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Show Editorial Page Feature erald American Society Not Purged Of Racism Yet "Dedicated to theProgress And Growth of Central Utah § SUNDAY HERALD, Provo, Utan Page2 —THE Sunday, March22, 1970 of customs, procedures A New Lookfor the PTA structures which thony a indirectly have a racist effect That is the argunent of a pamphlet published by the U. S. For as iong as most people can remember, the Parent-Teacher Association has been an established and revered institution. But now the PTAis getting a new look in some schools — including Provo High. Theinitials of the organization are changed nowat Provo High, so that it's now PTSA (Parent-TeacherStudents Association). This brings the students into partnership with the parents and teachersin the move to improve schools, re:ationships. the home, and community The change was approved on an optional basis a numberof years ago byrevision of the national PTA by laws. Provo High is one of the first schools in Utah to adopt the PTSA idea. Students may nowserve on the executive committee or in consultive capacities. The Provo bylaws provides that they can belong to the group but without the obligation of paying dues by keeping their status “ex-officio.” The Provo High PTSA, in adopting the new program, didn’t waste any economic and social system. For example: A contractor announces that he will hire carpenterssolely on by most Americans.” , Downs is the basis of skill, without But this does not mean regardto race. But the skills he the Rand American society has N requires can \ developed only purged of racial discrimination. tlecugh long apprenticeship, a white man, says Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Mexi- and the local carpenters union America has made ‘important can Americans, Japanest refyses to accept black apprenprogress” during the nast 20 Americans, Chinese Americans, tices. elimin: ¥°@TS Anerican Indians and others legal support for “ with colored skins still suffer So the enl, eligible applicants of overt :zcism,” such as daily because of “institutional turn out to be white. The segregated public facilities. tractor has taken what he subordination by color’ that on Progress also has been made has been built into the U.S. regards as a very reasonable, ious and C bor tion by color is new considered wrong was written for in attitudes. ssion by a socia’ deliberate By LOUIS CASSELS UPISenior Editor Many white American sincerely abhor any display of racial prejudice implicated in the maintena Civil Rights Commission for the timein giving due recognition to the role of the students. At Thursday avowed purpose of stimulating public discussion of what night's meeting, 11 groups of “teams” of students came in for special honor and recognition. These were regional tate winners in debate, drama. 1 athletics and other activities. The buoklei, entitled “Racism constitutes racism. Dewns. non-Tacist position—but policyof frank racial discrimin- ation in hiring. Downs cvncludes that “‘institutional subordination” occurs whenever access to good jobs or schools or any other avenue of opportunity dependr on living in areas from which non-whites are sy!are excluded, or “personal qualifications or skills which minority group members have not been permit- ted to achieve because of past overt racism.” ] ByeLine ByJensen “Go Out There and Give Them the ‘Ah So’ Bit!” ge * A Chain Letter While we have neve: had any quarrel with the PTA as it has operatedinthe past, wefeel the new face-lifting is a good move. the ultimete effect is the same as a Wanted By Women It’s a good movefor a numberof reasons and oneis that it recognizes 's I've been telling Double Nthat when I’m all stretched ou ny feet propped up, I'mdoing nothing more theleadership of the young people of king And for years she’s called me a “bum” and thatI'm todayandtheir right and williness to participate in planning and decision-making in school-homecommunityaffairs zn n sleeping or shirking my chores. Well I've got news for her. According to researchers at Coigate University they have discovered that a fellow thinks better in a reclining position with his feet propped up. Ya see — it’s just whatI've beentelling herall these years. We commend Provo High PTA and schoolofficials who have taken the forward move. The new partnership has a good potential for meaningful activity and progress if all three groups — PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS — work together energetically, responsibly, and in harmony Chainletters are on the move again, Although they areillegal (I'mtold) they still seemto circulate. Treceived one a while back that was supposed to bring me good luck. All I had to do was to make20 copies andsend it to 20 friends within a 96 hour period. If I did as instructed, I could be assured that good luck and fortune wouldfall upon mewithin the week. As muchasI dislike chain