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Atomic Age Gives
Education It s
Toughest Problem
That higher education faces
aom« of the most difficult problem*
in it« history w&J the con-
»ensu« of speaker* »nd discussion
rroups at the sixth annual meeting
of the New Jersey Association
of Colleges and Universities at
Trenton last week.
Increasing coots, the need lor
education for • an unpredictable
and rapidly-changing atomic ftgei
the proa and cons of Federal aid
to education and the difficulties of
maintaining spiritual values in a
technological society were among
the problems outlined to approximately
200 delegates attending the
one-day session at Trenton State
Teachers' College.
Dr. Margaret Mead, associate
curator of ethnology for the
American Museum of Natural History,
speaking on the subject, "Is
College a Preparation for Life Today?"
said that this preparation
is now "for a way of life for which
there are no models living or dead,
preparations for a degree of pioneering
flexibility beyond the wildest
dreams of men."
She said that preparation i9 for
"being a kind of person who has
never existed before, whose outlines
we can hardly gu«ss at."
"Preparation for life- today can
only mean a recognition that today
precedes, not an endless end
predictable series of tomorrow and
tomorrow and tomorrow, all
known, but that today precedes an
unknown and possibly very limited
number of "tomorrows," Dr.
Mead declared.
The colleges can meet the demand
for preparation if they equip
their students to learn to discover
things which not even the wisest
faculty members now know and if
they can present an "open-ended
picture of the world."
Dr. Orway Tead, chairman of
the New Tork City Board of Education,
called for greater emphasis
on spiritual values in the colleges
and for greater teacher-student
contacts.
"We are educating too many
Horatio Alger-type boys," he said.
Their principal reason for going
to college is to meet the right people,
and join the right clubs "
Dr. Tead said that instilling
moral values in a student body is
the job of faculty members of
"noble, clear character."
"You cannot go along with
whole faculty of atheists or spiritual
nihilists," he declared. "The
problems of the world are moral
and spiritual. We must make understood
in clearest terms what
we stand for In a spiritual sense:
Commissioner of Education John
H. Bosshart said that the State
Department of Education is going
to place increasing stress on the
need for opportunities for higher
education for the young people of
New Jersey. He said that there
are too many areas of the state
where it is difficult to get these
opportunities and said that additional
junior colleges would help
in providing them.
The association elected Dr. Margaret
C. Brown, president of Panzer
College of Physical Education
and Hygiene, East Orange, its new
president to succeed Dr. Evald B.
Lawson, president of Upsala College,
also in East Orange.
SES Reports Job
Placements Up
Over Last Year
Job placements made by the
New . Jersey State Employment
Service during March numbered
9,951 an increase of 923 over the
same month last year,Superintendent
Russell J. Eldridge reported
today to Employment Security Director
Harold C. Hoffman. Nonfarm
placements numbered 9,758,
farm placements 193, veterans 1,-
365, and handicapped persons 235.
Much of the increase in the non-
•iarm hires is attributed to activity
in the construction industry and at
shore resort areas.
All items showed definite increases
this month mainly due to
five additional work days in
.March. But 19,440 new applications
for work -were received during
the month compared to 21,619 in
March 1949. The total active applications
on file stood at 144,805
or 14,377 greater than the last
corresponding period. The 46,380
female applications, increasingly
a larger part of the total, outnumbers
the 1949 figure by 17,801
while veteran, applications since
th« same period last year have
decreased by 6,732 to the current
figure of 33,266. Female placements
numbered 6,235 compared to 5,800 a
year ago.
The employment counseling numbering
3,198 was the highest on record.
They included 74S females and
830 handicapped persons. An even
thousand were veterans. Employer
orders received during March were
11,820, a Slight increase over March
1949.
Within the industry classification,
total manufacturing, the 21
classification* reported upon
showed an upturn of 15 and decreases
in only 6. Placements rose
in all major occupational groups
except professional and managerial.
Greatest rises appeared in
skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled
occupational groups probably
attributable to- continuous
favorable weather for construction
work.
Driscoll Popularity Is High
With N. J. Voters, Poll Finds
By KENNETH FINK,
Director, The New Jersey Poll
Voters' satisfaction with Governor
Alfred E. Driaeoll is «.t a
high level today.
Nearly two out of every three
'oters questioned by New Jersey
Poll staff reporters
in a recent
survey »y
they approve of
the way Governor
Driscoll ia
handling hia job.
Only one In
four *aya he disapproves
of the
job Mr. Drtacoll
is doing.
When New Jersey
Poll staff reporters asked an
accurate cross-section of the
state's voters:
"Do you approve or disapprove
of the way Driscoll is handling
hie idb as governor of New Jersey?
The vote was:
Approve 64%
Disapprove 24
No opinion 12
Highlight of today's findings Is
Governor Driscoll's popularity with
voters living in New Jersey's six
biggest cities: Newark, Jersey
City, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson,
and Camden,
Driscoll's popularity here is all
the more surprising when it is
realized that a good majority
(55%) of these same big citypeople
voted for former Stab
Senator Elmer H. Wene, Driscoll's
Democratic opponent last November;
and that usually these same
big cities are regarded as Democratic
strongholds.
The vote on Driscoll's popularity
by city size follows:
Towns 2,500 -
24,999 61% 24 15
Cities 25,000- - ..
©9,999 63% - 30 17
Cities 100,000
& over 73% » I
Another interesting sidelight hi
today's survey is i that younger '
oters and World War TI veterans
are less impressed with Driscoll's
achievements than, are older votera.
Even In these groups, however,
Driecoll receives majority approval.
The vote by veteran and age
groups follow:
No
Appro Te dB&pproTe Opinion
World War n
VPW 53% 37 10
21-29 years 56% 32 12
30-44 years 64% 24 12
45 years &
over 70% 20 10
Additional evidence of the high
regard the New Jersey public has
for its governor is that at least
three out of every five (60%) In
every other population group
measured in today's • survey —
Democrats, Independents, end Republicans;
labor union members;
manual workers and white-collar
workers—say they approve of the
way Driscoll is carrying on his
job. Today's result does not necessarily
mean that 64% would vote for
Mr. Driscoll if an election were
held.
It does, however, mean that
the rank and file of New Jersey
voters presently approve of the
man who was returned to office
last November 8.-
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in 43 different lands and
its world membership is 4,306,010
boys and leaders. More than half
of this total are enrolled in the
Boy Scouts of America.
During World War U one steel
No company made enough nails to
Approre Disapprove pp Opinion
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