Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 2

EDITORIALS We Face a Fact, Not a Theory, in Our Schools HE Mason City School Board's decision to propose to the voters in the Nov. 4 election construction of two now schools as soon as possible is evidence that they are continually aware of a problem which troubles cities across the land. For the increased birth rate immediately after World War II and the shortage of school housing resulting now is a problem for school authorities everywhere. It is a problem which was recognized by Mason City officials many, months ago when they proposed a million bond issue which the voters saw to turn down. Reasons for the defeat of that bond issue are of little importance now.

The important fact is that school census figures continue to prove that a large school building program continues to face us if we arc to have adequate housing for the children already born. WE ARE FACED WITH A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY. The school census shows that the dren already are here and can be expected to start school when they are 5 years old. CLASSES in our two junior high schools already are too large to provide the kind of educational opportunities we all would our children to have. The decision to house the seventh grade from Roosevelt Junior High School in the old Roosevelt Elementary Building, originally built as Memorial University, seems a logical solution for that area.

Necessarily it means building a new grade school building. Construction of a new Washington School to replace the one torn down will take care of increasing enrollment, in the elementary grades. It also will permit moving children in the first three grades and kindergarten out of the Monroe Building and open four classrooms for that junior high school. U.S. Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath (a former lowan, incidentally) reports that 34,693,000 pupils will enter schools and colleges this fall or 1,000,000 more than in 1951-52.

What has happened in Mason City has happened elsewhere. The commissioner estimates thut 53,000 classrooms will be lacking and that more 'than 4 1,410,000 children between the ages of 7 and 17 will not be regularly enrolled at all. Howard A. Dawson of the National Education Association estimates that about a million children of 000,000 migrant families will not be in school. Others will be Icept away by poverty, discrimination, language barriers, inaccessibility.

School enrollment is expected to jump by another 1,400,000 by the autumn of 1353; 1,200,000 by 1954; 700,000 by 1955. The rapid growth in enrollment will aggravate the shortage of teachers and oC classrooms. The nation now has high schools and elementary 75,096 one-teacher rural schools. School expenditures for rose to $6,484,000,000. But the nation is spending less than 2,5 per cent of its total income today for schools, as against about 3.2 per cent in 1930.

Expenditures for public school systems in all towns of more than 2,500 dropped $6 (in purchasing power dollars) per pupil in 1950-51. Per-pupil costs, ranged from $84 to $425 with the national average at $223. Commissioner McGrath warns, "We cannot afford a further reduction in education standards." LOOK WHODUNNIT MYSTERY By Corgi 11 IT'S UKEN The (horns which I reap'd are of the tree i they have turn me, and 1 bleed, 1 have known what fruit would spring from a Uyrori. Keeping one's pipe lighted for minutes, a recent achievement, would seem to us to be the irreducible minimum for making. Tago One of the newspapers.

A contemporary wonders aboul those 1 nudist Olympic games in Switzerland, Ili.s With no uniforms, how can you tell the teams apart? In his resort to wise-cracking, Adlai is emulating one of the least admirable traits in the present occupant of the: White House. Even though lie's been away fur a couple of years, Ike seems to remember lliat llicy don't count the votes until November. Those bathing beauty conle.st.s would have more plausibility if ability to swim were made a condition for victory. Your blood is your best assurance to the boys in Korea that you're backing them up to the utter limit. It remains for some ingenious botanist to cross onions and garlic with deodorizing chlorophyll.

Memo to Parents: Set a good example by obeying all traffic signals. Pros and Cons Some Interesting Viewpoints Gleaned From Our Exchanges Protection Against Boredom Northwuocl Anchor: Our nation would be dull place indeed, should every every to identical beliefs and identical methods of propagating those beliefs. Without its Joe without its Wayne Morses, its Bob Tafls, its Harry Trumans, its Henry Wallaces and its Hyrnescs, our democracy would become weak. No maltur how we may disagree with any of them, we need the leaven of their individual brands of extremism to keep America itself awake to new icleqs, to dangers from without and within. Large Industries Welcome Visitors Clarion Monitor: One of Iho impressive things as one visits American industries is the extensive arrangements wlu'ch various corporations have made to make it possible for the public to sec products arc made and how immense their operations are.

Gone: The Milk of Human Kindness Fairmont Sentinel: Somewhere, in the Good Hook it says: "Nosv abideth faith, hope, charily; these three, but the greatest of Ihesc is charity." That used to be true, probably still is, but 'we don't have much chance to find out about it. It's Ike's Turn Now to Be Prank Iowa Kails Citizen: Adlni has bluntly called the'situation in Washington a "mess." Now it Ike would just get around am! label McCarthy a "stinker, first class" everyone could start the campaign even and happy. Editorial of the Day THE GREEDIEST DIVIDEND COLLECTOR pSTHERVJLLE NEWS: Is amazing how tic enthusiasm can be stimulated in behalf of doing something about taxation. And yet taxation holds the key for destroying both free enterprise and representative government. Everyone is aware of the talk that corporations have piggishly gobbled up dollars that ought to be distributed otherwise, but a recent mcnt is very revealing.

