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A Tribute To Teachers
National Education Week has
and the attention of alt
V'TtS focured On schools and leach
es. This is fitting, but not enough.
T'e- read with interest a guest
elitorial in the Ketchikan Daily
" *¥ j ws, wherein 'the writer,. Father
Cbncanncn,. S.J„ i*ayh tribute to
tithuifeers and their ’profession. We
q]*ote as mtrfchai Space will allow.
tThe writer quotes'Oliver Gold
smith who write ift reference to
Its eld schoolmaster: “And still
fie wonder grew how one small
1 f id /'ohI(? carry all he knew.**
‘fc’vie one has said of teachers:
^They must have a perfect human
formation, both intellectual and
'saoral; a professional competence
above average and a desire to ed
**qaeat *101001 wevii aaq^ea a^eap,
i The good father states he
4fows many teachers who measure
tp the above requirement and
Ive dare say that -most of those
yho dedicate their lives to educa
fon aspire to such perfection."
fears of study is needed to fit the
teacher to enter the classroom as
instructor, and the less qualified
i rjoraily and intellectually drop
inf. He says the teaching profess
ion is no place for inferior minds.
[No school, no society can afford
leave education in Inferior
^ands or entrust it to second-rate
lentalities. Hence our teachers,
otiay, must continue to study."
I “Perhaps no profession demands
more (personal sacrifice and more
lonstant and continuing strain to
peach the top than that of a teach
er It is a daily and yearly strug
gle with no respite."
} A world with a more intelligent
Understanding of its own advan
r
tages would wrap the teacher “in
honored robes”, the writer says.
“Too-otten our hero is the man in
the grey flannel suit with an at
taehe-case-that for all we know—is
mp’i/. Rarely is it one whose
briefcase bulges with poor-written
themes which will have to be cor-;
rected when the dinner dishes
have been wiped.”
• “Their’s (the teachers) is the;
duty to mould character, inspire*
learning, instill patriotism, and
build citizens for the world tomor
row. Truly the teaching career is
monumental and the teacher’s task
paramount. It is one of the more
striking traits, however, of our
contemporary living that we so
often grant special recognition to
.occupations in inverse ratio to
their importance.”
The writer quotes Bernard
Shaw as having said that.“the next
war would be waged for the minds
»f children,” On communism and
juvenile delinquency, h£ says:
“The communists .... have long
since been battling to achieve that
end-that there have not been
<mope defections to the communist
ideal, or more lames from the
standards of decency and self re
spect among our youth is due, in
groat measure to the high quality
of the members of our teaching
profession. To them we owe a
debt of gratitude.” '
The writer concludes by saying:
“May God bless all those wonder
ful men and women who dedicate
themselves to education and may
all of us show our appreciation of
them by a wholehearted and gen
erous cooperation in all their
efforts.” '
Here There Everywhere
t A study m;Ute h'r Se?»H.h
tmVnfisfjs at a qtatp ?n«ti4in
scientists at a state institution in
ISe East reveals some startling
iacfs regarding people. confined to
mental institutions, From their re
ports, the question you ask your
self is “Who’s nuts?” The ones in
side or out? In a study made of
T2 inmates, they found that there
no good reason why 55 of
c m shouldn’t be discharged,
jjhink of that. Thats 75 (per cent..
Twenty-six of the 72 actually
('ere returned to the outside world
n(f 25 of the 26 became self-sup
forting and otherwise gave the
^oTld no trouble. As for the 29
‘Others of the 55 they had been in
the hospital for so long they had
lio “motivation” for giving up its
security for the uncertainties of
the outside. In other words,, they
were doing all right where they
were, and didn’t want to take
chances. That’s why we asked the
Question: Are the craay ones inside
«r out? When there was talk of
SJiem leaving, some of them made
*pch statements as: “I have too
ispueh to lose. I can’t expect to
fiave it so good outside." &r “Why
«dn’t - you • ask-ma&'lO jftfrrs ago?*'
Pyschologists say that every
body is a little bit crazy. That's
why people do the crazy things
they do. On the other hand that’s
what makes them interesting. We
don’t always follow logic in our
actions or our thinking. The only
difference in these long-time in
mates of institutions to those out
side is they lack “motivation”—a
mental paralysis sets in. But you
wonder sometimes if the end re
sult of struggle against the vic
issitudes of living is worth that
struggle.
* * * * *
To go back to the scientists.
For each of the 72 men, the ex
perts asked themselves these
questions: “Is the patient danger
ous to himself or to others? Is he
likely to benefit either from the
treatment available in the hospital
or from the protection it affords?”
