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Slum Removal Fails to End Crime, Alcoholism Problems Washington lliPli - hipping the slums out of cities hasn't eradicated crime, delinquen cy, alcoholism, mental disease and other curses of the poor. So city planners and others are trying to find other solu tions to the "disabilities of the low income population." Among these, according to Herbert J. Cans, are "schemes for guided mobility" - pro grams to lift the lower class into the working class and thence into the middle class. Gans, a university of Penn sylvania student of urban problems, told a recent meet ing of the American Sociologi cal Association that these schemes, though well-intended, are based on ignorance of the people they are supposed to serve. This, he said, is where the j professional sociologist can help the planners. How can you persuade or help the lower class to become middle class? Programs now envisaged in the country's larger cities can do little to change society, to create more jobs for the poor or remove racial barriers, Gans said. : A part of the answer might be to reduce the skepticism of lower class parents about edu cation by making money pay ments to children permitted to go to school. Grants in lieu of wages might persuade men who dropped out of school in Adolescence to return to school in their twenties. But before any program makes sense, the professional $too Only $18.00 Per Year During Bargain Days (Where carrier ervic it maintained) sociologist must find out what makes people tick. Gans indicated. Why do some seg ments of the chronically poor Area People Win j State Fair Awards ' Salem-Illivale Farms, Cave Junction, won 12 first places for Holsicin dairy cattle at the Oregon State Fair in Sa lem this week. The firsts included junior champion bull, grand cham pion bull, reserve grand champion bull, junior cham pion female, reserve cham pion female, senior calf bull, senior yearling bull, cow four years or older, senior yearling heifer, junior get of sire, and cows with official record of 500 pounds of but terfat in 305 days, or 600 pounds in C65 days. In the State Fair hor?e shows, Paul B. Adams, Grants Pass, won a blue rib': on for his Arabian horse, and Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Murphy, Med ford, won first places for their Tennessee walking horses. They had the senior champion mare and the grand champion mare. ZOO VISITOR Portland - I'PII - The Port land Zoo had its-one millionth visitor Wedresday. She was Mrs. W. T. Gardner of Tigard who said "I would be here every day if I could make it." Sspt- 8 Thru 17 medfordtmbune I ' j5 I i ' I 1 nd hourof GOOD l resist efforts to aid them "Is it the inability to con centrate, to use words as con cepts rather than as tools in interpersonal struggles, or is it simply the absence of books, and privacy for study at home, and the fact that the youngster is from his earliest days surrounded bv many people who are men tally ill. including even his parents?" It may be, Gans suggested, that "adults and adolescents who have grown up in a lower class milieu have so hardened their defenses against deprivation that they can no longer cha.ige." "In that case," he said, "perhaps only young children can be helped effectively, and much of the effort might best be spent on rescuing them from the lower class . . ." In any event, Gans said, the social scientists have to get moving and come up with some conclusions upon which action can be based. The need is creat. Time is pressing. "The planners," Gans said, "cannot wait for further re search." 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When we find out a little about this character we discover he has a pretty com plex nature, and is full of sur prises and physical reversals. If present experiments ful fill the expectations of science, we may hear a great deal about the sea squirt some day. Sac-Like Body The sea squirt belongs to a iamily of sea animals known as "ascidians," having a sac like body as wrinkled as a prune, with two openings in the body for the intake and exhaust of sea water. The water is drawn into the body, where the food is strained out, and then the water is expelled. Actually the body is little more than a living strainer. The little guy has a heart and a circulatory system, the blood being pumped in one direction OREGON Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Reeistai and Tribunt Syndicate 19621 for a while, then the flow is reversed. He also has a well develop ed liver, stomach and a nerv ous system of sorts. He seems well equipped for a stationary life, for once attached to a piling he's stuck for life. Shaped like a prune, he has no fins, feet, feelers or claws. The eggs are liberated and hatch into little free swim ming creatures, having a tail, eyes and a little backbone. The larvae stage lasts but a few days, and the little squirt attaches itself to the under I water part of a piling or a boat bottom. He loses his ability to move; the eyes, tail and backbone disappear; he becomes a full fledged sea squirt. Now the little fellow slips back instead of progressing. Nature usually works to at tain a higher degree of per fection. Which Way, Unknown Whether the sea squirts are evolving into something much more complex or are regress ing is not now known for sure. The possibilities are present for a transition into a little higher being. This little prune like