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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT June 25, 1970 Page 3 Udi froirs ytflook THE INSIDIOUS PLOT by Byron Cannon Anderson Assistant Editor By For what must have been the better part of an hour last Friday afternoon, some Daddys little girl and that, really, is what she is: a little girl sat in our office and discussed her own personal involvement in the campus protests against her country. Except she doesnt see it that way. In her mind, she is fighting Our Editor is Senate Candidate Byron Cannon Anderson Dr. J. Reese Hunter, our editor, is out of town at press time this week. It seems a good time for those of us working with him to publicly congratulate him on his candidacy for the Utah state senate. Reese received 39 votes in the Salt Lake County convention to 59 for incumbent Sen. Warren E. Pugh, a liberal Republican. We wish Reese well in the pri mary election Sep. 28 , and in the general election. We congratulate the numerous other conservative candidates who also survived the convention battles in their respective counties and political parties. PARTICIPATION 70 A surprisingly large number of University of Utah students were delegates to the Republican and Democrat conventions in Salt Lake County last week. It was their legal right and their moral responsibility to participate in the political processes, in an effort to elect righteous men to public office. We are concerned that so many of the young delegates seemed to think of themselves as delegates from the University of Utah, rather than as delegates from their own voting districts. The participation 70 .program at the U of U provides financial and organizational encouragement and direction for the students to become delagates, to meet in student caucuses, and to vote as a block. Financial backing for Participation 70 is coming from at least three sources-stude- nt funds, Hinckley Institute private grants, and taxes. Taxes are involved because Participation 70 has freely used university facilities, computers, and unifaculty members. It seems unethical for a versity to get so involved in politics through one of its programs. The Participation 70 program at the U of U has no institution of higher legitimate place in a tax-support- tax-support- Two barrels full of documented proof of the communist conspiracy were seized and turned over to federal authorities. Names, records, documents prepared by prominent people in this country, instructions from Moscow, speeches, theses indeed, the whole machinery of the communist apparatus in America were found in such detail as to warn the country of an international plot to destroy the government of the United States and die free enterprise, capitalistic system. It was all there, chapter and verse. Nobody thought it possible that the communists could really take over the country. Nobody took format for proseriously the carefully-detaile- d a voking Negro rebellion but that was the first step, Richard Whitney wrote, to be used by the communists. Then, he wrote, there were to come efforts to infiltrate the college campuses of America, first by planting only a few communist professors on a few campuses, then adding more and more as years went by. Then, student uprisings were to be incited. Labor unions were to be taken over. Editorial staffs of prominent newspapers were to be influenced to endorse and demand what was to be called liberal for peace. She said repeatedly that she is sincere. And she is. There was something paradoxically melancholy about her determination to prove her country wrong, to bring it down, if necessary, to win her point. We didnt communicate, heavens no she with us, or we with her. She recited the catechisms of opposition to fighting communism in Asia, or anywhere else. And as she spoke, one could almost hear a political science professor or, worse still, a member of the Chicago Seven coaching her from the all She recited the catch-phrase- s, and she wings. did so with all the innocence of a young, wide-eye- d attractive child swept, over her head, in a turmoil not meant for her. The painful part of it, as we contemplated later, was that she is as she 'had said sincere. Sincerely wrong. She is being used; she has been duped. One day she will realize it. But not this week, or next. She may never, in fact, admit it. We thought again of a book, now out of print, which we read a year or so ago a book which we were able to obtain on loan only through the Library of Congress. It was written in 1924 by a distinguished newspaperman, -- Richard Whitney, who for years covered the State Department in Washington for the Associated Press. The name of the book is Reds in America, and we would emphasize that it was published 46 years ago. Mr. Whitney forecast with incredible precision what would be happening in America in our time. In his book, he gave details of what was to become the most colossal conspiracy against the United States in its history. It began at Bridgman, Mich., when on August 22, 1922, a secret convention of the Communist Party USA was raided by police. JLJH ed ed s learning. POSTAL REFORM Jesse Helms By Summit (Miss.) Sun Talk of postal reform continues with the threat of higher postal rates, as well as a compulsory union shop for postal employes. God forbid that either come to pass. Postal rates are already too high, and compulsory unionism is wrong everywhere, with federal employes heading the list. orum Marilyn Manion When the Supreme Court