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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1969.
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Sharp Increase In Number Of U.S. Science Students
By LOUIS CASSELS
New York, Oct. 16,
The number of U.S. college students majoring in science and mathematics rose sharply during the first year of the space age.
The gradunte
upsurge
Interest
of under-❘ in physical
T
and
biological which sciences and mathematics-la- bodes well for the nation's creased 10.4 per cent from, the futura. supply of scientists--is autumn of 1937 to the Aulumn dramatically revealed in a statis-of 1958.
tical survey just completed by the US. Omce of Education,
It shows that the number of college juniors electing majo
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There were. 50,513 juniors majoring in these felds in 1957, and 55,777 a year later.
The increase was three limes
as great as might have been ex- pected on the basis of the general growi of college en- rollment. The
Burvey focused on Juniors because concentration in
a specialised field usually be gins in the third college year.
OFFSET GLOOM
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The newly-published figures should offset some of the gloom
through that spread
oficial quarters here in the wake of cariler report from the Office of Education. That To pori, complled several months ogo. showed that under- graduate engineering enrollment dropped 4.5 per cent from the autumn of 1957 to the autumn of 1930.
The decline in engineering. enrollment was particularis dis- turbing because it seemed lo mean Chat
American colege students were not responding to the national need for
more technologically-trained power - a need vividly de- monstrated on October 4, 1857, when Russia's Sputnik I went into orbit.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
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A
Tragic Social Problem
That Must Be Tackled
By Special Correspondent
London, Oct. 16.
How big is the problem of the prostitute's child?
No Jobs For
It has been estimated that one in every three Many British
prostitutes is also a mother!
an
now appears that the mystifying drop in engineering enrollment may have resulted, at least in part, from students switching into maths and selence
"I remember
eminent Nena was 17 and living majors. Educators point out
visited the with a Maltese. She had al- of only a whift
few paychiatrist who
ready had one child and was ourses can change an engineor East End of London to talk to ing major into
about or probation officers
fear months pregnant with a 1 maths science majur.
One day her neigh- scoond. problem," says Father Joe, the
Father Jon. | OWN. THEORY
bour came Reverend Joseph Williamson,
that
women
this
Why did a substantial number vicar of St Paul's, Dock Street, of students apparently decide Stepney (in that same East End they would rather be selentis's jat London), "but when he was than engineers? Since no one esked about their children, he has conducted an attitude survey replied, 'These that would provide reliable an- have them.'
were to that question, every one is entitled to his own theory, One possible explanation is that the new horizons now opening in space have stimulated interest in pure silence
an
nate
the
aun't
"From that moment 150 lecture was in ruins-but he's not the only one who thinks like that." Some prostitutes among some students who for chiki they have, and neglect it moment it is bare merly were concerned only with from the practical applications.
Other love it like any other More light may be shed by woman, but cannot prevent the the figures for the autumn of child being corrupted from the 1959, which will takte several first moment of understanding. months to compile. Officials are Many social woKKOTE Bre hopeful they will show In-perturbod because they 200 creases in both science and en-lites children as
easy recruits gineering majors,
for crime and prostitutions,
NEVER KNOW
As things stand now, U. S colleges will graduate next spring about 45,000 bachelors of science and 38,000 engineers, a total of 80,000.
UPI.
Teenagers
London, Oct. 16. She had learned that other Hundreds of British teen prostitutes were attempting
agers who passed their an abortion and she could not
General Certificate of bear to hear the girl's', erfen. I was only fifteen minutes
Education and left school later that Father Joe got to the
last term are back at from where Nena Uved--but he
school again this term. A car was already too late.
There are no john for them. had come and Nena, her clothes and her possessions had been Other teen-agers who have to enter universities qualified whisked away.
"She could have died," said are picking peas and potatoes, or Father Joe dy, and the weighing mcat in slaughter woudn't have been missed. She houses. At least one is a part
to ask questions time walter in a fish and chip.
shop. had no one about her."
