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Show "Watch the Birdie Bruce Biossat r Impact of Churches Felt In Two Fields SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1964 - Today's Editorials WASHINGTON (NEA) This has been a bad year for those who would argue that the influence of the church in American affairs is waning. It has had tremendous impact in two controversial fields civil rights and the issue of school prayer As his southern forces went down to defeat on the 1964 civil rights bill, Georgia's Sen. Richard Russell singled out church support of the measure as one of the decisive factors. There is still no sign of a decision, even at the congressional committee level, on the question' of a U. S. constitutional amendment to allow prayer in the nation's schools. But committee testimony produced very heavy church opposition to the I Obey Law for Fi reworks Safety With the Fourth of July celebration just ahead, youth and adults alike should be cautioned - on the dangers of fireworks. While laws on the sale and use of fireworks have been improved and enforcement tightened, Fourth of July fireworks still linger as a definite menace. Proof of this is the National Society for the Prevention of that eye injuries Blindness report were caused by fireworks in 20 states last year. ' Celebrations three decades ago invariably' left thousands blinded and maimed. United effort over the years has greatly improved - this situation. Nevertheless, there are still many youngsters hurt by firecrackers and rockets every year. Here in Provo, the city ordinance specifically prohibits the sale, exposure for sale, use, or distribution of such fireworks as toy cannons, torpeodoes, skyrockets, firecrackers, roman candles, bombs, etc. these vision victims fell within the 10 to 14 year old age group, and two were tots under five years of age. guard against fireworks dangers is everyones job. Here are some things you can do: Don't permit your child to buy fireworks through the mail or from illicit dealers ; if your child has obtained fireworks or gunpowder, confiscate them immediately and make him understand they are dangerous and probably illegal; assist authorities in locating dealers in bootleg fireworks; check closely on the activities of your children during the holiday period, especially if they have shown an interest in matches, ammunition, powder or rockets; do hot buy or use fireworks yourself. Aside from! the use of toy cap pistols and sparklers, your best bet, if your children have a desire to see fireworks, is to take them to public displays where the pyrotechnics can be enjoyed in To ( j idea. safety. Safety should be the watchword Yet, almost every year police and the best way to insure safeare confronted by illegal fireworks against fireworks is to obey the in one way or another. Last year ty use them. one merchant was prosecuted and law and not his fireworks merchandise confiscated, Top Lady Engineers Just Friday, as police were makA sense of fairness impels us, to mertheir annual rounds ing at risk! of contributing another chants with a reminder of the city blow to the already battered male ordinance provisions, it was disego, to take note of what has been covered one supply house had been done by Joanne L. Yamas of selling illegal fireworks. Plainfield, N.J. It seems that Miss Are there any legal fireworks ? Yamas, an attractive lass of 21, Only a few items are specifically graduated at the top of her class approved by the city ordinance. in Pennsylvania State's College of These include toy pistols, toy Engineering. The New Jersey girl received canes, toy guns and sparklers. To sell, use or distribute blackthe degree of bachelor of science listed fireworks is a misdemeanor, in chemical engineering. In doing punishable by a fine of up to $299 so, she made a better academic or incarceration in the county jail record than 319 others, mostly up to six months, or both. men, who also received degrees. The ordinance specifically deThis gave; her the right to serve scribes fireworks as being against as student marshal for her college the health, welfare and safety of at the commencement. the people. They certainly are We begrudge Miss Yamas nothe welfare and health, against thing. Had we wanted to be petty when blind or maim about the matter, we could simply safety they our youthi have avoided mention of it. All Last year 28 boys and girls sufthe same, her performance does fered damaged or blinded eyes in put a further crimp in the out fireworks accidents across the moded idea that it's: a man's country. The greatest number of world. The Chopping Block I i , r ! Holmes Alexander tad Should amendment proposals eventually languish and die in Congress, the combined opposition of churches and many legal experts' probably would be credited, j In the weeks of testimony before the t House Judiciary Committee Ion school prayer, more than a dozen major church groups spoke against any amendment.) Reflecting! either convention action or the views of interim governing bodies, this opposition included both Southern" and American Baptists, the United Presbyterians, Meth od i sts, Episcopalian leaders, many three branches of the Lutheran Supreme Court Looks Bad In Reapportionment Ruling Not all the many other rulings which caused WASHINGTON, D.C. uneducated are among the high school Charles Dickens to observe that "if the law says that,! the law's an ass." Six dropouts and the juvenile delinquents some are