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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-25
Johnny's Reading


The real reason Johnny
can't read Is not nearly so
important as the stark and
admitted fact that public
school pupils are woefully
lacking in this fundamental
and basic step toward proper
education. Why tax-paid
public schools no longer
give adequate and effective
instruction in the simple but
essential skin OF reading Is Q
controversial issue TO be de-
termined by considering the
modern philosophy Of public
education together with read
ing methods used and actual
results achieved. Nothing.
however. can be gained by
pSychiatrists and clinicatOrs
(teachersl forming O mutual
admiration society to defend
themselves by directly de-
nouncing all parents as the
reason why Johnny can't
read.
Irefer TO the insipid article
by PSychiatrist Justin L.
Greene In This Week Maya
zine. October 20. entitled
The Real Reason Johnny
Cant Read That Mr..
Greene's views are unworthy
Of serious consideration Is
shown by his statement that.
I'm my opinion teaching
methods have little to do
with causing our tragic group
Of reading cripples." Any in
formed parent who has had
direct experience with read
ing methods by phonics in
private schools and also the
modern. inadequately pro-
gressive, clinical methods
used In public schools Is Inn
mediately aware Of another
weakness Of psychiatry as
exhibited by DR.. Greene.
Then DR.. Greene goes full
blast TO denounce parents in
the accepted manner Of psy-
chiatrists and clinicators by
saying, In q word. the re-
sponsibility for Johnny's
problem rests almost entirely
on his parentsl"
A few months ago The
Star printed a report on
clinical teaching as lectured
to Maryland tax paid
teachers by DR.. Daniel E.
Prescott Of the University Of
Maryland. According to that
report, teachers are trying
to become mot traditional
teachers, not progressive or
modern teachers, but clini-
caily minded teachers" and
the teacher accepts the fact
that he cannot teach chill
dren anything. but that he
can bring about the right
climate for learning and that
everyday happenings in the
classroom and the environ
ment are part Of the causa-
tive factors" Thus the cur
rent crop Of clinicators are
being told that they cannot
teach, no matter how many
degrees in methodology they
may have from Columbia
University Teachers College,
etc.
To Offset the questionable
efforts Of psychiatrists and
non-teaching clinicators. 1t
would be very much in order
for taxpaying parents and
non-parent taxpayers to join
forces in demanding q strict
and exact accounting of tax
dollars intrusted to that un-
reliable element. BY this
merger Of enlightened self
interest toward constructive
ends. another possible bene-
fit could well be to disclose
the one and only reason why
Johnny can't read. as well as
TO establish corrective meas
ures to assure that future
Johnnys will all be able TO
read. even though they may
attend a unsupported public
school. Franklin T. Miles.
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Cryptic

The proponents Of forced
integration use hypocricy as
their shield and children as
their sword.
Philip r. Hartung, Jr.
New Shrewsbury. N. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

total tax bill. Virginia pays 1877
per cent.
The Tax Foundation carries on
research in Government taxa
ton and spending. John w.
Hanes of the Olin Mathieson
Chemical Corp. is chairman
Roswell Magill. New York at
torney and former Under Secre-
tary of the Treasury, is president.
Tax Payments Analysed
The foundations report point
ed out official figures of tax pay
ments by States do not give a
true picture. These figures indi-
cate North Carolina, Kentucky
and virginia pay IS per cent OF
the tobacco tax and Michigan
pays 88 per cent of the manufac-
turers excise tax on automobiles,
trucks and parts.
Actually the users pay the tax,
The amount of the tobacco tax,
therefore. was spread over all
the States on a population basis.
The excise tax on automobiles
was allocated on the basis Of
new car registrations.
The foundation assumed that
so per cent of the corporation
income tax was borne by stock
holders and the other half was
shifted to customers. The first
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rs 10 125Pct.
Pay Rise Urged
For Educators