For every $-1 distributed by the Republic Slccl Company to each holder of a shnrc of stock the government cpllects in federal income taxes. That figure doesn't include all the hidden taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, etc. merely incliujos Income tax, which amounts to five times the dividends, distributed. That isn't an isolated instance; it's merely typical. When a General Motors stockholder receives the government gets U.

S. Steel dividends were $3 per share but the government took 515.2'i; U. S. Gypsum paid $7 per share dividends but Uncle Sam took Firestone paid $3.50 a share but the collector of intermit revenue claimed Goodrich paid $2.50 and the government got U. Jlubbcr paid $6 to each shareholder except Uncle Sam, whose dividend was and Armco paid $3 as compared with for the government.

The wealth is pretty well shared with I he government, which in turn squanders it. Loose-talking cranks point out that if it weren't for excessive earnings then products could be cheaper. Actually, the dividends paid stockholders have 1 conic to be the smallest pail of the take. 1 Observing Remember? America's Dilemma rni-lROUGHOlJT the world Uncle Sum is on lendcrhooks in the carrying out of 3iis diplomatic and military policies. The trouble is that he's being judged by the company'he keeps.

In North Africa and in Imlo-China the United States is suspect a the Arab natives because we are nllicd with the French. And France is an imperialist nation. In the Middle and Egypt find ourselves allied with the British. That makes for suspicion on the part of those who otherwise might like us better. Even a limited period of observation in one of these theaters of operation persuaded the director of this page that there are more pleasant pursuits than being an American diplomat.

Walking a tight-rope and keeping both to the ground at one and the same time is anything but easy. To Your Health! Roving Reporter BREATHING CRISIS IN CHILD By Herman N. Bundoscn, M. KEEP PITCHING CURVES By Hal Boyle of the AP T'llEllE are a number of conditions that can interfere with a child's breathing and create a serious emergency. One of these is known as laryngolraehcilis.

The child with this disease may first develop what seems like a cold. He then starts to run a high fever and the cold becomes progressively worse. Finally, the child has difficulty in breathing and begins to gasp lor air. This gradually become worse and worse, until the doctor may have to cut an artificial opening in the trachea, the "windpipe" leading from the throat to the lungs, so the child can breathe. Usually, this condition is due to an infection by several kinds of germs simultaneously.

It does not respond as readily to antibiotics as most infections do. Most children with this condition have to be rushed to the hospital as quickly as possible to save their lives. On the way, (hey often improve, only to get worse after entering the hospital. The reason for this, it is thought, is that the cool, moist night air on the way to the hospital has a soothing effect on the lining of, the tubes leading to the lungs. But the dry, warm air of the hospital room quickly dries out these passages and destroys the temporary improvement.

For this reason the child is sometimes placed in the moist air of a steam room, which may have a humidity as high as 90 per cent. Coot air is even more comforting, however. A method now employed uses the vapors of. sodium lauryl sulfatc solution to create cool air with controlled high humidity. It is given under a canopy similar to an oxygen tent.

Oxygen is also helpful to most children with laryngotracheilis and can be given at the same time as the cool, moist ait- is given. Most children improve rapidly with this treatment. Incidentally, it eliminates the possible' danger of steam burns, which may occur with other methods of producing high humidity. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mrs. A.

My three-year-old son has the habit of drooling, and can't seem to make him stop. What would you advise? Answer: Drooling may be due to an excessive amount, of saliva or to some weakness of the muscles in the mouth. In most cases, as the child grows older, the drooling gradually stops. I do not think you need worry about this matter. There is no treatment which is of any value.

YORK UV-Girls, our success formula for today is simple. "Stay in there and keep pitching those curves." The symbol ol this vibrant maxim is Marilyn Monroe, who has proved an ambitious girl doesn't have to come to the big city to get ahead. She can do it in her own home nine Marilyn earned five cents a month spending money setting tables in a Los Angeles orphans home. At 24, in the nearby film studio where she now has to wait on nobody, sheidraws down $750 a week. In Hollywood, where she is rated as one of the most sultry discoveries since the late Jean Harlow, this naturally is considered peonage.

"They keep saying that one of these days they'll tear up my contract and write me a better one," she said. "And one of these days I wish they would." When she arrived for our luncheon appointment she turned her wide blue eyes. on me; and I had an uneasy feeling they would melt and drip on the table. Then she sat clown beside TCJ real close and 1 had an uneasy feeling that maybe I'd melt. Marilyn says she is rather amazed by the public interest in her disclosure that she never wears brassieres, girdles or any other form of underclothing, and sleeps raw except for a nightly dab of perfume.

