Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1963 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1968

You, Your Child And The School

By DAVID NYDICK UPI Education Specialist Increasing numbers of children who are starting school know how to read to some extent. What do the schools do with these children. Many systems throughout the nation do not begin a formal reading program in the kindergarten. The teaching bf reading in kindergarten has been discouraed by some educators. The children are given a feadiness program. This consists of experiences designed to prepare them for learning how to read. Children arriving at school expect to learn more about reading. They are excited about this prospect. But some schools place them back in a preparatory phase. This thinking was realistic 30 years ago. Children needed experiences to help them with learning to read. Today, they probably have been exposed to more varied experiences than even the schools previously provided. Media Provide Experiences Books, newspapers, television, radio, and movies are major factors. Parents also contribute with increased travel, nursery schools, etc. This is not completely true for all children, but surely there is a vast number who fit into this category. Recognizing that individuals are different, there are certainly those children who are not ready even in first grade. Reading programs are usually based on a series of textbooks. There are one or more books and accompanying teacher’s manuals for each grade lavel (pre-primer, primer, Ist grade, 2nd, 3rd, etc.,) The manual specifically tells the teacher each step to be taken. This organized approach is simple and inviting. The children are placed in groups with each group moving slowly or rapidly as they learn the skills. Why don’t they all learn to read? All of these children are expected to read in the same books and learn by the same methods. If they don’t understand at the first attempt the lessons are repeated. The results are that some fourth graders are reading in a second grade book. How can they find interest and enthusiasm in immature stories? It is just as unrealistic for a third grader to read the stories written for a fifth or sixth grader . Teacher Exercise Skills Perhaps the answer lies with the teacher. A teacher should be well trained in the teaching of reading skills. This is not always the case. She then relies on the manual instead of feeling secure and using her own creative approach. The good teacher who has

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learned to recognize problems and who is free to use various methods can often, through her J own creative efforts, reach the child who is having difficulty. Obviously, the typical reading program lacks the flexibility to meet- the needs of all children. There is a need for the development of reading programs which recognize that different children; ’ should begin reading at different ages; learn at different rates; ' have many different interests; need -material suited to their lev- ' ~el and interest; sometimes Have physical or emotional problems which block learning; will have different abilities therefore affecting their total level of achievement. Since learning to read is fundamental to all learning, these problems become the major concern in education. Hoosier GOP Thoughts Turn To Hopefuls By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Hoosier Republican chiefs’ thoughts are turning toward the 1964 presidential ticket these days. A number of forthcoming meetings in which presidential possibilities will mingle with the GOP leaders is the reason. New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller will address the Indiana State Bar Association in French Lick Friday noon. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona and Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky will confer with State Chairman Robert N. Stewart at a “clinic” sponsored by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, House GOP floor leader, in Washington Oct. 16. Morton, who addressed a 6th District party rally in Crawfordsville a few weeks ago, will speak at a GOP SSO-a-plate campaign fund-raising dinner in Indianapolis the night of Oct. 31, at which children of the ticket buyers will be guests at a Halloween party in a separate room in the Murat Temple. Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine and Attorney General Edwin Steers, the two leading GOP state officials, wefe invited to the Rockefeller luncheon in French Lick but sent regrets, although the gover-

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nor’s new pulchritudinous wife, “Happy”, is scheduled to accompany her husband. There likewise will be no rallying around by other former Rockefeller fans—Halleck, former Sen. Homer E. Capehart and State Sen. Roy Conrad of Monticello. Strangely enough, Rockefeller will be introduced by Democratic Governor Welsh. The Rockefeller party is scheduled to fly into Louisville early Friday morning and to ride by automobile to French Lick, arriving late in the morning. Bar association officials, mini-

