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Broker. 21s Macoy ave, Culpeper. Va.
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Grade A barn. 8 stlos. dry barn. 2
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res,, Culpeper, Va.
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annual income. Tenants pay utils.
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thing he reads. Above all, they want to
teach him to use bis head = to think and
to ask questions
A sight-method seven-year-old provided
US with good example of what his teachers
are aiming at when he looked at book
titled, "All About Whales"
ut can't be all about whales" he pro-
tested. whales are awful big and this
book is littIer'
Sight-reading supporters say their method
helps children to learn to read more easily
and with greater pleasure. They may take
longer to become accomplished readers,
but when they do they read more rapidly,
more intelligently, more critically.
The public-school educators we talked to
denied that the old-fashioned ABC- -phonics
got lOO-per-cent results.
There were plenty of problem readers
back in Grandma's day!" said Mildred
Strang. supervising principal of the York
town Central School, Yorktown Heights,
N. Y. ''They just weren't properly dag
nosed. Pupils often reached third or fourth
grade, got discouraged and quit. Others
just never got to school at ALL Now, thanks
to strictly enforced compulsory attendance
laws, schools must handle these pupils.'
Pushed or ElunIsed
WE ASKED DR.. Roma Cans, Professor of
Education. Teachers College, Columbia
University, who has taught hundreds Of our
public-school teachers, about the charge
that modern methods are so poor that they
can't get along without the extra help pro-
Wded by remedial reading classes.
Professor Cans replied spiritedIy, I'VE
need more remedial classes, not fewer.
They show how deeply concerned we are
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cious use of phonics. Contrary TO what is
charged, we found that pa0nics is very n,ucl.
in use in the majority of our public schools.
1t was only few of the extreme" modern
educators who told us that they had turned
their backs completely on phonics. In
many primary-grade classroom we found
boys and girls sounding OUT new words.
But once they learned what they meant,
they stored them away in their rapidly
growing sight vocabulary.
Most good public schools, we concluded,
agree with DIR. William S. Gray, of the
University of Chicago. DIR. Gray has been
teacher of reading for nearly half cen
tury and has recently completed two-and-
a-half-year study Of literacy for UNESCO.
He reports. There is no best method.
Neither can be used exclusively"
They agree, too, with the country school,
master encountered by Fred M. Hechinger,
Education Editor of the ''New York Herald
Tribune, - in the Lake District of England:
He showed me his library, and was
surprised to find some American sight
method primers. They had been left by an
American exchange teacher, he said, and
he found them very useful. But you know
he added, 4 discovered that some children
do better by the new way and others by the
old. And so, according to the children's
reaction, use one or the other or COM
bination of the two, whichever is best for
each child"
Doa't Turn Back the Clock
WE THINK this is the answer. We believe,
from what we have observed, that it would
be a serious mistake to turn back the clock
with a violent swing of the pendulum to
lOO-per-cent old-fashioned phonics. We
found no evidence to show that a return
to the phonics system would make better
readers of today's children. 1t offers some
advantages to some children but it still
carries with it those same serious disad-
vantages that caused the majority of our
professional educators to turn away from
it nearly half century ago.
But - and this is a very important but
we are similarly impatient with those
narrow-minded educators who have almost
made religion out of the teaching of sight
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instruction get it. Formerly, they were
pushed through or fiunked out!''
Our schools, we found, are ready to
defend their teaching records. Harold S.
Bates, Superintendent of Schools in Nor
wood, Ohio, said that in Lincoln, Neb.,
Cleveland and Dearborn, Mich, modern
grammar-school youngsters were given tests
that compared their reading skills with those
of children who studied in those cities Is to
100 years ago. In every case, he reported,
modern pupils came out on top many
by impressively wide margins!
And report compiled in 194o by the
American Educational Research Associa-
ton, based on 100000 reading scores from
60 communities, indicated that our children
are becoming steadily better readers.
Stax Pupils Can't Spell
We OBSERVED hundreds of youngsters
learning to read and enjoying the expert
ence. We listened to students in the upper
grades reading Hamlet" and Macbeth"
We watched them go through newspaper
from editorials to the Stock-market quota
y,
ever, that in many of the schools that teach
reading by the Word Method there are
some serious flaws in the results.
Even star pupils, standing at the top of
the class, are likely to be poor spoilers.
They can give you a good definition of
great many words, but they have never
been taught such simple rules as 81 before
e, except after C."
Many of these same pupils can silently
skim magazine or a book with adult
speed. They understand, in general way,
what they have read - enough to argue
about it!
But in their haste, they are frequently
sloppy, even slovenly readers who blithely
read saw" for was or insist word is
plate" when it is plainly dish" Impor-
tant detail and finer shades of meaning are
often lost.
Most of the texts these students are given
to read are badly in need of revising. They
are dull and repetitious, and so simple that
many bright pupils lose interest in the sub
ject. Modern teachers are constantly told
not to push their pupils too hard yet
many children might respond better to a
little more challenge.
Most Of the teachers and principals we
talked to admitted that in these areas mod
ern methods can stand improvement. A
few. however, like the Washington, D. c.,
public-school principal, refused to admit
anything was wrong. He blamed much of
the failure to learn to read or spell on
imponderables like world unrest, disturb
ances in the home and in parent-child
relationships.
Teachers are certainly conscious of these
problems and feel that to some degree their
work is hindered by them. Most, however,
feel like Supervising Principal Charles
T. Helmes of the Katonah Lewisboro,
N. Y. schools, who said:
''Of course these conditions exist and
make trouble for everyone. But despite
this, it is the responsibility of the school
to teach the child to read We must use
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does not have special reading teacher on
the payroll to take over when the regular
teacher has failed. Many thousands of chill
dren each year are sent to remedial reading
classes - some stay in them for the dura-
ton of their grammar-school careers. And
New York City schools have just announced
a return to the system of leaving back"
children who have not mastered the material
Of their grades - very largely as a result
Of the failure of many children to learn
to read.
These critics point out that beginning
readers in most Of our schools today can
read only two or three hundred words by
the end of their first year. But phonics-
trained child who completes first grade can
pick up nearly any book in the language
and read the most difficult words out loud,
even - the classic example - antidiSestab-
lishmentarianism.
Parents Should Start
FHONICS boosters told us they hope to see
the method reinStated as soon as possible
in all our schools. But they advise parents
not to wait. Buy phonics textbook, they
urge, and teach your child to read yourself,
preferably before he enters school, By the
time his first-grade teacher gets her hands
on him, he'll be beyond damage!
The phonics experts make out a good
case. But if the method is that good, when
and why did we abandon it? And what
have we put in its place? To answer that
let's look at the other side:
The Case for the Word Method. Most
reading courses these days lean heavily in
the early grades on sight, not sound. Chill
dren learn to read by recognizing the way
the whole word looks. They are taught not
merely to pronounce it but to think about
what it means. As often as possible, they
link it up with picture Of some physical
object that will help explain its meaning.
In one class we saw brightly colored
label from can Of evaporated milk being
pinned up on the board. The word under
discussion was Cow" In another, the
word being studied was round" A rubber
ball was bounced. The children picked it up
and talked about the feeling of roundnesS
Their teacher emphasized the difference
brightly: I'VE call our method Iook-and-
say. Old fashioned phonics was just grunt-
and-groan!"
Learning TO Think
l HE change-over from phonicS to sight
reading came more than generation ago
when educators started looking for ways to
make all studies part of the chiId's own life.
To-day they no longer mark a child as a
good" reader simply because he glibiy
rattles off the words on the page under his
nose. They want him to understand every
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13
Generous Society

