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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
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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
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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
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Calif. Wayne Merry, one of
three men who climbed the sheer
Granite lace of a cliff called El
Capitan, on why he did it:
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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."
He added in a statement: "All
of the men he mentioned are ob
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