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The Campus Chat
Friday, Auguct 13. 1945
L LBJ Worri«d, Plans Study
Water Shortage Faces
Many Areas by 1980
Grammar Undergoes Transformation
A crisis in New York City has
prompted Tiffany's, international
jtwelera. to circulate (fin instead of
wattr through its fountain window
display. The reason for this unusually
spirited substitution is that Manhat-
tan, surrounded by water, faces a wat-
er crisis. This problem is not limited
to the New York area for most of the
densely populated Eastern cities are
caught in a water shortage that get"
worse by the day.
The Eastern states now use roughly
200 billion gallons of water a day—and
15 years from now they will need «n
estimated 400 billion per day. The
problem ia how to make good use of
the potential water supply, which re-
mains vaat despite severe drought in
much of the area. The trouble in these
states results from waste, pollution,
failure to develop or integrate water
resources—all of these, plus a zooming
population.
Unfolding now is a major drive by
the government to solve the nation's
newest worry. Drought in the East is
only part of this problem. Ahead is a
battle that will take years, and billions
of dollars, to win. As a first step, Presi-
dent Johnson on July 22 signed a bill
setting up a federal-state program to
plan and administer the nation's water
resources development at a cost of
$167 million over a 10-year period.
This law enables the President to
establish river-basin commissions
upon request of the states involved
Also created is a Water Resources
Council of four Cabinet officers and
the chairman of the Federal Power
Commission. These men, meeting at
the President's request, say that
drought conditions are likely to exist
in the East through next year.
To help alleviate the crisis, it was
suggested that cities drastically cur-
tail consumption, that more use be
made of well water and thai the Army
Corps of Engineers be authorized to
use flood control or recreational stor-
age space in its reservoirs to relieve
the moat critical shortages.
Thus, New York has become a prime
example of water rationing in the
Northeast. Public drinking fountains
have been shut off and a parched visi-
tor to the World's Fair finds it im (ton-
al ble to quench his fhirst among the
pavilions. Iw*wns have !>een left to
scorcn, bathtubs are only half-filled,
and woe In? the thirsty diner who a.-}ks
for a glass of water in New York res-
taurants these sweltering summer
days.
The four-year drought which now
is plaguing the Northeast is seen as
only worsening a water crisis already
on the way because of failure to plan
for future needs. New York City,
which has a 400-day supply of water
when its reservoirs are full, is down
to 180 days. Four water systems in
northern New Jersey are down to 00
days. However, the Northeastern cit-
ies have plenty of water available to
meet their estimated needs for years
to come. In the Delaware and Hudson
River basins, prime water sources for
the area, only a third of the available
supply of water was being used in
1960
Other parts of the nation are alsc
beginning to feel the increased pros
sure of population and industries on
their water supplies. Southern Cali-
fornia's water resources are being
drained at a maximum rate Estimates
are that by 1080 the same will be trut
of the vast Great Plains region Al-
ready, the Great I^ikes are down as
much as 15 inches in some places dur-
ing recent years Even so, water ex
perts say, the West is further along
than the East toward effective handl-
ing of its water supplies, with the
Grand Coulee Dam, irrigation and pipe-
line projects.
The solution to the water shortage,
some authorities say, is to develop the
river basins in the East which would
provide new reservoirs and other fa-
cilities and eventually link the river
basins of the entire country. More
money will have to be spent on anti-
pollution measures and on sewage-dis-
jsjsal plants so that water can be used
over and over on its way from head-
waters to the sea It is estimated that
water entering the Ohio River is used
at least 13 times before it empties into
the Gulf of Mexico.
A future plan is to desalt sea water,
and a desalinization plant near San
Diego, < alif., is one of the experiments
to extend U.S. water resources. Many
engineers believe that planning and
meeting the nation's water needs in
the future will have to be done on a
broad and sweeping scale -not by in-
dividual cities Some urge the organi-
zation of river-basin "authorities"
composed of federal, state and local
representatives.
Until the nation can begin to solve
a water crisis that threatens to limit
economic growth, living standards,
health and national security, the Uni-
ted States live on the edge of water
bankruptcv.
—SUSAN MARCH
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Traditionalists Cart Antique Ideas
In Verbal Wheelbarrow: Dr. Ballard
New Liguistics Lesson
Dr. Charles B. Martin of the English faculty, who participated in the English Summer
Workshop with Dr Ballard, explains the transformationalists' sentence patterns to
Gary Elliott, seated graduate student from Fort Worth, and, standing from left,
Harvey Solganick, senior from Dallas, and Elton Carroll, senior from Sanderson.