declared in 1954 that de jure segregation was illegal, most people thought about the deep South. Northerners, some of whose schools were as black or as white as those in Dixie, agreed that justice had finally prevailed on the other side of the Mason-Dixo- n line. are Today, however, Northern this privately wondering if the opening of Pandoras box wasnt a mistake. Who could have thought, 16 years ago, that the courts would start damning de facto segregation and the whole neighborhood school system? Father Daniel Lyons, a frequent guest on the Manion Forum radio program, discussed this subject on a recent broadcast. Father Lyons is an author, educator, and the editor of Twin Circle, the national Catholic newspaper. He is currently living in Los Angeles. Some of his thoughts on desegregation, in general, and busing in particular: A Superior Court judge named Alfred Gitelson decided that no school in the entire Los Angeles district should have less than non-whitor more than 10 So, very bus of thousands have tens to arbitrarily, you of children into areas like Watts, and youve got to bus the children out of Watts. The cost for the first year, if this is upheld, will be 42 million dollars. The school district is 60 miles long and 40 miles wide. The children will spend between two and four hours every day on the bus. This operation has no educational purpose. It destroys so much of the educational system. For example, in the City of Los Angeles we have 600 teachers who speak Spanish and English in order to help students who have a native language of Spanish. The whole system will be thrown away. The Supreme Court has never said that de facto segregation is wrong. So, the judge has arbitrarily decided that he doesnt care about education and he doesn't care if he wrecks the school system. He has decided that he thinks it is a good idea to mix do-good- ers m Could it be that 1970 marked the last Mother's Day? Oh, not because, as frequently predicted, the world might be of completely shattered by bomb blast, but as a follow-u- p 1969 trends. Mother is the old gal who tried from Sonny or Sister's baby days to inspire diem to be interested in life. She urged them to care about their health and be clean in mind and body, to be honest in their relationships, to make the wisest, most peaceful decisions they can, knowing that wrong decisions- - those which interfere with the rights of others are wrong and expensive. In short, the right kind of mother wants her children to grow up to be strong men and women, enjoying the world and contributing to it and loving their fellow men. What Mother has witnessed in the past year has not been pretty. She has seen the increase of drugs and disease, slipshod and relationships resulting sometimes in unwanted children -around earth kids walking crime; she has seen covered-wit- h disrein attention-gettin- g garb; she has witnessed flagrant of others spect and dishonest relationships in transgressions property; rioting; war. And what with abortion and taking family limitation to its extreme, we may not have mothers at all. Mother, who attitude. needs her? seems to be an At the risk of being considered reactionary, well say that now more than ever there is a need for Mother the good old-fashion- ed kind. American Way Features WHERE ARE THE BUSSES GOING? : Bucyrus (Ohio) Telegraph-ForuWHO NEEDS MOTHER? laws and liberal government. Significantly, Mr. Whitney wrote, the plan was to convert America into a welfare state, with more and more federal controls, more and more federal subsidies. At the proper time, he warned, there was to be a great protest in the streets against national defense, and accusations that our military men are war mongers. There is no room today, of course, in the academic world for an examination let alone a study of Mr. Whitneys book. But after the little lady left our office last Friday, we wondered what effect it might have upon her if she should read the book. Perhaps none. Then again, it's just possible that a faint glimmer of light might somehow get through to her and make her wonder, after all, if she is not being used in a plot that began more than a quarter of a century before she was born. es 50. . people up. The people who have the background and the ability to help their children get a better education are going to do so. Do you think for a moment that people from good backgrounds, people who have worked hard to get where they are, do you think for a moment they are going to allow their children to be sent into a school where there is no discipline, where there are narcotics, where the teachers .dont care whether the students are slow learners or want to learn or dont want to speak English well, do you think that any parent in his right mind who has the ability to do better for his child is going to put up with that? He is going to move out of town. Actually, they are going to destroy the public school system if they keep this up. People are going to move into the suburbs in the same way that almost every Congressman in Washington, D. C. has put his children and his grandchildren outside the City of Washington. The whole idea that the schools are not for education, that they are for some social manipulation, is preposterous. Agitators have always liked the sound of mass coercion in the name of bureaucratic administration, but this is not the way to make progress in a free society. Massive busing to other schools is not the answer, either in the South or in the American Way Features North. |