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Unittd Prn Inernetionel
Somerville, N.J. OJPU In a
third grade room in this
North New Jersey residential
town a group of eight-year-olds
confidently raised their
voices to the tune of an old
Spanish Bong:
"El patiti (little duck) hace
si cuac, cuac, cuac . . .
ei gatito (little cat) hace asi
miau, miau, miau . . ."
In another room of the
same school, a group of
fourth-grade children were
listening to two or their class-
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Far Away Places
Counterpart
Arranged in
By DICK WEST
Washington-IUPII-"Far away
places and strange sounding
names , . ." Remember that
. song? It keeps
coming back
like a hHunl
Ing refrain ev
ery time i
pick up a
Mirch II
copy of the
C o ngression-
1 Record.
This edition
contains the
first expense reports filed by
our far-flung congressmen on
their travels to near and dis
tant lands during 19(J2f
t it gives a body wanderlust
Just to look at neat columns,
so round and firm and fully
packed with figures.
What the senators nnd rep
resentatives and their aides
reported in the Record was
the amount of counterpart
funds that they spent while
taking care of coiiKrosslonul
business overseas.
Counterpart funds, as you
may know, ere foreign cur
rencies owned by the U. S.
government, They have
been made available to Itin
erant congressmen more or')
less for the asking.
In 1062, as fur as I could
tell, our footloose lnwgivcrs
left no counterpart unturned.
If you arrange their expense
accounts in a certain order,
they make a sort of poem:
"Pesos in the Philippines;
"In Austria, the schilling:
"In France the franc whs
ready cash,
"And believe me they were
willing.
"In ancient Greece, the
drachma;
"Pesetas rain in Spain:
"In Panama, the balbnit
"Flows mainly down the
drain.
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THURSDAY. MARCH 14. 1963
Graders Speak Airoother Toimgue With Confidence
mates- greet each other in
French:
"Bonjour, Mademoiselle,"
said a husky, crew-cut boy of
nine to a pretty blonde of the
same age. "Comment allez
vous? ..."
In Somerville, population
14.000, boys and girls of all
I.Q.'s learn French and Span
ish by simple conversation
(no grammar) in daily 15-min-ute
sessions that begin in the
third grade and pick up mo
mentum in longer, more for
mal Instruction later on.
Elementary school language
fourth grade
at elementary
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Spending Accounts
Poetry by West
"Cambodia supplies riels;
"Indonesia mints the rupee;
"In Portugal, the escudo
"Is UBCd tor making
whoopee.
"Russia rubles; Swedish
kruncrs; , , ,
"In Italy, the lira
"Baht Is spent in Thailand;
"Too bad It Isn't nearer.
"Yet In Japan; sol in Peruj
"Plasters from the
Firing on Soviet
Trawler Denied
Washington - IUPU - The
State Department says Rus-
s charge that U. S.
Navy ships fired on a Russian
trnwler was "without founda
tion." No "surface vessel" was
within 12 miles of a U.S.
destroyer engaged in gunnery
practice as the Russians said,
and a State Department
spokesman added that the ship
was firing ammunition with
only a seven-mile maximum
range.
Spokesman Lincoln White
said Investigation of the al
leged incident 70 miles cast
of Norfolk on March B when
the Russians said two missile
cruisers and a destroyer fired
dummy rounds at the Soviet
fishing boat revealed:
The sile of the alleged inci
dent is located within "an
established and recognized
U.S. Navy operations area,"
and on the day in question,
"U.S. naval vessels, none of
which were cruisers, were in
the area."
"Six U.S. Navy destroyers
fired Runncry exercises in this
area on March 8.
"The ship nearest the locu
tion of the alleoed incident
fired an anti-aircraft practice
at a towed sleeve target. At
the time of the firing this
ship was 10 miles from the
position which the Soviet
Union reports was the loca
tion of the incident.
"The ship fired In an easter
ly and westerly direction with
ammunition which has a sev
en-mile maximum range. No !
surface vessel was within 12
miles of the firing ship."
