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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16
eseneiss and eounssIoFs.
should be her only source OF
help with her homework.

should be her only source Of
help with her homework.
Mrs. F. 8. seems unable to
lay down the law as TO the
telephone. There should be
a time limit on telephone.
calls. If Flora will not respect
this limit. she should lose her
telephone privileges.
It appears to US that Mrs.
F. s. is using the younger
children to make things I'M
pleasant for Flora and Larry.
This can only result in the
chaos this family seems to be
suffering from.
Where is Mr.. F. s. while
all this is going on? 1t sounds
as though q firm masculine
hand Is needed somewhere
in this picture.
The younger children
should learn that IL they
want their rights respected.
they must treat others with
courtesy. We don't go along
with the theory that normal
kids" can't be kept in line
when they understand the
rules Of the household and
the reasons for those rules.
Copyright. 1858. General Features Corr
Tomorrow: Sisten-ia-Iow dis
esres on encouraging their children
to ploy together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16
THE FAMILY COUNCIL
Girl Resents ChiIdren's Teasing
When Boy Friend Comes to Call

work by herself. but then she
spends half the evening talk
ing to him on the telephone,
so it's no use.
The younger kids can be
pesky. but they do get all
excited about having a visitor
in the house every evening.
They are just normal kids
and you can't keep them
down when something is
going on.
THE COUNCILS VIEW
In a well regulated house.
hold both young children and
adolescents accept discipline
easily II they also receive
justice.
From both accounts. 1t APP
pears 70 US that there Is a
lack Of both discipline and
justice in this home.
Flora has O right to re-
ceive her boy friend without
fear Of intrusion and en-
barrass ent from her
younger sisters and brothers.
She also should accept disci-
pline from her parents when
they say they don't want
Larry helping with ner home
work.
Flora should not be seeing
her boy friend every night Of
the week and the homework
excuse is not q good one.
Homework is given for the
express purpose Of making
the student wrestle with GER
tain problems on his own.
Flora should realize she is
depriving herself of a val
liable experience when she
doesn't learn independence
In this respect. The library
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

average family spends 4 lot
Of time at television and q
little time At the local movie.
tat
IN THE FIELD Of tele-
vision. the local Los Angeles
shows are better than any
I've seen around New York.
The commentator not only
ten the audience what Il
happening, they show II as
II happens. They cover court
cases. accidents. civic AZ
fairs. personalities. fires. In
addition. they have q hang
nail from the old "Informa-
ton Please" show named
Oscar Levant. He smokes
cigarettes Ike q bankrupt
mandarin and strains TO In
suit his benefactors.
The big newspapers are the
Los Angeles Examiner. the
Times. the Herald-Express
and the Mirror-News. These
are finely balanced between
international and national
news and local material.
They appear. TO me. To carry
more features and more
social notes than newspapers
elsewhere.
The city has q fine police
department. low on police
men and high on mileage 70
be covered. II is a sports
minded metropolis. and Il
likes football. horse racing,
baseball and dogs.
II is a western city. though
not as far west as Reno.
(copyrlsht. 1888. Kine Features
syndicate, Incl
Fridoy: An impersonotor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16
Eh7uRz Rcz
Law m THE NEWS
What Price Wisdom?
Student Asks in Suit

10 Columbia amounted 10 q
false representation that II
could teach wisdom.
Plaintiff Philosophical
Mr.. Jacobsen. according to
reports. apparently was phil
osophical about the whole
thing. He said he had not
acquired the wisdom he ex-
pected 10 get from the school.
that Columbia officials had
admitted American education
was not all II should be and
that his primary purpose In
: bringing the suit was 10 force
Columbia into a re-examina-
ton Of itself.
Whether or not Mr.. Ja-
cobsen accomplished his pur-
pose, II must be admitted
That ne has q novel approach.
There may be other cases
like this one. but offhand It
Is pretty hard to think Of any.
Judge Foley's comment
that the real question Is
whether a college guarantees
wisdom by holding itself out
as an institution of learning
would seem to invoke an al
most automatic legal protec-
ton for the college.
What Is wisdom?
In the first place. learning
and wisdom are not neces-
sarily the same thing. The
former connotes knowledge
or skill received by instruc-
ton or study: the latter
means "the ability to Judge
soundly and deal sagaciously
with facts. especially as they
relate to life and conduct"
There's a lot of difference.
In the second place, a col
lege-student relationship is
not quite the same as that
which exists between two
parties who contract with
each other for particular
goods or services. While GER
tain contractural rights and
obligations do exist on both
sides. the flow Of either
learning" or wisdom" from
one party to the other is not
normally one of them.
Still, to the legal mind,
Mr.. Jacobsen's contention has
acertain kind Of logic. While
it may not result in any rev.
dictionary legal doctrines. it
is the sort Of thing which can
make lawyers hold up and
cogitate q little. Perhaps it
win do the same for educat-
ors.
Sundoy: Avoiding legal tonsIes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16
THE PROBLEM

