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0 O o Today Cb Tomorrow ly Walter aippmana Walter Uspouaa THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE The report of the Presi dent's Science Advisory Com mittee, of which Dr. Killian was the chair jnan, was pub lished about .ten days ago. It had a gen .eral blfesin from the Pres- ident who said that he -ho pe d it would be .widely read and that it would stimulate a wider understanding of the importance of excellence in our educational system. Among the crucial ideas that need a wider understand ing is the conclusion of the report that "doubling our cur rent annual investment in' ed ucation is probably a minimal rather than an extravagant goal." This does not mean, of course, that if we dpent twice as much on our schools, they could automatically become twice as good. The sponsors of the report are among the most distinguished men in American science, and they make it dear that to improve American education very im portant reforms are needed in the recruiting of teachers and in the curricula which they teach. ' What they do say is that these reforms will have to be paid for and they imp that no one is really serious about the improvement of educa tion wio does not want to think about raising more mon ey. ' - THE best discussion of the problem of money and ed ucation is to be found, in the Rockefeller Brothers ;fieport under the title of "The Pur tuit of Excellence." To see the problem clearly, sajg the report, we must realize that since 1870 "we have heaped upon our educators one of the mcft heroic assignments a so ciety could have invented." The assignment has been to educate the who mag; of the American people. Be tween 1870 and 1955 our pop ulation has been ngyltiplied by four. But the number of students in our public high schools hat multiplied ap proximately 80 times. In a period of three-quarters of century "we have taken into the school system a greater proportion of our youngsters and we have kept more of them in the system longer than any other nation." Sheer size and mass are not the only, but surely they are the main reasons, why our educational system is so far short of being excellent. POUCATION on such a scale, if it is to be good for the great mass and excel lent for the very gifted few, is bound to be expensive. As of 1955, the most recent year for which figures are avail able, the total spent in this country on education was $14 billion a year. This breaks down into- $9.4 billion for public elementary and secon dary schools, $1.2 billion for private elementary and sec ondary schools, $1.5 billion for public higher education, and $1.9 bilMon for private higher education. The President's Science Ad visory Committee and the Rockefeller Brothers Report agree that the total of $14 billion will have to be dou bled if education is to be good enoug hfor the times we live in. As the two groups which concur in this conclusion are composed of eminent, very highly qualified, and widely experienced men, we may as sume that they know what they are talking about. In deed, so far as 1 know, no one has seriously disputed their conclusion. THE real question is how to raise the money. Here we iay begin by insisting that this country can indubi tably afford to raise the mon ey. From 1930 to 1957, the expenditure on education was more or less stationary at about 3.5 per cent of the Gross National Product. It has now risen to about 4 per cent. As the Gross National Prod uct has risen since 1930, the amount spent on education has risen too. But it has not risen fast enough to keep pace with the rise in enrollments. Thus, in fact, less money is available for each pupil. There is more money. But the school population is much bigger. There is, therefore, a growing shortage in our edu cational facilities, in class rooms, and in teachers and the like, to deal with our ex panding population. ( If we adopt the concision of the President's Committee, we should be prepared to spend, by say 1967, something like $30 billion. It is gener ally estimated that by 1967 the Gross National Product will be around $600 billion. Thus, the expenditure for ed ucation would rise from about 4 per cent, as at present, to about 5 per cent of the Gross National Product. THIS percentage looks small, but the real figures are big, and the most difficult question arises as to how these extra $15 billion a year are to be raised. Most of us would prefer to have them raised locally. But we cannot be dogmatic and absolute about this preference. In the past 25 years there has been a drastic shift in the burden of school support from the local governments to the state governments. Whereas in 1930 the state governments carried only 17 per cent of the load,, by 1954 they were carrying 37 per cent. There is no use expecting or hoping that the whole new burden of costs can be borne by the states. For, as the Rockefell er Report says, "state and lo cal tax systems are in some respects archaic," chiefly be cause of their dependence up on the real property tax. There is no escape from the conclusion that if the new and necessary costs are to be met, if they are not to be ignored and neglected, we shall have to raise some considerable part of them out of Federal taxes. This is bound to hap-' pen, and the sooner we face up to the necessity, the more likely are we to be prepared to act with deliberation and with awareness of the haz ards, and with wisdom, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. m -J' ii VISIT FROM TAIWAN Two Nationalist Chinese, Charles T. C .Yih (above, center) and Henry Y. N. Wu (right) are spending three weeks here touring installations of the California Oregon Power company. They are officials of the Taiwan Power company. Henry Fisher, chief electrical engineer for Officials of Taiwan Power Company Are Visiting in Area the company (left) and other Copco officials have been their hosts on the tours. Yin is chief of the electrical engineering division in the Kaohsiung district office and Wu 'is , chief of the distribution department in the " Taipei district office. The labor department of Canada reports .that most im migrants of recent years are settling in industrialized areas rather than on farms. More than two million ton miles of air freight and car go are flown in the United States every 24 hours. Two officials of the Taiwan Power company, Charles T. C. Yin and Henry Y. N. Wa, are spending three weeks in Med ford studying operations of the California Oregon Power company. Yin is chief of the electrical engineering division of the Kaohsiung district office, and Wu is chief of the distribution department, Taipei district of fice. - .,' ," , The two have been accom panied by Henry Fisher, chief electrical engineer, and other Copco personnel on their visits to the power company's installations.. They are on a six-month tour of similar companies in the United States under sponsorship of the Internation Cooperation administration" as part of its Technical Cooperation proj ect. Yin and Wu said they were especially interested in learn ing how to prevent power in terruptions, to use modern tools and to, reduce power loss. The Taiwan company, which is the mountainous is land's only electric power source, suffers power inter ruptions from falling trees, lightning and typhoons. . The guests attended -Med-ford High school commence ment exercises Thursday night, at which Fisher's daugh ter, Karen, was graduated. Wu has a son and daughter who will graduate from school in Taiwan in July. Wednesday they visited Dr. D. Kirkland West, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, who was a former missionary in China. They expressed their enjoyment of the conversation in Chinese with Dr. West and described his use of the Chi nese language as "perfect Mandarin." ' Grateful for Visit They also said they were grateful to the American peo ple and the United States gov ernment for making their trip possible. " Following their Medford visit, the men will continue to . San Francisco, Los An geles, Phoenix,1 Albuquerque, New. York and Washington, D.C. Copco officials said they will be hosts next week to an Iranian who is visiting the United States under the spon sorship of - Morrison-Knudsen Construction company. Kentucky was formed into a colony of Virginia in 1776 and was admitted to the Un ion as a state in 1792. 0 YOU'LL T HAVEL FOf PiNNIBS in the new Fiat S00 Convertible. Up re 53 miles acr gallon! 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The award was presented to Morse in New York City by the Union's Retirement Direc tor, Jack Ossofsky. In his presentation snepph Ossofsky mentioned Morse's autnorsmp of the new railroad retirement bill recentlv sicmpri into law by the President, raising retirement benefits for railroad employees by 10 per cent. He declared that Mors was also being honored for his sponsorship in the Senate ol legislation to add health in surance to the retirement benefits of social security. Timber Products Alan To Attend Program ' Donald C. Jackson, assist ant general manager of Tim ber Products company, Med ford, has enrolled for the sec ond term in the University of Colorado executive develop ment program June 28-July 11, the university has announced. Sponsored by the school of business, the two-year pro gram is designed to encourage individual development in creative thinking and in meet ing new and changing condi tions. 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