Show wn111 w1 'ijxmawfwiem'im-tem- ii i MfMFi WiyTmiyn I Right conclusions am mom likely to Be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection" -- — Judge Learned Hand American Juriat (1172-19- Page 22 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Our view Educators need to put wish list in perspective T Perhaps educators if he vote was close but in the end Cache County voters last week defeated a school district proposal to bond for $16 million for construction projects te By a scant 76-vo- would lower their sights a bit to more realistic expectations voters in the state would take their margin resi- dents chose not to bond for two wishes more seriously new schools and improvements to others Perhaps one of the reasons it failed was that the school board did not do an adequate job of explaining why the project was necessary But more likely it had to do with the fact that overburdened taxpayers are worn out from listening to the pleas from educators for more funding increase corporate tax rates and add a severance tax on coal Is it any wonder voters are skeptical about bonding for more money? We’re certainly not against education We praise teachers as over- worked underappreciated shapers of the future and understand and share their frustration about big Last month for example the classes and lower expen- per-pup- il Logan Education Association pre- ditures sented a wish list for legislation But recognizing the value of they want to see passed in the 1996 Utah’s excellent education system session It was a list actually creat- — and the importance of supported by the Utah Education Associa— is not a blanket tion and the teacher union’s agenda ing that endorsement to pouring an endless is clear Give us more money Lots stream of money into it of it Perhaps if educators would lower Among the items on the wish list is a proposal that the Legislature their sights a bit to more realistic dedicate “not less than 50 percent expectations — and perhaps if they of the state budget to education” It remembered that the taxpayers who also wants lawmakers to eliminate pay their salaries often earn much “tax and spending limitations” — in less than they do — voters in the other words let school districts state would take their wishes more establish income tax levies seriously Your view It takes all kinds to By Ellen Goodman The Boston Globe T he disbelief ran through the week of mourning like a chord in a minor key It echoed throughout Israel as somberly as the prayers of the Kaddish The prime minister had been assassinated Yitzhak Rabin had been murdered by Yigal Amir One Jew had killed another A man on a Jerusalem street ming over with smashed aluminum cans and newspapers He remarked that they would cither have to give up recycling soon or get another truck Finally I confessed how I deposit small gifts of aluminum cans at the doorstep of our neighbor who recycles “It’s lik nutting money in the bank" I “She told me they got $15 pcsvi from the last haul to put towards a trampoline for their grandchildren" lie mum- recycle To the editor: I thought if anything could convert my husband to recycling it would be Teal Bosworth's delightful letter of Oct 3 But to date he remains unmoved A for mcr employer supplied him with fully recycled writing paper once He complains it was like writing on Furthermore he's turned off by recycling fanatics talked about the ‘’family shame” piled onto the scaring national loss A woman on a bus shook her head in shattered despair not just at death but at the act of ’’fratricide" An American Jew gathered with others in sorrowful observance told a reporter ’I couldn’t believe it His description fits a woman I observed one day eating lunch with a friend at the Aggie Dairy Bar court When finished she put the refuse into the garbage with the exception of her aluminum pop can She placed that offering on top of the receptacle and said “I can't bear to throw away an aluminum can" She said it with the emotion one might reserve for “I can’t bear to sec a child go hungry" What did she think would become of that can? Did she think the recycling posl-HoIoca- Janice H Keeler Niblcy Get free campaign advertising didn't happen Several people successfully maneuvered around it as they discarded their own refuse It sat there like some sacred talisman until a gust of wind toppled it to the cement below It rolled back and forth in the breeze while other patrons painstakingly avoided it I don't believe in labeling people or trashing other's beliefs but “jitterbug" crossed my mind Richard thinks those who elevate aluminum cans to religious symbols should carry them to their own shrines 1 reminded him that many people are so dedicated to the recycling cause they willingly pay for curbside service to collect their items He wondered how they felt when the news reported recently that a recycling company in the cast gathered those carefully sorted items and hauled them directly to the dump I pointed out the old pickup truck that friends devote to the cause It was brim It Ben Wattenberg Newspaper Enterprise Assoc By To the editor: F or both substantive and political have been bewildered the last few weeks of why you changed the “Letters reasons Ginton ought to fire the official to the editor" to “Opinions" We enjoyed who is leaking to the Washington Post letters to the editor much more All the about welfare The leaker is a simpleton column has been the last few weeks is According to my recent understanding of free advertisements of who should be in the president's views about welcity hall We all have our ow n opinion about our fare the leaker is own choices and just because someone also disloyal to wc know is voting for them docs not Ginton The headline of mean I am supposed to do so just the Post's frontbecause this person is my friend Wc are all given a mind and we should page story (Nov think out or own minds and then vote our 4 1995) read: decisions and not get free advertisements "Clinton Faces in the Logan paper Consider changing ’Huge Heat’ on Welfare — At Democrats' Urging Presiback the column to letters to the editor dent ‘Rethinking’ Stance on GOP Reform'' The source of the story was Donna Wheeler “administration officials” Logan Later in the story a "senior adminisSee LETTERS on Page 23 tration official” talking about the presi I Mallard Fillmore ARxriaw fight for survival In Jewish history the danger always came from ‘’others” — from pogroms from Nazis from Arabs who vowed to push them into the sea When American Jews visited Israel over the past they came back bemused and proud at the Jews in every role from farmer to general Bid few ever contemplated the job title of Jewish assassin Indeed when Arabs committed acts of