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Show Page Two FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Teachers to Vote On Representative Carl Mellor Salt Lake teachers will vote at the Utah Education Associa-tion Convention in Salt Lake City, September 28, for the per-son to represent them on the Board of Directors of the power-ful National Education Associ-ation. Seeking the position is Carl Mellor, fifth grade teacher at the Lehi Elementary School in Lehi, Utah. The NEA is the world's largest professional organization. It comprises a membership of over 800,000 teachers in the United States. Ninety-eig- ht per cent of the teachers of Utah belong to the NEA, and as such have direct responsibilities in selecting the one person who will represent them as NEA State Director from Utah. Mr. Mellor firmly believes that active participation in pro-fessional Education organizations is the responsibility of every edu-cator; that every teacher must be informed on, and familiar with, the aims, programs, and the status of his local, state and national professional organiza-tions. He claims that educational organizations presently face challenges, the solution of which will determine the status of edu-cation for future generations and that educational associations must emerge as representatives of, and spokesmen for, the total teaching profession. Candidate Mellor is a native of Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah. He holds B.S. and Master of Education degrees in Elemen-tary Instruction. He has been an active participant in professional education worksshops;, confer-ences and conventions on the local, state and national levels since graduating from BYU in 1953. He was president of the Alpine Education Association in 1957-5- 8 and was president of the Utah Classroom Teachers from 1959-196- 1. He has served on many committees of the Utah Educa-tion Association and was a mem-ber of the NEA Department of Classroom Teacher Advisory Council from 1959-196- 1. Belt plaint. But between "crises," who can blame them for becoming tired. The Russian bear has been ''crying wolf" so often that it is only human to seek escapism when the dangers pass. This is, of course, Communist strategy, to follow a consistent pattern of peace-crisis-peace-cri- so that the challenge we face has be-come blurred. In a democracy, even the best of leaders is unable to take the people any further than they are willing to go, or than the clear-cu- t, self-evide- nt dangers de-mand. He can coax, chide, arouse, threaten the people and warn them they face disaster if they do not stir themselves. But what can he do if a Berlin, For-mosa- n or Congo crisis he has alerted the people to, suddenly stops becoming a crisis? It is bad enough that the Communists should conspire to tire our people, make them skep-tical that world crises are really crises at all and lull them into apathy. It only compounds the confu-sion, diminishes our differences and adds to the apathy when our own leaders seem to do the same. Democracy thrives on dif-ferences and constructive dis-cussion that should arouse our people to ponder problems and produce solutions. But just when people seem excited again over the latest Berlin crisis, both political par-ties inevitably issue statements denying that Berlin is a political issue and declaring that there Is no room for differences on our policy at home. Last year's failure of the Cuban invasion was followed al-most immediately by expressions of public support for the Presi-dent from such leading opposi-tion party members as Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur. Just when the American peo-ple were being alerted to the Cuban danger again this year, Senate GOP Leader Dirksen de-clared Cuba should not become a political issue. When President Kennedy asked Congress for power to re-call 150,000 reservists, General Eisenhower shut off debate by declaring that "The President knows best in such matters." Right-win- g critics of Ameri-can anti-Commun- ist policies are told that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knows best about es-pionage and subversion. Penta gon critics of U.S. military policy are told to muzzle their differences. Critics of our space program are told to argue with the astronauts. Critics of U.S. Supreme Court rulings are told you cannot argue with the law. All of this may be well and true and even desirable in today's world. But if we live in a world in which all the steam and passionate debate is to be taken out of the great global is-sues confronting us, is there any wonder our people may be bored, skeptical and apathetic and that our leaders complain they have no one to lead any-where anymore? It is not at all unusual for leaders to blame "the people" sometimes correctly for a gov-ernment's inability to deal with the world's problems. Something of this sort is happening now. Republicans are freely