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Show GfflQw)nG Review Wednesday, August 10, 1994 Page 2 . fern Editorial Early primary means lackluster campaigns Well into the election year, but some four months away from the general election, elec-tion, Utah's experiment with a June primary election has helped generate one of the most lackluster campaigns in recent memory. The June primary was marked by apathy and the lowest voter turnout ever formanyUtah voting districts. And now, when during a previous election year we would have had primary opponents spar-ringregularly spar-ringregularly and discussing the important impor-tant issues of the election, we have instead in-stead almost no activity at all. Democratic Senate candidate Pat Shea is taking regular shots at Orrin Hatch in his bid to unseat the popular conservative taking a run for a fourth term. And Republican House candidate Dixie Thompson is taking regular shots at Pres. Clinton in her bid to unseat popular Democrat Bill Orton. These are the campaigns that have the money and momentum to generate the long-term campaign created by a June primary. But other races are saving their big guns and their campaign funds -- for a run at the seat in November. And the net result of this year's election elec-tion change is stagnation, lack of debate and apathy that may well translate into low voter awareness and poor voter turnout. Messing about in boats "This has been a wonderful day!" said the Mole, as the Rat shoved off and took to the sculls again. "Do you know, I've never been in a boat before in all my life." "What?" cried the Rat, open-mouthed: "Never been in a -you never - well, I- what have you been doing, then?" "Is it so nice as all that?" asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leaned back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him. "Nice? It's the ONLY thing," said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leaned forward, for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend' there is NOptttfG Absolutely nothing so much worth doing as simply messing --about --about - in boats; messing-" 'v f "Look ahead. Rat!" cried the Mole suddenly. sud-denly. It was too late. The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air. "-about in boats -or with boats," the Rat went on composedly, picking himself up with a pleasant laugh. "In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it ..." Ever since my three small daughters and I began reading aloud The Wind in the Willows this summer (the above comes from pages 5 and 6, 1980 Henry Holt and Company edition) we have longed to do as our new friends the Rat and the Mole, to simply mess about in a boat. The opportunity came when the girls' Daddy decided to rent a boat for the day at Bear Lake and gathered the whole family for the fun. We packed an on-the-water picnic lunch that would rival the Rat's customary spread coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickled onadesodawater," and set out to get way, or not, to reach somewhere else or nowhere in particular, which is what you can do in boats according to the Water Rat As our boat lurched ahead we found it was a good thing we were well padded with life jackets and grocery sacks, towels and cushioned seats as we, like Rat, laughed and squealed while beingpitched and tossed until we gained our sea legs. We all took a turn at the helm and some of us took the opportunity to demonstrate our water skiing skills (or lack of). Mooseheart - Charity has been taken out of the hands of the church and turned over to : the people who run the Post Office. When you let government dispense your charity dollars, most of the dollars stick to tiie wrong fingers. One good example ex-ample is worth a thousand admonitions. Someday, Fd like to take you with me to Mooseheart, near Chicago, I1L Of sH the worthy humanitarian things " that service clubs and fraternal organiza- tions and lodges and the like do.. ?..-jt ( Of all the genuine services that they . render in the American tradition of char' - fty at home. v - ; "" ''" ':'k.. -K . Mooseheart is a shining example --'.'Years ago a widowed mother with even children passed my way ort their way to Mooseheart. ; ,- '-' V . Their daddy had belonged to the Loyal Order of Moose, so this family was entitled enti-tled to live in this lovely place. V ify Soon, the mother was working's! a nurse in Mooseheart hospital to be near her children attending lloosehesrt Hii School until they crsiuated. : Kn. Nancy Cta Fagan's little ones It just goes to show you how good legislative intentions can go awry. The intent of moving up the primary election was to put enough time and space between the primary and general election that voters would forget the inter-party acrimony of the primary and concentrate on the partisan races in the general election. Recent Utah electionshave seen some particularly virulent primary races, where interparty squabblingtumed the voters towards the otner party. In fact, Bill Orton may well owe his first election to the House of Representatives to the Karl Snow-John Harmer debacle. That election has been a major embarrassment em-barrassment for the GOP. However, to judge by the Democrat's popularity in the country's most Republican Repub-lican congressional district, the