FLORA s.-The younger
kids bother my boy friend and
me.
MRS. r. S.-They are
normal kids-you- can't keep
them down.
THE DETAILS
Flora ST. am nearly II
and a senior in high school.
I am having an awful prob
lem with my younger sisters
and brothers and my mother.
/ have q steady boy friend
and he visits me nearly every
night so he can help me with
my homework. My younger
sisters and brothers then start
acting up, making noise.
stupid jokes and embarrass-
: ing remarks. When I tell my
mother to make the kids stop.
she says she doesn't like the
idea Of me getting help with
my homework from Larry.
It's gotten so he doesn't
want to come over to my
house any more. He wants
me to come over TO his house.
but mother makes q fuss
about that. too.
Mrs. r. S.-Although Larry
got out Of high school last
year and therefore thinks he
knows something. I happen to
know that he got through
school by the skin Of his
teeth and / think Flora was
doing a lot better before she
got him to help with her
homework.
I told her to do her home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16
SteriiH

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: How
much does overweight have
to do with sterility2 I have
been married 10 years and
We have a flve-year-old son.
/ was very thin when ! was
married. But after getting
away from an unhappy home
my nerves we're better and
! put on weight.
After three years with no
pregnancy an Army doctor
put me on thyroid and I
dieted and lost 80 pounds.
Within a year I was able to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16
Commander Whitehead says: Its mutiny
to mix Gin~and~ Tonic without Schweppes!"

TT SEEMS only yesterday that Commander Whitehead
L SchwePpesman in charge of enlightening un-
Schwepped regions, first set foot on our shores
Americans tasted SchwePPes curousy refreshing Bit
tersweet favor. And discovered SchwepPervescence-
paician little bubbles that last the whole drink through
Soon it was declared maauous to mix Gin-and- Tonic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

Los Angeles Is a big kid.
It's trousers are hallway up
the shinbone. II grows taller.
wider. deeper as you watch
Il. One minute. II dozes in
a white hot sun; the next
II Is OF and running into
the Santa Monica hills, using
muscles II didn't know Il had.
From the air. II looks like
q i0.000-square crossword
puzzle. From the street. II is
q leopard-skin sports car
snorting at 20 miles per
hour behind q fruit truck.
From coldwater Canyon. at
night. It Is like lying beneath
a well-hghted Christmas tree.
On its beaches. q big green
wave that started weeks ago
in Yokohama thunders
against the sand.
The big kid Is made up OF
more than 4 million people.
They started out in Haverll.
Hackensack. Harrisbufg,
Hattiesburg and Honolulu.
After q week or two In Cali
fornia. they switched license
plates and began TO live on
avocadoes and chard. They
are young and old and bright
and stupid and athletic and
arthritic: the rich. the pen
stoned, the penniless are all
here.
LOOKING at the bill
boards, one would guess that.
emotionally. these people are
interested in sex. religion.
smog and funerals. The
benches at the bus stops tell
q visitor how to get himself
boxed and buried reasonably.
The churches are OF all
denominations, and many
are Of none. Some people
shop around for a church
that viii promise the most
for the least. The majority
have faith, and stick to one.
Between the sea and the
mountains. the smoke of a
hundred thousand chimneys
and backyard trash baskets
rises and lies over the city.
1t is like an old wood stove
with a back draft. This is
Smog - a wedding Of the
words smoke" and "fog."
Through it. one sees sunshine
and DC-7s. I've been here
two weeks and. II California
had not drawn attention to
it, the smog would have
passed as Sea Bright mist.
%& 50
THE FACE Of this big is
freckled with towns. The
names have the flamenco
rhythm Of castanets: Santa
Monica. Playa de Rey. Pasa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

without the one the only, the original Seb1Oeppes
Many cities report ground swell for Vodka mixed
with Schweppes And SchwePPes is also being hailed as
great soft drink somewhat austefe-not too sweet
Thirsty reader however you take your Schweppe you
be certain Of this that you are drinking the original
and authentic Tonic. Congratulations!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

The Fomily Council consists OF Q
judge. o psyehiotris,. three
elersymsn. . newspaper editor. Q
women's editor and two writers.
Eaeh criticize IS o summary Of on
oetuol eose history. The council
reports on problems thot have
been deoIt with BY responsible
oeeneies and counselors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

fddoy: An impsrsonotOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

sSndoy: Avoiding legal ,oasIes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-16

