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The Brussels Post, 1962-01-11, Page 2WirVg.”7" IKE IN DISNEYLAND—Former President Eisenhower, accompanied by Mrs, Eisenhower (left), a carload of grandchildren and other members of his family, tips his fire hat to the crowd as he drives a fire truck during a visit to Disneyland at. Anaheim, Calif. Those IQ Tests Are They Any Good? There is a growing euSniclen- arnong American educators and Parents that we have, gone to an extreme in our faith In or, genized testing, From early school years to college entranee, our children and yoting people are made to face batteries of tests that are supposed to measure their intelligence, their abilities, their achievements, and their possible success, Of urgent inter- est, therefore, is the vigorous arti- ele by John Kord Lagemann in the December PTA Magazine, "Let's Abolish IQ Tests," The subject is frankly contro- versial, The PTA Magazine in- vites "Opinions by Post." The De- cember Reader's Digest is carry- ing a condensation under the title, "Lets Look. Again at Those IQ Tests." There is bound to be a wide reaction. Outside the United States, we are told, only Great Britain makes extensive use of standard- ized tests to grade and classify talent, "Many countries, includ- ing the Soviet Union," Mr, Lege- mann says, !love considered them and rejected them com- pletely." It is common knowledge among educators that children who test with an average or low IQ get different educational treatment throughout their school years from those who test high. "A low IQ may exclude him from the opportunity to discover and develop his talents," the arti- cle says, "He may score low be- cause he can't read well, and then be hampered in his chances to learn to read well because he has a low IQ, Scores that are designed 'average' may give him an image of himself as an un- promising person, and he may act accordingly." The article lists and discusses some of the "fundamental de- fects": Unreliability: Scores vary er- ratically; within a six-month pe- riod a child has scored as gifted and merely average, Inaccuracy: A whole 'classroom takes them et once. They are 'short, about half an hour, and contain only a limited number of short ques- tions. Therefore, the answers to BOOK BONANZA--Forgetful Chicago and North Western Railway commuters 'donated" more than 1,000 paperback books to Chicago area hospi- tals. Dawn Runge stacks the books which have been collect- ing dust in the railway's Lost and Found department. a few of these, according to the article, make a big difference in the scorer yet much depends on a ehild'e motivation when taking the test. Statistics have indicated that IQ tests favor children of well educated parents, For example, in prosperous suburbia, where a child's borne environment ex- poses him to books, magazines, conversation, and cultural inter- ests, one out of four children scores above 125, while in poor neighborhoods only one out of 16 does so, Thousands of bright youngsters whose home environ- ment is culturally negative are deprived by low IQ ratings of a chanee at college and college scholarships, writes lVfillicant Taylor in the Christian Science Monitor. Cited as the worst wrong this mass testing does to children — and serious for the future of the nation — is that "tests favor the conformist over the creative mind," Mr. Lagernann gives this example: "When asked to define language, a high IQ student wrote, It is a form or manner of expression.' A high - creativity student wrote, 'Language is the window through which we see experience,' an answer that would never get by in a standardized test." "What an aptitude test (and this includes IQ tests) does mea- sure is the quality of a pupil's performance in a number of mental tasks," says Dr. Henry S. Dyer of the Educational Testing Service. The score "tells how well he can cope with tasks like those on the test at the time he takes the test, and it tells noth- ing more." A group of top scientists were asked to evaluate a list of 28 specific mental abilities and rank them according to their impor- tance in scientific research. Their number one was "the ability to abondon conventional problem- solving methods that have be- come unworkable and to think of an original solution." (An ex- ample of this was to put the eye in the point of a needle and make possible the invention of the sew- ing machine.) This ability is not measured by IQ tests. Another was the ability to recognize prob- lems — once defined by Einstein as "inability to accept the ob- vious." Similar to IQ tests are the ap- titude tests, most of which are of the "multiple choice" type — that is, the child must choose one of several proffered "solutions." If he does not get a certain num- ber of "right" answers it is as- sumed that he will not do well in college, There is much more in the article than I have space to share here. A visit to your pub- lic library or school to read it in full in the PTA Magazine can be rewarding. The Reader's Digest's able condensation is also worth your perusal. A final quote on the defects Mr. Lagemann sees in standard- ized IQ tests: ", . they favor one limited kind of intelligence — the kind that is fast and sharp and knows the correct answers— while they discriminate against such central aspects of intelli- gence as imagination, creativity, insight," Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. I have been invited to a wedding and reception, and the bride says I can bring my boy friend with me. Should he send a gift, or would it be proper for him to share the cost of mine?' A, He is not expected to do either of these. 