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Evening star., 1961-10-24
MASON ON EDUCATION
Teaching Excellence
Deserves Reward

pose. Too often, the rating
boils down to the opinion of
one supervisor or principal.
Deciding merit pay in this
way leads to too much de-
pendence upon personal
prejudice and favoritism. In
theory it's fine. in practice
it becomes troublesome. The
difficulties involved in choos-
ing the best become too COM
plicated.
Difficult or not, something
should be done to reward
and inspire good teaching.
We need to make a start.
at least, and work toward
a better solution.
Can be Done
Of course, starts have been
made in the right direction.
In some schools using teach
ing teams, for example, an
outstanding teacher is chosen
to lead and coordinate the
work of the team of teach
ers. His role of leader JUS
titles his increase in salary.
Still others are using a
"master-teacher" plan in
which teachers of proven
ability are chosen to help
and advise new teachers or
teachers who have special
problems.
There are many ways in
which we can start building
in opportunities for the
demonstration of excellence
which could be tied in with
merit raises: Closed-circuit
television for lectures and
demonstrations by outstand-
ing teachers. Grouping sew
eral classes in an auditorium
where one teacher lectures or
demonstrates, then students
return to their classes where
follow-up work is done.
All these and other plans
can and should be tied to
the merit system as a means
of realistic application.
Whatever the ultimate So
luton may be, if we want
to attract and hold the best
teachers in our classrooms,
we must find ways Of Of
fering them rewards COM
parable to those they could
expect to find in other fields.
You may Drite DR.. Mason
in care of The EUening Star.
He tOiH discuss questions OF
greatest general interest in
his column.
Thursday: Teocher tenure.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
YOUR MIDDLE YEARS

pairing for the leisure and
security Of old age, it is hard
for them to realize that the
time of planting and accu-
mulating is past, that the
harvest time is here"
In our go-getting culture.
we dread missing the boat"
We often speak of that. But
suppose we catch the boat
isn't it quite as sad to stay
on the boat, and on. and on,
Sfailing to get off the boat
when we have reached our
destination?
One has to get where he's
going, to be sure. But he also
has to know when he has
arrived.
Retirement Shock"
I suppose most men would
like to retire if they had
something to retire to. but
the sadness is that many
men have only something to
retire from. Retirement sug-
gestS an end. a quitting. a
giving-up. Men sometimes
hate to admit they are re-
tiring, as if this were some
confession Of being washed
up.
Psychologists speak of ere
tirement shock" This is the
sudden descent of boredom
and liStlesSneSS upon those
who have not planned ahead
in middle age. Older people
do not wear out, they rust
out" comments DR.. Raymond
Harris of st. Peters Hospital,
Albany, N. Y.
DR.. Harris asserts: Be
cause the individual has not
properly assessed his re-
sources, modified his inter-
eSts and laid the proper
ground work, he may lose the
battle of retirement. becom-
ing not only a problem to
himself but to his family and
community. His defeat may
lead to the development of
physical complaints which
Evening star., 1961-10-24

of work done for fun and
not out of compulsion. Work
becomes the constructive
equivalent Of golf or Of fish
ing; a man can work as he
pleaSes and if he pleaSes-no
one forces him. Yet there is
the challenge and the sat
faction of accomplishment.
Most of all, there is the
feeling of usefulness in the
world.
Golf and fishing and the
rest are still important per
haps even more important
than before, but they are still
recreation, the breather that
man takes when he figures
he has made his mark at toll
and deserves a treat.
Every Page Blank
In Cleveland, I met a man
of IS who was having trou-
BILE with retirement shock"
He was in the period of tur-
mol.
He said to me, while I
was working, every new day
was like turning the page of
a book and finding something
new and interesting to read.
Now that I am retired, every
page of the book is blank"
Fortunately, this man was
being helped by the Cleve-
land Senior Council, itself an
organization of retired buSi-
ness and professional men
who banded together in 1856
to be useful themselves and
to find usefulness for other
retireeS.
The councils executive di-
rector, 68-year-old Edward
w. Gressle, formerly an ex-
ecutive in Cleveland indus
try, said, Our message to the
middle-aged man can be
wrapped up in two words
Make plans
"A man should start plan
ming for his retirement 10 or
Is years ahead of time. He
can't develop a new interest
on the day he gets his re-
tirement papers. He ne e d S
time to work up the skill,
the knowledge, the enthusi-
asm, to carry him into a sec
ond career.
He couldn't generate
much enthusiasm for golf or
fishing If he took them up
for the first time at so or
65. The same is true of work.
Plans and preparation are the
bridge from middle years to
golden years"
distributed By The REGISTER and
Tribune syndicate)
Tomorrow: Your broin IS not
softenins.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
By PETER J. STEINcRoHN