The quality of American COL
lege education will suffer severely
unless faculty salaries are in
creased by rs to 1875 per cent in
the next 10 years, the Educa-
tional Policies Commission warns
in a report issued today.
"All other expenditures for
higher education are in vain If
the quality of faculties is allowed
to deteriorate." the commission
said in its statement, Higher
Education in a Decade OF
Decision"
The commission was created
in 1885 by the National Educa-
ton Association and the Ameri-
can Association of School Ad-
ministrators to study educational
problems and formulate policy
recommendations.
Unless faculty salary levels are
raised substantially within a
short time. the report said, de
terioration in faculty quality will
be severely felt. not only within
colleges and universities, but in
all of industry and culture and
public service where the products
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

". Furthermore, they are not
entering the profession"
On other subjects, the report
included these views:
It is likely that an annual in
crease Of between 10000 and
$50. 900 new applicants will seek
admission to college during COM
ing years and that by 1870, en-
rollments will be in the neigh
boring Of six million students.
Colleges and universities
should undertake strong pro-
grams Of selective recruitment.
They should give priority to abil-
ity. but not try to minimize the
Importance of higher education
for larger proportions Of the
population.
In increasing facilities for
higher education, first considera-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

I6CtltcS III dAQ. (NCW JCIoCy lc
second. paying $40, and Con-
necticut third. paying $2.2l.
Others Of the IA States are
California. Illinois, Indiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Michi-
gan, New Hampshire. New York
Ohio. Pennsylvania and Wiscon-
sin.
Maryland, including the Dis
trict of Columbia. pays $1.67 for
each dollar received. Virginia is
on the credit side of the ledger
paying 80 cents per dollar.
Mississippi Nets Most
Mississippi is at the bottom OF
the scale. 1t contributes only 2s
cents for each ioilar received
Next is Arkansas. 81 cents, and
New Mexico. "a cents.
In another computation the
foundation said New York pays
1888 per cent of Federal taxes
collected. California pasy $3.50
per cent Illinois. 7.26 per cent
These States are the three
highest.
Wyoming is low. 1t pays 10 of
! per cent of all Federal taxes.
Next up the scale are Vermont,
.19 Of ! per cent, and Nevada, 20
Of ! per cent.
Maryland. including the Dis
trict, pays 2.68 per cent of the
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ton should be given to the full
est use and wisest. expansion Of
existing institutions. particularly
the plants Of small colleges adj
vantageously' located but now
underdeveloped. New institutions,
particularly Junior and commu-
nifty colleges or branches Of State
universities, will be needed.
Plant expansions or new es-
Establishments should be under
taken only after State wide or
regional analysis of needs.
Increased philanthropic and
corporate giving and "reasona-
ble' increases in Aallotments from
public funds will be required for
educational expansions as en-
visaged in the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

Of higher education are in
demand"
It was pointed out that salaries
are ''lamentably low" and that
increased income for higher
education in recent decades has
not gone into salaries. but for
other educational services.
Faculty posts today are at
tracing substantially smaller
proportions of persons with
earned doctors degrees, the re-
port said. stating that industry
and the professions have rec
ognized as never before the value
of doctoral training in a wide
range of academic fields and are
drawing the products of gradu-
ate schools in large proportions.
&c petition for highly
trained personnel and the high
levels Of industrial and technical
salaries make low academic
salaries all the more disastrous, "
1t added.
DR.. Herman B. Wells, president
of Indiana University, who
served as commission chairman
during the four-year prepara-
ton Of the study. said at a press
conference he thought faculty
salary was 1.-The most important
problem we face"
An NEA research bulletin last
year put the average salary for
higher education teachers Of all
ranks combined at $5,243.
Professions Losing Appeal
I'VE are losing college teachers
to an increasing degree" said
DR.. Wells. I'VE are losing those
now in the profession to business
and industry. The Phi. D. has
been discovered by industry. This
is true not only in science, but
in many fields.
"They are going into Compel
ing kinds of activities very rapid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

half, therefore, was allocated on
the basis Of statistics of the dis
tribution of dividends; the Sec
ond half on the basis of retail
sales figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22
II States Carry Burden
Of Federal Aid Programs
By FRANCIS p. DOUGLASS

