| Show : Editorial Desk: : A10 MONDAY January 20 1992 237-201- 9 -- -7- erbt5alt -- akt Zrxibunt if Writ' DITORIALS --- - t -- tAC:' 1 importance As he worked and struggled for the redemption of this country's promise of equal citizenship rights the martyred Dr King grew to appreciate the essential quality of a genuine human rights guarantee He saw that racism as morally corrupting as it is was not alone in hobbling and demeaning a purportedly free independent people Thoughtless intolerance and deliberate discrimination in whatever form on whatever basis will contradict any endeavor claiming noble or principled inspiration Because that possibility forever lurks in the dark and confused recesses of human intention an alert society dedicates re- - The opportunity to succeed to prosper to make the most of every personal talent and ability cannot must not be limited by denials that accompany intolerance and bigotry Overcoming temporary difficulties helping sacrifice produce triumph is not done by setting groups or categories of people against each other The goal glimpsed by Dr King during his lifetime can be reached after his untimely death if the vision he articulated continues to stir a state a nation a world It transcends equality it calls for a commitment even more definitive than mere tolerance peated moments to renouncing it This year's Martin Luther King JrHuman Rights Day dawns at a it is particularly apt moment during periods of eoconomic difficulty that humanity's intolerant impulses tend to be indulged The worst excesseg of bigotry and senseless hatred have erupted when people experienced inexplicable loss or anticipated the threat of ruined expectations Economic teversals frequently impose just such conditions Clever politicians It in fact resides with the realization that human beings inherently share qualities that deserve nurturing encouragement and fulfilling that neither the community nor the individual is honored or served by agitating yearnings for misplaced superiority or dominance Martin Luther King JrHuman Rights Day advances an ideal A crucial indispensable ideal for the instruction the protection and ulti- - t'171 -- ' t c: 1--11 the mately of preservation humankind self-promoti- 1 1 Every umia By Two the success of immunizations in previous generations has made parents complacent Sincemany people haven't witnessed the illnesses caused by these The Utah Health iSepartinent's im- munization campaign for preschool children is just what the doctor ordered Immunization rates among Utah's preschool children are so low that health officials are alarmed Most infants are receiving the first in a series of shots necessary to prevent childhood illnesses but many parents are not making sure that the series is continued By age 2 only 36 percent of Utah children shots are on schedule with follow-up State law requires that immunizations for eight diseases be up to date before a child may be enrolled in day care or school so by the time kids are ready to start kindergarten 90 percent of them have had the necessary medications f t The goal of Utah health officials then is to try to make sure that children between infancy and age 5 remain on the immunization schedule Otherwise youngsters in this age group are susceptible to diseases that can make them gravely ill or even cause death The State Health Department has launched a public education campaign called "Every Child by Two" As the title implies the intent is to keep children on schedule for their shots through age 2 A quick look at the recommended immunization schedule explains why: Immunizations for diphtheria tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) are given in a combined form called DTP y red measles) Rubella Rubeola (German measles) and mumps are grouped in another vaccine called MMR Polio vaccine is given orally The health department recommends that children receive DTP polio and Hoemophilus Influenza B (HIB) immunizations at ages 2 and 4 months DTP and HIB again at 6 months the full list at 15 months and DTP polio and MMR (10-da- at 4 years Health care providers theorize that they aren't conscientious about completing the immunizations diseases schedule until children must meet the requirement for enrollment in school The cost of vaccines coupled with the health insurance crisis also may be causing some parents to fall behind on their children's immunizations The entire series of shots required prior to kindergarten can cost around $175 if administered by a