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Friday, September 28, 1973
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Paths or Progress?
Marking bicycle paths along certain designated streets would be the most inexpensive, sensible project that Lawrence has undertaken in recent years. Yet proponents of bicycle paths have met with indifference from both city and University officials.
The problem is not general apathy. The city is very freewheeling in its discussion of more ambitious transportation projects. Lawrence officials are considering building a new Massachusetts Street bridge over the Kaw and proposals are being made for expansion of the city airport.
Bridges and airports involve vast sums. City officials have estimated that the $125,000 annual fund for repairs does not pay the price for a new one.
If the city is in a financial position to even contemplate such expensive, large-scale undertakings as the bridge and short project buildings as building as well and useful as a bicycle pathway system can be funded.
The Mount Oread Bicycle Club has proposed the establishment of five-foot bicycle lanes along several streets of suitable width. The selected streets would link the XU and Hassan centers, one major shopping centers, the downown area, apartment complexes and parks.
The lanes would be marked with yellow or white paint. Signs giving route numbers and directions would be posted along the way. Neither the city nor the University have taken any substantial action to date, and it appears the project may be headed toward the graveyard of good but "necular" ideas.
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This automated society so indulges its concern for cars that more economical and simple means of travel have consistently
The crowded Europeans have learned these things and have made more intelligent use of public transportation and the virtues of bicycling. The great distances that Americans travel make some use of cars necessary, but that use should be conservative.
Fairly high rates of speed are possible on the better bicycles, yet accidents are minimal. Bicycling in a city would be healthier for society would be healthier for it.
Thunder on the Air
-Bill Gibson
If Lawrence officials want to be progressive and modern they will build an airport and a bridge. If Lawrence is unable they will create bicycle paths.
been given lowest priority. Too many products of this car-oriented society consider bicycle riders to be either peculiar throwback to a less progressive age, overgrown juveniles, or health nuts.
Airports bring in more people to jam up the bridges and other roads. Bicycling, on the other hand, expedites travel within the city in many ways. Bicycles are smaller and less likely to get tied up in traffic jams or compete for position simply simple instruments requiring no motor. This means fewer repairs and less pollution.
But this technological society is breaking down. The whole country is running out of gas. Some Americans may be shivering this winter because of a lack of heating fuel. Rationing of gasoline is a very real possibility. Crowded conditions mean traffic jams, increased death and carnage on the highway, and parking shortages.
Bicycles should be nudging the autos off the road instead of the reverse. Lawrence should continue to be a moderate-size community of healthy bicycleists and walkers who live in an urban center clogged with cars.
By DAN L. THRAPP The Los Angeles Times
"They are the heart and core of America," said James Morris, an author, who, over a period of 20 years has listened to them for thousands upon thousands of
They are broadcast from hundreds of radio stations from coast to coast, although most urban dwellers have heard of only a few of them. If their names are legion their listeners and devotees are as uncountable as the stars God showed to Abraham.
By the millions they sit at home, listening to the radio, hearing the shrill, reedy or bitter thunder of the air waves preachers, voices as varied as the rainbow but all selling the same spiritual line: fundamentalism.
AMONG THE BETTER-KNOWN:
Never converted by any of them, he still is vastly intrigued and frequently amused by them, and he has an affection for most and a bit of respect for all, the kind of awe an open-mouthed had once had for the Indian medicine salesman on the wagon.
-Billy Graham, the confidante of presidents, the evangelist who has spoken to more people than any other gospel preacher in the history of Christianity.
Oral Roberts, who started as a tent show-fair healer, moved into television and onto the air waves, a success at everything he has touched.
Almost all, that is, a few have branched out, started down different roads, but they all began as fundamentalists, and they are to the fundamentalist soul of the nation.
-C.W. Burpo, the Oklahoma boy who began with a local radio ministry and now is heard from ocean to ocean and in Canada and "has developed a little something for everyone," no matter what his tastes or beliefs.
-Carl McInute, the right-wing preacher
the daily pitch is on up on 600 radio
programs
"A. A. Allen, whose tents show drew them in by the thousands upon thousands until he died of "acute alcoholism" in San Francisco not long ago.
THEEN THERE'S Billy James Hargis, "the preacher of the lot" in the view of Morris, Hargis, editor of the Christian Church as is politically conservative as McInture.
There is Kathryn Kuhlin, whose faith healing meetings are an extension of her electronic ministry and the Armstrongs, who have a Bible empire out of Passidiana, Calif.
—Another is the Rev. Ike. He = Frederick J. Einkeretkoer II, "the most flamboyant preacher in America," who long age forok old-fashioned fire and briststone for "prosperity doctrines" he calls the "plessian plan." There is more money in it.
With his sequenced jackets and finish get-
ter, the Moose "is the Liberation of reli-
gion" by Mr. Bear.
Morris has rounded up nine great radio spellbinders in a new book, "The Man Who Loved the Bible." He liked. The book caused Miss Kuhnman to send him a prayer cloth, and Hargis to comment grumplify: "Morris spent 20 years on the gospel train, the thing never took."
