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8 A SUNDAY. JANUARY 20. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON The Family Council Editor's note! The rmlly Council consists of a luat. nhvchtatrliL thrco clcrivmen. three edlton and a women'i editor, Each article ti a summary of a family dliaf rcement presented to the Council. The .council aears vmn prooiemi. major ana minor, encountered by guidance counselor! and social workers. Edited Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyriiht by General Features Corp.) Flo T. Because of her 1 theories, she's holding her child back. Karen F. - I refuse to let my child be pushed, Just to how oft. Flo T. - I'm here from Denver, visiting my sister and her family. I'm particu larly fascinated by my niece Debbie who s tnree years oia year younger than my little boy. I hear Debbie babbling the A B C's. Then she pre tends to read, holding the book upside down and even over her head. She seems , ready and eager to read, but ' her mother ignores this and changes the subject with her, usually for Ring-A-Round-A. Rosy. . I'm amazed at Karen's stub' bornness about this. Where come from they encourage parents to teach pre-school kids to read. My son had book at Debbie's age. He call ed it his favorite game. Unless Karen helps Debbie with the . letters, the child will ask others and Set all mixed up. ' Karen F. - There's no one more unfortunate than youngster who's being pushed to satisfy her parents vanity, That was done to me ana don't want to repeat it with Debbie. Why must a child of read? Even Flo's little boy would be better off If they kept books away from him. By the time our children are eleven and twelve they 11 probably read several books a week and no one will know or care when they learned or how, whether at 3 or at 7. But this is a child's age for sandbox and climbing and dancing. My sister Is misled by Deb bie's fun with books. It's only imitative. She sees my hus band and me holding a book at every . spare moment so she curls up with her Mother Goose for Aunt Flo. The Councilt When you got ta go, you gotta go, and when you gotta read, Karen, you gotta read. Controversy abounds on the question raised here, but the majority of experts feels that the Law of Readiness is the one to go by. There's a difference be tween forcing a pre-schooler to read and allowing her to do so. Ploughing under, holding back any. growth which is ready to function Is an un healthy process," Surrounded words, the child of 3, 4, and cannot help but wonder about letters and sounds. They flush across TV commercials, out door signs, ever skywriting in the heavens. Interest and curiosity are inevitable. And those are the essentials for learning anything. Hence, many people say, "Seize th moment of greatest eagerness and get in the reading instruc tion while it s easy." The project in Denver which Flo mentions is one of several where reading is pre. sented to 3-year-olds as play, often the sort of active play Karen seeks for her daughter. Youngsters carry around large models of each letter, or mould them out of clay. They identify words flashed on screens from an electric type writer. Sometimes they have their own typewriters on which to bang out letters and numbers. "At their own pace" is the guiding rule for these courses, Karen must admit that it's a fair approach and that works two ways. One has no more right to slow up a bright child than to push an average or dull one. And one can't be glib about a parent's motives, Usually the young child who reads really wanted to Icarn and wasn't hurried along so mat nis parents might bras, lo sum up, reading can be as much fun as painting, sing ing, sliding and swlneine. Just because it's a skill that will be used all the child's life Is no reason for nostnon- Ing it until he's had his fill of other forms of fun. If Debbie's ready, for reading, her moth er's quibbling Is foolish. Salem Newsman Going To London Salem -OIPD-J. Wesley Sulli van, news editor of the Ore gon Statesman, is to leave Portland for London Jan. 25 lo begitutwo months, of news gathering in Britain and on the Continent. He is lo be ac companied by his wife, Elsie. His trip is to be sponsored by the Statesman and the Portland branch of the Eng lish Speaking Union with a grant of $1,000. Sullivan expects to return to Oregon about April 2. Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1963) PROGRAM CRITICIZED Salem - H1P11 - Gov. Mark Hatfield's proposed $45 mil lion higher education build ing bonding program has been sharolv criticized by Sen by words, words, and moro Ward Cook (D-Portland). Nature Selected Figure 7 As Magic Number of Bones One of the most amazing characteristics of the giraffe is its exceedingly long neck That, and the fact the animal is prehistoric, make it a stand out in the animal kingdom. Alongside the giraffe in the zoo, not at all amazed at the company it keeps, will usual ly be one or more English sparrows. Here arc two am mals with very dissimilar necks the very short neck of the sparrow and the very long one of the giraffe. Unbe lievable as it sounds, there are over twice as many bones in the short neck of the spar row as there are in the long- necked giraffe. The sparrow has 26 vertebrae; the big mam. mal only seven. It must have been nature, not man's superstition, that selected the figure 7 as the magic number. Nature creat ed all mammals from the tiny mouse up to the mighty whale and including man with this magic number of neck bones. Nature also designed two other neck arrangements: birds, with 16 bones except for the swan, which has 23 Lacks Flexibility The neck of the giraffe lacks the flexibility of the swan's neck, but inasmuch as the long neck gels the ani mal's head up where the foil age is fresh and green, it serves its purpose. If the poor old giraffe had as many neck bones as the swan, he would be able to bend his neck in order to eat or to drink from pool without having to strad dle his long legs out at such ridiculous angles. That's where the birds have it all over all the other ani mals in having so many neck bones: their necks have ex treme flexibility. The birds' way of life dictates the num ber of vertebrae in the neck. The swan needs 23 to make its neck about as flcxibile as a piece of rubber hose. It comes handy in reaching down to the bottom of shallow water. All the other bird specleR sparrowi robin, owl, heron, eagle have to get along with 16 neckboncs, but even that many makes it possible for the bird to crook its neck into seemingly impossible po sitions. By twisting the neck, the bird can clean and oil every feather on Its body.' Man, mouse, whale, giraffe and all the mammals in be tween, with only seven neck bones, are handicapped to some degree. Man can turn his head far enough to either side to look over either shoul der, or can tip the head up or down. But birds can turn their, heads almost completely around; bend their neck in crook, a loop or almost circle, or, as the great blue heron frequently does, bend the neck in the shape .of the letter S. The neck in all living crea tures is a continuation of the backbone, and the backbone classifies the animal as a ver tebrate. But enters here seeming contradiction: the fish is a vertebrate as it pos sesses a backbone, but it. has no neck. It Just can't turn its head at all. The fish must turn its entire body, but this proves no real problem. In the environments in which the fish lives, a "stiff neck" no neck at all is a decided advantage. Could the fish turn its head, the added resistance against the water would slow its forward progress. So in stead of having a flexible neck the fish turns its entire body and continues a straight line Train Hits Trailer, Scatters Pipe Load A trailer load of galvanized pipe was scattered for about 100-yards along the tracks Thursday when a Southern Pacific company locomotive and an Armco Metal Products truck were involved In a col lision at the railroad crossing on Table Rock rd. near Kirt- land rd. State police said that the collision occurred about 9:25 a.m. Front end of the loco motive was badly damaged nd the semi-trailer attached lo the truck was demolished. There wore no personal in juries, police reported. Driver of the truck was Rex Arellanos, 52, Portland. Armco is a Portland firm. Engineer of the locomotive, which was towing 31 cars, was John David Burgoyne, 47, Klamath Falls. Police stated that the west bound engine hit the right center of the trailer of the northbound truck. The trailer remained connected to the truck and was pulled a short distance along the tracks. 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