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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1963 PAGE 3 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. LaVISTA BARBER SHOP Near Irmaculate Heart School and Church L 4-9271 ■ 1656 La Vista Road, N. E. At Briarliff & UVista Shopping Center ATLANTA, GA. For All Your Banking Needs COBB EXCHANGE BANK 1311 ROSWELL ST. 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JUDE 221 West Madison Street, Sec. 12 Chicago 6, Illinois 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. 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