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Show Sbme thoui from the 3o, Child Labor Rules for Farms Found to be Less Restrictive The Right to Pollute There can be no doubt that pollution will be one of the biggest, Now in effect are new child labor regulations published by the U. S. Secretary of Labor, pertaining to farms. These regulations exempt children below the age of 16 who are employed by their parents or persons standing in the place of parents when they are the owner or operator of the farm. The Secretary has listed the following operations as being particularly hazardous for the employment of children below the age of 16: a tractor of over 20 PTO horsepower, or connecting or disconnecting an implement or any of its parts to or from such a tractor. 1. Operating 2. Operating or assisting to operate ( including starting, stopping, adjusting, feeding or any other activity involving physical contact associated with the operation) any of the follow- ing machines: a. Corn picker, grain combine, hay mower, forage harvester, hay baler or potato picker. b. Feed grinder, crop dryer, forage blower, auger conveyor, or the unloading mechany ism of a self unloading wagon or trailer, or c. Power post-hol- e digger, power post driver, or type rotary tiller. non-gravit- non-walkin- g 3. Operating or assisting to operate (including starting, stopping, adjusting, feeding or any other activity involving physical contact associated with the operation) any of the following machines: a. Trencher or earthmoving equipment b. Fork lift c. d. Potato combine Power-drive- n circular, band or chain saw. 4. Working on a farm in 6 inches. on the biosphere. There-i- n lies the real danger. Were all opposed to pollution without question, but we want someone else to make the sacrifices that will result in less contamination of the air and water. Case in point: Writing in McCalls, (in what was obviously an the editors said, Every human being has certain emotion ' froth), inalienable rights. The right to pure air. The right to clean water. The right to unpoisoned food. The right to the natural unspoiled land. Without these rights there can be no good life on this earth; indeed, there can be no life at all. Read that through a couple of times and see if it doesnt Induce an emotional reaction. A statement such as that, charged with emotional zeal can hardly be considered rationally. This is precisely the kind ; . of half-wittappeal that spurs mobs to action; the kind of thinking in resulted the slaughter of six million Jews. that On what premise do they assume that those rights are inalienone cannot An be taken Inalienable that able? away. Since right is no one has all of these rights in full practice now, the statement is nonsense. Furthermore, Id be willing to bet that the writer of those words drove to work in a 8 cyllndered polluter and probably spent at least filter-ti- p an hour during the day puffing on king-siz- e, polluters. Obviously, life does go on with pollution. While we need to take water and air pollution, steps to reserve the trend of we need to proceed on a rational, level-headbasis. ed a ladder or scaffold (painting, repairing, or building structures, pruning trees, picking fruit, etc.) at a height of over 20 feet 6. Working from a bus, truck, or snowmobile when transporting passengers, or riding on a tractor as a passenger or helper. 8. Working inside: a. A forage, or grain storage designed to retain an oxygen deficient or toxic atmosphere; b. An upright silo within two weeks after silage has been added or when a top unloading device is in operating position; c. A manure pit; or d. A horizontal silo while operating a tractor for packing purposes. or applying (including cleaning or decontaminating equipment disposal or return of empty containers, or serving as a flagman for aircraft applying agricultural 9. Handling chemicals classified under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 135 et seq.) as Category I of toxicity, identified by the word "poison and the "skull and crossbones on the label; or Category II of toxicity, identified by the word "warning on the label; or using a blasting agent including but not limited to, dynamite, black powder sensitized ammonium nitrate, blasting caps and primer cord or, 10. Handling . anhydrous ammonia. f . i ; student learners The regulations also provide for exemptions from the regulations for and (2) certain 14 and 15 year old persons that have qualified themselves for various farm jobs as directed by the regulations. of 16 for In summary, a producer is prohibited from employing anyone under any of the hazardous jobs listed above unless (a) he is the parent or standing iB the' place of the parent; (b) the employed person is fourteen or fifteen years of age and exempt under the student learner or training program as outlined in the regulations. Vocational agricultural teachers and county agricultural agents can usually supply the specific information with regard to student learner exemptions or those that have qualified under the training programs. If hazardous jobs the producer hires a 14 or 15 year old boy to perform any of the listed above, he should have on file proof that the employed qualifies as directed by the regulations. While these regulations and the exemptions