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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-05
Bewitched Boats
Do Weird Copers
By HANK BOWMAN


occur every day but they do
happen.
Everyone knows boats don't
grow on trees - and certainly
they don't belong there. Yet,
during a Florida Gold Coast
Marathon race a competing
boat well in the lead bounced
off a wave. vaulted through the
air and the driver watched his
competitors pass by from a
roost in the crotch of a tree.
A Philadelphia doctor owned
a twin-engine cabin cruiser of
unique design. She was excep-
tionally fast and could beat
anything her size until she hit
an airplane.
A Piper Cub had made a
crash landing on the river. The
pilot escaped uninjured and the
plane sank. No one was able
to locate the plane until two
weeks later when it suddenly
bobbed to the surface in mid
channel directly in the path OF
the doctors cruiser.
A marine insurance agen I
told me of several cartop car
ried boats that took off on
their own. One blew from the
top Of a car that was cross
ing the Bay Bridge near Annap-
oils. The boat disintegrated
into kindling when it spun
out onto the water a hundred
feet below.
An aluminium utility scared
through a drug store window
and slid to a stop at the feet
of startled coke drinkers at the
soda fountain. Another car
topper nearly missed the cab
Of a truck and turned loose
hundreds of chickens on a high
way south of Norfolk.
Most boating accidents. how
ever, aren't such flukeS. A sur
prising number occur to boats
in transit over the highways.
The bulk of these are caused
by lack of normal precautions.
Trailer bitches should be
carefully secured before getting
underway. AS a standard prac-
tice bitches should be rechecked
and frightened after the trailer
has been towed a few miles as
it will usually seat itself and
require another turn or so to
draw it up Snugly. Tie down
lines should be tight enough to
prevent boat movement with
out causing hull distortion.
Never tow without a safety
chain. Trailer bitches can rat
tie free or the hitch or trailer
tongue tip can break. Safety
chains should be secured well
back from the hitch and fas-
tened directly to a cars frame
member or to a securing loca-
ton separate from the hitch
itself. Don't secure hitch or
safety chains to bumpers for
they are too flimSy.
Car-top racks are perfectly
satisfactory. If they are of the
Suction-cup type be sure the
auxiliary straps are hooked Sc
curely to car top cutters. Lash
the boat to the carrier and
with safety chains to bumpers
for they are too flimsy.
Car-top racks are perfectly
satisfactory. If they are of the
suction-cup type be sure the
auxiliary straps are hooked Sc
curely to car top cutters. Lash
the boat to the carrier and
with safety lines to secure To-
cations on the car. Keep wheel
Tugs frightened and periodically
add grease to hubs. Occasion
ally inspect springs. A loose
spring shackle can allow spring
leaves to shift.
Remember that if an accident
occurs to your boat you may
not merely lose your boat but
you may be responsible for
damage caused by it. You'll
feel more secure if you carry
adequate liability insurance.
Copyright, 1867. Hank Bowman)
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Griffith Tryouts

Tryouts for the Bowers
Brothers entry in the Clark
Griffith 19-and-under baseball
league will be held at 5 pm.
tomorrow and Friday on the
Ellipse. Huck Mccain will
manage the team this season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-05
WINS SECOND TOURNEY
Rookie Howell Tops
PEA Point STANDINGS

bogies on the 18th, a par four,
and 18th, par five.
Bill BasSler was right with
Howell on the front side with
a matching 33, but came back
in 36. Charley Bassler and Deck
both shot 34-35 for their SOS.
This was one of the lowest
scoring events Of the campaign.
Chris Sarro, an amateur from
international Town and Coun-
try Club, matched Doser's 70
and five others Billy Wolfe of
International, Jack Lowe of
Goose Greek, Carl Rasnic of
Fort Meade, Bill Brownrigg of
Manor and Cal Hargis of West
lakes-shot II. Brownrigg and
Hargis also are amateurs.
That made a total of IL
players under par on the fairly
wide open 6,533-yard par
36-36-72 course.
Bill Bassler and Dick
Mogavero of Rolling Road won
the best-ball division with g.
Bassler and Bob Salem of West
lakes tied for second with
Clark and Warren Webb OF
Argyle and Charley Bassler and
Hargis at SO.
Sarro's 10 earned him low
amateur gross ahead of Brown
rigg and Hargis Warren Lock-
wood of Brooke Manor, with
l77-l4-63, took low amateur
net. Sarro, with 70-4-66, tied
for second with Chip Thomas
of Westlakes, who shot
82-16-66.
! prO epnroc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-05
BY ROBERT SOMMERS
Star Staff Writer

