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Atomic Age Gives<br />
Education It s<br />
Toughest Problem<br />
That higher education faces<br />
aom« of the most difficult problem*<br />
in it« history w&J the con-<br />
»ensu« of speaker* »nd discussion<br />
rroups at the sixth annual meeting<br />
of the New Jersey Association<br />
of Colleges and Universities at<br />
Trenton last week.<br />
Increasing coots, the need lor<br />
education for • an unpredictable<br />
and rapidly-changing atomic ftgei<br />
the proa and cons of Federal aid<br />
to education and the difficulties of<br />
maintaining spiritual values in a<br />
technological society were among<br />
the problems outlined to approximately<br />
200 delegates attending the<br />
one-day session at Trenton State<br />
Teachers' College.<br />
Dr. Margaret Mead, associate<br />
curator of ethnology for the<br />
American Museum of Natural History,<br />
speaking on the subject, "Is<br />
College a Preparation for Life Today?"<br />
said that this preparation<br />
is now "for a way of life for which<br />
there are no models living or dead,<br />
preparations for a degree of pioneering<br />
flexibility beyond the wildest<br />
dreams of men."<br />
She said that preparation i9 for<br />
"being a kind of person who has<br />
never existed before, whose outlines<br />
we can hardly gu«ss at."<br />
"Preparation for life- today can<br />
only mean a recognition that today<br />
precedes, not an endless end<br />
predictable series of tomorrow and<br />
tomorrow and tomorrow, all<br />
known, but that today precedes an<br />
unknown and possibly very limited<br />
number of "tomorrows," Dr.<br />
Mead declared.<br />
The colleges can meet the demand<br />
for preparation if they equip<br />
their students to learn to discover<br />
things which not even the wisest<br />
faculty members now know and if<br />
they can present an "open-ended<br />
picture of the world."<br />
Dr. Orway Tead, chairman of<br />
the New Tork City Board of Education,<br />
called for greater emphasis<br />
on spiritual values in the colleges<br />
and for greater teacher-student<br />
contacts.<br />
"We are educating too many<br />
Horatio Alger-type boys," he said.<br />
Their principal reason for going<br />
to college is to meet the right people,<br />
and join the right clubs "<br />
Dr. Tead said that instilling<br />
moral values in a student body is<br />
the job of faculty members of<br />
"noble, clear character."<br />
"You cannot go along with<br />
whole faculty of atheists or spiritual<br />
nihilists," he declared. "The<br />
problems of the world are moral<br />
and spiritual. We must make understood<br />
in clearest terms what<br />
we stand for In a spiritual sense:<br />
Commissioner of Education John<br />
H. Bosshart said that the State<br />
Department of Education is going<br />
to place increasing stress on the<br />
need for opportunities for higher<br />
education for the young people of<br />
New Jersey. He said that there<br />
are too many areas of the state<br />
where it is difficult to get these<br />
opportunities and said that additional<br />
junior colleges would help<br />
in providing them.<br />
The association elected Dr. Margaret<br />
C. Brown, president of Panzer<br />
College of Physical Education<br />
and Hygiene, East Orange, its new<br />
president to succeed Dr. Evald B.<br />
Lawson, president of Upsala College,<br />
also in East Orange.<br />
SES Reports Job<br />
Placements Up<br />
Over Last Year<br />
Job placements made by the<br />
New . Jersey State Employment<br />
Service during March numbered<br />
9,951 an increase of 923 over the<br />
same month last year,Superintendent<br />
Russell J. Eldridge reported<br />
today to Employment Security Director<br />
Harold C. Hoffman. Nonfarm<br />
placements numbered 9,758,<br />
farm placements 193, veterans 1,-<br />
365, and handicapped persons 235.<br />
Much of the increase in the non-<br />
•iarm hires is attributed to activity<br />
in the construction industry and at<br />
shore resort areas.<br />
All items showed definite increases<br />
this month mainly due to<br />
five additional work days in<br />
.March. But 19,440 new applications<br />
for work -were received during<br />
