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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
Georgia Department of Education
Hemember This? Do you re
member the little jingle we learn
ed in school about September?
“The goldenrod is yellow
The corn is turning brown
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.”
Things Are Popping In Voca
tional Education: We are getting
ready to re-write our State Plan
for Vocational Education, last re
written in 1941. Dr. Claude Pur-,
cell, state superintendent of
schools, has named a committee
to advise him about the new
plans, which will affect industry,
business, and agriculture all over
the state, teach school children
and grown-ups, and probably do
much to hold youngsters in school
till graduation night. The com
mittee includes these: Dr. C. S.
Hubbard, assistant state superin
tendent of schools, chairman, Joe
Cordell, Albany, J. K. Brookshire,
Danielsville, J. L. Sharpe, States
boro, E. Russell Moulton, Lindale,
Dr. Tom Quigley, Georgia Tech,
Dr. George O’Kelly, Athens,
Henry Stewart, Cedartown, and
from the Department of Educa
tion: George I. Martin, Miss Inez
Wallace, George Mulling, Ray
mond Ginn, William Bracjy, T. G.
Walters, W. M. Hicks, Miss Fay
Pilkenton, and Miss Mildred Jack
son.
Is Your Board Member Coming?
On September 25, we will give a
demonstration o's what educa
tional television is doing—and
will be doing when three new
stations get into operation—for
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WHAT STARTED OUT last
January to be a spending session
of Congress has turned out to be
an economy session.
are requested by President Eisen
hower and the Budget Bureau.
The House of Representatives cut
the 15 regular appropriations bills
J $2.3 billion below the amounts
tasked by the White House and it
is a foregone conclusion that when
Senate and conference action is
completed on all of them the sav
ings to the taxpayers should be
somewhere between $1 and $2
billion. Thus, prospects for a
balanced federal budget for the
year ending next June 30 would
appear to be good provided the
nation’s economy continues its
< present upward trend.
• * *
THE ONLY AREA of federal
spending in which Congress is
■voting any substantial increase
over the amount requested is that
of health. The completed appro
priation for the Departments of
Labor and Health, Education and
Welfare is $259.6 million above
the total for which the Chief Ex
ecutive asked. The major por
tion of that increase will go for
accelerated medical research, par
ticularly in the fields of cancer
and heart disease—a worthy pur
pose which indoubtedly will have
the approval of all thoughtful
citizens.
The greatest single cut will be
in the appropriation for foreign
(not prepared or printed at povernmeni expense)
i the youngsters of Georgia. This
| will be part of the program at
j the state meeting of the Georgia
I School Boards Association at the
Georgia Center in Athens. Gerard
Appy is in charge. I hope that
your school board members will
be there. It will be as enlighten
ing as anything they have seen
in a blue moon. Leonard Robin
son of College Park is president
of the Georgia School Boards As
sociation. Mary Grubbs is our
TV co-ordinator here in the De
partment of Education.
The Science-Mobiles Are Rol
ling Around Georgia Again: Five
science mobiles are on the road
again. They visited 150 of your
schools last year, have more than
400 invitations for this year. The
teachers are these: Charles Cole
man, Reidsville, E. A. Cushman,
Smyrna, Ashley G. Morgan, Jr.,!
Decatur, Dallas Stewart, Marietta,!
and George B. Sturgis, Twin City.!
(If your school wants one write I
Victor Bulloch, Science Coordina-.
tor, State Department of Educa- i
tion.)
—
Surprised? Research studies
done by several universities show
that the public schools are doing
a better job of educating children ,
than the private schools are. If
you don’t believe this, I can cite ]
chapter and verse for you if you
write me. Georgia children are
studying more math, more science,
more language than ever in his
tory. And they have better teach
ers, doing better teaching. (But
unless we get them a raise, we
may not have them long!)
A Book And A Fourth, Brand
New! When Georgia’s million
aid and sizeable reductions also
are being made in the amounts
earmarked to operate the Depart
ments of Agriculture, Treasury,
Post Office, State and Justice.