1t may be inconceivable, but
"a rookie pro might wind up
the middle Atlantic PGA's
Golfer of the Year.
In winning his second pro-
amateur tournament of the
season at Westlakes Country
Club with a four-under-par IS
yesterday, Ronnie Howell, the
assistant at Army Navy, moved
in front of the PGA point
standings.
Howell, muscular, 23-year-
old Floridian with smoking tee
shots, has SIS points based on
is for first place, 10 for the
second best score and S for
the third best score.
His two victories, at West
lakes yesterday and in the pro-
lady at Turf Valley on May
II, Melted him 80. He also was
second in the pro-amateur at
Turf Valley and three times
turned in the third best score.
Third Two-Time Winner
Closest to him is Charley
BasSler of Indian Spring who
tied for second yesterday at
SO with his younger brother
Bill. the pro at Rolling Road.
and Bill Deck of Belair. Charley
BaSSler has As points and
Clarence Doser of the Wash
ingtonian Country Club, who
shot 10 at Westlakes, has 40,
the same as Jimmy Clark of
Argyle, who didn't improve his
position at all with a 70.
Howell is the third pro to
become a two-time winner this
season. Clark won the opener
at Rolling Road and later won
at Court House. Dick Mullen
Of Hagerstown, who stumbled
around in 70 yesterday, won
at Fort Meade and tied fol-
first last Monday at Andrews
Air Force Base.
Howell, who learned to play
at Temple Terrace Country
Club in Tampa under the
tutilege of Ted LeCompte
birdied the second and eighth
holes, a pair of par fives
measuring 489 and 483 yards
respectively, and the 3I5 PAL
four fourth to go out in 80
yesterday. ......
L0w-ScOring Battle
He came back in IS with
brides on the 500-yard pal
five l4th, the 390-yard par foul
10th and the 195-yard pal
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Low Scoring Battle

He came back in IS with
brides on the 500-yard par
five l4th, the 390-yard par four
10th and the 195-yard par
three 18th. But he also had
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to use our abundance rather than
how to prevent starvation, the
fact that we are sharing our plenty
with the hungry of this earth
all of these blessings are due in
immeaSurable degree to our land
grant colleges"
In 1862, a farmer produced
enough for himself and only four
others. Today he produces enough
for 26 others.
In 1862, the average corn crop
in Illinois was about Is bushels per
acre. Today it is n.
In 1862, the South harvested
about 100 pounds of cotton per
acre. Today that same acre pro-
duces 438 pounds.
All this was part of the dream
of Representative Morrill, when he
first introduced his Immigrant act
in Congress on April 20, 1858.
Men waste hundreds of acres
of land on the theory that it is
inexhaustible, Mr.. Morrill, told the
House.
Our population is rapidly in
creasing and brings annually in
creased demands for bread and
clothing. If we can barely meet
this demand while we have fresh
soils to appropriate, we shall surely
reach the point of our decline and
fall.
THE nation which tills the soil
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ern States had removed much of
the opposition.
Second, Mr.. Morrill, had added
the proviso that the land-grant
institutions must teach military
tactics, and Congress was pain
fully aware of the need for more
officers.
CNinety-six years later, another
Federal aid-to-education bill was
given a boost through Congress by
being called THE National De-
Tense Education Act of 1897
This time the vote was 9l-25
in the House and 32-7 in the SEN
ate.
Although President Lincoln
made no recorded comment when
he signed the bill, he was aware of
the potential. AS he eloquently
put it at the Wisconsin State fair
in Milwaukee on September 30,
1859: .
mo other human occupation
opens so wide a field for the
profitable and agreeable combina-
ton of labor with cultivated
thought, as agriculture. . Every
blade of grass is a study, and to
produce two where there was but
one is both a profit and a
pleasure. 20.
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land Grant College: Our Most Significant Schoo|Move

given scrip which entitled them
to land in the still undeveloped
Western States. New States COL
lected when they entered the
Unicn, or sometimes while still
territories.
Income from the sale of the
land and the scrip was to be in
vested in stocks of the United
States or of the States, or some
safe stocks, yielding not less than
per centum upon the par value
Of said stocks. :"
The capital investment itself
was to remain forever undimin-
ished." The income from the in
vestment was to be used only for
the educational goals of the act.
Eventually. the States received
II ,383,08 acres in either land or
land scrip. and sold them for a
total of $13,478,946. By today's
standards, that $13.5 million is a
bagatelle. Purdue University, for
instance, now has an annual OPP
Grating budget of nearly $50 mil
lion, which does not include con-
struction.
But the interest alone from
that $13.5 million set great forces
in motion.
Today there are So land grant
colleges or universities, at least
one in every State and one in
Puerto Rico.
They enroll 20 per cent of all
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u. S. Schools Trail in SURVEY

