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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, November 21, 1953 Protestants Ready New Approach For Converting Asians, Africans Washington (U.R) Ameri can Protestants are quietly Dre paring for a revolutionary new approach to their century-old, yet barely-begun task of con verting Asia and Africa to Chris tianity. They are facing up to the fact that the rising tide of national ism and anti-Western sentiment in many countries has reached a point where the Christian gos- verting Asia and Africa to Chris-1 point where the Christian i Science Makes Study Fni- Imnmvina Voire By DELOS SMITH gibility, and nose-talkin United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Scientific tests have put people who talk through their noses and people who can't talk through their noses in the same boat. They're both very hard to understand and ought to be barred from taking part in important voice communications. Three scientists of Ohio State university had been hired by the Air Force to do the experi menting. The Air Force natural ly is interested in giving its ra dio voice communications the greatest possible clarity. The normal voice produces speech by using "a series of cou pled resonators" namely the cavities of the mouth, the nose, the larynx and the pharynx, said Henry M. Moser, John J. Dreher, and Sol Adler. Not on can be short-circuited out of the coupling without muddying speeclj. Heavy Head Cold They were particularly em phatic about the person who can't use his nasal cavity as one of his resonators for his words because he has a heavy cold. Nose-talking is all right and even required by some lan guages other than English, par ticularly French. It seems to thin out speech, they said, but they weren't concerned with that. Their concern was intelli gibility, and nose-talking defi nitely is "detrimental" to it. They took six Americans who speak either "eastern" or "gen eral American" dialects and had them record long lists of two digit numbers. Some of these speakers were nose - talkers, some used all their resonators in proper balance and some had head colds. Their recordings were rere corded, mixed in with carefully controlled amounts of meaning less noise. Then 11 students at Ohio State university who had had some training in- distin guishing among noise heard al together, were clamped with headphones and asked to tell what the speakers were saying. Milder Noise Levels By and large, the nose-talker was even less intelligible than the speaker with the head cold, except at the milder noise levels. They acknowledged that sci entists are not in agreement on what effect "hypernasility" has upon the intelligibility of speech. Nor do scientists agree on what "hyponasility" too little nose resonance does to intelli gibility. The Ohio scientists were trying to settle these dis agreements but they emphasized that their findings applied to two-dieit numhers. since two- digit numbers were all they ex perimented with. pel can make little headway if it is labeled a Western export. The new approach calls for deemphasizing the traditional practice of sending out mission aries to establish outposts of the Western white man's church. In stead, leading U.S. Protestant denominations are seeking ways in which they can support and strengthen the independent, native-led Christian churches which have been established in nearly every country of Africa' and the Far East. The 30 denominations which are members of the National Council of Churches will send representatives to a meeting at Dayton, O., Dec. 4-7, to discuss specific plans for adapting their far-flung mission programs to the new "partnership" concept. Here are some of the facts that will be considered at this meeting: American churches have been sending large numbers of White missionaries to foreign lands for more than a century. While pre cise statistics are lacking, it is estimated that U.S. Protestants give about $100,000,000 a year to maintain upwards of 18,000 missionaries abroad. This effort has borne fruit in the form of small but dedicated colonies of native Christians in nearly every country. But Chris tianity still has only a foothold in Asia and Africa. In most Asian countries, Christians con stitute only from one half of one per cent to three per cent of the total population. There is a bright spot in the picture, however, and American churchmen are now focusing their attention to it. The native churches, although small nu merically and woefully lacking in resources, are showing re markable zeal in spreading the faith. Some of them already have sent out missionaries to other Asian and , African countries Even from Communist China where Christianity faces a ruth- direct financial support. Other less attempt at suppression have come reports of new churches being built, new native bishops being consecrated, and other heroic efforts by Chinese Christians to "keep the spark alive." The obvious way in which American Christians can help these native churches is through ways including helping to train native clergymen and mission ary doctors, and providing tech nical experts in such fields as church administration and archi tecture a sort of religious point four program. Americans Reading Almost as Many Books Now as Before Coming of Television By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN United-Press Correspondent New York (U.R) You can't watch television and read a book at the same time, as anyone who has tried it knows, but the fact is Americans are reading almost Western Allies To Protect West Berlin Berlin (U.R) West Berlin Mayor Otto Suhr told Berliners in his semi-monthly radio broad cast Sunday that the Western Allies will protect the city from any Communist moves. The Socialist major forecast Communist "pinpricks" but said these wouldl be nothing to a city that has gone through "so many difficult situations in 10 years of the cold war." "We are thankful to the western allied foreign ministers that at the end of the unsuc esssful Geneva conference they once more announced emphati cally and explicitly the contin ued interest of their govern ments in the maintenance of the security and welfare of Berlin," he said. Manila - (U.R) Seventeen persons were killed in trafffic accidents Sunday final day of safety and accident prevention week. The dead included 14 per sons killed when two passenger buses were wrecked as they rac ed on a concrete bridge. Twenty two other persons were injured, six seriously. as much today as they did be fore TV moved in to entertain them. The TV screen hasn't made us a nation of illiterates after all. Not yet, at any rate. It ap pears to have reduced the num ber of books the average reader gets through in a year, but it has sent some people to the public library who might not have gone there before. A New York librarian named Helen Evelyn Peerless has com pleted one of the most objective surveys yet conducted on the competition between the printed word and television for our lei sure time attention. Miss Peerless, who works at the Elmhurst book -borrowers passing the check-out desk and made them her guinea pigs. The results of the survey were cheering to Miss Peerless and li brary officials all over the coun try. She concluded that TV watching and reading were "highly compatible activities." Less Reading "There is no denying that tele vision does cause a decrease in the number of books read per borrower," she reported. "The statistics developed in this study put the net decline in the neigh borhood of 18 per cent. Still, there has been no overall reduc tion in the 'use of the library." Miss Peerless admittedly did not survey a "cross-section" of the population. Her subjects had A swarm of bees at a maxi mum point has a population of 50,000. to be in the library before she could hand them a question naire. This left out the great mass of people who never set foot in their public libraries. Although Miss Peerless was interested mainly in books, her survey turned up evidence that reading of newspapers has been affected least of all by TV. Where reading has suffered, it has been in terms of books and magazines. The findings were based on answers supplied by 500 library users. The other 128 contacted by Miss Peerless didn't own TV sets. The 500 were asked to com pare their pre-TV reading habits with their present ones. Newspapers Popular Sixty-nine per cent said they read newspapers as much as ever, 14 per cent said they were reading newspapers more and 15 per cent said they were read ing them less. This was inter preted as a net decline of one per cent in newspaper reading. The net decline in magazine reading was pegged at 19 per cent and in book reading at 18 per cent. A little over half the library patrons said they spent more time reading than watching TV and one-fourth spent about the same amount of time on each. The remainder spent more time with the TV on than with a book, magazine or newspaper. 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