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Evening star., 1961-05-21
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

A score of sun-burned scholars
from the Far West will descend on
the Capitol next week to launch
a study Of the American charac-
ter.
Their natural habitat, Santa
Barbara, Calf. is considered both
too remote and too distractingly
beautiful a place in which to
scrutinize their fellow citizens
graphing with the questions Of
right and wrong
All members of the Center for
the Study of Democratic Institu-
tions. an offshoot of the Fund
for the Republic. foundation
financed by the Ford Motor Co.,
they are dedicated to deeper,
thinking about life and thought in
America. Their leader is Robert
Hutchins. former chancellor of
the University of Chicago. who is
president of both the fund and
the center.
The idea for the study grew out
of their daily roundtable discus
sionS in a conference room that
commands view of the blue
Pacific on one side and blue noun
tainS on the other. It began with
a contemplation of the conduct
of Charles Van Doren, the cele-
brated young pedagogue who be-
came television quiz-show star,
with. it developed later, coaching
on the answers.
Nature Of the Study
The director of the study is
John Cogley, former executive edi-
tor of the Catholic magazine, The
Commonweal." D." When we saw him
recently in Santa Barbara, he said
the study would take two years.
The word character" was used in
preference to morality" which
to some people means merely
problems of liquor and sex, and
in preference to ethics" which
for some is merely a sociological
matter.
A four-day session at the Shore
ham Hotel will begin on Monday,
May 20, with speech by Supreme
Court Justice Douglas on the Con-
stitution and its effect on the
American character.
Other speakers on succeeding
days will be Eric Larrabee, author
OF The Self-ConScious Society;
DR.. Leonard j. Duhl of the Ma
Evening star., 1961-05-21

mathematics students who take
these courses.
The most significant gain for
many years in teaching science
and mathematics in our schools
has been achieved by the new
courses of study now in use and
in preparation. The new curric-
ulum in physics. chemistry, math-
ematics and biology stems from
the initiative of the National Sci
ence Foundation as we'll as leading
foundations and universities.
In the last three years the
foundation has developed and
made available for high schools
an entirely new one-year course
in physics. Probably for the first
time physics is now being taught
to high school students in the way
that the top leaders in the field
understand this rapidly expanding
subject demands. To prepare the
material, the foundation har-
messed the brains of Americas
greatest physicists like Dr. ISidor
Rabi to the practical experience Of
Evening star., 1961-05-21
BY TRUMAN r. TEMPLE
Star staff Writer

A recent visitor to Moscow
found some revealing "extras"
come with the purchase Of a new
four-seater Moskovitch automo-
bile.
The $500 price tag includes
q towing hook, in case the driver
gets begged down. and a tool kit
big enough to equip small ga
rage. Twenty wrenches are pro-
vided. And the seats fold flat
to make a double bed-just in
case one has to spend the night
on the steppeS.
Such disaster equipment may
sound humorous to Americans.
But it implies the striking con-
trast between our superb highway
network and the still-primitive
roads Of the country that put a
man in orbit.
Where We Excel
Today marks the opening of
National Highway Week. Measured
by any standard, the highway
gap" finds the United States dec
AIDES ahead Of the Soviet Union.
America now has 3,510,660 miles
Of highways. While Soviet sta
tistics are notoriously unreliable.
it's estimated Russia has 1896, ,431
miles of roads, their condition
unknown. 1t has no super high
way system like ours or like Ger
many's autobahn.
Production of Soviet vehicles is
still limping behind the Model T
era. In 1859, the latest year for
which figures are available, the
USSR total output was $4,000
vehicles. Most of them were trucks.
In the same year we produced
81 million new vehicles, more
than half the worlds production.
Most Of them were private cars.
The interplay Of good highways
stimulating commerce and more
highways is part of our economy,
and 1t dates back long before the
advent of the auto.
Smooth the roads and make
easy the way for new settlers"
wrote President George Washing
ton, land see what an influx of
articles will be poured upon us;
how amazingly our exports will
be Increased by them; and how
amply we shall be compensated
for any trouble and expense we
may encounter"
Early in the 10Th century Sen
ator John c. Calhoun warned
Evening star., 1961-05-21

