The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 June 1968 — Page 7

Thursday, June 6, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 7

Cadou’s column

By EUGENE J. CADOU INDIANAPOLIS ( U P I ) - Fluid national issues perplexed the resolutions committee of the Indiana Republican state convention as it met today. Robert E. Gates, committee chairman, said a number of national decisions had not crystal, lized and that consequently it would be difficult for the state GOP to take a definite stand on them. A similar situation faces the Democratic state convention platform committee which will meet Thursday and Friday. Thus it will be difficult for the committees to voice the traditional “point with pride and view with alarm” on national policies and accomplishments. The chief unresolved question is Vietnam, where the going has been rough recently against Communists onslaughts. Paris Conference Lags The uncertainty of the Paris peace talks has complicated the situation because there is little chance of taking sides on that effort of the Johnson administration. The Republicans are likely to resolve that the negotiators take a firm stand in Paris against weakening the resistance against Communism while the Democrats probably will praise in general the peace effort of the President. Nelson G. Grills, again a nominee for the State Senate from Indianapolis, who is chairman of the Democratic platform committee, has said that Vietnam will be the major issue in the fall campaign. Unresolved also is the proposed tax hike of President Johnson which seems likely to be sanctioned by Congress provided there is a slash of $6 billion in federal expenditures. But the decision has not yet been made. Grills has held 15 regional meetings over the state at which platform planks were discussed by nearly 2,000 persons. He said other major issues considered were increased costs of govern, ment and taxes, extension of civil rights and control of civil disobedience, hikes in crime and juvenile delinquency, higher educational expenditures, inflation and the high cost of living, help for cities, highway construction and safety, the wane of the family iaiin and other agricultural problems and improvement of mental health facilities. Lobbyists Invited Lobbyists and other proponents of various programs will appear before the Democratic platform group on Thursday and Friday. The two aspirants for governor—Lt. Gov. Robert L. Rock and Richard C. Bodine, House minority leader—have been invited to express their views and on June 1,0 nominees for the Legislature will voice their reactions to a rough draft of the platform. Hearings this week will be held on various questions by four separate groups. The group leaders are: Group 1 — Valjean Dickinson, South Bend, chairman; Luke White, Covington, secretary; Group 2 — State Rep. William E. Babincsak, Munster, chairman; Mrs. Katie Wolf, Rey-

nolds, secretary; Group 3 Larry Mohr, Indianapolis, chairman; John T. Rumbach, Jasper, secretary, and Group 4 — State Sen. David Rogers, Bloomington, chairman, and Mrs. Thomas Beasley, Indianapolis,secretary. Japanese Tots Learn English Look-say Way By ALBERT E. KAFF TOKYO lUPI) — Kumiko Marumo stood before a blackboard with a piece of chalk in her hand. She drew a circle with a stem on it. “Children, this is an apple,” Miss Marumo said in English, pronouncing each syllable slowly. Do you want to eat an apple?” Next, she drew a picture of a fountain pen, then a violin. This is the way they are trying to teach English language to Japanese children as young as three years. Teaching youngsters a foreign language is a new experiment in learning in a nation with one of the highest literacy rates in the world (about 98 per cent). “Our English teaching methods are unique,” said Chikara Otsuka, 34, director of the UNESCO Junior Cultural Center. “We start teaching English conversation completely by oral and pictorial instruction to children at the age of 3. “The earlier you start a child, the better he will master English. Our teachers do not use any textbooks. They teach vocabulary by showing the children pictures.” Otsuka-san. a literature graduate of Tokyo’s Meiji University, said that the children, even before they learn the English alphabet, can enunciate simple phrases such as: “I am very fine today, thank you” and “It is five minutes before 10 o’clock.” But teaching toddlers has its critics. "It is questionable whethei to teach English to children who are so young that they can not properly speak their own tongue,” said Shigeo Ouchi. an assistant professor at Tokyc University of Education. “The experts have reached no conclusion on whether teaching English to children under primary school age will have any lasting effect. "They may learn to pronounce some English words correctly. but they will forget them quickly unless the lessons are continued over a long period of time*” But the experts do recognize the need for more foreign language training in Japan. Dr. Edwin Reischauer, Harvard’s Asian scholar who served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan for several years, told Japanese many times that one of their biggest problems in participating in world trade and diplomacy was their lack of people who could speak English. School Director Otsuka bor-> rowed a United Nations title, UNESCO, to name his school because: “Its purpose is to contribute to peace through education, science and culture.” There are about 100 Englishlanguage schools for youngsters in Tokyo with an estimated attendance of 10.000 children.

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