voters are happy with the result. While moving the primary date up by four months has prevented a recurrence of that election, it has had the opposite effect of acting as an anaesthetic on the election process. Perhaps we can revive the patient before the general election, but to judge from current political activity, the experiment ex-periment with a very early primary is a failure and perhaps a change back would be in order for the next general election. Squibs & Cracliers By JANICE GRAHAM When it was my turn, I braved the chilly water and slid on the skis, but when the boat pulled me up the excitement proved too much for a mole like me. (In my few experiences I dont remember the water being quite so bumpy.) Jerked and yanked and anticipating a surprise landing, I let go after 20 terrifying seconds. Then all of us took mad, splashing, bouncing bounc-ing Toad-rides straddling the giant water ban ana-on-a-rope and enjoyed being flung off a time or two. But the best part of our day messing about in (and out of) boats was the charm of it. Kenneth Grahame says it well. As the Rat went on and on about his life on the river "the Mole never heard a word he was saying. Absorbed in the new life he was entering upon, intoxicated with the sparkle, the ripple, the scents and the sounds and the sunlight, he trailed a paw in the water and dreamed dreams... " On that day, there was nothing so much worth doing. - an example Paean PUGI7 The family would be an aggregate 80 ' years at Mooseheart before the youngest child graduated.v? ; ;'-l.v ' v No, I am not a Moose. I'd be proud to be one but I have always thought that a professional observer can cheer worthy efforts more effectively from 'the sidelines. side-lines. -. " -? If public welfare rewards indigence, promiscuity and wasteful extravagance, Mooseheart is a dynamic demonstration of civilized man's better self. Over the years, this L200-acre community com-munity and school has evolved. It now accepts applications from children in need "V Don't visit Arizona dunhghot summer No one in their right mind would go to Phoenix in July, right? Well, meet someone who is not in their right mind. For over a year now I have been promising promis-ing my aunt that I would come down to see her. They moved to Arizona from Tennessee about that time and she urged us to come down. I told her we would but we could never find the time. Then, this spring my conscience got the better of me and I promised her we would come. I finally told her we would come in July because that was the first open weekend week-end I could find. She had saved some family heirloom-type heirloom-type things for me and she wanted me to come and get them and, believe me, I was anxious to do so. This family of my mother's is not one to be real close or friendly among themselves and I did not want to have anything happen to these things. I am the only family history-genealogy nut among them. We flew down on one of those neat cut-rate cut-rate deals with Delta Air Lines where it only costs about $89 round trip. You can't miss with a deal like that. Incidently, our plane was an hour late leaving the Salt Lake airport because they had to fix the flaps. We made up a lot of that time because when we landed in Phoenix we were only 10 minutes late. When we arrived in Phoenix it was about 10:30 a.m. It was already blisteringhot and my sister-in-law, who met us at the airport, said that this was cool compared to the 112 of the day before. I gulped. We had to wait at the curb for a few minutes for our brother-in-law to bring the car around. Just out of the air-conditioned airplane into the air-conditioned terminal, Education has Even with temperatures nearing one hundred degrees, there is a touch of fall in the air. Day by day the sun comes up a tad later and sets a bit earlier. The pears are putting on good size and the irrigation streams out of Grove Creek and Battle Creek are still strong. Early Friday morning, before the morning morn-ing rays of the Bun had filtered through the trees on state street, Paul Blackhurst was pulling in the yard with a load of corn. Life begins early on the farm. We are fortunate indeed to have so many good farmers in our communities. Their hard work and skill allows us to enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables vegeta-bles much of the year. In several weeks school will start again for young and old. Opportunities for young and old to get a great education have never been better hr America. In fact when you look back at our history it amazing fiow far we have come, and how, far we stiQ need to go-It go-It would be foolish to try and tell about American education without describing its religious roots. It was Calvin's doctrines that inspired the Pilgrims to make the perilous journey from Holland to the shores of "New England" where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Martin Luther was also a primary influence influ-ence in the Reformation. A number of the Puritan leaders were graduates of Cam-bridgecolleges, Cam-bridgecolleges, which were hotbeds of Protestantism. Prot-estantism. While the inspiration to found a college in Massachusetts was essentially Calvinistic, the form was patterned after Oxford and Cambridge. Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard, tells how Harvard got started. The following are president Dunster's own words with the original spelling. "After God had carried us safe to New England and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and settled the CiviU Government: One of the next things we looked for, and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate perpetu-ate it to. Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust. City employees deserve a fair wage Editor.' As former employee of the city, I would of charity ' whether or no there is any family - - connection with tie Moose fraternal or-1 .. ganizatiotWv '-V ' ; Mooseheart is not a "halfway house" or a "temporary shelter." It is not an orphanage or-phanage that seeks to place children with adoptive parents, v v .-.j " '1 Mooseheart welcomes one child or a family of children, whether they are 12 . - weeks old or 12 years old, with the intent'4 tion of caring for them until they gradu- : ,-. ate front Mooseheart High School. : ; Mooseheart care may extend beyond s graduation. Students who've been Tesi- . dents for four years and who graduate '-with '-with a "B average or better have tradi-tionallybeen tradi-tionallybeen granted college scholarships covering' tuition, room and board at a ' state university.; . V. With a present enrollment of 200 and expansion planned that will accommo-; date 500, Mooseheart it certainly eligible for what former President Bush desig- ' nated as one of the "thousand points of VhZnhi'M-: - . -Except, seen uptlose, Mooseheart does not belong to the dark. It belongs, rather, to an enlightened new day. IPG BlGil G9 By MARC ELLA WALKER we found that it was already quite warm out in the fresh air. We could hardly wait to jump into the air-conditioned car to take us to their air-conditioned air-conditioned house. As we walked the few steps from the car to their front door, the hot jumped up from the sidewalk to greet us. Every time that we left the house, we hurried to the car really fast. A couple of times we drove to the mall with grandkids. The walk from the parking lot to the air-conditioned air-conditioned mall was no fun at all. The family pool was an inviting place. The part of the body which was under the water was fine but the part out of the water was hot to say the least. Know what we did? We took two of her resin recliner chairs and put them in the shallow end of the pool and sat on them. My white skin, especially on my legs, was enough to cause snow blindness if you didn't watch out. I thought I could take a little of the glare away with a little sun on them. However, the sun was too hot to stay in it for very long, so I kept leaving the chair to go to the shady part of the pool and the white glare never did fade. To save wear and tear on your eyes dont look at my white legs. We got to go to the air-conditioned Arizona Arizo-na Temple and do a session which was really nice and we got to help out in the baptistry with Nan and Pat. come a long PeoipOe, PoOo&ics & PoDoeiz By E. MARK BEZZANT And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great Work; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentlemen, and lover of learning...) to give one half of his Estate... toward the erection of a College; and all his library..." .These early Pilgrims and Puritans were concerned about passing on knowledge to the next generation. They wanted a learned ministry and sought to educate a class of gentlemen scholars in the "Seven Liberal Arts." For the most part women were excluded from education in those early days of America. Amer-ica. Until the Civil War it was illegal for blacks to learn to read. Eight of the first nine colleges were established by churches. They had names like Harvard, Yale, William and Mary, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Columbia. People were free to think as long as they came to the same conclusions their religious reli-gious leaders, came to. One president of Harvard was forced from office because he came to the conclusion that infant baptism was not consistent with the scriptures. Vocational education was not a part of those early schools. There were no books on the subjects and so these trades were primarily pri-marily learned by apprenticeships. Gentlemen Gentle-men scholars, who learned Latin in college, looked upon the trades as inferior. . People like Ralph Waldo Emerson made strong arguments for America to develop her own kind of schools and to quit looking to England and Germany for examples. Thomas Jefferson helped establish the first state college. 1 ' As America grew, so did our schools. like to voice my appreciation to Mayor LloydAsh. It came as no surprise to me that Mayor Ash would make a great effort in behalf of the city employees. No one likes a' tax increase, but the fact is we all want the very best" from our city employees, and - many seem to feel that they should not receive a livable wage. City employees are not our city slaves. They may not have a PhJD.or M J). behind their names, but the fact remains that this city could not operate for a day or for an hour without them. They have a right to expect a livable wage so that they and their families can live just as well : as any other citizen of this city. I will be ever grateful to Cornell Haynie Thanks forcare received at AF hoisprtaf- Editor: .S'x;.frr - I would like to take this opportunity to ' thank th Anrit.r and nurne wnrVinir tVi : -. . ,H.BB v v . w HlVli,l . 