Show 0 j h P are more likely be gathered out of a multitude of “Right conclusions to tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection “ ' — Judge Leeuurd Hand American junel (1172 1961) The Herald Journal Logan Utah : Wednesday October 23 1996 PtlJO 21 Your view Poole Grange would represent area well To the editor: We believe Tamara Lewis Grange is an excellent candidate for the Cache School District Board of Education We also feel that Morris N Poole would represent us very well on the Utah Slate Board of Education We encourage you to vote for them on Nov S Ellen N and Smithficid Kenneth Webb J nal (17 October) he threw two pearls of wisdom to the Utgan Kiwanis: that President Clinton's opposition to a ballistic missile defense leaves ('ache Valley vulnerable (“We'd catch it right in the teeth'’): and that Clinton's declaration of the new National Monument will kill forests so that two years from now in Iron and Garfield counties “there will be nothinc but toothpicks" Actually Hansen himself has the means to solve both these problems Anytime Cache Valley has missiles lobbed at it by Ethiopia Mongolia Rhode Island or whoever Our Jim can protect us by standing in an alfalfa field Your Sabbath Day not gaze fixed skyward with his mouth open And the toothpicks in Southern necessarily everyone’s To the editor: Response to “Thanks to businesses that keep the Sabbath": That's all nice if you arc a Christian However if you happen to be Jewish or one of the other religions with a Sabbath then you arc out of luck and no one cares about your Sabbath How many employers would actually hire someone who said that they didn't want to work Friday evenings or Saturdays? Just food for thought non-Sund- Utah need not be wasted Our Jim could slick several into the jugulars of every 1st Congressional District resident who has ever voted for him or who plan to do so at any time That would be fit punishment for those who make us suffer this man and it would relieve Jim of having to keep faking a job he never hud the wits to fill Ronald M Lanner Logan Jeffrey S Harrison Pusan South Korea Election letters deadline Oct 31 The real threat comes from within The Herald Journal will accept no letters to the editor or ncst commentary submissions dealing with 1996 election issues or candidates past 5 pm Thursday Oct submis31 No election-relate- d sions will run in the newspaper By Joe Sorenson i Hansen’s buffoonery matched by voters’ To the editor: Whenever Congressman Jim Hansen visits Cache Valley he treats us to feats of buffoonery matched only by those who cast their ballots for him Most recently according to The Herald Jour His name was Rick he was the n of the boss and you wanted to keep out of his way I was informed in a whisIt was per by one of my new my first day on a new job and I asked m past Sunday Nov 3 who the loudmouthed fellow with the clipboard and sunglasses was “The Lawmakers boss's son hell?" I said and I silently determined to keep my head low when this guy was around Work was light and a list of addresses and phone Here is numbers for Cache Valley's representatives in the US Senate and House of Representatives and the Utah and Idaho legislatures US SENATE-UTA- H Sen Robert Bennett Republican — US Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah office: 4225 Fed(202) 224-544- 4 eral Building 125 S State St Salt Lake City Utah 84138 (801) 524-593- 3 Cache counties) — to o badly to get on River City PO Box 208 Bear River City Utah 84301 Home phone th c a 279-867- 9 Senate District 25 (Cache Rich Summit counties) — Lyle W Hillyard 175 E 100 North Logan Utah 84321 Home phone 753-004- 3 business 752-261- w (202) 224-525- Utah office: 8402 Fed- 1 125 S State St eral Building Lake City Utah 84138 (801) US Salt 524-438- 0 SENATE-IDAH- O Dirk Kempthorne Republican — 40 Room 3 Washington DC Idaho office: 20510 (202) 224-614- 2 303 N 8th Street Room 338 Boise ID 83703 (208) 334-177- 6 Larry Craig Republican — 302 Hart SD-- B Building Washington DC 20510 Idaho office: 304 N 8th (202) 224-275- 2 St Room 149 Boise Idaho 83702 0 (208)334-156- 0 HOUSE-UTA- H James V Hansen Republican — Represents 1st Congressional District which includes Cache County Washington office: 2466 Rayburn Building US House of Representatives Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-045- 3 Utah office: 1017 Federal Building 324 25th St Ogden Utah 84401 (801) 625-567- 7 or 393-836- 2 b'ueprints and making phone calls leav-- i ng his spoiled son in charge of the crew To Rick