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P AGE 6 A FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MrLLER Circulation Mgr. Ph. TU 4-4752 Aoali WVfosKT By FLORENCE JENKINS October passed without our men tioning it was the 200th anniver sary of the birth oi Noah Web ster. It is said lhat it look him 20 vears of unbroken labor to com pile his first American Dictionary cf the English Lancuage. .The Dreface to his first book Wad: "It satisfies my mind that I have done all that my health, my talents and my pecuniary means would enable me to accomplish I ''present it to my fellow citizens not with frigid indifference, but with my ardent wishes for their Improvement and their happiness and for the continued increase of the wealth, the learning, the moral and religious elevation of charac ter and the glory of my coun try." ; His work was favorably received even in England and he died on May 2R, 1843, in his 85th year, honored at home and abroad. Shortly after his death. George and Charles Mcrriam contracted wilh his heirs for the rights to fevisc and continue publication of the big book. Over a long period of years, royalty payments were made to the heirs and a suhstan tial monetary settlement was con ummated. .' It was Noah Webster's son-in-law. Professor Chauncey A. Good- yich of Yale, who served as edi tor in chief of the first Mcrriam Webster dictionary in 1848. In contrast with the one-man tditorship of the first American dictionary, the Merriam full time editorial sUll numbers 77. The continuous research program, has brought the unabridged dictionary from Its original 70.000 words to more than 600.000 entries today. .. The school student of today who laments the rigid rules of spelling words with more letters than the tongue sounds, may lake heart from the fact lhat Webster tried io simplify the spelling of the Knglish language. His efforts lo achieve a new mode of spelling might have gained acceptance cx c'enl for the fact that Improved V" jfommunicationk, such as the tlramboat and the telegraph, Jrought the English and American ulturcs closer together. The re ult was that, except for idiomat ic peculiarities, the English lan guage has been similarly treated fcy both nations. I And it Is still true that the dic tionary provides a last resort for lettling arguments, i Currii-uliiui J Editor's Note: This is the second Qf editorials written by high school Itudents during American Educa tion Week. J Ry CLINO ROPER With the launching of the first gputnik, many high schools have planned major changes in their curriculum. The growing need for in increased knowledge in science $nd mathematics has caused about 30 per cent of all U.S. schools to Jnprove student schedules. V llowevcr. changes are not being (jmited entirely to mathematics and oicnce. America's need for lin- guists in all types of fields has rought about the installation of "language laboratories" to teach Biore students foreign languages. Courses in elementary astronomy have also been suggested. I Many people do not realize that both Communism and problems in Economic lilo are Illiteracies that limst he wiped out in the near lu IJire if our nation is to continue. Blgh on the list of changes is a jjlan to reveal to students the true nature of Communism its fats Dies, theories, practices, etc. An ther snreadina idea is lhat of frachinc the fundamentals of ceo joiuics as a required course in all Ijigh schools. '. How do KUIIS students feel about flir'se changes being placed upon their education? Many take it in stride and realize that they, by forking harder, will be more able (ti cope with Hie problems (hey will tncounter when they are adults, pthers leel that it is just an add d burden designed by the teach frs lo create more homework. A minority will even try to shy away from Ihe additional subjects be cause they are. frankly, lazy. Strange as it seems, many nl tiie parents believe that their chil dren arc. being overworked. In a very few cases, it might possibly $e true. A nationwide poll showed Uiat one out of every three par ents stated lhat the present edu cational facilities are satisfactory. 0nly slightly more than half be Heved that at least a "little more Emphasis'' should be placed on ed ucation, and that loo lillle work 4s being given students. At KUIIS, discussion at sonic of tho Parents nd Patrons Association meetings shows lhat most Klamalll Falls jarents lean toward this belief. , lh the same nationwide poll, al ts' . Er.'rred as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress, March 8. 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Orrvlnf Soothers Oregon And Northern California most half of Ihe parents wanted job-training subjects stressed more than the broad fields such as sci ence and mathematics. Thus, many parents are depriving the present high school generation of the academic courses they need in order to meet the requirements of the space age future. Job-training is especially emphasized at KU. Nowhere in the state of Oregon can be found a better program for technical skills. Therefore, KU needs more academic students to balance out the scheduling. Since the parents pay for their children's education, it is only right that they have the final say in what courses they take. What a student will ever be in the future depends upon what he studies now. IS ext. Yoar By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Married people rarely argue about which year they were together they were the happiest. But they will fighl like tigers about which year of matrimony was the worst. This is a favorite subject of hat tie-scarred survivors of matri mony. Each member of the fam ily corporation remembers a a vorite year in which he or she feels that the other partner let him or her down. Each remembers a Gettysburg of marriage, the hinge of supreme clforl, the committal, the poised indecision, and Gen. Longstreet, Ihe friend of the family, arriving