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Show Free Press Wednesday, Sept. It's tough to Editorial Breast cancer update: good news, bad news By RICHARD S. HOLLIS, MD. President, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists You may be hearing lots of facts and figures about breast cancer during the month of October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Some of those facts are alarming; others are encouraging. Yet the basic message for October is simple: breast cancer, when detected early, can often be completely cured, and you can help detect this disease. The bad news about breast cancer is sobering. The incidence of breast cancer is going up, and scientists do not know exactly why. This year, 180,000 American women will develop cancer of the breast. Most will have no known risk factor for the disease - meaning all women are at risk. The good news is that, despite increasing incidence rates, the death rate from breast cancer has been fairly stable for many years. Improvements in early detection of breast cancer and in treatments for the disease help account for this trend. Also, earlier diagnosis now gives women more options for treatment: approximately 36 percent of women who develop breast cancer do not have a breast removed. Early diagnosis is the key to treating breast cancer. After treatment for early breast cancer, a woman's survival rate is as high as 90 percent. Every woman should take an active role in protecting her health by practicing monthly breast having a yearly breast exam by a physician and getting regular mammograms after age 40. Many women become so afraid of what they might find that they avoid examining their breasts. It is vitally important not to be ruled by fear. Even if you or your physician find a lump, the chances of it being cancer are small - one in five. However, if there is a problem, early detection not only improves your survival chances, it may also improve your chances of avoiding a mastectomy. There is some confusion over the statistic that "1 in 8 women" will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. This figure refers to women who live to age 95, at which time their chances of developing the disease jump to 1 in 8. The risk of breast cancer increses with age: at age 30, women have a 1 in 2,525 chance of developing the disease; at age 40, a 1 in 217 chance, and at age 50 the rate jumps signif-- -- icantly to 1 in 50. Whatever your age, remember that taking care of your breasts is not something to be put off until tomorrow, but an essential and lifelong project. Why did the good Lord qive us such emotions? have never complained that from a family that was considered poor. As a boy I palled around with boys who were also poor. Their fathers were coal miners and money was quite scarce. However, there was one exception. His first name was Newland, the second doesn't matter. Newland's father owned a clothing store and as a result Newland was always well dressed. I am surehe was the only boy in the village who wore underwear. Now, Newland was not a snob. He was a mighty fine boy and it wasn't his fault that his trousers weren't patched. I must admit this boy had a tremendous effect upon my I I came Browsing life. I remember in particular one Whitsun celebration. This was a time when the villagers flocked to the cricket field for fun and games. The boys and girls my age were playing a game called "Kiss in the Ring." The players had formed a circle. When the singing stopped, the one in the center could choose whom they wanted to kiss. Now, mind you, there was one girl I was sweet on. In a poetic mood I onc wrote that her eyes were like the heather blossom and her hair like beech nuts in the autumn. I was on the outside of the circle just watching. Newland was in the center of the circle. It's strange, but after these many years I can still remember the clothes he By TOM GRIFFITHS X saved my pennies and by the time the next Whitsun holiday came around, I bought a white blazer trimmed with blue. When my father saw it on me, he turned to Mam and said, "Our boy is getting to be a bit of a toff." "Aye," returned Mam, "Our boy is tired of Welsh flannel shirts and patched trousers." I wore my blazer to the Whitsun celebration, only this time I joined in the circle and the singing. A girl with heather blossom eyes was in the circle. Around we went, singing a song about a farmer who had a dog named Bobby Bingo. When the singing stopped, she of the heather blossom eyes looked around the circle, then walked over to me. She looked at me with a look that only a girl can do and said, "It is nice you look today." Then she kissed me. Aye now, and the harp strings of my heart broke forth with music that can never be written. That evening when I returned home I carefully hung up my blazer and as Mam watched she asked, 'Was it a nice day, my So I went to work and wore. The singing stopped and who do you think he chose to kiss? That's right, the girl with the heather blossom eyes and beech nut hair. I have wondered many times in my life why the good Lord put such emotions into our beings that a girl with heather blossom eyes should cause a twang on the strings of our hearts. I walked away from that game with a heavy heart and silently cursed the coarse clothing and heavy shoes I was wearing. But a desire came into my life to be Newland. To be liked and admired. 