Fourteen States paying toward Federal Aid
they receive the burdens Of the Federal
States and local according to the
top According to the organza-
that State $245 Federal every dollar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

way speeds thus meeting the three most critical tests
gasoline.
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gasoline addtive
developed by Shell Research. Patent applied for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-22

Detrot has given automobile engines designed for per-
Torrance undreamed Of only few short years ago. To realize
the full potential Of these engines Shell developed entirely
new and higher grade of gasoline, Super She'll
1t contains heatstabe aviation fuel componens that pro-
vide nockee power under all engine temperatures At the
time these power ingredients give Super Shell extra
energy for better mileage This lets any deliver
acceleration from standstl more miles per gallon at
cruising speeds full acceeation for safe passing at high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22

the medical school here, his associations
with numerous public and private under
takings designed to strengthen medical
education have gained more than local
prominence. A former president of the
Association of Medical Colleges, he was
elected only this month as president of
the National Board of Medical Exam
liners. Thus he has been a rowing ambas-
sador of George Washington's School of
Medicine, which has profited from his
national standing and wide acquaintain-
ships throughout the medical world.
DR.. Bloedorn was a prime mover in
obtaining the Federal Governments sup
port which made possible George Wash
ington'S and Georgetown University's
modern teaching hospitals. He has every
reason to be proud of the medical schools
progress under his leadership, and his
friends find satisfaction in the knowledge
that retirement as dean will not end his
vigorous advocacy of stronger medical
schools throughout the country - ade-
quately financed and prepared to meet
the increasing responsibility of supplying
more and better trained doctors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22
Budget and Peace

II suddenly we should find
our country in q state Of war
every citizen would rally to the
flag and do everything pos
sible to save our country. We
would respect the decisions of
our leaders. though we know
that even the ablest do make
mistakes and sometimes there
is no sure way to know which
Is best.
Should we not act in the same
spirit in the time Of peace.
even at the high cost of pro-
viding an adequate defense
budget, to try TO preserve that
peace. rather than take a
chance on losing it?
Why cut the budget where
our peace might be at stake?
Why not reduce some wasteful
expenditures where peace is
not at stake? A. L. s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22
Justified Protest

Residents Of the Potomac, MARYLAND.
area are justiflably concerned over plans
OF the washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission to build a major water.
collecting, storage and treatment plant
in their midst. If the plant is to resemble
the one which the commission now
operates near the Patuxent River, the
objections Of the citizens to such an
industrial" type invasion Of supposedly
top-reStricted residential zone are valid.
We hope the commission will reconsider
its plan on the basis Of suggestions made
at yesterdays hearing.
The proposed installation is designed
to meet the urgent needs Of the bicounty
water system for an additional source Of
supply. Engineers have reported that the
only answer to the problem is the tapping
Of the Potomac River. They studied sew
eral possible tapping sites and decided
on one where Watts Branch enters the
Potomac. But this location is adjacent
to one Of two small sections Of Mont
gomery County reserved by the Montgom-
cry County Council for two-acre home
sites. Some Of the county's fine estates
are In this restricted area. We agree
with opponents Of the plant that 1t is
anomalous to have one county agency
setting the region aside for highly re-
stricted residential development and an
other county-Nvel agency ignoring the
coming plan.
Opponents Of the plant have urged
the commission to give serious consider
alton to building the water station and
storage tanks where Seneca Creek flows
into the river. They contend that such
an installation would cost little more than
the planned construction and that 1t
would cause far less disturbance Of prop
erty values. Their petition is reasonable
and merits favorable study by the COM
mission and its engineers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22
Reckless Gamble

