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Show t. t'fi As If Things Aron't Bad" Enough! Ray Cromfoy Reserves Scrappi Costly Undertaking SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1964 i Today's Editorials WASHINGTON (NEA) "i It WASHINGTON (NEA) Around the turn of the year, in a quiet sidepath here, (the embattled teachers of American history and social studies will be making a determined effort to counterattack against the unrelenting assaults on their work by militant wing organizations, The annual convention of the American Historical Association; will then consider a resolution on academic freedom which won priors endorsement by a constituent1 group of the National Council for the Social Studies over the Thanksgiving holfdays. The resolution, which obviously has a strong chance of approval, includes these statements: "That intelligent fand reasoned loyalty to the nation no less than the requirements of! honesty and sound scholarship, demand that teachers and authors of textbooks and other teaching materials should strive to present a truthful picture of the past and the will be kept or not or if kept, how many. The decision hasn't, been made. The officers and men of these units will not know for months what their fate will be. A few years back they the same experience as the result of another McNamara order. The morale of the men in these units sank to a low level. After more than a. year of uncertain- Robert was shooting from the hip when he announced his revamping of the Army Reserves and National Guard. The men who mast now. Implement this program are confused. The plans haven't been History Teachers Pressured t De- fense Secretary Mc-Nama- ra and scholarship, as tested by consideration of the evidence. "That attempts! by any individthought through. ual or groups to impose their A Hey civilian views on teachers and students ai responsible for hundreds of Reserve units Army the only road to the truth and the the United through States was only measure of loyalty are hostile asked what was going - to hapv ty they learned that their units to that great goal of American would continue. pen to certain of these units. education which aims to nroduce These particular 'detachments He thinks they are going to be and are men but one example. independent abolished. Another man in the mougniui and women who are responsible Morale is a sensitive thing. Pentagon planning hierarchy, This and informed citizens." confusion will cause some when queried, said he thinks of. the best reserve officers to these units be abolished. (What the sponsors of this resowori'jt r Still another planner says the retire. lution would like to see flow from THE McNAMARA PROPOS-- . decision hasn't been made. it is the formation all over the ALS AIM at eliminating THESE ANSW ERS ARE country of academic freedom comthe active reserve civilians who TYPICAL. It appears now that mittees equipped jto defend both will be months before many" hold "key" government posts. it teachers and students against On paper this looks sound. If dispositions are agreed on. g a unreas"capricious, arbitrary and war came todays these men that time, many reservists onable attacks." If would be frozen in their civilian will have no idea of what is That such a proposition is conjobs and not available for milito happen to them. sidered necessary at all is a meastary duty. So if appears that Take one example. There are ure of the severity of the right-win- g money will be saved if these some 52 specialist reserve units men are put into the bombardment against the on major college standby campuses. reserve.' schools. Though the assaults are They turn out an estimated $2 This reasoning misses ' t h e million worth of research for sweeping, the content of public The major purpose of school U.S. history , books is an the Army at a total cost of point. the reserve program is to train less than $150,000 a year. especially inviting! target., men. The Army is already con- -' If these research programs right-win- g The not do militants . . . cerned about the present. loss it faces have to be farmed out by govThe hisconceal their The Block as -purposes. World experienced Chopping 'That criticism of teachers, War II ernment contract, they would veterans of which tory retire. they disapprove, thus cost McNamara 13 times textbooks, and teaching materials Reservists who are key civ;want either deleted altogethshould be based not upon grounds they what now he's, paying. ilians from textbooks or portrayed as huthe same field as their Almost all these research Worse-Bthat reflect the point of view of er reserve ut the. blackest evil. Thus they are specialty make units are headed by Ph.D.s. any particular interest group, but enraged when the United team leaders. training in some instances (college only on the grounds of accuracy is even mentioned, and Nations Mr. Robertson deans, Pushing key personnel into usually department heads, vice chanloses the active re they want Franklin Roosevelt's cellors, comptrollers. The en; "standby" FRANK C. ROBERTSON was a gross invasion of priv- - world, but