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Show Bye Line b Jensen Dedicated to the Progress And Growthof Central Utah THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 29 Sunday,July 25,1971 A lotof today's parents will remember growing-up under that famous vne-line statement; “kids should be seen, not heard.” Not so in today’s generation, Kids today are both SEEN and HEARD — and I think it’s good. In raising my Kids I've alwaystried to ask them for their opinion when wefind ourselves in disagreement. I won't say their opinions change myfinal decisions much, but at least they’'ve had the ee to express themselves and leave me with some food for ought. What's Your Rating as Parent? If you're wondering how you “stack up” as a parentin the eyes of the youngsters you may do well to ponder some of the replies to a survey taken among junior high students at a Wyoming schoo!. have to Say ‘yes’ to , Please their children.’ —‘ideal parents 4o not yell at their children every time they do something wrong —‘When t.ey reprimand me, they do it because they cure about the Students at Cody came up with kind of personI turn outto be.”” some thought-provoking replies —“A parent should set rules for indeed, when asked to set out their children that aren’t impossible qualifications forideal parents. 4 to obey. ot a child’s parents had taken Hereis a sampling, as reported by the time to talk things over with United Press International: —The most importantpart of an their children, there would be no ideal parent is that they love their generation gap.” —‘‘Most of our parents today are children and care for them.” —“... Parents who love me for too busy to bother with their children.” what I am, not for someone I can’t Like mest homesthe subject of “hair” is more often discussed than not, Probably because my number one and two son have hair that growstothe long side.I dcn'ttparticularly carefer long hair on boysbut I'll be damned if I'll let i: tear apart the love we have for each other. Inspite of their appearance, they're good kids — like most kids are today. They're good students in school, they work hard, have a sense of responsibility, and will -nake good citizens, Persoually, I don’t think the kids today are anyworse than the kidsofyesteryear. It's just that today — there are moreof em. Speaking of kids, I've got a personal letter that I'm going to reprint today. It was written by a son to his father on this last Father's Day, Although the writeris a young man,it wasn't but a few years agothat he was a “kid.” Theletter is dated Sunday, June 20th, 1971, and reads: “Dear Dad. Last week I have been trying to think of what I could buy for you as a Father's Daygift. You're a hard marrto buy for. Nevertheless, as a specialgift to ycu U'd like to giveyou this letter, So there you haveit, Mr. and Mrs. —‘Ideal parents are parents that are strict in what you do and care about where you areat nights.” —‘I think aduits should say ‘no’ to their children, I respect them more when they take a stand than when they are wishy-washy and think they Central Utah Parents. Make your own evaluation of the junior high students’ comments . . and maybe the feelings of your own youngsters. Thenrate yourself. And remember, you yourself are never too old to learn. Paul Harvey Keeping an Eye on Space ‘Traffic’ Keeping track of some 2,400 stray objects is no meanfeat, particularly whentheyareinvisible to the naked eye and scattered over millions of miles of space. Butit is the feat being performed daily to computerized perfection for the past 10 years by menstationed deep inside a mountain outside Colorado Springs who comprise the North American Air Defense Command’s Space Defense Center. Thisis the nerve center of a worldspanning net of camera- and radarequip tracking stations which feed back information on earthorbiting objects — up to 16,000 separate reports a day. Of the thousands of objects out there, less than 500 are payloads, functioning or once-functioning satellites. The rest is junk, useless So They Say Ilook atit as a job, and I imagine I do it at much the same pressure I would any other job. —Britain’s Prince Philip. on being a prince.’ Welost our way sometimein the 19th century. —Acchitect Acchibald Rogers, on today’s “unbelievable’’ cities. A half-truth is like half a brick; you can throw it farther. —Vice Adm. Hyman 3. Rickover. Welfare for Strikers Seen debris left in orbit by launchings long past. All are important to the center whict, before missions such as upcoming Apollo 15, chart the space traffic astronauts will encounter. Prospects of a collision in space are as yet very remote, something like a million to one against a mishap. that could change if the space of launchings coutinues to pick up in coming years. The Space Defense Center hadits origins in satellite tracking operations set up by the Air Force and Navy after the launchingof the Soviet’s Sputnik I. In 1961, the separate facilities were reconstituted at Colorado Springs as the Space Defense Center, which five years later moved into NORAD’s Combat Operations Center inside Cheyenne Mountain. Its primary task for NORAD,the joint U.S.