SCHOOL AND YOUR CHILD
Biology Is Fascinating
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uy JOHN COREY
Biology, the (tudy of life, U
required lor moat pupils in the
tenth grade. A few schools aft
er it to bright ninth-gradert.
Eight of ten high-schoolers take
th* course, usually their only
science study. Only three take
chemistry. Two take physics
Biology's purpose is to pro
vide stadents with knowledge
to better interpret aad appre
ciate life around them, says Dr.
F. Ray Derrick, chairman of the
biology department of Appala
chian State Teachers College. It
can be as fascinating as any
hair-raiaing television show.
Pupils go beyond the textbook
in biology. Field trips aad lab
oratory experiments verity the
ories read about. Representa
tive species of the animal and
plant world, some of which can
be seen only through a micro
' scope, are examined. Larger
, specimens are dissected in laha,
with students actually probing
i the msides of animals organ by
; organ.
j Biology courses usually begin
?with the simplest form of life
'.and move step by step toward
' the complex.
| The one-celled amoeba, for
' example, is one of the first an
imals studied. This microscopic
organism has no eyes, legs, or
mouth. In fact, it's a mere blob
.of grayish jelly. Yet the amoe
be moves, ingests food, grows,
j and reproduces ? it's certainly
? an anisnal.
? And there's the euglena ?
! both plant and animal. In light
; it lives as a green plant, in dark
las an animal.
j Advancing toward the more
?'complex, the budding biology
<,pupil takes apart the earthworm.
Seeing its simple digestive sys
j tem, the youngster is better
;able to understand the labyrin
thine human digestive organs at
(a later stage in his studies, ae
i cording to Or. I. W. Carpenter,
j Jr., an associate professor of
llhe biology department at Ap
Ipalacbian.
He then looks closely at the
; grasshopper, learning about ap
pendages? arms and legs: -*?? ;
And the crayfish comes ffl Tor
a laboratory breakdown, too.
Still being dissected in most
biology labs it the traditional
frog,, whose internal parts are
similar to the human's.
Advanced students even dis
sect foetal pigs and cats. "Pork
ies" arc better than frogs be
cause at their even greater sim
ilarity jo human internal struc
ture. 5
But each pig costs about $2
and a cat $8, so they're usually
too expensive (or high school
instructional budgets. In fact,
few lab specimens are cheap.
Biological supply houses sell
grasshoppers for about 15c each,
frogs at 70c. This adds up,
since every student dissects his
own specimen.
Socrates said, "Know thy
self."
It ? way, biology offers the
pupil this opportunity. After
examining lower animals, he
learnt about his own body struc
ture, its digestion of foods, res
piration and extretioa, blood
and circulation, reproductive
and nervous system.
Plants come in for detailed
study, too. Ptants make all Hfe
possible, since they indirectly
provide food and oxygen.
Biology includes studies of
heredity and evolution, enabling
pupils to better understand how
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Although biology subject mat
ter remains relatively unehaag
ed, a radically new approach to
teaching it is being devised by
leading scientist* and teachers
at the University of Colorado,
where the American Institute of
Biological Sciences has set up
the Biological Sciences Curri
culum Study.
Chairman of the study, large
ly financed by the National Sci
ence Foundation, is Dr. Bentley
Glass of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. Its full-time director is
Dr. Arnold B Grobman of the
University of Florida.
BSCS advocates that teach
ers now require students to
learn biology more through ap
plication of the "scientific
method" than by consulting
books and memorizing defini
tions and explanations.
The scientific method is a
classic procedure which estab
lishes fact through experimenta
tion. In short, the pupil follow
ing it doesn't accept a principle
as true merely because the text
book or teacher said so.
He conducts his own exper
iments to find out This "seeing
far himself enables him to bet
ter understand scientific prin
ciples. And they'll stick longer
in his mind.
Knowledge and practice with
the scientific process have ex
cellent transfer value. Knowing
how to separate fact from fic
tion helps one to face problems
as an adult. He can vote more
intelligently. He'll be less sub
ject to prejudice.
