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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A A November 6, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 11 Stand CORNER ON EDUCATION KNOW-WHATS-U- Erma J. Christensen, Councilor Federal Safety Society Last week this writer started a series of articles exposing the of American children in the nations schools. Today we will expose the Macos studies, and four other books found in Utah. Some on the state brainwashing approved list, some are not. We will specify. A quote from a booklet sent to all school district media departments by The National Council of Teachers English.. .The literary artist of a seeker after truth, recording in structured form, life as he perceives and feels it. As a creator he must necessarily challenge at times the common beliefs or values of the culture.. ..In seeking honestly for meanings behind reality, the artist strives to achieve a work of art which is always BASICALLY moral, although not necessarily CONVENTIONALLY moral.... Good taste, common sense, and to responsibility professional HUMNNIS-T1C students and to the tradition guide students and the teacher in making wise selecTHE STUDENTS4 tions.... RIGHT TO READ, The National Council of Teachers of English. The MACOS studies are being taught at Webster Elementary School, 429 South 8th East, Salt Lake City, by sensitivity-traine- d teachers in 5th and 6th grade classes. The principal, Mr. Steve N.' Borovatz, who has also had sensitivity training, stated that they were also considering further Social Studies classes. is MACOS encompasses in this writer's the following, and opinion these are quite interesting reading, seeing as Elms, playing games, given in the proper classes and perspective, informative and valuable in college classes only. They have value changing and behavior modification by teachers, in their manuals, and dialogue with films. Leftist developers, Jerome Bruner and B.F. Skinner, have written teachers' manuals and booklets that presume to teach the children to THINK! Have our children, who never had this kind of brainwashing, never learned to THINK? From this writers point of view, the purpose of this study is to teach the children to think from the authors point of view, to destroy belief in the free enterprise system, moral standards, family loyalty, and belief in one GOD and JESUS CHRIST! The course includes references to adultery, cannibalism, infanticide, killing of old people, trial marriages, the necessity of communal living, wifeswapping, murder and other behavior practiced by the Netsilik On Eskimos studies as part of the course. The idea, drummed into 5th grade children, is that such practices are considered all right by the Eskimo culture, and should be looked upon with tolerance by ours. ( Human Events, B.F. Skinner, author of BEYOND FREEDOM AND DIGNITY, showed in stark relief his affinity for changing human values through PSYCHOLOGI- before vaccinations became the means of curing and preventing disease. This book poses the thesis that the community must protect citizens health. The pictures are gory . and unattractive to the children. 6th grade, including sore throats in color, eyeballs. 6 pages of skeletons with organs, and nerves, and pictures of what a person sees during an LSD trip, polluted rivers and lakes, garbage CAL CONDITIONING! dumps and slime. This book asks the children, (Human Events, Thus the purpose of MACOS Why is Urban Development is behavior modification, situation needed?... One of the problems ethics, brainwashing, perhaps often is that those who were dissuitable to treat MENTALLY ILL placed from old housing cannot afpeople, but WHY being used for ford the new." Thus the Federal NORMAL, WELL ADJUSTED Government or Federal Public American children? (Subversion) Health Administration is all right A quote from another of the and people need to have their help to get good low rent housing. basically moral books. ..presenNutrition is mentioned in this tly being used at Hillside High 1 1th School, Grade, called book, with pictures of the 4 basic SERPICO, A Bantam Book; food groups needed for good Included in the cereal Author, Peter MAAS: Jesus, its health. cold as a bitch outside. I got a F group pictured are: soda crackers, job.. ..Wheres my G D- - hat? Get white rice, puffed wheat, puffed up, will you, youre on my F hat, rice, wheaties, cream of wheat, for Christs sake! This book was white bread, and other made into a movie, with most of commercially prepared cereal food the filthy four-lettwords left out, products. This chapter and the blasphemy eliminated, and downgrades health foods, food it was received with interest by the faddists (page 163) and tells how Why has the people waste their money buying general public. textbook included all this filth? these (nutrit ionally perfect) foods! The foregoing quote is just one of Our poor children! All of the health books this numerous such degrading statements by policemen and writer has examined include a full denizens of the street included in chapter on the care of their teeth, and fluoridation of public water the book for the children, no less! Even 1th graders have no need for supplies being the best and most this kind of trash what purpose proficient method of preventing does it serve, but to make them caries notwithstanding the facts think it is all right to speak in that laid out that America's waters (in another chapter) are polluted, and vernacular? has dangerous to life and health! Houghton-Miffli- n published a set of Action Series There is so much material to books, including Encounters, cover and we as parents must Crosscurrents and others. These become aware of what is being are full of swearing, poor English, will we taught to our children, or morbid and stories, depressing lose them. I will close with a quote which bring the majority of from Dr. Max Rafferty: ....The children reading them down to the Progressive Educationists term the level of prostitutes, thieves and curriculum the whole living murderers. Most of the inner experience of the child. So the city children are also moral, and school must interest itself in anxious to