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Show Editorial Page Feature Congressman Mills Has Lots of Influence Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Page Sunday, May 3, 1970 HERALD, Provo, Utah 30-- THE By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPI) -I- Great Risk in Direct Voting Mexico and North Dakota. There is a determined push under way to do away with the Electoral College and to elect the President by direct, popular vote, with little or no attention being paid to the obvious risks involved and particularly to the deep erosion of states' rights thai would be involved. is the Sen. Birch Bayh Constitutional of a proposed sponsor amendment which would eliminate the Electoral College system under which Presidents have been elected throughout history. He succeeded in obtaining its approval by the Senate Furthermore, the geographical weighting which has been an integral part of the whole system and a part of its checks and balances, would be set aside completely in the choosing oi a President The implications are frightening. It is at lease conceivable that the theft of sufficient votes in Chicago, ' for instance, might change the outcome of a national election. This seems a far greater danger than that a third party candidate might be able to throw the election into the House of Representatives for final Judiciary committee, despite determination. strenuous opposition. There is no need for such a drastic, Not only would Bayh do away with the Electoral College, he would have change, the ultimate results of which cannot be known. a national popular vote for President The chief argument for the change is and thus destroy the heart of our a chimera of partisan imagining and traditional system, under which not once in our history has it been voters within each state decide the real. outcome in that state. is The Electoral College may bean of such a The effect change would to but foretell it anachronism, which has never impossible to confunctioned as it was designed to do, add the great certainly but it can be put aside without also centration of power in the largest cities and in the most populous adopting the national direct election, states and relegate to the role of vitiating states' rights, and raising new problems of great magnitude. virtual bystanders the entire The people should know full well populations of smaller states. source the what Big cities, traditionally they are doing before they vote for most electoral of any change in the Constitution of skulduggery, United States, the greatest honest the the offset by chicanery might votes of smaller states such as safeguard for the freedom of men in ' all Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, New history. (D-In- f there are any established truths to be stated about the leading men of Congress, one would have to be that Wilbur Mills wears no man's collar. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has immense influence partly because of high competence and partly because he can and has defied presidents of the United States whom he thinks are wrong. Lyndon Johnson, for one, found that out in 1967 when wanted to take a good, long bill, good or bad, and return the look at the proposal, including welfare "hot potato" to the the guaranteed annual income White House. A Washington veteran concept imbedded in it, that with Mills believes was taken to mean the bill would wait months or even there might have been seme politics in the decision, but it years, as did Medicare. The family assistance plan is was too simple to say the whole at least as precedent-breakin- g purpose was to put Nixon on and controversial as Medicare, the spot but it took Mills only about six According to this man, who months to come around. It was not talking for attribution, happened so fast that some Mills is far more pragmatic observers felt Mills must have than political. And in the elections. Good, Long Look changed his mind on political current state of public welfare, Mills had indicated that he grounds that is, to approve the pragmatism required the con he had to accept a limitation on federal spending to get a surtax out of Mills' committee. The contest took more than a year. But two weeks ago here was Arkansas Demothe crat on the House floor selling President Nixon's welfare reform bilL Six months ago, it was a good bet that the "family assistance plan" would gather dust in Mills' committee at least until after the 1970 ed low-keye- d v Today I'm breaking an editorial page rule. That of using art work or photographs on the editorial page. However, when I first saw this I couldnt resist. piece of "art" I'm sure a lot of people's reaction will be the same as mine when "What is it?" Although I have to admit, when they first look at we copied the original for newspaper reproduction, it showed more clearly what it might be than the original. Dangit! ! ! . .The artist is Ernest Augustus, a local product better known as "Gus." He said he drew the it picture as a class assignment. I told him I thought he was not medicine. He studying art wanted to know what I meant so I explained that his piece of "art" looked like a sketch of an inner-ea- r. J There's No Fuel Like Wasted Fuel So They Say twin-engi- fighter-bombe- low-polluti- on s, . ne r; well-bein- Herald Guest Column , - dZT Today History Being Foster Parent's A Large But Rewarding Job Editor, Herald: Every year in May, foster parents are honored for their service to a child. Utah County has chosen May 6. 