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Show Ben Lomond Beacon Page 4 July 23, 1980 Affirmative action a frame of mind Court said, there was definitely a place in the U.S. for at least black money and By Edwin Feulner Heritage Foundation Government makes U.S. years ago a proposal was kicking around Washington to jazz up U.S. paper currency by making each denomination of bill a different color. Instead of just having the old greenback, we would also have had the redback, de.-penden- t By Edwin Feuli ler Heritage Foundation With their latest round of OPI2C oil increases, ministers once af'ain have demonstrated the stranglehold they have or , the world price of oil. In the wake of this action, the wise men of Washington have filled the a' urwaves with suggestions on how to deal with the problem ranging from sharp hik es in gasoline taxes to ma ndatory conservation measures. The trouble wit.h all these suggestions is that they share the common flaw of overlooking the obvious: produce more oil at home. Hard a s it is t o believe in the face of the ever-preseheadlin es predicting the imminent exhaustion of domes' tic oil supplies, there 1) The Santa Ynez unit off the coast of California was discovered in 1968, and contains 500 million barrels of oil. It could be producing 80,000 barrels per day, but has yet to pump a single drop, because the oil com- confusing, supporters said, panies assuming that greyback, perhaps between the number 5 and the number 20 on the paper in their wallets. Justice John Paul Stevens, just one one of the three dissenters, of those idle ideas that octhat the law casionally occupy the heavy argued a perverse form represents thinkers in the bureaucracy. and that It caused some discussion; of reparation and up setting enforcing newspapers printed artists renditions of the new bills on such quotas could cause more resentment and their front and then Of course, it was pages, the idea quietly faded away. Until recently, that is, when it was brought to life again by the U.S. Supreme Court. Though extreme colors might be out, the prejudice than it corrects. Interestingly, this is one of the themes developed by Midge Decter, author of Liberal Parents, Radical Children, in a fascinating schemes are breeding a resentment deep-seate- d against blacks and other and helping minorities, undermine society as a whole. In the daylight world, Americans have undergone massive diminution of racial Ms. Decter prejudices, writes. In the dark night of the soul, however, affirmative action itself is attitudes for wider than creating a new wave of merely those toward race racism and sexism. The and sex. The message being new wave differs from the hammered home is, to put it earlier sort in that it is not bluntly, that society is a based on fear, hatred, or racket. There are no such guilt but on contempt. things as standards of Whatever people think about performance. There is no the justice or injustice of such thing as achievement. Above all, there is no such making special allowances, what they feel is that the thing as justice. To live in accordance with the belief objects of these allowances are somehow inferior. of that standards Before long, the irony achievement or justice have will have escapeid no one: by a reality, that they matter, is means of a policy intended to to be a sucker. short-cu- t (Feulner is president of discriminatory practice the The Heritage Foundation). American populace will have past nee Upon a Noble Rainbarrel and watch the white geese By Judith Degn Vanier Yesterday, before going to glide effortlessly across' the the Utah Symphony pops water cutting noiseless concert being held outdoors ripples in the pool of reflected evening, without in celebration of Pioneer Days, I read a short in- feeling a warm satisfaction terview in a publication that here, for just a short a famous time at least, we shared the concerning in India. real American Dream . . . teacher spiritual BEAUTY, Apparently, the interview PEACE. took place just a few days ABUNDANCE AND LOVE., before the teacher left the But, the phrase, The want mortal frame. A student of a ruling passion, rippled tutor across my mind like ripples asked the what constituted the most in the pool as I gazed severe obstacle in the path towards the sunset and the toward spiritual develop- languid Great Salt Lake in ment. Without hesitation, the the purple distance. I have a philosophy that if answer shot back, The want of a ruling passion. there is a simple truth, it The simple directness of must be applicable to every the answer clung to the aspect of life, simple or underpinnings of my mind as complex, and so I make a we headed for the Weber game of testing it against State College campus for the everyday situations as well twilight concert. As a as what great philosophical quarter moon arched above teachers have said. Obstacles to spirituality us in gleeming brightness and the western sky paled had to be the same as obstacles to any noble goal, I into mauve before glowing So a RULING rosie orange along the orchid reasoned. mountains, the conductor PASSION should be found at root of lead the orchestra into the the great I further light hearted music from achievements, Candid. speculated. I looked about One could hardly look upon me to get ideas to test the thousands of casual against the ruling passion listeners draped about the theory. To start, I focused on the edges of the Lindquist Pool, WRANGLER The composer of Candid, Leonard Bernstein, music. certainly had a burning passion for great music and so did every other notable composer I could call to mind. A burning passion for religious freedom drove the Mormon pioneers from their Eastern homes, JUDITH VANIER across emperors. prairies and fierce mountains into this very valley. A ruling passion for self government A ruling passion to be mobile has driven injured persons to overcome their infirmities so that they may provoked settlers to revolution and the establishment of this United States. A ruling passion to help brain injured children back to useful lives drove Dr. Glenn Doman to the far corners of the earth to find clues to the repatterning of