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I EDITORIAL I
Education's Armageddon . . .
Nearly 1,000 educators from all over Western Alaska
meet in Fairbanks tomorrow and Friday for their annual
conference. We at Jessen's are happy to add our voice to
those that say to these educators . . . WELCOME TO
FAIRBANKS!
The educators gathering here this week are mighty
important people, both individually and as a group. In
their hands, largely, rests the future of our State.
There are some that will say that this should not be.
There are seme that contend that parents should play the
major role in the formation of the future character of Al-j
aska.
SHOULD is the key word. When we face the
facts of actuality, in more cases than not, the pri
mary role of molding and shaping our future citi
zens and leaders has been abdicated to the teachers
and administrators of our public and private school
systems.
Perhaps we should say that ibis is wrong and let it go
at that. But we know of very few ec^ycato^ who would
wilfully follow a "head in the sand" philosophy.
If we are to so prepare our leaders of tomorrow that
they are given lessons in how to drive an automobile while
in high school, then why not prepare them for the more
intangible problems of the future?
The plain fact of the matter is that our schools are
often the victim of the pressures of our complicated and
materialistic society. Too often they are geared to the
"norm" of mediocre accomplishment.
It is true that every person should be able to find
his proper niche in society. BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT
IN EVERY GENERATION THERE ARE THOSE GIFTED
FEW WHO HAVE THE CAPABILITIES TO IMPROVE UP
ON THAT SOCIETY.
That is the great challenge of Education—1962.
Even those young people of today that are destined
tc be the elusive "common people" of tomorrow deserve
to be driven to the point of maximum absorption of what
our education system is capable of offering.
What our education system of today needs more than
anything else is a "GET TOUGH" policy. It is about time for
a little less "passing" and a little more "flunking".
Your editor's dictionary says that "school", a syno
nym for "teach", means "a training or disciplining, espec
ially in that which is hard to bear". Fortunately, it is not
yet listed as an "archaic" definition.
Somewhere, somehow, the materialistic course
on which society is iournevinci must be sidetracked.
The Armaaoddon for our education system cannot be
very far off.
Every year the ranks of the idealists get thinner and
thinner. Where will the teachers, the preachers, the states
men and public srvants of tomorrow come from?
This is a question that cries for an answer. This is
a question that-we all must face . . . and the sooner the
better.
Caught In
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come ud with a reel scoop. Our
BIG BROTHER, the news-miner
broke the news that Senuter
Bartlett AIN'T gonna run for
governer. SO . . . not to be out
done. we has come up with some
scoops of our own ....
SCOOP: President Kennedy
AIN'T gonna run for the U S. j
House of Representatives this
year. (Now you got to admit
that is news.)
MORE SCOOP: The News
Miner AIN’T gonna support
Senuter Greening for reelec
tion this year. (We would be,
willin to print a retraction or.
this one. but doubt if Senuter
Greening would.)
Wal. 1 see where the Hiahway
investigaters has published there
big report. It is in great de
mand out in the villages what
has still ant outside nlumbin.
Sluicebox •
ELECTIONS IN IHt Ktwa:
The russiuns has had a nice
quiet election. Khrushchev an
3.999 of his pals was swept back
into office in a landslide. (They
has a strong one party systim.)
Down in Argintina things dint
go so well, so they is gonna have
to rescind the vote. (They soon
WILL have a strong one party
systim.)
MISSIN PERSONS: Smilin
Jim has turned up missin down
in Juneau. He was last seed
votin agin the Century 21 ap
propriation. Smilin Jim kin
easily be identified by his habit
of laughin at a tv camera when
ever he is sittin in front of one.
At this time we is happy to
issue a speshul welcome to the
1.000 school teachers what is
hitting toivn for there big con
vention. WELCOME.
In fact, no school teachers ;
convention would be a success
without a pome, so we has com
posed one speshul for all the
tPrirVl PI'S
ODE TO * TEACHERS: To
them what in the love of teach
in holds, Communion ivith its
peculier forms, kids speaks a
various language. In there gayer
hours they drives you crazy
ivith there noise, but when its
ansers you wants they kin git
mighty quiet.
BONUS POME: Roses is red.
vilets is blue, let’s have teachers
pay raises, and more Friday
nights too.
While ice is ov the subject
of teachers ... (We jist loves
school teachers.) ... I see where
them lawviakers down in
Juneau has come up with a
good deal.
They is gonna pass a bill to
give teachers time off at half
pay so they kin go to school, of
all places. (Them legislators is
sure a bunch of squares.!
Jist the same, BUCKWHEAT
INSTITUTE is gittin geared up
j for all the extra bizness this
bill will mean. We has lined up
a whole bunch of courses for
school teachers to take so they
kin keep up with all the modern
trends in education ....
For example, for those that
want to someday become ad
ministrators, \ye will offer “How
To Run A Governmint Nursery
I and II” which is good for II
credits. Another good course
| will be “The Vanishing Ameri
cun Parint”.
For the more advanced teach
ers we offer “How To Be A
Good Driving Instructor” (A
high school course). Also, “How
| To Change Diapers Between
j Classes” and “Teaching In Yer
i Spare Time”.
