to impart knowl edge" to children and youth. Such an assertion belongs back in the pre-Darwinian era. Charles Darwin in 1858 gave the intelligent world a new thought outlook, specifically a new conception of behavior and of the place of thinking, namely that behavior is, and properly must be, the effort to meet a life situation, and that the function of thinking Is to help carry on life in the best possible way. William James ana jonn .Dewey ex tended this idea of behaving and thinking into education as a further effort to meet life's needs. The Admiral's outmoded conception of education still holds widely in Europe, where education is not so thoroughly tudied as in the U.S. Europe widely holds that education exactly consists in imparting knowledge to the young and this for the sake of scholar ship. France probably still ho.'-'s to this more strongly than any other country; the result as we have , recently seen is not too good. The proper. aim of educa tion is life itself, to make life as fine and as rich as we can. Knowledge is an essential to this, much thoughtfully digest ed knowledge. But life is ill served by memorizing book knowledge. Our better ele mentary schools and our too few better secondary schools teach more knowledge and teach it better than did the older type schools. These bet ter schools aim at life, at all round character, not simply at book knowledge; and they de velop a richer and better char acter for meeting life's needs than did their predecessors. Sources Quoted inree specific sources are here quoted in support of the assertions just made 1. Dr. Ralph Tyler, Ameri ca's foremost student of edu cational evaluation, says ex plicitly, on the basis of defi nite tests that sixth grade pu pils today equal the eighth grade pupils in the 20's. 2. Dr. George D. Strayer who has surveyed more school systems than anyone else the U.S., says: "On the fun damentals children today are doing much better than their fathers and mothers or grand parents did. They are ' read ing more and they read bet ter; they spell better and they are a competent in the fun damentals of arithmetic as any other generation, and they write' better and more inter estingly than their parents did." More Academic Honors 3. The Eight -Year Study, which was supported by inter ested corporations to the ex tent of $600,000, gives the fol lowing report for the gradu ates of the six most modern type high schools in its study after they had graduated four years later from college. The comparison is with a like number of college graduates equal in all respects except that the latter had attended typical' non-progressive ondary schools: "Consistently high academic averages and more academic honors . , . clear-cut superior ity in the intellectual intangi bles of curiosity and drive . the intelligence and ability to think logically and objective ly, and active and vital inter est in the world about them, . . . 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The hearings are scheduled to be moved back to San Fran cisco after a week of testi mony here. F. Wascoe, manager of Southern Pacific's bureau of transportation research, testi fied Tuesday under cross ex amination about a cost study SP presented in San Francisco to show it could operate at a profit under the lower rates Study Questioned Edwin R. Berol of Califor nia Forest Products Associa tioniand the Southwest Pine Association, questioned Was coe to attempt to show SP s cost study did not allow enough margin for deprecia tion for railway, warehouses and other facilities. Groups op posing the rate reduction con tend the railroad cannot make money under the proposed lower rates and that freight lines in California, Arizona and New Mexico will be in jured as well as tug and steam ship operators in Oregon and northern California. More than 30 Oregon lum bermen are expected to ap pear before Interstate Com merce Commission Examiner Walter Baumgartner of San Francisco at the Portland hearings. Mentally Healthy People Said Having 'Mental Accidents' Facility Combats Power Failures Buffalo, N. Y. -(UPD- Power failures caused by storms are being combated by a new facility of the Niagara-Mo hawk Power Corp. called the 'disaster room." The special unit, now in full operation, is prepared to marshal the company's emer gency crews to cope with troublesome situations the moment they are reported. The disaster room contains huge wall map on which tiny red stickers , show the exact location where trouble has been reported. Variations hi the marking of the stickers also indicate the nature of the trouble, whether an emer gency crew has been dis patched and whether the trouble is being corrected. The room is used daily in handling normal trouble re ports. It becomes the disaster room when a storm acquires such duration and intensity that the company must sum mon emergency crews xo cope with it. Trouble calls from cus tomers are distributed auto matically to 13 girls assigned phones m the customer service room, r rom nere, xne reports are sent to the trouble office. After 6 pjn. calls go directly to the trouble room IV m A Delos Smith By DELOS SMITH TJPI Science Editor New York-(DPD-Contrary to appearances, the world is not becoming "progressively more insane," ac cording to a newly thought out scientific viewpoint on mental health and mental 1 illness. I What is happening is that more and more mental ly healthy people are having "mental accidents" in the same way that more and more physically healthy people are having physical accidents which break legs or crack skulls. "The strain and stress of modern living" are doing to healthy minds what they are doing to healthy bodies-it is "riot unlike the fact that more cars, better roads, and more. horsepower produce more car accidents." Korner Theory The theory is that of Dr. I. N. Korner, associate