Others have taken on volun- tary work in orgmisations like the YMCA to kill the monotony ot having nothing to do,
One of the towns in which the youth
14 ere worst hit Lancashire textile town Helens (pop. 110,200).
TRAGIC
So tragic has this problem be- come that at his "House of Hope" - hostel in Stepney which takes in prostitutes wishing to break to away-Father Joe has had lay down a firm rule that no Tina, expensive "call
gigri expecting a baby can be has a boy of seven He dve taken in unless she goes to the No figures are available here with a family whom he believes local moral welfare officer and on Russia's output of science have adopted bim. Every week
maites preparationgg for tho graduates, but it is known that
money comes to pay for his
birth of the child. Soviet universities are graduat-clothes, bound and schooling. Some prostitutes refuse to do ing 10,000 engineers a year. He will ever know how that this. They will not buy a
earned Tina has
nupply, a dress or even a pair money was solved her problem.
of bootees. They refuse to 20 Fay at wearily in a pub. near a doctor as a clinic. She was the mother of two When their labour starts, they
whom children, both of
she telephone the police, who in loved, The first bud been turn contact a midwife, She taken from her and placed in has to go to the home, taking care. Sho was determined with her everything needed for sem how to keep the second.
the child down to the safety Though she wan't
pins. The mother has she had to earu 23 that day
nothing Day the
looking after him. For Fay there seemed to be as solution ex- orpi the angdish of total separation.
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Kangaroos Doing Big Damage
In Australia
by Robert F. Cousens
Broken Hill, Australia, Oct. 16. You may think they're cute, but Kangaroos cost
Australia £6 million a year.
That is an official estimate by the Australian Graziers Association of the amount of wool lost because Kangaroos cat up pastures which would otherwise support sheep.
In
the northwest section great sheep population dropped of New South Wales-a 125,000- from 15 million to eight million. square-mile res Inter than The Kangaroo has not given tho Italy-the Kangamo reached graziers a chance to repair the plague
Cruped proportions this past damage
by years of June-September winter. It has rabbit plagues, and there still replaced the rabbit as the most are only about eight million anrious competitor, with the sheep.--UPI. sheep
for
grazing lands.
carefully-nurtured
The precise number of hous
is difficult to estimate. Guesses from graziers and offelsis range coch up to eight million. And Kangaroo consumes more food than a sheep.
Building a fence to keep them out doesn't do any good. A full-grown 'Roo can clear six
feel with ease, and if the fence
is higher than that, be knock it down. I was the name thing with rabbits, except that they burrowed under the fence in- stead of going over,
WIPE OUT
Graziers are convinced that if
Second Thoughts
On Thought
Cincinnati, Oct. 16.
revealing of mental
the Kangaroo could be elimin-] Second thoughts are more sted from the western plains area where he is now concen- traded, the benefit to the wool Industry would be almoet
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stent as when myxomatosis Ali but wiped out the rabbit.
What they want is a similar which would sime-fire virus
once
deal with, the Kangaroo and for all. At present, no such man-made virus exists.
But even the suggestion of do- ing something like that raised violent protesta from animal lovers and city dwellers who
believe that the Kangaroo is a lovable creature and, es Aus tralia's largest and most photo-
genic marsupial, must be pro- ected at all costs. "They " point, for example, to the honoured place on the county's coat of arms.
animal's
dition than
con- are first thoughts, according to Dr Appelbaum, Stephen A.
ап American psycholo- gist.
The famous word association test, widely used by psychiatrists to gain an understanding of
can be greatly im patients.
oved just by repeating it and acking the patient to give "the first word that comes to mind which is different from the one you gave before," he reported.
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There is a tendency för any Individual on the first trial to give a word most commanly linked with the test word in In response to the language. "hot" for example, a person is most likely to say "cold." On the second time Around, must give however, when he another word, he may ray "dog" “cargo," or "mama," This will RING ROUND THE MOON
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RESPONSES
In many areas an operi 'BER«» BOX has been declared on Kangaroos, but trying to shoot im- eight mution of them is possible.
