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Page 3 The Palladium-Item and Sun-Telegfom, Richmond, June 27, 1955 Helen Keller, America's 1st Lady Of Courage, Marks 75th Birthday Wernle Home Is Proof For Children, Secretary Of Christian Care Of State Asserts Traffic Problems Plague Los Angeles In Transit Strike LOS ANGELES (3V The Los Angeles Transit Lines strike, affecting about a million riders, moved into its second week and police planned today to combat ever-increasing traffic problems in the downtown area. V' 'j I AP Wirephot Helen 'Keller- fivmhnl nf pnn ret rrt tYi trie ViUnrl OTtrl Hpaf nf tViA Helen Keller symbol of for the blind and deaf of the AP Wirephot Palladium-Item Photo Chatting before the start of the Wernle day program, left to right, are A. R. Brane, Lakeland, former Mrs. Carl Lash, matron of the home; Carl Lash, superintendent; Crawford Parker, Indiana secretary of state, guest speaker; Rev.

Robert Simen, of Trinity church, vice-president of Wernle's board; and Rev. C. M. Hollensen, of St. John church, president of the board.

Why Johnny Can't Read: Trend Today Toward Fewer And Fewer Words For Child To Learn courage world, enjoys the scent of blooms at her cottage home In Eastern, on her birthday. With her is her German shepherd dog, Et Tu. The dog is a pet, not a Seeing Eye animal. itself is meaningless when you Federal conciliator Harry Mal- com called company AFL union representatives into session with only slight hope of progress. He said he would weieome "any ideas to get the show back on the road." The transit lines' offer of a 12- cent hourly raise within two years was defeated by union vote last Friday.

Some 2,300 bus and streetcar operators are involved in the dispute. They want a 20-cent boost from the previous $1.91 per hour. New Chrysler, Union Talks Open Today DETROIT IB Chrysler Corp. opens new contract negotiations with the CIO United Auto Workers today. Chrysler is the third and last of the Big Three auto makers to be served with the union's demand for a guaranteed wage plan, already established at Ford and General Motors.

Observers, however, foresee little possibility of the company balking at the established pattern. In addition to company-paid supplemental unemployment benefits the union also is expected to seek wage and pension increases, lib eralized insurance programs, added fringe benefits and a full union shop. The union shop provision was included in the June 12 settlement with GM. It was already in force with Ford. Under the provision an hourly rated worker must join the union to hold his job.

Contract coverage for 130,000 hourly rated Chrysler employes expires Aug 31. New York Times Buys Land For Future Expansion NEW YORK, CD The New York Times announced Sunday purchase of a large tract of land on the west side of midtown Manhattan "to provide space for future expan sion." The property, bought from the New York Central railroad, ad joins the line's freight tracks par alleling the Hudson river between Sixty-second and Sixty-fifth streets, about one mile north of the news paper's present location. "The New York Times is pre paring ior ruture growtn in a manner consistent with its past experience," said Publish Arthur Hays Sulzberger in a statement. "During the past 104 years the Times has moved from Nassau street to Park row to Times Square, and has occupied nine different buildings, including the four now combined in the present structure. The expansion over the years has been made to meet the demands placed upon the Times by increased advertising volume and rising circulation.

"It has been apparent to us for some time that eventually we will reach the point where we cannot expand further in our present loca tion Sulzberger said the Times does not expect to move "for several more years." Wernle home stands as proof that the American Lutheran church believes in the necessity of Christian care lor children, Indiana's Secretary of State Crawford Parker said Sunday afternoon at the institution's annual Wernle day program. "And it is to the eternal glory of the American Lutheran church that every congregation of your faith has contributed to the well-being of this home," the Indiana officials said. There need be no fear of Red deans or pink pastors in such a church. You have kept clear and Visible the dividing line between church and state. You have not permitted your pulpits to be defiled by those who would use the cross as a disguise for the hammer and the sickle, and who have attempted to perpetrate the heresy that Jesus Christ would be in rebellion against our great American culture and its constitutional government were He on this earth today." Secretary of State Parker also commended the Lutheran church for not having "surrendered to the Socialist superstate." Duty Recognized Commenting on the aims of Wernle, which are to try to offer to each child a way oflife, in addition to food, clothing and shelter, Secretary of State Parker said he saw at the institution a "recognition of the duty to equip each child for adult life in a cold and demanding world, with the same loving care and attention to individual needs that a parent would give." He complimented the staff of the home, headed by Superintendent and Mrs.

