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The Detroit tribune., 1963-06-15
PROFESSOR TO SPEAK

DR.. Richard ]. Bing. 1861
Carriage Road, Birmingham. pro-
fcssor at the Wayne State Uni-
versity College of Medicine. will,
speak at tn Second Annual Sym
postum of the American Heart
Association and the American
Medical Association in Atlantic
City, Nj, June 20
The Detroit tribune., 1963-06-15
Max.e State Ms~.

The building. which will house
$50 women. is divided into six
units each containing III suites
and a house lounge
Suites will have two rooms
with connecting lavatory. shower
and dressing area with two girls
sharing each room.
Until a proposed food service
commons building is construct
ed women will receive their
meals in Mackenzie Hall
HoNoRs U PRESIDENT
The Annual IIilberry Publ
cation Prize. a $500 cash award
for the best manuscript sub
mitted to the Wayne State Uni-
versi'v Press BY a member of
the University faculty. has been
announced by James NJ French.
vice president of the Board OF
Advisors TO the WSU Press
Named in honor of Wayne
President Clarence b. Hilberrv.
the first award is expected to
he made in 1865.
President Hillberrv. who has
announced he is retiring by Jan
uary. 1865, will serve as con-
tinuing and permanent member
of the jury which will make the
annual award.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Obstructing Justice

If convictions follow, the indictment
which has been returned in Birmingham
by Federal grand Jury against eight
white members Of the National States
Rights party certainly. will serve to dis
courage future unlawful resistance to
court orders for school desegregation.
The indictment lists 26 overt acts
involving one or more of the accused.
Some Of these specific charges are seri-
Gus and they presumably would not have
been brought unless the Government
felt confident Of the sufficiency Of its
proof. ~.
Assuming this, however, It still is
difficult to escape the feeling that these
accused were small fry in the recent
effort to prevent school degeneration
in Alabama. The formal charge is that
they conSpired to interfere with the
due administration Of justice" and
that they willfully attempted by threats
and force to obstruct, impede and inter-
fere" with court orders. Maybe so. But
what was Governor Wallace doing?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Objectivity

The Star commented editorially
last week on the outrageous manner in
which a voluminous educational ere
search" QUESTIONABLE, recently filled
out by Montgomery Junior College stu
dents, actually pried into the private
affairs Of their families The letter from
Clifford Beck, which we are glad to print
in an adjoining column today, does not
alter our view that the QUESTIONABLE
was a gross invasion Of privacy.
A closer look at this strange docu-
ment discloseS something more. This
time 1t is not what the questions ask
that raises our eyebrows, but what
some Of them seem to be telling the
student to believe. ...,
Consider, for example, the careful
phraseology Of these two questions:
Question No. 256: would you
agree or disagree that the Government
should do more than 1t is presently
doing to see that everyone gets ade-
quate medical care?"
Question No. 26O: would you agree
or disagree with the contention that
legislative committees should not in
veStigate the political beliefs of col
lege or university faculty members?"
The emphasis on the word mot"
In the second question is the question:
naire'S, not ours. To ask couple of
questions of our own: Does the phrase
ology Of these questions leave any
doubt as to where the authors of the
QUESTIONABLE stand on these particular
social issues? Is there room for doubt
In the minds Of the students as to what
the authors consider the right" an
Swers to be-?
If doubt remains that there is a
not-So-subtle bit Of social indoctrina-
ton at work here, we quote one final
example:
Question No. 254: "Are you con-
cerned about the many elderly people
in the United States who are left alone
to live 'on crumbs of welfare meas
ureS'?" .
What If the testers concluded. as
DR.. Beck seems to suggest they might,
that people who are dubious about era
dle-to-the-grave welfare are poor college,
prospects? Should a wrong" answer on
this and similar questions affect a per-
sons chance for a college education?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
MIe-o-Second Marines