THE approach of the Society's 4th Ma
u tional Junior Convention merely serves
to accentuate the fact that membership in
the Junior Order of the Croatian Fraternal
Union amounts to a virtual give away"
from the standpoint of paying Nest dues
Junior Order Director bro. Michael
~ Grasha dwells on this truism i'm an article
on page calling attention to the 1855
waivers and dividends to be enjoyed by
our Junior members.
Bro. Grasha's facts and figures not only
speak for themselves but point up some
thing every member of the Society should
know and boast of ON high: - There is
nothing around to challenge the greatness
Of the Croatian Fraternal Union.
The ability of the Societys Junior Or
der to make available better than $4,000
this year in the form of waivers and divi-
dends is, to us, fraternal generosity par ex-
cellence, generosity unparalleled.
This generosity will be further accen-
tuated with the imminent announcement
that the Croatian Fraternal Unions adult
members will share this year in divi-
dend jackpot guaranteed to please even
the most critical on the outside.
Truth to tell, the Society does not have
to stretch its waiver and dividend generos-
ity to such extremes 1t could if it wished,
pay out far less in this respect and do so
for hundred and one good reasons = all
valid under the law
The fact that it does not choose to do
SO speaks volumes for what we said above:
- There is nothing around to challenge the
greatness of our Society.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13
Cleveland Lodqes
In September Fete