1 and my husband have been foster parents for several years now and we both feel we already have been honored, because somewhere along the years a child will succeed because we gave him a chance. Kate Douglas Wiggen said: "Somewhere the child, among the thousands of tiny things growing up all ever the land, some of them under my very watched, tended, wing and untended, loved, unloved, protected from danger, thrust into temptation among somewhere is the child them ... ,. fit umu wiu wuu ww write uie uuvciIlL.l stir men's hearts to nobler issues and incite them to better deeds. "There is a child who will the greatest picture cr paint ... . AAA name carve we, greawsnj deUver uk his age; another who country in an hour of peril: another who will give his life for a great principal; and another, born more of the spirit than of the flesh, who will live continually on the heights of moral being, and dying, draw men after him. xBad' Movies Are radiant Someone else piped-u- p that they thought it looked like two wool slippers under a bed. Another guy said whatever it was, it was for the birds. And Gus said, "Yen, that's what they are birds. They're Ravens." Ravens ??? I felt like telling him the only thing raven about it was him, when he drew them. "Actually," he said, "I didnt show them to you for criticism. I was going to give you a punch line for it." "Okay, what's the punch line," I asked. "Listen Spiro, if I told you once I've told you a thousand " times I told him I thought he could come up with something better than mat. For instance, one bird (if that's what they are) is telling the other bird, "Boy, you're the ugliest thing I've ever seen." . pollution have automobiles to well-bein- We don't even have to look out of the plane to do our work. A navigator on the United States Navy's A6 "Intruder" jet commenting on bombing missions over Vietnam. :: amazing things: Cars with broken distriDutor caps; cars with completely inoperative spark plugs; cars with extremely dirty engines; and one man who complained about his engine burning oil yet had never had his car serviced in three years. Could it be, the students ask, that some of the same people who have been blaming Detroit's engineers for degenerate by neglect? How many people, they ask, would have attended the clinic had labor costs been added? How many of those turned away had their cars tuned elsewhere? How many service stations are qualified to perform tune-upand how many oil company advertisements give the impression that the correct gasoline replaces the need for periodic tune-ups- ? In short, conclude the students, "It should be emphasized that it is the owner's responsibility to maintain an automobile, not only for his own g interests but also for the of the community." g of the And if the community doesn't grab you, just remember the Conoco experiment and think about all that lovely, unburned paid-fo-r gasoline that be escaping from your might tailpipe. everyone involved. Surprising What A Pencil Can Do far-reachi- environmental allowed their For example, in the same decade that the number cf persons bdew the poverty income line decreased from 40 million to about 22 million, the welfare rolls nearly doubled to 10.4 million and payments of administrative (exclusive increased from $JJ costs) billion to $.4 billion. That kind of a trend could not go on long without political trouble for 1960-7- 0 Bye Line By Jensen Order in the Court! d) In a highly interesting, demonstration the other day, the Con-onentai uu uxnpany used two cars to drive home one very important point to U.S. motorists. A hose was hooked up from the tailpipe of one car to the carburetor of the other car, then the engine of the second car was run fust on the exhaust from the idling first car. The point: A dirty exhaust, caused by a badly tuned or inefficient engine, does more than pollute the air. It can waste enough unbumed fuel to power a second engine. Forget any ideas about rigging up an exhaust collector for use in traffic. The first experimental car was purposely adjusted for maximum gasoline wastage. The point is still valid, however. Another kind of experiment was conducted in Ann Arbor lastmonth. A group of University of Michigan engineering students held a free tune-u- p clinic, handling 43 cars