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...brasses and the lasses may look the same, but in fact the Army is finding new ways to serve God by serving man. In many of its slum-area chapels, officers still sweeten their fundamental ist, Methodist-derived gospel preaching with soap and soup for half-listening human derelicts. But the Army is rapidly augmenting its brigades in Latin America and Africa, and there finds that the greater need is for cures and classes; today the Army operates 857 schools and 210 medical centers in 86 countries. Affluence has not by any means rendered the Army obsolete. "Even...
...government set up a fund to cover the boys' education. The family can well use it. Inés María and the babies' father, Efrén Lubín Prieto, 38, live in a 20-ft.-sq. mud hut in a dismal slum on the shore of Lake Maracaibo. Out of Efrén Lubín's earnings of $10 a day, he supports 18 people, including ten children from his previous families and four from Inés María's first marriage. No one seemed to mind that...
...have noticed, however, that whenever the subject of housing is mentioned in reference to the Negro, with or without a picture, it is invariably a slum area. This portrayal of the "typical" Negro area insidiously impedes the Negro's drive for better housing by presenting an unfair image. We cannot close our eyes to the fact that slum areas do exist, but I feel that if some of the pleasanter-looking Negro areas were shown in the press, as a change from the hackneyed slum picture, a wrong impression of Negroes and their relation to property values would...
Since all this parallels the problems of teaching U.S. slum children, the book's solution may be applicable far beyond the backlands of New Zealand. The author argues for what she calls "organic teaching"-a way to spur nonlearners to read and write by bringing their inner feelings into the tasks...
This is the most honest thing in an autobiography that breaks the rules by offering no one quite credible except the subject. But the last we see of Shelagh, in "gintears" and alone among the eyeless houses of a condemned slum, is vivid enough...