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The Brussels Post, 1956-01-04, Page 2A. great soul #fer5 • IffeP•vibo thillk gf /tomorrow pactice moderatiog 'today .E.. .044 .t*nildv. anurot4t, The Real Crisis in Modern Education • Those. Rosy Ups Are Turning Rusty' 'Dear Anne Iiiret: Three years ago I met a girl who fell in love with me, When I had to tell her I only liked her, she tried to kill herself — so I kept on seeing her. Finally I did fall in love. The day we celebrated our second wedding anniver- sary, she told me shed. id not love me nor the babY, and wanted a divorce. So two months ago I left. "I still cannot see hew I fail- ed her, I made a good living, I helped at home, I did all the cooking. She just read love stories or, listened to the radio. I was trying to save, but all she wanted was to spend and be on the go, sometimes being out half the night and drinking too much, Through two illnesses I nursed her like a father — and this is what I get! "Recently I wrote asking her to come back for the baby's sake, and she replied, 'Do you think I'm going to let that baby ruin my life?' Is there any hope of living together again? My mother has the child. A BROKEN LIFE" * I think there -is little hope 4671 SIZES 12-26; 40 4 1noli.141esitsf Your best friend is. this prin- cess dress — it whispers such lovely things about. your figure! Its lines are simple, soft — adapt so beautifully to many different occasions. Have it in rayon or cotton for daytime; lustrous taffeta, velveteen for gala evenings! Pattern 4671: Misses" Sizes 12 14, 16, 18, 20; 40. Size 16 takes 41/2 yards 39-inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- tions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (350) in coins '(stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123- Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. that your Wife will ever re- turn, She has no feeling of responsibility or Jove toward you or her baby. When you * calmly, review your life with her Yoti will, I believe. con elude that this way is best; * she is not a good wife, and * she certainly would not Make • a good mother to ,your baby, * You two will he better off *P without her, • All she wants is an, easy life * and her own way. She lacks h` character and stability. '4rY- * lag to kill herself was not • proof of any love for you; she * could not have her own way '0 and was too weak to face go- ing on without it, She was * spoiled to begin with, and you * continued the process; you * were entirely too good to her, * If she had been made to face * rher duties, she might have de- * veloped some moral strength; • but you cared too much to * force her. It was not love she * needed so much as discipline. * Plan your life now with no thought of her in mind. If * she did consent to come back * it would only mean, I'm * afraid, that every other refuge * had closed to her — and m * that case she would continue * to' be your major problem. * There are other young wo- * men in your world who would * appreciate the devotion of * which you are capable. I hope * when you are free of this * wife, you will find such a one. A CHILD WORRIES "Dear Anne Hirst: My daddy has always drunk liquor ever since I remember, He comes home at night and starts quar- reling and disturbs everybody. "He and Mom have 'been mar- ried 17 years. She had said sev- eral times she is going to leave him, but then she reminds. me he is good to us when he isn't drinking.. He always says he is going to stop but he never does. "I think your advice will help us. WORRIED" * So many personal angles * enter into this problem, I * think it best that your mother , * write me herself. She can ex- * plain what she thinks causes your father to desire alcohol, * and other points that should * weigh• in any counsel offered. If * she will tell me more ' about * the situation I shall be glad , * to try to help. * Drinking is one of the * curses of the world. It can * change a happy family life * into one fraught with fear, * anxiety and shame. Yet every * day we'learn more how a vic- * tim h e 1p s cure himself * through intelligent aid and his own determination. • I realize how your father's * behavior embarrasses you, * and perhaps touches your so- * cial life, and I am sorry. What * you can do is to let your * mother sense your sympathy, * and in every sweet way show * how you want to relieve her * anxieties. She is the one that: * suffers most, you know. * * A broken marriage is a tragic affair, but sometimes it turns out to be a blessing. If 'this has happened to you, refuse to mourn; pick up the pieces and go on to happier •days. Anne Hirst is sympathetic and wise, and will help you through. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St. New Toronto, Ont. Modern education -- its faults, failings and, problems — is, a subject that concerns every one of us; and aithought it applies to irn ited States' Conditions specifically, we think' the fol= lowing •hard-hitting article has enough- Canadian applicability to be worth reprodueing. It is by William H. Stringer,. Chief of the Washington Bureau of The Christian Science Monitor. * We hear a lot about the underdeveloped countries these days. NoW, as the White House Conference on EdUcation has sounded its sharp warnings, it is also pertinent . to ask: Is the United States going to be known some day as, an undereducated country? Fantastic, one may say. And if one listens to radio commen- tators who discuss only whether the White House conference has grass-roots support, instead of dealing with the stark needs, one may continue • to avoid reality. But let an official be quoted on the, subject who is somewhat removed from, the educational