Grant Aids Kneseks Subject Switch
NSF Award Adds Funds for Dibromoketene Research
lit VIIX I- MORAS
What do you do when you decide to tench
chemistry and physic* after graduating with
two degree* in agriculture?
Julius Kneaek, who faced such a problem,
found the financial solution fur additional
study through grants from the National Sci-
ence Foundation (NSF)
Kneaek now an Edna hinh school teacher,
received his bachelor's and master's degrees
in agriculture from Sam Houston State
Teachers College at Huntsville
When Kneaek decided to become a science
teacher '•ather than go into agriculture, he
found that it was necessary to overcome
subject deficiencies.
He is one of seven secondary school teach-
ers working full time this summer under
NSF grants in chemistry anil biology re
Sv-arch laboratories at North Texas
Kneaek is assisting Dr William T Brady
of the chemistry faculty in preparing di
bromoketene, an organic chemical, which
has been unknown until the present investi-
gation.
The dibromoketene project was begun two
year ago under a faculty research grant
but this June the project received an N'SF
grant which greatly expanded facilities
"Knesek s grant overlaps the project grant
and is a very welcome addition to the re-
search " Dr Hrady said
Kelenes are a group of organic compounds
of which ketene, a compound of two parts
carbon anil one part oxygen, is the simplest.
Ketenes were first prepared by Hermann
Staudingir. a German scientist, in 1 i 0f>.
Staudinger did most of his work with ke-
tenes in the 'l!(ls and 'litis, arid since that
time there has been very little research done
in this area.
"I became interested in ketenes because I
Looking for Dibromoketenes
NSF grant recipient Julius Knesek, right, checks over the equipment he is using in
his research with the project director. Dr. William Brady of the chemistry faculty.
I Campus Echoes
Bennington: A Liberal' Education
Bennington College in Vermont, which
lists Broadway's Carol ( banning among its
outstanding graduates, is an institution with
unusual academic and social freedoms
At Bennington there are no required
courses and credits, and students are not
formally graded With the aid of a faculty
counselor, students map nut their own path
toward a degree
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Ilorm rules are lax coeds can keep liquor
in their rooms, stay out overnight, ami may
entertain male visitors in their rooms until
11 p tn on weekends.
The Benningfton cultural freedoms at the
cost of «.'l,4f>0 a year, impose a self-respect-
ing discipline all of their own The classes
are normally limited to seven student* and
competition is keen About one-half of the
students who enter as freshmen do not leach
graduation
In celebration of Iiante's 700th anniver-
sary, the "Divine Comedy" was performed
last spring by students, who donneil approp
riate costumes
— Time Magazine
The School of Technical Training of Okla
homs State University at Okmulgee an-
nounced that beginning in January it would
offer the first course in the academic world
designed for service station operators
The university plans to construct a six-
pump filling station on campus which will
be operated by students taking the course.
The tuition of the 12 month course will be
and tools will cost $50
a a a
Newsweek
recognized that research
needed in this area," Ilr.
was desperately
Brady explained.
This research is important because ketenes
are used in pharmaceutical products, its
starting materials for plastics and in many
other industrial uses, Knesek ond
"We ha^e prepared dibromoketene but
proving this fact is very difficult because
ketenes are very reactiv< with other chemi-
cals, Knesek added.
The use of dibromoketene has not been
determined, but it, *ill probabl} be a valu-
able intermediate in the formation of other
chemical compounds, Knesek explained.
By JIM BOWMAN
I r. K. (!. Ballard of the English faculty,
who has been selected as one of the 100
participants from all over the country to
attend an English conference at Harvard
University Aug. 16-28, says that using tra-
ditional grammar is like using the wheel-
brrrow in modern construction work—you
use it when you can't use anything else.
He believes that the teaching of English
is undergoing many changes and reforms,
especially the teaching of English grammar
The National Observer acknowledged this
trend toward "new English" and discussed
it at length in an article July 10.
Dr Ballard said the speed of these reforms
will depend largely upon how much support
the summer English programs get.
The conference he will attend is sponsored
by the College Entrance Examination Board's
Commission on English, to provide special
training for directors of future National
Defense Education Act (NPEAl institutes
for advanced study in English and to pre-
pare a report that will help colleges and uni
versities in the organization and operation
of summer institutes.
