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because I feel that my comment
has a special significance for
you.
Your children have been the
victims Of a segregated system in
which equal standards were not
maintained. 1t would appear,
therefore. that if we started the
next school year with all chill
Idren placed in grades according
Ito the level of work which they
are prepared to pursue, more
Icolored children than white chill
Idren would be set back q grade
or two. There could be a clamor
against such an adjustment UNI
less our colored citizens UNDER
stand that this is the only way
to correct the disease which has
produced our present condition.
To me. Indignation means a
uniform school system with high
standards in which every child
can make his way without re-
gard to his race or color. All
children will have the same op-
'portunities for the same educa-
ton. All children will be treated
Collectively. to be advanced or
held back according to their own
personal merits and abilities.
If this is your view of inte-
grafton. you will not postpone
the surgery which is required to
produce that kind of educational
system.
Cites Alarming Reports
During the past year we have
had many alarming reports that
our entire American educational
system is falling seriously behind
that Of the Soviet Union in pro-
ducing scientists and engineers.
We have a tremendous industrial
development far surprising that
of the Soviet Union, and there is
Ia serious question whether we are
producing technically qualified
personnel in sufficient quantities
to maintain our civilization and
our progress
The delegates to this confer
,ence represent educators who are
working at the graSs-roots. You
must produce the students who
are qualified to pursue higher
technical education. I am
pleased, indeed, to see that one
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larger classes and that, with
modern teaching aids, they ought
to be able to do even better now.
Gen. Lane. whose own son
who just won an appointment to
follow in his footsteps at West
Point-attends Archbishop Car
roll Catholic High School, has
won the reputation since he be-
came a Commissioner Is months
ago of being the kingpin in the
Commissioners policy making
toward the city's schools.
He has frequently said that it
is important that the needs of
the schools be met. Where he
has aroused controversy, how
ever. is in his appraisal of the
needs. On this point he and
school officials have been in
creasingly at odds.
Indignation, which has become
a major focus of school officials
in their pleas for more funds.
has not apparently been re-
garded by him as a special case.
The general did not join the
Districts governing board until
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every individual 10 the maximum
of his ability, but only to the
level resources allow. I'VE can
mot afford a tutorial service"
School Demands Too High
There are schools in the
Washington area-non-public-
which are managing to educate
children successfully with as
many as so pupils in classes. Dis
trict schools, in wanting 80, are
expecting too much and don't
really need 1t.
The schools need more disci-
|pline and more stress on basic
subjects" Loose promotion and
marking standards are mostly
responsible for present teaching
problems.
Instead Of seeking more teach
ers to make classes smaller. the
schools should concentrate on
tightening promotions and
grouping pupils according to
achievement and ability. II all
students were grouped properly.
the schools could manage ade-
quately with their present staff
ing standards.
Go to Work
Children who won't work hard
enough in school and don't fit in
should get out and go to work. !"
In the interview, Gen. Lane
asked the writer:
What would you think of the
idea of calling in the Education
al Testing Service this spring.
testing all the children in the
city and reassigning them to
classes according to the results?'
At the time, he said he was
mulling the idea over.
Yesterday, he dropped a bomb
shell by making it a public pro-
posal.
T0M0RR0W. RahuffaI
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Cancer Drive
Sets 500