provided, are an improvement over the earlier regulations, they assume all youngsters below the age of 16 of equal ability. and are designed to avoid unnecessary acciThough the regulations are dents, they would permit a boy to perform a job on his own farm. He may be only thirteen or fourteen and yet have years of experience under the direction of his father, yet he cannot hire out to do the same job on a neighboring farm to fill in on vacation or some other, time. We feel that other exemptions from the regulations should be provided whep?d youngster can demonstrate adequate skill in the task now prohibited. (1) thge so-call- ed Character-Destroyi- Drug ng the escape from reality drugs - have LSD,STP. and POT attracted an enormous amount of attention liecause they are undermining the character of a small fraction of our young people. Unfortunately, the most prevalent, pernicious and destructive of all escape from reality drugs - - SFN - is destroying American character on a much wider scale, almost unnoticed and unmentioned. The full name of SFN Is Something for Nothing. For most people, its temptation is almost irresistible. It is habit forming to a frightening degree. In almost every human heart there is a spark of larceny . " ed anti-polluti- World's Most 5. Felling, bucking, skidding, loading, or unloading timber with butt diameter of more than well-intention- . ed a yard, pen or stall occupied by a: 11. Transporting, transferring, or applying Nat-ion- ever-increasi- ng a. Bull, boar, or stud horse maintained for breeding purposes or, b. Sow, with suckling pigs,' or cow with newborn calf ( with umbilical cord present). 7. Driving The problem is, no one hottest issues of the coming election year. if for it. Every politician is against pollution and their ideas for combating it vary from one to the next, but it's pretty hard to define the enemy. The Republicans cant really blame the Democrats for polal lution, or vice versa, (though they might try). There isnt any Committee to Preserve the Right to Pollute lobbying Congress to scuttle legislation against pollution. Everyones against pollution, or so it seems, as weve pointed out in this column from time to time, the emotional excesses of some zealous enthusiasts, are liable to single out scapegoats such as farmers, in an effort to control pollution, and poisoning of rtf!.4, which, fanned by the insidious Influence of SFN, burns away the two Psychologcardinal virtues of man - self respect, and stolen of goods -it has the receiving impact guilt producing ically, even if these goods are legally stolen. Nothing corrodes the human spirit as deeply as subsidized idleness. As proven by the rioting and looting. It leads to the desire for illegally stolen goods. The experts say that many people on SFN reach the point where they are virtually beyond rehabilitation. Dr. M. Harvey Brenner, a sociologist at Yale University, has just completed a statistical study of mental health in the United States, covering the period from 1910 to 1960. He reports that doctors can forecast the general state of mental health with a glance at society's unemployment figures.' Dr. Brenner's study deals, primarily, with people whose behavior admitted to mental Institutions, but common sense requires them to tells us that, for every case that reaches this extreme, there are self-relian- ce. 1 hundreds that approach it. The use (acceptance) of SFN is encouraged by the world-wifundamental weakness of the mass mind - Ignorance of the simple fundamentals of how man produces and exchanges goods and services. There is no such thing as something for nothing. Every economic good has a source, a destination, and a cost that must be paid. And the man who pays nothing pays the highest price of all. The tragic irony of SFN is the humanitarian spirit In which it the truth is that nothing is more Inhumane than deis dispensed, the fabric of character. To the normal man who wakes up stroying in the morning with nothing useful to do. and nowhere to go where he is needed, life becomes a nightmare out of which he must make some sense or lose his senses. This sense' is that he is one of those special persons to whom the world owes a living. And if it is not a good living, or as good as he thinks he deserves, his resentment against society knows no bounds. LSD, STP, and POT are frightening, but SFN is worse. - - Bill Wedemeyer - Texas F.B. n to? de UTAH FARM BUREAU IT8! NEWS Published each month by the Utah Farm Bureau Federation at Salt Lake City, Utah. Editorial and Business Office, 629 East Fourth South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84 1 02. Subscription price of twenty-fiv- e cents per year to members is included in membership fee. Entered as second class matter March 24, 1948 at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah under the act of March 3, 1879. UTAH FARM BUREAU FEDERATION OFFICIALS Elmo W. Hamilton, Riverton President S. Jay Child, Cleafield Vice President Mrs. Willis Whitbeck, Bennion Chairman, Farm Bureau Women V. Allen Olsen Executive Secretary Kenneth J. Rice Editor DIRECTORS District One: A. Alton Hoffman; District Two, William Holmes; District Three: Jack Brown; District Four: Ed Boyer, District Five: Ken Brasher; District Six: Jerold Johnson; District Seven: Richard Nelson. j ' iA 3 |