29, 1993 - Page 2 bachgen?" The words I said are written in my heart, "Aye, Mam. It's the loveliest day of my life." be an 'only' child The Mistake. That was my nickname for many years. Eventually, I found out that the name was given because the rabbit didn't die and the doctor told my mother that she WAS NOT pregnant. So I personally may not have been a mistake, but I definitely was a surprise. I hear that my presence provided several interesting comments from passers-b- y about my parents' grandchild. And with an age difference of 12 years between my closest sibling, I always felt like I was an only child. Being an only child may ha ve its ups and downs, but being an only child with brothers and sisters is definitely a difficult situation. For instance, I only vaguely recall participating in the special occasions of their lives, such as graduations, missions, marriages and the like. Those events happened at a time when I didn't care about such activities. Maybe that's why I always made it a point to play my favorite loud song on the piano when they returned home to visit. They got even with me, though, when it came time to add children to their families. At Thanksgiving, guess who had to sit at the card table with the grandkids. During the rest of the year, I was used to sitting at the regular table for dinner. Left with two grownups as dinner companions, Every week we make decisions in a newspaper about what will run, how it will run and when it will run. And just about every week one or more of those decisions is the y cause for some the people who read our newspaper. Our last issue was no exception, but some of the complaining going on about a letter we ran last week in the Citizen creates an opportunity to give our readers a glimpse of how these decisions are made. At the center of the current controversy is a letter that ran in our newspaper which was critical of one of our mayoral candidates. The letter was signed, but the writers asked that their names not be printed. Our letters to the editor are a very important part of our newspapers. The letters section provides a forum for everybody who is so inclined to make a comment about anything they want. We especially like letters that talk about what is happening in second-guessingb- our communities. As a public forum, we work very hard to keep any personal bias out of the letters to the editor. We don't print letters because we agree with the content, or fail to print letters that we disagree with. In fact, I make a special effort to print letters that express an opinion other than my own. We have a harder time printing long letters than short ones, but eventually we try to print all the letters we get. If I have an opinion I want to express, I do so in this column, with my name at the top. I have no qualms about backing up my opinion. In fact, names are very important to us. It is our policy to insist that every letter published in the newspaper be signed the name of the author, and his or her telephone number. If that information isn't there, we don't print the letter. A letter from an A Vespucci was printed a year ago which did not meet these criteria. The letter less, agreed that capitalism was a success. "The funny thing is that every capitalist country in the world apparently concluded that therefore what the West needed was more socialism. "President Clinton says what we need is more sacrifice, more handouts, more government. What we really need is exactly the opposite. What we need is more of what we have: the closest thing in this world to a free lunch." Professor Friedman has never believed that your government is either smarter or more efficient than you are. "Nobody spends 'somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own." d Our nation's most "free lunch" has come from free markets and private property. delicious-in-the-worl- Paul Harvey Products Inc. 1993 ; IS It was these things that drew the line between East and West Germany - with conspicuous differences in their degrees of prosperity. It's the difference today between flourishing Hong Kong and hungry mainland China. Let me paraphrase and condense some more Friedman perspective: President Clinton represents himself as the "agent in charge." That is false. He gets away with saying it because of the tendency to refer to the 12 Reagan-Busyears as though they were one period. They were not. We had Reaganonomics, and then we had Bushonomics, and now we have Clintonomics. Reaganomics had four basic principles: lower marginal tax rates, less regulation, h Planet By RUSS DALY we conversed at an adult level, and I can promise you that we never had a food fight. The age gap was made more distinct than ever and I suddenly had to sit with my nieces and nephews. Although they were "cute," I felt like I had been demoted. Interestingly