Cleveland, Ohio - The Uni
ted Croatian Fraternal Union
Lodges of Cleveland will hold
their Annual "CFU Day" at
Puritas Springs Park on Sun
day, September 4.
We appeal to all Lodges,
clubs, organizations, ETC., in
this area to reserve this date
for us and make plans to join
us on the occasion, which will
serve as Greater Clevelands s
public salute to the 10th An
niversary of the Junior Order
Department of the Croatian
Fraternal Union of America.
Anna Rescic, Sec'y.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13
East Pittsburgh Member Is Surprised
By Family Friends On 10th Birthday

vities were literally and fig
uratively dropped into her
startled lap.
And to overwhelm her all
the more, some 60 of her
lady friends came from Ran
kin via bus to make Mrs. To-
masic's 60th birthday one she
will never want to forget.
All present helped make it
lone whale of a night" in the
full life of this charming
housewife and mother and the
crowd left pleased no end
that Mrs. Tomasic was the
most surprised person on
earth if only for that memo
rable night of January %.
Congratulations Mrs. To-
masic, and many, many hap
py returns Of the day.
Editorial Staff
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13
Two Able Directors Sought To Manage
Annual ChiIdren's Home Summer Camp

Des PLANES, Ill. - In accor-
dance with the decision of the
Board Of Directors of the
Children's Home of the CFU
bids will be taken for two di-
rectors for the Summer Camp
of the C.F.U., located on the
Children's Home grounds, Des
PLANES, Illinois.
The applicants husband
and wife - not under so
years of age and preferably
members of the C.F.U. must
possess all the qualifications
required for such work,
namely: good health and vi
tality; zest for out-of-door-
living; experience in handling
summer camps and the abili-
ty to understand the needs
of campers; interest in the
objectives of the camp; par
ticular skills and ability for
specific responsibilities they
are to carry; and at least two
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13

DUT 48 days remain before the termlna-
y ton Tuesday, May 81, of the Croatian
Fraternal Unions 1855 Membership Cam
paign, honoring the 40th Anniversary Of its
Junior Order Department.
Which means that those striving to
become either Junior or Honorary Dele
gates to the Socety's 4th National Jun
iOr Convention July 2-3-4, 1855, at Gary,
Indiana, now have less than seven weeks
i'm which to qualify for the honor
Since there will be no extension of the
May 81 Campaign deadline, no granting of
ious to qualify as Delegate must obviously
utilize every working hour left if they
would attend what we are now certain will
be one of the greatest such gatherings in
the annals of the Junior Order.
And now to still other things.
Elsewhere in this English Section we
are publishing the names of 81 American
and Canadian Field Workers who have
amassed Is or more Campaign Points since
the drive began January 1.
All Lodge members, each was con-
tacted last week by the Campaign-COn-
ventiOn Committee and asked to consider
becoming a Candidate for Honorary Del
egate to the 4th National Junior Conven-
ton i'm order that the July 2-3-4 proceed
ings at Gary might be all the greater.
We have reason to believe that num-
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years of college education or
equivalent in experience sig
nificant for camping,
The directors of the camp
will have to work out a daily
program which will include
athletics (softball, baseball,
volleyball and punchbalD +;
lower organized g a m c s.;
swimming beginners and in
termediate tests, life saving)
track and field; and camp
fire; singing and handicraft
(projects made of paper, me-
tai, plastic, plaster, wood and
cloth).
Directors will have room
and board at the camp.
Applications stating age,
experience in camp work, and
salary expected must be sent
Immediately to
Nick ID. Sarich, Supt.
1901 Potter Road
Des PLANES, Ill.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13