pocket money without working for
it" was determined by the IFOP
poll to be the English child. .
Discipline? The most misbe-
haved in class according to him
self was the American student
with the French and English stu
dents placing themselves tied for
second place or is it last place?
However, the English teacher by
far tends more to crack naughty
set of knuckles; in fact three
times more than other teachers.
The American child goes out
side the home after supper twice
as regularly as the French, Eng
lish or Norwegian child. Less than
one per cent of the German chill
dren are allowed to go outside
in the evening.
The German child was found to
be more disciplined, more super
vised and more obedient than any
one else. More than anyone else,
for example. he stands whenever
his instructor enters or leaves the
classroom. But he hardly gets
more help from his parents than
other children since, with one ex-
ception, most parents help out in
their school work, said the chill
dren.
The only exception-b a wide
margin-was the English student
who not only does his work him.
self but he hardly has any home
work by comparison to the others.
The English student who is 10
years old has almost no home
work. the 14-year-old has only
$50 hours of home work per year
compared to SOB hours in France
and 212 hours in the United
States. Consequently it can be
said the English student does his
work at school. Perhaps this Is
part of the answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
By BERNARD PORTER
Contributing Writer

School is out and 70 per cent
of American parents who help
their children in homework can
relax. How have Americans sue
ceeded in improving educational
standards since those agonizing
self -appraisals of these standards
in the months following the first
Russian sputnik? Parents may
have extra time to think about it.
How do we compare to foreign
students when the comparison is
done by others? During the last
school year a team of French poll
sters took a survey in Ill sec
lions of various United States
school districts to find an answer.
They surveyed the United States
school system and the ability of
school children for a comparison
to those in France, England, Nor
way and West Germany. Identical
tests were given in social science
geography, arithmetic and basic
science to students in each coun-
try.
Head and shoulders above ev-
eryone is the English student.
While only 10-year-olds and IA
year-olds took part in the sur
vey, the English took first place
in both groups, according to the
French Institute of Public Opinion
IFOP.
Best in Bosic Science
Coming in last place in the 10
year-old-group was the American
child. But in the 14-year-old
group he came in a strong third
and in the subject of basic SCI
ence he led all others. Overall,
the American student placed
fourth, one point over France in
last place. Norway was second,
West Germany third.
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In retrospect, one can recall
persons who have asserted that
television has interfered in the
habits of Americas youth. Others
have claimed that discipline in the
United States is lax or that Amer
lean parents allow their children
to have too much freedom.
The French poll went into the
habits of students. The results
seem to torpedo in rapid fashion
the allegations an American often
hears or often seems to voice.
For example, the English student
did best in the tests, the American
not as we'll. Yet no other ma
tons students even approached
the English and American students
for outside activities. The Ameri-
can student, according to the
French poll, has a slight edge in
extracurricular activities but, as
far as 10 year Odds are concerned
for engaging in sports, no one
holds a candle to the English
child.
Both the English and the Amer
lean child spend seven times more
of their leisure hours in front OF
a television set than the closest
rival. Perhaps television program
ming differs a great deal in Eng
land and the United States but the
survey did not go into this aspect.
Few Wotch TeIevision
On the other hand. less than
20 per cent of the French students
watched any television during the
school year.
Both the American and the Nor
wegian child were found to work
more around the home, twice as
much as others. The students
said they received their weekly
allowances for helping with the
chores.
The only child who receives
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BY G. X. HODENFIELD
Associated Press Staff Writer