enough, even though the age gap extended to my nieces and nephews, I was closer to them by up to five years than I was to my siblings. Starting with the opportunity to tend several of these relatives, I have been able to participate in activities that have made them more like brothers and sisters to me. Card playing, for example, is a favorite activity at our house on Sunday nights. For the past four years, the bonding we have felt during the evening has helped all of us many of us through some difficult experiences. It's also enjoyable to share in the successes of these nieces and nephews. One has started her own family, another is away at school. Locally, one nephew is playing siblings football with the Pioneers, the other just finished playing in "Oklahoma!" In the next two weeks, I will be faced with the necessity of letting one niece go as she moves to Texas. I guess it is good training for the dreadful day when my own children grow up and leave the nest. Another problem with the age difference, is the personality traits associated with birth order. Some psychologists have said that the oldest child has some characteristics and the youngest child has others. Different rules apply to only children, and age gaps can break the cycle altogether. Comparing their own childhood experiences to mine, my siblings always told me I was "spoiled." At the same time, I envied them because they always had each other, even if they may not have had the things they desired. I've also struggled with being too young all my life. Sometimes I still can't believe that people would actually want to stay 29 all their life. People have always told me I'm too young to remember such and such a person, place or event. I guess I should be flattered, but I think there must be something to be said for age. So I need to learn to be contented and satisfied that I am old enough to have had some experiences in my life, and yet not so old that I can't still have a lifetime full of them. Editor's Column By MARC HADDOCK was harmless, but the name should have been verified (since it was obviously a pseudonym) and the letter should not have been printed. So we slipped up on that one and failed to follow our own, written policy. Mr. or Ms. Vespucci has written me two letters since that time which will not be printed until he or she comes forward, signs his or her real name, and verifies that he or she wrote the letters. It is also our policy to withhold the name of the author of a letter if he or she can convince us that there is a good enough reason to withhold the name. Sometimes that is a necessary step to preserve the forum for people who would not speak out otherwise. That was the case of the letter in question. Most of the complaints about the letter have focused on the fact that the identity of the author of the letter was protected by the newspaper. Many newspapers follow this same policy, and will print letters but withhold the author if there is substantial reason to do so. We don't withhold a name lightly. In the case of last week's letter, before going to press, I contacted the individual who wrote the letter and asked if we could print their name with the letter. The letter is stronger, I argued, if the author stands behind his or her written word with his or her name. In this case, the individual requested that the name not be printed, explained the reasons in a convincing fashion. Please understand this is not an easy decision for me. I know that every time I do this, I will have to take the heat for the letter, even if it espouses an opinion I don't agree with. But I think the idea of a public forum is important enough to take that kind of stand and to take the heat. Like any decision, whether this was a correct one is debatable, but I stand behind it. The other complaint about the letter is that it misrepresents the opinions of the candidate in question. During political campaigns, candidate's ideas are often misrepresented. Sometimes this happens so close to the election that the candidate cannot respond. In this case we have given the candidate ample opportunity to set the record straight. That letter would never have been printed the week before an election, since any response would be impossible. We don't work this way. I think what disturbs me most about this particular incident is the personal attacks that followed the printing of the letter, as if this were some personal vendetta on the part of myself or the newspaper. I have no personal axe to grind with any of the mayoral candidates in American Fork, nor am I inclined to discuss my opinions of the various candidates in public. We don't work for any of these candidates, nor do we work against them. We see our role as a newspaper to simply disseminate information aboutthe candidates, and to provide a forum for our readers in discussing the merits of the various candidates nothing more, nothing less. Letters to the editor Lehi isn't expanding, it's exploding Editor: Lehi hasn't expanded, it has exploded. Some of the areas being graded and leveled for homes are on such sandy and rocky areas