Medford mail tribune., October 24, 1960, Image 7

lgNDAY. OCTOBER 24. ISW . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MKDfORD, ORE. . A 7
College-Trained Housewives0 Being LSsei To Scive Education Problem
OF SMITH & MEN
By Jack Smith
(c) I960 Tlmei-Mlrror Syndicate
Having no girl children, I
have complacently believed I
would never be shaken loose
from my sanity by that hide
ous of sounds - the automo
bile wolf whistle.
That baleful "woo woo"
was something that could hap
pen only to less fortunate fa
thers, whose toothsome daugh
ters were being delivered at
their front gates by less well
bred scions than my own.
All complacent attitud ;
come, to an early end. I got
a woo woo last Sunday after
noon. An end - of - the - week
nirvana had settled on the
household. My older son was
reading a review of "Spar
tacus." I was working the
crossword puzzle and was
stumped by what turned out
to be the Chaldeon sun god.
My wife was combing the
burrs out of the dog. The hi-fi
was playing "Jellybean."
There was a woo woo at
the door.
. "That can't be for us," I
'aid. My boy went to the door
and pulled it open.
"Daddy!" he shouted. "It's
Doug. He's in a hearse!"
I Tushed to the door. It
was Doug. He was getting his
sleeping bag out of a yellow
Cadillac hearse. There was a
man at the wheel of the hearse
I had never seen before. He
smiled and pulled something.
The hearse went woo woo.
," The hearse, it turned out,
is the family car of one of
my sons colleagues in the
Boy Scouts of America. He
explained that they think of
it as a station wagon.
"It came from San Fran
cisco," he said. "It's had 13
years of experience. It's still
got the turntable in it."
He had been on a week
end campout with the Scouts.
"It was really primitive,
Pa," he said. "We had to dig
our own latrines and I fell in
the hole we dug for the dish
water." "How'd you manage to do
that?" I asked.
"We were playing football
in the riverbed," he explain
ed, "and I was trying to catch
a high pass."
As it turned out he vindi
cated himself by cooking hot
cakes. "The only trouble was that
the girdle was too hot and
they got burned," he said.
"You mean the griddle?"
I said.
"Yes," he said, "the griddle.
The minute you put the hot
cakes on it they went psst
and were black."
"Were you warm?" my wife
asked. That seems to be a
mother's main concern. A boy
could come home from the
Battle of the Bulge and three
months in the Rue Pigalle
and his mother would want
to know if he had Been warm
enough.
"Half the time," he assured
her, "I didn't even wear my
T-shirt."
"Did you have enough to
eat?" she asked. That's their
second concern.
"Plenty," he said. "We had
burned eggs, too. The girdle
was too hot. But I caught a
crawfish and a horned toad
and a lizard."
"Good Lord!" I exclaimed.
"You didn't eat them!"
"No," he said, ."I turned
them over to a boy who is
going to college and is study
ing animals."
"Did you have enough wa
ter out there in the wilder
ness?" I asked.
"No, Pa," he said, "there
Wasn't any water at all. We
had Kool-Aid. Is there any
thing to eat?" -
"I suppose your mother can
whip up something," I said,
"as soon as she gets her girdle
hot."
"Good," he said. "Pa, do
you think we could get a
hearse?"
JUDGE DIES
Baltimore -(UPD- New Jersey
Superior Court Judge Nicho
las A. Tomasulo, 54, died Sat
urday. . .
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EX-MOBSTER RELEASED Mickey Cohen, former mobster,
sports a heavy beard as he leaves the Los Angeles jailhouse
on $100,000 bail. He has been in jail for the past two weeks
on tax indictments. Sandy Hagen, his latest girl friend, ac
companies him as he leaves the jail. . (UPI Telephoto)
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Boston - Former Democratic Congresswoman Mrs. Helen
Gahagan Douglas, brushing off an egg-throwing incident at
the Ford Hall forum before which she spoke:
"With a campaign people often get carried, away."
Los Angeles - Tamas Kallai, a Hungarian immigrant
who mistakenly received a check for $100,021.20 instead of
one for $21.20: .
'I dreamed for a few minutes of what this would buy
and then I came back to reality."
Washington - Vice President Richard Nixon, promising
hotter developments in an already intense campaign for the
presidency:
"You haven't seen anything yet."
London - Eddie Fisher, replying to a claim that his wife,
Elizabeth Taylor, was too plump to start filming her next
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Correct Papers
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Corrtpond.nt
One of the America's wasted
assets is being put to work in
some communities to help
solve a serious educational
problem.
