The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 201, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 28, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
TEACHING STANDARDS TOO LOW
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By DR. CLYDE R. MILLER, Teachers College, Columbia University.
IpTp^HE vast majority of young American school teachers are callow,
uncultured and mediocre. They are not worth their pay to the
schools that hire them. The schools of education should stop
graduating hundreds of surplus teachers and give their atten-
tion to improving the abilities of those already in the profession. Com-
munities all over the country are throwing good money after bad in man-
ning their schools with undertrained young people because they can be
hired for small salaries.
School boards build modern structures, with line swimming pools,
gymnasiums and ventilating systems and then say, “We have a good
school.” Of course, they haven’t.
They try to economize by engaging recent graduates to teach, and
the schools meet this demand with youngsters who have had no more
than a high-school education before they began their professional studies.
With that kind of teaching they might as well close the school, for all
the good it does its pupils.
One mature teacher, capable and experienced, who can be hired for
$3,000 is worth more to a community than ten young ones who may be
paid $1,000 each.
Yet in my experience I have found such prejudice exists against older
teachers that I warn those over forty-five not to give up their positions
under any circumstances in the expectation that, after traveling o* study-
ing awhile, they will be able to return and find another job.
Graduate schools of education and teacher-training centers can give
the teaching profession standards as high and as well respected as schools
of medicine, by co-ordinated effort, have given the practice of medicine.
RELIGION AS SAFETY VALVE
By REV7.- DR. WARD, Detroit (Congregationalist.)
Modern life is making increased demands on men, the strain is ter-
rific. Unless we are to become a nation of nervous wrecks, provision must
be made to relieve the tension. The cynic says a man complains about
hard work all week so when the chance comes he can range the golf
course until he is worn out. Or, feeling the need of quiet, he bundles his
family into the automobile and fights his way through congested high-
ways. Still, he may catch glimpses of new scenes. From life’s flat places,
with their dust and monotony, he lifts his eyes to the hills.
The mountains have their spiritual counterpart. To get near God
has the same effect on the soul. Here vital religion proves its value. It
affords a vision of life’s possibilities without which man’s best work can-
not be done. For the pulpit to spend time splitting controversial hairs is
futile. To indulge in pious platitudes when men want guidance is fatal.
No wonder the church has lost grip.
If it gives men inspiration, if it arouses passionate love for God and
man, so that business, civic and national politics feel the breath of new
life upon them, if it braces the will and nerves the arm for truer service,
then the Christian church again will come into its own.
TOO MUCH DIET FADDISM
By DR. ROBERT HUTCHISON, London, England.
The diet faddist is perhaps the commonest and most malignant crank.
The scientific truth about all this diet business can be summed up as
follows: Eat moderately, taking ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry
about anything else—to take no thought for what you shall eat or drink
is wiser than to be always fussing over it. Likes and dislikes, however,
should be listened to; they are nature’s indication of what probably agrees
or disagrees.
i What we need for the attainment of health as individuals is not
more knowledge, but a change of heart Let us therefore cultivate char-
acter and let health look after itself, being assured that to a nation made
up of men and women of character, all things—health included—will
be added.
I adjure humans to leave raw vegetables, except salads, to herbivor-
ous animals and let the calories look after themselves. Do not worry too
much about the health of your children, and let them eat plenty of plain,
simple food. Jews and Americans are especially prone to think too much
about health.
WRONG TREATMENT OF HISTORY
By C. DELISLE BURNS, Former British Cabinet Minister.
As history is generally taught today children are impressed with the
idea that the chief contact of their own country with “foreigners” has
been conflict and that in such conflict their own nation has generally been
victorious. Service to one’s own country is thought of as fighting some
other country. Monuments are raised everywhere to soldiers and not to
poets.
English children are still being taught to be suspicious of the
“wretched foreigners” who “are always up to some game or other.” You
have got that bad in America.
All civilized peoples are in debt to Germany for music, to France
for science, to Italy for painting and even to the Arabs for the numerals
with which we calculate the cost of groceries.
Now, if children thought of their own country as great not for
wealth or power or for what it had done for them, but for what it had
done for other peoples, then war and the preparation for war would seem
less important than they do now.
PROFITS UNFAIRLY DIVIDED
By CHASE S. OSBORN, Ex-Governor of Michigan.
There has been an unfair division of the profits of the machine. The
industrialist has not been intentionally unjust in this connection. At
least I wish to think this is true. No one appears to have fathomed the
thing. They see mathematics that state the profits of the machine.