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I
hear so much about the
dangers of blood transfusions
I think I would hesitate to
have one even if I were
seriously i'll. Am / way off
base in my thinking?-Mr. B.,
Miami.
WAY OFF BASE? Let's be
sure we're playing the same
game. I'll agree that much
has been written lately land
rightly about having un-
necessary transfusions. Years
ago we'd order a TRANSMISSION
as nonchalantly as we'd or
der a package of cigarettes.
Now we know that a few iron
pills, in many cases. are as
effectual as blood. OF course.
there are sudden, emergency
indications for blood trans
fusion; it can be lifesaving
and we are thankful for this
weapon in our arsenal.
But we know there must be
a real indication for blood
before we inject this into a
patients veins. There have
been too many reports about
such patients getting hepa-
tits, to treat TRANSMISSION
lightly. But I assure you we
take all the precautions we
can. If you ever need blood.
don't overrule your doctors
decision.
Have you been thinking Of
a fatal complication to
transfusions? Well. I hope I
can set your mind at ease
with some statistics. In the
Nebraska Medical Journal,
Frank Cole, MD. wrote a
paper called, THE Safety Of
Blood TRANSMISSION" His
studies showed that at the
Lincoln (Nebraska) General
Hospital 1000 consecutive
blood transfusions were ad-
ministered without a known
death. At the Mayo Clinic
Q946-54) there were 59,788
transfusionS without a death
directly attributable to trans
fusion reaction. During the
last seven years approxi-
mately 100000 transfusions
were issued by the blood
bank of Miami. There was
one death due to incompati-
bility of blood. That adds
up to one death in about
217,000 transfusions.
y Il y
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: Re-
Gently I heard about a study
being made concerning can
Ger and charcoal broiled
meat well done) This stated
it was believed that the rea-
son EskimoS have such a
high rate of stomach can
Ger is because all their meat
is smoked. Is it the cooking
method which produces the
cancer? Or is it the charcoal
like burn on very well-done
meat that is the cause? I
believe that many people
must be concerned about
this, as we use barbecueS so
much in the SUNNI er.
Mrs. H.
DON'T LET'S get too
panicky about everything.
Otherwise We'll be afraid to
60 out on the street because
the gases from auto exhausts
are supposed to have some
thing to do with lung cancer:
we won't eat in restaurants
for fear that the dishes may
be contaminated. AS for me.
I'll need much more proof
than we have now before I
forego my charcoal-burned
hamburgerS and steaks.
(Bell Syndicate Feature)
Evening star., 1961-10-24
By HOWARD WHITMAN

The japanese retire in
early middle age. They devote
themselves, as one observer
puts it, Ito viewing the
cherry blossoms, caligraphy,
ancient dances and in gen.
eral to personal cultivation
and the good life"
We, in our supposedly more
advanced culture, have a diff
ferent approach to retire
ment.
We either keep right on
pulling and Straining under
q full load until one day
we expire in harnesS-or we
60 to the other extreme and
drop everything in one pre-
cipitous retirement and then
60 nuts for lack of some
thing to do.
Of those who can't slough
off the harness, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes once said, "A
man begins a pursuit as a
means of keeping alive-he
ends by following it at the
cost of his life"
A foreign visitor to these
shores. observing how West
ern man keeps struggling for
more dollars, commented,
Each one seems to aspire
to be the richest man in the
cemetery"
We have learned so well
how to make a living-but
have we learned how to make
o life?
Boredom Ahead
Investment Counselor Omer
A. Kearney recalls the en-
counters he has had with re-
tired businessmen who just
won't stay retired. They get
beside themselves with bore
dom and eventually return in
desperation to the only kind
of life for which they ever
prepared themselves.
He comments, The old fell
lows continue to enjoy a deal
that results in more money.
After a lifetime spent pre-
Evening star., 1961-10-24
BY LESLIE J. MASON
Professor Of Education
University of Southern California

