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Show o d TIIE SAMPLER DM5ttgir5gaIIg Friday, July 10, 1981 ) MOOTK by Doug Whey One thing that really irritates me. Have you noticed all the hullabaloo about budget cutting recently? Every time an agency or organization feels the cut, they immediately start screaming about how they will have to throw 250 mental cases out on the street, or they wont be able to assist unwed mothers. Always it is the same thing, they will cut out some service that is bound to make a headline as some sucker newspaperman takes up their fight. What is more amazing, just before they are going to throw out those 250 mental patients or unwed mothers, suddenly from out of the blue comes enough funds to cany them over for a short time when they will once again scream foul', and once again you will read the headlines written by some newspaperman in the same newspaper. Talk about being caught between two hard places. . . were you happy about John McEnroe's win at Wimbledon? I wanted to see an American win, but I had to side with Borg. And that is odd because 1 am always saying l charcters. 1 that sports needs-colorfu- The following is a speech given in the House of Representatives by Congressman William D. Ford, Chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Mr. Speaker, we all carry in our minds stereotypes of groups in our society. They often little resemble reality. am thinking of Babe Ruths, and the like. Stil I guess there is a difference between colorful characters and Take the workers in the federal civilian work force. It is probably true that this very title conjures up in the American mind an image of paper shufflers wearing green eye shades at their desks in obscure Washington offices. It is probably true as well that these nondescript figures are regarded as overpaid, underworked and that they multiply geometrically. spoiled brats. Speaking of the good ole days, remember when a strike in baseball was a pitch over the plate between the knees and the letters? Lots of folks north of the border in Canada are snickering. All of the hoopla over Ferragamo, White Shoes and that other fella going to Montreal. They played their first game the other night and the B. C. Lions clobbered them 48 to 8. Reminds me of that old joke. . . Montreal paid a million dollars and all they got was a quarter back. Hie following it reprint of an aiti E. Gonton, Portal Inspector. YOU WON!!,?? How lucky. Youve been selected. You have won a three- free vacation in Las' day, two-nigVegas. Great. Or. is it? Did you really win? Is it really free? Not really. You and thousands of others' were selected to take a free vacation which could easily cost you over $500. IIOW DID you get so lucky? Simple. The computer selected you. all you have to know. You gotta love it Your selection letter" promises you two nigjhts free lodging at a top hotel located on the casino strip, a number of absolutely free meals, a free rental car for a day, a casino gambling package worth at least $500, free drinks, and mainliner floor show tickets. All you have to do is get yourself to ht . If Pne bilK and a shghtroom depo-1- 3 sit of about $16.00 a night for the h- - Y rooi7 a"d J1 yoursef- the mpany 1whcom- Puter 80 graciously selected you 1595 cover computer processing, reservations, fulfillments, etc. WHAT NEXT, you ask? Ok, you S11 UP- - You arrive inLa Vegps on a typical Monday . You find the car ren- tal transformed into one days free rctal if Yu pay at least one day s ts tal if you pay at least 1 days rental at the regular rate. The number of free meals diminishes but acquires specific me imitations, i.e., 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The free room you already placed a $16.00 deposit on, doubles. The $500 gambling package consists of coupons from various casinos, all of which have d be casino cashiers normally in minimum by casino cashiers normally in mini- . . ren-Tha- tirre-clocke- . AT LAST count there were 2,907,239 men and women working full time for the federal government, not including the military. And to put to rest the notion that these are mostly bureaucrats in musty Washington offices, consider this: mum intervals of one hour. Meaning, youll spend most of your time traveling from casino to casino and standing in line at each cashiers cage. When are you going to eat and drink all those freebies? Better yet, when are you going to play those slots and win back some of the hard-earne- d cash youve 1(jj THIS IS ITI We only have 2 giant fabric clearance sales each year, and this is one of them. If you miss this honest to goodness" sale, itll be 180 days until we have our next one! sons employed in the physical sciences. Remember, too that it is the investigators at the FBI and lawyers at the Justice Department in cities who protect our across America laws and prosecute those who violate them. This is a nation of laws populated by more than 200 million citizens. The figure of 20,882 persons working New York 166,194; Texas 148,022; Illinois 101,687; Ohio 89,444; Georgia Alabama 59,857; in legal and kindred employment hardly Sounds unreasonable. It is true that the largest single The truth is that we did not have federal workers spread across the face of this land we would have to invent them. They build and repair our Navys ships. They deliver our mail. They guide our commercial