The way General Greene figures
1t, a good Marine should be able to
move From the Halls of Montezuma
to the Shores Of Tripoli" before he has
completed the first stanza OF that we'll
known hymn. The Corps new COM
mandant, General Greene is no earth
bound fighting man. He has no trouble
visualizing a rocket packing 1900
Leathernecks off on a 5,O0O-mile mis-
sion at 1000 miles an hour, or say a
trip from Camp Lejeune, N. c., to mid
Africa In 30 minutes
Well, now, that's cosmic thinking
at It's best and 1t should serve notice
that life in the Corps will be seldom
mild during the next few years. There
are a few skeptics, however, who
profess to see a logistical problem in
getting a loosely distributed l2O-ton
payload off the ground. But we are
sure they will be among the first to
agree that, II the Buck Rogers idea
does pan out, every Marine should be
entitled to carry a swagger Stick-some-
thing that recently has been in bad
repute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
D. c. College?

In naming committee to assess
the need for publicly supported institu-
lions Of higher learning in Washington.
President Kennedy has been guided by
two wise decisions. He has selected a
group OF experts to serve on the COM
mittee and It's staff who seem eminently
qualified. And he has not confined
their studies to narrow limits.
The second consideration is i'm
portant. For 1t would not be enough
for the experts to determine merely
whether some sort of a tax-supported
college Is desirable In the Nations
Capital. This choice must also be
weighed against the problem of the
unmet needs which already exist in
our public schools.
The current budget hearings in the
Senate give a clear picture of the present
deficiencies. Our existing public schools
must have more teachers Immediately.
There is an urgent need for additional
classrooms. More specialized types of
instruction land this means still more
money are needed to lift the level
OF achievement In the primary and
high schools. Surely nothing must be
permitted to interfere with the Job of
correcting these shortcomings. There
is a real question whether 1t is wise
for the District to embark now upon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER rs, 1863

an expensive new venture before these
needs are fully met, especially in view
Of the demonstrated inability Of the
city to make the D. c. Teachers College
first-rate, fully accredited school.
Nor is this the only question. AS
the President noted, the committee
should carefully review the role Of
Howard University (which receives a
good portion Of its revenues from Fed
eral appropriations in serving the
community. We think the committee
should also consider whether the facili-
ties of the several other private uni
versitieS here can be made more widely
available to Washington youth-per-
haps through subsidized tuition grants.
Providing facilities for higher educa-
ton is vitality important. But how to
reach this goal is a major decision
which should not be made hurriedly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Strange World

1t appears now that people do not
always flee from communism to free
dom. Sometimes the Red totalitarians,
moved by kind of mutual terror, run
away from each other into each others
arms. An interesting case in point has
Just been reported in Moscow's Kom-
Somolskaya Pravda, the chief organ Of
the Young Communist League.
The report is about four individ-
uals recently escaped from China"
The four, according to the report, are a
farmer, two school officials and an
editor, and they have fled from the
Chinese Communists to the bosom Of
Mother Russia for a quite simple rea-
son: They have been prosecuted" by
Peking for sympathizing with the So
Wet Union and defending the Kremlin's
current theological line, which is being
vituperatively opposed by the Mao TIE
tung regime. Komsomolskaya Pravda
goes on to suggest that such persecu-
ton is widespread in Red China and
that the USSR is prepared to welcome
very large numbers of escapes from
that country
How odd! In the West the Russians
build wall against East Germans
seeking to escape to our free world. And
In the far reaches of the East, along
the uneasy Sino-Soviet frontier, they
open their arms to escapes from Macs
China. To put 1t mildly, we live in a
topsy-turvy world, and the Moscow
Picking dispute makes 1t topsy-turvier
still.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Boost for Tax Cut