being in charge evidently badgering and insulting the labor-er- s on a daily basis These verbal vsuults on crew members repelled me: I and vas raised in a calm civil family so when the day i ne itably arrived that I made some ro-yclii- son 8790 West Highway 102 Tremonton Utah 84337 mull error that brought on a vehement hewing out from Rick I was quite ill- irepured to receive it lie stood close and barked his rebuke in m face like a drill sergeant I was Home phone 854-376- 0 House District 3 (Cache County) 810 S Stephen Bodily Main St Lewiston Utah 84320 Home e stunned speechless and my entire being clenched up like a fist in response to his aggression When he was finished he stormed off to find another punching bag and I went dumbly back to my task Gradually my blank mind began to work again and my frozen heart began to beat again hut when they did something was essentially changed in me The boy that had never before in his life really felt the force of another pervioson's violence now felt a while-ho- t lence of his own taking shape I found myself wanting very much to hurt Rick and hurt him badly I nurtured this violent desire visualized and reveled in it My secret violence was balm to my wounded ego anJ sustained me through 258-284- 4 House District 4 (Cache Rich coun1190 ties) — Fred Hunsaker 1700 East Logan Utah 84321 0 Home phone House District 5 (Cache) — Evan L Ward 2009 S 3200 Olsen West Young Ward Utah 84339 Home US HOUSE4DAHO Michael Crapo Republican — Rep- resents 2nd Congressional District which includes Franklin County 437 Cannon House Office Building Wash(202) ington DC 20515-120Idaho office: 750 W Bannock Room 444 Boise Idaho 83702 (208) 2 225-553- 1 334-195- 3 UTAH SENATE To call your Utah senator at the Sen- ate: phone 752-430- 4 IDAHO To call your Idaho senator at the Sen- ate or your representative at the House: dial 1 the person by and ask for name To write your senator: The Honorable John Doe: Idaho Senate: Statehouse: Boise Idaho 83720 To write your representative: The Honorable John Doe: Idaho House of IDAHO SENATE Senate District 28 (includes Franklin County) — Dennis Hansen By Scnpps Howard News Service Although it is the most popular widely played sport in the world soccer has never really caught on in the United States Maybe that's changing Consider: Soccer Moms — the educated mothers who run their Springs IDAHO HOUSE House District 28 (includes Franklin County) — Robert Geddes 7235 No 2600 West Preston 33263 852-137- 6 Idac Mallard Fillmore tbNY VftXj wind UP yooU PSAP lM SOME- - AUfy: how pervasive had been the calculated sarcasm the cold distance the cutthroat competitiveness in my ovcrwhclmingly male family it struck me like a hammer that my childhood had been strongly shaped by repressed violence Is violence an intrinsic part of the human personality? Docs denial of violence merely encourage its expression in more subtle hut no less destructive forms? Could it be that our ability to love is linked to our aptitude for hate that our capacity for peace is measured by the extent to which we except even embrace our vital personal violence? If so then it's a waste of time to strive for SQTf&ep -- copyI it kiJs' suburban soccer leagues — have become the elusive voting bloc on which the presidential election is said to swing Forget the Angry White Male the Reagan Democrat the Religious Right This election belongs to the Soccer Mom And in a battle of media Capitals DC United bested I os Angeles in a thrilling victors to win the comc-from-bchi- Herald Journal Editorial pot! T The page Oony wth a -- 'Te'XJec tc a-- tm rtf tiv e t is a Cache va-e- y bricklayer by bade Hs column arrra-Opinion page eve-- y other Wednev: i Joe Sorenson r s mu aw mm i e' a' a-- Lettersfpoticyj "PveMe'ac re We-c- e-s fs c e E° JCE CM°iES S'- -' tc t'e ft-- s Lene-- - S w - re ec:-- a jma ir re' a-- z pD"She' manage edld' vENS CEC snNiES cey edc' RAEASSE thavse news eory t -- n Typw-e- -- ne-- s c newscao rh to'" —e weu--c-s a edit:' Potential ' Detoo o' c'te-ss- e wi': not be hnef-- ' a r ese'ves re £— t: ect a “tc the engm a’x: sVe -- mr-ese- -t ed: r i Mior League : Final The leans' lars showed that tbs happv n ix Melting Pot still simmers ot colorful noisy and know ledge iNe Latin American immigrant' nd n I s hiN slightly less subdued subiii1' and yes their mothers For one shining - ard pa’ ps b — moment m Oeti'l-S'seei 'uL‘ first-eve- DJS'-Shf- ease's aney cc viewpoints 0" mane's movnoe me—be's o e pj 'npo'ta'vce o me' vews a a no ieners “om Pesona