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Show I ) : .1 i I I i . ' - I Page 8 The Utah Independent February 26, 1976 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand New Illiterates The F. McManus Every time another Belmont, Massachusetts shocking story appears in the news, we have to resist the urge to conclude that the ultimate depth has been reached. But we live in an age by John MARILYN MANION is commonplace. Unfortunately, a good many of the marks being set inspire anything but pride. when record-breakin- g not or will not teach teenagers what one school board member called survival reading skills? Additional Outrage Within days of the Los Angeles boards ruling, Hawaiis new school superintendent, Charles G. Clark, achieved a new low. Disagreeing with the L.A. board, he announced that in Hawaiis schools would continue to receive high school diplomas, because a diploma merely signifies attendance. In other words, his schools have no academic requirements whatsoever. One logical outcome of Hawaiis system is the destruction of the worth of everyones diploma. At least Los Angeles is now trying to protect the diplomas value. If a school system illiterates, hasnt it produces diploma-bearin- g achievers both hurt its and fostered more nonachievement? non-reade- rs WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA? It is a strange way' to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration Independence. to do thing of The trendy in this year in bicentennial America is to criticize anything and everything about our country. To apologize to the world for producing so much food. To beat our collective .breast for ever having thought that Communism could endanger peace on earth. To enlighten our children by telling them that our forefathers werent all that heroic: that, indeed, some of them had ulterior motives for wanting an independent nation. It is a contest to see who can come up with the most devastating putdown. Any day now somebody will start hair mass-produci- shirts. Down the CIA! Senators and commentatore regale us with horror stories. (How Ex-agen- with big corporations make tons it is, says Robert Redford,not know how far you can trust the CIA how big it is and what its doing. Which is why he made the anti-CIThree Days of the flick, Condor.) Nobody, of course, thinks to mention the KGB. And shame, also, on the - A Magazine took the trouble to inform its readers that J. Edgar Hoover FBI. Time may very well have known that the Communist Party was never a genuine internal threat to the nation but a useful, popular target to ensure financial and public support for the FBI. Ask any little kid who watches television and hell tell you that when he grows up, there wont be any fast-growi- epidemic of has not gone unnoticed abroad. The London .Daily Telegraph, for example, had this to self-hatr- ed say: It is time Americas friends spoke out, with some nasty questions to the liberal East Coast establishment. By that we mean sections of the press, so-call- ed sections of Congress, television commentators and comedians, university pundits and a lot of other people who may think there is a dollar to be made out of denigrating their countrys institutions and leaders.... The self-criticis- non-readin- tendencies are running mad, with no countervailing force in sight. (America) has no foreign policy any more, because Congress will not allow it. Her intelligence arm, the CIA, is being gutted and rendered inoperative, the names of its staff being published so that they can be murdered.. ..We hope and believe that the vicious antics of the liberal East Coast establishment, which is doing all this untold harm, do not reflect the feelings of the mass of the country. -- American Way Features self-destructi- ve Clinton R. Miller today announced he will file as a Republican candidate for the office of the U .S . Senate from the State of Utah. Miller, 54, is presently and legislative advocate Vice-preside- for the National nt Health Federation. For fourteen years he has successfully campaigned on state and federal levels, for freedom of choice in the area of health. According to Miller, the decision to announce his candidacy comes from a recent resolve to lengthen my stride in the fight for freedom to include all aspects of life." The two overriding issues this becentennial election year, Miller said, are the writing of laws by executive order, and the federal debt. Miller explained the first issue. Two hundred years ago, welcome. The us at Please write American Way Features," Box 1098, Pigeon Forge, Tenn. 37863. 3000000000000000000 THE SILVER MONARK inspired men drafted a Constitution to avoid legislation by executive orders, through a system of checks and balances. On February 1962 16, President John F. Kennedy issued ten executive orders which virtually gave him, and succeeding presidents, an unlimited license to PURITY -.