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mizing the political angle, maintain that Rockefeller will not be the chief convention orator. Maia speaker, they say, will be Walter E. Craig, Phoenix, Ariz., president of the American Bar Assoi ciation, who will talk Friday night. Craig lives in the Goldwater * bailiwick. Rockefeller will be invading strong Goldwater territory. Most political observers agree that if the Arizona senator runs for president, he will have all, or nearly all, of the 32 Hoosier delegates to the GdP national convention. The tide of conseryatism appears

to be running high in Hoosier Republican ranks. Hoosier Republicans likewise seem to be interested in the vicepresidential nomination for Morton, a peighbor and popular speaker in this state. On the other hand, Indiana Democrats are sure to resist gnji movement to prevent the renomination of Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who spoke in Indianapolis last Saturday night. Many of the Hoosier party chiefs had preferred Johnson over President Kennedy for the White House nomination in 1960.

Israeli’s Program Shows Effectiveness

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Israel, encircled by hostile Arab states, is in turn encircling the besiegers. This turn-about is the result of a remarkably effective program of technical assistance to underdeveloped nations which from a modest start in 1956 now operates in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean basin and even in Latin America. "■ It cut deeply into U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s influence south of the Sahara and has aroused the ire of, both Cairo and Moscow. Strangely, it has had comparatively little publicity. A meeting of 31 independent African states in Addis Ababa last June provided one evidence of the effectiveness of the Israeli program. At such meetings in the past it has been the custom of the Moslem bloc led by Nasser to introduce a resolution attacking Israel as a “tool of the imperialists” seeking to infiltrate Africa. Book On JFK On Top As Bestseller By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Victor Lasky’s brass-knuckled book. “J.F.K., The Man and The Myth”, has zoomed in two short weeks from last to first place on the metropolitan best-seller list (New York Times) generally recognized as standard. The list is compiled on reports from more than 125 bookstores in 64 American communities. “J.F.K.” reached last place, No. 10, on the best seller list on Sept. 22, about a fortnight after publication. On Sept. 29, the book was No. 4. Last Sunday it was No. 1, displacing James Baldwin’s bitter study of U.S. race relations, "The Fire Next Time.” Lasky’s book was published by ■ the MacMillan Co. at $7.95. If * "J.F.K.” maintains itself on the ■ best-seller lists for 32 weeks as, for example, Baldwin's book has * done, the • Kennedy’s surely will s- be counting the book as a major * political reverse. i Book Is Anti-Kennedy “J.F.K.” is frankly anti-Ken-nedy. Lasky wrote it as a challenge to John F. Kennedy’s political integrity and fitness for the presidency. It will enrage Kennedy’s friends and delight his enemies. But that is not of much moment. The important question is whether the book will have substantial impact on the 1964 presidential election. It could be deadly to Kennedy’s re-election chances if enough voters read it and were convinced that Kennedy is — as charged —a weathervane politico who substitutes for political convictions and principles merely an obsessive need to win—to win at all costs. The portrait of Kennedy sketched by Lasky in 582 pages is not a pretty one. The book is as political as a campaign speech and as one-sided as a presidential platform. But campaign speeches and presidential platforms have proved themselves to be enormously effective in influencing' American voters. The fact that Lasky has written consistently from an adversely critical point of view need not deprive the book of political impact. It could be a blockbuster. It variously is estimated that 40 to 50 newspapers are publishing “J.F.K” serially. It shows in Washington, D.C., in the Daily News. Break For Kennedy North American Newspaper Alliance, owner of the serial rights, is re-offering the book to newspapers because of its showing on the best-seller list. Most of the newspapers presenting the book serially are in the Midwest. That is a moderately good break for Kennedy because he has less to lose in the Midwest than in some other areas. „ There are 20 chapters in "J.F.K ” none is likely to soothe the young president after a tough day in the office. Chapter 2 is simply titled, “JOE.” Chapter 5 is '“POL,” a derivation of politician. There are "COURAGE” "SENATE,” “CHANGE,'” “WHY?” and “GALL,” The President is not likely to return to any of them again and again as in bedside reading. ‘‘GALL’’ is devoted largely to a discussion of the build-up of the Kennedy political image to presidential * proportions In 1958-59-60. Os this, Lasky wrote : “It was a build-up without parallel in the history of American politics x x x the work of a welloiled political machine, a generally friendly press, power-crav-ing intellectuals and—last but not least—the senior Kennedy who had often remarked that monev was no object in furthering his son's White House ambitions.” |