How do you reward excel
lence in teaching?
Pay the teacher more
money, of courseI Give him
a merit raise!
If the problem were only
this simple, justice could be
served and we would be a
step ahead in improving ed
ucation.
But most teachers are tied
to a system that has only
three routes to higher earn
ings, regardless of excellence:
They can get longevity pay
through years of service.
They can obtain graduate
degrees, which automatically
bring a salary boost in most
systems. They can move into
administrative jobs which
offer higher salaries.
Now, years of experience
and higher educational de-
grees may improve teaching
quality, but rarely do they
turn a dull teacher into an
inspired one.
Administrative positions are
necessary and important, but
administrators do not teach
our children, not directly,
anyway. Sometimes, out
standing teachers may not
even become very good ad-
ministrators, so we lose both
ways.
Must be Improved
This archaic system isn't
helping the teacher shortage
a bit. Many outstanding COL
lege students compare the
possible rewards with other
professions and decid e
against teaching. Many-too
many-of our best teachers
are turning to administra-
tive jobs in order to in
crease their salaries.
Perhaps the merit salary
raise is the answer. We pick
out our best teachers and
give them more money in
proportion to the quality Of
their work.
Sounds simple? 1t isn't.
Hundreds of different
check-sheets have been de-
signed by various school
systems for this very pur-
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Have Question?

c. A. A: Your G. L. Hunt
er's Decorative Furniture"
(Grand Rapids, 1929 is a
scarce color plate book of
great historical interest. A
copy in fine condition should
be worth around $40 to $25
at retail.
N. C. c.: Your three-vol-
ume set of Thomas Coke's
"A History of the West In
dies" liverpool, 1808-1D Is
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Series in Booklet Form

attractive 48page booklet containing the complete
text of all IL nSalments of Your Middle Years" by How
Whitman is available to readers of The Evening
Star This booklet is in response to heavy demand from
readers for the series in FORM Price of the
booklet is so cents per copy
You may obtain booklets by filling out the coupon.
Evening star., 1961-10-24

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Evening star., 1961-10-24

Of course, if you have more than just
a simple head cold or hay fever-if
you have temperature or if you don't
improve in couple Of days-you
should most certainly consult your doctor.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
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Evening star., 1961-10-24

Tomorrow: Patience with readers
Evening star., 1961-10-24

Thursday: Teoeher tenure.
Evening star., 1961-10-24

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Evening star., 1961-10-24

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Evening star., 1961-09-22
MiIIer's
Sumner

A home at 4706 Fort Sum-
ner drive in its Summer de-
velopment is being exhibited
by the w. C. g. A. N. Miller
Co. in the Fall Festival Of
Homes.
The home is one Of $40
that the firm has completed
at the Sumner community
which is in Montgomery
County just off Massachu-
sets avenue extended. In all,
the Miller Co., expects to
have Ala houses there when
Summer is complete.
The house on exhibit is Of
traditional architecture with
a brick exterior. It offers
five bedrooms and three and
One-naH DaChS.
Edward R. Spano is archi-
tect of the house. All of the
houses at Sumner are in
dividually designed.
The exhibit home has a
price of $54,950 and the bro
ker is the Miller firm.
Directions to reach the ex-
hibit. as furnished by the
builder. are:
"Out Massachusetts avenue
three-quarters of a mile be-
yond the District line to
Sumner entrance on left, left
on Fort Sumner drive to
home"
For an approximate loca-
ton of the community in the
Washington area, see Num-
ber 20 on map, Page 2 of this
section.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
Offer Mass
For Printing
Executive