District Area residents will be
asked to give $295,0O0 during
the 1856 Cancer Crusade in
April.
Robert w. Wilson, vice presi-
dent Of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. and chairman of the
crusade. pointed out in a state
ment yesterday that although
1859 persons died of cancer here
in 1866 countless other lives were
saved by early detection.
Lives can be spared if every
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grading pupils in the District S
In my judgment the most crit
ical problem facing the Distric
of Columbia today is the educa
ton of our youth.
Sometimes we appear to Civ
much more attention to ou
budget or to our transit prob
lens. These are urgent and d.
demand close attention, but
can assure you that they are no
nearly so important to the flu
ture of our community as thu
development of a sound educa
tional system.
1 want to congratulate thu
Washington Central Labor
Union for recognizing the crit
ical nature of the problems fac
ing us and for assembling these
distinguished panels of experts
and interested citizens to attack
the problems,
AS I consider our educational
problems, think of the wonders
of modern surgery and how
little we appreciate their true
significance. 1t is not many years
since our doctors treated
stomach cancer or a ruptures'
appendix with a poultice or some
bloodletting-
Treat Symptoms or Disease
It is in comparatively recent
times that surgeons have learned
that it is ineffective to treat the
symptoms and that one must
go directly to the offending or
gan. Yet the prior practice Of
medicine, the treatment of the
symptoms, was typical of deep
seated human inclination to dc
Just a little about a difficult
problem.
We find this human inclina-
ton dominant today in many
areas of our society. When the
issues are complex. we adopt in
adequate and unsuitable meas
ures which hull us into the be-
lief that we are doing something
about the problems while in
reality we avoid confronting the
real heart of the problem. Many
lives are saved today because
surgeons have learned to go di-
rectly to the source of the in
lection
I have said that education i.
our greatest problem. Reports
released in the public press in.
dicate that the educational lag.
in our school system today ART
at least as great as they were
In 1949. Thus, in seven years We
have not apparently made any
significant progress in overcom.
Ing defects which were made
apparent at the beginning O.
the period.
We know further that these
lags existed principally in oul
Division II school system. II
the segregated school system
the educational lag was alst
segregated and we had some uni
formity of student ability Il
which a teacher could address,
himself. However, as a conse
quence of Indignation, we havt
united in one class students O.
a widely varying educationa
standing.
A Serious Problem
We have given our teachers il
one class students who are pre-
pared to pursue the level O.
instruction for that class anc
others who are totally unpre
pared for such instruction.
1t appears that our problem
has reached unmanageable pro.
portions. 1t is the apparent be-
lief of our school authorities anc
of our Parent Teacher Associa.
tons that the existing educa-
tional lags can be overcome anc
that these children can be raised
to acceptable standards Of
achievement through the EN-.
ployment of additional and spe-
cial teachers.
hundred eighty teachers
represents five per cent in.
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on the District public schools.
after It had encouraged, with
President Eiserlhower's personal
nudge, a speedy indignation start
Must Stay Within Limits
Gen. Lanes basic premise. as
expressed in a recent interview
is that the community must set
the limit on its school resources,
and the schools must live within
them. In the District, the COM
munity's decisions are usually
made by the Commissioners.
Gen. Lane told this writer the
Commissioners have no desire to
reo into the details of running
the schools. That is the edu-
Gators job, he said. But the fact
that the Commissioners control
the purse strings inevitably af-
fects what the educators do.
This has been demonstrated in
recent months by the recurrent
appeals by the Board of Educa-
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of your panels this morning will
address itself to this question
which is of the utmost gravity
to our entire society.
I hope that this panel and all
of the panels will move conf
IDENTIFY with the tools and the
philosophy of the, surgeon, that
you will get to the heart Of the
matter and will produce solutions
designed to restore the patient
to health rather than merely to
make the pain sufferable.
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CRISIS IN THE SCHOOLS-7
Lanes Economy Stond
Reflects Policy Of City
By JAMES G. DEANE

Brig Lane the Districts West Point engi-
neer commissioner months startled the Board Edu-
with statement that District schools should be able 10
get along with bigger classes and fewer teachers
Discussing members plea for teacher increase
teachers managed to get along with
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BLADDER
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man; Ralph H. Mittendorff
treasurer; William F. Sigmund,
public relations committee
chairman; Frank H. Weitzel,
United States Government unit
chairman; Hugh MCGOWAN. bus
mess unit chairman; George M.
Ferris, jr.. Miss Mccall Hender-
son and William P. Mcclure, CO.
chairmen of special gifts unnt:
Albert w. Loring, residential
unit chairman, and J. Harvey
DAILY, office buildings unit chair
man.
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You asked for the right to
vote. Now you can do so-if
you register at the District
Building. It's time to qualify.
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This is the seventh Of O series Of article.
on the District public schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-05
Urban Renewal
Gets Federal Aid