in nine hours and turning away another 200. They came across - some clusion that changes had to be made. Gus still maintains they're Ravens even though he can't get anyone to agree with him. Frankly, I prefer Gus' oils and ceramic pots to his pencil sketch's. And I'm sure if ol' Edgar had seen this sketch, he'd have never written his poem, ''The Raven." But Gus has got a good sense of humor so I don't feel bad about punning him. Otherwise, he might twitch his moustach and use his six foot frame to stomp me. Definition of a Diplomat: A person who can teD you to "go to hell" in such a way that you actually look foi ward to the trip. By golly, what with all this lousy spring weather we've had, it just dawned on me what kind of birds are in the above drawing. Today is Sunday, May 3, the They're "Key" birds. They're the kind of birds mat sit on 123rd day of 1970 with 242 to and say: it's crappy weather." mmnamA Tun-panog- "Key-ryemin- flint-fa-r ktttmmm Have nri nam nhaa 1 The evening stars are Mercu-ry, Venus, Mara and Jepiter. On this day in history: In 1919 sir rasseneer service began when Robert Hewitt flew Mrs. JA Hoadand and Miss Hodces from New York Qty to Atlantic Qty, N J. In 1933 Mrs. Nellie Taylor became the first woman director of the VS. Mint. In 1940 Congress proclaimed the third Sunday in May as "I am an American Day." In 1858 the U.S. AND North Vietnam agreed to begin the "It may be that I shall Paris peace talks. They are preserve one of these children to still in progress. the race. It is a peg big enough on which to hang a hope, for A thought for the day : British every child born into the world is novelist Edward Lytton said, a new incarnate thought of God, "The easiest person to deceive is one's own self." a nice day! Paul Harvev Europe Poses A Bigger Problem V7 LAU You know why the military Party leading in popularity for draft goes on and on? It's not the first time in years. Vietnam. The United States can wait Vietnam is the excuse, not the until we are debilitated and reason. desperate before we start We must believe that our looking after our own President means what he says; Or we could start now. We that we are phasing out of could phase out our troop Vietnam regardless. We could strength in Europe as we are supply enough troops for that doing in Vietnam; serve notice diminishing obligation without on Europeans as we have on Asians that hereafter they will drafting anybody. By next May well be down to be expected to provide for their fewer than 284.CO0 men own from We're remaining in Vietnam. hearing We've never had any problem Democrats of the stature of Mike mamtaining a two million man Mansfield and Mendel Rivers standing Army without a draft. (and I've counted 4$ others) woo But the military manpower are ready and willing to reduce drain, greater than our com- our troop streagth in Europe. bined commitments in Vietnam It would be interesting if, by and Korea, is the fact that we November, the Republicans are continue to support 310,000 stuck with an unpopular draft, American troops in Europe dead-en-d intervention and an plus some 30,000 dependents, outdated occupation-Wh- ile Democrats can camplus 14,000 civilian employees of the military. on a paign Western Europe does not need platform which surveys say us. Probably they'd invite us out, would be unbeatable. except for that fat annual payroll of more than 1.5 billion Yankee dollars. YouVe noticed how many of those somettmes-friend- s have By PHIL PASTORET hastened to help us in Vietnam. And on balance, most of those Keep your nose td the countries are your shoulder to grindstone, better off financially than are the wheel, your eye on the we. It's time we remove the road and your ear to the crutch and let them stand on and you'll wind up their own feet and provide for ground, as the Chiropractor's Dream their own defense. Patient of the Year. Now, what would happen to "world prestige" if our ads aren't we decided to bring our sons and our payroll back borne and mind - always to be found in the movie pages. our own business? After Dien Bien Phu, France withdrew from Indochina. "Class" is having your faFrance withdrew from Algeria, vorite disc jockey come to also, was no longer a colonial and her power in any sense fiscal health was improved spectacularly and her relations with both Ens' and West were never better. Britain, Just to keep her the house and spin '45s for islands afloat, last year withon your little drew all British troops east of you right head. pointed Suez. 0 Today Britain is prospering so Thoufiifct for feud-th- ree spectacularly that the most kids and one televirecent public opinion survey sion set. shows the incumbent Labor well-bein- e. Junior High School Years Are Among Most Important By DEAN C. CHRBTENSEN PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION ADMINISTER AT BYU " Numerous questions are being raised regarding the