..Perhaps the one thing that shall offer some good in result is a
shorter working day, even curtailed working week. There are those who
believe the work of the world can be done in four days a week of six
hours or less a day. This is a guess, but it is a thought in the right direc-
tion. Shorter working hours without lessened wage can be brought about.
i.The difficulty is the variable buvine Dower of money.
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
CTOBER 27 of each year Is widely
celebrated in this country an Navy
day. On that date the navy holds
open house and invites the public
to visit its ships and stations. Navy
day was first celebrated in 1922
under the sponsorship of the Navy
League of the United States. Since
that time other patriotic organiza-
tions have joined in the celebra-
tions, and with the co-operation of the United
States Navy department, the part that the sea
service has played in our history and its present
peace-time work are recalled each year.
There fs a dual reason for celebrating Navy
day on October 27. It is the anniversary of an
important event in the early history of the navy
and it is the birthday of a man, much of whose
life was devoted to advancing a sound naval pol-
icy for the United States—Theodore Roosevelt.
The part which Roosevelt played in building up
our sea power is but little known to many Ameri-
cans, compared to other more spectacular parts
of his career. But it was his work as assistant
secretary of the navy under President McKinley
which so raised the efficiency of our navy as to
enable it to win astounding victories in the Span-
ish-American war, and to raise the United States
to a position among the great powers of the world
almost overnight. His contribution to building
up our naval strength, begun then, continued dur-
ing the time he was President, and to the day of
his death he was an earnest and influential advo-
cate of maintaining a navy commensurate with
our needs.
U.S.S. SARATOGA, A TZoATlffG AV2A TWIT T/TlD
The significance of October 27 in our naval his-
tory is this: On October 13, 1775, the Continental
congress, meeting in Philadelphia, appointed a
marine committee, and on October 27 this commit-
tee reported a resolution outlining a program of
ships to be purchased and converted into men-
of-war. On October 29 congress authorized the
purchase of two ships and in the course of the
next ten days appropriated for a number of addi-
tional ships. So any one of those three dates may
be considered the “birthday” of the United States
navy, but by common consent October 27 has
been selected for that honor, since it marked the
first definite official step towards the establish-
ment of a sea force.
From this modest beginning the United States
navy in 155 years has grown to be one of the
great institutions of the United States, with a
total strength of more' than 14,000 officers and
more than 133,000 enlisted men, and the leading
naval power of the world in number of ships and
tonnage, although that leadership will he shared
with Great Britain, once the “mistress of the
seas,” under the terms of the naval treaty, made
in London In January of this year.
The history of our navy in all of our wars,
from the Revolution down t? the World war, flag
been one of almost unvarying victory and suc-
cess. Outstanding in that history are these ten
records:
1. The United States navy has had only
four fleet actions and in each one has cap-
tured or destroyed every enemy ship.
2. No United States naval ship has ever
been in the hands of mutineers, while in
other navies wnole squadrons and fleets have
been in the hands of mutineers.
3. - The United States navy is the only navy
in the world that owns a royal standard by
capture, taken at York, Canada, by Commo-
dore Chauncey.
4. The United States navy holds the record
for the capture of seventeen British ensigns
in one day, at the battle of Lake Champlain.
This beats the capture of sixteen by the
French at the battle of La Hogue.
5. In the War of 1812-15, the United States
navy captured or destroyed every ship put In
the Great Lakes by Great Britain.
6. There has never been a mutiny of any
sort In the marine corps, hence its motto,
“Semper Fidelis.”
7. The Constitution took during the War of
1812 1,100 prisoners. The United States navy
did not lose during the entire war 1,100 offi-
cers, sailors and marine prisoners.
8. The United States navy possesses in the
frigate Constitution the greatest man-of-war
that ever sailed the sea. She did five unprec-
edented things:
a. She knocked down the stone forts of
Tripoli.
b. She escaped from Admiral Broke’s squad-
ron of seven ships after a four days’ chase
without losing a gun. a boat or an anchor.
c. She defeated the Guerriere, a crack Brit-
ish frigate, in seventeen minutes after firing
the first broadside, wrecking the Guerriere,
which lost 179 men.
d. She shot every spar out of the frigate
Java in a running fight without taking in her
royals; that is to say, she licked her enemy
without taking off her coat.
e. She captured the Cyane and Levant at
the same time without being raked once,
while every broadside she fired was a raking
broadside. In addition, she ran the blockade
of British ships soven times. She never lost
her commanding officer, she never went
aground and the largest number of men she
ever lost in a fight was eight. She was in
commission more than eighty years.
