Show establishes school for uneducated tampers camper when an education program for civilian conservation corps camps was being established officials discovered that about three in every camp enrollees were illiterate first step was to set up clas classes in reading and writing for this minority r the result has been that in the last seven years young men have been taught to read and write in camps but educators tors found that th the e ordinary texts used to teach chil dren these elementary subjects held little interest for husky youths and made teaching them difficult act ac t cordingly they called in education experts from the U S office of education and the to devise a new primer that would not only teach but ini interest erest illiterates the upshot was an elementary read ing writing textbook that told the story of camp life andhor to live it recently federal security administrator paul V mcnutt announced that the new texts had been satisfactorily tried out in a few camps during the last few months and declared they were being made available to educational classes in all camps lf I 1 technically the new text is known as the camp life reader and work book but the boys call them bibles bl bles their object is to teach the average camp illiterate to read a d newspaper and write a letter in about three months the current workbook la is the first in a series of six four of which have not yet been completed the second which is now going through its trial period adds more words to the vocabulary of 0 the student |