terrorism many Israelis considered it business as usual When an Israeli killed 29 Arabs at prayer in a mosque the same Jews holding themselves to a high moral standard anguished over the shame Yet the sorry truth is that there is nothing unique about this internecine horror Wc talk about a world of ethnic strife about one tribe or religion tfr nationality in conflict with another Serbs and Croats and Muslims Hutus and Ttitsis Arabs and Jews The list is endless We report that a town was ’’ethnically cleansed” by Serbs a World lYadc Center was hit by Muslims a building in Oklahoma shattered by militants a Japanese subway gassed by cultists As if that said it all But the most important divide in this hard world is not over bloodlines or ways of worship It’s between those who pursue reason and those who dismiss it it’s between those who build and those who bomb The clan of extremists the culture of haters the nationality of fanatics arc our enemies even when they bear the markings of our own ancestors Tliis lesson is hard to Icam Wc tend to identify "our own kind" by genes history and shared ceremony People across half-centu- ry dent's support of the welfare bill that 2 was quoted passed the Senate by as saying “I'm not sure the president is comfortable with his position on that” (Not sure?) The story continued thusly: “In preliminary discussions about the rest of this year and a second-teragenda on which to campaign the official said the president has talked about wanting to address the growing income gap between rich and poor and the problem of child poverty The official said it was difficult to see how the president could make those issues priorities and still sign a Republican welfare bill even the Sen87-1- m ate version” But that "growing income gap between rich and poor and the problem of child poverty” is not caused by too little welfare Quite the contrary The driving idea behind welfare reform is that the welfare system itself pushes people into lifestyles that cause poverty for children Moreover a substantial amount of the “inequality gap” is also caused by our savagely counterproductive welfare Herald Journal r T ftlcf Tftee 1 mNvLut iUi iX Moi fil&tft! AftvT to- - Afitf the globe claim the superiority of their clan The conviction that our way is right can be subverted to the belief that our own can do no wrong When we huddle down in tribes it’s easy to forget that we share the human condition — all of us born capable of reason or blind fanaticism of creating or destroying And when we forget that we also forget the power of words to make the difference Yitzhak Rabin was a man who believed in reason He was uncomfortable with the language of feeling He rarely danced or sang except for a peace song on the last night of his life He was a warrior who became a peacemaker He anguished every step of the way to a handshake 'with his old enemies He came a long hard road to hope He was murdered by a zealot who wore a skullcap but came from the other side of the great divide A man who in his named God as his kill to peace attempt 1 have no doubt thtkt Yigal Amir believes he had the approval of those who called Rabin a "traitor” even a "Nazi” who surrounded his home calling for his death But did those extremists believe that someone would take them at their word? Or did they unleash the vitriol thoughtlessly secure in the belief that after all Jews do not kill Jews? lit up Today a man whose the life of his granddaughter is dead A remnant of innocence has been shattered by the bullets that left bloodstains on the peace lyrics Yitzhak Rabin had folded and put into his pocket half-smi- le Clinton should can information leaker rid of fairy would descend when no one watched and carry it to the recycling eonfticr tffti viwff I couldn't even repeat it to another person in the room” It was as if the Israelis as if the worldwide Jewish community had retained some remnant of innocence until this moment However common the violence of the Middle East — the bus bombings bled something about deducting gas the murders the enmity between Jews costs and car depreciation and Arabs the polarized rhetoric of Exasperated I asked if he cared at all Israeli — they had believed that about the waste of natural resources He one linepolitics would never be crossed Jews replied that 7 percent of the earth's crust do not kill Jews is aluminum and we wouldn't run out This lingering innocence was surely any time soon “Besides" he added “I the legacy of the long unrelenting histodo my part Just look at all the stuff I buy ry of persecution The state of Israel was at the war surplus store" after all founded on the conscience of a He had me — it takes all kinds world and on the Jewish T-pa- center? Fanaticism the true enemy here U r iiimt fpcinfitsf Editorial poiicyXMMMI The Opinion pepe to intended to acquaint reader with a variety of viewpoints on mattem of pubic importance and provide mamba's of the community with a torum tor mer Personal column cahoots and tetter bom vm v £& hO and reader reec! me opinions of their writ Ednonai under fie heading “Our creator View represent me wws of me Hamid Journal editonai board Member of me editona! board am: BRUCE SMITH publisher CHARLES MoCOLLUM'managing editor JENNIFER H'NES'rty editor RAEANNE I THAYNE-ne- edr system Voters understand how bad it is A 1994 CBSNcw York Times poll shows that huge majorities of Americans think welfare recipients don’t want to work and will never get off welfare and get more welfare benefits than they need Census Bureau data shows that 46 percent of families with single mothers are in poverty But among families with married parents 7 percent are in poverty Although arguable evidence expert testimony and common sense tell us that the current welfare system enables andor encourages “non-mamednes- s” birth That particularly causes poverty It is likely that the leaker does not come from the White House but from the vast welfare bureaucracy that never did like Ginton 's idea to “end welfare as wc know The mindset of that bureaucracy is apparent in the “studies” that show the Senate welfare it" so-call-ed See WATTENBERG on Page 22 unersfpoijcyMNMMI Tha Herald Journal welcome tetter to ttm editor Potent latyHbetou or oenrv tetter wi not be published however and the editor reserves pie right to edit al letter g conform to the length and sfyte requteements of the newspaper Lf1 em should be: Typewrer-- n and double-spaceNo mom than 50 word In length Adomteed and include daytime phone njmber tor purpose cf verification Sgned by the author Individuals am limited to one published tetter within try Denod Addms letter to cmocofljnv'S-siencom Guest am also welcome and am run at me edor a deemton d 39-da- y j |