private physician However parents should know that immunizations are available for $3 per dose from public health clinics and no one will be turned away if they cannot pay Gov Norm Bangerter has requested another $293000 for the State Health Department's budget next year so that a second dose of MMR vaccine can be provided to children Funding in previous years has enabled the depart- ment to make only the first dose available The health department also is asking insurers to cover standard immunizations as part of routine policies Many health maintenance and preferred provider plans already include this coverage but conventional policies sometimes do not Public health clinics and emergency rooms also are being asked to remind parents about immunizations Last year the Utah population suffered the worst outbreak of measles since 1973 and the number of cases of whooping cough also has caused deep concern among public health officials Illnesses caused by these diseases can be prevented if only parents will keep their children up to date in the necessary series of shots Utah must make every effort to see that the "Every Child by Two" goal is fulfilled flAtilttEVistA5Et r 1 t Ito WS NO4014141§40141 STAFT ' '''''''''''14 — 4 ? 1141444''4' - 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Obviously there would be at the very least live sex and free hash Accordingly the vice squad sergeant suitably disguised (an interesting question: What is a suitable disguise if you want to go unrecognized at a sex show but want to give the impression you are here to attend a piano recital?) came in to house-concer- ' atdarNAC — — C 675 Margaret St San Jose And (to his dismay?) sat down and listened to two hours of gorgeous piano music after which he was offered one glass of wine was going on Nothing of in the closet or in the attic or cellar So the next day at headquarters he filed his melancholy report: No vice But this policeman was not without resources Maybe no vice but there was illegal activ ity going on: a) She didn't have a license to do business and b) she was serving alcoholic beverages without a license at jobs-jobs-jo- American-California- ----- ts When the matter went public the sensible community could not believe it Her neighbors had no complaints In general those who believe that zoning laws are OK also agreed that there is a difference between piano recitals in a private home and setting up a McDonald's hamburger stand or a gas station in front of the house One council member said: We can't waive the zoning rule on the grounds that How would she is an we treat other applications from Another council member wondered why Pamela Resch did not play more ethnic music in her recitals The council voted against her request And on top of for a zoning waiver that the city of San Jose wants back taxes for a business that theoretically couldn't have operated because it was against the artist-in-residen- artistsin-reside- nce? 7-- 4 law And bemused members of the San Jose community wonder whether the bureaucratic sclerosis of their city government doesn't tell us something about the cosmic problems of Detroit If San Jose can't figure out a way to permit an artist to play the piano at night for paying guests maybe the good old USA just doesn't have it and any longer to make let us all be free and affluent and proud jobs-jobs-jo- Masked President Lacks Recession Cure KNIGHT-RIDDE- PORTSMOUTH NEWSPAPER — "Moldy pun- NH dits" "Carping little Democrats jumping on my "Smart-alec- k ' col- umnists" "Jumping jacklegs with their screwy schemes" sound bite comes to you That from a hyped-upresident trying to take America's mind off the Great Recession After all when George Bush opened his 1992 presidential blitz in New Hampshire he had a small PR problem Bush was like an Exxon president visiting the Alaska oil spill or Napoleon touring the battlefield at Waterloo — A Return to Disasterville Four years ago 'when the malls and mills were hopping this prosperous state blew Bush a tailwind to the presidency "I'll never forget you" gushed Bush Now New Hampshire has tumbled down a black hole — personal bankruptcies up 75 percent folks on food stamps up 50 percent main streets boarded up like scenes from the 1930s "It's not an easy place to campaign" Gov Judd Gregg warned Bush's staffers What to do? They couldn't take Bush back to Cuzzin Ritchie's the funky truck for a stop where he drove an 1988 photo op and crowed "I'm one of Sandy Grady - p Now Cuzzin Ritchie's joint — like