111 W " . night of July 28 in the emergency room at 'jing Rly leg back together. l. ' : - . -the American Fork.HospitaL I had fallen I am new here but I hope the people of through a drain m a local car Wash and American Fork appreciate the highly pro-! MWnlv Hit HIV 10 --- v. - t-T. ' Vs" tunAntlmaJijlMMtlialVlmfVamamiL ' I : I would also like to thank the two ladies -who stopped to help me after I passed out andranintoaditchtryingtomakeittothe : We welcome tetters to the editor. All letters should be typewritten and doable spaced. Letters mast also be signed, and most inclade) the) writer's name and telephone number. Please send letters to Editor, Newtah New Groap, P.O. Bos 7, American Fork, Utah, 84803. We also went to the air-conditioned movies. mov-ies. We saw "Forrest Gump" which is wonderful won-derful and I recommend it highly. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. We saw-City Slickers II" which I thought was kinda funny but the movie was nothing spectacular. However, we did see it at what I was told was Danny Ainge's theater complex com-plex there in Mesa. When we went up to Prescott Valley to visit my aunt and uncle things were a little cooler. It is up to about 5,200 feet altitude and we could almost stand to be outside for longer than five seconds there. Of course we spent all of our time, except for a few minutes out looking over their yard, in their air-conditioned house. The trip to Prescott was well worth it and I brought home some treasures that I will enjoy forever . . . things like a family Bible, family picture album, old books, old clothes, etc. In addition, my aunt had to send my mother's birthday present and a little crow that she had made for her. You're not going to believe the little boy and girl deer that Iordered from my cousin. They are appropriate for Christmas but I am going to use them all year round, they are so adoreable. This was the first time I had met this cousin. I know all of my cousins on my father's side intimately, but on my mother's side I have seen a few of my cousins once when they were really small and two not at all until I met Lynn on this trip. I still have not met her twin sister. From the swelter of Phoenix it was a relief to arrive home in Salt Lake and find the temperature was only a balmy 105. I propose a community rain dance, and soon. way in USA Lincoln longed for the day when all children could attend free school. Duringhis administration admin-istration landgrantcollegeSjlikeUtahState, were established. The farmers liked these more productive and profitable. Institutions like John Hopkins University Univer-sity led out in science and medicine. Within three years after the pioneers entered Salt Lake Valley a university was established in Salt Lake City, with 13 branches throughout through-out the territory. Brigham Young Academy started on just one acre of ground and is now the largest private school in the nation, with over 31,000 students. Great leaders in America emerged from these great institutions. institu-tions. World war made it clear in the minds of all Americans that the trades and, technical fields are vital to America's survival. It was during World War II that UVSC got its starts , Not until after the Civil War did women start coming into their own as colleges for women sprouted up across America. Not until 1954 did blacks have the right to attend public schools with white children. The nation moved slowly to accommodate accommo-date blacks into the system, particularly in the South. The Civil Rights Act in the early 1960s helped make good thesacred promises promis-es found in the Declaration of Independence, Indepen-dence, which declared that all people are created equal. , Title DC helped equalize opportunities for women. The Americans with Disabilities Disabili-ties Act helped open doors for handicapped children. Other legislatidnhas opened doors for those with learning disabilities. Soon the electronic Highway will bring classrooms from around the world into our -homes and local schools. Never before in the history of mankind have so many opportunities opportu-nities existed for people to learn. The road has not been easy. In 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson dreamed 'of the day when: We will walk oh our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." . Thanks to generous people like Mr Harvard' and common people Emerson's dream is a reality. ' ' for their work when he was our mayor. He came to the library and told me that I was not to contin ue receiving the poor wage I had been receiving. He helped me to be able to live a more comfortable lifestyle. As a citizen I am very willing to pay my extra $35 if it means a better wage for city employees. I wish to thank the mayor and the city council, not only the present one, but those who were in office before, for their unselfish services to the citizens of this city and also to the employees of this city for all they do to help make this a good place to live. ' ' ' -Drvcilla LSmith fj, Most of all! would lke to thank Doctor ' Pallahan fnr Km mimI i i r able to them. I know Ido! ' ' ' - Thank you all again 4 .-- -Willie Gibson |
