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Show Educators Group Eyes Funds Hike Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah WASHINGTON (NEA) Wednesday, January 19, 1972 Page 26—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah It is budget time here. and the claimants on the U.S taxpayer's dollar are weighing in. The National Educa. tion Association urges President Nixon to makea start on boosting federal outlays for schools tenfold by 1976 to a whopping $24.1 billion. ‘New Math’and an Old Story Introduction of “the new math” a few years ago left most parents baffled and, perhaps fortunately, less able to help youngsters with their homework. Many parents, and quite possibly some youngsters who mastered the new math, now are befuddled by the new math in Washington. Example: The Administration produced last year a budget in balance if revenues were based on full employment, which we aid not have. Result: A deficit no mathematiciancan fix precisely but something on the orderof $28 billion, largest since World War II. Another budget is being prepared with the same foundation — wishful thinking and another whooping deficit is anticipated. This is an election year and Congress isn’t likely to raise taxes although there will be little hesitation about boosting spending. The candidates already are emphasizing promises of spending more and more. But whoever is elected President is going to haveto find some way to raise federal revenues, that is, taxes, and to cut expenditures. Otherwise, the inflationary heailaches of the past will seem triflig in comparison to those ahea! Of course, the new math offers exciting possibilities, like fly now pay later, one being a scheme to change the Social Security ac- Present annual expenditures hover just beneath the $3 billion mark. The President is reported to be preparing a counting system so that benefits can be hiked withoutraising payroll rax striking new schoolfinance proposal, but there are no real clues yet as to its nature orits cost features. Thesituation has been freshly unsettled by a state rates. Elliott Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, a department beginning to rival the Defense Department in spending, says he thinks the proposed revision “is sound and does make sense,” and odd answer to an obvious question. If implemented, it would cut the tax take by $19 billion the first year and give a bonanza to pensioners to boot. How could it accomplish this sleignt of hand? Basically, by placing the Social Security System on a pay-as-you-go basis. Pay-asyou-go sounds good butin this case, pay-as-you-go means switching to a less conservative actuarial accounting system paying out as much as is taken in, through a reduction in the trust fund reserve to an amount deemed sufficient for one year instead of five. Doesn’t this sound like dipping into past savings for present spending? Andit woulddo this in the face of increasing benefits to an evergrowing number of joners who are living longer and therefore collecting longer. Congress should look long and hard at the deceptive simplicity of this shell game. Wethink it’s time to go back to the old math or atleast honest realism and the recognition that we can’t go on forever without paying up and squaring accounts. Ideals Losing to Gue$$ What American ideals are clashing with reality again and, as usual, the ideals are losing. The scene this time is southern Africa, where the actions of U.S. business and government have produced a de facto policy of supporting white minority governments. It is not a new phenomenonbutits importance was accented by a recent report, “Southern Africa: Proposals for Americans,” prepared by the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA), a private organization devoted to promoting international cooperation. The report contends that the United States has been shortsighted in failing to exert more pressure on the white minorities in Rhodesia and South Africa to persuade them to grant more power to their black majorities, and criticizes American business for failing to use the in- fluence ofits $1 billion investment. The UNA-USA urges the U.S. government to use such tactics as refusing to guarantee private American investments in Southern Africa, boycotting South African sports teams and maintaining strict compliance of arms embargoes. Business, the report says, should institute equal pay for equal work, abolish apartheid policies at company functions and, if necessary, end their investments if they cannot otherwise stop discriminatory labor practices. “Qur recommendations are an attempt to bring U.S. policy into clearer alignment with our nation’s stated objectives of racial equality and self-determination and to make the most of such opportunities for nonviolent change as may exist in southern Africa,” the report says. If the past is precedentit will be harder than it sounds. q Inside Washington court decision in California attackinz as inequitable the use of the property tax—long the chief reliance of local communities—for school financing It is no news that the country's schools have been in a deepening money crisis in recent years. An NEA survey shows