The asset is the brainpower
of a large corps of college
trained housewives.
The problem is the teaching
of English composition.
Colleges and employers
have been complaining loudly
in recent years about the in
ability of many U.S. high
school graduates to compose
a passable letter, theme or
report.
They have pointed out that
it is well nigh impossible for
a young person to succeed in
college or a career unless he
has a reasonable facility in
communicating informat i o n
and ideas in writing. And they
have demanded to know why
high schools were failing to
equip a large proportion of
their graduates with this es
sential skill.
Doesn't Com Naturally
The answer is not hard to
find. Skill in writing doesn't
"come naturally" to anyone;
it is developed only through
practice - a great deal of
practice.
And the average American
high school student is not get
ting much practice in English
composition.
Ideally, each student should
be required, as part of his
high school English courses,
to write at least one theme or
paper a week.
But studies by the educa
tional t e s t ing service of
Princeton, N. J., show that
many high school English stu
dents are assigned only four
papers a year.
Dr. Paul B. Diederich, di
rector of the educational test
ing service, says the paucity
of writing assignments is a
simple matter of "self-preservation"
on the part of over
worked high school English
teachers.
Many of them are asked to
face classes of 35 to 40 stu
dents each, for five or six
successive periods each day.
Their total teaching load may
be 200 or more students. That
is twice as many students as
the maximum recommended
by such educational authori
ties as Dr. James B. Conant.
Wouldn't Have Tim
Obviously, no English teach
er can be expected to correct
and grade 200 themes a week,
or even, a major fraction of
that number. She wouldn't
have time to do so, even if she
devoted all of her evenings
and most of her week ends to
the task.
That's where the college
trained housewives come into
the picture.
With the aid of Ford
Foundation grants, distributed
through the Educational Test
ing service, high schools In 16
widely - scattered American
cities have been conducting
an experiment during the past
two years.
They have hired house
wives, with college degrees in
English, to correct and grade
compositions in collaboration
with regular high school Eng
lish . teachers. The "theme
readers" usually work at
home, while their own chil
dren are in school. They are
paid for their work - in some
places on the basis of 25 cents
per theme, elsewhere at a flat
rate of $1.25 to $2 per hour.
More Frequent Aiilgnmenii
With this system, English
teachers can assign themes
much more frequently - and
give their students the super
vised practice which is indis
pensable to the development
of proficiency in writing.
There seems to be no good
reason why high schools
throughout the country should
not adopt this idea. The college-trained
housewives are
available in every community
- and eager to be useful. The
extra cost will not be excess
ive for any school district that
attached real importance to
mastery of the 2nd R.
Retired Employees
Hear Several Talks
Col. C. L. Williams report
ed on the Oregon State Fede
ration of Retired Civil Em
ployees' meeting in Eugene
as a featured talk during the
local chapter meeting In the
Army Reserve center at Co
lumbus sj.and McAndrews
Local chapter, state and na
tional activites of the Nation
al Association of Retired Civil
Employees were discussed.
Robert Worrell, Rogue River,
talked on inventors and the
process of obtaining patents
Army Personnel To Attend Center Dedication Nov. II
Personel representing two
divisions and Tenth Corps
quartermaster will participate
in ceremonies marking for
mal dedication of the new
Army Reserve center on Nov.
11. Maj. Gen. William F.
Dean, retired, will address
townspeople and reservists
during the program beginning
at 12:30 p.m.
Recently completed at a
cost of more than $250,000,
the building at 701 North Co
lumbus ave. is headquarters
for the area commander and
his two assistants, as well as
CLERGYMAN DIES
Middletown, Pa. -(UPtl The
Rev. Robert S. Marsden, 55,
widely known educator and
clergyman who helped found
the Orthodox denomination
of the Presbyterian Church,
died Sunday. He was execu
tive secretary of the West
minster Theological Seminary
at Philadelphia at the time of
his death.
four Department of the Army
civilian employees. This staff
advises and assists Headquar
ters 6337th Infantry Division,
headquarters and three com
panies of 2nd Battalion 414th
Regiment 104th Division
(training) Receiving Company
of 104th Division (training)
and headquarters of the
382nd Quartermaster Batta
lion. The building is designed
to provide facilities for ad
ministration, supply and
training of these units.
In addition, many commu
nity organizations find the
building to be an asset. Activ
ities such as the recent court',
ty-wide police training school
and various civic club meet
ings have been held here. Th
Veterans Day queen selection
and the winter flower show
will also make full use of tha
classrooms and assembly hall
Organizations may inquire
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telephoning Ma. Ray E. Stew
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