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Show Page Eight The Springville Herald August 5, 1971 prtttgtittlr Efcrafo (mi ooking Ahead From the superintendent's desk Published Weekly by ART CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY at 161 South Mrin, Springville, Utah 84668 PUBLISHER, MARTIN CONOVER Second class postage paid at Springville, Utah 84663 Subscription in advance, per year, $5.50 per copy, lie EDITORIAL ; ; ' BOTH SEPARATE AND EQUAL Around Washington this year, the law-makers are busy creating new bureaus and federal jobs'.for people who say they are experts in the "Consumer Interest.".!- Suddenly, however, the Congressmen are shocked to discover thesy don'i know just what "consumer interest" ihey ;are talking about. Just the other day, in hearings t6(' sft up a . new consumer agency to speak within government on such matters, they found that the iiew "Consumer Advocate" might speak up on labor matters, and oppose higher wages . for workers on. the ground they may raise prices. . Or he might oppose ele.ctricity needed in some poor . rural area because hwjll spoil the "ecology." '.;-.; ;,v'.jV:: ., So the ; Congressmen began asking each other,. '. "Which consumer interest will the Advocate sup? : port, and which will he ' oppose ?" They couldn't ' decide whether th Consumer is a worker, taxpayer, , investor, small merchant, farmer or who! '..' ''"".': '':'"'' ' ' ' Finally one .witness suggested that the consumer is really a thembet pf the public and when it comes to good government toothing can beat laws that are "in the public interest" It may be an old idea-hut idea-hut it's still the only one that makes any sense to us. by Dr. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM . i . i -i Major French Japanese and American companies have joined to form Multinational Gas and Petrochemical Company,' which will engage in worldwide trading, transportation, and terminaling of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) anhydrous ammonia am-monia and related projects. Shareholders are $ociete Anonyme de Geance et d'Arment (SAGA), a French company headquartered in Paris; Bridge-stone Bridge-stone Liquefied Gas Co., Ltd., and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. TOWARD A LAWLESS SOCIETY The television cameras zoomed in on the crowd of "war protesters" sitting and lying in the street and on the sidewalk at the Pennsylvania Avenue doorway of the Department De-partment of Justice building in our nation's capital. They were packed in so tightly their bodies made a layer of humanity hu-manity over the pavement right up to the huge glass doors. Nobody could move in or out of the building without Stepping on them. It was 1:00 p.m. in Washington, and the Justice Department employees who went out for 12 o'clock lunch couldn't return to work , Wijtftout. activity., walking on "thislocean otbckjies, ' This.; was 'massive and dramatic; bf ea'king pf law. Yet, as :;the -to)'ev:isiqn cameras '.caught thVj&ctjon, .Washington . police m udders;.' did nothing. Mefle.mpl()yees; . .who had crossed ; tfie; be.ari of bodies, ;like: wafknVon jde Jloes in a. pluiiging HVCT,-stayed at the '. d oopy ajfritp. -offer', help to some : of the. jyortien employees trying ; ItP gef;'.to;'.'oirk:' Some of the' women'' were .jpulled. down by ' : the! prostrate 'crowd.; All. were molested as they struggled to ' keep on tljeir feet 'and grasp the. hands; pf - rescuers who ' were J trylflg.;. ..to . . help them aprossv.V' Vyf , ' ;:.''";. A : ' fcrqls. For Lawbreakers ' ''' J." ' "! .' . . Thev-''iawfcjreakers were happyj. . they, .'were'; disrupting the;na'tit3in'( in. scores of such ''de'rftonsfratrons'' throughout Washihgtpn during a week-long assault; 'they -were acclaimed by theif .dbmfades who were staging "disruptions" at the HEW . building, the Capitol Building, , the . Pentagon, and elsewhere.; The motley crowd of about 800 calling themselves them-selves "Vietnam Veterans," serving the ' Communists in- Tests given last September in all of the elementary schools in Nebo School District indicated that fifth grade students were especially weak in the areas of spelling and capitalization skills. All teachers were shown the test results and a district-wide effort was started to improve students learning in these areas as well as others. However, five teachers of fifth grade students were randomly selected and asked to be part of a research project. As part of his work toward a masters degree, Joe Lynn Spencer, a fifth grade teacher at the Taylor Elementary School in Payson, was assigned the research project. As chairman, he met with the group of five teachers every other week for a period of three months. They met to evaluate procedures, to discuss new ideas and exchange techniques for more effective teaching of spelling and capitalization skills. Mrs. Delia McClellan, District Teaching Specialist, met with them and assisted in developing the ideas into new lesson materials. The standard classroom spelling procedure, with which we are familiar, is for the teacher to dictate a list of words for, v the student to spell. However, the national test used , to evaluate the student's skill in spelling does so by having the terests', had preceded them and: thejr law breaking was '.made. ..all. the more dramatic when. both the local and : governmental authorities, and then the Supreme Court itself, .' decreed they would be break- ing the .law to encamp, without permit,; on the Mall. They had no permit and they did encamp ;6n the'. Mall .arrogantly