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Show Page 4A South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, June 13, 1984 Editorial Flag Day Honors Freedom Symbol Symbols are used for instant recognition. Everyone knows what the golden arches represent and few people would have to second guess what a red cross on the side of a truck meant. Many businesses use songs or a pithy quote to bring immediate attention to the product or store. These labels are guarded tenaciously by the businesses. They put a lot of money into advertising their logos and they wouldnt want other businesses to use them. . Nations use flags as their symbols and none are as well known as the American Stars and Stripes. Its an international ?ymbol of freedom. To some, it inspires anger and jealously. To others, it creates dreams of a land where political oppression is rare and freedom of speech is the norm. J Flag Day, Thursday, June 14, was created to honor our national symbol and to recognize the meaning behind it. It is the only flag planted on the moon by a man and is the same (flag which is emblazoned on the side of a craft traveling out-iiof the solar system to unknown areas. It does represent some bad. Surely, racial oppression, inequality and other human indignities are found under the flag. But no other flag can fly over a land or people where Ihe hope of erasing such human diseases exists. It is solely ,the realm of the American flag, still the hope of the world. I Fly the flag and ponder its colors. Think of it as not some be raised in a distant battlefield, but as which should symbol the symbol of hope for peace and freedom. ; trade-mark- ed , , de big-btr- y, , Viewpoint: Health Care Costs Growing Out of Control i Th Laktsidt Review has asked several Community leader to write guest columns tor no newspaper. ! Guest columnist this week is Boyd Ivory of Bountiful. . Mr. Ivory was born in Fountain Green, Vtah and graduated from Moroni High School. He received his masters degree in .Poultry Husbandry at Utah State Culture Col lege. He is a member of the American Association of Retired Persons and also a member of the Poultry Science Association. He is past president of the Bountiful Cham ber of Commerce. t well-bein- n A. Ivory Review Guest Columnist Boyd Our health care system of control. is out Americans spend $1 billion per day, every day, for health care. And the costs continue to rise twice, three times, even four times faster than the overall cost of living. Unless something is done, well be paying $2 billion per day for health care within six years. Older people are particularly vulnerable to these skyrocketing costs. Increases in hospital costs and doctors fees are threatening the very existence of medicare, a program vital to the health and g of millions of our citizens. It is estimated that Medicare faces insolvency by the end of this decade and may have a deficit of as much as $300 billion by 1995. But Medicares problems are only symptoms of a much larger problem that affects all Americans, young and old alike. That problem is runaway health care cost inflation. Businesses are being forced to cope with dramatic increases in the cost of health care benefits for their employees. Workers are facing cutbacks in their health insurance. Children's health and nutrition programs are running out of funds. Nearly everyone recognizes that our present health care system promotes inflation. It rewards doctors and hospitals with . should be taxed on their health used instead of benefit cuts or tax increases to help save the care benefits so they wont Medicare program. them. . But none of these steps would Surely the time has come to do anything to reduce health change that strong public senticare costs. They would merely ment into action. d shift the costs to Restraining health care cost inwill not be easy. The flation older persons or already burmedical establishment will dened Workers. It is time to stop worrying strongly oppose any change in about finding more revenue to the status-quseeking less costly, equally effecBut we are beginning to see a pay the nations skyrocketing tive alternatives. health care bill and to start tryDespite this, our elected offiing to reduce that bill. cials - or at least those who are According to a recent nationeven willing to discuss the health wide survey conducted for the care crisis in an election year The Lakeside Review American Association of Retired seeiji to want to merely deal Persons by the Hamiliton & encourages letters to the ediwith the symptoms rather than Staff tor as a way of allowing citipolling organization, nearly with the disease itself. zens to speak out on issues of all Americans They are talking about further favor limiting how much hospithat involve tie local commucutbacks in Medicare, including tals and doctors are allowed to nity. " g of the charge for their services. An the possible However, .he Review is reprogram. Theyre considering even more over whelming confor what is printed still sponsible further taxes raising payroll sensus - 81 percent - believes in the newspaper and will not to help bqil out Medicare. that reasonable limits on health publish letters which are Theyre suggesting that workers care provider charges should be more and more income for providing more and more care, whether or not such care is really necessary. It leads to the purchase of more costly, technically sophisticated equipment, regardless