animal may be some kind of a "missing link" that Barnum thought ha had several times but didn't. But all this conjecture is of no concern to the sea squirts, they just foolishly Hion. keep right on squirting water at each other and at every thing else in sight. Perhaps that is one reason why they i have never aspired to be any-1 thing higher than little squirts. ! LUMBERMAN ELECTED Portland, Ore. -1UPI1- Port land lumberman Robert F. Dwyer Wednesday was elect ed to represent the Lumber men's Economic Survival com mittee in hearings before the U.S. Tariff Commission Oct. 2. ARRIVAL THURSDAY Nicosia, Cyprus-iUPlt-Seven-tcen U.S. Peace Corps volun teers arrived Thursday to be gin two-year terms as agricul tural, educational and geologi cal workers. S TAR By CLAY JM Your Daily According T 6 55 66 73 j. -74-76 77 TAURUS APR. 21 -- 7-19-30 41 yii-6:-72 CtMINI "fV'1''1" V 1-14 25-36 a47.5B69 To develop menage for Saturday, read wordi corresponding to numbers or your Zodiac birth sign. V Voir o ' f-a-Ci f ' In 3 0i3ng4 -t be (vi ArH li Yoj 3STali.cS Mr-ntjy 6 Da l-t ipw f r. 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T4CHnrm MWnr:.? 84 Plans rbWill !-5Semetnv) pSUweftr roAnd ?6hmc'ijiit P' !iiJcateJ ?7 0n ?7Tcfry hlia "S And hft Dcn'r Others 79 Your .V?T.e B' Tunis 30N!ew , 60Orcntn3s 90To.'k GooJ Adverse $)Ncuuj1 CANCilt t JUNE 1i Y 3 1859-4M K-'61-71-79 8y LEO M JULT ' Alt 5) -? 8-17 28 391 50 6081-8N VIRGO fk stpr. 2: Khl?tt-34-46 Ht'57-68 B6-90I The Family Council t'riitur'i time: The family Council cnoiutl of i Judge, ft pti ihiatrlst, three rlrrev men. three rdiion and a wumrn'i editor, hat-h article kumniarv nt a faintly disagreement presented tn the t'ounril The Council deals, with pmblrnifc. major and minor, encountered bv guidance counselor! and tonal workers, tdlted by bv Mrs. Alma Denny (Copyright by General t'n'.urrs Corp.) Abby V. - I don't want my mother to visit my school. Mrs. B.V. - She expects me j to look like Miss America. Abby V. - I'm 14 and a sophomore in high school. I'm c'p shadow. They look clue, in mortal dread that my moth-1 My mother always looks as cr will turn up for Open though she just finished scrub School Week and my friends blnB ""r- whlch s!ie does- and teachers wi see her. If .... .... snc noes, in never live it: down. ; Don't get me wrong. Moth r is a wonderful woman, 51 GAZEK!, R. 1ULLAN Activity Cuidu to trie Stars. 1IBKA EPT.23 OCT. 23 SCOIO OCT. 4 , 63 82-84 V- SAGITTARIUS NOV. 23 A 3 DEC 22 , 9-16-27-38.4 49-7078 I CAPItCORN DEC. 23 JAN. 10 Vt 2-13-24-35, 45-56-67 AQUARIUS no. 19 Jjiv :i0-21-32-43-r 5364-75 piicii rtu. 2oV, t MAR.3I Vr, lM5-26-37if-48-59 87-891 U.lhe. Fournler. Barb.rl John FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1362 kind and good, and nice to i talk to. But she doesn't give a hang how she looks. I see the ; other girls' mothers. They're I Tk,... ........ ,.A. .....II Polish, pancake make-up and " 1 Lvl" uu- "-" ,li,ve a mam., i ' ! Mr.. B.V - believe in , oeing myseit and people can ; mnU,rnai sympathy. To an in take me or leave me. My . sccure teenager, superficial husband likes the way I look 1 are all Nole the brigades, all and so do my friends. I'm a j witn scuf,ed oafL,rSi all with bookkeeper in an insurance ! chunUy sweaters. This means office and no one there ob-,.., belong." Hencc the mjsery jeets to my appearance. My of all but ,hc nlost strong clothes arc clean, and they miriM iwhii-h Ahhv is nml suit the weather and the oc casion. I'm not interested the whims of fashion. In maga zines, I skip the stuff about new shoulders and old hem lines. I save my eyesight for news about books, inventions, health and peace. Abby is all mixed up about what really matters. Of course I'll visit her school. If it embarrasses her, I'll be sorry and disappointed at her altitude. The Council: In her person al battle against regimenta tion, this mother seems un aware of the agonizing need for conforming that assails her adolescent daughter. Of course she needn't goose step. But there's no percent age in going to the other ex treme of proclaiming her in- Smallrnon. Herman Wlh-IZundWHonolui" D,V4 ' B 5 dividuality via unkempt hair, a sweaty complexion and shapeless garments. There are so many commendable way to be "different" that Mrs. V. would be wise and a better mother of a teenager to cap itulate a bit in the matter of externals. Even 15 additional minutes a day devoted to grooming and fre s h e n i n g would indicate a normal-not a vain - pride in the picture "ZS Even then, of course, Abby may be critical or, in Mrs. V.'a opinion, hypercritical. But ap preciating the pressures of the period of life Abby is passing through should prevent her mother from feeling "disap- poin,ed," and should evoke when, through lack of money lor parental cooperation, they 1 can't conform. Some day Abby may ba able to accept her mother's sound counsel on lasting val ues, on the joy of the intan gibles. But right now being "in good" with the crowd and falling in line are the most important drives in her life. And since, evidently, it is a wholesome crowd, Mrs. V. should promote her adjust ment to it. During Open School Week, Mrs. V. can dress carefully, meet the other mothers and teachers on the basis of their shared interest in teenagers, and then "be herself" on in tellectual terms, if she wishes, by serving on, say, a program committee. There, her fresh and original thoughts would be cheered.
