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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand November 27, 1975 The Utah Independent A CORNER ON EDUCATION READERS OUTLOOK REMARKS BY ERMA CHRISTENSEN TO THE SALT LAKE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION Following is the speech made to the Salt Lake City Board of Education Tuesday, November 18, One more study Our goal is to broadcast these facts about our textbooks. The more people will protest, write letters to the editors of the newspapers, study their childrens texts, and inform each other, the sooner our educational system can be reached, and perhaps turned about, in its headlong rush to the children and change their moral values. We must wake up and sound the alarm! 8. 11-1- com-muni- ze Dr. Thomas, Board Members: thank you for allowing me to speak to you this evening. It is a privilege. I am a mother, a grandmother, and am vitally concerned about the rumors 1 have read and heard about illiteracy and delinquency among children happening in the schools. 1 commend you for your purpose of escalating the moral structure of the curriculum, and your deep concern for exceptional children. 1 heartily endorse quality education for all children used in the strictest sense of fundamental curriculum, writing, reading, arithmetic, and use of the English language and other languages pertinent to their education. These precepts are important to those who later enter the business world, write up applications, and use these skills in working on a job. and to bringing into being a good family of solid American citizens. I believe the Board and audience will agree with me in this. However, there are problems. With conscientious study into school curriculum and texts I have found some of these problems to be quite real. I also believe that the textbook commission is also concerned, and laboring constantly to bring quality into our system. wish to call to your attention is MACOS, Man: A Course of Study. I quote from THE NETS1LIK ESKIMOS, Vol. 1, pp. 97-9and 99, Macos Booklet 25, pp. With her feeble strength she ran for her life, and then it was as it Tuneq saw her only as a quarry that was about to escape him; he ran after her and stabbed her to death. After that, he lived on her and collected her bones in a heap over by the side of the platform for the purpose of fulfilling the taboo rule required of all who die.... It is solely economy that lies behind the custom that girls are killed at birth, if they have not already been promised to a family where there is a son who some day is to have a wife.... She envied her daughter more and more, until one day when Kiviokk was out hunting caribou, she . killed her. She pulled the smooth young skin from her daughters face and hand, and with it she covered her wrinkled old face and her bony hands. When Kiviok returned, the mother went to greet him as her daughter always did. Following quote is from An Evaluation made by the developers of this course. ....One of the problems, of course, is that later school work does not always provide continuing opportunities for using these methods. When children return to traditional classrooms, or to situations where the quality of is curriculum materials far different from Man: A Course of Study, the half life of this experience may not be long.... We 1975. educational 1 have With done very 2. little followup.. ..undertake shows that MOST YOUNGSTERS DID NOT ADDRESS A NEWLY POSED PROBLEM WITH THE METHODS THEY LEARNED IN MAN: A Course of Study. We need further followup research, but one anticipates disappointments, particularly for children who thousands of books to peruse and decide on as valuable to Utah return to a school career schools I realize it is an almost indominated by more traditional possible task to find every one that is inappropriate. styles of learning, to which they Let me quote from a book must adapt or opt out. (page 49) I found in one of SLC schools. It is have a copy of this page for you. Following is a quote from Dr. Serpico, a book that is presently child Lorand, being used, and which we feel is Rhoda The children are inappropriate because of the foul phychologist: language, and degrading in- forced to identify with the customs formation about police. This was by role playing, even of Eskimo made into a movie which was well myths.. ..A child was assigned the accepted by the public, but the foul role of her offspring who chops off language was left out, as my son as- the grandmothers fingers who sured me. Why was this book given clings to a boat which is about to to the students with the objec- leave her behind to die." We believe that children from tionable language included? Mr. Crawford, will you be so broken homes, who have had NO kind as to read these sentences to values instilled into their the audience? These four letter consciousness from parents, will be words are used all through the text, the most troubled by this study, as 1 can testify, not just in one and will accept the values of the Eskimos for their own. place. I am here to urge you, as those J its cold as a b.... out for our childrens side. Everyone tried to settle responsible down again before another man education, to take a look at the funrushed out and returned, damental schools now being used in Pasadena, job. A sick so successfully muttering, I got a f call. Can you imagine at this California, and other parts of our country. I have a study for you hour? Whos got my stick? Wheres my G.. d... hat? Get up. written by Dr. Richard Vetterli, will you; youre on my f hat, for which gives facts and figures on the INCREASE of I.Q. and reading C . sake. This book exposes extensive ability. Will you please study this alternative to John corruption in the New York Police. material as an It dehumanizes our SLC police Deweys Progressive Education, force along with all police forces in which we feel has not done the job the nation, as the children read this it was paid to do with our tax book, turns them into enemies money. Thank you very much. instead of protectors. . 