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Show Grassroots Opinion THEY ASK TOO MUCH! Over the cast ten weeks or more, we have been studying study-ing the four propositions being presnted to the electorate on November 7th. In our news columns we have presented views, both pro and con to these constitutional amendments, amend-ments, in an effort to inform our readers. It was quite easy to provide pro-comment, since all candidates for major offices, of both parties have endorsed all four of the constitutional amendments. Both political parties, and most of the organization dedicated to informing inform-ing the taxpayer, voters, etc. have supported them. Because of this agreement by opposing faction and the readily availability of research material favoring the amendments, we at first favored adoption of al1 of the Constitutional amendments after all it was the popular thing to do. But on further reserch we found paragraphs, ommis-sions ommis-sions and other faults with three of the propositions which though we feel have many good points, tend to go too far. We believe that they go beyond the norm with which we are prepared to go. The unfortunate thing is that, we are sure all of the amendments will pass in this election, simply, because few people will bother to research them far enough. And certainly, cer-tainly, the wording used on the ballot, could hardly be obnoxious to even the most discriminate. This is unfortunate, unfor-tunate, because we believe that, in passing of Propositions 1, 2 and 3, each voter in Utah will give up some of his or her right, either to the legislature, the Governor or to the State School Board. In so doing, they will lose some control over their elected officials, their schools, and in fact, maybe in the future, even the right to elect some of these officials. In searching out these propositions, we have been reading Jodie Elder's Journal. Mr. Elder was defeated as a candidate for State Auditor for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion in the Primary Election. He, though admittedly bitter from being fired as deputy auditor after filing for election, and maybe even more bitter in his defeat in the primary, has researched these propositions very carefully. Much of , what he has to say is true. Therefore, we have ran articles from Mr. Elder's Journal in the last two issues of the News. We believe you will find them interesting and informative in-formative and for that reason will not attempt to offer our own criticism of the proposals except to say taat we are opposed to Propositions 1 and 2 on the grounds that they give too much authority for change to the the legislative, administrative and judicial branches of our government. The only reason we can see for the unanimous support they have received is that those holding these positions or running for them, would like the added power they will have if the propositions pass. Proposition No. 3 would permit busing of school children chil-dren across the county lines. We believe that any busing across county lines should be handled by special dispensation, dispen-sation, as it is now being handled and not be left to the discrimination of the State School Board. Proposition No. 4 we will vote for, since we believe that in Beaver County, as well as Vietnam, the people should have the right to determine what kind of government govern-ment they will be governed by. Red |