of whether that equipment is really needed. It encourages doce tors to institutional care - the most expensive form of medical care - instead of . hard-presse- over-utiliz- -- -- o. consensus emerging among businessmen, worker, Americans of all ages, and even enlightened health professionals that some reasonable restraints on the rate of growth of health care fees are clearly needed. We simply must change the way health care is delivered and paid for in this country. And we must begin now. Letter Policy -- . three-fourt- hs means-testin- -- -- deemed to be libelous or in bad taste. All letters must be signed the author and accompanied by an address and phone number. Address all letters to Review Editor, Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Layton, Utah 84041, or 145 N. Main, Bountiful, Utah 84010. by Letter to the Editor No Reason For Career Ladder Plan Review Editor: ' It is no surprise that Sheryl L. jkllen in the June 6 Lakeside Review Letter to the Editor expressed disappointment with Vour editorial of May 23 entitled ! Career Ladder Educational Farce. As one who read your editorial and said amen and as one jvho found your editorial a sagacious and courageous evaluation of one of the farces in the so called crusade to improve the quality of education you should know that not all readers agree with the president of our school board. . Mrs. Allen faults you for not Contacting school district officials to get necessary background information. Hooray for pou. For once we were privileged to get thinking not colored by the bias of educational bureaucrats. Mrs. Allen implies that career ladder is necessary because it will distinguish between the beginning instructor, the experienced teacher and the master teacher. My question, who and jiow is this going to improve the quality of education? I am sure this information is already known by teachers and to drive tvedges between them in the form of special pay off monies can only cause faculty ill feeling and contention. ; ; Mrs. Allen justifies career ladder because teacher recipients would be required to put in four days. To extra foe this is a strictly Mickey ouse requirement and I see career ladder as an excuse for administrators to pay off in cash instead of brownie points. From , - ' non-teachi- my own experience of approximately twenty years class room teaching I found that teaching is a 24 hour a day 365 day job. When not in the classroom a teacher is thinking about the' needs of different students or how better to present ideas or the teacher is studying and striving for self improvement in order to be a better teacher. A time clock is of little significance to a teacher. Lets be honest, career ladder is a cover-u- p to make teachers more submissive and is a form of pay-oto those teachers who play the game. ff Mrs. Allen says, "Career ladder is one of the most exciting reform ideas to be generated in years." Nonsense, this gimmick has been perpetrated by educational bureaucrats in the past but under other titles. If Mrs. Allen is really interested in advancing the cause for teachers and if she really wants to attract the best people to the classroom and retain them I suggest she stop being an advocate for the thousands of educational bureaucrats who presently are drawing higher salaries than teachers.These bureaucrats rape the educational budget of this nation and in fact may hinder rather than advance our desire to improve the quality of education. What we need is to change our priorities for allot-in- g available funds for salaries as well as many other priorities. DeMonte Washburn Bountiful non-teachi- Thanks From Girl Scouts Review Editor: Thanks so very much to all our Girl Scouts, parents and cookie customers! We want to i thank all of you for your loyalty and support during our recent Girl Scout Cookie sale. As you have found, our product was fine and lived up to the same high quality that has made our cookie so popular year after year. Girl Scout Cookies are a won- derful American tradition and we thank you for believing in this tradition. Besides offering a valuable learning experience, our cookie sales directly benefit individual troops, help girls attending camp, and provide funds for council events and camp pro- Make Time Count f Enroll now in one of the following Evening Programs being offered by Utah State University in the OgdenHill Air Force Base area. Masters Programs grams. Thanks to each of you from every girl and adult in the Utah Girl Scout Council. Connee Gates, president Linda Fergusson, council cookie chairman Sports Page Chauvinistic Review Editor: Regarding your May 30 issue of the Lakeside Review, I wish to express my feelings. It seems to me that this edi- tions sports section was very male chauvinistic. First, you put e the boys soccer team and picture with a big write-u- p above the article about the girls high school team that had an undefeated season and took first third-plac- place. Second, you didnt even mention the girls team that took first place in the same tournament that the boys played in. Which, by the way, happens to be South Davis girls U16 competition team of which I am a member. I sincerely hope that in the future you will put the priorities where they belong. Thank you for your time. Denise Heinhold Bountiful . Master of Business Administration (MBA) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. 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