9. The chest measurement of recruits in the
United States navy is the largest of any navy
in the world.
10. The mortality tables show that the
United States navy sailor is the healthiest
man of any navy in the world and the hard-
est man to kill of any navy in the world.
The first purpose of the navy is, of course, in
time of war to safeguard our country from aggres-
sion by sea, to protect our commerce, and of
course, to defeat the enemy and bring about a
successful cessation of the war. The task
assigned to the navy is a great one. In addi-
tion to our own tremendous coast line, studded
with large cities and important harbors, there
are our outlying territories and possessions, from
the Virgin islands, a thousand miles to the south-
east of continental United States, to the Philip-
pines, lying seven thousand miles across the Pa-
cific, including Alaska, Hawaii and Samoa and,
perhaps, most important of all, the Canal Zone
in Panama, to all of which we have extended the
protection of the American flag.
The'mere task of protecting the merchant ship-
ping necessary to the United States is a colossal
one. Th* trade lanes of merchant ships bringing
goods to America and taking American products
abroad form a network that covers the whole
globe. And in times of peace, as in time of war,
the navy protects this great commerce.
The navy has been called “our first line of
defense” because it operates under the sea, on
the surface and in the air over the water. But
a line of defense which takes precedence even
over the navy Is diplomacy, since negotiations
conducted over the diplomatic table often are of
the greatest importance to the nation and can
affect the progress and prosperity of a people
as much as can a war. In carrying on diplo-
matic negotiations it is of the utmost importance
that our views on international questions be
heard and considered and treated with respect.
The existence of an adequate navy unquestion-
ably strengthens the hands of our diplomats.
In addition to the great peacetime activities of
the navy in supporting our diplomacy and Insur-
ing fair treatment to our foreign trade, there are
innumerable activities which return to the Ameri-
can people the money that is annually expended
on the navy.
Our navy yards are great industrial plants and
in each a testing laboratory is necessary for in-
vestigations and research on the multitudinous
materials entering into the construction of the
naval establishment and the fleet. Under such
materials of engineering may be mentioned ce-
ment, stone, brick, tile, ferrous and non-ferrous
metals, bituminous materials,> paints and oils, rob-
ber, mechanical and electrical specialties, etc.
In the purchase of large quantities of mate-
rials and supplies, it. is of vital importance from
the standpoints of service and economy to obtain
the best possible, and the navy has been a prime
mover in the preparation and promulgation of
standard specifications for such requirements.
There exist hundreds of such specifications
covering multudinous articles. This standardiza-
tion has been of inestimable value to private in-
dustries as the navy’s standard requirements,
which are known to be high, are being used by
many such enterprises.
The hydrographic office of the navy makes
many valuable contributions to charting the seas
in many quarters of the world. It aids the coast
guard service in reporting icebergs and destroy-
ing derelicts and other menaces to navigation.
The clocks of the country are set by the naval
observatory time.
The navy has been foremost in scientific explor-
ation, beginning with the early voyages of Wilkes
in the Pacific, reaching a high point in the dis-
covery of the North, pole by Robert E. Peary, a
naval officer, and culminating in the exploits of
Admiral Richard E. Byrd in both the Arctic and
Antarctic regions. And in addition to the valuable
scientific data secured as the result of his explor-
ations, this naval officer has the distinction of
being the first man to fly over both the North and
South poles.
The navy Is among the foremost In aviation. It
Is progressive in the development of both air-
plane and lighter-than-air craft For four years a
navy plane and a navy pilot held the world’s air-
plane speed record, 266 miles an hour, made by
Lieut A. J. Williams. On May 8, 1929, Bluet.
Apollo Soucek of the navy made a world’s record
for altitude flight in any class of airplanes when
he rose to a height of 39,140 feet. The previous
high mark had been held by an navy aviator
also—Lieut. C. C. Champion with a mark of 38,418
feet made in July, 1927. On July 4,1929, Lieutenant
Soucek broke the altitude record for seaplanes
by ascending to 38,500 feet, thus breaking the
record of 37,995 feet made by Lieutenant Cham-
pion on July 4, 1927. The navy holds numerous
world’s records for lifting and endurance of sea-
planes; It has developed and perfected the air-
plane catapult; and in many other ways has
helped the United States maintain supremacy In.
the air as well as on the wstor-
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