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Show Editorial Page Feature tal& Financial Challenges of fhe Parochial Schools By LOUIS CASSELS UPI RELIGION Writer A new drive for public aid in parochial schools is getting under way in state legislatures. It is fueled by warnings from Catholic leaders hat state aid is the only way to prevent wholesale closing of church Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Centre! Utah SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1970 Defensive Driving Glosses being the only state which requires ever person receiving a driver's license for the first time to have a driver education course certificate. Utah Technical College at Provo. has three classes going per week with 16 in each class. There are other opportunities for you to get professional help with your driving. Here in Provo the Utah County Safety Council has two current classes giving the National Safety Council defensive driving course. On Jan. 20, a class will begin for senior citizens, at the Eldred Center. A class for the public will begin Feb. 3 at Provo High School. Those interested may apply in Room 106 of the City and County building. This is an eight-hocourse given in four two -- hour sessions. Aside from taking driving courses, we recommend that all motorists review instructions in the driving manual; keep autos in good condition; adhere strictly to apeed limits and other rules of thu road; drive "defensively"; avoid mixing drinking with driving; and exercise courtesy and caution on the highways. If we're ever to curb the highway slaughter everyone must do his part. Now is a good time to Everyone deplores our death toll but we have an tven losi of life foinjr on in greater America on our highways something which should spur us to greater safety efforts. - Highway deaths in the first 10 months of 1963 alone surpassed the total of 40,000 American servicemen killed in action during the almost nine years of the Vietnam War. The full traffic toll for , !n Vietnam 1969 shot past the 55,000 mark for the United States. In the state of Utah, S08 were fatally injured on the highways in 1969, second only to the 330 highway deaths in 1966. Utah County had 35 deaths for 1969, one of the blacker years but behind the tplls of 37 for 1964 and 38 for 1966. Already we have three traffic fatalities in the first 10 days of 1970. 'Our Utah County highway fatality toll for the past year is nearly as great as men from this county killed in Vietnam action in the past four years. The county's worst month was May when 10 lost their lives, seven of them in one head-o- n collision up Spanish Fork Canyon. Thirteen of the '69 fatalities occurred in 12 accidents, each in- volving only one car; and 13 resulted from six crashes. Three died in two-ccrashes, two e in crashes, three in tractor mishaps, and one in a acident. What were the prime causes for the fatal accidents in Utah County last year? Nine fatalities occurred in seven accidents caused by speeding, according to Safety Council ck ar car-bik- car-bicyc- le collisions; 3 lost their lives in 3 intersection collision, 2 collisions were killed in rear-en- d and 2 died when ears ran off the road. What can be done to slow the accident rate? Mostly, it's a matter of individual safety, caution, alertness, and careful driving. Engineering (safe roads) can help, and education plays a vital role. Utah enjoys the distinction of But there is vigorous opposi-to- n from some Protestant and Jewish groups who see the aid proposals as a serious breach of the constitutional principle of church-stat- e separation. Most state aid proposals are patterned after tie 'Get Thee Behind Me, Satan !" AfW iff ilk BOSTON (NEA) W': I teV r - various parts of the United States got together to argue over why it is that many young people are in turmoil. Lite the rest of us, it turned out they, too. did not have an answer. But tuey did have some theories based on their own work: Activists lashing violently, arrogantly against society frequently seem to be young people with deep inner conflicts. The valid probkms they protest war, racial inequity, poverty or are in many cases pollution cover-up- s excuses or diversions i'or personal problems from which they are running away. They frequently back off when faced with opportunities to do about something personally these problems. In homes and communities where parents have deep beliefs in their own way of life-e- ven when they are minorities (a strong relief in religion, for example, and a strong belief in the family and traditional family relationships), there are far fewer "activists" and fewer youngsters with psychiatric problems. Many of these young men and women have bad no way, such as work or responsibility, to test themselves and learn their own identity and worth. All they have done is go to ' 'hiJ yjr X 'a ;' . Research against cancer is more important than exploring outer space. Not many cf us are going to the moon, but a lot of us are Dr. Edgoing to get cancer. ward S. Henderson of the National Institute