Carl Lash. He commented that while much has been done, much more remains to be accomplished, which means that every dollar available can be used. He said he felt such a program Is symbolic of the separation of church and state. In the last 100 years, he said, "when the socialistic and communistic theories of Karl Marx have been in the ascendancy in many lands, the old concept has been twisted and the state has been thrust forward as the protector instead of the family or the church." "No government can ever do as much in such a time of need as can the family, the church, or the church-supported home." Rev. C.

M. Hollensen, pastor of St. John Lutheran church, president of Wernle's board, gave the invocation and official greetings. There also were greetings and a word of appreciation from Superintendent Lash. Children Sing Several groups of Wernle children, under the direction of Mrs.

William Hirschfeld, and also accompanied by her, were presented in chorus numbers. During the offertory, a trio of Wernle children played a piano number'. They were Erika Richter, Marilyn Davis, and Anna Marie Richter. A. R.

Brane, now of Lakeland, a former superintendent of the home, was introduced and spoke briefly. There also was a brief message from Mayor Lester E. Meadows. Also introduced was State Representative Clem Conway of Henry county. Rev.

Robert Simen, of Trinity church, vice-president of Wernle's board, gave the benediction. During the afternoon, open house was observed. Food for the sup- per hour was served by women of St. John and Trinity congregations The registration book showed these towns represented Ohio Columbus Fort Recovery, Kir-by, Bradford. Greenville, Brook-ville, Phillipsburg, Union, Dayton, Middletown, Cincinnati, West Alexandria, Conover, Casstown, Camden, Eaton, Hilliards, Engle-wood, Troy, Danville, New Lebanon, and Rockford.

Indiana Richmond, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Brookville, Sunman, Cambridge City, Anderson Hagerstown, Ridgeville, Shelbyville, Ossian, and Decatur. By rover Brinkman 1 Central Press Correspondent EASTON, Conn. The world has 14 million blind people. One of them, Helen Keller, can easily be labeled "America's first lady of courage. Monday, Helen Keller, reached another milestone in her unusual career her 75th.

At an age when most of us are thinking of retire-m Helen Keller remains healthy, vigorous, serene and ever-responsive to the fast-moving world around her. At 75, Miss Keller is full of plans and projects, complains constantly about the too-few hours in the day, and is deeply worried about the other blind people of the world, the millions -she feels are not as fortunate as she. The Helen Keller legend has be come world history. She was born a normal child, in the little town of Tuscumbia, in 1880. The white frame cottage of her parents was called Ivy Green.

Then, at the age of 19 months, disease suddenly sealed off her eyes and ears, leaving her a half- wild creature with babbling, gut tural speech. At the age of 7, Anne (Teacher) Sullivan came into Helen Keller's life. She remained until her death, 49 years leater. Even today, Miss Keller remembers that first meet ing: "I sensed approaching footsteps, and held out my hand, thinking it was mother. Someone took my hand and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal all things to me.