on the Supreme Court. of the nine Supreme Court members to hard It's imagine a less cultivated joined in the philosophy of "one man, statement than Chief Justice Warren's one vote." They were voicing the slogan of the untutored African republics, and opinion in the matter of how the states give representation in their legislatures. giving ho weight to the far more sophisThe chief justice thought he was recitticated, far more sagacious American concept which recognized that states, ing a truism when he said: not districts, neighborhoods, valleys, hills, "Legislators represent people, trees or acres. Legislators are elected plains and mere settlements have individualities of their own. For the sheer by voters,! not farms or cities or economic interests." preponderance of people in ; slum to But the village idiot, I believe, should take away the voice of people in a subknow better than that. There never urb is not an enunciation of democracy, was a community of people which could but a denial of it t. , be characterized by a mere Luckily, Justices Stewart and Clark Trees, as Joyce Kilmer wrote outside kept something alive by asserting that the law books, make poems that reflect legislative seats should be "rationally" more truth than can be written by poets. divided among the population of the Do the lindens of Berlin, the horse states. Justice Harlan went further by chestnuts of JParis, the spreading hicprotesting that the court was invading which Longfellow's village sacred and unknown territory in telling kory under blacksmith did his honest labor, the the states: how to form their legislaoaks and walnuts, the pines and spruce, tures. It was, Harlan said, establishing mean nothing in the expression of popa "pervasive overlordship" which was ular character? Trees, which outlive never envisioned or intended by the law men, and influence the minds and atti--. of the land. People in their communitudes of generations of men, ought not to ties should decide what is right in the be treated so summarily by a jurist who way of representation at their assem is supposed to be wise in more than blies, said Harlan, and: book learning. "The Constitution is pot a panacea To say that "acres' should not be for every blot upon the public welfare, considered in apportioning legislative Nqr should this court, ordained as a . districts is to say that people who live of as a general judicial body, be thought on remote ranches, far from communiMxf am " n . vw MM n 9' cations and police protection, are the Jt would be wrong, I think, to accuse same as people ho live in upright tenedements and apartment houses, where the Supreme Court of conspiring to moralize, the American system of its they are forever hosed by commercialeven though that is the result ized radio-Tprograms and where they vitality, of a decision' such as this. The charge wait for the cops before acting to preagainst the majority of justices is more vent a visible murder, rape, kidnapping ' simple, and more grave. Whatever or theft. !'..". their erudition in the books of law, they Deeper wisdom than that which the are idiots in the ways of God and man. Supreme Court has given us in the state The disparity between pedantic reacases on legislative apportionment, would concede that knowledge flows soning and human wisdom must have been why the Constitution did not leave from running brooks, from silent mountains, from stones even, and from all the selection of justices entirely to the those "mute, insenate things" which president. The Constitution requires . that the Senate, a body of elder statescommune with the soul of man. men and practical politicians, give "We can feed this mind of ours," wrote Wordsworth, "with a , wise pas-- "consent" before any person is elevated to the Supreme Court, siveness. decision in the It is the shifting body of senators, as But the nose-couto not well as the succession of presidents, states Supreme Court, requiring : consider that there are communities; . which owes, abject apology to me Ameriwhere people make themselves into can people. In this instance, apology is not enough. The elected representatives religious, economic, special groups of the people ought to take action. Js one with a good ethnic or fainilial , nose-coun- . i I Day the Rains Came Ix rfc Vs 'church. Mr. Robertson ers convention. It was so cold Mary is one of the most interthat I couldn't- - invite them up esting people I know but she here so I went down to the Sage soon threw her coat over her! Inn in Springville to visit them. the head and ran out through Glen and Vera Robertson rain to her car and we didn't in last night, but it's too drove with to her visit very long. get recold for them to take a bath. was small Freezing her of the However, the contractor promcompense for her gift ises to have the furnace in this pie. week, so everybody will be Another interesting visitor howling for somebody to turn was Clarence Ashton, just back off the heat. But there I go from two years in the Orient. again, prophesying It's One of the best horticulturists in ible to kick the habit No wonthe West Clarence has been our der there is so much confusion guide and mentor ever since' in the world. I think all prowe settled here on the farm phet's licenses should be rewith no more knowledge of the voked. fruit business than the proverbial pig has of Sunday School. A deep thinker and keen observer with a warm, sympathetic personality Mr. Ashton gave me an understanding