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PG. 6, - PLA^NDEALER - JANUARY 31, 1968 Official Edmeati©® In The World Following is the third article in a series compiled by Harry L. Page, assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction, after his return from an educational tour of five countries: USSR The great unknown in the minds of most participants in this seminar was Russia. I arrived in Moscow on November tO, at 9:00 p.m. Moscow is a fcity of 6% million people who jpure dedicated to the socialist form of government. This dedication has caused untold sacrifices both individually and collectively. After World War II 25 million Russians were left homeless and the Socialist State set out to rebuild their empire a stone at a time. Today, thousands of new apartment houses (high-rise) dot the skyline in ^Moscow as well as other cities 4|11 over the USSR. Private ownership is not permitted and Everyone is virtually a ward of She State. The priority list for available housing is tremendous and young couples oftentimes wait for months before they can marry because of a lack of housing. Hie apartments, or llats as they are commonly referred to, are inferior to the Standards of the middle-class apartments of the Western World. " SCHOOL ATTENDANCE The USSR requires all childten to attend school through the tenth grade. Today almost 80% of all children, above three months of age, are in day nur- • sery school. From three years ;'to seven they are in kindergarten. This program frees the mo- Jthers for work or the futher- 4nce of their education. This is |>art of the movement to further Emancipate the women. This is jif great concern to the Soviet 'Jteople. Five and six-day- Iji-week boarding schools are ;«ot uncommon. TMs program *4s, once again, for those parents who are both gainfully •j&mployed or away constantly •j$n business. The fee is nomi- *nal with no charge at all if |there are more than Ave children in the family. It is interesting to note, curiculum- wise, that physics and ghemistry are taught first in rade five. Higher mathemaics is also taught in the early Elementary grades with the basprinciples of algebra being introduced in the first and se- >Cond grades. All students in the USSR are ^brought up from the days of infancy "in the spirit of respect •Jor their revolutionary past, ^communism and internal friendship with other socialist ^states." £ The USSR dedicates 18% of •$ts national budget for educa- S|ion. The s import of education *can best be illustrated as follows: *•; (per capita cost) 1940 27 rubles 1950----61 rubles 1960 99 rubles £ 1965 128 rubles One ruble constitutes $1.13 • *in American money. YOUTH ORGANIZATION I* The USSR, like Yugoslavia, | has a tremendous youth organization. There seems to be much "Jnore emphasis on political or- ATTY. W.J. COWLIN Crystal Lake Attorney William J. Cowlin has announced that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of State's Attorney in McHenry county. He is currently serving as a full time assistant to State's Attorney Richard Cross, who has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election. Cowlin joined the State's Attorney's staff lii 1364 and has handietr all phases of the work including trial work. ientation in the USSR than in Yugoslavia. Huge "palaces" costing millions of dollars have been built solely for the use of young people in the more than 800 different activities sponsored there. The purpose of the youth organizations is the same as in Yugoslavia: (1) promote the Communist party and (2) occupy their free time with worthy activities. Children from seven to ten belong to the group known as Octobrist. This group is so named after the "Great October Revolution" of 1917 when the Bolsheviks (meaning minority in Russian) overthrew the Czar and the Socialist State was established. Children from 10 to 15 join the group known as "Young Pioneers". The young Communist League, or Komsomol, is for young people 16 to 26 years of age. It is directly under the Central Committee of the Communist Party and molds the youth toward the goal of a "Good socialist citizen". TRADE UNION Teachers in the Soviet Union belong to the "Trade Union of the Central Committee for Education in the US8R". Each profession has its own trade union and there is a "Congress of Trade Unions" every two years. The union is the spokesman for all teachers, but, it is quite evident that this union is just one more instrument of the Communist Party. Teachers' salaries are according to the following scale: (a ruble equals $1.13) Beginner - 80 rubles per mo. 5 to 10 yrs.-90 rubles per mo. 11 to 20 yrs. - 100 rubles per mo. Beyond - 137 rubles per mo. Extra pay for extra time and extra activities. Rural teachers get home and utilities free. The moral code of the Socialist State of the Soviet Union is (me of scientific outlook and not religion. An expressed belief in religion and one which is practice would greatly hamper the advancement of anyone in any field or profession. Once again, it is difficult tp evaluate a system after such , a short visit; however, one thing is quite apparent. The indoctrination, bordering on what is commonly referred to as brainwashing, is alarming. Each student is fully aware of the aims and objectives of the Communist State and is ready to go to any extreme to promote them. It became quite apparent that we in the United States aire not nearly as aware of our aims and objectives as they in the USSR. Certainly we have no room for indoctrination or brainwashing in our curriculum; but, I believe that research needs to be done to determine whether or not our young people are gaining enough information relative to our free enterprise system to enable them to understand and appreciate it. NEW MOVIES Two new movies produced by Northern Illinois Gas company primarily for high school ami junior high school students are winning high acclaim from viewers. The 16-millimeter sound films are among some forty movies available from NI- Gas for showing to schools, clubs and organizations in the area. A brochure describing these movies -- which include subjects about various phases of the gas industry, public safety, cooking, first aid, driving safety and one about professional football -- is available through the company's Public" Relations Department, P.O. Box 190, Aurora, 60507. SOCIAL SECURITY NEW AMENDMENTS ARE ANNOUNCED A new leaflet describing the improvement in social security, signed into law by the President on Jan. 2, is now on hand at the Waukegan Social Security office, Bernard Baraett, district manager has announced. 