-Canadian military command charged with defending the continent from air attack, is to detect incoming enemy missiles. In the absence of these, the preoccupation with non menacing objects in space has been a natural development. The Space Defense Center enters its second decade this July and as the business is going here and abroad, satelite tracking should be keeping it busier than ever. It is a secondary function, but hopefully the only one the center will ever be called upon to perform. Bruce Biossat President Enjoys Power To Surprise Adversaries I am the foundation of all prosperty, I am that from which all b! flow. Everythingthatis of value in this world springs from me. Lee oe arrears: 1am the sole support of the poot And the rich whothink they fp melive futile lives — fill premature graves. Ihave made America. Thave built her matchless industries, laid her incomparable railroads, created her citizens, and reared her sky- scrapers, 1am the friend of every worthy youth. If he makes my acBrg sectoor or me by his side jut his life, I can do more for than the richest As Unfair Labor Practice Whenstrikers while out on strike can collect assorted welfare payments, hey now, isn’t that kinda stacking the deck at the bargain table? You talk about an “unfair labor practice”...! Here we've hadhalf a million telephone workers out, other strikers against railroads, Western Union, copper, ship- ping, farm equipment... And we’re threatened by 350,000 steel wo-kers and 650,000 postal workers .., And statisticians show that strikes last longer than they used to despite streamlined bargaining procedures. No wonder, Strikers now ge. paid for not working. Would you be in a Ieee eevee ukson could stav idle and collect food stamps, public assistance, other benefits? American labor unions have learned to use welfare for leverageatthe bargaining table. They teach their members all eae for securing public lining up at the public tro ; ee and settlements higher.” Recently GE and GM were He says, “I don’t want hard by long strikes, They ee anybody to starve,butcollective been seeking a court test ow this bargaining can’t work unless a “unfeir labor practice.” strike hurts both sides.” During the hundred and one Yet even the e Court days GE workers were out they refuses to touch this sensitive collected $30 million in food subject. There is some debate in stamps, welfare checks, Congress over this federal-state unemployment checks. Their subsidy to strikers, but Congress unionofficials acknowledge that is intimidated. “public aid played a major role Senator Barry Goldwater in the success of the strike.” says, ‘welfare is a Frankestein You contributed ten times monster which we created and morethan the union contributed over which we now have lost to support the strikers, control.” n GM workers were out Not counting Social Security, for ten weeks, ing auto there are 13 million Americans workers collected $12 to $14 just on federal relief rolls, million of federally financed Another million wil! be added to food stamps in audition to those rolls by the end of this payments for cependent year. children or for ‘general Whatelected official dares to assistance”as Michigan calls it. turnhis back ona solid bloc of 14 Other major strikes have million votes? ballooned welfare rolls in the Paul Harvey, how come you areas affected. do? Because somebody has to! One comprehensive study of this five-aces deal has conductcu by the University of , Pennsylvania. Dr. Herbert 1p be ean and nd let and when neglected, bodies and minds growee lnateeene ioe I am cepresented by every paper thatflies from the press, in every loaf of bread that springs from the oven, in every tra(oal ereasee tha cootaenivand crook this Tes steams the ocean, Fools hate me; wise men love me, ‘The man who keeps his hand in mine through life never dies 3: —because that which he has created with my help lives on and on after he is gone. ‘The man whoshirks me and scorns myaid, never lives, even though he may continue to breathe. Who am I? What am I? Tam WORK! — Author Unknown Whenwelived on Willow Lane,you paid meten cents a day to do weeding,cut the lawn, andtrim aroundthe sprinkler heads. When I was twelve and I wanted an expensive camera, you paid me fy8 Cans An a a a‘That’sa Tot of work for a $45.00 camera. Through all the opportunities 70 See anllyeee a yor Ete eaeneiere be Be Thanks,Dad, for giving methe gift of learning to work. Your son, Jay.” I in elatiesis very toning os alone hope for us parents. ‘Thanks Art, for letting