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RICKOVER'S CRUSADE Another 'Silky AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER JOHN S. KNIGHT, PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER LEE HILLS, VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR HENRY C. WEIDLER, EUSINESS MANAGER Knlflht Newpperc, 321 W. LfayelU Detroit 31, Michlon Why an Admiral Is Disturbed By Our Schools wrtppo i have- Published cvary morning by a As We See BY WILLIAM McGAFFIN Washington Bureau Sluff WASHINGTON Rear Adm. Hyman G.

Rickover, the father of the atomic submarine, recently has been proclaiming with missionary zeal the need for us to reform and improve our $600,000 to Defeat United Giving POLITICAL BLUFF in the field charity-giving cannot be acceptable who have made an immense united fund raising. of the severest kind has been the Southeastern Michigan the American Cancer Society. organization wants the Detroit-area chapter to withdraw from the Foundation and run off its own campaign. national organization this week November demand that all sever relations with united offering the local chapter a enticement. It pledged that a poorly-disguised reward for the UF.

chapter, concerned primarily its local program, now must effect, whether to be part of and risk expulsion from the cancer organization or to submit pressure applied from above and own fund drive. facets of this unusual situation worth noting. Another Workout For an Old Needle WHENEVER the news is dull, and the Washington press corps is in the same condition, somebody asks President Eisenhower if he is grooming his successor. The question, whether planted or not, really is concerned with whether the President is "working for the nomination and election of Vice President Nixon in 1960. On numerous occasions President Eisenhower has emphatically denied that he has done or contemplates doing anything in the way of handpicking the man who will succeed him.

The question was asked again at his press conference on Wednesday and received the same reply. It is true that President Eisenhower has given Vice President Nixon a larger role in state affairs than most Vice Presidents have had in the past. That is because the demands on the executive office are greater than they used to be, and because the President feels, as he has stated, that the Vice President should have ample opportunity to familiarize himself with major state matters in the event of the President's disability. That makes good sense, and the Nation recognizes it as such. It does not imply that' Mr.

Nixon has been made the crown prince. The continuous harping on this subject serves no good purpose. Its intent is to embarrass the President and the Vice President, and to create a political issue where one doesn't exist. plain to their parents for not seeing to it that they get a proper education." Some high-school students have begun to realize they are "being short changed," according to Rickover. And some parents are writing him for advice on where they can move to, so as to insure a good education for their children.

RICKOVER said there are some good elementary and secondary schols in America "but most of them are private schools." He complained that "because of the excessive play on democracy in our schools" we are developing an undemocratic system. The rich man can send his child to a private school. The poor man's child, however, is often barred from mental growth because he has to go to a public school where he is forced into an "intellectual strait-jacket" tor the sake of "democratic equalitarianism," the Admiral said. Rickover criticized our school system which "insist on the same Instruction for the talented, the average, and the below-average child." He is equally disturbed because our system in the last 50 years has gone overboard for the "Dewey and Kil-patrick philosophy" and teaches children "how to get along" instead of developing their intellect. "Who pave our teachers the right to do that?" Rickover demanded.

HE SAID the Russian education system is really the European system as taught on the Continent and in England, and is based on 2,500 years of experience going back to Greece and Rome. The advantages of the European system, he said, is that "Europea'n children know as much at age 17 as ours know three years later." The only hope he sees of Improving our education system is to "break the hold th professional educators have on it." school system. Why is a military man so interested in education? Does the Russian education system pose a threat to us? It does, indeed, according to Rickover "a greater threat than the Russian military machine." This is so, in his opinion, because the Russian education system "has the for great mili- Rickover tary, scientific and industrial strength." The United States is in the position today where it has to 'borrow scientific talent from Europe," said Rickover. AND SO, while the Admiral's job today Is to develop a nuclear navy for the United States, he is doing a lot of talking about education. He feels it is the responsibility of people in public life today to do this.

