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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 2(, Johnny Cant Read Idiot Rooks Either Bv Dr Max Rafferty way of doing so would be to educate our children b 'McGuffey's Readers Or, if you wish to modernize them, by readers that will quote C S Lewis, Rudjard Kipling, G K Chesterton, J R R Tolkien, Robert Nathans Portrait of Jennie, Kenneth Roberts, Robert Frost, Kenneth Grahames 'The Wind m the Willows,' John Masefield, Walter de la Mare and so on Let s begin with a couple of conUmporary quotations The air and the aters and the earth may be polluted The soul of man is certainly polluted in its most ocal noisily examples But we shall never T S There are great and sane and beautiful waters today, but they are ignored, censored, deleted, their books burned the dominant by Hitlers of the Liberal Establishment E Merrill Root Got that Now try this one. cleanse the earth until we cleanse the Dr. Rafferty soul, the first prerequisite of ecology is to purify us of our Jerry Rubins, our Allen Ginsbergs, our Jean-Pau- l Sartres, our Jean Genets and so on. And one Quite frankly, I have sf JBfc . .i.v, . :c i 5. 3 , fe I am not demanding the necessity for speaking and listening when I speak of read the tng, but it is reading ability to see a printed word, to comprehend its meaning, to which evaluate its contents is the one historic path upward and outward for the civii'zed man Thomas C. RichLittle, Supenntendent, mond (Va ) Public Schools. Why have I chosen to quote these two gentlemen' Because m reality theyre talking about the same thing Inescapable Reason One massive, inescapable reason why Johnny can't read is that too often Johnny cant see any point to reading For almost a generation now, and with a few honorable exceptions, Americas textbook publishers have been turning out readers for our elementary schools which no one excejtt a downright idiot could possibly want to read JEWELERS t grown tired of hearing excuses as to w hy children in urban schools can t read I dont belie e any of them Further, I am also convinced that children from an urban school system, particularly children from a poverty background, need to read just as much if not more than the adv antaged ehddren 1 he level of literacy has always been a measure of the progress of a civilization Sears late 1972 Ford Foundation report documents the failure of programmed instruction, the collapse of teaching A machines 7 1973 Clean Your Carpets and Furniture at SALE Prices and the demise of "modular scheduling Hands are thrown helplessly skyward, and the cry All is lost rings through the land Not a bit of it Nothing is wrong that cant be quickly cured by a simple combination of good teaching and interesting books MeGuffey belongs to history He cant be resurrected But why the devil can't publishers understand that kids are human beings, more not namby-pamb- little y Sofa and Chair Carpet Cleaning morons? They want good red meat in their books, and they deserve it. Intil they get it, theyre just not going to do much reading. A Sq. Ft. 270 Sq. Ft.) Regular 15c Sq. Ft. for Job! cleaning and soil retardant. (Minimum Would you $35 Value! eludes cleaning and soil retardant. Regular Id Salt Lake & Murray Phone Sears Salt Lake ROHH Fashion Place M3II ANO CO 3214188 Ogden Provo SEE PAGES A20 & A21 OF THIS PAPER! Root mentions MeGuffey Here, taken at random, are some story plots from the old the boys originals: death of Little Nell; Rip Van Winkle; the effects of Demon Rum; the flash of musketry and the dead bodies on the snow m the Boston Massacre, the heroic marksmanship of William Tell, and Audubons of the famous descnption passenger pigeon swarming in such numbers that tree branches broke under their weight A mixed bag, granted, but all with one thing m common tear-jerkin- g hair-raisin- g interest. Some Contrast Contrast these, if you will, with this slop from one of our most widely used elementary reading senes- the story of Tommy and his ice boat, how Jerome built a house in the woods; Alvm and his secret code, the turtle who couldnt stop talking, and how Mark Park walked m the dark. 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In contrast, no one in his right mind would move a finger, much less a dictionary, to learn whether Jerome finally got the shingles on his house over a thousand square miles Last year, in UP&L's service area, we enjoyed the bounty from almost 650,000 irrigated acres Every year new irrigaof now fertile farmland which used to be dry farmed or desertland. Q Electricity made it happen. tion water brings highly productive farming to more and more acres of previously arid land an average of alxut 30,000 of potatoes. Or 2.4 million bushels of acres of new land each year. Enough to grow 725 million bags (hundred-weigh- t) wheat O And that's one reason why we are building new power plants with bigger generating opacity they're needed irrigato keep America's food supply ahead of America's appetite. Q Electric power mans the pumps that make large-scal- e tion possible. 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