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Show Lehl Free Press New Utah! - Wednesday, November 18, 1998 - Page 2 Opinion Don't buy it and don't buy into it, or at least be aware A new senator for Dist. 14 Tomorrow evening, a handful of Republican delegates will name the new state senator from District 14 a district which encompasses Orem, Lindon, Pleasant Grove, Cedar Hills and American Caveat emptor has taken on a new meaning for me lately. Latin for "let the buyer beware," most people would probably think of the phrase as an admonition to take care in one's purchases. Unfortunately, one need not even purchase anything these days to need egates will vote. If one of the men gets 60 percent of the delegates to vote for him, his name will be forwarded to Gov. Mike Leavitt, who will appoint him to fill the remaining two years of Peterson's term. If the vote is closer than that, both names will be sent to Gov. Leavitt, who will then appoint his choice to the position. According to current voting patterns, this person will then be the Utah Senator from District 14 as long as he chooses to run for reelection. Utah County voters don't send Democrats to the State Senate, and they don't vote against incumbents. If you had to choose a way to get elected in Utah, this would be it. Campaigning is only done for a short time and is limited to a handful of delegates. Candidates avoid the scrutiny and expense of the general election process until they are in office and can then run with all the security incumbency provides. That puts a tremendous responsibility in the hands of a relative few. It reinforces the importance of the role of the voting district delegate. We encourage delegates to take their responsibility in this matter seriously. They should attend Thursday's caucus. They should listen with care to the candidates and then make the best choice they can. It is a choice we will all probably have to live with for a long time. Fork. This amounts to an awesome one the Republiresponsibility can county delegates from the various voting districts of the cities in District 14 didn't anticipate when they were elected last spring. The man or woman who wins this appointment (only men have applied) will have the opportunity to wield unusual influence in the matters of Utah government. There are only 29 members of the Utah Senate, making each senator's voice an important one. This extraordinary appointment process comes about because Sen. Craig Peterson, who was Senate Majority Leader, has r resigned in the middle of his term. The voters don't get to fill this vacancy. Instead, as many delegates as see fit to participate in the caucus will assemble at the Orem City Council Chambers at 7 p.m. and listen to nominations for John Valentine and Kirk Love, the two men who have asked to be considered for the post. Valentine is currently a member of the Utah House of Representatives. Love has been active behind the scenes in the Utah GOP for years, according to Rep. Lowell Nelson of Highland. The men will speak and the del four-yea- - m state-operate- health-relate- NewUtah! (ISSN No. 1521-6853- (U.S.P.S. No. ) 309-50- Amembaf of NATIONAL : '' NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION t. eyldiagjciahTl, tiie$asHistoricalaSjPjOy Printing Museum close I have to make certain I'm being realistic and that I reach those objectives? Do I have a plan of action so that 25 years from now, I will not only have lived well, but I will also have finished well? Have I maximized my opportunities? Do I have many of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy?" As you ponder these questions, you probably come to one critical conclusion: You need to have a plan of action to make certain your future is even better than the offer you just turned down for that future. The next seven steps will get you started. Number One: Set aside an hour during which you write down everything you want to be, do or have. Set your list aside for 48 hours and then ask yourself why you want to be, do or have each item on the list. If you can't answer the question in one sentence, eliminate it for the time being. comebehold. With a flair for stand-u- p dy- our guide brought home the impact of printing and typography in our lives. For example we use several common words and phrases that come from the world of printing. Two particular terms, for example, come from the tradition of putting capital letters in the case above the small letters so they could easily be letfound when setting type by hand ter by letter. Although we now have two or three generations who have never reached into a case to set type by hand, we still call the capitals "UPPER CASE" and the small letters "lower case" The tour also included a personal appearance by Benjamin Franklin or at least somedne who looked just like him! Now I realize that you may not be traveling to California anytime soon, but if you are you may want to call 0 about a tour (714) or check its web at site 523-207- iewjaliiews More gravel pits? Editor Do we really need more gravel pits at the mouth of American Fork Canyon? Do we want more trailer trucks driving the roads where our children walk to get to school? We encourage all to attend a Town Meeting concerning the gravel pit issue on Thursday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. at Mountain View High School in Orem. Trixie Williams Wants Utah info. Editor: In my eighth grade social studies class in Chicago, we are studying U.S. history. One of our assignments is to write a research paper about a particular state and how it relates to the history of the country. I have chosen Utah Circulation .... Deadlines Classified Display News Publisher . City Editor .Brett Bezzant ...... .Marc Haddock .. Subscription price 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 , Telephone Numbers Managing Editor Rnll hull, a thousand times bull. If the university vending machines offer Coca-Col- a products instead of Pepsi products, are they guilty of supporting one bottler over another? Will universities to we require all state-ru- n either provide vending machines from all bottling companies equally and ban