Long Battle Now began the long battle of teaching words to a child who could not see and could not hear. Three years later, with the help of a special teacher, Helen Keller walked into the family parlor one day, to announce slowly, and in a high, strained voice, "I am not dumb any more." By the time she was 10, Helen Keller could say simple sentences. Today she speaks no less than seven languages! Looking back today, Helen Keller says, "Learn ing to speak was the hardest job I ever tackled." However, once she learned to speak, Helen Keller became an honor graduate of Radcliffe college, author, lecturer, teacher and a benefactor to the blind. Despite her blindness Miss Kel ler is an inveterate world traveler whose journeys have taken her- to more than 25 countries, on six continents the equivalent of five times around the world. Her books have been translated into more than 50 Billy Graham Addresses Large German Meeting NUERNBERG, Germany (J) American evangelist Billy Graham addressed his largest revival meeting crowd in Germany Sunday night 65,000, according to police estimates.

About 9,000 U.S. servicemen and their families were in the audience at the former Nazi party rally grounds here. At the conclusion of Graham's sermon, 6,000 persons 1,200 Americans among them stepped forward at his urging to make "decisions for Christ." Sanitone Dry Cleaners Plant Store, S. 9tb and Sts. Delivery Service Phone 2-2274 YOUR DISPOSITION mam IIWKI languages.

She has received decorations, honorary degrees and citations from many nations. Her circles of friends is world-wide, and included every American president since Coolidge. Happier Than Most Visiting Helen Keller in her rambling colonial home in Connecticut, you feel she is happier than most of us, despite her physical handicaps. As she touches the contours of your face, or" lets her words tumble over themselves in the sheer ecstasy of being able to speak, you know she is to be envied, not pitied. "Why am I happy?" she chal lenges.

"Because I am busy." Miss Keller's jobs as counsellor to the American Foundation for the Blind, and the American Foundation for Overseas Blind occupy more than half of her time. Last year, for instance, she traveled 40,000 miles in a crusade for the blind in the Far East. Her private world of touch, smell and vibration is fascinating and amazing. She reads character in a handshake, in the touch of her hand to a face. She loves President End of Every Ul At LI LTU 20 South 10th St.

Inlaid teach reading by the phonic meth od. In that case, you take about two years to give the child such a thorough knowledge of letters and sounds that he can read virtu ally anything. Then, if you want to, you take a third year for re view, making 100 per cent sure that the child knows all the important phonic principles and ex ceptions. So your third-grader will be able to read whatever interests him, whether the vocabulary range is 1,200 words or 5,000 words or words. The vocabulary range of the reading material he can master will therefore depend not on the number of "sight" words he has learned but on the number he knows by sound.

He hasn't learned words, he has learned how to read. Astonishingly High That number, according to the researches of the tate Dr. Seashore of Northwestern university, is astonishingly high. It is, for a third grader, 44,000 words. Maybe the figure is too large.

Maybe the average third-grader's vocabulary is only 34,000 or 24,000 or even 14,000. Whatever it is, there is not the slightest doubt that it is at least 10 times as large as the number of words he learned to read in school by any of the methods now in use. After three "years of "learning to read" he is totally unable to decipher 90 per cent of his own speaking and listening vocabulary when he sees it in print. Next article: How Not to Teach Reading. You will visit first and third grade reading classes with the author and see what he calls "the logical outcome" of the word method.

(From the Book, "Why Johnny Can't Read," by Rudolf Flesch, copyright 1955, by Harper A. Brothers). Distributed by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. Lafayette Puts Quiet Clamp On Weddings LAFAYETTE, Ind. (INS) The course of true love may never be smooth, but it will be quiet in Lafayette.

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Yery Special Eisenhower's smile. Appealing to her, too, was President Franklin Roosevelt's strong features and Sir Winston Churchill's "great, wonderful dome." Miss Keller's study no doubt contains the largest privately-owned Braille library in the world. Her Braille volumes of the Bible are her most-fingered books. "I love th Bible as I love no other book," she says. "The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal." Happy birthday to you, Helen Keller, on this your 75th year of an extraordinary life! ADVERTISEMENT Zemo Greet For Itchy Skin Rash Zemo, a doctor's formula, promptly relieves itching of surface ekin rashes eczema, prickly heat, athlete's foot.

