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The Tragedy Of Dropouts
IW. B. S.I
A few years ago the word "drop-out
was probably meaningful only to teachers,
school administrators and parents directly in
volved. Now it is talked of in discussions of
the economy, of crime, of the whole future
facing American youth.
The drop-out, of course, is the youngster
who leaves school before graduation. In the
present decade, it is figured there will be 7.5
million of these.
They will be throwing themselves, un
trained, into a world wherein the unskilled
may by 1970 make up no more than 5 per cent
of the total U.S. work force.
With all the alarm felt over this prospect,
there has been far too little digging into the
background of known drop-outs to search for
the causes of the problem. Now, however, we
have some new facts from a Maryland study
managed co-operatively by state, county and
Baltimore city education departments.
First off, it blasts the idea that most
drop-outs are delinquent children. Scanning
nearly 14,000 who left high school in 1960-61,
the questioners found that four out of five
never were rated serious behavioral prob
: lems. Nearly as many never had been suspend
ed. The notion that most drop-ouls are cither
the product of broken homes or are altogeth
er homeless does not hold, cither. Some 70
per cent of those studied lived with both par
ents. Another 10 per cent lived with one par
ent or the other.
Half the drop-outs had average to above
average intelligence, which hardly makes the
lack of it a dominant clement in the story.
Withholding-A Way
Bills have been Introduced
not for the first time that would either
reduce or eliminate altogether the withhold
ing of federal income taxes from people's
paychecks.
Reasoning behind the bills is that it might
awaken Joe Citizen to the fact that an awfully
large slice of his earnings goes direct from his
employer to Washington. Realizing this, he
might demand some semblance of economy in
government.
As it is now, the tax extraction is relative
ly painless. Though 18 per cent of a man's
wages, beyond exempted amounts, is withheld,
he never sees It; never having had it, he
doesn't miss it. With the natural human ca
pacity for rationalizing, our man doesn't let
himself think that the money ever actually
was his. lie figures his pay only as what he
takes home in his pocket.
Without withholding, he might be
shocked back to reality come April 15 when
he was required to forward a large bundle of
dollars to Uncle Sam in one fell swoop.
That's the way 11 was in the old days
before withholding, but taxes were lower then
Nothing Like A Good,
By JOHN (101 U
(In the
Christian Science Monitor)
Coincidence ii always with us.
and when (trance things happen
their happening is olten stranger
still. Such as the time Stet Hum
mer fell through the ice up in the
uncharted wilderness ot northern
Maine; which came to mind this
brisk morning when I heard one
ol our local skaters just took a
dip In tho drink. Ixirnl skaters
do that everywhere, 1 suppose,
and one by one they join that
elite membership of reminiscent
citizens who ran turn any con
versation around to the time
they fell in. I've done it a couple
of times, and I know.
When you crunch through the
ice. or slip off Hie marge of the
ice pond, there is a reluctance
to believe what you have been
taught, Everybody has been
taught that water must be at
32 degrees-plus, F. If it is 32
degrees-minus. F., it is ice. You
learn this in school. So you skate
around on the r.nd wcl! aware
that .12 degrees-minus is holding
you up, and the water under
(he Ice is warmer than that. Sud
denly the ice cracks ndcr you,
and you find that the books and
the schoolmasters have been
wrong all the time, and that the
true temperature of tha water ts
4Wt degrees-minus, or you're no
judge at all. This is no longer a
detached matter; you are close
to it and an Intimacy prevails
which is convincing
There is more than that. If
you think pond water is cold
while you arc in it. you want
to feel it laving your delicate and
personal skin after you have
climbed out and nre up in the
nice hreee on the Ijank. The
only thing to do, while you are
meditating these flexible laws of
physics, is gallop around and stir
up enough body heat so the out
tide Influences are dispelled, and
What did impress the Maryland testers
was the generally low educational and aspira
tional level of drop-outs' parents. Some 80
per cent of the fathers and nearly as many
mothers had themselves been drop-outs. And
a high proportion showed very limited total
schooling.
Thus, as some top educators have suggest
ed in broad terms, it is not so much the brok
en home as the home with a poor atmosphere
which is heavily at fault. In too many cases,
no interest in getting an education or in any
kind of solid achievement is implanted in
the school youngsters.