A white-haired man of medium height, in a double-breasted blue suit, Rickover was interviewed in the battered temporary office building near 17th and Constitution where he works. He was born in Russia 58 years ago and brought up In Chicago where his father, Abraham Rickover, was a poor tailor. He went to grammar school in Chicago and was graduated in 1914. "I thought I knew everything then," he recalled. "Since then, the amount I know has progressively decreased." AFTER FINISHING at Chicago's John Marshal High School, Rickover went to the Naval Academy and was graduated in 1922.

"What advice do you have for June graduates?" he was asked. ''For the June graduates of grammar school, I would tell them it is too late," he answered. "They should com IS AESOP SEES of IT $9,000 for Trill? FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1958 It Building. To A Cool Bid A of to people success of Pressure applied to Chapter of The national United fund-raising The backed its chapters drives by $600,000 amount as quitting The local about decide, in the UF national to attempt its Several are FIRST, liberal pressure local support be denying Second, has originated to smash Attacking is a bold But it American $600,000 to power engaged in The final that the empty. We expel the obey orders wishes and threatened.

We think clear. in an gracefully continue its enemy disease One Michigan ONE OF will to Lansing deadlock a cut in $516,000. Gov. about this and the rest Navy Gets the Drop On Bouncing Science BEING INTENSELY science minded these days, we avidly read all newspaper articles pertaining to scientific matters. We really thought we had struck pay dirt when we found in a New York newspaper an account of the Navy the local cancer group has enjoyed support and pleasant cooperation with the UF.

Submitting to from those not familiar with for united giving would such advantages. the national cancer organization struck at the community which the united giving in an effort the give-once-for-all principle. the foe at his strongest salient move. raises the question of how the Cancer Society can spare wage what essentially is a struggle among those presumably public assistance work. point we wish to make is national organization's bluff is seriously doubt that it would local chapter if it declines to that are contrary to the the good of the community the local chapter's course is Considering its chances of success independent fund drive, it should resist the pressure of its parent organization, reaffirm its faith in publicly-supported united giving and fine work against the common which some distant meddlers apparently have forgotten is the called cancer.

15 OTHERS SEE Why Pay REGARDING THE proposed $9,000 sign for the Ford Auditorium: As a taxpaying citizen, I resent this proposed expenditure for a "frill" when the City Fathers have been going to all extremes to try and reduce costs. This 59,000 sign could represent the salary of two city employes for a one-year period. If Ford Auditorium does need a name tag, must it be a $9,000 one? All of Detroit's other municipal building have managed quite well without these frivolities. Whom are we trying to impress ALBERT RESNICK For the Record DREW PEARSON has repeatedly tried to tell his readers that I am a "lobbyist" for the return of vested German assets and has continually cist aspersion upon the Cologne Society for the Protection of Private Investments, which I represent, and on Hermann J. Abs the dis- dropping a basketball from a dirigible, soaring at the height of the pire State Building.

The purpose was to determine how high a basketball dropped from that far up would bounce. The answer was 22 feet. Further reading told us that this ex Whom Will U.S. Back in Mideast? BY JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON Behind the scenes an intensely serious debate about our future course in the Middle East is now going on among the American policy makers. It may seem rather remote, but in reality it is about as remote as a time bomb under the bed.

So the issues are the protection of private foreign investments for the investors of all countries, and not Germany alone. Mr. Pearson has sought to make it appear that Mr. Abs is "lobbying" for return of seized property, and has maligned and "Nazifid" Mr. Abs on several occasions.

Our Department of State in 1949 eleared Mr. Abs of any Nazi connections. Mr. Abs is a most important figure in the financial and economic life of West Germany. Mr.

Abs, like many leaders in the United States and throughout the free world, knows that private capital will not enter the world market without some guarantee of sanctity of contract. It seems to me less evil to propose a return of other peoples' seized property than to advocate keeping it, and far less corrupt to advance and debate this proposed return on its merits than to attempt to defeat it by unconscionable smears, such as Mr. Pearson has engaged in. JULIUS KLEIN Chicago, 111. Clarifies Bill YOUR EDITORIAL commenting on legislation introduced to curb some of the abuses which have crept into the handling of union monies has come to my attention.

