# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S291
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 291

removed 75. The Herald, published in Moon type, now has
ders, compared with 510 in 1949. In spite of the fact that
3 read less, we have enjoyed this slight increase in the
£ readers.

sow teaching children to read Grade 2 (a more advanced)
Hle instead of Grade 1% (which contains fewer abbreviations).
‘3:90 per cent of our books are transcribed in Grade 14%, we
soon have to increase substantially the number of Grade 2
‘to prepare for this new demand.

e in 1950 we had but one Talking Book we have slowly
increasing the number of these books available to the blind
our Library. A set of four of Dr. Maier’s sermons, entitled
for Christ, has been placed in Talking Records, as well as
ieden’s Heaven, Gockel’s This Is the Life, and Kramer’s
ss Can Be Yours. We have also acquired several sets of
‘Scriptures on Talking Records for our Library to make
riptures available to our readers in Talking Book form. We
tering this field of service to the blind rather slowly to see
demands will be made, and also because the production of
ing Records is a rather costly process.

g generation of the blind. This mission endeavor reaches
6,500 children in State schools all over the country, with
imately 3,000 children within the age group of Teen Time’s
¥ editor the Board has temporarily engaged the services
r Harold Storm, son of our Executive Secretary, and
nt to his father, a graduate in journalism, who has been
y of his time through the generous interest of Concordia
3 Cleveland, to visit the various State schools to learn to
ter the problems of blind children and then to edit this
Sin line with their interests.

‘this magazine we are working under several handicaps.
Care writing for children who, except for blindness, are
ly normal with all the desires of normal children intensi-
in other children’s magazines, we find it necessary to cater
desires.

idly, the children who read Teen Time are members of all
ons or of no church, Lutheran children of our Missouri
constituting a very small percentage.

gly, to make this magazine appealing to children and
le these handicaps, Teen Time adds to its religious ar-
és of general interest to the blind children. The maga-