"It's more comfortable not to wear -underclothing, and 1 don't like to feel wrinkles," she said. "What's so unusual about that? You must know a lot of girls who do the same 'and who put on perfume before going to sleep." Editor's note: If Boyle does; he never mentioned it before. Miss Monroe feels most American women should follow her example and emancipate themselves from bras, corsets, and girdles. "But, first, some of them ought to exercise," she said, "in order to be you know firm. 1 exercise with light weights myself.

"I lie on my back with my arms overhead and lift the weights 15 limes. It is a kind of pull against gravity, I guess. I used to walk a lot, too. Walking up a steep hill is the best thing for a woman's legs." But what about the subject on the minds of 10,000,000 girls this leap how to catch a husband? Marilyn, whose own marriage at 16 didn't last, gave two simple rules: "1. A girl should follow her instinct.

2. That will about take care of things as instincts are important." As for sex a current events topic most movie stars and baseball players usually have opinions on, Miss Monroe said: "Truthfully I've never given it a second thought." And she was gone before I thought of asking her what her first thought was. Where Mother Nature Slips arn inclined to go along with my friend Carl Hamilton of the Iowa Falls Citizen in his observation that although normally Mother Nature is a pretty smart old gal, she does get mixed up a little at times. "Take the distribution of energy, or oomph, for example," the Iowa Falls editor suggests, "Kids up until the time they're 1G or so have it running out of their ears. And we actually go about trying to find ways to exhaust and do away with that that we can live with 'em.

"Then by the lime those youngsters grow up and have families of their own, and are trying to make a go of making a living and laying a little by for social by then they don't have half enough zip to look after life's demands. "If, at middle age, we had the energy of youth we would revolutionize this world without the aid of Edison. "And then another thing. "Get up and drive around Iowa Falls Cor your own town) some summer morning about six o'clock. Eighty per cent of the people will be past 65.

They can't sleep. So they get up and sit on the porch or out in the yard reading the morning paper or maybe just rocking. Not a thing to do. "Whereas the folks that ought to be up and at 'em, those with work to do, arc still beating the pillow for all they are worth. "Nope, Mother Nature really slipped up in a few places." Speaking of Spires wasn't surprised to learn that the spire of the Methodist Church in Chicago's loop district is the tallest in the United Stales.

It's 556 feel. What I am wondering, however, is how it compares with some of the loftier spires in Europe. And I'm thinking particularly of the Cologne Cathedral's two lofty spires which, perhaps because they stand alone, give the effect of even greater height than the Chicago spire. Maybe it's just a pretty legend but it is said that one of the Cologne twin spires is a foot or two higher than the other. The reason? There was a wish to make them appear to be on a plane when viewed from a certain point of vantage.

10 YEARS AGO The Rev. Alvin N. Rogness and his family, consisting of Mrs. Rogness and four children, arrived in Mason City today to make their home. Mr.

Rogness, formerly of Ames, succeeds the Rev. 0. L. N. Wigdahl as pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City.

The new Trinity pastor is graduate of Augustana College. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 20 YEARS AGO W. V.

Clausen at a meeting in the armory was made the sole nominee for commander of Clau- sen-Wordcn Post of the American Legion, the unit which was named after his brother, Robert Clausen, among the first from Mason City to die in World War 1. Mr. Clausen, a plumber by trade, has been active in the Legion since its organization, 30 YEARS AGO Since (he Industrial League has suffered such dealh blow, a little relief may be in store for the baseball fans of the city in this little communication received from Walter Hanson of Oelwcin, who is interested in organizing a baseball league resembling the old Central Association. Mason City could put fast team on the field. 40 YEARS AGO September 10, the first official day of fair week, will be termed Mason City Day according to announcement of Secretary Barber who hopes to make this one of the biggest and best days of the fair.

All Mason City will be expected to turn out for various kinds of entertainment has bccu planned for the visitors, THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME By Jimmy Hatlo SILO.BLUE-RIBBOM BREEDER, WOULDN'T EVEM KEEP A PI6SWM WALLET THAT DIDM'T HAVE A OFF HIS SEEMS AW OF THE VILLAGE LOAFERS WILL From Out of the Sky am passing along what struck me as being the day's most interesting comment about traffic safety. It's from the editorial page of the LaCrosse Tribune: "Somewhere recently we read about a small airplane darling down out of the sky to spot a particular motorist tooling down the highway. "At the next town the motorist was stopped by the police. The driver's apprehension changed to bewildered astonishment when the cops pinned a medal on him. It was for careful driving.