Washingtons urban renewal
program has been re-certifed fol
Federal aid for the coming ycai
By the Housing and Home Fl.
nance Agency.
In a letter 10 Robert 4. Me-
Laughlin, president Of the Dis
trict Board Of Commissioners
HHFA Administrator Albert M
Cole praised the program.
District Government authori-
ties, Mr.. Cole said. have mace
outstanding progress during the
past year in carrying out the
detectives of workable pro-
gram to eradicate slums and
obsolescent dwellings.
The HHFA administrator noted
that these efforts have included
adoption of a consolidated hous-
ing code, coming code revision
study and a campaign to enforce
housing regulations in Northeast
Washington.
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Pet Has Rouqh Time

TOLEDO, Ohio ,Pl. - Mrs
Grace Kirkwoods Pekingese
caught its tail in the drive shaft
OF her washing machine. Fire
men found the tail wrapped
round-and-round the mocha
nlsm. They emptied the washer.
turned it upside down and turned
the shaft in reverse, by hand,
and slowly the tail unwrapped
Mrs. Kirkwood says her pet S
tall has a kink in 1t, but she
hopes 1t won't be permanent.
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ANSWERS TO
OUR PRESIDENTS
LULU
SETTLE BAILEY
NICK HALLIDAY
OAKY DoAKS
JOHNNY HAZARD
MUTT AND JEFF

Calvin Coolidge in Phila
delphia, July 5, 1926.
Admiral David Glasgow
Farragut was born near Knox
vile, Tenn. July 5, 1901, while
Thomas jefferson was President
For Marc, irD
3 = President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Wagner
Connery Act, July 5, 1885.
Questions on Preceding Page. ]
The Nome nugget., 1956-04-30
Dr. Otto John, Double Turncoat, Loses Another Round to Free Himself

KARLSRUHE, Germany, LR = Otto John, the double turncoat, lost another round Saturday in his fight to free himself of treason charges.
 The West German Supreme Court refused to upset an arrest order against the 47-year-old for mer West German intelligence chief
 The effect of the ruling was that John was sent back to pri- son with little likelihood that he will escape trial on suspicion of treason charges, probably in the summer.
 John has been in jail at Mann helm since Dec. 23, 1855. He had slipped across the iron curtain into East Germany on July 20, 1854. He told reporters he went over to the Reds to work for peace ', and against a revival of Nazi militarism. But he came back Dec. 12, 1855, with an account of how he had been drugged and taken unconscious into East Der | lin.
The Nome nugget., 1956-04-30
Mt. Trident Erupts As 1t Is 'Buzzed' By T-33 Jet Trainer

ANCHORAGE, R - As though wakened by the noise, sleeping volcanic peak belched a tremen- dous cloud of smoke and cinders Friday just as it was being buzzed by two curious Air Force jet pilots.
 The startled and thoroughly shaken up pilots, who buzzed out of danger at a 300-mile-an-hour clip, were Capt. Lloyd Kelly and Ut Harry Krebbs, both of Elmen- dorf Air Force Base.
 Neither they nor their T33 jet trainer plane was damaged by the incident which occurred over what is believed to have been Mt. Trident in Alaskas famed Valley of 10000 Smokes, 300 miles southwest of here.
 But, said Kelly, the pilot, "it was the oddest sensation 1 ever had" "
 'We were low at about 10000 feet on a flight back from King Salmon to Elmendorf, hoping to get glimpse of Mt. Katmai,' a volcano which periodically filters the landscape with ashes.
 About five miles southwest of Katmai, we started to pass a peak with an open crater at the top. We even dipped our wing to look in Then it happened"
 Kelly said the volcano blew up in great cloud of smoke and cinder. Their speed carried them past the eruption in a few sec onds. Kelly said he did not know the name of the peak but the To- cation given indicated it was Mt. Trident, a semi-active but cur rently sleeping volcano.
The Nome nugget., 1956-04-30
Enraged Circus Elephant Charges Spectator Stands, Iniuring Eleven Persons

WAXAHACHIE, Texas, R - Eleven persons were injured when a female elephant, ap- parently enraged because her baby had been taken from her recently, smashed into specta- fortified stand during circus performance here Friday night.
 The nine elephants of Miller Brothers Circus had completed the opening parade in the arena and had left the tent few min utes before. The Spotlights were on the aerial acrobats when, above the row of the band drums, the trumpeting of the enraged ele- phant was heard from the outside.
 The animal, which the police said was "as big as bull, ' careened against the tent and then smashed through the canvas Her trunk and head knocked down about four rows of seats.
 It was believed none of the spectators was actually hit by the elephant but that they were in jured when they jumped or ran to avoid being struck.
The Nome nugget., 1956-04-30

