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Show THE SENTINEL Thursday, January IS, 1991 2 Pag School and pinion Homo by Dr. Oaryl J. AAcCarty Ours ) ( WMCM! ) C Got tho budcot adopted This year, the state legislature needs a rule that they will consider no legislation until a budget has been agreed upon. Opponents of such an idea argue that the legislature needs to get through all of the bills that will come before they can determine how much to spend. Baloney. If they would decide how much they have to spend and then spend within those limits, we would all be betteroff. The governor has presented his budget, now the legislature needs to settle down and seriously consider it, make what changes that need to be made, and then adopt it. After that is done, it will be amazing how easy the rest of the work will be. (is rug boss -- WrJ by Robert R.ReUly Mr RelUy is the former National Director of Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Public Research, Syndicated, (co) 1961 President-elec- t Reagan Igjl 0CI was found of saying throughout his campaign that it is not necessary to make legislators see the light, but only to make them feel the beat. Of course, the unstated corollary to this is: in order to make legislators feel the heat, the people must be made to see the light. In his campaign Mr Reagan offered as his major asset his ability to speak directly to the American ll people, to build a popular that a of support recalcitrant Congress could not resist. Well, Mr Reagan is going to have his chance, and he must realize, though it was not so evident in his campaign, that making people see the light will : require a certain rhetoric on a " level that has not been heard in ; this century since Winston Chur-- l chill, and not in this country since : Abraham Lincoln. How, then, should the president the American public? address ; : The Presidency represents the entire nation. A president should ; therefore speak to all of the American people: he should speak :in terms of and appeal to our common good. But here is a fun- one which damental difficulty : underlies many of the more political crises that daily the headlines. in us greet What is our common good? The disintegration of our society under the guise of the much celebrated "pluralism" of interest, ethnic, and even sexual groups makes it hard to define. What once were "human rights" have now splintered under the impact of relativism into "black rights," "gay rights," "women's rights," and a host of other particular claims of one group against society as a whole. The healthy diversity of America used to be seen within the contest of "e pluribus unum." We now have the many, but have lost the one. ; Die pot, in effect, no longer melts. New immigrant groups are no longer expected to undergo a process of Americanization. In fact, as if to prevent this, state schools are required to offer special language and social science courses to these groups. This is done in the name of preserving their cultural heritage, but with the effect of preventing their into the larger assimilation American society. Underlying these programs is a basic abdication: We have asked ourselves as a nation, "Who are we to tell other peoples that the American way is better?" No matter that have presumably immigrants that answered question for already is also an There themselves. of element patronization in these special programs that is not lost upon their recipients. I recall the insult the Chinese community in San Francisco felt when they were presented with bilingual voting ballots. They already spoke and read English very well, thank you. A worse manifestation, or rather cause,' of the shattering of the groun-dswe- , al public good into so many private goods is the current teaching in our schools of American government, which has degenerated into a study of: who gets what, where, when and how. Hie basic message of this teaching method is: everything can be understood in terms of self interest, While supposedly "value free," this perspective encourages a deep cynicism. It reduces the larger claims of democratic government to the mere distribution of material goods and power. One can easily conclude from this approach that the words of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are just a cloak for the of individuals who benefit most from the WWA .L ., WORKING , . . high-soundin- "system." g u The American politician is thus taught to address his constituencies not as fellow citizens whose desires for family, neighborhood, safety, etc., are the same as his own, but "interest groups" whom be can satisfy only by delivering certain promised goods. Worse still, citizens are taught to look at themselves in the same way. In foreign affairs, the "value free" school of thought teaches us that all "systems" can be understood in these same terms the Soviet Union's as well as our own. We can point to different means of distribution in each but are left powerless to make any fundamental moral distinctions about the larger goods each purports to serve. The atomization of the common good is also revealed in the frequent declarations by politicans and even Presidents that they do not wish to impose their "values" on the country. A familiar formulation if this is: "I personally is wrong, but I do believe that not want to impose . . ." Can one imagine Lincoln saying, "I personally believe slavery is wrong, ... but..."? This is not to say that the entire realm of morality can or should be translated into the public sphere. But how is it that the right and wrong of things (about which there can be legitimate disagreement) has been banished from the public forum of politics and demoted to the private status of personal opinion? Once "values" are exiled to the private realm, there is really no reasonable, objective basis upon which one can publicly advance the lightness or wrongness of anything. If there is no common good we should all seek, then one is left to pursue whatever private so "good" one cares to invent much for political community. The rhetorical improverishment resulting from this relativism has left our leaders without the words with which to say anything about our disintegrating communities at home and the Soviet Union waxing strong abroad. If President-elec- t Reagan wishes to make us see the light he must recover the moral vision which once animated this country and reimbue our citizenry with it. People who do not understand the purpose for which thev James Almo all of Sandy. Sixteen young men of the Jordan 'Kemp, District, who have volunteered for The township of West Jordan military service, or who have been was officially incorporated as a selected in the second drawing of "town of the third class" last Local Board 16, Selective Service, when a resolution to that will be guests of honor Monday Friday effect was adopted by the Salt evening, at the Sandy Amusement Lake County Commission. Hie hall, of the Jordan Post 35, area incorporated includes apAmerican Legion. They will stage nine square miles a program and dance in a farewell proximately with the West Jordan community party for the boys who will leave at Redwood Rd. and the Bingham for army training Jan. 23. the center. as highway The program will begin promPrincipal reason for incorptly at 8 p.m. and will be followed porating West Jordan is to qualify by a dance with Carter's orchestra for WPA projects on the cemetery furnishing the music. Each selecand other improvements. tive service boy will receive a miniature medal as a token of ap. . . 