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Show INDEPENDENT PAGE TWO SUGAR HOUSE, UTAH THURSDAY MAY 5, 1960 life's Wrong With Payofe? What is really behind all this hullabaloo over "payola"? Con-gressmen are wasting their time in a so called investigation of a simple and most common procedure in American business. It is impossible to believe that anyone who has been elected to Congress could be as naive as is implied in the public statements made.by these investigators. Members of the investigating committee imply that they never before heard of such a thing as. someone being paid to promote a product. They also imply that entertainment of persons that could help the sale of a product is unheard of business procedure. In spite of this attitude the government recognizes such expenses as legitimate business costs. Disc jockeys and business executives are hauled up before the committee and asked if they received money or special favors for promoting certain records. Well, no doubt they did receive some type of consideration. Did any Congressman ever get elected without promises to his public of what he would do for them if he received their votes? How many Congressmen have you ever heard of that got elected by saying, "I will do nothipg for you in exchange for being elected"? Before we are investigated this little ole paper admits receiving payola (when we can collect it) for promoting or advertising someone's products. If this ivory-tower- ed committee really wants to take on a difficult job, let them try to ferret out some business in which there is not some form of payola. Dick Clark and the others being questioned could stop this burlesque by admitting that of course they received some remuneration for their services in bringing a product to the public's attention. What other reason would there be for their doing so? Wouldn't it be wonderful to have some Congressional committee spend as mi'ch time and energy finding the many obvious ways to reduce taxes as they do in harassing private business? We might then have enough money in our pockets to buy all products sold through "payola" and still have money left over. (lie!) School iwu iyiu EAST HIGH SCHOOL by Saundra Schoendals Election week is now into full swing, and I mean swing. Last Monday morning there was a band along with many students, in the front hall cam-paigning. All were full of en-thusiasm and all were most eager to get into the groove of elec-tions. attendance. The dance was held at the beautiful Union Building. All the girls invited their special one and danced a delightful even-ing away. The dress was semi-form- al, and many such as Beckie Willardsen, Ema Jorgensen, and Anne Clayton were decked out in beautiful spring semiformals. Es-pecially and appropriately chosen Dream Boy" was Bfent McMas-ter- s. East High's Music Department presented their elite musical com-edy, The Pajama Game. It was a big success and was enjoyed by not only East High students but by students and teachers from other schools of Salt Lake as well. Information about graduation was disclosed to all Seniors. They were informed of the graduating date which is Wednesday, the first of June. Graduation will be held in the Community Auditorium, so as to allow each Senior Student four guests. The graduation dance, however, along with the farewell assembly, will be held Thursday, June 2nd. It doesn'tseem possible, that in just a month, all the Seniors will leave East High as students forever. Students of East High School are "now beginning to look forward to the coming activities planned for them. May 25th East High School will proceed to Lagoon as planned. Many are deciding which bathing suit will look best for this fes-tive occasion. Also coming up is the carnival which will be held May 16th. Every club is entering a booth in the carnival, and I think it will prove to be interesting. Just a secret hint-- - I've heard it said that when such things as the marriage booth gets started and the Cheerleaders entry begins there will be excitement for every-one. Each candidate that is running for this final election has been photographed with a special" Smile for the Week". "My Choice" is being lodged in the minds of all East High School students. They agree that the choice will be a hard one to make, due to all the many fine classmates running. Bill Lloyd is now back in work-ing order. Welcome back, Bill. We missed you. Bill is the student body president of East High. He was seriously injured in an ac-cident last month but is now well and has returned to school. Along with Bill have come the "Smile Signs". Each week there have been special signs around the halls of East High School with a clever saying. The purpose of these signs is to brighten up the student body and teaching staff. Typical signs were those such as, "Grin a G reer Grin". "Smile", and "Thimk". The East HighAssociatedGirls put on a special dance recently that "starry-eyed- " everyone in Vfeivs Personology Arthur M. Richardson This octogenarian, Jack Cox, has been watching personology for quite a few years. He says "I think it has everything bested as vocational guidance, for kids in high school, or those that have finished school. What I like about personology counselors, they ask you no questions. They look atthe face and take a few measurements and make your chart. Of course, ' if you wish to ask questions, the counselor will gladly answer them for you. "Other counselors at High Schools and Universities, as I've been told, ask a lot of questions, give you various