late. The main guns of marriage are fired early. The artillery bom bardment is at the first Then the slow and steady infantry of love and responsibility and duty moves in and seizes and holds the ground, high and low. I can well recall when my wife Frances and I were discussing the difficulties of marriage with a bunch of young fellow veterans, and we all had pretty well agreed that Ihe seventh or eighth month was the most terrible period of mutual adjustment. Then up reared the head of an "elderly" lady of about 30. ' "You kids don't know what you are talking about. My husband and I have been married five years. And I'll tell you what's the worst. It's the sixth year!" she said. Well, naturally this was a shock er to us comparative newlyweds. Rut this was an honest girl, and all she meant to say was that the next year of a marriage can al ways hold a more golden worst than any you have ever known before. It is so true. I was thinking of this only Ihe other night on my own 21st. wed ding anniversary, I was going to celebrate it wilh a quiet gamble. I was going to bet my wife she couldn't cook a dinner on time after 21 years, and I knew I would wiA. It didn't work out that way. I was bedfast with a had back. Off to the theater galloped Frances with that globe-trotting author. Don Whitehead and his wife Marie, fresh from a trip mound the world. Eartha, our part-time maid with the whole-time heart, put a pillow hcliind my back. I listened to 5- year-old daughter Tracy brag that one and one are two, two and two are four, four and four are eight, eight and eight are 16," and so on. Somebody was riding hard for Eagle Pass on Ihe television screen. And Tracy mumbled that H4 and 64 make 128 and fell asleen. Then Earl ha went home and the room was loud wilh silence. I lis tened to arthritis, and knew I would hear it nsain. by myself. I felt Ihe penally all things feel who feel alone. Well, then, in bounced my wife and the Whiteheads, still rich with tho magic that only the theater confers, and they cooked ham burgers and we ate them into the morning and talked ol old times and new times. Alter so long a time I suddenly realized what the girl who had been married five years really OPEN SEASON "I don't knowit sounds meant when she said the sixth year was the worst. The worst year of any marriage is the one you haven't yet shared. Ilarolil SlasMMi By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analvst WASHINGTON APl When some men stumble on the stairs lo lame, fortune or influence, they bow out quietly, convinced they've had it. Npt Harold Stassen. He just changes to a new pair of climb ing shoes. He did it again Wednesday when with his influence in the Repub lican party apparently at an all time low he came out of politi cal oblivion to talk with President Eisenhower at the White House. This gave him a chance to use the White House as a sounding board. After leaving Eisenhower, he told newsmen his views on Re publican presidential candidates in 1!K0. What's he looking for: the pres idential nomination himself? Prob ably not. He looks washed up in that department. He made three tries for the Republican nomina tion between 1044 and 1952. Each time he was pushed aside This year the Republicans of Perm sylvania, where he moved from Minnesota, rejected his bid to be their candidate for governor. What, then, does he want? One thing is clear enough: He wants influence in the Republican party where, year by year, it has grown less. He may even have ambitions for another try at the governor ship. He said he will be very active in the Pennsylvania Republican organization and its leadership, and indicated he thought he could have won the governorship from Ihe Democrats if his own Repub licans had let him run. Above everything else, Stassen is a man who wants to be heard even if it means eating what he said a little while before, as hap pened to him in 1956 when he tried to wreck Vice President Nixon's chance for rcnomination. He said at the time, in effect, lhat Nixon was not th man for the job. But, when it became clear me convention nciegaLes warned Kixon, Stassen, without apparent mbarrassmcnt, cot up and pub licly seconded the nomination. Now he's cool to Nixon again. Hie vice president was not one of lite four Republicans Stassen listed as men he thought could win the presidency in 10 if they got the party s nomination. His four choices were: Nelson Rockefeller, recently elected gov ernor of New York: Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson. and Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton. His omission of Nixon as the man for the While House was so obvious newsmen asked him if he was going to try to "dump Nixon all over again. He said: "I don't think it should be expressed in those terms." But before Stassen can dump anybody he has to show he has more power in the Republican party than he's been able to dis play in recent years. He even lost inlluence in the Eisenhower administration. After running the foreign aid program Stassen hecamo Eisenhower's spe cial adviser on disarmament, working directly under Ihe Presi dent in the White House. But he ran aloul of Secretary of Stale Dulles. They didn't see eye to eye on foreign policy. Dulles won. Eisenhower shifted Stassen putting him under Dulles, which meant under Dulles' thumb. Early this year Stassen quit to seek the Pennsylvania governor ship, lost out there, and nationally had become only a political mem ory. Thumb Sucking By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Written for NEA Service Millions of people undoubtedly have worried about thumb and finger-sucking in their infants. All kinds of methods and devices have been tried to break this habit. Many articles have appeared in the medical and dental literature like tha transmission''' HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9.00 1 YEAR 118.00 MAIL I MONTH t 1.50 6 MONTHS 8.50 1 YEAR ...15.00 some