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Show Fairytale battle rr..;;;;;; ,;;,. PT A fights for worldly good It's fairytale time again, and what better setting than the hall of local government? No, it's not the school board this time. In fact, this time, the action took place in the sacred council rooms of the Cedar City Council, although the Council is not the only villian in this little tale, nor its most diabolical. Oh, no, no. Indeed, this time, the wolf in sheep's clothing is none other than the County Parent-Teacher Association, a nice enough group, generally. Now, this is a long and complicated tale, so you will have to pay attention, especially if you have been raised to believe that the Parent Teacher Association was simply a bunch of nice old ladies who put on programs at the schools. In fact, this story began long again. In fact, in the beginning God created the earth. And he created man and placed him on the earth. And he placed a brain within man. And he called it good. And, in fact, it was good. Or at least it was for a number of years. Adam, and his counterpart Eve, got along pretty well for centuries, even after they were evicted from the garden. gar-den. The brains that God placed in the heads of them and their progenitors worked out quite well. Men were generally able to think things through for themselves. And, another thing, this idea of Adam and Eve having children and raising and teaching them worked out quite well too. As a whole parents did themselves proud. Well, the world continued in this manner for centuries. Men passed a few laws so that they would not all get in each others' ways, and they acquired or hired some people to help them teach their children (because they knew that such was extremely important), and these teachers, as well as principals and other administrators (despite what some newspapers said to the contrary), really did a credible job. Bruce Children learned, businessmen conducted their businesses, the world turned and all went according to God's great plan. Man proved he could function for himself at least fairly well without government or other intervention. But then something happened; well, really two things happened, sometime within the same millenium, unfortunately. un-fortunately. During this time, two different things arose from the dust of the earth, and they seemed to cause each other a problem. The two were the Parent Teacher Association and (shudder) the diabolical, crafty, child-hunting Little Red Catering Truck. Well, the Parent Teacher Association decided that the Little Red Catering Truck was making the world unsafe for everybody, especially the Children. And, since it had been a long time since God t had instilled man with his original brain, the Parent Teacher Association decided that man now needed help in protecting himself, especially from such culprits as the Little Red Catering Truck. So the Parent Teacher Association rallied all their forces for good and went before the great judges of the land: the Cedar City Council, five men of noble character and the wisdom of Solomon. They, certainly, would help rid the land of this menance. And they did, and the Little Red Catering Truck went creeping away into the thicket, while the world became a better place for the Children. But such is not the entire end of the story. Suddenly the great and noble Parent Teacher Association realized how much good it could do in the world. It realized that God's plan was no longer working, that man could no longer '. think for himself, and that parents could no longer do an adequate job of parenting. So the campaign raged on. Certainly the Children could be protected from every evil in the world, somehow. The range of the Parent Teacher Association became larger and larger and its power greater and greater until the weakened-through-age minds of men were saved from the abyss by the group's noble efforts. Indeed, the Parent Teacher Association did battle against the likes of pornography, drug pushers and teenage sex, against Mickey Mouse and Huey, Duey and Louie. And, gradually the world, once again, became a safe place for baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, Chevrolet, Ford, Lee Iacocca and, of course, the Children. |