70 Columbia amounted 10 a
false representation that II
could teach wisdom.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Highway Trash
Problem Mounts

Fifty million tax dollars are spent annually
in the United States to clean up primary high
ways alone. 1t costs Maryland taxpayers over
$500 per mile per year to clean up the Gov.
Richie Highway
John E. Clark, chairman of the Governors
Committee to Keep Maryland Beautiful, points
out "ths staggering sum is the result of the care
less habits of each individual who winds down his
car window and losses out his trash This is a
national problem but it only be solved in each
community by those who live there" "As an ex-
ample" he added, ''the Washington Baltimore
Boulevard Improvement Association is doing just
that by educating its own members as well as
those who travel the Boulevard"
Two years ago, the Association first placed
trash containers at business places and bus stops
along the highway. They painted the containers
green and labeled them KEEP MARYLAND
BEAUTIFUL" These have served not only as
repositories for the motorists travel trash, but
are in themselves constant reminders to the
motoring public that trash belongs in contaner
Last winter the Association purchased several
thousand litterbags from the Governors Commit
tee and distributed them to their members and
other local civic organizations. Along the Wash
ington Boulevard a gas station (Gibbons Texaco
Station) motel (Del Haven Motel, and a trailer
park aladdin Trailer village) are giving away
litterbags to their customers.
The Association also commends attractive new
businesses and businesses which have made inn
provements which are assets to the community
"Clean inviting business premises and clean
highways mean better business" stated Associa-
ton president Pfister land If we expect the
travelling public to cooperate, we must provide
them with the facilities to do so"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
School 'Brighties'

ELSEWHERE in this issue we publish
L story prepared by our education reporter,
Mrs. Dorothy Waleski, on the extra
ordinarily large percentage of bright children
in Montgomery County schools
According to her findings, the county
has twice the number of pupils with
superior" and very superior" intelligence
than would be found in typical commu-
nifty"
Before we had this story in hand we edi-
torialized last week that it was time the
county school board step up its efforts to
give extra attention to the rapid learner
Disclosure this week that our schools have
such high percentage of "brighties" drama
tically underscores this need. In the light of
this information it would seem the school
board should attack with renewed vigor the
problem of filling the needs of the rapid
learner. These are the kids who will be the
leaders of tomorrow. Our educators mustn't
let them down.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Along fhe Potomac
Thanks TO Explorer,
Everything's Dandy
BY Dewitt S. Hyde

The constant radio signals from Satellite
Explorer, as it moves around and around the
earth, provide continuing reminder that the
United States is no second-class nation as some
critics frantically claimed few weeks ago. These
signals proclaim to the world and to the doubling
Thomases among u.s. that the United States is not
behind in its technology. scientist friend of
mine has said the best service that the Satellite
Explorer can perform is to put an end to the poll.
teal hysteria created by the Sputnks ] think
it has.
Four types of information essential to the
planning for mannedspace ships are being
radoed to ten tracking stations scattered through
scientists report the signals and the data being
broadcast from the American satellite are better
than anything received from the Sputniks.
The information being sent out by the Elk
plorer covers temperatures inside and outside the
SHE'LL the effect of collisions with meteorites the
size of grains of sand, and the measurement of
cosmic rays.
Perhaps the most important message emanat
ing from the Explorer is its clear call to everyone
to work anew for Americas fundamental free
dom. 1t reminds us that we need lot of clear
and straight thinking these days on lot of prob
lens. Many of our programs demand unemo
tional new look as much, if not more, than they
need money.
This week we celebrate the birthday of Abra-
ham Lincoln and it seems to me that the Satellite
Explorer is saying Lincoln did, that this
nation under God shall have new birth of free
dom; and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people shall not perish from the
earth"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13

flu epidemic last fall, he and his staff go back
to driving buses. This occurs when their list of
Is substitutes fails to produce enough to meet
the demand.
1t would help some, Ream feels, if the public
understood two basic board of education rules
That drivers are instructed to wait at bus
stops only II the child is in sight.
That if side road looks unnavigable, the
driver should not enter it. This leaves it up to
the parents to judge how bad the road is and to
get their children up to the main road
However, Ream is resigned to the fact that
even about publicity would not stop all of his
indignant callers
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Teachers Poy

1t is surprising thing that a majority of
those who are opposed to paying higher
teachers salaries seem to prefer anonymity.
At least that has been our experience here
on this newspaper.
We receive communications on many
subjects and we try to print all of them.
But, of course, we cantor see no point in
it-print the offerings of anonymous per-
sons. And we get more anonymous offerings
from those opposed to teachers pay raises
than on any other subject
Why is this? We don't know the answer.
Most people are-or should be-willing to
stand up and be counted as far as their
honest convictions are concerned.
To all those who oppose teachers pay
hikes and critic us for favoring them, we ask
this question: The teachers starting pay is
now $500 year. IF they have degree;
could you support your family on that salary
which amounts to about STA per week before
taxes?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Up

