WORLD NEWSGRAMS
Jomes O. Henry, M.A., Editor Associate prof, of History, Biolq Bible College
possessions, our children, have not been protected. In an inflationary era, during which the cost of living has risen enormously, these professors have grown poorer and their incomes now buy less.” The writer gives a list of the sal aries paid in history courses in 42 of the land-grant colleges scattered over the United States. These salaries range from as low as $3,000 a year for an instructor to $10,000 a year for a full professor. The average for all ranks in these 42 institutions is $5,056.87 a year or less than $100 a week. The salary of a top stenog rapher-secretary in New York would average $90 a week for comparison. The average pay to instructors is $3,768.26 a year. Full professors will run as low as $4,574.75 per year. “Most of our sons and daughters are taught by instructors, assistant professors and associate professors. Their salaries run in these colleges between 3,768 dollars and 5,342 dol lars a year. The danger to our country in un derpaid teachers is that their person al embarrassments and dissatisfac tions are bound to express themselves in their teaching and in their casual conversation with students.” In discussing the large number of students who during the depression era became ardent and even fanatical servants of communism, the writer makes the following comment: “We generally damn these individuals and say that there were so many others who did not go their way. That an swer fs not good enough for one who really seeks to understand social phe nomena. There were too many who were influenced by communists and it cannot altogether be correct that ihe poverty of the faculty had noth ing to do with it, or has nothing to do with it today.” The writer con cludes his column with the following statement: “ A constructive way to fight subversion is to remove person al attitudes which seem to individ uals to justify subversion. Surely one of them would be to adjust the wage scale of university instructors to cur rent living conditions.”
Biblical Scrolls Given to Israel Four hollowed biblical scrolls, dis covered by shepherds in a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, were formally presented on March 16 to Israel by D. Samuel Gottsman, New York banker and industrialist, in a cere mony at the Israeli embassy in Wash., D.C. The 2,000-year-old scrolls include the oldest known manuscript of the book of Isaiah and the only known copy of an ancient apocryphal work, The Book of Lamach. Gottsman gave the scrolls to Israel in the name of the D. S. and R. H. Gottsman foundation, of which he is head. The Israel government will build a “ Shrine of the Book” to house the manuscript on the campus of the University of Jerusalem. Other manu scripts relating to the Bible will be kept in the shrine. Aew Burden Placed on Man’ s E yes Civilization’s progress has lifted the burden from man’s back and placed it on his eyes, so says Dr. James R. Gregg, optometrist of the vision con servation institution. Traffic jams, high speed production, TV screens and atomic energy put a greater strain on modern eyes than ever before. Seventy million Ameri cans have now found it necessary to wear glasses. Yet, one-third of California’s work ing force, a quarter-million people, have low-power vision. “ Save Your Vision Week” has been set aside for 27 years by the American Optometric Association to spread information about vision and its care. The pur pose: not only to “ save” eyesight but to keep it in pace with progress. The Professors A syndicated columnist writing in one of the local daily newspapers makes some interesting comments on the problem of communism in our universities. The writer says “ when men speak of our ‘pink’ universities, they rarely realize that in the rising wage' scale of our country, those who deal with the most precious of our
Airforce Coat It tabes $9,000 to train and make a single radio and repair expert. It requires almost the same amount to turn out an electronics technician. A jet plane pilot cannot be equipped to fly this type of plane without pre l i mi n a r y training, costing about $120,000. To transform a young civil ian into the pilot of a B-47 bomber costs the government about $275,000. For basic training only, the invest ment in an infantryman is $3,200. Gobi Desert Town Becoming A c ir Metropolis An AP release under dateline Mai- zura, Japan, states that Pao Tow, which stands on the east edge of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, is being transformed into a large indus trial city. It is estimated that more than 40,000 engineers and laborers are being sent monthly to the old desert terminal of the railway lead ing up from Peiping. Material is rushed by truck up two new asphalt roads. Soviet technicians have moved in. The object is to use iron ore and coal in the region, the repatriates say. A railway linking Pao Tow directly to Siberia is under con struction. The Japanese estimate that the pop ulation of Pao Tow, former capital of Inner Mongolia, had increased ten fold since the Reds took over. It is now about 500,000. India’ s Foreign Policy Explained The prime policy of India is to leave “no stone unturned” in the quest for world peace, according to G. L. Mehta, Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Citing his country’s work in the United Nations, Ambassador Mehta disclosed that India is not seeking to escape international or moral obli gations nor adopting isolation or in difference. “ Our policy is one of trying to find an approach to reduce world tension and bring harmony and understand ing among nations with conflicting ideologies,” he said.
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