world ,but knows firsthand 'the tremendous need for teachers and good teaching in the United' States. In' fact, as an innovation, let this column from. here on be- collie largely the statements and statistics of Rear Admiral H. G. Rickover, who built the 'at- omic submarine Nautilus and who has had intense experience in searching for young- engin- eers and, young college 'gradu- ates for some of the most mod- ern — yet most typical for the future — problems in engineer- ing, metallurgy, physics, and electronics. His awareness of educational needs extends well beyond the engineering phase. Here, then, as presented in a recent address by Admiral Rick- over to the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Inc.,' are pertinent' points about American,educa- tion today. To save space I will list them briefly without fur- ther Lttribution or comment; they speak for themselves: On the engineering side some experts believe the United States is not even graduating enough trained people to sustain, to fer- tilize, its present rate Of techni- cal expansion beyond the year 1970. To maintain present liv- ing standards in the face of rapid population growth indus- try must produce 10 years from now 40 per cent more than it does today. The United States has used up in minerals and fuels since 1914 lore than the entire, world consumed in all of history be- fore 1914. A- similar growth in consumption simply cannot, oc- cur in the next 30 years "unless we make profound changes in• technology." This requires more and more laboratory and engin- eering skill. It is well known that the Soviet Union is going to pass the United States in scientific and engineering educatioh un- less something is done, The United States today has about 800,000 engineers, the U.S.S,B, 650,000. Between 1950 and 1960 the Soviet Union will have graduated 1,200,000 engineers and natural scientists, the ,United SteteS 900,000 as presently pro- gran;-d. The Soviet. engineers' will be as expert in their fields as the Americans are. The Mis- sions Ste educating as Many women as Merl in the' proses- signs;: fat f ewer American. Women enter the great prefes- Slens, "Perhaps the most insidious weakness a nation can have is the belief . that it can'do everything better than Other people. We are subjected to this kind of propaganda in various Media, such as the slick ariVer- tiseniehts of Our.magazines.. ." The present - day AMerican school pupil has a school year twit" as long SS the pupil tit 1370, and nine times as much per pupil' is spent On education. The question is whether he is adequately, trained for the de- mands of, today's: society., Too many graduates consider their degree merely as a ticket to a job and:a pass for security. "This desire 'for security in terms of money rather than in opportunity for self - improve- Ment is hard to understand a society 'Where' . security is so readily available." ' The United States is spending. about 21/2 per cent of•its:riatien- al income on educatien. ;n Con- trast it spends more than. 4; per ' cent on "recreation. In 19.51• the amount spent for 'advertising was $199 for every family in the United. States). but the, amount' spent for primary and secondary education was onlY '$152* _Per household.' The national,Outlay for educating citizens ig:siabstah- tially less .than the 'outlay for educating„customers.. • • Industry, ,whiali already has made splendid e eontributions ,of schelarshipse could help more by beintribtitink 'directlY.fo education — say a percentage of gross sales —, and by loaning physicists and engineers for one- year te :thing periods to schools and universities (more, "people3s capitalism"). It is more important to have better `teachers t h a n better school buildings. The main, the fundamental problem is that teachers' Salaries are desperately low -= hence da not attract. enough highly qualified men, and women. "It-. will profit us very, little to spend millionS of dol- lars on scholarships and :then place the students under incom- petentteac ee." Niggardly teaching salaries.— to these upon whom we depend to transmit our culture and env civilization. -- commit a fraud on Our chil- dren. To maintain the present pupil- teacher ratio in the face of heavy population growth, the elemen- tary and high schools will have tb enlarge -their teaching .staffs• by 500,000 in the .next 10 years, yet there is already a present shortage of '140,000 qualified teachers. To make up the, elack- and prepare for the future actu- ally "more than half the college.'' graduates during the next' 10 years will have to 'enter the ; teaching profession." Moreover, the school year should be lengthened. The pres-* ent "rnerican .achoOl year is based on an agricultural econ,- only where children had to, help on the farm. Students in Europe, including, the Soviet Union, at- tend school six days a week, in- stead of five, and their vacation period is about two-thirds of Ours. In a word, I expect Admiral Rickover would sum up by say- ing that the Ainerican people must give far more thought to. and pay out far more sums on education from here on only so that the United States, may hold its own in the matter of living standards, World leader- ship, and the raising of citizens of ability and wisdom and vision. The Abbe Talleyrand, that supreme artist in diplomacy, Wes slightly crippled by a genie. leg..Madani deStacl — a 'five- letter wOrilan', if ever there was one_ Suffered froth a SqUint. She hated Talleyrand like' nbie son and knowing that he Was rather sensitive about his leg, got a lot of horrid Pleastire `cernitistratirie With hirn liciatsly Abeut it. bne day, in her crowded salon, Telleyrand Was announced and he Seated himself