They are
siso polsoned, trapped and hunted with dogs, but none of these methods in on a sufficiently large scale. Now the
One patient described by Dr Commonwealth Selentile and Industrial Re-Appelbaum gave the following search Organisation has set out responses to words on the jist father-mother, to study the Kangaroo, and e-the frst time
to wife-husband, farm--milk, and pocially its breeding habits, find "a weak spot in the animal's husband-wise. life cycle."
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by Jean Anouilh
at the
LOKE YEW HALL
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and at the
KESWICK HALL Kowloon Technical College October 29th
The second time he responded October 22nd, 23rd & 24th to all these words with the same answer, worśc This re- At present, strangely, very įvealed his preoccupation with little is known about Australia's work and his resentment of his Last on 486 boys and 473 best-known animal, even after family for making excessive
demands on him. girls left its schools. Today 157 171 years of acquaintance.
The curator of mammals at the boys and 80 girls are still look-
Another patient, overly con ing for work.
Australion University, Basil cerned about death, gave the For the children who return Marlow, sald that "our total resporise "box" to the word to school there is no post-knowledge of the Kangaroo, is "trunk" the first time, the
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Mr O. W. James, Headmaster take a scientifle team perhaps response "coffin.”—UPL of Rixington County Secondary five years to find out all there Boys' School, where alne puplis is to know about the Kangaroo," have returned, says
But any grazier in the arki "These boys ought to be put country around this mining in- in a class on their own. But it's dutery centre, where it takes 10 impossible because of the lack to 30 carres to support a single of accommodation and shortage sheep, knows mough about Kan- of teachers.“
that to be convinced And Mr H. Campbell, head- unless something is done quickly mauler of Grange Park Techni- to control then, the wool in- - Midred was anch girl. cal School, where about 12 boys dustry in this part of Australia
doge
Ehe was in grosi nood and
the came to the House of
Katuos
and girls are back in class, says: may not survive,
The Kangaroo has enormous- "We may, be short of books."
The authorities appear resign-ly, increased its mumbera
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Hope. But when she refused to make plans for her baby.ed to the fact that nothing can cause of a run of good seasons Was
weak. mentally
for the past 10 years, and the be done about it. the 127
she of 10
she was sent sway. nearer
The Mayor of St Helens, number roaming the wester birth of her child the madder "That may seem brutal," said
Councillor Jim McDonnell mys: plafps of New South Wales to- giri 60 she became. She wandered Father Joe, "when a
"Our schools have been over-day, is described as "the greatest badly needs our help. But we out of do it because we owe more to wded for so long that a bit in living memory."
When the rabbit invaded mother and baby an innocent unborn child than more won't make much differ-
Western New South Wales, the ence."--UPI. hame she put the baby into its careless, wanton mother. about Mudred and others. Uke her a room and forgot all her. The child was taken from must be made to realise that her. Now she is expecting un-their children must have the other child.
care they need. Olga keeps her children
in the main, people are ber trade. They. live iri simply averting their eyes from bovel in a dirty street. Thea berrible problem. Prostitutes young children are fed but in a (have babies like any other flthy condition. They grow Up WIRRO Somehow they must, watching mother work, watching be rescued and brought up to wide-eyed the men come and know a Cecent Ule. go, hearing the drunken curses. |
ONLY ONE CASE
and
Father Joe belloves the Sialo must step in Ho believes it | shiodd bo u catroinal (offence If
In all my time I have knownątny woman háa a child and only one case where a prostitute imakes no preparations what- has deliberately guided her soever for its birth daughter to follow the gasme shameful Bfò,” says Father Joe. should be compoiled to report "I tackled the mother because regularly to Tönni – moral
'bellove the
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1. hust knoWIL Daisy since she wolfar officer and punished if was 10 and now she was 17. they don't.
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