me share your pride. HenryJ. Taylor aid. Socialization of W. Germany Likely if Brandt Can Prevail Working men who historically resent and resist having their public aid in seikes is tax dollars diverted to becoming a significant fare freeioaders are themselves cost and it ... makes strikes Letter to Editor DoesPolicy Discourage Seeing Family Movies? or Editor Herald: X-rated movies Along with being prone to the ONN — West Germany Cannlr Willy Brandt is now ugly habit of looking down his fthe- long nose at the United States, al dirty-work who constantly in- Schiller has what the French call furiates our U.S. Embassy “francheuse,” an insufferable ile here and our arrogance. In fact, he is ly the kind of German felta oe official that has caused so much Scenes, enCUses in Europe and the world ae highly suspect among im- trouble — an egotistical strutter and rtant Amel who work ae tim ricans who obelisk and tactlessness who tc | asks no one anything and whose eyes turn to brass and whose Stiller the. cornbines command is a bark when he oataa le overiord (un- seeks to be impressive. 6 Brandt is causing widespread pect, taomni dicentitection§among the hee. Oe Tee : Market ministers and ae to ee wi cere te in England regarding the way he icies bommerang on Brandt is ‘floating’ the upward himself or when Western revalued German mark,so vital over here and likewise to us in allies complain. the United Statesby its strain on our dullar. But Brandt meets our protests by merely saying, in effect, “It’s Schiller — not me.” Schiller,at the moment,is ina bitter row domestically, with Georg Leber,Minister of Traffic and tr ‘t, This is the third time Schiller has used the technique of “or else I resign” to have his way in cabinet disputes, But Brandt is backing Schiller to the hilt — using the alibi that he cannot afford Schiller’s resignation so soon after appointing him only two months ago — while ap-» pearing to standaloof. Brandt's pro-Soviet roots are not proved but they continue to be debated and his police — using Schiller — most certainly is to socialize West Germany. Brandt blithely calls this ‘“codetermination,’ It exists only in using and discourage parents of lowerAs you know,there are very tiseWaa from taking few movies these days that one their children to decent movies, can take the children to see. So Irealize that these managers naturally, when a Walt Disney movie comes to town, we seems a shameto methat they parents aregladto see it arrive. CuiinT: e- concatest xt) Hea ‘There’s only one problem for the ‘ices. least that way they parents of a large family in a lapeley isd whattype town of extremely high rents and of movie they prefer to inflict just as extremely low wages. upon oe It's oe You guessed it...mone;! many en have Because of this problem we movie going because ofthis. T. Brown usually take the kids to drive-ins whenever a decent movie is shown, since children under 12 are admitted free. Well, here’s my gripe. Whatis it the drive-in managers, or ownersas the case may be, have against the children? If they're showing a crummy R-rated movie,the kiddies can get in free of charge, especially the impressionable children under 12, as long as an adult is with them. But when a movie comesalong that a parent approves of and can takethechildren to, what do you know,all of a sudden,it’s 50 cents a head for children from will continue to do this, but it Brandt putfinancial czar WASHINGTON (NEA) — President Nixon's announced decisionto visit Red China before next May illustrates perfectly a president's capacity to changethe contentof the news and coincidentally, throw his adversaries off guard, Says one Nixon-watcher: “If were Muskie (leading 1972-Democratic contender), I’d keep my mouth shut for a while. What Nixonhasdone,of course,is to use to the fullest the president’s powerto surprise. And at least oneof his associates thinks he maydoit several times more byelection time next year. Saysthis man: “He mightvery well decide to go to Moscow around July, 1972, (the month of the Democratic nationalconvention). I think he'll have something of significance; too, on the talks (arms limitation). I'm surethere will be otherthings.” This source thought a moment, then added, ug! “Don't‘forget, he can go to the moon.” re is no quick assumption here, however, that Nixon’s power to command events will be translated automatically into jasting political benefit which would enhance his 1972 reelection chances, Some judgments in town haveit that the China thing could be of fairly short-range advantage, unless it is clearly shown that direct exchanges with Peking are closely related to ending the Vietnam war. The tentative talk about an Asia-wide conference including China and all Indochina have to become a much stronger prospect to be of enduring effect for Nixon. A Nixon friend’s