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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent April 28, 1977 conducive Eagle Forum Alton, Illinois 62002 systematic, learning. Six members of the Illinois Legislature filed suit in Federal District Court at Peoria, 111. on March 31 to enjoin White House employee Mark Siegel and the International on Commission Womens Year from lobbying for ratification of ERA by state legislatures. Count 1 of the Complaint charges that White House lobbying for ERA is unconstitutional because Art. 5 of the Constitution gives the ratification power solely to state legislatures. Furthermore, Federal law specifically prohibits from Commission the IWY engaging in lobbying activities. The Complaint recites numerous acts of lobbying by both Defen- dants. authorization. Count III charges that the IWY Commission is in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act because its state Coordinating Committees are NOT fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented." The Illinois Coordinating Committee, for example, consists of 58 persons and only one against pro-ERERA. This same ratio of about -l is being followed in the other states. In some states the identity of the Coordinating Committee is until all being kept semi-secrplans are made. Most of the state conferences will be held in Mayor June. Large amounts of Federal money have been allocated to put on these state conferences, ranging up to SI 00.000 per state. The lawsuit asks that the IWY Commission return the S266.234 and all other funds spent in violation of Federal laws. The lawsuit also asks that the Court order the IWY Commission to appoint its committees and conduct its forthcoming S5.000.000 worth of state and national conferences in compliance with Federal law that fairly requires that they be balanced in terms of the points of view represented. A 25-to- et THE BATTLE AGAINST TV VIOLENCE 1 of the Wall Street Journal of April 5 shows that we arc making progress in our drive to curb TV violence. It shows that the best way to get ac- tion is to protest to the advertisers, who in turn can put the squeeze on the networks. The advertisers CAN do it and they WILL do it IF they feel enough heat from customers. Any business is making a grievous mistake if it spends advertising money to alienate a substantial segment of the American people. Eagle Forum. Alton, . to organized, interferes with scholarly atmosphere is inimical to good education, and should be tossed out on its ear. Hence school dress and personal appearance codes. That No. 5 assumption: school policy should be set by students. ANSWER: This concept is outrageously undemocratic. Any public institution must be run by those who pay the taxes, not by those In any who, benefit by them. institution you simply cannot turn over the institutions to the inmates! Today school is expected to be amusing and sparkling and fitted felt to the accommodatingly needs" of each student. Counsel A CORNER ON EDUCATION By Erma J. Christensen Erma Famous columnist, Bombeck, once wrote in her column: New Way To Cope With Children, that she was familiar with the newest technique for called Parent Effectiveness Training". She called it active listening". If the child says he has been throwing up all day. you just listen with calm dignity and say. Do you like throwing up. Not much." said Gordon? Gordon. Youre saying you prefer I guess so." something else? Youve just expressed doubt." I DONT LIKE THROWING UP." Mother says. There is no need to be hostile. No one is going to make you throw up." Gordon: This Im going conversation is dumb Mother to be sick again. (smiling): That's what you wanted all along, isn't it? Parent Effectiveness Training is the in thing" for education these 'days. Instead of proper math, history. reading, writing. English, literature: the basics, the children are going to be able to cure all the problems CAUSED by todays g, ed and psychoanalysis arc in classes, predominant entertaining pupils, but even with these delightful things, the school educates the student less effectively than ever before in the use of intellectual tools which are to be passed down from one generation to the next. School is not fun and games. It is not intended to entertain or divert. It is far too important to be watered down and gussied up and made palatable for a generation of students who prefer a placebo to a the physic We have short-changchildren during the past 50 years. What will the returns be in the year ed 2000? Along with the chirping of springtime birds, editorials are giving advance notices of city and teams. county charter-writin- g To write a good charter editorial, or to write a good charter itself, knowledge about a basic truth can go far to make the task more easily successful. The main objective is to write a charter which will keep the balance of ruling power in the hands o f the citizens w ho will live under the charter and pay the recommend metro charters. Also the local offshoots of the PIGS will promote a metro charter. PIGs means public interest groups". Locals are the leagues of cities and associations of counties with the nationwide joined National League of Cities (NLC): International City Management Assn. (ICMA): National Assn, of bills. (ACIR); and National Municipal League (N ML). The latter makesa business of writing and selling metro General Power Grant charters. On the other hand, the "enumerated powers charters" are a protection against all that. The need for complete citizen control over local government is best fulfilled by citizen power charters. Such ninth and tenth amendment type" charters start with the concept of reserved control left in the voters hands as in Amendments Nine (IX) and Ten (X) of the United States Constitution. Citizens dole out the powers sparingly, list them in the charter when their authority is delegated to the governing body. The larger the power amount retained by the citizens, the less given to city council the greater freedom the citizens enjoy. After firmly keeping the citizens in control by a clearly enunciated "citizen control" charter section, it is time to think on how to avoid metro traps such as intergovernmental" sections which destroy local independence by merging cities into metro regions where elections dont take place because the rulers are appointed. The Redtapc