that a hose could run all day and never make a puddle more than three feet in diameter. Where, oh where, will the water come from for our growth? The more la wns we plant the more water we use, because lawns need more water than any other crop. We are ridingon a high this year for water. What happens down the road when we experience another drought restrained government spending, monetary policy. Though Reagan did not achieve all his goals, he made good progress. Bush's policy was exactly the reverse of Reaganomics: higher tax rates, more regulation, more government spending. What's Clinton's policy? Higher tax rates, more regulation, more government ry qruey News Daly - with How we deal with letters to the editor We are enjoying our last free lunch Milton Friedman earned a Nobel Prize in economics in 1976. He is a scholar of substance, yet has a phenomenal ability to condense complex economic theorem into a few words of shirt-sleev- e English. To wit: "At the moment, we in the United States are enjoying our last free lunch. "After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism is a failure. Everybody in the world, more or The -- spending. Clintonomics is a continuation of Bushonomics. Clinton is not an "agent of change;" he is offering nothing more than the Bushonomics which Americans thought they were voting against. Recent studies demonstrate that most of the pressure for more government spending comes from the government, a monstrosity. The only viable thing on the national s horizon is the movement. A term for members of Consingle gress would not change their basic nature, but it would change drastically the kinds of people who would seek election to Congress and the incentives under which they would operate. Then the organizations which pressure our elected representatives for more government spending "as a price for reelection' would lose their leverage. term-limit- six-ye- of several years? I notice that our incumbent candidates who are running for say they are going to try and control the growth of the city in an organized manner. How come they didn't address the problem in their past tenure? Are they just waking up to the problem now, or are we just into more campaign promises? Looks to me as if we are rushing to close the gates, long after the horses are gone. We have got to start looking at other sources of beautification for our city rather than to plant lawns. We have got to start looking to using more indigenous plants that don't have the thirst for water as lawns do. We have got to start thinking like Arizona. We just don't have an unlimited water supply, nor do we have the potential, at a reasonable price. There is no doubt that we live in a desert, and we are fooling ourselves if we think otherwise. Must we always use the shortsighted approach. Must greed be our only motivating source for our growth? Too many developers are taking advan-tagethe growth conditions in Lehi, at the expense of those who are already here. We will all be facing water restrictions, again, if we don't call a moratorium on this building explosion soon. Every department of the city is overextended. They are all working and underpaid. Things can only get worse. I have been told that the place to air these complaints is at the council meetings. Who will listen? They are polite in their attention and look interested, but that is where the problem dies. Through the letters to the editor, thousands will read, and hopefully more than one voice will be made to the council members, and maybe eventually the wishes of the majority will be honored. I have not talked to a single person who is not in agreement, that Lehi is going off in all directions uncontrolled. Many of the cities in Utah, with responsible management, have called a building moratorium. I think Lehi should join this select group. Hopefully they will show the leadership and courage they promised when they were seeking election. under-manne- d of -- Newell Turner Taylor descendants sought Editor: The name Taylor is very in Lehi and many other areas. Samuel Taylor, born on 30 May 1790 in Lancashire, England has hundreds of descendants. I would like to contact as m any ofthose as will make themselves known. Samuel and Sarah Whitehead Taylor had only three sons who came to Utah in pioneer times. They were James Whitehead Taylor, Thomas Taylor and William Whitehead Taylor. Each one of these sons had many children and some had several wives, during polygamy times, so we, who are responsible to Samuel Taylor for our lives, will now number in the hundreds. well-know- n Some of the names that are involved are Taylor, Romney, Standring, Rogers, Harwood, Fox, Wines, Roberts, Austin, Jones, Wadsworth and Hartley. These are only a few as of the 1890's. Since that time, Webb, Peterson, Gray, Smith and many others have been added. I am interested in how many we are and would be glad to share that information with anyone who responds. We also share a responsibility to Samuel Taylor's final resting place. -- Beth S. Edvalson 975 N. 600 West Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 , |