them entirely if they don't cooperate? If I, a Diet Coke fan, can only find Diet Pepsi on that campus, have my civil rights been violated? Did the advertising revenue make it possible to keep costs down, perhaps making the catalog available at no charge to students? If it didn't, then every financially challenged student should, claim their civil rights were violated by being forced to purchase the catalog.' Is the catalog given freely to anyone who requests it? As a taxpayer, am I entitled to one because of the financial between the state of relationship which I am a resident and the university? Did the advertising revenue allow the university to keep the impact to Utah taxpayers down by offsetting the cost of printing the catalog? If it did, they should be lauded rather than impugned for their effort. Now, what if the genital herpes pharmaceutical company wished to purchase the same ad space at the same market-driveprice as the LDS Church, or any religious organization, for that matter? The area becomes rather gray at. that point, and each "buyer" must be n critically aware. Even as you read this article, those people responsible for these two particular ads, will hear my voice and become aware of my position. I encourage all of you to do the same. pieces JJtab,. The. Crandall has some that even the international Printing Museum would like to have. Since regular hours are Monday- - Friday from 1 to 5 p.m., it would be an excellent family outing while the kids are out of school during the holidays; or and arrange an you can call evening tour by appointment. e Although we talk of a "paperless society," I doubt it will happen anytime soon. Besides, like a verbal contract, it wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on. Rather it seems printing volume is at an e high and continues to expand. In fact the proliferation of the printed word is seriously taken for granted in our day and age. Hence the need for an historical 377-777- 7 near-futur- all-tim- reminder that not long before Gutenberg, everything had to be copied by hand or pressed on to paper with bulky wooden blocks no movable type, no typewriters, no copy machines, no word processors. In fact, the process of Gutenberg's invention was not substantially improved upon for almost 500 years! A recent U.S. News & World Report article pointed out that, with computer formats and relaelectronic media, the tively short-live- d most reliable long-rang-e storage medium, is probably good old fashioned even if it has to be printed in paper binary code! In Gutenberg's Print Shop, now located in Provo, you can help print a page of the Gutenberg Bible on the only working Gutenberg press in America. You can also see an identical reprint of the most beautiful book in the world the Gutenberg Biblet as a well as a very rare first generation copy of one of its pages. For Latter-da- y Saints, the Crandall Historical Printing Museum is also a religious excursion as the printing of the Book of Mormon is explained and demonstrated on an exact copy of E. B. Grandin's Acorn Press. When taken together with a tour of Benjamin Franklin's English Common Press (identical to his original in the ever-changi- J Smithsonian) and the remarkable story of his invaluable contribution to colonial America, you begin to realize that printing is really a gift from God. As Charles Dickens said, "...the printer is the only product of modern civilization necessary to the existence of free man." When you make the connection that the printed word has been the foundation, catalyst and inspiration for the reformation, all political and religious liberty and the restoration of the gospel, you can't help but have a greater appreciation for what we've had for centuries. Just open a hook and read! Reader's Forum amount, you've predetermined already established the fact that a future worth that much is worth planning. Plan your future, and I'll see you at the top! TTfie d d operation of these imaginative printing machines was really something to than the offer, what kind of plans do & ar A few years ago, while vacationing in southern California, I dragged my children to the International Printing Museum in Buena Park. They were pretty skeptical about anything that had the word "museum" in it. I thought it wouldn't hurt for some of our vacation to be at least a little educational. As we joined a small tour group of elementary http: 1 www.gamall.com I mall I muse-uI museum.html. Since the museum students, my wife and children were arid so fascinated in was is their the process of you'll pleasantly old man, !. iffr?Miinitelx wantioxall for directions. raUfierpSa tfhat'&iU kt&ft iiiiHoTOvteLrttVoutre net going to Cali-even better choice is , Advertising "' Look no further than Provo for Gutenberg, Grandin and Ben tun rffsmm fife Published weekly by 'I'l". ever-popul- good idea of how much you will make next week. If you have owned a business for two or more years, you probably know about what you can expect as profit. So, based on whatou already know, what would your price be on your future? For the sake of continuing the dialogue, let's assume you are 40 years old, and that you plan to retire at age 65. Or at least you plan on "shifting gears" at that time. What value would you put on 25 years of effort? If you're earning $20,000 a year, when you factor in inflation, you would earn something like $650,0004750,000. If somebody were to guarantee you Number Two: List the benefits that amount, but you clearly underthat would come your way were you stood that you, under no circumstances, could earn any more than to reach your objectives. Dd'this for each item listed. that, would you accept the offer? Number Three: Identify the If you earn $40,000 a year over the next 25 years, when you factor obstacles you will have to overcome , in inflation, you could probably in order to get there. Number Four: List the people, expect to earn $1,300,000 or more, before taxes. The same question groups or organizations you will applies: Would you accept that as need to work with to achieve the your guaranteed income, clearly objective. Number Five: Spell out what you understanding that