of Health. Herald Guest Column Law Enforcement is Every Decent Citizen's Concern cemed about the problems of our chil- -' By JESSE W. EVANS Police dren, particularly the availability of of Chief Provo I have marijuana, which is merely an intro.Thirty years of law enforcement revealed to me that people will always duction to more dangerous drugs such narhave problems, social or otherwise. We as LSD, speed and then the heavy life of crime. then a into and of cotics, the o all pressures are subjected modern day living and wiB continually Marijuana can be obtained on most be confronted with Afferent problems. any high school campus. Statistics show that children between the ages 13 and We ask what has happened to the ef do some 15 use marijuana more than older perGeneration." "Now Why sons. Let's consider some of the danthem conduct themselves as they do? The answer seen.s to be rebellion gers to tiie user of marijuana; hallucinations may appear or feelings of great against any type of authority. We adults are supposed to set the ftrength and capability, usually unstandards and make guidelines for our warranted, begin to take over. Soon children to follow end if they fail to the user may think he can walk on keep them, it is our responsibility as water, jump over buildings, walk between the headlights of an oncoming parents, to get then' back in line. of 10 car or may step out of a fast moving the peopercent Approximately tha automobile. afoul of run our of community ple law. The majority of people never have We have a rebellion taking place in any contact with law enforcement Many our country today. Marijuana, LSD, etc., people will contact a police officer and are tools of commuusm. offer information on certain violations Many years ago the Communists set of the law but request that we do not down some "Communist Rules for Revoinvolve them. lution." Compare them with what is Others fail to report violations for taking place in our country today. fear of becoming involved as a comA. Corrupt the young . . . Make them plaining witness. It is the responsibility destroy their ruggedness. superficial, of each law abiding citizen to report any B. Get control of all means of publicity felonious or flagrant violation of the and thereby: law to the law enforcement authorities Get people's minds off their governso that an investigation can be made. ment by focusing their attention on athOne of the main problems of our soletics, sexy book and plays and other ciety is too much complacency. The atti. tude is, let somebody else do it, or, it trivialities. Preach true democracy but seize isn't my problem. Good law enforcement is every decent power as fast and as ruthlessly as citizen's concern, as crime affects you possible. either directly or indirectly and without By encouraging government extravyour support the police will be unable agance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and gento maintain proper law and order. As I have stated, adults should make eral discontent. Foment strikes in vital industries, the rules for their children, but they chould set a good example and I know encourage civil disorders, and foster a of no better example than your support soft attitude on the part of government towards such disorders. for good law and order. It was adults Cause registration of all firearms on who were responsible for writing of the laws and ordinances and placing them some pretext, with the view of confisinto effect Let's put our own house in cation of them and leaving tha popu. .i:u- helpless. order as an examplei. iw um cuwueu uil lation Patrick Henry once said "Give me to hesitate discipline then we need not the child. As a matter of fact, the child liberty or give me death." Death would be mild compared tc living under comusually learns ty example, either good munism. will usually k bad. A good example tfll &tppurt your police so w speak for Itseii. to enjoy our floeny. As parents, wt should bs wy oa : nj cufl-Cn- Washington Window Senate to Face Task Of Rewriting Narcotics Law By ROY McGHEE WASHINGTON (UPI) ...The severe specifically -"- laws drug as a comprehensive crime control applied- to marijuana have helped create a serious clash between segments of the youth generation and the government These youths conlaws sider the marijuana hypocritical and unjust. Because of these laws the marijuana issue has contributed to the broader problem of from alienation of youth general society and to a general feeling of disrespect for the laws and the judicial process." This quotation is not from Left or hippie New any publication, or even from an academic treatise. It is the considered judgment of the staid Senate Judiciary Committee. Congress, like the rest of the nation, generally stood by during the decade of tne GO'S as increased use of drugs swept college campuses became per-- , haps the largest underlying factor in ghetto street violence and invaded high school halls. But one of the first legislative acts of the Senate during the 70's will be a comprehensive rewriting of the