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Show Page 4 The Utah Independent November 17, 1977 A CORNER ON w EDUCATION By Erma J. Christensen degrees for added experience without jeopardizing their opportunity to return to the classrooms. We support measures vanced ad- By Erma J. Christensen overwhelming votes by the 14,000 teaching men and women who held up their on these personnel. In addition we favor yellow cards when voting IWY Conference providing opportunities for principles at the cultural enhancement of minorities in June. This writer understands that and the disadvantaged throughout the educational system. We en- these delegates and Georgia were sent to our esteemed courage bilinqual studies in our Peterson for information on IWY public schools for all students, but Governor and objectives. especially for minority persons of resolutions Governor Mathesons wife is one foreign extraction. The above is a direct of IWYs staunchest supporters, and she has publicly stated that she quotation from the brochure wants to have Utah ratify the Equal produced by the Utah delegation to the IWY Conference in Houston, Rights Amendment. For years this column has chairperson, Georgia Peterson, been written for the purpose of letLegislator. is In this writer's opinion, and in ting citizens understand what in our educational light of her knowledge and happening We see written in research on the educational system system. in America and especially in Utah, textbooks and prospectuses that education must be humanized, the statement is a paragon of understatement, and with social justice demanded outright ambiguity. There are not instead of traditional religious enough words to describe the total values. Indoctrination of teachers ineffectiveness of that resolution. and children in atheistic humanism Our State already provides en- is rampant. We have read vile couragement and funding amply books being recommended for for teachers and administrators for children to read and on which to advanced education and profes- write reports. Many books in comThe cultural mon use in Utah schools have been sional expertise. They are refinement of the children in this reviewed by us. state, and in fact the whole nation pornographic, definitely has advanced so far as to com- subversive to our American are taught to pletely overshadow the traditions. Children INTELLECTUAL NEEDS of steal, stab, lie, and to fill out children. They are given so much welfare forms. The United Nations of this kind of tripe in our progres- has been glorified as the supreme sive education system that they government for the world comare not learning to read expertly, munity" to come. Homemaking write with clarity, spell, nor use the books reveal the philosophy of free English language effectively sex and communal marriage. book enough to become journalists, or Another homemaking even correspond with others on promotes the fallacy that Russian paper. They are learning to fill out women are more fortunate than Statements welfare forms, and not to fill out American women. work applications, nor to enjoy made are that the Russian Women classic literature. Test scores ofthe are given most important positions children of this nation are the in science and education and other ultimate indicator of where the fields. The sources this writer has educational system has wandered, state just the opposite. Russian far off into the secular humanist women not only have to work as field hands, laborers, carpenters, field. cultural refinement and garbage collectors, but they refinement been has Cultural used as an excuse for teaching have to stand in line for purchasing children hedonism, nihilism and food, and then go home after work ministrators and ity, humanism, and diverted their and feed their families, while the eager young minds into concepts men merely work at their jobs and and values (according to whose refuse to help. History has been Good citizenship, rewritten to glorify the United morals?). morality, courtesy, obedience to Nations and its Declaration of law, respect for parents and home, Human Rights as being the last, in dignity and necessity for honest best hope for peace, when reality labor has been almost eliminated United Nations has created and from education. The Utah Code, used American fighting men and Annotated 1953 makes money to lose more wars than ever the foregoing virtues mandatory, before in the history of the United though progressive educationists States. History books state that America is the sink hole of the have sidestepped them. The brochure published and world, pollution is rampant, the printed by Georgia Petersons people are greedy and immoral, delegates as a whole is a classic and capitalism stinks. This writer wonders where the Fabian of example rhetoric presenting no absolutes, delegates who represent the maand no constructive changes in jority" in Utah have been hiding education, and not abiding by the 'their pretty heads all these years. (53-14-- 5) MILITARY OPPOSITION TO CANAL TREATIES Continued from page EDUCATION: that State We believe Legislators should budget adequate funding to provide education to students through the hiring of qualified professional staff. We further support measures encourage ing teachers to seek ad- to secure the most qualified The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand both capabilities, warships and merchant ships. We have, in fact, a Axis." In the view of Admiral Moorer and the 320 other military Torrijos-Castro-Mqsco- officers w Panama Canal the represents a vital portion of our U.S. naval and maritime assets, all of which are absolutely essential for free world security. In 1976 the U.S. Note. acceded to Panamas request and gave up control of Bayano Dam, a source of energy and a necessary control valve on the lake which supplies the locks with water. The daily inspections of the dam ceased