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While physically not a slum, the Elms is a squalid place to live. During the day a child can be seen, crying but unnoticed, on the step of an entryway. And as evening comes, a teenager can chase a screaming seven-year-old across the project without interference. A mother's plaint is accurate: "The project is no place to bring up a child...
...Elms stands where a slum was razed to make way for a new attack on poverty, disease, and delinquency. But health has not improved. In moving the residents away and back again something was lost, and when the project was opened the delinquency rate soared above the heights of slum days. At last, by creating clubs to replace the fighting gangs that once roamed the streets, the local settlement house is trying to reintroduce some kind of organization...
...Lately, militant groups of the President's Democratic Action Party have taken to coping with violent street opposition with strong-arm squads of their own. As it also becomes obvious that riot organizers are nearly always of the extreme left or the extreme right, the students and unemployed slum dwellers, who made up the mobs, have grown more and more reluctant to fight...
Kennedy's domestic program also is all wrong. His plan to spend lavishly on schools, medical care for the aged, road building, slum clearance, etc., plays right into the hands of the Soviets. Their strategy in the cold war is to needle us into spending our way to national bankruptcy. In that manner they can take us without firing a missile...
Seeing & Stretching. In 1907 she set up a school in Rome for obstreperous slum kids, using an arsenal of ingenious devices that moved from the sensory to the abstract. By handling and copying letters cut out of cardboard, the kids at four simply fell into writing and then reading. By feeling beads strung on wires in units of ten, they "saw" numbers and learned to compute in their heads. With the teacher acting only as guide, each child worked alone at his own little table or on a small rug, where he could lay out beads and blocks, and incidentally...