The Bermuda islands are prac- tically all coral.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Contract Proposed :.
Contract Proposed -.
Electric Coop
May Be Able To
Get More Power

Following investigation by the U. S.
Department of Interior of Montana
Power Company's refusal to sell addi-
tional publicy-prOduced power to Park
County Electric Coop, the department
has come up with a proposal whereby
the coop can secure additional elec-
tricity as preference" customer.
This is revealed in letter to Sena-
tor James e. Murray from Interior
Secretary Fred A. Seaton. Murray, last
October II, asked the department to
Investigate the power company's re-
fusal to sell additional power.
SeatOn in his letter to Murray,
stated:
1T is physically possible to deliver
federal power to the Cooperative and
the Bureau of Reclamation has a
wheeling contract with the Montana
Power Company under which such de-
livery can be made. In order for pref
erence customer to receive such fed
eraI power, it is necessary that he
enter into purchase contract with
the Bureau of Reclamation. Therefore,
if the Park Electric Cooperative is
in purchasing federal power,
it would be my suggestion that they
contact the Regional Office of the
Bureau of Reclamation at Billings and
make application for such purchase. A
contract could then be worked out and
delivery of the power accomplished"
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Fine Horsemanship,
An Aim At MSU

including the outstanding champion,
the Model Mcdonald, Mrs. Wolfe re-
ported. Many of these horses will be
used in the horsemanship classes at
the University.
Cloninger was born in Bozeman and
attended Montana State College. Mrs.
Cloninger is a native of Livingston.
She attended Whitworth College, Spo-
kane, Wash. The couple has managed
stables in Helena and Great Falls and
in Washington, Ohio and Illinois.
Horses owned or trained by the Clon-
ingers have won honors in horse shows
throughout the country.
The new managers are very we'll
qualified" Mrs. Wolfe said. Their ex-
perience and skill will provide excep-
tional opportunities for our students
in horsemanship classes at the Uni
versity," she said.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28

The community of Red Lodge has
embarked on a project worthy OF any
Montana housekeeping to build a
stable, year-arOund economic base.
Situated at the foot of the beautiful
Northeast entrance to Yellowstone
Park, Red Lodge is summer vacation
center With the new Koal Krudes,
Inc, coal char plant scheduled to start
operations by February 1, 1857, the
city is on it's way to providing winter
activity, too.
The char plant will employ about
twenty men, quite boost to a city
whose economy had been hard-hit by
lessened activity of neighboring coal
mines. Using a process developed
under the guidance Of DR.. Lloyd Berg,
chairman of the Chemical Engineering
Department of Montana State College,
with $4,000 appropriation from the
1855 State Legislature, the plant will
manufacture char, creosote and tar
from two hundred tons of coal daily.
Char is an important component of the
sponge-iron process of copper smelt-
ing Local citizens subscribed to over
$4,000 of KOal Krudes stock to finance
the plant, and the city donated a site.
Red Lodge coal is especially suited for
char.
But Red Lodge residents are also
The people's voice., 1956-12-28

election the Administration announced
that a study will be made as to the
danger to children from fall-out find
ing its way into milk via grass eaten
by cattle. Also, several days ago, it
was announced from Washington that
all hydrogen bomb tests are to be sus-
pended through 1857 at least. Steven
sons courageous utterances may have
laid the grOupdwOrk for saving the
human race from genetic defects and
deformities in future generations be-
cause of poisonous Strontium 80 which
is an integral part of H-Bomb fall-out.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Probably the most important piece
of legislation enacted into law in 1856
concerned Social Security. The 84th
Congress made the first fundamental
changes in the act in the almost twenty
years it has been in operation by de-
creasing the retirement age of women
to 62 years and permitting totally dis
abled to begin drawing pension bene-
fits at age so.
Another important piece of 1egis-
lation enacted by the 84th Congress
was the greatly enlarged highway pro-
gram. designed to bring our nations
roads up to the increasing volume of
highway traffic for commercial and
personal uses.
Lost by the wayside because of poll
CONTINUED On Page Four
The people's voice., 1956-12-28