immediately after Panama took possession. Within a few months the dam became inoperable. Torri-jo- s could find no Panamanians with the knowledge and skills to repair it and was forced to fly in a team of Yugoslavian engineers and mechanics. Since the repair of the dam. new cracks have appeared. izzsa There 550 are white-colla- different job r classifications in the federal 18 The government. general schedule grades start with beginning file clerk, at an average pay of $6,334; beginning typist experienced $7,253; secretary personnel , $29,671; $41,702; $15,824; director," chief chemist," career top official ," PUBLIC . $46,841. Remember, government is the cause of inflation. All legislators receive this newspaper free of charge. I envision a full garbage pail with Utah Independents lying there unread. It doesnt matter that the children of this state and nation are becoming other than what the law intended (not all, but some). The delegates saw how the 14,000 people voted at the June IWY convention. They have created innocuous resolutions of their own, which to this writer's knowledge, do not represent the votes of any of the Christians who attended. Why did not they examine all the issues in depth? Why didnt they study the materials available to them, before bringing forth their compromise with the womens libbers"? This makes me believe that all is NOT WELL IN ZION. vs. INTEREST PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS WHAT IS IT? THE PUBLIC INTEREST 1 shameful colonialism THE SOVIET CONNECIn noting that a large TION Soviet mission had recently visited Panama, seeking concessions and offering economic assistance. Admiral Moorer reported: Anyone who reads Soviet literature concerning maritime affairs soon learns that the Soviets fully understand the strategic importance of the Panama Canal, even if some here in Washington do not. In my view, the prime reason for the burdensome support of Cuba by the Soviet Union is related directly to the interest in the Canal as they greatly expanded their maritime THE CAPTAIN JOE H. FERGUSON frequency, we hear of statements from Washington regarding federal programs being implemented ...in the public interest. These programs, of course, include administrative regulations and the enforcement of them upon the American people. These regulations affect the lives! liberties and properties of the American people and carry penalties, often severe, to be imposed upon the people for infractions thereof. These regulations, enforced as laws, are not promulgated by our elected representatives in the Congress but by appointed bureaucrats in the various federal agencies. During an interview with David Horan, a prominent attorney in Key West, Florida, Mr. Horan brought the problem of law by regulatory edict properly into focus, ...administrative agencies have been put in the position of determining what is or is not the public interest. That really says it in a nutshell. And it is a most serious problem. What it means is that the administrative agencies in Washington over which the American people have practically no control are exercising not only an powers of the increasing amount of the federal government but extending these powers to an alarming degree in reaching out and manipulating the use and control of property. This means, of course, that they are also manipulating our liberties and our lives. David Horan is possibly one of the most experienced and capable attorneys in the country dealing with this problem of governmental usurpation over the use and control of private property. For several years, he has specialized in representing citizens facing arbitrary actions of the environmental agencies of both the federal government and the State of Florida. The following states, in his own words, the effect that administrative rulemaking has upon our right to own and control private property, the right to due process, and, in effect, the right to live as a free people: The factual background is that for the past six basis the years, I have watched on a bureaucratic actions, federal, state and local, which have seriously eroded the entire concept of private property. 1 have watched the constitutional guarantee of due process and just compensation fall before administrative agency determinations of the real public interest. All of us have watched the use of private property by its owner go from absolute, subject only to the states showing that an intended use was against a substantial and overriding public interest, to nothing, unless the owner shows that his or her intended use is in the public interest. In a legal sense, this is referred to as a shift in the burden of proof. It is like saying that the constitutional guarantee that the state must prove you are guilty has been changed to the point that you must prove yourself innocent. ...this shift in the burden of proof is by far the most important development since the American Revolution. At an ever-increasi- ng law-maki- ng ay day-to-d- ADMINISTRATIVE REVOLUTIONARY RULE-MAKIN- G IS Mr. Horan certainly stated the points succinctly, and emphasized the seriousness of administrative rulemaking by stating that it is ...the most important development since the American Revolution. Such law by administrative edict is indeed directly counter to the provisions of the Constitution and is, therefore, revolutionary to the American legal process. You might say it is the UnAmerican Revolution. Instead of enacting laws in the public interest, the bureaucrats in Washington actually enact laws to accumulate more power in Washington, and almost invariably at the expense of the majority of the citizens of this country. What every American should ask of his congressman who allows this to continue is, How can these federal programs cost the taxpayers so much, usurp from them the right to control their property, and still be in the public interest? |