breaking break-ing ;the: Jaw, and no police action was taken. these activities and the failure' of law enforcement, recorded in hour long documentaries docu-mentaries on network television, tele-vision, brought praise from nearly, everybody who spoke up in the government, including includ-ing those in the White House and in Congress. The praise was founded on the "nonviolent" "non-violent" results achieved by no police action against the law breakers "peace . . . l s vift;:''::,;'' W '2S the EXTRA EARNINGS aren't peanuts There has been a lot of talk about interest rates lately, and most of it is pretty confusing. Well, here are the facts: A bank pays high interest dividends on savings. At this bank we're happy to be able to give our many customers extra dividends. We compound interest dividends, and they really add up to more than just peanuts. A lot more than just peanuts. (TO Give Us A Chance To Say "YES" CENTRAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY -K'M,yvCi apanisn rone ana rrovo On Siv'ngi Ctrtifiel Dr. Joe A. Reidhead student recognize mispelled words from multiple choice lists, which is really a proofreading skill. So the team of five teachers, together with Mr. Spencer and Mrs. McClellan, concentrated on designing lessons which emphasized the skill as measured in the test. They also created exercises to strengthen the student's ability to recognize words which require capitalization. This involved proofreading skills as Wei ...as' : learning .. rules for capitalization and then applying what was learned with writing. Not only were the students in the v; !;.' ive experimental classrooms tested before and after the '.experiment,' but so were! the students in five other classrpqnis '.in ' the regular program,.; .'-v " " .. . A . statistical ' analysis of the results-of the "experiment was . then " niade ..by. Orhar Hansen; Director '. of ' Hesekrch of Nebo "School . district, 'using the computer- at : BViil; The results showed a significant gain in both spelling and capitalization when the ..'tQ -of : ' students was not considered; 'ahd; ' a" significant gaiiv.iri.capitalizatioh when the effect Q'f"-IQf was included. In spelling skills the five experimental ex-perimental classrooms gained 0.4 grade levels while the other five classrooms which did not receive tije new lesson material actually went downhill - 0.2 grade levels. In capitalization a gain of 1.3 grade levels was made by the experimental units, while the control groups gained 0.2 of a grade. The results are quite amazing a gain of almost 1.5 grades in capitalization skills in a three month period by the experimental groups. The entire experiment was carefully written by Joe Lynn Spencer and placed in the research library at BYU. The five teachers assisting him in the experimental units were: Ryan Creer, Mapleton School; Rodney Dart, Thurber School; Ralph Jacobsen, Sage Creek School; Dale Osborn, Grant School; Kenneth Twede, Wilson School. We do not identify the control units: :; Because careful research proved the good effects these new materials could have on students, all fifith grade teachers will received these materials, next fall for use throughout the district. This illustrates how research in pur. schools is conducted and how, - changes . for a better education are gradually made. non-violent demonstrations . . nobody hurt!" But children watching TV were hurt; perhaps most of the adults too. They saw a praiseworthy breaking of the law, over and over again. They saw the evidence there before their eyes that appeasement of law breakers can be better than enforcement of law. This tableau, which had been repeatedly re-peatedly seen during the last several years in Washington (and throughout the country, on college campuses and in the streets) as the Communists grew bolder and thus more far-reaching in their powers to mobilize a mob, emboldened the most blatant criminal actions ac-tions ever attempted in America the actual violent offensive, under the leadership of "Chicago 7" convicted felon, Rennie Davis, to paralyze the nation's capital. Favoritism Destroys Law We cannot have security in a nation whose authorities, from the top in Washington to the police forces in the cities, do not enforce the law when certain groups break it if we the people acquiesce. Ultimately Ulti-mately the entire population loses respect for law. We are nearing that point now. This breakdown of law nationally originated in political expediency expedi-ency and expands with public tolerance. It began on a massive mas-sive scale with the so-called "black rebellions" in 80 major cities in America in 1967 the burning, breaking-in and looting on a scale never before be-fore seen in America. Political expediency required that rioters, arsonists and looters not be molested. We saw on TV, stores being ransacked and the looters with their stolen merchandise walking gleefully in front of police. Political expediency, in this instance, in-stance, was cowardice the burying of morality for expected ex-pected political gain. To enforce en-force the law without favor takes courage by the police and support by the public. Our nation is losing its courage and its character. (To be continued) li U rnULb U L-JUYJ 1 THIS IS FOR SUPER COOLING, SUPER FAST! nnwrnn HUH lUIn Plilifl SUPZ1-COOL Him "WHaMjpooI ew Miffed lias i mimn imiw I imm wttttm SfS Model AWC-100-2 FO RSEY'S has this Whirlpool 10,000 BTU air conditioner for only 295 1 PLUS YOU GET THESE DTHER FEATURES, TOO! '. 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