Even the budget of the Depart
ment of Defense has been trimmed
$35.6 million under the recom
mended figure. All of these re
ductions will be accomplished
without any curtailment in gov
ernment services.
• * *
CREDIT FOR THE attitude of
fiscal responsibility now prevail
ing in Congress must be given to
two forces: (1) the pleas for a
balanced budget and the vetoes
and threats of vetoes by Presi
dent Eisenhower and (2) the dili
gence of the taxpayers in making
their wishes known to their Sena
tors and Congressmen.
What has happened in Congress
this year is proof of the funda
mental fact of government in a
republic that whenever the masses
of the people become alerted and
enthusiastic about an issue they
can work their will through their
representatives on the national
level.
It likewise is true that when
the people are lackadaisical or
asleep any proposal which has any
element of good can be passed
through Congress without regard
to the ability of the taxpayers to
pay for it. A case in point is the
recent vote in the Senate to revive
the Civilian Conservation Corps
at a cost of S4OO million a year
despite the facts that the nation
is enjoying unprecedented pros
perity and our national budget
has been balanced only five times
in the last 30 years.
It is now
certain that
when the final
total on appro
priations voted
for the 1960
fiscal year is
added up, it
will be well
under the fig-
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
youngsters got to school last
week, they found 30,000 teachers
waiting for them. They also will
have about 8 books each to study,
and of these 8, an average of one
and a fourth books will be brand
new. We order about 1,250,000
new books each year. The others
are passed along from one stu
! dent to the next. This is how
! books are ordered: your superin-
I tendent has his principals and
| teachers to make up the lists of
what they will need. The books
| are chosen from our multiple lists
j of textbooks (all reviewed by an
' expert committee). Money is al
] lotted your school for buying
■ books. Your superintendent makes
i up his order. We Check it up here
Ito (1) be sure it is on the state
! adopted list, and (2) be sure that
! the order does not add up to more
i money than your school has com
i ing to it. Then we send the order
■ to the publishers, and they mail
; the books straight to your schools.
; One year when Cairo didn’t get its
। order, we checked and found that
I some publisher’s shipping depart
] ment—which didn’t know that we
had a Cairo in Georgia—had start
!ed the books on their way to
i Cairo, Egypt. Your child gets
j textbooks (bought by the state)
! for the whole 12 years of school
iat a cost of S4O, but these same
I books would cost you, bought
, new, more than S2OO.
Be Careful, There! If you are
j on the road about 8 a.m. or about
3 or 4 p.m., you’ll be meeting one
;of the 4,900 big yellow school
! buses that roll around on our
; grey pavements carrying 442,000
! children to school and home
। again. Do STOP! Don’t hurt these
children. Half of the bus accidents
are caused by your running into
the back of the buses. We are
getting ready to help Georgia
schools do a new survey of their
bus routes, and to give them more
help with shop training and the
maintenance and operation of]
their buses, for greater safety and i
efficiency in carrying your chil-:
dren to school. Any child 'who I
lives more than a mile and a half,
from school can ride at state ex- i
pense. The buses total a daily |
mileage of more than eleven ।
times around the earth! That’s a
lot of miles.
Father to Child Doing Home
work: ‘I don’t know. Ask your]
mama that one.”
Child: “I don’t need to know I
that much about it.”
Best Answer: Dr. Claude Pur-!
cell, state superintendent ofi
schools, wrote local school system I
superintendents in his monthly !
letter in September that “The best'
way to answer education’s critics I
is simply to see that good learning
is going on in the classrooms, and
then let the people in your com
munity know this. All the two
hundred million dollars which
Georgians invested in their
schools every year is for one
Tips on Touring
By Carol lane***^
Women't Travel Authority
Watch Your Tires
Tubeless tires cut your chance
of getting a flat 75%. That’s fine.
But too many motorists now neg
lect their tires — and this can lead
to trouble, principally unnoticed
wear.
The major causes of tire wear
are excessive speed, underinflation,
neglected damage, wheels out of
alignment, and sudden starts and
stops.