"The plane was one used by tha stale police to patrol the highways. After watching the motorist in question drive along for several miles, obeying all the rules and driving in a mannerly way, the plane police radioed to their headquarters in the next town that this guy deserved a medal. '''They've been doing it for soma JJme, now, and the results are reported fine." World Population see by a recent report that the 1 d's population has been increasing at this rate of 1 per cent a year. This 13 another way of saying that tha number of human beings oh our planet is twice as great as it was 100 years ago. Information, Please! 1.

What is the present form of government in Portugal? 2. In what public assembly in Rome were lawsuits tried and orations made to the people? 3. Who was Pierre Toutant Bcauregard? 4. What is vcrdigres? 5. Of the rivers that bound U.S., which bounds it for the greatest number of A republic.

2. The Forum. 3. A Confederate general, in command at the Battle of Bull Run. 4.

Green rust on copper. 5. The Rio Grande. 80UQU To MEMBERS OF NURSING completing the Red Cross home nursing instructor course. Those who completed the 30 hours of training in this class are qualified to teach the course in their own schools, thus giving the opportunities of this most valuabla service to'many others.

Did You Know? Hoskin Service EDITOR'S NOTE-. Headers usinr this service for questions of nicn full name nnd uddress and Inclose 3 cents Tor return postage. Address The Mason City Globc-Gazelte Information Bureau, 1300 Eye Street N.E. Washlnrton 5, D.C. What living creatures have the best eyesight? Birds' eyes are the most remarkable of all.

The visual acutencss of birds is in some instances 100 times as great as that in men. It is almost a necessity because the sense of-smell in birds is exceedingly poor. Is Rattlesnake an area in Tampa, What are tha industries there? Rattlesnake is merely a posloffice, not inside the city limits of Tampa, but long since inside the area of Greater Tampa. It has, to all intents and purposes, lost its identity as a city. In the area arc located such business firms as machine shops, fishing camps, drive-in restaurants, etc.

What books did Robert Louis Stevenson write during his stay at Saranac, N. Most of "The Master of Ballantrae" was written in the cottage on the outskirts of the village, during the winter 1887-8. Here, also, Stevenson produced several essays including "Pulvis et Umbra." When will an eclipse of the moon next be visible in the United States? The next total eclipse of the moon, visible in this country, will take place Jan. 29, 1953. Has it been demonstrated that airplane passengers are safer if they face toward the rear of the plane than to the front? This belief is now widely accepted, and many rear gunners on military aircraft support it on the basis of World War II experience.

Please advise if it would be more profitable and lasting to give a house one coat of paint than to put two coats on, and paint less frequently. It is better to use two coats in painting a house unless a special one-coat paint is applied and extreme care in painting is used, to insure that no bare spots are left. When was the U. Coast Guard established? Congress passed a bill on Aug. 4, authorizing Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the navy, to buy "ten boats" to guard the coast.

This was the beginning of the coast guard, which in the 161 years of its existence has taken part in every war of the United Slates as well as actions against pirates, slave-runners, smugglers, and rum-runners. How many heirs to the British throne have bornt the title, Prince of Wales? Twenty. Prince Charles, son of the present queen, will be the 21st. Edward VII held the title longest, from the age of one month to 60 years. Today's Birthday CARL DAVID ANDERSON, born Sept.

3', 1905, in New York of Swedish parents. Noted as a physicist, Anderson discovered two of tha 13 particles that are smaller than the atom and confirmed two others. He won the 1936 Nobel Prize for finding the positron. With, Seth H. Nedder- meycr, he discovered the meso- tron or meson.

He has been with the California Institute of Technology since student days. What cities contribute to support of their symphony orchestra? Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Buffalo, Denver, and Indianapolis. Is it true that a bamboo plant shoots up so rapidly that one can actually see it grow? Young bamboo sprouts grow as much as a foot and a half daily. Bamboo shoots from an old-established grove grow amazingly fast, often attaining full height, which may be 60 to 70 feet in three to four weeks. How tall were the famous Prussian Guards of the old German Army? In the days of the Kaiser, these guards stood seven, feet in their stockings.

Where did the word "jazx" first come into use? "Variety" of Oct. 27, 1916, noted that "Chicago has added another innovation to it.i list of discoveries in the so-called jazz bands Mason City Globe-Gazette A LEE NEWSPAPER Issued Every Week Day by the GLOBE-GAZETTE PUBLISHING COMPANY 121-123 E. SUlc St. Telephone 3800 Entered as second class matter. April 12, 1930, at the Postofflcc at Mason City, under tho act of March 3, 1879.

J.EE P. LOO.MIS- Publisher W. EAKI, UALI Mamttnc Editor ENOCH A. NOREK Associate Editor THOR J. JENSEN CUT Editor LJ.OVD Ii.

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