of problems in Asia that otherwise I could never have got. Before he froze out here I extracted a promise from him to be guest columnist for the Chopping Block some time soon This is a pleasure I want to share with my readers. It's odd that every; Editor Herald: time I have a guest columnist T In looking over the new city get a flood of approving letters.' water ordinance, I think our Theron Luke brought his lov-l- y city commission did a wise see to over daughter Virginia thing in increasing the rates, us. She lives in Seattle, though which for a long time have she is going to be an Alaskan been about the lowest of any warmest haspitality can't comfisherwoman this summer She in the state. bat a below sixty degree house genreously offered to take me i city To maintain the purity of our and her father as passengers on temperature. It's a pity,, tool drinking water costs a lot of for we; have had some interest her husband's boat ,but with the and it is more equitable money, ing guests. proviso that we both help clean users to foot the water for all Firs came Alladme a n d fish, or something, and we bill, rather an have increased both backed hurriealy away. Dwighjt Hockensmith (from Lou taxes placed on real property. Mr. Luke always likes to build Angeles. Alladine Bell is a wel. In the summer rates provi-knowtt writer, now teaching ere a fire in the fireplace, even in sion of the ordinance I note that ative writing at the University and he was miffthe person who allows the parkof Southern California. TheJ ed that we already had one go- -j ing area in front of his property quickly decided it would be ing, but we catered to some of; to grow up to a mass of cheat warmer up in Logan where Alhis secret vices and all was1 grass and noxious weeds is alladine; grew up. peace. lowed the same reduction in Three charming ladies from Having read his fine article! water rates as the public spirProvo' came over and brought about the late Rue Clegg and ited property owner who goes their own vodka; which pre the Bridal Veils resort I drove to the expense of planting lawn eludes me from mentioning up there and Mrs. Clegg courarea their names, but vodka can only teously gave me a pass to ride and trees in his parking ' well watered. and them keeping do so much and they soon de up to the top on the gondola, The reduced summer water and it is everything Luke said it parted for warmer climes, am therefore, offer no inmuch to our regret, was, and more. It deserves to. rates, centive for beautifying our Our good neighbor Mary Albe known as one of Utah's streets. varez brought us up a huckle-berrgreatest scenic attractions. Our latest visitors were Novel- pie, I having mentioned t that hadn't had huckleberry ist Elmer Kelton and his wife pie since I was a boy when the Ann,, from San Angelo, Texas whole family used to go into the who came this way on their Moscow Mountains huckleberry return from Portland where ing. The pie was delicious, and they attended the Western Writ By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Never since my prophet's license was revoked have I been so aware that I never should have had it in the first place as during 1 the past two weeks. I waded fearlessly into the mud dy waiter of predicting the weathej", which has drowned more prophets than the Egyptj. ians;' I took a look at a bright; warm sunny sky and called the contractor to come up and install a gas water heater because my kids are coming home with the pernicious California habit of taking a bath before and after mjeals. To install the water heatet lit was necessary to dis connect the oil furnace to run an escape pipe up the chimney to carjy off the fumes. And then ass old Noah remarked, "It rained.! And rained and rained: One small fireplace inj an eigh room. Mouse doesn't help much. Right now 1 wouldn't even prophesy that Goldwater will get thief Republican Presidential nomination, and that seems as. certairi as it did a few days ago that the weather would stay warm'. Naturally, we have had more guests j than usual, and our ' I j ; ; - church testimony in support of the court's view. Official church attitudes are -especially frustrating to south-- 1 ern backers, of prayer amendments. A survey of school auth orities across the country shows that only in the South is the practice of prayer in school a common thing. The situation is mixed in the East and Midwest, and there is almost none, of J' it in the Far West.! The impending final enactment of a civil rights bill help--; ed along mightily by church effort will thus give the South two major scores against U.Sj churchdom. Southern outrage could become explosive if school prayer amendments fin i ally do fail. In such an event, however, the i position of many eminent law- ' yers and law professors would be appraised as significant. A prime exhibit in House committee hands is a letter of opposition signed by 223 attorneys arid legal scholars. The latter include most of the best known constitutional experts in the United States. j Testimony among educators was more evenly divided, "hui even here the weight of com ment was against the admend-ment- ; The Roman Catholic hiearchy at that time avoided any official pronouncement. But now the authorities of the National Catholic, Welfare Conference, whose statements have virtually official status, advise Catholic, bishops to view all proposed school prayer amendments with! caution. This formidable array tof churchmen lined up against a