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GARDENVALE. QUEBEC, JANOABY 15. 1960
Says Most Basic, Crucial Problem Of Minority Groups Is Job Discrimination
Rickover Urges Greater Emphasis Famed Lawyer Of Fc .
On Education To Match Soviet Expert On Labour, Sued Late
Irving Ferman, executive vice chairman of the President's Committee on Government Contracts, �aid in New York that the "most basic and crucial problem" confronting minority groups was discrimination in employment He nrged volunteer agencies in the field of civil rights to put "greater emphasis" on the "bread-and-butter' problem of equal opportunity for employment.
His talk was one of a series on the problems of minority groups at the annual meeting of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith in the Savoy Hilton Hotel. says the New York Times/He said his committee, headed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon, had found "a remarkable degree of acceptance and readiness" by business and industrial executives to integrate minority group members in their work forces.
Joseph Cohen, chairman of the League's community-service committee, said that Negroes bad started to "act like the white majority as they near genuine equality," and this situation would call for "new accommodations" by ail Americans.
Rabbi Albert I. Gordon, leader of Temple Emanuel, Newton, Mass., said that Jews were not settling in the suburbs to "escape civil rights issues" and their non-white dty neighbors. Rabbi Gordon, who wrote the sociological study. "Jews In Suburbia," declared that "far more important" changing social and economic fac-
tors accounted for the move to the suburbs by both Jews and Christians.
Not the least of these, he said, "Are the factors associated with tho increasing numbers of marriages, larger families, changing hooting needs, improved economic income, better transportation and the desire for improved status."
Barney Balaban, honorary vice chairman of the League, urged the agency "to build /or greater leadership as a human rights organization in the years ahead."
The Anti-Defamation League, of Bnai Brith criticised what it termed "a clear pattern of discrimination against Jews" by life insurance companies in restricting the employment of Jews in executive posts in the home offices, says the York Times. The League reported "some perceptible decrease" in bias against Jews, but said this improvement was reflected primarily in -their employment in the sales branches of the insurance companies.
The report, based on a study of seven major life insurance companies, which were not identified, was presented at the League's annual meeting at the Savoy Hilton Hotel. It was made by Judge David A. Rose, of Boston, chairman of its civil rights committee. The League is devoted to combating bigotry and discrimination and to furthering human rights.
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Vice Admiral Hjrman G. Rick-over said that his recent visit to the .Soviet Union and Poland had convinced him that "our really great race with the Soviet Union u in education."
"The nation that wins this race will be the potentially dominant power," he asserted in an interview with the New York Times. "Unless we in the United States can solve our educational problems, we will have difficulty In solving other problems."
Admiral Rickover, who is known as the father of the atomic sub- \ marine, was a member of the � group .that accompanied Vice i President Richard M. Nixon on | his recent thirteen-day visit to the Soviet Union and Poland.
Admiral Rickover reported that . he had been greatly impressed by t what he had seen and heard about I Russian and Polish education, \ "They are currently graduating \ more qualified scientists and engineers from their universities than we are," he said.
When Soviet students, who take the university-preparatory, program, are graduated from high ' school at the age of 17 or 18, the admiral said, "they know as much as our students do at the end of two years of college." All this, he went on, served to confirm his previous beliefs that there must be a vast upgrading of American . education, with increased empha- .-sis given to the basic arts and sd- � ences.
The Navy nuclear scientist's frequent criticism of "soft" American school and college programs and his calls for a more rigorous system patterned after those in Europe have made him a controversial figure in education.
Admiral Rickover, who hits often spoken out about what he considered "frills" in education, said: "I searched far aad wide in R�%* sia afcd Poland aad-exrald not fin* a single drum majorette. Nor did I hear of a single school where, the principal was an eoc-athlefic coach."
Observing that both the Soviet Union and Poland were committed to school programs which made demands on the students, the admiral said that both educators and parents there regarded "teenhood as a period of preparation for adulthood and not as a period for just having a good time.1' In 1957, 1,600,000 secondary school graduates in Russia passed an examination, he. asserted, "which only about two per cent of American high school graduates would have been able to pass."
American high schools graduated 1,639,000 students in 1959. Education in the Soviet Union and Poland is provided free of cost to students,- he noted. "No student there is denied an education because of a lack of financial ability," the admiral said. "At the University of Moscow and elsewhere students receive living expenses as well as free tuition. The amounts given to students increase the longer they stay and the better they do in their studies."
Admiral Rickover said that he had been particularly impressed by the strong emphasis being placed on education in Poland. "Here is a country that was devastated in war, which had 7,000,-000 people � 25 per cent of its population � killed," he said. ''When the Germans marched in 1939, they rounded up the leaders and the intellectual elite and sent them to concentration camps where many died.
"Yet, today," the admiral continued, "this country has its children goring to school six hours a day, six days a week, ten months a year." Polish students, he said, work hard in school ana have no free time or so-called study periods during the school day. "They do not spend their time, he added, "collecting milk bottles or old newspapers or taking courses in 'How to Find a Mate.'"