American junior high school. What is its purpose? Who is responsible for jthe instructional program? How important are the students, etc.? A STUDENT IS the most important person in our business. A STUDENT is not dependent upon us we are dependent upon him. A STUDENT is not an interruption of our work - he is the purpose of it. A STUDENT does us a favor when he calls we are not doing him a favor by serving him. A STUDENT is part of our business - not an outsider. A STUDENT is not a cold statistic he is a flesh and blood human being with feelings and emotions like our own. A STUDENT is not someone to argue or match wits with. A STUDENT is one who brings us his wants - it is our job to fill these wants. A STUDENT is the life blood of this and every other school. Anonymous The American junior high school in today's culture occupies a unique position, if it is fulfilling its obligation to the American people. The junior high school, by any objective you choose for its achievement, must help equip its students with an understanding and an ability to analyse and determine values, appreciations, feelings and attitudes In other essential to their future words, allow them to explore, to grow and gaiii emotional stability, and at the same time provide the kinds of experiences that will a desire to ed&? ted motivate th&B well-bein- g. contribute to the culture of their society. This statement sounds somewhat philosophical and idealistic, but the time has come for the principal of the junior high school to realize his responsiblity; that of helping, guiding, directing and actively organizing for the improvement of classroom instruction. This will mean that he free himself from many of the multitudinous operational details so necessary in the successful operation of any school, and devote additional energy in furthering the objective of the junior high school; namely, providing a better instructional program. Principals on all levels have been procrastinating and slighting instructional improvement by saying that after school lunch, bus problems, attendance, activities, athletics, personnel, etc. they would tackle the instructional program. The time has arrived when sufficient, money is available and boards of education are willing to hire qualified administrative and clerical assistants to free the principal to actively work with the teachers in improving the instructional program in the classroom. If principals fail in helping the classroom teachers provide the kinds of learning experiences needed by junior high school students to better equip themselves in making wiser and more sensible decisions in shaping their future, then the basic objective of the school is being forgotten. In addition, these junior high school years are the formative years, the imitating years, idealistic years wherein the and careers are future vocations-evocationfashioned, so instruction should be realistic, challenging and honest Furthermore, to insure any stability and integrity in America's future citizenry, the Junior high school must help equip the students of today is osst fee problems of tomorrow wisely. castle-buildin- g, s Scored by It takes courage to be a foster parent. Courage isn't a brilliant demand. Surely Utah County dash, nor a daring deed in a must have some courageous moment's flash; but it's ccupies that are willing to take something deep in the soul of on a large, but rewarding job. man that is working always to Editor, Herald: Mrs. Lawrence Jackson I wish to add my own serve some plan. 27 West 830 N., Orern "clarification" in regards to Foster parents are always in Miss Peay's implication that "bad movies" (which are "merely a portrayal of life as it really is") have no effect on BERRY'S WORLD teens or morals other than keeping them "well informed." Just how much of the "bad" things of this world do we need to see to get an education! I personally read enough "facts of life" in the newspaper to satisfy myself that we do indeed have problems m this world of ours. I doubt that it would add much to my enlightenment to watch artful demonstrations of these "problems," say, twice a week. Surely r could find that many movies of this "type." Nor do I wish to watch people dying of cancer or children being molested or starving or any other "facts of life" in order to keep me constantly aware of what's going on. Just how much education do we need about that which we do not desire? It seems to me that more education is needed on what TO do and not what NOT to do. But then, of some the maybe moviemakers really aren't out to give us an education! One last thought: I agree with Miss Peay in her opinion that the permissiveness of young adults is not bred by the movies but by the adults themselves that is, iie adults that make the movies. JoAnne Reed "Now, THIS is what I call 'PRISON klfOmi" 344 E. Center SnringviUe, Utah Herald Reader e" ARB 6 Hair-raisin- . g |