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Here’s how to diagnose tire
trouble: heavy wear in the center
of the tread means overinflation;
excessive wear around outer edges,
underinflation; individual treads
worn on one side, wheels out of
alignment; large, smooth depres
sions one one side of the tread,
wheels need balancing.
Here are some tips on tire care:
Have tires properly inflated be
fore starting your trip, when
they’re cool. Then leave them
alone.
When driving on a very hot
road, slow down. And stay at this
slower speed unless you want to
damage your tires.
If your car always carries a
heavy load, it’s o.k. to add 2 to 4
pounds to every tire.
If you get a puncture, don’t ride
on it'for long. Change and patch
tire as soon as possible.
Cross-switch tires every 5,000
miles. One good way: right front
to right rear; right rear to spare;
spare to left front; left front to
left rear; left rear to right front.
Avoid sudden stops. One jarring
stop at 70 m.p.h. scrapes oil 100
miles’ worth of rubber.
। purpose only: that Georgia’s chil
: dren may get first-rate instruc
| tions in the classroom. Let’s con
-1 centrate this year on genuine
| quality teaching and learning in
Georgia classrooms.”
Does Your Child Ride the Bus?
I If you live more than a mile and
I a half from school, your child
! is probably one of the 442,000 that ]
] will be riding to school on our,
‘4,900 buses this year. If you have!
to get up in the dark to get him ।
I ready, and the big yellow bus has !
i to carry him ten or twenty miles ]
I to a good school, don’t complain. ]
Be proud. Remember that half of j
i the world’s school age children I
: don’t even have schools to go to.'
'We are the blessed ones of the j
] world. In Georgia, right from his
i own front door, twelve years of
education free to every child, with
| free bus rides, free textbooks,
jgood teachers and good school
! buildings. And yet some folks
j complain!
Ever Write This Note? Did you
] ever write a note to your local
i school board to say thank-you for
i the many long hours they spend
i ateending to school problems that
affect your child? You should.
! We get many questions from you
about school boards: Must their
'meetings be public? Yes. What
■ pay do they get? They can get
]up to $lO per meeting, but we'
I feel the finest service is given
when it is kept an unpaid service
!to the public. What can you do
! if you don’t like their decision?
। Ask for a hearing, then request
1 its appeal to the State Board of
! Education, which can hear no
i local issue except when it comes
i up on appeal. (Did you know that
j there is a state organization of
! school board members? It is head
led by Leonard Robinson of Col
lege Park, who is chairman of the
] Fulton County board of educa
f tion.)
Little Man With a Big Heart:
I Probably the Georgian who gave
: the most scholarships to young I
people was old Aleck Stephens, i
i whose shrine is over at Crawford-1
| ville. Because he had not a penny !
I for his own education, and got
it the hard way, he sent many
! a Georgia boy through law school.
! Stephens was probably the kind
i est and most curious looking man I
| who ever lived in Georgia. Gover
! nor, Senator and vice-president of
] the Confederacy, he was nearly
i six feet tall and weighed about
’ ninety pounds. A reporter in Con
: gress wrote, “About halfway up
i the aisle sits a curious bundle,
। wrapped in a huge overcoat and
■ wearing a stovepipe hat for fear
]of draft. In the middle, is the
white, blazing eyed-face Georgia’s
Aleck Stephens. He wouldn’t look
any different in his coffin, except
for his eyes. How anything .
so sad and small and sorrowful
got here all the way from
Georgia, is a thing of wonder.”
And his cook said, about his
kindness, “He is kinder to dogs
than most meh are to people.”
Don't Bore the Kids! If you're
a teacher be vital and alive and
interesting. Read. Study. Think.
Seme teachers make the mistake
of thinking that in this television
age, they have to entertain the
children, to compete with Bat
Masterson or Pat Boone. That’s
not it at all. It's not to entertain
them, but to interest them that is
the teacher’s job. The children
had rather be worked to death,
than bored to death. If you can
. trigger off that built-in motor
!of curiosity that is already in
them, just waiting for somebody
: smart like you to get it started,
the child will do a. lot to educate
• himself. He won’t be enthusiastic
: unless you are. He won’t think
! reading is important unless you
do. He won’t be learning unless
| you, too, are learning. Remember
! what Schopenhauer said, “The
! two great enemies of mankind are
! pain and boredom.” And remem
ber, too, this awful description of
a dull teacher: “She was not only ■
; dull herself, but she was the cause j
! of dullness in others. She dwelt i
| in Drearyville.”