With its approval by the House,
the recommendation for tax cut has
taken a long step toward final reali-
cation. But the journey through the
Senate will be slow and possibly rough.
The real decision in the House
came on a 226 to 1919 vote to reject
a Republican effort to tie the SILL
billion tax reduction to meaningless
estimate" of lowered spending. With
this out Of the way the legislators went
on to approve the cut by healthy
margin Of 271 to 1855.
Two useful conclusions should be
drawn from the House action. One Is
that conservative Southern Democrat
is not necessarily synonymous with all
that is evil in public life. The fight
or the tax cut was led by Representa-
tive Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chair
man Of the Ways and Means Commit
tee. Mr.. Mills is both southerner and
a conservative, yet these attributes
were important factors in beating back
the Republican drive and pushing the
bill through to final enactment in the
House. Without his vigorous support,
this measure, which the President has
called the most important legislative
item Of the session, might well have
been chewed up II not defeated. Even
some Of the Republicans applauded Mr..
Mills. And the plain inference Is that
Mr.. Kennedy knows lot more about
the art Of practical politics than those
Democratic liberals who would read all
conservatives out of the party.
Another point well worth noting
Vas made by Representative MaFon of
texas, who spoke against the q. o. P.
effort to tie tax cut to spending. The
Republicans wanted to specify that the
tax cut could not become effective
Unless and until the President came
Forward with an estimate Of reduced
pending. But such an estimate would
not be binding and in any event, as
Mr.. Mahon pointed out, both the re-
SponSibility and the authority to curb
spending rest with Congress. A PreSi-
ient cannot spend a dime unless Con-
gress appropriates it, and the voters
+hould remember this the next time
some pork barrel project comes along.
The big danger in the Senate is
that civil rights fight will prevent
action on the tax bill. We hope not.
For these oppressive wartime levies
ought to be cut back now. It will not
be any easier next year, or the year
AFTER or the year after that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Rambler Fan

1t Is not my habit to write
fan letters" about columns.
Fact is. I've only done It once
before-and that was to
George Grim Of the Mime
apoliS Tribune for his terrific
column, II Like It Here!"
And the fact is-when we
moved here about q month
ago-one of my regrets was
that I was going to miss
Georges column.
But from the start I en-
joyed reading George Kenne-
dy as The Rambler. He
seemed to have q nice touch,
q happy outlook-and he
made me wish I'd have had q
vacation this summer to
spend In Rehoboth.
And then last week he
made me "like 1t herewith
a masterfully done e. .Sa-
lutes Hero OF Forgotten
War"
I read 1t. I swallowed hard.
I read and reread.
I clipped it. I've had my
children read it.
We've talked about 1t. Now
I'm sharing it with others.
Francis Hammond Is o fine
example of American cour-
age. I'm proud of Alex q n
dria's decision to name their
new high school for him.
Butt was George Ken
nedy who made me under
stand where the name Ham
mond High came fr mt
was he who brought the
memories Of Korean news &C
counts back to me, so that I
could share them with my
family and others who had
forgotten. And he did all this
in such q pleasant, challeng-
ing, human way.
I like it here-reading The
Rambler.
Robert F. Jacobsen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Dollars Worth

Sylvia Porter tries to paci-
fy awakening Americans by
saying that "the dollar In
your pocketbook or bank or
invested in insurance or q
house would be the same aft
er devaluation as before de-
valuation etc." But those
conscious citizens who have
suffered real losses since the
first dollar devaluation In
1884 realize that Miss Porter
Is wrong.
The tragic fact is that the
purchasing power Of the dol
lar has been eroded drasti-
cally since the first deValua-
ton until today the dollars
purchasing power is only
Az Of what 1t was in 1884
Gas measured by the index Of
wholesale prices). Life insur-
ance holders, pensioners
and savers are acutely aware
Of the damage which has
been done to thrifty persons.
An example of what hap
pens to the purchasing power
Of your dollar through de-
valuation can be seen in the
instance Of the beneficiary Of
an insurance policy taken
out In 1884 for $4,000. The
payout today would be 5000
In the same paper dollars in
circulation when the policy
was issued but those dol
lars will buy only Az
OF the goods and services
which they would have
bought and which were
promised" in 1884 when the
policy was purchased. The
same holds true for savings
accounts-both principal and
interest. The dollars that
were put in the bank in 1894
and saved through the years
only buy 41% Of what they
would have bought in 1884.
Few policies are more cal
culated to destroy the exist
ing basis Of o free society
than the debauchery Of its
currency. and few tasks, If
any, are more important to
the c ha m pion Of freedom
than to secure o sound none
tary system. Gold money
can and does make life
more orderly. It IL the golden
proof Of the possibility Of
smoo tn and satisfying ex-
changes among the nations
Of the world.
Geraldine M. BerryhiIl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
Negroes in Uniform


