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THE GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,1968 3
Letters To The Editor
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EDITOR:
As we again prepare to
celebrate the day of Christ’s birth
in the stable at Bethlehem and
realize that whatever we do for
any of our fellowmen is being
done for Christ, it seems only
natural that we Christians should
focus our minds more and more
upon the many millions of
impoverished people here in our
own land as well as abroad.
1 would like to point out to
the readers of the Georgia
Bulletin just one area in which
the people are in absolutely dire
need of food, clothing and, in
general, the reassurance that their
fellow Christians care for them.
The people I am referring to
are those in Quitman County,
Mississippi who are literally
fighting for survival in the midst
of hunger, poverty and disease.
The children (and especially
the black children) of Quitman
County, Mississippi simply do not
believe in Santa Claus because the
reception of any kind of help is
very rare indeed. Jobs are quite
scarce. Migration to the northern
ghettos is costly and frustrating.
As a result, many of these
children will spend Christmas
Day in draughty frame lean-tos,
perhaps not unlike the stable in
which Christ was bom.
I would like, therefore, to
appeal to the sense of
brotherhood which Christians
claim to possess, and ask that
those readers of the Georgia
Bulletin who can do so send a
donation to: MISSISSIPPI
PROJECT FUND - QUITMAN
CO’, 3 Thomas Circle,
Washington, D.C. 20005. Food
and Clothing can be sent directly
to: Rev. L. C. Coleman, 802
Third St., Marks, Mississippi,
38646.
No act of generosity to
another, especially to those in
dire need, will ever go
unrewarded. Remember the
Good Samaritan.
EDITOR:
The November 21 issue of the
Georgia Bulletin was a
disappointment to me. The
“report” on the pastoral letter
from the bishops of the United
States, a 14,000 word letter
addressed to all the faithful
(assuming that that is what: a
pastoral letter means) condenses it
into three short columns. This I
can get in the daily newspaper.
I prefer to read my own mail.
I think that the pastoral letter
should have been printed in its
total form...all 14,000 words of
it.
If the Georgia Bulletin ito be a
means of communication within
the church, between hierachy,
clergy and laity, its obligation
should be to present the pastoral
documents in their entiiety so
that all may have that
information necessary to form
their own conscience.
The Bulletin has done a good
job in presenting the encyclical,
“Human Vitae,” in its entirety,
to the Church of Atlanta. The
correlative document, “Human
Life in Our Day,” recently issued
the bishops, should be treated in
the same way.
Alice Cawley
Chamblee
EDITOR:
The recent letter to the editor
that the news selection of the
paper is greatly improved,
obviously means that the news
printed in the paper meets his
approval.
I can assume from the"
editorial policy of the paper we
will no longer be subject to
reading about various points of
view' of “Humanae Vitae,”
celibacy, the draft, experimental
parishes and other so called,
controversial subjects that beset
the Catholic Church. It may be
that by not printing what is
.actually happening it will
disappear.
William F. Goedecke
Atlanta
EDITORS NOTE: Each week
the amount of news copy that
comes across an editor’s desk
necessitates a selection of some
of it. There is no intent to
suppress news but to balance it.
EDITOR:
Y ou are doing such a
magnificent job of editing the
Bulletin that I want to help.
Here'is a letter (which you say
you have been lacking.)
On page three,, this week, is a
picture of the “chalice and paten
used by St. Francis of Assisi.” I
was taught in school that Francis
was never ordained, and 1 wonder
what he did with the chalice and
paten.
If one of our Franciscan
priests will answer, then you’ll
have a second letter.
Louis C. Fink
Atlanta
EDITORS NOTE: Your letter
referred to Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception.
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"I Used to Hate Homework."
By Don DeRossett—Sophomore, Sandy Springs High School
I used to put off doing my homework until 9 at
night because I just didn't like to study. When I got
to high school I began to have trouble. My grades
dropped to Cs and I got two Ds in algebra.
At cur school, it's good to get high grades and I
worried. Mother began tc worry, too, although I told
her I never failed anything—not to worry.
But I didn't have good study habits, I know that
now.
Mother read a story in the Atlanta Journal-Con
stitution about the Learning Skills Center. She had
tc drag me to get me there.
I wasn't for it at a!!, still I saw a lot of kids there
and if didn't look too hard to do. If it could help me
learn, I thought I might as well try it.
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"Now I Enjoy My Studies
By Chris Lewis, Eighth Grade, Decatur High School
In about a week I started to
move up in reading speed and
comprehension. It was the same
with listening—I'd had trouble
concentrating on this in the
past.
I started at the Center last
summer in the mornings. Now
that regular school has started,
"ve been going in the evenings
after football and dinner. It's hard, but I've improved
so much already that I can do much more homework
in less time.
I tell you, I'm really improving and it's great. I'm
making straight A's so far in this new math and it looks
like I'll be an A and B student this coming year.
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I used tc come home from school in tears nearly
every day.
I got bad marks and the teacher would fuss. By
the time I got to the sixth grade I was failing nearly
everything but art. My worst subjects were math, social
studies, reading and everything to do with English.
I blamed my poor grades on the fact that I missed
out on phonics at the start, but now I know that's not
the real reason.
Nearly everybody made better grades than I did;
just a couple made worse. The teachers went much
too fast for me.
In my whole life I never read a real book although
I enjoyed comic books, and the funnies. As for home
work, I'd read a page and be completely worn out and
I couldn't remember it afterward.
Then, early last summer. Mother read a story in
the paper about the Learning Skills Center and she told
me about it and asked me if I wanted to go. I wasn't
excited, just willing. Anything. I dreaded high school.
In the first week I began to improve in just about
everything because they teach you how to study and
remember and enjoy it. The part I liked best was the
way you work with a tape recorder which instructs yes
how to work with a certain book.
At the start, I was reading 175 words a minute—
not good. As I speeded up, I
read the first three books in my
whole life, on my own, too. One
of these was "The Bridges of
Tokc-Ri,' a book my Dad started
but never finished. I told him
the ending and he was kind of
surprised about me.
Then a funny thing. Mother
has a friend who graduated
from the University of Georgia in 1943, and she was
so impressed over me that she enrolled at the Learning
Skills Center.
My reading speeded up to 450 words a minute and
I was so excited that I wanted to see how fast I could
get. But the Center said I was ahead now—above col
lege average. They told me to wait until next year.
They're right. Now that I'm in high school, well,
the other day I found that I'd finished the science
chapter and was answering the questions while the
others were still in the middle of reading.
Homework's easy now. I get through in about 30
minutes some nights and I understand it, and for the
first time I enjoy studying.
And I'm doing real good at school. The other day
my English teacher said, "If you keep on going at this
rate, I'll move you up to a higher group."—English
used to be my WORST subject.
Mother said, "You're much easier to live with."
WHAT IS LEARNING SKILLS CENTER?
It is a new k’nd of school that students attend in their spare
time. Here a student learns how to advance reading techniques
and read with comprehension.
How to listen to and remember lectures.
How to pick out important subject material.
How to get work done quickly, efficiently, and correctly.
How to eliminate fatigue and oressure by getting assignments
done on time.
How to improve grades and do better work with less effort.
How to breeze through homework and look forward to exams
without fear.
There are no assignments, no homework, no tests, and no
group work. Each child works at his own speed to his own
ability.
Learning Skills Centers' programs are available for students
Irom seventh grade through college. The school is open week
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