narcotics law. Chief architect of the new law is Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, His juvenile delinquency has judiciary subcommittee been concerned with drugs and its allure for the young for years. The MXpage. bill the subcommittee has recommended will probably be the first order of Senate legislative business after consideration of bill. The main proposed law of fiie is to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug violations, except for a special class of professional criminals. The bill also sets a "schedule for various classes of drugs, and prescribes penalties accorby the dingly. . A report subcommittee in explanation said: "Possession for one's own use of any controlled dangerous substance would be treated as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for up to one year, a fine of not more than $5,000, or both." But then it added that "first offenders convicted of simple possession may receive conditional discharge of the proceedings against them, and upon fulfillment of any terms and court corditions the may impose, their record will be expunged.'' But while taking a more lenient attitude toward the possessor or first offender, the proposed law takes a stiffer attitude toward the professional criminal engaged in illegal drug traffic. Such a violator is subject to a mandatory five year to life sentence and a fine of $50,000. A second offense would a mandatory bring sentence of 10 years to life and a fine of $110,000. thrust BERRY'S WORLD Today In school. A boy on a farm, or even a youth in a factory, knew he was needed. A boy who worked History The Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 1970 with 354 more to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mercu- ry, Mars and Saturn On this day in history:' Continental In , 1785 the convened in New Congress York City. In 187, in Brooklyn, N.Y., milk in glass bcttles was delivered for the first time. Amelia Earhart flew Honolulu to Oakland, tSie first Calif., to become woman to solo over the Pacific In from 1935 In 1964 the surgeon general's committee issued a report linking cigarette smoking with lung cancer. A thought for the day: Walt Whitman said, "Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterwards resumes its liberty." MARIETTA, - with his father in the family or a boy with a paper route could meet real challenges, test himself, learn "what he was" and build up real relationships. He was part of the real world as school is shop, not Ya, states and in several others. The prospect is that some of them will get through on second try. ni state- ments expressed by Herald columnists are their own aad do not necessarily reflect the views of this sews paper. BY JAMES O. EERHY Mayor The word ' recession" is relative. If one man is unemployed, to his family it's a "recession." When his grocer is unemployed it's a "depression." Now what about prospect, for this year? Our dollar has been shrinking more than four cents a year. That rate of inflation is too close to runaway. Prices for goods and services could spiral upward to where it would cost you $10 to buy a loaf of bread, then $20. Then, as in the Third Reich, where it cost 400,000 reichs-marto buy one postage stamp, such chaos results that it takes a Hitler to restore "or- der." naSeveral tions recently have buried themselves alive under an avalanche of worthless money and emerged under a dictatorship. So the Nixon Administration has moved immediately to check the inflation fire before It becomes uncontrollable. With higher taxes and tighter credit and reduced federal spending, Mr. Nixon purposely sought to ccol down our ever-heatLatin-Americ- that our nation's direction, growth rate continues to climb at an annuai rate of about This, however, is half the 1968 rate of increase. So the Admin- - 2. FORUM RULES ftM Hrtifl tawors PARIS Mrs. June Nelson of Virginia Beach, Va., heading ruaen homeward after trying in vain to get some information from the Communists about her husband, missing in Vietnam: "I'm really glad we came, but it's been hard because we couldn't tune out on our problem. Back home, particularly with my teachine. I can stop ttiinKing aooui U tor a little while."- - In Mturo or In which KCUMtlont or choroM wo modo In melt com kill nomo oitd Mow mutt M uHd. No umlgnod (oianymoui) lortoro III bo consldorod. froforonco will bo givon lottori wlKdt or than ona TK Harold tyiwwrlftn. rooorvoi Iho right e Mlt or rolocf lottor which or ton tone not In good tott, potentially lltxlout. or which cantala MrcowMG from Pimm not then rul: Ltngm limit, tso wards. Slgiatvr ids' nartm raqulrd. Howavtr, V contributor rtquettt, only Initial) bo tuMlihttl im4 with eortole txceptlo-tt- , Including Mtoro political i' nij,rf) yorif wt'll fcflve to ':' stop rafiling cii Coc'.'.oo, and rattle oil the schqotT' i'n-r'?