Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1958-08-13
No Need For Panic

-. We have heard much of the alleged plight of the
nations Schools ascribed to grossly inadequate pay
for teachers, inadequate building of physical facilities
and other such neglects The commonly proposed sou-
ton is Federal support of education.
Now, however, the Institute of Social Science
Research has issued an exhaustive study which
reaches very different conclusions 1t is signed by
Roger Freeman, an acknowledged authority in this
Held who, among other things, consutant on
Education.
Here some of the points Mr. Freeman makes
and substantiates In terms of COST education is the
largest public service in the country to national
defense Between 192939 and 1955-56, personal con-
sumption expenditures double whereas public school
expenditures tripled. In 1856 spent $1O3 "a per
capita on education against $3417 in Russia. In
late years. the number of certified teachers has in
creased materially more a percentage basis, than
the number of pupils In these years. in addition,
college majors in education has increased by 33 per
cent where majors in other fields decreased by %
per cent The classroom shortage has been greatly
exaggerated and is rapidly decreasing
Finally, in 1857 teachers pay on the average
was "a per cent above the 1929 level earnings of all
workers were 80 per cent above
The study certainly does not claim that everything
Is perfect in education. But it certainly does show
that our educational problems have been magnified
out of all reason There's need to press any panic
buttons
Railroads last year again proved themselves the
safest way to travel according to data compiled from
governmental and other sources. Travel by rail was
nearly twice as safe as travel by domestic airline and
taxi The automobile fatality rate the data also shows
was ~ ~ times that of rail- air and bus lines combined
Alaska, the 10th state. probably will formally
ehter the Union before this year ends And she'll be
the biggest state by far more than twice the size
of Texas. By way of contrast the entire population
Is only that of middle city about 2 600
According to feature article in The Wall Street
journal The nations military chiefs are making a
new assault on problem crucial to national survival
How to develop weapons faster than Russia
does. Reforms include giving defense contractors a
treer hand in airplane and missile DEVELOPMENT:
streannng of the military channels manufacturers
must go through TO get decisions reduction in the
number of different planes, missiles and vehc les
under development, and the adjustment of many
PentagOn committees.
business aircraft owned by corporations and ndivd
uaS now exceed $4,000 Is times the fleets of all
alrines combined. The business fleet flies nearly 4
billion air miles a year.
In Walter Uppmanns view: The ultimate power
of the state cannot be entrusted to men whose con-
ceptlon of public virtue is that their integrity is de
quate II they cannot be convicted of crime is not
asking too much that in the highest places men must
pe an example OF what ought to be the general prac-
tlce: Ihey cannot excuse themselves by saving that
In TACT they have done only as many Others have
done" ~
Z: 5. News & World Report says that the farm
Shachlnery industry better times ahead The
reasons: large 1858 harvess the improved finan
cal posIuon OF farmers in general
Retired Admiral Ben MoreelI who now heads .
steel company feels The United States is on sucida
course to slavery because in recent decades we have
Deen yielding to government individual responsi
olity lie proposes ending all further raids on the
PuDhc treasury, whether conducted by unions bust
freshmen nessnen, farmers or any other group