The teachers in the North Texas English
Summer Workshop language sections were
introduced to the two new methods of teach-
ing grammar structural grammar and
transformational grammar mentioned in the
National Observer article.
The article explains that "the structural
grammar thinks of words at fitting into
phrases, which go to make up sentences in
certain structures. It treats sentences by the
way in which words and phrases fit into cer-
tain positions in them; that is, the important
thing about the English sentence is the place
or billet for the subject, verb and comple-
ments
"Transformational grammar utilizes struc-
tural grammar, but ventures further in an
attempt to find a more accurate description
of sentence structures By various 'rules,' it
'transforms' certain basic or 'kernel' sen-
tences into other types of sentences; with
a handful of rules, it can account for any
sentence that can be created in the language
One rule is 'emphasis' 'He walks' to 'He
does walk'"
Dr. Ballard pointed out that traditional
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Psychic Mrs. Dixon Foretold
Assassination, Missed War
"A <>ift of prophecy I he Phenomenal Jeane
Dixon" by Bulb Montgomery, William Mor-
row K Co., New York 19K5, $1 ">0, 1X2 PP
A modern-day prophet named Jeane Dixon
foretold the assassination of President Ken-
nedy, the death of ('resident Franklin I).
Roosevelt, the American racial crisis in 19B3
and 'til the launching of the first Sputnik,
the communication of ' hum the re election
of President Truman in '-IK, the death of Mar
ilyn Monroe, the assassination of Mahatnltt
Gandhi and the plant 'iash death of actress
Carole Lombard
Her amazing story is told by newspaper
woman Kuth Montgomery in "A Gift of
Prophecy " The columnist first started print-
ing Mrs. Dixon's predictions in a New Year's
column to serve as 'a change from the steady
discourses on politics and world atfairs."
' As a skeptical newspaper reporter I was
unimpressed by these alleged powers until, as
the years passed, the accuracy of her many
forecasts began to forge an impressive chain
of evidenci ," reports author Montgomery
'She was naming presidential nlales long
before delegates gathered in quadrennial
conventions to make the nominations With
regularity she was pi< king each White House
winner a year in advance of his election. She
not only foresaw death or downfall for cer-
tain world leaders but was able to pinpoint
the time when the*. would occur World-
shaking events were sometimes foretold a
decade ahead of time, and eventually they
came to pass in the precise year she bail
mentioned."
Although the psychic Mrs. Dixon is not
infallible, Kuth Montgomery suggests that
her record of accuracy is such that the bur-
den of proving her wrong must rest upon
future historians.
In the past Mrs Dixon has made a few
forecasts that have failed to occur For in-
stance, she predicted that Red China would
plunge the world into war over (Juemoy and
Matsu in October of 1958. she thought that
labor leader Walter Reuther would actively
seek the presidency in 1904 She blames her-
self for these errors, lielieving that she was
shown correct symbol* but misinterpreted
them.
Some suggested that Mrs Dixon hedges
her forecast that her predictions are so ob-
scure she can disclaim them if they go wrong
But the author says that by just touching
a person's fingertips Mrs. Dixon seems to
know what the future holds for him. Some-
times she can tell a stranger about events
in the past and future simply by learning
the date of his birth Her most frequent reve-
lation* come through her crystal ball, but
the ones she attaches greatest significance
to copie through unsought visions.
It was reportedly in such a l i>2 vision
hat sht ,'/st learned a young, blue-eyed,
Democratic president elected in 1960 would
be assasit.nated. Four years later in the May
13, 195*5, issue of Parade magazine she put
the prediction on record "A blue-eyed Dem-
ocratic president elected in 1900 will be as-
sassinated," she said.
The day the president was shot Mrs. Dixon
was eating lunch with some friends. They
had noticed she was very disturtied and had
not touched her food, When they asked what
was bothering her, she said the president
would be assassinated that day Her predic-
tion came true to the minutest detail.
Here are Mrs. Dixon's predictions for the
future:
"Our two biggest headaches will be the
racial problem and Red China. Through the
latter's subversion and meddling in the racial
strife, numerous African and Asian nations
will turn against us and provoke a world
war in the decade of the 1980s. Viet Nam
and Korea will lead us into this 'inevitable'
war with the Red Chinese.
History will demonstrate that the test-
ban treaty was bad for America and will be
used against us It is in our national interest
to trade with Russia, although until the 1980s
this trade will benefit the Kremlin more than
us. Then will come a turning point, and we
will align ourselves with Russia in the war
against Red China Red China, will wage
germ warfare.'