To make this increased scien
tific practice possible, the new
BSCS biology curriculum calls
for laboratory "blocks" repre
senting six weeks of work in
the spring when the pupil has
some foundation on which to
build.
WOMEN SALESMEN
The number of women who
do door-to-door selling is now
up to 700,000.
FORSYTH COUNTY RECRUITERS recently
visited the Appalachian State Teachcrs Col
lege campus to interview prospective teach
ers. Pictured, left to ritfht, are Mary Joe
Isaac*, supervisor at Vfinstaa Salem schools;
Monroe Johnson, principal of Waughtown
Elementary School; Louise Sbdton. director
of guidance of Winsten-Salem schools; Dr.
Ben Horton, chairman of ASTC <>nrtant
of education; aa?l Ton Beach, priari^al of
Moore Elementary School. Bah Raadall,
ASTC diroctor of plmant, saM that the
group represented both Forsyth county asd
Winston-Salem city schools with 43 elemen
tary schoote, IS Junior high schools and 10 '
high sehools? Larry Penley photo.
F arm Bureau News
By VERNE STRICKLAND
N. C. Farm Bureau Federation
Are farmers lonesome people?
We doa't know what a psychi
atrist would aay. But a rural
sociologist would probably point
out that farmers today have
fewer neighbors than they had
thirty years ago.
That sociologist would tell
you that in 1830 about half of
North Carolina's population liv
ed on farms, but only 17.7 per
cent of the people do today.
That's a cold fact And that
last figure applied when the
1800 census was taken. We've
had three years of migration to
urban areas since then. Let's
not discuss the reason for !t
here, let's look at the repur
cussions ? and one in particular.
Let's fix our eye on the General
Assembly of North Carolina.
In the century just past, the
worthy legislators of that day
pounded out some laws on rep
resentation. We are particularly
interested in a couple of pro
visions which still affect us to
day
The first has to do with the
Senate. It provides that follow
ing each census, senatorial dis
tricts will be adjusted so as to
be pretty near even in popvla
tioa. It fixes the Senate at fifty
members.
The second says that the
House shall be reapportioned
following each federal enumera
tion.
Now we have abided by about
half of these rules. We leveled
out the House in 1M1 accord
ing to plan. But the Senate has
not been redistrictcd since 1941.
Why? Well, our representatives
haven't been able to come to
terms on this one since then.
There are a whole lot of rea
sons for this balking. But o?e
shines a little brighter than the
ethers. Look back up this col
umn a few paragraphs and read
that place again that says peo
ple are leaving the farms. This
is just for emphasis and not be
cause I thought you might for
get But those people are con
gregating in the cities.
Now, if we continue to set
up representation in both As
sembly houses on a population
basis, you can bet your bottom
dollar the farmer will bo a lone
some guy. Not only will he be
missing his neighbors, but he
won't have anybody to about for
him in our new State House.
Rural folks are fearful that a
congregation of senators may
someday rule the legislature
from a few metropolitan areas
in the State.
And it's possible.
We ca? borrow from Uncle
Sam on this one. He has the
Senate set up so each State is
guaranteed two seats. Represen
tation In the House is solely
on the basis of population. This
way the little guys dont get so
badly tramped on by the big
guys. And Senator don't wind
up living naxt door to one an
other. It's something to think
about.
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for the undertakers.
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News Report From Washington
Washington, D. ? ? Charles
4e Gaulle of Frame, Uk* Adoiph
?Mar before hin^ was laucktd
1b world war and only succeeded
to rwatog to power to a nation
hspslmly confused aad para
lyzed. Because of his triumph,
the Western world is divided
today.
Da Gaulle had a long wait?
patieatly holding on until the
right moment And once again
the free world must pay the
price of having a successful
egotist ? nationalist in firm con
trol of an obedient and cowed
people.
These are the re ligations fac
ing Washington today and which
hava been appreciated by some
in the State Department since
early in 1962. The latest omi
nous relizatton is that De
Gaulle, heading the European
Common Market if he can, in
tends to have a grand-scale trade
war with the United States.