The Maryland investigators found this
showing up in another way. More than two
thirds of the drop-outs never took part in ath
letics or any sort of extracurricular activities.
This was most noticeable in big schools where
competition was sharpest.
Certainly lack of intelligence, of energy
and drive, of such fundamental learning tools
as reading skill, were important factors in
numerous instances. But the drop-ouls them
selves told the key part of their story: lack
of interest was the biggest cause.
More and more often, the matter of in
adequate home setting either inhospitable
or indifferent to learning crops up as we
look at the country's educational needs.
Many say more and better education is
vital to us. But how do you begin the process
with the millions of children whose family way
of life affords education no place or stature?
Perhaps this is the question to which con
cerned educators should today be addressing
themslvcs, above all other matters.
in Congress
and the yearly
for most people.
Today, Joe Citizen has become anesthe
tized to taxes through withholding. Indeed,
one of the objections to withholding when It
was first proposed was that it would make tax
increases too easy to pass. Subsequent history
seems to have borne this out.
These antiwithhohling bills won't get very
far in Congress, of course. Withholding is pari
of our way of life now. Government is too
tightly geared to this continuous income. And
the days of low-budget, low-tax government
arc as vanished as the United Stales (hat
once was an island isolated by two oceans.
Still, it would be interesting to see what
would happen after one year without with
holdings. Undoubtedly there would be a na
tionwide agonizing reappraisal.
Despite the fond hopes of the sponsors of
these bills, however, the upshot probably
would be not more economy in government
and resulting lower taxes but a quick return
to withholding.
Anvone want to bet?
then always afterwards you can
tell people what it was like.
What made Stet Mummer's fall
ing in memorable was tho coinci
dence. He and Fddio Maher had
gone away up into tile loresls,
far from anything, and on this
particular morning had left their
camp lor cottage! down on the
Masardis road and had hiked
back overland. They came to a
stream, and Stet crossed it on
the ice. Well, not quite just be
fore he reached the npiosite shore
the ice quit on him, and he
popjied In and closed the door
after him. Eddie, stand, ng on the
bank to see il Stet would make it,
now perceived that Stet had not.
Tlien Stet popped up again, re
marking to all and sundry that
he didn't relish this a little hit.
and threshed ashore on the far
bank. Deleted of the chattering
and shivering, Slot's statement
iiHn catching his hi rath was,
"I'll run for it you go hack and
gel a fue going!"
Now, Hie geography is im
portant. Eddie, on his side of the
stream, was only about eight min
utes away bom the ramp, and he
could do it sooner at a dog-trot.
But the rier wemled Ihenccward.
and for Siel it was a long loe
baik to the highway, and when
he got out there he would he
about five miles from camp Rut
the enunciated plan seemed, at
the lime, the best one. so Eddie
started the short way to camp on
his side, and Slet stalled Hie long
way on his
Stet could hear his feet thump
the frozen ground as he puked
lliem up and put them down, but
there was no sensation inside his
boots. He could hear the ice
misled on the collar of his ja, k
et grating on the ice crusting the
collar of his shirt, and it sounded
like jingle hells. He chipped his
hands together to learn if they
were still inside his frozen mil
lens, but was as tinkling cymbals,
or crockery (ailing downstairs. t(
Of Life
bill was not a great problem
Icy Bath!
course, as he went, things got bet
ter. He found himself wondering
how he would know if he worked
up a sweat, hut it seemed to
him he was. He got (airly warm
as he jogged along, and he knew
this was good. Presently he came
nut to the road.
Now, this Isn't much of a road.
It doesn't have much traflic. A
Inmlier truck once or twice a
Hay, maylie, and then hours of
nothing. Hut as Stet bounded
out of Hie woods Into the right-of-way.
he looked up and saw
not only an automobile coming
his waybul it was a taxicab
such as you find in Manhattan.
Stet held up a finger, the way
you do in Manhattan, and the
cabby wheeled in (or a pick-up
and said. "Where to, sir?'