Requiem High Mass was
sung Thursday in Christ the
King Church for Donald M.
O'Donnell, Sc, president of
the Harper Engraving and
Printing Co, who died Mon.
day, Jan. %, in MI. Carmel
Hospital.
Mr.. O'Donnell was a former
president of the Printing Arts
Association, past president
of the Ohio Printers Associa-
ton, a member and past treas
urer of the Printing Industry
of America. He also belonged
to the Maennerchor, Rotary
and Columbus Athletic Clubs.
He is survived by his wife,
Louise; two daughters, Mrs.
William Bulge, and Mrs. Jo-
seph Nauman, both of Day
ton; a son, Donald NJ, Column
bus; a brother, H. j. O'Don-
nell, and a sister, Mrs. Orrin
Moore, both of Columbus, and
eight grandchildren.
Burial was in st. Joseph
cemetery.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
SURRENDER FREEDOM:
Cardinal Attacks Federal
Aid Plan Excluding Catholics

to force parents to relinquish
their rights to have religion
taught to their children"
II CANNOT Believe"
he continued, that Congress
would discriminate against
Lutheran, Baptist, Catholic or
Jewish parents - Americans
all-in the ALLEGATION of edu-
cational funds"
Congress, he said, can SUBJ
sidize children and students
without substituting the
schools. 1T is a matter of re-
cord that programs of direct
grants to students and chill
dren attending church-related
schools do not breach the
wall of separation of church
and state" he said.
The Cardinal cited the CT
Education Bill, which allowed
veterans to choose their
schools and the War Orphans
Educational Assistance Act of
1856, which permitted chill
dren of fathers killed in COM
bat to use the Federal money
given them at the college of
their choice.
The Cardinal noted that the
Kennedy task force suggest
cd a flat grant of $50 annual
ly to states for each public
school child.
"BY DENYING THIS meas
ure of equality to church-re-
lated school children and
their parents" he said, "the
task force proposals are blat-
antly discriminating against
them, d%epriving them o free
dom of mind and freedom of
religion guaranteed by our
country's Constitution whose
first amendment was adopt
ed to protect the individual
person from government re-
preston 49,"
The Cardinal said that if
Congress adopted the task
forces proposal, it would be
engaging in Thought control
because a child would be COM
PEELED to attend a state school
as a condition for sharing in
education funds.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
Disarmament
Topic, Feb. |

Rev. Curtis Crawford, a
Unitarian minister, will speak
on Disarmament at 8 p.m.,
Feb. ] at the Law Auditorium,
1859 North High Street, on
the Ohio State University
Campus.
The meeting is sponsored
by the Religious Affairs Cen
ter of the University.
MI. Crawford, who has writ
ten several books on the as
poets of disarmament, is a
teacher at New York Univer-
sity. He lectures on disarma-
ment for the Speakers Service
of the United Nations, the Ma
tional Committee for a Sane
Nuclear Policy and the For
eign Policy Association. The
talk is open to the public.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
Free Showing
OF abolition

Franklin County Council,
The American Legion, in CO.
operation with the local chap
ter of the John Burch Society,
will present a special show
ing of the film, Operation
Abolition" Tuesday, Jan. 81,
8 pm. in the small auditorium
of Veterans Memorial. Admis-
sion is free and open TO the
public.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
Anniversary

Continued from page y
to others obligations that can
only have their full meaning
and full effect when perform
ed by the individual, we have
not delegated, we have sur
rendered" Monsi gnor Gal
lagher said.
HE CONCLUDED BY URG.
ING all mot to wait to be
drafted" for 1--WE can only
continue to be a great nation
that is alert to the vital areas
of progress if we are-egch
one-personally and daily in
volved in the vineyard Of
service to our neighbors."
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
MIRA .

Continued from page u
ers pledge themselves to live
lives of conformity with this
law of peace. Consequently,
one man changes, then an.
other, and a third and SO
forth, SO that the final effect
will be to accumulate a
moral force of such tremen-
dous power that Communism
will be vanquished. disarma-
ment will follow, and much
of the materialistic will be
removed from our lives.
In the MIRA program, stress
is laid upon the work Of
settling conflicts and of rec
onciling people who are en-
emies by private and public
apologies. Great attention is
paid to gaining the adherence
of "key people"
ASSEMBLIES ARE HELD
at MIRA training centers, (the
chief ones are at Mackinac
Island, Mich, and Caux,
Switzerland), to form God
guided personalities under
the power and light of the
Holy Spirit. Attention is given
to prayer or the "quiet hour"
and to sharing and guidance.
BY accepting the law of
peace with its four absolutes
the individual is changed to
become a part of a force for
the betterment of the world.
Practical programs of action
are formulated through mu-
tual self-revelation and guild
ance, a process called team
work.
MIRA CLAIMS TO HAVE
the total and categorical an
swer to Communism" and
points to successes in Ger
many. Japan, The Congo, Free
China, Latin America, Italy,
Switzerland, and the United
States. 1t does this by enlist.
ing men to flight and win
the theological war" with the
MIRA theology. can Ideol-
ogy," says MIRA, lis an idea
that dominates the whole Of
a person his motives, his
thinking, his living - and
fights with a strategy to get
everybody to live the same
way"
Who can remain indiffer-
ent to a cause whose object
is ITO unite men and remake
the World?" Is not this a
laudible aim and a necessary
project in the face of the
dangers that beset us? Can
not a Catholic in his concern
for the spread of the Chris
tan message join and pro-
mote MIRA? The answer is -
no. And next week we shall
explain why.
MEANWHILE, OUR READ
ERS who would like to go
into this matter in more de-
tail are referred to two
pamphlets, from which much
of this article was taken,
MIRA - The Answer TO Com
munism?" by Robert A. Ora.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27
Letter Was
Last Article
By Dooley
HUNTINGTON. Ind.