publicity" is an effective way of knocking out metro charters. For particulars on how to enlist th help of Johnny and Ruby Rcdtape in defeating metro charters, write to CHARTER CHALLENGERS, P.O. Box 368. Hillsboro. Missouri 63050. con-troli- ng Complete control in the hands of the city council is to be avoided. Control in the hands of a city manager to be avoided even more so! Whatever he is called administrator. chief executive officer, etc. the appointed metro manager cannot be voted out by the citizens. He is pkiccd there by the city council and by appointment. The metro General Power Grant (GPG) likewise to be avoided, control shifts of the away from government citizens, gives too much or all control to city council or metro manager. Votelcss annexations" are another metro trap. They cause hard feelings, capture the rural folks, force them to pay the citys debts. is Bloated sewer-dea bt lip-movi- ng R. Stand Copyright Jo Hindman 1977 Subject matter, especially READING is far and away the most important thing the schools exist to teach. Good citizenship current aftermath of such springs from familiarity with our annexations. In qualifying" for nation's history, knowledge of its federal sewer assistance, some good government, from at least a cities have fallen into the hands of progressive nodding acquaintance with the unscrupulous managers. Under permissive education. ..the wav psychiatrists greatest literature. None of these "iich influence city councils have been trying to do ever since wellsprings of good citizenship can sometimes contract for Freud. This is the no absolute, be tapped by the extravagant or overbuilt sewer Let the no answers technique. in reading does systems. The local per capita debt Competence children solve all the problems, not spring spontaneously from the shoots Personal banupward. dictatorial" felt needs of the child. It springs never provide a kruptcy of householders or asanswer. Leave his questions up in from an efficient, inspirational tronomical bonded public debt the air -- so he will have the happy teacher, and from interesting, become the alternatives. experience of solving them himself! challenging books, both dedicated One way of detecting a metro There are some very phony asto the proposition that learning the charter is by its baggage. The have educationists that sumptions letters of the alphabet, the sounds League of Women Voters inbeen projecting to parents and of those letters, and how to comvariably will be for metros GPG children of this nation for years bine them into syllables is the best charters. The local chamber of now. No. I is that schools exist to possible way to teach anyone how commerce, if befogged, may their to students help adjust easily to read. comenvironment. We have been told that inaccepted vocal fortably by their peer group" and. dustry is crying for all sorts of moderately acceptable to enable them to practice strange esoteric mechanical speech patterns, with absolutely no togetherness, and life adjustment. abilities, and schools are going to reliance on ineffable crutches such THE ANSWER: Schools exist to have to install everything from as blast off, weirdo and dc cat do no such things. They exist to micromillimctric measuring ha just split": (5) Willingness to make students educated -- that is devices to nuclear reactors in order shut up. take orders and work all. to train the highly specialized hard; (6) Cheerfulness, helpfulness, In technicians needed to service both and a civil tongue in ones head. No. 2 assumption: education there arc no absolutes, the Air Age of today and the Space The teaching of the rudiments is no eternal verities. Everything Age of tomorrow. The same claims of the job can be done by the owner this should If ANSWER: relative. arc being made for an increase of of the equipment on the job in a be some remote and unlikely both light and heavy industry. But day or two. chance turn out to be true, teachers important as these arc, they arc not So education today is being would be out of a job. No ab- the real need of business and inled around in a circle, trying to cure solutes. no information, no need dustry. problems that have arisen because for education! The qualifications arc: (1) students have had "life adI 3 a No. assumption: hat big Talk the kids into shaving, getting justment". self enhancement", is a small one. than school better social awareness". Progressive haircuts, and throwing away sanANSWER: Not any more than a dals; (2) Change their attitudes education. permissiveness. is a a than man man better Parent Effectiveness Training", big about work;(3) leach them to read small one. or a big mistake better without and without a and I A for l ots. Kids, and on up than a small one. glaing of the eyeballs whenever a to high school. Mislead of reading, No. 4 assumption: School word of more than two syllables writing and arithmetic, history, dress codes and personal comes along: (4) leach them geography and economics. NON-READE- A CHARTERS GO ON THE ROAD and disciplined Anything which tax-support- child-rearin- Count II states that the U.S. Comptroller General reported that the IWY Commission improperly received from six federal agencies and spent S266.234 for which there was no Congressional appropriation or proper Federal The Paper That Dares To Take appearance arc outrageous, tyrannical, even unconstitutional. ANSWER: School is a place where teachers try to establish a climate WHITE HOUSE & IWY SUED FOR LOBBYING An article from page f Counties (NACo): U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM); Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations have profound faith in America. I am confident that when the American people read from the become record. ..and fully crime of the of the extent cognizant and corruption which fester in our midst, they will demand action. ...The principal and basic weapon that must be provided is a I resurgence of old-fashion- ed morality in the nation. Apathy must go; it needs to be replaced by the outraged righteousness of a people who .rose to greatness in this world through the spiritual values that their forefathers wrote into Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. ...We cannot ,we must not. shirk our responsibility....'! his challenge can be. and must be. faced with resolute purpose and effort. U.S. Senator John .. McClellan |