But at the June meeting were 34 African nations which have received Israeli assistance, and Nasser, certain his resolution would be defeated, did not even offer it. Despite the broad scope of the Israeli program, it operates at remarkably low cost This year the figure will be about $7 million. It is noteworthy that many of the African nations consider the Israeli aid more available to their particular needs than that coming from larger, richer nations at vastily higher cost. Essentially, the program concentrates on agriculture and water resources, formation of youth groups and public and private enterprises in which the Israelis have had the greatest experience. The most characteristic aid is carried out by young Israelis from the agricultural collectives (kibbutz) and agricultural cooperatives (mochav). In Africa, these young instructors form in developing both its own agriculture and defense. Such units have been formed in Ghana. Senegal. Togo, the Central African Republic and the Ivory Coast. Advisers Are Scattered Israeli advisers are found in the Imperial Colleges of Ethiophia, on the cotton plantations of Tanganyika, at the head of the naval school of Ghana, in the health service of Liberia In turn. Africa is sending students to Israel to take courses in agriculture, youth training, professional training, administration and social work, collectivism and trade unionism Recently, Congolese army chief Gen. Joseph Mobutu and a selec- i ted group of his troops completed their paratroop training in Israel and then returned home to be deployed for quick pacification of trouble areas. Some African states also are organizing women's corps on the Israeli model. The secret of Israel’s success, , is the fact that it is too small . to be considered as having irh- ; perialistic ambitions and enjoys . the trust not given to larger na- . tions. I Further, it has asked nothing i I • in return except an* occasional 1 r share of the profit in companies | f jointly owned with independent B I African states such as Ghana. s r | First Santa Claus ~ Letter Is Shocker \ By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — You can make of this what you choose, but the first Santa Claus letter to come to my attention this year struck me as being symbolic of the times. It was written by young James Daubney of Uxbridge, Mass,, and Jimmie apparently does not believe all that jazz about Santa living at the North Pole. At any rate, he mailed his let, ter to Washington, D. C. which figures. Even the kids must know by now when you want something, Washington is the place to write. Furthermore, the letter was delivered to a congressman. Which •Iso figures. Old St. Nick may be noted for his benevolence, but t»e never came up with anything that could touch the recent military pay bill passed by Congress. And when did Santa ever leave a tax ctit in anyone’s stocking? In this case, however, the routing of the letter was not so much of a Freudian slip a.4 a matter of postal myopia. The letter was addressed to "Santa Clause,” and the Post Office, with typical efficiency, delivered it to the office of Rep. Don H. Clausen, R-Calif. A mistake like th;».t wouldn’t have happened if Jlimmie had used Santa’s zip code i number. There is no doubt 1 ,, however, that Jimmie did the right thing in sending the letter tto Washington. It would take a Congressional appropriation to pa-j- for all of the things he wants for Christmas. If the items on his list were stacked end to end, xk'c wouldn't need the Apollo spacie program to reach the moon. As an indication oil what the rest of us parents ’(rill be up against this year, Jimjnie’s early bird gift list is itemfh'.ed below. | I have used his spellhn g, mainly because I can't spelj very well either. First page — “Snjtoke gun. cement mixer, boat trailer truck, truck dump, horse, trailer,, truck ir. trailer, fire engine, bvtddozer, indian set, cow set, alro.vlanes, Popie Sailer punching bag,- pup tent, train set.” Second jiage — “New cl'ock, U. S. space tamm, sky diver, cWgo plane, Mr, Machine, Mr. Mercury , robut romando, King Zoi* ( . farm set, Blue & Gray army set, combat set, Big Bruesir, explod- \ ing tank.” , fhird piwge — “Gas station, car, truck, car, sub,' plaine, racing car set ” This makes me glad that some, lof my sons are girls. -

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