letters, I couldn’t help butthink how I couldusea little good luckat the timeso J invested $1.20 in stamps and went to work. Guess what happened’ You're right — absolutely nothing! Maybeit wasbecauseit took rne 336 hours to a 20 friends, NewSpecter of Pollution — Dust Meteorologists have recorded a drop of one-half degree in average world temperature siace 1940 and attribute the cause to increases in the amount of dust an expanding world population is sending into the air. The dust is forming a stratospheric shell around the globe which is bouncing back the sun’s rays. The trend worries scientists, «ho estimate that a world-wide drop of only four degrees broughton the ice ages. Cold comfort though it may be, this is one environmentalcrisis for which highly industrialized countries are not solely to blame. It is not so much theparticulates and pollutants of factories and machines but dust kicked up from the earth itself that is responsible, says meteorologist Reid A. Bryson devegetated the land. Butadding to the thickening shield of man-madedust is a new source— jet airplanes, whose streaked layers of condensed vapor may increase cloudiness by 10 per cent in heavily traveled corridors like the North Atlantic. The proposed supersonic transport fleet would add heavily to the vapor blanket, fears Bryson, “and our grandchildren may never see a blue sky.” This would really be a caseof“fly now,paylater.” Style or Fashion—Some Comments, Suggestions for the mostpart, The use madeofhair on the face and headis of special interest to me. I rememberthe white silken beard of my greatgrandfather and thought it was most becoming to him whenhe wasin his nineties. Both of my grandfathers worehair on their face. Whatis wrongwith it providing it is kept well groomed? T remember Kaiser William[1, and I saw him manytimes,for his turned-up moustache all waxed and trimmed. I suppose manyof our youth today wantto be young Samsons or maybe they wantto be like the early mountain men or showtheir determination to be non-conformist. To me, hair is at its best when kept clean, shaped to the face and head andforreal style, barberedto give the head and face a good setting, Thereis a lot of upkeepif it is to be realstyle. Good style is usually good sense, That is not necessarily true with fashion, As an example, howmanyrememberthe tight corseted waist or the hobble skirt? A diamond,beautifullycut, maynot be the latest fashion, but whowill denyit givesthe wearer style? Life magazinehasseen fit to headline = battle of the hemlines, Not too many ago, a struggle of this kind was not very ikely to have occurred. Hemlines went up and down as a matter of course and weredictated bya handful of couture locatedin Paris. The mini-skirt came out of England, It represented, amongotherthings,a protest. | would be the first to saya dolldress is atits best with a short skirt, Baby dressesare at their very best when short. My own taste for the mini-skirtis limited to certain sizes and figures. Se are an absolute necessityfor the tic girl. Would you agree with me thatthe knee is not the most beautifuljoint of the body and it is frequently ugly? Emphasize it whenit is beautiful. Mrs. Marjorie Cannon,a style consultantto 134 of America’s finest independent stores, was reared a Quaker and as a young girl conformed to their mode of dress and lack of wo. F receive one like a woman I knowdid. It was a pip! It went something like this: Mrs, W. P. Fullapep . G. W. Hanglow s. I. Needaman . LM.Tired . R. U. Eager Dear Friend: This chain letter started in Reno in the hopes of bringing relief and happinessto tired housewives, Unlike mostchainletters, this does not cost you any money. Simply send a copyof this letter to five (5)of your housewife friends who are equallytired, then bundle up your husband and send him to the woman whose nameappears atthe top of the list. When your name comesto thetopof thelist you will receive 16,178 men and somewill be dandies Havefaith! Don’t break the chain!One woman broke the Pakistan, where generations of intensive farming and grazing have Herald Guest Column By T. STERLING TAYLOR Presidentof Taylor’s Inc, Whenan early mountain man, Porter Rockwell, with his full wavy should-length hair visited the poet laureate of California, who hadlost her hair because of a fever and saw her great desire to have hair, he performed an actof gallantry by having his hair cut and presented to her — even though one of his reasons for wearing long hair was similar to that of Biblical Samson's. The changes in men’s clothing and grooming, extreme as some of them are, representa return to modesof bygone years, Speaking of chain letters, I'll bet Double N would like to of the University of Wisconsin. He cites slash-and-burn agriculture and other primitive farming practices in Asia as heavy contributors. The dustiest air on earth is billowing outward from the deserts of northern India and cosmetics, She is an elegant lady with abundant wit, charm and intelligence. She has down-to-earth judgement and is a style authority to be reckoned with along 7th avenue, She says: “Fashion, according to the dictionary definition, means ‘the current mode of dress or action.’ Style is defined as a distinctive modeot dress or action. “All the B.P. (beautiful people) reflect today’s fashions, but only a discriminatory few representstyle. To putit another way,if Cleopatra walked into your living room today show would not represent today’s fashions, we would all surely recognize that she had greatstyle (flair, tasteful and individuality). “Inolden times,certain sartorial splendors were reserved exclusively for royalty. The peasant who dared to wear royal purple would perhaps have been beheaded! As the bourgeois class grew ever more numerous old rules becamedifficult to enforce until they were forgotten so the poor aped the rich as well as they were able for manycenturies. “Tt is really only in the past decade or so that rich women and men too, have begun to ape the poor! (Has your daughter lost her head over cut-offs or bleach spotted blue jeans?) “And so, today we have‘rich’ dressing and ‘poor’ dressing and theyare all equally acceptable and may even apppearaltogether at the sameparty. It has beencalled ‘doing your own thing.’ I preferto call it the expression of individuality. “This brings us to the question of hem lengths. Minis, Midis, Maxis are all in fashion. Pick the one which flatters you best or suits your size or mood and create your ownhighlyindividualstyle to be in fashion,” “Peg” Cannon as she is affectionately knownby the coutures and manufacturers on Seventh Ave., has answered the burning question, “What shall T wear?" “Wear what is becomingto you.” Stay formal for formal occasions, Ata wedding for instance, keep beautiful wedding gowns and keep groomsin formalattire. Howabout Prince Alberts and Bowlers or morning-frock suits for the church of your choice, or mayte an oxford coat trimmed with tape binding and handsomepin-striped trousers. Can we choose fabrics for semiformal styles for the women for church, Would reverence in dress helpreligion? Bythe same token, make holidays full of gaiety, be dressed in gay andfestiveattire. Goall out for color in leisure wear. “Thereis a time and a place for all things.” FromHamlet, Polonius’ advice to his son: “THINE APPAREL THE BEST THY PURSE AFFORDS.” \ MA 70° Today In By Herald Staff PLEASURE TO DIE! We here at the Herald have receiveda lot of compliments on our new building and onie new appearance of the ni r But one kind lady really went overboard in commentingon ihe improved appearance of our somebody handed to mywife,is perhapsthe best that’s come to our attention: “Not meaningto soft-soap you obituary picture reproduction. “Tt will almost make dieing a TREND is to D: pleasure,” she smiled. —N.L.C. politicians are but DUZ you just DREFTalong with the TIDE? If you are looking for something to CHEER. you up and ne you JOY,the to your Rel lief Society magazine representative with ZEST. BREEZEupto her and BRECK out your cash. Hear our SOS. De not let us have to DIAL you. Let's all pull together like a 20> TEAM, It will be really P.S. We wish you It used to be that politicians were elected if they were for motherhood and against sin. Now, with all the talk about the population expiosion, SAC ERRUS SAGE SAYS Nowadays you need a college education to earn talking enough money to pay the plumber’sbill. against motherhood and for sin.—P.B.P. ACLEAN STORY LOVE AT HOME Writing messages with a soapsuds vocabulary seems to Alot of people have written a lot of things about home. This be fashionable these days, contribution comes from Mrs. especially at wedding and stork Flora Harrington of 747 E. 1700 showers,etc. But this one which S., Orem. It was written by her daughter Wendy,10, a studentat Hillerest School: “Homeisa wonderful place.It has warmth andlove.It has fun and laughter, work and play. Homeis a shelter of warmth, a place made to love andlive in By United Press International happiness and respect.” NEW OKLEANS—Louisiana Lt. Gov. C.C. Aycock, condemning Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel’s postponement of federal offshoreoil leasesin the Gulf of Mexico due to convern over oil pollution: Quotesin The News BEARY'S WORLD “We have had pollution from oil in South Louisiana for 20 years, But now we are suddenly beating our breasts about it. We are in effect killing the goose that laid the golden eggs."” BOSTON—Capt. Robert Wil- bur Jr., pilot of the Eastern Airlines jet whose copilot was Signed, History Off the Beat REVERSING THE STRATEGY chain and got her old man back. Mrs. R. U. Eager Tired Housewife And nowthat I’ve given Double N the format for such a chain letter, so long friends! The Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, March 22, Ever have a spat with your spouse? Certainly you have but do the 81st day of 1970 with 284 to youremember whatit was over? Well, accordingto the experts the follow. following are the most commonin marital disputes. In order they The moonis full. are; 1. Money. 