Eddie, meantime, had laid some
kindlings. He touched a match to
them and stood up. and as he
looked from the camp window
he saw a taxicab pull up and
Stet dismount. Stet paused to pay
the driver, and came into the
camp to find Eddie's mouth agape
and a look of deep incredulity
upon his face. "It's taken you
long enough to start a fire." said
Slet. and Eddie found nothing to
answer. Except (or coincidence,
which must always be enter
tained, there is no explanation
for all this.
Tlie cab can he explained. The
cabby's brother took a job cook
ing m a lumliercamp up above
Masardis. and on his day of( the
brother drove the brother up Why
it had to be that day. and why
the cabby was homeward bound
past Ten Mile Stream just as
Slet came bounding from the
woods I do not know. But he
was. and this makes Stet's story
of his falling in heller than most
Eddie says it's the oilv time a
man ever fell in a Maine ice
bath and enjoyed the luxury of a
rule home in a healed eah from
New York City, and It probably
is.
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Is There a Bandaid in the House? "y
THE GLOBAL VIEW .
Red
A Overshadows Berlin
ly LEON DENNEN
Newspaper Enterprise Analyst
UNITED NATIONS (NEA)-Ni-kila
Khrushchev managed to sur
vive Stalin's purges and has so
far outsmarted his rivals in tho
Kremlin. Now he faces the deci
sion of his life: to break or not
to break openly with Red Chi
na's Mao Tse-tung?
Even West Berlin, though it re
mains a top target of Soviet of
ficial policy, is eclipsed by the
historic quarrel of the two Hed
giants.
A Yugoslav official told this
writer, "It is not what Khru
shchev says or does not say pub
licly that will decide the (ate of
world communism. It is the dra
ma behind the scenes that will
in the long run determine commu
nism's future."
Yugoslavia's President Tito. Pre
mier Khrushchev's new - found
friend and Man Tsc-tung's bitter
enemy, is reported to have urged
the Soviet premier to break ojicn
ly with (fed China.
Even before the meeting of Rus
sia's satellites at the East Ger
man party congress, Tito hinted
that his international policies are
based on the belief that a Russian
Chinese split would come "very
soon."
In the view of Yugoslavia's pres
ident, the break between Moscow
and Peking has been progressing
far ton slowly. In order to lit
Yugoslav plans, the open I ifl must
come more rapidly lor two rea
sons: 1. Tito is anxious lo isolate lied
Chum. This will strengthen consid
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erably Yugoslavia's position in the
Red bloc.
2. Tito fears that Premier Khru
shchev might doublecross him
again. The thought of an eventual
deal between Moscow and Peking
is something that gives the
Yugoslav president nightmares.
After all, wasn't Tito himself
denounced for years by Moscow
as a "revisionist" until Khru
shchev decided recently to use him
as an ally in the fight against
the "dogmatist" Mao?
The Khrushchev-Mao war of
words has now degenerated to a
point where the Soviet premier
has to speak nut strongly if he is
to stay at the helm of internation
al communism. But the Russians
obviously w ant lo keep open their
lines of communication with Mao
in the hope that their differences
might somehow be patched up.
Khrushchev realizes that an open
break with China will split world
communism into hostile camps.
China is likely to get the back
ing of an aggressive minority, in
cluding Albania, North Korea,
North Viet Nam and possibly
even Eidcl Castro's Cuba, that
would be embarrassingly vocal in
its attacks on Russia.
This has long been the view of
men like Mikhail Suslov and other
"internal Chinese" tVnutrcnnyia
Kitaitsyl who still would wield
considerable power in the Krem
lin. Moscow's East German puppet
Walter Ulbricht, Czechoslovakia's
Red Chieftain Anlonin Novotny
and Maurice Thorcz, leader of
the French Reds, are also believed
to be against an open hreak he-
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twecn Russia and China, despite
signs of hedging in the East Ger
man press.
But President Tito, backed by
Palmiro Togliatti of the Italian
Communist Party and Poland's
Wladyslaw Gomulka, have been
pressing Khrushchev for a speedy
break with Mao.
This, in the view of specialists
on Soviet-Chinese relations, ac
counts for Nikita Khrushchev's
zig-zag policies.
Long before the Red conclave in
East Berlin the Soviet premier and
Mao denounced each other w ith all
the curse words from the ample
bag of Marxist-Leninist doubletalk.
