FROM WHERE I SIT BY A.E. CAHLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100060038-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: July 22, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

LAS VEGAS (Nev.) JUL 92l9i5
REVIEW-1 'M Zed - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP70-00058ROO0100
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Date: JUL ?9
j955
From Where I -Sit
By A. E Cahlan
ou nave to learn arithmetic
rn ari me
tic
to become an en
engineer. Arithme-
tic is not being
tic
taught in most
American ?public
schools these
days -?st
for bade .er,
Man
uL tr iagh ; -- etwv v4. ,v,vuslrueuion, wnere
Gomm uni We're eitperirrieg with new
conc
t
i
'
re
e m
xes,
kwilcffeW types of
Tiding f1a,terlal and !mow de-
aran't. py, -signs to withsC>d maimum ex-
byt to r , ~ L pu
by a su ern p ,p
atgrouatoon-aso. ar fifteeJ
which he. ' exp M
in the fact that 1
gotten away from tll
El,}!er, we
ttfng very, 1 short of
Eat ier this year for.; instance,
States
cl th
l
a~,.
;..~?r.sa-
e net 1esu
t..~ras they
that student tedpeatioll ..should. he were imported from the far corn-
liltited tct,; English, niathmatics, era- of the earth. In this 'case, of
h tort' ylnguages and., xbe sc- coui ,. we're talking about skill-
rio5, ; scientists and technicians
at;te which Is outnumbering
our, pyn skilled men more than
two :to. one - on the land, on
the sea and in the air.
} the sad; sad fact, yes TRAGIC
&, .f Cdr., t, from the standpoint of na-
r_pnal welfare, is that we.do NOT
have the skilled, scientific man-
r~wel: in pur factories, labs and
,
? armefl ,,fp es_to match the Rus-
15sians. in turistic 'War. If you're
11 sffllrs s,.. lined. ii 40rne back with the
-familiar: aq ?" the an-
MEN,
irises r,---
ab. tee. e airs
13x14 t we have enough Mien trained to
-Ah meet the nrohlems of tha; nrac ,,t
irate without working ing at least 1200 aeronauticul en-
scietlc, pa`rtfoulax yphysics
e ointed .put that two years of
for g
ar ed,probaiy because the. ed-
c ors discayered that with the
ac , of proper foundation in: Eng-
le s it a, r__ _the_, poor young-
0 or,uguage- So. hey pass-
d-; the responsibility on to the
olleges.
gineers a year since' 1951 =3n 1951
we gave diplomas to 1 such
technicians. But the ? num T has
be,n 11imil7lsh_ing '.criticai . ever
sine. At the most recent' com-
mencement here In the 1, pited
States, exactly 645' diplomas were
granted to' aeronautical a eers
and*this in the midst of 'ii'ien-
dons development and 99
nce-
mept in the air age,
g
ew
er and fewer engineers each year
We're building supersonic born-
ith
w
grave dan tht tu
gerahe yong
hers of tremendous power. We're men of this country who are cap-
building guided missiles which=able along this line will diminish to
are intricate;. and potent. We've the vanishing point.
perfected anti-'aircraft weapons
which have,fllhre than a million Actual
parts ly, we're losing in a very
.FTueSn Slulrg.tTain- important race to the Russians
.. Ta 9._ a Lc_ repair and -_-_ ,_ .
A
rv?
M uu WtyYG.._thosei job at Geneva this ~weekV about
engineers. ft r( 1 'jFW" peace, are still rushing prepara-
many no* as ,fie _d ?gears i tion for Push-button- warfare,
ago and }geed mangy dies as training hundreds of thousands of
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Of course the general reaction i?
j is: what's the difference - i f
youngsters don't learn mathema-
tics they can make a living doing
something that doesn't require it.
Then they go on to buttress their
arguments with the declaration And it's not that young me
that, after all
machines d
't i
,
o most aren
nterested in thi fasi
scna
of the work today .and' men's ing field.` It's just that they aren
brains don't have to grasp intri- being taught the fundamental
cacies of mathematics and, sci- Which make It possible for. the
ence. to understand the subject. Hu
"_V" d'reds high school graduate
But the significance gong . far give?up their planned engineerin
deeper - to the survival of the courses after the first-year
nation, as a matter of fact, and cause they find the, going TO
here's how:
TOUGH Th' b
.eyveeen trained I
You may or may not have read taking it easy. They haven't th
here some months ago the sto
f
nd
ti
e
'
ry
ou
a
on Th
y don
.wo
t kno h
l of how industry is feeling ' ,the to study, to concentrate or to rea
pinch of fewer and fewer traineq son. They lost out all the . wa
engineers to the point where pror from. the primary grades to uni
gress and
r
d
p
o
uction are biit
egn- vexsy and the colleges canno
Wing to lag. How the universities make up they deficiency.
of the nation are graduatin
f
-
The. plain, simple fact is tha
we're reaping on a national ba
sis, the crop sowed by' the "pro
gressive" educators of a genera
tion ago. Give them credit for
being sincere though supercilious
but also remember that IF some
body had planned to destroy o
seriously hamper the great Amer
lean industrial machine, mightiest
in all history, the best place to
attack was certainly in the pubes
schools JUST AS THEY WER
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