more than 40 of the nation’s largest school dis tricts suffering severely. Only nine of 63 large-district re. spondents a said they had adequate funds for 1970-71 and thepi proportion since aid-to-education measures became law in 1965. The federal share never has exceeded 88 per cent Meentime, the state's percentage in 1971-72 has risen to 41 per cent and local areas are providing 52 per cent of school revenues Again, it is now an old story that taxpayers at local- state levels aare revolting. About 50 per cent of proposals for special school levies are turned down bythe voters Paul Harvey Trade School Enrollment Florida and Texas—all populous, complex and beset by The last generation of school- for “doers,”for men and women space-age who can “use their hands.” Unemployment among teenagers is itly 16 percent, but for those with vocational training it's only 5 percent. That’s caused college transfers to vocational schools to double in many areas this agers caught up technology concentrated on learning scien The new genera’ tion is concentrating on vocational education. ricans are relearning how to work with their hands. They have to. Co aa this Vocational schools’ enrollments are up 9 percent. And almost 3 million adults are enrolling in vocational 27 percent more than last year. Many private vocational ult enrollment doubled! : ‘Two reasons: : The help-wanted ads in today’s papers are asking Off The Beat There’s a boomlet in do-ityourself books: from “Wirirg Simplified” to “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive.” Adding urgency to the need for the know-how tw fix-it-yourself is the increasing number of fraudulent repairmen. One California detective agency gives its full time to trapping ac year. Increasing adult enrollment dishonest TV servicemen and derives partly from the dishonest automobile repair- to keep an men, appliance-filled household If you aretold yor need tubes running. that you don’t need or parts that . you don’t need, how are you to know whether you need them — or whether you get them when you pay for them? This Bureau of Repair Ser4, vices, financed by dealers and logical the householders’ need to know trapping and prosecuting something about plumbing, fraudulent repairmen,figures it electricity and auto repair. saves California consumers $15 million a year. The respected publication recommends similar surveillance in other states.’ But if competent, honest, reliable se: are ‘NobodyDies...As Long As WeLive, And Love, and Remember...’ By THERON H. LUKE The Parowan cemetery came to life the other night in the BYU pun ; Tt was the last evening of a ‘wo-night presentation of “Nobody Dies,” a reader’s theat itation written and record is that in the tee ne (10in the House,12 in the Senate), he did or nothing on the three major planks of his gees a FEit af gie8 another Presidential g } major plank — “Part; In other words, McCarthy's lofty avowed basis for ich They doc- in , , no pun intended — you felt you had known them as It was the story of a Utah Mormon town, but it could have been . Their lems and trials, their joys and their sorrows, were universal. It was an original script, and all of the writing was good, much of it excellent, some of it superb. Asizeable ition from the Parowan Senior ‘aoesa TodayIn Presa eine ansae aie re ul bert Humphrey, George McGove Harold (Iowa), , and other party FF . But matter, recent years because the manufacturers could not adequately service the motors they sold. Many educators consider the trend from academics to handcraft a healthy re-evaluation of educational priorities. Experimental Theatre — and no The play dealt with the occupants of the cemetery at Creek, actually Parowan, where Dr. Mitchell is peli gehoclphaeid ante "6 naan 4 billion, it seems implicit in the organization's approach that these lower levels are doing their share and more to support education. Yet it is a fact that 11 of the 50 states do not have a general personal incometax, at a time in American histoy when it is widely asserted by public finance specialists that other revenue sources can no longer meet the constantly growing demands on government. Only recently did Ohio and Pennsylvania ‘join the ranksof the incometax states. New Jersey, Connecticut, Be faculty. During all of that period, tended no committee was only occasionally in Though NEA expects state-local school outlays per veer from state-local sources to rise moderately by 1976 to a little more than $48 billion from the current $41.5 ant Dr. Albert 0. Mit- actual By ROBERT 8S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — That grandiloquent platform: unveiled by Sen, Eugene McCarthy es the federal government a major culprit. In nt school year, federal outlays are said to range around 7.1 per cent of the national total, the lowest US chell of the university drama McCarthy’s ReasonsFor Running Called Hogwash History In the Har\.rd Class of '71, only one-fourth of the 1,000 graduates had any idea what they wanted to do for living. But 10 of those, with “retraining,” have found manual labo:r jobs. In the last year’s graduating class at Dartmouth,29 of the 670 said they were ready andwilling and becoming able to