O AAAOs
DR.. Thomas Dooley des-
cribed "a milder story
of peace" which replaced
''the storm around me"
and "the winds within
me- in a letter written
from a Hong Kong hos
pital bed some six weeks
before his death.
Reproduced in the current
Gan. 29) isue of Our Sunday
Visitor, national Catholic
weekly published here, the
letter was written last Deem
Der 2 to Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh, csc, president
of the University of Notre
Dame. The doctor was an
alumnus of the university.
THE JUNGLE DOCTOR of
Laos" said in the letter that
his cancer was acting up
and they've got me down."
but only with the assistance
of plaster, sand bags and hot
water bottles" He said he had
experienced "monstrous phan-
TOMS which he tried ito exor-
else with all the fury of the
middle ages"
In recognizing benefits of
the "milder storm of peace"
DR.. Dooley wrote:
What seems unpossessable,
/ can possess. What seems I'M
fathomable, / can fathom.
What is unutterabale, / can
utter. Because / can pray. |
can communicate. How do
people endure anything on
earth if they cannot have
God?"
DR.. DooLEY WROTE of
his appreciation for the rep
lica of the Grotto of Lourdes,
France, at the University of
Notre Dame. He said: eff l
could go to the grotto now,
then / think / could sing in
side. | could be full of faith
and poetry and loneliness and
know more beauty, tender
ness and compassion"
Unashamed of what he call
ed "soggy sentimentalism"
over the Notre Dame shrine,
the 34-year-old physician not
ed that "old prayers from a
hospital bed are just as pleas
ing to God as more youthful
prayers from a grotto."
He wondered if "the stu
dents ever appreciate what
they have while they have it,
admitting that he never did"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27

ham, ST., cThe America
Press and Catholics and
Moral R~e-Armament" by Most
Rev. Thomas L. Noa, ID.
Bishop of Marquette (Our
Sunday Visitor Press. Bishop
Noa is the ordinary of the
Diocese where Mackinac Is
land is located.
Continued Next Week.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-01-27

NEW YORK = Millions
of parents would be call
ed upon to surrender
freedom of mind and re-
ligion TO snare in the Fed
eral aid to education program
suggested to President Ken
nedy, Francis Cardinal Spell
man charged here.
The Archbishop of New
York assailed a Kennedy task
forces proposal for $50 bill
lion in Federal assistance ex.
clusively to public grade and
high schools as a discrimin-
atory program that Congress
would not enact.
HE ARGUED THAT the
governments it has in the
past-can give aid directly to
students of church-related
schools ard not violate proper
Church-State relations.
He also said that denial of
Of federal funds TO children
whose parents exercise their
right to send them TO church
related schools is a denial of
the purpose Of the first
amendment of the constitution
which seeks Ito protect the
individual person from gov
eminent repression.
"Such legislation would dis
eriminate against a multitude
of Americas children because
their parents choose to exer-
else their constitutional right
to educate them in accordance
with their religious beliefs"
he said.
UNDER THESE proposals,
parents would be compelled
to surrender both freedom
of mind and freedom of re-
ligion in the education of
their children as a condition
for sharing in Federal educa.
ton funds, in direct violation
of the liberties guaranteed by
the First Amendment TO the
US. Constitution" he said.
The Cardinal read his pre-
pared remarks (Jan. ~ at
the final report meeting of a