The writer believes there are about 500 regional radio preachers—speakers whose palpit is the microphone rather than in a church. Most of them may be maybe as many as 60, are heard nationally.
"At least his paper didn't call me a command, said Morora, so the review was correct."
"So many precious souls believe in them that I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm faceted, or looking down my nose at them. They are God's own people—the listeners. They believe sincerely in every word they hear."
By JOHN GETZE The Los Angeles Times
'Mobster' Comes Clean on Interest
Note: This may be the text of a speech delivered to a meeting of middle-management underworld figures by "Bucks" McGity, finance minister for the UK. The names have been changed to protect the guilty, but the arithmetic is correct.
Looking out over the dining room tonight, I can see a lot of you guys already starting to squirm. You've seen from the program that you're in charge of the security and you'd rather I discuss good law enforcement than this high finance stuff. Well, I understand. Believe me. I've got guys in my own organization that break into a sweat when you mention the word "arthritis."
But try and relax. Get the waitress to bring another pot of coffee. Light a cigar. Take off your masks if you want. There's nothing really that complicated about interest rates, and if you can stay with me for a few minutes you might learn something. The next time you borrow money for a new getaway car or a hideout in the mountains, you could be ideal. Or at least you'll know how much those boozer banks are recklessly you.
OK. Now to start with, I like to tell you a story about this greenhair in my department who I sent out to get a new car loan. The Chicago office needed something fast and things were too hot in their own area. Anyway, I sent this punk down to the local bank for a $100 loan. He's running back in about an hour smiling like he's got the D.T.'s.
"HEY, BOSS," he says. "I got the loan
If the guy hadn't of been such a young punk, I probably would have boffed him across the chops. What a dummy. The company that owns these bars that's the interest banks charge their best customers, usually giant corporations with more money than the mint—and this bozo thinks the banks are going to give him a rate on the percentage points under that. I had to laugh.
"But Boss," the punk says, "that's what they told me. There was even a big sign in front of my house."
and it's only going to cost us 6 per cent."
Well, I asked the kid for his copy of the contract and sat down with him to explain. He's green, but a good hustler, so I took time out to show him the ropes.
"YAH, BOSS. It's almost 12 per cent.
Wow. That's a lot different than the 6 per cent."
"Look down here in the smaller print,
it said." "See where it says annual
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"The deal," I said, "is that we're going to pay about 12 per cent interest on the loan. We're going to borrow $3,000 and pay it back in 12 months installmenting totaling $3,000."
"But 6 per cent of $0,500 is $300," he says.
"So I'm right. It's a 6 per cent auto loan."
This time, I couldn't control my emotions.
I probed the lips and told him to let me explain.
"It would be 6 a per cent auto loan, junk,
we kept the $2,500 for a year and then paid
the bank back $5,300 at the end of 12 months.
But we're not. We're going to start paying
money when we get older. Six time six months are gone, we'll only owe the bank about $2,500 and we'll be paying at 6 a
"I GET IT, BOSS," he says. "At the end of the year, we will have paid $100 worth of interest on a loan that only averages about half of that $,000."
per cent rate on the original $5,000.
I patted the kid on his dumb head.
"You got it, all right," I told him. "Now the next time I send you out for an installment loan, you won't come back grinning like a Cheshire cat. Right?"
Well, it's a long story and I see you boys are getting restless, but I think I've made a good point. Don't expect these loan guys to give an interest rate below the prime. They're not dummies. If General Motors can't afford to borrow, you can't expect to borrow for less.
Of course there is an exception to that rule, and if you boxz will stop playing with your switchblades long enough, I'll tell you about it.
Banks and savings and loans are now making mortgage loans at around 9 per cent or 9½ per cent. And that's a true, honest-to-god annual percentage rate. If you've got a mortgage in class A type real estate, you can get a mortgage loan for less than the crime.
NOW YOU GUYS know there's got to be a驼
your life, you're putting yourself on your life,
you learned something.
It is one point: when you get a mortgage loan for 9 per cent let's say, you're agreeing to a 9 per cent annual interest for 25, maybe 30 years. When a big corporation borrows $ 5 million annually and agrees to pay 10 per cent for probably only 90 days. And if they need that $ 5 million for say three or four years, they get it written into the contract
where they agree to pay it by the prime rate—the whatever it is. If the prime goes up to 11 per cent next year, they pay that. If it downs to 7 per cent, they pay that.
It is a good deal because nobody expects the prime to stay as high as 10 per cent for the next three decades or 6 per cent. So if the prime does go down in a year or so, the corporation's interest payments will also go down, while you—the prime company—will probably pay 6 per cent for the next three decades.
OK, I CAN SEE you dope has had about all the education you can take for one night. Any more, and one of you jokers will start sending me apples. But there's one more thing I'm sure to bounce of your thick skulls. I want your dose of coffee and maybe this will cheer up you.