through II and experimental CEN
terS are trying out material for
trades 4 through 6. This course,
like the physics course, also is a
cooperative effort of outstanding
research mathematicians and high
school teachers.
A new mathematics program
that has affected teaching in the
Washington area is that prepared
by the University of Maryland
under the direction of DR.. John
Mayor. education director of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. In the Dis
trict junior high schools. all
honors classes in the seventh and
eighth grades are using this new
material for the second year. All
seventh and eighth grade mathe-
matics students in Montgomery
County will be studying next Sep
tember the new textbooks made
available by this group. In the
current year total of $4,000 stu
dents in these two grades are using
this experimental course in differ
ent parts of the country.
Two Chemistry Courses
In addition to physics and
mathematics, the science founda-
ton is preparing two chemistry
courses, approaching the subject
from different viewpoints, and one
biology course.
Revision of the science curricu-
lum is also being pushed by 300
State and local science supervisors
as result Of the National Defense
Education Act. Before the act was
passed in 1858, very few educators
were available to devote their en-
tire attention to upgrading science
courses.
These are some of the major
curriculum advances in science
and mathematics that have oc-
CURED in the last few years in
District schools:
. The quality Of students has
risen in chemistry and physics
honors courses and average science
classes are now doing more ad-
vanced work.
. HonorS students in II junior
high schools now take a general
science course in the ninth instead
of the 10th grade.
. Honors students are learning
astronomy in the seventh grade
rather than the ninth grade.
. The level of mathematics in
struction has risen apprecisbly.
All regular seventh grade mathe-
matics classes are benefitting from
new courses Of study made avail
able by the Science Foundation
and College Entrance Examination
Board. Twenty-three experimental
classes in grades seven through IL
Evening star., 1961-05-21

are using the new mathematics
curriculum as are two elementary
schools.
Probably the single most influ-
entail development in raising the
competence Of high school science
and mathematics teachers is the
Science Foundation program of
summer, annual and in-service
teacher training institutes. They
concentrate on subject matter be-
cause too often in the past science
teachers knew how to teach but
didn't know science.
Benefits to Teachers
Although many District public
school science and mathematics
teachers have benefited from the
Science Foundations institutes
$50 per cent of the permanent
science teachers have attended at
least one summer course). they
have also attended other special
in-service courses since 1858. More
than half of all D. C. senior and
junior high school mathematics
teachers and all elementary math-
ematics school teachers have par
ticipated in these programs.
The Defense Education Act
provision for supplying modern
science and mathematics equip
ment has also had a vital influence
in raising the level of high school
instruction-and not only in the
better schools. More than $100
million has been spent in science
and $40 million in math during
the last two years on $4,000 school
projects throughout the country.
In Washington alone this past year
40 science projects costing $213,000
Evening star., 1961-05-21
Highways: Major Source of Strength

Of other toll roads had been built
along the eastern seaboard.
Unfortunately, the Middle West
remained unpaved. The War Of
1872 pointed up conditions that
sound like rural Russia today. In
fact. Americas wars have often
been a telling argument for better
highways.
up and down the great un-
broken stretches between the Ohio
and the Lakes moved floundering
supply trains" wrote an anony-
nous historian of 1912, lin a vain
effort to keep up with the armies.
Evening star., 1961-05-21

that Americas growth and size
was also its weakness without
good roads.
Private investors saw the worth
of paved all-weather highways
before State lawmakers did. When
Pennsylvania legislators. for ex-
ample, baked at putting up the
money, private spectators spent
$500,000 to build the first mac
adam highway, the Lancaster
Turnpike from Philadelphia to
Lancaster in 1901. The tolls soon
made the hackers rich, and within
a decade more than 5000 miles
Evening star., 1961-05-21

teachers in the schools and COL
legeS-a unique exercise. Together
they organized probably the first
general physics course ever pro-
duced for Nationwide use. Their
aim was to encourage student in
terest in scientific concepts and
ideas by providing a challenging
intellectual exercise, not just hav-
ing students learn what the SCI
entiStS know.
Laboratory Guide
The. committee which drew up
the new physics course not only
developed a general textbook. but
prepared a special laboratory
guide. a teachers guide, paper
back books for supplementary
reading and so twenty minute
films for teachers to show in the
classroom. The entire study was
financed by the National Science,
Ford and Sloan Foundations, at a
cost of SIS 10 Sc million.
Twelve thousand teachers and
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Q -
AIPERTOWN is a magical place
where happy people frolic and
musical instruments grow on trees.

