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Help For Children

I would like to recommend a
modest domestic program that will
appeal to conservatives and liberals
alike. Conservatives are not against
helping the handicapped, the helpless,
but they oppose measures
which encourage irresponsibility
and discourage initiative. Liberals
are not for encouraging irresponsibility
or stifling initiative, but they
are for helping the handicapped,
the disadvantaged. The problem,
then, is to find a program which
will lift the poverty-stricken man
off his back onto his own two
feet while encouraging and allowing
him to walk away under his
own power.

The goal of the Westminster
Study-Tutorial Center is to give
underprivileged children the extra
help they need in the early grades
to break away from this path.
Voluntary tutors from the University
and the community work
with children from Venable
Elementary School who need this
extra help. But, by a mild one
per cent standard, 110 children
could use it, and there are presently
only enough volunteers to
take care of 35 of them.

You can give these children the
boost they need by offering to
tutor them from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday or any two of the above
afternoons. The experience is exciting,
challenging, and highly enlightening—the
kids are worthy of
your concern. Call Mrs. Janet
Cowgill, 293-3823, or Mrs. Jo
Ann Withrow, 293-8845, by October
20th, in order to participate
in the orientation on October 21 st.