airlines in and out of crowded airways. Everyday they are developing new treatment and cures for disease. They make sure that the food we eat is safe. They make possible the flow of commerce. Without our kind of society could not survive. i THE FARMERS in America would find their lives a good deal more difficult without county agricultural agents who test their soils, re- -, commend rotation practices and perform countless (other services. Of the 93,843 employees in the Department of Agriculture, very few are necessary paper shufflers in Washington. Mostly they work near the farm lands in occupations ranging from soil conservationists to veterinarians. For the record, there are 300 people working for the federal government in the field of veterinary medical science. Among the other things, they guarantee that our food supplies are not contaminated by disease. Question: Where does normal punishment end and child abuse begin? Reply: This is a good question, often asked by parents and professionals working with families. There is no full agreement as to the boundaries of acceptable punishment. Many parents regard discipline and punishment as identical-The- y are not, but both are involved in training of childen toward are the liberaldemocratic socially acceptable behavior. Discipline implies teaching and training for socialization skills not yet acquired. The mqjor portion of our efforts should fall into this category. Parents should: microwave ovens if energy in a kettle or and have them. They can you covered pan. 3. When using the save energy by reducing cookingtime. provide appropriate RETURN TO THE STONE AGE! pay close attention in observing the childs behavior, and age-appropri- her to do, interrupt misbehavior . . CURVED 32 inch dia. .65 Remember Us For All rarsTOi 882-688- 6 . ff U DECORATIVE BOULDERS SCALLOPED 105 interrupt the child's respond punitively by: SCALLOPED STRAIGHT Your Gardening Needsl 1120 N. Main Tooele 82-76- 96 Open: 930--6 V ! ! i mis- removing the child from the situation and insisting on a "time out, explaining how the behavior is inappropriate, and ' asking the child to think about it. AftegL a period of removal from tfre scene, reintroduce the child into the family circle when he is able to explain what he did wrong and what he has learned by it. Wide differences exist in parents orientation toward discipline and punishment. At one end of a spectrum there . $1.19 0U0JL and correct it with word and action. This requires endless repetition and patience. Punishment is a response to a breakdown in acquired skills. It need not be physical. It can be verbal, even a facial expression of anger or disapproval. It is a parental response to socially unacceptable behavior over which parents have a right to expect the child to have gained control. An effective and reasonable approach could be to first behavior, stating that it is unacceptable. Should the misbehavior persist despite this warning, parents should 24 Inch Main & mod-el- d through their behavior, communicate to the child on an level what they are asking him or LAVA ROCK 6 cubic feet - con- our society. This means a lot of peQple. But consider this:. The total number of full-- , time, federal workers has remained virtually unchanged since 1967 and the ratio per 1,000 population has declined from 16.3 to 12.4 since 1952. tion frauds, and the freebies they offer, is that similar freebies are readily available to anyone all over Vegas.' Free newspapers located throughout the city carry the coupons and the foods 2. Never boil water in oven, cook as many time. an open pan. Water will as you can at oim boil faster and use less 4. Use pressure cookers TREE RINGS M. backyard mechanic. And what has happened to the automobile is really a microcosm of what has happened to designed to bilk victims out of millions of dollars. One interesting thing about vaca- Covers 36 sq. ft -- 2 deep EXAMPLES:- have a good idea of the consequences. Do we have to many food inspectors, too many customs officials, too many social security clerks, too many doctors at the National Institute of Health, too many county agricultural struments, even though the public pays for waste and inefficiency in the business and industrial community Government goes have a. special obligation to insure that the peoples money is fpent wisely. Waste and fraud should be pursued diligently. Where it is found it should be cut out. But this should be.done surgically, not with a meat axe. In trimming the fat we msut take care not to mutilate the steak. E&ECORATQWE -- jobs, we must know precisely what we are doing. Before we act we must agents, or to many air traffic through higher prices. Get in step with local summer water policy! Replace those scorched OFF er trollers? Just these few examples provide an insight into the importance of federal workers to our daily living. Without them we could not travel safely. We could not trust the very food we eat. WE HEAR a lot about waste and So many of the services on which we inefficiency in federal government. depend woiuld not be there without Of course there is some. It would in- the federal worker. deed be surprising if there were not. We have become a very complex We will find some waste and ineffisociety. It requires consideraable exciency in the best managed American pertise to keep it operating. There are corporations. It is