Milford chronicle., 1958-10-03
A VITAL DIFFERENCE

A VITAL DIFFERENCE
During the past year or so there has been
a continuous ferment of debate and discus
sion about the nations system of education.
Its exceptional virtues have been defended
its shortcomings have been lambasted.
One of the most interesting aspects of
all this is the fact that such controversy
illustrates major strength of our system
or our political system, that is. No one at
the federal, state or community level can
dictate, over the long run, in this matter of
how the youth of America shall be educated.
Whatever changes come about will result
from thorough going public consideration of
the issues. In very practical sense, the
people determine the broad outlines of edu-
cational practice.
1t is with this background in mind that
one must consider changes in Soviet educa-
tion recently suggested" by Nikita S.
Khrushchev Millions of Russian young peo-
pie will henceforth be channeled into the
labor market, and higher education will be
available only to carefully screened group.
This change is coming about not because of
public dissatisfaction with the present SyS-
tenn of education, not as result OF public
discussion and consideration, but because the
rulers want it.
Khrushchey and others in the Kremlin
are plainly worried about two things-the
growing need for both skilled and semi-skill-
ed n1anpower, and the disturbing stew of
relatively free thought in the universities.
The new system will bring many young peo-
pie into the labor force. 1t also will make
sure that only those with "safe" attitudes
toward the regime will be permitted to re-
ceive higher education.
The difference is vital one. We have
our educational troubles, and we will work
them out as democratic people. The Rus
slams have their difficulties-and the Soviet
bosses have decreed what is to be done
about them.
AUTUMN, 1858
The Fall season now presents itself, with
all the beauty of nature and color and page
antry which the end of the growing season
produces. This year autumn lasts from 8 a.
m. on September 23rd until December 21st
at 3 40 a. m.
At the beginning of Autumn on Septenl-
Der 23rd, and at the beginning of spring.
which this year was March goth, the earth's
axis is perpendicular to the plane of its orbit
around the sun. Day and night is equal for
this one day. But the oscillation of the
earth's axis with respect to the sun produces
the seasons, and so only on these days, the
Vernal Equinox and the Autumnal Equinox,
is day and night of equal length.
The axis of the earth is tilted % degrees
and twenty-seven minutes toward the sun in
June, when the days are the longest. In the
winter, come December 21St the axis is tilt
ed % degrees and twenty-seven minutes
away from the sun, and nights are short, as
"a result. This pertains to the Northern Hem
isphere. In the Southern Hemisphere the eX-
act opposite is true.
In the Torrid Zone, which lies between
the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capri
corn, with the equator in the center, the sea-
sons are not very well defined and the wea-
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do not enjoy the sharp changes of seasons as
we do in our part of the world
Autumn is nostalgia time, for it is the
season in which growing things die, in which
the nights grow longer as the temperatures
become colder, and when both animals and
humans seek to store up both fuel and food
for winter-as mankind has done for thou
sands of years. 1t is also beautiful season,
and in the woods natures greatest show of
the year is staged in the Fall, when the
leaves turn many brilliant colors and the
winds finally tear them from the branches,
as winter approaches.
THE BIBLE-THE WORD OF LIFE.
The 18th annual National Bible Week
will be observed during the week of October
20-26 Once again it is sponsored by an all
faith group, the Laymen's National COM
mittee, Inc. This years theme is: "The
Bible-The Word of Life 1t is taken from
the End Chapter, 18th Verse of the Philip
pans.
National Bible Week is dedicated by men
and women of all faiths as a tribute to the
worlds greatest Book. By a daily reading
and study of the Bible we may hope to
arouse newer and greater spiritual force
"a force that is desperately needed in to-
days troubled world. Those who know and
follow the precepts of the Bible will always
fight the effort to substitute the pagan state
as arbiter of what is right and wrong in