With smile difficulty, 'And your peek leg, my dear Abbe,', she gushed,' 'how is it today?'; Talleyrandput one leg over the other.. (drosSecl, as you See (CreiPte,. territne 'VOUS Voyet) Madame'', he answered. < . HRONICLES INGER M r Gu Ali andottric, P Clo..r14.4 I wonder how many farmers, in how many;farm homes last Saturday were either late with their chores or else hurrying to et them done ahead of time so as to be in' the house to watch or listen to the •Grey Cup finals. Personally I am not interested in the game itself--7not under- standing the play—but like most people I Was very inter- ested' in the 'final score. Not only that btit it is nice to know so, many .pepple are enthusiastic Over a common interest. Part- ner and Bob ere following the game with close attention. Joy and I soon found it was 'hardly safe' to speak so .we retired to another room where we could talk .in peace. It was surely a. great ,day for, Vancouver. Visi- tors, obviously were well enter- tained andmuSt have been quite .impressed 'with the western .type hospitality. 'Every year Can- ada ,is increasing her reptitation as, a sports:eilincled ceuntr y, which includes the farming pep- ulation 'from 'east to West. No dciubt radio has helped to pro- mote this interest and now tele- vision has added to it. I wonder if people were as. interested ' in the' nominations for municipal office, that 'were held in many centres the night before. Certainly the city papers did not show too much concern for out of town news. There- were nominations in several parts of our county that same night. We were, very anxious to know the result which we na- turally expected to find in our morning paper. There wasn't a line! We bought' two evening papers. One of them' did men- tion the fact that in the.county town a woman was nominated. for*couricil. Beyond that, not a word. Thank' gOodness we have our' weekly paper to look fore ward to. 'Without it how would we ever get our local news? Which raises a question . . what, exactly, is local news? At one time it was mostly a column devoted to births, mar- riages and deaths; or a detailed write-up of church concerts, ba- zaars and the annual election o( officers of various organizations, During municipal, provincial or federal election campaigns there were long-winded letters, usual.: ly far from' complimentary, from public-spirited citizens. Now local news is much wider in scope, It concerns super-high- ways, large land deals, labour unions and nealth insurance, General news is like an octopus with tentacles that reach out to every village and farm so that general news inevitably be, comes, to a great extent, local news. For this reason farm folk now need an awareness of pnb- lic affairs that was not actually necessary a decade ago. Unless we cultivate this awareness we May find ourselves left out in schemes in which we should be included. Referring again to the recent- ly suggested Health Insurance, Delegates of the Provincial Fed- eration of Labour are putting on the heat for the, early formation of some kind of health plan. And remember, labour usually gets what it wants. So, if a health plan comes into being for or- ganized labour, where does that leave the farmer? Isn't this something that should be inves- tigated by the Federation of Agriculture; by the Women's In- stitute and by Farm Forums across Ontario? Who needs to be included in a government- sponsored health insurance plan more than the farmer? Farming i$ a hazardous occupation. On very few farms are farm em- ployees insured under the Work!. men's Compensation Act and if the farmer himself is involved in an accident about all he can claim is the 'cost of hospitalize- tion—that is if he has contri- buted to some such Scheme. If not he must bear the entire cost' of his accident, phis the expense of extra help while he is laid up. For this reason, we certainly .hope that if, and when, a Health Plan is orgardied, the farmer will not be the Forgotten Man. lqefore it is too late, the Voice of the Farmer should be heard across Ontario thieugh an or ganized group or 'society of which he ,is• a member. And, now supposing We con- tinue' in lighter vein. I wonder how many of you read an article a feW 'days ago in a Toronto paper written by a woman who DID NOT own'. a television set. Just in case you missed ,itthe writer called,' on• some friends, arriving in the"middle of a TV programme. ,They greeted her in a hushed, yoke, motioned her to a chair, , and there .she sat trying to pick up the gist of the play One drama followed an- other, and then -the news," with • interlude of conversation during the advertising. The guest had to leave fairly early , and said' her farewells with her hostess looking sideways at the TV screen. There had been no, chance fOr the guest to talk over the main .purpose of her visit. It • is that sort of 'thing that makes-.me dubious about us get- ting a set., It would be easy to• become so, enthused over• a pro- gramme one would forget to be courteous. And yet TV must be very nice to watch—in your own home—when you - are too tired to be bothered with anything else. And there is much .that is re:a?zing and educational. As for Partner, I'know he would. go for the spOrts telecasts: How- ever, we are' still sitting on the • fence . . shall we or shall we not? H a lover told his sweetheart, PI love your rusty lips, Marling," She probably wouldn't like it But this may ,happen in future,. for chemical research workers in Wales have discovered how go make most attractive lipstick from rust and beeswax, It's about the first time rust has proved useful. More than $120,000,000 is spent every year in. 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