columns canoons -ons o the- - re-- s and 'eaoe-eec me eac : 'Os e'eates Edo- - s com-ina- y Ito I i—h— em x vCfUr AM world Maybe a violence-fre- e would be healthier and more productive if we concerned ourselves with the appropriate expression of violence How do we direct violence away from our homes and families and out of our social relationships? Centuries ago we had enemies close by just over the river or in the next val ley We fought them and we haled tli-and they us Then Christianity eame and taught us that all men were brothers that our violence1 should be turned not tow nil each other hut on the Devil Now even the Devil has lost favor as the enemy nl choice leaving our violence inwaid turned waiting and creeping below the surface of our lives and our speech like smolder under thick forest dull biding its time until sudden wind Ians it into a firestorm One day at the end of that summer t li crew was cleaning out new l sheetrocked apartment complex Vu were on the third floor and were ilimw-inscrap out the windows and down into the bed of a dumptruck parked below Rick came up where we were working and started in on the whole bunelt ol spile of my best efforts to contiol it could feel my personal violence stirnru inside me like an awakening animal Rick came my way looking fora victim and I fell my jaw muscles tighten lie confronted me yapping and snarling but I was so afraid not ol him but ol toy own internal animal that all I dared d was smile Rick nearly went ballistic lie laniol about my altitude and laved about hw he was going to tell Dad' aboal me then he turned (in his heel and stalked downstairs The whole crew watched Irom ahne as Rick huffed out ot the building and strode past the dumptruck I watched too as the animal reached down and picked up a piece of sheclrock about the size of a serving platter and launeheel it out the window into a long lay Iri'bcc-esquflight It flew slowly in a heavy arc slowly enough tor me to re licet mi many things as it llew I reflecicJ on the picking of apples and the sieiilice “I lambs on the wrestling ol lovers and the bombing of cities on the birth ol babies the rolling of thunder and on the aI: is a tion of red red roses as the w Imbue ey p sum discus gathered spool K to eiiih and guided by the eyes aiut a ills nt every man of the crew thumped sound! between Rick's shoulderblnles md lol him flat An October salute to America’s soccer moms Idaho 83720 (801)538-103- 5 To write your senator at the Senate: The Honorable John Doe: Utah State Senator Room 319 State Capitol Salt Lake City Utah 84114 Senate District 24 (Box Elder been as benign and nonviolent as I believed Indeed when I honestly-recalle- Other views Statehouse Bcse Representatives: man hen he hired me but most of his time v us spent in the job trailer going over 753-185- US father of the w 9 tatives: (801) To write a Utah representative: The Honorable John Doe State Representative State Capitol Salt Lake City Utah 84114 House District 1 (Cache Box Elder and Tooele counties) Rep Eli Ander- N Rick's us one pleasant UTAH HOUSE To call the Utah House of Represen- phone wrong side of tyrant biggest dry wall contractors in the He'd state seemed like a 538-102- Sen Orrin Hatch Republican — US Senate Washington DC 20510 needed the job I John P Holmgren ar the rest of that work day At quitting time I watched Riek drive off in his big shiny truck and it occurred to me that it would give me joy to see him die This thought scared me I immediately realized how fur I had gone and at that point my hatred faded somewhat While I walked home I tried to get a rational hold on my feelings “Good Heavens" I thought “I'm an educated person! I'm a vegetarian and a believer in world peace! I don't hate anybody!" But yet there it was Over the next few months I thought a lot about violence — where it comes from where it resides and how it manifests itself Prompted by the persistent flaring of heat I fell every time I saw Rick abuse someone or endured it again myself I reexamined all of my assumptions about violence I had assumed that I was a nonviolent person and that had certainly proved untrue There was indeed violence in me a kind of generalized negative tension that I had never before recognized It took Rick's tirades to bring that energy into a concentration I could actually name Perhaps then my upbringing had not hi e j a‘d vc mc-er-- v Ard'e'se: a : y r ivser 1 S d"e: -- 1 4 ri-r'- J ed -- j j ym 'a j- - - 4 '!u4S y p t' 9’ - & a £ “f aa a : ' " ': js ve I 2 t : |