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JOSEPH ALSO? Befsy Ross, 7964 Stylo LBJ's Education Bill Truth, Juitfct 0 Public Service) Pfl5i46 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, 1964 5C for the time being at least-to the third dead end. This third dead end is the kind of mock-Important no-cal-(non-calortc) education bill that win skirt aU the more difficult end crucial aspects of the problem. In the no-cal education bill that la now being discussed, the one truly hopeful element is a first attempt to do some-' thing directly, on a serious scale, about the schools in our more acutely deprived neighborhoods. The President has In fact accepted the idea of using the schools in our.

urban and rural slums for social as well as educational purposes. Such schools are now to become crowbars, to pry open the door of escape from The Other America of extreme poverty and discrimination. To this end, a deprived neighborhood clause is to be added to the annual bill giving school aid to "Impacted areas." rpHIS BILL, aiding school districts on-1 duly burdened by children of soldiers and persons on the federal payroll, has degenerated into a sordid pork barrel over the years. President Kennedy used to want to veto it but if deprived neighborhoods are lumped In with Impacted areas, it is hoped that there will be no objection from the Catholic Church, which bas never tried to block an impacted area bill. That hope is dubious, it must be added.

But it is still the best hope in an educational package that will probably add up to a little less than a billion dollars. Money for school construction, for aid to higher education, and for university scholarships for needy but promising studentsall second, third or fourth priority projectswill round out the bill as it is now conceived. Soviet Weapons For The Congo ANE CONGO AIRLIFT has ended, and now an-iV-, other la reported under way. The difference between the two is striking and characteristic. The first was the U.

paratroop mis ion, undertaken to save the lives of hundreds of held by Communist-backed insurgents. The second is an arms airlift, designed to ship planeloads of Russian guns from Egypt and Algeria to those same insurgents, villus the governments of the Soviet Union, -gypt and Algeria appear to be embarked on the unbelievably cynical course of stoking up the qngo fires and rendering conditions in that unfortunate country more violent and consequently 4nore hideous. No other result can be expected from the importation into The Congo, into the hands of tragically ignorant and superstitious tribesmen, of iarge quantities of modern weapons. There are reports that the Soviet Union has decided to arm The Congo rebels in order to Jipunter Red Chinese influence in their leadership. it this is so, the Soviet action triggered by a cold power play becomes doubly reprehensible.

What malevolence lies behind the Egyptian Algerian involvement can only be surmised. One thing is sure, though: The glaring con-trast between a U. rescue mission and Soviet-Egyptian-Algerian gun-running mission is Jlain for all to see. It is a matter the U. S.

delegation to the United Nations would do well to place on during the current General Assembly. WASHINGTON In his mora expansive and sanguine momenta, President Johnson often says that he hopes to be remembered as "a great education president." Thus the President clearly recognizes the urgency of massive federal action to raise the level of American education. Such action and above all action to improve our unsatisfactory public school system is not merely a social-moral imperative. In this age of high technology, such action is also Imperatively demanded by the national interest For Just these reasons, it is now a Washington cliche that "the real test of the Johnson program will be what he-does about education." Hence It Is especially unfortunate that the educational part of the president's blueprint for "the Great Society" currently seems to be lost in a perfect maze of dead ends. Dead end number one, mercifully now recognized as such, was the scheme devised by the able former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter Heller.

This was a scheme for backdoor aid to education, by giving the states blank-check assignments of a substantial share in the expected growth of the federal revenue. The hope was that the states would then spend most of these blank checks on Improving the schools. But this hope weighed too lightly against the numerous objections to the Heller scheme, such-as the squalor of many of the state governments to be aided by it the dilution of congressional authority involved in writing blank checks to the states and so on and on. The President has therefore turned thumbs down on the Heller scheme. As for dead end number two it was a proposal to sponsor another aid-to-education bill similar to that offered to his first congressional session by President Kennedy.

Passage of such a bill would of course be the straightest attack on the problem. Yet the most superficial inquiries by the White House staff were enough to prove that this was also no good. The Johnson Congress is far more liberal than the first Kennedy Congress, but It is the merest wishing-for-the-moon to talk about this Congress aiding the public schools while ignoring the parochial schools. Common sense forbids the backdoor approach, in short while the powerful hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church squarely blocks the front door. So the search for an education bill bas come KENNETH REXROTH EDITOR'S MAIL DOX Strife on UC Campus But unless the President decides that a no-cal education bill Is by no means good enough, there will be no money to meet the really crying, central, overriding need which is the need for more teachers and better teachers in the public schools.

