The Nome Nugget
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Entered as Second class matter
October 14, 1943, at the Dostoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Ac
of March 3, 1879.
Wednesday, May 2,1945
AN OLD EDUCATIONAL
PROBLEM
(New York Times)
The dispute continues as
to whether education
should prepare students to
meet definite and expected
situations, or whether it
should so develop their
powers and personalities,
that they can cope with!
any situation whatsoever,1
including the unexpected, j
One can’t say that this dis
pute raged at the educa
tional conference held in
Times Hall recently, for i
no hot words passed, and
the views taken by Presi
dents Warren of Sarah
Lawrence and Doods of
Princeton, by Professor
Lindeman of Columbia i
and and by Dr. Van Doren
were not mutually exclu
sive. The question was one|
of emphasis. Presi dent;
Warren and Dr. Lindeman1
seemed to lay emphasis on
vocational training; Presi
dent Dodds believed that
the ideal of the liberal arts
college ought to be an ad
ucated person, not a skil
led person”; Dr. Van Dor
en spoke up for the “flex
ible mind,” not necessarily
stuffed with facts and fig
ures, but also to deal with
them like an efficient in
strument.
Actually a great univer
sity—Cornell, for instance,
whose president, Dr. Ed
mund E. Day, acted as
moderator at the meeting
—has room in its colleges
or departments for both
these sets of views. It may
educate in the broad sense,
it may produce skills, and
more often it makes an ef
fort to educate while pro
ducing skills. The liberal
arts college tends to con
centrate on the broader
aims of education. Its spe
cial danger is that it will
fail to fit the education to
the student and that it will1
disguise this failure by
making “character” i t s
hallmark. No one doubts
that “character” is a good
thing. It merely happens
to be hard to measure. Per
haps the real trend of the
future, at all stages of edu
cation, is toward neither
the “practical” nor the
“ideal,” but toward great
er attention to the needs
and powers of each indi
vidual. Education may
have to be custom-tailored
rather than ready-made.
With higher schooling
through the college level
becoming as common as a
high school training was a
generation ago, the diffi
culties will be many and
the money cost consider
able. But the cure for mass
thinking, the basis of other:
sorts of totalitarianism, is
individualized thinking, \
and if America is to con
tinue its humanistic and
individualistic tradition it
is for this end we will have
to work.
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FU MANCHU DEAD i
Dr. Fu Manchu is dead.
This fiendish Chinese vil
lain will never again carry
on devilish plots with the:
aid of strange poisonous,
reptiles from Burma, or;
hitherto unknown gorilla- j
like apes from Abyssinia.
He died in London, accord
ing to an Associated Press
news dispatch.
This information comes
Com os from Sax Rohmer,
the English n- ?
the novelist who has chron-j
icled Dr. Fu Manchu’s spec
tacular history. He killed
his creation off at the re
quest of the Chinese gov
ernment, who felt that too
many readers and movie
fans would assume all other
Chinese to be equally dia
bolical.
It is surprising that Roeh
mer slew this best-selling
character. He might sim
ply have announced that,
though the doctor bore a
Chinese name, he was
really a Japanese whose
real name was Fukushima
Manchucka.
"V E DAY" SERVICES
On the day when the war in
Europe is brought to a conclusion,
known as "V E Days”, the Feder
ated Church, in cooperation with
other churches in the States, will
•
hold meetings for prayer and
dedication in honor of the great
sacrifices made, and the work of
a lasting peace. These meetings
will be held at 3 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. of V E Day.
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PAY-CUT
Last year at this time I enjoyed
the acquaintance of a business
man whose salary was $50,000 a
year. I looked upon him with a
great deal of admiration and re
spect for several reasons. He earn
ed what he has with hard work
and know-how. His employees,
numbering above ten-'.housand,
call him Uncle Frank. He lives in
a small town and helps a lot of
people in a quiet way.
Last week somebody showed me
a page of a pocket-size magazine
published for the employees of
his company and I read with
grave interest that his pay had
been cut. That was news by any
body’s standard; most people are
getting raises in pay these days.
What’s more, this man’s pay-cut
is big. It amounts to more in a
year than most men manage to ac
cumulate in a whole lifetime.
His Own Words
“I insisted that the board of di
rectors reduce my annual salary
from $50,000 to one dollar” the
signed statement said. “I have not
b:en rceoi\,:n'' net anywhere ne*'r
$50,000 a year for working . . .
Only $309.36 was left for my use
out of my 1944 wages . . . Why
should I permit the company to
pay out $50,000 a year to benefit
me by only $309.36?”
Let me make haste to say that
I am not sorry for Uncle Frank.
He will be all right; he has some
other money. I am not worried
I about his employees either. The
| faithful workers among them will
, be able to retire in dignified com- '
fort. My only concern is over men
who, next year or the next, may
hunt jobs and not find them; jobs 1
Uncle Frank would like to offer i
but can’t.
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Inside Figures
Here is another enlightening
I , '
| passage from his statement: “Per
haps you wonder why my net!
1
realization from wages has been so
small. The answer lies in the ex
tremely high income tax rates
which apply to my wages, added as
they are to my other income and |
I to the fact that I must pay not only '
1 federal income taxes but also state 1
I income taxes.”
This man is not the only big
company official in the coun ry
who has cut a lordly income to
less than 10 cents a month. Why
' do they do it? Because their big
! salaries benefit them so little and
cost their firms so much. My young
friend who started last fall to work
his wav ‘hrourrvi col’cre running a
steam dishwasher four hours a day
realized more net from his salary
than this $50000 execuitve.
Who Is Injured?
Men who cut off big salaries
have other income. That’s why
their tax rates are so high. That’s
why they can afford to spurn a sal
ary. But if they must decline the
proceeds of their own invested
earnings, one thing is sure: They
will not invest further earnings to
start new ventures or expand old
ones. Investments in business are
not safe, never have been. Any in
vestment is a risk.
Men with money invest it only
when they believe, to the best of
their judgment, that it will pay
reasonable returns. Now they are
sure of only one thing: Nearly
everything an investment earns
will be taxed away from them.
Will they invest in new enter
prises? No. Then where will our
returning service men find work?
Unless present tax laws are chang
ed soon, they will find it on huge
WPA to the disgrace of our free
America.
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ODDFELLOWS ATTENTION
The I.O.O.F. Nome Lodge A-5,
will meet Friday evening at 8:00
o'clock at the home of Brother
Boucher.
53*2t Robert Boldwin. Sec.
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