Many of Moscow's puppets even
had public rehearsals (party con
gresses) at which they attacked
Mao.
But Khrushchev remains in a
dilemma. Like the maid in the
English limerick, he cannot say
yes to an open break with Mao
and he cannot say no. So he says
maybe and hopes to appease all
antagonists in the Red camp by
again twisting the West's tail in
Rerlin.
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Sunday, Feb. 10. the
41st day of 1963 with 324 to fol
low. The moon is approaching its last
quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars ire Mars and
Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under tlie sign of .Aquarius.
On this day in history:
In 1933, a new feature in tele
graphic service was introduced,
with the delivery of "singing
telegrams."
In 1937. Chinese Communists of
fered to end their 10-year civil
war wilh the regime of Chiang
Kai-shek in favor of a "united
front" against the Japanese in
vaders. In 1!M2. the last civilian auto
mobiles rolled off the assembly
lines in Detroit, as the industry
was converted for war production.
In 1W0, Soviet Primier Nikita
Khrushchev started on a 12-thou-sand-mile
tour of Southeast Asia.
A thought for the day German
philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
said: "Kvery man takes the lim
ils of his own field of vision for
the limits of the world."
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What Is "pork-barrel" Irg.
islalion?
A Bills enacted to provide ap
propriations for political purpos
es to a special group or region
of Ihe country.
H On the Ontrigrade scale
what designates absolute wro?
A A tcnifierature 273 degrees
below zero which is 4) degrees
below zero Fahrenheit.
Q Why does Belgium haw
two official languages?
A The Walloons sneak a
French dialect ra led Walloon.
The Flemings, whose language
is Flemish, is much like Dutch
and German.
Frequently, I am reminded of
the words of Richard Rumbold,
on the scaffold, in 1G83. He said,
at that desolate moment: 1 never
could believe that Providence sent
a few men into the world, ready
booted and spurred to ride, and
millions ready saddled and bri
dled to be ridden.
Well. I see where the Harlem
Globetrotters are scheduled to
make an appearance In our fair
city. I only hope we don't have
a repeat of last year's debacle
when the team didn't show up.
I saw the 'Trotters In Salem a
week or so ago, and they have
some able performers, but I
don't think they measure up to
the teams of previous years.
Looking at our telephone bills
each month leads one to think
that the U.S. must be about the
talkingest (telephoncwise, that is'
nation in the world. But not so.
Canada once again has taken the
"gabbiest nation" sweepstakes.
Leading the world in phone calls
for the 10th consecutive year, Ca
nadians averaged 551 conversa
tions for every man, woman and
child in the Dominion. The 19B2
edition of "The World's T e 1 e
phones" published by AT&T, re
ports that the United States was
close behind with 529 calls per
person. Iceland wa- third with
187.
At the rate taxes are going up
(and proposed I it will soon be
quite impossible lor a girl to
marry for money.
At the Governor's Break
fast last week, Judge Boyd Lee
dom, the speaker, was em
phasizing his point that there
must be a God else how could
one explain the Universe. He
cited an example to prove his
point. One famed rclcntist has
likened the possibility that the
Universe "just happened" tn
this unlikely comparison: there
Is just as much chance that the
Universe "just happened" tn
come Into being as there would
be for an unabridged Interna
tional Webster's Dictionary re-
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Fur Will Fly If Labor
Law Revision Sought
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) Though
it is scarcely mentioned in Prcsi
oent Kennedy's first three major
messages to Congress, a lot of
labor legislation might be stirred
up in this session ol Congress.
AFL - CIO President George
Meany has in the past opposed
opening up existing labor laws.
He fears this would loose a Pan
dora's box of amendments which
would only make a lad situation
worse, ending with more troubles
for unions.
The big organization's legislative
counsel, former Wisconsin Con
gressman Andrew J. Bicmillcr,
points out, however, that labor
favors appeal of Landrum-Grif-fin
Act restrictions on picketing
and Taft-Hartley Section 14-B
which permits the states to enact
their own right-to-work laws.
Union legislative programs
also favor expansion of minimum
wage law coverage to more work
ers. And Bicmillcr believes first
efforts may be mace this year
to obtain the 35-hour work week
by law. as well as by collective
bargaining.