Il. Pittsburgh, Pa. - They
say you can't surprise" a
woman, that no matter how
hard you try you can't keep
a secret from a member of
the fair sex.
If so, Mrs. Milka Tomasic
must be the exception to the
rule, for her husband, family
and legion of friends sur
prised her completely Janu-
ary % last with a rousing
party honoring her 60th
birthday.
Held at the spacious home
of her son Andrew, 229
Greenfield Ave-, East Pitts
burgh, the party caught Mrs.
Tomasic so far off her usual
feminine "secret guard" that
she simply couldn't believe
her own eyes when the festi-
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CONTINUED From Page y
cover the membership char
ges for one full year.
In addition the Society
pays a $1.OO proposer a
ward and then at the time
of transfer to the adult
branch at ages 1918 there
is another grant called
Term transfer credit i'm the ,
amount of $3.50. This to-
tails an outlay of $26.5O.
Now let us not forget that
for each year of membership,
after the initial year, the
member receives 5 months of
waivers, or exactly $1.00 in
term of dollars and cents for
a total of up to $17.00. The
Term members monthly dues
cost is reduced therefore to
a mere 141a cents and even
this is wiped out at transfer
to adult time by the Term
transfer credit.
Many Extra Considerations
In addition to all of this
our Junior members receive
their Baby Book, Junior Mag
azine and certain special con-
sideration if they are active
in sports.
If they participate in bas-
ketball or bowling tourna-
ments their entry fees are
borne by the Junior Order
Department and each Junior
bowler bowling in a recog-
nized league receives a 5 cent
per line rebate for all league
games rolled.
Yes these are some of
the tangible, dollars and
cents benefits accruing
from membership in the
CFU's Junior Order. Our
Term certificate is absO-
lutely the most reasonable
in cost of any insurance
protection anywhere on
earth. We have yet to hear
of any organization that
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13

ber of these 81 Field Workers will become
Candidates - will qualify as Honorary
Delegates - for in many cases they live
close enough to Gary to attend the Conven-
ton in exchange for a nominal quota of
Campaign Points, and certainly none would
lose money by entering into such deal
In fact, not one of these 81 Field Work
ers could possibly lose anything by attend
ing the July 2-3-4 Junior Convention as
bona fide Honorary Delegates.
X
While there can be no doubt that the
gathering in Gary will be a Junior Conven-
ton, we do want to make it plain that Hon
orary (Senior) Delegates are held no less
important to the success of the rapidly ap-
preaching tryst in the Midwest
1t is our earnest desire that our "old
timers" consider themselves in this light of
Importance and, if at all possible, endeavor
to qualify as Honorary Delegates before the
Croatian Fraternal Unions Membership
Campaign reaches the end of it's string on
May 31st, 1865
A mixed Junior Convention of
young and old cannot but be a great sue
cess and leave every Delegate, regardless
of age, with nothing but lasting friend
ships and memories galore.
Let us hope that this highly desired
mixture comes to jell when the Campaign
closes May 81, for it will do each and every
one of us good in the future.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13
NUNS The Word

DRESIDENT EISENHOWER last week
administered an implied rebuke to an
American admiral with declaration that
too much speculation about war does not
serve world peace and tranquility.
Reason: = The admiral said that war
may start near Formosa around April 10
Maybe April Is is "pay-day" near For
mosa and everything goes. Anyhow. :.
Some people talk too much
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-04-13
Alaska To Gary