8961 ---z ilaSSI HRONIUCES 1621.91FIAR14 As you know, every year on the Saturday before Christmas, the National Hockey League, puts on what is known as "Young Canada Night." To us it points up the changes, that haVe taken place over a period of years. When we first started listening to hockey broadcasts it was from a second-hand battery radio, with Foster Hewitt calling the game. Then came the year when, as a special attraction for Young Canada Night, Foster had his young son come to the mi- crophone and take part in the broadcast. Bill was then about eight years old. Obviously Bill took a genuine interest in hock- ey so the time came when he also became an announcer for the hockey games, not replacing his father but supplementing his ac- tivities. That is to say Foster broadcasts by radio and Bill on television. This last Young Can- ada Night marked another mile- stone in the Hewitt family. Bill's young son also took part in the broadcast just as we remember his father did many years ago. No doubt it was a proud night for Grandpa Hewitt, and most certainly a family record in con- tinuous broadcasting. That brings back to mind the early days of radio. I remember, back on the farm, when we had our first radio. It was a big cumbersome affair, and of course, it was battery operated, It had a number of knobs that had to he adjusted every time we turn- ed it on and then often it would squeal and whine until some- times we couldn't hear-any pro, gram at all. Worse still were the times when the battery, without any warning, would give up the ghost. That necessitated a trip to town to get the battery re- charged — and in winter a trip to town often meant going in by horse and cutter, or team and sleighs. A few years later we got a smaller, more compact radio, We did get better recep- tion but we still had to depend on batteries as it was long before the time that we had hydro in- stalled at the farm, What a difference electric pow- er makes in a home! Almost at once we got an electric radio— no batteries to worry about, just occasionally a tube would burn out and had to be replaced. Now radio arid television - sets have been improved to such an extent that only occasionally do they give any mechanical trouble.. Which is marvellous when you think of the use — and abuse they receive, with children turn- ing the controls On and off, this way and that, with both radio and television. What would hap- pen if youngsters today were faced with the same conditions that were prevalent in the 'thir- ties — no television and radios in only a few homes? Who is to say which period encourages the better personalities. Certainly children a generation ago were more creative — less dependent Upon commercial toys and en- tertainment, What would mothers of pre, schooldrs do today without TV? in dozens of homes you hear the same story — "Come on, now — eat up your brealtlast then you can watch 'Popeyei.", Television to young mothers is AS good as a part.time ba.by-sitter, well now, for you people Who. read this column, Cheistitiae now ti thing of the past. We,. on the other hand, have another two days go before the big day arriVei,. For your it is a time for Catching your breath again. You den' now •collect all those lovely Christmas cards, put them into a 1:,,oitt Until the beginning' of next December, then yduivoill bring. theta Mit Ortee more stitct go COMPROMISE --- The U.S. Coast Guard is erecting a ply- wood baffle around its Point Pinos.,Calif. foghorn to divert its noise and permit Pacific Grove residents to sleep again. Monterey fishermen want it to stay its own noisy self. through the same ritual. all over again. That is all part of Christ- mas. I was talking to Daughter this morning and she said they got their greatest kick out of taking the boys to do their own shop, ping, They each took money from their penny boxes to buy presents for Grandpa arid Grand- ma and for their cousins,' Rose and Cedric, Dee took them to Woolworths and they were al- lowed to choose the presents themselves. Dave had two dol- lars. to spend but what he picked out came to just over four dol- lars so he went after his Dad to make up the difference! His father allowed him an extra dol- lar but also insisted that some of the things must be put back on the shelves. Naturally that was to make him understand the value of money. We generally think that chil- dren have too many presents and take too much for granted. But apparently, given the opportun- ity, they get just as much pleas- ure out of giving as receiving. And that is something that should be encouraged, Well, Happy New Year, every- body. See you again next week. Coming Up PLAID Trading Stomps The staid Great Atlantic & Pacific. Tea Co. has long been known to its U.S. employees as "Grandma," But