Even those smart-deck corporations take it on the chin. They've been around and have learned to expect it more than you do. They'll be able to pull something extra out of them, too.
The 10 per cent prime rate is really a phony. It's not a true annual percentage rate because almost all banks require that a bank lend at interest on deposit with the bank at no interest.
It's called compensating balances. If a corporation borrows $10 million, banks generally require—as a condition to making the loan—that the company leave up to 20 per cent of that loan ($2 million) in a bank checking account. The corporation doesn't earn a dime in interest for the deposit, but is established "good faith" with the bank.
In reality, then, most 10 per cent prime
rate is usually closer to 1.5 per cent or
2 per cent.
OK, that's it. You dummies can leave now, or you can stick around for the 200-pound cake the waiters are about to roll in. The filling the sack is really something special.
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To the Editor:
I've been meaning for a couple of weeks to write you a nasty letter about the part you played in destroying my credibility in Kansas.
Specifically, you neglected to mention that there are peacocks at the Drattf fish hatchery; knowing that—and knowing that—peacocks are in danger of being drastically Drattf fish hatchery-how can Debby Connor, Wichita state in education, ever become so much anything more than a superficial hack?
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Editor's Note: Morgenthaler wrote a story about tourism in Kansas that appeared in the July 18 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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Identifying Teachers' Successes
Because the improvement of teaching at the University of Kansas and elsewhere is integrally tied to financial support, the discussions of the next three weeks will consider a potentially critical situation: a return of conditions described by Raymond E. Callahan in his book, "Education and the Cult of Efficiency."
There is much attention currently being given to having universities demonstrate the value of their courses and curricula to the public. Such evidence is seen by many as prerequisite to universities' requests for funding.
Callahan's book is relevant to us because conditions today are similar to those of the early 1900's when the progressive thrust of education was slowed. Similarity between the pattern of events emanating from the similar underlying conditions of the two eras is more difficult to prescribe but because we could know that we could also learn another cult of efficiency, a review of the historical may help us to deal with the present.
The basic problem discussed here is that educators cannot point to their successes. We intuitively know that what we are about is of value and that courses and degrees do mean more significant lives for students, materially as well as aesthetically. And, most legislators and their constituents would, I feel, agree.
However, legislative budgetary discussions may be influenced by a feeling that a great deal of money is being spent for higher education with no visible outcomes, leading to the unfortunate conclusion that because its "products" are not measurable, high education does not need as many resources.
It is as if to reason that because the product is indeterminate the process can, or should, get along with fewer resources.
Phil McKnight
In other words, if the use of resources "A", "B", and "C" leads to the production of "," then to diminish "A", "B", "C" by "A" should make little or no difference because no diminution in "," can be observed.
Thus, the inability to point to measurable products places the university in double jeopardy. It cannot produce hard data to justify additional funding, and it has difficulty defending against cultures that它 cannot easily be identified, and how it can diminish the value of the product (the pedagogical and personal entrapment of the student).
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(2) The prestige of business and industry, and our respect for opinions of their leaders on matters unrelated to their areas of competency.
The underlying conditions as discussed by Callahan were;
The vulnerability of educators, as previously discussed, who cannot point to measurable successes. This situation also exists today.
(3) The muckracking movement. In the early part of the century, the writers were Tarbell, Sinchair and Steffens. Two other motifs, they are Goodman and Ilich.
The specific events which led to the original cult of efficiency in education were (1) the period around 1910 of inflation and recession (in the USA), and (2) infiltration of large numbers of students of divergent linguistic and social backgrounds during that time (paralleled in 173 by efforts to educate students with divergent socio-economic and pedagogical backgrounds.
The pattern of events which emerged from the preceding conditions in 1910 may be summarized as follows.
Worse, the muckraking movement made education one of its targets.
At a time when the schools were burdened with new demands (not only large numbers of migrants, but a more complex, divergent school population), economic conditions were unfavorable to making an adequate response to the needs.
The results of the application of industrial efficiency methods and philosophies to educational problems are the main subject in Callahans' book, and the examples and citations are sobering. Though the intent was idealistic, results were stifling.
Unfortunately, the response of school administrators to these events was not to lobby more strongly for adequate resources, but to defensively seek means of justifying existing support. In trying to do so, they happened upon the industrial efficiency methods of Frederick W. Taylor, who had moved the movement of cost effectiveness in industry.
The question at this point is whether we should be concerned with a resurgence of cut of efficiency. I think that we should, because the conditions today parallel those of early 1010-20, and because there are indeed changes in the way we work already. The indices that are meaningful to me may be summarized in the word "Accountability."
next week I will discuss how the earlier cult of efficiency in education affected the lives of teachers and students, and predict their own outcomes. I will cult. (One of the outcomes of the earlier cult was the development of an efficiency test for students which was to help them evaluate how efficiently they were leading classes.) Finally, we will consider whether they skirt with a window open.
Phil McKnight, assistant professor of education and director of the Office of Instructional Resources, prepares a regular meeting with issues in teaching for the Kansas.
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