30 yesrs preciation. Committee in charge of the afCpl. Paul Fitzgerald, Draper, fair includes Allison Bills, chairhas been awarded the bronze star man, assisted by Elman Mickelsen for gallantry in the battle for Seoul and Joel R. Wilcox, who are in September following the Inchon working in cooperation with the landing in Korea, according to indraft board in staging the party. formation received here by bis The list of young men, who will mother, Mrs Ruth A. Fitzgerald. be honored guests, and who have Cpl. Fitzgerald is convalescing been selected to fill the local quota, in a Korea hospital from frozen is as follows: ('denotes volunfeet and back injuries suffered in teer): recent fighting. Clarence Raymond Johnson A graduation of Jordan high and Dean Parker Larson, school, he participated in the Draper; Mariza Ogawa, Lawrence Hungnam beachhead evacuation Edward West, and Roy Burnham as well as the Inchon invasion. Woodland, Bingham Canyon; Earl James Hansen and 'General In a series of articles concerning Garland Rist, Midvale; Darrell the 1951 Utah State legislature the Oral Despain, Union; Varsil Salt Lake Tribune wrote about Mrs Marlon Casper, Oren Deseret A. C. Jensen, Sandy, as follows : Bateman, Lyle Byron Gunderson Sen. Jensen (D.) entered politics and Wayne Joseph Gunderson as a bouncing babe on her father's (brothers), Clem Harold ,Mace, knee. She hasn't been very far LeRoy Norval Swenson, William away from politics since. He senate's only woman mem- - : McBlain Mason, and tga , it difficult to exert the effort necessary to keep alive. The American people simply will not make the sacrifices necessary to exercise power unless they understand that that power serves a good end. This was amply demonstrated by the Vietnam debacle. The American political order, like any political order, does serve certain ends. Any President who wishes to reinvigorate the American people must make the case that those ends are objectively good and therefore in the common interest. This will not be an easy job since it will go against the teaching of the majority of "intellectuals" who, for the past decade or so, have been hammering away at the moral and philosophical foundations of the United States. The effort to rediscover and promote the common good does not require a scholarly, philosophical exposition at a news conference, but it does demand a rhetorical explication of the raison d' etre of the United States. The name of "statesman" awaits Mr Reagan if he can do th Quickly, now, name every one ot the Great Lakes. If you remembered all but two of . them, we'll give you a passing grade. But there's a way that you can be reasonably certain of recalling every one of them ten years from now. Think of the word "HOMES." Now think of the lakes with names that begin with the letters in that word. You come up with Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and - Superior. Remembering "HOMES" gives you a way to recall both the number of Great Lakes and their names. That's only one method you and your children can use to remember key things. What's the correct way of or is it spelling "seperate" "separate?" It's "separate," and OUf4)15 by Barry McWilliams 40 years cso . . . Executive Secretary Utah Education Association ber, Mrs Jensen used to attend political rallies with her father. Serving her second term in the both by appoinupper chamber Sen. Jensen is partment ticularly interested in education and welfare measures. Despite ber vigorous political life, her home on busy South State St. in Sandy comes first with this gracious grandmother. "I have reared a family and kept house and still had time to take part in politics," she reports, adding, "And I wish a lot more women would do the same thing." Now Mrs Jensen, the mother of three grown sons and daughters, wouldn't have women neglect their homes for politics. But she insists with proper management, there is plenty of time for both. "The woman's point of view is needed in the legislature and in politics generally," she contends. Long active in the Democratic party, Mrs Jensen first was appointed to the senate by the late Gov. Henry H. Blood in 1939 to fill a the created by vacancy B. of Cornelia Mrs resignation Lund. In 1949 Gov. J. Bracken Lee appointed her to fill the term of Sen. J. Arthur Bailey, who died several months after winning the election. . . the way some people remember it is by visualizing a rat. That tells them the letters "arat" appear in the middle of the word "separate." Many of us use similar devices to remember things. Who among us hasn't used the "Thirty days hath September" rhyme to recall the varying lengths of the months? Who among those of us who took music classes did not learn that the "lines" on a piece of music, beginning at the bottom, were "EGBDF," and we learned that from committing to memory the sentence, "Every Good Boy Does Fine." Dr. Joel Herskowitz, a pediatric neurologist and memory researcher, tells us there's no shame in giving your memory some help. In fact, his own calendar and appointment book are heavily, marked with reminders and notes. His watch is set to buzz at key intervals during the day. He hopes someday to get a watch that also provides a "readout" of what he's supposed to be doing at different times, with whom and were. Many teachers criticize the idea of students absorbing vast amounts of material "by rote," or unthinking memorization without full comprehension. But many good thinkers develop techniques for remembering important things, and recalling these items can help them to become even better thinkers. Next time you have a few free minutes with your children, you might work up some of these visualizations and try them with your family. It may prove to be fun as well as educational. . . Jordan Valley Sentinel Mt4nlt StfttMfl, CmUmmi Mt BUM a IMS. unum n in MM7 Inc. SMtiMl ejMoM I MtU mi Ttwifci fattr smu ' HWIIIII k SnM .' Hrfwn, uu mm;. PttrSMlc)ii.lin)toi, la in. SmtiMt, P0 10 yesrs ago . . . lit Mrfnlt, UM MM7. Subwrierloiitat'4"yeerliiSteteetUteh 'J year In SJere Of Uteh CeFuMnhm Sandy City building permits reached over the three million mark for the year 1970 it was reported by Mrs Fay Elswood, city recorder. Residences went over the two million total. David C Godfrey James M. Landers Adv. 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