"Those who complete the eleven-year course and are going on to the university," Admiral Rickover commented, "study one foreign language continuously for six years and another foreign language for four years. They also nave had several years of physics, chemistry and mathematics.**
Admiral Rickover asserted that "oar educationists keep lulling the American people with the threadbare statement that 'our schools are UM best in UM world.' "They (fee educationists) will not face facts, they wffl aot answer questions," he said. They simply malign thoos who take issue with
tern." "But it seems to me." he declared, "that we in the United States who are so blessed with natural resources and have such a high standard of living certainly should be able to give the same emphasis to education that they do.*
Vice-Adm. Hyman G. Rickover lashed out at "educationists" who have "denuded the high school curriculum of its former solid content and filled it with frills and know-how courses." This "educational officialdom," he said, has infested the schools with "pedagogic errors and monstrosities" while the Russians have forged ahead with "more efficient education."
The Admiral spoke at a dinner for 200 persons at the metropolitan Club, in New York, under the auspices of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Inc., which conducted a two-day institute on "Reconstructing Scientific Education for All", says the New York Herald Tribune. Adm, Rickover declared, "Neither I nor other critics have ever recommended that we take over the Russian educational system; we do urge that we consider Russian educational achievements as a minimum standard for our own educational objectives."
He reiterated his charge that he cannot find enough young men to help him "carry on my assigned task in nuclear propulsion." For those who are accepted in the program, he said, "we then have to take time out to set up courses teaching these very bright young people fundamentals they should have learned at school and college. Obviously, this holds up our work."
Adm. Rickover hit back at those who have criticized him for at-taejdng American education. He that no groups "order
Henry Ford For $1 Million Over Libel Of Jews
and that if fees are offered, they go to specif ied charities along with royalties from his book, "Education And Freedom."
In discussing "the mediocrity of our schools," reports the New York Herald Tribune, the Admiral said: "How can 'we expect children to choose higher mathematics when their classmates are having fun learning to play canasta, cook, or find a mate? Why should an eighth grader tackle a hard subject when next door the kids are happily whiuing through a course
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Aaron L. Sapiro, internationally known lawyer in the field of labor, farm cooperatives and women's compensation, died in his apartment in Los Angeles, Cal. .He was 75 years old, Mr. Sapiro, who in 1927 sued the late Henry Ford for $1,000,000, charging him with libeling the Jewish religion, was considered the chief legal authority in the U.S. on matters involving cooperative marketing.
He was generally regarded as an authority on group law for trade associations, labor unions and farmers' organisations, says the New York Times. He wrote the cooperative law in effect in forty states and was the co-writer of the original, Industrial Accident Laws for California, the State Market Commission Act,, and the Fish Marketing Act.
Mr. Sapiro leaves two sons, Stanley and Leland. and a sister, Mrs. David E. Jacobs.
Mr. Sapiro's fame as an organizer of farm cooperatives led to the suit against Mr. Ford that was to make him known around the world. He accused the automobile manufacturer of having damaged his reputation by charging that a Jewish conspiracy was seeking to win control of American agriculture.
The charges were contained in Mr. Ford's weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, which had carried a series of articles that had been widely criticized as anti-Semitic. On the witness stand, Mr. FoYd disclaimed animosity toward the Jews. It was brought o�t that he did not write a column that aj peared under his name not
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During the trial, Mr. Sapiro acknowledged that he had received large fees as a lawyer for farming and fruit-growing cooperatives � the sum of $1,000,-000 was mentioned by Mr. Ford's lawyer � but Mr. Sapiro declared that the fees covered a twelve-
year period and also had gone to others. �
In a press conference in Detroit, where the trial was held, says the New York Times, Mr. Sapiro said his cooperative plan had "earned millions upon millions for the farmers, and if I had not been attacked by Henry Ford's weekly and suspicion cast upon my integrity, I could have extended this plan and brought even greater benefit to the farmers of the United States."
After the trial, it was generally reported that the total costs paid by Mr. Ford in settling the case with Mr. Sapiro were $140,000. Less than a year later, in a speech before the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Sapiro was quoted as saying that Mr. Ford's apology to the Jews had done more than anything else to check bigotry in the U.S. and that it was the voluntary act of a great man in the greatest moment of his life.
Aaron Sapiro was a small, fiery man who had been born in poverty, in San Francisco, was forced as a child to sell matches and newspapers on the streets, and was raised for six years in an orphan asylum. He matriculated at the University of Cincinnati, getting a bachelor's degree there in 1904 and a Master's the next year. He earned his law degree in 1911 at the University of California. He practiced in Los Angeles. San Francisco, New York, and Chicago.
In 1923 a national magazine rtfn an inspirational article about Mr. Sapiro that was titled "No-! thing Could Keep This Boy * Down." He was described as "a -^lewyer with joec^-thea VaJf a JBI^ lion clients � composing about one-tenth of all the people in the United States who make their Jiving from the land."
Mr. Sapiro later became active in a number of others business and industrial fields, including motion pictures, milk distribution, laundries, and taxicabs, says the New York Times. At one time his name was linked with that of Al Capone, the late Chicago gang leader. In 1934 he was acquitted in Chicago with sixteen others of trade racketeering. Later that
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