it may be hard to pin responsibility upon him. It is wise, therefore, to cooperate with the mover or the insurance company in every way you can.

So, if you must pack up and move, these are some points that can lighten the task. At least, they should take some of the “dread” out of moving.

Help for the Stutterers

ARE you among those persons who are unhappy because they stutter? According to statistics, seven out of every thousand persons have this speech impediment. And it appears that this is true regardless of where they happen to live, in the United States, Europe or Asia. So it is estimated that, all told, some 25 million persons have this problem. Far more children than adults are plagued with it, and males have it four to six times as frequently as females.

Stuttering, let it be noted for your comfort, has nothing to do with intellect. Some of the greatest intellects in history had this problem. The Bible suggests that Moses, a prophet of Jehovah God, had a speech impediment. While its exact nature is not known, Moses’ attitude toward it is typical of that of stutterers.​—Ex. 6:12.

Nature of the Problem

If you are a stutterer you are handicapped when it comes to speaking fluently you​—keep trying but do not succeed, repeating syllables over and over again before getting out what you want to say. Hesitancy, doubt and fear mark your efforts. Research has established that there rarely is any physical difference in the speech organs of stutterers as compared to those who do not have this problem. In fact, there is not even any difference when it comes to performing rapid movements with the tongue, jaws, lips and breathing muscles. Nor do stutterers seriously differ emotionally from others.

As to the details of the problem,, stutterers as a rule have more difficulty in speaking long words than short words; more difficulty with words that start with a consonant; more with the first three words than with the rest of the sentence; more difficulty in speaking meaningful words, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, than in speaking articles, prepositions and conjunctions, and also more difficulty in speaking meaningful sentences than in speaking nonsense ones. Moreover, stutterers find some people easier to speak to​—apparently those friendly and sympathetic or familiar—​than to others. All of this underscores the important role the mind or the emotions play in stuttering.

Research has also shown that stutterers usually have little difficulty in shouting or whispering, or in singinga or in speaking