the brain. The ruling passion for visual beauty molded the life of Leonardo da Vinci. The ruling passion to American function as normally as possible. Yes, I concluded, the Indian master had been right . . : For want of a Ruling passion, people remain mediocre. Next, the question that popped into my head was, So what is the ruling passion of America today? The answer still haunts me tonight as I write 'this . . . discover an eastern sea route to the Indies compelled Columbus to find the Americas. A ruling passion ProftecftiinigJ your iroglhtfs defensive and take it personally rather than housing, employment or keeping a professional atIf you feel you are the victim of discrimination in education, the Ogden Area Community Action Agency is there to help you. Bring your argument and evidence to the equal opportunity officer. Hillery Randall listens to titude. I wish more employers offered more training and incentive opportunities, so disadvantaged people could become more Its hard to find employers, of other than a few big cordiscrimination, counsels porations, that actually offer people as to their rights, and job training, he said. refers them to the apRandall noted that often a propriate administrative prospective employee is not and legal services. hired because he may lack Everyone tries to group experience, even when the problems, but they are educational background and usually individual com- potential is there. plaints, or it may be a group Employers often expect a complaint but it generally new employee to jump into a one involves thing position with very limited Mr. Randall briefing on how the job is to specifically, said. be done, and to perform as Most people only complain though hed been on the job of discrimination when they for years. dont get a job or after the Employers should take y time limit, Randall said. A person cant be fired advantage of equal opfor filing a complaint. portunity laws. In the long Dismissal for that reason is run it will improve company an unfair labor practice programs and imnagement, which also can bring legal and it also helps in comRandall munity relations, action. said. We want If America is truly a people (minority or not) to be hired melting pot, lets not pour for effective job placement, water over it and stop and not for token positions, progress. We need to keep it he said. Too many emboiling and mixing; we cant Mr. ployers are quota oriented survive divided, rather than qualification Randall said. oriented. Our goal is to make When Randall asks emand to people ployers or personnel officers educate them about their if the company is following rights. We want to let them Civil Rights Act guidelines know what is available, he and state or federal said and how to take adprograms, he says some get vantage of opportunities. complaints 180-da- nt victions under constant threat of death by Roman and sur- vival. Without a ruling passion for NOBLER goals, for the freedom of thinking allowed Socrates to cheerfully drink hemlock poison rather than to deny such freedom. Early Christians, ruled by their passionate belief in Christ, would not deny their con- - American Dream smacks to all the world as being the American and surely "Fantasy, fall as the Romans fell , we,-coul- d into their self-indulge- nt passion. SWA T training given to ara area officers Two North Ogden hostage. The men were trained in policemen and one Pleasant View officer were among 15 clearing buildings, locating area law enforcement and isolating suspects, personnel who received negotiating, and entering SWAT training last week on buildings to apprehend an the grounds of old St. armed-person- . The Benedicts Hospital. was instruction Sgt. Craig Deardon of provided by Mike Rosee, the Pleasant View and officers U.S. Army training superEarl Cherry and Chuck visor at Dugway Proving Beaman of North Ogden Grounds. Situations requiring a spent five days with officers from Washington Terrace,, SWAT team are now handled Riverdale, and Hill Air by a group of men from the Force-Bas- e learning to Ogden police force, but area handle situations in which law enforcement officials someone has barricaded hope to assemble a countyhimself in a building or has wide SWAT team some time taken another person in the future. 4 Cure for rising mill levy a 6 00 A.M. to 10 oop m. Sun. 7 00 to 2 00 P M. Mon.-Sa- become subject to a kind of prejudice which, if more subtle, is also by the same token infinitely more difficult to overcome. She calls affirmative action a frame of mind one best characterized by the term double standard. A lowering of standard follows naturally md seeps into the whole fabric of the culture. The assault on the old idea that in America equality means equal opportunity has an impact on MIC Mlfi 773-125- Rejecting claims by New York contractor H. Earl Fullilove that the law, by imposing quotas on the handing out of federal funds, results in discrimination against whites, the Court gave a sweeping endorsement to the concept of d federally-imposequotas. It would make things simpler and less distinguish A UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT white money. The July 3 decision dealth with a 1977 law which sets aside 10 percent of all federal public-work- s contracts for minority firms. Americans find it difficult to research 5280 S. 1900 W., Roy Tel. FAMILY DINING A blueback, whatever. cant obtain the necessary permits from the state and federal governments. 