Having Just completed 20
years Of active duty in the
regular Navy, the last Is Of
which were "integrated"
service, I predict Congress-
man Wilson'S attempt to pre-
vent the Secretary Of De-
tense from insuring that
colored men in uniform en-
Joy the same rights as their
white associates will fail.
Why? Because countless
white men like myself are
now realizing for the first
time that their Negro ship
mates and buddies have
never really gotten a full and
square shake, in spite of
serving their country every
where. Because we are be-
ginning to speak up, now
that we've realized this gall
ing fact. We are fully aware,
for the first time, that our
friends are simply being
gypped. We don't like 1t.
Since President Truman
ordered Indignation, Negroes
have gotten out Of the shoe
shining business in the mill
tary services, and into all Of
its more challenging special
ties. They perform just about
every task demanded now, in
q wide range Of skills, and
do a good job. If the Negroes
were suddenly subtracted
from the military services, I
seriously doubt whether our
armed forces could operate
effectively without them. It's
interesting to conjecture how
many tanks could move,
ships could sail, or planes
could fly. II all Negroes were
subtracted from their main
tenance and operating
bodies.
America simply cannot do
without the Negro who Is in
uniform, and therefore will
see to 1t that he gets what
is his by right Of citizenship.
I0aenh n Harrim1fnw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26

and for what. And he might
well ask what has this got to
do with my sons success or
lack of 1t In college. But in
the context Of 200 other
questions, O total pattern Of
motivations. biases toward
educational activities, etc,
could be found which would
give responsible educators
good insight into the real
capabilities of students and
clues as to how to activate
those potentialities.
8. What harm has been
done In asking the students
these questions? The re-
sponses are strictly confiden-
tial; the marked answers
sheets went directly from the
student into sealed envelopes
without being examined In
any way by the teachers, and
went to the research staff Of
the Educational Testing Ser
vices. There, student names
(Which were requested by ov-
ersight. 1t is stated will be
replaced by code numbers
and the answers will be fed
into computer m a hines
which will do the complex
and completely impersonal
Job Of sorting. organizing and
correlating the data into
meaningful relationship. The
tests themselves are strictly
proprietary and unavailable
(even TO newspaper report
ers, which apparently in
censed your editorial writer
who unjustly accused Dean
Deyo OF hiding" the test
and the answers are even
more 50. It is the composite
pattern OF relationships
which ETS Is seeking. and
they couldn't care less for
the particular information
given by any individual. The
ETS Is q professional organi-
zation Of the highest integrity
and their safeguarding Of
confidential information can
be expected to be strictly
professional in every respect.
Clifford X. Beck,
Member. Montgomery County
Board Of Education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
WATCHING THE WORLD
Views on Red Split Vary Widely

Foreign Correspondent Of The sto.

movement around the globe.
And perhaps even more i'm.
portant 1t is q nationalIstle
quarrel involving bitter dis
appointment on the Chi
nese side and o territorial
dispute whose seriousness
has only recently been re-
vealed by Moscow.
The optimistic school con-
tends that this situation
opens the way for conces-
sionS from Russia which un-
til now have been out Of
reach Of the West. Thus voices
are raised in Britain and
somewhat surprisingly - in
West Germany for taking the
initiative in reopening such
major cold war issues as
Berlin and German reunifi-
cation.
In New York, one gathers,
there is Q tang of summitry
in the autumn air.
At the other end. Of the
spectrum is the conservative
group Of Kremlinologists who
hold that the Russian-Chi-
nese conflict, serious as it
may be, cannot have much
effect on basic European
problems. Given overwhelm-
ing military superiority,
these experts contend that
Premier Khrushchev has lit
tie to fear from China. His
S care h for an accommoda-
ton, they predict, will in
volve no real concessions but
rather an attempt to crystal
lie the status quo in Germany
and Eastern Europe, which Is
not in the long run accepta-
BILE to the West.
Warn on Eagerness
AS the leading opponents Of
the sit-tight-and-w q it-and.
see school, the French take Q
dim view Of serious negotia-
tons at this stage. Their
main point is that If there Is
a chance Of important con-
cessions by the Russians in
Europe, they will not be i'm
proved by an over-eager res
ponse to the first overtures
from Moscow.
For his part President
Kennedy has chosen o for
mula for d dealing with the
Russians which lies some
where between the two ex-
IRENE European views. His
step-by-step approach, seek
ing agreement on such prac-
tical problems as prevention
of surprise attack and avoid
ing. for the time being at
least, the major areas Of cold
war conflict, may not be
spectacular. But at q time
when the possibilities are
both highly intriguing and
hig hly uncertain, patience
and open minds are perhaps
the most essential virtues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26