The Redhead and iha Picture:
He was just a little guy, about
] ten, I guess. He was wandering
] around on Capital Hill, having
I come up with his dad from one
of Georgia’s 159 counties. Some-
I body had told him that he could
: get a picture he wanted at the
; Office of Information. He poked
an uncertain head in my door. “I
want a picture,” he told me. ‘l’m
i collecting pictures.” It turned out |
that the pictures he was collecting !
were of public figures, like the I
Governor and State House offi
i cers. What he wanted from my of
fice was a picture of the State
Superintendent of Schools, as
many children do. I handed him
j one. He left. Then—as if he had
' gone to get a fresh supply of
' courage from around the corner—
' he came back. “Do you thing that
fellow would write his name on ]
it?” he asked shyly. I said 11
thought so. And I took his hand, ]
and he and I went up to the front
office, two doors' away. The Su
perintendent, busy as a bee, took
time out to smile at him, and
write on his picture, “To Jimmy
from hie friend, Claude Purcell,
State Superintendent of Schools.”
We went back down the hall.
“Gee,” said the small redhead, “he
was so busy.” Jimmy had learned
what he would think about many
times later: it’s the busy men, the
big men, who take time to do
small gracious things. Maybe
that’s why they get to be big
"and busy. Who can tell?
They Think This Is A Good
Teacher: Students' asked for their
idea of what a good teacher is,
came up with this collective list:
A good teacher (1) explains things
clearly, (2) is fair to all and
doesn’t have pets; (3) laughs with
us (4) is kind and considerate of
our feelings, (5) pays attention to
us OUT of class, too (6) is firm,
but not grouchy, (7) makes class
work interesting, (8) is neat and
nice to look at, (9) is easy for us
to talk to, and (10) never pouts
or holds a grudge.
Latin or Traffic? A sneering,
sarcastic critic of the public
schools says. “The modern school
prihcipal can come up with a
democratic solution to the traffic
Pool Safety
L
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WITH SUMMER HERE, wading
pools arc flourishing like dande
lions in backyards across the coun
try. They keep the toddler set cool,
wet and happy, and they help
mothers keep their youngsters
within sight. But besides neighbor
hood tots, these pools also attract
germs, foreign objects and occa
sional cats and dogs. To reduce the
danger of harmful organisms and
dirt, drain the pool each night and
fill it with fresh water in the morn
ing. For greater security, swab out
the pool each evening with a solu
tion of Lysol brand disinfectant
in waler as the health-conscious
mother in the photo is doing, with
the hearty approval of her young
toddler.
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The Ford Falcon, first of America’s new-size cars, represents a “breakthrough” in
automotive design that may materially alter the future of the automobile industry.
The Falcon Fordor shown here is more than, two feet shorter and three-quarters of
a ton lighter than a standard 1959 Ford. Yet, the Falcon is a six-passenger car, with
interior roominess approximating that of standard models.
Steel bar cushions jar in
REDESIGNED ’6O CHEVY TRUCKS
t
It '
A revolutionary new suspension system gives
vast improvement in ride, durability, and control
to 1960 Chevrolet trucks. Front wheels are inde
pendently sprung on frictionless torsion rods.
Rear suspensions are new. with coil springs on
light-duty models and stronger, softer riding
! problem, but he can’t even read|
] the Latin inscription on the
I cornerstone of his school build
ing.” What I’d like to know is
where IS this brilliant fellow. Ij
know many cities that are look
ing for him. If they find a prin-|
cipal—or anybody else—who can]
, come up with a solution to thej
' traffic problem, they’ll offer him
. so much money, we wont be able
: to keep him in the school. And
. they won’t care whether he ever
' heard of Latin!
