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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON UESUAY, SKKiEMBKK 10, IMS The Numbers Game II ;.':t?'''"t A 7 Automation Sometimes Turns Numbers Askew; People Revolt Against, System Editor's note Americans live their lives "by the numbers," but sometimes the numbers spewed out by modern com puters go astray or go too far. The following dispatch, the sec ond of three, reports on how some Americans have revolted against the numbers game. By BARNEY SEIBERT VPl Correspondent On the Pacific Coast 1962 was the year of the great telephone revolt. In May of last year Pacific Telephone 4 Telegraph Co. an nounced it was converting all its San Francisco exchanges to all-digit dialing. American Telephone and Tele graph Co. said it was running out of numbers, what with 3.8 million new phones going in every year in the nation. With the named exchanges there were only 540 exchange com binations possible on telephone dials. With numbers, the phone company said, 576 combinations were possible. The formation of the Anti- The Medical Roundup Eraeriuii Consultant In Mediclnt Mayo runic Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Register xjd Tribune Syndicate. 1961) Child Learns To Talk Many mothers write, worried because their child of 2 or 3 or 4 vears isn't talking, or saying much. Natural-It- thttv n r f v - 1 unnrlerine if the child is mental- -Rf$M V retarded, ana "S j if en hnwfsr IE . Sf-J Kl..'. t. ftiS 1S ne? Because f&y y 1 1 am no expert fV M::f I In this fioirl tn 1 get an answer, Aivarc i generally pull down from my library shelves a book by the famous Dr. Gesell, who spent his life finding out just when a child should say occasional words, and when he should put three or more words together to form a sentence. In "Today's Health." for April, 1963, 1 found an article by Flora Rheta Schreiber who once wrote a book on children's speech. In this article she tells what a child, at the different ages, should be achieving in the way of speech. To illustrate: she tells about a 14-month-old girl who had such a superior intelligence that she could say, when her father commented on her en thusiastic behavior, "But Daddy, I'm happy." Mrs. Schreiber says that some times a boy will come out with a good sentence which shows that for some time he has been learning to talk, but perhaps for reasons of shyness, has not said much. Perhaps, at the age of 2, he did not say much, but at 3 he was talking to the chil dren about him, and he was making sentences. As Mrs. Schreiber says, the better the child can talk, the less likely he is to be a problem to those FUND FOR GOLDWATER SAVANNAH, G a. (UPI) Georgians have contributed more than $30,000 to the national movement to draft Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) for presi dent, state chairman Joseph Tribble said Monday. Farms along the New York- Pennsylvania border raise two thirds of the nation's commer cial buckwheat crop. about him. Also, she says: "Your child may be slower than normal for his age, and yet not be so slow that you have to worry about him." May Use Single Word During the first year of life, children seldom use sentences, and some children may not even use words. Often a small child will use a single word like "up," when he means he wants to be picked up and perhaps taken out of his playpen. Or, as au parents know, he may say, milk," when he wants his Dot tle. At the beginning of his second year. Johnny may oe using nouns as sentences. If he says, water," he wants water; or if he says, "ball," he means "Give me a ball." But soon he begins to combine nouns and verbs to form sentences. This tendency is likely to come between the ages of 13 and 27 months. On the average, one can expect him to be making his first sentence at the age of 17 months. But he may begin to make sentences somewhere around the age of 21 months. After that he should be trying to make his sentences longer and more complex and more varied. By the age of 2 years, Johnny is likely to be asking all sorts of questions. By the 18th month, about a fourth of our children are using noun and verb phrases; some of them perhaps containing only two words. Between the 21st and 24th months there is often con siderable progress in the ability to think in an abstract way Johnny may then say, "My Mommy," which involves the idea of possession. By his third birthday his sen tences should be somewhat sim ilar in length, grammar, and structure to the ones that his oarents use. With each passing month, he uses more complex and compound sentences. Then he should begin to string several sentences together. He may still be omitting auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, some pronouns, and articles. Meaning To Sayings During the fourth year, the Digit Dialing League was sport-, sored by a group of such seri ous thinkers as semanticist Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, whose talent? do not run to remembering seven digits. They decided "there ought to be a law." Psvchologist Jack Block of the University of California at Berkeley cited the Wechsler adult intelligence test, which savs that onlv the most efficient minds can remember numbers of more than six digit. Gone Too Far' Carl Mavs. executive secre tary of the Great Issues Founda tion, said, "this passive accept ance of creeping mechanism has gone far enough. Hayakawa charged that "the telephone company is saving it self trouble by giving it to us. We need a little poeiry in our lives and the end ol tne named exchanges will take it away," the semanticist saw. Five hundred miles to the south comedian Allan Sherman in Los Angeles gave the ADDL moral siinnort bv writing a song called "Let's All Call Up AT&T and Protest to the President, Marnh " The ADDL carried its fight to the California Public Utilities rnmrnissinn. where it still is continuing. T wlr its stand. ADDL wit MCO testified that the phone could have multi plied the possible number com binations nearly ten-fold with ,0.ri!in tn all-digit dialing, uui v.w..p -- ..... ,., A psychologist lesuueu children would be more apt to foreet the all-digit emergency phone numDers unuei sue c..e Su-itrhnvpr Painless AT&T officials in Kew ions countered that the switcn to all riioit numbers came with little difficulty there and most ot tne opposition aiu r fore the system was acuiany i,tUoH AT&T said researcn indicated all digit dialing "would present no serious memory proo- . .1 . tilA In ale lem suDsequeui new t..-. confirmed this. Rut the transition was;it it that nainless for some. for example, ineie w "- fellow who telephoned unuea Press International in Chicago and asked, "UPI7 Where: 000a gosh, I was calling my insur ance company in Pittsburgh.' Such things, the scientists point out, are human not ma chine error. Irma Wyman, engineering consultant for the Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Co., said the chance of even the most fal lible electronic computer mak ing an error is "one in one million . million - million." Rut errors do happen and when they occur they may be oioanlic. There was the lucw soul in Texas who found that a computer had deposited whopping sum of money in his checking account and he promptly withdrew it. Late Birthday Card There was the fellow in Chi cago who mailed a birthday card to a suburb, using the new Zip code. It was delivered more than a week later after stop overs (according to postmarks) in two other cities. Warden Ross Randolph of Il linois' Menard State Peniten tiary said that introduction of the post office Zip code has slowed delivery of newspapers to prisoners by three or lour days. "We can't stand much more of that efficiency,"' he said. The University of Utah, link ed along with six other schools to a computer in Los Angeles by means of a telephone line, sent the same mathematical! nrnhlnm with slioht variations " t v 17 times. Seventeen times the university got an answer, fn the 18th time, the computer apparently tired things, relusea problem. tired of the whole and) a r ised to accept the p6t a It'ri lUff hi Thrf' there was the magazine publjlher who bought an auto jmtfc "machine to handle his siibi'ription list. Something 'ninnt 'imvtnu with tVia mnr-hiriA a f single new subscriber t (truck load of copies of a UMaUf. Most bank errors resulting in the automated accounting sys tems come when a deposit is entered before the computer has been advised that a new account has been opened. In this situation the compu ter will "either credit the de posit to an account that isn't there or forget about it entire ly," Miss Wyman of Minneap olis - Honeywell said. Next; Is man losing his iden tity to numbers? i. REGISTER NOW September 30 FALL TERM September 30 DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES Robertson School of Business 40 North Riverside Medford 773-4264 h 1 child should be talking well. He should be putting words together properly, and he should be giv ing color, emphasis, ana specmc meaning to wnai ne says. During his fifth year, John nv's average sentence is be tween four and five words. He also continues to master t n e grammar of a well-rounded sen tence. He should keep on length ening his sentences until he is 9'4 years old. The nprson who has epilepsy may never have had a typical j seizure. 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