The startling answers for 55 was
no on both counts. Think of the
implications! Therein lies a means
of emptying our overfilled insti
tutions. “Fifty-five of 72 patients
no longer required hospitaliza
tion,” they said, and then remark
ed: “How much more could exist
ing hospital facilities achieve for
the 24T>er cent still requiring hos
pitalization if time and energy
were not expended on the othei
76 per cent?”
in • * * *
The former mayor of Fairbanks
said you had to go a hundred miles
away from that city in order to
get away from people. In contrast,
here you don’t have to leave your
home to have the inhabitants of
the nearby woods visit you. Mar
jorie Knudsen looked out of here
window one morning recently and
saw a deer standing in her back
yard. We suggested it might have
been her husband, Emil, but
apparently it was the real thing
for he verified her report. Well,
it could have been a bear—that
we believe would be bringing the
great outdoors too close even for
the new City Clerk.
*****
Periodically, you read reports
that cigarette smoke causes lung
cancer and shortens the smokers
span of life.... It “ain’t” true. A
coup of people who smoke a-m-vf
twice as many as the general
public (because their cigarettes
are free) live longer than the aver
age American, and thtw show
average, or lower than average,
death rates for cancer or lung .can
cer. for cardiovascular and coron
ary disease.
• * * * •
These are the highlights of a
report by H.R. Haag, M.D., Pro
fessor of Pharmacology, Medical
College of Virginia, and HR.
Hanmer, Research Director of the
American Tobacco Company, bas
ed oh independent scientific
studies involving more than 115,
000 persons over a period of ten
years and three months, among
employees of the tobacco company,
(hence the free cigarettes). The
report proves something-either
you can make figures say anything
you want, or that causes of lung
cancer have n6t been found as
yet.... We’ll still smoke a pipe.
ALONG THE WATERFRONT
Continued from Page 1)
members of the Commission ask
for an emergency meeting.
Various witnesses proposed
Japanese fish imports be restrict
ed unless Japan agrees to move its
salmo-n fleet several hundred miles
west of present operations.
A dispatch from Vancouver, B.C.
states that United Fishermen and
allied workers union Wednesday
asked the Canadian government to
end the import of Japanese salmon
“except under rigid controls.”
The Union asked that import
licenses be granted this year only
if large importers prove there is
a market for both domestic and
imported salmon.
Earlier this week, the Commiss
ion asked the federal government
to “do everything within its
power” to solve a conflict of in
terests between American and
Japanese salmon fishermen.
The action was in the form of
a resolution, and stated the con
tinued Japanese harvest of red
salmon on the high seas would
destroy the fishery at Bristol Bay,
and force the residents to abandon
that coastol area.
American scientists said results
of surveys showed there was a
large mingling of Alaska and
Asian salmon in the north Pacific,
and recommended a “no fishing”
zone extending at least as far west
as 170 degrees* east longitude.
The Alaska commission said
there is reasonable doubt that the
1958 fishing season will be a ban
ner year for pink salmon.
On the basis of that estimate,
the seven-man territorial group
ended a week-long meeting Satur
day by formally opposing any re
laxation in the pink salmon re
habilitation program began by the
POLICE SLOGAN
Check your convertible front to
control yotir collapsible rear.
Read Tffe Mifffrr Classified Ads
Buying or selling—Use the Class-«
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IV AN CHANGING SEX—.Frank L :V,e, right, 4jvaar-old scientist
and father of three children., poses with wife, at Rosythe, Scotland,
home Nov. 24 after telling a news conference that he is changing
sex. He said he would continue hisaiuorpaid ue jo jaiqo sv s
research team and Will live with h *:wife “as a sister” to keep their
family together. He will dress a« a man to meet official require
ments, he said, but the rest of his life will be lived as a woman. CAP
Wirephotc)
NOTICE
U.S. fish and wildlife service in
1954.
“The commission reiterates its
stand to have traps abolished,”
the territorial agency said. Realiz
ing that such action is not contem
pflated, the commission proposed
that the FWS require changes in
trap gear, providing for an open
ing in the lead to the traps.
New regulations affecting the
whole of Alaska were 'proposed at
the fall meeting of the Alaska
Fjish and Game Commission, which
concluded its meeting at Juneau
last week.
| Recommendations proposed af
fecting this area are as follows:
! For the Kodiak area, the Com
mission favors a long continuous
season with shorter weekly fishing
periods and such sustained clos
ures during the season as may be
necessary.
The Commission recommended
the king crab season should con
tinue to be regulated by field an
nouncements as recommended by
the Alaska Fisheries board in
1954.
NOTICE
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open Sunday afternoons. Special
Family dinners will be served.
!
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