problems and puzzles to work out, then guess what you're good for. "To illustrate my point, I have in mind a boy in Corcoran. He graduated from high school with honors, and of course had been counseled by the high school counselor. He tried about every available job in Corcoran, and several jobs on the ranch where his dad and I were working, but could find no job he could hold, or that suited him. After about a year he started running with a wild bunch and got in minor difficulties with the law. "His dad heard of Personology and went and investigated, then took the boy over and had his chart made and also counseled. The personology counselor advised an airplane factory near Los Angeles. The boy loved it and really started climbing. He was back in Corcoran on a visit three years later and I talked to him and asked him how he liked it, and he said "That chart and counseling was the best thing that ever happened to me." JUiGOIS I Ref ill Attitudes Mot Facts Merle Riche" "To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their others,' then this is not really instruction at all, but inculcation of currently popular herd ideas on a mass basis. Parents, you know this to be true. What do your children think of the United Nations and the Constitution of the United States of America? What do your children think of segregation versus integration? What do your children think about what they have a "right" to and what are their duties and privileges? Already their minds are stretched like a rubber band to include acceptance of the idea that all people are on a dead level in everything and that it is a modern sin to believe anything else. But, they are your children. You can allow educators to do with . them what you please. morals, and in-still into them the precepts of virtue and order" -- - this was Thomas Jefferson' s definition of the pu rpose of education. f I Reasoning faculties cannot be developed without getting factual information to think with. We get those facts through reading. Yes, there are other ways, but reading is one of the most important ones. To expect a student to "think" without the labor of learning the facts necessary to accurate thinking is encouraging the dangerous illusion that thinking is easy, that it ought to be easy, that it is the fruit of personality rather than of patient, hard work. "Pro-gressive" education has curtailed thinking, through its de-emph-on reading. In addition it is shot through with cynicism the denial of absolute truth. And, of course, if there is no absolute truth, one person's opinion is as good as another's. And, if this is so, why study to get at the true nature of things if there is no true nature of things? Therefore, there can be no absolute truth 1 Therefore, no absolute moral standards. So a lie can be "good" if useful at the moment. Cheating, if advan-tageous, is another "good." The school becomes a slicked-u- p jungle with chastity good only for laughs. The object of education with "progressive" teachers is to "enable the child to get along with his own age group." This attitude is far more dangerous than it appears to be. For if the objective is not to teach facts but, rather to "induce social attitudes toward Pardon Your Slip is Showing: From the Chaffey Collegiate Press: "Club pictures are being taken now, while following the exams the faculty will be shot. "I'm sorry, the manager isn't in," said the clerk to the pom-pous individual who has strutted in. "Isn't there anything I can do for you?" "No," snapped the visitor, "I never deal with underlings. I'll wait until the manager returns." About an hour later the pompous one became impatient. "How much longer do you suppose the manager will be? he demanded. "About two weeks," was the reply. "He just left on his vacation." Letter to the Editor Dear Mrs. Notestine: Please accept our appreciation and "Thank you" for. the wonder-ful support you have given the Public Relations Committee of the Sugar House Business and Pro-fessional Women's Club this year. We especially wish to congratulate you on the very outstanding work you did on the Detention Home problem, bringing the situation so forcibly to the attention of the public. We are proud of our Sugar House paper and wish you continued success. Sincerely, Arietta Elton Chairman public relations WARD 5A "John's absolutely fearless--h- e turned his headlights right back on high beam when the other driver wouldn't dim his." legols Notice is hereby given that the heretofore existing between Hazel Ross and Drue H. Ross under the fictitious name and style of Plez-A- ll Market doing business at 3058 South 9th East, Salt Lake City, Utah, is now dis-solved by mutual consent. Drew H. Ross has withdrawn from and has ceased .to be associated in the carrying on of said business and Hazel Ross will hereafter carry on said business and is entitled to all of the assets of said business and has assumed and will pay all the outstanding obligations ofPlez-Ai- r Market heretofore and hereafter incurred. Said co-partnership is dissolved as of January 12, 1960. Drue H. Ross Hazel H. Ross First publishing date: April 21, 1960. South East Independent The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March 1, 1946. in Salt Lake City Cost Office under the act of March 3. 1879. It is published each Thurs-day morning. Tom Notestine Owner and Publisher KatherineH. Notestine Managing Editor HU 61 Subscription rates are $3.00 per year or ten cents for the single copy. Send all mail to P.O. Box 136 Sugar House Station, Salt Lake City 6. Utah. |