Asian Flu Virus
Believed Discovered
Washington - WPP - The Na
tional laxtitute of Health be
lieves it has discovered a new
type of influenza virus which
may have caused this winter's
Asian flu epidemic.
The NIH Wednesday said
the new virus was discovered
too late for drug manufac
turers to change the flu vac
cine that was used this win
ter. However, officials said
they have developed an ex
nerimental vaccine which ran
Dc "ca Protective shots
given next year.
learning is not new in the
United States. French has
been taught to selected pupils
throughout the grades in
Cleveland since 1922. At least
30 communities teach Russian
before the eighth grade and
a few, long-established pro
grams in Swedish, Chinese,
Serbian and Creek can be
found in some elementary
school curriculums.
Program Gains
But the Somerville exam
ple of teaching a foreign lan
guage to all students not
conversational language class
school In New Jersey. (UPI)
Vietnamese; '
"Sucre's sweet in Ecuador,
"But in Brazil, cruzeiro
please,
"The Deutschmark in
' Germany;
"From Yugoslavia, the
dinar;
"In Guatemala, It's quetzal.
"Than which there's noth
. ing finer.
"Guilders in The
Netherlands;
"Colon In Costa Rica;
"No wonder that our
congressmen
"Were heard to cry
'eureka!' "
Leased Telegraph
Rale Hike Postponed
Washington-IUril-The ' 'eder-
al Communications Commis
sion indefinitely postponed
Wednesday Its order to In
crease rates on May 1 on
telegraph lines leased by the
press and others.
The FCC said the stay was
granted pending study of pe
titions to reconsider the or
der submitted by United
Press International, the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers
Association and the Amcri
ran Telephone & Telegraph
Co.
The rule increases were
grunted on Jan. 28 to AT&T
and Western Unlonv The in
creases would have boosted
costs for the press and other
users of such private leased
telegraph lines by $4,102,000
a year.
Klamath Falls Man
Enters Guilty Plea
Joseph James Bettles Jr.,
Klamath rails, pleaded guil
ty to charges of obtaining
property by false pretenses
and execution of sentence was
suspended for 12 months
when he appeared In Jackson
county district court this
week.
The charge Involved
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Just the bright and follow.
ing this up with an effective
program in the junior and
senior high schools is only
now beginning to come into
its own.
"It is part of a current
great excitement almost a
revolution in language
learning now taking place in
the United States," says Don
ald D. Walsh, director of the
Modern Language association,
a learned society of teachers
with offices in w York.
Fourteen years ago, when
Instruction of a foreign
tongue was first introduced
in Somerville, the local edu
cators were out to , prove a
point. ,
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teach a foreign language in
the same manner the child
had learned E n a 1 1 h by
practice in simple talk about
everyday things we be
lieved it could be given to all
the pupils," explained Doro
thy Chamberlain, who helped
start the program in 1949.
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"We knew that by the age
of three, the baby had learned
to use its own language all
the babies, the bright, the
average, the dull," she said.
In the Somerville program,
no formal grammar was
taught until the seventh grade
and no written work was giv
en in the elementary grades,
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almost no English, the young
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Students of low I.Q. learned
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sometimes better, said Miss
Chamberlain, "because the
most important piece of
equipment a child needs is
just a good ear."
The stutterers didn't stutter
in the new languages, she
said .and soon Somerville's
eighth-grade students knew
more about a second tongue
than most pupils who had
completed the usual first-year
high school course elsewhere.
Princeton Watches
Commented one Princeton
University professor of the
Sommerville program: "If I
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could get these, big hulking
college students of mine to do
the same things that you're
doing here p lay games,
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learning a foreign language
I could make it stick."
What is happening today,
Miss Chamberlain said, is that
the public schools are prepar
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that the colleges will have to
change their methods."
"To many college students
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"I'd like to see a set-up in
kindergarten with three or
four teachers each speaking
a different language," he said.
"We're convinced the young
sters would take to it like a
duck takes to water."
Before Age of 12 .
Extensive instruction
should take place before the
age of twelve or thirteen
"when hardening of the vocal
organs sets in," he said.
"Five years ago, the public
was ignorant about elemen
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is estimated more than four
times that number, with ona
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