One of the things labor may
have most to fear in this session
of Congress is that the major
strikes of longshoremen, newspa
per employes, aircraft and missile
workers now idling over 100.000
men will result in tne introduc
tion of much new restrictive leg
islation. Labor Secretary Willard Wirli
admils the administatinn is con
sidering proposals which would
permit the government to move
into major disputes more rapidly
and with more power to effect
settlements in the public interest.
There have been no decisions
announced yet on what the Presi
dent might propose to Congress.
One diKiculty is thai mediation
procedures authorized by existing
law have been used so much that
they hae been dulled and lost
their effectiveness.
Job security, or loss of em
ployment from automation, is one
of the maor issues in current
disputes. Neither the unions nor
management has yet come up
with any satisfactory suggestions
for laws that might ease the prob
lem. Rep. timer J. Holland. D
Pa . of the House Labor Com-
1
suiting front an explosion in a
print shop.
An undeserved compliment is
actually more pleasing than any
other kind.
I suppose this is lather worth
less information, but it is interest
ing to note the manner in which
the Russian banking system is
operated, and how it contrasts to
our own banks. If you were a
typical Russian and wished lo
have a bank account as one out
of every four Russians apparently
docs you would have only one
choice. You would go to one of
the 75,000 branch oflices of the
State Savings Bank which is
owned and operated by tlie Cen
tral Government. For the con
venience of depositors (and pos
sibly for the benefit of the Cen
tral Treasury) the branch offices
are open all day and as lata
as eight or ten in the evening.
You would not think of open
ing a checking account because
personal checks are virtually un
known in Russia. On your sav
ings you would get three percent.
If you wished to bornow mon
ey from this same Institution
you would be almost certainly
turned down. It does make a
few installment loans on such
things as radios, bicycles and
furniture. Terms are 25 per cent
down and the balance in 12
months. Repayment is assured
by the existence of a payroll
withholding system. It njo long
er makes mortgage loans os
single family homes.
1 wonder if there is a man
living who, at one time or an
other, has not looked back on
his life with some dismay.
The more one sees of the results
of the Klamath Termination Act,
the more regrettable it seems.
Some of these upswept hairdos
are mindful of something swept
up olf the floor.
Add silly claims of the U.S.
Govinment: There's nothing go
ing on in Cuber!
mittce is planning an exhaustive
investigation of the issue this ses
sion. Organized labor leaders still
back Kennedy's bro?d programs
on general principles, but they
differ with him on details and exe
cution. Union leaders are as dis
satisfied with the President's Slate
ol the Union, budget and economic
messages as are the organiza
tions representing big business
(hough for completely different
reasons.
Business sokcsmcn think Ihe
President goes too far. Labor
spokesmen think he ooesn't go far
enough or fast enoigh.
AFL-CIO is for a 9 billion tax
cut in the lowest income brackets
this year. The 13 Dillion cut of
fered by the President is con
sidered too small to do any good
in reducing unemployment.
W. P. Gullander, president of
Ihe National Association of Manu
facturers, opposes the President's
proposal to split the lowest income
lax bracket and asks for a go
slow policy on tax revision in Die
interests of sounder economic
growth.
US Chamber nf Commcrca
President Ladd Plumley has an
nounced a 10-point labor legisla
tion program for his organization.
It calls for putting unions under
the antitrust laws, reform of thu
National Labor Relations Board,
amendment of W'alsh-Healy and
Baron-Davis acls. permitting the
U.S. secretary of labor lo set
wage floors on government con
tracts, full state control of un
employment insurance and the
U.S. F.mplotncnt Service.
The Plumley progiam opposes
c hances in Taft-Hartley emergen
cy strike provisions and limitation
on stale right-to-work laws. Ex
pansion of minimum wage law
coverage and equal pay for wom
en also are opposed.
Sen. John L. McCVUan. D-Ark ,
has reintroduced his bill to put
transport unions under antitrust
law eon'rol. Labor leaders claim it
would affect other un-ons. too, and
oppose it.
Sen. Barry Goldws'.er. R Ariz.,
has introduced a sweeping labor
management reform bill to curb
union bargaining and political
power which labor would fight
on every detail, bringing on 4
long hard fight in an already ow
erioaded Congress.