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Reading Among Children
Found to Cut Failures in Life
By DAVID TAYLOR MARKE
(By the AaJoclsUd pru
New Brunswick, N. J. This year 200 boyi and girls each re
ceived an estimated 60 better years of life.
Frustration, disappointment, discouragement and even tragedy
were considered to be rubbed oft their slate. And it was all be
cause they had undergone 60 hours of skillful teaching in reme
dial reading at Rutgers Univer-
jjJ sity's Psychological Clinic.
oays ur. Anna o. oiarr, emi
nent psychologist and chairman
of the department:
"We are fast discovering the
-4 importance of reading to suc
cessful personality growth, some
psychologists are going so far as
to say that failure to read ir a
strong contributing factor not
only to childhood problems but
actual delinquency."
Reading is the first skilful
activity the child is called upon
to master by himself. If he can
not keep up with his group, he
feels that he is a failure and pat-
terns of maladjustment begin."
Chinatown Fire San Francisco's skyline and dawn loom
in the background as smoke billows from a three-alarm
blaze in the shadow of the city's famous Chinatown. Note
Pagoda (left of smoke) and tower of San Francisco-Oakland
Bay bridge at the foot of famed California street. The fire
caused an estimated $25,000 damage. (Acme Telephoto)
ALL HAVE ONE GOOD FEATURE
Ladies, Why Grow Old?
Accentuate the Positive
Hollywood, Sept. 13 (U.R) Ladies over 40, buck up. A movie
expert said today you can be glamorous without youth, beauty or
money.
You've just got to atcentuate the positive.
"There's no reason to grow old," said Helen Rose, who guides
Lana Turner, Judy Garland and
70-ycar-old Ethel Barrymore at
MGM.
"American women give up
living at 40 and wither for the
next 40 years. They've got 30
years more of fascination ahead."
And you don't have to worry
if you don't have a face like
Elizabeth Taylor, can't buy duds
like Lana'i and will never see
80 again. You can overcome
every defect, she said, with per
fect neatness.
"European women get more
fascinating with age, and some
still hold court at 70," she said.
"A sophistica ted Frenchman
won't bother with a woman un
der 35. They're not interesting."
Some of the most fascinating
women in movies Greta Garbo,
Gloria Swanson, Irene Dunne
and Joan Crawford are over
40. Miss Barrymore is glamor
ous at 70.
As for clothes, most women
could buy half what they do and
be twice as well dressed.
"I've seen some of these star
lets stuff their closets with $100
a week of clothes, and never
have one smart costume."
And some of the most glamor
ous women Miss Rose knows
including movie stars have a
face full of bad features.
"I see women every day who
have prettier faces than movie
tars," she said. "But they don't
dramatize their beauty, and
they don't keep themselves im
maculately groomed, the most
Important thing.
"Everybody has one good fea
ture. It can be your eyes or
your hair or your hands or even
graceful posture. One woman
I know has a face in which
every feature is bad. She studies
herself in the mirror two hours
a day. She always sits in the
most flattering light, and she
knows which are the most flat
tering angles of her face.
"Everybody always says, 'Isn't
she beautiful!'
One of the most attractive wo
men I know has a huge beak
nose and a hairlip. But she has
such fascinating eyes nobody
notices. She's done very well.
She's gotten two handsome hus
bands two."
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Stale Property
Tax to Return
Portland, Sept. 13 m The
possibility that Oregon may be
forced to levy a property tax
that will not be offset by other
revenues was hinted by the in
terim legislative tax committee
yesterday.
Such a levy could be required
in the biennium beginning in
1952, members said, because of
an anticipated $22,000,000 defi
cit by 1951.
State Tax Commission Analyst
William Collier said the deficit
estimate was a minimum figure.
He said if government costs con
tinue to rise, and he believes
they are more likely to go up
than down, the anticipated deli
cit will be much higher. Only
the use of what he termed the
"cushion fund" of $15,000,000
would hold the deficit below the
minimum figure, he said. This
fund is maintained to keep pro
perty taxes from actually being!
levied in a year of low tax col
lections. I
Collier noted that the current
biennium budget is $139,262,607
compared with the previous bi
ennium budget of $78,149,627.
Senator Howard C. Belton,
Clackamas county, committee :
chairman, said he had a "very
strong feeling we may go back;
to the state property tax." Thisj
came as Rep. Eugene Marsh,
Yamhill county, noted that the
property tax problems of the
counties may one day be shared
by the state government.
"Often as much time is required
to get at the seat of a child's
blocking and to formulate a pro
gram of treatment as is required
for the actual reading classes."
The clinic has helped more
than 1,000 adults annually, as
well. There was, says Dr. Starr,
the case of an ex-GI. Before the
war, he was considered an intelli
gent worker in a warehouse, but
everytime he had a chance to
advance in Jobs involving paper
work, he failed.
"One day, after he had started
working with us," says Dr. Starr,
"he stood, gazing out of a win
dow, muttering to himself:
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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 194917
TESTED WHILE FLAYING these youngsters show aptitude.
first step and often takes longer
than treatment, says Dr. Starr. A
child is studied as he works out
block puzzles, peg boards and
other intelligence and personal
ity measurements.
Eyes are carefully checked
and where found wanting, referr-
Many methods are used in the
remedial teaching. Youngsters
are grouped according to age
and ability but no more than five
make up a class.
Power Bills Lower
Than a Decade Ago
Washington, Sept. 13 m The
average home-owner's light bill
increased slightly last year but
it's still lower than 10 years ago,
the federal power commission
said today.
The commission's annual sur
vey of typical residential bills
for cities of 2500 or more show
ed an average reduction of
about 10 percent for 25, 100 and
250 kilowatt-hour monthly bills.
The average bill for 250 kilowatt-hours
was $7.01 Jan. 1,
1949, compared with $7.48 Jan.
1, 1939, and $6.92 Jan. 1, 1948.
During 1948, the commission
said, electricity bills increased
in 17 V percent of the 3814 com
munities surveyed, and decreas
ed in 6.7 percent, in the residen
tial bill most subject to change.
In examining hundreds of chil
dren. Dr. Starr has found the
causes for failure to read are al
most as numerous as the chil
dren themselves. Sometimes the
reasons lie in blockings due to
family disharmonies and fears.
Sometimes they lie in visual difficulties.
Again, the child may be sent
to school before he is ready to
learn to read, or overcrowded
classes may not permit time to
diagnose his reading habits.
Sometimes, the practice of ad
ministering true and false ex
aminations leads to less ability
to read and write.
One boy, for example, was
told by an older playmate that
no two words were alike. The
logically-minded lad then rea
soned that if this were so, there
were too many words to learn,
so why bother.
One child was found to have
a deep-seated fear of the color
black. She rapidly learned to
read words printed in other
colors. Then the girl was pain
stakingly convinced of the sup
erior advantages of black for
printing. She overcame the fear,
and her reading ability raced
ahead.
B-A-L,-L,-F-I-E-L,-D, He grinned ed for corrective measures. Lack
and exclaimed, Why, that
means BALLFIELD! It's been
there all the time and I didn't
know it!' "
A new world had opened up
for him. He was beginning to
understand the meaning of let
ters and words. Dr. Starr is con
fident that in time he will learn
to read and write well.
There is no magic in the suc
cess achieved by the clinic. It
is all a matter of hard work.
In reading cases, testing is the
Because so many factors are
behind a child's inability to read,
Dr. Starr insists remedial read
ing classes should be conducted
in conjunction with a psycho
logical clinic or child guidance
program.
"We emphasize that remedial
reading should be therapeutic to
have greatest values," she says.
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