| Show I Tlit Salt AA !Au Till nine OPINION Hle Brooks' disc(Tnreview of l'eter Sheling Jan and ton's excellent hook (limh is (r'ott Untold The Sion of Work quer: War Fs linh Mountain Division ok ws much SA i Troops-:ThPto dispil romantic imagery of men in vk hite packs and rine on hack schussing elegantly down SIP slopes to liberate:I village compared to the reality that most loth soldiers (11(1 their thing in Italy un‘A'ashed unshaven shivering sweating soiled smelly Oh comliat and grungy ("1") F it to - 0 --- ' OP -- 7 ‘ i iy gear of regular infantry But for otahle P)0114 ions in liattle purpose the high-tecwinter gear anti clothing USN' St) in these troops' t'XIIIISIVPIV training in the Rockies never made it to Italy and was rarely seen except tor adorning rear mhplott troopers like clerk tYPofficers ists or higher-(whelomiles removed from the sight and sound of lolence The pod stuff the warm stuff the good mountain hoots the down sleeping hags wpre picked over and they rarely made it to the "the thin line" It is quite possible that the comparatively young spirited and fresh 10th had the average highest daily casualties of any unit in the frenetic final !bur months until IMit'S l'nd in Italy But the older and wearied "Willie and Joe" soldier divisions INho had arrived numths even years earlier while the 10th i while the parents are urged to change The stakes Voices for Utah Children is deeply concerned about a number of the child welfare bills likely to are high Overestimating the degree of danger could needlessly shatter a family and rupture the be considered during the current legislative seschild's closest relationships Underestimating the the of result which a direct are sion many of Parker Jensen case last year The phrase "pardanger could mean suffering or even death ents' rights" makes a good sound bite but it igCompared to the schools that most of us attended and to the police departments we see in nores the essential issues of parent responsibility our communities and on TV dramas DCFS is a and child protection are clearly faced with policy di- mysterious agency We know it is there to tackle lemmas regarding how the Division of Child and the nightmare of child abuse and neglect that most of us cannot bear to think Family Services (DU'S) other about Few of us want to know comand the entities government the details But without public to child at large respond munity straddle to attention to those details there 10 abuse and neglect In the years Expected cannot be a consensus on the since the state was sued for failing tWO core values ofour to protect children (David C v expectations boundaries poers or budgets that should frame role in Leavitt) the government community w- the government efforts to protect child protection and the paramechildren from harm by their deters of that role continue to be protection bated Voices for Utah Children parents or caretakers anti respectfor the The spread of substance recommends that before sweeping abuse to DCFS among parents rates of made either changes are twil ofthefamily domestic violence and family or child welfare policies a corn- breakup deepening pockets of prehensive review be undertaken — DCFS is accused poverty and cuts in government that answers these questions: both unwarranted services have intensified family Clow should the role of DCFS be framed its efforts fo- problems and reduced options interference in private for helping In 2003 19632 chil- cused and its decision-makinwere reported to DCFS as improved? life irresponsible dren treatand possible victims of child abuse what prevention ment resources can we offer to znaction when children or neglect — a 21 percent in- crease in the number of reports families to complement the pro- made just 10 years ago tections DCFS can provide to are truly threatened children and also keep families Expected to straddle two core of our community — the values together? What will it take to make protection of children and relasting improvements in the child protection spect tor the privacy of the family DCFS is accused of both unwarranted interference in prisystem? vate life and irresponsible inaction when chilHow will any legislation affect Utah's ability dren are truly threatened Because children's to exit the David C lawsuit? The cover of People magazine in December lives are at stake DCFS cannot stop its work while the public debates its mission or identifies 1997 showed the frightened face of a named Peter who was on his way to a New York which interventions might help which families This plane must be fixed while it flies through the City shelter after violence broke out in his home Rather than give a wrenching account of Peter's air Against this backdrop of controversy Voices experiences it focused on the unseen adult holding Peter's hand — one of the child protection for Utah Children encourages the Legislature to caseworkers described as "the last line of defense carefully tackle the challenge of child protection Before proposals for restructuring Utah's apfor America's children" Responding to calls from doctors police teachproach to child protection a careful review ers and grandparents who believe a child has been should be conducted that places DCFS practices in a historical context considers the dimensions mistreated caseworkers knock on doors ask personal questions look inside refrigerators and of the child maltreatment problem the anatomy of government funding and the help that check children's bodies for bruises and burn marks They have the power to take children tem- community-baseprograms and kin caregivers porarily from their homes and parents if the risk can offer vulnerable families of harm appears severe They also have the disKaren Crompton is executive director of Voices cretion to determine that nothing serious hapto it is safe child remain home for or that the for Utah Children pened villagers and villages from firing vengeful Wehrmacht squads and demolitions teams After the war the 10th melded into the anonymity of millions of vets who had their own impressive accounts of battle and blood from Bataan to the Bulge Not unt il 40 years later was it realized that the 10th's most singular contribution was in peace not in war And that was through the energized 10th veterans who played prominent roles in develski opment Of ski outdoor equipment schools manufacture that on one hand enlarged America's awareness of and environthe ment and on the other turned what was a sport and passion or romantically a way of life enjoyed by a relatively few thousand into a glitzy glamorous bo - ROBERT I 1 WOODY area-resort- was still being