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Show Page 8 The Utah Independent December 30, 1976 The Paper That Dares To Take The Birch Log by John F. McManus Not Belmont, Massachusetts so long ago, there lived a man who claimed that he had received a message from God. The message informed him that the use of numbers was evil and that he should cease using them immediately. He convinced his wife and small children that, henceforth, they should use the words some, few, or many where they had previously used, for example, seven, two, or one hundred. And the family made it a practice to flee whenever any of them came into contact with the evil words and symbols. As might be imagined, avoiding numbers proved to be a difficult exercise, but they somehow managed to get along. Problems really developed when the oldest child started school. The first grade teacher ran into trouble when she began to teach counting and simple arithmetic. The child simply fled from the room and, when he was finally caught up with, explained through his tears that numbers were evil and that his father had instructed him to leave if they were used. At a hastily convened parental conference, it was decided that the boy would be excused to go to the library during arithmetic lessons. But numbers began to work their way into other lessons, as when the teacher told the children to turn to page two. And when the children anti-numb- er were taught that there were sev- en days in the week and twelve months in the year, the youngster ran out of the room again. Finally the teacher and the principal arranged for a private instructor and an isolated place of instruction for this special child. After all, compulsory attendance laws made it impossible for him to stay at home. Even though no one agreed with the odd tenet of this strange religion, all agreed that the family had a right to believe as they did, and that no one should trample on their beliefs. For a time, the boys father was satisfied that his son was not being contaminated. But when he suddenly realized that his tax dollars were being used to finance a school where numbers were being taught, he promptly asked the school officials to stop using numbers in all classes. The perplexed school principal refused, which led the determined father, impelled by his message from God, to sue the school board. Before too long, the case made its way right up to the Supreme Court. After hearing the arguments of expensive attorneys, the learned judges acted on the precedent established in their decision against school prayer, and decreed that, from that day forward, all references to numbers in the nations schools would be banned. The decision was not very popular, and many said that they would not abide by it. But federal marshals were directed to roam the country, to make sure that everyone conformed. . Fantastic, you say? Impossible? Well, maybe we have stretched a bit to make our point. What is our point? Simply that the whole concept of government schools is wrong, and that compulsory government schools compound the problem. How wrong, should be obvious when Americans are forced to finance such schools and deliver their children to them while the central fact of everything they believe, the existence of Almighty God, is ignored and even denied. If government at every level got out of the school business, church schools and private schools would dot the land. Such schools would violate no ones rights, for everything about them would be voluntary. The resulting competition among them would result in better educated children, more responsible parents, and a sharp decrease in the power of the state. It would, in fact, take us back to the kind of educational system that produced the great men and women who established this wonderful country. 1976 The John Birch Society Features Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aimst at be thy countrys, Thy Gods, and truths. -- Shakespeare WITH SAFETY First mortgages and contracts fully recoursed. Utah residents only Mail Today or Phone Collect Utah & 486-074- 8 Western FOR THE FUTURE 1321 Smith Stato, Suit 201, Salt Lak City, Utah would lik further information Stot Government for unresponsiveness. One official Washington suggested to us this peculiar complaint Democratic is the by president-elec- a classic case t of biting the hand that fed him. look at Carters lifeline history of using the federal government to feather his personal nest indicates this is politician adept at A securing governmental responsiveness, even if most of our tax paying citizens are not. 150,000 nearly have been refugees successfully resettled and provided rooms in the great American Inn, which now houses more homeless refugees than any other nation since that first Christmas more than 1900 years ago. Here in the suburbs of the nations capital, it is a special joyful Christmas for one young Vietnamese couple who escaped with nothing more than the clothes on their backs when Saigon fell. the Carter was beneficiary of a Altogether Vietnamese education. He was trained at the taxpayers expense at the U.S. Naval Academy. There is nothing wrong with that. But an unresponsive him educated government at an estimated cost of 51 00.000 or more. While he was in the Navy, Carter lived in government his own By housing. account he has been quoted as saying his salary was so low that government housing was all he could and that is the afford 'reason he understands the problems of the poor. Here is a case where one government agency paid his fthe Navy salary while another Department) government agency (HUD) funded the low rent housing in which he lived. government-pai- d Not only are they spending their second Christmas in freedom, but this year they have their own