Lou Boedecker, 67, first chief of
Montana Highway Patrol, state prison
warden during the Bonner Administra-
ton, and Railroad & Public Service
Commissioner-elect, succumbed to a
heart attack Tuesday evening while
visiting his seriously i'll wife in a
Helena hospital.
Lou was a member of the Order of
Railway Conductors for more than
forty years During that time, in addi-
tiOn TO the above mentioned public
posts, he served as sheriff of Powell
county for six years, and was SER
geant-at-arms of the 1885 State Senate.
He was born July II, 1889 in Bucklin,
Kansas, and came to Montana as a
young man.
In addition to Mrs. BOedecker, he is
survived by one son, Louis G.
His funeral is being held in Helena
with a Requiem Mass at 9 am. this
morning in st. Helena Cathedral.
Burial will be in Resurrection Gene
terry north of Helena.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Red Lodge Char Plant
To Open In February

anticipating future growth A group
has been formed to construct new
housing. A new large ski run is being
planned. It's construction would make
the area a winter recreation center,
too. The city is also looking forward
to increased activity in the Belfry oil
field east of Red Lodge, according to
r. B. Zachary, executive vice president
of the Meyer and Chapman State Bank.
With the char plant, businesses
which serve wacationers, and the sur
rounding farm areas, Red Lodge will
have a growing, balanced economy
HORIZONS (Montana
State Planning BOard).
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Which Power Is Cheaper?

study by the American Public
Power Association shows that muni-
cipal power systems provided an
average of 47.3 per cent more power
to customers for 81 per cent less
cost in 1946-54 than the average for
the nations privateIy-owned sys-
TENS.
Average public rate per kilowatt-
hour was 1.75 cents for residential
service, while private companies
charged an average of 2.80 cents
60 per cent higher. "a kiIowatt hour
is equal to 10 10O-watt bulbs burning
for one hour.)-COPE MEMO.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Furl11-Lubor
Meeting Set
Ar Billings

BILLINGS-The Midland Empires
second annual Farmer-LabOr Institute
will be held Saturday, January 19 at
the Labor Temple, Charles Banderob,
institute chairman, has announced.
The institute, sponsored by Yellow
stone county local unions affiliated
with AFL-CIO and Yellowstone County
Farmers Union, will have five major
panels and summary on the days pro-
gram.
The program follows:
$3.50 -t'Farmer-Sp Re-
lations" by Eldon H. Smith, fish and
wildlife specialist, Montana State Col
lege.
10: 0:45-"Revaluation of Property,
Patrick J. Gilfeather, Great Falls, at
torney.
Noon-Dutch lunch, served by mem
bers of the Cooks and Walters Union.
1:30-"Public School Taxation and
School Needs, Leonard Kenfield, MFU
president, and j. NJ. Peterson, Poison,
educator.
3:00-"Welfare Legislation and
Workmen's Compensation, James S.
TIMBER, president, Montana AFL-CIO.
6:00-Banquet.
7:30-"Public VS. Partnership Power
& Atomic Development.
S:30-Summary and Evaluation by
DR.. Carl F. Kraenzel, Montana State
College.
Institute committee officials in addi-
tion to Banderob, are Joe Parks of the
Oil Workers Union and James Winsby
Painters. Other committee members
are Rolf B. Gilmore, Oil Workers. FL
mer Quanbech, Farmers Union; Rich
ard Fox, Oil Workers; John Newman,
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen;
Ralph McKelvie, REA and Farmers
Union; Boyd "Curley" Murry, Oil
Workers; Robert Spaulding, Oil Work
ers; Ted Terkels, Yellowstone Trades
e Labor Assembly.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Fertilizer Tonnage
Drops In u. S.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-U. S.
farmers used fewer tons of fertilizer
in the crop year ending last June than
in 1954-1955, William S. Ritnour writes
in PLANT FOOD REVIEW. The drop
was 4.49o, he figures.
Ritnour, treasurer of National Plant
Food Institute, notes that farmers are
using more concentrated fertilizer and,
therefore, the amount of plant food
put back in the soil may have held its
own.
Tonnage dropped off sharply in Ne
braska, Iowa, Kansas, New York, Penn
sylvania, Illinois, North Carolina.