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For example, during first grade a reading "expert" decides to give them, say, 400 words. He draws up a list of those 400 words and then proceeds to write a book of "stories" containing no word outside that list and repeating each one of the 400 words as often as possible. He then repeats the process for the second-grade reader of his series. He adds another 400 words to the first 400, draws up a list of those 800 words, and writes a somewhat fatter book of "stories" staying within his 800 word limit and repeating each of the 800 words to the utmost. And On And On Now he goes to his third reader.

Another 400 words are added; the list now contains 1200 words; the book is again a little fatter and now contains the maximum variations upon the 1200 words. The "expert" proceeds in the same manner with his fourth reader, his fifth reader, and his sixth reader, and winds up with a package suitable for handsome annual sales. At this point you may possibly doubt the accuracy of my figures. Let me therefore say right here that I checked the vocabulary contents of the two leading sets of readers, Scott, Foresman company and Macmillan company. This proved to be a very easy research job since all elementary textbook houses proudly include vocabulary statistics in all their readers.

The Scott, Foresman set includes 1,280 words in the first two grades and adds 498 in third grade, reaching the grand total of 1,778 words at the end of third grade. The Macmillan company, however, is ahead of the game by a considerable margin. The latest edition of their set of readers is pared down to not more than 1,284 words by the end of third grade. It is important to add that the trend is definitely toward fewer and fewer words. How It Works The effect of this in the classroom is best described in the words of Professor Gertrude Hil-dreth of Brooklyn college, author of "Teaching the Three R's," who seems to be one of the pioneers in the great vocabulary-cutting movement.

Professor Hildreth is the senior author of a set of readers that gets along with 1,147 words for the first three grades. "Experience has proved," Dr. Hildreth writes, "that keeping the vocabulary of new words relatively- small, even a little below the children's demonstrated assimilation threshold, without neglecting the other important factors, virtu ally revolutionizes the teaching ot primary-grade reading. A teach er in a southern state reports that the use of books with simplified vocabulary has cut down reading difficulties in the first three grades by 75 per cent. Second and third grade teachers, particularly, find the teaching of reading a joy instead of a chore when word difficulties are reduced." It Is A Cinch In other words, teaching children 1,147 words in three years is a cinch.

Never mind the fact that those third-graders can't read a single blessed book and are unable to decipher a simple note to the milkman. What does it matter as long as the teacher's work is now a joy instead of a chore? Possibly, however, these figures don't look as ridiculous to you as they actually are. How many words should a child know when he has reached the end of third grade? To answer, that question, I must point out to you that the question By Rudolf Flesch CHAPTER 8 Fewer and Fewer Words What is now commonly known as a reader is not at all the kind of thing a reader used to be 30 or 40 years ago. In those aays a reader was simply a collection of reading matter suitable for children in school. Today a reader is something entirely different.

It is a special tool for fixing a "sight reading vocabulary" in children's minds. This "sight reading vocabulary" is the essence of the word method of teaching reading. The word method therefore hinges on the use of those readers. Without the readers, the word method cannot be used at all. 4 New York Boys Buried In Cave-In; Only Two Saved NEW YORK, (.71 Two boys, frolicking in a Queens excavation pit.

were killed Sunday night when soft earth crumbled and buried them alive. Two companions, one of them a younger brother of one of the victims, were pulled to safety by For a time, police believed a fifth boy had been buried. They dug for hours but could find no other body. They called off the search when they learned the fifth boy had gone home before the accident. The boys were playing in a deep ditch around the foundation for a private home in Jamaica.

The earth, wet through by rain Friday night, slipped and buried them against the wall of the foundation. Five-year-old Billy Cotton was buried up to his neck. His screams attracted bystanders and players in a sand-fot baseball game across the street. They scrambled frantically with their hands in the dirt and were able to remove Billy unhurt. Nathaniel Brown, 14, also wf-s saved.

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