1 The leaflet, "Recent Improvements in Your Social Security*', is available free of ^charge, Barnett said, and may be requested by telephone, mail or picked up at the social security office. The more than 40,000 beneficiaries in Lake and McHenry counties will be getting increases in their monthly payments, Barnett pointed out. These increases, he said, will be included in the checks delivered early in March. As the leaflets indicate, beneficiaries do not need to take any action about the increase. It will come to them automatically. Other residerts in this area made newly eligible for monthly benefits must make application at the social security office to get their benefits started. The leaflet describes the groups of people who will be eligible for payments beginning in March, if they apply promptly, Barnett said. Among them are disabled widows between 52 and 60 years of age; the children of women workers who have died; the dependent husbands and widowers of women workers who have retired, become disabled or died; and workers disabled before age 31. The new leaflet also outlines the improvements in Medicare, the program of health insurance for persons 65 and over. Among the most important of these changes are: 1. An older person need not pay his doctor's bills before claiming his medicare payment; 2. Full payment can now be made for pathologists' and radiologists' services to medicare hospital patients; 3. A lifetime reserve of 60 days of inpatient hospital care to draw upon in addition to the 90 days already provided for each spell of illness. Residents of the Lake and McHenry county area may obtain a copy of the new leaflet, by calling 244-5050. The address of the Social Security office is 2500 West Grand avenue, Waukegan, Illinois 60085. Barnett urged persons made newly eligible for payments to/ get in touch with the social sercurity office promptly. whl§©I? VERNON KAYS SHOWS VOTING MACHINE TO CLUB Forty-six members attended the special meeting held on Jan. 25 and observed a demonstration by Vernon Kays on the new voting machines which will be used in Nunda Township polling places beginning this year. Mrs. Bertha Quinn announced that the club had enrolled seven new membars^s Mrs. Marjorie Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Henderlong, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Mueller and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Skala have joined us. The dredging had been in progress most oftheweekatthe beach, the cost being paid for by a donation from the SAC club, some from Mr. Miller and the rest from the proceeds of our last dinner dance. The group present voted to have just one annual affair as a money maker and decided on a pre- **riianksgMng dinner dance, and suggesting that all of us go all out to do even better than last year. A picnic at the beach |rao brought up and will be discus* sed at our next meeting. BIRTHDAYS Many happy returns of the day to Mrs. Larry 'Stevie' Korczyk and Patricia Petersen on Jan. 31, Monica Roberts on Feb. 1, Kenneth Schopp and Joyce Calvert on Feb. 2 and . Clarence Schweikert on Feb. 6. ANNIVERSARIES Congratulations to Earl and Wanda Wick as they begin another year of wedded bliss on 'Feb. 2. CONDOLENCES TO LEONA WAGNER Our sympathy to Leona Wagner and her family'on the deafli of her twin brother, Leo Mc- Mahon, of Kansas City ta«t iptek. .--v j, vi. NEWS |TEM$ atulations to Darmody, son-in-law of Marshall and Lucille Jacobs, who fed been promoted to the rank of sergeant in Vietnam, andyou may bg sure the family is mighty proud of him. . Joyce Pinkonsly, Connie Llndwall and Julie Zeimet went to Ingleside on Thursday and had lunch and a visit with Audrey Whitney in her new home. Christmas Seals financeaiiation/ wids _ medical research program against TB. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TOPIC "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all they strength, and wife all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself." This verse from the tenth chapiter of Luke is the Golden Text for the Lesson-Sermon on "Love" to be read in all Christ tian Science churches Sunday. PERSONAL INJURY SUIT A personal injury suit in the amount of $50,000 has been filed in Circuit court on behalf of Lois Weger against Walter Scarbrough of 3605 W. James street, McHenry. The, suit resulted from an auto crash last August. City Tickets McHenry police issued a ticket to Thomas D. Basile of 7703 Oak road, Wonder Lake, for failure to obey traffic control device. William Long of 813 N. Lillian street, was ticketed for driving under the influence of liquor and leaving the scene of an accident. MARRIAGE LICENSES Carl Reiher, Walworth, Wis., and Karen L. Smith, McHenry. Dennis Miazga, McHenry, and Barbara Ebel, Crystal Lake. ONE LICENSE REVOKED; SEVEN OTHERS SUSPENDED The driver license of Lester E. Maxwell of 909 Paul street, McHenry, has been revoked by the state for driving while intoxicated. Suspensions were ordered for Kenneth P. Brennan of 5015 Barnard Mill, Ringwood, Charles A. Goodsell of Harvard, Roy M. Hanson of Marengo, Sidney T. Hernesk of Cary, D.D. Johnson of Algonquin and Robert J. Karstens of 4320 Prairie avenue, McHenry, all for three violations; and Barry Scahill of Algonquin for violation of curfew act. 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