' BUCKWHEAT INSTITUTE is
linin up many more interesting
and useful subjects of study. For
teachers what really want to
prepare for the future, we will
offer a revolutionary new
course for use in the event there
is an atomic war and we sur
vives it. The course will be
knowed as “Teaching Reading
and Arithmetic.”
crte Washington
i Merry-Go-Round
! ty DREW PEARSON
vmjmui, ■ 1 ' 1,111 - -
Atom testing may set off atomic merry-go-round; Ru
iia and U.S. cooperate to fight disease; Kennedy may pu
lish information on Moscow-Peiping feud.
WASHINGTON—Before Secretary
of State Rusk left for Geneva he
had a private lunch with members
of the House Foreign Fffairs Com
mittee. confided to them that he
considered his trip almost hopeless.
His greatest ambition has been to
negotiate a test ban treaty, but
so far he has failed.
Rusk did not say so, but it's
almost certain that the Russians will
begin another series of nuclear tests
immediately after the U.S. tests in
April are finished. Our intelligence
indicates that the Russians have
saved some of their big bombs,
have them almost on the launching
pad. practically ready to go.
A series of big Russian tests, im
mediately after ours, would have a
powerful impact on the neutral
world, also would make our NATO
allies think twice about risking war
over Berlin. It would also put
President Kennedy under compul
sion to test again—just as soon as
possible.
Thus the Atomic merry-go-round
would go round and round with
more and more tests and more and
more poison injected into the atmos
phere.
Secretary Rusk knows all this,
which was why he was pessimistic
while lunching with Congressional
friends.
NOTE—Rusk's chief hope is to ne
gotiate a U.S.-Soviet agreement to
withhold nuclear weapons from na
tions which don’t already have
them. This would appeal to the
Russians, since they don’t want the
West Germans to get nuclear wea
pons. They have also withheld all
nuclear arms know-how from the
Red Chinese.
inonutv nacneior biiss
While the diplomats argue at
Geneva and both sides build bigger
missiles. Russian doctors have been
cooperating closely with American
doctors in trying to find the reme
dies for some of the world's worst
diseases.
They have reported on one ex
periment on heart disease with mon
keys conducted near Sochi on the
Black Sea.
The monkey is considered the
most valuable animal for medical
experimentation, since he so closely
resembles man. And the Russians,
in testing high blood pressure, took
a male monkey away from his mate
and put him in an adjacent cage.
Then they put another young
male in the some cage with his wife,
in full view of the rejected husband.
The medical results, however,
were negative. Russian doctors re
ported that the isolated ex-husband
seemed to be healthier and happier
by himself. His heart and blood
pressure were not affected.
Moscow vs. Peiping
President Kennedy is considering
publication of some amazing secret
documents regarding the rift be
tween Moscow and Rod China. They
show that the feud between them
goes much deeper than the Ameri
can public has suspected.
They also show that Khrushchev
has had real troubles inside the
Communist world, and could be a
friend of the United States in anv
showdown between the West and
the Far East.
i m> question of publishing these
documents has been under debate
in high administration circles. The
White House is inclined to believe
that publication might deepen the
rift by forcing Communists around
the world to choose between Mos
cow’ and Peiping.
CIA C hief John McCone, however,
is opposed.
NOTE—China is now beaming ra
dio broadcasts in the Russian lan
guage to the Soviet Union critical
of Khrushchev and his co-existence
policies. Believe it or not. the Rus
sians are jamming these Chinese i
Communist broadcasts even more
carefully than ours.
4 No Censorship
There was certainly no military
censorship when it came to Gen.
Curtis LeMay’s differing with the
White House and his own boss. Sec
retary of Defense McNamara, over
the B-70.
Though Secretary McNamara
overruled LeMay regarding the
necessity of the B-70. he invited
him to present his views personal
ly to the President. Kennedy lis
tened attentively but also rejected
LeMay’s appeal. However, both Ken
nedy and McNamara agreed that
the General should give Congress
his honest views. LeMay did so.
In brief, military censorship is
exercised on political and foreign
affairs matters on which the gen
erals are not experts: but they are
not censored in regard to defense
matters on which they are experts.
Letter From a Little Boy
Peter Rodino Jr.. 10-year-old son
of the Newark. N.J.. Congressman,
who recently wrote a letter to
Khrushchev, has written another
letter, this one to Kennedy, sug
gesting that the children of Ameri
ca should begin writing “letters of
friendship” to the children of So
viet Russia.
“I remember what you saia m
your speech,” Peter wrote the
President. “You said don't ask your
country to do something for you;
but for you to do something for
your country, and I'm trying to do
something for my country. This is it.
“I’m asking their children like
me to write to other children in
Russia and all over the world. We
can tell them rabout America and
how we want help people. In this
way the children in other countries
will like us and be our friends. I
think this will help the world find
peace.
“I know', you're a very busy man,
but I wanted to tell you this so you
will tell me what you think.
Geneva-Go-Round
President Kennedy has personal
ly reviewed our nuclear test plans
to make sure the fallout danger will
be held to a minimum. Nuclear
scientists estimate the American
tests will poison the atmosphere
one-third as much as the Russian..
Kennedy has ruled against building
and testing a super-bomb to equal
the 58-megaton monster the Rus
sians set off last year. The largest
American bomb is only 20 megatons
and needs no more testing . . ■ The
United States will explode some
big bombs, however, to test the ef
fects on underground missile sites,
also to try out more compact
bombs . . . But the most important
project will be the firing of opera
tional missiles which have never
been tested with actual nuclear war
heads. The famed Polaris missile
will be launched from under the
sea.
PIONEER
BARBER
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Tony John — 545 1st
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