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...basically "totalitarian." We feel that they have grossly misinterpreted the President's remarks. He did not say that education should have only uniformity, but insisted that it could have diversity at the same time. "The time may conceivably come when a state or the Federal Government may jeopardize this concept," President Conant admits, but he goes on, "as far as secondary education is concerned, I do not detect any danger signals in that direction...
...concept of the role of employers and employees in the corporation is being formed. Some examples: Pittsburgh's Wiegand Co. lends money, interest free, to employees who need it to buy homes, etc.; Allegheny Ludlum Steel holds "open houses" to let families see what their breadwinner does, and production goes up on visiting days; Weirton Steel now tags almost everything moving through the plant to let workers know what it will make...
...that does not mean that every employer has seen the practical value of the new concept, or has accepted it. Some bitterenders still regard any concession to the workers as a threat to their own authority. Others sometimes do more harm than good by doling out favors with an air of paternalism. Said one Kansas City industrialist: "We give our employees a Christmas party and that keeps 'em happy until we throw 'em a summer picnic." Still others have made the mistake of trying to create good human relations by mere words...
...insistence on the doctrine of local control. We have no restrictions on the variety of approaches to secondary education presented by our thousands of local boards. Indeed, to an outsider I should think our diversity would look like educational chaos. But this is a characteristic of our flexible decentralized concept of democracy. The time may conceivably come when a state or the Federal Government may jeopardize this concept, but as far as secondary education is concerned. I do not detect any danger signals in that direction now. The NLA threat which was real in the 1930's has almost been...
...study is intended to provide the practicing surgeon with "a more accurate quantitative concept of the chemical changes" experienced by his patients recovering from burns, injury, wounds, or operation...