constitutional amendment is a source of great annoysurely to ance the many staunch advocates of change. The heart of this complaint is the charge, that the Supreme Court in banning school prayer took a position hostile to religion in American life. The complaint legal wmmm liriti i i i i i i l l'l l I I The new: mall plan seems; to help solve the parking problem in the business district. But in order to bring about an increase in trade with our downtown merchants, more should be done. The store clerks should be trained in salesmanship. Our schools give courses in stenography and typing; but where the average merchant needs only one stenographer, he may need a dozen or more clerks, most of whom have had no training in salesmanship. In fact, some clerks; instead of it drawing business, the know don't away. They . er, drive quality of their merchandise, or where to find it They have had no training in the ima n c e of remembering port names of customers, and giving them a cordial greeting. j They should know how to sell goods that won't come back to I customers that wilL Jacob Coleman 246 N. 1st E. Provo. j j yj BY JAMES O. BERRY ly Take Time Out for Friendship Gestures Hardly a day goes by when you can't find time to make one a several of these gestures toward friendship Pass along a compliment to the person to whom it will mean '.'! .. the most. ... Let someone know you're pleased that something nice has M happened to him. Admire another's new and proud possession. . Praise someone for a job well done, or say just the right thing to make him feel less of a failure if his best efforts weren't ? ' V Pay a call on, or extend an invitation to, a newcomer. Write a letter to a friend, send a card to one who is ill, or mail a clipping to someone you know would be interested in "' !; seeing it. l Stop long enough fork little visit with someone you meet casually, at neighborhood shopping center, at your child's school, or while on some other errand. Call a friend you don't see often enough just to keep in : , touch. ; j. , , , ; ' Offer to do something for someone who could use a helping hand.'i. nt h stuck in these narrow trousers! m ; Policemen Hard Put To Make Ends Meet r Editor Herald: How to live and keep a fam ily in the city of Orem on $65 a week take home pay? All you have to do to be policeman is fill out an application, go to school eight hours a day, five days a week and then come on shift and work eight more. This is a good deal for the taxpayers, who are getting so much for so little. That is, if you figure 80 hours a week little. The old saying goes, "When you need a cop you can't find one." We would be able to find one if we could employ a few more and give them a decent waee to live on. be cause they have a large area to patrol. They spend hours of their own time in court, working on holidays, go to school, plus the overtime they put in, all without extra pay They're on call 24 hours a day. 'V If anyone thinks this is such a .wonderful job, I think you can pick up an application at the police department that is if you want to starve to death. These fellows have to pay out of this meager salary, on the average of $3 to"4 per week for cleaning uniforms. There is also additional mater--. ial and equipment furnished by each individual officer so that he can discharge his duties more effectively. Most of them have to hold down a part-tim- e job and can't needed with his time spend i -- ) ; ' family. Therefore, no one icari do justice to' any one job by. putting in long hours at two, to make7 a living. The records are there, consult them. Several of the boys have put in excess of 30 hours overtime in the past week that he never . even got thanked for, let alone, Therefore, he compensation. had to relinquish time that he could spend on a parWlme job, making money. We have a group that is well trained. Let's keep them, and add as many' as needed. This is a must. .,,'' Put inv a good word for someone where it will do the most . is: Earl Partridge Orem, Utah WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Goldwftter's mail has Barry 100 to been running at about one in favor of his vote against the Senate civil rights bill. A statement from his office Monday said the mail indicated "deep dissatisfaction" with the rights bill, Goldwater aides said , the front-runnin- g tial 5 contender GOP presiden- received has 2,176 telegrams since his floor , cookies flowers from from Share something your garden, speech . last week against the counin or book the even have a ride a bill end that only 22 cf thecs enjoyed, you your oven, try with an older person who doesn't have many chances to get were in favor of the pfll tnd out of the house. his positioa. v A against good. "Help, help my foot .f '!:! j good enough. . By contrast with all this, 93 of the 98 congressmen who ap--1 peared were in support of constitutional change They a n 4 many of their fellows have been buried in the greatest aval- - ; anche of mail In congressional ';1 'ihistory. :'. When Judiciary Chairman ' Emanuel Celler of New York wui summon nis committee to weigh the testimony is uncertain. The day could be weeks off, at least. And before them the committee members will soon find an incredible committee hearing record of 3,500 pages not to mention a mountain of ' separate exhibits. j Ml Ruth Millott BERRY'S WORLD s. 4 .. Incentive Should Be Given For Improving Parking Strip mid-summ- -- , ! j " has been vastly weakened by - i . 7 ", . |