I admit It By serve some of its that I am usiea men are usua iv nit New' Deal depicted as the quinAnd a Ho Ho Ho to you. I am "acyi for the FBI to go down old Don't Pay Us training leadership. and tired. I have devoted s standing students. tessence of sin. no Santa Claus even to my own there and mess around until t?utit. does more than that. most 01 mv life to trvincf tn The pressures exerted on stu these We'll Pay You Abolishing units would kids in fact, thetre the situafound the bodies of those Key" jobs are defined as key they persuade people to think lor cost the government more than from dents, teachers, superintendents, tion has been reversed a wartime standpoint. A but three murdered civil rights themselves, but most find dollars. These able and Have you heard the latest in inoaras ot education and various when I view the state the world workers. It is certainly a waste ready-madman in a "key" job today e may rules and habits motivated men would no highly come tax proposals?. other local and state authorities is in I can still laugh through of time to try to get anything well be in a longer y a job be trained for key wartime preferable. It's that people be paid NOT to are now a well-tol- d from now. But once putyear tale. It is not my tears. in by "Southern justice.". can I roles. . only hope that Santa More than realized pay income taxes I how these other at' some There "standby," officers are any are enfully generally many fine, Claus is not as pessimistic as YET NO ONE KNOWS FOR Don't laugh. --This may be for of Christmas that I can rememthe attackers are organized! usually lost permanently from lightened Southerners, but - as I, and ' that somehow he will CERTAIN whether these units me active reserve. real. It s reported to be under ber are (more people out .for instance, a right-win- g doing yet the majority of them think td find his way down manage consideration by a government tax fit called America s Future has things wrong. Because we. are that! blind, unreasoning rage your chimney. fore in Washington. at neart we are and hatred is a mark of brav- ; for years sponsored an effort Here's how it would work : called Operation Textbook, whose trying to save the world and ery, when it is actually the CCC Camps Did Mr. Glomp makes $2,500 a year; stated aim is ,to' "evaluate" textgetting deeper into a quagmire snieid of cowardice. of hatred and distrust. Thp Out in Berkeley, Calif., thous He has a wife and four children. books for, high school use. ; PerblindCommunists are ands of students have rioted Much Good, He can, under the new proposal, sons with academic credentials getting than er ever, as they seek to for the right to free speech forget about paying an income comprise! the evaluation comDeclares Reader win Grand-Niec- e the of the good without having anything to say opinion ', tax, since the plan sets up an mittee. J world by protesting against us automatic $3,000 tax exemption. The critics say they are gov- . uiatj is worm listening , to. Editor Herald: the lives of innocent saving Though thought can be clothed Mr. Glomv can do more than erned by the notion that schools If there exists a comparison in the Congo from hordes pie in words thousands of .only kids or parallel between the CCC lorget about paying an income too frequently put insufficient of savages who would torture are going to college who can't tax. .He can claim exemption of stress on patriotism and are guilty and murder them. Camps of the 1930's and PresiEditor Herald: a ballot in the west was a" and read write the lan dent Job I English (Johnson's Corps, $600 for each member. of his famof advancing the causes of comA The heretofore patient Chi grandniece of Brigham Young. Wyoming woman , wasn't guage, but as, automations they would like to make a personal ily from the tax he's not paying. munism and Godlessness. School ese, instead of waiting in fit well in the coming ;, may! comment on the question of the first female to vote in the Actually, the women of , the Six times $600 equals $3,600. defenders argue that many times ' for their seven hundredpatiently million. age of automation. west. The such in first woman to desirable Wyoming cast camps being Territory were the On top of this, he also can claim these themes are a thin'cloak people to quietly starve ti first to be given the right to Children look to Santa Claus a community. just a minimum standard deduction of for the critics' insinuation of their death want to get rid of them for their blessings, and adults While. I was not a member of vote, but Utah women voted Before going to Hollywood to own special outlook into the school by provoking a nuclear war. look to the Supreme Being in . the CCC Corps, I was acquaintfirst . ).star in "The A total exemption of $4,400. The Fred .Muhsters," , iti happened like this: curriculum. ed with quite a few boys who the sky who seems unmindful underprivileged African The But remember Mri Glomp has U Nor does the history, textbook are trying to establish govern- of the welfare of the people He were. A few of them might Gwynne enjoyed long Broad- - Wyoming Territorial Legislaway run last season, in Here's earned only $2,500 during the problem end with the right wing- ments while most of their peo- is "supposed to have created. have made the jail house, but Love."