More specifically, it is the colorful locale Of
ABC's new fantasy for children, Pip the
Piper" The Saturday and Sunday daytime
offering for children is presided over by Jack
Spear, as Pip; his wife, Phyllis, who enacts
Miss Merrynote, and Lucian Kaminsky as Mr..
Leader. Other friends of Pip and company are
Professor o., the wisest of wise old owls
who has attended l54 universities, talking
we'll named Wishenpoof and Mr. Floogle Fish,
a talking fish, who dwells in pond called the
Floogle Sea.
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Navajo times., 1961-06-21
The Teacher

AS | passed the boys in the
school corridor, one made an in
sulting remark. 1t was meant for
me.
The boys were a collection of
our wor st troublemakers. Mike re-
entered school recently after six
months in juvenile detention hall.
Art is awaiting a car theft hearing.
Dennis is periodically thrown out
of class. Dick is quieter than the
others, but he seems to provide
most of the ammunition.
Yet if | meet any one of these
boys alone, they are polite and
cordial. Just the day before, Mike
passed me in the schoolyard and
we exchanged plea SAINT words about
the weather.
Alone they seem insure and
almost anxious for sign of ac-
ceptance from others. In a group
they gain strength. A current seems
to surge through them.
What sets this current free:
How can it be controlled2 It's
like an intoxicant that gives false
courage.
If such power can be generated
for evil, why can't we turn it to
good7 Everyone of these boys is
seeking recognition. They want
their teachers to know they exist.
This is one of the many pro-
blems that disturb a teacher S
sleep. We work with boys and
girls, watching them develop. We
know which ones will be assets
and which ones will be in trouble.
But we don't know the answers.
Just being understanding and
sympathetic is dangerous. It's
like playing with dynamite.
What would you do if group
hoodlums insulted you publicly2
| just kept walking toward my
room and | worried little more
with each step. knew | wa sn't
helping the situation.
Sincerely,
Your Teacher
Navajo times., 1961-06-21
News From The Capitol

Well before June 30, 1962--the
date current sugar legislation ex-
pires--We must create a sugar
program which will give our far
mers a chance to grow greater
amounts of the nom surplus crop.
My feeling was reinforced in con-
versations with domestic and for
eign leaders of the sugar industry
whom addressed Thursday inNew
York. We should not continue
program that has generated uncer-
tainties because of the delay and
drift which has characterized it
III recent years. Long-term legis-
lation would be cure. left New
York with the impression there is
now general recognition that do
mestic sugar producers should
be given fair share of the United
States market quota strippedfrom
Castro last year. Domestic grow
erS didn't get an ounce of it!
A new formula must also pro-
vide for expanding domestic sugar
yields resulting from chronological
advances, as we'll as the future
growth in consumption. If sugar
acreage were held constant at
about a million acres, producers
still would be increasing yields at
the rate of about $4,000 tons a
year. The present "growth for
mula" adds only about $1,000 tons
year. If it hadn't beenfor alloca-
tion of substantial Puerto Rican and
Hawaiian deficits to the beet quota
in recent years, acreage would
have had to be reduced--a stiff
price to pay for the efficiency we
admire. AS tool of foreign po-
licy, our sugar dollars that 60
abroad should be used to promote
better living conditions for the
masses of Latin America and else
where. Those dollars should not be
permitted to contribute to social
and economic inequalities which
Torment revolt and Communism.
X X X X
Congressman Tom Morris did
yeoman work in the House Inter-
ior Committee to win support for
the Navajo Indian Irrigation--San
Juan-Chama bill. The Committee
ordered it reported favorably, a
big boost to its chances on the
Navajo times., 1961-06-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Editorial