We do not know what the President
could have said, but didn't say, last night
in his hard-hitting effort to save that
fraction of his budget which is set aside
for foreign aid.
This 1913 billion, only per cent of
the total, is the favorite target of those
demagogueS who like to rant about give
awayS and the follieS of Uncle Sap. 1t
is, of course, not a give-away by any
stretch of the most fevered imagination.
Most of it is for military assistance to
our allies, and thisis vital contribution
to the growing strength which reinforces
their security-and ours. The rest is for
economic and technical aid to the back
ward countries, the countries which surely
will be drawn into the Communist orbit
unless, with modest assistance from us,
they can shore up their economies and
provide their people with something ap-
preaching decent existence.
In combination, these items offer
the only hope that we can see for some
forward progress out of the prevailing
armed stalemate. If an irresponsible
Congress destroys this prospect, we do not
see how our country can look ahead to
anything except growing isolation in
the world and an ever-mounting bill for
the weapons for our own defense. For
Congress to do this would be, as the
President said, reckless gamble with
the security of the United States. He
could we'll have said that 1t would be a
foolhardy gamble.
What impression this will make on
the Congress is uncertain. The irrecon-
cilableS doubtless will plunge ahead with
their meat-ax schemes. But it was talk
which should strengthen the hand of
those who want to support the President,
and it may make 1t easier for some Of
those who have been talking big budget
cuts, but who know in their hearts that
this is no time for the United States to
throw in the sponge. Much depends upon
the reaction of the people. They know
the President was right when he said
that the price of war is higher than the
price of peace, and that the price of war
will be paid, not in dollars, but in the
lives of our sons and in the devastation
of our cities. Knowing this, will they
come to his support?
1t is nonsense to say that we cannot
afford this expenditure We can sustain
1t If we want to sustain it, and we should
remember, as this race between the free
world and communism heads into the
stretch, that only defeat awaits the side
which quits first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
The Bees Leqs Are Also Its Ears
By THOMAS r. HENRI

between the members Of q
hive. This language. however,
is a scent language. The sense
Of smell in these insects ap-
parently is extremely acute,
but they have no ears and
probably no sound receptive
area in the brain.
u y y 4
Speed of clouds 300 miles
high, at the extreme limits of
the earth's atmosphere. is
being measured by a University
Of Virginia astronomer.
These clouds. known as ion
clouds. are invisible. They are,
however, charged with electri-
city.
To determine the rate at
which they move, DR.. Edward
Stevenson is using a radio star,
an invisible point in the heav-
ems from which radio signals
are received, as a background
candle against which to sill
houette the drift of the clouds
as they pass between the star
and his radio receivers on
earth.
Signals from a radio star,
although invisible, can be de-
tected with a suitable antenna
and sensitive radio receiver.
In fact, the radio signals can
be received day or night and
in all kinds of weather.
Technique Explained
In view of these facts, how
then can an invisible cloud be
seen against the light" of
an invisible star? When these
clouds of charged particles
dons) pass between the earth's
surface and a radio star, they
interrupt the radio waves and
create fluctuations in the re-
ceiver output. The star
wrinkles" or scintillates.
BY using two receivers sep
arated a mile or two, the time
difference between correlated
fluctuations gives the COM
ponent speed of the drift of
the clouds in the direction of
the two stations. With a third
receiver on a line at right
angles to the first pair. the
speed component in this Sec
ond direction is found and
thence the resultant speed and
direction of the upper atmos-
pheric wind can be computed.
This important work will
add to mans knowledge of
what goes on high above the
earth. and when man begins
to understand these factors
he will begin to understand
some factors creating weather
cycles.
DR.. Stevenson has set up MS
central radio station at the
Milton Airport. outside Of
Charlottesville. Two other
outlying stations are located a
mile or two away at right
angles to each other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22

Things in this country are
confusing to me, In what
! hear and what / see.
Billions to Europe from tax
payers drained. TO ease
world tension and rela-
tionships strained.
Ammo to Tito. aircraft and
tanks, he negotiates with
Russia. his way Of thanks.
Playing Santa to nations that
won't lift q finger while
some people at home in
poverty linger.
To curtail imitation money is
frightened. the ones with
out homes are the only
ones frightened.
In dollars alone ! make q fair
wage. but how far 1t goes
is another page.
No raise for the men that de-
fend our land. a dwindling
force too weak to stand.
A big organization runs short
Of money, gave a mansion
away that's really q honey.
A hundred thousand dollars
to fly TO the greens, people
ten blocks away are liv-
ing on beans.
Maybe these things wouldn't
seem strange TO me II I
perched on q high limb In
the political tree.
EN-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22
Retirinq Dean