apartment, both have jobs and are a car, and most of all, their own first born to celebrate the birth of the Savior. Since their parents and relatives are still living in South Vietnam under harsh Communist rule, the young couple will be known only as Cho and Nam, as they are greeted by their many new American friends. The way in which they found Carter a later used room in the great American Inn is a government graphic story of the goodness that loan to save his peanut lies beneath all the tinsel and from warehouse outward trimmings of our growing Theres bankruptcy. nothing materialistic society. wrong with that. He got a Cho and Nam were tenderly 51 75.000 loan from the shepherded from a world that had Small fallen apart to one of hope by a Administration in the early deeply compassionate couple, Mr. 1960s, dragged his feet on and Mrs. David Pielmeier, of Disit back, got a paying trict Heights, Md. number of extensions on his For more than a year, Cho and Nam lived with the Pielmeiers and their three small children while South Vietnam. jobs were found, a small savings acDisturbing to them is the incumulated, and they learned the formation from friends in South way of their strange new Vietnam, telling how hundreds are homeland. being taken daily from their homes Cho, who worked for the U.S. in Saigon and resettled in stablemilitary assistance program in like facilities in the countryside or Saigon, obtained a position as a sent off to camps" secretary while Nam, a former where the Christmas message is school teacher, works as a treated as a fable. maintenance employee at a nearby The full story of the individual school while he learns to speak and sacrifices made by many write English. Americans to make room for and There have been problems, a help these Vietnamese refugees will miscarriage for Cho, and never fully beknownor appreciated homesickness for both, but always by most of us. they have been able to count on the Many shared everything they help and deep love of the Pielmeier had and some even worried and family to carry them through any worked themselves literally to crisis. death to help these refugees begin a Their friends now range from new life or make sure there would those in the new Vietnamese com- be room in the inn. That was the beautiful story of munity which has grown up around Washington to the Molly Brown, the editorial page Americans that helped them begin editor of the Greensburg Tribune-Revietheir new life here from the Greensburg, Pa., uncertain days in the refugee camp g, - low-intere- payments, (while at the same time working on his political career), and finally paid it off during the second year of his term as Governor of Georgia. Apparently an expensive running campaign for Governor was more important than paying his obligations on time. sources Governmental have been quoted in the press as stating he got the note payment deferments because farmers in South a experienced Georgia severe drouth situation. records Weather bureau show the moisture level was more than adequate that year. is a Carter Jimmy member of a government. welfare. st Business country club -financed in Buena Vista, Georgia. the club filed a Although civil rights compliance statement whenofit on got a $200,000 Farmers Administration Home recreation loan and is located in a high black population area, it has no black members. This same man who could finance a successful gubernatorial campaign, but couldnt pay off a small business loan, has built his personal and family fortune from the government a program peanut program which takes a bite out of the Federal Treasury every year. The worth of the Carter farm and peanut warehouse operation has recently been put at more thqn S3 million. a of This record - multi-million-doll- ar benevolent federal us makes government wonder what it would really take to make the federal government responsive to Jimmy Carters needs and could the federal treasury stand it? -- Manchester Union Leader - newspaper. Her sudden death last week robbed the Vietnamese refugees, who she helped resettle in the area, of a truly dedicated friend. When there was no room to be found for one Vietnamese family, she proceeded to build one on her own small house to take them in. This is today's Christmas message that these very special Americans are passing along to all mankind. In many ways, it is the modern voice of the angels, who on that First Christmas greeted a troubled world with Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will. Their sacrifice and goodness to our brothers and sisters in need is Americas hope for the future. Ed. Note: Even though Christmas will be past when you read this, it is such a marvelous story we thought you would enjoy it. in California. CHRISTMAS PRAYER Chos and Nams" prayer for Christmas that the freedom in which they are able to bring up their first child can somehow be extended eventually to their native It is Add roil Mono Washington: It is now nearly twenty months since the fall of South Vietnam and the flood of thousands of refugees of that heartbreaking war to America in search of a new life. For a short time the plight of the refugees fleeing the victorious Communist armies from North Vietnam blazed across the front pages, as all America wondered what their fate might be. Then gradually, as this country put the Vietnam tragedy behind it, the new immigrants faded into obscurity, unless a family got into trouble with the law or ended up on Jimmy Carter is the last man on earth who ought to the Federal criticize A FMtnf City By Paul Scott w, Investment Corporation I What More Can He Want? AMERICAS HOPE The Education Fable Zip Stand A without reliable news, is, sooner people without a basis of freedom. A people or later, a -- Harold Laski |