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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1963
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EXPERT SAYS
Reading Skills
Are Abominable
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio
(NC)—Reading skills of today’s
students range from bad to
abominable, an English teach
er asserted here.
Arther (correct) S. Trace,
associate professor of English
at John Carroll University here
and author of the controversial
best-seller "What Ivan Knows
that Johnny Doesn’t," claimed
the reading program in Ameri
can schools is about as bad as
i: can get.
"The basic causes are not
dark and mysterious," Trace
said. "They are not psychic
disturbance, not poor eyesight,
nor emotional instability, nor
some otherfortuitous condition.
methods of teaching reading
currently in use, and second,
the materials for teaching read
ing from which virtually all
elementary school students in
this country are taught," the
educator-critic said.
Underscoring his idea of
shortcomings in teaching read
ing, Trace said some 30 years
ago American schools dropped
the phonics approach whereby
students learned to recognize
words by the sound to letters.
Phonics was replaced by the
"look-say," or look-and-guess
approach, by which students
try to recognize words by the
design they make on a page —
just as Chinese students must
learn Chinese, he continued.
"THE causes are, first, the
DR. FRA1CES Sullivan pro
fessor of English at Loyola
University C Los Angeles, will
deliver the eynote address at
the 1963 bienial convention of
the National Jouncil of Catho
lic Men in Alanta City, N.J.,
April 24 to 2.
"The argument advanced by
the look - and - guessers that
English is not a very phonetic
language simply will not wash,"
Traced said. "Upwards of 85
ler cent of the words in Eng
lish conform to the 43 sounds
of the English language and
most of the rest follow readi
ly recognizable patterns."
ENGLISH may not be as high
ly phonetic as Spanish or Ital
ian, but it is more so than
French, he said. "And in French
schools phonics is thoroughly
taught at the outset as a matter
of course," Trace said.
Criticizing materials avail
able for teaching reading, Trace
said even if phonics was taught
in the first three grades, the
serious problem of inadequate
textbooks would remain. TTie
"vocabulary control" method
used in reading textbooks as
sumes a student will learn about
300 words a year during the
first three or four grades, he
said.
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Diocesan priests from the U.S. who have volunteered for
mission service in Latin America are bringing the Mass to
the inhabitants of the Tembladerani highlands of La Paz,
Bolivia, by means of a portable chapel. Father Andrew B.
Schierhoff (right), a priest of the St Louis archdiocese,
now has some 1,000 persons attending Mass weekly at the
chapel. Weekly Mass is a new institution to many of the Bo
livians, since the shortages of priests and the distances in
volved had made it an impossibility for most.
NEW ENCYCLICAL
Pope’s Life Long Effort
Beckons Nations To Peace
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
The Holy Week encyclical
of His Holiness Pope John XX
III is the capstone of the Ponti
ff’s life-long effort to beckon
men and nations to peace.
His blueprint to guide all
men of good will who wish to
make a personal contribution
toward peace climaxes a con
stant theme not only in his
life as Pope, but from his days
as a youthful chaplain on the
front lines during World War
L
As Pope, he has pleaded for
peace virtually from the mo
ment of his election. His first
public address—delivered only
hours after he was chosen Pope
in October, 1958—asked world
leaders to hear and reply to the
appeals of their people for
peace.
HIS personal understanding
of men’s desire for peace was
sharpened when he saw the
horrors of war first-hand in
1915 as a medical orderly and
later chaplain in the Italian
Army.
The 34-year-old priest —
drafted from his quiet life as
secretary to the bishop in his
home town of Bergamo and a
professor at the local semi
nary—never forget what he saw
and experienced.
Still obviously moved by the
recollection of it as he neared
his 78th year in 1959, he told
an audience then:
"The service we performed
as chaplain in wartime hospi
tals is unforgettable. It allow
ed Us to gather from the
groans of the wounded and sick
the universal aspiration for
peace, the supreme good for
mankind."
This aspiration guided the
Pontiff during World War II
which he spent as Apostolic
Delegate to Greece and Tur
key, a post to which he was
assigned in 1934 and held until
1944.
FROM his headquarters in
Istanbul, then-Archbishop Ron-
calli, lent continued assistance
to Jewish rescue missions, sav
ing many Jews from persecut
ion by Slovak, Bulgarian and
Hungarian na2ls. Among his
actions was a successful ef
fort to divert a shipload Of
Jewish children from what
would have been a tragic des
tination.
As Pope, his reign has been
made brilliant by the fire of
his determination to seek every
avenue of peace—among nat
ions, among Christians, among
all men receptive to his mes
sage.
Every Christmas address
given by Pope John has stressed
peace and has urged all to pray
for it. He speaks of it constant
ly in audiences. His solemn
documents reflect his concern.
In all, he has renewed his
impassioned plea on more than
30 occasions.