formed and in training had far higher total casualt ies Any 10th vet who has Osited military cemeteries in Europe knows his debts not only to fallen buddies but to the allied forces who were pressing in on I he eaStern and western fronts anti specifically those pressing north through the rugged nmuntains of Italy Such in the Italian campaign were the American 34th the lifith the lird the 45th the 3fith the 92nd Buffalo (bla('k soldiers) the 1st Armored Division paratroop battalions the highly decNisei orated apanese-AmericaI attalion as veil as the soldiers of United Kingdom divisions Free French and their colonial troops anti the Brazilian Division the Free Polish and air and naval units So too the Italian partisans (irregulars) at peril to t hem set yes families their groomed m iniumized s Outdrew Pnt of condomega-mergere- "industry" providing play pleasure and sensuous gratification and diversion for the millions For many of the 10th who started when one climbed or walked to ski down and a rope tow in a pasture and a base hamburger shack were about as high-tecwas as they had ever seen the evolution has been staggering almost appalling and Robert IL Woody a former longtime business editor of The Tribune is a veteran of the lOth Mountain Division who at 78 teaches skiing at Alta for the University of Utah every home has a television or Iwo As we stand ankle-deein the now milloonnium and as the Utah Legislature is in session ()nce again I believe one question needs asking and asking urgoontly: Do AT want the arts or don't we? I believe the anSWIT to that question is yes So if we (o) want them we should be prepared to pay for them just as We pay for education roads hospitals or prisons In other words subsidy The arts have nearly always been subsidized by somebody: the king the nobleman the church (or the state Great moments of art istic expression have exploded into) the world's awareness from artists freed from tile pressures of life and enabled to explore the far reaches of the human mind A subsidized company is the foundation of healthy theater and a healthy arts community Without healthy theater what health can thoore be in to film the arts in general and the body politic itself? Theater (opera symphony and the other arts remain society's sharpest way to hold a live debate with itself So this is an issue that matters to all of us not just artists or even just to patrons of the arts but to every thinking man and woman who want our society to look carefully at itself and perhaps change We live in cities and towns where there is insufficient money for libraries to be open every day of the week but whose video stores are open 21 hours a day where the performance arts are constantly struggling to) keep the curtain up but who're nearly Market forces keep the video stores open and the television stations in business However the market has never been able to adequately support the high costs of the arts because they are an individual singular unique experience whereas television is for the masses Some would answer that the arts organizations should simply raise their prices and charge what the market will bear But without subsidy art becomes more and more elitist because it becomes more and more expensive out of the reach of the average working man and woman anti out of the reach of our children A good audience is never made up of one class — poor or rich young or old It must be mixed But how can we build audiences with ticket prices so high? !low can students young r married couples and workers' families afford to attend? Once again the case for subsidy is inescapable Everything in the arts interacts Kill the theater and the ability to understand other peoples and other times will vanish Cut training in the visual arts and our national ability to design will be crippled Stop teaching music in schools and not only will math scores drop but so will the love for timeless music vanish replaced with popular mindless music incapable of enrichment or inspiration The philistinism of legislatures in this country is frightening They seem not to have realized that unless (lance music and art are encouraged in blue-colla- primary schools not only will there be no audiences in the future but generations of insensitive callous and uncaring citizens will appear devoid of sympathy or appreciation for one another I have experienced increasing disillusionment with politics and with political parties They can't or don't care about longterm issues And encouraging children to enjoy a rich culture and providing art for them when they are adults are long-terissues Even if politicians care individually about the arts they don't collectively To find a way of expressing Shakespeare or Puccini more effectively is an absolute and gives us such fulfillment But then to walk the morass of a legislative session on Capitol Hill fills one with exhaustion and despair When will we wake up to the riches that we are squandering? When will we realize that the arts are diminishing by neglect and that the expenditure of peanuts would save them? This is no time for a gentle velvet glove with our legislators There is not much time I have been told that politicians dare not support the difficult or the intellectual because it might not prove "popular"! It is time to change that It is time we let them know what is important Fred C Adams is the founder and executive producer of the Utah Shakespearean Festival -- ! ikiik IINENOMPn C i III MI wow 3 - 4't - 1 1 1 41i lamultiple s 4 ':'t I t i t if thfurellessgiissettneeerrt ' t r i " Il I - - - ' ou r entire family will be compensated 7 1 ''''''' for their time i ! ' ' ' ' ! lk Please call our research nurse Christine 801-585-72- - 26 - r I I I ME NM MO NEI MI MI MEI MO Mil MEI En MI MI En MI En NM MEI En MO Laugh all the way to the bank I I I I period Diabetic patients must be controlled on diet and exercise Metformin laughs as you roll in the dough! 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C""c c I best She inherited the of your eyes 1 t from Adams' address to the annual meeting of the Utah Cut tural Alliance in Salt Lake City on Dec 8 s Policy-maker- Legislature should subsidize the arts to keep curtain up Br Fit ED C Al)‘ms 120N DCFS cannot stop its work while debate its mission policy-make- rs Book reveals the gritty truths about the 10th Mountain Division It Sunday Frbruary I Newspaper Agency Corporation aft My NM OM OM Min MEI MI tAktIribunt ME OM MI ME I Morning News MI MI ME NM MO MI IMO 111 — a salt lake research GOICIIM ( 80 1) (0) 8 1 o i Columnists Rolly 8z Wells do it Monday Wednesday and Friday 8 t 1 t k I a |