suggesting that it is harm less, and others that it can cause trouble, particularly to the teeth. It seems to me that there are so many of us who must have sucked our thumbs when we were little and yet have grown up into normal people that the fear is ex aggerated. In one recent report, based on a study of nearly three thousand infants and children, it was stated that parents should be reassured about the relative harmlessness of this habit. Of the children studied, nearly one-half sucked their thumbs: the average age of stopping without treatment was just under four years, which is longer than the two-year limit which has some times been mentioned by others. This report also stated that den tists claim that stopping the hanit before the age of four is compatible with normal tooth and dental arch formation. Another difficult problem has been submitted by a mother who says that her son was horn with pyloric stenosis. She says that an operation was not performed and the child "outgrew" the difficulty by the age of 15 months. Now, at the age of 3 years, he gets attacks of diarrhea and she wonders wheth er there is any connection. The pylorus is the lower open ing of the stomach where the di gestive contents empty from that organ into the intestines. Pyloric stenosis present at birth means that there has been a contraction of the pyloric area which inter feres with the free passage from the stomach into the intestines. This condition is said to be three or four times as common in boys as in girls. It results in vomiting, rapid loss of weight, and constipa tion. Generally, medical treatment is attempted, but if this fails fen immediate operation is performed. In this particular instance, it ap pears that medical treatment was reasonably successful. The big question is whether the diarrhea is related to pyloric stenosis or is something else. In order to find out, it will probably be necessary to do some thorough studies of the digestive tract of this, lad before he gets too run down. Another problem wilh an abnor mality present at birth (congeni tal disorder) is presented by Mrs. G. She says that her son was born it h spina bifida, and she is an xious to know something about pos sible treatment and outlook. Spina bifida is a cleft in the vertebral column in the back through which the lining of the spi nal cord containing the nervous tissue protrudes. It is probably the result of failure of complete development before birth. In some instances, this condi tion can be repaired fairly suc cessfully by surgery. What to do depends on the location, the size of Ihe cleft, the amount of tissue- protruding, and other factors. Con sequently, the outlook also varies. -lal Logic Klamath Falls iTo The Editor) I was highly entertained by Nel son Heed's summation of Senator Morse. However, I should like to tell Mr. Reed that my father, Wil liam Van Duker, now deceased, would have disagreed with him that the horse might be respon sible for Ihe Senator's state of mind. He always contended lhat the horse had more intelligence than most peoply it kicked the Senator in the mouth! Also on the subject of elections. certain of the masculine gender attributed Mark Hatfield's recent victory to the fact that he is handsome, that the women voted for him on that account, not being interested in his ability. Arriving home from Portland, alter a comparatively recent elec tion, I remarked that I was aston ished at the defeat of a ceratin legislator. Oh," came a rejoinder Irnm a member of the superior sex, "The hunters all voted against him be cause he will not permit hunting on his properly!" This is masculine logic? Some of these same spoi lsmen? were highly indignant when they were refused the right to shoot doss, and destroy their property. I, too, would like to protect our property against invaders, four legged and otherwise, but am will ing to grant my fellow man the same prerogative! Agnes E. Matthews P.O. Box 811 funics' United Press International YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Wayne Merry, one of three men who climbed the sheer Granite lace of a cliff called El Capitan, on why he did it: "Some reople play golf, some bridge, some tiddly winks. 1 climb rocks." They'll Do It Every Time MHOOIA, WELL-GOOD- MY REfilPDS Bye, owls i 1 HORN"" THERE GOES THE SR4NDEST GIRL IN THE WORLD.' SHE'S SO-O SWEET .' AUD H4VE TO GET HOME AHD FIX , SHOEHORN'S DINNER" 'BYE- SHE HAS TdSTE.' .JUST LOVE HER HAT ML si) 1 11-13. : , ... 1 K:Tif Wii.nt Sjfidiu Pals Move In To Prevent Party Attacks On Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) - Friends apparently are moving in to pre vent Vice President Nixon from becoming something of a sitting duck for altacks by Republicans opposing his presidential ambi tions. Nixon took in obviously irritated silence Wednesday a fresh assault from an old foe, Harold E. Stas sen. who tried unsuccessfully to dump the vice president from sec ond place on the 1956 ticket. Talking with newsmen at the White House, Stassen pointedly omitted the vice president's name from a list of four possibilities Stassen said could carry the GOP to victory in 1960. Although Nixon did not com ment, Secretary of Labor Mitchell did. Mitchell said Nixon "ought to be and will be the next President of the United States." Stassen named Nelson A. Rocke feller, elected governor of New York: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., de feated for Senate reelection in Massachusetts in 1952 and appoint ed ambassador to the United Na tions; Secretary of Interior Seaton who deserted Stassen for Eisen hower in 1952: and Secretary of the Treasury Anderson, a former Texas Democrat now registered Republican. Mitchell, who, has been regarded as a possible aspirant for the 1960 vice presidential nomination, said Mr. Massen s views continue to reflect his unsuccessful vendetta againt Vice President Nixon." 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