They said later that Abraham
Lincoln on that day had lighted
a candle that would guide future
generations of Americans out u
the dark night of ignorance.
But it was a moment of his
tory that passed without notice,
an act of faith that was long
unsung.
In midsummer, 1862, the Nation
writhed in civil war. Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee had just
thrown back Gen. George B. Nc
Clellan's army of the Potomac in
the seven days battles.
The Treasury Department in
Washington was a dvising its
agents: wherever you find an
article, a product, trade, a pro-
fession or a source of income. tax
it." Long months of bloody fight
ing lay ahead, and the future was
bleak.
Small wonder, then, that the
country paid scant heed when
President Lincoln onsJuly 2, 1862,
signed into law the Morrill, Act,
the most important single piece
of Federal legislation in the his
tory of American education.
The Morrill, Act led to the
establishment of IS unique land
grant colleges and universities,
including such honored and
distinguished institutions as the
Massachusetts, Institute OF Tech
nology, the University of Illinois,
Auburn, and Texas ASSM.
But it did more than tnat'
much more.
Broodened Education
It put higher education within
the grasp of all who could profit
by it, be they sciens Of wealthy
families or children of the poor.
1t paved the way for an agrl-
cultural revolution that is the
envy and the wonder OF the
world, and which is not yet ended.
It spawned programs OF aoult
education and extension services
which may we'll be this countrys
most important exports to the
undeveloped areas of the world in
the years ahead.
Not even Representative Justin
Smith Morrill, of Vermont, him
self, could have foreseen the Won
ders that were to blossom from
the legislation for which he had
fought so long.
If Lincoln made any comment
when he signed the bill, history
doesn't record it. But sometime
during a hot and sticky day 100
wears ago tomorrow he took a
Quill pen in hand and signed:
IAN act donating public lands
To the several states and terri
tories which may provide colleges
where the leading object shall
be. without excluding other SCI
entific and classical studies ana
including military tactics, to teach
such branches of learning as are
related to agriculture and the
mechanic arts in order to pro-
mote the liberal and practical edu-
cation of the industrial classes"
The act granted each State
10000 acres of Federal land lying
within that State for each of its
members of Congress. States
which no longer had enough Fed
eral land within their boundaries
Tor the purposes of the act were
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he was at times Known tor I'M
couth manners, q foul mouth.
rocy speech and, os Speaker,
for something coIIed Common
ism"-the portison, orbitroy
woy he ran the House. He wos
q Republican. When he first
came to the House he Wos
known os the "Hoyseed from
Illinois" AS the years went
by-he served from 1873 until
1923, with several defects in
betWeen-he become "Uncle
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poor fomIIy living on poor SOL.
He served as Speaker twice os
long os anyone else. He wos
O short, stocky, bald man full
of greet dignity. His scowl wos
enormous yet, at times, he
broke eoveIs. He liked c little
bourbon now and then. He liked
to fish. He could be tough and
gracious and quite soft. In the
chair he wos foir, firm and
honest. He won his last bottle
by five votes-increosino the
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meTnDeT OF Inc bOOTu OF EuU-
cotton. Election to Congress
come in 1903. He Immediately
set obout to learn the some
what strange, wonderful rules
of the House. In 1925 he Wds
elected Speaker. He wos calm
and foir. A genial yet dedi-
coted man, he guarded the
rights of the House against
those of the Senote. He once
ruled thot when Congressman
would like to coll q Senator
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The Morrill, act squeaked by the
House in 1858 by a vote of los
to 100, and the Senate by a vote
of IS to %, only to run into
President Buchanan's veto.
Mr.. Buchanan said the bill
would cost too much, would con-
fuse the relationship between the
Federal Government and the
States. injure the newer States,
compete unfairly with established
colleges and universities, and vio-
late the Constitution.
The veto was upheld in Con-
gress, despite an impasSioned plea
by Mr.. Morrill,.
President AssoiIed
Mr.. Morrill, said, 1.-The President
has committed, if not a crime,
at least blunder." He called the
veto incomprehensible, and de-
clared. 1.-The Geographic news of
this veto will start tear from
the eye of more than one manly
boy. whose ambition will now be
nipped in the bud"
In December, 1861, when Mr..
Morrill, brought his bill before the
House again, he found the going
much easier.
First, the secession Of the south
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The Original Ideo

Historians do not agree on
whether Mr.. Morrill, or Jonathan
Baldwin Turner should be credited
with originating the land grant
idea.
Mr.. Turner in 1850 urged that
Illinois endow State university
with the money it received from
the sale of public lands. Mr..
Morrill, said later he first got the
idea Of Immigrant colleges about
1856, but where I obtained the
first hint of such a measure, I
am wholly unable to say"
But, whoever had the idea first,
1t was Mr.. Morrill,. son of a Ver-
mont blacksmith. who pushed it
through Congress.
To do it, he had to overcome
opposition from weSternerS, who
did not want the land within their
borders sold to outsiders; from
Southerners, who saw the Federally
financed institutions as an inva-
sion of States rights, and from
President Buchanan, who vetoed
the measure after it first passed
the House and Senate.
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Three Buildings Men To Remember

office Rbun
little similarity
House of Representatives Also, they
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JOSEPH CANNON, 1886 to 1926, was born in North
Coroino moved to Indiana and finally settled in illinois,
the Stote he represent in the House In CONGRESS