the month compared to 21,619 in<br />
March 1949. The total active applications<br />
on file stood at 144,805<br />
or 14,377 greater than the last<br />
corresponding period. The 46,380<br />
female applications, increasingly<br />
a larger part of the total, outnumbers<br />
the 1949 figure by 17,801<br />
while veteran, applications since<br />
th« same period last year have<br />
decreased by 6,732 to the current<br />
figure of 33,266. Female placements<br />
numbered 6,235 compared to 5,800 a<br />
year ago.<br />
The employment counseling numbering<br />
3,198 was the highest on record.<br />
They included 74S females and<br />
830 handicapped persons. An even<br />
thousand were veterans. Employer<br />
orders received during March were<br />
11,820, a Slight increase over March<br />
1949.<br />
Within the industry classification,<br />
total manufacturing, the 21<br />
classification* reported upon<br />
showed an upturn of 15 and decreases<br />
in only 6. Placements rose<br />
in all major occupational groups<br />
except professional and managerial.<br />
Greatest rises appeared in<br />
skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled<br />
occupational groups probably<br />
attributable to- continuous<br />
favorable weather for construction<br />
work.<br />
Driscoll Popularity Is High<br />
With N. J. Voters, Poll Finds<br />
By KENNETH FINK,<br />
Director, The New Jersey Poll<br />
Voters' satisfaction with Governor<br />
Alfred E. Driaeoll is «.t a<br />
high level today.<br />
Nearly two out of every three<br />
'oters questioned by New Jersey<br />
Poll staff reporters<br />
in a recent<br />
survey »y<br />
they approve of<br />
the way Governor<br />
Driscoll ia<br />
handling hia job.<br />
Only one In<br />
four *aya he disapproves<br />
of the<br />
job Mr. Drtacoll<br />
is doing.<br />
When New Jersey<br />
Poll staff reporters asked an<br />
accurate cross-section of the<br />
state's voters:<br />
"Do you approve or disapprove<br />
of the way Driscoll is handling<br />
hie idb as governor of New Jersey?<br />
The vote was:<br />
Approve 64%<br />
Disapprove 24<br />
No opinion 12<br />
Highlight of today's findings Is<br />
Governor Driscoll's popularity with<br />
voters living in New Jersey's six<br />
biggest cities: Newark, Jersey<br />
City, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson,<br />
and Camden,<br />
Driscoll's popularity here is all<br />
the more surprising when it is<br />
realized that a good majority<br />
(55%) of these same big citypeople<br />
voted for former Stab<br />
Senator Elmer H. Wene, Driscoll's<br />
Democratic opponent last November;<br />
and that usually these same<br />
big cities are regarded as Democratic<br />
strongholds.<br />
The vote on Driscoll's popularity<br />
by city size follows:<br />
Towns 2,500 -<br />
24,999 61% 24 15<br />
Cities 25,000- - ..<br />
©9,999 63% - 30 17<br />
Cities 100,000<br />
& over 73% » I<br />
Another interesting sidelight hi<br />
today's survey is i that younger '<br />
oters and World War TI veterans<br />
are less impressed with Driscoll's<br />
achievements than, are older votera.<br />
Even In these groups, however,<br />
Driecoll receives majority approval.<br />
The vote by veteran and age<br />
groups follow:<br />
No<br />
Appro Te dB&pproTe Opinion<br />
World War n<br />
VPW 53% 37 10<br />
21-29 years 56% 32 12<br />
30-44 years 64% 24 12<br />
45 years &<br />
over 70% 20 10<br />
Additional evidence of the high<br />
regard the New Jersey public has<br />
for its governor is that at least<br />
three out of every five (60%) In<br />
every other population group<br />
measured in today's • survey —<br />
Democrats, Independents, end Republicans;<br />
labor union members;<br />
manual workers and white-collar<br />
workers—say they approve of the<br />
way Driscoll is carrying on his<br />
job. Today's result does not necessarily<br />
mean that 64% would vote for<br />
Mr. Driscoll if an election were<br />
held.<br />
It does, however, mean that<br />
the rank and file of New Jersey<br />
voters presently approve of the<br />
man who was returned to office<br />
last November 8.-<br />
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Approre Disapprove pp Opinion<br />
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