Dig down q little deeper in
your pockets, Mr.. and Mrs.
America. Here comes Tito.
Here comes the man who
recently greeted, wined,
dined, entertained. and ex-
pressed his affection for the
Butcher Of B Budapest, but
who remains the darling of
our state Department.
J. Mccarthy,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26
PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS
Dragons in Blackboard JunqIes
By RALPH McGHL

degrees Is, in some inStitu-
tons, ridiculously easy and.
to be did, dishonest in
su b S lance and meaning.
There are now about 1000
institutions where teachers
are prepared. They are both
private and public and they
may be teachers colleges,
universities, or liberal arts
colleges. They gra dua Q
about 100000 teachers each
year. This is roughly q third
Of the graduating students in
the Nation. Yet. so great Is
the total Of teacher drop
outs for marriage and better
jobs, because Of boredom. or
other reasons, and so accel-
Grated Is the birthrate, that
the shortage Of teachers an
nually becomes more critical.
In a shocking number Of ru-
raj counties, more especially
in the South, there are
teachers who have not gra-
duated from high school.
Some Dubious Educators
Nor is this all the problem.
There are elected boards Of
education in all school dis
tricts. townships. and cities. A
horrifying number Of board
members are themselves lack
ing in more than O high
sc h DOL education and have
not the slightest notion
about curriculum, standards,
or what goes on in the edu-
cational world. (The writer
knows one rural school board
where the level Of formal
education Of the board is
fifth grade.) School boards
give ear to the CT NOR
against any increase in taxes.
DR.. Conant makes the
dragon snort flame when he
proposes to wipe out all Of
the many. and chaotic. State
requirements for certifica-
ton. He would make eligible
any holder Of O baccalau-
reate degree from q legiti-
mate college who has partic-
ipated in an approved prac-
tic e-teaching program, and
who holds a teaching certifi-
cate from a college or uni
versity certifying to his prep
aration.
DR.. Conant has not salts
fled those who believe great
er reform must be In the
education Of the American
teacher. But he has made q
start.
(All Rights Reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-26


See editorial, 'objectivity.'
unsatisfactory and ina d e.
quate.
8. It seems to be the con-
sensus Of people most expert
in these complex areas Of hui
man achievement. that the
search for discriminators Of
capabilities must 60 far
deeper than grade records.
Incentive, initiative, motiva-
ton, attitudes toward life,
sociological and e conom c
factors. must also be IN
cluded. This Is an urgent
problem. and educators must
look for the answers In new
and different areas Of in
Quiry.
4. This research inquiry,
which is one attempt to find
a better solution. is being
carried out by q highly COM
petent, responsible and sue
cessful organization. It has
been recognize d for many
years as the foremost testing
organization In existence.
S. This research study, ac-
cording to DR.. ]. Davis, Of
Educational Testing Service,
is developed around q thor
oughly designed and pains
takingly structured plan in
tended TO explore the back
ground sociological and Gull
tural factors which lie be-
hind those who fall within 4
well-recognized categories OF
college students who have
distinctly different attitude
relationships with the college
and different general levels
Of achievement. The 280-odd
questions are carefully built
TO carry out this plan. No one
question alone would neces-
Sarily appear meritorious 10
the layman, and out OF con-
text may very we'll appear
nonsensical or even ludi-
crous. To ask q student how
much time his father sits by
the TV with q martini In his
hand on week ends, or how
his father feels about race
questions might we'll give the
Old Man an uneasy feeling
about who is being examined