everything else in this wintry vale gloom — is going bust And hardly anyone in dismal crotchety New Hampshire is sure Bush is "one of them" This state is Bush's Point of Blight Anger runs so high one out of w three Republicans swears he'll vote for Bush tormentor Pat Buchanan So Bush came back to New Hampshire in disguise — a President With a Thousand Masks At every stop Bush put on his favorite costume: defiant triumphant commander-in-chief of Desert Storm One year after he started bombs tumbling on Iraq Push gloried in the war with bellicose braggadocio "Let me tell you 2E0 mournful pundits to I didn't have to go to SPrt: Ke7"''-- - At other times he regaled New Hampshirites — or at least the traveling press corps — with Bushspeak a sort of "Saturday Night Live" garble "Abraham Lincoln going on his knees and all that stuff" rambled Bush "Don't cry for me Argentina" He made numerous jokes — especially after a lunch of chili pepperoni pizza and strawberry shortcake — of "throwing up all over the Japanese prime minister" Bush seemed to oscillate from ing Dr Gloom ("I've made mistakes I'll take the hit for the economy") to emu- lating Ronald Reagan's upbeat style "I like a song the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band sings" said Bush cheerfully '"If you want to see a rainbow you've got to stand a little rain' And there's gonna be a rainbow because we're America we can comself-pit- move the troops" Bush shouted to a crowd at a cable company "If I'd listened to Senate leader George Mitchell Hussein would be in Saudi Arabia and gas would be 20 bucks a gallon" Repeatedly Bush blew his war bugle — "Saddam Hussein was wrong we shook off the Vietnam syndrome and made America proud again" Nobody in Bush's audiences reminded him Saddam had been bombproof Notably a Boston Globe focus group of 1988 Bush voters found 11 of 12 had second thoughts about the Gulf War None was committed to vote again for Bush The recession? Bush put on the disguise of a caring contrite president — Dr Norman Vincent Bush "I know you're hurting I care about it I've been wrong about the recovery but I'm determined to make things better" he said The president's penitence — or his teaser to wait for the State of Union speech — didn't sell "I didn't hear anything concrete" said Republican Dennis Crisp 33 who said he fears losing his house Florist Chris Wuethrich shrugged "Same old rhetoric I'm listening to Buchanan and Bill ClinSad-da- ton" m Disguise No 3 was Bush's Harry (Give 'Em Hell) Truman imitation "I'm sick and tired of being a punching bag for every lightweight in the country" yelled Bush in a bellowing attack on Buchanan and the Dent "They're fence people coming off the who haven't hal an idea in 50 years 1e5 jumping jacklegs with thcir screwy six-pac- left-fiel- d 112rv25" k pete" Despite such Reaganesque jingoism as "God bless America never apologize for It" Bush got few cheers Many plant workers complained that Bush gave no economic solutions In: despairing bitter New Hampshire Bush didn't score with vague promises: "I unWait for the derstand your heartbeat State of the Union There'll be a rain- bow" As one Democratic contender Paul Tsongas said "Ask anybody on the street 'What's George Bush's economic policy?' and you get silence" Although Bush stuck to the high-tecPortsmouth seacoast that is New Hampshire's lightest-hi- t area his visit signaled big trouble The latest poll shows he has percent lead over only a House wordsuldth Buclanan "They're landing Air Force One's wheels right on my head" said Buchanan of Bush's mission shouts Clearly despite his Bush doesn't yet have a recession-bustinmessage "Gonna be a lot of weird dancin' goin' on" he predicted The Masked President got that righti Weird h' 46-3- 0 te arm-wavin- g g I- - 0 i ------ - - nfl-- -- - 4t:: ytl 11 - '(1- trfi:‘ei r) -- ‘' 11 4 kk you" ' ''': - 11i67 4 - i' If t4( demagogues use general disappointment and widespread anxiety for their own gains often by shifting blame identifying scapegoats magnifying shortcomings in an appeal to prejudice and bias That's when the message of a Martin Luther KingHuman Rights Day is the most instructive Martin Luther King JrHuman - s) N Rights Day — will not be necessary The history of human nature confirms that the purpose of the observation carries constant and universal -- C-- '''tazy "1?6V4) ::::t1' -- t- -- — i of Dedication There probably never will be a time when a day such as today — - - - ff i -- A Day -- - - :------ e- -r ---- a 4ff |