11 Page Continued from page 10 of Independence, and brewing a World Constitution for us, 3S documented by Tribune reporter Chicago Frank Hughes 1950 book, Prejudice and the Press. As an outright gift to the University of Scars Roebuck Chicago, Company, Britannica owners, had generously given the tax-exem- pt multi-million-doll- ar in Britannica successful operating condition as a higitly respected and reliable reference source, Congressman Reece said, and then showed: How The Encyclopaedia Britannica Was Gobbled Up with University of Chicago part-tim- e Vice Chancellor B. William Benton and Chancellor M. Robert Hutchins gaining control. In 1 962, the Santa Barbara paper called visitor Benton, owner, spilling the news the Britannica was paying Center scholars $500,000 a year to revise the Britannica. In the Centers first report 1959-6Hutchins said revising the britannica was the Center's most important project. In the 1960s, revision was showing in 1) Columnist Morrie Ryskind reporting he could only find George 0, tax-exem- pt Washingtons dress when he looked for George Washingtons farewell address which h3d always been in the Britannica warning us to beware of enemies from within, and 2) the 1964 book, The Myth of The Britannica, which resuited from its author. Dr. Harvey a Einbinder. consulting field of in the physicist rockets and space flight, becoming exasperated with mistakes the in the Britannica. Significantly, Congressman Reece in 1956 cited the Britannica and the Fund for the Republic as excellent examples showing how key can misuse persons tax-exem- pt funds to to and collaborate with, and create, to other organizations indoctrinate the American ideas on people with one-wa- y world the government, United Nations, foreign policy concepts, socialism and so furth. Congressman Reece also said only taxpayers protesting to their legislators can stop this misuse of funds and abuse of power. If you do not want to become involved, you are no longer free; you are already behind the Iron Curtain, as pointed out by John F. propagandize tax-exem- pt McManus, author of of Our World, speaking recently to a large audience of Americans who Overview do want to become involved, and rescue our free land from internal enemies who would enslave us. write a good deal about the a merger with Brezhnev, Amin, Council on Foreign Relations (the Tito. Yashire arafat, Indira Ghan-d- i, Mao none of whom can feed CFR) of which the Rockefeller brothers are members David his own subjects or followers: Is it being chairman. planned that you and I shall feed The CFR is prominent in the them, and be overrun by them? recent White House shakeup. Kis(2) The FUND FOR THE is a a Rockefeller REPUBLIC has even published in pal, singer member of the CFR, and acbook form a CONSTITUTION cording to a book by Frank Capell FOR THE WORLD, lurgeyouto and one by Phyllis Schlafly and become aware of how many brain-truste- rs Admiral Chester Ward, Kissinger are hard at work trying to do linked with be away with America. closely appears to Russia and its world aims. Old Justice Douglas, Lets first consider that Kis- surviving a threat of impeachment, singer, when deprived of his post right in the thick of this ONE as head of all United States major WORLD movement, and during intelligence operations, was that time sitting on our Supreme replaced by Lt. Gen. Brent Court sworn to UPHOLD THE Scowcroft. So what? Scowcroft is U.S. CONSTITUTION. Douglas was appointed to the Kissinger's deputy or assistant, and HE TOO IS A MEMBER OF Supreme Court in 1939 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. I can Xerox for THE CFR! Colby replaced with George you a very good short biography of Bush. Bush is a member of the Douglas free or for some needed CFR. Schlcssinger, NOT a CFR postage. If you think I am being man, wasfired. He was for a strong hard on him, write President Jerry U.S. defense. He was replaced by Ford and ask, Why did you want Donald Rumsfeld, YET Douglas impeached? On ANOTHER CFR MAN! Who will we get in place of balance, the Rockefeller club gains ONE WORLD Douglas? The left power and control, even as sly Roc- wing media has already put forth ky, who ran off and left New York the name of Attorney General State in shambles, bows out and Levi, fresh from the Rockefeller leaves Ford with the NY City bag. Founded University of Chicago. Supreme Court Justice Wm. As I stated above, having just Bush and Douglas finally resigned. Not long gotten Scowcroft, ago Gerald Ford was strong for his Rumsfeld, all Rockefeller CFR impeachment. Why? Douglas has men, we may just get anti-guLevi. long been associated with the liberal element in the Court, that I have quoted from the BIOextended through the Warren era. DICTIONARY Its decisions have the country torn GRAPHICAL THE LEFT. OF Volume lays apart with no capital punishment, with busing, civil rights" for all bare the Ford Foundation, the outand sundry including children, and fits named above, and such persons the rights of criminals to act as as Douglas, Javits, Rockefeller, their own lawyers and to receive Pete Seeger, Frank Church, many, communist literature while in many more. Without it one can hardly understand the issue of jail etc., etc. In my view perhaps the worst ONE WORLD GOVERNthing that can be said of Douglas is MENT, to be run by the United that he is a rabid INTE- Nations, which is now dominated RNATIONALIST, a ONE by blacks, Arabs and communists. By the way, one of the articles WORLDER who would scrap the of the New Constitution for the constitution he swore to uphold. He was a consultant for the Center Republics of America is disarming for the Study of Democratic of the citizens. Is it a coincidence Institutions, an offshoot of the that we now have before the bills? Fund for the Republic at Santa Congress nearly 100 anti-gu- n Barbara, Cal. He was Chairman of Is it a coincidence that we are already divided into TEN the Fund's Board of Directors. These twro organizations are REGIONS, designed to abolish the famous (or infamous depending on States (unless we come out of our whether your point of view is that apathy.) By stealth we are being smothered by this proposed NEW of a communist or an CONSTITUTION, bit by bit. for two things: (1) The Center, a group of ONE WORLDERS, has been Douglas was appointed to the messing around for years writing a new constitution for a United Supreme Court in 1939 by FranRepublics of America. The last klin D. Roosevelt. I can Xerox for version was published in the Center you a very good short biography of Douglas free or for some need Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5. Sept-O1970. It divides the nation into postage. (E.P. Thornton, F REPUBLICS, does away with the Arcadian No. I, Myrtle Beach. States. (Like the Union of Socialist S.C. 29577) If you think I am being hard on him. write President Jerry Soviet REPUBLICS, maybe?) And no doubt the new proposed Ford and ask, Why did you want constitution is a step on the way to Douglas impeached? I n, 1 anti-communi- st) ct 6-- - Sarah Corry, Santa Barbara. My knowledge. One of the things that stirs every American is the love of individual liberty. -- Woodrow Wilson ler people are destroyed for lack of -- Hosea4:6 . |