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Show Bye (e:-- line by Jensen l! 1 Every Body Is Cdictd fe rh Pregrest And Growth ef Centra? fjfeh Page HERALD, Prwo, Utah, HE Worth A Price Sunday, Mart 23, JS75 Our Accessible Governor m accept as many speaking engagements and public appearances as possible ntions, educational - at conve- func- tions, schools, political rallies. Besides such assignments he likes to visit each county at least once a year as a "listener" county the press as com- mayors, etc. In all these appearances he possibly has become Utah's govermost the mention to nor, not chairman mileage he logs as of the National Governors Conference. Incidentally, in the latter role he will be heading a delegation of chief state executives in an official visit to Russia in May. Last year he and other governors visited China. Governor Hampton will visit Provo Tuesday to address BYU political science students and attend to other business. He spoke at Heber Thursday d a industrial growth strengthen the economy by providing jobs and payrolls. Considerable progress has been made in this effort under and in his administration this the public as well as Mr. Rampton can take pride. In a day when many political figures seem to isolate themselves from the public, Calvin Rampton has tried hard to make himself accessible. The people should take special note of this. And Deepening Deficits year." If so, the prescience of the White House and the expeditiousness of Cngress canno! be credited with having much to do with it Both have consistently misjudged the counter measures thai ought to be taken and the speed of putting them into effect. There is no shortage. The world is awash in oil. A tax reduction is still under consideration at a time when there is some reason to believe that consumers, whom the tax cut was supposed to stimulate, are coming back into the market of their own volition. ci! Applications for unemployment benefits are going down at a time when Congress is considering providing more federally financed jobs. The wholesale price index suggests some slowing of inflation, and the employment rate remains stationary, although perhaps for technical reasons. Only a hopeless optimist would take too much heart from such favorable indicators as exist, but at least there are anindications that the tibodies in the system haven t been destroyed. This is a lucky thing because the system would be sicker than ever if it had to wait. before it recovered at ail. for the medications provide by th White House and Congress. g buvii in stole '. shock since the Nixon resignation, from which it may be slowly true;e,n. The : knov. 4op layer oi ofiicialuor. '.under wn;u VI:iie Ifc'jS'" Prer? Washn'tJ.'i lias oiK-iat- Secretary Hui Nesen has i"scnnc: graving a? V r. ".C J 5 1 V . .'aft ?" W KF r M an. "".tj Vietnam and Wateigate." He might have added also that President Ford expended much of the goodwill originally granted to him bv pardoning President Nixon prematurely, and by completely misjudging in the beginning the requirements of economic policy. But the clouds of suspicion and hostility may be drifting slowly away; at least there is some feeling here that Ford, like the economy, may have hit bottom and not much more harm can be done. This is a superficial assessment because nothing has been done yet. What surely will be done will project the country 's finances into deficits the like of wti.ch has never been seen in peacetime and the effect of which will not be felt for another six months. If the natural process of recovery has in fact begun, the impact of a budget deficit ranging up toward $100 billion will be seen in a different light. Some predict a renewal of inflation at a faster rrh,'- - : Well, if that s inflation then I'm for ii. i find it comforting U know that the oV bod is words more than 7 bucks. How about you s Do you know what the definition of inflation is? It is a condition where, instead of not having the money you don't have, you have twice as much but it's worth only half of what you don't have now. One of ihe niort interesting things about iliis restaurant is the fact that over half of the employees are over 60 years of age They even have a bartender that is 90. So, if your hungry lor nostalgia and food, take a trip to Seattle and try the Breadline Soup Kitchen, like the Zobell 's did. But don't stay too long, we have some excellent eating establishments right here in Utah Don Oakley Vallev, ft kt K- Educating for Success - Educational theories are a dime a dozen, but occasionally one comes along that deserves better than the File and - forget school work is like. Instruction would not be a mandatory, d requirement in tlw case of reading, arithmetic, language arts, social studies, science or any other subject, although it would be available according to the student's choice and readiness. It would be the task of the intermediate school, not the elementary school, to look after forma! mandatory instruction in these skills and disciplines. '"All of the learning necessary for success in meeting high across-the-boar- treatment. The revolutionary broached program by one educator would more or less take reading, writing and 'rithmetic out of the elementary school and defer them until grade 6 or 7. The major purpose of the elementary years would be to provide the recently for background necessary success at the intermediate level, which in turn would prepare students for ultimate school success in high school. "It's better to arrive at the junior high level liking a subject such as science without knowing a terrible lot about it." says William D. Rohwer Jr. of the University of California, Berkeley. As it is now, half or more of the students in school, irrespective of race, do not really receive an education, he says. The