"The years tietween 1904 and 1907 are a
period of great national peril, in l>oth the do-
mestic and foreign fields. Mistakes will be
made which may not be fully realized for
a decade America will have three presidents
in the period between 1901 and 1909.
"The I'resident's program for the Great
Society will fail, because the channels are
running in all directions and none of the
ends are closed His War on Poverty will also
fail unless more spirituality is introduced
into the program
"The Republican Party will be victorious
at the polls in 1908, but within the following
decade the two-party system as we have
known it will vanish from the American
scene."
Much of the above sounds like vague
double talk. For instance, what does she
mean when she says "unless more spirituali-
ty is introduced into the program?" "A per-
iotl of great national peril" could mean al-
most anything
Although Ruth Montgomery presents a
convincing case, it is against the better
judgment of most Americans to believe in
fortunetelling, just as it is against their
better judgment to believe in ghosts.
--J1M BOWMAN
grammar is based upon Latin, and that Eng-
lish grammar rules for this reason do not
hold true in many situations "We have al-
ways had a rule against splitting infini-
tives," he said "All Latin infinitives are one
word and spelled differently from other
verb forma, but in English they are spelled
the same as other verb forms, so we have
to put a single word such as "to" in front of
them When you place a word between the
signal word and the infinitive, you're not
splitting an infinitive, you're pi'tting another
word in between the infinitive and the sig-
nal word."
The Observer article said that "English
curricula vary so much in different schools
that when a student reaches graduate level,
there is no single fart that he is sure to have
been taught somewhere in his earlier train-
ing." Dr. Ballard agreed, saying, "You can't
even be sure of that within a state."
Will a national education agency start set-
ting uniform curricula for all schools? "I
doubt it, although there are some things to
be said in favor of it (mainly that it would
cure the problem just mentioned)," Dr Bal-
lard said "The difficulty would be that a
teacher cannot teach very well what he does
not know or like." He said that few teachers
have the same training, likes and dislikes,
and temperament.
Four problems in teaching English com-
position were listed by the Observer article:
Poor textbooks, with an overemphasis on
correctness have fostered the mistaken no-
tion that gooil writing and correct writing
are synonymous
Composition instruction makes little se-
quential progression from year to year.
The use of such drills as diagraming has
little carry-over into actual writing skills
Teachers are poorly prepared.
Dr. Ballard also criticized traditional drills
such as diagraming. "Why do we keep on
doing them?" he said. "My guess would be
just sheer momentum."
As for the poor preparation of teachers,
Dr. Ballard said, "I think be (Jerrold K,
Footlick, author of the National Observer
article) is a little pessimistic I think the
change in teaching will be more rapid than
ne thinks."
Password Pays
For Senior Glenn
By OCJE BRISBY
Hugh Glenn of College Station believes in
mixing pleasure with business - especially
when it pays off so well.
While he was in New York in June to at-
tend a jewelers' convention, the senior busi-
ness administration student succeeded in
getting on "Password." a daily quiz show.
The effort netted him $360 and a set of en-
cyclopedias.
Glenn, who will receive his B.B A in mar
keting in August, found himself with some
free time after the jewelers' meeting and
decided to visit the "Password" studios on
June 28.
Persons being considered as contestants
are caro'ully screened through a series of
interviews, Glenn said. The first interview
was designed for the Password" staff to
get a clear picture of Glenn's background.
Subsequent interviews were to find out wflat
type of personality Glenn had (The produc-
ers later revealed to him that the real pur-
pose of interviewing was to be sure that the
guests were active, loved fun and wanted
to play the game for those reasons )
Although only about eight out of every 50
people interviewed make the guest list of
"Password," it is easier to appear on the
show than most people believe. Glenn feels.
Before the show was taped, Glenn was
told by the producer that he could slap his
partner on the shoulder or back if he guessed
a word jor became excited. And this advice
almost backfired later during the show.
Guest celebrities for the show were Anne
Jeffries and Alan Young, star of tl\e "Mr.
Ed" television series.
Glenn recalls that during the game, he
guessed a rather difficult clue, so he play-
fully slapped Miss Jeffries on the back.
While the next commercial was being played,
the producer warned Glenn to reserve the
back-slapping for the male guests.
Glenn plans to return to New York before
Sept. 1 to begin his job as buyer for the Fine
Jewelers Guild, a division of Zale Jewelers.
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