unavoidable in any those of us old enough to remember undertaking from the lowest house- the Model-- T Ford. Pop and the boys hold to the largest corporation. The could usually keep it running with a difference is that government is alwys few inexpensive parts that were relaunder dose scrutiny because it spends tively easy to install. Anyone who has the publics money. Reporters do not looked under the hood of an automolook for waste at General Motors, bile today understands that keeping it United States Steel, IBM, or Texas In- on the toad is no job for the average cold water away. lawn areas with. It has taken two centuries to build the machine that is our federal work force. The vast majority of workers are in their jobs because there is indispensable work to be done to keep the nation operating. There is no question that unneeded jobs should be eliminated, that unnecessary workers be let go and procedures streamlined wherever possible. But we should avoid a helter-skeltapproach that of economy, name the in threatens, the vital work that must be done. WHEN WE set out to eliminate workers concentration of white-collis in Washington. But this is hardly surprising since Washington houses the headquarters for most departments and agencies. ar Hints for conserving energy rather than hot to operate your food disposal unit. You save hot water, and grease solidifies in cold water and can be ground up and washed SUMMER space vehicles. There are 9,834 per- been doling out on your free Chamber of Commerce also provides various bennies for vacationers. vacation? Remember, if you feel youve SEVERAL MAIL fraud vacation been the victim of a mail fraud, concertificate schemes have operated Postal Inspecacross the nation in recent years. tact your Postmaster or and it. tor report Their promises and costs may vary, but they are similar in that they are 1. Use SUPER nearly 300,000 of them for a total of 10.65 percent of the total work force. Michigan has 53,350; of federal government workers.All too frequently they are the brunt of jokes as they are portrayed as freeloaders at the public trough. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In short, they are the people who live next door. The rally difference is that they do not work for General Motors, United States Steel, Prudential Life Insurance, the local supermarket or theneighborhood automobile dealership. On the average they (earn about $20,000 a year, which closely parallels the median family income in the United States. They raise . about the same number of children as other Americans, have home mortgages and automobile payments and other expenses like the family down the block. pay the aJe, tax, tlpf. tele-cl- e Ve jp, federal workers in the state of California than any place else in the federal government launch our America - do these days, blanket condemnations typists, mechanics, teachers, mailmen and so forth. Dont fall victim to mail fraud pen-cUVushe- IT IS disheartening to hear! as we The people who are lumped together, sometimes derisively, as government workers are doctors, lawyers, electricians, brick masons, accountants, shipbuilders, deep sea divers, oceanographers, scientists, bers of the Dugway High School Band. While all the others are enjoying the summer off, these good folks are out there almost every morning practicing marching and songs. They have put a lot of work into making that band sound good. . .and they do. They are something we can all be proud of. I also understand they have or will participate in five of the major parades in the state this summer. ployees work in the District of Pennsylvania 128,019. torted. It squares not at all with the way things really are. Leroy Neilson and the 35 or so mem- The next time you are tempted to think of these public servants as remember that mathematicians and physicists employed by Columbia. Actually there are more 75,941; SADLY, this picture is terribly dis- Lets doff the Dugway Derby to Only 7.84 percent of all federal em- parents whose training is characterized by providing . models, verbal appeal, verbal admonishment, and preparedness to repeat them- selves patiently. At the other end of the spec- trum lie the punitiveauto-crati- c parents who live by the adage "spare the rod and spoil the child. These parents tend to be quite physical and at times abusive. My own experience and orientation lean toward the liberaldemocratic approach. Although socialization may take longer to develop, once it is accomplished, it operates under the influence of love rather than fear. As a result, it is more permanent and can be relied upon as the child becomes an independent adult. It also offers a brighter prospect for loving, respectful relation- ships between and child long after parent childhood is ended. Regardless of ones orienta-- . tion toward discipline and punishment, most reasonable people would agree that the boundaries of normal punishment enter the realm of abuse in the following in- stances: when punishment results in an injury requiring medical, attention, when an infant less than one year of age is physically punished, when a child is hit with a closed fist or instrument, kicked, or thrown, and when burns are inflicted on a child. Send your questions about military family life to: Dr. Eli Breger, The American Forces Press Service, Room 501, 1117 N. 19th St., Arlington, Va. 22209. |