A great deal of money Is required to meet this need. Commissioner of Education Frank Keppel has put the figure as high as $2.6 billion per annum, which may be another reason for the present leaning to a no-cal bill. The national future none the less depends on meeting the central need without much further delay. So it is worth seeing whether there is not a satisfactory side-door approach; and this will be attempted In a further report. n.

Conservation Depersonalized Campus PHE CONCEPT of regional rather than piece-meal planning for conservation of natural resources, such as the magnificent San Francisco would flourish under the impetus of a coordinating agency at the state level. This has been proposed by General Manager James K. Carr of 'the San Francisco Public Utilities Department. Mr. Carr suggests a California Conservation Commission to tie together the loose ends of the JjnaHy "state departments and divisions now with unrelated responsibilities in various areas of resources control.

These are not presently under jurisdiction of the Administrator of Resources Agencies. They work independently, and often at cross purposes with each other. -Further fragmentation of authority over natural resources, as Carr said, is in the fact that Mhe nine counties and 89 cities in the Bay area Pave unco-ordinated authority and sometimes con-voiding interests in Bay development. fez Carr envisions the conservation commission Kks one with "responsibility for the wise use of all California resources," particularly scenic re- sources. The combating of ugliness would be one of its chief functions.

The idea should commend itself to the attention of the Legislature. The full limits of its merit should be explored. To Tht Examlnert I did not agree with the sit-in at Sproul Hall at UC, by the Free Speech Movement. Nonetheless, to oppose some of the tactics of the FSM does not mean we must be blind to injustices committed by the administration to both the faculty and students. I for one, protest the fact that the administration has set itself up as an authority to be obeyed or disobeyed, rather than a part of the university community in dialogue with the other parts.

In two and one half months, Chancellor Strong and President Kerr have directed edicts at the students, but have never spoken with them. Graduate students and teaching assistants, not represented in the ASUC, have been paid no heed. It is understandable, therefore, that after months of urging, coaxing, and pleading by the students, drastic means were taken to make their voices heard. When will a dialog be set up? When will the administration realize the correct order of things in a university that the faculty exists to serve the students and the administration exists to serve the faculty and students. They acknowledge that a large number of students have a gripe a legitimate gripe about what they can and cannot do on their campus.

JASON WOLFE, Teaching Assistant, Zoology Dept. It seems to me that with most institutions of higher learning bursting at the seams, turning down applications in increasing numbers, the University of California would do well to enforce legislaUon outlawing trespass by those who have no license on campus during the hours of study. Young people of college age are receptive to a "cause." The Communist youth organization knows this and have evidently found one that Is well received at UC. Why is it so difficult for our youth dents (and non-students) are teaching my child it is proper to have comtempt and disrespect for a law you don't agree with. Don't let them resign, ask them to leave.

As difficult as it is to find good educators, I feel the students would be better guided by intelligent law abiding professors rather than a genius who shows utter disregard for laws. TREVOR L. JONES, Colma. Adopting the words of my American history teacher, "How can we protect our freedom by denying As a teen-ager (one of those "hopes of the future" while still being the "despair of it is quite secure to know how confident and trusting my fellow Americans are of my generation. This is all headed under that profound title: Patriotism.

"I'm patriotic and you disagree with' me. Therefore, you are unpatriotic and since you are unpatriotic you must be a Communist" and so on. So the student is using his best defense. He is using his freedom to gain his freedom. He is using the Bill of Rights to protect the Bill of Rights.

Yet they still call that subversive. VICCI WONG, Salinas. Farm Worktrs Without the indispensable braceros, more farm acreage would become subdivision. It would mean curtailed agricultural production and higher prices for farm products. Our so-called domestic supply of farm laborers from dropouts, students, welfare receivers and unemployed is not conditioned mentally, emotionally or physically to work on the farm andor to produce and work as efficiently as the braceros.

Without the braceros, unless the wage scale. Is made very attractive, farmers would grow more ulcers. GEORGE R. PENA, San Francisco. Today's Quofo "Last week I drove from San Francisco to Sacramento for the first time in several weeks.

There were more new subdivisions obliterating some of the more valuable farm land In the world. The presence of this newest urban sprawl li haded by unsightly billboards that clatter the countryside. When these fertile valleys are covered with housing and pavement our descendants will give ns faD credit for greed, lack of courage and otter stupidity." General Manager James K. Carr, San Francisco Public Utilities Department to see that freedom of speech does not exist in the USSR? Though the Communists will "defend" it vigorously here in Ameri-ica. I think it's time to go back to the books.

There is plenty of time later for freedom of speech, and there are plenty of qualified students desiring admission to UC. JACK T. SIMONITCH, Ross. I have written the following to the Sheriff of Alameda County: "I am the mother of a young woman you imprisoned Dec. S.