2. Flirting. 3. Work. 4. In-laws. 5. Drinking. The morning stars Mercuryand Jupiter. are Have a nice day anyway. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. Onthis date in history: In 1794 Congress enacted legislation forbidding slave trade with foreign nations. In 1820 Commodore Steptien Decatur, an American nava' hero, waskilled in a duel ah Commodore James Barron near Washington. Barrou thought Decaturwas responsible for his dismissal from active naval The next frontier for medical service. science, open for exploration in Paul Harvey Electricity Key To Human Ills? In 1941 the Grand Coolee 1970,involvesthe electricity that Dam on the Colorado Rivet makes you tick. began producing electricity for Youare run byelectricity, you the Pacific Northwest. ow In 1968 President Lyndon B. When the doctor wants to Johnson announced that he was check your heart, he doesit with replacing Gen. William West- an electrocardiograph. He moreland as commander ofchecksyour brain waveswith an U.S. troops in Vietnam. West- electroencephalograph, inmoreland becamechiefofstaff fluences them with “shock” and Gen. Creighton Abramstherapy. took command in Vietnam. When you move a muscle, you generate “ ‘electricity.” A thought for the day: British Electrophysiologyi:isnotanew novelist Cleghorn Gzakell said, science, but new devices afford a ““A man is so in the way in the better understanding of the house.” human machine and the electricity on which it runs. The electricity generated in your body is not quite the same as that which comesout of the wall socket: it involves movementof “ions” rather than “electrons.” Dr. Paul Wheeler, University of Missouri psychiatrist, says there is “an electrical response between: humans’ which involves “electrical motivation for a reorganization of body chemistry,” Does this mean that we are attracted to some people and repelled by others by elec- tricity? shot by a passenger duringits tinal approach to Logan Inter- the tight lights. Heconcedes thatthe study of electricity in the body is still mostly speculative. Most present interest centers in the applications of a drug (DPH) which appearsto “regulate”this electrical activity. Dr. Jose Delgado of Yale, a leading brain researcher, says the future applications of electro-sex, electro-euphoria, electro-memory, electro-sleep, electro-analgesia, electroanesthesia and electroprosthesis — in unscrupulous hands — could resultin a fearful world. He has causea laboratory animals to perform as “electrical toys’ entirely under humancontrol. The pseudoscientists saw this coming with their “monster men.” Scientists are disinclined to use the word “electricity” that On the other hand, this new casually, but in layman's decade hopefully will see language that’s whatit is. responsiblescientists appiythis Dr. Wheeler cites the treat- new knowledge toward a remedy mentof skin ulcers with constant for a vastvarietyof physical and electrical current as further -emotionalills, national Airport, in a radio message as he taxied toward the terminai where e to put proof of the relationship between electricity ATLANTA Lester G. Maddox, to a PTA meeting ait learned his son had been arrested for stealing automobile and chemical changes in the body The possible relationship between “an electrical overcharge” and epilepticseizuresis under study, It is known that tires: “The most fortunate people in the world are mothers ard dads who haveall their children turn out to be good children, and if that's your good fortune then regularly you ought to thank God that He hasblessed you in such a way.” humandisorders. The Dreyfus Fund,as result of his personal interest, continues to sponsor researchin electrophysiology at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. Dr. Paul Gordon of Chicago Medical Schovi conducts, an experiment viereliyg you hold a light bulb in one hand with a copper wire attached to the centerpole. That copper wire then extends into a glass of distilled water. When protein (DNA) is added to that water, ©1970 by NEA, Ine, “No, dear! Being late for dinner again does NOT mean | have begun a policy toward you of ‘benign neglect’.” forms of mental depression can be relieved by exposing the patient to a surplus of positive electronic ions. Jack Dreyfus Jr., founder of the Dreyfus Fund, theorized that electrical activity within the body maybe the key to most all ¥ And if theyeventually learn to explain the, attraction we call “Jove,”the girls can forget the perfume; it may be nothing more than their electricity which turns menon. Late Adoption ‘The Star-Spangled Ban- ner’’ wasofficially adopted as the U.S, national anthem 931, well overa alter being wri according to Eneydia Britannica i |