- 999 WEIGHT-O- NE Omntity: 1500-U- ROCKY MOUNTAIN SILVER COMPANY 244 North Country Club Drivo PjO. Box 1304M004, Arizona 85201 528-824- NEW CHANNELS ANGLES. FLATS, and SQUARE TUBING (602) 1 834-535-4 Writt or call TOLL FREE for brochu: ordering instruction:! SECURITY - SILVER 4 moooooooooooooooc PHONE 486-204- 1 Ala USED PVC mU PtATI WASATCH METAL & SALVAGE 20S WmI 23rd Swrtfc PHONE violence. What is the answer? We believe that these problems are a direct result of governments near-totmonopoly in the field of education. answer The must involve moves toward reintroducing competition in education. And that can best be established by getting the government out of the field. Such a move would instill a new vitality into education at every level that of the parent who would gladly pay for the excellence that competition always brings, that of the teacher who would rather teach than babysit, and that of the student who finds himself bored to death in todays caverns of mediocrity. Not to make such an about-fac- e is to guarantee further decline. al & 19 76 The control, in the event of an emergency, every aspect of our lives, Miller continued. Ten years later President Richard M. Nixon created the to implement executive orders machinery Kennedys through regional government Miller added. programs, If elected he said, I will demand the immediate repeal of all federal executive orders which usurped legislative powers of Congress, thereby robbing citizens of the basic freedom of choice. Miller said the second paramount issue this election year is the monstrous federal debt. 1976 should be the year Utah unfurls the banner of (GOOD) Government, he emphasized. Since 1958 the national debt has doubled from less than $300 billion to over $600 billion, stated I believe the majority of Miller. Utahns are opposed to that increasing debt, and the resultant inflation it has brought. Miller pointed out, In his eighteen years as Utahs Senator, Frank Moss has done little to stop the alarming growth of the national debt, but has actively sup FOR GALQ -- Current (Inquire! 15c per coin ofl 25 per com off 300-149- (800) STEEL FINE TROY QZ. Pncet: Examples of educational decline continue to pile up. College board scores are plummeting; employers report an increasing lack of basic skills in job applicants; and schools from coast to coast continue to report drug abuse and John Birch Society Features CLINTON R. MILLER ANNOUNCES FOR THE U.S. SENATE are K & H End Government Monopoly lf Readers' comments and questions ng n, and m rs non-reade- rs of money at the expense of the poor consumer. Our Non-Reade- Some sort of record low must have forced the Los Angeles board of education to pass a new ruling early in January. Beginning with the class of 1979, the rule says, high school graduates who cannot read will not be granted diplomas. Before we ask some obvious questions, let us commend the board for at least recognizing that a serious problem exists. And before anyone begins to feel smug about his own school system, let us sadly point out that with high school diplomas are a national phenomenon. Now, the questions: What were students doing in school for twelve years if they cannot read in the twelfth grade? How did they get there without an ability to read? Are there no minimum requirements for promotion from grade to grade? Amazingly, the boards ruling will not affect present seniors, juniors, and sophomores. According to a U.P.I. report, the board felt it unfair to these students to impose a new and unexpected requirement on them. New and unexpected? To be able to read? What could be a more basic goal of education than the ability to read? Are the schools and the teachers so ineffecthat tive, or are their priorities so upside-dowwill g or cannot not a take senior they in January and teach him to read by June? Why not drop everything else and give him at least this one foundational skill? But the ruling will not even apply to those who will graduate in June of 1978! Do they really mean that in the tw'o and one-hayears till June 1978 they can energy left because greedy American grownups are deliberately using it all up right now. Ask any man on the street who depends on the tube for his news and hell tell you about how the ts, frightening L.A.s SALT LAKE OIY, UTAH 484-351- 1 BUYERS OF SCRAP IRON AND METAL ported every major inflationary piece of legislation during hsi three terms. Utah law requires the governor to balance the budget A every year, Miller added. similar law can, should, must and will, if I am elected, be passed at the national level. Miller discussed how the United States can balance the budget and get out of debt. First, a law must be passed, similar to Utahs, requiring every aspect of the national budget, including interest on the national debt, be balanced. A second law should stipulate that one percent of our present national debt be repaid every year til paid in full by our tricentennial, he explained. In discussing his experience as a lobbyist for the National Health Federation in Washington, D.C., Miller said, I have had 14 years of experience and I know how to get things done in Congress. My forte is to get strong, bipartisan support on highly controversial issues. Our bills and amendments have ultimately passed by and increasingly overwhelming high majorities, he added. 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