Maryland paid more money to its unemployed
last month under the Maryland Unemployment
Insurance Law than in any other month in its
history Robert B. Kimble, Executive Director Of
the Department of Employment Security an
nounced today.
Kimble emphasized however that this record
was set solely because the size of the average
check has risen over the years. A greater number
OF checks, reflecting greater unemployment, was
paid to the combined total of jobless veterans and
civilians in the state in May, 1896 than was paid
last month.
Unemployed persons were paid $5925,460 in
benefits under the Maryland Law in January an
increase Of COS percent over the $3692,359 Of De
cember and an increase of 225.7 percent over the
$1,S19,263 of January, 1857.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Herbert j. Holland

ours - who feel, for example,
that the schools do not give
enough attention to "life adjust
ment" and community living"
problems. These others, along
with defenders of the status
quo, we would engage in order
ly debate; their admission to
our organization, alas. must
await their conversion.
Finally, you state as fact
that persons who would tear
down rather than build up are
already active In the (Conserva-
tive Club)." Unlike you, / can
not claim acquaintance with the
inner motivations of the mem
bers of the organization. / am
unaware, however, of a single
member who fits that descrip-
ton. 1 would be grateful if you
would publish the names of
such persons for appropriate
action by our executive board
and I trust you will do so with
due Difference to the libel laws.
The Conservative Club re-
sents your attack because, once
again, it believes its position is
worth talking about. We do not
expect agreement throughout
the community. but we do ex-
pect fair-minded citizens to meet
us. if they meet us at all, on
the merits of the issues we
raise. We have been brought
up to believe In the efficacy of
the discussion process. We re-
gard individuals - or newspap-
ers - who would stifle that
process as community liabilities.
l.. Brent BOzell, President
Montgomery County Con-
sentative Club
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Foot in Door

4 A0l week we CdTIleu d NEWS story dUOuI
the current practice in eight county high
schools of staging magazine subscription
drives to raise funds. These funds are put to
very good use in the schools and at first blush
the whole idea would appear to be very
good one.
Upon closer scrutiny, however, the sell
ing drives lose little of their luster And
we are inclined to believe that the practice is
not very good one.
Probably the worst feature of the pro-
gram is the fact that the public school sys-
tenn, unwittingly, has LET down the bars to
open Grass unashamed commercialism. The
Curtis Publishing Co., of Philadelphia, is out
to make buck land there's nothing wrong
in that and so are lot of others including
Joe's O-So-Good Hot Dog Stand the Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. even-this
newspaper The prospect of the school call
ing an assembly, as one did recently, for the
express purpose of recruiting and organizing
an army of about 300 junior statesmen for
Curtis Publishing Co. to canvass the commu-
nifty peddling Curtis products is enough to
make any business firm from General Motors
on down turn green with envy. The oppor-
tunity to have hundreds-in fact, thousands
In this county alone-of statesmen out beat
ing the bushes to sell their products would
excite even the biggest corporations. In fact,
we suspect some of the big supermarkets, for
example, would make the Curtis offerings to
the schools seem like peanuts if the schools
would give them the opportunity to bid
How can the school logically let in one
commercial interest without letting in all of
them? Obviously, the whole program is un-
sound and should = ultimately - be done in.
Most school principals readily admit this. But
they point out the magazine drives do pro-
duce needed funds for worthwhile activities.
Hence, they are in quandry
Obviously, the answer is to keep COM
mercialism out of our schools. And to see to
it that the schools get the funds they need
in school budget, not by having Montgomery
County students put their feet in the doors
of thousands of home here on behalf of
Philadelphia publishing firm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-13
Hyde's Turn

TO attempt to convey the impression as
| Rep. Dewitt S. Hyde (R.-Md.) does in
his column printed elsewhere on this page,
that the United States is not behind Russia
in missile and satellite development is to go
against everything we are reading and hear
ing these days on the subject.
Either Rep Hyde is right and everybody
else is wrong. Or the opposite is true. We
prefer to believe the latter.
1t is this type of vapid, phoney assurance
from our government leaders that caused
everyone to react so violently when Sputnik
went up. We had believed, up to now, that
Rep. Hyde was above resorting to this nom
sense.
Last week we asked Chairman Blair Lee,
III, of the Montgomery County legislative
delegation, to leave political propaganda out
of his column. We now ask Rep. Hyde to do
the same thing.
If both gentleman apply themselves,
they can use their columns to enlighten the
taxpayers on issues-not partisan politics.