-'ture passed a woman suffrage 4 bill in December 1869. Two year. What about that? : . ers' complaints. This is the era ple cannot read and write, still Religion is repeating history. I can think of one who is now in . believe in a reason-School and voodoo, under Buddhists the months later on Feb. J2, 1870, Sunday superintenWhy, revolt against the proposed plan of the highly vocal special interest with an opponent by chopf and who others have dence ing the Utah Territorial Legislature po.the government would pay Mr. ; and burn them government management,- labor, racial and off sitions of his head. I can FORUM ping RULES to responsibility. selves death. In Cvnrus a granted the women of the terri- Glomp for not having earned as religious minorities, nationality think We! of not who are another went into so in Green Archbishop sends his doing badly tory the right to cast ballots.' much income as the total of the groupings, and so on. inLetters from a the out fresh of are readers down camp insanity out department to internship kill and army So, technically. Wyoming was Turks, exemptions he could have "claimed Nearly all of these shout loudlv vited. They should be as conMississippi where until forced by public opinion in medical school. He is now first-- hut Utah held the first had he earned enough to pay an if they dislike the "treatment" in a high respected surgeon. cise; as possible, With a limit election. Utah held sheriffs work hand in hand with to did his best change tactics, income tax,, which ; he. hadn't. an election of 350 words Letters longer they get from particular history the Ku Klux Klan to murder to starve women and children The; point I wish to make is on Feb. 21, while 1870, . WyomIt would pay him 15 per cent formu-latotexte. Understandably, the that I can think of no lasting than this must be cut. Type- civil rights workers, and are ai to death in women concentration didn't ing vote until the 1965 rate for an equivalent of? these works, including write if possible, double spaced" ctf once turned loose to become u damage a camp caused a comSo it goes all over the camps. amount of taxable income of the many; publishers, are gun-shmunity and I can think of a Letters must carry writer's popular heroes. The FBI and World. . m true name and addfess Pseu-lot of l'Wf5a $1,900 difference between, actual , Consequently many j the reporters from the nortS Missionaries go . out to save kids good they did for some . me was uiu west in history income and .total exemption. donyms are not permitted. The texts today are bland and trying to adjust in a someare the villains. Everybody the heathen, and are fcerapft Young grandniece of slaughter Herald assumes no responsiThis would come to $285. bewildering world. But history, as its knows that these men will nevl ed by the people they try to what Brigham Let's hear from the end bility for statements in the mother. ' Young, and my grandSo Mr. Glomp would be handed teachers will be arguing here soon, er be punished for no white save, I had a cousin who spent Mailbag column.! The Herald product of such a venture the a government check for $285 for is by definition a thing of human man has ever been convicted 30 years as a Dorothy W. Lambourne in men who were in the CCC missionary reserves the right to reject or not having had to paV any income conflict and rivalry, in which down there for murdering, a Japan, and she was there when 1240 E. 520 S., Provo . edit letters which are too long, All right, gents, stand camps. who' tax. and Negro. Negroes, World War II broke out: To my up and be counted! any pleasant facts mingle inescapably would not In good taste or potentially befriend them are con-- l knowledge she never came with unpleasant ones. Simple, eh? libelous. Letters which deal Orville K. Harris sidered r ... went-throug- shoot-from-the-h- h ip j : - i ' j . Ehir-m- - . - . It Could Be How? top-not- ch - best-qualifi- ed : -- non-ke- -- . . i I ao-gooae- rs " i f . Brigham Young's First Lady in West to Vote j .; , j i . ; , .. , . ! , j i !; t I ; : " red-neck- , ed . rs f ; t y. ' ' I . . non-controvers- ial. I , j - v . fair game. Of course by i I'm in favor line of giving children gift ..Besides, double N.and I know the children do appreciate the Christmas we whether it's just what they give them wanted or not. They realize there are many children in the world today who do not have a choice nor a Christmas. I My twelve year j . V r. " " 1 ' - i: i - conies fathe fccad cf: ''Get, thh Is really neat . . . but what I really Oh well, you can't wanted Was .. Trfa tism alii sx : , . BY JAMES O. BERRY ' does. And what's 'even more distressing 1 haven't even told him about the birds and the bees yet. Boy, and I thought I started young! - . .... i j . - Many Reasons Why Marriages; Lose Zip It's easy to blame your husband when some of the out of your marriage. But the WISE wife will examinejoy