learn the better uplifting everything about the child and take side of life. These books serve no the steps necessary to remedy any the accustom to except purpose gaps in his experience that a foolish children to reading stories with no or shortsighted parent may refuse morals, no depth and no uplifting to provide. The accumulation of themes. They are on the Utah list knowledge for the mere sake of for 1975. Look for them in the 9th knowledge is not only unnecessary, grade. it is probably actively harmful. Another book is HEALTH Development of creativity is the AND GROWTH, 6th Grade, Scott important thing. The child must Foresman. Publisher. The cover feel completely unrepressed and depicts industrial pollution ramfree from inhibitions so that his in and the our great country, pant natural creativity will blossom and whole book gives the children a flourish. nauseating picture of filth and disease the people of our country Any objections, parents? encountered in the early days More next week. er March 5, 1975, Congressman Wright Patman introduced legislation to provide for a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve Board for the first time in its history. The Bill is by 85 members of the House. The Federal Reserve System is probably the single most important determinant of whether we will have prosperity or depression, stated Congressman Patman. Its power is vast and. ..of serious consequence to the state of the economy for, as the governments monetary agent, the Federal Reserve determines the nations money supply, interest rates, prices and employment. The General Accounting Office (GAO) audits the expenditures of the Defense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission and every other important department and agency. Why, then, hasthe Federal Reserve refused to consent to an audit by the General Accounting Office? The proposed audit Bill would correct this defect by providing he same kind of financial, managerial and program audits by the GAO that other departments and agencies of the government now receive. Congressman Patman collaborated on the need for passage his Bill .by stating that: The Federal Reserve handles a of startling volume of transactions. In 1972, the latest year for which figures are now available, the Federal Reserve handled 35 billion pieces of paper worth $24 trillion. It also holds close to $85 billion, consisting of Treasury securities and other Federal agency securities, acceptances and loans. Normally, it would be assumed that $85 billion in bonds held by a government agency would, in fact, belong to the government, but Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve Board insists that the bonds are owned by the Federal Reserve banks. Dr. Bums confusion over the ownership of th& bonds simply reinforces the urgent need for a full scale audit. GAO will determine whether these transactions were authorized by law, properly handled, etc. and also fill in our information about the Feds activities and programs. As things now stand, the only information we get on programs of the Fed is what the Fed itself wants us to have. Can anyone in 1975 believe that this is good government?... 60-ye- ar -- Network Of Patriotic Medals to Nixon Letter-Writer- s Ford & Continued from page 10 1 Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. .1. Reese Hunter FIREPLACE SPECIALISTS Sn DiGosyir for a comploto tin of Built-i- n froo-Standi- ng P Firoplacos FIRE DUCHESS Be(jfOoyfer Tile & Marble Co. and FIREPLACE 19Eat21ttSo. DEALER 467-646- Man must be left free discriminate and exercise his freedom to to of choice. This freedom is a virtue and not a vice. And freedom of choice sows the seeds of peace rather than conflict. -- F.A. Harper kind, for nearly everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Be 9 fro Parking roar of ttoro Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. time four years ago, we were already able to guess more or less that the U.S. would use this method of sacrificing pawns in an attempt to save chessmen of greater importance. But now the thing is over and the Americans are like defeated fighting cocks.... Speaking of the victory Indochinese in the all-si- de three countries, the U.S. should be awarded if services toward that end are evaluated and rewarded accordingly. to be Nixon should be given a ivV medal. Ford can have a silv-!-. and Congressmen gencrais can also be decorated accordingly. I think this is fair enough. Why do I say so? Because the victory came as a favor granted by Uncle Sam. At the turn of the decade, we were finding the war (in Indochina) a really tough one, requiring so much money and manpower and yet unable to have our full attention because we had to be busy coping with Russian aggression. But Chairman Mao said: We are in difficulty, but so is the enemy. Let us patiently drag it on and see what happens. Who could tell that the Americans would become so impatient as to pull out fellows like Lon Nol, Matak and Cheng Heng who, supported by the American CIA, overthrew Sihanouk? That move was a big help to us. Now the Americans know that they have been dead. But its too late; nothing can be done to revive the dead. Like a with deaf-mut- e bitter medicine in his mouth, they cannot even complain. All they have got now is bunches of refugees too heavy to be dragged about. The Americans have slapped their own faces in order to feign fatness. They have asked for it. fSome boats carrying refugees (from Vietnam) did float up to the shores of our Kwangsi apd so-call- ed Kwangtung provinces. Without a single exception, we have sent them back. We dont in the first place recognize anv stuff called refugees.... -- by L. CHEN Free China Weekly BETWEEN DETENTE AND COMMUNISM, NO GAP When our officials tell us that anything critical of the Communists must be avoided because it would endanger detente, and that everything thats good for Communists prospers detente, then isn't it clear that detente is Communism? Or won't it become clear until under detente theres a military exchange, with our troops going there and their troops coming here? Our troops as hostages and theirs as occupiers. -- J. Kesner Kahn |