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Show Page 4A North 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 J to second guess what a red cross on the side of a truck meant. Many businesses use songs or a pithy quote to bring imd mediate 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. ZH! Nations use flags as their symbols and none are as well ZL known as the American Stars and Stripes. Its an international symbol of freedom. To some, it inspires anger and jealously. To others, it cre- ates dreams of a land where political oppression is rare and freedom of speech is the norm. Flag Day, Thursday, June 14, was created to honor our na-- r tional 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- side of the solar system to unknown areas. It does represent some bad. Surely, racial oppression, big- otry, inequality and other human indignities are found under the flag. But no other flag can fly over a land or people where the hope of erasing such human diseases exists. It is solely Z the realm of the American flag, still the hope of the world. Z Fly the flag arid ponder its colors. Think of it as not some Z symbol which should be raised in a distant battlefield, but as the symbol of hope for peace and freedom. ; trade-marke- u- Viewpoint: Health Care Costs Growing Out of Control - The Lakeside Review has asked several community leader to write sues! columns ter the newspaper. Guest columnist this week is Bovd Ivory of 9M Bountiful. Mr. Ivory was born in Fountain Green, Utah and graduated from Moroni High School. He received his masters degree in Poultry Husbandry at Utah State Culture College. 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 Chamber of Commerce. vm Vfl "W 1W MW Wt ' 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 n deficit of as much as $300 well-bein- btf-lio- by 1995. 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 doctors to institutional care - the most expensive form of medical care - instead of seeking less costly, equally effective alternatives. Despite this, our elected officials - or at least those who are even willing to discuss the health care crisis in an election year seem ' to want to merely' deal with the symptoms rather than with the disease itself. They are talking about further cutbacks in Medicare, including g of the the possible program. Theyre considering raising payroll taxes still further to help bail out Medicare. Theyre suggesting that workers over-utili- But Medicare's problems are only symptoms of a much larger problem that affects all AmeriBoyd A. Ivory Review Guest Columnist cans, young and old alike. That Our health care system is out problem is runaway health care cost inflation. of control. Businesses are being forced to Americans spend $1 billion per day, every day, for health care. cope with dramatic 'increases in And the costs continue to rise the cost of health care benefits twice, three times, even four for their employees. Workers are times faster than the overall cost facing cutbacks in their health of living. Unless something is insurance. Childrens health and done, well be paying $2 billion nutrition programs are running per day for health care within six out of funds. years. Nearly everyone recognizes Older people are particularly that our present health care sysvulnerable to these skyrocketing tem promotes inflation. It recosts. Increases in hospital costs wards doctors and hospitals with ze -- -- -- should be taxed on their health care benefits so they wont them. But none of these steps would do anything to reduce health care costs. They would merely shift the costs to older persons or already burdened workers. It is time to stop worrying about finding more revenue to pay the .nations skyrocketing health care bill and to start trying to reduce that bill. According to a recent wide survey conducted for the American Association of Retired t Persons by the Hamiliton & Staff polling organization, nearly means-testin- hard-press- ed used instead of benefit cuts or tax increases to help save the Medicare program. Surely the time has come to change that strong public sentiment into action. Restraining health care cost inflation will not be easy. The 'medical establishment will strongly oppose any change in the status-quBut we are beginning to see a o. of all Americans s favor limiting how much hospitals and doctors are allowed to charge for their services. An even more over whelming consensus - 81 percent - believes that reasonable limits on health tare provider charges should be -- -- We simply must change the way health care is delivered and paid for in this country. And we must begin now. Letter Policy . three-fourth- 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. Lakeside The Review encourages letters to the editor as a way of allowing citizens to speak but on issues that involve tie local community. However, the Review is responsible for what is printed in the newspaper and will not publish letters which are deemed to be libelous or in v bad taste. All letters must be signed by 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. Letter to the Editor No Reason 1 iM For Career Ladder Plan Review Editor: HZ It is no surprise that Sheryl L. Z Allen in the June 6 Lakeside Re- Z,. view Letter to the Editor disappointment with your editorial of May 23 entitled Career Ladder Educational Farce. 2 As one who read your editori- al and said amen and as one Z who found your editorial a saga- cious 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 you. 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 how is this going to improve the quality of education? I am sure this information is already known by teachers and to drive wedges 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 extra days. To me this is a strictly Mickey Mouse requirement and I see career ladder as an excuse for administrators to pay off in cash instead of brownie points. From ed non-teachi- ng 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 to make ladder is a cover-u- p teachers more submissive and is a form of pay-of- f to those teachers who play the game. 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. 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 wonderful 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 programs. Thanks to each of you from every girl and adult in the Utah Girl Scout Council. 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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 Review Editor. educational bureaucrats who Regarding your May 30 issue presently are drawing higher sal- of the Lakeside Review, I wish aries than teachers.These bur- to express my feelings. eaucrats rape the educational It seems to me that this edbudget of this nation and in fact itions sports section was very may hinder rather than advance male chauvinistic. First, you put our desire to improve the qualie the boys soccer team ty of education. What we need is with a big write-u- p and picture to change our priorities for allot-in- g above the article about the girls available funds for salaries as high school team that had an well as many other priorities. undefeated season and took first DeMonte Washburn place. Bountiful 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 Review Editor: where they belong. Thanks so very much to all Thank you for your time. our Girl Scouts, parents and Denise Heinhold cookie customers! We want to Bountiful I , Educators Certified Professional Secretary Other Upon Request Registration Summer Quarter Registration can be completed through June 15, at Hill Air Force Base. Registration can also be completed by mail. For Further Information Contact: Dr. Terry Teigeler, USU Program Director Building 368, Room 24 HAFB, Utah 84056 Classes are also offered In (801) 777-353- 6. Brigham City. i i |