"Why should no discords and
disagreements be finally com
posed equitably?" he asked in
his first public address.
"WHY should the resources
of human genius and the rich
es of the peoples turn more
often to preparing arms—per
nicious instruments of death
and destruction—then to in
creasing the welfare of
creasing the welfare of all
classes, and particularly the
poorer classes?"
These humble question from
a voice which clearly echoed
the hopes of the world’s people
drew responses from political
leaders around the world.
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower, in a letter sent through
his personal representatives to
the Pope’s subsequent coronat
ion ceremony, replied: "I share
with you the fervent desire
for a peaceful solution of the
momentous problems which
beset mankind."
Stressing again and again the
concept that "God created men
not as enemies but as broth
ers," the Pope has asked in
virtually all his statements that
Christians pray for national
leaders.
WHETHER he issued an en
cyclical or spoke informally
to a group of workers, or ed
ucators, or Olympic athletes,
or delegates to an international
organization, his admonition
has been the same: work and
pray for human brotherhood
and peace.
"We offer a prayer that
peace, the daughter of gentle
ness and good will, may esta
blish a lasting rule among nat
ions, made ever anxious by the
clouds which repeatedly darken
the horizon," he said in his
1959 Easter message.
"WE PRAY for the heads of
states, joined with Us in re
cognizing that their high calling
establishes them not as jud
ges, but as guides of the nat
ions;...they are in duty bound
to guarantee respect for the
fundamental rights of the human
person."
Pope John has shown that his
concern is not above the world's
day-to-day trials and crises.
He has not hesitated to com
ment immediately on political
problems when he sees they
threaten grave harm and that
his voice may aid in their
solution.
In October of 1962 he made
a surprise broadcast the day
after the United States announ
ced its blockade against offen
sive weapons—in Red Cuba and
during the time the Red Chi
nese intensified their invas
ion of India.
‘Mom And Pop 9
ALBANY, N.Y. (RNS) — Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller signed into
law a bill permitting small
"mon and pop" stores in New
York City to open on Sunday if
their owners observe their Sab
bath on another day.
The amendment to the state's
Sunday statues will become ef
fective only if New York’s City
Council passes enabling legis
lation before the end of the
year.
The Pontiff begged political
leaders to continue negotiat
ions. "Let them do everything
in their power to save peace,"
Pope John said. "By so doing,
they will spare the world the
horrors of a war that would
have disastrous consequences
such as nobody could foresee..
Let them continue to negotiate
...at all levels and at all times."
AS THE immediate threat of
armed conflict over the Cuban
crisis eased, the Pope told a
general audience on October
31 that "peace is knocking at
our doors."
"We see the rays of peace
appearing and spreading on the
horizon," he said. The world,
he added, is "tried of anxiet
ies, turmoil and uncertainties."
The Pontiff’s concern for
peace also played a part in
his decision to convene the
historic Second Vatican Coun
cil. In his bull, Humane Salu-
tis, issued in December, 1961,
he said:
"Finally, to a world lost,
confused and anxious under the
constant threat of new fright
ful conflicts, the forthcoming
council is called upon to offer
an opportunity for all men of
good will to turn their thoughts
and their intentions toward
peace."
IN HIS 1961 Christmas mes
sage and in his remarks that
holiday season to diplomats ac
credited to the Holy See, the
Pope Solemnly spelled out this
warning:
"The judgement of history
will be severe with those people
who neglect to do everything
in their power to remove the
scourge of war from human
ity."
HOLDING a spray of palm in his hands, His Holiness Pope John XXIII is borne through St. Peter's
Basilica on the gestatorlal chair during the observance marking Palm Sunday. Hie Pontiff looked
unusually drawn and moved more slowly than usual during the hour-long ceremony.
Secretariat
Significant
For Unity
WASHINGTON, (NC) —A
Presbyterian observer at the
ecumenical council said here
that the work of the Vatican's
Secretariat for Promoting Ch
ristian Unity is a significant
development in the Church.
Dr. James H. Nichols, a pro
fessor at the Princeton Theolo
gical Seminary, said of the sec
retariat that "the role given
by the Pope to what 20 years
ago did not even exist is one
of the most remarkable mani
festations of a new tendency
at work in the Roman Catholic
Church."
DR. NICHOLS spoke (March
26) at an annual dinner for
"Presbyterian men in govern
ment." Supreme Court Associ
ate Justice William O. Douglas
presided.
Dr. Nichols said the turning
point of the first session of the
ecumenical council came when
his Holiness Pope John XXIII
turned the schema on the sou
rces of Revlation over to a
special committee for redraft
ing.
FROM then on "it was a new
council," Dr. Nichols said.
"Now it was clear where the
wind was blowing. Now one party
knew it had the strength to direct
the council and it made plans
to take charge."
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