2) The State of Alaska is a to hold estimated minimum of 76 billion barrels of recoverable oil, according to official state estimates, and may hold much more. The States estimates place its potential reserves at a level greater than the proven reserves of Abu Dhabi, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Soviet Union yet only seven oil rigs are currently operating remains a .'substantial in the state, compared to 366 amoujit of oil yet to be in Louisiana and 807 in Texas. Why? Lack of access. prod uced within the U.S. More than 120 million acres Eve,n our proved reserves wh-tcof the state, including many have been verified of the areas which hold the th rough and geologic greatest promise for the engineering data (some 27.8 I jillion barrels) are sufficient discovery of oil and gas, have been foreclosed to to rank the U.S. seventh in exploration and developthe world in terms of total oil ment by the Carter deposits. This places the U.S. Administration. ahead of such nations as 3) The Georges Bank and and Libya, Nigeria, Venezuela. Moreover, a Baltimore Canyon areas off the Continental Shelf each study to be released later of which is thought to have this summer by Heritage the potential of the North Sea Foundation energy analyst discovery are tied up in the Milton Copulos indicates that courts, and subjected to potential reserves in the U.S. restrictive leasing policies could be from 276 to 444 by the Department of the billion barrels, or enough to Similar examples 'Interior. current levels of support abound. consumption for the next 46 It is quite obvious from to 76 years without importing what Copulos says that we a single drop. Other are our own worst enemies. estimates of oil potential We shouldnt be dependent suggest a similar wealth of on the Arab oil tycoons, but reserves. we are. And were going to If there is so much oil, why stay that way, Copulos feels, the apparent shortage? Put so long as we continue to find simply, state and federal excuses for not developing init are policies making difficult to the vast resources that we creasingly have. reserves. domestic develop (Feulner is president of And this, in turn, makes us more dependent on the The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-base- d public OPEC cartel. few a cites Copulos policy just organization). examples: W Several article in the Summer issue of Policy Review magazine. She argues in her article affirmative action that t. Rising mill levies like rising blood pressure and nervous tension seem to be signs of our times. However, unlike high blood pressure and nervous tension, the diagnosis and treatment of rising mill levies are quite straightforward. So let us begin at the beginning with a diagnosis of What is a rising mill levy?. The word mill come from Washington State Indians are entitled to harvest half the fish in Puget Sound, according to a 1979, U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Your right to know 9 Censorship, a favorite tool is withholding information under some form of authority. During World War I, the United States government created the Committee of Public Information to control the information given to the press concerning the war effort. The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Trading with the Enemy Act gave authority to the Justice Department and the Post Office Department to prohibit dissemination of news that might hamper military and political success in the War. As the of tyrants, United States entered World War II, the Office of Censorship was created to set guidelines for the sup- pression of certain types of war information. For example, exact naval losses at Pearl Harbor were not the Latin and French mille one revealed until a year later meaning because the military did not thousand. Levy simply want the Japanese to know means the amount raised or the extent of damage done taxed. A mill levy is the amount of tax money raised there. In peacetime, censorship is prohibited by the for every one thousand U.S. Constitution, and dollars in assessed value. becomes highly dangerous to (Assessed Value times Mill us as citizens of a democracy Levy equals Property Taxes who need to be told all of the Charged). In Weber County facts to make intelligent the assessed value placed on decisions. property is calculated as 20 percent of the 1972-7- 3 market value as determined by the County Assessor. If the mill levy is 90 mills and the assessed value of a home is $10,000, the property taxes will be $900 (90x10). A rising mill levy may be more commonly known as pursitis, a pain in the purse caused by contracting purse strings, or mill stones, a hernia of the neck muscles caused by carrying heavy financial burdens. Regardless of the name the symptoms are a flushed complexion, cold sweat, shortness of breath, heat under the collar, back ache and a collapsing wallet. As stated earlier, the cause and, consequently, the treatment of a rising mill levy are quite A straigm.-forwar- d. demand for more property tax revenues by local governmental agencies and organizations is the one and only cause. A higher demand for revenues may result frbm inflation,- - higher costs for providing existing services, or from expanding services. In this period of the rising Inflacession, mill levy is normally caused by the increased cost of doing business. Before discussing cures, the What can I do about it? we should talk briefly about how a mill levy is created. Mill levies are set by the various governmental entities that are empowered by the State to levy a property tax to finance their operations, entities such as the County Commission, The City Council, Water and Sewer Boards, School Boards, Drainage Districts, Special Service Districts, etc. As these organizations set their budgets each year, estimated jL All Stars, & Small-Star- s Mini-Sta- rs Super-Star- and new this year s! revenues are matched against estimated expenditures. If additional revenues are needed, a mill levy may rise. The cure? and-o- r . . . Cut services intrease the with which they are provided. Now comes the hard part; the part that requires patience and dilligence. What services The Stars have made impressive appearances on two Osmond should be cut? How much should they be cut? How can we increase efficiency? Should we consolidate County and City services? Should we consolidate the school districts? 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The girls will be judged on the SPLITS RHYTHM SHOWMANSHIP ' following: KICKS MARCHING governmental organizations that set the mill levies affecting their property. (This information is available from the County Auditor). Find out who is responsible for setting the budget and attend the budget hearings to find out what services are being provided at what cost. Only then can we tell our elected officials what we do and do not want in the way of services. |