work with their hands. And the personal mastery of some of these electronic and mechanical mysteries pays off both in cash and in the selfconfidence that derives from self-sufficiency, many burdens—are among the 11 without a broad income levy, The slowness of some states in this field accounts in some part for stubbornness in Congress over revenuesharing proposals. A lot of lawmakers don't like the idea of turning federal monies back to states which are deemed not to be carrying a full load at home. In this atinusphere,it is dreamy to imagine Congress, even under hard spur from the President, plunging into hugeadditional expenditures for education. Furthermore, the educatorsare in a long, shoving line of claimants upon the U.S. treasury. We're told we need a comprehensivenational health insurance program which at a minimum would cost uj wards of $55 billion a year at the outset and rise can thereafter. Social Security today costs American workers and their employers more than $40billion a year andisrising steeply as higher and higher benefits are continuously avproved. Employer-employe taxes are going up to meet thecost. These are just samples. Don't forget welfare and a host of other things. We've got “high priorities” all over the place. Lamb Skin Commonly Sags With Age Dear Dr. Lamb — Why do some women have sagging muscles and wrinkles around their neck and upper underarms? I’ve noticed a big age difference in many younger (40- to 50-year-old) women having wrinkles compared to those 50 to 60 years of age. * i years, when former Sen. Wayne Morse, D.Ore., and Ernest Gruening, Tonely bat sequently lost, the previous normal contraction of the skin may not return. Eee isn’t really much good for this problem. It helps a little but the amountofincrease in muscle size you wouldneed tofill an Dear Reader — The most important factor is the skin itself. The skin loses its normalelasticity and, in a sense, is overstretched. Unfortunately the loss of elasticity is often a fainilial characteristic. If your mother tended to have this problem you are definitely more BERRIS. WORLD have cosmetic surgery done A common method is to pull up the skin around the neck and then remove the excess skin from an incision over the back of the neck. A small scar may remain after the procedure. Dear Dr. Lamb — I have an excess amount of skin under mychin, Is there any be popular.” 4 exercisé or something else that can cure this unwanted problem? I have tried several exercises, but I do not seem to get any results. Dear Reader — Exercise won't help much. The only thing that will really help is cosmetic surgery. You could have an incision just under the chin, th. excess fat and skin removed. The fine-line “Nobody Dies’? could be seceded from described as a “‘sleeper.” prodi In 1938 General Franco's Natinnalist air force bombed forgotten — but wil Barcelona and in cellence that won’t let youforget Spain, killing 700 civilians and it. hundreds more. It should be produced again. In 1968 President Lyndon B. It’s too good for two brief nights. Johnson named Clark Clifford It’s something more people as secretary of defense to should have the privilege of ce Robert McNamara. seeing. In 1969 two airliners were hijacked to Cuba, one with 171 persons aboard. Also Lose One may not be used, the state Fish and Game Ds * said. tained but usually exercise does little for these either. Your family might appreciate all that strenucus house; work, but it won’t help or harm your skin. Because there is no satisfactory way to eliminate the some women and some men history: AUGUSTA, Maine (UPI) — Nighttime fishing for cusk, a fish related to the cod, will be allowed at Cross Lake in Aroostook County, but live bait help if their tone is main- to remove the excess folds. the air: ee long Allen as we live, and love, and A thought for today: ish poet Oscar Wilde said, “‘As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to overstretched skin is beyond any reasonable expectation from an exercise program. There are some muscles under the skin in the neck that sagging skin around the neck never lifted a finger on he now claims is so all- Why it wasn’t during the year skin and if weight is sub- I’m worried about my future. What can one do to avoid or lessen the wrinkles? Does doing strenuous housework keep arms firm? Exercise? to see ‘:. Many of By United Press International werevery elderly. J wondered at Today is Wednesday, Jan. 19, their thoughts when the sexton, the 19th day of 1972. masterfully played by Bryce The moon is betwen its new Chamberlain, faded off stage wide-based Democratic committee was convention rules, he doesn’t ex- likely to haveit, too. Mistreating the skinis also a big factor. Too much sun and wind actually damages the skin and speeds upits loss of elasticity. That summer tan can also age the skin. Obesity stretches the Why? important that he has proclaimed it a major plank in his platform. : E RNRONE Bruce Bicssat No Hands! scar just under the jaw is hardly noticeable. Rice-Loving Rats cmumiee M my) “Buy land near Disney World!” the 1970-71 fiscal year, University of the Philippines in a study which reperts in covered 10 rice-producing provinces. 7 |