blam-ing the Kennedy Administration for an incapacity to lead Con-gress, the American people or the free world. But official Washington is heaping out large doses of blame on "the people" for an inability to come to grips with the world's problems. President John F. Kennedy who seems to have all the ca-pacities for great leadership, Is quoted as asking whether the people do not seem more anxious to "drop anchor than set said" and seek an r easing of world tension and the demands made upon them, rather than face up to their challenges and respon-sibilities. His brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, says people still seem to be asking "What can the government do for them, rather than what they can do for their country." The Administration's key Congressional leader, U.S. Sen-ate Majority Leader Mike Mans-field, says "The people are tired of demands that have been made upon them in almost unbroken succession since 1939," in ex-plaining why he believes the Kennedy legislative program bogged down. Speaker of the House McCor mack says the "People are tired of continuous prodding" to make sacrifices even in the face of a need to do so. And more than a score of eminent historians say in asses-sing the Kennedy Administra-tion at mid-ter- m, that President Kennedy's capacity for great leadership has been handicapped by "the mood of the people." We are reminded that George Washington's greatness might never have come about without the American Revolution, or that Lincoln could have been a non-entit- y had he not lived dur-ing the Civil War. Truman was a virtual non-entity, with little to distinguish himself, when he became Presi-dent when Roosevelt died. Where would WDR rank in his tory if he had gone unchallenged by the depression and the Sec-ond World War? How many Americans ever heard of Win-ston Churchill or Dwight Eisen-hower before the Second World War? How many historic figures would we ever hear of if espe-cially troubled times did not pose clearcut challenges, test their leadership abilities and give them a cause to lead the people for? Lord knows, there are ample causes in today's troubled world, notably freedom vs. communist tyranny and poverty in the midst of plenty. But monumental turn-ing points in history that arouse the people, such as war and depression or clearcut challenges to the American people such as another Pearl Habor, have been lacking. That most overworked word, "crisis," is also becoming tire-some. Does anybody even re- - member the number of phony "crises" we have had over Ber-lin, Formosa, Laos or in the Middle East? "The people" respond to' each of these "crises", when asked. They send their sons off to pos-sible war, pay even-high- er taxes and would doubtless be willing to make other sacrifices if spe-cifically asked without com- - Quarter Horse Assn. Expands Classes For Ogdcn Show Utah directors of the Inter-mounta- in Quarter Horse Assn. have approved inclusion of per-formance classes for horses four years and under at the annual fall show of the association in Ogden Nov. 15-1- 7. Show officials report that jr. and senior classes will be offered in reining, roping, western pleas-ure, working cow horse, barrel racing, pole bending and cow cutting. These are all approved events of the American Quarter Horse Assn. In addition to the registered performance events, cow corral-ijg- , open cow cutting and novice cow cutting will be offered. Sifting of sale horses, elimin-ation in performance events and go-roun- ds in senior registered, jr. registered and novice cutting will open the show at 1 p.m. Nov. 15. At 6 p.m. the annual so-cial hour and dinner will be held at the Ben Lomond Hotel under the direction of Alfred L. Hahn, Blackfoot, Idaho and Pat Clark, Las Vegas, Nev. Judging of halter horses will begin Nov. 16 at 9 a.m. with the placing of fillies, mares and geldings. Judging of colts and stallions will be held on Satur-day morning, Nov. 16. The annual IQHA sale will be held Nov. 16 in the afternoon with around 70 registered quar-ter horses from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyo., Calif, and Ariz, to be sold. Their performance show finals will be held follow-ing the sale. Judge for the three-da- y exhi-bition will be J. D. Crafts of Jacksboro, Texas. Co-manag-are Will Pickett of Salt Lake City and Karl T. Homer of Idaho Falls and ring steward will be Ralph Jones of Salt Lake City. Entry forms for the show will go in the mail Oct. 1 with the deadline for receiving entries set on Nov. 11. Best and late en-tries will be accepted at double; the entry fee. When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the a happy one to a fellow creature. Sydney Smith. VJIM ON (MORE Where It's IF . A Uj D o V ET"P All the Time THE NEW KMUR 1230 On Every Radio If you like Orange Juice... you'll love a a Screwdriver! The fruit juice provides sunshine. 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