> Our Orchid This Week: I’d like
■ to pin a bouquet on the Douglas
; schools which are using college
students to help teach the small
fry to speak a foreign language.
I Cuban students at South Georgia
•! College in Douglas help the teach
, ers in the public schools teach
:! elementary children to speak
; Spanish.
[i What’s going on in YOUR
!! school that is different? Will you
' write me, in care of this paper?
i I’d like to know and tell other
schools about it.
i State Workshops
On Industry Stir
Interest Over Georgia
Many rural Georgia counties,
’! whose No. 1 problem is how to
' halt the population exodus from
■ their areas, appear to be in a
1 somewhat better frame of mind
these days. They’re learning how
to go about planning a program
for possible future industrial
development which conceivably
could stem the tide.
This is being done through a
series of industrial development
workshops sponsored by the
; Georgia Department of Commerce
in cooperation with Georgia
Tech’s Industrial Development
Department and the Georgia
Rural Electrict.
“We have passed the half-way
mark in the first phase of this
program designed to bolster!
counties which have been losing!
population in recent years,” de-1
dared Abit Massey, Commerce
Department director,
“Our original workshop sched-]
ule included 32 ‘critical’ counties
; —those with the largest percent
! age of population loss. When the
present schedule is completed by
■ mid-November, workshops will
be offered other counties with
decreasing population.”
How is the program going in
counties where workshops already
have been held?
“Great,” says Hoyle Yandle,
manager of the Commerce Depart
ment’s Planning Division, who
has participated in most of them !
“Interest runs' high at these ses
sions. The local people very def-
i initely want manufacturing plants!
' and they are anxious to know.
5 leaf springs on heavier models for improved
1 cushioning of load and driver. New frames reduce
- height up to seven inches, with some cab floors
. at step-in level from the ground. Styling is new
1 with rubber-mounted, roomier cabs. Inside steps
; have been eliminated, providing a full-width floor.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1959
I how they can lay the ground
: work to bid for them.
“They’re dead set on getting the
s ball rolling and we are making
ij every effort to help them, both
• i during these sessions and as
• I things develop later as the re
q suit of their initiative. The work
:] shops' usually are attended by
1 25 to 30 community leaders,
■ semetimes as high as 50. This in
[ eludes city and county officials,
• members of civic and women's
organizations and others interest
ed in the area’s future.”
> The workshops, consisting of
; eight hours of intensive instruc
. tions, are designed to unify the
I varied interests of the respective
communities with the ultimate
i gcal of planning and promot
ing industrial development.
L Necessary steps to be taken are
; outlined and specific recommen
dations to fit the situation are
; made by Commerce Department
i representatives and experts from
’ Georgia Tech. Good and bad sea
• tures are listed in order that the
particular community may best
. capitalize on its assets and elimi
nate its liabilities.
These workshops, which are the
first steps in the State Com
! merce Department’s long-range
industrial development program,
1 already have received national at
-1 i tention. Indications are that other
1 (states may undertake similar proj
-11 cts, it was pointed out.
A WELL STOCKED LARDER
1
Miss Nelle Thrash, food preser
r vationist, Agricultural Extension
Service, reports 5,445,371 quarts
of food were canned last year in
; Georgia by adults and 834.192
‘ quarts by 4-H Club members. In
'addition the adult group froze
19.475,296 pounds of food and the
[ 4-H’ers froze 1,713,965 pounds.
1 1 Remember' money spent at
I home helps built your schools
’ । and county.
Federal Employment
Opportunities
The Fifth U. S. Civil Service
Regional Office is accepting ap
plications in an examination for
' library assistant at $3255 through
$3755 a year.
To qualify for these positions
applicants must meet certain ex
perience or education require
-1 ments. They must also pass a
written test. Applications will be
accepted until further notice.
Persons interested in these po
sitions may get application forms
. or information as to where such
forms are available at the main
1 office of any post office (except
] the Atlanta post office), or the
Fifth U. S. Civil Service Regional
! Office, Peachtree-Baker Building,
( 275 Peachtree Street, N. E., At
! lanta, Ga.