"I wish to protest the inordinate delays in transporting her for hours around the county, ing to feed her properly during the delays, depositing her in an unheated armory in San Leandro, where it was difficult to sleep on a cold stone floor with improper insulation and insufficient blankets. "This treatment is a disgrace to the young people who are helping to safeguard basio American rights." MRS. ROSE EDEN, Berkeley. The UC professors planning to resign in sympathy with rebellious stu members of the faculty committee that have spoken in defense of the students and against the chancellor. They are of all faiths and political opinions, but they function as "faculty liberals" for one very simple reason.

They are each one distinguished by a talent for genuine rapport with their students. As teachers, they can reach their students with learning, and the students can reach them with all the troubles of youth. It is most unwise to put all this rumpus down to childish truculence urged on by Reds. Every student organization concerned with ideas and principles is in revolt. This includes the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant organizations and for all I know, the young Buddhists.

But as Cardinal Newman said long ago, a university is concerned with ideas and principles, but it is also concerned with persons and is essentially a complex of personal relationships. ON THE weekend the papers said, "Student leader says Clark Kerr has never met with students." I have been entertained hundreds of times at the homes of Berkeley faculty. Never once has there been an undergraduate student present except as "girl help." What our state educational system needs is something far more fundamental than what the students are rioting about. It needs a totally different philosophy of education. Intellectual gum machines are not enough and they are bound to break down.

r' IT had no other virtues, the campus of the University of California used to be, 50 years ago, spacious and gracious. Back then, the poet Witter Bynner was invited to give a series of talks. His classes were smalL It was beautiful weather. He took them out on the lawn. The faculty never forgot To this very day you can find snowy laired emerituses toddling about in homspun tweeds who will tell you, "Had a poet here once.

Name of Winter, think it was. Took the students out on the lawn." About 30 years ago, a friend of mine came to teach. He was from Harvard and was by no means hired as a member of the junior faculty. A great pedagogue, inspired by the examples of Copey at Harvard, Gauss at Princeton, Merklejohn at Wisconsin and Wittgenstein in Britain. At the end of the semester the head of his department told him, "Hear you've been fraternizing with students.

We don't do that at Berkeley. If you want to stay here, you'd better stop it." He didn't want to stay. Things have improved little over the years. Berkeley is still the most impersonal and depersonalizing of all America's fog factories. The issues for which both sides are deadlocked are not worthy of so violent a conflict.

What has broken down however, Is the essential educational relationship, a great educator sitting on one end of a log and an inquisitive student sitting on the other end. Broken down? Except for a few rare souls, it has never existed. I know several GEORGE DIXON L. A. Does It rpHE ARCHITECTURAL and artistic triumph achieved by completion of the $33.5 million music center for the performing arts in Los Angeles is of major scope.

As all Californians must, we share the glow of that triumph. We extend unstinting congratulations to those who had the vision and courage to surmount the difficulties attending the dream that has had rich fulfillment. But we see warning, too, in that achieve-ment for San Francisco. San Franciscans who do not see further evidence here of The City's further decline as the arts and cultural center of the West are obtuse. The balance of status and stature is tending southward.

Artists, technicians, entrepreneurs all who have traditionally looked to San Francisco for en Don't Bob That Adam's Apple couragement and appreciation of excellence in music and the performing arts must now turn, WASHINGTON The National Association of Broadcasters is not so much concerned with hip-wiggling these days as It is with Adam's apple quivering. The NAB currently is also inclined to be tolerant of violence and sex on TV. But it is being very firm with throat-quivererS. As you have noted, it is against the code for anybody, male or female, to be shown on television actually drinking beer. It may be poured, provided the glass is held straight up and not tilted as it would be toward an off camera mouth.

'There must be no smacking sounds; no wiping of the lips either. But now the owever reluctantly, to the splendid center enter NAB has just cracked down on the newest dodge to get around the nobody-is-seen-drinklng article of the code. It won't tolerate the showing of any human Adam's apple making a gulping movement, as if ingesting the non-drinkable brew. In a recent issue of its magazine, the NAB inveighed heavily against the tricky gulpers, but gave little space to a report from the House Subcommittee on TV Violence headed by Sen. Thomas Dodd of Connecticut.

The publication also carried only passing reference to the Dodd committee's findings on overdone sex. The NAB's motto, as of this wassailing yuletide season, seems to be. "Swing that torso, pump that gun. But no movement of the old Adam's apple." prising Los Angelenos have turned from a dream iito a reality. The City has lost much ground and time.

Per- rinrrinnnnrrj "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?" Isaiah 29:15 Text chosen by The Rev. Robert E. Hoggard, Canon Pastor, Grace Cathedral. -laps, the spur of what Los Angeles has done will to a closing of the gap. We urge the necessary siocjt-iamng oe aone.

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