The Navajo Tribal Council has been in session since the 18th
sessions
Council is discussing and Tribal Bud
budgets fiscal
dull
far from This session the Councmen being especially
careful the spending These elected
Navajo people well that they spend we'll and wisely
This they doing.
legislature that
the bills budgets therefore they
according
individual
believes right wrong stand that
Reservation all capable
This people elected and good The Nava
Council.
commended fine doing.
long rn STILL the Cocilmen listen, and
they right proved
Navajo The
NAVAJO TIMES Tribal Council and work
doing
Navajo times., 1961-06-21

time and money for you and for
your employer. Good, S safe work.
ing habits, especially near danger
Gus or heavy equipment or ma
terials can be beneficial to all.
Safety at home too, is a good
practice. This time of the year
when it is so dry, be more than
safe with fires, inside and out.
An outside fire now could cause
great damage, not only to you and
your home, but also to others.
Navajo times., 1961-06-21

floor. st. Michael'S College at
Santa Fe has received $375, 900
building loan through the Com
munity Facilities Administ stration
for two-story dormitory for 128
students.
First daylight photographs of
Jupiter and Venus were made re-
Gently at Holloman Air Force Base.
Holloman physicist, Walter E.
Woehl, developed the unique ca
mera-telescope, only known in
strument for photographing mis-,
siles, satellites, and planets in
visible to the naked eye in day
light. The device. will aid pre-
cision tracking. Coast and Geo.
detiC Survey scientists will soon
move into a new laboratory on
the IsIeta Indian Reservation where
they will design and calibrate seis-'
mological equipment. It's one Of
the few such laboratories in the
nation. The site was chosen be-
cause it is relativelyfree of ground
diStur banCeS.
In the Senate Finance Commit
tee last week, we acted to keep
the Interstate Highway Sy stem
moving along toward its scheduled
completion in 1872. We voted to
continue thepresent 4-cents-a gal
Ion gasoline tax. The Committee
also approved Senator Kerr's
amendment to defer the transfer
of about $143 million from the
general revenue to the highway
trust fund. Shifting moneyfrom the
general-fund pocket to the trust
fund pocket would throw the budget
farther out of balance. We hope
that an upswing in business in the
next year will produce more re-
venue. We rejected proposal to
speed up highway construction be-
cause it would take the highway
program aWayfrom the pay-as-you
go approach which Congress
deemed fiscally sound in 1855.
We did not go IS far IS the House
did in raising the tread-rubber tax
es. But new Wrevenues are required.
The Senate and House bills are 81
milar so that we can count on the
road programs progress.
Navajo times., 1961-06-21
Promising Lead

The most promising research
lead in cancer causation is that
cancer may be caused by spe-
cific viruses. reports the Presi-
dents Conference on Heart
Disease and Cancer. Viruses
have been associated with many
types of animal cancers, includ-
ing cancer of the stomach, lung,
liver and leukemia.
Navajo times., 1961-06-21

Safety on the roads too, is another
great practice. Of course, on the
highway, you have to watch all the
other drivers too. But, when you
watch the other driver, you forget
to watch youseH sometimes. This
could be confusing. However, if you
don't speed and do drive with care,
you'll stay alive and we'll.
So, you see, fine cartoon,
really makes us think of the differ
ent aspects of safety.
Navajo times., 1961-06-21

The above cartoon, at first
glance, would just seem to be a
good joke. But with little ina
gination we can 60 farther than
that. We don't imagine, even for
a second, that the men at the war
house are reckless, but this gives
us a chance to speak on safety. Sa-
fety of all kinds. Safety at work,
most assuredly, that type saves
Navajo times., 1961-06-21

form united body of Catholic
men and women on the Navajo
reservation to discuss and apply
Christianprinciples. Besides Ma
kai, other officers of the Navajo
Catholic Conference include, Hen
ry Taliman, vice president: Tom
Shirly. temporary secretary: As
kie Burbank, trea surer and Am
brose Roanhorse, marshall.