goes herself .!'; . I would like to know what is the difference between Utah Association for Mental Health, Utah County Chapter, and the Utah County Mental Health Clinic in Provo. , husband and a few thouMy sand other men at; Geneva Steel and ' other employees throughout Utah County gave to the United Fund; and I am wondering why our own Mental Health Qinic that is so vital to our children and adults in Utah County cannot . receive fonds from this United Fund. Irene Tisdale - I ' I It has been more than a couple of weeks since he has said, love you," or words that mean the same If he often refers to the children as "yours"thing. instead of "ours." ; If one of his silent, uncommunicative moods lasts more than I ; three days. . If; he hasn't laughed out loud in the house in more than a .. If he no longer teases her about some of her strictly feminine foibles. . If reports of her, daily doings seem to bore him. If he seems annoyed with the appearance of the house or the' way the children look when he comes home in the evening. , If heoften Says, "I know just what you are going to say " before she gets a chance to remind him of something he has . neglected to do. . If he keeps saying, "Why don't we give a party or at least "have some couples over for dinner?" If he groans every time he opens the bills. If he often. looks discouraged after she has answered his query as to, "What's for dinner?" If he refuses to discuss a problem concerning the children with theweary comment, "We'U just-gein another argument --and youU end up doing as to do, anyway?' want you exactly he If to seems have lost his zest for living. ; An honest may prove that she is as much at fault as he is for what has happened to their marriage. reserved, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) 2134 N. 150 W. " f ; . , Anyway, -- Editor Herald: , . i this gift certificate would enable them to select, "just what they wanted" the day after Christmas. Besides, they could probably select half again as many items' because the merchants usually cut the heck out of prices the day; after Christmas. Although I think it's a pretty good IdeaI don't think It will sell. A gift certificate Is pretty hard to play with . en Christmas day. Women Inquire About Mental Health Agencies with church doctrinal subjects or, contain statements derogatory to any religion or creed will be rejected. Ruth Millett 88 Weil, U a re old made King Alfonso XIII, of Spain, began his reign on the day he was born. , 1 ; . BERBY'S WORLD Orem , quest the other day. He said he would like a BB gun and some aftershave lotion for Christmas. The BB ' gnn I understand the after-shav- e lotion Td better look into! Z ' now Course, that I think about it, Ws request to learn to drive the car and this lotion thing might have 'more of a meaning than I think it v. -- However, come Christmas mom- ; ing, they find the gifts we've scien--t J ;tificalIy selected fol them and then we wait for the Joyous cry of: "Gee, ' v . But at cur hesse, this' joyous cry them on false pretenses and bury them under 20 feet of dirt. tack, We can admire these dedicated people, but they are trying to put out a great conflagration with a leaky tin cup. We are waging a war against j poverty which most people are for -- 4 if it doesn't cost them anything. We preach economy and scream to high heaven, when somebody like Secretary McNamara tries to eliminate waste in the military. No, I am not enthusiastic, about the present state of thei ; ! But double N and I have approached this problem very ' systematically . and scientifically, First, we total all their "wants" oft list which usually comes out about 4 as long; as your arm and then we eeny, f meeny, miny, moe this list and reduce it to one or two items." Then we proceed to purchase these Items on the assumption that these were which really the things they wanted most generally, isn't the case. i Jensen . certificates for Christmas. With all the gift advertising being done 0 days before Christmas it gives the kids a chance to change their minds every three days. And they can go on this way right up to; the day. be--. fore Christmas. With this land of a situation, how can the parent heed the advice of the businessman to shop early! - Bye million voted in the election last people to show their preference for a doctrine of states rights which enables such states as sippi to cling to its way of life, which Is to keep the Negroes in poverty and subjection. Thei popular way of doing this is to blast them into bits in their homes and churches, or arrest twenty-si- x t . A bribe has been sent io a government official self-andys- h (All-righ- ls Editor Herald: Is there any difference between f Utah County Mental Health Clinic and Mental Health Association, jUtah County Chap- ter? Why can't the funds from the United Fund Drive be dis-- 7 tributed so that our county will getr more benefits? -- Mrs.lVergene. Walker Spanish Fork - K The opinions and statements expressed by Herald columnists' ere their oxra and da not necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. t ts h 4' . i .'..I 1 |