- . r. n Some youngsters seem confused about the difference between wha. society and their parents say is right and life as it actually is. Again, this is because these youngsters lack experience in real life. In the classroom changs is easy on the blackboard. In life change means changing people and that is mnrh more difficult, so difficult that needed shifts may take decades or generations. But how does a young man or woman witn no experience understand this? youths may Many way-obe following the beliefs cf frustrated parents. The parents themselves may have been activists. Or the parents may be "strait-laced- " with their inner dissatisfaction submerged because of fears (of what people would think of losing work, of persecution). If this is true, these parents are then subconsciously "using" their youngsters to accomplish their own aims (these psychiatrists think) in the sense that some men with achieved ambitions at law want their sons to be attorneys or that soma women with longings for a stags career will fight tooth and daw to make their daughters bit actresses. to this theory, According these young people, whether encouraged by their parents to be "free," or whether openly fighting their parents' "way of life," are, in fact, tied to the apron strings of their parents' " inner wishes. ' There Is nothing confused or amiss with mat majority 4 normal young people who, like their counterparts in every generation, are maturely seeking needed improvements in the society about them. Growth Rate Continues to Climb ed John Bunworth, describing the tragic fire at the Harmsr House Nursing Home: "The home went up like cardboard. There is a terrible mess at the scene. I've never seen so many dead people on the floor like they have at the hospital." U U.S. economy. Despite his prompt moves in "j( i'lf , New Montana, Missouri, New New Jersey, Hampshire, North New Mexico, Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Aid bills will be this year in all of those 17 Paul Harvey ks The opinions Quotes In The News Ohio This report- er recently sst in on sessions at which psychiatrists from weird-lookin- head-o- n 2-- Minnna-ta- Louisiana, Michigan, Putting Finger On Pulse of Radicals So They Say We've had some g people working for us. But if they do the job, we hire them. You can overcome all the prejudice in this world if you make money for someone. They'll forgive your reThat's ligion and everything. really the answer. William Barnbach of the advertising agency of Doyle Dane Bernbach. upheld Hie constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Plan in a split 1 decision which doubtless will to the VS. be appealed Supreme Court State aid plans similar to Pennsylvania's were enacted during 1969 by Ohio, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. They s ere defeated, however, in 17 other legislatures, including Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ray Cromley get started. reports. Factors might vary in the other 26 fatalities but these were the types of accidents: Seven pedestrians hit and killed; 12 died in 5 schools. "Pennsylvania Plan, adopted by the Pennsylvania Legislature is 1968. It provides for the state to pay part of the salaries of parochial school teachers who instruct students in secular subjects. The theory is Ciat the state is not supporing religion as such, but is merely purchasing services. Last month, a three-judg- e federal court in Philadelphia ur i ear-tru- schools. It is winning support from some governors and other state officials who say it would cost the taxpayers far less to keep parochial schools in business than to absorb large numbers of parochial students in public lstration's moves are having the desired effect Our econcmy therefore is already in "recession" from what it was last year, yet there is no resultant mass hardship. Our nation has had 26 recessions since 1854. That's an average of one recession every four or five years. Only two have been of catastrophic proportions. Most, like the recession due in 1970, were "pauses" in our economic growth rate, when we "took time out from the long climb to catch our breaths," to let production and supply catch up with wages and demand. Actually, consumer spending Is almost insensitive to these cyclical changes. Consumers continued to spend more in each of the four recessions since the Big War. This despite increased full-fledg- ed unemployment. In three of those four reces- sions, stock went up. Unemployment market values is the medi- cine we must learn to swallow without wincing while we wait for the fever to subside. How much unemployment? During the postwar recessions unemployment never increased more than an adafitional usually less than A most succinct exaluation o fl970 prospects comes from Dr. Arthur Okun who was a gov. ernment economist in the John- 2. 4, son Administration. He predicts a lower gross, sagging earnings, higher But, he says, "These factors will not mean any major change from our currently prosperous environment" And, he adds, "If by paying this cost we can establish a deceleration of prices next year, it will be a major victory for e the stability of our economy, our policy and our nation." unem-ployme- long-rang- The whale, a mammal, is the largest animal in thi sea |