Moreover, he intends to push
the United States out of Ernopc
and favors a three-forae world,
not a twofbrce world composed
of the free democracies of the
West and Communism. He sees
West Europe as his playground,
while the United States and
Russia would be other major
forces in the world.
This grim prospeat is now
being faced by the Kennedy
Administration. The question is
what the United States can do
about it. One of the first moves
is President John Kennedy's
visit to Italy and West Germany
a few months hence.
Italy seems sufficiently alarm
ed by the De Gaulle threat. West
Germany and its Chancellor par
ticularly, have been De Gaulle's
most noteworthy acquisition.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
was wen over by De Gaulle at
the same time he was embitter
ed against Secretary of State
Dean Rusk. This unfortunate
fact is having grave consequen
ces and aould have even greater
ones.
Adenauer in recent days has
been doing a tightrope act, as
suring majority sentiment in
i side Germany that he, too, fa
vors British entry into NATO,
but ho hac *aM nothing to afcow
how he could accomplish his
end. And he alone could have
forced President Dfe Gaulle to
retreat from his adamant posi
tion, blocking British entry, be
fore he signed the Franco
German alliance in January. He
did not do so.
The inescapable conclusion is
that Adenauer is paying lip
service only to those who desire
| a truly united Europe, including
[ Britain and Scandinavia. He is
giving advocates of real Euro
pean union words, but not pro
ductive deeds.
Since France and Germany
are the two key countries in
Western Europe, the United
States must win back West Ger
man allegiance, which was lost
in the Rusk-Adenauer fued.
President Kennedy will attempt
to do this. Also, the United
States feels its interests would
he served if Adenauer stepped
down. But the old man has said
he would step aside only in the
fall ? and many think he will try
to avoid resigning then.
Washington cannot intervene
in German affairs to the extent
that it delves into internal poli
tics, but as long as Adenauer
fi captivated by De Gaulle, the
goal of seeing Western Europe
united remains unattainable.
The upcoming trade ware be
tween the ECM and the United
States (which is certain if De
Gaulle has his way) may also
seriously affect the U. S. bal
ance of payments battle. All in
all, the picture in the foreign
policy field is darker than it
has been since the Korean War.
One of the results of the new
situation might be reduced U. S
foreign aid (France has re
ceived more than any other
country) and reduced U. S. mili
tary committment in France and
certain other Wert European
countries. This would please De
Gaulle, but it may cause shivers
in West Germany, when U. S.
military strength began moving
out, leaving West Germany to
depend on Fnace for protection
against Russia.
This, in ? nutshell, is seen
as the U. S. trump card for use
in the game with Adenauer.
Should U. S. military forces
threaten to leave, Adenauer's
government is likely to fall. The
French are net strong enough
to take over the U. 9. role in de
fense of the West and never
will be.
Sales Increase
Reported By
Winn-Dixie ,
WiuCixie Stores, Inc., re
corded a 7.40 percent increaae
in sales during the 32-week per
iod ended February 9, compar
ed with the corresponding per
iod a year ago, it was announc
ed.
The volume was $506.907, IMS
comparde with $471,983,417 last
year, an increase of $34,944,923.
For the four-week period end
ed February 9, sales were $64,
889,421 compared with $00,
996.893, an increase of $.932,528
or 6.9 percent over 1962.
An increase also was record
ed for the 52-week period ended
February 9, when sales totaled
$807,193,987 compared with
$766,001,229 last year, an in
crease of $41,191,358 or 5.38 per
cent.
Winn-Dixie, which operates a
number of supermarkets in the
local area, now has 601 retail
stores throughout the South
compared with 547 units a year
ago.
THE STRAIGHT LINE
Norwich, Conn. ? Police took
Napoleon Gendreau, 52, to head
quarters after his car jumped
the curb and hit a house.
He was propped against a wall
and told to walk a straight
white line on the floor.
"Can I do this tomorrow? I
can do it much better in the
morning," Gendreau told the
police.
He was booked on a charge of
drunken driving.
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