COME 1900 air miles separate Anchor
- age, Alaska from Gary, Ind, which will
play host July 2-3-4, 1855, to the Croatian
Fraternal Unions 4th National Junior Or
der Convention.
But the distance isn't stopping Mrs.
Mary Nukmir from striving to become an
Honorary Delegate to that Convention
and represent the Territory of Alaska for
the first time at one of these gatherings
of young and old from coast to coast
We would like nothing better than to
see her make it to Gary in July.
Currently affiliated with Seattle, Wash,
Lodge 439, Mrs. Vukmir is also "up to
something else" at the moment, something
we must sit on for awhile.
When - if - we are i'm a position to
break the news, we intend to show that
Mrs. Nukmirs efforts of the present will
contribute tremendously to the Croatian
Fraternal Unions future growth and
welfare in the Territory of Alaska
We can't say any more than this for the
time being lest we push Mrs. Vukmr to the
edge Of the automatic limb
But we're wagering that she'll make
good, that she'll be in Gary. .---
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San Franciscans
Await Tam Fiesta

San Francisco, Calf. - A
Tamburitza Festival featur-
ing two groups playing alter
nately will highlight tn e
Forthcoming dance to be held
a t San Francisco's we'll
known Yugoslav Sokol Hall
on Saturday, April %, 1855.
One of the string groups
will be the ensemble that
made it's highly successful de-
but at the recent Kolo Festi-
val in San Francisco which
was sponsored and promoted
by John Filcich. This unit is
noteworthy in that it's men,
bers are of non -Yugoslav de-
scent who are also featured
exhibition dancers of Kolos
and other folk dances.
The other group, more or
thodox in that it's members
are of Yugoslav descent, is
the erstwhile San Francisco
Tamburitza Quartet now ex-
panded to five but still rely
ing on it's three young ladies
for stage dressing and visual
audience appeal.
The dancing, which will in
clude Fox Trots, Waltzes,
Polkas, Kolos and Drmeshes,
will continue from 900 Pm.
to 100 AM. The address is
Yugoslav Sokol Hall, $50 Ed
dy St., and the welcome mat
is out for all.
William Blazevich, Pub.
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Chicago Will Play Host To TT Teams
During 21st Annual Tenpin Tournament

"C.F.U. Canucks" Of Toronto
Lodge 975. Grand total team
entries in all: - ia Men, 48
Women, plus Is Juniors equal
1T quints.
We take this means of ask
ing that all team captains and
league secretaries mail us the
requested league rage
sheets from leagues other
than C.F.U. This to ascertain
the non-C.F.U. league aver
ages submitted on the entry
blanks.
We join along with the
tournament hosts, "Krizari"
Lodge 70, in thanking the
coming tournament bowlers
in helping to surpass the 1854
mark which was pegged at
ninety mems teams and forty
two from the ladies.
Tournament chairman John
+. Golich and his staff at one
end and the zajednicar at this
end have whipped up that de-
gree of interest. Borrowing a
word from their publicity
we will see you in Chicago,
the middle of May.
Frank Braidic
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scum of Science and Indus
try, 57th Street at Lake
Michigan. Prior to a COM
plete tour of the Museum,
the Delegates will enjoy a
luncheon in the institutions
cafeteria.
The Delegates will later de-
part for Des PLANES, Illinois,
and take in the Annual CFU
Children's Home Independ-
ence Day Outing. Supper will
be served the Delegates at
600 PM and, Of course, it
will be piping hot barbecued
lamb with all the trimmings.
An informal social at Ga
rvs Croatian Center later in
the Evening will curtain the
second Convention day, Sum
day, July 3.
Last Day A Hectic One
The third and final day of
the 4th National Junior Con-
vention will begin at 900 AM
Monday, July 4, with break
fast in Hotel Gary.
The Convention will con-
vene at 1000 AM and witness
a demonstration and movies
by district Civil Defense