Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1963 — Page 4

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Kighth Arad* Level One of our public school teachers carelessly remarked to his pupils this past week that newspapers, and the local one in particular, are written on the level of an eighth grader because the writers on it can’t write any better. At least this was the impression that his students picked up from what he said. Nothing could be further from the truth. Any newspaper could upgrade its writing to college level. Many newspapers do this in their editorial writing. But it is quite true that newspapers try to simplify their news stories. They do It because the readers have an average understanding on the eighth grade level. If newspapers were to write for a higher level of understanding, they would be grossly misunderstood most of the time. In fact, it is quite obvious from the statements made by readers that many of them misunfbrStand what an article plainly says in eighth-grade level English. Os course, there are many errors in a newspaper — typographical as well as grammatical. A newspaper’s purpose is to present the daily news as completely as it can as accurately as possible. If English students were to try, in just one day, to write as much as a newspaper writer must prepare every day, in addition to the collection and assimilation of varied ideas and facts, they would better understand the news problems. Most errors result from our necessary speed, and from normal human error. Part of the problem would be simplified if school graduates were better prepared in English. Not necessarily better preparation in the don’ts of traditional English teaching — don’t split infinitives, don’t end sentences with a preposition, etc., — the old standbys of 19th century English, no longer current. But the fundamentals of English could be more effectively put across. Few students today know the parts of speech, and how to use them effectively. They cannot tell when a sentence is complete, or fragmentary, as some are in this editorial, for effect, or from error. Language is the method by which we communicate our ideas, our needs, our wants. If we cannot speak, read and write in such manner that others can readily understand our meaning, survival in this modern atomic age becomes almost impossible. Fundamental reading and English is more important today than ever — nothing so limits a man’s earning capacity as his ability to understand and transmit orders and requests. Is English being taught as effectively today as mathematics? We think not'. Yet, both are languages, both are necessary. The newspapers will be only too happy to upgrade their reading material when the teachers have effectively lifted the next generation to a higher level of reading ability. Os course, part of the responsibility is on every citizen it is necessary to read, write and speak to practice what is taught in school, and to advance further after school days end.

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1:00—Best of Groucho 1:30 —Tour First Impression 1-55 —K he M,rv ® rl “ ln Show B:oo—Loretta Toung Theatre 3:Bo—Toung Dr. Malone 4:oo—Match Game 4:2S—NBC News 4:3o—Make Room for Daddy s:oo—The Boso Show s:46—December Bride to Sports 845—Jack Gray — News B:4o—Weatherman 3:4s—Huntley-Brinkley Report 7:00 Ripcord 740—International Showtime {:30 —ding Along with Mitch :30—Price Is Right 10:00—Jack Paar Show 11:00—News A Weather 11:1®—Sports Today 1140—Knight Show Channel 11 THURSDAY Evening *: so—HuctSebMTy* Hound 7:00—31 Evening Tieport 7:10—21 Evening Sports Report 745— ABC Everting Report 7:3»-Oxzle A Harrtet 3:oo—Donna Reed B:3o—Leave It to Beaver 8:00— My Three Sons 9:3o—McHale’s Navy 10:0'0—George Gobel Presents 11:00—ABC — News lt:lo—What’S the Weather 11:15—Action Thriller FRIDAY Morning 9:oo—Fun Time 9:Bo—The Jack La Lanne Show 10:00—Mom’s Morning Movie 11:00—Jane Wyman Show I^4o—Yours tor a Song 1240—41 Noon Report 12:30—Father Knows Best > 1:00 —Tennessee Ernie Ford 1 40— My Little Margie 2.00 —Day in Court 2:24—Alex Drier — News SStWh iTa Day 3:Bo—Who Do Tou Trr.st 4:oo—American Bandstand 4:3o—Discovery '63 4:ss—American Newstand 6:00 —M-Squad 6:3o—Peter Gum B:oo—Popeye Show B:3o—Beany A Cecil 7:00—41 Evening Report 7:I6—ABC Evening Report 7:3o—Valliant Tears B:oo—Father Knows Best 8:30 —The Fllntstones 9:oo—l’m Dickens, He's Fenster 9:3o—Movie 11:00—ABC News 11:10—What’s the Weather 11:15—Checkmate ADAMS “Whatever happened to Baby JaneT Friday. 6:55; 9 20 Saturday, 6:30; 9:00 “Son of Robin Hood” Saturday 1:15; 3:15

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Highlights Os Farm Message

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Highlights of President Kennedy's farm message: Feed Grains Kennedy asked Congress to authorize the agriculture secretary to adjust the feed grain program, selecting either the 1962 or 1963 type of plan. Payments would be made to producers who reduce production. The plan should be voluntary and flexible. If new legislation is not enacted this year, the 1964 feed grain program will “automatically revert to unlimited, excessive production and disastrously low prices.” Cotton He asked for two separate federal subsidies, one on a two-year basis to the cotton trade and the second directly to growers. They would cut the domestic market prices to be competitive with prices paid by foreign mills. He recommended that farmers be permitted to grow cotton above their basic 1963 acreage allotments for export at the world price. In 1963, he said, the extra planting at export prices—about 8.5 cents under the domestic supports—might be allowed up to 20 per cent over the 1963 allotments. Wheat He asked wheat growers to accept a tight control plan for the 1964 crop in a spring referendum. The alternative, he said, would be unlimited production. It would not be feasible, he said, to get a substitute wheat support plan through Congress if the referendum fails. Dairy Kennedy recommended payments for voluntary production cutbacks. Combined with federal price supports, he said, these would give cooperating farmers more than they now earn. He also suggested a plan under which

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