Warm tributes to his distinguished
service have followed the recent an
nouncement of DR.. Walter A. Bloedorn's
forthcoming retirement as Dean Of the
George Washington University School Of
Medicine. They are richly merited, not
only for his leadership in the continuing
development Of one Of the Nations old
est medical schools-founded in 1926
but also because Of his contributions to
medical education on the national level.
His formal connection with the medi-
cal school began some 80 years ago with
his appointment as professor, and he
has been dean for nearly 20 years. But
in addition to his accomplishments at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22
ChoIIenoe to Justice

It would be a shocking miscarriage
Of justice If underworld threats were to
block Federal prosecution Of racketeer
Johnny Dio in the Riesel acid-blinding
case The prospect of such a dismal end
toIthe impending conspiracy trial of Dio
and three associates has arisen as result
of the refusal Of a key Government wit
ness to repeat in court testimony he gave
last August before grand Jury investi-
eating the vicious attack on Labor Col
uAnist Victor Riesel The witness, Con-
ddfo Miranti, was given a five-year
sentence for refusing to take the stand
against Dio. Miranti already is serving
1872 years for his part in the attack.
The Government has several other
witnesses 1t could use against Dio and
his pals, but without Miranti's testimony
the prosecution would be under an almost
insuperable handicap. In signed state
ment last August, Miranti had confessed
that he was picked by Dio to arrange
for the acid throwing He was convicted
on Federal conspiracy charge and later
pleaded guilty to State manning charge.
Miranti's refusal to testify, despite the
judges order to do so, occurred In the
presence of Dio, who had front-row seat.
It would be unthinkable to have JUS
tice in the Riesel case thwarted by threats
or implied threats to witnesses. The Gov
eminent should leave no stone unturned
in its investigation of this intimida-
ton outrage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-22

Bees near WIN Cnelr legs.
They are highly sensitive
to vibrations caused by high
intensity sound waves which
are just ewithin the hearing
range of the human ear
This sensitivity is shown,
however. only when they are
inside the hive. They are COM
pletely oblivious to any sounds
when on the wing.
Experiments demonstrating
this have just been reported
to the American Association
for the Advancement of
Science here by Drs. Hubert
Frings and Franklin Little of
Pennsylvania State University.
They worked under a research
grant of the National Insti-
tutes Of Health.
Continuous irradiation of
hives with sounds of certain
frequency. they report. causes
an almost total cessation of
movement of workers and
drones in the hives for as long
as 20 minutes. The quiescence
was so complete that a bee
keeper could safely open the
hive and carry out routine
jobs without the usual smoke
treatment to stupefy the in
sects.
Resumed Normal Life
AS soon as the sounds were
discontinued the bees almost
Immediately resumed their
normal activities. There were
no observable reactions to
those sounds by insects at
entrance to the hive or by
workers gathering nectar in
the surrounding fields.
These observations" says
the report. support the idea
that the sounds are received
by the bees through the legs
after the hive is caused to
vibrate by the absorption Of
the air-borne sound.
Bees in standard beehives
were tested. With the sounds
on, the covers Of the hives were
removed and the frames lifted
out. The bees on the frames
remained still as long as
sounds of the proper frequen-
cies and intensity continued.
1t was possible, therefore, to
work in hives using only sound.
This was done for about two
months with three hives.
There was no sign of habitua-
ton of the bees to this sound.
The high intensities of these
sounds make some form Of
ear protection necessary. but
free use Of both hands for
working in the hive is possible.
Sounds may have some use in
bee culture"
Previous investigations have
shown that bees have a quite
complicated language which
makes possible communication