[Reading-hall-of-fame] New Year greeting card from WWII

[Thomas Sticht]

Colleagues:  Here is a link to a New Year’s card consisting of the January
1944 comic strip in the newspaper “Our War” for Army literacy students in
World War II. Much of the direction of literacy training during WWII was
directed by IRA co-founder and memebr of the RHoF Paul Witty.
Contemporary adult
literacy students have found such materials of interest in the past. Also
useful for advocacy purposes in wishing sponsors and others a Happy New
Year.



https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347849344_Private_Pete_New_Year_1944





A little background:  The comic strip mentions the Four Freedoms.  It was
three years earlier, in January of 1941, when President Franklin D.
Roosevelt addressed the U. S. Congress and gave his “Four Freedoms” speech.
In his speech, Roosevelt identified four freedoms that he considered rights
of people worldwide: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom to Worship,
Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. Later, Eleanor Roosevelt ensured
that these ideas of freedom were included when she chaired the commission
that ultimately produced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted
by the United Nations of the world.

Unfortunately, today, some 80 years following President Roosevelt’s Four
Freedoms speech, the world is awash with millions in need of basic or
functional literacy and social inequalities within and among nations
preclude the full and universal achievement of the Four Freedoms of which
President Roosevelt spoke and Private Pete and Daffy honored in the New
Year of 1944. Here’s hoping the New Year of 2021 will move us a bit farther
up the path to the full achievement of the Four Freedoms for all!

Tom Sticht

PS: For a paper discussing the Four Freedoms within the context of adult
literacy education see “Literacy Frees the World: A Vision of the Future
Through a Prism of the Past” online at:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281626947_Literacy_Frees_the_World

Ignore the contact info on the first page of the paper, it is no longer
operational.







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