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Principal Baker calls the rigid certification requirements that block Ergil's advancement "ridiculous," meanwhile can only rehire his teaching phenomenon in a temporary post. Uncertified Teacher Ergil drives into San Francisco two nights a week to take education courses, will have to plow through instruction in such matters as "Mental Hygiene and Personality Development" before he gets his certificate, probably in January. Tired, and a little vexed, he said last week: "I feel in the teaching profession you do not have money, but you do have integrity of the mind. You do not have to compromise with knowledge...
...before the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Boston last week, Reierson noted that "many maladjustments have entered the economy in recent years, and their correction may be neither painless nor swift." Troublesome problems are the continuing rise in wage rates in the face of unemployment, and the rigid price structure that keeps prices high in the face of surpluses...
AIRWAYS CZAR may soon be appointed and given absolute power to lay down rigid sky traffic rules to prevent mid-air collisions. Law is hastily being drafted to create a federal aviation agency, which would merge all air controls for military and commercial planes...
...with great reluctance then that the President approved a $1.8 billion increase in federal spending for highway construction, and he showed similar hesitation when he signed a $1.8 billion housing bill. Eisenhower's equating "sound national policy" with maintaining rigid federal-state relationships is, however, ironic and dangerous, especially at a time when sound national policy requires initiative on the part of the government. The assumption that states are currently capable of sharing equally with the government in any works program is also untenable, since most states are unable to finance their own anti-recession programs...
...Augusta on a long golfing weekend, the President got the word on the Times story, checked the facts on the telephone with McElroy. Instantly he directed Press Secretary Jim Hagerty to issue a statement: While McElroy "has not insisted on rigid adherence to words and phraseology, he has confirmed to the President that no changes in the meaning of any feature of the modernization program have been implied by any testimony of his." Ike himself dictated the final sentence: "Both the President and the Secretary are agreed that there can be no compromise on-or retreat from-the essentials...