main mission of public education today, he charges, is selection identifying persons who are and who are not talented rather than educating all. "Far from causing general alarm, individual inequalities in schooling are a source of security for our belief in the validity of the procedures of schooling," he says. "Thus the sad prospect is that unless we abandon our commitment to the use of the schools as a major device for separating the more from the less talented, failure demands accomplished three years can be in only two or the junior high years." says Rohwer. "Delaying the beginning of prescribed instruction until those years holds promise for many children of increasing the ultimate degree of academic-succes'' they can achieve, school Rohwer's idea may not have answers. But when we reflect on how many children begin school with great eagerness, only to be turned off sometimes permanently from learning, it has to be admitted that something is fundamentally wrong with the way of doing all the The quantity of higher education in the United States is Enrollment increased up. another 4 per cent this year. But the quality of higher education is down. We're sending to coiiege kids who can't read One million young Americans between 12 and 17 can't read or write at a fourth-grad- e level. And most public schools continue to promote these functional illiterates regardless. So colleges are getting a of students who generation cannot comprehend college textbooks. The problem is m.ist acute in community colleges, but man r established many colleges are also struggling with will four-yea- Berry's Worid time-honor- Have a nice day and keep smihn'. things. the of inability comprehend to students college-leve- l textbooks. With the federal government enforcing enrollment quotas, the institutions of higher learning have less than freedom heretofore in establishing and admissions maintaining standards. So the schools unable academically to upgrade their students seeking to downgrade and to rewrite textbooks in language the less literate can understand. There are some efforts to brin'8 the backward students up New ork City public schools are trying to phase out the practice of "automatic-promotion.- " schools will try to deny diplomas to high school seniors more than one year behind in reading At the University of California. 45 per cent of all freshmen students are taking remedial At Eastern the University, freshmen Michigan number of remedial has doubled in four year. are giving up and insisting that textbook publishers lower their standards. colleges Publishers are understandably reluctant to water down the cultural quality of their products. Dinaid Farnsworth of McGraw Hill says mo?t students who are in college todry would not have been in college at all 20 years ago. He re.sents having to curtail quality to accommodate these. One publisher less intellectual B.ARBS pastoret -i "Mv wife is in to terrfinvms1" .ne present - - y;; 'Ac haw'e an uiivanriy - ( i - for beii. H Because of a declining birthrate and other factors, there will be a 23 per cent decline in coiiege enrollment by 1990. Many colleges will close. Survivors, struggling for their existence, will be unlikely to defend higher standards Remember When? From the files of the Herald, as researched - I . Uiti .wrsiig " ability plat, at ij What did tticy do wuh all the . . by Lvnn Tilton. W Years Ago March 23, Ifhij Junior golf star John Miller enrolled at BYU after graduating from high school in San Francisco in January of that year. Millions of Americans clustered around television sets and cheered as astronauts Grissom and Young successfully completed the first space flight Included in the story was a glossary of pace flight terms. Orem Council voted unamiousiy to reme land to permit the University Mall to locate in that community. Marry Poppms appeared for the first time in the Utah Valley area. two-ma- n 25 Years Ago March 23, I950 Italian police fired into the air to drive off a Communist mob advancing on the Italian foreign office in Rome during a Communist nationwide general strike. Provo Fire Chief Lloyd B Dickson appeared before the city commission for a clarification of an ordinance that prohibited delivery of muie than 1500 gallons of gasoline at one time in a restricted area. The law was the result of a 1930s fire started from a crash with a hugh load of gasoline. Sears sold a reel lawn mower (the push 'arietyl for $21.95 and a cement mixer could be purchased for g h $54.95 40 Years Ago March 23, 1935 Striking ERA workers in Salt Lake City halted construction by Striking ERA workers in Sail Lake City halted construction by ;nding in SO men to remove 10 workers out of the area. The ucking was completed without incident, so the story goes. It was noted that tax collection for 1935 already exceeded ai! of ...."'.;':.:. in that ordi-r- . In Provo, to scouts were honored by the city commission for advancements.- Scouts receiving life rank were Carl Ltndiey, Louis kifsriity, .Th'rf 5nui" L t!?fv ffo..'!-.;- ' 'nni Jacouscn. ' ' f .. ;t ;'' ,r,u.'.. A new j';ct;or. ittUT ; 'Kilkcn Spindles,;; began in the papr. iududvd was. a pfyitM the 'ierf..jn?u s dpiK intplliges;!. j.:.-..-. . ...r.