comment: “If that doesn't happen, and if the visit itself turns out to be ,.st a handshaking tour with expressions of interest in improving relations,I don't think Nixon’s gain will last,” The broad conviction among professional politicians and observersis that the troubled economyis Nixon’s worst handicap for 1972 — and that even the happiest outcome in Vietnam and Asia generally would not save him if unemployment andinftation continue igh. Most of these appraisers think Nixon's v efforts on the economic front have been painfully sluggish while he continues evidently fascinated with the foreign issues that have always entranced him. One would almost think the President had resigned himself to being a one-term chief executive, and was bent most heavily on making a record for history in the field he loves best and thinks most important. In the summer issue of the magazine Foreign Policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Columbia University specialist on Communistaffairs, runs up a “report card” on Nixon's conductof foreign policy thus far in his presidency. He gives an “over-all weighted grade” of B. Herates him B on China and on Vietnam, but obviously the new initiative looking toward Peking might ultimately alter that mark upward, Brzezinski accords Nixon A on the Soviet Union and A —on the Middle East. Few but the president's most ardent partisans would give him even a passing grade on the economy. Nor would many rate him strong on other domestic matters like health care,welfare,racialissues. Close watchonhis visible conduct tends to confirm his priority interest in the foreign sphere.The China visit excites him. For the moment, also, he may have disconcerted more than just his Democratic politicalrivals. Russia, bulging its musclesin the Middle East, has to be on edge. So are some of our friends, including Japan and South Vietnam. Private word is that Japan was warned months ago the China "nove wouldlikely be coming, but Japanese leaders didn’t believe it, Until recently,it was ruinous politically tomake overturesto Peking. Yet Nixon, the moderately conservative Republican, treads where the boldest Democrats feared to go. He, not someliberal, pushes arms taiks with the reviled Kremlin adversary. He, not the critics shouting “faster,” has taken 300,000 men out of Vietnam, Fatalistic Richard Nixon can read polls, They suggest consistently that he will never be widel . But maybe a place in history as “important foreign policy eenappeals to him as cumforting solace, BERRY'S WORLD six to 12! It gives us the impression that they encouragechildren to see R BARBS By PHIL PASTORET the coal and steel industry, One fellow who puts everything into his job is the hash cook. They call those banquet orations “toasts” because they're dry and crumby. ' When prdetingit’s cus: tomeryto call a spade a Sako! - © 1971 by NEA, nc Gini, “How would you like to go on another ego tne imposed by British occupation authorities in 1951, and r its rules a labor manager is mandatory on management boards. ds, What Brandt's “codetermination”really means is governmentand :abor controlof this country’s main enterprises in a takeover management level and yet without appearing to se'se and confiscate the property. It’s the old story of why seize the farmer’s cow, with all the complications that are in that, when, instead,you cai’ let the farmer keep the cow and you seize the milk. © The “‘co-determiuation” issue has now come to a head at Volkswagen. This is Germany’s largest company with its peasrenriers nearby Wolf- Seater maj exercise these with a veageance. At the annual meeting that daythey put 10new members on Volkswagen’s 21-man supervisory now have a clear government-labor majority. This was fiercely contested by the independent ee It was likewive Christian Democrats and he alect ly bybyssWat the Wes!Desai public as a whole. But Brandt Ha used Schiller, and prevailed in his ‘‘codetermination” policy at Volkswagen behind the Schiller smoke screen. The new Volkswagen supervisory board has four federal and state officials, seven laber represenatives and10 outsiders, of which atleast five are Brandt stooges. It controls the company’s executives, with power to hire and fire them, ie immensely successf Volkswagen chief Kurt Lotz. And it is generally agreed here that Brandt’s next movewill be to.impose a labor manager over Lotz or kick out the remarkable Lotz if Lotz complains, Brandt's chanceliorship depends on a slim parliamentary coalition mail. His majroity is not even as solid as is e Minister Edward Heath’s in Britain, And whether Brandt can weather the storms here no one knows. But his unprecedented unification of le si fran’s two-faced annie of Schiller for his purpose makes the socialization of West Germany a certaity if the present leader of the Bonn government can prevail. ¢ ¢ { |