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Tire BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 23, 1961.
PAGE FIVE
by Malcolm
IN SPARE TIME, A NEW YORK
IANKBRHAIraised almost
years’™ FOR CHARITY IN 16
“How to Wed”
Course Given
Through Mail
New York, N. Y. — A mail order
course in how to get married is
bciag offered by the National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
Originally the lessons were in
tended only for Catholics, but a
pilot project brought so many Pro
testant and Jewish requests for en
rollment that the course now is be
ing offered to anyone interested in
the subject.
The Family Life Bureau of the
conference said that couples with
no religious beliefs are as wel
come as the devout to subscribe to
the correspondence course, which
costs ?7.50 for one person or $8 for
each couple.
Officials of the bureau say that
it is the first Catholic mail order
marriage course ever provided in
the United States.
The subject matter generally is
■’imilar to that used in group class
es in many Roman Cathodic dio
ceses. But it was found that night-
shift workers, rural residents, en
gaged couples separated by large
distances and military personnel
wanted the same preparation ma
terial.
Toombs County
Sheriff Makes Raid
On Slot Machines
Lyons, Ga. — In line with a re
cent Toombs County Grand Jury
recommendation, Sheriff McNatt
has destroyed five slot machines.
A court order, issued March 7 in
Swainsboro and signed by Judge
Robert Humphrey and Solicitor
General W. A. McMillan Jr., of the
M’ddle Ga. Judicial Circuit, order
ed the Sheriff of Toombs County
to pick up, confiscate and destroy
all slot machines and other gam
bling devices found in the county.
The five “slots" destroyed were
picked up by the sheriff’s staff and
county policemen. The Toombs
County Grand Jury serving at the
February te:m, recommended and
directed that the sheriff pick up
and destroy all slot machines in
the county.
In a search for the slot ma>
chines, Sheriff McNatt said that
he went to all of the private clubs
of the county and other places
“where it was said" the slots were
operated, but found none.
He said that four of the five
-lots destroyed were in storage
when confiscated.
World Bank Seen
For Erie Cocke, Jr.
Washington, D. C. — Usually re
liable sources at the White House
said Monday that Erie Cocke Jr.
wil be appointed to a responsible
post in the World Bank.
Mr. Cocke, a vice president of
Delta Air Lines is a native of Daw
son, whoh as his business office
in Atlanta.
The title of the post to which the
Georgian will reportedly be ap
pointed by President Kennedy is
alternate executive director of the
World Bank, a post which carries
substantial executive responsibili
ty.
Cocke is a former national com
mander of the American Legion
and was appointed by President
Eisenhower as an alternate mem
ber of the American delegation to
the UN in New York two years
ago.
He is the son of Erie Cocke Sr.
former president of the Fulton Na
tional Bank in Atlanta, a former
president of the American Bankers
Association, and presently chair
man of the Federal Deposit Insur
ance Corp., in Washington.
White House confirmation of the
younger Cocke’s appointment to the
World Bank will entail his moving
to Washington on a full time bas
is It Un-Democratic
To Speak and Write
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English is a wonderful language
and in some respects American
English may be even better. It ts
more precise, at the same time,
more flexible or more responsive to
mew needs. It has struck a balance
between stability and change. Pur
ists are always trying to make it
into a ‘ good” language such as
the "dead” Latin of today. Peo
ple that are semillitirate try to re
duce it to a rough jargon that is
hard for even members of a small
group to understand. I suppose, tho,
'that we should be glad for both of
these extremes because each had
kept the other in check. The first
extremes because each had kept the
other in check. The first extreme
represents the 16th century school
marm with her genteel and prissy
ways. If the followers of the latter
extreme had their way, it would
be a barbarous tongue.
Students are dailiy torn between
these two extremes. Good books
| and teachers strive to teach a
higher, more correct level of Eng
lish. On the other hand, radio and
TV have actually taught people to
say 'like a cigarette should" and
"Who do you trust?"
English teachers discovered that
students say “I ain’t got no" be-
' cause their parents, friends and
j community say it. Their parents
see no reason why these people also
put up the argument that there is
] no real absolute in the usage of
language. They feel that communi-
I cation is what they intend and
j that any sort of language is good
enough to communicate. However,
most people wish to be inconspicu
ous in speech so they often vary
] their language usage according to
the person with whom they are
' speaking. Ilow many times you
| noticed your own laaiguage usage
improve when you are speaking
with your English teacher, and
| then have noticed it slacken
|when you are speaking with those
| in your own age group.
| Some modern “educators" feel
that if a boy grows up saying “I
! ain’t got no” he should not have
ithis habit changed because it will
1 make him conspicuous in his own
1 group. He should be allowed to
'continue such speech because he
will not be communicating with
anyone except the uneducated
group into which he was born any
way. Obviously, he is not to be en
couraged to communicate with any
other group.
I can not agree with these co-
called educators. What becomes of
Democracy if the school under
takes to confine every pupil to his
own social level?
These persons must feel that De
mocracy is not that everyone should
be encouraged to rise to the high
est intellectual, social, and eco
nomic level he is capable of reach
ing, but that everyone should be
told to stay right where it has
pleased God to put him and to be
lieve that no language, no litera
ture and no level of intellectual de
velopment is better than any oth
er.
If the purpose of classes in Eng
lish is nol to encourage pupils to
speak and write in a different way
from that which they bring into
the class room with them, then
what are these class rooms for?
You don’t need to go to school to
use language in the way your par
ents and your “group” uses it.
Students should take a firm
stand to speak better English and
to write more and better English.
They should strive lo end dullness
in their composition and they
should put into practice the good
usage of language which they have
learned. Rather, students have the
idea that to write is to be an 18th
century essayist so they avoid real
ly working at writing. They de
spise discussion questions on
tests. They don’t have enough of
these so when they go to college
or as they advance in high school
they are lost when this type of
questions is given in a large quan
tity.
Students prefer not to have to
write a term paper or research pa
per in high school. If they haveto
do it, it is so much easier to
paraphrase material from ency
clopedias which causes fifty-dollar
words, which the students do not
understand, to be used in the
wrong context.
English is a fascinating subject.
Explore it and enjoy its richness!
ELIZABETH BARKER,
Crawford County
High School.
Columbus Jobless
At Six Per Cent
Columbus, Ga. — Unemployment
in the Columbus area has reached
6 per cent of the labor force, the
State Employment Service an
nounces.
It said the unemployment was
caused by job losses in textiles,
lumber and clay manufacturing
but predicted an upswing in April.
The area includes Muscogee and
Chattahoochee co”nties in Ga. and
Russell County, Ala. x