-- j ' . ' says. the masses will "Spoon-feedin- mean itself. .An obvious suggestion is to expand vocational curricula. But there's a problem: Even the mania! arts, today, require more than rudimentary reading skills. I see no panacea, but I keep remembering Abe Lincoln's admonition that "you don't make the small man tall by cutting off the giant's legs." taking Vet, despite these efforts to help backward students, most be that we have The net ft gone through another period of political panic without having achieved much more than widening the gap between income and outgo and transferring the cost to the next generation. This is happening in its most visible form with social insurance which cannot pay its own way very much longer and will have to be financed by the next generation of income taxpayers. nourishment for the scholars. " The problem will not resolve New-Yor- Fjiglish. j As a parting shot, here's a quip that soum miliar. Minister: "So your mother says your prayers for you each night, eh? What does she say?" Youngster: "Thank God he's in bed." Higher Education Lower Than It Was continue to be the fate of millions of children." In Rohwer's school, the elementary curriculum would be designed to afford children repeated experiences of what work is like and what success in I If you're not familiar with the program, check last Wednesday's Her aid for details. Otherwise, why don't you send those dollars to: Reward Fund, P.O. Bex 717, lYovo, Utah 84601. Let's build a big pot of reward money and hope we never have to use it. s Ehglish The haphazard way such conditions observer. develop impress the long-terPresident Kennedy was having some difficulties with Congress before he was assassinated. The wave of sympathy which followed his senseless killing coupled with the legislative genius of L noon B. Johnsonproduced a seiies of social programs which, according to cue estimate.. ..have m a mere ten years grown to such proper- Ujils aj ty utA,uuin ,vi iicui 4lt. iluvi ji Sure hope all the folks around here are planning to donate to the "Reward Fund" that was announced in the Herald this past Wednesday. I think it is one heckava program where we citizens can aid our law enforcement agencies in solving some of the more serious crimes in our area, quickly. Paul Harvey increased spending. a It even has an "open kitchen." recalling the true breadlines that opened after the 1929 stock market crash. From it they serve hearty stews, 14 different kinds of soup, and chicken and dumplings eveiy Sunday, Sy'ii I. A. by . ' tf9i Hmn pace through the overstimulation provided by tax cuts coupled with period is arwfuei one when aclior.s art to be taken on political untusft. wiihtHit Mue oresiehl whfr iney vtili lead. " ' rww. DiitTibutB! to U.S. Political Panic - -- it you're a nostalgia buff or have often wondered what the breadlines were like during the great depression, you should take a trip to Seattle like Mr, and Mrs. Silven Zobell of Provo did. They found a restaurant called the Breadline Shop Kitchen that has all the backdrops and furnishings of the depression era. way of Richard Wilson It has been six WASHINGTON, D C. months since the collapse of the Nixon administration coincided with the onset of recession Although it cannot be said that government has done anything much about either catastrophe, the country may be on the way toward recovering from both. Certainly the forecasters of depression and international economic collapse have declined in numbers and a few analysts like Robert Rleiberg, editor of Barron's magazine, are so brash as to say that apocalypse has been postponed and '"doomsday will be a tittle late this w ' and counseled young people: this is "Your future is here where you should stay." This advice grows out of one of Mr. Hampton's continuing "pet projects" to encourage Chamber of Commerce. if ri nor stressed the rapidly-growin- g job market in Utah night before the Wasatch Recently he was at Orem to break ground for the first building of the Utah Technical College's new campus. Not long ago he even addressed a grade school class in Pleasant Grove. According to their list, human milk is rww worth $25 50 blood is up to $50 a pint for sofne rare types; enough iaa to make a full length wig is going for student grade skeletons art stllxg for $255, SIM; while a top grade set of bones goes for $ much as $500. a half gallon.: communicating with the people. It took only minutes for a Herald reporter to arrange an appointment with him for an interview for our Progress Edition. In the interview the gover- missioners, school people, widely-travele- But that's a!! changed now According to Harpm magazine the body is sww worth considerably more. assets as she shows keen terest in state and community problems and mingles with the people in her congenial way. Governor Rampton tries to make himself available at as short a notice as possible to conferences, to "i greatest public relations in- symposiums, chamber of commerce "" C"Trs '.' . Not tao many year? ago they found out taat the human body was worth ja " little more Uian $7.00 worth of chemicals and minerals Little more than the price of a good sU'ak saner. The governor's rapport with fhildren was illustrated last visit to year during a two-da- y Kanab. As he lunched at a cafe, a small girl kept peeking at him from around a corner. Mr Hampton inquired, found the youngster was a daughter of one of the waitresses and a kindergarten student, In the conversation that followed with the little girl, he agreed to accompany her to her elementary school the next day for the "show and tell" which he did to the hour delight of everyone. Often the governor's wife Lucy Beth accompanies him and she is one of his Calvin L. Hampton aireadv has won a special as the place in Utah history governor -aonly three-ternd the very fact of his threea election victories is testimony of his popularity. Mr. Hampton, a man of indefatigable energy whose a day often starts with breakfast meeting at 7:30 a.m. and ends with a night meeting, has other distinctions also. One of these is his ability and villingness as a speaker. From the start of his first term he has made it a policy to Gov. across the state lUV.-- sd that inflation has touched every Now it can be bodv on earth - regardless of where thty live, regardless of what nationality they are Let me wplaia. trntfu French tr if ;';;'-''- ,f . ' |