regardless of how productive and effective you need to know in order to reach the whether you create a objective. might be Number Six: Develop a specific new product, a new company, a new idea that might be worth untold plan of action to get there. Number Seven: You've already millions your ceiling is absoluteit's when you're 65 ly established, and there is nothing set the date old. do it? Would could about years you you This will take a considerable accept the offer? amount of time. However, since The above is obviously hypothetical and, as far as I know, nobody is you've just determined that you making that kind of offer. But now would not sell your future for any that your curiosity has been aroused, you are probably thinking, "You know, if I wouldn't sell my of dollars, why future for wouldn't I? And if I value it at more '' A person clearly does not contract this particular disease without makthe .wise counsel of caveat emptor, for ing certain choices beforehand. And to we are bombarded today with a smatsuggest that correcting the conseof selecting the wrong option of in medium, quences every advertising tering from any and every company, faction, should be as convenient as possible is cause and organization. extremely offensive to me. I will be sending a copy of this colWhether these groups are trying to. get us to buy their product or buy into umn to every television network, espeof thinking, they are out to cially the local affiliates of these nettheir way ' works to express my disappointment get us. I used to think that the plethora of in their judgement for allowing such commercials on television hawking advertising to be pawned off onto the the latest and best in feminine American public. There is another force, though, that hygiene products was rather offensive, but offensive has hit a new high in low has become apparent in recent days as with the commercials I have seen for a well. This one is a clever wolf in sheep's medication for the treatment cf genital herpes. clothing, disguised as the The commercial shows a number of "violation of civil rights" complaint, people complaining that they have to which really has nothing to do with take an inordinate amount of medica- civil rights at all. It seems that Utah State Universition for an unreasonable amount of ty published its fall catalog, which days. A preferred alternative is some new included an advertisement on the medication which only requires the back cover for the LDS Church Instisufferer to take one each day for a few tute program provided for students at that institution; apparently someone days. Don't buy it and don't buy into the found the ad's inclusion of a picture of idea that this new treatment is better. Jesus Christ offensive in some way. Don't buy into the philosophy that No, no, a thousand times no! What is better is not to get infected with geni- someone's civil rights could have been tal herpes in the first place, is it not? violated by the picture itself, unless Where in the world has common sense the university congone, and what in the world has spired to put an ad for a particular religion on the literature without replaced it? This advertisement might be appromaking it available to other religions. "We can't let anyone think that we magazine, priate in a although the lack of morality behind are promoting a certain religion," went the issue itself can never be justified. the argument against the ad. Something to think about If you could "sell your future," what would the price tag be? Obviously, it would vary enormously, according, to. previous success and your, fijame ot nSind Tho rnnHi'tinn ftf vmir health your family relationships, the financial resources you already have and a host of other things would also influence the value you put on your future. I suspect that in all probability, you have already "sold" next week. You're probably employed and paid a salary or, if you're on a commission sales job, you have a pretty l"H"HI""'l " :Russ Daly S24-- per year Periodicals Postage Paid at American Fork, Utah POSTMASTER: end addrew change to 59 Weft Main, American Fork, Utah 84003 Advertising-- Advertising . . . . News Missionaries .... . Weddings Community Letters to Obituaries .Monday. 5 p.m. Monday. 2 p.m. Monday. 2 p.m. .Monday, Calendar the Editor . . noon .Tuesday, 2 p.m. Monday. 10 a.m. .Monday. 10 a.m. Tuesday. 11 as the subject of my research. I would like to learn about individuals from Utah, or events that involved Utah or occurred in the state that played an important part in U.S. history. I would very much appreciate if you could send me items that would be of interest. Post cards, newspapers with unique features about Utah, clippings, articles, video tapes, old license plates, unique products from your region, or other items that might help geography and history to come alive in my classroom. We are to present a report to the class and anything especially interesting would make my report the best in the class. Please help me learn about your state and spark the interest of my classmates. Besides, everyone enjoys getting mail! Our school is on the northern side of Chicago, about six miles rom the downtown area (The Loop). We have about 100 students in the eighth grade and about 1000 students in our Most of our students building are either immigrants or children of recent immigrants. We have students from many parts of the world Mexico, Bulgaria, Korea, Nigeria, India, Bosnia, Vietnam, Guatemala, the Philippines, and many other places. Most of the students have not lived (K-8- ). outside Chicago. I was born in Bulgaria, but moved to Chicago with my family six months ago. I enjoy playing basketball, watching Bulls games. I chose Utah to write about because I want to learn more about it. I look forward to receiving mail from you. Thank you for your interest in my education and your kindness. Dessislava Tonina Budlong Elementary School Room 403 2701 W.Foster Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 We welcome letters to the editor. All letters must include the author's name (printed AND signed) and a telephone number. 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