Schools Employing Biographies
To Spur Pupil Reading Interest
“What makes you think that
Benjamin Franklin was the kind
of man who didn’t give up easi
ly?” “Why is 'Nothing for Her
self’ a good title for a story about
Clara Barton?”
Currently in our public schools,
buys and girls in Grades 4-8 are
talking over questions like these
in discussing the biographical
stories that appear in their basic
readers. As the questions indi
cate, teachers try to make the
discussions that follow the read
ing in such selections help their
pupils recognize the importance
of qualities like perseverance,
honesty, unselfishness.
Through the dramatic inci
dents in these true stories, youn.
gsters live for a time with heroes
whose lives mirror the Strengths
and values we want our boys
amd girls to acquire. May Hill
Arbuthnot, author of “Children
and Books" and an authority on
children’s literature, points out
why this kind of reading is ap
pealing and inspiring to youngs
ters:
“Biography carries the convin
cing weight of reality — and so
stirs emulation. The child identi
fies himself with the hero and
begins to think:. “ If he did that,
maybe if' I try hard I, too, can do
what needs to be done!"
Every year boys and girls read
about eight or more famous men
and women to their basic read
ers. They 'get ito know—
In grade 4: George Washing
ton, Daniel Boone, Noah Webster,
Robert Fulton, Francis Scott Key,
Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton,
Thomas 'Edison.
In grade 5: Benjamin Franklin,
Benjamin West, "Johnny Apple
seed,” John Audubon, Robert E.
Lee, Mark Twain, John Philip
Sousa, Ronald Amundsen.
In grade 6: Henry Shreve, Cy
rus McCormick, Alexander Gra
ham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi,
Henry Ford, Wilbur and Orville
Wright, Frank Wool worth, Ro
bert Peary, Richard E. Byrd.
In grade 7: Augustus Caesar,
Joan of Arc, Naithan Hale, Alex
ander Mackenzie, Lewis and
Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. An
thony, Edward Grieg.
In grade 8: Marco Polo, Capt.
James Cook, Lafayette, John Per
shing, Jenny Lind, Louis Pasteur,
Jules Verne, Thomas Edison,
George Washington Carver, Al
bert Einsitein, Amelia Barnhart.
Teachers have pupils discuss
the character traits that led to
the achievements of these great
men and women and help chil
dren see how (the same qualities
can contribute to their own suc
cess and happiness. Youngsters
also will be encouraged It© read
about other famous people in li
brary books — and to consider
the personal qualities that made
each one a person long to be re-’
membered
Our teachers will tell you,
however, that biography isn’t the
Only kind of reading that contri
butes to character education. In
fact, whenever children are en
joying a good selection, there are
plenty of chances tor character
building. Given interesting and
worthwhile reading material, it
is the way children are taught to
think about what Ithey read that
really counits In character devel
opment
In our reading classes, teach
Vri&g/jr
Troop No. 32 of Resurrection
Lutheran church met Tuesday,
Nov. 24. We had a flag ceremo
ny and a Thanksgiving play.
Scribes, Joyce Dixon and Barbara
Plonk
ers ask questions and encourage
discussions that teach pupils to
put themselves into the shoes of
a book character — ito see, hear,
feel as he felt. Children compare
what happened in the Sory with
what has happened to them.
They tell what ithey might have
done in a similar situation—or
what they would do now in the
light of pointers gained from the
story. Visitors are pleased and
often surprised to see how eager
ly and earnestly children enter
into these discussions, what good
thinking they do.
Our teachers are deeply con
cerned about the kind of people
our children will ibe. And they
use their modem reading pro
gram —with its biographical and
other good basic reader select
ions and its emphasis on helping
children interpret what they read
—to make an important contri
bution to character development.
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Traffic accidents, the National
Safety Council says, injure 150,
000 children 5-14 years of age
each year.
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Buying Land?
ASC Has Advice
Persons who are buying or
selling farmland for which an
acreage allotment has been es
tablished have a definite respon
sibility for becoming famiuar
with the regulations of the Sec
retary of Agriculture governing
combination and division of al
lotments and for advising the
county ASC committee when pur
chases or sales have been made.
According to D. B- Blalock,
chairman of the Agricultural Sta
bilization and Conservation Coum
ty Committee, the county ASC
rommittee is not in a position to
know of all land sales and pur
chases and therefore they can
not make a change in the acreage
allotment for the land involved
until a request for a division or a
combination is filed by the in
terested producer.
The Department of Agriculture
has issued definite regulations
and instructions on how aUot
ments may be divided or combin
ed The County ASC Committee
must follow these regulations in
all cases. Many farmers have had
some unhappy experiences !!! the
past because they did not determ
ine in advance how the acreage
allotments would be divided be
fore they bought or sold land oov
ered by the allotments.
Blalock further pointed out
that both the buyer and the seller
have a responsibility for notify
ing the county ASC office as soon
as possible after land is sold and
for requesting the county ASC
committee to make a division of
the allotment for the farm if on
ly a part of the farm is sold. II
the producer owns other land and
wishes to combine the newly pur
chased land with what he already
owns, he must file a Request with
the county committee for tne
combination. The County commit
tee, according to Blalock, may
not approve a combination unless
the tracts are operated in the
manner prescribed by the Secie
tary’s regulations and instruc
tions. Before approving a combi
nation for additional land pur
chased, the ASC Committee is
also required to determine that
a legal deed has been made and
recorded in connection with the
newly purchased land.
(Blalodk further urged that law
vers or real estate agencies who
are handling the sale or purchase
of farmland or who are advising
farmers in such transactions be
come familiar with the regula
tions before advising their cli
ents or completing any transac
tion.
4-H Girls
Leant Sewing
There are about 60 different
national and regional activities
and projects in the 4H Club pro
gram supported toy leading busi
ness firms and others.