pro fessor of psychiatry at the University of Utah. The nub of the theory ir that mental health and mental illness are not at opposite ends of a straight line, no matter how logical it seems and no matter how many authorities believe it has to be so. Rather there are two straight lines, Korner theor ized. At opposite ends of one are mental health and "men tal injury." At opposite ends of the other are "susceptibil ity to mental illness" and "mental illness." "Mental in jury can nappen to anyone, just like physical injury. But when it happens to a person 'who truly is mentally healthy "he will spontaneous ly provide his own recovery," Korner argued. This man "re sembles an individual phy sically" who has suffered In jury in the form of a broken bone or an invasion of a bacteriological agent. The organism's reaction will be a vigorous and healthy one, the bond will mend, the invader will be attacked by agents mobilized within the body." But "the mentally ill per son may be perceived as an individual whose bones, once broken, show no inclination to knit, whose organism does not mobilize to combat and eject bacteriological invaders. The potentially mentally ill person-that is, the infirm man who may be normaj according STUDY OLD FOLKS London-(DPD-Moscow radio claimed today that more than 500 men and women over 100 years of age live in the Sta- lino Oblast district of the So viet Union? 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Losey, 21, of Peoria, wants his insurance company to pay damages on a taxicab he stole and wrecked. He has filed suit in circuit court demanding that the company pay under the "family" policy he carried on his private car. Police reported at the time of the incident last year that Losey walked from a tavern, climbed behind the wheel of the unmanned cab and drove off. He was pursued by police and the cab crashed in near by Pekin. Damages totalled about $700. Losey told police at the time he was . celebrating the birth of a daughter. Cab com pany officials refused to press charges when Losey agreed to pay the damages. ' Eagle Squadron To Get New Jet Plane Elgin Air Force Base.-Fla. -(UPD-The fabled Eagle Squad ron of World War U, now the 335th Fighter Squadron of the Tactical Air Command, will be the first combat unit to be equipped with the new super sonic Republic F-105 jet. The fighter - bomber, des cribed by TAC's Gen. O. P. Weyland as "the most power ful one-man airplane" in the world, packs 13,000 pounds of airborne destruction. Included in its potential ar senal are nuclear weapons, guided and unguided missiles, 4,000 pounds of conventional bombs, some 180 rockets and 6,000-rounds-a-minute auto matic cannon whose 20-millimeter shells hit the target with the impact of a car hitting a stone wall at 450 miles an hour. to all social criteria, who lives within the limits of his stress tolerances-is always - suscep tible though he never . may become actually mentally ill." The Korner theory, which was presented to the National Association for Mental Health was devised by its author to "reduce the number of con fusions and unclarities" among phychiatrists and other professionals in the field as to just what are the differ ences between mental health and mental illness. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist A strong case can be made for the swallow as man's best friend. Certainly there are few other creatures that do more to keep down the insect popu lation than this small, fork tailed bird who spends most of his waking hours in the air hunting them. Except for the white-bellied tree swallow, most of these swift flying birds with the twisting, darting flight are very nearly 100 per cent car nivorous. Occasionally they eat a berry or seed, but in the latter case, more often than not, the seed is taken when they scoop an insect off a plant. As for the tree swallow, though he does gorge himself occasionally on seeds and ber ries, such as the aromatic bay berry, he still turns in a very respectable toll of insects. The kind swallows take is just about anything that flies. Size has little to do with it. Any thing is fair game from a but terfly down to a gnat or aphid, some of which are too small for us to see unaided. The capacity of a swallow is considerable. No less than 80 chinch bugs were found in the stomach of one killed for in vestigative purpose s, . and since the chinch bug is highly destructive to crops, even one swallow does a lot to help a farmer. ( He has a long life span in which to do it. In Great Brit ain, where 'swallows have been banded for years, one was killed by a cat iu Glas gow in 1920 that had been tag ged as a nestling in 1911. Preparing for Migration For the next few weeks, you are likely to see scores of these birds sitting on tele phone wires in the country side. The chances are they will be the young swallows preparing for their first mi gration to Central and South America. They congregate in to bands and then take off. If, after a few days you see some more, they will be new ar rivals from the north. Their migration is leisurely. They tra el only by day, and if they can't outrun a storm they stop over until it is gone. Though they may fly '400 miles during a hunting day in the nesting season, according to estimates, they travel only 100 to 200 miles a day in mi gration, using a good part of the time to hunt insects on the way. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana; my panel of judges will Award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new sub missions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Fran cisco, Calif. LOW STRIKE RATE Washington-flJFD-The Labor department reports that idle ness as a result of strikes amounted to 1,700,000 man days in July, the lowest of any July since 1944. 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