I was pleased to not that you were in -sympathy with the reporting and disclosure provisions of the bill but was disappointed to note that you have apparently been misinformed as to the provisions of the bill requiring the reporting of certain information by union officers and employes. Union officers and employes are required only to report on certain types of financial interests or transactions which involve a possible conflict of interest with their primary responsibility to the union members whom they serve. SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY Washington, D.C. Intercepted Letters WALTER REUTHER Solidarity House Dear Walter: sound like it was GM that ordered your members to kick in for a big strike fund.

TIPELINE PETE tinguished German banker who is head of that Society. I am not a lobbyist for the return of vested German assets. As an individual, I strongly advocate return from a moral standpoint, and in that I am joined by many Americans. Neither I nor my firm Is engaged or paid for such service. My firm, Julius Klein Public Relations, is engaged and paid by the Cologne Society.

The sole objective of that Society is to bring about international agreement which will establish safeguards for about a product, when there are plenty of good things to say about it? This falseness does more to undermine public confidence and create cynicism about American business and industry than any subversive elements could possibly-accomplish. Of course, I am talking about more than razors here. I am talking about the absurd notion among many advertisers that a product must be touted as perfect and flawless and fitting for all needs. There is no such product; and deluding the public does a disservice to everybody, including the product. STRICTLY PERSONAL Kind of Cost Cut Can't Afford THE THINGS the Legis-lature have to do when it returns May 15 will be to break a between House and Senate on the State Police budget of Williams is deeply concerned proposed appropriation slash, of Michigan's citizens ought Cut Out the Sharp Claims, Says Syd periment was conducted to help a New York sporting goods store which offered a prize to the person who came closest to guessing the height of bounce of a basketball dropped from the Empire i a State to be.

The Governor has called the cut an act of "incredible irresponsibility," and we're inclined to agree with him. Commissioner Childs has said that if the cut stands he will have to run the Br SYDNEY J. HARRIS Any man can be his own worst enemy; and so, of course, can any group of men who are organized to do something, make something, or sell something. I am thinking now of that group known as advertising men, and ct a a rticular a i se-ment I acted upon last week. It was for a new-model electric shaver; and I ordered one on a trial basis.

Now there is a lot to be Harris -s3T LA drop it from there was impractical; New York cops are not scientifically minded. The results of this experiment are not as exciting as, for example, speculation about what happens to a mouse or man shot to the moon. But it no doubt has its value. Lots of people want to know how high a basketball will bounce if dropped 1,472 feet. What disturbs us, though, is which branch of the defense services will do the basketball dropping if President Eisenhower's integration plan is put through.

A congressional committee should hold hearings on the matter immediately. IT these places, Chaumoun is frankly regarded as a test case. JUSTLY OR unjustly, the United States will surely be blamed for deserting Chaumoun if the Lebanese constitution is not successfully amended, and Chaumoun therefore fails to secure another term. Every other pro-Western leader in the whole area will thereupon begin asking himself when his turn will come to be deserted in the same manner. Avoiding unpleasantness is not policy making.

There are only two possible Middle Eastern policies now open to the American government. Either we stick by the West's Middle Eastern friends, treat their enemies as our enemies, and accept the unpleasantness this course will produce. Or we pay the unpleasantly enormous price of making a fundamental adjustment in the i Western attitude toward the new Arab nationalism that Nasser represents. We cannot have it both ways, as we are trying to do. Merrv Washington 1 iff rf Maybe this Isn't your day to write a chins-up speech, Senator." i A The Maps Commissioner Childs State Police with 100 fewer troopers.