One program is specifically for
training the 4-H clothing leader
It is called “getting the most out
of your sewing machine,” and is
supported by the Singer Sewing
Machine Company.
Miss Mary bee, clothing spe. i
dalist for the N. C. Agricultural
Extension Service, says that two
day training sessions are set up
in predetermined communities
and are usually held at a Singer
sewing center.
The most important part of the
couhse is leading modem teach,
ing techniques and how to better
work with club members. Lead
ers attending the course have ac
cess to the newest models of sew
ing machines, and actually prac
tice using attachments and mak
ing adjustments for different
sewing needs. Learning how to
take proper care of a machine is
also demonstrated.
The value of this program is
reflected in the number of 4-H
girls who benefit fronn advice and
experience given to them by their
leaders, according to Miss Lee.
Statistics indicate that dining the
past four years 100 counties have
participated in the program in
North Carolina. Approximately
1,500 agents and leaders have ta
ken the course. More than 8,600
4H igirls have been trained by
the agents and 4-H adult leaders.
With tliis kind of help the
young 4H members are able to
achieve better results in their
clothing projects. At the present
time 46 states are participating
in the clothing leader training
program under the direction bf
the Cooperative Extension Serv
ice.
Jaywalking in Jersey is not a
paying proposition, reports (the
N. C. State Motor Club. Recently
it cost a New Jersey woman $.r
to tear up a oourt summons af
ter she told a policeman he
“should be in Russia” when he
asked her to stay on the curb.
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GARDEN TIME
^ M . E . Gard nur
N . C . Si.ate College
There Is no riddle to surpass,
the mystery of growing grass,
which bravely thrusts its’ tender
stalk, through tiny cracks along
the walk; and thrives in cran
nies of the wall and in the flo
wer beds grows tall; and grows
and grows ‘till summer’s gone In
everything except the lawn (Cur
tis Heath).
How true, but I do not intend
to give up, neither should you.
If you are fortunate enough to
have a nice lawn in the making,
keep .the leaves raked off so that
the tender grass Will not be
smothered.
I raked my lawn yesterday as
clean as the kitchen drain board.
But today? You guessed it. Rain
and wind last night plastered e
verything again, so I will be
back with the leaf brootm as soon
as the sun dries things out a bit.
"I have several <black heart’
cherry trees which have never
borne fruit. Can you tell me what
I can do to make them bear?”
The “black heart” is a sweet
cherry and all sweet cherry var
ieties, which have been tested,
are self-unfruitful. That is, they
will not set a crop of fruit with
(heir own pollen.
We also have varieties which
produce viable pollen (pollen
grains that germinate and grow)
but are cross-unfruitful, or cross
incompatible.
So you see that ithe sex life of
the sweet cherry is quite com
plicated. There are many other
interesting phases of this prob
lem but perhaps I have confused
you already and should give this
fellow a possible solution.
I would recommend that he
plant either the Black Republi
can or Deacon variety with his
“black heart” trees. Both of
these varieties have proved to be
good pollenizers. Had he known
about this, he could have made
provision for cross-pollination
when his trees were planted. As
it is, he will have to wait until
the pollenizers bloom.
In the mountains, where sweet
cherries are found in abundance,
it is rare to find a non-fruitful
combination. The man who
wrote in lives In a section of the
State where sweet cherries are
not commonly grown.
Famine threatens 8,000 fami
lies — nearly 50,000 persons —
in the Loja District of Ecuador,
since a scourge of “army worms”
destroyed their corps. Contribu
tions to the CARE Food Crusade,
New York y>, N. Y., will help the
famine victims survive the win
ter months.
Death Benefits
Payment High
North Carolina families receiv
ed $38,048,000 in life insurance
death benefit payments in the
first nine months of this year,
compared with $32,780,000 in the
corresponding period of last year,
the Institute of Life Insurance
reported today. The number of
policies becoming claims in the
first nine months was 28,243,
which compares with 27,757 in
the corresponding period of 1958.
"The tremendous rise in life
insurance ownership in recent
years is reflected in this current
payments,” Holgar J. Johnson,
Institute president, said in an
nouncing the figures. "For the
country as a whole, death benefits
paid in the first nine months of
this year were $127,570,000 great
er than in the corresponding pe
riod of last year and $1,198,050,
000 more than in the first nine
months of 1949. This is a 6 per
cent rise over a year ago and
more than twice the 1949 figure.
The health record among policy
holders has actually improved in
the past ten years, but life insur
ance ownership has much more
than doubled in these years.”
Death benefit payments in this
state in the fiirst three quarters
of 1959 compare with $17,684,000
in the corresponding period of
1949.
Of this year’s nine month ag
gregate death benefit payments
in this state, $23,167,000 was und
er 7,731 ordinary insurance poli
cies; $9,827,000 was under 4,199
group life insurance certificates;
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Best way to find something is
tell a small boy not to touch it.
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Doctor to patient after the
operation: “How does that
suture?” .
rONLY THE BlSTj)d
Strange how a chow hound be
comes a gourmet when he’s eat
ing on an expense account.
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The beauty secret of1*many
blondes is rooted in mystery.
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Inflation can turn a lot of
white collar positions into frayed
collar jobs.
and $3,054,000 was under 16,313
industr ial insurance policies.
For the nation as a whole, $2,
312,926,000 was paid as death
claims under 1,471,333 policies
in the first nine months of this
year, compared with $2,185,356,
000 under 1,456,782 policies in the
like period last year. Of this
year’s payments, $1,347,229,000
was under 452,911 ordinary polici
es; $730,179,000 was under 261,
747 group life certificates; and
$235,518,000 was Under 756,675 in
dustrial policies.
Each year, farmers use 300 mil
lion pounds of rubber.
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