ever since 1910, Grandma has been carrying on a sporadic flirtation with A raffish institution which, in soberer mo- ments, she denounces as a crea- ture of the devil—or maybe the devil himself: The trading stamp. It was to be expected, then, that when Grandma threw her lace cap over, the windmill there would be only embarrassed sit- ence from A&P headquarters in - New York City. But the chain's Albany district—stretching from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. north to the . Canadian border—was anything. but quiet,• to end-of-the-world type, newspaper ads have carried the word of Grandma's surrens der: A&P stores, which have been cautiously giving stamps lot a month, offered double stamps -"Out of the tacit, S1r Slitgase bLia. This is Monday; 'not feutiLlayl" for four straight days in a spread- ing stamp war with rival store chains. In a climatic salvo, the chain held drawings in Albany, gave away 10 million stamps. The first prize: Some 4 million stamps, worth an estimated $10,000, Only last year, A&P chairman Ralph W. Burger was saying: "The consuming public realizes there is no 'pie in the sky' , The expense of such promotions ultimately must be added to the cost of doing business." Last month, the ads read: "A&P promises you same low, low prices, some tremendous cash savings, same high quality—and now you get Plaid Stamps, too!" If there was embarrassment in New York City, there was joy in the hinterlands. Mrs. Harry Cole, the 6-year-old Chatham, N.Y., grandmother who won the . top drawing prize, reported she was "numb" with joy last month. "It's really given us something to fight with," said one local A&P manager. "We're getting a lot of the other supers' custom ers." Industry sources said A&P plans to give stamps in Boston "within months" and hit New York City by spring. And with Grandma's surrend- er, the devil turned demure. "Wise men change their minds," said 'Eli M. Strassner, president of the Trading Stamp Institute of America, "A&P's entry is . . a compliment to the trading- stamp industry." TV Turtle Hassock camitaW6.120, Pitted the furniture and de- light youngsters with this gay cushion that's perfect for TV! Use thrifty Strap§ — the brighter', the better for this plumply padded TV turtle,. 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After "Lifetime" came "You Can't Take It With You," which copped a Pulitzer Prize, and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (both written with Kaufman), In the years that followed, Moss Hart hits, in which he served as author or director or both, in- . eluded musicals with Cole Porter ("Jubilee"), Irving Berlin ("As Thousands Cheer"), and Ira Ger- shwin ("Lady in the Dark"), the screenplay f o r "Gentleman's Agreement" (which won an Os- car.in 1947), and "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot," both of which he directed, Hart was a match for any of the highly individual characters he created for the theatre, When the Pennsylvania farm he 'once owned needed some shade, Hart promptly imported a forest of 3,500 full-grown trees. Critic Walter Kerr wrote of his per- sonal behavior: "His style was something a curtain could always have gone up on." In 1959, when he had 'made more than $5 mil- lion, Hart declared, "I have none of the money left, and I have no regrets,"upiay righting is a kind of suicide," he once said. "A play runs to only 125 typewritten pages, but it takes two years to v rite one. Your last play al- ways shows up on your next elec- trocardiogram." Last month, in Palm Springs, Calif., Moss Hart died at 57 of a heart attack while getting into a car with his wife, actress Kitty Carlisle. Before the curtain fell, he had begun an outline of an autobiographical sequel, "Act Two," and had fin- ished the first act of a new comedy of manners and marriage vrhich would have gone into re- hearsal next summer. Little Plane That Flew By Itself! Eddie Remington, a large, mild man who operates restaurants in three towns scattered up and down the Sacramento Valley, was annoyed one day last month when he got to the municipb.1 airport in Chico, Calif., and found the battery dead in his' four-passenger Tripacer. Rem- ington had to get to Marysville, 50 miles to the south, and check on his restaurant operation there. "I turned on the switches, set the throttle, primed it, climbed out and chocked the wheels, and then started to Crank it," he said. The engine started with a full- throated roar and the light plane leaped out of the wheel chocks. "it came right for me," Reming- ton said. He jumped aside and clutched desperately at the Pilot- less machine, first at a wing strut and then at the tail. "When I realized I was becoming air- borne," he went on, "I became a little panicky. I just let go." Aloft before it had gone 500 feet, the plane climbed graceful- ly in two big lazy circles and vanished into a cloud layer at 1,00Q feet, Remington, scratched and bruised from his fall'on the runway, marveled: "It flew just as though someone WAS la it." And then the official flap set in. Remington notified the 'Fed- oral Aviation Agency, the Air Force, the '13title County sheriff's office. 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