That means fewer men patrolling the highways and enforcing safety measures. It means substantially fewer policemen available to combat crime when all statistics indicate a rising crime rate. The budget cut proposed by the Senate is called by its members an economy move necessitated by the State's pinched financial condition. Most Michigan citizens will disagree with the Senate members. They will not even call it false economy, recognizing that it is no economy of any kind.

MUCIENINSUIa' m.m QwfN jaw BY EDGAR A. GUEST worth examining. Two main issues are being debated. The first is whether to encourage Camille Chau- moun in his intention seek amendment of the ba n'e con stitution so that he can secure another term a President of Lebanon. The second Alsop issue is how far to go on the new State Department line of making friends again with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The two issues can both be summed up in a single question: "Whose side are we on?" For Nasser is Chaumoun's unrelenting enemy, precisely because the Lebanese President is a stout friend of the West Thus encouraging Chaumoun to try for another term inevitably means renewed conflict with Nasser. MAKING POLITE and friendly noises to Nasser, by the same token, inevitably impairs Chaumoun's chance for re-election. In fact, grave damage has already been done in Beirut by the noises the State Department has made in the last week about unfreezing the Egyptian funds now blocked in the United States as soon as Nasser makes a settlement with the former stockholders of the Suez Canal Co. The thing does not end there, either. The new jink in American policy, toward greater amiability to Nasser," has also greatly upset the other Middle Eastern leaders who are under constant attack by Nasser be- cause they are friends of the West.

King Hussein in Jordan and old Nuri Pasha in Iraq are both intensely disturbed. The outcome in Lebanon also is being watched with anxious attention in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. In all I'm one of those Slow-witted chaps 1 LAKE HURON AND ILUt W4 Who cannot understand the maps. I must confess I miss the signs As pictured by The dotted lines; Nor can I follow The attack Along the route In heavy black. The places noted (a) and (b) Mean very little Potomac Fever said for an electric razor.

I used one (or, rather, two) for the last five years, and I prefer them to shaving with a brush and lather. I prefer them because they are faster, simpler and easier on my skin. But not because they give me a better shave than the old-fashioned razor blade, for they don't. YET THIS advertisement (and others like it) claimed that the new-model razor was far superior to last year's model, and that its superior design enables one to get a closer and longer lasting shave. This simply is not true.

I have, at one time or another, tried all the "electric razors on the market (including one made abroad) and none of them gives as clean and durable a shave as the razor blade. It is a matter of plain fact that when I use an electric razor in tne morning, I need to use it again by three in the afternoon but this isn't much trouble. And it is also a fact that with a nonelectric razor I ran go without shaving until the next morning. Why say something false Well Deserving Of Public Thanks MICHIGAN HOSPITALS have accepted a 1 per cent cut in hospitalization insurance payments to forestall a tequest for a Blue Cross rate increase. Faced with an operating deficit, Blue Cross officials asked its 230 member hospitals what to do.

A majority of the hospitals agreed to absorb a reduction in Blue Coss payments. The Michigan Hospital Association said the cut will interfere with the development of new services. It is hoped that the cut may result in some permanent economies in both hospital and Blue Cross operations. Such economies would be definite anti-inflation findings of real worth. For admirable action during a recession, when a Blue Cross rate increase would sting subscribers, the hospitals deserve applause.

out xireutHt e-Ai 9XAN7 er THOMAS Unto me. I know not if The printed star Means where they were, Or where they are. WASHINGTON A campaign opens for Nelson Rockefeller for New York governpr. Times must be tough when even a Rockefeller is eyeing a spot on the public payroll. There are only two forms of American politics the short form and the long form.

Ike vows from Augusta ho won't retreat on his defense plan. It was a ringing statement wrung from him by Jim Hagerty between the 11th and 12th holes. Researchers discover the chemical that causes headaches. Since it's a by-product of thinking, there's hope we may be able to banish headaches forever. FLETCHER KNEBEL Some day I may Have time, perhaps, To solve the puzzle Of the maps..